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Rumor: Joey bits dog. Both now being tested for rabies.
Meanwhile, hundreds of migrants live inside Chicago O’Hare International Airport. On one of my 4 allowed life-long flights, I landed at O’Hare.
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I was bitten by a snake once.
After 3 days of pain and suffering, the snake died.
/old joke
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Like the shark attacked by lawyer.
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Will never happen: Professional courtesy.
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Or the public servants attacked by leeches/
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Have just exited Cornwall. Not a pretty sight to see all the wind turbines scattered across the beautiful rolling hills. One turbine clearly has given up – one of its blades remains facing downwards, covered in dirty brown oil seeping from the shaft. An ugly sight, and no doubt will be soon joined with other forlorn wrecks of turbines. I wonder what the locals will then say about the ruination of their landscape..
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The same when flying over Turkey the other week. The landscape was interesting, and not that spectacular from the air but the wind turbines and all the service roads certainly didn’t add anything to it.
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Thats a shame. We went there quite while ago for a couple of weeks and it was quite an attractive area. They had a couple of wind turbines then and they were a tourist oddity. They had a visitor centre where you could walk out and stand under the whooshing blades.
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They are even installing small solar farms in the middle of prime farming land. Madness.
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It’s just depressed. Its mobile phone has probably gone flat.😁
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The end cap was missing. Should have taken a photo, as we passed it several times.
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This is why ‘they’ desperately want disinformation laws. Once the laws are in place and the arbiters carefully selected, the locals simply won’t be allowed to say anything negative and those eco-crucifixes will appear to be universally loved.
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Remember “Lets go Brandon” the ultimate euphanism for F Joe Biden. Clever people will find ways around draconian laws if they are enacted. Of course the Coalition when next in power will recind them or will confirm they are same same as Labor.
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Reposted from last thread and made an addition.
The September mean temperature was the ‘hottest ever’ in the entire 365 year Central England series.
At 17.0C it beat 2006 by 0.1C and was well over 3C warmer than average.
Five of the hottest ten Septembers have been in the last 25 years. The tendency to very warm Autumns is perhaps the most pronounced change in UK weather in recent years.
Germany too.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/10/01/germany-17-2c-mean-september-temperature-sets-all-time-high-dwd-blames-climate-change/
UAH up up and away.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/uah-global-temperature-update-for-september-2023-0-90-deg-c/
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we say balmy in England – goes with afternoon tea and warm bear
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Warm bear ? 🐼
..or warm bare ? 👙😱
..or warm beer 🍺👍
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Take your pick.
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Warm bear for afternoon tea? Quick START a SCARE as it must be caused by Global Warming.
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You do know how they get average don’t you.
If .1 of a degree terrifies you, sit down.
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Does it terrify you then?
It’s the warmest September in nearly 400 years of a reasonably scientifically rigorous data series. Us Brits, we like to talk about the weather, especially when it is exceptional. A spare room full of apples and pears and harvesting outdoor cucumbers and courgettes well into October, I’m not complaining.
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Some people may get the impression that the world has reached a tipping point.
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365 years ago? That would be 1658 and the middle of the Little Ice Age. Since nature always seeks equilibrium I suspect the temperature is increasing until it reaches some sort of normal. Maybe like the Medieval Warm Period when temperatures were higher than present. It makes a mockery of those who claim hottest “ever”.
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And if you read the fine print lower down on Roy Spencer’s UAH September *warmest ever* page:
Arctic Ocean, 65th *warmest ever*
Antarctic Land, 26th
USA Lower 48, 144th
Australia, 12th
Reads more like a COLD WAVE than the fiery end of the world as we knew it, Jim. And the snow maps sure are looking colourful for your Alpine NSW/VIC foothills the next few days…
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Of course we must also bear in mind that any real warming/change in the climate is yet to be proven to be caused by CO2. I will happily admit that Earth’s climate changes, but then so does the climate on Mars, Venus, Saturn …
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I keep being reminded how centuries of warmth on Greenland was just a localised event and not a reflection of global temperatures.
I guess you need to be a climate expert to get it.
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April sunlight at 53N is increasing at a relatively high rate. Up almost 2W/m^2 over the period of the CET:
-0.500 315.725423
-0.400 316.062712
-0.300 316.400276
-0.200 316.737834
-0.100 317.075111
0.000 317.411835
0.100 317.749179
http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/proxy.php?file=http://145.238.217.34//tmp/insola/insolaoutHIlc8l&format=text
It will eventually peak at 10W/m^2 higher than present in 4,800 years.
Sunlight has good correlation with surface temperature at any location. High latitude temperature also has a significant influence from heat advection when the sun is low. So winter temperature does not fall off with the drop in sunlight – just more snowfall.
A serious flaw with official climate models is rooted in the fact that they assume there was no climate change before 1850.
The peak sunlight at 53N occurs close to the summer solstice and that bottomed 300 years ago.
http://vo.imcce.fr/webservices/miriade/proxy.php?file=http://145.238.217.35//tmp/insola/insolaout6SzZRB&format=text
The summer solstice solar intensity at 53N peaks 9.800 years from now and will be 20W/m^2 above the present level. There is a lot more warming to come in the NH before the ice formation overtakes the ice melting.
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April is Spring in the northern hemisphere.
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From my reading the exceptional warm spell on this occasion was caused by blocking high pressure.
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“Sunlight has good correlation with surface temperature at any location.” that’s good, I thought I was just imagining things
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The climate modellers imagine it has no influence.
It is not difficult to predict where there will be warming and cooling trends if you follow the sunshine. Climate models take sunlight as unchanging.
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The climate models.
Kinky Keith
November 15, 2018 at 5:41 am
A lot of brilliant comments initiated by Jo’s Brilliant post.
A post that tackles a potentially complex topic with qualities of:
Relevance
Brevity
Scientific Pertinence
Mild Sarcasm.
Simple factorial analysis shows that the CO2 item is a non-starter in that it is quantitatively irrelevant in the system under examination.
You cannot make a model when the one and only pivotal factor is irrelevant.
As Stephen ably states, if you are going to assess the atmospheric temperature in terms of atmospheric makeup then the one only credible factor, assuming constant Solar input, is:
The Water Cycle.
In a couple of thousand years we will most likely be well into the next Glaciation with everyone heading for the Equator.
Perspective is crucial in real science.
KK
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You cannot make a model when the one and only pivotal factor is irrelevant.
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Spencer and Christy don’t think the Hunga Tonga eruption has added much to the higher temps.
I respectively disagree.
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Very good debunking of the sea level rise scare.
https://youtu.be/Ac6TvN1hvKA
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Question for any tech gurus out there:
I’m U.S., and am hoping I can connect a standard coax-cable (internet, not video or land-line phone) to my desktop.
The desktop itself does not have a coax connector.
I am NOT trying to hook up a modem or wi-fi or any type of router; I just want to run the coax-cable internet into the desktop. In searching around, I’ve found an adapter that can change coax into ‘ethernet’, which the desktop does have (it also has USB ports, but I’m not thinking this is a viable solution — — I could be wrong).
Does anyone here know if it is possible to run coax-to-ethernet-to-desktop? While I’ve been searching, some places have suggested that I have to get something called a “MoCA”, or something like that. As I’ve studied the problem, it seems this “MoCA” thing might be more trouble than it is worth.
Please, keep it simple in any replies: I am very ‘tech-challenged’, as well as geriatric. The height of ‘high tech’ for me is when I send and receive e-mail … … …
Thanks in advance,
Nick
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Not a guru and not 100% clear on what you are trying to achieve , but I will have a crack.
With this type of connection there are layers of communication going on that as a normal consumer type person you aren’t aware of and don’t really need to be. You are focusing on the physical layer (the plugs/sockets/cabling) as that what you can see. Over the wire there are dialogues to establish you as a valid ISP user and to set up and maintain your connections (called protocols)
Even if you could make a physical connection you would need to load, configure and maintain router software on your PC so you ISP is happy and your laptop and devices downstream are happy. From what you have said this is not something you could do.
The MoCA devices are used in pairs to set up point to point links, typically within your house , using coax wire to connect ethernet devices. This is popular in the US as you guys went cable TV mad years ago and have lots of old homes with coax run through them. Typically you would use this to connect a distant PC or wireless router without having to run new ethernet twisted pair cabling. A single ended use of the MoCA device would not work.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Others may chime in with other options. You may want to elaborate on router resistance as these are pretty much plug in and go these days and well supported.
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For such needs, I go to my local repair shop where they fix computers, cell phones, and sell gear and used computers. Not a chain store.
I tell them what I have — they sold it to me — and what I want to do. If need be, I can take my gear in, or they sell me the part if I do not already have.
Sounds like you are at Step #1 on the tech ladder. I’m about on #3.
Good luck.
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Just buy a MoCA adapter. It should be plug and play, so no problem. Get a good brand from a computer store with techs that can help you if need be.
Everything is shifting to USB these days.
A lot of modern laptops don’t have optical drives or ethernet ports any more as they’re not thick enough to accomodate them, so you have to buy USB-to-whatever adapters.
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Nick
>”Does anyone here know if it is possible to run coax-to-ethernet-to-desktop?”
>”I am NOT trying to hook up a modem or wi-fi or any type of router; I just want to run the coax-cable internet into the desktop”
A router would solve your problem and act as a firewall. I’ve had that setup for as long as modems went out and routers came in (although the term “modem” persists). An ISP provided router that is (see yarpos reply upthread).
My set up:
Fibre terminal – Cat 6 cable – Router WAN in – Router Ethernet out – PC
MoCA adaptor takes the place of the Router in that setup for your purposes (I think) so yes, possible.
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Possible but if you have to emulate your ISP connection without using an ISP provided plug-n-play router say, you’re on a real mission.
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Would help to know what was originally on the end of said coax.
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Once upon a time, the end of the coax was internet, audio/video cable (things like HBO, local and remote TV stations, 24-hour news stations … ) and a land-line phone. It’s been cut to just internet.
Trying to avoid a router (yes, I know: ‘it will solve the problem(s) … ‘) due to the fact that the router was hacked by someone, so I’m trying to go hard-wire to my desktop.
No more routers.
And, I only need internet into the one device. Not a network of any type. Upthread, one respondent suggested coax-to-USB-to-computer. Doable, if necessary.
Many thanks to all who have come up with suggestions and ideas. I knew the community here would have valuable information.
NJ
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Remember, it’s Climate Science!
Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm
And here is a blast from the past from Canada’s federal news network the CBC, on the Ontario Government’s educational TV Channel TV Ontario…
TVO takes down pipeline bombing game from its website
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tvo-takes-down-pipeline-bombing-game-from-its-website-1.1351294
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Power reforms
“New Zealand Grid”
Check the introductory cartoon!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/new-zealand-grid/
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The cartoon link –
https://b1885182.smushcdn.com/1885182/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Power-Reforms-Old-New.webp?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1
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Great cartoon 🙂 it needs a ratty old computer and a couple of guys in white coats with worried looks, but it does convey the ridiculous complexity we continue to build into the grid.
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Are Small Nuclear Reactors The Answer To Big-Tech’s Energy Crisis?
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Hard to see how this will escape NIMBYism. Some private company wants to dump a nuclear reactor in my neighbourhood? I could understand how people might arc up, if you pardon the pun. I guess they can play the green card pretty hard.
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I’m willing to bet that our country folk would rather have a SMR providing localised power than transmission lines wrecking their communities.
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Well plenty of people have apparently gone along with having new power generation built in their ‘back yard’ recently. They’re called wind and solar ‘farms’ and already have the distribution cabling laid down. Just put the nuclear generators there.
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Here’s a random renewables disaster – massive explosion after lightening hits a bio digester plant!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12585991/Oxford-rocked-huge-explosion-sent-fireball-sky-lightning-strike-causes-object-combust.html
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Odd isnt it? Refineries and oil and gas terminal all over the world and you don’t hear of lightning induced explosions. Might be more to the story or perhaps just one of the one in eleventy million chances.
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Perhaps their safety concerns protected them from CO2 poisoning and other climate change threats, but excluded lightning conductors?
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I hope it was Insured against such loss.
Nod nod wink wink.
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Subsidies stopped?
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Damaged gas tanks in daylight.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-66995325
It wasn’t unheard of for the old mains gasometers to explode after lightning strikes, one such instance in Teesside in 1971.
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“The BBC Seminar That Banned Discussion Of Climate Change”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/the-bbc-seminar-that-banned-discussion-of-climate-change/
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“But more important was the list of “best scientific experts”. It included two Greenpeace campaigners, several other environmentalist activists, representatives of business, charities, the Church of England, BP and Npower Renewables, economists, media people and politicians.”
The scare campaign was way past science and into politics by then, they didn’t want scientific experts anywhere near the panel. The people on that list would have seen that the Govt agenda included “global warming caused by people” and were positioned to make money out of it.
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Well we visited the early voting centre yesterday to deposit our no votes. They seemed to be doing a steady trade. There were yes and no people outside not really doing much except wearing T shirts. No spitting while we were there at least.
Mrs Y was summoned by the CBA to “verify her identity” after banking with them for half her life. The note she received was quite nasty in tone and immediately started in on threats of account closure for non compliance. All triggered by new legislation apparently. A masterpiece of poor customer communication. There would be so many better ways to approach saying that due to recent changes in law we need to clarify some admin aspects of your account, would you please attend a branch ASAP ( and maybe allude to being a legal requirement) Made all that much sweeter when they say “just pop into your local branch” when they keep closing branches and ours is gone.
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Banking once had an aura of dependability, law abiding integrity and safety.
Over the last three years I have become alarmed at the degradation of our banking system, and because of tokenist communication experienced, feel that they are not in any way concerned about the basic qualities mentioned above.
Good luck Australia, we’re headed into the Unknown.
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Those old sayings, went something like: “safe as a bank” or “like money in the bank” or “you can bank on it”.
What would they be now?
The bank with no name or “where’s my bank” or “who stole my bank”.
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My first job as a fresh faced 17year old had a fortnightly pay cycle where you went to the paymaster, got handed a cardboard envelope with your name on it, counted out the enclosed cash yourself in front of the paymaster, signed their book and went back to work.
At lunchtime I took my first pay “excess cash”, minus board, bus ticket cost and $1 for treats, and I walked up the main street having decided to open an account at the first bank I came to. Then each fortnight on payday I repeated the ritual journey to deposit.
Six months later I received a letter from “my” bank thanking me for my continued loyalty and regular deposits.
A couple of months later my work did away with fortnightly payouts and moved to automatic payment into your bank account. I never received any further thank you messages just for being a good customer from the bank.
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My wife was a No campaign polling booth volunteer yesterday. Quite a few voting early based on the numbers coming through. She is quite proactive with where she stands to greet people and offer pleasantries along with offering the how to vote slip.
One yes voter had words with them for stealing signs from the front of his house. As if it could only have been the ladies volunteering at the polling booth who would be so cheeky. 🙂 But otherwise everyone pleasant.
Some No voters would come up to her after they had voted and thank her for what she is doing.
As a gut feel from interactions etc, it would seem perhaps a majority of no voters were attending.
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FWIW
“Russia’s “Potemkin Army””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/russias-potemkin-army/
A look at believing
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>Russia’s “Potemkin Army”
The title mislead me. I saw this at GP and was about to skip after a couple paragraphs but read on – sobering.
And,
But hey Biden, send billions to Ukraine to fight your proxy war.
Talk about poke the bear.
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I’m interested in these developments in the context of both Luciferian predictions of e.g. Albert Pike and biblical (I’m a historicist up to just prior to Rev 16:21 i.e. most has already occurred but not necessarily in sequence – see “chiasm” structure).
Pike not only predicted both world wars he also predicted, successfully, the outcomes of both. With a track record like that I think his writing is worth paying attention to. For example:
And,
Sorry atheists, no free pass for you, either.
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Revelation was written in code so as not to get attention from the Roman Empire forces. Once you crack the code everything falls into place. “Sea” = city people, “rivers and streams” = rural people surrounding cities, “locusts” = Arab armies, etc.
Rev 9 describes the 150 yr (foretold) Arab conquest 632 – 782 A.D. and the imagery describes the Saracens in detail. Following that the Turkish fulfillment of the (foretold) 391 yrs in 9:13+ 1062 to 1453 A.D when Constantinople, the headquarters of the Eastern Roman Empire, was captured. Imagery describes the Orban bombard cannon that was used for the Ottoman besiegers of Constantinople in 1453 to break down the walls. They went on to develop the Dardanelles Gun in 1464 A.D. based on the Orban.
Rev 16:21 is in code but being future (my POV) any attribution is speculation. However “great hail” is code for great war (from previous use where history confirms), and “every stone about the weight of a talent” implies a heavy element i.e. uranium, and possibly the use of nuclear weapons. As I said – speculation.
Except right now, nuclear war is not out of the question as Kaz Dziamka writes in the header article.
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Richard this may interest you.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/10/monday-23/#comment-2704049
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Will >”this may interest you”
Interested yes, thanks, but only to the point that it is another in the vein of unscholarly (miss)attribution.
As I said I’m a historicist. This on the basis of a ton of literary scholarship and attribution (starting to sound like the IPCC). I linked to David Wilcoxson’s Revelation Timeline website upthread which lays out in exhaustive detail the historical case and evidence.
First Seal:
Contentious but the most credible date of Revelation being written (in Greek – not Latin) is 96 A.D. This was at the end of Emperor Domitian’s rule 81 – 96 A.D. Early scholars attribute Domitian (or Nero at a stretch) to “calculate the number of the beast”, “His number is 666”:
Second to Fourth Seals next (in brief).
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From David Wilcoxson:
Second Seal:
Third Seal:
Fourth Seal:
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I was reading recently a report on Chinese companies granted exploration permits within the Commonwealth of Australia Woomera SA military testing area, a huge amount of land first used during WW2 for weapons testing including atomic bombs.
A paragraph explaining reasons why the Chinese should not be admitted was present day US missile development underway at Woomera.
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Yes, the West has thrown their best at Russia and hit a brick wall. We must be reaching the limits of escalation without going nuclear, so a military solution seems unlikely. I doubt the Russians will want to invade Western Ukraine, they will leave that to Poland. ‘Peace-keepers’ from NATO are assembling in Poland now, just waiting for an excuse to move in.
He missed the decline of the American dollar, and once it is reduced to a little circle of nations under American control the rest of the world will move forward without it. Use of the military will be irrelevant then, even if they could afford it. It will be like watching Portugal lose their African colonies as countries change sides and join the East for trade and ‘the Empire’ can do nothing about it.
The Germans must be most unimpressed with the Yanks, although with the troops America has in there they can’t say anything, and Macron has never been keen on them. They may quite quickly find they have fewer friends than they thought.
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So in your thinking Ukraine should reject help from the West and hand over their sovereignty to Moscow?
You might be onto something, the Yanks should keep their fleet out of the South China Sea to avoid WW3?
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Ukraine is the flashpoint of a bigger issue but it’s not sovereinty:
Ignored Warnings: How NATO Expansion Led to the Current Ukraine Tragedy
History will show that Washington’s treatment of Russia in the decades following the demise of the Soviet Union was a policy blunder of epic proportions.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/ignored-warnings-how-nato-expansion-led-current-ukraine-tragedy#
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I’ll pay that, kicking them when they were down is not a good look.
However, here we are in the 21st century and the Alliance is determined that Russia and China adopt capitalism and democracy.
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EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs A Coal Plant To Power It
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/09/22/ev-battery-factory-will-require-so-much-energy-it-needs-a-coal-plant-to-power-it/
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Bit late to the game.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/new-ev-battery-factory-in-kansas-needs-a-coal-plant-to-run/
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Thanks. I need more sleep.
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Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.
Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.
The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world to protect them against serious Covid-19.
The same mRNA technology is now being researched for other diseases, including cancer.
The Nobel Prize committee said: “The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66983060
And Obama got a Nobel peace prize too for all the wars he was responsible for…
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The award to Karikó and Weissman is not without controversy.
Dr. Robert Malone, a renowned scientist, medical doctor, and pioneer in mRNA vaccine technology, made some fiery comments on “X.”
He stated, “Kariko and Weissman get the Nobel, not for inventing mRNA vaccines (because I did that) but for adding the pseudouridine that allowed unlimited spike toxins to be manufactured in what could have been a safe and effective vaccine platform, if safely developed.”
Malone further criticized the integrity of the award process, suggesting undue influence from pharmaceutical giants. “Pfizer has been campaigning for this since 2020 – at first, they even claimed (as did Kariko) that she invented the mRNA vaccine platform technology. Pfizer donates heavily to the Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel. Science has been hijacked again by big pharma.”
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/murderous-work-on-mrna-technology
Perhaps we should hand out criminal prizes too.
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Perhaps the prize is really for the projected decrease in the world population as a result of the artificial-gene therapy?
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Common cold can trigger a killer blood clot disorder, scientists discover for the first time
For the first time, scientists at the University of North Carolina have found a link between a life-threatening blood clotting disorder and an adenovirus infection.
Adenovirus is one of the most common respiratory viruses affecting both adults and children, causing cold and flu-like symptoms.
Viral infections, as well as autoimmune diseases and other conditions, can cause levels of platelets in the blood to drop – known as thrombocytopenia.
Platelets, or thrombocytes, are a vital part of the blood – responsible for forming blood clots, which stop you bleeding out when you’re injured.
“This adenovirus-associated disorder is now one of four recognised anti-PF4 (anti-platelet factor 4) disorders,” said Dr Stephen Moll, professor of medicine at the university’s Department of Medicine’s Division of Hematology, said.
“We hope that our findings will lead to earlier diagnosis, appropriate and optimised treatment, and better outcomes in patients who develop this life-threatening disorder.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/24167936/common-cold-blood-clot-disorder/
“Anything but the vaxx!”
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Ultra Right beer sees ‘record breaking’ sales with Trump mug-shot can after acquiring statewide distribution in Georgia
Conservative Dad’s Ultra Right beer, which was launched as an anti-woke beverage following Bud Light’s marketing campaign with a transgender content creator, has seen record sales and increased distribution following its limited-edition can featuring President Trump’s mug shot.
Seth Weathers, the brand’s CEO, spoke to Fox Business about a collector can featuring Donald Trump’s photo, which was taken after he was indicted on 13 charges in Georgia in relation to allegations surrounding the 2020 election.
“We knew people would go wild over these collector cans, but we had no idea the response would be this crazy,” said Weathers in a press release. The CEO reportedly predicted that the sales of the special beer would surpass $2 million by the campaign’s end.
Additionally, 10% of the sales from the mug-shot cans are to be donated to the Trump legal defense through the Georgia Republican Party and the David Shafer Legal Defense Fund.
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/10/ultra-right-beer-sees-record-breaking.html
How about celebratory cans here?
The “Good riddance Dan” commemorative can.
Should make a fortune.
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China has been selling Bud Right for years. The new beer will be Ultra Light Beer.
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Plus-size travel influencer who demanded other passengers pay for obese flyers’ extra seats now calls on hotels to enlarge HALLWAYS to help fat guests
A plus-size travel influencer who previously demanded other passengers pay for obese flyers’ extra seats has now called on hotels to enlarge hallways to help fat guests.
Jaelynn Chaney, a travel and lifestyle creator based in Vancouver, said her aim is to make the travel industry a more accepting place for all – and demanded changes to hotels to accommodate bigger vacationers.
Back in April, she started a petition to the US Federal Aviation Authority to ‘protect’ plus-sized travelers and make flying in coach ‘comfortable and accessible for everyone.’
In her latest video, Chaney referenced multiple demands specifically for hotels across the world, including: ‘Make elevators and hallways spacious, to allow for easy movement of larger individuals and those utilizing mobility devices.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12582115/Plus-size-travel-influencer-enlarge-HALLWAYS.html
Makes Mr Creosote look like Mr Bean. 😁
Lose a truckload of weight, tubby. We shouldn’t have to enlarge hallways so you can squeeze down them.
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She should just book and pay for multiple seats if she wants comfort, maybe 3 if the aircraft’s weight and balance calculations matter.
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America’s Largest EV Charging Station is Powered by – you guessed it – Diesel
Perched at the intersection of Interstate 5 and Highway 198 in California’s Central Valley, the Harris Ranch station boasts a total of 98 Tesla supercharger modules. For all you Texans out there, it’s sort of the EV version of a Buc-ee’s, only without the Wal-Mart-sized convenience store with all the cool souvenirs.
Superchargers charge vehicles up to the 80% sweet spot in as little as 20 minutes, but to provide that kind of power for nearly 100 bays takes something solar can’t provide — diesel generators.
Investigative journalist Edward Niedermeyer discovered that the station was powered by diesel generators hidden behind a Shell station. Reporters at SF Gate tried to find out how much of the station’s electricity was from the generators, but couldn’t get a response from Tesla.
The station isn’t connected to any dedicated solar farms, which means that absent the diesel generators, the station is powered by California’s grid.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-americas
Where are all the “glue themselves to the ground” climate loons?
Nowhere to be seen…
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Very amusing thanks JC.
I looked at ggl maps-
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@36.2539523,-120.2402023,17z?entry=ttu
I think this shows the charging area.
There is no evidence of industry in the locality, nor do I see any overhead power lines.
Yes, I think this means diesel generators.
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Nor’west warm-front bushfires [read: man-made El Niño] to be replaced by cold-snap rain and snow [read: weather] with an alleged 20-degree drop in temperatures over 48 hours [ABC Pravda].
I can hear the wailing and gnashing of carbon-drenched headlines already – woe to ye deniers, ye skeptics & heathen unbelievers who loveth the way of the Devil himself, Carbon, the father of Sin.
Surely the rain will be a welcome guest for gardens, crops and rivers…
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After a long period drying out from the BOMs warmer and dryer winter, I was finally able to mow 90%+ of our place.
Overnight and today we have had 60-70mm of rain that wasnt briefed about the emerging El Nino drought apocalypse. Probably another 6 weeks of drying out again to get back to square one if we are lucky.
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September was a bit on the dry side.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/australias-driest-september-on-record-one-of-the-hottest-too/1541500
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We had just begun to think we could do some work around our very soggy place…ha ha! I was woken up at 0300 today by thunder and the start of the rain. As at about an hour ago we had received 97mm of rain. It’s continued to rain since, so will check the amount again shortly.
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Tuesday ejukayshun: water jet cutting
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ry1fqiDHFA1yzbs45.mp4
Always cool.
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I had some big 10cm thick slices of mulga wood that my dear departed step dad was going make into tables. Mrs Y drew some swirly lines on them and I went to a water jet cutter to have them cut out. I naively asked if the wood would be a problem. He just smiled at me and said “this stuff? like butter mate” OK then.
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Referendum
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/why-australia-should-vote-no-from-viv-forbes.html
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Voter off to the pole ing booth.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zD3FJE7GtiLf/
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I have not read such nonsense about hydrogen storage as I saw at the following link: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/its-time-to-build-the-intermittent-renewable-plus-hydrogen-storage-demonstration-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-time-to-build-the-intermittent-renewable-plus-hydrogen-storage-demonstration-project
HAS there ever been any hydrogen stored in a salt cavern, anywhere? Hydrogen can escape from metal enclosures and cause hydrogen embrittlement in the process. It is a dangerous substance as even a small leak will self ignite. The flame cannot be seen. And what about the oxygen that is also produced in the process? Is it vented or captured? If the latter, it will pose its own safety risks of causing fires.
Why are engineers who know a lot about these matters silent on the subject and let the well meaning, but ignorant, enthusiasts prattle on….
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This is a common theme re working models. It would seem to be a sensible approach , especially for Australia where we have no nuclear/hydro rich neighbours to learn on. The world seems happy to leap off a cliff and just make it work somehow.
In my mind I see a skydiver trying to pack his canopy and get his rig on in freefall cause it will probably be fine. We have had enough craters in Germany, UK, California and Sth Australia to be pretty certain it will not be OK without a change of course. This needs to be papered over with weasel words and spin but a change course there will be. The only choice is how violent it will be.
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Maybe I should be completely clear on where I stand racism wise, and state I can’t stand stupid white people. So ‘the podcast of the lotus eaters’ latest, mentions, that Sweden has decided to deport members of ‘criminal’ gangs, even if they aren’t convicted of anything that other members of their gang have done. Just being a member of certain gangs can mean you are out. But the real ‘through the looking glass story’ involved Yorkshire’s ‘grooming gangs’, and the authorities thinking it would be good to make a video, so local girls could be shown what being groomed looked like. They made the video with Asian actors, and the broadcast authorities canned it, because it might stir up trouble, and it was remade with white actors, and it got the big tick.
Add migration to the quiver of arrows being used to destroy the West. Actually the voice getting up might be a blessing, in that you’d think aboriginals wouldn’t be strongly pro immigration?
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I have not read such nonsense about hydrogen storage as I saw at the following link: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/its-time-to-build-the-intermittent-renewable-plus-hydrogen-storage-demonstration-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-time-to-build-the-intermittent-renewable-plus-hydrogen-storage-demonstration-project
HAS there ever been any hydrogen stored in a salt cavern, anywhere? Hydrogen can escape from metal enclosures and cause hydrogen embrittlement in the process. It is a dangerous substance as even a small leak will self ignite. The flame cannot be seen. And what about the oxygen that is also produced in the process? Is it vented or captured? If the latter, it will pose its own safety risks of causing fires.
Why are engineers who know a lot about these matters silent on the subject and let the well meaning, but ignorant, enthusiasts prattle on……
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“Monday Mirthiness”
“There is not a single photo that sums up just stop oil better than this one”
https://b1885182.smushcdn.com/1885182/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Just-Stop-Oil-On-a-Plane-672×1536.webp?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/02/monday-mirthiness-4/
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Too silly to see the hypocrisy and keep a low profile.
My personal favourite is the nutter who glued his hand to the road, so they jack hammered around it so he had a brick of asphalt still glued to his hand when released. Your problem fella, you get it off.
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Like the response to the junk mail letter that “guaranteed return postage” – tape it to a besser brick and return
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Yarpos have a look at the warnings on a package of super glue , the one I have says toxic to marine life with emphasis on Toxic .
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In the wake of a certain biblical quote –
“Just stop oil – but please not just right this minute”
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FWIW
A third ring to the circus?
“You have to wonder what took Bobby Kennedy, Jr. so long to recognize that the Democratic Party was a home that he had long ago been turned out of, like a dog that has peed on the carpet too many times. At the end of last week, Mr. Kennedy intimated that he might run for president on an independent line. If he manages to get that line on the state ballots — and you can easily imagine New York and California trying to thwart him — it will change all the current calculations about the 2024 election.”
More at
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/three-way/
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‘Non-greenhouse gases like O2 and N2 (air) absorb radiation “almost to the same degree” as CO2 does in outdoor experiments, which is “proof that the greenhouse theory cannot be true.” – Allmendinger, 2023.’ (Notrickszone)
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More questions
“Scientists suggest changes to Australia’s soil carbon methodology”
https://www.beefcentral.com/carbon/scientists-suggest-changes-to-australias-soil-carbon-methodology/
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Possibly the silliest BBC climate change blame story yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-66867199
Has flooded yearly on average with a history back to at least 1795 actually. One hundred years ago:-
https://cutt.ly/fwb6cjMx
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“Plus-size travel influencer who demanded other passengers pay for obese flyers’ extra seats now calls on hotels to enlarge HALLWAYS to help fat guests”
Leads into..
“77% of young Americans between 17 and 24 cannot qualify for military service, up from 71% in 2017.”
Simplicious dissects the latest Army War College report on how America needs to completely reform the military after watching Ukraine. If they went up against Russia they would lose.
*Any radio wavelength emissions get investigated by a missile very quickly, you can’t run an electronic Command & Control Center.
*You have to be able to sustain about 4000 casualties a day, day in and day out, the public must accept it, you need that many replacements and the required hospital beds.
*Volunteer armies can’t hack it, you need conscription.
*Ukraine has lost 500 tanks, America has 1000 all up.
*The Russians are playing softly softly, they are fighting their cousins and don’t want to wreck their neighbour’s country. They won’t do that when fighting America.
He wasn’t very enamored with the authors either-
“You have a diversity hire and a COIN-op writing your strategies of defeating the two superpowers of Russia and China. Of course, this is endemic to the U.S. military and contrary to changing, will only get worse. ”
I wonder how different Aussies Army is..
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/army-war-college-report-predicts
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“Expensive Cheap Energy”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/03/expensive-cheap-energy/
Plus
“True costs of wind electricity”
https://judithcurry.com/2015/05/12/true-costs-of-wind-electricity/
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And
“AFR: More Aussies Need to Volunteer for Energy Rationing”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/03/afr-more-aussies-need-to-volunteer-for-energy-rationing/
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Coal futures high in Asia-
“”The reality is that coal demand will continue to increase,” Septian Hario Seto, Indonesia’s deputy of investment…told the conference. This was a common view, with delegates expressing scepticism over the pathways to net-zero emissions advocated by Western bodies such as the International Energy Agency.”
Ignore the whining West as they rent their clothes and wail, development is more important. Not that the West is anything other than virtue-signalling hypocrisy hiding behind propaganda..
“The controversial Rosebank oil and gas project was granted consent on Monday, with the field holding up to 500m barrels of oil which ministers say will boost the UK’s energy independence… it will “make us more secure against tyrants” like Vladimir Putin, and contribute billions of pounds to the economy.”
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/09/net-zero-watch-net-zero-is-dead-as-asia.html
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US democracy in strife.
‘Speaker ousted in Republican rebellion.
‘Kevin McCarthy was voted out of his job after just nine months in the chair, the first House Speaker to be voted out in US history amid chaos in Congress.’ (Oz)
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A reminder –
“In fact, the single congressperson can call for a vote to vacate set-up that Gaetz invoked was one of the things that McCarthy agreed to in January in order to secure the position. He used it to calim that he would keep his promises, or they could move to vacate.”
In comments at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/03/the-rebellion-is-alive-matt-gaetz-succeeds-kevin-mccarthy-has-been-removed-as-house-speaker/#more-251524
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Another development –
“BREAKING: Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Hideaway Office by Wednesday – PELOSI FREAKS!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/breaking-acting-speaker-patrick-mchenry-orders-pelosi-vacate/
And, in the form guide on outsiders –
“WAYNE ROOT: Trump for House Speaker- Again? Whether He Wants It, or Not, Here’s the Idea That Exposes All the RINOS and Changes Congress Forever!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/wayne-root-trump-house-speaker-again-whether-he/
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Here is the monthly updfate for the “pause” in warming over Australia from UAH.
At 11 years 1 month of a cooling trend from August 2012. Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahoct2023.jpg
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A history to learn from – or not
“California, the Great Destroyer”
https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/02/california-the-great-destroyer/
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Slight error in my UAH graph. Apologies.
The last month dropped out somehow in processing.
The trend remains negative for 11 years and 1 month.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahoct2023.jpg
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