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Biden Spent 40% of Presidency on Vacation
“Karine Jean-Pierre must take a deep breath when Peter Doocy enters the room, hence why she rarely calls on him for a question. Doocy has become emboldened with his inquiries and is one of the only journalists willing to ask the tough questions. Doocy’s latest doozy: “It seems like the hurricane response so far is robust. Did you guys realize that the initial Hawaiian wildfire was not that good or is it just easier for people to get help from the White House when [Biden] is not on vacation?”
Biden’s propaganda specialist replied by saying the current administration replied in record time. “So, the premise of your question & the way you posed [it], I disagree…If you talk to…the governor…the folks on the ground, they would say…[he] reacted in record time,” KJP stated. Biden’s first response to the Maui fires was, “No comment.” The island was burning down and Biden sat idly on a beach Delaware for ten days without a care in the world. He offered the people of Maui $700, a mere fraction of what he gave to the people of Ukraine that same week, and did not rush to visit the island. The people did not want him to visit anyway.
The people of Maui booed Biden when he arrived and set up signs after he left to show how displeased they were. Biden made jokes about the ground being hot and then said he could empathize with the people who lost everything, as he once almost lost his corvette in a fire.
Joe Biden has spent 40% of his time in office on vacation. He has taken 360 vacation days since taking over the White House amid one of the worst multitudes of crises in US history. This proves that someone else is in control. No one in any occupation could take off 40% of the time and do their job effectively.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/biden-spent-40-of-presidency-on-vacation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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And look at the damage he has done with that 60% in office …
Maybe it would be better if he spent 100% of his time on vacation ?
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This report asserts that it’s officially stated that the vast majority of US covid deaths were due to other factors.
https://slaynews.com/news/cdc-faked-99-reported-covid-deaths-data-shows/
This report states that the EU signed a contract with Pfizer waiving any rights to redress if anything went wrong and would pay their legal fees. A great deal of it has been redacted but the original can also be seen.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/30/the-scandalous-eu-contract-with-pfizer-biontech-has-been-online-for-two-years-why-has-nobody-seen-it/
Presumably the UK signed a different contract to the EU but whether that is available and has been redacted as well I don’t know. Australia must also have signed something similar.
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One thing I find fascinating about ‘Reformation II: Apocalypse Now the Sequel’ … available online … is the slow and painful revelation and realization of what was painfully obvious from the beginning.
Since we all can do our own translations now, maybe it should be updated from …
“the meek shall inherit the Earth” to …
“the oblivious shall inherit the Earth”.
Haven’t heard who gets Heaven.
May have been redacted.
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Here is just one of many examples of extreme weather in 1600’s England.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/30/in-1660-self-denial-was-all-the-rage-to-stop-extreme-weather-sounds-familiar/
According to my own research the years around 1540 were likely the hottest in 500 years, yet barely 20 years later the first extreme outbreaks of the Little Ice age were manifesting themselves. In 1362 a huge storm affected England and much of Northern Europe
https://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/great-wind-1362/
So extreme weather is hardly new.
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And now we have extreme hyperbole.
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Attenborough dropped a little bomb in the middle of the mammoth graveyard program. The graveyard was about 215k years old and near Swindon England. Despite it being the ice age he admitted to periods of rapid change, a scene of productive grasslands and a climate ‘only slightly cooler than today’.
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The Thames froze in London in 1534, then good harvests followed with warm dry summers. There was a great drought in 1540 and hot, nevertheless a plentiful harvest in corn and fruit was greatly appreciated.
By the mid 1540s the climate changed to cool and wet conditions, with poor harvests and famine. There were good and bad years, but for the most part crops were deficient in the decade ahead.
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The EU’s digital services act, just enacted and brought into law is likely to cause a huge crackdown on what Europeans are allowed to say and do on Digital platforms
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/01/eu-accused-of-taking-a-page-out-of-orwells-1984-with-the-creation-of-ministries-of-truth-that-will-ensure-wrong-thoughts-are-not-allowed/
Still, I am sure we are all confident that our freedom loving elite and their bureaucrats will not want to go over the top and will stop short of imposing a harsh crackdown on us all.
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I gather, tonyb, that this was said with tongue firmly in cheek.
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There are technical ways around censorship. Censorship applies to information disseminated in the public sphere. If the information is disseminated within private chat areas not provided for in a centralised manner then it can continue.
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California’s Assault on Trucks
An accelerated ban on diesel fleets will wreak havoc on the industry.
Climate policy keeps colliding with economic and technological reality, and California is ground zero. The state’s latest effort is a forced sprint to ban diesel trucks with nary a concern for costs or consequences.
Truckers are raising alarms about a new mandate proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to electrify their fleets. Starting next year, drayage operators that transport goods between state’s ports and distribution centers would be prohibited from registering new diesel trucks. By 2035 almost all package delivery, drayage and box trucks would have to be “zero emission.”
That’s the same year California’s ban on new gas-powered cars takes effect, but electrifying trucks will be even more costly and difficult.
A mere 272 electric trucks were registered in California as of last year. Under CARB’s mandates, some 510,000 trucks would have to be zero emission by 2035. Talk about putting the pedal to the metal.
Here is a classic example of regulating first and thinking later. Start with the costs. Electric heavy-duty trucks are about three times more expensive than new diesel big rigs. The Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits will offset only $40,000 of the $400,000 to $500,000 cost.
Installing chargers can cost millions of dollars and requires coordination with charging-equipment makers and local utilities. Trucks suck up loads of power, which can destabilize the electric grid.
Charging a small trucking fleet can require three times more power than a factory and about as much juice as a shopping mall or sports stadium.
One trucking company wanted to install charging stations for 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois, only to be told by local officials they would draw more power than the entire city.
In January northern California utility PG&E told a charging provider that one of its large fleet customers couldn’t charge its trucks on summer afternoons owing to a power crunch.
A Southern California Edison executive recently said some fleets are powering chargers using diesel generators so electric trucks don’t go unused.
This captures the folly of California’s climate policies. Who cares if policies don’t reduce CO2 emissions or improve public health as long as regulators claim they do?
It gets more ridiculous.
As of last month, there were fewer than 700 chargers at trucking depots, yet California’s energy commission estimates 157,000 more will be needed for medium- and heavy-duty trucks by 2030.
This would require more than 450 to be constructed each week, while grid upgrades to install chargers could take five to 10 years at minimum.
Then there’s the weight problem.
Electric trucks run on two batteries that each weigh about 8,000 pounds.
Since trucks must comply with strict federal weight limits, they won’t be able to carry as large a load as diesel big rigs.
PepsiCo this year is deploying Tesla’s electric semi-truck to deliver Frito-Lay products, but the trucks can’t go as far delivering soda.
Batteries can power trucks for about 150 to 330 miles between charging, which can take five to eight hours. Longer battery ranges require bigger and heavier batteries, which add more weight and reduce payload. That means more trucks and drivers will be needed, which will increase shipping costs.
Drivers will have no choice but to charge their trucks at night, though this is when many prefer to drive because there’s less traffic.
That means more trucks will be on the road during the day, causing more congestion during work-time commutes.
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It isn’t just ‘Mission Impossible’ with EVs it is now ‘Emissions Impossible’.
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Your emission, James, should you choose to accept it is zero………this message will not self destruct to avoid any likelihood of an emission and so it should be disposed of with respect to emissions at a specialised depo.
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some australian content with respect to spike.
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/8/2287
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Owner-drivers will be forced out of the transport industry and so will small to medium employed drivers businesses.
The woke have no concept of common sense.
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Owner-drivers forced out … so in about ten years, there will be one organisation in California – ‘California Road Services’ – with a monopoly.
And beholden to the local bureaucrats/gangsters …
What could possibly go wrong?
Is this the plan – all along?
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Transcript: Tucker Carlson and Viktor Orbán
“You should admit… If the United States would like to have peace [in Ukraine], the next morning there is peace.”
Video – 30 Mins 26 Secs
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 20 Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. We traveled to Budapest to speak with the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
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“Oxford Academic- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections”
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/01/sda-been-sayin/
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More “wind power wobbles”
“Despite lavish subsidies and tax credits under the Biden Administration’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, the US offshore wind industry is in turmoil after the world’s largest wind producer said it may be forced to walk away from multi-billion dollar wind projects on the eastern seaboard.”
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/01/we-dont-need-no-stinking-giant-fans-79/
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Happenings like that might add “some spectacular” to those AEMO graphs?
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/panic-now-the-australian-national-grid-manager-admits-blackouts-are-coming/
And do they include the rising cost of Snowy 2?
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Willis E. gives an invitation to be a reviewer –
“Observational and theoretical evidence that cloud feedback decreases global warming”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/01/observational-and-theoretical-evidence-that-cloud-feedback-decreases-global-warming/
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FWIW
“Elon Explains All Via X”
“He didn’t mean to, of course.
But he did.
Tweetdeck was restricted to paying customers only recently, and more-seriously the old version that I actually found had some value was forcibly removed, and the new one from my point of view sucks. I therefore won’t pay (since there’s no value to me in the new one) and so I’m now back on the “ordinary web page/app” experience.
And let me tell you, boy is it enlightening.
You see, there’s a “For You” tab which is Twitter’s view of what you want to see. Except… no it isn’t, not really.
Its more what Musk wants to shove down your throat and, I suspect, in short order it will wind up being even more-polarizing in the general public and not only harden positions but become basically worthless from an “advertiser” or “subscriber” perspective in that those paying to get into that list will find no ROI.
No return on investment, you stop investing eventually. It takes a while, but you will.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249589
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FWIW
“The darker side of home vacation rentals and property prices”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-darker-side-of-home-vacation.html
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I hear there’s lots of cheap homes in Portland Oregon, Los Angeles and other woke locations.
The real reason that property prices are so high is??
Surely you know?
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The Future
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So, the Greatest Clash of Civilizations since Mongols rode to Europe, or since Homo Sapiens colonized indigenous Neanderthal lands …
will be fought by cartoon.
Better than traditional weapons, but not counting false flag health security crises, or sinister medical intervention mandates, or labeling all political opposition bigots and ‘terrorists’.
Saves real estate.
Blitzkrieg is so 20th Century.
Booty is back.
(Though they might still be deploying fire. Suppose there might be a document leak in a few years .. if Alex Jones is still around to let us know.)
Build Back Better If You Survive
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Remember when…..
States used to offer cheaper electricity for businesses
that use LOTS of electricity if they moved to that state?
And then privitisation happened.
And inter-connectors were built and what I regard as “Ponzi Schemes”,
started. And the poor old average electricity user started paying
for the bad economic decisions of other states that are hooked-lined-and-sinkered
into the “green new deal”.
Now things are getting so bad that you need your own private “power station”
to survive through Summer and harsh Winters.
Even if we started building new coal fired power stations now it would be
five (5) years before we see the benefits of these. You know, what we used to have,
electricity at the flick of a switch, 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year.
Do you ever get the feeling that OUR Grubbnmnts do NOT care about the
ordinary people, who, by the way, pay their inflated salaries?
My will, is that ALL of the inter-connectors are opened AND locked
until some sanity emerges.
I certainly won’t hang by my thumb nails waiting for that to happen.
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Just an additional minor point, coal powered electricity has powered the state of Victoria for about 100 years, a full century of cheap, reliable energy.
Funny how this system that worked so well for so long is now the source of unreliable energy and the cause of the states problems.
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And State Electricity Commission was established after General Sir John Monash, an Australian civil engineer, brought home German brown coal (lignite) fired power station technology and convinced the politicians of that time that an electricity grid would attract industry and bring jobs and related tax revenue to Victoria.
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‘This week Paul Barry studiously ignored the ABC’s catastrophism and was dismissive of what we are doing to our children. We should explain to our kids they will not face an unliveable planet.’ (Chris Kenny / Oz)
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More on the US offshore wind turmoil. We are making serious headway.
Support for Wind Energy Plunges
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_nj_082923/
“A majority of New Jerseyans continue to favor the development of offshore wind energy, but the current level of support is far below the widespread backing it has received in polls over the prior 15 years. The Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll finds that 4 in 10 residents think wind farms could hurt the state’s summer tourism economy and just under half see a connection between wind energy development and the recent spate of whales washing up on New Jersey beaches. Few see wind energy leading to major job growth in the state.”
Of course the developers say we are lying. What else can they say?
Support for Offshore Wind in New Jersey Drops, Industry Points to Effect of Misinformation
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/08/30/support-for-offshore-wind-in-new-jersey-drops-industry-points-to-effect-of-misinformation/?%3Futm_source=offshorewind&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_2023-08-31#
“The number of New Jersey residents who support offshore wind fell by more than 20 per cent since 2019, from 76 per cent four years ago to just over half (54 per cent) now, and the number of those opposing offshore wind has climbed from 15 per cent to 40 per cent since 2019.”
Praise to all hands!
Onward.
David
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Austraian Taxpayers Alliance “The Voice – Would You Sign a Blank Cheque? – Vote NO?
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Remember to write NO in the box.
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Tick …… just joking Len.
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I agree Dennis- That is the worst piece of advertising I can remember! You DON’T put a tick in the box, you write the words YES or NO.
Put a tick?? Well, that means ‘agreement’ or ‘right’ or ‘good’, so its will probably end up being taken as a YES, because the Govt drones organising this said they would go by the intention, not necessarily the actual mark. ..and the intention is for the Govt to get this passed, come hell or high water! Surely you didn’t think it was YOUR intention they were talking about!
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The Weekend Australian – Louise Clegg who is a Sydney Barrister – In this ballot, the people’s primacy be damned.
Vote No
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I trust that voters are waking up to the hidden details and agenda and why Labor and the Aboriginal Activists are so anxious about locking the “Voice” into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution, even though primary responsibility of Indigenous Affairs is State Government responsibility and contained in State Constitutions since 1901.
Obviously they do not want a new ATSIC legislated by Parliament because if it fails Parliament could repeal that legislation as was done with ATSIC after it proved to be a very expensive failure by “Air Conditioned Aborigines In Canberra”. Rude communities used the the description Aborigines Talking Sh*t In Canberra. In short, Lots of elite bureaucrats benefiting but communities received very little.
But even more important is that once inserted into the Constitution the path opens for appeals to the High Court of Australia based on interpretations of what voters intended, like Voice plus Treaty/Makarratta plus Truth telling leading to reparations and sovereignty the activists claim was never ceded. But they conveniently ignore that every “mob” is different, culturally, languages and own countries. To quote Message Stick Walker Alwyn Doolan who is an Indigenous Australian – “My mob can’t speak for your mob. Your mob can’t speak for my mob”. Now remaining are 300-plus “countries” that have survived in Australia. In 1788 there were more than 500 of them.
Of course Voice can be legislated by Parliament, that was determined after the 1967 Referendum and changes to the Constitution that were already written into State Constitutions. But then there would be no basis for a High Court appeal and interpretation by lawyers acting for activists.
Vote NO because the far left “Communist Elders” and fellow travellers like Prime Minister Albanese who is a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky.
Elder Noel Pearson is said to have been the chief architect of the agenda now called Uluru Statement that Prime Minister Albanese promised to implement in full , but now is in denial. He even denies that there are 26 Pages and at least 18 Pages of direct agenda items, not explanatory notes. The complete Uluru Statement was obtained by Peta Credlin of Sky News and the link has been published there a number of times. The PM is worried that once voters see what Uluru Statement in full contains that voters will not be supportive. Why would we be, sovereignty, reparations, power over Parliament and elected MPs by unelected activists representing themselves as a small number within the 810,000 Australians who identified as having Aboriginal ancestry at the 2021 Census, or 3.7 per cent of the population.
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Ah yes, one of those ’26 pages of minutes’ had a statement that the committee would be for ‘consent’ of new laws, not ‘advice’ as we are being told!
Just check out the maori billionaires and the ordinary maori who is still poor, unhealthy and uneducated. 30years and billions of dollars in treaty settlements have done nothing for the average Maori. That’s the blueprint for what will happen here.
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Finally – a worthwhile app for frequent flyers
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4b4dc5c9dccf45ea7fe9e68016151e40/08fdbec5d977a214-f5/s1280x1920/2a300feda2e9a3c750ef0456ee590def0050d84d.jpg
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Re “Their Voice”
Remember back when the USA congress voted on “Obamacare”?
The night of the vote Nancy Pelosi dropped another 1200 pages of legislation with the comment
“To find out what is in it you’ll have to vote for it”?
Now remember that the ALP sends trainees to USA to learn from the Democrats and that, in an election not so long ago, they got fined for illegal contribution by a foreign agent?
Reckon that the play with all the undeclared items behind “Their Voice” might be a trial run of those learnings?
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FWIW
“Ever wondered why…
Some of your friends refuse to even listen to fairly reasonable ideas?
Fact-checkers mostly debunk absurd-sounding propositions?
Some of our allies appear out of nowhere and spout outright nonsense?
It is not a coincidence! It turns out that scientists, in addition to physical inoculations with COVID vaccines, also came up with a concept of inoculating human minds against what they call “misinformation”.
These intellectual inoculations work kind of like physical vaccines, introducing weakened and distorted forms of undesirable information to us, which makes people resistant to all forms of such.
According to vaccine psychology experts, the population needs to be intellectually inoculated against misinformation, in order to convince unsure and hesitant people to accept Covid vaccines.
Such inoculations will future-proof individuals against listening to doubters, and will also make them accept physical Covid-19 vaccine injections. Check this out:
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/vaccine-like-inoculation-of-minds “
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More “Safe and Effective tm”
“Judicial Watch: Records Reveal Pfizer Tested Safety of Covid Vaccine Booster on 23 People Before Biden FDA Approved the Shots”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/judicial-watch-records-reveal-pfizer-tested-safety-covid/
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FWIW
“Conflicting Evidence Of mRNA Technology Raises Serious Concerns About Rush For Use In New Vaccine Development”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/conflicting-evidence-mrna-technology-raises-serious-concerns-about-rush-use-new-vaccine
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