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Well, thank god its Tuesday.
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I feel like having a hotdog today…very thankful for streaming internet service so I’m not constantly being bombarded by government wants to kill me propaganda…not in a flood zone, so that’s good too…
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Well, back to work then.
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Your comment tells us how much work you do. Very little !
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Calling Kalm Keith.
On 11th March you posted a call “I think it’s worth nailing the Climate Change issue, decisively.”
I hope you are right. The sooner the better, but I have been waiting in anticipation of a better opportunity.
I don’t know who the architect was, but the original Emissions Trading Scheme proposed by Howard studiously refused to admit credits for the sequestration side of Agriculture’s carbon cycle. They intended to tax Ag’s recycled carbon on the same basis as fossil carbon.
This was grossly inequitable, but they were getting away with it. It seemed to me that the wider population had no comprehension of sequestration.
Then along came Barnaby Joyce, by trade a working business accountant. He arrested their progress with rational argument, but the solution they applied was not to admit the inequity, but to sideline Ag as a whole in the too hard basket.
With the elections of 2010 and 2013 their program failed to advance, but now the Marxists are in government, and I expect that soon we will see Ag retrieved from the too hard basket, obdurate inequity and all. When that happens we should attack it savagely, not on the basis that they have made a mistake, but that this proves their whole damnable program is rotten.
I would expect plenty of support from farmers once they see the details, but not the National Farmers’ Federation. They are a bunch of bleepwitted elitists, who believe that farmers can make a profit by playing this zero sum game.
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Hi Ted, that’s a good point of contact but we would be stronger if we had a definitive condemnation of the CO2 is monstrous meme.
There’s enough skill and depth on this blog to get a definitive position, one way or other.
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does more good than harm.
I have decided that I should keep repeating it until people get sick of me doing it.
It shouldn’t be hard to understand.
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And it does zero harm. Ditto
And humans do not control it. CO2 is in equilibrium. Ditto
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And burying CO2 is idiotic. As is growing trees. NASA and the CSIRO agree
With more CO2 trees grow themselves and CO2 does not go down. QED
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And, when a plant “eats” a carbon-di-oxide molecule, it swallows the carbon but spits out the oxygen.
When we bury the CO2, 27% is carbon and 73% is oxygen which is removed from the atmosphere.
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Conversely, when we burn a hydrocarbon we remove oxygen from the atmosphere.
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Keep repeating it, still won’t make the statement right.
Care to name a harm, just one will do.
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Everything iscouched in terms of emissions, presumably Carbon Dioxide, which somehow extends a threat to all life. We know this is a lie, but it is still propogated even by so- called sceptics at Sky etc. People have to be informed that “carbon” does not pose a threat and it needs to be called out. Has anyone heard of anything as asinine as ” carbon neutral”?
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Propagated!
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YEs Ted, people don’t seem to understand that the CO2 in our atmosphere is in fact their future source of Oxygen for the purposes of breathing.
For mine I like to know where my next breath is coming from.
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How about: “CO2 is Life”?
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Ok Dave, I’m on board!….. How about this?
Carbon dioxide is anti bacterial!
Carbon dioxide regulates our breathing. When we fall asleep, we don’t need to remember to breathe.. Brilliant!
Carbon dioxide is non toxic, non cancerous, and is great to use in storing and packaging food!
Carbon dioxide is commonly used in welding as a shielding gas, so hey presto, no oxidation occurs!
Carbon dioxide is used in champagne to celebrate!… (Note: Champagne is commonly used to celebrate one’s final release from a lockdown!)
Lastly and most important,
After a hard days work on a remote fireground/incident…. Miles from anywhere and tasked to stay on watch.
Carbon dioxide, released from a 9kg fire extinguisher, is a great cooling source when applied to our unrefrigerated drinks!
I love CO2!!
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There’s more to that than most people realize.
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This might be a bit long but basically what it’s saying is that CO2 builds up in the bloodstream as a result of exertion or processing of food: the brain triggers its removal via the lungs by contact with the oxygen in the air.
Interestingly, the brain monitors CO2 bloodstream levels, not oxygen.
May 6, 2022 at 1:03 pm
CO2 in the human body is a balance between production via normal activity and removal of excess from bloodstream.
Where CO2 builds up in the bloodstream it must be removed via the wonderful lungs we have.
Bloodstream CO2 levels are monitored by the CNS which presumably signals the lungs to either work harder or slow down.
Interestingly the CNS can not receive info when CO2 levels drop below a certain level and at this point it stops telling the lungs what to do: they cease activity. Death results.
Too much oxygen can reduce CO2 below the critical point and life stops; many people are aware of this and at the end of life can peacefully move on with an altered breathing pattern which I’ve described previously.
In that sense the gas known as Oxygen can be seen as the most dangerous gas on Earth.
The term Cheyne-Stokes breathing is mentioned in this regard but it doesn’t seem to be the same process I’ve seen and understand.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/another-tech-oligarch-with-a-billion-dollars-to-give-to-a-uni-for-the-climate-cause/#comment-2545018
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Soil CO2 sequestration and possible income for farmers is certainly not a new subject. It was bandied about in the late 90’s/early 00’s. Wow, farmers thought we could make money from our soil. Most broadacre farmers have adopted low cultivation type programs with crop residue retention over the last 40 years. Gee whiz, some thought, we could make a fortune. However, when it came down to the nitty gritty and the measurement of Organic C accumulation under various cropping cycles, it was found the potential Carbon $ yield to be quite meagre. Australian soils are generally very low in Organic C anyway and bioaccumulate very slowly. Plus, a lot of our soils just get too hot. Any C accumulation gets burned up in oxidation to the atmosphere. Double negative. Then there’s the conundrum of how to measure any bioaccumulation of Carbon. Is it done paddock by paddock, satellite or best guess. If its the latter, then its open to fraud. But, that would not be unlike any of these other crazy green projects. Totally agree with your opinion of the NFF, just a bunch of self styled bureaucrats operating within the Canberra bubble. Totally removed from most working farmers needs.
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I think all agricultural carbon should be sequestered into cattle, it can be stored there until required then shipped to the cities where, when consumed, it becomes a city problem rather than a country problem. Tax all those consumers staggering home from pub or restaurant, farting and belching their way to bed, then trap any solids that are produced and rather than recycle the nutrients back into the soil they can be feremented to other green house gases and any remaining useful nutrients can be pumped out to sea. There you go problem solved.
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Better than a novel idea – Brilliant!
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Layer upon layer of complete BS
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/indonesians-seeking-climate-justice-take-aim-at-swiss-concrete-giant/news-story/abdaff5708508440a08818818da057fd
and
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/summer-returns-with-mammoth-heatwave-to-hit-nsw-and-queensland/news-story/7766f228376f26ad246c774db04bfc80
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Weatherzone plays it with a straight bat, without the lurid temperature graph suggesting its related to global warming.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/huge-surge-of-autumn-heat-coming/1152396
In fact this late season heat wave is directly related to global cooling.
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“In fact this late season heat wave is directly related to global cooling.”
ummm.. elG …
You sound like an AGW apostle … (warming causes cold weather)… but in reverse.
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None of that, its due to blocking high pressure and wayward jet streams, clear indications of global cooling.
On the ground people will talk of unseasonal weather.
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Are you referring to “Global Warming™” or normal temperature fluctuations aligned with Non Global Warming™ variations?
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Australia has been gradually cooling for a decade and its not in the song book, so as the temperature pause continues the AGW zealots will be red faced.
‘Non Global Warming™ variations?’ Natural variability will suffice, negative feedbacks outnumber positive feedbacks by a large margin.
A new battle field is opening up, they want us to believe CO2 is making SAM positive.
‘The Southern Annular Mode is currently in a positive phase, and this is projected to continue due to increased greenhouse gas emissions. A positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode will continue to drive changes in the Southern Westerly Winds, causing warming and drying over Patagonia, and increased upwelling of warm Circumpolar Deep Water and glacier recession in western Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula.’ (Antarctic Glaciers.org)
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“and this is projected to continue due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.”
What??
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“clear indications of global cooling”
NO. It’s;
“clear indications of localised cooling”.
The total energy content of the Earths biosphere is remarquablie constant so somewhere else is warmer.
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How about Southern Hemisphere cooling?
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In the winter of 2017 BoM put out a statement to clarify what is happening.
‘The subtropical ridge has remained firmly down south: it’s currently sitting near Albury when it should be closer to Tamworth. Pressure across much of southern Australia is averaging more than 7 hPa above normal.
‘Not only is the subtropical ridge further south than it should be, but it’s stronger as well: the strongest we’ve seen in June since 1944, which was the driest June on record for southern Australia.’
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‘The subtropical ridge has remained firmly down south”
Couldn’t they put it on a truck and take it up, at least, to Sydney?
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A positive SAM keeps the subtropical ridge too far south.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/aao-index-monthly.png
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David Maddison wrote a comment over on the Silicon Valley Bank Thread and I responded two hours ago at 3.13PM, but for some reason I cannot decipher, that comment went into Moderation, so I’m attempting to Post that same comment here to see if it goes into Moderation here as well, and David’s comment was:
…..I wonder if those high (by unreliables standards) capacity factors for wind are true? Are these figures audited? I never assume anything the Left claim is true, it is generally the opposite of the truth. So, I wonder what the scam is if they overstate the capacity factors?…..
The actual Capacity Factors (CF) for wind are both stuck at 30%, and realistically, that won’t change because now they have 10,277MW of Nameplate, and each new Industrial Wind Plant that comes on line only has a small nameplate, so adding that on to that existing total will not change it much at all, even if it does have a 40% CF. (Yeah! Right! As if!) And again, that’s a basic maths principle as well. Even so, as those newer, better technology plants are coming on line, then, with their supposed 45% to 50% CF, (Yeah! Right!) then that should be raising the CF, (ever so marginally) but what is happening is as those newer, better tech plants ARE coming on line, then the shorter term CF over the most recent 52 weeks one year is actually LOWER than the longer term 252 weeks. (now four and a half years) That’s why you’ll see some (spurious is my guess) cherry picking of an individual plant here and there saying it has a CF of a percentage it CANNOT sustain over the long term.
I’m not sure there is a scam involved in all of this, just that NOBODY (and let me emphasise that word ….. NOBODY) is even bothering to check those CF figures at all, just mindlessly assuming they are what is being quoted.
When I mentioned it some Months back at one of those RenewEconomy articles, the response was ….. “nice work mate, we never knew” (/sarc) Naah! The ACTUAL response was that I should pull my head in and stop watching SKY TV. The intent of that was that if that person had no idea either of the figure itself or even how to calculate it in the first place, then if he didn’t know ….. then no one did!
Oh, with wind CF at 30.21% and 29.95%, the CF for those industrial solar plants is, umm, just 14.7%, and the approximate CF for rooftop solar power is a tick under 10% across the whole of the AEMO. You see, with the accurate data (yeah right!) for rooftop solar power delivered shown by the AEMO, then quoting that humungous total Nameplate for rooftop solar power is in fact a two edged sword, the higher the Nameplate they guess at, then the (much) lower the CF.
And therein lies the source for this whole thing.
That ACTUAL data for all those sources IS being accurately published, so anybody who knows how to CAN actually work it out and report the TRUTH of the matter.
What they are relying on here is that even though they do publish the accurate data, no one (except for a very few) has even the slightest idea whatsoever as to what they are looking at when it comes to all that published data. They just blindly believe what an ….. Economist tells them.
Tony.
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I believe that the wind CF figures used by the Federal Govt came from the AEMO data, which in turn came from the CSIRO GenCost Report, which in turn came from Aurecon data, which in turn came from the USA’s EIA data, which was wrong in the first place.
I may be wrong in this chain of errors, but I think there is no denying that the original source was the EIA.
Nobody is going to admit the figures are totally wrong.
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“I’m not sure there is a scam involved in all of this, just that NOBODY (and let me emphasise that word ….. NOBODY) is even bothering to check those CF figures at all, just mindlessly assuming they are what is being quoted”
C’mon mate.
They know.
(The Flim Flam Man showed up dressed as an environmentalist.)
It’s the same reason beach front property prices don’t go down in the face of ‘we’re all gonna’ die seal level rise’.
Ya’ know the WAIS is about to melt any moment now.
Build Back Better.
The demolition phase is almost complete.
I’m ready to plow and scavenge for food.
Need to get a mule though.
The wife doesn’t like the harness.
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Get your wife one of these, Honk.
The ideal Mother’s Day gift.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/115285000117?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-159824-816807-4&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=115285000117&targetid=4584619897046651&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=412352396&mkgroupid=1296324506082513&rlsatarget=pla-4584619897046651&abcId=9300543&merchantid=136820&msclkid=4fab9f5fae20121eef43fb4ffea514d3
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With none of your attention to detail, I look at AEMO a number of times a day and I don’t see how CF can improve, as you say.
SA and Vic are in the “bonanza” wind zone – in the roaring forties with their coasts inclined to have the wind come onshore, but surely there is an upper limit of windmills in this small area. Beside it blows the “it’s always blowing somewhere” justification out of the water if all the mills are in the same area.
Zoom out on windy.com and there is seldom harvestable winds between the tropics and the dry interior is also a wind desert so most of Aus is unsuitable for wind.
If you can’t dredge a river mouth in the GBR marine park, surely you can’t go offshore to pick up the SE winds which tend to blow parallel with the coast.
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For the last week per OpenNEM, wind produced an average of just 2,250 MW across the AEMO grid, giving a capacity factor for the week of 21.9%.
Wonder what supplied the shortfall of about 1,000 MW to keep the lights on?
Yet the previous week wind generation averaged about 4,000 MW, forcing other generators to curtail their production.
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And reneweconomy reported WA has the best large installations with at least three over 40% for the last month
Something about a few thousand km of open ocean just to the west?
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And may I add that, based on recent wind data from the UK, their average CF is 31%.
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A couple of threads ago Ross mentioned Dr Peter McCullough and Nattokinase to help the vaccine injured.
Here is the beginning of Peter McCullough’s article. You can only read that far without a subscription or free login.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/dissolution-of-spike-protein-by-nattokinase-b437d17f
Dissolution of Spike Protein by Nattokinase
Peter A. McCullough
Feb. 22, 2023, 4:00 a.m.
Opinion Article
Far and away the most common question I get from those who took one of the COVID-19 vaccines is: “How do I get this out of my body?” The mRNA and adenoviral DNA products were rolled out with no idea on how or when the body would ever breakdown the genetic code. The synthetic mRNA carried on lipid nanoparticles appears to be resistant to breakdown by human ribonucleases by design so the product would be long-lasting and produce the protein product of interest for a considerable time period. This would be an advantage for a normal human protein being replaced in a rare genetic deficiency state (e.g., alpha galactosidase in Fabry’s disease). However, it is a big problem when the protein is the pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 Spike. The adenoviral DNA (Janssen) should be broken down by deoxyribonuclease, however, this has not been exhaustively studied. The greatest hope for detoxification is a proteolytic agent such as nattokinase, a natural product derived from the fermentation of soy.
Degradation of the Spike protein without damage to cells and tissues can be viewed as a therapeutic goal for the vaccine injured. With the respiratory infection, Spike is processed and activated by cellular proteases including transmembrane serine protein 2 (TMPRSS2), cathepsin, and furin. With vaccination, these systems may be avoided by systemic administration and production of Spike protein within cells. As a result, the pathogenesis of vaccine injury syndromes is believed to be driven by accumulation of Spike protein in cells, tissues, and organs.
SEE LINK FOR REST (YOU WILL NEED A LOGIN)
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Some were silly. Some were horrible. But at least one was married to high risk husband and worked as a nurse in an ICU ward with some of the first Covid patients in the nation. Others had a new mortgage, a new baby and saying No meant being unemployed and selling the home. Some had barely got their career off the ground again.
I know many who got vaccinated, some very reluctantly putting it off as long as possible, trying to get the Australian Vax, caught in a rock and hard place with horrible choices. Many are great people. Some were old and scared. Some are young and trusting. Some just didn’t have the wherewithal to push back or to unpack the lies, and read the other medical papers.
It’s more a question of what kind of civilization we want to live in?
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There’s a reason all living things on this planet are described as “carbon-based life forms”, and it isn’t because it’s all mounted on pedestals made out of carbon.
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Interesting point-
“Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan’s semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream.
“The United States and its allies are never going to let those factories fall into Chinese hands,” O’Brien told Semafor, a news outlet that has been funded by jailed Democratic financier Sam Bankman-Fried and his brother. O’Brien went on to compare the destruction of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) to Winston Churchill’s bombing of a French naval fleet after the country’s surrender to Nazi Germany.”
https://kolozeg.org/former-us-national-security-advisor-destroy-taiwan-semiconductor-factories-if-china-invades-alexander-rubinstein/
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David, re the Peter McCullough article on Nattokinase – his own site does not need a login.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dissolution-of-spike-protein-by-nattokinase
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Thanks Foggy.
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..and we are cementing ourselves as a vassal state of the Yanks with their submarines-
“Australia is inseparably intertwined with the US military and is in practice nothing other than a US military and intelligence asset in every meaningful way, to such an extent that the US navy is reportedly planning to use the country as a full-service submarine station for the entire range of undersea activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
In an incredibly brazen admission that the Australian government has fully given away the nation’s sovereignty to a foreign power, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Defence Richard Marles said last year that the Australian Defence Force is moving “beyond interoperability to interchangeability” with the US military so they can “operate seamlessly together, at speed.””
As has been humorously explained on the Australian TV series Utopia, China is the power who is supposedly being “deterred” from attacking Australia’s ports and shipping routes, and since China is Australia’s largest two-way trading partner this means that we are effectively pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into protecting our trade with China, from China.
In reality, Australia is not arming itself against China to protect itself from China. Australia is arming itself against China to protect itself from the United States.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/14/on-war-with-china-australia-is-caught-between-a-rock-and-a-pentagon/
as John Mearsheimer explained-
The question that’s on the table is what should Australia’s foreign policy be in light of the rise of China,”
Mearsheimer said China is going to continue to grow economically and will convert that economic power into military power to dominate Asia “the way the US dominates the western hemisphere”, and explained why he thinks the US and its allies have every ability to prevent that from happening.
“Now the question is what does this all mean for Australia?” Mearsheimer said. ..You trade a lot with China, and that trade is very important for your prosperity, no question about that. Security-wise, you really want to go with us. It makes just a lot more sense, right? And you understand that security is more important than prosperity, because if you don’t survive, you’re not gonna prosper.”
“Now some people say there’s an alternative: you can go with China,” said Mearsheimer. “You have a choice here: you can go with China rather the United States. There’s two things I’ll say about that. Number one, if you go with China, you want to understand you are our enemy. You are then deciding to become an enemy of the United States. Because again, we’re talking about an intense security competition.”
“You’re either with us or against us,” he continued. “And if you’re trading extensively with China, and you’re friendly with China, you’re undermining the United States in this security competition. You’re feeding the beast, from our perspective. And that is not going to make us happy. And when we are not happy you do not want to underestimate how nasty we can be. Just ask Fidel Castro.”
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KP
The Chinese President has said that, together with Putin, he is going to establish a new international World order.
The old world order has served Australia extremely well. There is a new Bamboo curtain going up across your region. Which side of it do you want to be on?
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Yes, and I’d rather be on the side of the newly industrialised multi-polar countries that will shape the future, not the dying empire of the increasingly unhinged Americans trying to rule the world by force.
I saw a comment elsewhere that the West had most of the world’s GDP, but I noted there was no mention of how much of X% was from printing money. The greater part of the world’s population and youth are in the BRICS+, and that is where the growth will be.
Will they print enough money to plaster over the failing banks, 3 currently & 9 more in trouble, or will someone with balls stand up and say “Fail! You are a poor bank & if we bail you out you will continue to be a poor bank while we just add to inflation..”
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The leading Brics contain some of the most totalitarian countries the world has ever seen. Do you really want to be siding with the rulers of Russia and China?
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Idon’t know who really pulls the strings in the UK and US , but it doesn’t matter . They are not on my side . End of story.
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You can add Australia to that steaming pile!
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We should be already building hundreds of small nuclear powered drone subs that only have to surface for re arming or maintenance. Small cheap drones will rule the sea. Australia’s military leaders seem to getting dumber and more wasteful as time ticks on.
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Good idea, but how’s communication with the controllers?
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Drone submarines, really?
A Virginia class sub has 150 crew. Ya reckon a kid with an X-box can replace that?
Besides, by definition, subs travel underwater, an immutable law of nature says radio waves don’t penetrate more than a few ft underwater. Houston, we have a problem.
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https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/navdex-2023/2023/02/china-reveals-new-heavily-armed-extra-large-uncrewed-submarine/ – but they say “Currently, the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy appear to be in the lead, both in experimentation and in orders.”.
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Quote: It also raises ethical and legal questions about human out of the loop kill chains. This is because underwater vehicles like this cannot realistically be controlled by humans. They have to be autonomous, so the decision to shoot the torpedo has to be automated.
Note this bit: This is because underwater vehicles like this cannot realistically be controlled by humans.
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“We should be already building hundreds of small nuclear powered drone subs that only have to surface for re arming or maintenance. ”
How about hundreds of small nuclear-powered anti-submarine drones instead. Even if they are programmed to identify a possible enemy and send one query to their controller.. “Kill or not?”
We are at the Stephenson’s Rocket level of robot warfare right now.
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Yes gf1, but the Virginias are the stealthy mothership of any drone fleet. At the moment all Australias defence assets are fixed position easily track able and easily incapacitated. Whereas the Virginias are par excellence at stealth fire and movement, magnificent listening posts, and unmatched in their range and submergence capability. This will be the first time this Nation has had a real deterrent/ forward base in the current developing political/military situation in the Indo-China area.
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You gathered some red thumbs there KP but please don’t stop bringing us an alternative point. We may not agree but your angles are carefully presented.
Doug
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Water off a duck’s back Doug, red thumbs do not change what Mearsheimer said, or what the Govt is locking us into.
We’re looking at maybe a dozen subs, while Russia/China/N Korea etc have 124, USA/S.Korea/Japan etc have 111, the non-aligned like India/Turkey/Greece have about 50, and any other country has less than 10. All that’s happening is that we are being taxed to provide the difference between the West and the East, anyone who thinks we could ever use ‘our’ subs to defend Australia against the American’s wishes is dreaming.
As they did with anti-aircraftcarrier missiles, I’m sure the Russians have concentrated on sub killers. There will be some remote sensing mine buried in the sea lanes that blows up anything traveling below the surface.
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Just listened to the news regarding the Aukus submarine deal and, of course, Dan Andrews immediately following claiming Victoria has a “Thriving” defence tech industry and should get a slice of the pie. Well, for what its worth, it is impossible to buy the simplest “Tech” device required to discharge a firearm of any calibre in Victoria and probably Australia. This little thing is called a primer, the tiny little circle that fits into the base of cartridge cases that allows the whole thing to “go off”. Easily produced, cheap as chips, can be turned out in their millions every day, yet Australia has NONE. Our local “thriving” defence industry doesn’t make them, we are dependent on imports, hasn’t been any available since the start of Covid. Supplies may be available in May. Hope we don’t have to discharge any firearms in our defence between now and then.
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No primers or cartridge brass has been made in Australia since the mid 1980’s. Even for defence, the primers and cartridge cups are imported now.
And there is even a severe shortage of primers in the US because Biden shut down the primer factories for much of two years during covid because he deemed them non-essential plus pro-freedom Americans are also exercising their Second Amendment rights and stockpiling ammo because of the anti-freedom Biden regime. As well, Biden is shipping a lot of ammo to the Ukes.
Making primers in Australia would be a huge bureaucratic nightmare to implement for a wide variety of reasons.
It’s quite tragic really.
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We should be making the 5.56mm ammo for our own troops at least.
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We do the final manufacture, but don’t make the primers or the cartridge brass cups.
In other words, not self-sufficient, a very dangerous situation.
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I just saw what was purported to be a new Oz Army recruiting ad.
Looks like the new mission is protest and riot control.
Should you be hoping they’re just buying rubber bullets?
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A few years ago met the bloke who tried to get the contract for 5.56mm and the old Nato round 7.62mm. He wanted to employ local people and he had the capacity and capability to do it. Guess what, it turns out that we would sooner import, at a greater cost, because of quid pro quo deals.
Local manufacture, you must be joking, local employment, you must be joking, as DM. mentions above “Bureaucrats”. employed to create problems, put road blocks in the way of solutions and keep their ample salaries. This place still manufactures rare and unusual ammo, small order stuff most exported to every other country on the planet, but let it develop into a fully fledged Aussie owned defense capability, not bloody likely!
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I see the AEMO page lists energy projections 20years out that show industry using no more energy than now..
They must expect either we’re going to get super-efficient or we’re not going to increase our industry in the future.
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In the event of invasiosn, we will have to find somebody who can instruct us in the use of a slingshot.
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“we will have to find somebody who can instruct us in the use of a slingshot.”
Hey Ted I think you mean “Shanghai”
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“Even for defence, the primers and cartridge cups are imported now. ”
China I expect.. Cheapest quote I’m sure!
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Shortage of primers for the discharge of firearms?
Not made in Australia, US production goes to Ukraine.
No problem- that quantity going to Ukraine will soon be available on the world market.
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China will be picking up an Australian lithium mine dirt cheap…
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/the-1bn-lithium-mine-china-might-pick-up-on-the-cheap/news-story/136329ed0ec8c0897f851bf4e107025e
The $1bn lithium mine China might pick up on the cheap
By TANSY HARCOURT and NICK EVANS
8:44PM MARCH 9, 2023
A West Australian lithium producer faces accusations it has dodged state mining royalties while shifting its profits to China, amid a messy battle for control for one of Australia’s few operating lithium mines.
SEE LINK FOR REST (PAYWALLED)
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https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/the-miscarriage-of-medicine
Arkmedic’s blog
The miscarriage of medicine
Pfizer and the regulators had data by June 2021 showing a serious safety signal for miscarriage. They not only ignored it but suppressed access to the documents.
Dr Ah Kahn Syed
Feb 28
I have had a number of questions on the subject of miscarriages this week because of a flurry of activity in this area, so I thought it best to put it all in a substack. I hope it becomes a useful reference.
TLDR: There is an undeniable safety signal for around a doubling of miscarriage rates following administration of mRNA vaccines in pregnancy. The regulators had this information at the time they approved the drugs.
Much of this relates to the pregnancy data from the Pfizer “vaccine” study. You know, the one where they showed how “safe and effective™” the investigational gene therapy vaccine (GTV) products were, particularly in pregnancy.
In fact they are so safe and effective™ in pregnancy that Viki Male – the pharma industry’s go-to for pushing the vaccines on pregnant women – keeps telling us this over and over again. As it happens, Viki is probably not old enough to remember the thalidomide scandal which was one of the many times in history that the pharma lobby has lied to pregnant women about how safe their drug was. The result was a generation of babies that had no limbs, yet this doesn’t stop Viki and the OBGYN establishment (including Kevin Ault, a recent member of ACIP) demonstrating an abject lack of care regarding this completely untested novel therapy.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Believe it or not, even far Left Newsweek published this as an opinion piece.
Reminder: Don’t let the Left rewrite history. Don’t forgive, don’t forget, prosecute.
TEN LIES TOLD ABOUT COVID
https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177
1. SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a far higher fatality rate than the flu by several orders of magnitude.
2. Everyone is at significant risk to die from this virus.
3. No one has any immunological protection, because this virus is completely new.
4. Asymptomatic people are major drivers of the spread.
5. Locking down—closing schools and businesses, confining people to their homes, stopping non-COVID medical care, and eliminating travel—will stop or eliminate the virus.
6. Masks will protect everyone and stop the spread.
7. The virus is known to be naturally occurring, and claiming it originated in a lab is a conspiracy theory.
8. Teachers are at especially high risk.
9. COVID vaccines stop the spread of the infection.
10. Immune protection only comes from a vaccine.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Newsweek was biased left before it went almost bust. Now it’s rated ‘Center’ by Allsides. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/newsweek
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Well that’s interesting…..nuclear powered submarines. Next job, nuclear powered electricity grid. Green heads are popping everywhere from Fremantle to Redfern.
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Video:
Dr John Campbell talks about a new 10 year Canadian study suggesting that Vitamin D supplementation gives a 40% protection against dementia.
Being a non-Big Pharma substance, there is zero chance this will be promoted. In fact, we’ll probably be told that Vitamin D can be dangerous as Their ABC (Australia) has already done*.
It’s so effective, the Australian Government might even ban it.
https://youtu.be/-U4CD1uKnZA
* https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-07-06/vitamin-d-overdosing-toxic-effect-how-much-should-you-take/101205656
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“It’s so effective, the Australian Government might even ban it.”
ALL supplements.. They intend to take control of the industry and legislate it out of existence. Well, out of the hands of all pharmaceutical companies except the favoured Big Ten, those they can rely on to produce products with no active ingredients in them.
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“Vitamin D supplementation gives a 40% protection against dementia.”
Biden is very obvious highly deficient in Vit D!
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Living with an AZ sufferer, I put this beside every other “cause” of AZ – N/A. We were early adopters of Vit D, over ten years ago but I don’t keep a diary. She is still at home nearly 9 yrs after diagnosis so it may have slowed down progression, nothing more.
AZ IS irreversible so to be cold hearted one could wonder if trying so hard to prolong life has any value. I am physically healthy but still a wreck.
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It’s nothing new, that’s allways a question of the dose.
But to generate an affair because of the failure of one person / patient is the other coin’s side.
We can retain from a lot of studies that Vitamine D is an essential supplement for health.
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The more I read the more I’m convinced that D3 is an undervalued elixir of life.
I have taken it for well over ten yrs, my Lady also because she trusts me. My daughter takes some because she believes it reduces her migraines [seems to be true] but I long ago gave up mentioning supplements to anyone. Like politics and religion, no one will appreciate any discussion.
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G’day H,
Sometimes someone takes an interest when I mention vitamin D, but they seem to lose interest about the time I say I’m taking 10,000 IU per day, and rarely get much further in the conversation. Particularly when I get to mention that it’s blood levels which actually count. And you need a blood test to find out. So, doctor’s appointment…
For the record I’m still alive and taking 10,000 IU per day, five 1000 IU capsules in the morning and five at night. (I doubt I could control 10 small capsules at a time and I’ve not found a source for single 5000IU capsules here.)
I set my blood level target at 80 ng/ml (200 nmol/L) and have achieved that.
And then there’s cofactors and other supporting vitamins…
Cheers
Dave B
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iHerb has 5,000 unit tabs, cheap, reliable and pay in A$
https://au.iherb.com/pr/california-gold-nutrition-vitamin-d3-125-mcg-5-000-iu-360-fish-gelatin-softgels/70317
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Please prepare yourselves for grid failure.
AMO’s own numbers are reporting schedule demand above scheduled supply from Thursday, and with the ‘heat wave’ the demand numbers are probably on the low side.
NSW is probably going to have to load shed at this point, but I supposed they will avoid it by frantically starting to throw money around tomorrow.
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I was hoping for grid failure because it’s the only way to wake the Sheeple up to the insanity of unreliables but I don’t think it will happen because much of industry has shut down and electricity is so expensive domestic consumers aren’t heating or cooling or are doing so much less. Plus, the government will keep the lights on at any cost as you suggest in your last sentence.
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And so it begins . . .
Third U.S. bank goes belly up.
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Which are the other 2 ?
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A collision has occurred between a US-made MQ-9 Reaper and a Russian Su-27 fighter jet over the Black Sea.
Well that’s the polite version, seems a pair of fighters did everything they could to bring it down short of actually shooting it.
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With its transponder, a requirement for flights in international territory, turned off.
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Is that supposed to be an excuse, justification or complaint?
Do you think the defence probing and deliberate nuisance Russian aircraft flights that routinely cause UK/Europe to scramble fighters have active transponders?
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“Kirby commented that it was “not unusual for Russian aircraft to intercept US aircraft over the Black Sea” and said that “there have been other interceptions in recent weeks”. But he said Tuesday’s episode was unique in how “unsafe, unprofessional and reckless” the Russian actions were.”
Russians must have borrowed Tom Cruise..
I reckon they should just declare open season on any unmanned aircraft, how do you know who owns which? Not to mention that America is on THIS side of the world and the drone was on THAT side of the world.. There’s no peaceful reason to fly a drone outside your own airspace, they are weapons of war.
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Ridiculous, same logic would apply to Russian fighters.
No reason drones aren’t perfectly entitled to be travelling or monitoring from international airspace.
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Depends if you want to kill the people on board or not..
Are we generally in agreement that America is involved in fighting a war in Ukraine? If they’re a war combatant then all their equipment and people are fair game. If they’re not in a war then what the hell are they doing over there?
When China and America are at war in the near future and China lands a few missile on American bases here, are we going to whine & bitch about it when we are obviously America’s greatest ally against China? Do they think we are ‘neutral’, or ‘just helping but not involved’?
“The wreckage of the American MQ-9 Reaper drone is in Russian hands. According to Russian sources, ships of the Black Sea Fleet along with Ka-27 helicopters began an operation to recover the American drone immediately after it fell.
The same sources state that ” the Reaper came very close to Crimea. It was 60 km SW of Sevastopol before it crashed, which allowed our units to easily collect the debris.
Romanian helicopters tried to go to the crash site, however, after flying just over 100 kilometers, they returned to base. At the same time an Italian AWACS G-550 and an anti-submarine P-8A Poseidon were flying in to monitor the situation.”
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said the Russian Su-27 that cut off (?) the propeller of the American drone was likely damaged. However, he declined to comment on potential MQ-9 recovery operations.
From the announcement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, it is clear that Moscow is showing the Americans the “escape exit” from an uncontrollable crisis, avoiding to speak of “demolition”.
– Russian fighter jets did not make contact with the downed US drone over the Black Sea, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
-The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that the drone ended up crashing into the water after “mishandling by the Americans”.
“The Russian fighter jets did not use their onboard weapons, did not come into contact with the UAV and returned safely to their home airport,” the Defense Ministry said.
– The drone was flying towards the Russian border with its transponders disabled, the ministry said. Russian fighter jets were in the area to identify the object.”
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/stop-se-epicheirisi-ton-roumanon-sta-cheria-tis-rosias-ta-syntrimmia-tou-mq-9-reaper-eiche-paraviasei-ton-eech-tis-krimaias-o-kakos-cheirismo-ton-amerikanon-erixe-to-drone/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
I wonder if an SU27 tipped it over with the airflow under its wingtip, like buzz bombs in WW2?
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I knew Jabcinda Ardern would move on to a new and far more sinister job.
It’s supposedly to internationally combat “online extremism” but we all know that’s code to silence any free thinking individual who’s politically to the right of Pol Pot.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11856467/Jacinda-Arderns-job-revealed-NZ-prime-minister-Chris-Hipkins-floats-new-plan.html
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From today’s Covid and Coffee newsletter on why de Santis took Florida on a different course
“The White House task force was just hammering me for the first few months because they wanted me to be clamping down harder. So I asked Deborah [Birx]: when in American history has this ever been done, and what were the results? Because I kinda feel like, we’re flying blind here, and we may be doing things that might be damaging. And she said, it’s kind of our own science experiment that we’re doing in real time.’ ”
No de Santis premiers in Oz though
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The First Annual Babylon Bee Awards
(12m 22s video) Lots of laughs … and cheers for PDT!
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Stacey Abrams takes new job at environmental group pushing for gas stove ban
https://nypost.com/2023/03/14/stacey-abrams-takes-new-job-at-environmental-group-pushing-for-gas-stove-ban/
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“Proponents of renewable energy do not want to discuss concerns of this sort, particularly the costs involved. When forced to address these issues, they rely on magical thinking, advocating for technologies that either do not yet exist or have not yet been proven to work reliably on a grid. The known solutions are expensive, but the renewable sector doesn’t want to pay for them – their mantra remains that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels so the others should pay for them – hiding the expense. Add in the costs from the needed system support requirements described above, then renewables are significantly more expensive (and less reliable) than conventional generation. The extra costs of renewables support are being paid for a deteriorating quality of electricity supply. That is why there is a new industry adage –
Cheap renewables are very expensive.”
https://judithcurry.com/2023/03/14/australian-renewable-energy-transition-part-3/
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Fascinating article! I mean, its not just rocket science… its far more complicated than that! It seems we have hardly scratched the problems that reducing coal power and increasing unreliables will bring, not just the blackouts from their lack of generation at certain times, but their inability to control frequency in the grid.. of our increasingly more inter-connected ‘internet of things’.
You’ll be able to come home and find the freezer has been off all day, or your computer had fried itself, or your car over-charged and caught fire in the garage.. While electricity costs three times as much or more!
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…and all because we’re terrified of plant food!
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The KRudd has reportedly (with his modestly successful wife) bought an ocean beachfront house somewhere up Qld way, for A$17 million. He of the global warming ocean rising convictions. If the Krudd knew anything about geography, specifically coastal landforms, formation and erosion, he would have bought somewhere else but a house on a shifting sand dune. They are temporary things. Very.
By the way, where did he get $17 million from? Maybe we should ask to see his tax returns?
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