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We have still to wait 6h+ ’til Sunday…
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12 hrs here. We are truly global. Cool.
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Yes, Jo ought to be fined heavily for early Threads. So that’s $6000 for Krishna and me and a whopping $12000 for David. What with also getting huge sums of money from Big Oil for posting here I don’t know what to do with all the finance.
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Under our proposed Ministry of Truth legislation, Jo may get into trouble for saying its Sunday before its actually Sunday everywhere.
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It is still all so yesterday in a couple of places.
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Yep, at any time, somewhere in the world it’s beer o’clock. So that’s my excuse.
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Energy efficiency gone crazy.
ACEEE says heavy industry should get intermittent
By David Wojick, Ph.D.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/08/26/aceee-says-heavy-industry-should-get-intermittent/
The beginning: “The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has gone over the top on climate change. Their solution to the intermittency of renewables is for heavy industry to learn to live with it. I am not making this up. They have a whole study on this nonsensical idea, reported at: “With Planning, Heavy Industry Can Use Wind and Solar Power”
https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2023/08/planning-heavy-industry-can-use-wind-and-solar-power
Here is their central concept: “The growth of renewable power is key to helping industrial companies decarbonize quickly and economically, but it will also require them to adapt. While many facilities operate 24/7, they will need to accommodate the effects of weather conditions, the season of the year, and the time of day on wind and solar power generation.“ So stop operating continuously and just do it intermittently, when the wind blows or the sun shines? Seriously?
We are talking about the most energy-intensive industries, such as iron and steel, cement, bulk chemicals, refining, and food and beverage manufacturing. I doubt any of these can switch on and off, or even quickly ramp up and down, the way renewables do. What are they smoking at ACEEE? Even worse, they are not just talking about today’s use of electricity. They specifically point out that: “Currently less than 15% of industrial energy consumed is electricity.“ What they propose is that all of that energy be electrified. Then it is used intermittently.
Okay this is just nuts, because electrifying heavy industry is impossible, even without intermittency. But the rest of the story is interesting. ACEEE used to be the energy efficiency (EE) people. In America EE has long been a big dollar, regulation driven industry unto itself. Most States and Utilities have big EE programs, as do the Feds.
Now the EE folks are trying desperately to find a place in the so-called energy transition. They are watching billions, going on trillions, being spent on renewables and such, with little or nothing new on EE. A recent ACEEE article title puts it succinctly: “Utility Scorecard: Energy Efficiency Efforts Stagnating Amid Climate Crisis”.”
More in the article. Please share it.
David
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Intermittency also takes aluminium and glass off the menu as with a few minutes without power the melting pots start to go solid and have to be dug out before restarting.
Oh well, the virtue signallers are exporting industry to the BRICS countries in order to feel good.
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I expect everyone here is as excited as I am by this news
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-12448293/Meghan-Markle-coming-Instagram-Duchess-prepares-launch-social-media-new-page-earn-million-dollars-post-sources-say.html
As soon as Meghan starts I will be sure to alert everyone here. $1 million a post? She deserves much more.
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Trembling with anticipation.
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After last night’s Carolina Reaper chilli beef stirfry, so am I!
And it’s still more exciting than Meghan Markle.😆
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Had to look that one up. And I always thought the Scotch Bonnet was the hottest.
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Scotch bonnet?
Never heard of it.😎
Carolina Reaper hold the official title of world’s hottest at 1.5-2 million SHU, but artificial variants add Capsaicin and I’ve had those with 16 million SHU.
Side effects include heart attacks, strokes and extreme gastrointestinal distress (and pain).
5 years ago they were very unpleasant painwise but today they’re just fruity to me…
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This is worrying as the EU prepares to censor big media platforms if you should dare to post anything controversial, such as denying climate change
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/26/the-eus-censorship-regime-is-about-to-go-global/
I think Oz has got something broadly similar but not sure it is as potentially Draconian as this.
As yet the UK’s digital media bill is still grinding through Parliament so as yet we aren’t affected. In separate news it looks as if Denmark will make burning the Quaran illegal
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Makes sense – burning Korans has been shown to raise temperatures to incendiary levels in many places. Releases carbon dioxide too.
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To any climate change you have to deny Earth is a spinning ball in space.
In fact, the reason for climate change is that Earth is a spinning ball in space with ever changing orientation to its prime source of heat – the sun.
All climate models deny that Earth is a spinning ball in space with ever changing orientation to the sun. And they deny that there was climate change before 1850.
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I surmise that most climate modellers view earth as a 2-dimensional map, devoid of the Coriolis Force i.e. requisite for hurricane/ cyclone generation. To them the earth is static with the sun moving across the map when it is the opposite that occurs. A parameter such as “average global temperature” is meaningless unless a reading of every graticule is made at the same instant – an impossibility!
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Climate modellers work in reverse, starting from the desired endpoint, which is “Aaaaaaagh!” then design a model that takes us from here, to there via CO2.
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From Friends of Science
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Kids Win Climate Change Lawsuit in Montana
The Held v. Montana lawsuit in which 16 Montana youth, represented by the Children’s Trust, assert climate change-based claims against the State of Montana. The state lawyers initially retained Judith Curry as an expert witness to rebut the plaintiffs’ scientific evidence, but then chose not to use Dr. Curry and argue only on a point of law. On August 14 the lawyers had cause to regret that choice when the trial judge, according to a Children’s Trust press release, accepted the plaintiffs’ unchallenged evidence and awarded a “sweeping constitutional win” in their favour. The press release lists ten highlights from the judge’s decision that likely will form precedents for similar climate litigation in the future. One interesting finding in the decision is that all Montana’s fossil fuel energy use can be technically and economically replaced by wind, water, and sunlight, “the cheapest and most efficient form of energy,” as early as 2035 (p.81).
An NBC News report on the court ruling says that it’s up to the Montana legislature how to bring policy into compliance as the judge’s ruling (pp.101-103 or the decision) strikes down some existing legislation, but contains nothing in the form of prescriptive actions by the state government. A spokeswoman for Montana’s attorney general said: “This ruling is absurd, but not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiffs’ attorneys put on a week-long taxpayer-funded publicity stunt that was supposed to be a trial. Montanans can’t be blamed for changing the climate — even the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses agreed that our state has no impact on the global climate. Their same legal theory has been thrown out of federal court and courts in more than a dozen states. It should have been here as well, but they found an ideological judge who bent over backward to allow the case to move forward and earn herself a spot in their next documentary.” The AG’s office plans to appeal.
Francis Menton writing in the Manhattan Contrarian has a suggestion for Montana’s government on how to proceed: select one of the state’s cities (a liberal one) as a guinea pig; build a bunch of wind turbines and solar panels; prohibit access to fossil fuel-powered back-up power (batteries are OK); impose the full cost of the new electricity system on residents; ban internal-combustion vehicles and require conversion of oil and natural gas heat to electric.
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My take: https://www.cfact.org/2023/08/17/montana-climate-decision-no-big-deal/
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Some truth about The Federal Reserve . . (and other Central Banks.)
“By creating money out of thin air to buy the US government’s debt, the Fed enables the federal government to spend much more than it takes in with taxes.”
“The Fed contributes to slower economic growth by helping cause the boom-and-bust business cycle . . [which lowers] worker productivity and real wage growth below what it would have been otherwise.”
• so while MoneyBags scarpers off with another Office Building under his arm — paid for with new money ‘created’ so he can ‘borrow it’ (think of it as NEW money that dilutes the value of YOUR money) — it’s the workers who suffer the consequences of inflation.
• put simply, MoneyBags and his class expand their empire of assets; and wage earners get shafted with more inflation.
“The fact is that the Fed was not created to help the economy. It was created by bankers to help fractional reserve banks create even more money out of thin air and bail them out when they get in trouble.”
• Hey, remember the time when your forebears were asked to vote for Fractional Reserve Banking and the abandonment of the Gold Standard? And authorities tried to inform everyone about the issue beforehand, and who would benefit and who wouldn’t, and everyone got to vote on it? . . . Never heard about that? . . Oh yeah, it never happened!
“Outside of brief inflationary spikes driven by money printing to fund wars, inflation was virtually nonexistent prior to the creation of the Fed in 1913. Since then, inflation has skyrocketed, particularly after all ties between the US dollar and gold were severed in 1971. As a result of this inflation due to Fed money creation, the dollar has lost 97 percent of its value since 1913.”
• the Fed has presided over the dollar losing 97% of its value . . . Wow! — only Zimbabwe makes these guys look good!
The Fed: Harming the Economy for over a Century — Mises Wire
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Some famous banker, probably a Rothschild, said that if people knew how money was created they wouldn’t put up with it.
There have been long periods since Christ when you could live your whole life with goods costing the same average price, there was no inflation. Right now the Govt takes 25% of GDP and then borrows the rest, owing 45% of GDP. For all their talk of sustainability, that’s certainly not!
No gold standard for the peasants!
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“The secret meeting of a handful of top bankers at the Jekyll Island Club in November 1910 that framed the prototype of the Federal Reserve Act was held at a resort facility provided by J.P. Morgan himself.”
— Murray Rothbard, from his “A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War 2”.
A secret meeting! . . so who was representing the interests of the Common Man?
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The rich are not concerned with the common man except to use his labour and, in times of war, his blood. How many Rothchilds were killed in the Civil War, the War of Independence, the wars of the 20th century? The way things are going there will come a time when the rich will quake as the hordes of common men approach their palaces just as they approached the palace of the Sri Lankan president.
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The way the FED operates in the US is really just as a bankers private club, gifting themselves whatever is necessary. Fox guarding the henhouse stuff. Just another weird anomaly in the way the US operates, like creating legislation in omnibus bills that link unrelated matters so you can push through stuff the other side wouldn’t normally vote for. The current example is linking Maui relief with funds for the Ukraine.
Its all worked up to a point , but it seems that point is rapidly approaching.
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It is the reason Reagan wanted a line item veto
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‘Their ABC’ continues to spread climate doom … Panama Canal edition
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/why-is-the-panama-canal-drying-up-and-what-it-means-for-shipping/102780142
The Panama Canal uses some 80 Olympic sized swimming pools of water to lift shipping at either end of the canal by some 26 metres. This water is sourced from the Chagres River, and Lake Alajuela.
Both sources of water are being impacted by drought.
This ABC ‘Story’ tells us that this is because of EL Nino conditions
Which is strange in that the WMO only declared a 90% likelihood of the onset of an El Nino 2 months ago and the current drought (with reduced rainfall of 30-50% or ‘just’ .95 – 1.3 metres of annual rain) that has been going on for 2 years now.
CNN, Reuters and Al Jazeera all report this issue but do not highlight the ‘El Nino’ aspect, whilst Euro-news and the ABC do.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/drought-at-the-panama-canal-poses-unprecedented-challenges-to-global-trade/
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New documentary ‘proves’ building offshore wind farms does kill whales
https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/new-documentary-proves-that-offshore-windfarms-kill-whales/
By Michael Shellenberger
The increase in whale, dolphin, and other cetacean deaths off the East Coast of the United States since 2016 is not due to the construction of large industrial wind turbines, U.S. government officials say.
Their scientists have done the research, they say, to prove that whatever is killing the whales is completely unrelated to the wind industry.
But now, a new documentary, “Thrown To The Wind,” by director and producer Jonah Markowitz, which I executive produced, proves that the US government officials have been lying.
The film documents surprisingly loud, high-decibel sonar emitted by wind industry vessels when measured with state-of-the-art hydrophones. And it shows that the wind industry’s increased boat traffic is correlated directly with specific whale deaths…
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Contemporary tech may adversely impact on whales but mass beachings have been going on for centuries before tech even existed…
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Not sure how this travel development is being allowed to proceed in todays world
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/new-supersonic-plane-designed-to-fly-melbourne-to-la-in-85-hours/news-story/4b223ef0091f6dbfde63ff5eec7c165d
So unPC in soooo many ways
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Commercial airliners are slower today than they were some time back, and this is logical: Why burn fuel flying @ 0.9m to save 10 mins in a flight when they almost never take off on time anyway and the passengers prolly left home three hours before.
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” they almost never take off on time anyway and the passengers prolly left home three hours before.”
More! A couple of hours to fight your way to Sydney airport, an hour to be checked, weighed, scanned, scammed and 2hours before your flight leaves..
Te only interesting part of that article was the bit they left out- How many litres of fuel per passenger across the Atlantic compared to a current jet. I can’t see it being a service with a cattle class, its another slab of hypocrisy for the rich and powerful over the ordinary bloke.
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Twice on a recent trip (nine flights in total) I failed security and so had to submit to having my underthings fondled. It’s always my right knee that the scanner objects to, despite having no bionics, yet this means I have to be subjected to aforementioned investigations, unrelated IMO, but challenge those security goons at your peril …
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I thought we were all going to fly in planes with PV wings. Imagine a long flight where you had to guarantee clear, daylight skies for the entire trip.
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What goes up must come down, Won’t someone think of the fishies.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/removing-dams-europe-river-restoration/
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Ok. Blue Grenadier, crumbed, and a light sprinkling of chicken salt. 😁
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What is it with this chicken salt, do you get your chicken with fish salt?
Blue Grenadie or Hoki, the fish New Zealand reject, in real Australia we call it bait.
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Chicken salt appears to be unknown outside of Australia, going by various foodie channels, but visitors here love it and ask why they can’t get it at home.
Plain salt is old hat -VHS in Bluray world.
You don’t know what you’re missing…
Actually, I have my own mix too – Carolina Reaper powder/chicken salt combo. If that went public, oh yeah..
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Just had the discussion with the kids,
Evaporated sea salt with the seagull droppings left in.
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Sunday funny: India releases video of the Earth from the moon
https://twitter.com/TNTJohn1717/status/1695415299774849291/
Can’t wait for the comments.
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Sunday funny #2. Parachuting for beginners
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rzr0354yVK1w5pr9j.mp4
Watch out for barbed wire fences.
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Forgotten his training while panicking. You just have to grab one riser or even a line and keep pulling it in till the canopy inverts, or operate a canopy release if equipped.
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Nah their live landing beats that for fakery
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I’ve always said the South pole is at the top of the Earth..
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Did you know there are 4 north poles and 3 south poles? 😎
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All that’s missing.
https://images.app.goo.gl/m5kuojZfojKAssuB6
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Wells Fargo customers left unable to use their bank cards or transfer cash amid major outage
Wells Fargo resolved technical issues with its banking systems Friday after customers reported issues with using their bank cards and transferring funds.
The bank, which has 70 million customers overall, said it was aware that some issues began on Thursday night, with outages continuing this morning. It is unclear how many of its users are affected.
According to DownDetector, which tracks website outages, hundreds of users said they had experienced issues with using debit cards, viewing their account balance or making transactions and transferring funds.
‘We are aware that some customers are experiencing intermittent issues with certain transactions. Our teams are working diligently to resolve. We apologize for any inconvenience,’ the bank told DailyMail.com in a statement.
A Wells Fargo spokesperson on X, formerly known as Twitter, acknowledged that some online banking customers were having trouble completing transactions on digital payments network Zelle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/banking/article-12445499/Wells-Fargo-bank-cards-transfer-cash-major-outage.html
https://downdetector.com/status/wells-fargo/
Just wait until it’s all digital.
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BoM joins the dots and everything is in sync, natural variables rule.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/four-years-since-all-australian-capitals-drier-than-average/1469091
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Some updated lyrics –
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb477fb4-48d7-4be7-854f-8cb40896bd60_800x590.jpeg
https://garyvarvel.substack.com/p/gary-varvel-biden-sings-rich-man
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FDA Proposal on Salt Substitutes May Bring Unexpected Harms
According to reports, the FDA is now advocating for a transition from traditional salt to Bill Gates’ fake salt, as outlined in their proposal, “Use of Salt Substitutes to Reduce the Sodium Content in Standardized Foods.”
The fake salt companies, such as Nu-Salt or Morton’s, are both funded by Bill Gates. These dangerous substitutes typically employ potassium chloride, MSG and other dangerous chemicals to mimic the flavor of real salt.
In a collaborative letter dated Aug. 8, leading health organizations, including the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the National Kidney Foundation, raised significant concerns about the FDA’s recent proposition to use potassium-based salt substitutes in standardized foods.
The concerns revolve around the potential health risks to the 37 million Americans who have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Many CKD patients, they note, are unable to adequately process excess potassium, making them susceptible to hyperkalemia, a dangerous condition that can lead to severe cardiac complications and even sudden death.
While these organizations laud the FDA’s efforts to mitigate the high sodium consumption among Americans, they stress the need for a more cautious approach. The letter pointedly highlights that adding “hidden potassium” in foods, especially without clear labeling, could inadvertently imperil a significant portion of the population.
Potassium—crucial for muscle contraction, especially in the heart—must be carefully balanced. When this balance is disrupted, it can cause muscle malfunction, including in the heart. While kidneys manage about 80 percent of the potassium that we consume, other organs such as the adrenal glands and pancreas, as well as many medications, can also affect potassium levels.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fda-proposal-on-salt-substitute-may-bring-unexpected-harms-5474969
Hypokalemia causes more heart attacks than hyperkalemia, but everything in moderation. Cases of hyperkalemia are rare.
Excess salt risk is yet another overhyped story trotted out routinely for a run around the msm paddock.
The rda’s are just that, but the kidneys can easily handle 10x the rda of salt. The kidneys love salt and rely on it for correct operation.
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Your stomach needs salt too, to make the correct level of hydrochloric acid. So many things we are told are bad for us are just old scientist’s wives tales.
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Correct, but iodised salt ideally, which most should be anyway.
Did you know that humans have the 2nd lowest stomach pH in the animal kingdom, just behind the #1 spot holder of carrion scavengers like vultures?
I wonder why…
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Sunday classical music corner
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rzqzyeAT6B1w5pr9j.mp4
I feel an overwhelming urge to go for a drive. 😁
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Since it’s Sunday Funny time and we’re in a cello mood . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk
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OT, have you a memior, article about you life?
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Ok, now that was clever…
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Cellos, you say:
https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk?si=0biD-FWbGoKibpC-
😁😁
Kulcha.
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In hell, I’ll be in good company
https://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY?si=m5huWaPVYAX7Qdvi
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On the Current Covid “Surge”: Misinformation from the Media and the Experts
For both news outlets and a cottage industry of public health professionals-come-media-darlings like Wachter, the cyclical waxing and waning of Covid continues to deliver a gift of reliable, recurrent source material. The populace can be kept in a state of repeated anxiety, and the “experts” can maintain their relevance by regularly telling us how we should feel and what we should do.
If a tiny bump in the rate of new weekly Covid hospital admissions—that still is among the lowest rates over the last three years—relates to a surge, then what is an actual large rise called? The use of this hyperbolic language by so many media outlets that over-dramatizes risk skirts very close to misinformation.
https://www.silentlunch.net/p/on-the-current-covid-surge-misinformation
Rigged elections are coming in the USSA.
Gotta plan ahead and ensure mailed in voting.
…and more shots…
Get your Fauci ouchie:
https://youtu.be/UK7TDoHzYJE?feature=shared
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FWIW – re vehicles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dakar_Rally_records
Kamaz trucks 19 win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dakar_Rally_records
Some other well known manufacturers names seem to be absent
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“They never expected that”!
“Trump Mugshot Generates $7.1 Million in Small Donor Support for Campaign in Two Days
August 26, 2023 | Sundance | 30 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/26/trump-mugshot-generates-7-1-million-in-small-donor-support-for-campaign-in-two-days/
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Donald knows how to work the crowd.
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Better than that, you can buy t-shirts, coasters, coffee mugs etc with that photo on from the day after they took it!!
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An ode to modern education –
https://youtu.be/d13gX-1HJg4
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Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Federation Lt General Igor Kirillov speaks about U.S. bioweapons activity
Despite the fact that the stated goals of U.S. programmes are to monitor disease incidence and provide assistance to developing countries, in fact, we see the Pentagon conducting uncontrolled dual-use research in circumvention of international obligations under the BTWC.
True! The US is violating Biological Weapons convention and covering it up as “defensive biological research”. But this is old news, as this has been ongoing since the 1970’s.
His next point – it favors Big Pharma commercially and it seems like he is also pointing finger at the Democrats in power. But, c’mon man! We have a Uniparty, just like the USSR did, and Kirillov is old enough to recognize this. Nevertheless, the entities named on this chart – pharmas, academia, government and NGO/money groups are correctly identified.
He talks about US DOD searching for potentially weaponizable disease agents. This is very old news, and Russia has been doing the same thing for just as long. With the same result – nobody still can make GOF viruses in the lab. The only successful way to do this has been demonstrated by the covid hoax in the past 3 years – fool the population into injecting themselves with immune-system destroying poison advertised as “vaccines”. Then any “bug” becomes a “superbug” for those injected. Kirillov should know this, too, albeit maybe not directly from his own expertise, but someone inside Russian MOD certainly knows this.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/chief-of-nuclear-chemical-and-biological
The question you shouldn’t ask is “if the vaxx is intended to identify those that won’t comply with the NWO, then how will they be dealt with?”
Now, how would YOU do it?
The geniuses among you may work it out, and wish you hadn’t.
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To our American friends: Three of your marines died today in an aircraft crash north of Darwin participating in a multi national exercise. They add to the loss of four of our own in Talisman Sabre. I, for one, appreciate that you service personnel come so far and take the risks they do being our “big brother”.
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I go to one of my news/propaganda outlets and my browser just can’t find it. Do a web search and instead of Southfront.org I find Southfront.press- the lead article says..
“On the night of 18 August, the “international domain name registry” blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. …Through 10 years of its work, SouthFront Team has repeatedly faced blatant acts of censorship from those who seek to take down really independent media and suppress the truth.
Apparently, the removal of SouthFront from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream social media, the blocking of accounts and years-long discrimination campaign against our Team, including summoning our volunteers for interrogation by the FBI, have not achieved results expected by instigators of these censorship acts. Therefore, they have turned to desperate moves like this.
This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law. ”
https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/
Don’t ever believe we live in a golden, shining free world with honest democracy and free speech!
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In August, the amount of heat under the equatorial Pacific decreased compared to July.
http://www.bom.gov.au/archive/oceanography/ocean_anals/IDYOC007/IDYOC007.202308.gif
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London ULEZ justification air quality investigation.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/26/ulez-air-quality-pt1-dangerous-pollution-in-london-shocking-readings-but-not-where-you-think/
I’m sure there are sometimes air quality problems in some very specific locations/weather conditions above ground, but how much are private cars really to blame and are schemes like ULEZ proportionate or even likely to make a difference?
As I’ve said before, even lock down zero traffic made little corresponding difference to air quality in the vast majority of places when I checked DEFRA monitoring data.
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