There is a claim of an electric fire truck from about a year ago.
They call it electric but it’s actually a hybrid. NOT even Hollyweirdos would be stupid enough to use a full EV fire truck (I don’t think), especially when their own properties have to be protected.
Chinese Load Cow’s Milk with mRNA Exosomes–Successfully Immunize Mice
The nation’s food supply can be manipulated by public health agencies to influence population outcomes. A great is example is fortification of cereal grains with folic acid — the synthetic form of folate — which successfully reduced the incidence of neural tube defects (e.g. spina bifida). Now an oral route of administration is being considered specifically for COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA in cow’s milk.
Zhang and colleagues have demonstrated that a shortened mRNA code of 675 base pairs could be loaded into phospholipid packets called exosomes derived from milk and then using that same milk, be fed to mice. The mice gastrointestinal tract absorbed the exosomes and the mRNA must have made it into the blood stream and lymphatic tissue because antibodies were produced in fed mice against SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (receptor binding domain).
We have been using cows to produce antibodies for treating humans for decades.
It is called hyper-immune milk .
I recall discussing this research with a NZ Dairy Board member who was involved with the programme , in relation to infecting cows with “covid” and harvesting the antibodies that would then be produced in their milk.
I can’t see the advantage in this current research, other than the price that might be charged for the product.
They do own Browne’s Dairy. Each time I go to the supermarket I half expect the Browne’s products to be gone and shipped off to China. The Japanese owned Masters Milk for awhile, it was sold but I don’t know to whom.
1. Babies died in China from Industrially contaminated milk
2. People in Oz with Chinese connections purchased industrial quantities of Australian baby formula at retail price and exported it to China.
3. Experts in Oz said there is a wonderful future for the Australian dairy industry supplying China.
4. China purchased Tasmania’s biggest dairy business.
5. Australian dairies ramped up production to meet the new demand..
6. The price of milk collapsed below cost of production.
7. China sought to buy more dairies at stressed prices.
8. The price stayed below the cost of production for much loonger than is normal.
The question I ask is, who was selling milk to Coles and Woolworths at below cost?
The answer is, of course, the dairies. But how is the price set? It is set by the contracts that Coles and Woolworths enter into with some dairies. All the rest follow.
So, back to my question. Were China dumping Australian milk into the Australian market to force down the price of dairies?.
They could do this by choking the export trade.
We are blighted by scholars citing the Law of Supply and Demand. If those scholars learned their Law at the weekly cattle auctions, they know how it works. If they learned it in our academies, they don’t.
Hang on- They aren’t doing anything with cows, they’re taking milk and contaminating it with their synthetic RNA strands, then feeding the milk to mice. It’s like any other contamination, folic acid as JC said, or iodine in salt, but this one comes with the additional problems of spike protein side effects.
Seeing it was fed, the milk fat must have been broken down in the gut and the RNA absorbed by the intestinal cells. The intestinal cells made the spike proteins according to the RNA code and passed the proteins out through the cell walls into the bloodstream. Lets see how many mice develop auto-immune diseases of the gut wall…
If their vax lipids weren’t so toxic they could have made the Covid vaccines oral like this.
Aloha! My concern is the current asymmetric warfare the ccp is waging against the West. Its a short hop to putting fentanyl micro doses into milk or bottled water supplies. This is why any Chinese owned ag, food or beverage company operating in the West should be banned. The ccp is a mafia with no regard for human life especially for the guilo and now their Mexico partners who call us gringos.
The West is at war with the ccp without our consent. Our leaders are very ignorant and/or owned. Right now xi is removing all references to marxism and communism from their government history and information. Xi wants his own “xi thoughts” replacing mao. Its a dangerous time and allowing the ccp free entry into our sock markets and commodity markets as well as the WTO and WHO is as dangerous as wuhan and covid 19. Besides the ccp are moving to be a separate trade bloc along with Russia and Iran and N Korea. We are literally living in a bond movie and the SCO is “spectre”!
There is the German Ordnung, of course which provides that BEER be pure. Bread? Beef? Fish in the ocean, of steroids, etc ( & PLASTIC ) , Oh how could I , remind you all of the contamination of our foodstock. and we see where it is heading. But then too there is the Law of Unintended consequences. So to go and ADD Medications ? we talk so much about building up resistance to Antibiotics, will we ( Society) ever learn? I’d have thought that studied agri’s would NOT use such methods, but $$$$$$ speke. Don’t they ? Gone looking for some Bunny Eggs !
New post-pandemic dining restrictions in some cities charge customers hundreds of dollars just to get seated at a table
Some restaurants in major cities like Chicago have begun imposing minimum purchase requirements on their patrons, or charging cancelation fees for reservations.
Mandatory minimums are gradually becoming the norm in some areas, especially at higher-end restaurants. Steak 48, a steakhouse in Chicago, now starts the bill with a $100 charge per person. If a customer or table orders less than $100 worth of food per person, they get charged the full amount regardless.
“It’s a shame,” said Howard Tolsky, a Chicago-area resident who went to book a dinner online at Steak 48 for himself, his wife, and his mother-in-law, only to notice the new charge, which deterred him from making a reservation.
“I figured, well, we’re not going to spend $300. We might spend $250. But I don’t want to spend $300 on a meal that costs $250.”
16 year old California boy’s immune system was destroyed by three COVID-19 mRNA vaccines – reactivated EBV post COVID-19 vaccination can be fatal
Jonathan had his COVID-19 mRNA vaccine booster shot in January 2022. Shortly after, he suffered from severe bodily infections and his health continued to deteriorate until he was finally hospitalized at Stanford Children’s Hospital in November 2022 and diagnosed with Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus (CAEBV).
“the extent to which Jonathan’s immune system has been completely compromised is extremely rare. Jonathan’s case has no precedent. He went through unconventional hormone therapy with chemotherapy 3 times in order to treat these severe, repetitive infections, but unfortunately, the treatments did not succeed.”
And 95% of people carry the EBV too.
The vaxx destroys the immune system and cause reactivation of dormant viruses like this. Broad spectrum disease and death await the vaxxed.
Better dose up on Natto, HCQ, NAC, do 4 day fasts etc etc. 😎
I’m getting anecdotal accounts of “vaccinated”people getting repeated “covid” infections, and other flus and being unusually ill.
There may be something in this.
One can imagine that an immune system tied up fighting a spike protein could be overwhelmed by something else.
The natto might be the answer.
My daughter was “vaxed” while breastfeeding 2 month old twins. 2 1/2 years on, the whole family is sick, getting better from being sick, or getting sick again.
Special diet triggers self-destruction of Glioblastoma brain cancer cells in mice
By removing certain amino acids from the diets fed to rodents suffering from a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma, researchers found that destructive cells began dying through a process called ferroptosis. What’s more, the mice that were put on the restrictive diets were also more receptive to drugs that triggered the same type of cancer cell death, making the findings a potential source of inquiry for fighting the disease in humans.
In a new study, a research team from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (UNC) and Columbia University discovered that the cells involved in forming glioblastoma are particularly subject to death by ferroptosis. The finding is significant because glioblastoma has a 100% fatality rate with no known cures. It is also a fast-moving cancer with a median survival period of just 16 months.
In their study, the team fed mice a diet that restricted the intake of cysteine and methionine, two sulfur amino acids whose restriction has previously been linked to ferroptosis and cancer cell death in lung and pancreatic cancer as well as sarcomas. Not only did they find that the diet made glioblastoma cells more likely to die from ferroptosis, but they also noted that the cells become more subject to chemotherapy drugs, meaning that they could be delivered in lower doses. All of the mice on the special diet had improved survival periods than those on a control diet, and the mice that were on a combined diet and chemotherapy regimen fared the best.
Boy will that taste bad. I used amino acid diets to manipulate tryptophan intake (serotonin Precursor) and it is hard to get rats to eat enough to just survive.
‘Saudi Arabia will announce the end of the war in Yemen after the Eid al-Fitr. Saudi is ending all its conflicts in the Middle East with Iran, Syria, Iraq, Yemen & Lebanon to turn towards its own development.’ https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1644310559284764675
‘A delegation representing Saudi Arabia and Oman is due to meet with the Houthi leadership in Sanaa next week to sign a permanent ceasefire ending the eight-year war in Yemen, several outlets have reported, citing officials familiar with the talks.’ https://www.rt.com/news/574369-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-end/
CIA head William Burns followed Biden to Saudi to complain about their failure to take a knee and to discuss their sudden pivot away from the oil dollar with America before announcing it. https://www.rt.com/news/574335-us-blindsided-saudi-iran/
‘The withdrawal of Turkish occupation forces from Syria with a clear schedule is on the table of discussion.’
‘The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Oman, Algeria and Jordan have all resumed diplomatic ties with Assad, whose government remains under heavy US sanctions.’
Pentagon trying to force Elon to delete the documents.
Elon says screw off.😁
The US military is being told to prepare for war by the end of this year. The big one. HUGE changes about to hit, especially affecting the USA.
Got preps? 😁😁
What did $130 billion to Ukraine buy for Americans:
Russia is still in Ukraine and winning
Russia gained 40,000+ sq miles
BRICS+ creates multipolar world
Russia trade with China up 20%
US cost of living crisis
US banks failing
USD losing reserve currency status
Good deal?
Add the looming WW3, cancellation of currencies, the collapsing Eurozone, the destruction of morality and families.
Good on ya USA, you’ve become the commies you’ve always hated.😇
Russia winning ? After over one year with the arsenal at their disposal and the troop numbers at there disposal you consider this winning ?
Correct me if I’m wrong but Russia have little more than a toe in Ukraine after one year and billions of $$$ plus the number of wounded and dead Russian soldiers we will probably never get an accurate account of .
If you consider this winning you may be interested in shares I’m selling on a bridge in Sydney !
Winning the war THEIR way, by THEIR methods, by achieving THEIR goals.
Goal #1 is to destroy the Ukrainian military, totally. You DON’T achieve this by charging all over the countryside planting Russian flags. You DO achieve this goal by pinning Ukraine forces in place (Bahkmut, Avdeevka being the two current “cauldrons”) and pounding them to dust with artillery.
They (Russia) have NOT lost anything like the numbers Western leaders/media would have you think (MediaZona has the most accurate estimates of Russian KIA at around 30k TOTAL for the SMO so far.) whereas Ukrainian casualties are likely north of 200k KIA alone.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the general expectation was that it would all be over in a few days, and almost no-one lifted a finger to help Ukraine. Ukraine proved them wrong, and one by one the western democracies realised that the attack on Ukraine was not just a local conflict but something that had the potential to affect them all.
Russia chose to attack Ukraine because Ukraine was between them and the Mediterranean, and Ukraine not being in NATO made them a very much weaker target. Their attack was openly linked to preventing Ukraine from joining NATO. There was also Putin’s understandable but actually false claim that NATO had broken its promise that they “would move not one inch to the east“. (The offer was discussed but never promised).
Ukraine’s unexpectedly strong resistance has had several flow-on effects that are unfavourable for Putin: NATO strengthening its capability, Finland joining NATO, Sweden wanting to join NATO, the west mostly uniting behind Ukraine, etc.
Relative to the west, Russia has been going backwards for many years. Under their new constitution, Putin can remain in power until 2036 when he will be 84. If he feels like it, he might change the constitution again for a few more years in power.
Until Putin goes, I don’t see things improving much. Blaming NATO seems to me to be misguided, since Putin’s actions show that NATO really was needed. And looking past Putin to Xi Jinping, NATO and/or similar is now needed much more than ever.
‘With China providing infrastructure-generating investment capital through its Belt and Road Initiative, the new Iran-Saudi détente could evolve into a regional economic relationship that supplants the US-led defense relationships that have defined Middle East politics for decades.
‘And if Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi follows through on a reported invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit the kingdom, it will be the US and Israel who are left on the outside, watching a region they once controlled slip from their grasp.’ (Energy Intel)
It appears that the leaked Pentagon plans for the Ukraine offensive were leaked intentionally by the Pentagon to distract the media from a propaganda coup by a pair of Russian agents.
One of pair posed as a former Ukraine president, in a meeting with former French President Francios Hollande. Hollande admitted the Minsk Accords were a NATO ruse to militarize Ukraine, and the Western Alliance overthrew Ukraine’s democratically-elected government in 2014 as part of that program.
‘Lu Jin, an Iran expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, “China’s mediation efforts, which comply with the regional countries’ development needs, have strong backing from people in the region,” adding that such efforts also showed how China implemented the Global Security Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping.’ (China Daily)
Which would fit with the Chinese brokered meeting between Iran and Saudi. Most of the Middle East wars are proxy wars funded by the Iranians. The world under China is starting to be a China zone, excluding the extremely unpopular Biden America. Meanwhile Biden is openly interfering in the proxy Palestinian/Israel war and open attacking the reforms of the Netanyahu government. Burning all bridges.
After the great advances made by Trump and the Abraham accords, it is a disaster for the fist bumping Biden who has become a pariah. And his precipitous flight from Afghanistan in a single night, a rout, undid a decade of development. Of course he now blames Trump for the disaster which is hardly mentioned by the press. And never explained it at the time. Meanwhile the war in Ukraine continues without declaring war or asking Congress. We have the sight of the US President fighting and abandoning wars without telling Congress why and everyone in the Middle East looking to China, even Saudi.
And in the last fortnight the leaders of Russia, Iran, Saudi and even France shaking hands with President Xi. Never has there been such an incompetent US President. And Cackling Kamala about as useful as a flywire door on a submarine.
Are you being satirical? If not I suggest you read fire of the dragon by Ian Williams. Other very well referenced books are available.
China is a huge threat to the established order which has seen global prosperity grow to unprecedented levels. . All bow down to China economically and militarily . They certainly don’t intend to share that ‘ peace and prosperity’ you write of.
Fire of the Dragon seems focussed on Taiwan, but its very unlikely that the Beijing fascists will invade Taiwan. The date mooted by the CCP for a peaceful takeover is 2050.
Eliminating poverty and developing a burgeoning middle class is the road to peace and prosperity. Economically the US dollar will continue to hold sway and remain the Reserve currency, but along the Belt and Road its obvious China will eventually gain the upper hand.
I knew about the boiling and it’s always bothered me.
I suppose the silkworms expire quickly, however.
There is also Ahimsa silk whereby the moth is allowed to develop and leave the coccoon. The empty coccoon is then harvested. The fibres are shorter and the cloth more textured and it costs twice as much as regular silk but is no doubt suitable for PETA types.
I made use of some of that “free” solar/wind power today.
After a week of unreliable solar (“wet weather”) I was finally able to do my washing.
All done, all dry.
/sarc
There was a mention in the earlier Thread about Concentrating Solar Power with a link to the ‘glowing’ ABC article about it. I saw it late and was going to comment, but it mysteriously disappeared just as I finished it, so I let it slide, but it’s well worth pointing out a couple of things about this form of power generation.
The first time I wrote about it was in my original Series back in early 2008, and since then, I have written about 20 or more further times.
The Sun shines on mirrors which are focussed to a central point where chemical salts are superheated. That heat boils water to steam to drive a turbine which then drives the generator.
In my early research, back in 2008 I came across a boring 360 page pdf document on the subject, written just before the turn of the Century, round 1998 I think. It was what is now called modelling. The end result was that they wrote that by 2012, the technology for this method of power generation was advancing so that by 2012, they would be able to run a 500MW generator for 24 hours a day, all year round, and that they would be able to run a 660MW generator by 2016, the same size Unit as was currently (1998) being run at coal fired power plants. It was not just guesswork, as they had the Science and the technology to back it all up, so they said.
Needless to say, none of that actually happened.
So, what I wanted to really show you was an image of a graph, which sort of explains the process. Now, again, be aware that this graph, which I found at another site, is also modelling as well, so keep that at the forefront of your mind as you look at it.
The horizontal scale shows the hours in the day, and as it starts ostensibly at Sunup, that starts at 5AM and goes across the scale back to 5AM the next day.
Now again, modelling I said, and this is for a bright sunny day in Mid-Summer hence sunup at around 5AM on a bright clear day, and also close to the horizon where the Sun would be more directly overhead.
The left vertical scale shows Insolation, the Sun actually shining on the mirrors. The right vertical scale shows the Power in MW.
Okay, each line shows a part of the process.
The bottom line shows the power output rolling along at 50MW. Above that line is the heated salts being heated and diverted during the day, and then using that diverted heat to generate the power during the night.
All well and good.
The best they have ever managed is 20MW, and that was for 36 consecutive days in Mid-Summer, back in 2013 at a plant in Spain.
What they have found is that is the heated salts are kept back for night time power, then it diminishes (severely) the amount of power which can be generated.
There are some plants with three, and four hours of heat diversion but they are in the minority, a very very small minority.
They have managed a 125MW generator, but that also has major problems.
You’ll see plants of 250MW, usually multiples of 50MW because that’s about all they can manage to drive with the technology.
A little quirk I noticed and then tracked down was the use of Natural Gas at some (well, most) of the plants.
It takes a lot of time for the heat to come up in the molten salts after the Sun starts to do its thing, so they need help to turn the generator over, so they have what is referred to as a ‘supplementary drive’ which, umm, gets the generator started in the hours before the molten salts get molten enough to drive the turbine/generator.
Some, well, as it turned out, quite a few of these plants (mainly in Spain) had promised their power, and it seems that the only way they could actually deliver what they promised was to, umm, run the Natural Gas component a lot longer than just the start up, to the point where some of these plants were threatened with being classified as ….. Natural Gas fired plants, which sort of defeated the purpose.
Anyway, what they have found is that 50MW is about the optimum for a Unit, and the more you actually send to heat diversion for (ostensibly) after Sunset operation, then the less you actually get to use the plant during the day. (so, if you do have a 125MW Unit, and you want heat diversion, then it will never get to the point where there is enough to ‘turn over’ the Unit in the first place, if you can see what I mean by that)
So again, we have ‘hype’ in the extreme for what is an enormously expensive method of generating piddling amounts of power.
There are around 35 of these plants in Spain, and in their totality, their Capacity Factor is around 28%, a little lower than wind.
It’s not 24 hour power, and again, a further case where modelling did not actually eventuate, and umm, where have I heard that before.
Excellent summary. I will now copy and keep in my notes as an information source. Amazing how much money the Spanish wasted on this lunacy. Weren’t the Spanish also famous for cutting down too many of their trees?
Spain led the World in the installation of these types of plants.
I wanted to see if they really were contributing, so I did a complete rundown on the existing plants at that time, and wrote the Post up.
There were 24 of these plants, and the overall CF for them all was 28.7%, at the time.
I tried to Update it recently, but they stopped adding plants to the site in 2018, when there was 34 plants, again, all in multiples of 50MW, and a cursory glance at the maths for the CF indicated it was around the same or even lower.
This is the link to that Post, and here’ I’ll put the title, because that is exactly what it is, an abject failure.
Just a little added extra here. They use the molten salts to ‘make’ steam to drive the turbine. The absolute hottest temperature they can get is 393C and that classifies it as Sub Critical Steam, and here ….. EVERYTHING (and can I emphasise that word everything any more) depends upon that steam they can make. the size of the generator is dependent upon the weight of the rotating part of that generator, the rotor. To actually make that weight rotate, then it requires a large driving force, and that’s the turbine itself. The turbine is usually in three stages and to make that rotate you need high pressure high temperature steam. The higher the temperature of the steam, the more there is of it ….. AT THAT TEMPERATURE. So, you need to boil a shirtload of water to get a huge amount of really high temperature steam to drive a big turbine to drive a big generator. The highest temperature steam they can get from Concentrating Solar is ….. SUB CRITICAL.
That’s ….. FOUR levels if technology LOWER than the latest Advanced UltraSuperCritical coal fired plants.
And that’s the best they can manage with Concentrating Solar. It’s like trying to boil an egg with a water pi$t0L!
It was a major motivator in the colonization of Australia at Norfolk Island, famous for its pines. Despite searching over the years and even Google, I have never found a complete definition of pine trees but their characteristics include a single straight trunk, needles instead of leaves and cones. They predated broadleaf varieties like Oak and Plane by perhaps hundreds of millions of years. And contain turpentine, which makes them as explosive and fast growing as the gum trees of Australia, clearly pyrophytic. But to make the longest warship, you needed the longest possible keel, literally the backbone of the entire vessel and to be made from a single tree trunk if possible, so pine trees are far better.
The world had not seen such pines as the very tall Norfolk Island pines and the economic and military rush was on. Britain won the race and the French went onto New Zealand and the islands of Tahiti and New Caledonia. The disappointment though was that the giant pines were typically hollow inside and unsuitable for the keels and masts of a new line of warships.
From the history of Norfolk Island “The island was settled by the British in March 1788, just five weeks after the First Fleet arrived in Sydney. It was chosen for a settlement because Captain Cook had identified the towering Norfolk Island pines as being useful for ships masts and the local flax as good for sails.”
What this history fails to recognize is that the real requirement was for the massive keel, not the masts. Even today shipyards celebrate the symbolic laying of the keel of any ship, even though it is fabricated from steel.
It is said there is not a tree in Finland over 200 years old. The demand was not just ever bigger wooden warships but the making of iron with charcoal from wood as cast iron guns replaced brass ones.
What saved the forests of Europe was the discovery and exploitation of coal and the conversion to coke which in turn meant much higher temperatures and so lower carbon in iron, becoming steel.
The revolution in machinery and armaments, the industrial revolution, was predicated on the development of steel, a new flexible metal. And the cast iron bridges which would snap suddenly and collapse gave way to steel bridges and box girders. We had the stone age, the copper age, the bronze age, the iron age but really the development which drove the industrial revolution was the steel age, something which is not generally recognized.
And it also meant coal saved all the forests of Europe. While it is considered ‘dirty’, coal in fact was the discovery which cleaned up the entire world. And now we are using coal to make steel windmills and blowing up coal power plants and keeping coal in the ground. The mass ignorance is only matched by an irrational hatred of ‘carbon’ engendered by utterly false information about an imminent climate catastrophe, which has not even begun to happen in 35 years.
Meanwhile the vilification of carbon dioxide ’emissions’ means even the nuclear industry is able to claim it has ‘zero emissions’ despite Chernoble and Fukishima. This rabid and irrational ecological terrorism is coincidental with the rise of China as a nuclear superpower chewing up all the coal it can get. And no one notices let alone criticizes. All the idiocy and virtue signalling is in Western Democracies.
And the reduction of most metals requires pure carbon, which is why charcoal from wood and then far better coke from coal was needed. It is also why reducing the CO2 output of metal smelting is impossible, although there is talk of using ‘Green’ hydrogen made from ethane and sequestering the CO2 earlier. All a huge unnecessary and industry crippling expense.
I note also that the Albanese government has done a quiet deal with the ‘top polluters’ for steel and aluminum to allow them to reduce their CO2 output (’emissions’) by 1% a year instead of the mandated 5% a year under their utterly destructive ‘Safeguard Mechanism’. I cannot believe we are legislating the wholesale destruction of the biggest companies in Australia who make things from metals to electricity to food. And all the jobs. Even V-LINE in Victoria is on the list because our trains are diesels. What are they going to do? Run windmill driven electric freight trains in Country Victoria? No, V-LINE will have to close and all country rail.
This irrational hatred of Carbon dioxide is legally wrecking Australia, as if that was news and as if CO2 was pollution. All living things require CO2 and emit CO2, even trees, but CO2 reduction is now Federal Law starting 1st July 2023. Companies including transport have to reduce their business by 5% a year, every year. Goodbye railway lines, then trucks, then cars. Cows, sheep, horses, pigs, camels, goats and kangaroos are on the list of top polluters. Humans too, starting with fertilizer.
Businesses should fund real science, proving what all scientists know, that it is the biggest fraud in world history.
But big businesses are run by functionaries and opportunists on very big salaries and do not want their easy zero conflict lives immediately threatened. So they cozy up to governments and slowly see the businesses collapse by degrees and plan to move on or retire. Why challenge? It’s not their money and not their business.
Public servants are very different. They see everybody’s money as their money.
I remember going out to White Cliffs for a week a decade or two back, they had 14 rotating dishes that concentrated sunlight onto a solar cell each. It was run by some University in Melbourne I think, starting with boiling water directly some years before, then swapping over to the solar cells when they were developed.
Nothing seems to have some of that either, I suppose solar panels took over.
I saw three of those things in the desert heading towards the Grand Canyon, seems they are a dud, they burn truckloads of LPG to keep them warm in the hours before sunrise, the mirrors are a problem to keep clean in the desert dust, and solar can now produce power much cheaper per MW so finance is not forthcoming.
Sick Kids Are ‘Absolute Goldmine’ for Big Pharma and Big Food, Whistleblower Tells Russell Brand
In a recent episode of “Stay Free with Russell Brand,” food and pharma consultant-turned-whistleblower Calley Means and Russell Brand discussed how Big Food profits by selling addictive food that makes kids sick, and Big Pharma makes money from treating that sickness.
Means, a former food and pharmaceutical consultant-turned-whistleblower, told Brand the chances are high that a 15-year-old low-income teen in the U.S. has pre-diabetes and obesity, high cholesterol and high blood sugar — from eating ultra-processed foods that generate massive profits for their producers.
These conditions don’t cause death, but they do require a lifetime of taking drugs — such as statins for cholesterol, insulin for diabetes, Adderall for the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that doctors diagnose in 15% of American children and opioids for what becomes chronic, Means told Brand.
“Medicaid pays out a budget greater than the Department of Defense’s budget,” he said. And that money goes right to Big Pharma.
Means said there are three main ingredients in our diets causing inflammation and making us sick: added sugars, highly processed grains that lack fiber and seed oils.
It’s worth noting that Robert F Kennedy Jr is also linked to Children’s Health Defense and his book, ‘The Real Dr Fauci’ outlines in graphic and well referenced detail how shonky vaccines are being forced on children in Africa and India thanks to Gates’ control of the WHO.
Biden White House Pushes U.S. Toward Digital Currency Enabling Central Banks To Exercise Complete Control Over American’s Financial Lives
Leaders across the world are pushing their countries towards switching to digital currencies. The question is, why? Are digital currencies better for citizens? Or do they increase the control governments can exert over people’s everyday activities?
According to Kaneoka the Great, 98 countries are in various phases of instituting central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
Kaneoka the Great illustrated what CBDCs could look like:
“You spoke up against masking children at your child’s school board meeting. Purchase denied.
You exceeded your vehicle’s weekly miles and surpassed your carbon limit. Purchase denied.
You posted private messages on Facebook questioning the integrity of the last election. Purchase denied.
You did not take your latest Pfizer mRNA gene therapy shot. Purchase denied.
You defied your lockdown protocol and traveled outside of your quarantine zone. Purchase denied.”
Pre-Covid, this might have seemed too Dystopian to imagine, yet U.S. officials overstepped the Constitution and exerted unlawful mandates under the guise of health. In a post-lockdown era, Americans have wisened up to the freedom grabs being instituted by compromised politicians, corporate autocrats, and World Economic Forum globalists who seem to have a shared goal; to take individual freedom away.
Posing as Ukrainian puppet Zelensky, pranksters Vovan and Lexus tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a “Digital Euro” on October 23, giving central banks control over how citizens can spend money:
“There will be control. You’re right. You’re completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 €, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous… I don’t want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country’s currency, for instance, you know, the Chinese currency, the Russian currency…
I don’t want Meta, Google, or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe.”
It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex in Australia. If you point this out and the “male” payment is still required then just claim you are a woman. If this fails then start a discussion, get the names of the people preventing entry and call the police.
I am uncertain about sexual discrimination laws in USA but I suspect you could get a lot of support from other males wanting to identify as a woman to gain entry to a nightclub either free or at reduced cost. Although you may get some unexpected advances once inside.
The UNHCR does not support discrimination on sexual grounds, and by the way do not support dividing a nation based on race, giving one race of people privileges other races do not have, like a second voice to parliament written into the Australian Constitution.
High-level eruption at Bezymianny volcano, Aviation Color Code raised to Red, Russia
A strong explosive eruption occurred at Russia’s Bezymianny volcano at 05:38 UTC on April 7, 2023. As a result, the Aviation Color Code was raised to Red.
According to the Tokyo VAAC and KVERT, video and satellite data show an ash plume rising up to 12 km (40 000 feet) a.s.l., drifting SE of the volcano
Extinct since 1955 and suddenly comes back to life.
Volcanic activity is behaving strangely since Turkey,focussing on the ring of fire, upsetting my analysis. Not sure what to make of it all, for now at least.
Maybe that inner core ocean? 😉
It was not active (said to be extinct) prior to 1955. The activity culminated in a dramatic eruption on 30 March 1956.
It remained active. This is just the latest.
Now, could baseball be on the cusp of a “climate-ball” era where higher temperatures due to global warming increasingly determine the outcome of a game?
A new Dartmouth College study suggests it may be. A report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society found that more than 500 home runs since 2010 can be attributed to higher-than-average temperatures resulting from climate change—with several hundred more home runs per season to come with future warming.
“Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: all vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage. ”
Och Mannie, I hadn’t heard that before – not even on Sat TV – but its a Looooong time ago – 2015. Huh, reintroduction of wolves and bears to Alladale, Scotland… great! – maybe keep the wandering tourists away and we’ll have peace on the NC500 route. ( feel for the poor neighbouring sheep and cows though – even the Deeries – what a way to go in a civilised world. That’s the Green’s respect for life. ( NOT ! )
That was my point, they knew they had created a serious problem at least 8 years ago, the bears are still there, still mauling, and another person was just killed.
Och, will the wee foxies no do for that? they’re having a hard time Darn Sarth, so we can / COULD help keep their population going up here ( Ooooo um, … we have sheepies to though, hmm ) Yes when man upsets the balance.
But seriously, it is the stupid changes empowered by Legislation aka Government / GreenBlobbies which cause the sudden changes and subsequent upheaval.
Beg Pardon, MrGrimNasty, 6 April 2023 was the second story …. THe Media have kept this all fairly quiet for a long time near Bozen, home to more than 80 bears and there have been several attacks in recent weeks. To lose a young person in circumstances like this WORSE THAN tragic . ALmost criminal negligence on behalf of the Green Blob and their stupid ideas. IMHO.
Don’t lose your eggs in the snow! Both N & S Hemispheres have Snow at Easter: Thredbo – is that rare or early? N Scotland has early morning frost again with brilliant blue skies and gorgeous Flowering fruit trees already: Apricots & Peaches about to pop, but the small plums are already flowering – and that’s our “snow” amongst the good crop of Daffodils this year. Happy Easter.
As atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen says, classical meteorology says that as temperature goes up, cyclones, hurricanes and such extreme events go down. The question is why were are told the exact opposite, that every event is a consequence of Global Warming.
But of course we know the answer. The Climate Council none of whom are meteorologists are dedicated to the proposition that even tiny warming causes more storms, more droughts, more floods. And more frequent and longer droughts, which is ridiculous. But, it’s a living.
And they also hold, as does the UN, that Australia is responsible for the health of the Great Barrier Reef, a structure which is the area of Germany, 2300km tall and up to 250 km wide. That is also just ridiculous in every aspect. (That’s London to Ankara or Stockholm to Tunis)
‘The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago.’ (AIMS)
Five individuals were sentenced this week to prison for their roles in a $1 billion biofuel tax conspiracy: Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, 56, was sentenced to 40 years; Jacob Kingston, 46, was sentenced to 18 years; Isaiah Kingston, 42, was sentenced to 12 years; Rachel Kingston, 67, was sentenced to seven years; and Sally Kingston, 45, was sentenced to six years.
According to court documents and testimony from Dermen’s 2020 trial, from 2010 to 2018, Dermen conspired with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, their mother, Rachel Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s wife, Sally Kingston, and others, to fraudulently claim more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. The IRS ultimately paid out more than $511 million in credits to Washakie Renewable Energy (“Washakie”), a Utah biodiesel company owned by Jacob and Isaiah Kingston. The Kingstons distributed the fraud proceeds among themselves and Dermen.
Dermen was found guilty after a seven-week jury trial of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish ordered Dermen to pay $442,615,520 in restitution to the IRS and imposed a money judgment of more than $181 million against him.
Jacob Kingston was ordered to pay $511 million in restitution to the IRS. The court also imposed a $338 million money judgment against him. Jacob Kingston was co-owner and CEO of Washakie. In July 2019, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, filing false claims with the IRS, money laundering and conspiracy to commit the same, obstruction by concealing and destroying records and conspiracy to commit the same and witness tampering.
Isaiah Kingston was also ordered to pay $511 million in restitution to the IRS. Isaiah Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s brother, was co-owner and CFO of Washakie. In July 2019, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding and assisting in the filing of false partnership tax returns, money laundering and conspiracy to commit the same and obstruction by concealing and destroying records and conspiracy to commit the same…
“At least 135 people have been poisoned by carbon monoxide in Montreal, Canada while waiting for power to be restored after freezing rains hit the region on April 5. In an attempt to keep warm and cook food, people used indoor charcoal and gas barbecues.”
Ouch! Easily lethal once you start feeling drowsy. In Donbass Devushka, of all places! Also here-
There is a claim of an electric fire truck from about a year ago.
They call it electric but it’s actually a hybrid. NOT even Hollyweirdos would be stupid enough to use a full EV fire truck (I don’t think), especially when their own properties have to be protected.
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1135900_lafd-electric-fire-engine-delivered
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Range extender. Thats’ a new one!
Could be fun so long as someone else was paying.
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Weekend Magazine Weekend Australia an EV test drive, the writer ends saying no thanks, nice vehicle but not for me.
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“no thanks, nice vehicle but not for me”
So this person is under the impression that there will be a choice?
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Chinese Load Cow’s Milk with mRNA Exosomes–Successfully Immunize Mice
The nation’s food supply can be manipulated by public health agencies to influence population outcomes. A great is example is fortification of cereal grains with folic acid — the synthetic form of folate — which successfully reduced the incidence of neural tube defects (e.g. spina bifida). Now an oral route of administration is being considered specifically for COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA in cow’s milk.
Zhang and colleagues have demonstrated that a shortened mRNA code of 675 base pairs could be loaded into phospholipid packets called exosomes derived from milk and then using that same milk, be fed to mice. The mice gastrointestinal tract absorbed the exosomes and the mRNA must have made it into the blood stream and lymphatic tissue because antibodies were produced in fed mice against SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein (receptor binding domain).
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/chinese-load-cows-milk-with-mrna
The human mice, as we can’t call them sheeple any more, fought back too much against Fakevax ™, so…
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We have been using cows to produce antibodies for treating humans for decades.
It is called hyper-immune milk .
I recall discussing this research with a NZ Dairy Board member who was involved with the programme , in relation to infecting cows with “covid” and harvesting the antibodies that would then be produced in their milk.
I can’t see the advantage in this current research, other than the price that might be charged for the product.
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“Can’t see any advantage”
— Does China own any dairy farms in The West?
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They do own Browne’s Dairy. Each time I go to the supermarket I half expect the Browne’s products to be gone and shipped off to China. The Japanese owned Masters Milk for awhile, it was sold but I don’t know to whom.
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I understand the Japanese owners sold to Chinese buyers.
Japanese sold because the business was unprofitable but China wants food more than profits.
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Consider this chain Of events:
1. Babies died in China from Industrially contaminated milk
2. People in Oz with Chinese connections purchased industrial quantities of Australian baby formula at retail price and exported it to China.
3. Experts in Oz said there is a wonderful future for the Australian dairy industry supplying China.
4. China purchased Tasmania’s biggest dairy business.
5. Australian dairies ramped up production to meet the new demand..
6. The price of milk collapsed below cost of production.
7. China sought to buy more dairies at stressed prices.
8. The price stayed below the cost of production for much loonger than is normal.
The question I ask is, who was selling milk to Coles and Woolworths at below cost?
The answer is, of course, the dairies. But how is the price set? It is set by the contracts that Coles and Woolworths enter into with some dairies. All the rest follow.
So, back to my question. Were China dumping Australian milk into the Australian market to force down the price of dairies?.
They could do this by choking the export trade.
We are blighted by scholars citing the Law of Supply and Demand. If those scholars learned their Law at the weekly cattle auctions, they know how it works. If they learned it in our academies, they don’t.
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“Does China own any dairy farms in The West?”
Yes , although you could argue that Yili is not China.
China owns more than a couple of NZ dairy companies.
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Hang on- They aren’t doing anything with cows, they’re taking milk and contaminating it with their synthetic RNA strands, then feeding the milk to mice. It’s like any other contamination, folic acid as JC said, or iodine in salt, but this one comes with the additional problems of spike protein side effects.
Seeing it was fed, the milk fat must have been broken down in the gut and the RNA absorbed by the intestinal cells. The intestinal cells made the spike proteins according to the RNA code and passed the proteins out through the cell walls into the bloodstream. Lets see how many mice develop auto-immune diseases of the gut wall…
If their vax lipids weren’t so toxic they could have made the Covid vaccines oral like this.
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Aloha! My concern is the current asymmetric warfare the ccp is waging against the West. Its a short hop to putting fentanyl micro doses into milk or bottled water supplies. This is why any Chinese owned ag, food or beverage company operating in the West should be banned. The ccp is a mafia with no regard for human life especially for the guilo and now their Mexico partners who call us gringos.
The West is at war with the ccp without our consent. Our leaders are very ignorant and/or owned. Right now xi is removing all references to marxism and communism from their government history and information. Xi wants his own “xi thoughts” replacing mao. Its a dangerous time and allowing the ccp free entry into our sock markets and commodity markets as well as the WTO and WHO is as dangerous as wuhan and covid 19. Besides the ccp are moving to be a separate trade bloc along with Russia and Iran and N Korea. We are literally living in a bond movie and the SCO is “spectre”!
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There is the German Ordnung, of course which provides that BEER be pure. Bread? Beef? Fish in the ocean, of steroids, etc ( & PLASTIC ) , Oh how could I , remind you all of the contamination of our foodstock. and we see where it is heading. But then too there is the Law of Unintended consequences. So to go and ADD Medications ? we talk so much about building up resistance to Antibiotics, will we ( Society) ever learn? I’d have thought that studied agri’s would NOT use such methods, but $$$$$$ speke. Don’t they ? Gone looking for some Bunny Eggs !
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New post-pandemic dining restrictions in some cities charge customers hundreds of dollars just to get seated at a table
Some restaurants in major cities like Chicago have begun imposing minimum purchase requirements on their patrons, or charging cancelation fees for reservations.
Mandatory minimums are gradually becoming the norm in some areas, especially at higher-end restaurants. Steak 48, a steakhouse in Chicago, now starts the bill with a $100 charge per person. If a customer or table orders less than $100 worth of food per person, they get charged the full amount regardless.
“It’s a shame,” said Howard Tolsky, a Chicago-area resident who went to book a dinner online at Steak 48 for himself, his wife, and his mother-in-law, only to notice the new charge, which deterred him from making a reservation.
“I figured, well, we’re not going to spend $300. We might spend $250. But I don’t want to spend $300 on a meal that costs $250.”
http://www.domigood.com/2023/04/new-post-pandemic-dining-restrictions.html
Rip your customers off, go broke. Fast.
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$250 for the meal + $50 for the tip = not too bad.
$300 ($250 + $50) for the meal + tip $60 = $360 = stick it.
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Why I limit my restaurant steak meals to Argentina
better wine as well
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16 year old California boy’s immune system was destroyed by three COVID-19 mRNA vaccines – reactivated EBV post COVID-19 vaccination can be fatal
Jonathan had his COVID-19 mRNA vaccine booster shot in January 2022. Shortly after, he suffered from severe bodily infections and his health continued to deteriorate until he was finally hospitalized at Stanford Children’s Hospital in November 2022 and diagnosed with Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus (CAEBV).
“the extent to which Jonathan’s immune system has been completely compromised is extremely rare. Jonathan’s case has no precedent. He went through unconventional hormone therapy with chemotherapy 3 times in order to treat these severe, repetitive infections, but unfortunately, the treatments did not succeed.”
https://makismd.substack.com/p/16-year-old-california-boys-immune
And 95% of people carry the EBV too.
The vaxx destroys the immune system and cause reactivation of dormant viruses like this. Broad spectrum disease and death await the vaxxed.
Better dose up on Natto, HCQ, NAC, do 4 day fasts etc etc. 😎
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I’m getting anecdotal accounts of “vaccinated”people getting repeated “covid” infections, and other flus and being unusually ill.
There may be something in this.
One can imagine that an immune system tied up fighting a spike protein could be overwhelmed by something else.
The natto might be the answer.
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My daughter was “vaxed” while breastfeeding 2 month old twins. 2 1/2 years on, the whole family is sick, getting better from being sick, or getting sick again.
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Ah!
I remember those days, wait till they go to daycare!
Disease in toddlers is as common as death in those who have lived to get an OBE.
Hard to distinguish from background noise. Give them your love and lots of hugs and hope they develop their natural immunity.
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Special diet triggers self-destruction of Glioblastoma brain cancer cells in mice
By removing certain amino acids from the diets fed to rodents suffering from a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma, researchers found that destructive cells began dying through a process called ferroptosis. What’s more, the mice that were put on the restrictive diets were also more receptive to drugs that triggered the same type of cancer cell death, making the findings a potential source of inquiry for fighting the disease in humans.
In a new study, a research team from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine (UNC) and Columbia University discovered that the cells involved in forming glioblastoma are particularly subject to death by ferroptosis. The finding is significant because glioblastoma has a 100% fatality rate with no known cures. It is also a fast-moving cancer with a median survival period of just 16 months.
In their study, the team fed mice a diet that restricted the intake of cysteine and methionine, two sulfur amino acids whose restriction has previously been linked to ferroptosis and cancer cell death in lung and pancreatic cancer as well as sarcomas. Not only did they find that the diet made glioblastoma cells more likely to die from ferroptosis, but they also noted that the cells become more subject to chemotherapy drugs, meaning that they could be delivered in lower doses. All of the mice on the special diet had improved survival periods than those on a control diet, and the mice that were on a combined diet and chemotherapy regimen fared the best.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36630-w
I know there are a few people here with an interest in Glioblastoma.
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Boy will that taste bad. I used amino acid diets to manipulate tryptophan intake (serotonin Precursor) and it is hard to get rats to eat enough to just survive.
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A few sites saying the Saudi-Yemen war is over..
‘Saudi Arabia will announce the end of the war in Yemen after the Eid al-Fitr. Saudi is ending all its conflicts in the Middle East with Iran, Syria, Iraq, Yemen & Lebanon to turn towards its own development.’
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1644310559284764675
‘A delegation representing Saudi Arabia and Oman is due to meet with the Houthi leadership in Sanaa next week to sign a permanent ceasefire ending the eight-year war in Yemen, several outlets have reported, citing officials familiar with the talks.’
https://www.rt.com/news/574369-saudi-arabia-yemen-war-end/
CIA head William Burns followed Biden to Saudi to complain about their failure to take a knee and to discuss their sudden pivot away from the oil dollar with America before announcing it.
https://www.rt.com/news/574335-us-blindsided-saudi-iran/
‘The withdrawal of Turkish occupation forces from Syria with a clear schedule is on the table of discussion.’
‘The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Oman, Algeria and Jordan have all resumed diplomatic ties with Assad, whose government remains under heavy US sanctions.’
..The world is changing quickly..
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So the reports say. The big concern is the USA’s rapid progression into WW3.
Pentagon secret plans for war released by whistleblower:
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1644206095630733314
Pentagon trying to force Elon to delete the documents.
Elon says screw off.😁
The US military is being told to prepare for war by the end of this year. The big one. HUGE changes about to hit, especially affecting the USA.
Got preps? 😁😁
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Kimdotcom:
What did $130 billion to Ukraine buy for Americans:
Russia is still in Ukraine and winning
Russia gained 40,000+ sq miles
BRICS+ creates multipolar world
Russia trade with China up 20%
US cost of living crisis
US banks failing
USD losing reserve currency status
Good deal?
Add the looming WW3, cancellation of currencies, the collapsing Eurozone, the destruction of morality and families.
Good on ya USA, you’ve become the commies you’ve always hated.😇
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Which side of the bed did you get out this morning?
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? which part isnt true? or even an exaggeration
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Russia winning ? After over one year with the arsenal at their disposal and the troop numbers at there disposal you consider this winning ?
Correct me if I’m wrong but Russia have little more than a toe in Ukraine after one year and billions of $$$ plus the number of wounded and dead Russian soldiers we will probably never get an accurate account of .
If you consider this winning you may be interested in shares I’m selling on a bridge in Sydney !
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Ummm…Russia IS winning.
Winning the war THEIR way, by THEIR methods, by achieving THEIR goals.
Goal #1 is to destroy the Ukrainian military, totally. You DON’T achieve this by charging all over the countryside planting Russian flags. You DO achieve this goal by pinning Ukraine forces in place (Bahkmut, Avdeevka being the two current “cauldrons”) and pounding them to dust with artillery.
They (Russia) have NOT lost anything like the numbers Western leaders/media would have you think (MediaZona has the most accurate estimates of Russian KIA at around 30k TOTAL for the SMO so far.) whereas Ukrainian casualties are likely north of 200k KIA alone.
You’d better have a bridge to pony up…
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, the general expectation was that it would all be over in a few days, and almost no-one lifted a finger to help Ukraine. Ukraine proved them wrong, and one by one the western democracies realised that the attack on Ukraine was not just a local conflict but something that had the potential to affect them all.
Russia chose to attack Ukraine because Ukraine was between them and the Mediterranean, and Ukraine not being in NATO made them a very much weaker target. Their attack was openly linked to preventing Ukraine from joining NATO. There was also Putin’s understandable but actually false claim that NATO had broken its promise that they “would move not one inch to the east“. (The offer was discussed but never promised).
Ukraine’s unexpectedly strong resistance has had several flow-on effects that are unfavourable for Putin: NATO strengthening its capability, Finland joining NATO, Sweden wanting to join NATO, the west mostly uniting behind Ukraine, etc.
Relative to the west, Russia has been going backwards for many years. Under their new constitution, Putin can remain in power until 2036 when he will be 84. If he feels like it, he might change the constitution again for a few more years in power.
Until Putin goes, I don’t see things improving much. Blaming NATO seems to me to be misguided, since Putin’s actions show that NATO really was needed. And looking past Putin to Xi Jinping, NATO and/or similar is now needed much more than ever.
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The side that faces reality, unlike some others.😁
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BRICS creates a new world order.
‘With China providing infrastructure-generating investment capital through its Belt and Road Initiative, the new Iran-Saudi détente could evolve into a regional economic relationship that supplants the US-led defense relationships that have defined Middle East politics for decades.
‘And if Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi follows through on a reported invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit the kingdom, it will be the US and Israel who are left on the outside, watching a region they once controlled slip from their grasp.’ (Energy Intel)
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It appears that the leaked Pentagon plans for the Ukraine offensive were leaked intentionally by the Pentagon to distract the media from a propaganda coup by a pair of Russian agents.
One of pair posed as a former Ukraine president, in a meeting with former French President Francios Hollande. Hollande admitted the Minsk Accords were a NATO ruse to militarize Ukraine, and the Western Alliance overthrew Ukraine’s democratically-elected government in 2014 as part of that program.
The conversation was recorded and has been playing on the privately-owned French radio station Sud Radio (in French)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8FDgJsrRt0
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As Merkel has also said publicly
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Global Security Initiative gets a good start.
‘Lu Jin, an Iran expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, “China’s mediation efforts, which comply with the regional countries’ development needs, have strong backing from people in the region,” adding that such efforts also showed how China implemented the Global Security Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping.’ (China Daily)
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Which would fit with the Chinese brokered meeting between Iran and Saudi. Most of the Middle East wars are proxy wars funded by the Iranians. The world under China is starting to be a China zone, excluding the extremely unpopular Biden America. Meanwhile Biden is openly interfering in the proxy Palestinian/Israel war and open attacking the reforms of the Netanyahu government. Burning all bridges.
After the great advances made by Trump and the Abraham accords, it is a disaster for the fist bumping Biden who has become a pariah. And his precipitous flight from Afghanistan in a single night, a rout, undid a decade of development. Of course he now blames Trump for the disaster which is hardly mentioned by the press. And never explained it at the time. Meanwhile the war in Ukraine continues without declaring war or asking Congress. We have the sight of the US President fighting and abandoning wars without telling Congress why and everyone in the Middle East looking to China, even Saudi.
And in the last fortnight the leaders of Russia, Iran, Saudi and even France shaking hands with President Xi. Never has there been such an incompetent US President. And Cackling Kamala about as useful as a flywire door on a submarine.
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Premier Xi aims to create a new world order of peace and prosperity for everyone.
The Ukraine debacle is a wake up call for world leaders and now they seek peace and stability. American adventurism is coming to an end.
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Are you being satirical? If not I suggest you read fire of the dragon by Ian Williams. Other very well referenced books are available.
China is a huge threat to the established order which has seen global prosperity grow to unprecedented levels. . All bow down to China economically and militarily . They certainly don’t intend to share that ‘ peace and prosperity’ you write of.
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‘Are you being satirical?’
Not on purpose.
Fire of the Dragon seems focussed on Taiwan, but its very unlikely that the Beijing fascists will invade Taiwan. The date mooted by the CCP for a peaceful takeover is 2050.
Eliminating poverty and developing a burgeoning middle class is the road to peace and prosperity. Economically the US dollar will continue to hold sway and remain the Reserve currency, but along the Belt and Road its obvious China will eventually gain the upper hand.
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There is a lot about Australia and the UK.
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Presently they are practicing blockade theory, surrounding Taiwan. Its just a threat and would only be used as a last resort.
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Saturday (open thread 😉) ejukayshun: how silk is made.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rsooearMsZ1r0uzl6.mp4
I didn’t know the boiling part…
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I knew about the boiling and it’s always bothered me.
I suppose the silkworms expire quickly, however.
There is also Ahimsa silk whereby the moth is allowed to develop and leave the coccoon. The empty coccoon is then harvested. The fibres are shorter and the cloth more textured and it costs twice as much as regular silk but is no doubt suitable for PETA types.
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I made use of some of that “free” solar/wind power today.
After a week of unreliable solar (“wet weather”) I was finally able to do my washing.
All done, all dry.
/sarc
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Saturday fun: fish for Easter? Not looking promising.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rsqw3oNUH91w5pr9j.mp4
😁😁
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There was a mention in the earlier Thread about Concentrating Solar Power with a link to the ‘glowing’ ABC article about it. I saw it late and was going to comment, but it mysteriously disappeared just as I finished it, so I let it slide, but it’s well worth pointing out a couple of things about this form of power generation.
The first time I wrote about it was in my original Series back in early 2008, and since then, I have written about 20 or more further times.
The Sun shines on mirrors which are focussed to a central point where chemical salts are superheated. That heat boils water to steam to drive a turbine which then drives the generator.
In my early research, back in 2008 I came across a boring 360 page pdf document on the subject, written just before the turn of the Century, round 1998 I think. It was what is now called modelling. The end result was that they wrote that by 2012, the technology for this method of power generation was advancing so that by 2012, they would be able to run a 500MW generator for 24 hours a day, all year round, and that they would be able to run a 660MW generator by 2016, the same size Unit as was currently (1998) being run at coal fired power plants. It was not just guesswork, as they had the Science and the technology to back it all up, so they said.
Needless to say, none of that actually happened.
So, what I wanted to really show you was an image of a graph, which sort of explains the process. Now, again, be aware that this graph, which I found at another site, is also modelling as well, so keep that at the forefront of your mind as you look at it.
Here’s the link to an image of that graph, and while relatively self explanatory, I’ll add some things to fill it out.
The horizontal scale shows the hours in the day, and as it starts ostensibly at Sunup, that starts at 5AM and goes across the scale back to 5AM the next day.
Now again, modelling I said, and this is for a bright sunny day in Mid-Summer hence sunup at around 5AM on a bright clear day, and also close to the horizon where the Sun would be more directly overhead.
The left vertical scale shows Insolation, the Sun actually shining on the mirrors. The right vertical scale shows the Power in MW.
Okay, each line shows a part of the process.
The bottom line shows the power output rolling along at 50MW. Above that line is the heated salts being heated and diverted during the day, and then using that diverted heat to generate the power during the night.
All well and good.
The best they have ever managed is 20MW, and that was for 36 consecutive days in Mid-Summer, back in 2013 at a plant in Spain.
What they have found is that is the heated salts are kept back for night time power, then it diminishes (severely) the amount of power which can be generated.
There are some plants with three, and four hours of heat diversion but they are in the minority, a very very small minority.
They have managed a 125MW generator, but that also has major problems.
You’ll see plants of 250MW, usually multiples of 50MW because that’s about all they can manage to drive with the technology.
A little quirk I noticed and then tracked down was the use of Natural Gas at some (well, most) of the plants.
It takes a lot of time for the heat to come up in the molten salts after the Sun starts to do its thing, so they need help to turn the generator over, so they have what is referred to as a ‘supplementary drive’ which, umm, gets the generator started in the hours before the molten salts get molten enough to drive the turbine/generator.
Some, well, as it turned out, quite a few of these plants (mainly in Spain) had promised their power, and it seems that the only way they could actually deliver what they promised was to, umm, run the Natural Gas component a lot longer than just the start up, to the point where some of these plants were threatened with being classified as ….. Natural Gas fired plants, which sort of defeated the purpose.
Anyway, what they have found is that 50MW is about the optimum for a Unit, and the more you actually send to heat diversion for (ostensibly) after Sunset operation, then the less you actually get to use the plant during the day. (so, if you do have a 125MW Unit, and you want heat diversion, then it will never get to the point where there is enough to ‘turn over’ the Unit in the first place, if you can see what I mean by that)
So again, we have ‘hype’ in the extreme for what is an enormously expensive method of generating piddling amounts of power.
There are around 35 of these plants in Spain, and in their totality, their Capacity Factor is around 28%, a little lower than wind.
It’s not 24 hour power, and again, a further case where modelling did not actually eventuate, and umm, where have I heard that before.
Tony.
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Excellent summary. I will now copy and keep in my notes as an information source. Amazing how much money the Spanish wasted on this lunacy. Weren’t the Spanish also famous for cutting down too many of their trees?
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Ross,
extra reading if you wish.
Spain led the World in the installation of these types of plants.
I wanted to see if they really were contributing, so I did a complete rundown on the existing plants at that time, and wrote the Post up.
There were 24 of these plants, and the overall CF for them all was 28.7%, at the time.
I tried to Update it recently, but they stopped adding plants to the site in 2018, when there was 34 plants, again, all in multiples of 50MW, and a cursory glance at the maths for the CF indicated it was around the same or even lower.
This is the link to that Post, and here’ I’ll put the title, because that is exactly what it is, an abject failure.
Solar Thermal Power (Concentrating Solar) Fail – Just Look At Spain
Note the date at the top – November 2013.
Just a little added extra here. They use the molten salts to ‘make’ steam to drive the turbine. The absolute hottest temperature they can get is 393C and that classifies it as Sub Critical Steam, and here ….. EVERYTHING (and can I emphasise that word everything any more) depends upon that steam they can make. the size of the generator is dependent upon the weight of the rotating part of that generator, the rotor. To actually make that weight rotate, then it requires a large driving force, and that’s the turbine itself. The turbine is usually in three stages and to make that rotate you need high pressure high temperature steam. The higher the temperature of the steam, the more there is of it ….. AT THAT TEMPERATURE. So, you need to boil a shirtload of water to get a huge amount of really high temperature steam to drive a big turbine to drive a big generator. The highest temperature steam they can get from Concentrating Solar is ….. SUB CRITICAL.
That’s ….. FOUR levels if technology LOWER than the latest Advanced UltraSuperCritical coal fired plants.
And that’s the best they can manage with Concentrating Solar. It’s like trying to boil an egg with a water pi$t0L!
Tony.
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The English cut down most of their forests for the same reason as the Spanish: To build wooden warships.
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The English King tried to abscond with the tall trees of the Colonies — what happened next changed history:
https://www.mainewoodlandowners.org/articles/the-kings-pines-the-colonies-and-the-revolution
The shape of the symbol put on trees can be seen here:
http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-englands-maruellous-pine-trees.html
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It was a major motivator in the colonization of Australia at Norfolk Island, famous for its pines. Despite searching over the years and even Google, I have never found a complete definition of pine trees but their characteristics include a single straight trunk, needles instead of leaves and cones. They predated broadleaf varieties like Oak and Plane by perhaps hundreds of millions of years. And contain turpentine, which makes them as explosive and fast growing as the gum trees of Australia, clearly pyrophytic. But to make the longest warship, you needed the longest possible keel, literally the backbone of the entire vessel and to be made from a single tree trunk if possible, so pine trees are far better.
The world had not seen such pines as the very tall Norfolk Island pines and the economic and military rush was on. Britain won the race and the French went onto New Zealand and the islands of Tahiti and New Caledonia. The disappointment though was that the giant pines were typically hollow inside and unsuitable for the keels and masts of a new line of warships.
From the history of Norfolk Island “The island was settled by the British in March 1788, just five weeks after the First Fleet arrived in Sydney. It was chosen for a settlement because Captain Cook had identified the towering Norfolk Island pines as being useful for ships masts and the local flax as good for sails.”
What this history fails to recognize is that the real requirement was for the massive keel, not the masts. Even today shipyards celebrate the symbolic laying of the keel of any ship, even though it is fabricated from steel.
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It is said there is not a tree in Finland over 200 years old. The demand was not just ever bigger wooden warships but the making of iron with charcoal from wood as cast iron guns replaced brass ones.
What saved the forests of Europe was the discovery and exploitation of coal and the conversion to coke which in turn meant much higher temperatures and so lower carbon in iron, becoming steel.
The revolution in machinery and armaments, the industrial revolution, was predicated on the development of steel, a new flexible metal. And the cast iron bridges which would snap suddenly and collapse gave way to steel bridges and box girders. We had the stone age, the copper age, the bronze age, the iron age but really the development which drove the industrial revolution was the steel age, something which is not generally recognized.
And it also meant coal saved all the forests of Europe. While it is considered ‘dirty’, coal in fact was the discovery which cleaned up the entire world. And now we are using coal to make steel windmills and blowing up coal power plants and keeping coal in the ground. The mass ignorance is only matched by an irrational hatred of ‘carbon’ engendered by utterly false information about an imminent climate catastrophe, which has not even begun to happen in 35 years.
Meanwhile the vilification of carbon dioxide ’emissions’ means even the nuclear industry is able to claim it has ‘zero emissions’ despite Chernoble and Fukishima. This rabid and irrational ecological terrorism is coincidental with the rise of China as a nuclear superpower chewing up all the coal it can get. And no one notices let alone criticizes. All the idiocy and virtue signalling is in Western Democracies.
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And the reduction of most metals requires pure carbon, which is why charcoal from wood and then far better coke from coal was needed. It is also why reducing the CO2 output of metal smelting is impossible, although there is talk of using ‘Green’ hydrogen made from ethane and sequestering the CO2 earlier. All a huge unnecessary and industry crippling expense.
I note also that the Albanese government has done a quiet deal with the ‘top polluters’ for steel and aluminum to allow them to reduce their CO2 output (’emissions’) by 1% a year instead of the mandated 5% a year under their utterly destructive ‘Safeguard Mechanism’. I cannot believe we are legislating the wholesale destruction of the biggest companies in Australia who make things from metals to electricity to food. And all the jobs. Even V-LINE in Victoria is on the list because our trains are diesels. What are they going to do? Run windmill driven electric freight trains in Country Victoria? No, V-LINE will have to close and all country rail.
This irrational hatred of Carbon dioxide is legally wrecking Australia, as if that was news and as if CO2 was pollution. All living things require CO2 and emit CO2, even trees, but CO2 reduction is now Federal Law starting 1st July 2023. Companies including transport have to reduce their business by 5% a year, every year. Goodbye railway lines, then trucks, then cars. Cows, sheep, horses, pigs, camels, goats and kangaroos are on the list of top polluters. Humans too, starting with fertilizer.
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Civil disobedience is the appropriate response to this preposterous policy; businesses should simply ignore the strictures and not pay the fines.
Not to do so is simply asking for more of the same idiocy.
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Businesses should fund real science, proving what all scientists know, that it is the biggest fraud in world history.
But big businesses are run by functionaries and opportunists on very big salaries and do not want their easy zero conflict lives immediately threatened. So they cozy up to governments and slowly see the businesses collapse by degrees and plan to move on or retire. Why challenge? It’s not their money and not their business.
Public servants are very different. They see everybody’s money as their money.
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I remember going out to White Cliffs for a week a decade or two back, they had 14 rotating dishes that concentrated sunlight onto a solar cell each. It was run by some University in Melbourne I think, starting with boiling water directly some years before, then swapping over to the solar cells when they were developed.
Nothing seems to have some of that either, I suppose solar panels took over.
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Wasn’t running a few years back when we went through .
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I saw three of those things in the desert heading towards the Grand Canyon, seems they are a dud, they burn truckloads of LPG to keep them warm in the hours before sunrise, the mirrors are a problem to keep clean in the desert dust, and solar can now produce power much cheaper per MW so finance is not forthcoming.
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Sick Kids Are ‘Absolute Goldmine’ for Big Pharma and Big Food, Whistleblower Tells Russell Brand
In a recent episode of “Stay Free with Russell Brand,” food and pharma consultant-turned-whistleblower Calley Means and Russell Brand discussed how Big Food profits by selling addictive food that makes kids sick, and Big Pharma makes money from treating that sickness.
Means, a former food and pharmaceutical consultant-turned-whistleblower, told Brand the chances are high that a 15-year-old low-income teen in the U.S. has pre-diabetes and obesity, high cholesterol and high blood sugar — from eating ultra-processed foods that generate massive profits for their producers.
These conditions don’t cause death, but they do require a lifetime of taking drugs — such as statins for cholesterol, insulin for diabetes, Adderall for the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that doctors diagnose in 15% of American children and opioids for what becomes chronic, Means told Brand.
“Medicaid pays out a budget greater than the Department of Defense’s budget,” he said. And that money goes right to Big Pharma.
Means said there are three main ingredients in our diets causing inflammation and making us sick: added sugars, highly processed grains that lack fiber and seed oils.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/processed-food-sick-kids-russell-brand/
This can’t be right. Big pharma are such nice caring and altruistic people with a long track record of quality products. 😎
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It’s worth noting that Robert F Kennedy Jr is also linked to Children’s Health Defense and his book, ‘The Real Dr Fauci’ outlines in graphic and well referenced detail how shonky vaccines are being forced on children in Africa and India thanks to Gates’ control of the WHO.
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“Big pharma are such nice caring and altruistic people with a long track record of quality products. ”
That is the labels and packaging you’re talking about? (/s)
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Biden White House Pushes U.S. Toward Digital Currency Enabling Central Banks To Exercise Complete Control Over American’s Financial Lives
Leaders across the world are pushing their countries towards switching to digital currencies. The question is, why? Are digital currencies better for citizens? Or do they increase the control governments can exert over people’s everyday activities?
According to Kaneoka the Great, 98 countries are in various phases of instituting central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
Kaneoka the Great illustrated what CBDCs could look like:
“You spoke up against masking children at your child’s school board meeting. Purchase denied.
You exceeded your vehicle’s weekly miles and surpassed your carbon limit. Purchase denied.
You posted private messages on Facebook questioning the integrity of the last election. Purchase denied.
You did not take your latest Pfizer mRNA gene therapy shot. Purchase denied.
You defied your lockdown protocol and traveled outside of your quarantine zone. Purchase denied.”
Pre-Covid, this might have seemed too Dystopian to imagine, yet U.S. officials overstepped the Constitution and exerted unlawful mandates under the guise of health. In a post-lockdown era, Americans have wisened up to the freedom grabs being instituted by compromised politicians, corporate autocrats, and World Economic Forum globalists who seem to have a shared goal; to take individual freedom away.
Posing as Ukrainian puppet Zelensky, pranksters Vovan and Lexus tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a “Digital Euro” on October 23, giving central banks control over how citizens can spend money:
“There will be control. You’re right. You’re completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 €, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous… I don’t want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country’s currency, for instance, you know, the Chinese currency, the Russian currency…
I don’t want Meta, Google, or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe.”
https://100percentfedup.com/biden-whitehouse-pushes-u-s-toward-digital-currency-enabling-central-banks-to-exercise-complete-control-over-americans-financial-lives-video/
Before the 2024 US elections..cough cough..😎😎
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Thought for the day:
If you’re trans and the nightclub fees are $15 for women and $20 for men, do you have to pay both? 🤣🤣
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They would present as fee appropriate gender of course.
sarc.
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It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex in Australia. If you point this out and the “male” payment is still required then just claim you are a woman. If this fails then start a discussion, get the names of the people preventing entry and call the police.
I am uncertain about sexual discrimination laws in USA but I suspect you could get a lot of support from other males wanting to identify as a woman to gain entry to a nightclub either free or at reduced cost. Although you may get some unexpected advances once inside.
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The UNHCR does not support discrimination on sexual grounds, and by the way do not support dividing a nation based on race, giving one race of people privileges other races do not have, like a second voice to parliament written into the Australian Constitution.
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High-level eruption at Bezymianny volcano, Aviation Color Code raised to Red, Russia
A strong explosive eruption occurred at Russia’s Bezymianny volcano at 05:38 UTC on April 7, 2023. As a result, the Aviation Color Code was raised to Red.
According to the Tokyo VAAC and KVERT, video and satellite data show an ash plume rising up to 12 km (40 000 feet) a.s.l., drifting SE of the volcano
https://watchers.news/2023/04/07/high-level-eruption-at-bezymianny-volcano-aviation-color-code-raised-to-red-russia/
Extinct since 1955 and suddenly comes back to life.
Volcanic activity is behaving strangely since Turkey,focussing on the ring of fire, upsetting my analysis. Not sure what to make of it all, for now at least.
Maybe that inner core ocean? 😉
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Add to that a solar eruption today- an M2.9-class solar flare. Not as dangerous as the high speed halo CME last month on the far side.
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“Extinct since 1955 and . . .” 😒
It was not active (said to be extinct) prior to 1955. The activity culminated in a dramatic eruption on 30 March 1956.
It remained active. This is just the latest.
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Another mask study, even in a hospital setting, ordinary face rags made negligible difference.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11946447/Masks-hospitals-no-difference-Covid-infection-rates-study-finds.html
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Scoop:
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-spike-major-league-home-climate.html
Imagine what it can do for golf
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Sounds like some people should to get out more…
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Extreme weather is already putting golf spectators at risk of sudden death.
https://youtu.be/WBeZRyI9DEg
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Now called basespheres. They are happier than baseballs and go farther.
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“Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: all vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage. ”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/news-from-the-front-lines
original article in German: https://report24.news/paukenschlag-schweiz-zieht-saemtliche-covid-impfempfehlungen-zurueck/
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Sounds like news we could be very happy about.
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Rewilding bites back.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3176231/Dozens-bears-reintroduced-wild-Italy-set-hunted-killed-series-attacks-humans.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11946291/Bear-mauls-trail-runner-26-death-Italy-rare-attack.html
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Och Mannie, I hadn’t heard that before – not even on Sat TV – but its a Looooong time ago – 2015. Huh, reintroduction of wolves and bears to Alladale, Scotland… great! – maybe keep the wandering tourists away and we’ll have peace on the NC500 route. ( feel for the poor neighbouring sheep and cows though – even the Deeries – what a way to go in a civilised world. That’s the Green’s respect for life. ( NOT ! )
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That was my point, they knew they had created a serious problem at least 8 years ago, the bears are still there, still mauling, and another person was just killed.
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maybe keep the wandering tourists away
Wolves are needed to clear up the wind turbine carnage. !
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Och, will the wee foxies no do for that? they’re having a hard time Darn Sarth, so we can / COULD help keep their population going up here ( Ooooo um, … we have sheepies to though, hmm ) Yes when man upsets the balance.
But seriously, it is the stupid changes empowered by Legislation aka Government / GreenBlobbies which cause the sudden changes and subsequent upheaval.
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Beg Pardon, MrGrimNasty, 6 April 2023 was the second story …. THe Media have kept this all fairly quiet for a long time near Bozen, home to more than 80 bears and there have been several attacks in recent weeks. To lose a young person in circumstances like this WORSE THAN tragic . ALmost criminal negligence on behalf of the Green Blob and their stupid ideas. IMHO.
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Don’t lose your eggs in the snow! Both N & S Hemispheres have Snow at Easter: Thredbo – is that rare or early? N Scotland has early morning frost again with brilliant blue skies and gorgeous Flowering fruit trees already: Apricots & Peaches about to pop, but the small plums are already flowering – and that’s our “snow” amongst the good crop of Daffodils this year. Happy Easter.
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GBR cover is the best its been in 36 years, due to a reduction in cyclone activity.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2023/04/happy-easter-happy-end-of-the-2023-cyclone-season-at-the-great-barrier-reef/
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As atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen says, classical meteorology says that as temperature goes up, cyclones, hurricanes and such extreme events go down. The question is why were are told the exact opposite, that every event is a consequence of Global Warming.
But of course we know the answer. The Climate Council none of whom are meteorologists are dedicated to the proposition that even tiny warming causes more storms, more droughts, more floods. And more frequent and longer droughts, which is ridiculous. But, it’s a living.
And they also hold, as does the UN, that Australia is responsible for the health of the Great Barrier Reef, a structure which is the area of Germany, 2300km tall and up to 250 km wide. That is also just ridiculous in every aspect. (That’s London to Ankara or Stockholm to Tunis)
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Its unprecedented.
‘The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago.’ (AIMS)
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Los Angeles Businessman, Utah Fuel Plant Operators and Employees Sentenced to Prison for Billion-Dollar Biofuel Tax Fraud Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/los-angeles-businessman-utah-fuel-plant-operators-and-employees-sentenced-prison-billion
Five individuals were sentenced this week to prison for their roles in a $1 billion biofuel tax conspiracy: Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, 56, was sentenced to 40 years; Jacob Kingston, 46, was sentenced to 18 years; Isaiah Kingston, 42, was sentenced to 12 years; Rachel Kingston, 67, was sentenced to seven years; and Sally Kingston, 45, was sentenced to six years.
According to court documents and testimony from Dermen’s 2020 trial, from 2010 to 2018, Dermen conspired with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, their mother, Rachel Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s wife, Sally Kingston, and others, to fraudulently claim more than $1 billion in refundable renewable fuel tax credits. The IRS ultimately paid out more than $511 million in credits to Washakie Renewable Energy (“Washakie”), a Utah biodiesel company owned by Jacob and Isaiah Kingston. The Kingstons distributed the fraud proceeds among themselves and Dermen.
Dermen was found guilty after a seven-week jury trial of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish ordered Dermen to pay $442,615,520 in restitution to the IRS and imposed a money judgment of more than $181 million against him.
Jacob Kingston was ordered to pay $511 million in restitution to the IRS. The court also imposed a $338 million money judgment against him. Jacob Kingston was co-owner and CEO of Washakie. In July 2019, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, filing false claims with the IRS, money laundering and conspiracy to commit the same, obstruction by concealing and destroying records and conspiracy to commit the same and witness tampering.
Isaiah Kingston was also ordered to pay $511 million in restitution to the IRS. Isaiah Kingston, Jacob Kingston’s brother, was co-owner and CFO of Washakie. In July 2019, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding and assisting in the filing of false partnership tax returns, money laundering and conspiracy to commit the same and obstruction by concealing and destroying records and conspiracy to commit the same…
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“At least 135 people have been poisoned by carbon monoxide in Montreal, Canada while waiting for power to be restored after freezing rains hit the region on April 5. In an attempt to keep warm and cook food, people used indoor charcoal and gas barbecues.”
Ouch! Easily lethal once you start feeling drowsy. In Donbass Devushka, of all places! Also here-
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2191538243713
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