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There is no cure for the common cold.
Coronavirus are responsible for about 30% of common colds.
Hence there is no such thing as a coronavirus vaccine.
Prove me Wrong.
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You sound like bad click bate. “prove me wrong”, almost always means, I made up some stuff and I liked the sound of it.
Your logic is lacking. Thing A is related to thing B. Thing A does action C therefore thing B does action C.
The first thing you get when you google “vaccine for the common cold”, is this sentence
ie it is not caused by Coronavirus. No one is going to put money into development of a multiple vaccines that require a test to ID the virus to treat a mild illness. Prove me wrong.
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Simon, the “hence” is wrong. It does not follow.
Our immune systems are finely honed. The common cold as created by coronaviruses is a very mild disease, so mild our immune systems can’t be bothered to “arm up” against it preemptively. The severe coronaviruses (like MERS, SARS, etc) are very different, and there is data suggesting that immunity to those lasts for years.
Vaccination always faces the problem that our immune system can tell the difference between something life threatening and something intrinsically safe. The challenge is to trick our immune system into bothering to react to an injection of something that doesn’t cause infectious illness.
Other common colds are caused by adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, RSV, parainfluenza, metapnumovirus, other picornaviruses, there are about 200 different viruses. For an illness that isn’t much of a problem, it’s just not worth developing 200 vaccines, and our immune systems are just as likely to go “so what” and forget to stay on red alert for all of them. I suspect our blood would run thick with antibodies if we even managed to achieve that protection.
If the survival of homo sapiens depended on being immune to common colds we would be, but there is a price to putting our immune systems on “red Alert”. It’s like running an economy with a massive defence force.
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If you are a bloke and you’re real lucky you eventually develop the same ability when it comes to girls.
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That is all great background Jo, but do you believe in “Covid Vaccines”? I wonder who is expecting a Nobel Prize for developing them?
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You’re quite right that there’s no vaccine against all coronaviruses.
It’s uncontentious but misleading, since it implies there is no vaccine that works against any coronavirus.
There are many. Jo has written much about them on this blog. Here’s one that proves wrong a claim that there’s no vaccine against SOME coronavirus. https://joannenova.com.au/2021/11/first-australian-covid-vax-approved-overseas-but-not-here-prof-petrovsky-sacked-and-doing-a-gofundme/
When journalists speak of ‘coronavirus’, they are commonly referring to the CoViD19 variants.
We should be conscious of that. Trying to ridicule them because cold viruses are also coronaviruses is like trying to ridicule American or English sports fans for speaking about ‘football’ when their games don’t have a behind post, because in both cases we reasonably should know what they are talking about, and trying to ridicule them just makes us look foolish.
The issue is the difference between “Some” and ‘All”.
There is no vaccine against all coronaviruses.
There are vaccines against some coronaviruses.
Neither claim is surprising nor contentious.
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Simon asks: but do you believe in “Covid Vaccines”?
Reminds of the question “do you believe in Climate Change?” More religious than scientific?
I always felt Covid vaccines were too slow and too risky for a fast moving pandemic, and from March 2020 I said Vit D and then Ivermectin were the answer. (Or substitute other nutrients / plant extracts / or antivirals / etc).
Not to bore people but the phrase “borders and antivirals” was the litany I have chanted the whole time.
Drugs that already have 30 year safety records are the easy winners in a pandemic. It only takes a few weeks to test a drug like that against Covid, and if it’s known safe, the main risk is “wasting money”.
Vaccines can be a great long term solution (only with some diseases), but it takes 2 months for your immune system to mature an antibody or T-cell response and there are 400 steps along that path that could go badly. And then it takes ten years to test for long term effects on our immune system. The complexity of vaccination is like three orders of magnitude larger than antivirals. Too much can go wrong.
We still don’t have a vaccine for AIDS. The triple antiviral cocktail won the day. Viruses find it hard to mutate around three drugs at once.
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Whilst with immune systems you are talking here about viruses I thought you might be interested in a court case in the UK regarding 5G and the impact it MIGHT have on our bodies
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/14/5g-has-its-day-in-court/
There have been many conspiracy theories about EMF and mobile phones and their effects on our bodies but 5G seems to have raised concerns to a different level. Michael Mansfield is a very imminent KC and if he genuinely believes there to be concerns we ought to listen
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One thing 5G is causing problems is interference to aircraft radar altimeters, used on final approach to gauge accurately distance to the ground.
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I guess it’s just a matter of physics that when a conductor encounters an electromagnetic field an EMF will be induced and a current will flow. The human body is a conductor. While different frequencies may have different effects on the human body, the power of 3g, 4g, 5g is miniscule unless you are standing in front of a mobile tower antenna.
I worked in an environment where we were talking about KWs, not mw or microwatts. This was in the ADF. If you held a fluorescent tube it would glow. We worked in that environment from 8 to 12 hrs a day. I have no doubt that those of us who worked in that environment can blame some of our health problems on electromagnetic radiation exposure.
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Arthur Firstenberg has a lot to say about diseases and distress to humans caused by EMF in his book The Invisible Rainbow. Some very clear and compelling examples are in there, its on the web.
The next one will be anti-collision radar on all cars, compulsory in Europe, Australia and most Western countries very soon. You will be bathed in radiation every time a new car goes past, or follows you.
Just another item in the list of how we are killing the human race these days, or at least making ourselves extremely ill, one way or another. Imagine no doctors except for accidents, no pharmaceutical industry…
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The trouble is there have been lots of conspiracy theories when mobile phones and masts first started appearing so its difficult to separate fact from fiction.
I started to take an interest in 5G when a planning application was made to erect a large mast on an especially lovely part of the South West (UK) coast. My interest was in its scarring of the natural beauty, not any concerns over radiation. Then I started reading up about it and found quite a few studies that expressed concern over radiation but without pointing to any thing concrete, which included a document produced by the EU science commission.
Michael Mansfield KC -who does not take Frivolous cases- mentions that 5G masts have a very short range and a booster would be needed every third lamp post. So the EMF looks likely to ramp up exponentially and perhaps its time for a proper dispassionate study of the subject.
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tedm: ” … 3g, 4g, 5g is miniscule unless you are standing in front of a mobile tower antenna”
The major towers maybe, but most towers you can get near to are repeaters running at max 25 watts. More than that, and they would clash with each other. As a regulator required to make assessments of this stuff, I went round testing emf. Phones, repeater towers, nothing. One large semi-regional rig I tested, Mount Low 19°12’18.59″S, 146°40’07.43″E: height base ~50m, top of towers ~90m AHD (= mean sea level). Could not get close because, of course, the base is fenced off. The only very mild blip on the meter was the substation powering the rig. Up the road, standing under the 275kv power line running alongside A1 Highway, the meter alarm went full-on. People sitting under the line eating lunch decided to move.
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For mine Jo, the best “vaccine” for cold and flu is a daily Horseradish and Garlic tablet. Have been taking one daily for years and cannot remember the last time I had a cold or flu, do not have an annual flu shot and thus far are Covid free. Did however have two Covid shots to get the “green tick” so I could shop.
So my advice is get on the Garlic!
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I agree. I have not had a cold for many years so thanks Murray for taking those tablets.
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Leaf what is the cure for the common cold or did you miss the question on purpose?
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This is daft beyond almost anything. Think about this – almost everyone has had one or more episodes of a cold caused by whatever virus at some point in their lives. The tiny number who currently have a cold have only had it for a short time. Ergo every person who gets a cold gets cured, so obviously there is a cure for the cold.
The cure? Time and the body’s defenses.
btw the second daft thing about your comment is that Simon’s “prove me wrong” clearly pertained to the sentence preceding.
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It is customary to use logic to refute arguments GeeAye!
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Not going to get logic even though I think this is supposedly his area of expertise.
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There was no logic to your comment so it wasn’t hard.
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“prove me wrong” has been around for a while and very much over used by those with a leftwing agenda.
In this case, pretty easy to disprove. Simon is arguing like all dogs have four legs so all animals with four legs are dogs.
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Indeed. He doesn’t like logic though so your clear refutation of the premise is not good enough for him
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I wonder if the safe antivirals HCQ and IVM work for the common cold?
I guess we’ll never be allowed to find out in the more fanatical UN and WEF following states such as Australia.
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Toss in an adequate amount of vitamin D, its cofactors, and zinc and I reckon we’d have a preventative/cure if implemented early.
I’m experimenting along those lines, but my situation is confused by my hay fever.
Not sure whether my most recent thing was hay fever, a cold or Covid, but I am sure it wasn’t the vax as I’m still at 0 jabs. Love that zero.
And my “experimenting” would hardly reach the heights of the double blind randomised trials that Fauci recommends.
Cheers
Dave B
PS I’m not sure whether adequate vitamin D levels alone would be sufficient, but suspect it also needs a dietary source of the others for effective action. D
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You need at least 30 minutes sunlight exposure in something like bathers, seven days a week, to get sufficient exposure for adequate vitamin D. Most Australians get nowhere near that. Aussie soils are woefully deficient in zinc so you need some of that, too.
Forget all the advertising hype about expensive brands, the el cheapo zinc and vitamin D3 supplements from Coles or Woolies work just fine.
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David according to research out there you need an ionophore like Quercetin to assist zinc into your cells. Which I believe Ivermectin and HCQ do. This I believe is why they were band. Quercetin is still available at the moment.
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Could I suggest quercetin and Zn?
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G’day H,
I think you need the vitamin D as well as it’s the moderator of the immune system.
The protocols developed (but suppressed) around HCQ and IVM both include vitamin D.
Cheers
Dave B
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Vitamin K2-7 is also recommended as a controller of where Vitamin D3 goes.
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It may well be written in the history books. History is full of revisionism as we well know, but the message as presented proscribes any possibility of alternatives being discussed. In short; a free and open society is an illusion and the so-called facts are accepted in the face of viable alternatives. Seek freedom..
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Ah – but there IS a cure for the uncommon cold.
Don’t get convid vaxxinated!
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I agree. And I have always been told that any virus that can be transferred from an animal to a human: There can be no vaccine developed that works. Same for the Common Cold. Maybe Jo can update us on this. Hello Jo.
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WHy would a virus from another species preclude vaccine development? Do you remember the cowpox story?
It is quite probable that the majority of disease causing viruses jumped from another species.
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Johnny Rotten, in theory, eventually, and with enough evolution and mutation perhaps any animal virus can be transferred to infect a human. But this process doesn’t happen that often or we’d be sick all the time. Eg Measles come from the cow virus rinderpest, possibly around the 6th Century BC.
So here we are and it’s still a thing 2600 years later. Imagine if every animal virus jumped to humans every week?
Genetically, it’s a big leap for a virus to infect a different species. Think of a computer virus designed to hit MS windows, how often does that “jump” to Apple or Linux without a conscious mind controlling the move? So the analogy is not perfect (do computer viruses “mutate”?) But it’s true that every successful virus attacks our operating system, and because our system is designed to hit back, the viruses that succeed need to be finely tuned to exploit the gaps.
As for vaccines, I’m still a believer that some of them work, and have saved lives, but each vax has a different cost-benefit ratio. And I am skeptical that things like aluminium hydroxide (used as a adjuvant to amplify the response) is as safe as claimed.
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I agree with this Jo. The essence is the Target of any vaccine has to be defined (the antigen). In small rna viruses the mutation of antigens precludes vaccination as a strategy as at best it will select for a strain that is resistant to the vaccine.
I will go out on a limb and say Spike antigen is pathogenic in and of itself. The genetic engineering of our cells to produce spike protein is very dangerous and amounts to genocidal intention (by those who scored a saline Jab while smiling for the cameras).
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It is my understanding that many flu viruses originate in China where small farms raise pigs and ducks together which provides an environment for flu viruses to mutate and ultimately infect people. Ducks are commonly carriers of flu viruses and transmit them to pigs when raised together. Transmission from gigs to humans is easier due to physiological similarities – hence the prevalence of “swine flu”. The annual flu vaccines that are available by September/October in the US are developed from strains found in Chinese farm animals the previous year and those common in people the previous season. As I recall the get it right about 50%-60% of the time.
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The cure is called the immune system. 😉😎
What’s my prize?
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A five year, all expenses paid, “holiday” at one of the “re-education camps” that have already been built and only await your arrival.
Transport provided.
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With such intrinsic brilliance your prize is just being you
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Blushes…
Be my valentine.
See #19 below.😁
I need a new one.
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That is not a vaccine. I have always been told by many people that my innate immune system that works so well for me should be bottled But then I was always told that you can’t do that as they don’t have the right sort of bottles.
BTW I still get the Common Cold most winters and sometimes summers.
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John Connor I’ve been on various Opoid varieties and other medication for chronic pain for the last 14 years , my last flu and cold were before that for whatever reason . Used to get one or two colds and or Flu episodes every year but the last 14 going on 15 nothing except for a strange virus I picked up at Dundee beach after getting marauded by mozzie bites .
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Didya visit the bar? I used to fish the Finiss River some years ago. Recall ” Sweetheart” the yellow hued crocodile that inhabited the upper reaches that took a dislike to outboard motors and freaked out a few Barra fishers’. She rests in a Darwin museum. Can’t be sure of its gender.
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Mozzies in Dundee? Sure they weren’t midges! (Sandflies to Aussies).
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Midges are not sandflies.
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Wednesday Open Thread – W0T
In other places that is
Wide Open Throttle
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Or, WOT (Wednesday Open Thread) are you on about?
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Very good; I was going to join in, but I’m just a Weary Old Tosser
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Financial “guru” Koch admits he made huge mistake with his own mortgage.
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/david-koch-admits-poor-mortgage-decision-and-urges-viewers-to-check-their-repayments-amid-interest-rate-hikes/news-story/841a044140818a0039fb5a1f179f6c94
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Why would Kochy have a mortgage? A mortgage is private debt [unless he is using a loop hole] and as such is never good financial planning.
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I was wondering myself. I would have thought that at his age, and being a financial guru, he would have no mortgage.
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Let’s assume he has an investment portfolio [if not he’s a fraud]. If he has this overwhelming urge to buy a fancy house, sell down the portfolio and reinvest would-be mortgage payments back into super.
Us common folk never had that luxury, wish I had.
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I think they call it renting a lifestyle. Still cant quite afford where he thinks he should live, or more importantly be he needs to be seen to be living in
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https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS857FqeF/
Foreign espionage is well near the completion stage.
As memoryvault has said about 18 months away.
My Canberra freind says most of her workmates refuse to entertain the wef agenda.
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They probably have some odd idea they work for the people of Australia, not the WEF.
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I bought a drone, but haven’t mastered it yet.
The technology is astonishing.e.g. The battery is getting low it comes back and lands exactly where it took off from.
When I plug it into my phone it updates the soft/firmware.
It has a 5K video camera. It keeps records.
So. Somewhere in China there is a computer which has access to every move that my drone makes within the reach of the phone system, and maybe in reach of the GPS system.
On that basis I expect that it is probably possible for that computer in China to hijack my drone in flight and turn it to their use.
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As long as the battery holds out .
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Indeed! DJI who made my wonderful drone (that I use for many things including scaring away the bloody cockatoos in our pine trees) know exactly when I flew and where I flew. If the Chinese are interested, they are welcome.
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China Raises Draft Age up to 60 Years Old
From Armstrong Economics –
And the Epoch Times –
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-raises-military-reserve-age-limits-amid-increased-tension-over-taiwan-strait_5052091.html
“Of course, China knows that the Biden Administration wants war. They are increasing their age limits for military service to up to 60 years old. Don’t get upset and think you will be too old for the United States and Europe. You can never be too old to die for your local politician.
We will see the draft age rise dramatically in the West all because our fearless world leaders, who will never go to war themselves, all need World War III desperately. Just as we can no longer define what a woman actually is, we can no longer discriminate against women for the draft and it is also a matter of being fair to end age discrimination for the draft. It was Franklin Roosevelt who made the remark after going to great lengths to get the US involved in World War II. He said:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/china-raises-draft-age-up-to-60-years-old/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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[snip. Comments that reproduce more than quarter to a third of an article will be delayed, possibly for hours, and summarily snipped to comply with copyright. – Jo]
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Wednesday government desperation nonsense: Now scientists claim you’re more likely to develop type 2 DIABETES if you’re unvaccinated against Covid
People who are not vaccinated against Covid may be at a higher risk of diabetes, a study suggests.
Researchers claim it could be because un-jabbed people have a more severe reaction to the virus, which triggers inflammation and may interfere with blood-sugar regulation.
Experts at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California, looked at nearly 24,000 patients hospitalized with Covid between 2020 and 2022 and sorted them by vaccination status.
They found that 2.7 percent of those who were not inoculated developed new diagnoses of diabetes in the months or years after clearing the illness compared to one percent among those who got the shots.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11749827/Now-scientists-claim-youre-likely-develop-DIABETES-youre-unvaccinated-against-Covid.html
And in breaking news, unnamed government experts claim you’re more likely to get a flat tyre if you’re unvaccinated. 😁
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There’s a more severe reaction than death?
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Yes. You get to feel it all over and over again and again with Groundhog Day…………lol
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Ha, ha, ha, ha. What next? I am unjabbed and will now get acne at the age of 70 years. Or, maybe the Lurgi from listening to too many episodes of the Goons on the Radio. Those Radio waves…….Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Monty Python now comes to mind…………..What a load of BS.
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“I’ll have to stop this vaccine sketch. It’s getting too silly” 😁
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Are we moving to the bird flu sketch now?
Bird flu may mutate to kill more than 50% of humans who catch it, as a result of ‘unprecedented’ outbreak sweeping mammals, experts fear
Bird flu could mutate to become even more harmful to humans due to the ongoing unprecedented outbreak, experts fear.
Cases of the killer H5N1 strain, which are at record levels, have already jumped from birds to foxes, otters and mink.
It has sparked huge concern among top virologists that the deadly pathogen is now one step closer to spreading in humans — a hurdle which has so far stopped it from triggering a pandemic.
The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) has now warned mammals could act as ‘mixing vessels’ for different influenza viruses, potentially unleashing a new variant that could be ‘more harmful’ to humans.
The H5N1 strain already has a fatality rate of around 50 per cent among people.
Yet fewer than 900 cases among humans have been detected since the first in 1997 because it does not transmit easily between people.
For comparison, Covid’s death rate when it sprung onto the scene was 3 per cent, while Ebola has ranged from 25 to 90 per cent in past outbreaks.
An ‘unprecedented’ number of avian flu cases have been reported across the world since October 2021.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11748537/Bird-flu-mutate-kill-50-humans.html
The ones that really have to worry are those with impaired immune systems and we know who they are.
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What better way to covertly spread a manufactured virus than with migratory birds.
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A soccer goalie collapsed and died after stopping a goal today , no details yet on cause of death but young fit athletes are certainly and suddenly going down with regular monotony.
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The Collapse of the Monetary System – a Comedy of Errors
From Armstrong Economics –
QUESTION: Dear Martin
Could you please describe more in detail what you are expecting when talking about the breakdown of the monetary system?
Will there be differencies between countries like Germany and Switzerland for example? Especially regarding pension systems.
I asume, there might be big differences by countries.
Many thanks and best regards,
RZ
ANSWER: The collapse of the monetary system is the result of a comedy of errors. It boils down to the problem that governments since World War II have adopted Keynesian Economics whereby they took Keynes’ suggestion that they should run a deficit during a recession/depression to compensate for the fall in demand because people are hoarding their cash in times of uncertainty. The problem was that they merged that with Marxism and began to run deficits annually and then took the Quantity Theory of Money that claimed an increase in the money supply would be inflationary. So, they borrowed rather than printed falsely believing that they could spend whatever they wanted without it being inflationary.
However, because debt suddenly became collateral post-1971 when it had been illegal to use government bonds as collateral for borrowing, then the debt was transformed into money that now paid interest as it had begun during the American Civil War.
Thanks to the stupidity of locking down the economy for COVID, the escalation in national debts has been insane. This has added stress to the monetary system for you see, the entire government structure depends on being able to sell its debt. As the demand for their debt is declining when they look at this deliberate push for war and handing Ukraine unlimited amounts of money, the inability to sell the debt has increased their search for taxes – hence hiring 87,000 IRS agents armed!
The system is collapsing. They cannot continue to fund all the social programs under this system where the Primary Dealers are not large enough to continually buy government debt. That impacts everything from Pension funds to Life Insurance. Absolutely everything from investments to interest rates and taxation is all interconnected so we are looking at the end game of 2032.
I believe Schwab has taken our forecast for the collapse of the monetary system looking at our forecast that there will be a great reset with the opportunity to redesign government for the first time since the American Revolution. Schwab is trying to take that event and push it to totalitarianism ending even our right to vote on anything. Oh, there will be a Great Reset, but not the way Schwab hopes it to unfold.
The only option is central banks must monetize the debt by buying it because there are no real-world buyers. That defeats the entire purpose of borrowing which was supposed to be less inflationary. Then they must raise taxes dramatically to prevent the system from collapsing. All of this is an attempt to remain in power until they compel the people to rise up in revolution as is always the case. Almost every revolution in history has begun with taxation.
Remember the Biblical story where they show a denarius to Jesus complaining about Roman taxes? That is why this coin of Tiberius is known as the Tribute Penny – “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.” It always comes down to the abuse of power using taxation.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/the-collapse-of-the-monetary-system-a-comedy-of-errors/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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The French, Bolshevik and Mao’s revolutions didn’t have much to do with taxation did they? If anything, Marxism implied more government intervention.
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The taxation came from taking the produce of the serfs/workers. Same thing really.
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Cash is king in parts of NZ today where power is down, comms are down, no eftpos nor ATMs, and generators are flying off the shelves.
“Cash? Thank you! Come again.”
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I’m not sure about Mao but the French Revolution was thrown into chaos (and despotism) by the collapse of the Assignat in value by over printing. The Bolsheviks made the old currency worthless (as did Castro in Cuba) deliberately to impoverish the middle class.
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Sweden THROWS AWAY 8.5 million doses of covid vaccines
Just a few weeks after a massive conference in Stockholm where top doctors warned about the dangers of the mRNA shots, news is coming out that Sweden has thrown away almost 8.5 million doses of the covid shots.
That means that around 1/5th of all covid vaccines Sweden bought has been destroyed. The cost to the taxpayer of buying in these shots only to be thrown away was a whopping $144 million. That is money that went straight down the drain because the state bought something that people do not want.
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/throwing-away-doses
Roll out the Marburg fear and vaccines.
Gotta meet the deadline…
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And how many more? How many sheep will have the 5th jab here in Australia. They can all have my first jab as I never had one.
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Not A Single Student Can Do Math At Grade Level In 53 Illinois Schools
Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment…to enable our students to succeed in the 21st century.”
Number one on the school’s focus list?
“Increasing reading and math scores to or above grade level.”
But a look at state data that tracks reading and math scores for each Illinois school reveals two frightening facts about Spry. Not a single one of its 88 kids at the school can read at grade level. It’s the same for math. Zero kids are proficient.
Spry is one of 30 schools in Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level. Twenty-two of those schools are part of the Chicago Public Schools and the other eight are outside Chicago.
The failure list in math is even longer. There are 53 schools statewide where not one kid is proficient in math.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-single-student-can-do-math-grade-level-53-illinois-schools
A 100% failure rate in the basics.
What future do they have except in politics and “health expert” fields?
Maybe they can design tunnel borers or essential energy infrastructure.
Idiocracy is here.
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And I would like to see the same sort of information here in OZ. Ju Liar had her ‘Ejucation’ Revolution where she pronounced the word hyperbole as hyperbowl. LOL. More money (well overspent) for School Halls etc and a PC for every child. Doh. Where did that end up? The ankle biters and bigger ones are still not being taught properly. Let alone University.
How come at age 70 years I was ‘edjucated’ so well back then?
Simple. Go to Finland and see how they do it. Meanwhile sack all the alleged teachers here and start again.
This is time to turn the Titanic around.
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I’ll never forgive Gillard for “hyperbowl”. I just can’t say it correctly now.
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It’s impordunt to learn to speak like Albo too
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What is with Albo’s new speech impediment? Has he had a minor schtroke? Or ish it the plaschtic shurgery?
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That is the one thing I can forgive her for. I could have done that in a hurry.
It generated good value as a joke.
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Just a little true tale from Lockdown Land – During the darkest days, when schools were closed, and teaching was done via Zoom, there were some pupils who could still attend school – they were the children of ‘essential’ workers. These workers included healthcare, construction (couldn’t hold up Dan’s pet projects), etc. My wife, who was employed in a primary school, could not be doing with such a thing as ‘remote learning’ and decided to attend the school every single day to help the students on site.
As the China plague panic accelerated, our ‘leadership’ decided that vaccinations should be mandatory in the education sector. At that point, my wife, who was lucky enough to be in a position and of an age where she could retire, made the decision to not take up the government’s kind offer of an experimental medical procedure, and very reluctantly retired near to the end of 2021. After all she had done for her students, she was shut out completely. Fast forward to early 2022, when we were on holiday in Coff’s Harbour and lo and behold a call came through asking if she would consider returning to work, as mandates were rescinded.
She returned, on her terms – shorter hours and this year was offered a contract for a possible two year period, to tutor those poor kids who were left behind due to that disastrous policy of closing schools when those little kids were the least at risk. Still proudly unjabbed, by the way.
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News release from CSIRO:
Dr Wenju Cai, CSIRO climate scientist, said: We are in the mature season of the current three-consecutive La Niña years. During the three years, heat has been stored in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. There is no precedent for four-consecutive La Niña years. Models that predict the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycles are indicating a demise of the current La Niña condition.
Many models are predicting an El Niño by the northern hemisphere summer months.
During El Niño, drought occurs over eastern and north-eastern Australia in spring and summer. During winter and spring, a developing El Niño often drives an Indian Ocean Dipole (cooling in the eastern Indian Ocean), inducing droughts over southern Australia in the rain seasons.
Both El Niño and La Niña are known as climate phenomena. The oceans switch between these states roughly every two to seven years, depending on the wind and ocean conditions across the equatorial Pacific Ocean between Australia and South America. El Niño is known as the warm phase and La Niña the cold phase, but it’s also possible to be in a neutral ENSO phase.
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“Many models are predicting …”
And therein lies the whole root of the problem.
If just one of their models was sound they wouldn’t need two.
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They haven’t factored in the possibility of a El Nino Modoki.
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“There is no precedent for four-consecutive La Niña years”- so, CSIRO have been monitoring the systems for hundreds of years and they know that for sure? Nope. Again, in climatology it’s not what they say, or the fact they tell lies, it’s what they leave out. No context. Half truths.
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On the way up again.
‘Southern Oscillation Index.
The 30-day Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) for the 30 days ending 12 February 2023 was +13.3 while the 90-day SOI value was +15.1. The 30-day SOI has increased slightly over recent days.’
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Pacific-Ocean&pacific=SOI
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Weirdness everywhere.
Balloons in USA, Canada, China.
Weird clouds and behaviour in Turkey, Uraguay, Argentina, Alaska, Singapore.
I’m seeing unusual air traffic inc jets where I am.
Contrails lead nowhere. There’s nothing where these planes are headed. None of them show up on FlightRadar either.
Anyone else noticing unusual things?
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Yes and when I wake up nothing is normal. Will it ever be normal again? Why all those balloons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
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Balloons or not?
How hard can it be!
https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1625548121873825816/
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John,
Did you miss some meds?
Take too many?
Or was the person that sold them to you
wearing odd clothing?
😂
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He must be all right as he knows the word Turkey for the country Turkey. Unfortunately, the ABC still don’t know the english for Turkey and Kiev or Londinium………………..lol
So, it’s a roast turkey or a chicken kiev or a londinium cockles and mussels with jellied eels.
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There is always something where the planes are heading if they go far enough. Or if uou are a flat earther they ate just leaving ( or sneakily turning around once out of sight)
I have spent weeks of my life flying over not much of anything but there always seems to be something at the end.
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And then 3 helicopters in formation over my house 1 hour after posting, flying north to the capital.
Nothing on FlightRadar either, but choppers may not show anyway.
Some form of manoeuvers happening of late?
Not a “meds” issue either, for the cynics out there. 😉
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‘Anyone else noticing unusual things?’
They have been scrambling fighters in North America and there is speculation on the significance. Accidentally shooting down a real UFO wasn’t in the script, that is the chatter going around.
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If you could hear the garbage on radio in NZ in the wake of the storm, you would conclude that the AGW horse-scheit is going exponential.
It’s weird that so many have completely gone evangelical on this, and they are being actively encouraged , given a forum to spout absolute nonsense.
But it’s not new ;it’s just gone up a gear.
It feels to me that we’re being primed for more mandates of some sort. A new covert stay home order is in effect already.
Today the P.M is asking the people to limit their food purchases. WTF? The people are broke.
But I know what you mean : there’s something in the wind.
But then I’m paranoid LOL
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But NZ is already addressing the problem.
You are shutting down your farming industry.
And getting you out of your cars.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/16/auckland-transport-roads-cars-cycling-congestion-new-zealand
And getting you out of coal.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/455023/new-zealand-pledges-to-phase-out-coal-for-electricity-in-next-10-20-years
But that’s not working…
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300330306/new-zealands-use-of-coal-for-electricity-generation-surges
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And PM Gingaboy’s “and please drive to the conditions.”
How else do you xxxxing drive, you eedjit!
Radio ‘Ah Enzed’ – it’s Maori apparently. E hoa?
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Some people drive at full send regardless of conditions, coz they got mad skillz n stuff.
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Anybody can drive very fast.
It’s the sudden stop sometimes at the end that most people have trouble with.
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And here in Melbourne, weather girl Livinia informed us we are in for a three day “low intensity heatwave”. Low intensity heat is just warmth is it not? Three days of mid-thirties in mid-summer is hardly record shattering in Melbourne. Indeed, it has been remarkably mild from where I stand.
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In Jan 1908, Melbourne had a 39.9C day followed by five +40C degree days (consecutive). The Jan average was 31.0C and is still the warmest Jan on record for Melbourne. I wonder if Livinia knows that. I suppose ‘low intensity’ is correct.
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Hotter than Perth. We still haven’t reached 40 C all summer, which is VERY unusual.
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Can anyone recommend an overseas supplier of IVM? And what are your experiences importing it (Australia)?
I know a lot of people are getting it from India, but the problem is who are the reputable suppliers?
I understand there are Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers who produce to Western standards.
Asking for a friend, I already have a supply from when it was legal for Australian doctors to prescribe this super safe drug.
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You can get IVM from Chemist Warehouse –
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/search?searchtext=ivermectin&fh=1
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But you need a prescription and doctors cannot prescribe it for covid prophylaxis or treatment or they’ll be deregistered. And the desirable dose for covid is roughly 24mg (0.4–0.6 mg/kg per dose as per I-MASK+ protocol) not 3mg as per parasitic use.
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You don’t need a script.
The stuffed referred to is for dogs. Same stuff though. IVM.
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Ok, but these are very low dose, 68mcg which is 0.068mg. It’s barely there at all… Must be homeopathic…LoL… Required dose is about 24mg.
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Bomectin – 250 doses for $95 delivered
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Thanks Simon. Bomectin also contains clorsulon which is not used in humans, at least not internally, and the product is for injection, not pills.
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David, READ the bloody advert!
They come in three sizes. The weights are given for each size dose pill.
Just take your own weight and work out what combo of pills you need.
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The biggest available dog dose is 272mcg which is 0.272mg. It’s barely there. Required Covid dose per pill is around 24mg. You would need 88 of the largest available dog pill to make up for just one 24mg pill.
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You can get IVM as a horse or sheep drench. Simply put it in a spray bottle and apply to skin (it’s a dose by weight thing, humans weighing less than equines…or sheep) Added bonus is with IVM showing early signs of being an effective anti-cancer drug, you can prevent, to some degree, skin cancer!!
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I never told you this David and I was definitely not here if anyone asks. Try https://www.rxcare.store/?utm_campaign=7278570e-0fad-4fea-afee-df88fd54b140&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=bebd9dd7-5409-4b12-a308-724e6061c566. Successful shipment within a couple of weeks and they advise you how the package with your T shirts will be sent.
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https://www.rxcare.store/?utm_campaign=7278570e-0fad-4fea-afee-df88fd54b140&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=bebd9dd7-5409-4b12-a308-724e6061c566
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Excellent, thanks Ross.
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Try Ram Medical Stores for Ivermectin, & Ziverdo kits. Worked for me.
They are the kits handed out to any one infected, or having been in contact with any infected by the Uttar Pradesh government. they knocked the pandemic dead in a very crowded population of 220 million.
Good luck.
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Terry McCrann here:
“Step up and take a bow Cherelle Murphy, the chief economist at EY Oceania, and seemingly the only economist across the entire spectrum of market economists, Treasury and the Reserve Bank, who has heard of real interest rates and understands the importance of their real world reality.
This week she argued in a Fin Review commentary that the Reserve Bank would have to go much harder to rein in inflation. Its rate rises so far – the media’s (and others) hysterical nine rate rises in a row – were “only just touching the sides,” she added.
Why so? Because while the cash rate (the RBA’s official rate) is 3.35 per cent, the “real, inflation-adjusted cash rate is negative, by our estimates about minus 3.2 per cent, because inflation is way higher than the RBA’s policy rate,” she wrote.
Precisely. But which does not mean, I hasten to add – neither I, nor I presume Cherelle, would argue far less demand – that the cash rate has to be doubled, to start really working against inflation.
Now, I’ll come back to where this leads in the real world.
But first, the real, really stunning point. This is the first time, certainly since the RBA started hiking last May and indeed right back to when it cut its rate to zero, that I have heard or read any economist in Australia talking about real rates.
That precisely includes both Treasury and the Reserve Bank itself. You can search in vain for the words “real interest rate” in the latest 77-page Statement of Monetary Policy from the RBA, the document which sparked the latest frenzy of hysteria over the RBA’s supposedly punishing rate rises.
Indeed, I’m happy – even desperate – to be corrected, but I haven’t seen any reference to real interest rates in anything the RBA has published over the last year.
Similarly, they are three words that haven’t passed RBA’s governor Philip Lowe’s lips over these entire turbulent 10 months. Perhaps some backbencher can prise them out this week.
Critically, there been zero discussion from the RBA about their meaning and significance for future rate rises.
Now, the issue is far more complicated than simply noting that the last inflation number was 7.8 per cent, the RBA’s rate is 3.35 per cent, so the RBA’s real interest rate is 4.35 per cent.
A clue to that is Murphy’s observation that her EY Oceania estimate is a 3.2 per cent real rate. Further, we clearly do not need an immediate positive real policy rate to bring serious downward pressure on inflation, compared with what we needed and saw happen in the 1990s and even more in the 1970s.
This is because we are all far more borrowed now than then.
We all have huge rate-sensitive debts – governments, businesses, banks, and of course most critically households with huge mortgages on their owner-occupied homes plus massive investments in second and third properties.
Necessary downward pressure on inflation, I would add, by, yes, slowing the economy.
But the idea that the current rates are punitive other than to first home borrowers is a fantasy.
Last May when the RBA’s rate was 0.1 per cent inflation was 5.1 per cent. The real rate was negative 5 per cent.
Now it’s negative somewhere between 3.2 and 4.35 per cent. The real tightening has been modest.
The RBA’s real rate is significantly negative – in comparison not just with current 7.8 per cent inflation, but even the RBA’s (probably too-low) forecast of 4.8 per cent inflation for 2023.
Savers, depositing money at 3 per cent, are still subsidising borrowers borrowing at 5-6 per cent.
As Murphy argues: the real rate has to become positive. Either by inflation falling or rates going higher.
It happens this year, or there’s more pain in 2024.”
You heard it here first or second or third somewhere else. But the people should here this and take it on board. You won’t here it from Tennis Elbow, Snake Charmer (Chalmers) or Blackout Bowen that’s for sure. Or, even the RBA and all those so called egg spurts.
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Scary, just noticed a Map of Australia with dark colours from one side to another warning of very hot conditions ahead, further down that heatwave conditions will be experienced, and then a reminded that February is usually the hottest month of the year.
So I relaxed.
sarc.
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For the next 7-10 days the old BOM are going to be tying themselves up in knots issuing heatwave warnings for South East Australia. I wouldn’t mind betting some fires in that period as well, but always dependent on wind conditions. Summer has finally arrived!
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Its been cool, but that is only anomalous weather.
‘Anomalous heat is generating across Australia thanks to a titanic semi-permanent high-pressure area centered on Western Australia through the next 1-2 weeks. The hottest day of many ahead appears to be February 20th when widespread 100-115F (38-46C) is observed.
‘The hottest temperatures across interior Western Australia and the south-central portion of Southern Australia. The intense heat represents a dramatic pattern change for Australia’s summer season which has averaged cooler than normal for most of the continent.’ (Climate Impact Company)
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My tomatoes are looking forward to the first week of summer.
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Russian-linked malware was close to putting U.S. electric, gas facilities ‘offline’ last year
Hackers linked to Russia got very close to being able to take a dozen U.S. electric and gas facilities offline in the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, the head of a top cybersecurity company warned Tuesday.
Robert M. Lee, the founder and CEO of Dragos, which helps companies respond to cyberattacks, said hackers with a group Dragos calls “Chernovite” were using a malicious software to try to take down “around a dozen” U.S. electric and liquid natural gas sites.
“This is the closest we’ve ever been to having U.S. or European infrastructure, I’d say U.S. infrastructure, go offline,” Lee told reporters in a briefing. “It wasn’t employed on one of its targets, they weren’t ready to pull the trigger, they were getting very close.” Lee declined to offer details on what prevented the attack from succeeding, but said it was halted by a coalition of U.S. government and cyber industry groups.
While the U.S. government disclosed last year that the new malware — called PIPEDREAM — was capable of infiltrating U.S. industrial control systems across multiple key sectors, Lee’s comments suggest that the danger was more acute than officials had disclosed. And his disclosure offers a new picture of the U.S. energy supply’s vulnerability to a crippling cyber assault — a possibility that had drawn widespread concern during the run-up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion.
Lee described the malware as a “state-level, wartime capability.” He did not say if the malware had actually been installed in the targeted networks or if the hackers were just close to getting into the systems.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/russia-malware-electric-gas-facilities-00082675
You won’t know it’s happening until it’s too late.
It’s a good idea to have some LPG bottles AND an LPG generator (or LPG adaptor) in your arsenal.😉
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Hackers linked to Russia might have been close to being able to take some U.S. electric and gas facilities offline last February after the White House announced finalisation of plans to take Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas facilities offline.
Wasn’t Nord Stream 2 European infrastructure?
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Petition for a Royal Commission into the Covid Pandemic response by Federal and State governments
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN4670
Consider signing this petition. It needs 100,000 signatures to get tabled in parliament. So far it looks like it will fall short of that but there are still 8 days to go.
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Certainly needed.
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Signed.
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I’ve signed so many of those Petitions, they never work. I don’t think the politicians take any notice of them. But I signed it anyway.
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Someone mentioned here recently that our Dear Leader Albanese would make a good bagman for a bookmaker at the horse races. I thought it was hilarious.
For overseas readers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Australian_and_New_Zealand_punting
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Geert Vanden Bossche: Pandemic strategies, Stockholm
Vaccinees exclusively put their protection in the hands of vaccinal Abs
| have no doubt that the advent of Omicron will be remembered in
the history of mankind as a pivotal moment. C-19 mass vaccination
turned a natural viral pandemic into a viral immune escape
pandemic, and Omicron turned the immune escape pandemic into
an inescapable immune escape pandemic.
This means that in highly C-19 vaccinated countries, Omicron
irreversibly and irrevocably forced the immune escape pandemic into
an evolution that can no longer be halted by large-scale vaccine-
induced immunity-it will only be halted by ……
This will go down in history as the most devastating but unambiguous example of how Nature mercilessly punishes man’s
incredibly naive belief that through technology, he can control biology.
Gain-of-function experiment is out of control
* I cannot imagine how the majority of C-19 vaccinated individuals in highly
vaccinated countries (especially in countries predominantly using mRNA-
based C-19 vaccines) would not succumb to viral variants adaptively
evolved to abolish the increasing, large-scale immune pressure these very
vaccinated individuals are currently exerting on viral virulence.
* As the mass C-19 vaccination program is undoubtedly at the origin of this
evolution, it must be considered the largest and most dangerous in vivo
gain-of-function experiment ever conducted in the history of biology—one
which mankind has unleashed on its very own species!
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/pandemic-strategies-lessons-and-consequences-international-conference-in-stockholm
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Valentine’s day: chainsaw edition!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c602d72e1d9b7760023e51d9e4c67f93/bef118462a501749-03/s1280x1920/30fc456b92c6a250f90427524343def9153a09c5.jpg
Why waste money on flowers and choccy.🤣
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Here is a press release from the United Australia Party.
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Okay, general knowledge question here. (Umm, pretty obscure general knowledge at that)
What do Harry S Truman and Ulysses S Grant share in common?
The same second name.
And ….. it’s not even a name.
Both men (Presidents) were both given just the Initial ….. ‘S’ for a second name. Truman at birth, and Grant upon joining the Academy at West Point.
Tony.
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‘Putin is ‘preparing new aerial attack on Ukraine’ with fighter jets and helicopters prepped for battle – as NATO chief warns Europe is at risk of running out of ammunition to help Kyiv fight back.’ (UK Mail)
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I saw one of the vehicles Australia supplied in a destroyed state the other day.
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I wonder if Vlad knows he has all these direct military skills?
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The SOI is heading upwards again. The 90 day average is 14.37 and the 30 day average is 13.86. The Jan. average was 11.86. https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/ Between -8 and +8 is considered neutral.
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Okay ….. drilling tunnels through mountains for hydro schemes.
Here’s a short video of just under three minutes.
This is from 1963, around the time Thiess made almost 200 metres in a 6 day week.
Watch this video, and pretend to be a Workplace Health And Safety Officer.
This is actually horrifying to watch.
There are two other short videos as well, but this one was the main one I wanted to point out to you all.
Like I said, thank heavens they built this scheme when they did.
It wouldn’t even get past a thought bubble these days.
Tony.
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“It wouldn’t even get past a thought bubble these days.”
Not sure Snowy 2 has managed much more than that yet, either. !
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Great video. And mostly involving immigrants who, back in the day, were expected to (and did) learn English, love their country and work for a living…
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Great video Tony.
At least these guys had a good reason to wear hard-hats.
Like every other legitimate workplace reform, Workplace Health and Safety has been bastardised to the extreme by un-elected bureaucrats. At our company, some of the ridiculous rules make our job almost impossible. eg. You can not use a small step ladder in a low ceiling computer room at some mines (name withheld) in Australia – you must wait for a highly skilled crew to come and erect a small platform (no joke).
To add to the stupidity, I saw a bloke whipper-snipping along the footpath outside a school the other day. Apart from common-sense PPE (boots, safety glasses), he was wearing a hard-hat, earmuffs, overalls, gloves, etc. This was in the middle of the day in Townsville QLD and it was 30+ degrees C, humidity around 70%.
PS. There were no loose rocks above him.
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There has been a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Cook Strait NZ about 60Km off Wellington.
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Will be blamed on “Climate Change” like the one in Turkey ! 😉
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Straight Six or V6?
I saw this answer on Quora:
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Hi David,
probably missed from Sunday open thread some questions for AI
David ask it the Questions:
Do you believe your answers are valid if you have not been given all relevant data on a subject?
What do you propose to do with your answers if important information is being withheld from your analysis?
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Q: Do you believe your answers are valid if you have not been given all relevant data on a subject?
A: As an AI language model, I rely on the information that I have been trained on and the information provided to me in the specific question asked. My answers are based on the best knowledge and understanding available to me at the time of providing the response. However, if I have not been given all relevant data on a subject, it is possible that my answers may not be entirely accurate or complete.
It is always important to keep in mind that AI language models like myself are not infallible and there may be limitations to the accuracy of our responses. In cases where there may be missing information, it is always advisable to seek out additional information and consult with experts in the field to ensure that you are making the most informed decisions.
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Q: What do you propose to do with your answers if important information is being withheld from your analysis?
A: As an AI language model, I rely on the information provided to me in order to provide accurate and helpful answers. If important information is being withheld from my analysis, there is a risk that my answers may not be as accurate or complete as they could be.
In such cases, I would recommend that the person providing the information try to provide as much context and detail as possible. If there is a reason why certain information cannot be shared, it would be helpful to provide an explanation for why that is the case.
Ultimately, my goal is to provide the best possible answers based on the information available to me. If important information is being withheld, I will do my best to provide an answer that is as accurate and helpful as possible, but it may be limited by the missing information.
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Thank you David
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The classic BMW engine: I-6
The Cummins turbo diesel: I-6
The classic Ford pickup 4.9 liter: I-6
The Nissan Skyline GTR R32’s RB26 (650 HP on 2.6 liters): I-6
The list is long……
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A V-6 engine requires a counter balance shaft. A V-12, such as the RR Merlin or the Diamler Benz DB600 series, is two inline sixes put together.
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Mine has a giant hole suddenly opening, and two miners are missing. Seems that nine problems are not limited to ‘green’ projects
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Why would they be?
But unlike “green” projects, regular mines do something useful like provide coal, iron ore or other useful minerals. Usefulness cannot be claimed for any green project like solar or wind subsidy farms which are major drains on the economy, especially of working people.
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Lining up another fuster –
“Minnesota Democrats Vote to Freeze in the Dark by 2040”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/14/minnesota-to-return-to-ice-age-by-2040/
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The streets in my Democrat run city are becoming nearly unusable due to pot holes.
(They are also limiting roads with ‘commuter bicycle lanes’ that no one uses half the year because there is not yet enough Global Warming.)
There is a toxic train derailment in Ohio largely ignored by MSM.
Biden’s transportation secretary says there are too many white guys working in transportation infrastructure.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/buttigieg-white-construction-workers-taking-jobs-communities-color
Besides being the anti-free speech, freeze in the dark party, they have become the anti-white heterosexual men party.
‘Equity’ as a social political construct became mainstream only about four years ago.
It is now synonymous with retribution.
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No Honk, they are the divide and conquer party.
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MV you’re going to just love this :-
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/professor-elizabeth-rata-et-al-open-letter-to-the-pm
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Now get a load of this ; you may have to translate some of it into your indigenous language to get the full impact:-
“We are refreshing the New Zealand Curriculum (the NZC) to better reflect the aspirations and expectations of all New Zealanders.
The refresh will adorn our ākonga with a 3-strand whenu (cord). This korowai will be layered with huruhuru (feathers) representing who they are, who they can be, their whakapapa, and their connection to our whenua (lands).
The whenu tying it together is made up of whānau (family), ākonga, and kaiako (teachers) working as partners to use and localise the NZC.
The refresh will ensure that the NZC reflects diverse ways of being, understanding, knowing, and doing.
It helps us inclusively respond to the needs of individual ākonga, who are at the centre of all we do.
Ākonga will be able to see their languages, cultures, identities, and strengths in what they learn at school.
This will empower ākonga to go boldly into an ever-changing future and contribute to local, national, and global communities.
This vision will primarily be realised by kaiako and school leaders, in partnership with iwi and their school communities.
However, it will be important for all New Zealanders to be part of this journey and help create multiple pathways towards equity and success for all ākonga. (Our emphasis.)”
Feel better now?
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I wonder if Australia will have enough feathers , sufficient to emulate this wondrous vision that Chris Hipkins, former Minister for Education (sic) , now P.M, has regurgitated.
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Interesting investments by the Bidens through a Private Equity Fund.
Certainly serious about health.
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The Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen has released this statement on the governments’ website. (13th February 2023)
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/65-million-supercharge-dispatchable-renewable-energy
titled:
“$65 Million To Supercharge Dispatchable Renewable Energy.”
The grant is going to “Vast Solar Pty Ltd” and their dispatchable solar thermal technology.
https://www.vastsolar.com/current-projects
Ok.
Let’s look at Vast Solar Pty Ltd.
Vast Solar has released this on their website:
“The Australian government announced it will support the project with up to A$110m in concessional financing, as well as up to A$65 million in a non-dilutive equity grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)”
“VS1 will generate clean, low-cost, dispatchable power with 9+ hours thermal energy storage.”
OK note that all that funding is via/from the Australian Government.
And surprise surprise.
2 days after Minister Bowen’s announcement,
the Australian company, Vast Solar has been acquired by a subsidary of Nabors Energy. For US$586 million. 15th Feb 2023.
SPAC Nabors Energy Transition Corp NETC.N.
Nabors state they have a proud commitment to ESG and Climate net zero. They are also the largest on shore drilling company for oil and gas in the world.
All of the above info is free to see and can be found on the company and government websites.
Now I only have one question.
Did the Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy know this before he presided over a $65 million grant to Vast Solar on the 13th Feb 2023?
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“Dispatchable Renewable Energy.” an oxymoron methinks.
Instead of “supercharging” it, just make it work on the most basic of levels so you have command and control to ramp ip and down 24×7.
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This is a resurection of the previous SolarReserve project that was abandoned a few years ago when most sensible folk accepted that Thermal Solar was the most expensive form of RE and also the most unreliable .
Some people never learn……or find it hard to resist a pile of grants etc
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FWIW
“War of the Worlds”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/war-of-the-worlds/
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Quite a spectacle on the TV news tonight. Two of them, in fact, unprecedented in my memory.
1 The governor of the Reserve Bank, looking like a three year old looking for a place to hide, and
2. The boss of the ABC, looking like a big kid looking for somewhere bigger to hide.
And I get a feeling that the Snowy 2 fiasco could be the last straw for the AGW scam. They will hit the wall on April 28, and may be beginning to realise it.
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Be nice if the third was the BOM trying to explain themselves!
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Q: What is the mechanism, if any, that co2 is a “greenhouse gas”?
A: Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas because of its ability to absorb and re-emit infrared radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere. When sunlight enters the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is absorbed by the Earth’s surface, which warms up and emits thermal radiation in the form of infrared energy. Some of this infrared radiation is then absorbed by greenhouse gases like CO2, which trap the heat in the atmosphere, leading to an increase in temperature.
This process is commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect, which is a natural phenomenon that helps keep the Earth warm enough to support life. However, when the concentration of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, in the atmosphere increases due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, the greenhouse effect is amplified, leading to an increase in global temperatures, commonly known as global warming.
The increase in temperature caused by the increase in CO2 concentration has numerous effects on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems, including rising sea levels, changes in precipitation patterns, more frequent and severe weather events, and loss of biodiversity.
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David, what’s this?
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Sorry , it seems that this WEF type outline is from Chat.
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Yes, somehow the heading I wrote that it was from ChatGPT got dropped.
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“which trap the heat in the atmosphere”
Funny how that bit never gets explained anywhere…
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Prof. Happer has generated very good explanations as to why CO2 cannot trap heat. While it can in a laboratory, the atmosphere is very different.
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https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=680-140
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And this is why Chatwhatever is USELESS for anything but to enforce leftist propaganda…
It has NO INTELLIGENCE..
It is just a regurgitator of mal-information.
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I wonder what it says about water vapour?
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Questions for ChatGPT.
This answer seems like complete BS. The data I have seen is closer to 3%-4% based on isotopic analysis and which does not come from a political source like CSIRO, BoM, NOAA, etc…
Q: What is the proportion of co2 in the atmosphere which is of anthropogenic origin?
A: The proportion of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere that is of anthropogenic (human-caused) origin is currently estimated to be around 33 to 35 percent, as of 2021. This means that about one-third of the total CO2 in the atmosphere is a result of human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas.
This estimate is based on various measurements, such as the analysis of air bubbles trapped in ice cores, direct measurements of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and modeling studies. These measurements and studies indicate that the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased by about 47 percent since the beginning of the industrial era, from a pre-industrial level of around 280 parts per million (ppm) to over 410 ppm in 2021.
While the natural carbon cycle involves the exchange of CO2 between the atmosphere, oceans, and land, the human-caused increase in atmospheric CO2 is responsible for the amplification of the greenhouse effect and the associated impacts on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems.
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The main issue is that this view of wobal glorming is missing a few important factors.
Above about 30 metres altitude the virulent, dangerous gas CO2 simply becomes just another part of the atmosphere.
The real atmosphere is forced by the devil to obey the universal gas law: P.V = nR.T
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” one-third of the total CO2 in the atmosphere IS a result of human activities, ”
Nice how the “currently estimated ” in the previous sentence , became “is ” in the above sentence.
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From Daily Skeptic. Vaccine deaths hidden in Australia. Strange that I find out from a UK publication.
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Thanks for that, interesting.
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You can bet she didn’t write it.
Greta Thunberg Launches New Climate Bible
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/02/14/climate-alarmist-greta-thunberg-remember-her-is-back-with-a-vengeance/
Celebrated Swedish climate scold Greta Thunberg has given the world a Valentine’s Day present in the form of her newly published The Climate Book, a diatribe against fossil fuels, “capitalist consumerism,” and the “global north.”
Published Tuesday by Penguin Press, the 464-page tome urges readers to “listen to the science” before it’s too late, in a smartly repackaged but ultimately predictable and unconvincing crusade to scare humanity into abandoning cheap, available energy to stave off the impending climate apocalypse.
“The climate and ecological crisis is the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced,” Thunberg thunders, and will be “the issue that will define and shape our future everyday life like no other.”
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Canada
“Rex Murphy: Unidentified balloons, and Mary Ng’s inability to identify conflict of interest
The PM says he’s ‘serious’ about flying objects. What about ministerial ethics?”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/on-unidentified-balloons-and-mary-ngs-inability-to-identify-conflict-of-interest
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Govt is making sure there are no more leaks about what happened in which war, or in which ‘incident’ when war was not declared… No more biographies or history books ferreting into state secrets, who’s phone we tapped, which country we spied on!
“The federal government will develop new laws to ensure it is illegal for current and former Australian Defence Force personnel to provide military secrets to foreign powers…“It matters that Australia’s secrets are maintained.””
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-will-tighten-laws-to-stop-leaking-of-military-secrets-20230215-p5ckqx.html
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..and there’s a world-wide pandemic of balloons it seems- Govts need distractions, military needs publicity!
” Six Russian balloons were spotted over Kyiv and most were shot down after being engaged by air defences, the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said on Wednesday.”
Talk about WW1 warfare!
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..and how likely is this?
“To put the debt into perspective, every American citizen would have to write a check for $94,344 in order to pay off the national debt.”
Never mind State debts & local Govt debt. I wonder how much Aussies would have to write for? Not many could hand over $2000 in cash, never mind $10000. Someone will have to pay the piper, and it won’t be the current parasites in power.
https://kolozeg.org/the-bankrupt-empire-us-fiscal-2023-budget-deficit-already-approaching-a-half-trillion-dollars-michael-maharrey/
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