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Having been asked to keep topics to the appropriate thread, I now feel obliged to do so.
Many years ago I was told of the origins of the names given to the days of the week and must now acknowledge Woden.
Thank you for this day Woden and all those Wodens past present and future.
Back in 1995 I was asked by a member of that sect in the Roman Catholic church which values scholarship, if I knew the history of the naming of the days.
Thankfully I did, and we had a bit of a conversation.
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Had to look it up memory needed prodding.
The bloke I talked with in 1995 was a Jesuit priest. He was married. Part of the extended Catholic church.
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I think its more a case of the Catholic Church being a wing of the Jesuit Church.
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In which language?
Lundi is still moon day.
Mardi is undoubtedly Mars day.
Mercredi looks like Mercury’s day
Jeudi at a stretch could be Jupiter’s day
I can’t recall the Friday and Saturday equivalents. But Sunday 63 years on was Dimanche, and I can’t remember who owned it.
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Couldn’t you just look it up instead of writing out loud the umming and ahhing in your head?
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Och GA, …. it’s just some entertainment especially for you. “We’re” glad you rose to the occasion. thanks for your comment a/s … i think is the correct addendum
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Of course you could, if you were not using it to measure the damage.
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I can’t remember those either.
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Isn’t googool great.
lundi. Monday.
mardi. Tuesday.
mercredi. Wednesday.
jeudi. Thursday.
vendredi. Friday.
samedi. Saturday.
dimanche. Sunday.
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And tomorrow is Thor’s Day or Thursday as it is now spelt. Go those Norse.
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I might have thought Thor and Woden were the same bloke.
I might have been wrong.
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Sun
Moon
Tues
Woden
Thor
Frij
Saturn
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Naaaaah. Friday is ‘Fry Day’ cos’ that’s when we had fish and chips when we all went to ‘Sarfend’ for the day. That’s pomgolian for Southend which is to the east of London along the Essex/Thames Estuary coast line. Don’t cha’ know.
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Friday is Poets day, isn’t it?
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For those who still go into the office, I get the impression that Poets’ Day is the one after Wednesday.
Even if that doesn’t quite work with POET WFH …
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In Hebrew it’s much easier, no need to invoke pagan dieties most people no longer believe in.
English Transliteration Hebrew Meaning
Sunday Yom Rishon יום ראשון First day
Monday Yom Shayni יום שני Second day
Tuesday Yom Shlishi יום שלישי Third day
Wednesday Yom Rivi’i יום רביעי Fourth day
Thursday Yom Hamishi יום חמישי Fifth day
Friday Yom Shishi יום שישי Sixth day
Saturday Yom Shabbat יום שבת Rest day.
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Odd ?
I am no religous scholar but,
I always thought Sunday was the “7th” day or “rest day”
Are you sure those Hedrew definitions are not a day out of wack ?
The certainly do not correlate with the general understanding of todays world !
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Seventh day Adventists may have an answer for you.
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Is anything they say worth listening to ?
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They have a special day of the week.
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The hot hot hot northern hemisphere summer is being hyped as we all know. Then an article about a damaged road by massive snow falls last winter just slides by.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/weather/topstories/epic-winter-to-blame-for-closure-of-famed-yosemite-roadway/ar-AA1e1xHr?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3c0776df057b4c10ad035f26343e5e19&ei=28
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Is “historic” green speak for genuine “unprecedented”?, or merely “seasonal”?
Cheers
Dave B
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It is a well known fact that the cold kills more people than the heat. Just look at the death records.
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The definition of “FACTS” according to the climate cult….disinformation.
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Disinformation exposed.
‘NOAA’s official source of weather-related deaths, a monthly publication called Storm Data, is heavily skewed toward heat-related deaths. Over the 30-year period 1988 – 2017, NOAA classified an average of 134 deaths per year as being heat-related, and just 30 per year as cold-related—a more than a factor of four difference.
‘According to a 2005 paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Heat Mortality Versus Cold Mortality: A Study of Conflicting Databases in the United States, Storm Data is often based on media reports, and tends to be biased towards media/public awareness of an event.’ (Wunderground)
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Dis Information? Sounds like De Nile which is a big river in Africa.
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ElG, that’ll be looking at things like people drowning in a lake after diving in because it was hot, or dying in the snow after getting drunk.
Completely different to excess mortality in the general population caused by the temperature change.
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The dossier that blows apart the Coutts claims about closing Nigel Farage’s account
When the wealth reputational risk committee at Coutts met on Nov 17 last year, its members were handed a dossier on Nigel Farage that ran to no fewer than 36 pages.
Used as justification for “exiting” Mr Farage as a customer, it included details of his friendships with Donald Trump and Novak Djokovic, the tennis champion, his opposition to net zero and his criticism of King Charles III.
The committee members were told that a personal banking triage team had “uncovered adverse press” about the former Ukip leader, including such apparent revelations as his preference for Britain to leave the Eu.
The dossier noted that “there is no evidence of regulator or legal censure of the client,” that he was unfailingly polite to staff and that he had recently been downgraded from a “higher risk politically exposed person [PEP]” to lower risk, and was on the way to being classed as no risk at all.
Closing his accounts was not justifiable on a monetary basis because “the client’s economic contribution is now sufficient to retain on a commercial basis”.
Nevertheless, after nearly a decade as a customer of Coutts, the bank decided that having Mr Farage as a client was no longer “compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation”, according to minutes of the meeting.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/coutts-records-undermine-claim-exiting-farage-not-political/
‘His publicly-stated views were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation’.
Inclusive of anyone believing in your narrow exclusive and excluding views of the world anyway..
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I like being ‘exclusive’. But I don’t have enough money to buy my own Bank. Oh dear. Can I be inclusive then even if I believe Climate Change is a load of BS?
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BBC is still being cagey, re-reporting original account limit claim and saying that they can’t confirm Nigel’s claims as they haven’t seen the docs. You’d think BBC Verify would be hot on it asking for a copy!
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BBC Verify has a strict story to stick to.
Anything that – might possibly – cast doubt on the Blob, WEF, BBC hierarchy, Glorious Leader Xi, etc. is – plainly, by their definition – misinformation, and very likely ray-sist, Secks-Syst, Tranz-FFobik, Abel-yst and almost certainly of egregious colonial patriarchal error.
And that’s only for the weather ….
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Electric vehicle targets are just pie in the sky
RECENTLY I received this leaflet from West Sussex county council about a proposal to install six charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) in the road where I live, and inviting my comments. This is what I replied.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/electric-vehicle-targets-are-just-pie-in-the-sky/
No answers yet. No surprise there.
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LOL. They are most probably trying to work out what your Qualifications are. Then when they realise this, they will still have NFI.
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Spooky, greetings neighbour.
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CNN Begins Conditioning Americans To Accept Lab-Grown ‘Chicken’ as Meat Scheduled for Phase-out
CNN have begun a new propaganda campaign this week, attempting to condition Americans into accepting fake meat. Covering the FDA’s recent approval for the Frankenstein food, the broadcaster made the wholly unsubstantiated claim that “Americans are ‘preparing to taste’ the lab-grown meat”.
CNN that receives millions of dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Covered the FDA’s recent approval for faux meat companies; UPSIDE Foods and Good Meat to publicly market “cultivated chicken,”
“Rather than raising whole chickens, pigs, or cows, we grow only the meat we want to eat—directly from real animal cells,” the company explains on their website, adding, “At scale, it will be a more humane and future-friendly way to grow high-quality food for meat lovers everywhere.”
https://www.visionnews.online/post/cnn-begins-conditioning-americans-to-accept-lab-grown-chicken-as-meat-scheduled-for-phase-out
They can grow meat as fast as cancer grows because…
And of course a deliberate inflationary trend just makes it so much easier to force the poor masses to exit proper meat.
You can’t afford it so you don’t buy it.
That culls a lot of the farms.
The remainder have to push their prices up to survive, further reducing their sales and viability.
Enter the alternatives as per the plan.
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UK Ch4 is running what is probably a lab meat advert, next Monday I think.
https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/greg-wallace-lab-grown-meat-programme.393693/
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The polio vaccine and SV40
https://rumble.com/v2zu6y8-polio-vaccine-and-sv40.html
Interesting, considering…
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Thanks John,
Impressive speaker. Do you have a link to her complete presentation? Thanks, in hope.
Cheers
Dave B
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Sleepy Joe nods off in important meeting.
https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1681390683444084746
Pleasant dreams. Preferably involving your being thrown into a dungeon for the rest of your worthless life. 😁
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JC…
Did you read the first comment ?
I have no time for the guy, but…
Obviously a fake, he is reading from notes !
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Government according to an Alien.
Dont know where this dude is from, but I’m going there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUS1m5MSt9k
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Excellent.
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They do this because they care about you. (Say’s every abusive relationship ever)
https://www.globalmethanehub.org/2023/05/17/major-livestock-producing-countries-commit-to-mitigate-methane-in-agriculture/
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Just been talking to a friend who is a local cop’s mother. She told me that her son (the cop) had told her that there had been a lot of sudden, unexpected deaths in town recently. Possibly not so unexpected by most of the commenters on this blog.
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In that vein, Ted, my son had the unfortunate need to attend a Centrelink office to sort out a lost Medicare card. Centrelink is apparently now responsible for this as well as all other social control issues.
Whilst idly chatting to the young staff member who was assisting him, he learnt that she was new to the particular office as was everyone else working there. Why is that? he enquired. Her reply – All the previous staff members left because they refused the governments kind offer of an indeterminate number of experimental medical procedures. (jabs.)
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It’s a good thing Australia is committed to the world’s cheapest wind and solar power.
I just got notifications for price increases for two electricity bills I pay, one for 33%, one for 39%.
Just imagine how much it would be if Australia wasn’t so committed to these cheapest of generation methods.
/sarc.
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I was recently notified by my electricity supplier that my charges would increase by about $272 per annum. This is almost inversley proportionate to Albanese’s $275 reduction. Our main use of electricity is in the summer as it happens.
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Minister for Aboriginal Affairs wont debate the Opposition Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs?
“‘Not about us’: Burney refuses to debate Price
Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney has denied a request from the Liberal party’s spokeswoman on Indigenous affairs Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for the pair to debate the Indigenous voice to parliament.”
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What commitment was there for Vicdanistan holding the Commonwealth Games and where will they be held now?
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I believe it will now be the (vaxx) disabled olympics as that’ll be everyone by 2026.
/savage comment 😁
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The bee population has dropped once again this year at what experts call an unsustainable rate. This has already had disastrous consequences on the food supply and human lifespan.
Information from a survey by the University of Maryland and Auburn University found that 48% of the honeybee colonies were lost from April 2022 to April 2023. More than 130 fruits, vegetables and nuts and 35% of the world’s crops depend on pollinators, like bees
One of the primary challenges to the bee population is parasitic mites that originated in Asia. It once took a 60% infestation to damage a colony of bees that now experience massive problems from a 2% infestation.
The application of dangerous pesticides affects people eating plant and meat-based diets. As the fake-food industry pushes more people toward an ultraprocessed, plant-based food diet, you have to ask if this is a coordinated attack to kill livestock and destroy crops through pollination loss ultimately pushing people to all lab-grown “food”.
Nearly all the ingredients in Beyond “beef”37 and Impossible “Burgers”38 include plants that are self-pollinators and do not need the help of insects.
It doesn’t take too much imagination to think that the industries are colluding to ensure the loss of easily purchased whole food no matter where it’s grown. Without pollinators, apples, melons and most berries grown in your backyard will disappear. Coffee and chocolate will be a thing of the past — unless, of course, it’s grown in the lab.
What many Americans don’t know is that the majority of soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, potato and many vegetable seeds planted across America are precoated with neonicotinoid insecticides,15 also known as neonics. Unlike traditional pesticides that sit on the outside of the plant, neonics become systemic and are absorbed into the plant.
This means that pollinators are exposed to the chemicals when they collect pollen, nectar or even drink dew droplets on the plant leaves. The insecticide interferes with the insect’s nervous system, triggering paralysis and death. According to van Saun, one treated corn seed has enough to kill over 80,000 honeybees.
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/save-the-bees
Wonderderful timing indeed…
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5G getting rolled out… “The Invisible Rainbow” by Arthur Firstenberg, includes how Marconi cleaned every bee off the Channel Island where he set up his first radio transmitter.
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Got my letter to advise my power bill is going up, an extra $700 per year, $50 a month or there about.
Daily connection charge going from 1.2452 to 1.287
Peak usage charge going from 0.1826 to 0.3124
So renewables are really saving us the $$$. Free energy, and prices are only going up because we’re not putting in enough solar panels and wind turbines. Wont matter how many you install, no sun and no wind still means no power in my book.
Supply and demand, shut down some more power stations, demand goes up along with the prices. But with higher demand and less supply, prices will explode even further.
Wonder how they’ll spin the BS that this is all coal and gases fault?
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As Australia shuts down its power generation infrastructure, what is the next power plant in line to be destroyed?
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Campfires and exercise gyms.
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Eraring in 2025 if my memory is correct.
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They will need to keep all the old Coal fired Plants going before they are forced to build new HELE ones.
The Transition has been nobbled by the Laws of Physics and Reality.
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Global warming reduces US heatwaves.
‘A number of media outlets are claiming that U.S. heatwaves are getting worse this week due to climate change. This is false. Actual data from temperature measurements show that heatwaves in the U.S. are on the decline even as climate change has occurred over the last 75 years.’ (Anthony Watts)
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They pray for a strong El Nino and hope that BoM falls into line with their thinking, however the Bureau cannot see a coupling yet.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/no-el-nino-call-from-bom-amid-northern-hemisphere-heatwaves/102612176
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I accidentally listened to Their ABC 621kHz and noticed they refer to Melbourne by the Aboriginal name of Naarm.
Jim Crow Creek in Ballarat has just been renamed Larni Barramal Yaluk.
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Didn’t know they built Melbourne. It wasn’t designated Melbourne until 1837. Prior to that, it was briefly known as – wait for it – Batmania! Prior to THAT – there was nothing there.
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I doubt very much that anybody ever used the name Naarm prior to the settlement of Melbourne. To me all of this renaming has the same ring of fakeness as the welcome to country ceremonies invented by Ernie Dingo in the 70s.
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Here’s a new SCARY STORY for you.
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Did they say what “appropriate actions” could be taken to reduce the impact ?
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Ahh !,….yes of course !
Another new task force is needed … to develop a “vision” ..
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Renewables have bogged down because the grid cannot handle them.
Renewables versus the grid at PJM
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2023/07/17/renewables-versus-the-grid-at-pjm/
The beginning: “The grid was not built to run on “renewables”, and this simple fact is becoming clear at PJM, which is America’s biggest Regional Transmission Operator. To mix metaphors, the renewables stampede is swamping PJM, so the stampede is bogging down. This is good news.
By way of background, PJM once stood for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. It was a voluntary utility group formed after the huge blackout in the late 1960s. Today it manages the grid as far south as Virginia and west to Illinois, serving about 65 million people in 13 states, including me. Central megalopolis if you like.
PJM’s key role in this story is called “interconnection”. Any utility or independent power producer can build a wind or solar generating facility, but PJM has to approve its connection to the grid, without which it is useless. Before approving a new connection PJM rightly conducts a grid impact analysis. This means modeling the operation of the grid with the new generation active, to see what problems it might cause. They also determine what transmission upgrades will be needed and bill the owner of the generator accordingly. This is basic grid management.
The renewables stampede has swamped PJM to the point where they have stopped approving new connections. The numbers are indeed staggering. As of March PJM reportedly had an overwhelming 2,649 active projects in its generation interconnection queue. Almost all of these are wind and solar, and many are small.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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I think the problem might be the lure of arbitrage.
For example there is apparently a new Big Battery being commissioned near Rockhampton. An article discussing it is at https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/big-bessie-battery/
The tell is in the quoted capacity of 50MW/100MWh. That means when the battery is discharging it can provide maximum power for 2 hours. The article suggests this will power 4,000 homes. A quick goolag search suggests Rockhampton has something approaching 40,000 homes.
So this battery can power 10% of Rockhampton for maybe 2 hours of the usual 4 hour evening peak. And if you are first on the scene with your arbitrage machine there really is such a thing as a free lunch.
But what happens when another 19 big batteries are installed and the whole of the 4 hour evening peak is covered for the whole of Rockhampton? And at what stage does the world’s lithium supply run out of capacity for all of the aspiring cities like Rockhampton to install their arbitrage machines?
It can all be covered by the question of what could possibly go wrong.
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A project!
“To Bring Back The Wonder Of The Big Screen, Build A DIY Backyard Movie Theater”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/14/to-bring-back-the-magic-of-the-big-screen-build-a-diy-backyard-movie-theater/
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The cl0t sh0t wins again:
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Must be global warming.
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Covid and Coffee newsletter has a running list of happenings like this every day.
They must be a real problem and worse than “global warming” as the recurring comment is that “the experts are mystified”.
Even though usually there is a tribute about the sufferer taking the “clot shot”.
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For those who would like some confirmation that the mainstream media think we are all sheep, here’s a technical director of CNN telling us how we are going to be fed a diet of climate armageddon and driving the narrative ‘just like they did with Covid’.
https://twitter.com/mullally_elaine/status/1680555014417178627
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An extraordinary admission.
He also says another objective was to “get Trump out of office”.
Thanks to Mr Musk for turning Twitter into a free speech platform.
Thanks for posting, Seadog.
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Disturbing, but nothing we didn’t already suspect. By the way, considering he is supposedly CNN’s technical director, he comes across as rather a dim bulb.
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So, you don’t believe that WE, the great unwashed, are sheep? We act and travel in herds and allow ourselves to be fleeced. That’s not a duck.
Just because someone is on the edge of the herd doesn’t mean they are one with the eagles.
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In Britain we have a ‘Ministry of Propaganda’ in the form of a strange building for the ‘Office For Censorship, Obedience & Manipulation’ (OFCOM). A ‘Ministry of Information’ in the form of a ‘Disinformation Unit’ which is sweeping up information about innocent campaigners, the vaccine injured, brexit supporters, MPs like Andrew Bridgen, independent journalists and leading academics critical of the government on climate science and virology, and putting it in secret “disinformation reports”. The British government has also a ‘Ministry of Good Behaviour’ in the form of a ‘Behavioural Insights Team’ or ‘Nudge Unit’ which works with the British Brainwashing Corporation (BBC) to brainwash the public to fear climate change and terrorise the people into obeying idiotic rules so as to manipulate the public into reaching the collective goals of the elite, using secret service ‘mind control’ and terror based ‘System 1 Thinking’ brainwashing techniques.
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Urban Heat Islands
https://news.sky.com/story/heatmaps-reveal-the-warmest-and-coolest-areas-of-five-english-cities-and-the-impact-of-green-spaces-12923232
Not quite as Sky describe it – but the article shows [in shades of angry red] how London, etc. can get warm …
I am not sure if this is of scientific value – but it could be shown to those who are unsure of UHI, perhaps.
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Noticed on the telly weather report last night that areas of Victoria expecting frosts were all coloured PINK. It would appear that even frost events that by definition have to have ground temps at zero or lower, are actually warmer than that. Just a little bit mind you. Just enough to be pink, next frosts will probably be magenta with the aim to be brilliant red by winters end.
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Latest video from Dr John Campbell.
https://youtu.be/brWU5QBfno0
“Adverse events and under reporting”
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The 2015 major El Nino was predicted years in advance using a lunar cycle
https://judithcurry.com/2023/07/18/the-2015-major-el-nino-was-predicted-years-in-advance-using-a-lunar-cycle/
Definitely the subsurface wave determines the switch from La Niña to El Niño.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/oceanography/wrap_ocean_analysis.pl?id=IDYOC007&year=2023&month=05
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/oceanography/wrap_ocean_analysis.pl?id=IDYOC007&year=2023&month=07
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The WA SWIS grid, the main supply grid in WA, has just reduced the solar export payback from 7c/kWh to 2.25c. But they will pay 10c/kWh for exports between 3pm and 6pm, real useful for home solar exports…
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Got cash? Solar up! Got lots of cash and are happy with a 10 year payback? Battery up!
It’s everyone for themselves these days.
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Forget the battery – never pay it back in its short lifetime.
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Today the sun will set at 5:30 in Perth.
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Synergy has included a quite useful graphical chart of your weekly usage / export which can be “drilled down” to half hourly values for individual days. The split system AC/heater usage becomes quite obvious looking at these charts. If the sun is out my PV system can still be generating useful amounts at 4:30 pm
OTOH I do have a bill due, printed just before the end of the month, which they have now applied the WA electricity credit. Of course, there was no direct notice that I can use it to offset the earlier bill. You find out only if you log on to the synergy account online.
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Not much use Han, when it’s wet and cloudy like now. Solar down to 20-30% of max.
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Ireland Tells Farmers To Kill 200,000 Cows – Cuz Of Climate Change!
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On Wednesday I posted this graph from BOM’s Climate Driver Update page (Pacific):
Nino 3.4 SST Anomalies [July 19, 2023 at 9:08 am]
Model run 15th July
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/wrap-up/archive/20230718.sstOutlooks_nino34.png
Note the addition – Month-to-date
I made the comment:
I look it up again today, Thursday, and it has changed back to what it was 1st July:
Nino 3.4 SST Anomalies [July 20th, 2023 at 9:40 am]
Model run 1st July
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/wrap-up/archive/20230704.sstOutlooks_nino34.png
Month-to-date is missing.
Don’t the guys at BOM read JoNova Open Thread comments?
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The subsurface graphic shows that the circulation changes only in the equatorial eastern Pacific, while the temperature below the surface of the western Pacific decreases.
http://www.bom.gov.au/archive/oceanography/ocean_anals/IDYOC006/IDYOC006.202307.gif
SOI values for 20 Jul, 2023
Average SOI for last 30 days 3.16
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