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Stay skeptical.
Lots of crazy schist circulating.
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There too?
Here, in domestic politics, sordid is more prominent than usual, in national politics there is possibly a turn to useful discussion of an energy crisis ,while on the international scene we are hoping nobody puts on a nuclear cracker night.
All crazy. 1 and 2 could wind up beneficial. 3 doesn’t bear thinking about.
I do think the commentary underestimates the size of the problem in Ukraine with its effect on the world’s food supply.
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There are no impending troubles with the world’s food supplies, we have lots of crickets to fill in any gaps. How do you prefer your crickets, Ted, fried or baked?
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In Africa it’s locusts.
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Nearly crazy at 1 am Monday. At the local airport 5 or 6 km from here it’s minus 3.5 degrees with a 15 km/h wind. It would be very unusual here to have sub zero with wind, especially at midnight.
Wife has a doctor’s appointment in Orange ttoday, where it’s generally about 5 degrees cooler than here.
3rd umpire failure at the cricket in London. Duckett should have been given not out. The ball cannoned off Green’s hand onto the ground and bounced back into his hand.
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According to my electronic thermometer out front it was 3c at 7am this morning. I’m on the south of Lake Macquarie.
It took over 30mins to get the aircon heater to fire up.
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Minus 5.4 at 6 am and breezy with thin fog at 7.30.
Definitely a change since last year’s climate.
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Weather’s great in the tropics. Wish you were here. 🙂
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An interesting metamorphosis. Not good for the fans of truth and the Australian way.
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Someone commented the other day that conservatives and fellow rational thinkers have been trying to fight insanity with sanity but it’s not working.
This is partly because the modern Left subscribe to post-modernism, the belief that there is no objective truth.
So how do we fight THAT?
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Collectively, the public are a lot smarter than politicians give them credit for. My view is that the coalition have a huge opportunity, thanks to (a) the soaring cost of electricity, (b) AUKUS and (c) AGL. There’s probably d, e and more too.
They are already tapping into AUKUS to talk about nuclear energy, the point being that people are very reasonably asking why it’s OK for our submarines to be nuclear powered but not us on land. The anger at AGL’s record profits may be good to tap into too, though it looks like the unprintable AGL is going to try to claim that its super-profits come from coal (they actually come from restricting supply) in order to deflect attention.
Basically, the more that the general public is hurting financially, the harder it is to maintain the lies.
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But how long will the smart people be around? I hate to generalise, but the state/government education system, also parts of the private education system, has been dumbing-down for some time now and churning out drones that make the 1960s ‘factory fodder’ look like university graduates.
If a young person can’t formulate his/her own thoughts, there are plenty of others all too happy to do their thinking for them.
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My brother does supply teaching…you are correct. Young people are no longer educated, they are indoctrinated. My brother brought home a handout given to all the students at the school he was recently working at titled ” Coal Kills “. It was all total BS of course, but the school was happy to let it be given out !
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I should add that I was one of those 1960s ‘factory fodder’ cast-offs (actually year of 1971, leaving school at 15), so I don’t mean to demean others who received a less than optimum education, but I was relatively lucky among my peers in that I secured an apprenticeship. It wasn’t till I hit 29yo, with a wife and child, that I was able to fund a return to education that eventually led to employer-funded, part-time university.
I was extremely lucky to get a place in a course at a ‘red brick’ university that was mostly taught by highly experienced business managers with real knowledge of how things work, and which skills we would need. I will be forever in their debt.
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Ditto – ish.
Here in the UK there were plenty of jobs in the 1970s – because we still made stuff – so apprenticeships and technical colleges were widespread. General education was pretty good with Secondary Schools, for those with technical aptitude, and Grammar Schools, for those with a cerebral bent. It worked. Since the 80s various governments have sold off and outsourced manufacturing such that the UK is now just a low wage service provider that makes nothing. General education has declined markedly and stupidity and fame seem to be valued over hard skills.
As a retired old git, I very occasionally watch ‘gameshows’ and it always depresses me how little people seem to know in the way of general knowledge, and that includes teachers and university graduates. I despair for the future. I hope Oz is different …
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Australia is not different.
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My son went from management consulting to construction. His employer recommended a 3 month course before starting – industrial first aid and certification on various equipment. One week in the school found out he had a degree and thew him out – gubmint funding only for the unedified – regretfully because he was already helping the teachers. His boss, fortunately, was a born teacher. He is working for himself now, and just about to pour foundations for his own house in a small community.
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That’s why I have been involved, albeit in a small way, in the attempt to bring philosophy to schools. There seems to be some success with more schools now coming into the program. The aim is to learn about how to think, not what to think, and to think cooperatively not competitively – ie, always recognising, respecting and responding to others’ views. I was at a schools philosophy function recently, and the students were pretty impressive. All is not lost. Still a long way to go, though.
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Beware Mike,
Philosophy is often a dangerous terminolgy which supports many points of few like ‘maths is racist’.
I’d prefer reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Put the Coalition back in power & the situation won’t change. The Party Luddites are all in favour of the Labor/Green coalition’s policies.
Nothing changed under Howard, Abbot, Turnbull ( actually it got worse ), Morrison actually made it far worse with his “ net zero “ compliance. They talk about all sorts of alternatives but there’s never any action to reverse the current policies………the Luddites won’t allow it.
To convince me otherwise let’s see Dutton call in some nuclear experts ( real ones ) & get a plan in motion for the change to nuclear. Let’s see the policies of moving towards a nuclear future ready to go should they fluke a win. No doubt they’ll simply revert to the same old “ jaw, jaw, no action policies “. Weak!!
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It is working albeit slowly.
Too slowly to stop the collapse though, and you can bet the lefties and loonies will be the very first to complain and ask why did this happen.
Well, we tried to shut you up and stop your nonsense but you refused to listen, so enjoy what you have sown…
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Postmodernists believe “reality” to be a mental construct.
Speaking on behalf of the utopian socialists I tend to agree, there is no objective truth.
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“to be a mental construct.”
“Totally mental” in their case!
Rational thought processes… not required.
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Post modern = 36.
If you can hang on till they are 36 they will come around. It is wonderful what a wife, a mortgage and a couple of kids can do for a man’s view on life.
The Marxists have done their damnedest to destroy it all, but they should be about to get clobbered. When hard times hit people should wake up.
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The real problem in post modern politics is the tendentious nature of the media. Trust in it is diminished but people still get their two bobs worth of trash scandals. Everything is so debased that truth is meaningless to most. Abandon all hope.
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David,
I was always told not to argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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Well, it’s simple – try beating the stupid……. they are streets ahead on experience . you wanna join them? Me neither. Said before that they must have a Pb mineral deficiency, Our cattle grazing a lot on Old red sandstone soils have Copper Cobalt and Selenium deficiencies – we give them a bullet as required which lies in their reticulum. Money well spent. so what’s the magic one for these folk?
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Don’t argue with mentally weird people in the high street or those passing by may think you are the crazy one.
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“to fight insanity with sanity but it’s not working.”
That was moi.
We are deep into global Mass Formation.
It was historically more regional, such as the Great Terror of the French Revolution, but it is now global.
We have the Robespierres of OZ, NZ, Canada, and our addled WANNABEDICPOTUS.
(They just haven’t quite yet made it to that final level of revolutionary purification.)
Unless the Vx-ax turns out to be the cleanser that some think it is.
We came of age in a rare period of history where Mass Formation was dampened in the Western World.
We were lucky to watch the Great Leap Forward, Kampuchea, Rwanda … on TV.
Now we make a cup of Jo, click on JoNova and discuss how silly it is to say “the oceans are boiling”.
And college girls, who will likely never have to work real jobs, defile and Super Glue themselves to priceless art works.
We are surrounded by zombies,
Talking them out of eating our brains is not going to work.
The big questions is … I don’t know if the Hive Kings and Queens are also zombies, or are just producing them to lay waste to the realm.
My guess is puppet mastery like none ever witnessed.
BTW, we are no longer allowed to ‘fight’.
If you insult them they cry.
Then the Hive Kings and Queens send uniformed zombies to crush you.
Or just lock you out of your home …
https://www.theblaze.com/news/amazon-confirms-it-shut-down-mans-smart-home-after-delivery-driver-wrongly-accused-him-of-making-racist-remark
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Gosh, the German “Health” Minister must be a real genius. Right up there with whatever Australia has to offer.
They are worried about heat but it is cold due to energy starvation which is what tends to kill people, not heat.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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What a change, first he announced warm rooms in winter, now cold rooms for summer.
What people did in earlier times ??
Never saw a more incompetent guy like “Klabauterbach”. (wordgame with the German word for ship’s kobold)
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If the only problem is that you have to remind people to drink water, what will they do about freezing people to death? Remind them to set fire to their clothes?
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As at the moment we just have normal summer temperatures around 30°C, ok, over 3 weeks now over day, night temps in some regions around 0°C, I really don’t see any reason to get panic attacks.
But it seems, there is the fear of El Niño consequences.
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My elderly cat just loves it when the sun augments her heating pad.
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“elderly people would be called and warned of the heat and reminded to drink regularly.”
..by a computer so there is no answering back or arguing..
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Believe it or not, some people do forget to drink. Where water is scarce some old people will die of thirst before the water runs out, saving the water for tomorrow.
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Elder people usually drink less, most “fear” to use the WC to often.
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In addition, the sensitivity to the thirst signal is lost in some aged people.
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Wind turbine hit by lightning in Canada
https://twitter.com/Top_Disaster/status/1669986876319727617
Has anyone considered the lightning rod effect?
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The fate all those useless things deserve.
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See, even God hates the blasted things.
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No one really cares. These are votive offerings. What use is an Easter Island Statue or Stone Henge?
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Stonehenge is described as an astronomical computer, so is able to predict New Moons, Eclipses, showers of meteors, and probably the first three horses past the post at Kempton Park [according to some …].
And it’s older than the Antikythera Mechanism, by a couple of thousand years!
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The stars, sun and moon and planets dominated people’s lives. You could measure the seasons by the point at which the sun rose as we approach our winter solstice. People marked those positions. Equinox was harder to measure. And the constellations rose and fell with the seasons too. Planets were players and many believed were closer actors in human affairs and given the names of gods. Horoscopes are still written in daily newspapers.
But it’s not science. And they are not computational until you can predict an eclipse of the moon or sun. After all most computations had the earth at the centre. Not that it’s an unreasonable thing because the sun goes around the earth as validly as the earth goes around the sun. But it makes predicting the other planets so much harder or it did until Copernicus. And then the Dutch invention of the telescope so that we could see sunspots. It was this which had Galileo locked up.
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I’ve never understood why they built it so close to a A Road. The traffic really disturbs the ambiance.
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Top Canadian politician apologizes to unvaccinated, “we were wrong…” she makes unprecedented promise.
Danielle Smith, the current premier of Alberta in Canada, has done something remarkable. She took the bold and unprecedented step of apologizing to unvaccinated Canadians who’ve faced unfair treatment from the government throughout the “pandemic.” But Ms. Smith actually went beyond just issuing an apology, Danielle actually made a promise: anyone who was terminated from their job due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine will be reinstated.
Wow. That’s not the type of humility you hear from politicians everyday, is it?
https://youtu.be/wbWHU-9opIs
Please forgive us. We were wrong. Don’t hang us. We didn’t mean it. Blah, blah..
NOPE!
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Typical Marxist politics. Promising to reinstate workers whose employers have been driven out of business.
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All is not what it seems.
In Alberta, Sheila Lewis – a lady who needs an organ transplant to save her life but is being denied one because she is “unvaccinated” (she has had Covid twice). The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear her case and, in effect, sentenced her to death.
https://www.steynonline.com/13556/when-the-state-wants-you-dead
https://www.rebelnews.com/jccf_organ_transplant_interview_court_update_sheila_lewis
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We have such a person as well.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/no-jab-no-heart-mother-denied-transplant-due-to-vaccination-status/news-story/5580aca526744d15fe1a25e595ef7d76
‘No jab, no heart’: Mother denied transplant due to vaccination status
A mother has been denied the opportunity to receive a heart transplant because she is not vaccinated for Covid-19, despite having a medical exemption.
February 13, 2023 – 7:14PM
SEE LINK FOR REST
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I too have a Covid vaccination exemption. I did wonder whether it was worth the paper it was printed on. Seems it might not be.
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Then there’s the vaccine injured with blood clots unable to undergo hip replacement surgery.
And still we get the weekly half page newspaper ads touting booster shots.
No limit to wickedness eh.
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It has been a while since I’ve needed the great Aussie outdoors summer salute – I’m talking about those little black bush flies that used to garnish and add protein to your outdoor barbeque. Where have they gone?
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Winter
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Actually the last 2-3 summers in the Canberra bubble – were our summers too cold for them?
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They require livestock and I believe it can be a few years after destocking before they are gonski.
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Living in town now, I didn’t notice.
The little black flies used to turn up here about the end of the first week of November. As kids we used to whack each other’s backs to see how many we could squash. Seventy was often exceeded.
They breed in dung, I think on a 3 day cycle. We used to have up to 1,200 cattle, making lots of dung. Of a summer’s evening you could hear a hum of dung beetles on the wing. By morning they would have buried all the dung, even on the hard packed tracks.. This broke the flies’ breeding cycle, so flies were not a big problem.
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I haven’t noticed too many flies for a number of years now anywhere in SE Australia, and beyond that, not even at Ayers Rock when I visited to climb it just before that was banned.
Maybe it’s a sign of a cooling world?
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They may be drawn to Canberra. The Higgins affair. A woman who waits two years to claim rape but first wants a book deal?
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Definitely more smelly than dung……
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I think it’s something to do with Australia’s declining sheep herd. Back in the 1980’s Australian sheep herd was about 180million, since then that figure has halved. Also, I suspect there is less grazing land closer to major cities than there was 50 years ago. Before paddocks with sheep, now houses and streets.
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Interesting factoid about flies:
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Dung beetles
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More likely insecticides, given the reduction in overall insect numbers. For example, how often do you have to clean insects from the windscreen, or the decline in bee populations.
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Quite often actually
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The Netherlands farming situation
What is happening in the Netherlands? It is often difficult to follow events in other countries, especially when distorted by system media. We give Forum for Democracy (FvD) the opportunity to speak out on the political situation in the Netherlands and the staunch resistance they face in trying to save the country.
FvD is fairly new in Dutch politics, the party was founded in 2016, but has grown quickly and today boasts the most members and the largest youth wing in the Netherlands. The youth wing, JFvD, was established in 2017 when FvD was elected to parliament, amassing 1,000 members in a single day. Currently, the party as a whole has 61,000 members, being nearly twice the size of the second-largest PvdA. JFvD is the biggest political youth organisation in the country.
The Nitrogen Program: A Facade for Mass Urbanization
The reason is not environmental protection; they want the land to build wind turbines and housing for immigrants,” Massimo explains, which is precisely what has already happened on expropriated land in the Flevoland province.
Furthermore, he adds that ”the truth is that farmers’ land is worth ten times as much if you build houses on it, and the Netherlands has a huge housing crisis. Last year the population grew by 2 percent solely due to immigration, and during the height of the housing crisis, 400,000 people arrived here.”
Whether it is genuinely more environmentally friendly to build housing for hundreds of thousands of people one chooses to accommodate rather than run family-owned agriculture is seems dubious.
https://freewestmedia.com/2023/06/17/dutch-fvd-break-through-the-media-blockade/
It was NEVER about saving the planet.
It was ALWAYS about controlling the planet and eliminating western population resistance.
WEF – the needs (and delusions) of the very few outweigh the needs of the rest of humanity.
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Farming is/was the last sector of the economy still dominated by small business/family capitalism. That is what it is all about To call it control is correct. Their aim in life is to abolish all private management of industry.
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Canadian woman diagnosed with climate change
https://twitter.com/eclipsethis2003/status/1670151066002894849
That’s yet another doctor who should be struck off.
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Are you struggling to breathe in summer. And to survive in harsh winters.
So Climate Change causes both heating in summer and cooling in winter? That’s a whole new concept in warming.
But given that the temperature has not changed for a decade and is roughly what it was in 1988 when warming was announced, it’s not just a pause but a menopause?
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Going back to Ted’s comment yesterday-
” I suppose they could compulsorily buy a private Hospital like Calgary? ….You see when you can write a law, why not legislate that you can forcibly acquire private property? It works. Just forget that it’s communism. ”
I’m astounded at how blatant they are- Just like America seizing Russia’s overseas reserves, or the West generally gleefully seizing Russian businessmen’s yachts and bank accounts.. Don’t be too successful, the Govt will seize it all!
What I was looking for was the amount we pay in carbon tax, set against AGLs doubling of profits coming up, and the 30% increase in our power bills. Can we make a pithy slogan for a bumper sticker to point out to everyone why they are paying so much?
“So the total paid as cash to owners of solar and windmills and their friends for absolutely nothing is currently about $2.4Billion.”
“AGL profits approx $280million, set to double next year”
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Calgary is a city in Canada. The hospital is Calvary, named after the mount on which Christians believe Jesus was crucified.
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Sunday fun: council worker efficiency
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw22i5gfmK1w5pr9j.mp4
They must be the ones out my way where they took every weekday for 6 months to resurface 100m of road…
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Special Nasal Drops Could Help The Brain Recover After A Stroke
Scientists have demonstrated how nasal drops containing a particular molecule can help mice recover from the damaging biological consequences of a stroke – and the hope is that the treatment could eventually be transferred to humans.
Crucially, the treatment isn’t applied straight away but is initiated seven days after the stroke. That means those who are unable to be assisted immediately after a stroke could still be protected against the worst effects of the condition.
The key molecule in the drops is the complement peptide (a chain of amino acids) C3a, which we already know plays an important role in the body’s immune system, as well as in the development and plasticity of the brain.
“With this method, there’s no need to race against the clock,” says neuroimmunologist Marcela Pekna from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
“If the treatment is used in clinical practice, all stroke patients could receive it, even those who arrive at the hospital too late for thrombolysis or thrombectomy. Those who have remaining disability after the clot is removed could improve with this treatment too.”
The delay is actually deliberate. Applied too early, the C3a peptide can increase the number of inflammatory cells in the brain, where they would start doing more harm than good.
Scientists induced an artificial ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke there is, in mice. After a week, however, the nasal drops proved to help mice recover motor function faster and more completely, compared to a placebo group.
Some 7.6 million people a year experience an ischemic stroke, with more than half then going on to develop some kind of physical or mental impairment as a result: a loss of voluntary movement in an arm or a leg, speech disturbances, or issues with depression and anxiety.
Nosal drops with the C3a peptide could make a massive difference in those figures – though we’re going to have to make sure that the treatment is viable in humans as well as mice first. We can add it to the list of several possible options researchers are exploring.
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/162253
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These open subject blogs often lead to interesting reading about the wonder of nature and the skill of Science in understanding it (with much to be learned).
Many readers without a geology background might not appreciate some of the wonders. Few people to whom I have spoken over the years have much understanding of what goes on beneath the land surface, with some unfortunate readers clinging to wrong ideas from childhood of mysterious towns and flowing rivers for farms well below the surface, thank you Jules Verne at al. and more recently Hollywood depicting whole communities beneath a sink hole. There is evidence that some geological processes like volcanos and earthquakes can be quite violent, but on the flip side, there is also evidence of beauty in some quiet processes, such as the intricate patterns in many agates, prized for ornaments. The common image of rocks formed by melting then cooling to solids is not always the case.
I would like to show you a natural rock that I tried to buy from an owner who would not part. It became known as the gramophone rock and I know not where it now is. It was originally spherical, about 10 cm diameter, so we see a slice cut from the side.
The rock is classed as a trachyte, traditionally a rock of volcanic origins. A quick Google just now found –
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“Trachytic is a texture of extrusive rocks in which the groundmass contains little volcanic glass and consists predominantly of minute tabular crystals, namely, sanidine microlites. The microlites are parallel, forming flow lines along the directions of lava flow and around inclusions. Trachytic texture occurs in rocks that are rich in alkalies; hence the vitreous mass of the rocks has a relatively low viscosity. Trachytic texture is especially characteristic of trachytes and rocks similar to trachytes. Trachytic textures are often attributed to flow orientation, however, there is little evidence to support this. Macroscopic trachytic textures visible with the naked eye are sometimes called trachytoid textures.”
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Here is the picture, which can be read as one of serenity during formation. Some, Like my ex-boss John Elliston, would indicate formation from a colloid, but his life thesis about colloids had not yet become mainstream, as another example of hubris science by the guys at the the top, if that sounds familiar.
I leave it to you to enjoy.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/gramophone.jpg
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Hey, isn’t that one of the original pressings for Dark Side Of The Moon?
Tony.
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My guess from the experience of digging something similar up myself is that the initial cavity was a gas filled bubble in lava or pyroclastic ash. The cavity was filled with each wet season by mineralised water, hence the deposition of a ring of crystal growth. The leaching of solution to form such regular intervals of crystallisation suggests a regular wet alternating with drying weather pattern such as a monsoon or melt run-off.
Just guessing and I suggest the rock was a spherical white shape found in a fine dark clay with a dark green interior.
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The Irish Climate Science Forum
Some good interesting info there.
The scientific truth is on the side of the sceptics… I have thousands of high ranked scientists all over the world who agree that NO, CO2 is not the driving mechanism and that everything is exaggerated. In the field of physics 80 to 90% of physicists know that the Co2 hypothesis is wrong… Of course, metrologists they believe in this because that is their own profession – they live on it.… I suspect that behind-the-scenes promoters… have an ulterior motive… It’s a wonderful way of controlling taxation controlling people” – Dr Nils-Axel Mörner, a former Committee Chairman at the UN IPPC, and former head of the Paleo Geo-physics and Geo-dynamics department in Stockholm.
“in the long history of the earth there has been almost no correlation between climate and co2… the paleoclimate record shows unambiguously that Co2 is not a control knob… the narrative is absurd… it gives governments the power to control the energy sector… for about 33 years, many of us have been battling against the climate hysteria… There were more important leading people who were objecting to it, they were unfortunately older and by now most of them dead…
The imaginary climate crisis by Prof. Richard Lindzen:
https://youtu.be/GD8SXP02h4c
https://www.icsf.ie/lecture-series
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I had a bit of annual leave the other week and I was working outside the front of my place when a guy just randomly rocked up, all in high vis, ID badge and carrying a piece of plastic that looked like a dish. Started his spiel about noticed you have an evaporative cooler and that they were in the area installing cooler outlet covers. I said to him I’ve already had someone try to get me to install these the other week and I told him I wasn’t interested. Told this guy the same thing I told the other one, I said my cooler has it’s own weather cover, and when it’s not running there is a weather flap that closes as well. I only ever heat one room of the house, the lounge and I’ve put my own vent cover over my cooler outlet there.
He looks at me, clearly frustrated and held up this clear plastic dish thing and he said “but their free” Which I said, “not interested.”
They must be in the area trying to “give” these things away. I wonder how free they really are and how many carbon credits they get for fitting these “free” things in our households. You know the LED lights, the power switch that turns off your TV at the power point so its not drawing any standby power. The power meter monitor they put on your power meter and you then install an app to monitor your power, etc etc etc.
I did try the power switch, useless, threw them away. I did try the power meter monitor and installed the app, but it’s useless – I have a power meter monitor for my electricity that Origin gave me a long time ago and I can see at a glance how my consumption is going, I don’t need an app on my phone, se I deleted the app and pulled the stupid monitoring device off my meter.
None of these are free. I wonder if they have to have these tings in place for a certain time before they can claim carbon credits, or once they are installed, they get them anyway? Who pays for these in the end, we the mug consumers through higher electricity costs and subsidies to the renewables?
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Welcome to 2023.
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Yes, switch off tv / recorders, cookers, washing machines, etc at the wall socket: then spend 1/2 your day trying to rememeber each day which is which setting for time etc ( basically adjusting clocks ) what a pain – bad enough after a power cut or if you cannot wait for the “smart radio tv” to determine the time…. I want it NOW – that is why I have it!
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Bowen was being interviewed a few days ago and the journalist asked him if he has advice for people who were facing rising energy costs. Bowen’s reply was “use less energy”. Moron comes to mind.
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Another one to add to the list of Bowenisms.
The recall that there have been several but the only one I can remember is when he said, not long after the May 2023 election “the sun is always shining somewhere in Australia.”
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He probably thought that was a witty retort.
I dont think he understands the basics in his area of resonsibility.
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Through your taxes somewhere.. My brother made quite a killing from installing ‘free’ insulation/water saving/environmental stuff like that, and he had a service where you could buy more of it and put it on your house mortgage, ‘at no extra cost..’ He probably sold a few harbour bridges along the way, he was good at that.
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It’s what happens when state governments decide to get involved in climate change action. Sounds like a classic Ronald Reagan moment. You know, the 10 worst words you can hear ” Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
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Peace in our time and definitely no hot war.
‘In the letter sent to the 15th Straits Forum, a large cross-Strait exchange event held in Fujian province on Saturday, Xi called for joint efforts to promote the Chinese culture and forge closer bonds.
‘Calling the Straits Forum an important platform for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to broadly engage in exchanges and promote cooperation, Xi expressed his hope that the forum will constantly inject vitality into people-to-people exchanges and the integrated development across the Strait.’ (China Daily)
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They fly war planes into Tiwanese space and say it is important platform for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to broadly engage in exchanges and promote cooperation
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Officially the UN recognises that Taiwan, under Resolution 2758, is part of China.
Just supposing that within a decade Honduras is seen as a satellite of Beijing, would the US blockade the country?
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Dr John Campbell looks at covid vaccine induced myocarditis cases in South Korea.
https://youtu.be/CROf3xmGzYI
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from Friends of Science
Reducing Radiation Errors in the ERA5 Reanalysis with Surface Observations
The ERA5 is the 5th version of the atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate covering the period from January 1940 to present produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. ERA5 combines vast amounts of historical observations into global estimates using advanced modelling and data assimilation systems. This new paper evaluated the errors in the ERA5 downward solar radiation at the surface using 25 years of summertime measurements in the southern ocean from two research vessels and at Macquarie island (1100 km SW of New Zealand). The authors reported large errors with a mean bias of 54 W/m2 and a mean absolute error of 82 W/m2. That is, the reanalysis overestimates the amount of sunlight entering the southern oceans. Simulating the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface is difficult because it relies on a good understanding of how much clouds absorb and scatter sunlight. The scientists used machine learning–based models, the surface measurement and a small set of meteorological variables from ERA5 to predict the amount of sunlight reaching the southern oceans. By bypassing the ERA5’s internal simulation of the absorption and scattering of sunlight, they drastically reduce biases in the predicted surface shortwave radiation and reduced the mean absolute error by 25%. The machine learning techniques could significantly improve reanalysis products.
The total CO2 radiative forcing from 1750 due to the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere to 2022 is 2.17 W/m2 according to NOAA. Kenneth Richards here (at NoTricksZone) points out that the errors in estimating the cloud absorption and scattering effects on solar radiation are far greater than the total CO2 forcing. Computer climate models and reanalysis models use similar methods to estimate the behavior of clouds. The study implies that errors in cloud forcings overwhelm the CO2 forcings in climate models. This NASA page says that clouds in the climate models “are only accurate to within about 25-35%. … a climate model to be useful must be accurate to something like 0.25%. Thus today’s models must be improved by about a hundredfold in accuracy, a very challenging task.”
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Some CMIP6 climate models assume a constant heat of vaporization of water, taking a value for 0 degrees C. Tn tropical seas where most of water vaporization occurs, this results in a 3% error in energy transport.
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Excellent video about what went wrong with Bud Light and Target (USA).
And according to the author’s financial analysis, Bud Light must be bleeding cash.
https://youtu.be/O6cAKYPIOhY
Get woke, go broke!
Don’t underestimate the boycott power of the heterosexual community.
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Don your alfoil hat before reading –
“Could It Be That Anheuser-Busch Tanked Bud Light ON PURPOSE?”
https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/06/16/could-it-be-that-anheuser-busch-tanked-bud-light-on-purpose-n1703851
One might say that, which ever way it was, AB pulled the pin and now seems suprised that the grenade exploded
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As by far the majority are sick of BLM, AntiFA, instant bail, attacks on Christianity, taxpayer funded abortion, a gay Disney and making the Little Mermaid black, they have just woken up to their commercial veto power. But is actually more likely that Budweiser has simply made their beer unpurchasable. And alerted consumers that they have the ultimate power of boycott. Wow.
There is a cachet with every purchase. From a bagel to a new car. You like to feel good about buying something, especially something you like and of which your friends and family approve.
So what how would you feel walking up to a counter to buy a Bud Light? They gayest of gay drinks. Or opening a can at a BBQ. Or offering one to a friend. Or even the stranger at the counter how looks at you and you know what he’s thinking. So if Budd wanted to make a super gay beer, they have one. Except the gay market is less than 1%, especially as even gays do not want to be so outrageous as to drink gay beer. And the transvestite market is 0.0001%.
I cannot believe that Annheuser Busch have not thought of the consequences of advertising their #1 selling beer in North America as the #1 transvestite beer in the world. It’s likely that no one wants to drink it. Even transvestites.
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And we are seeing people voting with their feet with new Disney/Marvel/Pixar films. Get woke. Lose billions.
And even the Chinese have complained about a black Mermaid. As if the entire idea of a mermaid is not fantasy enough, why should Hans Christian Anderson’s Little mermaid be black ever? What about African people having their own culture? A black mermaid trashes both. It used to be a charming non racist story. What’s next? A black Peter Pan and Wendy? What about a black Pinnochio? Or black Popeye? A black Santa Claus? Black snow?
Cultural appropriation works both ways. It’s not equality.
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Ah, well I hate to worry you Ted, but…
“Starting with the March 2024 awards, movies will not be considered for a Best Picture nomination unless they feature a lead or significant supporting character from an “underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” have a main storyline that focuses on an underrepresented group, or at least 30% of the cast comes from two or more underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ or the disabled).”
Its a good thing the great movies of all time already have their awards.
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Not worried. Hollywood like Disney feel they have a stranglehold on the movies. But only the computer generated ones. Maverick showed them otherwise. Revenues are plummeting and CNN for news is dying. And so many of the great movies are now European. And book publishers have to sell the unedited versions of books as well as the emasculated, deracialized, history free ones.
I especially love the idea of trigger warnings where people are prevented from seeing, hearing or reading things which might offend them. And a male mailman has become a person person person.
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Slavery was absolutely necessary in an agricultural society where 90% of people worked on producing and preparing and packing and delivering food. There was little real gold and jewel treasure. The real treasure and trade was in slaves.
I would like to state somewhere that Christianity abhorred slavery, no other religion. Suddenly every human being could be king with an intrinsic worth. All people had a soul and they were equal under God and in British countries equal under the law. There were no untouchables from birth. And this does NOT mean people are identical. Equity is nonsense. Equality of opportunity no more.
But what really ended slavery for the first time in human history was coal and the industrial revolution.
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And the idiot politicians are exporting all our coal to buy Chinese windmills with a lifespan of twenty years and will then retire from politics. That’s parasitic. And destroying our future. We will have to start growing our own food, which will also be illegal and the cities will die as we turn into a slave state and open cut mine for China.
There is no climate change. We are being fed lies.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Tony,
What is “Dark Side of the Moon Pressing”? Some kind of gravity anomaly?
What I showed you is Rock.
Geoff S
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‘What I showed you is Rock.’
..and on its edge it would Roll..
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It’s actually the first “pressing” of Rock Of Ages
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Well would you believe?
“GREAT POINT by Lee Smith – The FBI May Not Be Burying the Evidence Against Joe Biden, The FBI May be Using it as Leverage Against the White House
June 17, 2023 | Sundance | 113 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/17/great-point-by-lee-smith-the-fbi-may-not-be-burying-the-evidence-against-joe-biden-the-fbi-may-be-using-it-as-blackmail-against-the-white-house/
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“The FBI May be Using it as Leverage Against the White House”
Just making sure there won’t be an investigation into the FBI.. I figure that while we peasants worry about being investigated by the Govt Secret Services, in actual fact any Dept of Spying spies on the Govt MPs first, and once they have enough dirt to keep them all under the thumb they can start running the country as they please.
Our elected representatives must be quite well down the line of people making the decisions- The UN, the Sub-UN Depts like WHO, the current Empire, the bigger countries, the giant organisations like WEF, the giant multi-nationals corporations, the international banks, the lobbyists throwing millions of dollars around, the billionaires themselves, the Police and spy depts, .. its a wonder any MP gets to express his own opinion at all!
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“Solar energy”
https://youtu.be/bz3Z_PcdANA
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/17/solar-energy/#comments
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Still NO RAIN to speak of in Inner Moray Firth area.
posted this on Tallbloke’s Talkshop: I didn’t know that my presence on Earth changed my Perception on it: problems with Sat Reception: simply standing beside the Dish resolved reception issues! Ah well – at least I can watch something again.
on 3Sat this morning: THREE Women seem to have got the message in a discussion something about renewables / aka Green Energy costing x40 Hydrocarbon fuels…. and then some of us want to use that green energy to sook out the CO2 from the air… how ridiculous is that? – they got it. Does it take “3 women in a man’s world” to sort the problem? Maybe time for the Mothers on Earth to whack the Lugs of the Bairns and Hubbies to go out and get a job done properly?
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and now I read even more: Plastering the landscape with wind turbines for producing renewable energy may lead to regional drought
huh, Just going outside and play some music from the tractor cab as I give it a wash and turtle-wax: the Hay dust will blow off more easily: Life changes everything or am I confused ( in this heat ! ) is it this one ?
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It’s bucketing with rain here in Cumbria now, at 7:53 pm local; not much thunder ‘tho I noticed storms further south. Nice after the dry weather.
There are rashes of wind turbines in this area; affecting the weather?…hmmm.
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I was reading in The Australian today the following article, “AGL needs to think more like Macquarie as it undertakes mammoth green rebuild.” Well I really didn’t read it, just went to the comments section because I love to read that section. There are a couple of readers who always seem to have their say when it comes to climate change and renewables. Part of the discussion was this:
GuyM
How has renewable energy “failed”? I hear people say this but all I see is renewables producing. What is your definition of “failed”?
John A
Just read the AEMO Dashboard for NSW on the 16th June 5.00pm
Black Coal supplying 87% Gas 0% Hydro 9% Solar 0% Wind 4%
That Solar is producing 0% and Wind only 4% looks like a huge fail to me.
GuyM
Why is that a fail? I see absolutely nothing wrong with those numbers. Why do you expect wind and solar to produce all the power all the time? Did you not know that wind and solar are intermittent?
My Bold,
What the hell? This Guys response is nonsensical, so we expect renewables to be not able to produce power all the time, them why the hell are we doing this and what happens and where do we get the power when the renewables are dead in the water?
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If you read the Australian, that bloke GuyM is your classic leftie, greenie, renewable, climate change keyboard warrior. Another one is ” Russ”, who lives in SA and loves his renewables and never sees the reality when people comment that if SA are so happy with intermittents, then shut the interconnector with Victoria.
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And don’t they love rabbiting on about wholesale energy prices, which don’t relate to the actual energy prices we have to pay.
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YES – Quite right! … and when you are a retailer of SERVICES, then a ” TEN % mark up is sufficient”, eh? but BANKS can take Money for nothing (almost – for savers) and charge the Debtor 10% , so from under 1% to the Lender, what markup is that ? and the food industry, turning over fresh food within a couple of weeks, the farmer needs more than a full year to see his meagre return, Figures figures figures.
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What kind of Government DO WE REALLY WANT… DO WE REALLY KNOW ?
from the ERS today (Electoral Reform Soc.) …. “First Past the Post style voting that prioritised strong government over good government”.
So what is it then? Strong or Good ?
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In the UK – for many reasons, likely – we do not seem to have a particularly Competent Government.
You can probably add to these, but my list of reasons includes: –
* Selection of candidates; in most seats, the ‘incumbent’ party knows thery will win, so their selection of candidate is – effectively – choosing an MP.
So many of the wannabees are of no experience, but have been SPADs [SPecial ADvisers]; or are lawyers [folk who will lie in court if it helps get a conviction/acquittal; lying is their job].
* So many of the measures government suggests will not affect MPs [or peers].
There is, hence, little pressure to get things right.
Why this should be? – often family money [on the Right, but increasingly on the Left, too], or connections, especially on the Left. Or both.
Also, – there appears to be no penalty for failure, either as a politician [Peerage, Quango places, directorships etc.], or an adviser [ditto].
* Despite efforts, little experience of business, let alone science.
I believe the present [UK] Cabinet has only two ministers with a science degree – one who worked in Science, the other became an accountant.
Is there any intellectual curiosity at all in Parliament?
* Advice given comes from the same [very] narrow range of advisers, with some [the heterodox] being kept out.
And the perceived lack of intellectual curiosity tends to militate against even looking for other views.
* Short-termism.
As far ahead as the next election. No more. Even in the UK, that’s a maximum of five years.
So – a need to be popular – not necessarily right. Hence – Tik-Tak-Tok, or Face-palm thingy, or Twatter [Other mind-bending sites are available]…..
[Why not Jonova or WUWT …? – ideas will get a much more critical review than from a Permanent Secretary who has, more-or-less, told the Minister what to say]
And popular with your own supporters, especially.
Otherwise deselection – and the end of the gravy-train – will loom!
My list; you can add to it, I don’t doubt.
And it may vary slightly in other countries. But, these days, perhaps, not much so.
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If the UK stops following the US then they will be a small fish in a big pond . We have a multipolar world coming and there are a lot of moving pieces in play both economically and militarily . The media controls the “narrative” but awareness is growing of its (and the governments) perfidy. We would not lose much by sending all western politicians to the Russian front….
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OG,
Yes, I think you’re right.
If I may seek a minor improvement: –
” We would not lose the fifteenth root of damn-all by sending all western politicians to the Russian front….”
And I’d chip in towards flip-flops for them to walk there.
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Perfidy? Aye indeed… that’s what politics is all about.
As for flip-flops! well my old wellies cut up for upcycling, then OK. Personally I wouldn’t grudge putting SKATES under them to get there QUICKER.
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“sending all western politicians to the Russian front….” I’m glad I have someone with, or expressing, my own sentiment “Great Minds Think Alike” but if you continue with the Idiom,…. Oh heck, what did I say!
and now in the background is the TV film ‘ I, Robot ‘ .. . all this after Tea-break reading
People of the world should wake up.
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Cinders leaves the NZ Army in a mess so they need to turn to Big Brother.
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It would be really nice to think the average young person is getting over this idea of going off to get killed for a bunch of weirdos who sit at home in the comfort of Parliament.
Gone are the days when the ‘leaders’ led from the front! None of them are worth getting killed for now.
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The banners of the second American civil war have been chosen.*
https://i0.wp.com/mustreadalaska.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/white-house-pride-flag.jpg?fit=1402%2C834&ssl=1
(Let’s face it, they added the American flags reluctantly.)
The FBI has already officially stated that certain traditional symbols of ‘patriotism’, are potential signs of extremism.
As is Catholic mass in Latin.
The fundamental issues of State versus Federal control are not much different.
Should all states be forced to allow and tax for the mutil-@tion of children without approval, or even knowledge, of the parents..
(Actually the current Federals are more interested in Global mandates.)
Not sure why the taxpayer should help build a railway across Africa … or an “ocean”.
Reparations?
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-biden-announces-plan-to-build-massive-railway-across-an-ocean/
But it is interesting that if the Federals win the second civil war, they will likely ban the banner that they fought under in the last one.
*(Seems like many other Western countries would replace their national flags with the new flag if they get the chance.)
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Just want to add …
in my neighborhood the divide is unmistakable.
Rainbow flag house.
American flag house.
I’ve counted, even in my very Blue area, there are a goodly, near equal, number of Stars and Stripes banners still visible in the dawn’s early light.
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I think when the Second American Revolution comes the patriots will be flying the Stars and Stripes plus the Gadsen flag as a supplemental symbol.
The enemy forces will continue to fly non-American flags such as the rainbow flag and perhaps the UN flag and WEF flag.
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Pierre Kory’s book “The War On Ivermectin” is on amazon for $37, plus postage. Kindle it’s $22. He just had a 2 hr discussion with Bret Weinstein, looking mainly at the total capture and corruption of the system. Kory is now concentrating on long covid, saying IVM is probably effective in 70% of cases.
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Surprisingly, I bought the e-book on Apple Books for $22. It’s a bit wordy in the initial chapters and he gets bogged down in detail a bit too much. His early intervention into COVID treatment, particularly use of steroids/ IV Vit C, was quite remarkable. Makes me wonder when I have seen the COVID death statistics for Australia over the last 2 years. Are the people being treated properly or are our hospitals just following out-dated protocols? My suspicion is they are following inflexible protocols.
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My son in law just got “laid off” (fired) for being a cis white male. He found out that the co he worked for, a federal gov contractor, gets more for staff who meet some kind of “minority” status. His manager actually told him it would have been a benefit if he had a doctor’s note indicating he was autistic.
This is Canada.
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I have a friend who worked for the Australian Federal Government. He and others were offered early retirement packages and they decided to take them because they realised white, heterosexual males were not wanted and had no chance of promotion. His department was even told they were aiming for a staff mix of 40% male, 40% female and 20% “others”.
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David,
If not too late get him to check his (Govt) superannuation. If it offers a pension which increases with age, then he might be able to put some of his package back into it and collect later.
i.e. if he’s 50-53 and the pension increases at age 55, then putting some in now would increase future income. Again possibly at 60.
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Hi Graeme, he put it all together as a fully indexed pension for life starting immediately, which can only be done in the public service.
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Splendid! Obviously someone awake (not Woke) now missing from the public service.
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Fran,
He has dodged a bullet . I would bet he will be in a more secure job soon . If you have to deal with all the victimhood craziness then your company is in big trouble . Someone will actually have to actually do the job instead of virtue signalling.
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“Intellectual Froglegs Transmission – It Doesn’t Suck in MAGADONIA
June 18, 2023 | Sundance | 12 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/18/intellectual-froglegs-transmission-it-doesnt-suck-in-magadonia/#more-247887
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While politicians and commentators are intensely focused on “Pride Month”, politicians and their supporters should be ashamed that Australians are going cold this winter because of engineered energy starvation.
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No! They wouldn’t! Surely not.. If we can’t trust the “Believe us only” Health bureaurats, who can we trust?
“Officials tried to change cancer study to avoid ‘alarm’
Health bureaucrats asked researchers to remove references about elevated rates of cancer causing concern even as the government was defending class actions over “forever” chemicals.”
SMH this morning.. Paywalled unfortunately.
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“Norway”
“…has executed a near flawless energy policy. It produces more than 90% of its electricity from carbon-free hydropower, with the balance coming from other renewable resources like wind. The country’s nearly 1,700 hydroelectric dams are buttressed by approximately 1,000 water reservoirs that collectively represent a backup power supply equivalent to 70% of its annual consumption. ”
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/18/drill-baby-drill-3/#comments
A bit of a problem for other places without those geological and other resources to mimic?
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Well.. do you want democracy under white people, or tribal rule under stone-age natives?
“Kampala, Uganda: Suspected rebels attacked a school in a remote area of Uganda near the Congo border, killing at least 41 people in a nighttime raid before fleeing across the porous frontier, authorities said. Some students were burned beyond recognition, and others were shot or hacked to death after militants armed with guns and machetes attacked the school in the frontier district of Kasese.”
Lets hear your Voice.
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Candace Owens and Michael Knowles have been temporarily? banned on YouTube supposedly for comments incompatible with the trans agenda.
But Tim Pool sees it as a wider attack against Candace and other members of the Daily Wire, who have 157 million views per week, in preparation for silencing conservative voices completely in the lead up to the US Presidential election.
The social(ist) media are at war against US democracy and freedom of speech (and in other Western countries as well).
See video:
https://youtu.be/s0WFlnG9s8k
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Twitter/Rumble/Substack/blogs/podcasts would appear to be fighting a good battle in terms of freedom of speech and the publication of alternate views. May be a bit early to declare the alternate sources are winning, compared to MSM and Facebook/Youtube, but there are signs. Podcasts would seem to be a really popular alternate at the moment, especially the long form type podcasts. Every time Joe Rogan has a “controversial” guest on his show the reaction is quite substantial on social media. But, as with all the controversial subjects there’s no reporting in MSM in particular. Those alternate commentators on Youtube that get banned are usually very hateful towards that platform. I am assuming the monetary return for Youtube must be better than others. For a lot of people who are now censored, that is part of their everyday income.
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“Twenty-four reasons why Net Zero must be abandoned”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/twenty-four-reasons-why-net-zero-must-be-abandoned/
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Thanks. However a slight adjustment is needed to #6.
6. The volume of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 420 parts per million, 0.04 per cent. Of this the whole of mankind’s amount from fossil fuel burning is one hundredth of 1 per cent 0.01%
No! It’s far lower than that. Fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere is 3% of 0.042% or 0.001%. This was established categorically in 1958 as 2.03%+/-0.15%. Now after 65 years of explosive growth in CO2 output it is 3.0%. Nothing which has happened since CO2 measurements began has had any impact at all on CO2. Not WW1, WW2, Atom bombs, bushfires, volcanoes. So what is the problem? If CO2 warms the planet there is nothing we can do with Nett Zero nonsense.
And I can add
25. CO2 levels in the atmosphere are completely beyond human control or interference. They are set by Henry’s Law which dictates the vapour pressure of a dissolved gas and 98% of all CO2 is dissolved in the great oceans which cover 72% of the planet to an average depth of 3.4Km.
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“When it comes to comedy, the real jokes are governments”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/when-it-comes-to-comedy-the-real
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Ah, yes… reality finally catches up with art. This was predicted years ago, but the Govt said ‘No, it will only be used in extreme hate speech incidents..’ and everyone ignored it.
Free speech in a democracy? hahaha.. As much chance as under Putin or Xi! Now I think I’ll look up some more of his comedy.
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On Saturday the topic was electric aircraft and battery powered self-launching gliders were mentioned.
Well it seems that is not such a good idea, a NZ pilot died when the battery caught fire.
https://youtu.be/kHCJajRSOUc?t=98
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Minus 6.4 in Richmond Sydney this morning.
Queue the record heatwave predictions for the summer!
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