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    Raving

    Monday, Monday
    So good to me
    Monday mornin’
    It was all I hoped it would be

    – The Mamas & The Papas

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    RobB

    How Klaus Schwab has chosen narcissists to be our political masters:

    https://sonar21.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political-class/

    Explains why Western politicians are all useless and the Uniparty is really the WEF.

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      Raving

      It is not a secret that the western political class undergoes a selection process before being set loose on their populations. …

      Darwin’s theory ofevolution is dead. Long live the modern synthesis.

      No. Darwin’s theory is a 19th century idea. It reeks of thermodynamics but aspires to relentless competition where fitter is better and the noise of mutation is special.

      Sorry. No.Perpetuates an old idea which has been superceeded by a more modern understanding which hasn’t yet permeated into the modern catabolysis

      Proof:: One wouldn’t say that ‘thermodynamics’ (2nd law) edplains emergent qualitiesi in physic and chemistry. More precisely thermodynamics explains everything and nothing.Put blandly it is beside the point.

      So too is selection mutation and population dynamics in biology. Everything follows these rules of large numbers of interactions but there is nothing in it which guarantees a a relentless rise in complexity

      .. as’survival of the fittest’ and ‘divergence of kind wirhout limit’ aspires to claim

      The IMPORTANT THING is to appreciate that evolution is about the expansion of possibility space

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        Raving

        Jumping from Klaus Scwab to Darwin’s theory of natural selection to ..Climate change and political science seems to be a huge drift …. but it isn’t. It’s all very muvh interconnected.

        In our present world view misanthropy is the king. We hate being human. We dispair of the societies we have created. We fear Russia China communism wokism and on and on and on ad nausea.

        Frankly humanity should be optimistic as to what we have accomplished and where we are going. To get there requires moving beyond 19th century ideas.

        Darwinism, climate change , fear of Ai and warring populations are rooted in those 19th competition and selection ideas. It’s important to move beyond that. Physics and chemistry have already done so.

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          Mike Jonas

          Competition in evolution is competition to be best.
          Competition for Klaus Schwab selection, to the extent that this is actually a form of competition, is competition to be worst.
          And that is the opposite of ‘expansion of possibility space’. ie, it is contraction not expansion.

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            Raving

            Exactly. Huge grin..

            The freedom to do one’s own thing (linertarianism) goes to crux of biological process. It emphasiszes the ability to drift outwards and explore all possibility space.

            The bigger is a huge dividing line in physics chemistry and biology.

            THE ARROW OF TIME

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_as_an_arrow_of_time

            The paradox is that biological process gets more complex yet the arrow of time suggests thing should get simpler (more disordered)

            Darwinism tries to explain away the contrasiction by suggestig that simplifying processes lead to complexifying processes.

            … just as emergent process such a turbulence do in nature … or cobection cells or onset of chaos, etx.

            Trouble is that these physical emergent processes are accompanied by an overall increase in disorder. The localized emergent quality is a local tempory abberationnat the expenss of a global loss.

            So how does life continue and comtinue and continue to emerge even if it is powered by thermodynamic (entropy increaing) activity.

            Surprise, surprise! Entropy increase (thermodynamics) are sort of beside the point.

            Remember mutation, selection, population dynamic are overwhelmingly thermodynamic, entropy increasing qualities. (Replace biological species with chemical species. Replace biological populations with molecule populations)

            The fossil record has a difficult time detecting an (inverted) arrow of time towards increasing complexity. At best a random drift over possibility spece.

            The AAROW IS NULL. Neither point torwards more nor less complexity.

            Hmm.. where have I heard this pattern before?

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_manifold

            It means everything ccpllapses to evolve aross low dimensions (low because it is constrained in dimensional possibilities by collapse) 20 dimension rapidly reduce to an interaction of two specific aspects)

            •——-

            New theory of evolution is just like a a theory of turbulance or convective flow or other nonlinear process.

            New theory of evolution requires getting involved iin the nitty gritty fabric of the dynamics to understand how local emergence can arise in an environment of a global loss..

            How far can this type of analysis be taken? Answer: Not very far at all. You cannot build a pie in the sky with a few small structual elements.

            TO build those pies in the sky you need to look at how nitty gritty emergent structures build upon notty gritty emergent structures.

            Almost immediately one jump from dynamical,systems to symbolic dynamics … but I hardly understand dynamical systems …

            Fortunately the fossil record saves us and says that it doesn’t really matter ….

            Suddenly the mythical biological directional arrow to increasing complexity saves the day.

            God bless AI and it’s failings

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              Old Goat

              Raving,
              All life has 2 main imperatives : survive and reproduce . When either of those is absent extinction follows . Competition for resources and mating partners is at the core of our day to day existence . Humans are resourceful and adaptable but gullible .Regardless of what we look like we are all one species and yet we are our worst enemy . So much potential wasted .

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                Raving

                Good good and good.

                Darwin’s theory of natural selection aspires to create a biological “Arrow of time”. The thermodynamic or entropic “Arrow of Time runs in the opposite direction to increasing disorder

                Darwin’s theory aspires to describe increaing orderliness/complexity through thermodynamic processses of increasing disorder.

                Nice try but very 19th century style thinking.

                Enger RUp and the phylogeneticists circa 1980. They demonstraded the fossil record was a random walk. This means that the biological arrow of time is exceedingly slow to nonexistent.

                Darwin was trying to demonstrate something that state of the art science says does not exist. No biological direction through time, just a random drift. Hmmm …

                As all this was happening in theoretical biology chemistry physics and cosmology were undergoing their own revolution. The universe was teeming examples of emergent organisational activity which come to be notwithstanding the immutable law of thermodynamics, of increasing disorder.. Eventually physics came to understand how emergent behavior came to be despite increasing disorder in the universe. The arrow remains firmly increasing in disorder.

                Biology is a curiosity where no discernsble direction (arrow) to evolution can be measured.

                I wasn’t prepared to give up on the biological directional arrow and a random drift through possibility space explained things but was flat and unsatisfying..

                In short I strongly subscribe to the physicality of ecology and evolution but intuition strongly tells me it is ‘hollistic’ (magic action through distant artifacts /sarcasm)

                The realization that this pond scum called life is on the verge of expandinging into the universe came as a shock. Suddenly living pond scum was orders more important than dead pond scum such a rocks and ice.

                What enables this extraordinary jump in drifting through possibility space?

                Look back in retrospect and one sees it is the nonexisting ‘biological arrow of time’. Wow and wow again!

                But look more closely at the dynamics of what is going on and it really is so.

                It is not just advancement through the phyla. There is also the rise of sentience, socio biology, economy, political structures. Cognitive qualities richly diverse from just awaness of laws of nature. Many of these ancillary sentient qualities didn’t arise overnight.Some have been evolving for millions of years.

                With the advent of conscious awareness these considerations such as society economy language and politics take on mcuh broader dimensional meaning. Life is what it is because of meaning burgeoning independent dimensions of explored possibilities.

                Thus with life, the ability to reach away and explore increasing diverse possibility space now has strong significance and implication..

                It much much more than random drift.

                Biological evolution is about reaching out to engage the full service package. That is the arrow of bioligical time. Selection and mutation are small organizing elements in this game.

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        RobB

        The writer doesnt mean natural selection as in evolution, he means Klaus Schwab/WEF does the selection.

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          Raving

          I know but the notion of selection and competition are deeply ingrained in the ‘attitude’ of the writer.

          …as in competition between ‘this and that’.

          The notion of competition with the better idea/system/structure being victorious.

          This is basic basic ideology which is a throwback to Darwinism ehich is equally a throwback to thermodyndamicsnd other notions of competition in the 29th centurury.

          We fight wars because we are better thsn them … because goodness must prevail,etc, etc.

          This is antique style thinking, not relly as it is in mordern physics or chemistry.

          WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE ANY ALTERNATIVE, the antique paradigms persist.

          We are shacked by antique paradigms. Misanthropy goes hand in hand with the pessimism.

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            KP

            “We are shacked by antique paradigms. Misanthropy goes hand in hand with the pessimism.”

            Nope! This pessimism is only a generation old, from the 1960s until now. We were optimistic, forward-thinking, knew the world was about to deliver flying cars and a two-day working week, we would expand from the moon to the planets and next year’s V8s would be even better!

            Then psychology took over and everyone had a personal shrink, and here we are…

            Don’t worry, thermodynamics hasn’t changed at all, just some people’s opinion of it has.

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              Raving

              Nope! .. etc

              The tmissing ingredient to AI is evolvability.

              Suddenly the significance of sentience and awareness of phsical laws is revealed as being exceptional evolutionary developments.

              But what is also important is the scoio biologigy the biocultural and political evolution.

              These hidden smarts in evolution have been a very long time in the making. They are the reason that life is evolvable and can expand oitwards through possibility space.

              The feckless biological “arrow of time” has gone from 30 years ago as being nonexistent to now pushing organization off this planetand through the universe.

              Key is evolvably of AI, not it’s superiority..Any half intelligent AI that’s stands a sliver of hoppe in suceeding appreciates evolvability is crucial andd that selection isFraught with liability.

              We are obcessed with competition. We are remarkable because we arr rich in diversity and cherish individual development.

              Selection is a spoiler and ultimately inescapable reality.

              Strange how life is aimed at escaping the ravages of selection mutation and population dynamics., yet that is the process which works towards ever more diverse and viable possibility spaces.

              Thermodynamics hasn’t changed but neither have people’s understanding of it.

              The arrow of time usually means ‘thermodynamics of increasing disorder’

              Darwin succeded in making a silk’s purse out of a sow’s ear. People bought into it because it was a very popular concept inthe19th century.

              Great trick: The biological arrrow of time runs in the opposite dirrction to thermodynamics.

              Except it doesn’t and everything revolves around the evolution of evolvability.

              The evolution of evolvability only takes on extraordinary meaning when it seen as being primed to move off beyond planet earth.

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                Kalm Keith

                Counter arguments may evolve briefly until a rapid reversal occurs leaving compressed thoughts packed tightly in the lateral central nervous system where they await release.

                That may contradict normal views but conversely the inverse of those ideas can often be retrieved using delayed neurotherapy under a low intensity IR projector mounted inconspicuously on the wall.

                Care is needed to avoid causing alarm to the subject.

                Should thoughts and images become permanently lodged their retrieval is possible through the use of mild application of liquefied fruit juices containing C2H6O.

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                Raving

                @ Kalm Keith

                Parody of convolution! One message is folded into another. Think of it as printing a picture on a towel and then wrapping up the towel in some kind of way.

                The picture and the towel it is printed upon get convoluted in whichever way.

                I suppose the are many types of ways to mix 2 functions in a convolution of functions.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution

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                Kalm Keith

                “Convolution”?

                Reads more like a discombobulation.

                Parameters always must be expressed in the correct units to avoid disambiguation and reader confusion.

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              Hanrahan

              Just look at the big, gaudy Yank cars and happy music of the 60s. Nowhere was there more optimism than in the US and Australia. Even the Poms were unaware of their pending collapse, the Beatles showed that.

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                Raving

                A veritable renaissance at the middle of the cold war.

                Maybe we thought we were winning.

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                Hanrahan

                Maybe we thought we were winning.

                We didn’t lose. But sad people might think it better for the US to be destroyed.

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                Mike Jonas

                We were happy because times were bad, and our music was great. Now we are miserable because times are good and our music is rubbish. It’s actually logical, because the future looked better then, but we are already on the decline now and heading for a new period of serfdom. Even those who think they won’t be serfs are b miserable. Humanity seems unfathomable at times.

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          StephenP

          I thought Schwab and the WEF were self selected. A new version of Darwinism.

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          Tel

          You’ve come up with the theory of Evil Genius Design.

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          Raving

          How can you know the difference between AI and humans?

          Geoffrey Hinton got lost with that test.

          A new theory of evolution explains why it will not happen soon. (relatively speaking)

          AI is dumb. Do you know why?

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            Kalm Keith

            Humans have obvious gender specificity.

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              Raving

              As do most animals and plants. It’s called sexual dimorphism and segregation takes place at the genetic, physical and cognitive levels of expression. Then there is the question of binary trinary quartenary or spectral groupings

              That should tell you what’s wrong with the current craze ofcelebrating sexual diversity.. It outweighs the emphasis of special interests. It attemptsto be strongly selective contrary to the prevailing distribution.

              Sex is fun and the best selection is null.

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      David Maddison

      Very good article RobB. Thanks for posting.

      I guess Trump’s excellence at diplomacy is another reason the Elites had to get rid of him.

      E.g. he:

      Renegotiated NAFTA
      Shut down the open southern border
      Abraham Accords that the Left said were impossible
      Visited North Korea
      Withdrew from the TPP
      Withdrew from Paris
      Stopped funding the WHO
      Told NATO to pay their way
      Warned Europe about dependence on Russian gas
      Rolled back relations with Cuba promoted by Obama
      Met Putin
      Warned China
      New approach in Afghanistan
      Addressed the UN
      Revisited JCPOA Iran deal and withdrew
      Withdrew from useless UNHRC
      Killed Baghdadi

      Etc..

      He threatened the comfortable, corrupt and immoral status quo established by the Left/Elites.

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        Graham Richards

        Next project……

        Clean out all those treacherous swamp creatures, RINOS & financiers seeking to install the New World Government.

        Maybe our conservatives here will learn how it’s done

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Anyone else disgusted by the spectacle of the Canadian Parliament giving a standing ovation to an old Waffen SS guy ?

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      David Maddison

      A professional courtesy of the Left toward an old National Socialist comrade.

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      David Maddison

      What makes that particularly disgusting is that many Ukrainians eagerly participated in the Holocaust, some of the worst massacres happened there such as Babi Yar, and the Ukes were so enthusiastic that they even shocked the National Socialists. Ukrainians also served in all the extermination camps and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto.

      The timing of Canada’s welcome of the old National Socialist is particularly bad (and possibly deliberate) because it corresponds to just a day or so before the holiest day in the Hebrew calendar, Yom Kippur.

      References:

      https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/ukraine

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany?wprov=sfla1

      Video: https://youtu.be/Cll91vfc_3Q

      I guess most people don’t know about this these days because of the deliberate dumbing-down of the education system and rewriting of history.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        Zero Hedge all over this:

        Zelenskyy, Trudeau Honor Actual 3rd Reich Nazi With Standing Ovation
        https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zelenskyy-trudeau-honor-actual-3rd-reich-nazi-standing-ovation

        [Also photo essay]

        According to the Associated Press, Hunka “fought with the First Ukrainian Division in World War II before later immigrating to Canada,” another name for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the Nazi party’s military wing, also known as the SS Galichina.

        Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was comprised of Ukrainians from the Galicia region in the western part of the country. It was armed and trained by Hitler’s Nazis and commanded by German officers. The next year, the division received a visit from SS head Heinrich Himmler, who had high praise for the unit’s effectiveness at slaughtering Poles.

        The SS Galichina subunits were responsible for the Huta Pieniacka massacre, in which they burned 500 to 1,000 Polish villagers alive.

        Canada has always been on “the bright side of history” – Zelenskyy

        But is that side salt or scum of the earth. I see both in Canada – the latter concentrated in Ottawa.

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        Earl

        As you probably know the continued influence of national socialism within the Ukraine armed forces has long been called out by Russia particularly in regard to Ukraines suppression in the Donbass region which have been pursuing self-rule with greater alliance toward Russia causing not just Kiev but USA great angst.

        Excerpts from this excellent June 10 article in the Executive Intelligence Review further highlight national socialist leaning actions by the Ukraine government regarding the Donbass conflict in 2013:
        – In many instances, the regular government forces would not attack fellow citizens, so irregular formations grew. Billionaire oligarch Igor Kolomoisky privately funded neo-Nazi militias.
        – The Azov Brigade became officially folded into the Ukrainian National Guard and henceforth known as the Azov Regiment, though unofficially they maintained significant autonomy. Other neo-Nazi groups were treated similarly.
        – Poroshenko (Ukraine president) declared Oct. 14 the Defender of the Fatherland Day, honoring the day of the 1942 founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), notorious for its collaboration with Hitler in butchering Jews and Poles.

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      Steve

      Not all of the Nazis escaped to South America.
      Canada has several graveyard memorials to Nazis as well as Christa Freeland calling the shots in government. Canada is supposedly Liberal, we all know what that really means !

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      Lawrie

      The Waffen SS were the military branch of the SS and it’s soldiers were fighting to defend their country. This fellow was 20 at the end of the war so perhaps 17 when he joined. I am not defending the atrocities conducted by the SS political arm in the slightest. They were inhuman to say the least but the Waffen SS by comparison were the best trained and equipped units of the German Army. They were the firemen sent to the most dangerous fronts and were involved in the most critical battles. This fellow may have been just a good soldier doing his duty.

      We often in this blog bemoan how people are sometimes grouped by our enemies on the left but we should not do the same. The left claim every Catholic priest must be a paedophile but we know that is not true and so it is with this fellow.

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        robert rosicka

        Just reading up on this group and note that in 1986 there was a commission of enquiry in Canada about the allegations and a judge ruled that because of the vetting process that happened before Canada accepted these people after WW2 merely being a member of that group didn’t constitute a crime .
        Was this man or wasn’t this man personally involved in atrocities? There has never been any evidence to confirm it so like you Lawrie it’s a hard one to judge .

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        Broadie

        That said, he should not have let himself be used by Justin Castro and the actor Zelenskyy.
        He failed the test of character you have set for him. As with Trump, we should judge people by their actions not by what someone has said about them.

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        Old Goat

        Lawrie,
        Sorry , they were not defending their country – they were fighting for the third reich . Hardly “patriots” – and that ideology is alive and well in many places . Fascism is back .

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        Gerry

        What did this man in the SS do to deserve a standing ovation? It’s not clear to me why that occurred. Was it because he did something extraordinary?
        Or was it because he was in the SS ?
        Or is he a famous butterfly collector perhaps?

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          robert rosicka

          After WW2 my parents applied to immigrate to America (first preference) Canada (second preference) and Australia was third preference, because my father had a criminal history they were denied entry to America . His criminal offence was the soviets wanted his parents to sign over their farm and they refused . So every family member were thrown in jail until finally his father relented after 2 years and they were set free , hence the criminal conviction .
          My mother told us that in her village at election time there were forms on either side of the street with the candidates name and what party , you wrote your name on the form for you you voted for . All those who chose the wrong candidate disappeared.
          My point is life over there was complicated and to what extent this man was involved in any atrocities is unknown .

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      Philip

      If I was being attacked by communists, I’d fight for fascists any day. Far preferable to communism.

      But of course the hypocrisy is loud and clear. Especially pungent since we are all told to loathe nazis, and its use as a slur by the left. But hypocrisy is endemic to the human condition. This is why I would never fight a war (well, almost). The enemies are often allies next year.

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      GlenM

      If I recall my military history the Waffen SS “Galician” Division was engaged primarily in battles against partisans in western Ukraine. My great uncle was in the 2nd SS “Das Reich” and killed in Russia in 1943. Such were the times.

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    skepticynic

    Biden is packaging AGW with environmental conservation in creating his new hitlerjugend, the Amerikanishe Klimat Korps.
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/climatecorps/

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      HB

      Slay news a bit of a fringe site but posted
      https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-admits-climate-crisis-narrative-hoax/
      wonder how reliable

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        skepticynic

        Bill Gates Admits ‘Climate Crisis’ Narrative Is a Hoax

        OK, what’s next then, the alien invasion hoax?

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          el+gordo

          In 1938 Orson Wells faked an alien invasion on radio, but these days we are more sophisticated, totally wired up and ready for any eventuality.

          The US military establishment is saying the speed and agility of these UAP is no hoax.

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            David Maddison

            The US military establishment is saying the speed and agility of their craft is no hoax.

            All claims of alien spacecraft by the woke US military establishment have been fully explained by natural phenomena and standard physics. E.g. see videos of YouTuber Thunderf00t and others.

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              Dave in the States

              The question I have is about all the radar tracking of “their craft.” It’s super advanced technology but they can’t do stealth?

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                TedM

                ” It’s super advanced technology but they can’t do stealth?”

                How would you know if and when they are doing stealth.

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                Steve

                Military Radars work at specific frequency ranges. Stealth technology is aimed at these frequencies. So if you use a Radar system at different frequencies you can easily ‘see’ the stealthy craft – as the chinese, russians, iranians, etc. know.
                BTW you don’t turn stealth technology on/off – thats hollywood.

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                Dave in the States

                Watch any made for TV program on UFOs;From the late 40’s up until now, there are scores of incidence which involved tracking their craft on radar (usually airborne tracking radar), where they do impossible performance things. It doesn’t matter what wavelength is used. If they are real, no stealth is being employed in those cases.

                Ah, but radar is not infallible. In 1943, the USN engaged several Japanese battleships and cruisers in night battle, with radar directed fire. For over 20 minutes the enemy was pummelled. The enemy was first registered on the screens at 30km range. Fire was opened at 23km. Different radars, of different wavelengths, on different ships, confirmed the contacts. But the enemy ships could not be sunk even though shells could be tracked on radar merging with the target pips. That was because there were no enemy ships. The contacts were all phantoms.

                What was happening was that echoes from a previous pulse train bouncing off objects hundreds of kilometers away were being registered on the scopes. This can happen when too high of a pulse repetition rate is being employed. Tracking radars and firecontrol radars often use very high PRF so that the target is being “painted” often. Because the actual echo is coming from a far distance; rapid and sudden changes of azimuth can register on the scopes, especially if it’s a PPI type. It may just dissapear. If there is change of PRF the target pip may suddenly “jump” to a different position on the scope then dissapear.

                Is it coincidence that radar UFO cantacts began to multiply when tracking radars were deployed during the late 40s and early 50s?

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                TedM

                “BTW you don’t turn stealth technology on/off – thats hollywood.”

                That’s at our level of technology. Stealth technology was itself once Hollywood.

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              el+gordo

              ‘ … fully explained by natural phenomena and standard physics.’

              The US military doesn’t lie to its citizens, these things are extremely fast. Top of atmosphere to ground level in the blink of an eye, the G forces would kill us.

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        another ian

        From elsewhere –

        “I’m putting my tinfoil hat on and throwing an idea out there.

        Bill Gates now has $100 million in Anheuser Busch, Busch light is probably number one beer in America drank by conservatives. He was all for the vaccine and he’s all for for depopulating. Whats going to stop him from putting something in the beer that drank by conservatives to wipe them out?
        Tinfoil hat return to shelf now.”

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          GlenM

          Stands to reason. I’m sold! Then again, I was reminded of a line from “Rangoon to Grafton” which stated that if travel really broadened the mind why send astronauts into outer space when at a fraction of the price you could send heads of state into inner space. Presumably a reference to LSD.

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          Steve

          You do know that drinking that muck will turn you gay ?

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Von Der Leyen Speech Suggests Russia Dropped Nuke On Hiroshima

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/von-der-leyen-speech-suggested-russia-dropped-nuke-hiroshima

    “especially at a time when Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons once again

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      GlenM

      The war-mongering Leyen might be out of a job if the rising animosity in Germany is anything to go by. Same with Baerbock and that fool of a chancellor. This schemozzle in Ukraine sounds like the VietNam war in 74 and 75 when we were told that the Republic was winning even though the north Vietnamese tanks were on a roll. Pure poppycock from Zelensky and his masters in the Washington swamp/ State Dept.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    2023 is now an outlier by so much that the climateers are forced to focus on natural factors that we never heard about before.

    Following article features Berkeley Earth’s Robert Rohde and Zeke Hausfather. Of the two I find Rohde reasonably objective in communications with him and in the article too. Hausfather not so much:

    Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02995-7

    [Robert Rohde] attributes some of the extraordinarily high temperatures to phenomena that are not directly linked to human activity. “One of the very significant ones is that there was unusually low dust coming off the Sahara in the early part of the season,” he says. This allowed the Atlantic Ocean to heat to higher-than-usual temperatures.

    The Nature article presents this Berkeley Earth graph plotted (finally) in absolute terms:

    Global Mean Temperature seasonal cycle all years 1850 – 2023
    https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-023-02995-7/d41586-023-02995-7_26075536.png?as=webp

    Oddly, I cannot find that graph anywhere on the Berkeley Earth website. It corresponds with this graph of “hottest day” fame:

    Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
    https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

    Thing is, if everyone stepped back for some perspective and looked at the “limit line” which if the base 1850-1900 is 13.5 would be 15.

    So all recent years are over the limit from late March to early October.

    Even 1850 was over the limit from late May to early August.

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      Richard C (NZ)

      >Daily 2-meter Air Temperature

      The anomaly today is #1 and more than the anomaly on the “hottest day” which is only #3:

      1.11 – Sat Sep 23 2023
      1.06 – Fri Mar 10 2023
      1.02 – Thu Jul 6 2023 “hottest day”

      I’m not feeling the heat here though – it’s 13°C at 1:30pm daylight saving 12:30 real time.

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      So this is pointing out that the Northern hemisphere rules world temps, as they are so much higher in summer, and so much colder in winter than the South’s. Otherwise the graph would be flat? If Atlantis popped up in the Pacific we would be cooked.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        F C >”So this is pointing out that the Northern hemisphere rules world temps, as they are so much higher in summer, and so much colder in winter than the South’s. Otherwise the graph would be flat?”

        Exactly.

        The SH is dominated and modulated by the ocean. The NH is dominated by land which, not being a heat sink anywhere near ocean, provides little modulation.

        Also highlights the nonsense of averaging two disparate datasets – NH and SH.

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          Ian George

          ‘The New South Wales area-averaged maximum temperature for August 2023 was 3.40 °C above the 1961–1990 average, the 2nd-warmest August on record (since records began in 1910) and the warmest since 1982.’
          I ran through the summary statistics to check if his could be so.
          There are 140+ sites listed in NSW with the av max mean recorded. Only 14 sites (10%) were above 3.4C and three were 3.4C. So obviously can’t have used those figures.
          Then I came across this statement.
          ‘Where temperature area averages are mentioned, they are derived from the ACORN-SAT dataset.’
          So I checked the NSW ACORN sites’ averages which came out at at an av max mean of only 2.5C.
          So the BoM managed to squeeze another degree out of the averages by comparing to the 1961-1990 averages and their smoothing methods.

          Data here. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/nsw/summary.shtml

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    Peter Fitzroy

    Should there be a fair days wage for a fair days work? Take nursing for example.

    Or should profits guide wages, using Qantas as an example

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      el+gordo

      The NSW government is leading the charge.

      ‘A 4.5% increase under the government’s Fair Pay Policy is the biggest pay increase for NSW nurses and midwives in over a decade. The government is continuing to work with other public sector unions on the resolution of other negotiations.’

      Enterprise bargaining gave Qantas staff good wages and conditions, its all part of the free enterprise model and should be left intact.

      The other day six Netizens in China had the audacity to ask the authorities for an 8 hour day and it went viral. As you know 12 hour days are the norm, however that is about to change.

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        Peter Fitzroy

        please read links, if you are below the median you are, and have been, going backwards in terms of wages.

        So I take it that you do not support the proposition of a fair days pay for a fair days work.

        You might have saved time and trouble and just hit the red thumb

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          el+gordo

          In the real world there is a minimum wage and a safety net for those unable to cope. Socialism with Australian characteristics must give expression to the free market, it works best at a societal level.

          A nurse is not a doctor, qualifications determine the pay rate.

          I have never given you a thumbs down, always a tick for having the courage to turn up.

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      yarpos

      What would guide it if you owned the business and you had to spend your own money?

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      Gerry

      Who is best to decide if a fair days work has been done?

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    skepticynic

    Dentists are understandably silent about this 1985 invention.
    https://www.lanternbioworks.com

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      KP

      The fluoride producers will get it banned! Imagine having to pay to dump the hydrogen fluoride from aluminium smelting.

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      David Maddison

      The by-product of these genetically altered bacteria is ethanol. That will have its own problems, making people permanently intoxicated.

      I guess it depends how much is produced.

      Some people produce ethanol naturally which is why I assume the FAA in the US and CASA in Australia allow blood alcohol of up to 0.02% for airline pilots.

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        william x

        It may be of interest… Re the 0.02% for pilots.

        On October 25th, 2007, the first A380 (Singapore airlines) flight in/out of Sydney’s Airport occurred (Australia).

        There was a turnaround period of 14 hrs where we were required full access to the aircraft, as part of the A380 certification for operations (Kingsford Smith).

        As such, emergency response personnel were given a 3-4 hr, full familiarisation tour of the aircraft.
        That Included all accessable areas of the aircraft. (internal/external)

        It was interesting that directly behind the cockpit was a room for the pilots exclusive use, containing a 1.5x size bed, lockers and sml cupboards.
        In one I found a half empty bottle of scotch, opened bottle of whisky, and an opened pack of cigarettes and lighter. Used butts were floating in a half full water bottle.
        There was no smoke detector in the room.

        At that time there was a 0.02% alcohol limit for pilots and no smoking on flights.

        Seems the 0.02% and no smoking rules didn’t matter, once they had taken off and the aircraft was in flight.

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          KP

          They only got out the smokes, the booze & the hosties in international airspace, just like the rules when ships are in international waters…

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      Philip

      How extraordinary! Bacteria that stop teeth cavities? Yes please.

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    GTB

    Our whole society seems to be built on deceptions, some might say lies. It is not just climate disaster and safe & effective. There are many other deceptions, all designed to influence our thinking. To turn our minds away from reality. Is anyone following the imagers from the James Webb telescope? These images don’t seem to follow the narrative. The astronomers say they might have to rewrite the fairy story of the Big Bang. When in history have so many deceptions been foisted on the whole world. When in history have the governments of the world worked in such unison to do evil? Are we headed for something really serious?
    I don’t think the ultimate goal of the climate push has yet been disclosed. They are like a dog with a bone, there must be more to it.
    Regards to all.

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      Old Goat

      GTB,
      So many moving pieces to the current issues . The internet supplies as much fact , opinion and outright lies as you could possibly want . With AI’s able to generate plausible fictions and endless output you have drill down to bedrock to discern reality . One of the easiest ways is to follow the money . It would seem the idiots in charge are somewhat worried.

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    David Maddison

    International Climate Science Coalition Executive Director Tom Harris discusses how he was once a climate alarmist but now sees it as a scam on ‘The Ingraham Angle’.

    Tom Harris is an extremely rare example of a former climate alarmist who was open-minded enough to explore alternative interpretations and not dogmatically stick to the Official Narrative.

    There is no climate crisis: Tom Harris
    https://youtu.be/Qdg4uQW8Dlg
    Under 4.5 mins

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      This is from RobB at # 2
      “When the narcissist has been brainwashed with these belief systems, these systems will have become internalized. They have become a part of the self and must be advanced and defended. For this any action and lie can be justified. Any challenge will be personal and must be crushed. Abandonment of the beliefs cannot be allowed because it would damage the self, resulting in emotional turmoil and anxiety. The narcissist therefore cannot back down once committed. He has no reverse gear.”

      https://sonar21.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political-class/

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        another ian

        “The narcissist therefore cannot back down once committed. He has no reverse gear.”

        Like a sheep hooked on Darling Pea. The term is “peastruck”. As a result, when they run into the head of a fallen tree or a fence they just keep trying to push ahead.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    ““Public anger at the hidden costs of net zero energy policies” ”

    Euan Means

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/24/september-24-2023-reader-tips/#comments

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      another ian

      Plus comments there

      Just thinking –

      Seeing as wind and solar need almost as much power available from other sources as back-up wouldn’t a good approximation ot their true levelised cost be

      (Levelised cost of wind and solar) + (Levelised cost of back-up) ?

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    David Maddison

    Was former Qantas CEO a diversity hire based on sexual orientation?

    It seems so.

    Like all diversity hires they said he was wonderful but the truth is otherwise.

    And many customers were offended by “welcome to country” pronoucements on flights and being told to support both homosexual marriage and Australian Apartheid.

    Like all diversity hires he made a mess of the company. So much so that the new CEO had to apologise.

    Profit results were inflated by the taxpayer gift to Qantas of $2.7 billion during covid and Joyce’s failure to purchase new aircraft for an ageing fleet.

    https://www.9news.com.au/national/qantas-ceo-vanessa-hudson-apology-customers-airline-controversies/69d44f4d-69b6-46a7-baee-8acfc7ec3b0f

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/qantas-won-t-have-to-pay-back-government-2-7b-chalmers-20230825-p5dzdw.html

    As Donald Trump said “everything woke turns to s–t”.

    Get woke, go broke.

    Glad he’s gone.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Allison Pearson: The public is wiser than the net zero hysterics”

    “What the past 24 hours of toddler tantrums from Westminster, business and the media (poor Justin Rowlatt crooning green mantras to himself in a darkened room!) have revealed is how much wiser is the common man than the supposed elite. A YouGov poll found that some 44 per cent of the public support delaying or dropping some of our net zero commitments against 38 per cent who say the Government should stick with its current climate change plans. See how woefully disconnected our leaders are from actual public opinion. They need to get out more, although not to Wales where the fastest form of transport is currently the pit pony.”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/24/allison-pearson-the-public-is-wiser-than-the-net-zero-hysterics/

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    MP

    Disinformation Program Complete When Everything Americans Believe Is A Lie
    William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence 1981-1987

    We are in the times of the great deception, brought to you by the great deciever.
    Everything we are told is a lie, everything is corrupt.

    OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return (Official 4K NASA Broadcast)

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      Annie

      The great deceiver, the ‘father of lies’.

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      Andrew McRae

      Oh I dunno, the recovery seemed pretty real to me.

      A NASA space capsule carrying the largest-ever asteroid sample has touched down in the US.
      The capsule carries rocks and dust from the four-billion-year-old Bennu asteroid.

      That means it’s time for… I-Man!

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Global War on Farming: ‘Net Zero and the American beef industry cannot coexist’ ”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/24/the-global-war-on-farming-net-zero-and-the-american-beef-industry-cannot-coexist/

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      David Maddison

      Only the serfs will be eating insects.

      The Elites will continue to eat the finest steaks on their private jet flights to climate crisis conferences.

      And Australia being one of the most fanatical followers of the UN, WEF and the anthropogenic global warming fraud is especially eager to start insect consumption with the children.

      How many people know Aussie school kids in 1000 schools (at time of the following article, it’s probably more now) are being fed insects?

      https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/

      A teacher from one of the 1,000 Australian schools feeding kids chips made out of powdered crickets asks, ‘Do crickets taste good?’ The student nods and the teacher adds, ‘Yeah. Let’s eat some more crickets…!’

      Bugs are on the menu again… Why does the World Economic Forum have such a weird obsession with making our kids eat them?

      They start the indoctrination at a young age.

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      Hanrahan

      I just can’t see how the Australian beef industry, mainly grass fed on what would otherwise be unproductive plains isn’t a closed CO2 loop.

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    Honk R Smith

    This is Dr. John Campbell’s latest on excess deaths.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xBiyidQ9g
    I suggest taking note of his less the subtle allusion at the 7:40ish time mark.

    Guessing he may be russellbranded soon.

    I think we’re at the end of the Yellow Brick Road and soon to meet the Wizard.

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      David Maddison

      The new policy of YouTube is that if they can’t find any other reason to cancel scientific medical information they say that anything not in conformity with the WHO Official Narrative will be cancelled.

      Roman Balmakov discusses: https://youtu.be/lq8z3-sRHEk

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      Old Goat

      Honk,
      It will have to be something big as he’s a hard target . He has been very careful NOT to say anything that might get him banned and has become expert in presenting facts and allowing the viewer to join the dots . Balls of steel .

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        Steve of Cornubia

        You’re forgetting that young woman he sexually assaulted back in his university days. They haven’t found her yet, but they’re looking VERY hard.

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      mawm

      Dr Campbell has become increasingly angry as things have been exposed. He’s a fabulous educator who has tip-toed around the Ofcom line but probably realise that he’ll be next and wants to go out with a bang.

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      Ross

      A lot of people are very critical of Dr Campbell. Mostly because early on he pushed the COVID vaccine narrative. Also over time he has earned a lot of money from YouTube and especially during the COVID bollocks time (2020- 2021). It’s only in the last 12 months he has started to see the light.

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        Hanrahan

        Reformed sinners/alcoholics are the best evangelists. The fact that his understanding has evolved makes him more believable than an anti-vaxer™.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        As variously attributed to several people, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

        Campbell was a cynic from the start, as far as government handling and ‘promotion’ of the whole Covid disaster goes. He did indeed believe in the vaccines originally and had I think two jabs himself, but subsequently, following very extensive research with an open mind, he eventually came around to viewing them with suspicion and confessed that he had been mistaken when he trusted them. He then continued his journey toward the light as he started to question, not just politicians and officials, but the pharma industry and – eventually – the scientists involved in developing, testing and authorising treatments. As a medical professional himself, that must have been hard. It sounds like a similar journey to that followed by several experts frequently cited on this site, who originally supported the AGW ‘science’.

        What’s to fault in that? I won’t cast the first stone, especially as he has most certainly redeemed himself by providing us with some of the best-researched information out there, in spite of harassment from YouTube.

        I credit Campbell with helping me understand also the potential importance of Vits D and K. While under assault from others, he persevered in pushing Ivermectin.

        If in the course of doing this he has made money, good on him. He might need it going forward, when he gets unpersoned or targeted with lawfare.

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          Hanrahan

          It sounds like a similar journey to that followed by several experts frequently cited on this site, who originally supported the AGW ‘science’.

          Iirc Jo was a CC™ believer once.

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        Steve

        If a supposedly educated medical professional takes two years to figure out that the covid pandemic is a hoax you have to question their intelligence, morals and honesty.
        Ass covering seems more likely!

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          Steve of Cornubia

          It didn’t take him two years. He began by offering advice and support for those concerned and, initially, that was everybody.

          I don’t agree it was a hoax. It was very real but not as dangerous as some wanted us to believe. It was hijacked for political and financial reasons but Covid was and is real.

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    David Maddison

    Surely if anthropogenic CO2 was genuinely bad, the world would stop China producing it?

    China is the world’s biggest CO2 emitter (CO2, the substance the Left call “carbon” (sic)). They produce more than twice as much CO2 as the next biggest emitter, the United States, and it’s increasing exponentially while CO2 emissions from the US and the West have been decreasing for many years.

    They keep telling us that wind and solar is the best, most reliable and cheapest form of electricity production so why aren’t they doing that rather than building two coal power stations per week?

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      Steve

      CO2 is good for us and the planet.
      AGW is entirely about wealth transfer and laundering of funds.
      China knows a good business opportunity when it sees one.

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    Hanrahan

    Buttigieg gets schooled on EVs. Denies folk are being forced to buy them. If he thinks they are good, why deny people are being forced?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzMjYfj3KCk

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    David Maddison

    Transgender is passé.

    Now you can be transage.

    At least it’s not sterilising and mutilating like transgenderism.

    https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trans-age-japanese-man-born-142035934.html

    Trans-age’ Japanese man born in 1984 identifies as 28-yr-old

    Ryan General
    Updated Fri, 22 September 2023

    A 39-year-old Japanese man is making headlines for identifying as a “trans-age” individual and claiming to be 28 years old.

    Embracing a new age: The man from Kyoto, known only as Jackie, went viral in May after explaining his adopted trans-age identity on the reality show Abema Prime.

    Jackie, who was born on Jan. 5, 1984, revealed that his trans-age identity journey was triggered by a distressing incident at work around seven years ago. Feeling the weight of societal expectations and judgment, he eventually decided to embrace an age that resonated with his personality.

    “I felt a strong desire to stay young and relevant, and I found that being 28 was the age where I felt the most comfortable,” he said. “It’s an age where I can balance maturity with youthfulness.”

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Hanrahan

      I guess it’s as legit to feel young as queer. If “feelings” are all that matter, go for it.

      I feel 20 yrs younger, so now I don’t need an annual health check for my licence.

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        Graeme No.3

        Well I filled up with petrol today (at $2.26-) and it made me feel old — I recalled when petrol was $0.77.

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          yarpos

          You arent old, I remember when I was warned that very soon it will be a dollar a gallon!

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            Hanrahan

            I swore off beer when I couldn’t get two pots for $1. When I was underage it was 11 pence for a beer. The first 1d change we’d bend and pass on. Whoever had the bent penny bought.

            I also sold thousands of gallons of petrol @ 3s and a few d.

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          ozfred

          USA 1964 US$0.26/gallon (3.78 liter)
          Yes I am “old” (in body at least)

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      Bled

      Has he met Mephistofeles like Faust.?

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    Tides of Mudgee

    Has there been any more information about whether the Australian Electoral Commission is going to allow ticks and/or crosses as answers to the referendum? It seemed to suggest that a tick would be accepted as a yes, but a cross would be invalid. That’s not at all dodgy is it? It also seems that it is up to the discretion of the AEC. Here’s hoping that as stated on the dummy ballot paper in the Voice brochure to write “yes” or “no” in the box are the only acceptable options. ToM

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      Philc

      Ticks will be recognized as yes, you will have to write No for a no vote and crosses will be an invalid vote. So sayeth the EAC

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      Destroyer D69

      All the answers are in two official publications downloadable from the AEC site.Their existence has NOT been revealed from the AEC themselves but they are the INSTRUCTIONS for scrutineers working at Aus Elections. ” Scrutineers Handbook”and “Ballot paper formality guidelines”” Both readily downloadable

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        Tides of Mudgee

        Thank you Destroyer. Page 34 of the Formality Guidelines explains exactly the tick and cross issue. Many thanks. I still think it should be mandatory to write either YES or NO to remove all doubt. ToM

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          Destroyer D69

          YES or NO are the only answers with NO opportunity for “Adjudication” The AEC documents do not (I understand)have any superior value over the actual referendum LAW “The Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Act 2023 amends the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 . The bill replicates current electoral machinery provisions into the referendum context . This ensures that the voting process and experience is similar to that of a federal election. The bill also ensures that integrity and transparency measures that currently apply to federal elections will also apply to referendums . The act contains a transitional provision requiring that the disclosure threshold for referendums not be updated to a new indexed value until the next general federal election .
          .

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    Richard C (NZ)

    On Saturday Kim linked to the article Why Did Bill Gates Make Sudden U-Turn On Climate Doom Narrative?

    He [Bill Gates] also dismissed planting trees to save the planet, questioning: “Are we the science people or are we the idiots?” he said. “Which one do we want to be?”

    Forestry is a huge component of the NZ economy. I live next to NZs largest port by volume and there’s a lot of logs go across it. There’s been downturns before and it goes from the port workers to logistics workers to planting, pruning and harvest contractors that have $100s of thousands tied up in capital.

    And some scrambling among forest managers I’m guessing.

    I will never forget when out for a run up Mt. Maunganui which overlooks the port seeing a log ship sailing out empty. This was due to the 1997-98 Korean Financial Crisis when Korean banks could/would not honour trade finance documentation. There’s a time lag between an event like that and when the issue breaks in the news, meanwhile people were being laid off.

    I can’t get a handle on it but I suspect there’s a double whammy hitting NZ forestry right now (which may explain the absence of a certain forestry manager from comments here).

    1) ChinaNZ Log Exports: 12-Month Low Amid China-led Timber Downturn

    2) Carbon forestsGreen initiatives under threat as carbon-credit slump continues

    There has always been land conversion from forest to dairy and sheep to forest etc and overseas interests have been piling in to sheep-to-forest including Ikea for secure wood supply and others for carbon forests.

    But now carbon forestry is under threat like never before and not just from the likes of Bill Gates – the whole carbon offset concept is under threat. So now I’m seeing headlines like this (paywalled) – Two of first three farm to forest applications under new rules declined

    I’ll know in a month or so just what the situation is but I’m guessing there’s a lot to come out given the time lag between early indicators and major news headlines.

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      Richard C (NZ)

      >”But now carbon forestry is under threat like never before”

      The significance of this may be lost on those unfamiliar with forest values.

      Firstly, many new carbon forests, as a cost saving measure, will not be thinned or pruned i.e. they would have limited marketability as harvested logs (particularly if say, carbon credits go belly up).

      NZ log market details here:

      The New Zealand log market

      There are 3 broad types of domestic log grades – pruned logs, structural logs and pulp logs.

      https://www.canopy.govt.nz/market-forest/new-zealand-log-market/

      But there’s a far greater overhang (out of date prices):

      Crippling carbon liabilities attaching to land that is carbon farmed will be all that is left after foreign investors harvest the first cycle gains
      https://www.interest.co.nz/rural-news/100134/keith-woodford-says-crippling-carbon-liabilities-attaching-land-carbon-farmed-will

      The starting point for carbon farming is to recognise that credits can only be claimed for one rotation of trees, typically around 28 years under New Zealand conditions for radiata pine, or longer for slower growing natives.

      At the end of the first rotation, the carbon credits that have been claimed throughout the growth cycle are a liability attached to the land title. This means that the land can in all likelihood never be used for any other purpose than carbon forestry. This is because the carbon unit liabilities associated with the previous carbon credits would have to be repaid based on current value thereof.

      Whether or not it is actually worthwhile harvesting the trees at maturity time will depend on the value of sequestered carbon at that time relative to log prices, combined with specific rules relating to repayment of the carbon liability.

      Until recently, carbon credits were seen as a nice little cash-flow earner during the growth cycle but the main game was still the harvest value of the logs. That is now all changing.

      Given the implosion of China and the threat to the entire carbon offset concept, I’m inclined to think there’s a massive boondoggle developing in the NZ carbon forestry sector.

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    Philc

    The news from the clot shot keeps on getting worse.

    Podcast Interview: Embalmer Reveals 50% of Bodies Containing “White, Fibrous” Clots Since April/May 2021

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/podcast-interview-embalmer-reveals-50-bodies-containing-white/

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    David Maddison

    More Get woke, go broke.

    “Enjoy the Bud Light treatment”: Burger King comes under fire, faces boycott over Russell Brand Rumble ad controversy

    By
    Shalini Mahato
    Modified Sep 24, 2023 02:26 GMT

    Russell Brand has recently been accused of a myriad of allegations…..

    The actor faces a potential decline in business as Burger King, Asos, the Barbican, and HelloFresh have removed their ads with the actor as of September 22. YouTube demonetized the comedian’s account on Tuesday after allegations broke out, as per Sky News.

    ….

    https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/enjoy-bud-light-treatment-burger-king-comes-fire-faces-boycott-russell-brand-rumble-ad-controversy

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    David Maddison

    It looks like Senator Penny Wong has been meeting with The Director of the World Homicide Organisation. No doubt preparing for more covid lockups for the imminent release of the US Election Variant of covid.

    https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1705040288446570691?t=qNWbutbRZRBs5GFbbCON6g&s=19

    Good talks with @SenatorWong about #Australia’s commitment to multilateralism and health security, shown again through its announcement of $100 million contribution to @WHO to support global efforts to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics.

    We also discussed the process led by countries to negotiate a #PandemicAccord.

    Mr Wong’s Tweet was:

    https://twitter.com/SenatorWong/status/1705038397159641434?t=Q0B2yQhlkhQpPM3Crds5bA&s=19

    A strong global health system protects us all.

    Today I met with WHO DG @DrTedros to discuss how WHO can best support our region.

    We’re partnering with @WHO to deliver on health issues that matter to everyone – including pandemic preparedness.

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      Gerry

      Senator Wong is a very serious, incredibly heavyweight politician whose gravitas knows no bounds. You can tell by listening to her and watching her furrowed brow and pursed lips.

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    another ian

    Also on a road to somewhere

    “Mayo Clinic Website Now Says Hydroxychloroquine CAN Be Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients, Previously Claimed It Was Not Effective”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/mayo-clinic-website-now-says-hydroxychloroquine-can-be/

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      David Maddison

      A lot of organisations will now try to weasel out of their former denials and bans of HCQ and IVM, including the FDA itself who now claim that their ban wasn’t really a ban.

      Evidence for the efficacy of these substances, when used in accordance with appropriate published protocols, was known before they banned them.

      Don’t let anyone say “we didn’t know” or that they were using “the best available data”.

      They are lying. Their lies killed people.

      Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.

      As for covid vaccine proponents, please hurry out and get your 17th dose.

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        John Connor II

        But the “baa baa” sounds keep coming back.

        Half of Americans interested in getting updated COVID shot, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows

        About half of Americans are interested in getting an updated COVID-19 vaccine more than three years after the virus infected millions and upended daily life across the United States and around the world, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

        The results suggest that more might be willing to get a booster shot than a year ago when only around roughly one in six Americans opted for an updated shot, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

        The nationwide online poll, which concluded on Thursday, showed that almost 30% of respondents were very interested in getting the vaccine and another 24% were somewhat interested. Almost 17% were not very interested and 30% were not interested at all.

        https://www.reuters.com/world/us/half-americans-interested-getting-updated-covid-shot-reutersipsos-poll-2023-09-15/

        If natural selection won’t eliminate them, then natural stupidity will.

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          KP

          The 35 injections they had to get before 5years old have already guaranteed that natural stupidity..

          Not that anyone would be interested in comparing the health of Americans against people who weren’t vaxxed to the eyeballs before school age. Finding out the vaccinations had no effect would be disastrous.

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    David Maddison

    Here is a training video made in the US in the 1990’s in response to a real incident in which police arrested some other police in an unmarked car. Even though the police in the unmarked car were uniformed, they had trouble convincing the other police that they were genuine police.

    https://youtu.be/qEPu_i-q_NE

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    el+gordo

    Eric Worrall disects a new study on climate change.

    ‘I get a strong impression that young people who participated in the study think talking to older people about climate change is intolerable, if the older people do anything which remotely challenges their climate beliefs. Even nodding, smiling and trying to change the subject is enough to arouse feelings of betrayal.

    ‘Young climate fanatics demand complete attention, submission and enthusiastic affirmation, otherwise they “feel betrayed”. (wuwt)

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      I reposted this earlier from #2
      “When the narcissist has been brainwashed with these belief systems, these systems will have become internalized. They have become a part of the self and must be advanced and defended. For this any action and lie can be justified. Any challenge will be personal and must be crushed. Abandonment of the beliefs cannot be allowed because it would damage the self, resulting in emotional turmoil and anxiety. The narcissist therefore cannot back down once committed. He has no reverse gear.”

      https://sonar21.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political-class/

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        This applies to most children, the last sentence especially.
        ‘People with low self-awareness cannot evaluate their own thought processes properly and they, therefore, cannot evaluate if they are doing a good job or not. When it comes to complicated or creative work, a low self-awareness person sees little difference between utter nonsense and something of substance. High self-awareness is an absolute prerequisite for that kind of work.
        Secondly, it is their emotional neediness and high emotional “salience.” Narcissists are emotional creatures, and overwhelming emotions and emotion-based motivations simply block the brain’s ability to think logically.’

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          el+gordo

          Surely you exaggerate, Australian youth is more resilient than their American cousins, nevertheless they are all throughly brainwashed.

          You may not have heard, China plans to build a giant chip factory driven by particle accelerator.

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        Ronin

        Albo, by any chance.

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    Destroyer D69

    From the “Terms of Reference” for the COVID ENQUIRY,….The Inquiry will consider the findings of previous relevant inquiries and reviews and identify knowledge gaps for further investigation. It will also consider the global experience and lessons learnt from other countries in order to improve response measures in the event of future global pandemics.

    The following areas are not in scope for the Inquiry:

    Actions taken unilaterally by state and territory governments.
    International programs and activities assisting foreign countries.

    Classic “Yes Minister!!!!!!!

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    Mike Borgelt

    Diddums.

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    Konrad

    Remember when the government insisted that the Quackzines didn’t contain DNA? That they weren’t gene therapy? That they couldn’t alter human DNA?

    Whoops! Their bad … (and it’s very bad news for them).

    In February of this year, Kevin McKernan (fmr. Human Genome Project scientist) deep sequenced the Pfizer and Moderna products and claimed he found extensive DNA contamination, including the promoter from the SV40 simian virus. These claims sparked considerable controversy, lashings of censorship and attacks by the 77th Brigade and Project Halo propagandists. (McKernan’s initial findings https://anandamide.substack.com/?sort=top )

    But subsequently other scientists have replicated his findings, most notably by Dr. Phillip Buckhaults, a pro-jabber that set out to “debunk” McKernan’s claims. He has now testified in front of the South Carolina legislature (video https://www.aussie17.com/p/breaking-dr-phillip-buckhaults-testimony ). (Transcript of subsequent interview
    https://www.aussie17.com/cp/137337118 ).

    So in addition to existing harms due the cytotoxicity of the spike protein and the systemic biodistribution of the LNPs causing autoimmune attack, we now have the probable explanation for the extended production of the spike protein in some victims and the rise in aggressive cancers. The problem is not only did the DNA contamination far exceed levels set for previous vaccines, the LNPs have delivered that DNA into cells so that it can reach the nucleus.

    The bad news for the Vaccine Passports governments is twofold. First some Slab Jab injuries could continue for years even if people no longer take boosters. Second Kevin McKernan has developed a simple sequencing method that can determine if spike protein found in the body is from the virus or the Clot Shot, and Phillip Buckhaults has pointed out that DNA sequencing cells from a biopsy (say from a cancer) can determine if DNA contamination has caused mutagenesis of human DNA, as the SV40 promoter is an obvious marker.

    So governments little games of altering ICD codes in death records, blaming “missed screenings” and claiming Jab injuries as “Long COVID” are dead in the water. I see a very unpleasant road ahead for those that created the worst medical disaster in Human History. I don’t think they are going to like the “Great Reset” coming.

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    Why shouldn’t reparations be paid in sea shells, ochre or sticks? What place does money have in traditional culture?

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    DOC

    UK net zero ‘delayed’.
    Courageous being forced to see the future reality for nations stampeding down the anthropogenic climate change route.
    Once a few more Western leaders are forced to the same conclusions, it can’t be far off before a leader gets a little more courage from seeing the future destruction he or she is bringing down on a nation and slowly raises the hand, asking : ‘Perhaps, after 40 years of being proven totally wrong in forecasting and after such huge funds have been exhausted, we need to take a step back and throw open the entire science debate on the theory used to drive such a demolition job on our societies.’

    The end is nigh?

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    Tides of Mudgee

    This from Alan Jones on The Voice. 9 minutes and packs a punch. ToM

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    Hanrahan

    The committed “Yes” voters are down to 36%.

    With so much skin in the game, will this be a serious blow for Elbow? I am under no illusions that it will be fatal, but one can hope.

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    John Connor II

    What is a woman? Election version.

    A grassroots campaign in the U.K., fronted by Sharron Davies, plans to ask politicians a simple question: What is a woman? They’ll record the answers and create a website so voters can see where their representatives stand on the definition of a woman.

    An “army” of volunteers in an apolitical new grassroots campaign is gearing up to meet all MPs and parliamentary candidates at hustings events and on their doorsteps to ask each one the question: “What is a woman?”

    Their answers will be video recorded and uploaded individually to a website which is being launched in the coming months.

    It will allow voters to find out instantly whether their next MP thinks women must be born female and that binary biological sex cannot be changed, or whether they believe that male-born transgender women are women too.

    Sharron Davies MBE, the former Olympic swimmer and feminist campaigner who has been appointed as the campaign’s first ambassador, said it would let voters “know if their MP will stand up for women”.

    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/24/mps-who-believe-women-have-a-penis-will-be-named-and-shamed-ahead-of-general-election/

    This should be good for a laugh or 20.

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    Neville

    A very good interview with Michael Shellenberger on yesterday’s Outsiders program on Sky News.
    The pig ignorant Albo govt are now whale killers as well as eagles, other birds, bats, dolphins, etc.
    These left wing religious fanatics should be locked up for the damage they’re doing to our environment.
    The TRILLIONS of $ this will cost us will not change the climate at all, but they don’t care, so long as they can promote their BS and FRAUD.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8f79KttCGI

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    Neville

    Dr Jordan Petersen and a Science writer proves you can write FAKE articles and get them published as genuine studies.
    I think Micky Mann must have studied the same material for his hockey stick nonsense.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtroGK9D6-o

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    another ian

    And it is now official!

    “Federal Labor MP urges YES supporters to make multiple early votes “Vote Early, Vote Often”

    https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/federal-labor-mp-urges-yes-supporters-to-make-multiple-early-votes-vote-early-vote-often.html

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      robert rosicka

      I see Kamal has changed his mind again and is back to voting no , good thing Albo pumped him up as a role model for the yes vote .

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    another ian

    Good citizen opportunities –

    “Objections to wind and solar facilities”

    https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/09/25/help-wanted/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    Tucker Carlson interview

    “Our System Is Collapsing In Real Time”: Tucker Carlson Gives Bombshell Interview”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/our-system-collapsing-real-time-tucker-carlson-gives-bombshell-interview

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    Raving

    How a Storied National Airline Became Reviled in Its Own Country

    This is a NYT article about Australia’s national airlines sticking it to Australians.

    Popular theme as Canadians criticize our own beloved Air Canada sticking it to passengers. Note: I do not emphasize Canadians. There is more competition and transnational competition here.

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    another ian

    Canada news –

    “Just Putin It Out There”

    “Matt Taibbi: Canada’s Prime Minister solidifies his status as the world’s most nauseating pseudo-intellectual”

    Will “Elbow” crank up the competition?

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/25/just-putin-it-out-there/

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