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The ongoing political saga in the US reminds one of the Philippines or Pakistan.
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Correction Ronin
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Only with larger portions and fattier.
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Mayon or Chandragup, perhaps?
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Christian Church Replaces Pastor with AI Chatbot, Hundreds Gather
Hundreds have gathered at a Christian church after the pastor was replaced with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for the service.
The Friday sermon at St. Paul’s Church in Fürth, Germany, was delivered by the AI chatbot ChatGPT.
The chatbot replaced the human pastor and was presented as a black man with a beard on a large screen above the altar of the evangelical church in Bavaria.
Claiming to be a steward of God, the AI chatbot told the packed congregation not to fear death, according to the Associated Press.
“Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany,” the AI avatar said.
The service, which was attended by more than 300 people, lasted 40 minutes and featured prayers and music in addition to the sermon.
https://slaynews.com/news/christian-church-replaces-pastor-ai-chatbot-hundreds-gather/
And the Lord Klaus speaketh to his flock of sheeple, saying:
“Those heathens from the world of coal and oil shall not enter the virtual kingdom of Harari.
Repent ye oil sinners, and embrace solar and wind, but only on sunny and windy days.
Forty days and forty nights of heathen caused climate change shall be your fate (date tba as we have to rig the numbers).
Greta shall now pass around the holy recycled water and crickets.”
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From the headline, I fully expected that this post would have a link to Babylon Bee.
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As it is headlines in the MSM this week the Bee probably ran it a couple of weeks ago
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Poll Suggests Quarter Of Population Believes Covid Was A Hoax
Almost a quarter of the UK population believes that Covid-19 was probably or definitely a hoax, according to a new poll.
Around one third of the population believes that the cost of living crisis is a government plot to control the public.
Similar numbers believe that 15-minute cities are a government plot to monitor everyone and that the great replacement theory is an agenda to replace white people with minorities.
According to The Guardian:
The findings, on the eve of the first evidence session of the UK’s public inquiry into the pandemic, which killed more than 227,000 people in the UK, come from an April survey by Savanta for King’s College London (KCL) and the BBC.
It found beliefs were shared through social media – most commonly YouTube and Facebook – and fuelled by websites including 21st Century Wire, The Light, The Exposé and Breitbart, the last of which was run by Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon.
One in seven people – about 6 million adults – believe violence is a fair response to some alleged conspiracies.
The general public underestimates the number of conspiracy theorists by approximately 4 million adults, according to the researchers who uncovered what they described as “shocking” attitudes.
https://richieallen.co.uk/poll-suggests-quarter-of-population-believes-covid-was-a-hoax/
25% down, 75% to go.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that most have been proven true and we need new ones.😁
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A multi-government program to cause harm on an unprecedented scale, and to deceive, control and defraud. Calling it merely a hoax seems inadequate.
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“The best thing about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis.”
– A blogger (during the Covid-19 epidemic)
(Sorry, I didn’t record the blogger’s name/id)
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Or anything else of the expanding list
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Vaccinate to Vacate the Planet?
The World Health Organization (WHO) created a program way back in 1972 to “get rid of large numbers of people” through vaccination. Through their Task Force on Fertility Control, they investigated both male and female infertility vaccines.
They ultimately perfected female sterility vaccines containing both adjuvants (immune system irritants) and a female hormone necessary for human pregnancies to carry to term (Human chorionic gonadatrophin, HCG). Injected into the body, women produce antibodies to HCG so they destroy that essential hormones during every subsequent pregnancy.
These vaccines were, according to the Philippine High Court, used by WHO to involuntarily sterilize more than 3 million women there. No one knows the real number.
Similar programs in 1985 under the guise of Smallpox vaccination for disease eradication were designed, according to WHO’s documents, to “eliminate 150 million excess sub-Saharan Africans”.
Pregnant woman who receive this vaccine promptly abort the baby they are carrying and are then sterile for the rest of their lives as the formerly pregnant women of the Hill Tribes in Thailand have discovered.
Apparently, the WHO task forces also discovered a 3-vaccine protocol which would be directly lethal, not merely generationally genocidal.
Was this the protocol referred to earlier this year when President Obama announced that Americans would be required to take 3 shots in the fall of 2009, 2 Swine Flu shots and 1 for Seasonal Flu? Is your faith in the government strong enough to find out with your body, your children’s bodies and the bodies of those you love?
Mine is not. Let me be quite clear: I distrust a government which permits dangerous, untested, uninsurable toxic vaccines and then urges them upon an entire population in a cover up of epic proportions.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/vaccinate-to-vacate-the-planet
3 shots…
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Looking at the population evolution in Africa it appears the program didnt work.
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Want to compromise brain activity? Just add SARS-CoV-2 spike!
Glia-glia, neuron-neuron and neuron-glia fusion to compromise neuronal activity
This latest paper published in Science Advances on June 7, 2023 entitled: “SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity”,1 confirms some disturbing theories as to why we have been witnessing neurological impairment and damages since SARS-CoV-2 was introduced to the public. It also begs some extremely disturbing questions as to why the injection-associated spike may also be causing neurological adverse events that are being excessively reported in all pharmacovigilance databases all over the world. Could it be due to the same mechanism.
I leave you with the results from a query of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease and Multiple sclerosis reports from VAERS for the past 12 years. The last 2 years (2021-2022) only include reports from the COVID injections while the first 10 years (2011-2020) include reports from all vaccines combined. I omitted 2023 since we’re only half-way through. There are more than twice as many reports made for the COVID products alone, per 100,000 shots, when compared to the past 10 years of adverse event reports for all vaccines combined.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/want-to-compromise-brain-activity
The old vaxx is appearing remarkably advanced in its effects, significantly beyond intended effects and known side effects.
Hint.😎
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I found Dr Kevin McCairn PhD on Youtube shortly after covid broke and he was talking about the potential for its association with Parkinsons et al, all to do with protein folding in the brain.
He’s a neuro brain guy who researched on monkey brains a lot so he knows his stuff – only interested in real science not the political version – and he noticed some similarities with covid victims and this protein folding. I know nothing of science so that’s all I know. But I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere else.
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Lawmakers begin first ‘classified’ meetings on government-controlled AI
A group of bipartisan senators led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Tuesday announced a series of three closed-door briefings on AI for senators this summer, the first such briefings on artificial intelligence.
Experts and tech industry leaders have been issuing dire warnings about the dangers of AI, whose awesome power they say threatens human existence. To guarantee humanity’s safety, they propose entrusting that power to globalist governments, which critics say may be no less dangerous.
Sen. Schumer, one of Capitol Hill’s leading globalist lawmakers, is the top recipient of political campaign contributions paid out by BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm. Schumer is frequently the most vocal proponent and enforcer of BlackRock’s globalist ideals, such as environmental, social and governance (ESG).
For months, the New York senator has been pushing for the government to assume control of AI technology.
“Congress must move quickly. Many AI experts have pointed out that the government must have a role in how this technology enters our lives. Even leaders of the industry say they welcome regulation,” Schumer said on the Senate floor last month. “So if we are to fulfill our role properly, our approach to AI must be fast-moving. We can’t move so fast that we do flawed legislation, but there’s no time for waste or delay or sitting back.”
Now Schumer, along with Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Senator Todd Young (R-IN), are inviting their fellow senators to attend three secret meetings on AI this summer. The first briefing will be titled “Where is AI today?” and will provide an overview of AI and its applications. The second briefing, titled, “What is the frontier of AI and how do we maintain American leadership?” will discuss the future of the technology. The third briefing, “How do the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community use AI today and what do we know about how our adversaries are using AI?” will focus on how the US government and other countries are using AI.
Legislation introduced last month in the Senate also aims to bring artificial intelligence under government control.
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-leads-bipartisan-dear-colleague-letter_with-senators-rounds-heinrich-and-young–announcing-three-bipartisan-senators-only-briefings-this-summer-including-first-ever-classified-all-senators-ai-briefing
Bring fake-AI under gubermint control eh…
More likely that “missing” $22 TRILLION spent on black budget projects has produced some concerning creations..
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Jeffrey Epstein island partial client list revealed.
Not a word on the Lamestream media.
https://youtu.be/GzgwZtT2Mao
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Good one David.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this … Tucker Carlson’s 3rd Twitter post from yesterday.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6LqPvzavU3k9/
I found it quite the powerful statement.
He will really draw fire now.
Seems like a very big can of smelly is being opened.
Don’t think the Overlords are gonna take this well.
My guess is the censorship carpet bombing campaign is about to seriously ramp up.
We best stock up on good nutritious ‘misinformation’ while we still can.
Figuring they will ultimately hold on to power the old fashioned way … with tanks.
Gold is for the Mistress
Silver for the Maid
Copper for the smithy, cunning at his trade
but says the Billionaire sitting on his private island (with his Intelligence community colluders)*
Iron
Cold Iron
is Master of them all
*(Not clear on who’s working for who)
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Excellent video Honk.
Thanks for posting.
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A reminder of someone’s past – 644 pages of it
https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/report_viewer/index.html#p=1
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/14/report-on-the-biden-laptop/
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Leftists like Peter Fitzroy have equality and equity as their core values. Though they fail to realise that cars and fuel – which they hate and want banned – ARE the great equaliser. Nothing offers more to equality stakes than cars and fuel (and cheap electricity).
I’ve been poor all my life – genuinely so, I never made it above student level wealth – but the fact I can have a car and get about quite cheaply equalises my life to be similar to Albo’s – if I do away with the want of 10 investment properties and frequent overseas trips, which is fine by me, overseas travel is grossly overvalued. If you are stuck without mobility and poor – which I have been – life takes a very depressing turn to the downside.
My youthful years spent pursuing leftist politics taught me one thing and taught it well – those sprouting equality and justice are the worst for the poor, their eternal enemy in fact.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/27/business/mercedes-horsepower-upgrade/index.html
You can make your Mercedes EV go faster for $60 a month
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business
Updated 9:26 PM EDT, Thu April 27, 2023
CNN
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Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle owners in North America who want a little more power and speed can now buy 60 horsepower for just $60 a month or, on other models, 80 horsepower for $90 a month.
They won’t have to visit a Mercedes dealer to get the upgrade either, or even leave their own driveway. The added power, which will provide a nearly one second decrease in zero-to-60 acceleration, will be available through an over-the-air software patch.
Buyers can bypass the monthly subscription completely however, and opt for an annual subscription payment or simply pay a one-time flat fee. For instance, a buyer could take an all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz EQE 350 sedan from its standard 288 horsepower to 348 permanently for $1,950.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Already has quicker acceleration than most cars anyway, so pretty useless really. How much for 200klms extra range?
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Makes me laugh this new found obsession with off the line speed of EVs, as a justification for electric motors. Arty lefty types have been telling me for years that cars and power is just a childish infatuation. But now, it’s a serious asset.
Furthermore, if you want cheap thrills, just buy any litre motorcycle of 30 years age up and the acceleration will still beat your EV Mercedes for a fraction of the price.
I also once bought a V8 Falcon ute for $11,000 and it gave me 8 years of solid high kilometer powerful trouble free motoring. That’s pretty cheap per year. Beat that EV. And I still miss that thing.
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The latest high end EVs would make it look like your falcon was falling off a cliff backwards. 0-60 low/mid 2s.
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If only Philip had included the comma:
How ARE EVs at towing boats, say? Come to that, how are they at anything other than one or two runs at a quarter mile?
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They teach patience (encourage meditation??) at the charging station when you are number seven and your battery is too flat to go elsewhere…..
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Heh. Zen and the Art of Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Let me know when an EV wins the Bathurst 1000. 😉
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I agree Philip.
Leftists usually use the slur (as they see it) that drivers of powerful gasoline cars are “immature, white, conservative, heterosexual males” and usually add that they must have “small penises”.
Then they go on to celebrate how powerful and fast EVs are.
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Its the one trick pony syndrome. Its the one thing the do well so it will be talked about ad nauseum rather than say there laptimes around the Nurburgring or tales of touring endlessly and without care in the outback or how cheap they are or how terribly convenient they are for long road trips.
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Meanwhile record heat accumulates over the Australian continent with some areas reading up to 7C above average for the first half of June. No clouds may help in this heat. El Niño firming and the horror clowns are busy writing their script ready for msm bulletins.
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Could you send some our way please? its a touch soggy at the moment and any more rain is likely to head us back into low level flooding. Not to mention the geniuses managing the local very large dam have it run up to 97% (there’s that number again) at the beginning of the winter/spring season. El Nino better be coming or people will be getting wet again.
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yarpos:
Yesterday (Tuesday) was WET in Adelaide Hills. Very Heavy showers, as heavy as the 2 downpours in Sydney in the late 1980’s – my memory say both in October – and it took me 2 hours 20 minutes to get home when it normally took 20-25 minutes in peak hour. At least I got home as many were stuck with cars stalled on main roads.
And it will be heading to the East today (even the BOM knows that).
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
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The dam at 97% is a real worry at this time of the year. DD reported 85mm of rain locally a few days ago and said the ground is already very soggy.
Here in England it has been warm and humid, up to 30C. It is summer after all! People infest airports, boats and trains to get to heat in Spain, Italy and the south of France. We certainly experienced hot stormy weather at this time of the year in France in past years. Nothing new. I don’t understand how people allow themselves to be panicked about the weather so easily.
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‘ … record heat accumulates over the Australian continent …’
Link?
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You asking for a link, nearly choked on my dinner.
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Its brass monkey time for me.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/record-warm-start-to-winter-for-parts-of-australia/1329147
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Looks like the oceans are boiling. Hansen might be right,eh?0
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According to our colleague Rick Will the oceans cannot boil, Hansen is an idjit.
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Slight warmer in winter… How awful is that! 🙂
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At 2deg to 7deg today with a wind chill as well, I fail to see any heating of my part of Australia. Certainly aflatoxin is no problem!
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Weatherzone
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The boy meteorologist Ben.
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No record heat for SW Western Australia…
Local BOM station will set a new June lowest maximum reading
Down 1 to 2 degrees on both min and max
And almost up to June average rainfall in the first half
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We had below temps last month over East. Looking at surface charts all is revealed and accounted for. Relatively poor snow possible this season after beauties for the past few. Climate change is anything you want it to be.
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Add this to the list of all the things being blamed on “climate change”.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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…continued:
Aflatoxin, a toxin produced by the Aspergillus fungus, is a well-established cause of liver cancer. Warming temperatures around the globe are encouraging Aspergillus and many other deadly types of fungi to spread.
Queensland University of Technology researchers argue in a paper published earlier this year that aflatoxin could explain the much higher risk levels for liver cancer in Australia’s warm, humid north compared with cooler regions.
“As you get warming, as you get higher humidity, the peanut mould that produces the aflatoxin is going to be more abundant. No question. And aflatoxin is really bad news,” said Professor George Yeoh, who heads a liver cancer research lab at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and was not involved in the research. “They have a point.”
What makes the liver cancer story particularly striking is that it is an outlier. Rates of other cancers are growing slowly or even going backwards.
And the growth comes in the face of serious efforts to stamp it out. A vaccine for hepatitis B, one of the major causes of liver cancer, was introduced for children in 2000, and coverage rates are close to 97 per cent.
Plotted on a map, the difference is stark. Australia’s tropical north has a relatively higher risk of liver cancer than other regions.
“Aflatoxin-producing fungi are abundant in hot and humid regions, especially northern Australia. And we find liver cancer risk is higher in northern Australia,” said co-author Ting Gan.
Aflatoxin, which is mainly produced by the Aspergillus mould and often found in peanut and corn crops, causes mutations in liver cells, leading to cancer, Yeoh said.
The mould thrives in warmer temperatures and under heat stress and drought. Modelling suggests the climate crisis will substantially increase its range. And there is some evidence globally linking hot, humid environments to higher liver cancer rates.
“It’s certainly possible,” said Dr Kwang Yee, a University of Tasmania researcher who has published studies on liver cancer epidemiology. “There are a lot of unexplained factors. Certainly, there are questions of whether it’s related to an environmental toxin.”
However, independent scientists were cautious about a firm link, as other risk factors are also at play.
Aflatoxin levels are regulated in Australia, with food and crops regularly tested.
And programs to cut the incidence of hepatitis, such as the vaccination rollout, may take decades to significantly lower cancer rates.
What else but AGW could be to blame? 😉
Interesting – I’ve just finished watching “The last of us” where Cordyceps infects humans. A good watch for those interested.
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Incidences of HepC have contributed to the higher rate due to the chooks coming home to roost on needle use – or sharing of implement.
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These people also vote…
SEE LINK FOR REST
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There seems to be a lot of mental illness afoot of the planet these days.
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It appears to be true as many of our present generation have been indoctrinated to the point that all sense of individuality has been erased. Courtesy of our resilient and inclusive school system.
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Johns Hopkins University Says A Woman Is A ‘Non-Man’ In New Glossary
Johns Hopkins University has referred to a woman as a “non-man” in the school’s new LGBTQ glossary, prompting backlash from critics.
The prestigious Baltimore research university’s LGBTQ glossary defined a lesbian as “a non-man attracted to non-men.”
“While past definitions refer to ‘lesbian’ as a woman who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to other women, this updated definition includes non-binary people who may also identify with the label,” the definition adds.
The entire glossary has since been taken down, pending review.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/06/johns-hopkins-university-says-woman-is.html
What is a woman? A non-man…😆
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Took Mrs Y an hour or two to calm down after reading this. We appear to be reaching peak woman erasure.
I wondered why non binary-ism only travels in one direction and the gay man definition wasn’t adjusted in a similar manner. Oh well , it’s best not to try and draw any sense from it all, it will just make you crazy.
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“What is a woman? A non-man…”
… then obviously a man, is a “non-woman”.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-doubles-2022-income-book-capitalism-socialism-2023-5
Bernie Sanders doubled his income last year by writing a best-selling book that condemns capitalism
Bryan Metzger May 12, 2023, 11:01 AM ET
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If I had a dollar for every Bernie Sanders “give me your money” meme I’ve seen, I’d have more money than him. 😆
Oh hang on, I do!😎
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Sounds like another book based on that model volume for “How to books” –
“How to do it and not get it” written by “One who did it, got it and can’t get rid of it”
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Australia Completes Its First Foreign Exchange Transaction Using CBDC
Right now, Australia is the test bed for fielding CBDCs to a national population. Their pilot programs are set to finish this summer and international transactions have been accomplished using the newly-invented “eAUD” currency. Now, of course they haven’t yet revealed a schedule to introduce the eAUD to foreign exchange markets or even to Australian citizens. The point is, the system exists, and can be copied and pasted by any other nation.
Australia makes history as it completes its first foreign exchange transaction with eAUD.
In a groundbreaking moment for Australia, the country’s first-ever foreign exchange (FX) operation using eAUD, a contender for the national digital currency, has been carried out.
The occasion signifies a significant stride in the ongoing trial for the potential central bank digital currency (CBDC) as an international curiosity in such state-sanctioned digital currencies heats up.
This striking achievement was announced on May 17th by blockchain infrastructure firm, Canvas, which facilitated the transaction between crypto fund managers DigitalX and TAF Capital.
The trade, involving the exchange of eAUD and the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), took place in an instant, showcasing a huge step forward compared to the traditional FX systems, known for being slow, expensive, and error-prone.
The transaction happened on a decentralized app hosted on Canvas’s “Connect,” an Ethereum Layer-2 platform that utilizes StarkWare’s zero-knowledge (ZK) roll-up technology.
https://www.bitdegree.org/crypto/news/australia-completes-its-first-foreign-exchange-transaction-using-cbdc
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Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America, however this is about to change. See how they garner votes at the UN for their one-China principle.
‘China greatly appreciates Honduras’ firm commitment to the one-China principle, and is willing to work with Honduras to enhance pragmatic cooperation, tap the potential of bilateral trade and actively conduct people-to-people and cultural exchanges …’ (China Daily)
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With a development friend like China, who needs enemies.
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It appears that 48% of Hondurans live in poverty, its a failed state. China has the ability to lift Honduras out of the mire, capitalism with a human face.
‘The country faces formidable challenges, including weak institutions, endemic corruption, pervasive poverty, food insecurity, high rates of violence including gender-based violence, impunity, citizen insecurity, shrinking space for civil society, lack of respect for human rights, inequitable access to economic opportunities and social services, extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.’ (American Dept of State)
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was that Honduras or Chicago?
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Did Honduras note the recent conflagration of nations China met with who owned China money….. China wanted its money back, never mind some nations were pretty much bankrupt….. now it’s capturing Honduras !!
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Along the new silk road there have been problems with corrupt locals who haven’t paid their bills, but apart from that its good.
Honduras is an ally of the US, however they have done nought to help the country, preferring to leave it to the free market, so there is a steady stream of refugees trying to get into the US.
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“‘The country faces formidable challenges, including weak institutions, endemic corruption, pervasive poverty, food insecurity, high rates of violence including gender-based violence, impunity, citizen insecurity, shrinking space for civil society, lack of respect for human rights, inequitable access to economic opportunities and social services, extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.’ (American Dept of State)”
Sounds like America did a ‘regime change there.. Oh, wait, it was a ‘colour revolution’!
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Things Ukraine
Posted by Ukraine
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8bf6bc8-d8ad-4655-bd37-0ee1817d1088_598x914.jpeg
Then the reply signalling a change in the pelt market
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffd5f496a-5895-4287-a4ce-9b1ece3c82b1_591x960.jpeg
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And on a completely different note –
I want one of these for Christmas.
https://au.fliteboard.com
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Excellent short primer for newbies on the futility of wind and solar – five minutes.
H/t NFA at FreedomForums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqppRC37OgI&t=323s
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To all, this is my insider news for you. It will happen.
Watch for bushfires caused by transmission lines to increase and “climate change” to be blamed.
I will keep the terminolgy simple (non-industry).
Ok. It is planned to add an extra 10,000-28,000km of transmission lines to connect “renewables” to the grid (Australia).
Understand that the bushfires caused by those transmission lines will substantially increase, both in size and number.
High voltage lines can arc to the ground. That is why there are easements along the length of the transmission line.
(Also note, there are restrictions in the height of a vehicle (or equipment) that can safely operate under them.)
Why?.. It is to keep a safe ground clearance to prevent a flashover/arc.
Ok…What is extremely important for all to know, is that smoke can act as a conductor.
In my experience (NSW), a major bushfire can result in transmission line arcing/flashovers, up to 30-40km away from said bushfire .
Why? That bushfire will billow huge volumes of smoke downstream, with the transmission lines possibly arcing in that path, causing further fires.
It can become a domino effect.
It can overwhelm the limited capacity of the fire services to contain.
Sadly, I am a witness to it.
So further lives, property, fauna and flora, will be at a higher risk or possibly destroyed.
Those subsequent fires and the potential hundreds of thousands of hectares lost, are not caused by “climate change”.
Yet the government and energy suppliers will use that patsy to blame for the resulting fiasco and their incompetence.
It seems that “Climate change” is the ultimate patsy to abrogate responsibility or potential culpabilty.
Throughout my career, I have seen the above, time and time again.
I am just so tired of it.
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Where the throw-out-switch handle on these towers William?
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We got electricity when a high tension line was put in near us. A transformer was installed. To activate the system, an “electrician” climbed a wooden ladder to shove in one foot drop fuses between the line and the transformer. They were made from bamboo with a cable running inside. He shoved in the first one and slithered down the ladder into a heap. After a few minutes he mumbled “werry luckie men”. The remaining fuses were put in with a pole.
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The UFO yarns are in full throttle and it now seems the US has been reverse engineering for years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12177943/Marine-vet-breaks-14-year-silence-make-astonishing-claim-six-man-unit-saw-UFO.html
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FWIW
“The Missing Source of the Virus Was a Man”
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2023/06/13/the-missing-source-of-the-virus-was-a-man-n1703094
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US windspeed falters in May.
‘During May 2023 U.S. wind power generation was below normal on both zonal and meridional directional scales. Wind power generation areas across the Upper Midwest/Midwest U.S. and southwest Great Plains/Western Texas were each affected by the lighter than normal wind speed regimes.’ (Climate Impact Company)
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Why Trump is innocent.
From about 51 mins.
https://rumble.com/v2tkpjq-ep.-164-trumps-federal-indictment-and-other-law-stuffs…-viva-and-barnes-l.html
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Another for the “Don’t give them ideas” file
“15-Year-Old Sues Montana Because State Has Too Many Trees”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/15-year-old-sues-montana-because-state-has-too-many-trees/
Or OTOH maybe a way around the vegetation management laws
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The IRS Allows Eco-Terrorists to Crowdsource Harassment of Senators
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-irs-allows-eco-terrorists-to-crowdsource-harassment-of-senators/
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RFK Jnr has a podcast and was interviewing Matt Taibbi, formerly from “Rolling Stone”, latterly from “The Twitter Files”. Towards the end he asks “What happened to journalism?”
Journalism is the key to democracy. If it is bad, then society slowly rots. That is what is happening in so much of our society.
Btw, I haven’t heard from the media of the impact of the Victorian State Budget on Dan’s media megaoffice ? Did it have cutbacks like the Health Department and Housing?
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I notice in Australia they are trying to hype up fear against influenza.
Because we are now a nation of scared, cowering fearful, brainwashed, sheepish people.
I have no problem with the flu vax or any other properly tested vax. I always get one myself.
But I think the fear campaign is about prepping people for the upcoming mRNA vax. That, I would be opposed to unless it was properly tested and they have sorted out the intrinsic problems of the technology.
https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/what_does_mrna_mean_for_the_flu_vaccine
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“Because we are now a nation of scared, cowering fearful, brainwashed, sheepish people.”
Just a few months ago I would have said this was a bit of hyperbole, but more recently we keep hearing and seeing things that indicate that a good chunk of the population is exactly as described. This week my wife was with her mother in a Drs waiting room when a couple arrived and the woman shrieked at the husband to don a mask immediately (not required at that practice) and berate the receptionists for not having all the windows open (apparently talismans against infection in her mind) She was advised to wait outside if conditions were unacceptable. We bump into this sort of thing, or people lauding Dan for “keeping them safe” on a weekly basis.
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Another crop of cherries
“Anomalous Oceanic Anomalies”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/14/anomalous-anomalies/
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This is important! Take a look.
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FWIW
“Trump’s Boxes And Clinton’s Sock Drawer”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-boxes-and-clintons-sock-drawer
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And if you’ve seen tv footage of all those documents –
“Newsmax Host Takes to Live TV to Show How Seized Trump Classified Docs Fit Into One Box: ‘Something Isn’t Adding Up’ ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/newsmax-host-takes-live-tv-show-seized-trump/
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China just posted this with Command & Conquer Red Alert theme music
The video was published by the Chinese Embassy in France.
https://twitter.com/markmaycot/status/1669063329757667346
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https://twitter.com/songpinganq/status/1669093719725998080
China built 44.2% of the world’s merchant fleet last year.
China has 13 naval shipyards, with one of these facilities having more capacity than all seven US naval shipyards combined.
“So what is Australia doing?”
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China 1 Billion + people, US 300 million + people, Australia 25 million people
China GDP 12 trllion USD, US GDP 19 trillion USD , Australia 1.3 trillion USD
What exactly would you be expecting Australia to be doing on the mega shipyard front?
The impressive players are actually the South Koreans, but it gets down to the basic guns and butter economic argument unless you really believe everyone should and can be doing everything.
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Oz is only a deputy sheriff in the US Alliance, beer and skittles for us.
Talking of China, the collapse of Evergrande is a sobering taste of free market forces.
‘Overdue debt, unpaid bills, and payments involved in lawsuits have piled up to nearly US$127 billion, the company revealed in a stock-exchange filing.
‘Evergrande is facing 1,426 unresolved lawsuits involving a total of 349.6 billion yuan as of April, according to the filing.’ (South China Morning Post)
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Sweden.
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Economists shocked by data.
‘The unemployment rate of 3.6 per cent is only just above the 48-year low of 3.4 per cent reached in October 2022.
‘More than 14 million Australians are in jobs, which is a record.
‘66.9 per cent of Australians aged over 15 are either in work or looking for it, also a record.’ (ABC)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVadmKcUsr4
One Big Evil Family: ⚕️Mainstream Media Is an Extension of Big Pharma
no placebo test
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WRT a question raised in a previous thread –
“Rock Bottom, or Resurfacing?
Britain’s exit from the E.U. is not another stage in its decline, but a necessary condition for Britain recovering its confidence on the world stage.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/rock-bottom-or-resurfacing/
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