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As mentioned previously, BoM’s 3-monthly outlooks have shown southern Australia to be extremely dry for about 5 months now. Yesterday’s effort is no different. Despite this, the weather stubbornly refuses to cooperate with Adelaide having had above average rain each month since February – June is now way over and the longer this continues, the more stupid the models look because we are supposedly under the influence of dry weather drivers in all directions – IOD, El Nino and SAM. Still, “computer says no” so I guess the models must be right, not reality.
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“They” are desperately trying to talk nature into warming or drying or ANYTHING bad given the weather the last few years that basically blew the whole warming narrative out of the water. And God forbid the mini ice age being predicted by the likes of Zharkova etc come true… If there was not so much at stake, it would have been amusing to watch.
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You grossly underestimate the depths of self-delusion in the CAGW community; if world average temperatures started to decline, they would all be spraining their arms patting themselves on the backs and short-stroking all over the media about how their green policies have ‘saved the world’ (despite nothing they did actually having had any effect), and we need to double down on our efforts to make sure that this ‘crisis’ never happens again.
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The dry is happening on the west coast of the lower Nth Is. of NZ.
Sunniest winter in memory here , and warm.
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I can attest to how dry it has been.
My wife and I spent 4 nights near Westport recently. It only rained hard on one of the days we were there.
For the West Coast, that is close to a drought.
No. I am not being sarcastic.
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I recall December 2019 BOM announced a drier than average outlook for January to March 2020 with no significant rain expected until April. Tas & WA were the two states nominated to likely avoid the drier conditions.
So what happened? Melbourne recorded its wettest start to the year (Jan to April 2020) since 1924.
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Something’s amiss. Central Victoria for May: June – rainfall 18% above average and June not fully finished. Also there’s a huge weather system creeping down from the North/West which will arc through central Australia and looks to be going to dump a lot of ran into NSW next week. Maybe we’ll get a dry spring. Possibly welcome after the Noah’s ark stuff we’ve had the last couple of years.
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SAM is in its negative phase.
‘Negative phases of the SAM occur when westerly winds and cold fronts shift further north, towards Australia. In winter, negative phases of the SAM can increase rain, wind and snowfall across parts of southern Australia and reduce rain in parts of eastern Australia.17 May 2023’ (Weatherzone)
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Au contraire. BoM site from yesterday reads:
“The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) index is currently neutral and is expected to remain so over the coming three weeks.”
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Yep.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/aao.png
Last night the ABC weather guy illustrated the impact of the jet stream on our weather, that has to be a first.
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Perth has also had one of the wettest Junes for many years. And it’s still raining every day.
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JC2 entertainment schedule
Just finished Black Mirror season 6, and for BM fans it’s a must watch.
Blood, violence, scifi, mystery, a bit of everything.
9.5/10
The Grand Tour Eurocrash was great as one would expect.
One for the car enthusiasts.
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Silo season 1 ep 9 tonight.
For those after a dystopian future mystery/drama it’s good entertainment.
8.5/10
Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 2 is out and on the viewing schedule for tomorrow.
For comedy buffs, “Blackadder – A cunning story” is out.
Tomorrow.
Action: Extraction 2 on the schedule for tonight.
Being Netflix, expectations are not overly high.
Sci-fi: Secret Invasion ep 1
Don’t have high hopes for it or for “Crater” both on the viewing schedule for the wet weather weekend.
Lastly, “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich”
1970 vhs rip about the Soviet Siberian gulag life.
Pouring rain here and for the weekend so it’s a good chance to catch up on videos. 🙂
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John
add Netflix Korean – according to my Grandsons passing by each evening “Not another Korean Show” – Kudos when No 8 was at friends place and Canadian Grandfather was visiting and watching Netflix Korean shows with Subtitles – “Miss the emotion if you watch in dubbed English”
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Rookie Historian Goo Hae-Ryung
Agency
I have been watching loads and loads – medical, about book publishing industry, loads of topics – amazing plots, light and deep, enjoyable and no American swearing
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Some titles I liked on Netflix that are Korean: Miss Granny, Mr Sunshine, Lawless Lawyer, The K2, 100 Days My Prince, Vincenzo, Sisyphus, The Crowned Clown,
Lots of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, movies and series on Viki (online or TV app) . Some are free and quite good. If region restricted, a VPN might work to escape that hurdle. Some free ones.
Descendants of the Sun: https://www.viki.com/tv/23205c-descendants-of-the-sun
Tale of the Nine Tailed Fox: https://www.viki.com/tv/37373c-tale-of-the-nine-tailed
1% of something: https://www.viki.com/tv/36677c-1-of-something
Military Prosecutor Doberman: https://www.viki.com/tv/38377c-military-prosecutor-doberman
Nirvana in Fire: https://www.viki.com/tv/22943c-nirvana-in-fire
Lawless Lawyer: https://www.viki.com/tv/35833c-lawless-lawyer
Sungkyunkwan Scandal: https://www.viki.com/tv/1205c-sungkyunkwan-scandal
Midnight Diner: https://www.viki.com/movies/37556c-midnight-diner
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Bud Light suffers its worst weekly sales drop as it plummets another 27% – as cost of partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney continues to cripple beer giant
The company saw sales drop 26.8 percent the week ending on June 10
It’s a further drop from the week ending on June 3, which saw a 24.4 percent drop and surpassed the worst drop of nearly 26 percent on May 25
Anheuser-Busch’s other brands – including Budweiser and Natural Light – have also seen a significant decline in sales since the April 1 controversy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12216677/Bud-Light-sales-suffers-worst-weekly-sales-drop-falls-26-8.html
But wait, it gets WORSE.
They have a new ad to try to get their customers back:
https://youtu.be/wg7iiVKJ2CU
First they alienate their customer base and now they present their customers as bungling, inept buffoons.
Hint: SACK the board members. 😆
Bud is imploding faster than a small submarine.
/bad joke
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” imploding faster than a small submarine.”
Catastrophic Implosion of a submersible explained: When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour – that’s 2,200 feet per second.
The time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond. A human brain responds instinctively to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds.
Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds. The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine. The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion.
Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.
Info Source: Dave Corley, former Nuke sub officer
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Passengers Aboard Doomed Titanic Sub Likely Died ‘In Milliseconds’
Death came in “milliseconds” for the five people aboard the doomed Titan submersible, according to experts who spoke after pieces of the vessel that carried its passengers into the depths of the Atlantic to view the Titanic were discovered on the ocean floor.
A remote-operated vehicle (ROV) searching the seabed for the missing submersible found the rear cover of the Titan around 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow, Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said in a news conference. The ROV found more pieces of the submersible, leading authorities to rule that the debris discovered is consistent with “the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” meaning all five aboard the Titan likely died from a massive amount of underwater pressure that killed them instantly.
http://www.womensystems.com/2023/06/passengers-aboard-doomed-titanic-sub.html
ABC-go news with James Cameron and Bob Ballard:
https://youtu.be/e9YB31ElEFQ
They KNEW within hours of launch, but they needed to distract the masses from the Hunter Biden matter.
If they retrieve the sub, I’d expect major damages lawsuits for p1ss poor engineering and safety flaws causing death.
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I doubt lawsuits, as they signed disclaimers.
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Indeed. The MSM are reporting that the US Navy detected the implosion- simultaneously identifying the location- on Sunday and reported that fact to the White House on Monday morning.
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“JPMorgan Bank “mistakenly” deleted 47 million customer records. The Securities and Exchange Commission says the deleted records were requested in several investigations
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Burisma Energy’s chief accountant, who offered the U.S. evidence of the Biden family’s fraud, is found dead. She was willing to provide authorities with Joe and Hunter Biden’s fraudulent schemes, but didn’t have time to testify. A few days before the woman’s death, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani assured that the U.S. Justice Department knew there was a life-threatening situation for her.
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the recently sunk bathyscaphe.
= hiding ends in water.”
https://t.me/s/Slavyangrad
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I hope that was the case and that they had no warning. Imagine how terrifying it would have been for them if they DID have warning, say some unusual creaks or hull deformation. Even if only for a few seconds before the implosion, that would have been a real-life nightmare.
On this topic, I saw reports that a Guardian (i.e. far lefty) reporter/writer had used this tragedy to argue for higher taxation of wealthy people, along the lines of, “If they can afford to do things like this, they can afford to pay more tax.”
Just when you think lefties can’t sink any lower.
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In the US the MSM noted one of the victims was a GOP donor. Why that is a notable factoid I do not know.
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When teaching my students about the operation of vacuum transducers I showed them this 15 second video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM
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John. Bud light has just won ‘marketer of the year’ award. Go figure …
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-anheuser-busch-marketing-campaign-award
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I just heard a radio “journalist” describing the Titan submersible as having suffered a “devastating explosion”. An implosion, surely?
These are the same self-proclaimed “scientific experts” telling us that covid vaccines are safe and that the world is heading toward catastrophic anthropogenic global warming or that men can become women.
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The explosion happens a couple of milliseconds after the implosion ; compression ignition.
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The common reports have been of an implosion but this was also determined by the finding of various pieces of wreckage.
So it had me wondering. Would there be pieces of wreckage in places in an implosion (like in an explosion) or would it become one compressed piece?
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There’s some controversy over the design of the vessel and reports it was determined to be flawed three or more years ago. The employee who made that determination was reportedly sacked instead of the concerns being adhered to.
Is this controversy simply OceanGate or OceanGategate.
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Did the sub have lithium batterie?
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I saw this comment on Reddit.
Also see:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/
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The owner may have had a good ESG score, but cost him dearly.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/21/ceo-ocean-gate-missing-submarine-titanic-white-guys/
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The OceanGate Titan’s 31.2 centimetre diameter viewport window was only certified by the manufacturer to be safe at depths to 1300 metre. The ocean depth at the Titanic site is 3800 metre.
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If the hull was made from steel then the weight could have been prohibitive due to difficulties raising the vessel from the ocean floor. Just a thought . .
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And repeating this..
Albanese’s legislated Safeguard Mechanism carbon tax starts in a week. 5% a year reduction in emissions for 7 years. Or you have to buy Australian Carbon Credits. Never heard of these? They were legislated in 2011 in the “Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011)
So having elected successive governments from 2000 to 2023 which promised no Carbon Taxes, we are about to get another massive carbon tax on every thing we do or buy. This is in addition to the LGCs and STCs for windmills and solar panels, your cash flowing overseas like a river.
All will be run by the ‘Clean Energy Authority’ which is tasked with decarbonizing all life in Australia. Which is a bit sad as all life on the planet comes entirely from CO2. But carbon is dirty. So you and the plants and all the animals have to go. Or pay a tax on living.
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Very cold and wet here in the low part of the high country. Snow on the range behind the house, Dunno how long the dog can go without “going” but he’s not having a bar of outside today. Should be in the shed working on the old hilux for when the grand kids come up next week but just a bit to chilly for old bones. I could volunteer to do the vacuuming indoors but she does seem to get so much pleasure from it that I wouldn’t like to take away. Looks like its off to the wood pile with the long handled splitter.
Two jobs in one. It will warm me up chopping as well as keep us warm burning. Love the wood stove.
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Wood heater is very good, mine is far superior to the reverse cycle air conditioner and an expensive electric heater combined in my not well insulated old farm cottage, roof has sheep wool insulation that improved the heat retention markedly.
And I get fitter in winter carrying canvas bags of timber from the woodpile, and getting up and down to feed the fire regularly.
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Dennis
Time for some technology transfer?
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-wheelbarrow-1991685
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Thank you Ian, I also have a small wheelbarrow with two pneumatic tyre wheels that can be pulled up the back stairs and into the house, and I also use it for main supply and top up with canvas bag transport.
As best I can remember the wheelbarrow is a 1970s purchase by family and original tyres.
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They need maintenance though. Wife bought a small one for the garden. The tray says “Made in Oz” but the steel in the RHS frame likely wasn’t, as the “tin ants” found it delicious. So I cranked up the pipe bender and did a duplicate.
But then they took to the wheel and it got parked. Recently I retrieved it to the workshop and one of the boys said
“What are you doing with that?”
“I’m putting a new wheel in it”
“You can buy a new one for $100 0r so”
“You can buy a new wheel for $29”.
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And a friend’s description of a doubtful mechanic was
“The sort of bloke you’d only let work on your wheelbarrow if it had a steel wheel”
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I’m preferring the four wheel stability of a “gorilla” cart for my shed to house wood movement. Developed a bit more recently than Shu’s wooden ox of 231AD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VblcYpbNFg
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The profound scientific, historical and political ignorance we see in today’s society is extremely dangerous.
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Don’t forget to watch the next installment of The First Inventors…
Watch The First Inventors streaming now on SBS On Demand.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/the-first-inventors
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Do the inventions include sacred sites and other culturally significant claims?
Secret women’s business that stopped construction of Hindmarsh Bridge in SA for example?
With due regard for the new WA legislation forcing land owners to obtain assessment from traditional owners before digging anywhere, I wonder if the inspectors must be from the relevant “First Nations country”, because “my mob can’t speak for your mob. Your mob can’t speak for my mob”. And each mob has cultural and language differences.
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Of course the inventions would not include Sydney-Hobart racing yacht Secret Men’s Business.
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They made a big deal of the fact that Aboriginal stories speak of seven stars in the Pleiades constellation when only six are visible.
Post-modernist “science” as we read on The Conversation https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100-000-years-151568 says the reason is that seven stars were visible 100,000 years ago but due to stellar motion only six now.
But all ancient cultures have known seven visible stars were there. Including Greeks and Egyptians who had written records.
The answer is that many people can in fact see seven or more stars depending upon background light and the individual’s visual acuity.
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Don’t foreget the Dogon and their knowledge about the Sirius system.
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I understood that aboriginal people had no numerical ability and that they could count only to two and after that it was “many”. Have I been misinformed?
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Anthropologist assisted skill reconstruction. Australian aboriginal peoples generally did not have words or gestures for numbers but could accomplish number related tasks.
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Yup, it’s one of my eyesight tests. I’m very shortsighted and have glasses for long distance. If I can’t see the 7 when looking at that cluster of stars and they get blurry, I know it’s time for an eye test. I don’t need a reminder letter for an eye test from my optometrist.
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Watch | Earth looks like gas giant Jupiter as carbon emissions engulf the planet
The visualisation shows the amount of CO2 being added into the atmosphere in 2021. The emissions have been released from fossil fuels, burning biomass, land ecosystems, and the ocean.
The visualisation is stunning since CO2, one of the biggest contributors to global warming and climate change is invisible to the naked eye.
Using advanced computer modeling techniques, Nasa’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office has created a visualisation that unravels the influences of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide and reveals where it is coming from and where it goes.
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/climate-change-global-warming-climate-crisis-earth-jupiter-co2-carbon-emission-2395932-2023-06-21
Jo will have a wobbly attack! 😁
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What an appalling piece of propaganda!
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Have I got this right?
The visualisation seems to show the “atmosphere” height about 1/17 of earth diameter. (ie 750km thick)
NASA would not get this wrong – would they?
And a real missed opportunity not showing it centred over China/India.
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It truly does look like it was “imaged” by low-end 1st year Arts students !
Maybe that’s all that NASA hires nowadays ?
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Utter rubbish! Science nonsense. The idea that ultra soluble CO2 is somehow trapped in the atmosphere is ridiculous. Or that rapid CO2 equilibrium does not exist. This is kindergarten level.
The fact is that human CO2 is dwarfed by the CO2 exchange between air and water. This massive exchange is so great that half of all CO2 in the air is replaced every 5 years. And this is not debatable.
The total contribution to atmospheric CO2 from all our massive use of fossil fuels is a lousy 3.0% of a tiny 0.04%. And that would halve every 5 years if we were all dead. In twenty years it would be as if we never existed.
You would think China has proven that. They utterly reject our silly science and start a new coal based power station every week. And no one notices.
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Yeah, but….
No matter how they portray it, CO2 still only makes up 0.04% of the entire atmosphere.
If that was an honest graphic portrayal, you’d not even be able to see any CO2.
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A visualisation based on an assumption of no CO2 being retained in the atmosphere before 2021 and atmospheric mixing of newly-introduced 2021 CO2 as if the pre-2021 CO2 was affecting the distribution.
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The important point here is “Using advanced computer modeling techniques”.
GIGO.
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We will head off overseas on Monday, for a few weeks. The trip will include Seoul, the UK (Cheshire), Ireland and Italy. We are therefore packing for the whole gamut of weather, including waterproofs for the Emerald Isle. I am really looking forward yet trepidatious with regard to the Ireland leg, having planned some hikes in beautiful County Kerry. We have lived in Oz for 20+ years now, so it will be lovely to be able to just sit anywhere on our walks without fear of being seriously killed by something bitey. OTH, I’m not sure how happy we will be if it’s 10C, hissing down, and the rain is being driven straight into our faces by a howling wind. In other words, typical UK summer weather.
By the way, for Aussies considering a trip to the UK I always suggest they go in summer, which runs through most of July 28th.
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Steve,
just back from 2 weeks in Italy – Milan, Venice, Padua, Vincenza, Verona, Maranello (Ferrari Museum), Brescia (Porsche Experience Track with HK Engineering),Turin, Piedmont – Switzerland – Bernina Express St Moritz to Tirano – son dropped us off in St Moritz and picked us up in Tirano & then back to Milan, Bavaria – HK Engineering Polling outside Munich
Italy cheap, great food and chaotic – Having spent a number of times in Villas in Tuscany with Son & Family, thought Turin nicer than Rome (having watched Lydia Poet on Netflix – went to old FIAT Factory and Track on Roof), Naples & Milan and Piedmont with Hill Towns nicer than Tuscany.
If going to Milan go to La Rinascente Rooftop Bar on 7th Floor – stunning view of Cathedral (enter by orange door in side street and take lift to 7th Floor) and visit Starbucks in Old Milan Post Office – amazing
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Thanks. We’ve visited Italy a few times and love it. Our last trip, in 2019, included what I believe to be a dose of Covid caught in Naples.
This stay will be in Piedmont, near Biella. We’ve been to Milan (loved it) before but plan to spend some time in Turin this time, but mostly we’re going to be up in the mountains. In particular, we want to visit the Sanctuary of Oropa. As a photographer with an interest in history, Italy is perhaps my dream destination. The churches, cathedrals and other religious buildings are always a draw card in that respect.
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Steve,
Piedmont is beautiful with the hilltop towns and rows of vineyards – we stayed 2 nights in Casa di Langa Piemonte courtesy of our son as our base in Piedmont
We parked in the centre of Turin in Parcheggio Roma-San Carlo-Castello – ingresso di Piazza Castello right opposite Piazza Castello in centre of Turin – cheap 2 euros an hour – https://acimmagine.it/parcheggi.html – https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Parcheggio+Roma-San+Carlo-Castello+-+ingresso+di+Piazza+Castello/@45.0707265,7.6829262,18.24z/data=!4m10!1m2!2m1!1sparking+costello+turin!3m6!1s0x47886d71b1164d3b:0xe8322d6b4a12c26d!8m2!3d45.0706841!4d7.6841415!15sChZwYXJraW5nIGNvc3RlbGxvIHR1cmluWhgiFnBhcmtpbmcgY29zdGVsbG8gdHVyaW6SAQtwYXJraW5nX2xvdJoBI0NoWkRTVWhOTUc5blMwVkpRMEZuU1VSNGRVOXRXbGhuRUFF4AEA!16s%2Fg%2F11bxgbt56k?entry=ttu
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Thanks. Parking spot duly saved in Gurglemaps!
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Steve, not sure about the Emerald Isle, but I can tell you that Scotland has adders, that can deliver a fatal bite. Be careful ful.
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St Patrick allegedly took care of the situation in Ireland
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Adders are found all over the UK yet, in the 42 years I lived there, I saw only one. In fact, despite being a keen naturalist and spending lots of time in the country, I saw very, very few reptiles in general.
The Adder is a little like Australia’s Redback Spider – much less dangerous than its reputation suggests.
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A friend living in heathland in the north of Hampshire regularly saw adders while walking his dog.
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Have a great time Steve.
I brought sweaters and other warm gear for England; not needed! It’s been warm and mostly sunny; BIL has been whinging about ‘drought’ (about a month’s worth with a couple of brief showers!). We have enjoyed a few meals outside during evenings without all the mozzies and flies.
There are still plenty of other insects, including very pretty blue damsel flies in the northern Lake District.
PeterPetrum is correct re. adders. There are plenty on heathland and we once saw one sunning itself on a road in Gloucestershire on the 1st of May.
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Evening all,
This could get interesting:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/mining-energy-workers-want-split-fom-cfmmeu-over-renewables/102514284
” Miners say they do not support state and federal government plans to transition to
renewable energy ”
Cheers
Dave B
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‘Tis a shame that we can’t add our comments to articles like this on our ABC.
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Yeah “Our ABC” who won’t let us have a say on Our ABC sites.
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Dr Robert Malone Issues Stark Warning to the ‘Arrogant Vaccine Elite’: The Public are Coming for You
Dr Robert Malone writes:
“The academic vaccine elite need to grow up (or grow a pair…) and realize that they are about to be subjected to a level of public scrutiny that they have never encountered. They have lived very sheltered, protected lives, never being challenged, with Big Pharma backing their every utterance, suckling at the breast of forever NIH funding, and both CDC and FDA treating them like little gods. Those days are passing now. The days of fawning adulation from corporate media will also pass at some point.
The public is becoming increasingly resistant to the arrogant, condescending “ad homineum, ad nauseum” gaslighting strategy. They got it wrong during the COVIDcrisis, again and again, and still are unable to come to terms with what that means. Will they be held accountable? How long can corporate media continue to come to their rescue?
https://www.visionnews.online/post/dr-robert-malone-issues-stark-warning-to-the-arrogant-vaccine-elite-the-public-are-coming-for-you
Damn right. 😉
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“The public is becoming increasingly resistant to the arrogant, condescending “ad homineum, ad nauseum” gaslighting strategy.”
I don’t see this at all.
Easily distracted by aliens, submarines, and men in drag.
Two things …
‘conspiracy theorists’ watched the world turned upside down as result of those arrogant, condescending sods playing with viruses.
Now we know “IT CAME FROM THE LAB” … and no one cares.
(Even gets a yawn on this forum.)
Thingy two …
TRUMPPOTUS was impeached over what the ‘conspiracy theorists’ knew was a lie.
Now the lies, and the true ‘collusion’ between the Democrats and the Federals is confirmed.
No one cares.
How long has it been utterly obvious that CAGW is a lie?
And we will not be allowed to buy an ICE car in few years (as to save the ice).
No one cares.
Advice to the young … be a billionaire, work for an NGO or government agency, or as a last resort become an academic.
Otherwise plan on living in a box … until they ban boxes.
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Calling THX 1138.
Now the Hollywood elite work for the robots.
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Agree. Here in Australia people seem quietly compliant with remaining vaccine mandates and a subset of them are still queuing up for their 5th and 6th shots. We still have vaccine mandates on Government employment. I dont see much in the way of talk of consequences outside these pages.
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The Australian Labor government has apparently pledged “hundreds of millions of dollars” to encourage raw minerals production, allegedly in order to “challenge China’s grip on supplies”
Eh? What?
Australia has no shortage of mining operations, nor businesses eager to dig stuff up. Why do they need to spend our money on this? If a mineral is in demand and it lies under Australian soil in any quantity, all they need to do is get the feck out of the way and grant the appropriate licences PDQ.
As usual, I expect this ‘funding’ is just another way to bribe others and pay off their mates, plus create a few thousand more public serpents.
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“The Australian Labor government has apparently pledged “hundreds of millions of dollars” to encourage raw minerals production,”
Watching ‘Utopia Australia’ each week??
“We need a new launch for the PM”
“We just launched that enormous project, the work hasn’t started yet..”
“Yes, but that was last week, we need something for this week!”
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The ALP government has pledged $5 billion to build new housing.
Unemployment is at 3.6%, lower than the rate which can be described as “between jobs”.
Dollars do not build houses. Workers build houses.
There are no workers available to increase the rate of housing construction.
So all that $5 billion can do is inflate the price of housing.
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I realize its probably Kryptonite to a Labor Government but how about thinking about adding value instead of limiting ourselves top being a quarry?
Of course you need cheap and reliable energy before you can think about that, so that would be hurdle No 1
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Yet more revelations from “whistleblowers” implicating the Bidens in dodgy dealings.
This might, at first glance, look disastrous for the Democrats, but the reality is that it will actually harm the Republicans far more. You see, this will inevitably turn out to be yet another failure by the GOP to actually land a punch, with lots of huffing, puffing and outrage but, when the dust settles and the media gets distracted by some celebrity having a baby, Biden will still be there, fondling some poor young woman and flubbing his lines.
Pathetic.
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*yawn* I survive daily swings of 15C+ and yearly swings of 25C+ across seasons.
But I am meant to quiver in my boots over 1.5C that will bring more rain and more plant food.
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Just saw this.
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Australia gives Twitter 28 days to clean up ‘toxicity, hateʼ”
Musk should just tell the Aussie Govt to get screwed, they’re not an Australian company. If people don’t like what is on there, don’t go to the site.
He could remind them they don’t even have a space industry at all, unlike backward countries such as India and China, and they are unlikely to ever get one at this rate. Even NZ launches satellites!
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Gosh Twitter execs must be panicking at the thought of being given notice from Oz
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So it’s looking like the USN knew the sub imploded 7 days ago.
The dramatic search was used as a distraction … oh, I guess from a minimum of three newly confirmed ‘conspiracy theories’.
This displays an unprecedented supranational information control structure that may be nearly impossible to counter.
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The USN can probably tell us when it’s burrito night on Russian submarines.
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Mr. Smith: The reports here state the US knew this from a super secret sonar device that we can’t let the Russians know about, so they couldn’t say because it’s classified. And, of course, it’s classified so they can’t tell us about it either.
From what I’ve seen of our vaunted intel agencies, they are not worried about the Chinese finding out because Hunter Biden sold it to them three years ago. Another little matter they don’t want us to know.
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The US Navy knew on Sunday what happened to the Titan submersible.
It looks like the White House resident, or rather those that tell him what to do, made sure this information was was suppressed to keep the story hot in the news cycle to draw attention away from whistleblower testimony about Hunter, happening last week as well.
In the following video: Benny Johnson discusses.
https://youtu.be/jkB8OPCdv6k
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The “rescue” would surely have value as a training run.
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What’s with the “welcome to country veremony”?
Why do Australians have to be welcomed to their own country?
E.g. https://youtu.be/-hKRZuFk1rQ
In any case it was only invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley. It is a completely modern, not ancient innovation.
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This “welcome” nonsense was dreamt up by the Marxists in our academies for the ultimate purpose of abolishing private ownership of land. It contributes to that end by constructing the notion that our present system is unjust.
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Massive Energy Corporation Says Up To 30% Of Its Wind Turbines Could Be Malfunctioning
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/23/massive-energy-corporation-30-wind-turbines-malfunctioning/
and here is another article on them for a totally different reason:
Germany’s Siemens Facing American Scrutiny for Agreeing To Boycott Israel
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/germanys-siemens-facing-american-scrutiny-for-agreeing-to-boycott-israel/
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So the clown show that is the BOM has officially backpedaled on its warmer/drier winter forecast, and is now acknowledging a massive weather system that will do the diagonal Pilbara to SE Australia rain dump on an already soggy environment.
But they know exactly what the climate is doing and why for the next 100 years.
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First blackout on part of north coast last evening. Don’t catch much news, so I don’t know how widespread it was. 15-20 mins around 5.30.
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On the Cancer front. . .
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/life-altering-drug-destroys-advanced-stage-cancers-in-only-6-days
Today mice, tomorrow lawyers. . .
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