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    John Hultquist

    Each weekend on a site called “powerlineblog” a selection of images and headlines is presented by Steven Hayward under the title “the week in pictures”. This week it is called the habemus-decentis-edition. About halfway down there is a photo of two Grosbeaks and a young one. The baby appears to be pointing and saying something to the parent.
    Under the photo, Hayward, writes that this would make a great meme and asks for comments.

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      Greg in NZ

      If it’s the photo methinks you’re referring to (for some reason my old phone can’t connect to TWIP anymore which is a shame as I enjoyed its weekly humour) their ABC ran that photo, amongst others, a few weeks back under the title: Funny Australian Wildlife (or something similar).

      As a New Zealander who survived that woman’s 6-year tyrannical rule, my suggestion would be: Jacinda? She went that’a’way!

      [Is NZ really 3 hours ahead of Oz now? It’s gone 7am already yet the post reads 4am. We can’t win a rugby game to save ourselves yet we’re waaaay ahead of the rest of the world…] 😃

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        Sambar

        One of the great pleasures I had when working in N.Z. was the fact that it was 2 hours ahead and 50 years behind Oz. Loved stepping off the plane and stepping back in time to a place that was so like my childhood I would happily of lived there.
        Sadly I believe your most beautiful islands have caught up with the rest of the world.

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          another ian

          Back in the days of short wave radio we used to bring in New Year via Radio NZ

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            David Maddison

            Back in the days of short wave radio we used to bring in New Year via Radio NZ

            Shortwave radio still exists although most channel slots are now dominated by the Chicomms and spoken in Chinese with some English language propaganda channels.

            Radio NZ is one of the few English language broadcasters left on shortwave.

            I can easily receive their broadcasts in Melbournistan. I don’t listen to the woke content, just so I can log receipt of the station and technical aspects of the transmission.

            SEE https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/listen

            SEE https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/technical

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            John B

            I lived in Singapore and Jakarta during the seventies and eighties and listened to my National (do they still exist) SW radio regularly to catch the BBC and ABC news. I remember catching the final America’s Cup race in 1983, when Australia II won, some early morning in Jakarta on my SW radio. Correlating seismic sections to nearby well logs was a difficult task the next day.

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          Steve of Cornubia

          I had the same experience. Countryside Enzed was remarkably similar to the UK of my childhood. One experience brought me to tears when, with an hour or so to kill before a meeting, I sat in a field of wildflowers when a Skylark drifted up into the sky serenading me with its beautiful, evocative song. I was immediately and vividly snatched back forty years when, as a nature-obsessed boy, I would do exactly the same thing back in Blighty. I think I cried because it reminded me how much the world has changed since then and how we’re not allowed to feel happy these days.

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            Annie

            Steve, we had a similar experience in Nov ’85. Camped near a river where the plants were very ‘English’. That was a homesickness sort of time.
            It later sleeted as we travelled on the ferry from Picton and into a gale across Cook Straight, with an alarming view of the reef. The wind in Wellington drove the rain horizontally.
            We loved NZ but its recent regime has deterred us from going back any more. Our last visit was in 2001.

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              Steve of Cornubia

              I love to walk in New Zealand, especially in meadows and long grass – another reminder of my childhood and something I can’t so easily do here in Oz because the grass hides thousands of critters that want to kill me.

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          yarpos

          Only visited NZ in the modern era (this century) and like it a lot. Never had a sense of it being behind anything in fact they seemed to have encouraged a lot of entrepreneurship. I recall a building fit out job in the late 90s where we had to send all the data outlets (1000s) to NZ to have some fittings plastic welded because nobody did it at scale in Oz. Hartley Engineering is another company selling high tech racing engines and parts to the world. Icarus Parachutes does the same in the skydiving world. Its a dynamic kind of place when not being crushed by the likes of Ardern. And of course with some of the best scenery on the planet.

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            Greg in NZ

            Yarpos, one of my nieces works for Icarus, although she relocated to Aus a few years back (what’s new!). For the past 10 years she’s been their digital media guru, as well as travelling the planet jumping out of planes in NZ, Aus, Dubai, Sweden, USA, etc. She and three female buddies entered the world skydiving formation comp a few years back and, as they were the only women competitors, they won: World Champs! Smart cookies and adventurous too.

            Icarus’ wings are a world away from the old static-line army surplus chutes I ‘flew’ with, albeit briefly, back in the 70s – pull a toggle and wait… slowly… round… pull the other one… slowly… round the other way…

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              yarpos

              Yes its a very different world in all aspects of skydiving now, But its been half a century so you get that I guess. A whole lot safer now too, although those with the adrenalin gene do tend to find new and creative ways to damage themselves at times.

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        Len

        Elivin to Twelve

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    tonyb

    Rishi Sunak develops AI forum

    https://www.voiceofeurope.com/britain-will-create-the-worlds-first-artificial-intelligence-safety-institute/

    He will meet with other delegates at world famous Bletchley park-very appropriate. I don’t know what Turing would have made of AI. Will it benefit mankind or ruin us?

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    tonyb

    Yesterday I posted this;

    “The Liberal young activists supporting climate action whilst streaming HD TV on to their mobile phone screens, living online, streaming pointless pictures of their cute cat whilst seemingly unconcerned that their digital world uses twice as much energy as international civil aviation they decry, and oblivious to the reality that their digital haven will double its energy consumption in 3 year.”

    Apparently AI and developments in the internet generally, with all that entails in computing power will double the electricity needed every 4 years. Its already 10% and will soon be 20%. Quite where reliable electricity is going to come from baffles me but not as much as wondering where the rare earths and copper will come from

    There are not enough of these in the world to supply our green requirements and most of those available are in the hands of China and its allies.

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    tonyb

    The following is not a spoof but comes directly from the EU

    “Internationalis and the Holy See are urging the 27 EU member states to accommodate 20 million “climate refugees” each year. The Vatican’s criticism is aimed at the disproportionate spending on border protection compared to reception measures.

    Cecile Stone, representing the umbrella organization of Catholic relief agencies, stressed the high social, economic, and political costs of inaction. During a presentation at the Vatican, she pointed out that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had identified climate change as a major driver of migration in its latest report. The IPCC recommended establishing safe, orderly, and regular migration routes as part of adaptation measures. However, this crucial information was overlooked in the political summary, Exxpress reported.

    Caritas estimates that an average of 20 million people are compelled to flee annually due to “extreme weather events.” This number is twice as high as those displaced by armed conflicts. The Vatican argues that referring to people as “economic migrants” when they lose their livelihoods due to climate change is misleading. It is unreasonable to expect them to delay their migration until it becomes a matter of life and death.”

    Australia has lots of space and judging by recent years a desire to import lots of people, so can the EU put you down for a modest 5million a year of climate refugees? I will take your silence as enthusiastic assent

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      Greg in NZ

      That’s sooooo last century – typical for the Catholic beast – Tuvaluans and Kiribatians and most of Polynesia were supposedly going to be flocking to the ‘high lands’ of NZ and Aus to escape the rising tide of existential doom… except, as Prof Paul Kench and other observers of sea level noted, the majority of ‘sinking islands’ were, in fact, growing, as noted by one Charlie Darwin long before the IPCCCCC even put their nappies on.

      As ‘the mother of all harlots’ knows, fear sells, and she’s going hell-for-leather to profit from this latest incarnation of doom™. Except, it’s all fairytales & goblins. Il Papa can go bless himself.

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      Sambar

      “Australia has lots of space and judging by recent years a desire to import lots of people, so can the EU put you down for a modest 5million a year of climate refugees? “

      Arrrrgh this argument. It used to be propounded by the Greens, “Australia has plenty of space and is a wealthy country therefore we should take in more refugees/ illegal immigrants because we can”
      Only one problem, It makes no difference to the source countries whose populations are so large that missing a million here and there will never be noticed, transplanting them to Australia would immediately be noticed. The devastion to our country would be swift, irreversible and destructive at every level. This inconvenient fact is simply ignored by the elitist groups.

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        David Maddison

        The devastion to our country would be swift, irreversible and destructive at every level.

        That’s the plan.

        This inconvenient fact is simply ignored by the elitist groups.

        Not ignored. That’s their plan. And to bring in future Labor/Green voters in Australia and Democrat voters in the US, similarly for other cpuntries.

        Most of those imported legally or illegally into Western countries have no committment whatsoever to Western social or moral values or the Renaissance values that led to our present Western Civilisation (currently subject to rapid destruction).

        Look at what’s happened to almost every country in Europe.

        Look what the almost unrestricted southern border is doing to the United States.

        Australia’s immigration is less noticeable because they are fly-ins, not walk-ins or boat-ins but they are still coming and unlike post WW2 immigration where people brought valuable skills and a desire to achieve economic prosperity many modern immigrants bring violence and economic parasitism.

        Import the Third World, become the Third World.

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          Kalm Keith

          Tragic, isn’t it.
          Why should we be disciplined, work, save and build, only to have it taken from us to “help” the disadvantaged.

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          Catherine

          ‘The Free Press’:

          ‘Two Bombings in One Night? That’s Normal Now in Sweden.’ By Paulina Neuding, 22-09-2022

          My country just voted in a right-wing government. The almost 500 bombings since 2018 may have something to do with it.

          In response to Sweden’s increasing problems with gang violence and social unrest in immigrant suburbs, the government’s strategy for many years was to deny how serious the situation had become. ​​In the meantime, those people who noticed the problem—many of whom were working class—and spoke out about their diminished safety were accused of racism by leading politicians, the mainstream press, and the cultural elites. Only one political party did not: the SD. And in election after election, they gained more and more popular support.

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            Catherine

            This is a story of what happens when the people who run things want to avoid confronting the consequences of their actions.

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              Catherine

              Friends with children in their teens and twenties tell me that the fear of crime shapes the lives of their kids and their friends. Indeed, mock elections at schools this month showed that teenagers now lean to the right, with the majority voting for parties in the right-wing bloc, including 21 percent for SD.

              This is not a problem that is confined to the stereotype of the discontented “losers of globalization.” The crime wave has moved Swedish voters—rich and poor—to worry about the most elemental of needs: the safety of their loved ones, in ways that we simply didn’t use to.

              As an acquaintance told me the other day, when we were talking about the election: “All I want is for my kid not to get kidnapped and peed on.”

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                Catherine

                Sweden’s “vulnerable” areas have turned into enclaves that threaten the ideals, values, and even the ability of the Swedish state to keep order. The gang control also threatens the safety and limits the freedom of other immigrants, making life difficult for all those who seek to integrate into Swedish society.

                This is nothing less than a threat to Swedish democracy.

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              DD

              … a story of what happens when the people who run things want to avoid confronting the consequences of their actions.

              Perhaps it is exactly what they wanted to happen.

              Here’s an overview of what is happening in Sweden:
              https://rmx.news/?s=sweden

              Remix News is one of the very few non-leftist news outlets in Europe. They cover all of Europe, with particular emphasis on the smaller states, which rarely get a mention in the MSM.

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            yarpos

            Remember when Trump talked about “what’s going on in Sweden” and the ever all knowing left laughed at him?

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Well the UK is reaping what she has sowed the past few decades, when she imported the Middle East. The latest pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest in London was enormous. As that huge population of haters becomes more and more empowered, I see only trouble for my homeland. I can only imagine how poor Israelis living in the UK must feel. A once welcoming nation of tolerant people is slowly morphing into a battleground of primitive tribes.

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        Macha

        Yep. The most houses we have ever built in Australia is about 230,000 in a year. Last coupke years tbe Labour party has let in over 300,000 immigrants per year. Some saying over 400,000 ahead.

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          Philip

          It’s not just the houses. It’s the water, the infrastructure maintenance this huge population will impose, that these so-called environmentalists want. Truth is their motive is antiwhitism.

          The result will be political strife and violence. Do not under estimate what you saw at the Opera House. Doesn’t matter who is wrong or right. The fact is that trouble is now here, not just there. And trouble is trouble, an adjective is irrelevant.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Australia isn’t as spacious as most people think. The vast majority is pretty much uninhabitable, at least if you want modern conveniences. Most of it has poor quality soils useless for agriculture other than cattle and sheep farming at ridiculously-low stocking rates. That interior region only has two seasons, too: flood and drought. It’s a vast expanse of bugger all.

        The good bits, suitable for humans, comprises a relatively narrow band around the outside, the area of which would be what, 25% of the total?

        I’m already painfully aware of how our productive agricultural land is disappearing under asphalt and concrete here in SEQ, especially when I head out towards Toowoomba. It’s still a long way from the overcrowding I experienced in the UK, with its disappearing green spaces, but I can see where we’re headed.

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          David Maddison

          I think much of Australia could be irrigated with the appropriate hydraulic engineering (dams and canals) and maybe some nuclear powered desalination plants in the right places.

          As the world cools Australia could become a breadbasket for the world (more so than it already is).

          But the money that might have been used for some useful projects like that has been thrown away on useless solar and wind projects and unneeded desal plants (in the wrong places).

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            Graeme#4

            If/when we go into the next glacial, the current immigration will seem like a drop in the ocean, as I’m guessing that most of the will gradually become uninhabitable.

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            another ian

            DM

            Don’t overlook efficiency of water use

            In an inland drought way back in BC we had to deal with potential irland irrigation projects. People driving from the coast drove through a major irrigation area and came home to drought. So the question was “Can I do that here?”

            First consideration was that irrigation in that area got about 3/4 of its water from rainfall.

            Where they were considering required it all from storage.

            The idea later expanded to work on safe carrying capacity estimation where vapour pressure deficit was a major factor in the calculation.

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          Philip

          East of the Great Divide would be much less than 25%. However, the best potential is inland. Nice place to live, less humidity. They just need water, and some well designed shaded / vegetated cities. (and a program to kill the brown snakes). I’d move there in a flash. I loathe coastal humidity and have over dosed on beaches, I never visit them anymore.

          Australian soils aren’t too bad really. I know what you’re saying, and it’s true, there are a lot of terrible soils, but a lot of soils respond to fertilizer and cropping as well, and the dark clays are amongst the best in the world.

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        Ian

        Sambar you write

        “The devastion to our country would be swift, irreversible and destructive at every level. This inconvenient fact is simply ignored by the elitist groups.”

        There are around 720,000 Indians and 600,000 Chinese currently resident in Australia. Their percentages of the total Australian population are around 3% and 2.5% and they are second and third largest migrant communities respectively. They come from the two countries with the largest populations in the world and haven’t devastated our country as yet. They are followed by about 320,000 Philipinos and about 270,000 Vietnamese who are the fourth and sixth largest migrant communities, come from heavily populated countries and they too appear not to have devastated the country as yet.

        https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-statistics/statistics/country-profiles/profiles/india

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          By the same reasoning, 100 trillion tons of fossil fuels have been burnt and, quoting you, ” they too appear not to have devastated the country as yet.”

          In fact you cannot even point to one definitive cause-and-effect bit of evidence that CO2 from fossil fuels has done anything devastating (or even measurable) anywhere in the world. It increased plant growth and reduced deserts.

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            Ian

            Thanks for the reply Jo but I was not considering the effects of burning fossil fuels just the absence of “swift, irreversible and destructive devastation”despite the increased number of migrants in Australia. Perhaps this absence is why “this inconvenient fact is simply ignored by the elitist groups.” of Australia

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              My point was about your weak logic not about immigration or about CO2.

              You accept vague and dangerous future forecasts about CO2 with no present evidence, yet say states with 3% “XYZ” culture are fine even though (unlike in climate science) we know some states with 100% XYZ culture are barbaric. At what percent does XYZ destroy womens rights, sexual freedom and free speech. What % is the “tipping point”? You appear to say 3% is OK therefore 100% is also OK.

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      RickWill

      Australia has lots of space and judging by recent years a desire to import lots of people, so can the EU put you down for a modest 5million a year of climate refugees? I will take your silence as enthusiastic assent

      This highlights the stupidity of aid organisations working in Africa to keep infants alive. They grow up and breed. Then the new generation needs aid to grow up and breed. This has become a cycle of dependence.

      Imigration just shifts the problem globally. Countries import people who have been raised in a system of dependence. The cultural problems are immense and the slow rate of assimilation into a society of mutual contribution degrades the existing culture.

      Sweden gets a lot of headlines on gang violence like this:
      https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-pm-says-integration-immigrants-has-failed-fueled-gang-crime-2022-04-28/

      STOCKHOLM, April 28 (Reuters) – Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organised crime.

      Australia has a growing incidence of gang violence. Some of it is brazen. It is not new and is associated with each wave of immigrants but the trend is a concern:
      https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-victims/latest-release
      Unlawful entry and motor vehicle theft are more brazen and on the increase.

      If the Federal Government want more immigrants then assimilate them in the Australian Capital Territory and set up big fences with border controls to keep them in there. People in Canberra are isolated from reality. They are the most drugged up city in Australia to avoid facing reality.

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      Yes Tony. put us down for 5 million per year, smilar sized Western countries likewise
      America could take more. Witness a geo-political shift where the economically developing word is transported
      to the developed world and the developed world becomes un-developed. All good regarding equity and inclusion.

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      Harves

      There is a well-known book called “The Camp of the Saints”, by author and explorer Jean Raspail. It depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. When first published (in 1973) it was praised as a literary work, but is now considered racist and xenophobic, even though it has been extremely accurate in its predictions. Second hand copies go for $400+ on eBay, but publishers are too scared to publish a new edition.

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        Glenn

        I’ve read that book Harves…and it is eerie in how accurate it is looking at the mess we have today. From memory, I think it was banned here in Austrlia for a while ?

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          Harves

          Yeah, I think it’s banned in the US too. You wouldn’t want the plebs to think that the current migrant situation was actually foreseeable and no government did anything about it.

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      Kalm Keith

      Huge.

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      Apart from being old news ( Sept 28th) , already discussed on thids forum,….
      …it is obviously a cover up for some illegal weapons /munitions storage becausr batteries DO NOT EXPLODE !
      ……and that was a huge explosive event
      Batteries burn fast and are very hard to extinguish ,..but there is a big difference between a fast burning fuel , and an explosive material !

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    David Maddison

    https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/genetically-modified-organons

    Genetically Modified Organons

    They lied. They know they lied. And now they know that we know they lied.

    DR AH KAHN SYED

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    Arkmedic’s blog

    Aristotle will be turning in his grave watching the institutions pursuit for sophistry in place of philosophy

    This week could well have been a defining moment in the unravelling of the burning pyre of lies that we have been plagued with for the last 4 years (actually much longer but that might be a story for another day). And it belongs to Senator Gerard Rennick, who has been an absolute stalwart in the fight for truth over that time.

    In this exchange currently blowing up around social media from the Senate Estimates hearings on the 26th October… the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) is asked a very simple 2-part question.

    “Why weren’t the mRNA vaccines tested for genotoxicity and

    Why didn’t the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator look at it in terms of a gene technology?”

    ….

    What they previously said (wrote) was that it wasn’t tested for genotoxicity because it was a vaccine. Here is the relevant passage from the preclinical evaluation document:

    ….

    Here’s the full clip with subtitles embedded.

    ….

    So there are two questions there, and we’ll spend more time on the first one than Dr Bhula – who dodged it completely by saying “well the TGA answered that already”. Yeah… no, they didn’t.

    What they previously said (wrote) was that it wasn’t tested for genotoxicity because it was a vaccine. Here is the relevant passage from the preclinical evaluation document:

    ….

    Bear in mind that Onpattro (Patirisan) is a siRNA genetic technology, which is a short non-coding double-stranded RNA of only 21 nucleotides length (what could go wrong eh?) which are so effective they can stop the production of a whole protein pathway.

    By comparison the COVID mRNA vaccines comprise nearly 4000 nucleotides. Imagine the havoc that could potentially result if you only need 21 nucleotides to shut down production of a single protein – and you now have 4000.

    So Onpattro had to have genotoxicity studies, but the COVID mRNA vaccines didn’t?

    Makes sense eh?

    ….

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      another ian

      And –

      “Vaccine Companies Were Required to Publish Numerous Post-Authorisation Safety Studies. So Where Are They?”

      https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/28/vaccine-companies-were-required-to-publish-numerous-post-authorisation-safety-studies-so-where-are-they/

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      environment sceptic

      Thank you David…..this is huge. And thank you, the good Senator Gerard Rennick

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      Catherine

      some reminders:

      on substack: ‘A Better Way to Health with Dr Tess Lawrie’

      ‘My Letter to Dr Andrew Hill Video
      To address the many requests I get about where to locate this video, I’m posting it here for ease of sharing

      DR TESS LAWRIE, MBBCH, PHD​
      28 OCT 2023

      Watch this 18-minute video to see what the consequences have meant for the world.’

      A lot of ‘journalists’ should be ashamed!!!

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        Catherine

        2017-2017-2017-2017-2017-2017

        ‘Nature’ : Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
        The Journal of Antibiotics

        ‘Over the past decade, the global scientific community have begun to recognize the unmatched value of an extraordinary drug, ivermectin, that originates from a single microbe unearthed from soil in Japan.
        Today, (in 2017) ivermectin is continuing to surprise and excite scientists, offering more and more promise to help improve global public health by treating a diverse range of diseases, with its unexpected potential as an antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent being particularly extraordinary.

        The future: new potential/new target diseases
        Ivermectin is already deployed to treat a variety of infections and diseases, most of which primarily afflict the world’s poor. But it is the new opportunities with respect to ivermectin usage, or re-purposing it to control a completely new range of diseases, that is generating interest and excitement in the scientific and global health research communities.

        Malaria
        Asthma
        Epilepsy
        Neurological disease
        Antiviral
        Antibacterial
        Anti-cancer

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          Catherine

          on substack: ‘Covid Chronicles’ Dr Byram W. Bridle

          -‘Explosive Story: ‘Health Canada Admits Pfizer Misrepresented Their COVID-19 Shot’, 20-10-2023

          -‘It Takes at Least a Decade to Be Sure a New Vaccine is Safe’, 19-03-2023
          After Twelve Years You Could Find Out That All Hell Broke Loose, Then What Have You Done
          [Source: Dr. Anthony Fauci]

          ————————————————————————————————-

          on YouTube: John Campbell
          ‘UK debate on power grab’

          Why don’t we here more about this?

          —————

          on YouTube: Dr Suneel Dhand
          ‘BREAKING: WHO Pandemic Treaty may be blocked by unlikely entity’

          Why would we follow the WHO ‘recommendations’….They did an extremely bad job with Covid.
          To start with, they didn’t want to listen to Taiwan…. etc

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            Catherine

            ‘Brownstone Institute’ :

            My Golden Retriever Confronts the Medical Juggernaut
            BY J. BAKER, MD OCTOBER 27, 2023

            a good read

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    Graham Richards

    Enough of Mathew Perry. Good actor ,good guy, sympathies to friends relations, but as thick as two planks. No sympathy for him who has put friends ,family & colleagues thru a misery of his own making. He is not a hero, just really stupid!
    Note:-
    If you imbibe poison or inject poison into your perfectly engineered body YOU WILL DIE sooner or later. How many more stupid celebrities etc will go the same way before individuals become responsible people. It’s quite simple really!

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      Strop

      Good actor ,good guy …. He is not a hero

      I haven’t seen reports of him being a hero. Just people saying what you said. Good actor and good guy. Given he was a popular part of one of the most successful TV shows ever there is bound to be more than a casual mention of his passing.

      If he didn’t have a history of drug taking there would be a number of people speculating over his vaccination status.

      Yes, to put it mildly, taking drugs is not advisable and not wise.

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        Perry was a self confessed alcoholic…
        …but he was known to devote much effort to others fight their own alcohol demons by encouraging them to join AA groups.

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      yarpos

      Yes there will always be calls for people to become responsible, show some willpower, just get over it, harden the f up etc. Makes so much sense because , you know, humankind is so identical and cookie cutter in its presentation that the one experience and one approach to the ideal state applies to everyone and if you have a problem its all self inflicted. Got it.

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    David Maddison

    Don’t forget the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally.

    About 2hrs drive from Melbournistan, Australia.

    Nov 4th and 5th 2023.

    SEE the internal and external combustion engines that made the Industrial Revolution before such machines and displays are banned by Big Brother.

    The rally is at a huge private site, much like a private town. One shocking thing is that it has been encroached by what will be Australia’s largest wind plantation with 149 civilisation-destroying windmills the sight of which has ruined a beautiful rural landscape.

    It’s an interesting juxtaposition of the machines that built Western Civilisation and those windmills that are substantially contributing to destroying it.

    Ownership of the wind plantation is 51% Chinese and 49% Quatar.

    SEE https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/

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      Is there no Australian participation at all? Presumably the power will be used locally but the profits will go overseas

      Just think you could have sold coal to the Chnese for their power stations and made lots of money on your account

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      Kalm Keith

      “Ownership of the wind plantation is 51% Chinese and 49% Quatar.”

      That’s very interesting David. The Big unknown is the size, location and form of the “inducements” that were required to break down the legalities that might have stopped this.

      Briefly: this project, along with many similar, is not about functional engineering, it is not about cheap or reliable electricity and certainly not about the environment.

      So what is this?

      Australia; now open for business from the former state of Victoria to the beautiful Port of Darwin.

      Please pay the cashier, quietly, on the way out.

      And don’t worry about the mess in ten years time; they’ll be long gone to UNHQ in Geneva.

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      David Maddison

      I forgot to say that the wind plantation is called the “Stockyard Hill Wind Farm”.

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

      It must be wonderful for the owners of wind plantations to do business in Australia because idiots in our Government can’t get enough of their garbage. Especially simpletons like Chris Bowen, the anti-energy Minister.

      Not surprisingly, Bowen has never had a proper job, he has only ever been in local government or parliament. And it shows.

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    another ian

    More emphasis –

    “Unreliable power a leading factor in South Africa’s demise”

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/10/29/unreliable-power-a-leading-factor-in-south-africas-demise/

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      David Maddison

      South Africa used to have reliable and cheap power from coal power stations but they have mostly not been managed or maintained properly (or at all) since April 27th, 1994.

      What is remarkable is that the power stations have lasted as long as they have without proper management or maintenance.

      There is also a Koeberg nuclear power station with two reactors supplying 5% of SA power but I understand French contractors Framatome manage and maintain that.

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      Graham Richards

      South Africa’s demise can be attributed only to hopeless leadership, corruption & the usual killer of any economy, SOCIALIST IDEOLOGIES.

      This country used to produce 70% + of all electricity on the whole continent, never mind being blessed with easily mined, multiple resources, an ample resource of highly trained, educated people.

      The highly trained experts have been replaced with Marxist cadres who are nothing but corrupt government bureaucrats, officials & general oxygen thieves.
      The result is the internal collapse of all government, services , infrastructure.
      The national airline went bust, the railway system is at a standstill , the national broadcaster is bankrupt, the last figures I heard on municipalities nation wide were that more than 150 of them were bankrupt. The national road grid is disintegrating as we speak.

      Believe me electricity is only one of a multitude of problems.

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        David Maddison

        From six years ago:

        https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/south-africa-print-money-rich/

        The new South African finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, has announced that the government will print billions of dollars worth of the national currency and hand it out to poor black people so that “everyone will be rich.”

        Sounds like Bidenomics or in Australia’s case, Jim Chalmers, who like Bowen, has never had a proper job. And it shows.

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        Harves

        I though South Africa was supposed to have been on its way to becoming a Utopia once they got rid of the evil white guys.

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          GlenM

          Will the World Bank help these poor , struggling countries? Victims of colonialism and white oppression. Rhodesia was the template for all of this. 5 years at the most before the whole show implodes with the sound of of ssucking of mud. Do what you can folks.

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        mawm

        Graham – I would question the stat that SA supplied 70+% of all electricity for Africa. Probably for Southern Africa – SA, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and possibly Malawi. Kariba (Zim) and Cahora Bassa (Mozambique) had hydro. Namibia has hydro (put in when SA ran the country) on the Cunene river (between Nam and Angola) at Ruacana. I don’t know if they ever supplied power to Angola.

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          Graham Richards

          Ma’am,
          When did you last visit the remains of South Africa. I spent 45 years there & have visited there at 7 times in the last 35 years. Also, I’m in constant weekly contact with old friend’s & relatives.
          By the way 70% is the proportion of all generation on the whole continent.

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            mawm

            I have spent more years than you in SA. Have you ever been to Cairo? It’s massive. They probably alone use more electricity than SA – electricity not generated in SA. Instead of getting your knickers in a knot think rationally.

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              Graham Richards

              Imawm,

              Your geography is also left wanting . Thinking rationally I do know that Cairo is definitely in Egypt ( pyramids, etc ) while SA is about 10,000 km further south. Hope you don’t rely on geographic knowledge to make a living! 🤓🤓

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                Roy

                Have you forgotten that in your original message you referred to “the whole continent”? Which continent is Egypt part of?

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          Total Power Generation/Consumption For the whole of the African Continent – 740TW

          Total Power Generation/Consumption For Just the Country South Africa – 191TWH (so 25.8% of African Total) (Population 58 Million)

          Total Power Generation/Consumption For Just the Country Egypt – 168TWH (so 22.7% of African Total) (Population 101 Million)

          These two Countries are the highest Countries for Generation/consumption on that African Continent

          Total Power Generation/Consumption For Australia 237TWH (Population 26.5 Million)

          Tony.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “One must not stand silent in the face of a second Holocaust, the Czech Defense Minister Jana ČernochovĂĄ said as she called on her country to withdraw from the United Nations to protest its failure to condemn Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.”

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/10/29/are-we-still-a-member-of-this-thing-16/

    Goes with that –

    https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4623

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    Yarpos

    A version of Billy Joels We Didn’t Start the Fire, listing out the various issues swirling around the world (lyrics only)

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-didnt-start-fire

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Pielke Jr.: Going All in with Peak Fossil Fuels by 2030”

    “The International Energy Agency bets its reputation on an aggressive prediction
    In a recent substack by Roger Pielke Jr., a critical analysis is presented regarding the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) bold prediction concerning the peaking of fossil fuels by 2030. Pielke’s meticulous examination of the IEA’s forecast reveals a landscape where the integrity of scientific prognostication seems to be on a precarious ledge, teetering between objective analysis and the abyss of advocacy.”

    More at

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/28/pielke-jr-going-all-in-with-peak-fossil-fuels-by-2030/

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    A happy little debunker

    The ABC finally identifies? why summer forest fires occur.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-30/nsw-bushfire-threat-extreme-air-temperature/103026908

    Fails to ping the 2 controllable factors (fuel load and ignition sources) to focus on the ambient temperature and winds.

    They might as well be blowing hot air over the topic.

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      Gee Aye

      I’m guessing you misread the article. Fuel load and ignition sources are a constant from day to day. Or do you think that the number of fire bugs and grass varies from day to day?

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        a happy little debunker

        Do YOU really think the number of firebugs and the amount of grass is constant?

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          Gee Aye

          from day to day, yes. The article shows a clear link between windy 40 degree days and fire. The calm 30 degree day a few days earlier did not produce fire.

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        Graeme#4

        The fuel load shouldn’t be a constant. Studies by the CSIRO and others have shown that states need to cool burn well over 10%, closer to 15%, of their eucalypt forests every year to reduce the fuel load to manageable levels. Both VIC and NSW cool burn around 2% annually. One of the prime reasons why they will always have disastrous uncontrollable bushfires.

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          Kalm Keith

          Exactly:
          they “pretend” to be engaged in preventative control work, but , in fact, do everything they can to restrict it.

          The objective of the current political class is to create as much accumulated “fuel” as possible so that the next conflagration is dangerous and newsworthy.

          Poseurs acting the part of “fire chief” love those big blazes because they are the evidence of Man Made Global Warming and death by incineration due to human origin CO2.

          For the firefighters on the ground it’s horrific.

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          Gee Aye

          read the article. There are plenty of cool windless days when fuel load is high but mega fires don’t happen. It is a basic science article to explain an observation.

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        Harves

        Even firebugs are smart enough to know when their time is best spent… but not our Gee Aye. He believes that the number of firebugs is the same on a cold, wet winter’s day as on a hot, windy summer’s day.

        Probably also believes he can change the weather by eating bugs.

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          Gee Aye

          You just wrote that the firebugs are there and know that a hotter day provides the best fuel. That is EXACTLY what the article that you didn’t read it about.

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        yarpos

        Jeez G get out more often. YES the number of firebugs does vary from day to day. More precisely it greatly varies by season, day of the week (weekend and public holiday fires) and school holidays.

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        Gee Aye, do you really think the shutting down of forestry, the lack of management of national parks, the every increasing reluctance to carry out preventative burns in cool weather, the obstacles put in front of landowners who want to burn and create firebreaks, the reluctance to back burn in the face of bushfires (“…. we don’t want any more fire in the landscape right now…” : unstated addendum: “… so rather than burn in a controlled manner now we will just let the fire explode through later with the wind behind it…”).
        all has no effect on fuel loads and fire seasons?

        Not to mention the consequences of occasional long wet growing seasons followed by droughts.

        Nope, fuel loads and fire bugs are NEVER a constant, and that’s the reason fire intensity, frequency, area are probably useless metrics to measure anything except gross mismanagement of the environment.

        If you do think fires are going to be worse, you’d be well advised to encourage a lot more preventative burns. Because neither magic, nor attempting to maintain a 1.5°C global temperature rise by 2050 are going to have any measurable effect whatsoever.

        [Sorry no idea why anything was caught in the filter. – Jo]

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          Gee Aye

          and no, you miss the point. The article is an explainer of an observation. Hot windy days produce fires. And from day to day firebugs don’t pop in and out of existance, and fuel loads don’t surge or disappear.

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        TedM

        Fuel load and ignition sources are a constant from day to day.

        From which day to which day. Fuel levels are not constant, they increase over time They may be considered a constant when estimating fire behaviour with changes in wind speed and temperature with that given fuel level. This of course ignores humidity, soil dryness index, fuel moisture and profile moisture content.

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        Tel

        I’m guessing you misread the article. Fuel load and ignition sources are a constant from day to day

        Complete and utter garbage … we had three wet years in a row … plants tend to grow during wet years, in case that’s a new idea for you … and the fire crews doing regular maintenance by burning off during the Spring have been unable to achieve that while it’s been raining.

        Thus, they had only a few months in 2023 to get it all done and they are still trying to sort out what they can before Summer gets underway.

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      Simon

      Jo mocked the experts a month ago here. The problem with Jo continually being contrarian to considered expert opinion is that she usually ends up being wrong. Fortunately, fire services heed the advice and scaled up, but it still wasn’t enough to save Tara.

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        el+gordo

        We should keep our eyes on the high pressure in the Tasman, funnelling hot blustery winds along the Great Divide. That is what happened in the last big conflagration.

        http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf

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        TedM

        Nothing in that post was wrong at all. It simply decried the politics of fear mongering.

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          “Fortunately, fire services heed the advice and scaled up”

          Too bad they didn’t do more hazard reduction instead.

          Didn’t stop the fires did they?

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            Simon

            Queensland tried to do a lot more hazard reduction burning this winter and especially so when the El Nino forecast became apparent. Conditions have to be suitable for fuel reduction burns and that’s not always possible.

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      Temperature is a bit player in fires.
      The real players after ignition are humidity and wind strength.
      A fire wont start without dry conditions, and can be controlled easily providing the wind is not blowing strongly .

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        a happy little debunker

        Eliminate the fuel load and unwanted ignition sources and whatever fires occur – are minimized and easily defeated…

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          Andrew McRae

          Not sure about the “easily defeated” part. If you have high wind this tends to create large jumps of fire spot-over, making control more difficult. It’s affected by the tree species type too, but a twig can break off anything.
          Cool burns that don’t reach into the lower storey will not eliminate that fine fuel.
          Listen to nearly any news story about bush fires and it is always wind causing erratic fire behaviour that is blamed for the difficulties.

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          a happy little debunker
          October 30, 2023 at 8:13 pm ¡ Reply
          Eliminate the fuel load and unwanted ignition sources and whatever fires occur – are minimized and easily defeated…

          How do you get a camp fire going ?, ..
          .. how do you regulate the heat in a wood burner , furnace or barbeque ?
          ..answer… more or less air.. blow on it , open/ close the dampers to control the air supply.
          Air(oxygen) supply is the key factor.
          A strong wind changes a small fire into a high temperature furnace !
          …all with the same fuel load .!

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        Gee Aye

        Chad… the article agrees with you. The difference between a raging fire though is temperature. At 40 degrees with wind the vegetation is considerably dryer than days earlier due to transpiration rates. Wind often accompanies these temperatures.

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    David Maddison

    Sports supplements to be banned or restricted in Australia and regulations increased which will make those you can get much more expensive.

    I think you’ll find the Government agenda is to ultimately remove all non-prescription useful supplements like Vitamin C, D, zinc, magnesium etc. which can prevent or minimise disease in the deficient (including for example Vit D which can minimise the impact of covid in the deficient).

    BTW, NAC (N-acetylcysteine) is included. Why do you think that might be?

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649937/

    N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is inexpensive, has very low toxicity, has been FDA approved for many years, and has the potential to improve therapeutic strategies for COVID-19. NAC administered intravenously, orally, or inhaled, may suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication and may improve outcomes if used timely. Potential therapeutic benefits of NAC include, extracellularly scavenging ROS radicals, replenishing intracellular GSH, suppression of cytokine storm, and T cell protection, thus mitigating inflammation and tissue injury. NAC administration in combination with other antiviral agents may dramatically reduce hospital admission rate, mechanical ventilation and mortality.

    Why use a cheap, safe drug or supplement when an expensive, poorly tested offering from Big Pharma will do?

    https://www.tga.gov.au/news/news/changes-regulation-sports-supplements-medicinal-dosage-forms

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      KP

      The endless power creep of bureaurats… There is no part of your life that a Govt Dept will not expand to, growing their little empires is the most important job they have.

      Swap favours, use cash, dodge tax, buy illegal goods and drugs… subvert the system! It will end up like the USSR where the Govt officially lived in a fantasy and every person on the street lived around them in a dystopian reality.

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      John Connor II

      After the date the declaration comes into effect, sports supplements in scope of the declaration intended to be marketed as foods will need to be changed to different product claims, ingredients, and/or dosage forms, as appropriate.

      Most advertised claims are of the “may be” category anyway.They don’t claim it DOES (as they have no evidence) rather IT MAY.
      eg product x “may be” helpful in reducing weight.

      Anything that makes you healthier is bad for big pharma.
      Better stock up on Creatine, NAC, Q10, cod liver oil, Quercitin, and Calcium supplements.

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        ozfred

        Alas even if you stock up, there will be a limit on the storage life….
        More likely, all advertising will make no claims of any sort, thus avoiding the “issue”

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    Penguinite

    Seems to me there might be a new business for a budding entrepreneur in a mobile “get you home charge” using a diesel generator on the back of a diesel-fueled utility!

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      KP

      “Seems to me there might be a new business for a budding entrepreneur in a “get your mobile home…. in selling tiny houses and caravans to the 500,000 immigrants coming in this year while we build only 175000 houses.

      Sorry P, irrelevant but it just popped into my head as I read it!

      I see the SMH has an article recognising electric scooters are a danger as they catch fire, maybe next month they will move onto electric cars.

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      Russell

      Yeah, if EVs had an “export” port, you could help out a mate by taking your EV out to where he is stranded.
      And use your charged EV to give him enough joules to get him to the next charge point.
      But these EV folks have never lived in a real world with mates. So never thought of that.

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        Gee Aye

        Really? All EV designers have no mates? Wow.

        Oh. And I just looked it up in time to edit this post. Turns out you are wrong.

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        Hanrahan

        Your mate would also need to bring a six-pack as well. Direct connection a la jump starting a 12 V system would be fraught so some sort of inverter/rectifier system would be needed. Edit: I stuffed that up.

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          Hanrahan

          Your mate would also need to bring a six-pack as well. Direct connection a la jump starting a 12 V system would be fraught so some sort of inverter/rectifier system would be needed. EVs have an on board rectifier but they take many hours to charge. The “donor” car would need an inverter. The one they have already is fed BY the HV battery, not into it.

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            EV to EV charging ?
            …..i dont think a direct DC to DC , EV system has been developed,…
            However the V2L (vehicle to load systems) “export port”. is fitted to some EVs
            But the V2L, is a 110/240v AC , at relativily low current (<10-15A ?), which would be a slow 2-3 kWh charge.

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              Hanrahan

              You are better informed than I Chad, but what you say confirms what I said, that you would need to take a six pack and pizza.

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        David Maddison

        Some newer EVs have bidirectional charging and can charge other EVs with the right hardware and software configuration.

        It’s not likely to happen much though.

        Most people who purchase EVs are woke Leftists, not known for helping their fellow humans (or whatever identity is applicable). They think that’s the responsibility of Government.

        https://www.drive.com.au/news/meet-the-electric-cars-that-can-charge-other-electric-cars/

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      Graeme#4

      Companies already offer a diesel plant connected to an alternator, mounted on a trailer.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “‘Overcharged’: Major Study Reveals Alarming True Cost of Owning an EV, ‘Fueling’ Equal to $17.33 Per Gallon”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/overcharged-major-study-reveals-alarming-true-cost-owning/

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      Dave in the States

      What is amazing is that even with all the tilting of the playing field in their favor, the billions of others people’s money, the bannings and the madates, the EV “incredible transition” continues to fail.

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        Hanrahan

        It’s starting to happen, Luton didn’t help [OK I know an EV didn’t start it]. The fizz will have gone within 5 years and mandates will be dropped.

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        Graeme#4

        And it won’t achieve anything in their push to lower CO2 emissions. Bjorn Lomborg has calculated that if the entire world achieved their overly-ambitious EV targets by 2030, the global temperatures would be reduced by only 0.0002F (0.00001C) by 2100. A totally useless effort.

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    robert rosicka

    Somehow I managed to watch a few minutes of Leigh Sales (the abc journo) giving a speech at the annual Andrew Ollie media shindig . Apparently she was the only one who dared confront Dictator Dan during the Covid lockdowns .
    She also claimed that through impartiality and balanced reporting you should never be able to pick the political leanings of a reporter or media outlet (singled out Sky news as an example of biased reporting ) and then went on about how the ABC was the most trusted non biased media outlet in Australia. Which is when my TV suffered a catastrophic malfunction so didn’t get the rest .

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      David Maddison

      I wonder if she actually believes that or is just parroting standard lies from Their ABC?

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        robert rosicka

        She managed to keep a straight face so I’m guessing she believed it , virtually everything she said was in reality the exact opposite.

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      Annie

      I seem to remember that Peta Credlin and Rachel Baxendale were the only courageous challengers to Desperate Dan during all his endless ‘look at me’ press conferences.
      I didn’t watch him any more than could be helped; just saw The Australian and Sky News Regional reports.

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        robert rosicka

        Sales did give Blaxendale and the Australian a positive mention oddly enough after telling the audience how it was only her (Sales) that was prepared to challenge the narrative.

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        RickWill

        Peta Credlin was not welcome at Dan’s daily dose. She made teflon Dan very uncomfortable because he was unable to intimidate her.

        I can remember her trapping Dan in a series of questions that played on his ego as anyone with legal training should be able to do. After Dan was cornered by his own words he had a glimmer of realisation what she had done to him; smirked and moved on.

        Their ABC would love to recite history with regard the Covid interviews. Peta Credlin was the only one to make Dan really uncomfortable.

        I consider Peta Credlin is a waste of talent as a media personality. She should have taken up the offer for a safe LNP seat.

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          Philip

          well, she did once hold power in her very hands. Didn’t take long to mess it up. I blame her more than Abbott. I get the feeling she was handing out the terrible advice.

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            Hanrahan

            That bloody Abbott, ya can’t trust him. After promising to stop the boats, axe the carbon and mining taxes, what did he do? He did exactly that and quickly.

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            Strop

            How did Peta Credlin influence or create the opportunity for Turnbull to challenge Abbott for leadership, and get a majority of Lib MP’s to vote for Turnbull?

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      Harves

      The ABC always claim impartiality because they gave Turnbull just as easy a run on Snowy 2.0 and the $440m for the GBR, as they give to every Labor politician.

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      yarpos

      The theme of her chat was relating to why people are losing faith in the media. Its quite laughable really. Experts are baffled.

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      Ronin

      “She then went on about how the ABC was the most trusted non biased media outlet in Australia.”

      How biased is that.
      Banned in my house.

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    David Maddison

    Here is an excellent video by a lawyer about the Sidney Powell case and the US Election fraud more generally.

    It contains material you will NOT see on the Lamestream media.

    https://youtu.be/GY12XfnCE3w

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    Honk R Smith

    I’m starting to hear more expressions of regret of Pandemic behavior.
    “But we were in a crisis of unknown potential … perhaps we made mistakes”.

    Spare me … that’s hardly the issue.

    The crime is the organized personal destruction campaign against those that dared to ask questions.
    The purposeful destruction of reputations and careers.

    And the threats and coercion perpetrated by political leadership and the abuse of their own people.

    The true motivations are being hidden from us and must be exposed.

    THERE MUST BE ACCOUNTABILITY.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      Nah, don’t buy it. There were plenty of credible people warning against the various policies, from masking, to vaccine mandates and closing schools. At the very least, governments and their suddenly all-powerful medical advisers should have listened to the counter arguments but no, they had made up their minds to go down a totalitarian path and would not be swayed. They went so far as to financially ruin some doctors and scientists who expressed the wrong point of view.

      So no forgiveness from me – zero, nada, zilch.

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      environment sceptic

      The attempt to shut down and censor debate and individuals ‘skilled in the art’ (doctors, specialists, scientists, molecular biologists, etc) is, an even by and of itself, the ultimate definition of an admission or ‘Prima facie’ proof of the guilt of tyrants IN MY OPINION .

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      David Maddison

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

      There was no excuse for the pandemic behaviour.

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    Dennis

    I am waiting for the media reports about angry EV owners who have decided to trade their 8 to 10 years old EV in and dealers have explained that they do not want the vehicle, that it is not worth more than scrap value if a merchant is willing to risk the battery pack exothermic reaction inferno potential during wrecking.

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      Graeme#4

      Don’t need to wait 8-10 years. Already reports are coming in from the UK, indicating EV resale values have plummeted as much as 30.7% in a year. Auto trader reported that the average price for a used EV dropped by 21.4%.
      In three years their value has dropped by 39%. In one case, a BMW i3, who purchased the car in 2020, would now find that its value has depreciated by 64%.

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    John Connor II

    T-shirt slogan of the week

    “Don’t call me an anti- vaxxer.
    I’m Mrs. Doubt Pfizer”

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    John Connor II

    ECOBLOBO – Environmental Crazy Orating Blatant Lies Oblivious to the Bleeding Obvious

    One I created for DM. 😎

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    John Connor II

    Dr.Yeadon Comments on “MEURI”, a WHO Guideline That Justifies Experimentation on Humans Without Their Informed Consent

    I am intrigued to learn how commonplace (or otherwise) is an awareness of “MEURI”, a WHO guideline which purports to justify the use of experimental and/or unproven & unapproved medical interventions, in the setting of public health emergencies.

    I had not heard about it until I read several hundred pages of evidence that the human rights campaigning group, “Interest of Justice” filed in pursuit of our appeal against the earlier dismissal of their demand for the suspension of the human use of the emergency use authorised “vaccines” against “covid19”.

    IoJ had already demonstrated that the Ministry of Health in their country of Costa Rica had behaved improperly and in direct contravention of various national laws, including, among other things, experimentation on humans without their informed consent.

    This is the case to be heard in early November, where I am working alongside five extraordinary experts.

    While I believe every major institution has been corrupted, infiltrated, or otherwise cowed into staying their hands in protecting human life and wellbeing, it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that a new judge (herself a veteran of the legal system of Costa Rica and a recognised specialist in public law) will uphold our appeal. We’ll take our victories from wherever we can find them.

    https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dryeadon-comments-on-meuri-a-who

    https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/352902/9789240041745-eng.pdf

    Pollies, “health experts”, doctors, police and everyone party to these crimes will, through taking the shots themselves, pay the price…

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    Bushkid

    Pollies, “health experts”, doctors, police and everyone party to these crimes will, through taking the shots themselves, pay the price…

    Apart from those who were inexplicably exempted from having to take the shots, like politicians, those in the justice system, and as we’ve recently been informed from NZ some 11,000 “health workers” who were granted exemptions upon request even though they were injecting others who couldn’t get exemptions.

    So much “equality”, so much caring, so much “We’re all in this together”…..

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    yarpos

    During the discussion of the Luton fire the issue of car ferries and EVs came up.

    I noticed this today while looking for something else.

    https://www.examiner.com.au/story/8405300/australian-ferry-operators-put-on-alert-for-electric-car-fires/

    They still use language that imagines you can somehow manage EV fires in some tidy kind of way. A fire involving these things on a stormy Bass Strait crossing is right up there in worse case scenarios. The outcomes of a risk management meeting would be interesting reading (if they were serious about it)

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    yarpos

    Mrs Y noticed a promotional poster today. It offered any two of Cheezels, Red Bull, Pepsi, Mars Bar, Snickers Bar, Snake lollies for $5.50. Not the healthiest selection but fair enough. The punchline was that $0.50c from every purchase went to the Heart Foundation (!?)

    Later while supermarket shopping we noticed a large pile of things near the bakery section, in a bin they put discounted items with use by dates imminent. The things were Vegan Croissants. Cant understand how they weren’t snapped up and ended up there.

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      Harves

      The great thing about switching to “healthy” vegan food: even if you don’t live to 100 it’ll certainly seem like it.

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        yarpos

        We noticed in the peak of Covid panic buying hysteria that the Vegan selection and the end of the meat section remained fully stocked.

        I don’t mind good vegetarian/vegan dishes like some Indian/Nepalese food, but vegan supermarket stuff yeah nah.

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    another ian

    “Mixed messaging”

    A “booster?”. a”vaccine?” or a “something?”

    “If anyone wants to know why so many people are vaccine hesitant these days, they only need to examine the ways in which the “experts” cannot get their own stories straight.”

    More at

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/10/29/mixed-messaging/

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      another ian

      And the comments there

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      Mike Jonas

      They changed the definition of ‘vaccine’ so that the mRNAs could be marketed as ‘vaccines’. And they did that without proper testing. We now hear that the limited tests they did were deliberately unblinded to hide the fact that they failed. Not just failed, people died, and the deaths were concealed. No wonder people are now ‘vaccine hesitant’.

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    Paul

    Joanne,

    In case you had not seen this before:

    DCV Safety Alert 02/2023 – Risks Associated with the Carriage of Battery Electric Vehicles

    https://www.amsa.gov.au/vessels-operators/domestic-commercial-vessels/dcv-safety-alert-022023-risks-associated-carriage

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “World Plummets into Eschatological Frenzy: Unraveling the Implications”

    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/world-plummets-into-eschatological

    I guess that when the other side is pivoting on about 700 AD then fair’s fair –

    But not much evidence of thinking and learning either side by the look of it

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    KP

    Govt shakedowns are live and well…

    “Records show agents have seized millions of dollars from passengers at boarding gates. The money is administratively forfeited as the proceeds of drug trafficking even when no drugs are found.

    Agents generally do not arrest the passenger. They arrest their money.

    Atlanta News First Investigates found dozens of cases filed in federal court styled USA v. [some amount of] Currency. Passengers must file a claim within 45 days of receiving official notice the government has seized their money or it’s automatically forfeited. Most cases never go before a judge.

    Technically, the burden of proof is on the government to show by a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not) that the money is from drug trafficking. In practice, based on court records, passengers are forced to prove their money “innocent’ on the spot at the airport gate or it’s seized as drug proceeds.

    After drug agents find money, passengers are forced to pull up bank statements on their phones or otherwise provide proof the money isn’t from drug trafficking.

    Merely flying from Atlanta to Los Angeles is suspicious, according to multiple probable cause statements, because it’s a “known drug trafficking route.” There’s a strong incentive for drug agents to search bags for money at the airport even when drugs are not found: their agencies get to keep the money.”

    https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/10/19/plane-sight-drug-agents-searching-passengers-cash-airport-gates/

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    David Maddison

    Get woke, go broke #37.

    GM abandons EV production, at least for the moment.

    https://youtu.be/7FXZT5IP1_8

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    another ian

    And also seems that there are a series of reports that were to be done post jab that are well behind on expected release schedule

    Link at “Monday #6.1”

    Assumption in their absense from publicity is the jab results are not looking good

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