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Water…water…water…
One of the most fascinating products that are on our planet.
Very limited range of heat to survive in before being steam or fracturing quite easily as ice.
It’s angled pressure interlocking it’s incredible repulsive abilities to impacts.
Our history shows quite vastly more was here as evaporation made the overpopulation to adjusting to land from it’s crowded ocean.
Just a layman’s observation and in no way paid by our corrupted politicians view by their own government experts.
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The KEY thing about water is tha,t unlike most materials (apart from a few weird alloys), it Expands when it goes from liquid to solid, thus DECREASING its density per mass unit.
Were this NOT the case, none of us would have ever arrived to sit at our keyboards. The first great glaciation / Ice Age would have been the last. “Snowball Earth” was a real thing, but the ice was ONLY several Kilometres thick. BUT, under the ice, a LOT of marine wildlife survived; the ice acted as an insulator, of sorts.
MORE species have demised from COLD than “hot’ and that includes US. EVERY YEAR, more people are killed by “cold” than “heat”.
Driving the planet into a resurgent Ice Age fits with the general Death Cult behaviour of the eco-nazis.
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The tropical ocean temperature remained up around 30C during cycles of glaciation.
The only reason Earth does not become a snowball is the fact that water imbues the atmosphere with the ability to partition at what is known as the level of free convection. The zone below the LFC freely convects from surface to LFC. Convection does not occur above the LFC. It is the condensing/solidifying zone where the persistent cirrus clouds form over warm ocean surface.
If the atmosphere did not form an LFC, there would never be clear sky over the surface and the ocean and the entire land mass would just ice over. Full sunlight would never reach the surface.
The ocean surface has to be above 15C for an LFC to form. Once above this temperature, the atmosphere only ever gets to 100% humidity during convective instability. Below 15C the atmosphere can be stable at 100% humidity throughout the entire column and covered with permanent condensing cloud.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=relative_humidity/orthographic=-245.06,-77.52,373/loc=-165.137,-64.005
If you observe the atmosphere over water that is just above 15C you will see the clouds are just starting to “pop”. Thin, fluffy cumulus cloud. Below this temperature, the clouds tend to be damp blankets like fog.
Glaciation occurs at different times in the hemispheres. And it is energy intensive. Every 10 tonne of snow that ends up on land required the equivalent hreat input at the ocean surface of burning 1 tonne of coal to liberate the water. Northern Hemisphere is currently entering the next cycle of glaciation as the northern oceans warm causing increased snowfall. It has been observable for about 200 years now but CO2 is being blamed when it is purely natural cycle that has occurred 4 times in the last 400,000 years in the same orbital orientation as now; just after perihelion occurs later than the austral summer solstice. That means the June sunlight in the NH is increasing and will increase for the next 8.000 years. Sea level is still rebounding after the last period of glaciation. Greenland and Iceland are so far the only locations gaining in ice cover. The permafrost is still retreating on the major northern land masses.
NH maximum snow extent has been trending up for about 200 years. This only shows the last 60 years:
https://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&ui_season=1
The climate prognosticators are only just beginning to realise they got snowfall and snow melt wrong in their models. Once they get these closer to reality, they will be forecasting glaciation. Still scary and can still blame it on CO2.
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My statement that “convection does not occur above the LFC”. Is not accurate if taken out of context. Convection that occurs above the LFC is the result of instability and is rapid and relatively short lived unless it spins up a cyclone. The instability is observed as cloudburst with very high vertical velocities in the updraft core. The region above the LFC is not in equilibrium with the region below the LFC.
This image shows the result of instability over warm surface:
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-monsoon-storm-photo-huge-cloud-pouring-rain-image79410530
Surface would have to be above 26C to produce a cloud like that with the associated rain.
Convective potential is ubiquitous over the tropical oceans and prevents the ocean surface from sustaining a temperature above 30C:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=cape/orthographic=-153.87,-9.33,373/loc=-134.205,8.947
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On the matter of tropical SST during the LGM, it might be closer to 28C.
https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/16406
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From that link, a clear indication that the world’s heat engine was broken.
‘Furthermore, our results imply a period of nearly 6 kyr from 22.5 to 16.5 ka without an apparent warm pool of 28°C in the western Pacific.’
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I sometimes muse on how different Earth would be if water didn’t expand as it froze. Rivers would freeze from the bottom so there would be no life in them and maybe Earth would just be an ice block as it would melt slower. Above my pay grade.
Sorry. Bruce already covered this.
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Finally, A Solution to The Problem of Intermittent Power Generation — The “Virtual Power Plant”
From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN / Francis Menton
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/21/finally-a-solution-to-the-problem-of-intermittent-power-generation-the-virtual-power-plant/
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I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve randomly rated a thread instead of opening it on my mobile, old fat fingers, is it just me?
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That’s why I do most of my stuff on my laptop.
MUCH bigger keyboard. Doesn’t help for the spelling mistakes, but.
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I luv mi speil chucker. 🙂
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Now that explains why we can hear the Tesla coming down the road. Tyre noise from the excess weight of the batteries.
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Wrong thread ?
And,..Wrong conclusion…..tyre noise is NOT related to vehicle weight. !
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“What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
“For devotees of the absurd and grotesque, Professor James O’Flannery’s lively documentary series on the Chinese Revolution. Or, to borrow one of the professor’s chapter headings, Our Turn F* Up World.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/21/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-31/#comments
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FWIW – more covid
“How Fauci, scientists with ties to Wuhan lab persuaded the intelligence community COVID had a natural origin”
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/how-fauci-scientists-with-wuhan-ties-persuaded-covid-natural-origin/
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/21/one-flu-out-of-the-wuhan-nest-90/
And
“The post-pandemic spike in excess deaths is simply becoming too large even for the leftist corporate media to ignore, but it seems that most favored approach is to throw up one’s hands and declare that it’s all just a baffling mystery.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/21/maybe-climate-change/
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The unvaccinated must be condemned! Great little video of all the awful people wishing death and destruction on those who chose not to get the authorities’ prick. Just in case they try and say they didn’t vituperate all over the place.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1660316641257746436?cxt=HHwWiMCzjYjM0IouAAAA
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FWIW
“The Truth of ‘Woke'”
“It’s a scam.
But not the sort you think it is.
Rather, it has appeared to be “ok” and even “what people want.”
It isn’t, it never was, it was always a chimera and a lie.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248846
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Election Fraud on Trial
Kari Lake, a Trump supporting republican failed to get elected as the Governor of Arizona in 2022. The incumbent Democrat Katie Hobbs was elected instead.
Kari Lake has sued the Arizona Board of Supervisors for failing to conduct a fair election and is seeking to have the result overturned.
The case turns on the mishandling of postal votes. These are signed and election officials are supposed to certify the signatures. Lake’s team found evidence that tens of thousands of votes were invalid, enough to reverse the result of the election.
The is the first time that a case has actually reached the court and all the evidence has been heard. After 3 days of evidence the Judge has gone to consider the evidence. A judgement is likely next week!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/lake-attorneys-closing-argument-least-70k-votes-not/
I hope the result goes in Lake’ favour. If so it may open the flood gates for other cases.
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This is the same judge who failed to hear the case earlier causing Lake to go to the Arizona Supreme Court on appeal. That court sent the case back to the judge who dismissed it in the first place. So don’t be surprised that despite the overwhelming evidence of mishandling the mail in votes this judge will squib judgement or rule against Lake. The Democrats have extremely deep pockets and seem to operate with impunity. Judges are corruptible or simply want to keep their cushy jobs.
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That seems to be true, unfortunately.
However the door is slightly open now.
Lake had to appeal to a higher court, which sent the case back to the original judge. That seems to be similar to how things work here in Australia.
The Judge now has to give reasons for his/her judgement.
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The rate of signature checking of mail-ins by some clerks was impossibly high.
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The Albanese Government has launched its much vaunted ‘referendum neutral’ “the voice” website and explainer…
https://voice.gov.au/?gclid=CjwKCAjwgqejBhBAEiwAuWHioKLOls2sP5HBp2YE1NjaO9ByY9U3pl8yAenqqjmueWkEWfQynZ8a5hoCCO0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
One thing that immediately stood out to me.
This is so wildly divergent from the constitutional amendment that stipulates “the voice MAY make representations”, it is clear that when legislating ‘the voice’ into existence that Labor has a much greater agenda than letting “The Voice” fulfill it’s constitutional requirement.
It is also clear that Labor have a clear plan or pathway for ‘The Voice”, where almost all of the information provided on this platform is totally subject to post-Referendum Legislation rather than any Constitutional Amendment. Yet, none of this underpinning legislation has been released.
This is propaganda of the worst order and is clearly not ‘Referendum neutral’…
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This just means cc the voice as well as other government departments.
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The constitution is an instruction book, not a bunch of legislation. Every item in the constitution is legislated by parliament and every act of parliament is done constitutionally. The voice is no different.
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Yes, the constitution is a set of ideas / guides / principles and the legislation is the detail. But surely they could have draft legislation early in the discussion.
Parliament could in fact legislate a “Voice” without a referendum and without it being in the constitution. This notion of the “Voice” being “recognition” is simply a trojan horse.
While I don’t support a “Voice” I do think that if the govt wants it they should at most legislate it and show everyone it working in action and then later propose to put it in the constitution. I’m confident this route has not been taken because they will only have one shot at getting it in the constitution because when everyone sees how badly it operates and the effect it has then there would be no way a referendum would succeed later.
Recognition can be a simple one line in the constitution. It doesn’t need to be in the form of a racially prejudiced complicated “Voice” that will effectively change the way government functions and affect our democratic process.
The merits of recognition is itself up for debate as its own issue, let alone adding something as problematic as a “Voice”.
The detail has been lacking because, as usual, Labor have their “feel good” ideas with no idea about how things actually work. That was evident right through Albanese’s election campaign. Amazing someone could go through a whole campaign with what was effectively a slogan “we have a plan” but no detail other than “we’ll have a gathering and consult”. Which is effectively admitting we don’t know how to do what we want to do. The Voice is no different. Feel good idea without any idea of detail or consequence.
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The advertisements are deceptive and rely on emotional blackmail quoting “Recognition” being “Voice” but they are separate matters.
Recognition has been discussed since at least the Howard Coalition Government terms 1996-2007, insertion into our Constitution acknowledgment of the people who were here on and before 1788. No strings attached, just a statement of historic significance.
Voice to Parliament (Voice+Treaty+Truth) is Aboriginal Activist agenda and effectively creation of a new Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), ATSIC was legislated by Labor and they later supported the repeal bill to abolish what became a very expensive failure. But the new version, ATSIV, would be much more than an advisory group. They want to insert it into our Constitution to lock it in and make abolishing it almost impossible, and of course Labor Green would oppose a new referendum.
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IIRC there was a referendum in the past where, due to “question engineering”, you had to vote “Yes” if your intention was “No”
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I just listened to Twiggy Forrest being interviewed by Ben Fordam on 2GB. Twiggy is into the renewable scam in a really big way and blames coal for high electricity prices. He overlooks the fact that coal fired electricity was really cheap until Howard started the RET and Rudd expanded it. Twiggy is only concerned with Twiggy make no mistake. Anyone who tells lies to bolster his argument cannot be trusted with your taxes. He is thrilled with the US/Australia deal struck by dementia Joe and inept Albo because it will assist his green hydrogen pipe dream. He also downplays nuclear with the ten year to get approval meme. SMRs are factory built and ready to install just needing a politician with resolve to say go. That is the real problem, lack of courage.
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The Howard Government signed the Kyoto Agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions, one of many proposals was a 3 per cent trial basis for renewable energy of any technology supplying the electricity grid.
The 2010/11 Labor Renewable Energy Target was over 30 per cent and added incentive bonus payments now costing taxpayers more than $12 Billion every year.
As several articles here have pointed out, closure of coal fired power stations increases the price of electricity.
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Does anyone else see the problem with this statement?
‘Its findings suggest that there are a number of measures that can be taken to prevent future bushfires and La Niña events. These include:
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: This is the most important step that can be taken to address climate change. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will help to cool the planet and reduce the risk of extreme weather events, such as bushfires and La Niña.’
From
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/new-study-suggests-australias-black-summer-bushfires-contributed-to-rare-tripledip-la-nia/news-story/f566573887b1f0dd5e13dbad22db0e34
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Yes! It’s all about politics.
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And here I was thinking excess CO2 (from fire extinguishers) put fires out…
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And here I was thinking excess CO2 (from fire extinguishers) put fires out…….at a 40% concentration. That also snuffs out people.
The now banned BCF snuffs fires at around 5% so it was safe to flood a room BEFORE everyone exited. There was another HFC even safer but I forget its TLA.
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‘ … to prevent future bushfires and La Niña events.’
El Nino tend to cause bushfires in Australia and of course ENSO is natural, nothing to do with CO2
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Got it in one, E+G. Plus La Ninas give us cooler weather, don’t they? Isn’t that what they want.
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FWIW
“Western Delusions About Russia and Ukraine are Genuine”
“If you think that the policy towards Russia, which is shaped by the perceptions and beliefs of the Washington status quo, is not seriously screwed up, think again and watch Charles Kupchan, a former Clinton and Obama National Security official and current shill for the Atlantic Council, take you on a bizarre journey worthy of Alice in Wonderland. Kupchan’s views are not unique to him. What he is saying about Russia and Ukraine is mainstream Neo-Con and reflects the views of Biden’s key national security aides and the leaders of the U.S. Senate and House. No amount of facts will change his mind. He is locked in, as is the Biden Administration, in portraying Russia as a rapacious, authoritarian state hell-bent on conquering the world.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/western-delusions-about-russia-ukraine-are-genuine/
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“a rapacious, authoritarian state hell-bent on conquering the world”
Biden et al. should take a long hard look in a mirror.
One that doesn’t distort their vision of themselves.
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Russia is, and always has been, a war-mongering state, impossible to live with.
This war gives the civilised world a once in a century chance to put it back in its box. Reagan hoped for a “peace dividend” after Glasnost, but it never happened because Russia wasn’t willing. It could be a reality now if Russia is broken as a state. It can never happen while it remains a totalitarian state.
Ever thought why Poland is breaking their neck to ensure a Ukrainian victory? They know all about Russia as a neighbour.
I expect to rival GA for reds today, going against the groupthink. lol
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I’ll assist by simply agreeing with you.
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Plenty of people would agree with you.
I am not one of them.
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FWIW, FWIW is a meaningless and distracting prefix to a post.
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Actually it was a suffix, but thanks anyway.
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More a preamble but not a suffix (a morpheme added at the end of a word)
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FWIW
“What Does “FWIW” Mean, and How Do You Use It?”
https://www.howtogeek.com/440143/what-does-fwiw-mean-and-how-do-you-use-it/
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Hahaha
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I use it mainly in the spirit of
“and it’s used to politely express that someone should consider an opinion, idea, or fact”
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It’s in my lexicon. And howtogeek sums it up quite nicely with a double dose:
If it helps, imagine that FWIW means, “You can ignore what I’m going to say, but I think you should hear it anyway.”
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Even when Major Generals retire they can’t help themselves wanting to send young men off to die in a war.. between Major Generals of course!
Mick Ryan wants Australia to get right behind the Americans in Ukraine, we’re not doing enough to kill all the Ukrainians possible.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/we-ve-become-a-bystander-in-the-ukraine-war-and-china-will-notice-20230518-p5d9de.html
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Major Generals command Divisions. A Division is basically nine battalions of infantry (three brigades) with other forces in support. Colonels are the ones who have direct command of troops, hence more involved in coups.
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Why Are We in Ukraine?
On the dangers of American hubris
by Benjamin Schwarz, Christopher Layne
referenced from comments in
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52023-bakhmut-falls-artemovsk/comments
which site is referened in comments in https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/21/world-war-reddit-continues-zelensky-flies-to-visit-g7-assembly-in-japan/
with another interesting analysis
https://johnhelmer.net/bravado-before-capitulation-will-russian-defeat-of-us-patriot-missile-be-followed-by-ukrainian-f-16-attack-during-the-nato-air-defender-23/
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Western Delusions About Russia and Ukraine Are Genuine
20 May 2023 by Larry Johnson
I do recommend you read the latest from Simplicius the Thinker.
He offers a fascinating, detailed analysis of the next steps in the war. I believe that Simplicius is not the sole author of the excellent pieces posted at his Substack. I believe he is a conduit for providing the view of Russian military intelligence about the state of play in the war Russia is waging in Ukraine. He is getting help from knowledgeable folks on the Russian side. Please do not misinterpret what I am trying to convey — I am not accusing Simplicius of being a Russian stooge. Far from it. I think he represents a rather sophisticated information operation designed to try to communicate with the West the reality of what Ukraine faces in this war.
Simplicius, in my view, is not a propagandist or a spin artist.
Let me take one telling example from his latest work. He comments on the reported ambush of two Russian combat aircraft and two helicopters last week. The initial public reaction credited Ukraine with a daring operation that caught the Russians with their pants down.
But Simplicius now presents a credible case that the Russians themselves shot down these aircraft.
Whether Simplicius is producing all of these excellent pieces on his own or is getting help from Russian military intelligence is irrelevant because the quality of what is written stands on its own and is worth reading, which means you ought to consider subscribing to his Substack.
Sadly, people like Charles Kupchan prefer to wallow in the filth of ignorance and blindly embrace suicidal policies that will do more to harm the United States than Russia.
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From the Comments
Simplicius76 also posts great short war clips each day.
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nnwlaOOuDM1W/
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Quick Quiz:
who has spent the most time out of their country, Zelensky or Albanese?
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US Support Of Democracy
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Gets an inspection in
“The Untold History of the United States Paperback ”
by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick.
The first edition was published in 2013 and the crystal ball used to guess at where things might go must have been due for a service.
Seems there has been an update –
“Updated to include Obama’s second term, Trump’s first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Untold-History-United-States/dp/1529102987
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No idea OldOzzie; they are both very enthusiastic about prancing around on the world stage it seems to me.
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Looks like Lord Haw-Haw to me.
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Why is this America’s fault?
Please explain.
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Because Putin is a tough guy. Or something like that.
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Why is this America’s fault? – One Word Victoria Nuland
The Curious Reign of the New Queen Victoria (Nuland)
Despite differences in style and rhetoric, recent US presidents (with one exception), once in the Oval Office, have understood where foreign policy would be hammered out. Not in their own minds. Rather, in the depths of Foggy Bottom and its appendages. Consider the example of Victoria Nuland.
Why Victoria Nuland Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed
ROBERT PARRY: The Mess That Nuland Made
Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July 13, 2015.
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OK Two Words
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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who choreographed the 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically-elected government and set the current crisis in motion, was invited by PBS NewsHour on Dec. 7 to explain the standoff in Ukraine.
Typical of Western media, the story began with Russia’s involvement in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, which took place in March 2014. The crisis actually began a week earlier with the violent overthrow of democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 22, 2014.
While accusations flew of Russian aggression, invasion and annexation, there was not a word about the U.S. instigated coup or Nuland’s role in it.
For the sin of declining a Western aid package loaded with austerity measures, and accepting instead an unencumbered Russian package, Yanukovych became a target for U.S. regime change.
Undersecretary Nuland’s role in the coup is essential to the story.
While Senators John McCain and Chris Murphy appeared on-stage in Kiev with far-right opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok in support of the coup, Nuland and Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt passed out cookies to anti-government protesters in Maidan Square.
This would be like Russian parliamentarians and diplomats coming to Washington to encourage protesters to overthrow the U.S. government.
Behind the scenes, in an intercepted phone call with Pyatt, Nuland can be heard plotting the make-up of a government to succeed that of Yanukovych. “Yats is the guy” she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, America’s preferred leader for the Ukrainian people.
Her plan for the other two opposition leaders, Vitali Klitschko and Oleh Tyahnybok, was to keep them out, saying “I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government” and “What he (Yatsenyuk) needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside.”
As for Europe’s competing interests in the outcome of the affair, she infamously said “F@ck the EU.”
Nuland had told the U.S.-Ukrainian Foundation on Dec. 13, 2013, that Washington had spent $5 billion over a decade to support Ukraine’s “European aspirations,” in other words to pull it away from Russia.
To Nick Schifrin, the dutiful PBS reporter interviewing her, this episode was either not relevant, or an impolitic intrusion upon his esteemed guest. Or he was woefully uninformed.
While the United States was issuing stern warnings of restraint to Yanukovych, neo-N@zi tipofthespear insurrectionists were stockpiling clubs, guns and M@lotov cocktails in Maidan Square. With violence rapidly escalating, a deal was brokered between the government and the opposition on Feb. 21, 2014. Yanukovych agreed to immediate power sharing and early elections. In exchange, the opposition agreed to de-escalate the situation on the streets.
The opposition did not disarm as agreed. Smelling blood in the water, they went on the offensive again the next day. They overran security forces and ransacked government buildings. Snipers in opposition-occupied buildings shot police and protesters alike. Ultimately, over 100 people died, including more than a dozen police. Yanukovych and many of his Party of Regions allies fled for their lives.
Ukraine’s democratically elected government fell on Feb. 22.
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Pretty well-explained, Hanrahan should understand.
Two words?
The WEST versus the REST..
Take a knee to the USA or die, its pretty simple.
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I can’t help but wonder what a sea of tranquility the world would be if the Allies had lost the war.
In truth the only thing that would be different amid man’s inhumanity to man is the need for a different scapegoat.
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I would expect Russia and Japan would be fighting China, they both were at the time. If Germany had taken Russia they would be fighting China. ..or by now Hitler would have died and there would be civil war within the EuroReich as to who takes over.
America wouldn’t be invaded, too much trouble, they’d sign a treaty to not have armed forces and keep to their borders. Rather like the one signed at Versailles in fact.
South America, India, Africa, SE Asia would be uninvolved, busy trying to get ahead. It would be very difficult for Japan to hold into the SE Asian nations it invaded while fighting China.
You won’t get sweetness and light while we have leaders, borders and military. Its not the peasants or the middle class who want wars or borders.
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In spite of that you know EVERYTHING is America’s fault.
Are you sure?
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Deflection to a 70 year old past conflict. The issue is todays behaviour which seems to have migrated a long way in 70 years as power and wealth accumulated.
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I’m not deflecting, quoting history, I’m living in the 2020s, painfully aware of the US CiC.
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One might add to that how TPTB/GEB are now treating the citizens of USA – e.g. the Durham report
https://patriotpost.us/memes/97497-the-non-collusion-2023-05-22
And
“When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/22/when-the-fbi-does-it-that-means-that-its-not-illegal-303/
Note that is # 303 in the series
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# 304
“Like the casino gambling scene in “Casablanca,” the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court is “shocked, shocked” that the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to ravage the privacy of vast numbers of Americans.
For each American the FISA court permitted the FBI to target, the bureau illicitly surveilled almost 1,000 additional Americans.
The court’s just-revealed ruling signals the FBI presumed any American suspected of supporting the Jan. 6, 2021, protests forfeited their constitutional rights.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/23/when-the-fbi-does-it-that-means-that-its-not-illegal-304/
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First ask what were the O’Bidens doing in Kive-Yukrane?
Were their business dealings open and beneficial to the people of that nation, or just the local management, Hunter and “the other 10% guy”.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/21/david-blackmon-the-eu-chief-just-let-slip-the-dirty-secret-behind-the-green-transition/
The aim is ECONOMIC DE-GROWTH
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“History In Ukraine & Russia Matters”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/history-in-ukraine-russia-matters/
And comments
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For hanrahan,
and
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This has been going on for 800 years.
Thanks to Joseph Stalin 1 in 5 in the Ukraine died.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TayCxwWdso4
This Changes Everything We Have Been Told! Billy Carson – The Anunnaki & Atlantis
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“In September last year the Albanese government advertised for applicants for a new position in the bureaucracy, an Ambassador for First Nations People. The ambassador would be employed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to work across a number of government agencies and departments. The brief would be to
engage directly on how Australia’s international engagement contributes to Indigenous community and economic development, supports First Nations businesses and exporters, delivers practical action on climate change, builds connections across the Indo-Pacific region and supports Indigenous rights around the world.
The position would mean that Australia would for the first time have “dedicated indigenous representation in our international engagement”. In other words, from the earliest days after its election victory, the Albanese government decided that the scope of its commitment to the Aboriginal Voice would extend well beyond domestic issues.
In March this year, Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney announced that Justin Mohamed had got the job. The published documents gave only short accounts of the areas in which Mohamed would concentrate but it was clear he was expected to focus on issues of much more significance than overseas trade in indigenous art and artefacts or tourist attractions.
Mohamed’s former career path has been not in trade but in identity politics. His previous job was Secretary of Aboriginal Justice in the Victorian government where he oversaw the development of the state treaty with Aboriginal people and truth-telling projects. As Ambassador for First Nations, his brief from the Albanese government now is to “ensure the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are included in our international engagements”.”
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Very Aboriginal surname.. Due to be changed to something more suitable, like the Maoris have been doing?
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The Albanese Labor Government has a Parliamentary Committee formed considering signing the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was rejected years ago by Australian, New Zealand, Canada and United States of America.
UNDRIP coupled to Voice+Treaty+Truth.
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“Brilliant column – The ABC’s real problem is NOT Stan Grant by Stuart Littlemore.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/brilliant-column-the-abcs-real-problem-is-not-stan-grant-by-stuart-littlemore.html
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Thanks Ian,
I have always considered Stuart Littlemore as part of the problem and indeed he does not disappoint with his snide and quite offensive comments.
However he also makes some good points;
Of course one should except Littlemore himself because his opinions are more valuable than others.
His best point. How far has the ABC fallen from there? Did Littlemore himself contribute to that?
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Unexpected, but quite likely.. Seems Zelensky hasn’t been home since the Kremlin drone bombing attempt.
“PRO-PUTIN GENERALS SEIZE CONTROL OF UKRAINE’S MILITARY
Sources say the fall of Bahkmut triggered a revolt inside UKRAINE’S military. “A spontaneous uprising among generals after the fall of Bahkmut allowed an ‘anti-war pro peace with Russia’ faction to seize power.”
— iSource News (@isource_news) May 21, 2023″
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Whenever I’m feeling down I read one of KP’s Russia posts, belly laughter is great medicine.
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something I saw on Twitter,
The #Left: “WE MUST APOLOGISE OVER THINGS THAT HAPPENED 100s OF YEARS AGO FOR THINGS NONE OF US DID TO PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD.”
Also the #Left: “WTF?! No! We’re not going to apologize for #Covid. Who cares if you lost your business, home, family, or life? F-off cooker. Move on.”
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On things like that –
I’m reading “The rise of the new Puritans: fighting back against progressive’s war on fun” by Noah Rothman
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Must be a cold morning in Sydney. 1.6GW being imported from QLD and VIC with both QLD interconnects at their cap.
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FWIW
“Cancer As A Metabolic Disease & How To Starve It”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/cancer-as-a-metabolic-disease-how-to-starve-it/
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“More RCP 8.5 Fantasy Games:”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/22/more-rcp-8-5-fantasy-games/
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A non-woke beer
https://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/topic/152704-a-new-beer/
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Peter Hartcher must have had a cadenza when Bakhmut fell, so a stand-in propagandist wrote about the G7 doing its best to consolidate the BRICS18.
“The G7 minutes make grim reading for China and Russia-
Restrictions on Russia’s export of diamonds have been flagged, as well as about 300 new sanctions and other measures targeting individuals and entities providing financial and other material support to Russia…. the outcome of the G7 discussions makes for even more grim reading for Beijing. ”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-g7-minutes-make-grim-reading-for-china-and-russia-20230521-p5da3e.html
…and they affirm that Ukraine need not enter peace talks until Russia gives back ““the entire internationally recognised territory of Ukraine”. This includes Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.”
So that’s the end of any chance for peace!
As it stands, BRICS represent over 40% of the global population and nearly a quarter of the world’s GDP, but 18 more countries wish to join, the largest being Indonesia, Saudi, Malaysia, Egypt and Argentina. The G7 are heading to be the old farts raging in the corner while no-one listens to them.
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It only took 6 months and 100,000 dead to take Bakhmut. Well done, you must be happy.
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A war of equals, not see by anyone else since Korea, which died in a stalemate that is still there today. Since then it has only been the ‘Leader of the Free World’ against 3rd world countries.. VietNam, Afganistan, Iraq, Libya etc.
Putin has never committed the whole power he has, I’m sure he expects to be fighting NATO soon enough. But he has pushed back the West’s takeover of the important parts of Ukraine, the Russian-speaking areas, and it may slow the drive to have nukes right on Russia’s border. The economic collapse of the West from the sanctions is just a bonus.
There is a distinct lack of comments by the CIA shills on the web this week, with their constant ‘Slava Ukraine’ and “Bakhmut Holds’ icons. A more vicious and sadistic mob you would never find. The real answer now is for The Clown to sit at the negotiating table and stop the deaths, but the Yanks won’t let him. There are still some poor Ukies they haven’t sent to the front yet.
Are you putting any money down on the success of The Great Ukrainian Counterattack? The F16s flown out of Poland by NATO pilots to defend Ukraine? Get out the popcorn…
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Testament to the truth that the only way to finish a war is with a victor and vanquished. The Armistice in 1918 was merely interval in Germany’s war on Europe. Russia has never interrupted its war on Europe, merely suffered setbacks.
BTW Korea and Vietnam were supported by Russia and China and Iraq had a bluddy big military with thousands of Russia’s best tanks, hundreds of jets and Baghdad was the most heavily defended city on Earth so these were not battles against minnows as you claim.
Desert Storm was a direct result of Iraq attacking and occupying Kuwait, something they thought they could get away with only because Saddam believed the West wouldn’t act. The same belief Putin had last year. Without a strong America there would be MORE wars.
The Persian Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War, began in 1991 after President Saddam Hussein of Iraq ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene. Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and Operation Desert Storm began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive. After 42 days of relentless attacks, U.S. President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire on February 28; by that time, most Iraqi forces in Kuwait had either surrendered or fled.
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“Neil Oliver points out that the so-called “green” revolution is all about money for its promoters, and nothing else.”
https://youtu.be/kD9KG-j7C0M
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/as-always-follow-money.html
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A reminder for the TGA
“FDA Posts Tweet Warning about Dangers of Online Disinformation – Then Reality Comes Back Hard and Bites Them in the Horse’s Ass”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/fda-posts-tweet-dangers-internet-disinformation-then-reality/
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El Nino makes a comeback.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/southern-oscillation-index-hits-el-nino-threshold/1285357
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Borderline SSTA conditions.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/southern-oscillation-index-hits-el-nino-threshold/1285357
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Anti-correlation between CO2 and temperature in Siberia.
‘In the last 25,000 years there has been an anti-correlation between rising CO2 and the Siberian Arctic temperature – the opposite of what is claimed by proponents of the anthropogenic global warming narrative.
‘According to a new study, Arctic Siberia was 4°C warmer than it is today from 15,000 to 11,000 years ago, when CO2 was ~240 ppm.’ (Notrickszone)
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https://twitter.com/FredFredderson1/status/1659957007837720580
Here is the clip of @DrButtar on @LauraLynnTT
just a few days ago. He said he was poisoned 200x of what was in the j a b only a few months ago.
https://twitter.com/LaineyWasi/status/1660797823732838403
Pentagon 9/11 | No plane wreckage
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https://twitter.com/markmaycot/status/1661027136059342849
WATCH: Hotdogs tested and 2% contain human DNA.
2/3rd’s of the vegetarian hotdogs contained human DNA.
10% of the vegetarian hotdogs contained meat.
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The test you describe is meaningless. The keyboard that you are feverishly typing on contains human DNA
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I believe it was a 2015 story
https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a19547945/human-dna-hotdogs/
Kevin, I don’t know how meaningful the study was, but humans share 85% of our genes with mice and 50% of our genes with bananas. And we do leave our DNA all around us. I’m just skeptical that this means what the headlines suggest.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/nzrsgjK6ZPcV/
Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators
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Your keyboard does not contain “2%” DNA, 2% is a lot.
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Senators Given Satellite Phones for “Disruptive Event” That Will Take Out Communications
https://infiniteunknown.net/2023/05/23/senators-given-satellite-phones-for-disruptive-event-that-will-take-out-communications/
I thought this was interesting.
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https://twitter.com/robertsepehr/status/1661587348730290176
Putin delivers scathing speech at the West
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycx17eQHD1A
COVID-19 vaccine injury compilation
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“Cause Unknown”: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense) Kindle Edition
The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XhKE1U1WF8
The PCR Test: 👎 A Waste of Time and Money – David Icke
“Wow”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XRnGzK_pM
The Virus Data Is Misleading the People: 🤧 COVID-19 Was Just a Redesigned Flu Virus – David Icke
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/wild-china-boast-reveals-concerning-new-threat-facing-the-globe/news-story/52805f0a6bc44bbd7af765be95bec225
Wild China boast reveals concerning new threat facing the globe
Beijing claims it can now destroy a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier “with certainty”, exposing a terrifying new threat in the region.
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