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Ivermectin?
What transpired?
We were admonished as fools for talking about it.
“Horse de-wormer” they said.
“Anti-Science Q-anon MAGA conspiracy theorists” they said.
Turns out they were just kidding,
The ‘horse de-wormer’ thingys were “merely quips”.
https://covid19.onedaymd.com/2023/08/doctors-can-prescribe-ivermectin-for.html
What … you’re not laughing?
Never mind.
We had to do it because Orange Man Bad Climate Change.
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Correction …
that should be Orangemanbadclimatechange.
It really should be just one word.
Because Orangemanbadclimatechange.
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As I posted on Friday –
Johnny Rotten
August 18, 2023 at 1:59 am · Reply
FDA Admits it Had No Authority to Ban Ivermectin
“They laughed in the faces of those who wanted to take Ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They deemed it as simply a medication for horses with no real value. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) immediately jumped into action to prevent pharmacies from selling the drug. They threatened doctors not to prescribe the medicine and ran an effective smear campaign against Ivermectin.
A team of doctors recently sued the FDA for preventing them from treating their patients with Ivermectin, which was approved as a medication for humans in 1986. “FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,” Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said on Tuesday during the oral arguments in the case. As you may remember, people were trying to buy this medication on the black market because no pharmacy would keep it in stock. The FDA effectively prevented the public from using a medication that may have been effective in treating the coronavirus.
Why? There is no money to be made on Ivermectin as it is a cheap generic drug. Fauci would not have been getting his extra royalties from Big Pharma if there were no vaccines. They could not have imposed vaccine mandates or prolonged the fear-mongering if the public knew that there was an effective treatment available. The Emergency Use Act ushered in the experimental mRNA vaccine. The act cannot be approved if there are other available medications. Once again, the FDA acted illegally to protect those in power and keep the status quo.
Ivermectin is so effective as treating various diseases that the founders won the Nobel Prize in 2015. “Diseases caused by parasites have plagued humankind for millennia and constitute a major global health problem,” the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute stated. “In particular, parasitic diseases affect the world’s poorest populations and represent a huge barrier to improving human health and well-being.”
“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” the FDA wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in August 2021 amid its smear propaganda campaign. People DIED because they wanted us to believe there were no available treatments for the vaccine. The lockdowns, masking, vaccine mandates, business failures, supply chain issues, and every other aspect of COVID that destroyed life as we knew it could have been prevented if the “science” permitted us to use a generic drug that has proven to be effective.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/fda-admits-it-had-no-authority-to-ban-ivermectin/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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As Jo has written on these pages a year or so ago, the banning on Ivermectin was a “crime against mankind” if my memory serves me right.
Maybe Jo could remind us!
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And not one of the @-0les will be prosecuted!
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In New Zealand Ivermectin was not allowed. Dame Dr St Jacinda stopped it. All samples ordered from elsewhere were confiscated by customs. For being such a good little girl she got to visit Larry at BlackRock who has decided to “partner” with NZ to create a $2 billion climate infrastructure fund. I guess he won’t be putting in any of his own money.
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Been looking all day, not one report on this here in the USA. Not terribly surprised, as our federal gov’t is willing to say it had nothing to do with censorship, if they can say that with a straight face, then telling us there was no ban on ivermectin is par for the crooked course.
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The “horse dewormer” horse s–t is still there.
https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839
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Dr Pierre Kory looks at the “interesting” timing of the “horse dewormer” campaign.
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-timeline-of-major-battles-in-bc4
Why did they have to drag an innocent animal like a horse into it? Couldn’t they make their own evidence-based arguments? Apparently not.
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QUIP: a clever, usually taunting remark
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quip
As an American, I would like to clearly state …
I have total confidence that no Federal regulatory agency, other than FDA, would release public communications that are ‘merely quips’.
For example, the FEC (Federal Election Commission) would never ‘quip’ about election vote count integrity.
FERC would never ‘quip’ about energy production and distribution. (ENRON was just a little mistake.)
NOAA would never ‘quip’ about climate change, nor would NIH ‘quip’ such things as “two masks are better than one”.
DOJ and FBI would never ‘quip’ about Donald Trump and his collusion with Russia.
‘Quips’ are only appropriate for ‘Public Health’ emergencies.*
Like the deadliest global contagious outbreak since 1347.
*(In no way am I implying that ‘Public Health’ is a joke.)
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“In no way am I implying that ‘Public Health’ is a joke.”
You don’t need to, we all know it is! There is no competition, no accountability, no suing if someone is incompetent, no reason or incentive to make the most of a dollar and no incentive to try to be better than any other hospital. There is no reason to try and satisfy your customers, to do the best you can, or to work hard to get promoted. All the reasons Communism failed.
Public anything is a joke, its why Musk blows NASA out of the water so often. Its just the way Govts work… or don’t work, anyway.
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Merely quips?
Ask Dr Paul Oosterhuis, whose licence to practice was suspended for promoting this information which the authorities wished to hide.
Ask the NSW Medical Council if they have calculated the compensation due to Dr Oosterhuis for the losses he has incurred under their tyrannical rule.
While on the subject, ask them how they came to make such a terrible error.
And ask all the GPs around the world what message they got from news of Dr Oosterhuis’s suspension.
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Here is a 13 minute video explaining the campaign against ivermectin.
https://rumble.com/v1hu7xr-the-truth-about-ivermectin-a-new-short-documentary-by-plandemic-filmmaker-m.html
For a longer explanation, read Dr. Pierre Kory’s “The War On Ivermectin.”
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More on “the trials of ivermectin” here
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/22/w-o-o-d-21-july-2023-the-ennui-of-waiting-for-ww-iii/#comment-166109
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Ivermectin is too cheap. Pfizer is too big to fail.
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Russia had some back luck with their Luna-25 mission. Seems it landed just a bit too fast.
It must be a pretty bad feeling to watch something you’ve worked on for so long, fail before your eyes without any real way of intervening.
Hopefully the Indian lander will be successful.
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I read this morning that the guy who led the project, or headed the vehicle development, has had some sort of health emergency.
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It is possible. A great disappointment for him personally. A stiff vodka or two might help.
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Sounds like the Guardian
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“with Roscosmos also saying it wanted to test soft-landing technology ”
They should’ve got Musk in on the team!
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Here is an outstanding video about the solar system including its evolution and the hereto mysterious migration of the giant planets toward the Sun and then away from it. Note that in other solar systems it’s common for the giant planets to be near their star, not away from it as in our case.
It also discusses that because of various planetary evolutionary considerations it’s likely that planets in the habitable zone of the appropriate size, composition and with plenty of liquid water like Earth are likely to be extremely rare, not common as often thought and as suggested by the Drake equation.
We may well be very much alone which is also the suggestion of 60 odd years of SETI observations anyway.
The video was probably originally published in several parts which someone has joined together so it is long but you can watch it in parts.
https://youtu.be/2kpGx9ho02g
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And my fave star size video:
https://youtu.be/HEheh1BH34Q?si=XnnjVBtvAuNhUgHd
We are but specks…
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As part of the general crackdown by the Left against any information that doesn’t fit the Official Narrative, YouTube is further cracking down on what it claims is medical “misinformation”.
No doubt the true target is so-called misinformation about covid “vaccines” and any treatment modality not in conformity with the Official Narrative.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4153540-youtube-announces-new-policies-to-target-medical-misinformation/
Why are they doing this? Because the next pandemic is already being planned!
And you know it must be true when the Leftist “fact checkers” (sic) say it’s false and that the plans are for practice, not a real release.
Also, many independent content creators are complaining about tough new conditions making it difficult for them. It seems YT doesn’t want independent creators but just big ones from the legacy media that are compliant with the Official Narrative on news and medical information
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The “real deal” is already raging in the UK.
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If new variants are on the way, Australians should secure their supplies of Ivermectin before it’s banned again.
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Probably first lessons learned was make sure the next virus is specifically engineered to resist cheap and effecite antidotes
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“effective”
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Sambar, yes, I was wondering if that might be the approach.
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And remember ppl that there are a lot of quack spike treatments out there and a few of benefit.
Killing the snake that bit you doesn’t improve your chance of survival in this case.
Every vaxx (of any kind, at this stage) is another snake bite, with accelerated consequences.
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Control and your fawning obedience is required by the elites. Take note of countries who do not push the globalist line and prepare to emigrate.
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Outer Mongolia can be quite nice!
Parts of South Africa maybe? 😉
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Belize for me.
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Belize?
South America?
Most S. American cities are crime ridden hellholes.
Technically Iceland would be the best, but nope.😁
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Central America and formerly British Honduras. A former British Colony where English is spoken.
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“The exercise’s goal was preparing government and public health officials to better respond to a crisis.”
We have seen a great example of public officials responding to a crisis in Lahaina, Maui:
– The warning sirens were were not used, because people would expect a tsunami and run straight into flames
– Water should be used for irrigation, not for fighting fires (fire hydrants ran dry)
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Tariffs and carbon credits… and something called carbon leakage
https://indaily.com.au/news/business/2023/08/15/green-tariffs-australia/
Tariffs to protect industries that the same government seems to be trying hard to destroy.
I’d say this is typical of Bowen, but the war against self-reliance in industry has been waged by many a government.
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FWIW
“What’s in a name”
The latest new, scary strain of the Peking Pox is ERIS – who was the Greek Goddess of Chaos.
And on the likelihood of more US masks and lockdowns – and corporate profits
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/lockdown-2023-sunday-august-20-2023?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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FWIW
“Is This The Real Reason “Eris” Cases Are Spiking?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/real-reason-eris-cases-are-spiking
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Today’s SMH is advocating getting a next booster:
” More than 80 per cent of vaccinated adults have not had a COVID-19 booster shot in the past six months.
That includes more than half of people over the age of 65, who are urged to get a shot if they have not had an infection or vaccination in six months, according to the latest advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation . ”
Full story is paywalled.
Cheers
Dave B
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Strange isn’t it? We seemed to be proceeding systematically through the Greek alphabet. All felt very sciency.
Now we’re getting arbitrary names from mythology. Why would that be?
On a related thought, it has seemed strange how we stuck at omicron. We got to the 15th letter very quickly, then stopped. It’s almost as if the naming of new variants was arbitrary all along.
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I’ve watched several attempts by the media to scare campaign the new waves of covid. It doesn’t work anymore though, the public was once right into it, but is now done with it.
I’d dare say there’s probably 10 people dying each day from it still, maybe 1000, but it doesnt matter, if people think about it at all, they accept those figures. They don’t actually see the effect, so the numbers make no impact, whereas once the number 10 spooked them.
But it was a master campaign by the organisers, I kind of admire it. I’m a sucker for the theme of trickery. But it’s over, everyone has their day.
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With new covid variants on the way I suppose the Australian Government will increase their efforts to get the proposed censorship laws through.
Hopefully enough pro-freedom people complained and entered submissions that the Government may think twice about doing it.
We wouldn’t want the truth told about Ivermectin or the fact that the FDA (of whom Australia’s TGA are just compliant lap dogs) now claims they didn’t really ban it and the “you are not a horse” campaign were just fun quips.
And how many people died because they thought the FDA really did ban Ivermectin when they say they didn’t?
And how many died in Australia because here the TGA under direction of former WEF employee Greg Hunt, “Health” Minister, really did ban it?
Indeed, how many died in Australia because the Government claimed, and still claims, vitamin supplementation has no effect on covid when it is a proven fact that correction of Vitamin D deficiency results in less severe disease and lower mortality?
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I think in the wash up, post- Covid Australians have become more aware and angry about what goverments put them through. Of course many are stupid and follow the official line but I hope that any subsequent viral arrivals will be met with popular dissent. I hope so because I’m losing faith in the Australian character.
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What is or isn’t a ban? There was no way I could find ivermectin in South East Queensland. I tried, no chemist would dare to stock it.
I had to go to India & pay about 10 times the previous price in Oz, to get what I knew we would need
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I recommend a court case, like here in the US.
Perhaps you will discover any ‘ban’ you perceived was just your failure to recognize ‘Public Health’ humor.
It was all just a big TikTok prank.
Good for laughs and back slapping at the next Davos meeting.
Also, talk to your doctor about whether them/they have the ability recognize ‘quips’.
As a prolific quipper, I saw the joke right from the beginning.
It didn’t help.
– Robert L. Peters
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FWIW
“Terrific common sense on Albanese’s Vanity Voice from Labor’s Gary Johns”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/terrific-common-sense-on-albaneses-vanity-voice-from-labors-gary-johns.html
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Why is the Australian Government so keen for censorship legislation?
I would say it is to protect against being sued, the politicians and bureaucrats who lied about covid and treatment options, the lack of scientific evidence for their approaches, their incompetence and their gross violations of human rights.
It’s not normally possible to sue a politician or bureaucrat for lies or who is incompetent unless malfeasance can be proven and that might be doable in the case of covid.
They are desperate to hide the truth.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
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David,
You are over the target . Expect incoming . They committed murder and so far have been rewarded . We want justice .
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Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Don’t take vaxxes. Don’t take boosters. Do get sun and quality food. Live long enough to prosecute. 😉
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Why is the eastern Pacific Ocean cooling?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018903384/why-is-the-eastern-pacific-ocean-cooling
“That part of the Pacific, the climate models are telling us that actually it should be warming faster than the rest of the surrounding ocean, so that’s even more puzzling. We’re trying to figure out why.”
Poor Pedro. Turning himself into a pretzel trying to weave it into global warming.
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Climate Models are now being tested with actual real world empirical evidence. And the result is – FAIL. Go to the bottom of the Class and stay there.
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Actually they are discussing the south east Pacific.
The reason it is cooling is because it gets the first equatorial flow from the Southern Ocean and the southern ocean has been cooling throughout the satellite era.
The reason the SO is cooling is because peak sun over the South Pole was 2,600 years ago with summer solstice solar intensity s down 7W/m^2 since then. 60S peaked 2,100 years ago and is down 3W/m^s since then. 50S summer solstice peaked 1,800 years ago and is down 2W/m^2 since then. 40S summer solstice peaked 1500 years ago and now down 2W/m^2.
Overall, the Southern Hemisphere has a cooling trend south of 45S but the cooling is advancing northward; faster on the eastern side than the western side that has southward current from the tropics.
Very few people understand the precession cycle and how it influences the peak solar intensity that inevitably drives the peak temperature at least up to 30C on ocean surfaces.
The northern hemisphere is warming; on average for the past 500 years. June sunlight drives the maximum global temperature and it bottomed 500 years ago. It is up 0.2W/m^2 since the bottom but only starting to accelerate now.
The place and time showing the most warming is the Greenland plateau in January. It has trended up at 9C/cemtury through the satellite era. That is not directly influenced by sunlight in January because there isn’t any. It is the result of increased winter advection from warmer northern oceans.
If you follow the peak sunlight, you can predict how temperatures will change – unlike what climate models do.
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Yep, a cool tongue in the south east Pacific.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-130.34,-8.97,264
Don’t know why its cooling, I’ll give it some thought.
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So what’s the Lefty spin on this?
“The wind turbines didn’t fall over, they’re just resting” perhaps?
SEE LINK FOR REST
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It’s very few people who have actually seen any of these tallest turbines, other than in images of them, and you don’t get an idea of the height just from an image. All of the newer ones are now this tall, and even taller.
For some perspective, the tallest ones in Australia are at the Dullaca Industrial Wind Plant near Toowoomba in Queensland.
That plant has 43 towers, and in the Nacelle on top of that tower, are 4.2MW turbine/generators, so the plant has a Nameplate of 180MW, or an average power generation of just 60MW. (Umm, so just ONE SINGLE Unit at Bayswater opearting at ‘full whack’ delivers 44 times the power of all of those turbine/generators at that wind plant.)
Each tower at that Dullaca wind plant is 230 Metres tall.
Now see even how just writing that number again gives no real ‘picture’ of just how tall they really are.
Look at the Sydney skyline, indicative of the skyline in most Capital cities.
There are only ….. SEVEN skyscrapers in Sydney taller that these towers.
The current tallest wind tower constructed so far on Earth is taller even than the tallest skyscraper in Sydney, and the tip of ‘the rotating fan’ is a further 120 metres on top of that.
Tony.
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And to look at it another way Tony, comparing it to the Sydney Harbor Btidge:
The top of the bridge is 134 metres above mean sea level and the height to the top of its aircraft beacon is 141 metres.
So one of the 230m tall turbines you mention is 1.71 times taller than the top of the arch of the bridge.
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Interesting.
And from a purely engineering point of view it would be impossible to design anything as flawed and set up to fail as the modern China/German wind grabbers.
They are designed to vibrate and propagate cracks and fail miserably unlike the robust, grounded generators of the coal fired systems.
Whoever designed them intended that they were to be a damaging insult to the western countries that were dumb enough to pay for them.
Short lived.
Fragile.
Deliberately flawed design.
Unrecyclable.
Bird and bat magnets.
Expensive.
Environmentally devastating!!
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What self-respecting engineer would design something so useless and so destructive?
They would need to be woke, and woke people tend not to be very smart.
Furthermore they are likely to have been pushed through university as part of a quota placement so won’t be very good or very competent. Hence they do useless things like design windmills that fall over.
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From comments on that article:
Dean Sorley
“Recently had an interesting conversation with a bloke who owned a small civil construction company in Victoria. They are making a fortune constructing the roads which are used to access each tower. Because of the weight of the components, trucks and cranes used to install the turbines, the roads have to be constructed to a very high standard, with materials often brought in from quarries remote from the site. The total pavement thickness was at least 0.8m thick and reinforced to 1.1m thick for the pads for the cranes. Each access system uses the road carrying capacity once for installation and once for dismantling. All other times the roads are massively overbuild for the loads they carry. A small wind farm with 50 turbines requires hundreds of kilometres of roads constructed to these standards. Just another large cost which helps make renewables generation “cheap”…..”
# # #
Big carbon footprints need big roads to walk on.
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Just a few weeks ago a Hunter Valley NSW Council complained about ratepayers carrying to costs of road maintenance for wind farm heavy transport traffic and the cost and inconvenience of removing and later replacing a major bridge.
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Made in China.
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Noticing!
“Leftist Aussie PM Would Ban Social Media if Granted Dictatorial Powers”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/20/leftist-aussie-pm-would-ban-social-media-if-granted-dictatorial-powers/
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Not surprising at all.
Look at the ultimate expression of the Left as demonstrated by National Socialism or International Socialism.
It always starts with censorship and ends with death camps.
In his university days he didn’t try to hide the fact that he was a communist.
SEE LINK FOR REST (PAYWALLED)
SEE LINK FOR REST
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“Governments at the federal or state level would be exempt from the same considerations under the legislation.”
Says it all really.. You couldn’t get a clearer indication of a tyranny. Just like-
“Govts only confiscate your guns because they are about to do something you would shoot them for”
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The CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) conference was amazingly good. I reported on it yesterday.
I urge all conservatives and fellow rational thinkers and even those rare Leftists with an open mind to visit the next one, next year. Quite a few Leftists have actually seen the light and come over to the side of good, even Warren Mundine who was the first speaker.
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Trouble is they only go to Sydney. Sorry, good as this event no doubt is, I am not travelling there.
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It is streamed live for free plus all the speeches are on Farcebook, YouTube (both subject to Leftist censorship) and they are also available on the uncensored platform ADH TV via a free App or watch here: https://watch.adh.tv/cpac-australia-2023-1 (I don’t think all the talks are up yet.)
A lot of conservative conferences won’t go to Melbourne due to threats of Leftist violence or venue cancellation.
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The proposed Australian Government censorship is wide-ranging.
One of the speakers at CPAC was from the Australian Christian Association.
She pointed out that the suggestion (in accordance with Judeo-Christian religious beliefs) that such beliefs as there were only two genders, to express opposition to abortion, homosexuality or transgenderism might all be regarded as “harmful misinformation” by the Australian Government and would thus make religious organisations liable to heavy fines or imprisonment for promoting their beliefs.
Of course, this is in accordance with the Left’s plan to destroy religion anyway. It is already illegal in Vicdanistan and some other areas (e.g. Northern Territory, soon to come to NSW) for religious schools to not employ people whose beliefs and practices are at variance with the religion of the school.
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Leftist Aussie PM Would Ban Social Media if Granted Dictatorial Powers
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/20/leftist-aussie-pm-would-ban-social-media-if-granted-dictatorial-powers/
Qualified his statement by adding he was not “a supporter of dictatorships.”
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Yes, but he is not across the details, can’t be bothered reading them.
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At the CPAC conference (sorry most of you missed it) Tal Tsfany from the Ayn Rand Institute https://aynrand.org/ made an interesting quip. He said something like:
(For overseas readers, that is the foundation document to amend the Australian Constitution and turn it into a race-based document and Australia into an Apartheid state.)
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And the old BS baffles theory is in place, don’t write Treaty use Makarratta instead.
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In some A groups that term seems to have a quite unpleasant meaning.
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Looks like we’re supporting the American war industry with their caste-offs. New cruise missiles we can launch from the scrapped Littoral ship we have just bought. The Yanks have withdrawn all that ship class from service, the last one only launched 5 or 6 years ago, they were failures over range, speed, weapon deployment and finding a use for them.
We’re buying more HIMARS artillery too, even with plenty of videos on the web showing the Russians blowing them up with cheap drones.
“HIMARS has been hailed by one analyst as the “new god of war” because of its success on the battlefield in Ukraine.”
Yeah riight… I have a feeling the Aussie military is just a political purchasing system that is a decade or two behind in modern warfare. The Russians are re-writing the rule book right now, 32 Western armored units destroyed in one attack, everything from Humvees, Bushmasters through LAVs/Bradleys to main battle tanks.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-buys-formidable-missiles-in-3b-firepower-boost-20230820-p5dxyr.html
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These are to be deployed on the Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers, not a littoral combat ship.
But the linked article contains more disinformation. The Himars is not proving to be a wonder-weapon in Ukraine.
By far the most important thing for Defence would be to develop our own missile manufacturing.
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I know nothing about warfare but, based on what we’ve seen in Ukraine, I think what Australia needs most is an ENORMOUS quantity of EVERYTHING – ships, subs, helicopters, fighters, missiles, mortars, tanks, troop carriers, guns, grenades, drones …
Both sides just seem to be eating up their stocks of expensive technology, lobbing them all over the place. I guess the loser will be the side that runs out of hardware first.
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SoC:
Need more people to use the ENORMOUS quantity of EVERYTHING
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The Alliance leader wants us to buy more of their armaments, if push comes to shove we’ll be dead in the water.
The biggest threat to Australian sovereign independence is the US war machine.
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I can’t understand how so many people do not see that the US belligerence is not good for their allies.
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Neutrality in super power rivalry would be the best outcome.
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While the O’Biden factor makes it confusing to allocate fault in the Ukraine war, the Russians have not always been lilly white where war is concerned and they are hardly neutral.
China is very much an open and shut case regarding its past and present expansionist tendencies and there are many examples, past present and future, that confirm their lack of neutrality.
I hate war, I dislike the concept of the American War Machine, but acknowledge that we need to form defence alliances for the here and now.
The U.S. will be involved in our future defence alliances.
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Yep, a couple of hundred Mastangs, or Sea Furies, armed with the latest missiles, would be much more effective than 20 ultra high tech fighters, & cost about the same.
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If they travelled much slower than modern jets and didn’t have a radar signature they would be extremely effective!
I think the biggest advance is in observation, the satellites, the drones, night vision, the radar systems that all show an army where the enemy is moving troops, bringing in ammo and reinforcements, where missiles are fired from, pinpointing where mortars and field guns are, and show an attack starting from when the troops mass up…
On top of that you have electronic monitoring of communications over the cell phone and radio frequencies and the jamming of all that. You can do a lot more with a smaller army than in the past if you control the information system.
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You are thinking along the lines of a Super Tucano.
Those old WWII fighters and fighter/bombers could not launch modern missiles because they don’t have the electronics to do fire control.
But what you do is … take a basic WWII style fighter/bomber airframe with piston engine, the use all modern materials, modern avionics, and a good quality piston engine, and give it a few high quality missiles and a couple of light bombs. That’s where the Super Tucano is at.
One-on-one it can’t dogfight an F-16 but since it’s a tiny fraction of the price, it might be able to beat an F-16 if the odds were 10 on 1 and you have suitable coordination, satellite communications, etc.
Now the problem is that no pilot wants to be in a self-sacrifice type situation. To make this strategy work you need to find large numbers of pilots willing to take big risks.
They are intended primarily for low speed and close to the ground, in support of ground troops in low intensity combat situations. Of course if the guys on the ground have any sort of missile capability then the Tucano runs into the same problem as the Frogfoot in Afghanistan. That said, many other more expensive aircraft are being brought down by ground based AAD missile defense. Looks like robots will eventually become the most cost effective way to clear a patch of air.
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But the Tomahawk cruise missiles that were allocated for Collins Class Submarines were cancelled.
And another cancellation not well publicised since Labor formed Government are the 30 F-35 Lightning stealth fighters to complete the Joint Strike Fighter order programme for the RAAF, the reason F-18 Super Hornets and Growler configuration jets were purchased as an interim measure when F/A-18 Classic Hornets were retired.
Also now past history Rudd-Gillard Labor cancelled the F-35 Lightning STOL stealth jets that were ordered for the RAN’s biggest ships with flight decks. Labor also cancelled the flight deck equipment and hardening that the F-35’s needed and now can only operate helicopters.
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Today, Marx would have been a promoter of the lie of anthropogenic global warming. Instead, today, his followers do it for him.
“The truth is, even the most superficial inquiry into Marx’s use of evidence forces one to treat with skepticism everything he wrote which relies on factual data”.
“The whole of the key Chapter Eight of Capital is a deliberate and systematic falsification to prove a thesis which an objective examination of the facts showed was untenable”.
Johnson, Paul (2007) [1988]. Intellectuals From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Paul Johnson (revised ed.). Perennial. ISBN 978-0061253171.
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David,
We are being sold fantasy and everyone is lining up to buy it . The medias reach is now ubiquitous. No one expected the spanish inquision….
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Old Goat
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition – Monty Python
https://youtu.be/Cj8n4MfhjUc
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I was so happy when I found a hardback copy of “Intellectuals” going cheap at a suburban secondhand store. Must’ve been 20 years ago.
I’d already bought the same author’s “Modern Times” (covering world history from WW1 up to the nineties, can’t remember if puke-worthy Tony Blair was in it).
Another one of his I collected, covers 1815-30, IIRC. So a short time span but he points out that big strides were being made in the sciences and arts.
And lastly, I bought one with “Picasso” in the title. A collection of his columns for “The Spectator” magazine.
All good books to dip into. You can start anywhere.
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Dominoes now claim to be providers of the hottest pizza in the world.
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Ivermectin is an antifungal treatment used internally on animals but externally on humans where it’s used against head lice.
It’s been around so long that the patent has expired and it’s a generic drug, meaning that anyone can manufacture it.
Drugs get approved for use against some medical condition if clinical trials prove them to be effective against that condition. (I guess that was even true for the SECOND use of Viagra, which was originally for treatment of the blood circulation system.)
Pharmaceutical companies fund these rigorous trials under strict conditions. Covid vaccines weren’t tested as much as normal because of the urgency. No-one was going to wait 5 years to see if there were long-term side-effects.
No formal trials of ivermectin against covid were done for a long time. (Were any done at all or was it all retrospective statistical analysis using data that might have been distorted by other factors?)
Who was going to fund such a trial when all the manufacturers of ivermectin would get the benefit? One supposed trial in Argentina was found to be very suspect. One of the three authors said that neither of the others would supply him with copies of the key data and the whole thing claimed to be unfunded but the many covid tests would have become costly.
Without good quality formal trials ivermectin wasn’t going to get approved for use. In some countries that absence of approval means the drug is banned, and in others while it’s not banned most doctors only prescribe what’s approved.
Things also get complicated when you look at countries where ivermectin was used against covid, apparently with good results. Often the number of fatalities was lower than one would expect but it’s impossible to say (a) how much was due to social distancing due to lifestyle, (b) how much was from immunity from having caught and survived covid, and (c) whether the fatality figures are accurate because many covid deaths probably were unreported because people weren’t tested for covid.
** You might think that I’m against using ivermectin for covid. I’m not. I would have liked governments to treat the situation as a special case (so that it didn’t set precedents) and fund formal trials of ivermectin. If it proved effective then the cost of the trial would probably have been minor compared to the cost of having lots of people catch covid.
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Wrong, Ivermectin is an antiparasitic commonly used for humans as an oral treatment for Head Lice, River Blindness and Threadworms.
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The only time I have heard or seen IVM referred to as an antifungal was from a medico (that I had told to go to hell with his vaccination offer) when his nurse asked about IVM.
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Ivermectin is used externally on cattle, applied along the back line.
“No-one was going to wait 5 years to see if there were long-term side-effects.” I am one who is prepared to wait for eternity, rather than believe the most corrupt companies on the planet has a business model that is to do themselves out of business.
The fact you believe social distancing did anything more than show your owners you are fully compliant.
There is not one sciency thing in that drivel you wrote, the entire readership is now dumber for having read it. You’re a fact free zone, a propaganda sponge.
The vaxxine did not work, it has injured 130,000 Australian’s.
3 years and I nor anybody I know, has died from the worst plague in the history of the planet, not a one.
Get your vaxxine, that’s your belief, the fact you gave consent for it while understanding nothing of it speaks for the serf you are. .But do not dare to dictate to me what to do with my life.
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And with sheep via mouth for internal parasites and externally for blowflies and lice.
MDS for internal use lists IVM content ( with human dose application around 4 billion doses and miniscule problems reported. Given to stud flocks worth millions so don’t quibble on the quality used in animal products) and “the rest non-toxic”
“Just sayin”
It would have been a hell of a lot safer for the general population than alcohol or tobacco if it had been free marketed with a sin tax
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The government of Uttar Pradesh province, India’s largest, population 220 million stopped the covid pandemic dead in it’s tracks by giving Ziverdo kits based on 3 of 12mm Ivermectin & an antibiotic to all infected, & all in close contact with infected. I don’t know how big a test you need, but a test involving a 220,000,000 population can convince me.
I obtained my Ivermectin & Ziverdo kits from India, at considerable inconvenience thanks to our government. When I finally contracted Covid, the kit knocked it out in 52 hours.
It also worked as well with 8 family members & friends.
Wise up & get yourself some while you can.
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Here’s something to cheer you up.
An offshore wind turbine burns.
https://youtu.be/UxF6vW5BqOk
(1 min)
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One following is a cracker too:
Wind turbine failure: Burning parts fall on motorway
Was a time, not so long ago, when every climate story featured a photo of smoke or vapour rising from flues – preferably in silhouette for added effect.
Now we have thick black smoke coming from wind turbines. Tends to shatter the narrative somewhat.
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Here’s a direct link to that one, Richard.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9HUQTojm45E?feature=share
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We just got back from Europe so don’t need a holiday.
Do we?
And then I thought …
Phuket.
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Mod, Steve’s swearing….and dyslexic.
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A lot of os old pharts have that problem.
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I just discovered that the word ‘nothing’ is a palindrome.
Backwards it spells ‘gnihton’, which also means nothing.
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I found nothing in that comment that would lead me to believe anything you say.
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That was a bloody big insult to us gnihtons!
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A major annoyance for me with these updates is the amount of useless bloatware that pads out each update. The next annoyance was the constant nags to get the latest update.
https://gellerreport.com/2023/08/apple-admits-iphone-software-updates-purposely-slowed-down-phone-will-pay-millions-in-settlement-inbox.html/
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We, the people, are the real “carbon footprint” the Elites want to reduce…
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The carbon-unit infestation is to be removed from the Creator’s planet.
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Ford CEO Admits ‘Reality Check’ When He Took Electric F-150 Truck On Road Trip
Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted he underwent a “reality check” when he tried to make a cross-country road trip in the Ford electric F-150.
“Charging has been pretty challenging,” Mr. Farley said in a video on X, formerly known as Twitter. “It was a really good reality check of the challenges of what our customers go through and the importance of fast charging and what we’re going to have to do to improve the charging experience.”
In California, Mr. Farley said he encountered slow charging times. When using a low-speed charger, it took about 40 minutes for it to charge the electric F-150’s battery to 40 percent.
According to Ford, the company has said it partnered with Telsa to allow Ford customers to use the more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers next year. Other electric vehicles have also announced partnerships with Tesla.
“Long hauling in an electric truck is an act of pioneerism, not because it’s hard or dangerous, but because it’s a new way to experience America,” Mr. Farley wrote in a LinkedIn post on Aug. 7. “Shifting from fueling stations to charging stations requires new behaviors and opens new possibilities.”
Another Charging Issue
It comes after a Canadian man told news outlets that he was forced to abandon his Ford electric truck after suffering charging failures during a road trip. Dalbir Bala of La Salle, Manitoba, said he left his Lightning in Minnesota last month after he couldn’t charge its battery at two different stations.
He then continued his drive in a rented gas-powered vehicle instead, he said. His wife and three children joined him for the trip to Wisconsin and Chicago, setting out with three scheduled stops to recharge on the trip.
“It was really a nightmare frustration for us,” Mr. Bala told CBC News.
His first stop was in Fargo, North Dakota, roughly 350 kilometers south of Winnipeg. He paid $56 to charge his vehicle’s battery from 10 percent to 90 percent capacity.
The problems began at his next stop in Albertville, Minnesota, when he received a “faulty connection” message in his truck after he plugged in the charger. He dialed the number on the charger for assistance but received no response.
“It was in [the] shop for 6 months. I can’t take it to my lake cabin. I cannot take it for off-grid camping. I cannot take for even a road trip,” he added. “I can only drive in city—biggest scam of modern times.”
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So much for cheap electric cars, average price $86,000
Electric-car lobbyists have for years been promising cheaper alternatives. And while there are at least three priced below $50,000, new data shows battery-powered vehicles remain the domain of the wealthy.
The growth in sales of electric vehicles in Australia is being driven by wealthy buyers – not the motoring masses – new analysis has found.
While there are now at least three electric cars priced between $40,000 and $50,000 – all from Chinese brands such as GWM (formerly Great Wall Motors), MG, and BYD – exclusive data obtained by Drive for the first half of this year shows the average transaction price for electric vehicles is $86,000.
This puts the average transaction price of electric vehicles sold in Australia in excess of last financial year’s Luxury Car Tax threshold for zero emissions vehicles ($84,916) and just shy of the new threshold for this financial year ($89,332).
In comparison, the average transaction price for petrol and diesel cars, SUVs and utes sold in Australia over the same period is $54,600.
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BYD are changing brand name I understand to BYN
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Albanese is by far Australia’s worst and most dangerous PM EVER.
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Vintage Albo
From
Anthony Albanese grilled about cost of petrol: Prime Minister concedes he doesn’t know current price of fuel
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Hawke was good, Keating was like the curate’s egg but how you can rank the rest of the labor governments has me beat, they were/are uniformly bad. I have no fond memories of the Rudd/Gillard years.
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Often described by media sources as chaotic, dysfunctional and incompetent.
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I do, I was living in Belgium!
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OldOzzie
Aug 21, 2023 10:05 AM
This green city is trying a tiny nuclear reactor. Why isn’t Australia?
The energy minister of the populous Canadian province says new-generation reactors are less intimidating than their large-scale predecessors – and this is enough for a rethink in some parts of the world.
Less than an hour’s drive east of Toronto, the provincial power company covering Canada’s most populous city is embarking on the kind of multi-decade energy experiment the Labor government says makes no sense in Australia.
Preparatory work began late last year to build a small modular nuclear reactor on the shores of Lake Ontario with a $C970 million ($1.1 billion) loan from Canada Infrastructure Bank. The government corporation Ontario Power Generation announced last month that another three units would be added to the project.
By the end of the decade it expects to begin generating up to 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to supply 1.2 million homes with carbon-free energy.
All this new investment comes as the province also invests an additional $C12.8 billion in refurbishing its four existing reactors from the 1990s.
And Todd Smith, energy minister for the Ontario government, says Australia, too, should consider nuclear energy, especially small modular reactors (SMRs).
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Ozzie,
The worst part is the infrastructure is already in place – replace coal with nuclear . Grid access and cooling already available . Makes (un)common sense ….
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So you agree, coal is a major issue that must be replaced?
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Gough Whitlam became prime minister in 1972 on a Labor platform to develop a uranium enrichment industry and nuclear power.
That didn’t happen, largely because Australia had such plentiful supplies of coal that could be burned to generate cheaper electricity.
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I know we have plenty of coal, I know CO2 is not an issue, but pleading for nuclear is taking a knee to the alarmists and admitting there is an issue.
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Yes, but the issue is not having a viable energy strategy for the future…
…..with or without CO2
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I am not responsible for what people do 200 years from now, or need to do, the same as I’m not responsible for what people did 200 years ago, or should have done.
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MP,
We should be trying to save hydrocarbons , as so much that we use everyday is derived from them . Nuclear energy (at present) is best used for electricity generation .
I have kids and would like them to have access to the bounty of hydrocarbons into the future .
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The topic was Coal “replace coal with nuclear”
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MP,
Proof needed that nuclear was stopped in Australia because coal was cheaper.
I wrote an article on WUWT a few weeks ago with a number of references showing nuclear was opposed in USA by power and money from Rockefeller Institute manipulation of dose/harm relations of radiation and entrenching the false LNT theory.
Australia followed America and belated on about getting cancer from just one impact of a nuclear ray. Coal did not enter the early hate tactics.
Geoff S
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They do need replacement eventually. But not because they produce CO2.
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Apologies David. I down ticked you only because I misread your comment. Accept an uptick.
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Stick with coal in a perfect political world.
But with the crazy green and pale green vote and Labor left nuclear energy is far superior to wind and solar and emissions zero.
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Why is it either/or?
On the east coast where there seems to be plenty of coal build/refurbish coal power stations at the end of the conveyor belt. In the west, like Mt Isa, or on the fringe of the cities, go modular nuclear. On the west coast where there is plenty of gas, pipe that gas around OCG plants.
The non-problem solved. 🙂
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Andrew’s Labor Vic have just signed an agreement to subsidise extension of brown coal fired Loy Yang Power Station/s
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Interesting. This story has AGL confirming its closure.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/loy-yang-a-closure-agl-coal-mine-renewable-energy/102754410
Cheers
Dave B
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“By the end of the decade it expects to begin generating up to 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to supply 1.2 million homes with carbon-free energy.”
And you don’t have to divide by 3 to approach reality
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Or – given that these sites are on big coal deposits, why don’t we just upgrade them with the CSIRO developed High Energy Low Emission (HELE) coal fired boilers/turbines???
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1.2 GW is not tiny, presuming that’s a single reactor.
The Indian heavy water design is about half that in terms of energy output … based off earlier Canadian heavy water designs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPHWR-700
With light water reactors it’s easier to build a physically small unit of high power … but heavy water reactors have advantages in terms of safety, easier to refuel and easier to maintain.
At this point Canada would do well to join forces with India and work on those 700MW designs. Physical small size is not so important when you consider how much empty space is avaialable.
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A Nuclear specialist on TV last night, confirmed that the first of Canada’s SMRs is on track to be completed within 4 years, and is on budget !
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Vale LTCOL Harry SMITH SG MC. Lest We Forget.
Monday, 21 August 2023
Watch in Memory
Battle of Long Tan Documentary – Vietnam War – Narrated by Sam Worthington
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Toyota unveils baby ute concept
Toyota has unveiled its second small ute concept in 12 months – and previews a heavy-duty hybrid reportedly due in Asian showrooms next year.
Japanese car giant Toyota has unveiled its latest vision of what a heavy-duty ute smaller than the HiLux could look like – and it is reportedly coming to South-East Asian showrooms in the next few years.
Unlike car-based, so-called ‘lifestyle’ ute concepts, this design is based on a heavy-duty (or “ladder frame” chassis) for added capability.
The Rangga concept unveiled in Indonesia this month is an evolution of the IMV 0 show car revealed in Thailand last year, and previews a smaller and more affordable – but still heavy-duty – Toyota ute to be positioned beneath the HiLux in developing South-East Asian markets.
Overseas reports claim Toyota has confirmed plans for a production version of the Rangga concept.
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There should be a market for that and little competition in the market place.
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One reason it won’t be sold in Australia as a “Rangga” is because all the redheads might complain !
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What about Ford’s Ranger series?
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Probably just a rebadged version of their partner Subaru’s new “Baja” mini ute ?
Subaru have a history of mini utes.. ( BRAT in the 80’s…. Sambar in the 90’s)
But they will have to make it special to win market from Suzuki’s JIMMY !
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Probably just a rebadged version of their partner Subaru’s new “Baja” mini ute ?
Nah – Toyota’s Baby Ute Ladder Frame
I would like to get this Mini for my wife’s next car to replace Honda Jazz
The best-selling car in Japan – a pint-sized hatchback so small it can almost fit between the front and rear wheels of a Ford Ranger dual-cab ute – has been given its biggest makeover in six years.
Whereas Australia’s two best-selling new vehicles are two-tonne utes, the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux, the Honda N-Box – a tiny hatchback half a metre shorter than a Toyota Yaris – was the country’s top seller in 2020 and 2022, and now there is a new model.
As a member of the keijidōsha or ‘light automobile’ vehicle class, the N-Box is required to follow a strict set of rules that govern dimensions, engine capacity and performance to tie in with ‘kei car’ regulations that offer owners reduced taxes and ownership costs.
Looking unlike anything available in Honda showrooms in Australia, the new N-Box has a boxy and upright stance typical of kei cars, designed to maximise available interior space for a car that must be less than 3.4 metres long, 1.48m wide, and 2.0m tall.
The third-generation N-Box continues a strong family resemblance seen on its predecessor, with a choice of circular daytime running lights and body-coloured grille on the regular N-Box, or additional LED elements, horizontal lighting signatures, and a black and chrome grille on the N-Box Custom.
Inside, the N-Box adopts a 7.0-inch TFT digital instrument cluster and 9.0-inch touchscreen display, while the dashboard features storage shelving, cup holders, and repositioned air vents to increase practicality.
Front-seat occupants share a split bench seat with a fold-down armrest, while in the rear the two individual rear seats with armrests can individually slide and fold in a number of ways to cater to passengers or cargo.
Rear-seat access is via dual sliding doors, with power-opening on some trim grades and window blinds to lessen the impact of the massive glasshouse. Rear tray tables are also available.
Despite the tall body, the largest wheels available measure 15 inches across – compared to 14-inch wheels as standard – with a range of wheel covers and alloy wheel designs available.
Honda Japan has yet to reveal full features and specifications, aside from the range-wide inclusion of Honda Sensing safety systems including adaptive cruise control, autonomous emergency braking, evasive steering with pedestrian detection, forward and reverse accidental acceleration prevention, and traffic sign recognition.
While comprehensive size and engine specifications are to be revealed, the new Honda N-Box is expected to stick to revised versions of the outgoing model’s 658cc, 43kW non-turbo and 47kW turbocharged engines, linked to a continuously-variable automatic transmission with either front- or all-wheel drive.
Chances of seeing the N-Box in Australia remain slim, with no Japanese brands offering their kei models in Australia – though Mitsubishi has expressed interest in bringing the electric eK X here – and Honda Australia choosing to focus on larger, more profitable vehicle segments.
The Honda Jazz city hatch – which is half a metre longer than the N-Box, well exceeding kei car rules – was discontinued in Australia in 2020.
The N-Box reported 202,197 sales in Japan in 2022, outselling the second-placed Toyota Yaris by a significant margin (with 168,557 sales) and ahead of the Toyota Corolla (131,548), Nissan Note (110,113) and Toyota Roomy (109,236).
By comparison Australia’s top-seller in 2022 was the Toyota HiLux with 64,391 sales, in a new-car market where 1,081,429 vehicles were reported as sold in Australia last year – compared to 4,201,321 full-year sales in Japan.
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https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/how-to-import-a-used-vehicle-111057/
Environmental
If you want to do your bit for the environment and buy a low-emissions vehicle, then this criterion is for you.
Vehicles have to meet or exceed our emissions standards and be a hybrid or a micro-car. Micro-cars under this rule are effectively Japanese ‘kei’ cars, so they must have a maximum 47kW 660cc engine and measure no more than 3.4m long or 1.48m wide.
Cars that will likely meet the environmental criterion include a raft of Japanese hybrids variants such as the Honda Legend Hybrid and the Toyota Estima Hybrid. A raft of kei cars will also meet this requirement, such as Honda S660 (which is imported under existing legislation).
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‘Stay out of it’: Rinehart CEO blasts companies backing Yes campaign
The chief executive of Gina Rinehart’s agricultural empire has slammed Australian corporations for backing the Yes campaign.
The chief executive of Gina Rinehart’s agricultural empire has slammed Australian corporations for backing the Yes campaign, saying business should “stay out of it”.
Adam Giles, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and now CEO of the mining magnate’s farming assets, Hancock Agriculture and S. Kidman & Co, has spoken out in several recent interviews to decry large companies including Qantas, Woolworths, Wesfarmers, Rio Tinto and BHP taking a side in the Voice debate — and contributing millions in donations and marketing.
“I think [corporates] should stay out of it,” Mr Giles, who is Indigenous, told podcaster Jody Rowe earlier this month.
“I don’t get involved in it, and as I say in this company, let’s stay in our lane. We grow cattle. We grow beef. We talk to the consumer. None of our business happens in the political world, and I don’t think we should.”
Mr Giles told the Tough Talk host he didn’t think corporate contributions to the Yes campaign were the “best use of shareholder funds”.
“I see a little bit of commentary about whether shareholders might have some sort of class action against companies, and I think they have every right to,” he said.
“It’d be interesting to see that tested. But if you’re spending two or three million dollars of shareholders’ money and profits on a political campaign which is only one side of a story, I don’t think that’s the best use of shareholders’ funds.”
In a separate interview with Sky News host Andrew Bolt, Mr Giles suggested companies would be better off spending that money directly to help Indigenous communities.
“Rather than spend all of this money on the Voice and have all of these corporations donating money to a government campaign, it would be far better to divide that money up and give it to every prescribed [Indigenous] body corporate and getting them involved in economics, supporting business development and job creation,” he said.
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14 U.S Cities Planning to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030
14 American cities have set a “target” to comply with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) green agenda goals by banning meat, dairy, and private car ownership by 2030.
The U.S. cities have formed a coalition called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group” (C40).
The C40 has established an “ambitious target” to meet the WEF’s goals by the year 2030.
To fulfill the “target,” the C40 Cities have pledged that their residents will comply with the following list of mandatory rules:
“0 kg [of] meat consumption”
“0 kg [of] dairy consumption”
“3 new clothing items per person per year”
“0 private vehicles” owned
“1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person”
The C40 Cities’ dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report.
The report was published in 2019 and reemphasized in 2023.
The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization.
https://slaynews.com/news/14-us-cities-ban-meat-dairy-private-cars-2030/
Who will comply with these gubermint laws THIS time around?
How much more oppression will people take?
How much quality of life and future prospects need to be destroyed for critical mass in awareness to be achieved?
If only Jo ran polls (in the time left).
From Martin A:
“Start to stockpile food. You have all seen the people screaming in Shanghai for imprisonment in their homes. I also suggest that those in the Northern Blue States start to look at moving South. As tensions rise, they will most likely start with the masks for the fourth quarter of 2023. This will be the control tool of choice for the civil unrest they deliberately create.”
2024 is going to be the year from hell and the CNN-watching fingers-in-their-ears saying “la la la la, I’m not listening” types are seriously scr3wed.
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Also discussed here
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/19/these-14-american-cities-have-a-target-of-banning-meat-dairy-and-private-vehicles-by-2030/
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I thought that might be parody because it sounds too bizarre, even by the low to non-existent standards of the Left, but it is all true.
Here is the original press release.
https://www.c40.org/news/new-research-shows-how-urban-consumption-drives-global-emissions/
What the Left are doing these days sounds like a joke but we keep finding out it isn’t. They have become a parody of themselves
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You can see a list of C40 cities at the link below.
Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, NZ are there.
https://www.c40.org/cities/
I suspect there are more than listed.
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Chances of that succeeding in Sydney Melbourne or Auckland is zero.
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Countdown in NZ (Woolworths) and Hilton Food Group invested NZ$54 million in a meat plant in Otahuhu, Auckland.
Now linked to a state-of-the-art distribution facility:
State-Of-The-Art Systems For Countdown’s New Auckland Distribution Facility
https://ultigroup.co.nz/blog/state-of-the-art-systems-for-countdowns-new-auckland-dc/
Apparently, “0 kg [of] meat consumption” by 2030 was not part of their economic analysis.
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And now watch people leave those US cities in droves. And in their ICE vehicles.
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Martin just posted this.
As we move closer and closer to 2032, we will see this shift post-2024. We should begin to witness this paradigm shift toward anti-government form by 2026. It will most likely explode in 2029. This is all necessary for the people must come voluntarily. It will be 2032 when we witness perhaps as much as 60%-75% of the people demanding the end of Republic forms of government.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/future-forecasts/ecm/the-2032-paradigm-shift/
More and more we see d-day moving to 2028, my target year, but then Marty and I move in different circles, and it’s clear there are factors unknown to him, and one in particular.
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““1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person””
“The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.”
Yup, I can see him taking one flight every three years.. Just like the Australian Censorship regime applying to the peasants but not to the Govt who wrote and enforce it. Hypocrisy everywhere these days.
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FWIW
“How to prevent another scientific great leap forward”
https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=22616&page=1
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EnergyAustralia just released their new plan for national suicide.
https://www.energyaustralia.com.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/79048_Energy-Australia_Climate-Transition-Action-Plan_2023_V14_DIGITAL-RGB.pdf
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Well put, that’s what it is, suicide.
Australia has the constant tyranny of distance problem, an endemic high wage problem, both which can’t be changed. Then it volunteers to hang the goose of high energy prices around its neck. Volunteers!
Proof that the only conclusion that can be confidently and absolutely drawn, is that idiots are in charge. There is no other option.
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A Chinese company deciding our energy future?
What could possibly go wrong?
And what does CLP stand for?
China Light and Power Company.
Nothing to see here. Move along now.
No wonder Australian politicians love the Chicomms so much.
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105 comments in and there are 3 names surprisingly missing? I seem to recall each of these names parroting the CDC et al about why you should not take a horse de-wormer i wonder where they are now and why they have not made a comment?
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In a Monday thread? Find me where I have ever given a toss about anything the CDC does and I’ll engage.
Since there is zero reason to proscribe ivermectin for SARS viruses, I suspect that not many doctors will take up the offer.
PS – A fungus has no backbone but that does not make it an invertebrate. A very weird comment earlier.
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Gee,
I detect a bit of anger.
You may lack the temperament necessary for a career quipping for government.
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Yes I noticed that.
One of the three names in particular only seems to post during work time as she never posts on weekends or after normal work hours…
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Your work times maybe
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Name and shame?
Hmmmm..
G-something?
Sim-something?
Pete-something?
QUESTION: Marty, I have tried to convince some family members of the deep state and the trend in front of their eyes. No matter what I say, they ignore it and call me crazy. Should I give up?
DP
ANSWER: Look, the vast majority are simply the herd. They prefer not to think analytically. They feel comfortable thinking the government really cares. They still want to live the dream that Santa Claus is real. I would estimate that this represents at least 70% of the population, and at times it has risen to as high as 85%. I based that on simply looking at the election cycle.
– Martin A.
I’ve long given up trying wake up their kind.
Post to inform the awake, not the asleep.
They’ve had decades but CHOSE not to wake up.
They’ll reap what they’ve sown soon enough.
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Here is an example of how Wikipedia has been destroyed by the Left. This is part of the third paragraph for the entry on “coal”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal?wprov=sfla1
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Natural Resources 101
Coal saved the trees, oil saved the whales.
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But what will save us from Climate Change madness of crowds?
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Saved by a tree
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil5EszgtdzajQzq7mRRYWh9kuq6C5Q5rUwvwjFDy15aCbIXN5Oz7Jbn–Giz-IV9Z86Be7-tZRFTLz-QIE2C2PeohAvfS3oeAACx4suZwFo37oqYwtNhPe5DCO1tNrGsQQaCODvRuQfJ6O9QCnqbiUB8N6pJmLnlgEraM7eHEqm-Tpecjh443HMQqQU7g/w310-h400/Meme%20-%20irony.png
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It was caused by the weight of the camera they hung on the tree to photograph the licence plates of old and poor people driving cars over 12years old so they could be fined for emissions.
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I think that I will never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Nor a windmill neither.
(Say, listen to that thrum.)
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…and to show how much more advanced and civilised we have become, today we have children working Lithium mines and dying young whereas they worked coal mines in the past and died young.
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well its worse than that. Coal mining became a high wage high tech desired job when technology improved, and we want to throw that away for children in mines.
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Monday entertainment: volcanic lightning
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1692665288985370699/
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Spectacular!
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I don’t know what to believe these days with CGI in operation.
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Unusually wet in Death Valley.
‘The remnants of Hurricane Hilary are bringing life-threatening severe weather to parts of California and Nevada, with flooding even reaching the hottest place on Earth – Death Valley National Park.’ (Weatherzone)
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This is not a joke.
This is a picture of the latest indigenous graduates from medicine at UNSW.
Only one of them seems that they might be a little bit indigenous, the rest, certainly not.
I think it’s obvious what’s going on here.
https://newsevents.med.unsw.edu.au/news/record-number-indigenous-doctors-graduate-unsw-0
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Latest?
Date Published: 15 December 2014
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The gin on the left might be .05% tops.
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B…but … .03 = climate purity …
.04 and we’re all gonna die!
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You reckon more of the Fauxahontas tribe?
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Albo-riginal
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‘What was painfully missing from Australian CPAC 2023 was any indication mainstream Aussie conservatives have the balls to stand up against the green blob.’ (Eric Worrall/wuwt)
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Agreed.
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China is BANNING all Teslas
https://youtu.be/eCzU5BF-110?si=Yz-a9IUPKUmrVqYu
Espionage. Pot calling the kettle black…
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It’s all those cameras and spyware.
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Which means they are definitely spying with theirs
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Phone hacking company tells police customers to keep software ‘hush hush’
[Naaahhh, sorry! JC2.]
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.”
In a leaked training video for law enforcement customers that was obtained by TechCrunch, a senior Cellebrite employee tells customers that “ultimately, you’ve extracted the data, it’s the data that solves the crime, how you got in, let’s try to keep that as hush hush as possible.”
“We don’t really want any techniques to leak in court through disclosure practices, or you know, ultimately in testimony, when you are sitting in the stand, producing all this evidence and discussing how you got into the phone,” the employee, who we are not naming, says in the video.
Another concern raised in the training video is that “the phone manufacturers might find out what we’re doing to achieve this magic” and implement stronger security measures.
The trainer also warned police against going into detail about the software in their standard operating procedures or any documents that may be seen by outside auditors or citizens via Freedom of Information requests.
The leaked video comes amid growing public concern about police access to private data.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/19/cellebrite-asks-cops-to-keep-its-phone-hacking-tech-hush-hush/
https://sites.google.com/site/endpointforensics/how-cellebrite-works
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/in-epic-hack-signal-developer-turns-the-tables-on-forensics-firm-cellebrite/
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Unprecedented flooding in California….
https://www.britishpathe.com/search/?searchQuery=California%20flood&page=1
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One could think of LA with Hilary out-showering what Trump was supposed to have commissioned?
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It never rains in Southern California
Albert Hammond, 1973
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More flushing
“Pretend Liberal Felicity Wilson’s taxpayer funded electorate office pushing Albanese YES Voice”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/pretend-liberal-felicity-wilsons-taxpayer-funded-electorate-office-pushing-albanese-yes-voice.html
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BBC: –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66543643
“Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail”
I call BS on that: the ‘Pyxis Ocean‘ is an 80,000 tonne deadweight bulk carrier, built in 2017, that has very recently been retro-fitted with a couple of ‘wind wings’ [expensive sails] – each of which will save “one-and-a-half tonnes of fuel per day.”
Three tonnes of fuel per day, total.
“Wind-assisted” – at best!
The ship probably burns about 42 tonnes of fuel a day in ballast [for 14 knots], and about 45-48 tonnes a day loaded with iron ore.
Iron ore, it should be noted is dusty, which will, over time, cause further problems with the hydraulics used to manoeuvre the ‘wind wings’ to try to catch favourable breezes.
In addition to the effects of salt water and varying temperatures on anything moving – or anything stationary.
The BBC piece is not very far short of a marketing screed.
No mention is made of the cost of this kit [it’s still under development]; it’s [modest] extra weight will slightly reduce the amount of cargo that can legally be carried.
“Experts say wind power is a promising area to explore, as the shipping industry tries to reduce the estimated 837 million tonnes of CO2 it produces each year.”
The reason we got rid of sails at sea, as soon as we could, is that they’re unreliable, and the enrgy is so diffuse it is – comparatively – of no use, compared with coal or bunker fuel [the very bottom of the refining crack!].
Remember that a ship going forward will have a relative wind against it.
Most of the time – the wind is going slower than you are – in the direction you wish to go.
Tacking is necessary on pure wind-power ships, and adds massively to the distance travelled [and so the time taken].
The BBC does note – “wind technology may not be suitable for all vessels, for example, where the sails interfere with the unloading of containers.”
If I remember by Guinness Book of Records – the largest sailing vessel ever constructed was of about 8,000 tonnes [IIRC!].
Many ships are the size of the ‘Pyxis Ocean‘ – ten times larges.
And the largest container ships, bulk carriers and tankers are way over 200,000 tonnes.
You need concentratyed energy to move those big ladies at any speed at all.
These wind wing things will – possibly – help a little, if they are simple and light and robust – and cheap.
Simple, light, robust, cheap. Can you have all four?
Now, the pictures suggest the whole things are made out of – or using – fossil fuels.
Is the whole life-cycle carbon-dioxide negative?
And if so – why do they hate plants?
Plants love CO2; it’s the basis of life on our planet [perhaps it should be called ‘Water’, rather than ‘Earth’!]
Colour me unimpressed.
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Latest News!
“High wind gusts overturn Pixus Ocean and sink it”
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World wildfires live map
https://twitter.com/shae33172/status/1693282140459327675/
Meat on standby.
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“YOU’VE HEARD OF THE ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART ONE PAGER – HERES THE REST THAT THEY TRIED TO HIDE!”
https://richardsonpost.com/harryo/32801/the-rest-of-the-uluru-statement/
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Uh-huh.. Here’s the nub-
“Any body must also be supported by a sufficient and guaranteed budget, with access to its own independent secretariat, experts and lawyers.” Translation- We want an endless gravy train!
At least they list the cities you don’t want to live in.
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Day After Fire Footage: 4K Drone Lahaina Maui Fire – Longest & Most Detailed Aerial View
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