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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
– Adam Smith
Blackout Bowen and others, please take note.
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Hmm, Political science, to qualify it. I thought / was brought up- with enthusiasm FOR Science, innovation, etc but now find that the Engineering science is settled ( H&SE or the Elves are at it) so stifling wee guys from enthusiastic innovation – unless you belong to the groupthink …..
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Isn’t “Political Science” the ultimate oxymoron?
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It’s a safe bet that anything with science as part of its name isn’t.
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There was no such thing as the non-science of Political science when Adam Smith made the quote. True science/innovation relies on curiosity rather than enthusiasm IMHO. I believe that when Adam Smith made the quote he was referring to ‘mumbo jumbo’ or similar.
Blackout Bowen is relying on ‘mumbo jumbo’ when it comes to building an Electricity Grid the way that he is trying to do. And the Climate Alarmists are also relying on ‘mumbo jumbo’ with their so called ‘settled science’.
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Bowen is a simpleton and useful idiot.
I doubt it’s possible to teach him anything.
In any case, regardless of who’s in his position, the Official Narrative will remain in place until Australians wake up and elect a conservative, pro-science, pro-reason Government from:
United Australia Party
Liberal Democrats
One Nation
Until then, Australia will continue to rapidly decline.
Galileo didn’t believe in scientific “consensus”.
Neither did Einstein:
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“until Australians wake up and elect a conservative, pro-science, pro-reason Government from:
United Australia Party No seats in the HoR 1 seat in the Senate
Liberal Democrats No seats in the HoR No seats in the Senate
One Nation No seats in the HoR 2 seats in the Senate
with those numbers it looks as if it is going to be an extremely long wait
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Some people claim promoting Net Zero would be totally easy and cheap, below $2 trillion (total integrated expenses) – as long as we built a bunch of nuclear power plants. But such claims are completely insane.
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You missed the part where even he shows his remaining AGW belief and the CO2 linkage…
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I linked the source, isn’t that enough ? I don’t copy the complete text, everybody is able to read it if interested.
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So, the robot rebellion has started
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12725423/Robot-kills-factory-worker-Man-crushed-death-machine-fails-differentiate-human-box-vegetables.html
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Nah..!
That is just another fool overriding safety systems and getting too close to a working machine.
Machine injuries and deaths have always been a sad part of the industrial world.
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So, the robots have managed to hoodwink you then Chad. Just keep an eye on your robot lawnmower….
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No.!…
Whilst I dont have a robot lawnmower, ….i do know that my “robot” floor cleaner is as dumb as 5hit !
These devices are not “robots” in the SciFi sense of the word, they are just automated machines designed for specific tasks, powered by electric motors, and controlled by programmed electronics.
Industry has had that type of machines ever since man put an electric motor on a textile mill !
A true robot would at a bare minimum be mobile and battery powered,…not bolted to the floor and wired to the mains .
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Motorist shoots dead 2 environmental protestors in Panama
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12725473/Motorist-shoots-dead-two-environmental-protesters-blocking-road-Panama.html
It concerns trying to restrict mining for copper which is likely to become the number one resource needed for the green revolution, ahead of rare earths.
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Gaza was taken by Commonwealth forces on 7th November 1917. Desert Mounted Corps commanded by Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel had 745 officers, 17,935 other ranks in the Anzac, Australian and Yeomanry Mounted Divisions. Harry Chauvel was portrayed in film: by Bill Kerr in The Lighthorsemen (1987), which covered the exploits of an Australian cavalry regiment during the Third Battle of Gaza, and by Colin Baker in the 1992 Young Indiana Jones TV movie Daredevils of the Desert, another retelling of the Third Battle of Gaza from the director of The Lighthorsemen. During the Second World War, Gaza was an Australian hospital base, and the Australian Imperial Force Headquarters were posted there. Among the military hospitals in Gaza were 2/1st Australian General Hospital, 2/6th Australian General Hospital and the 8th Australian Special Hospital. Commonwealth control of Gaza ended on 14th May 1948. Gaza Commonwealth War Cemetery contains 3,217 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 781 of them unidentified. Second World War burials number 210. There are also 30 post war burials and 234 war graves of other nationalities.
Remember them
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An excellent book on the Sinai/Palestine campaign is Ion Idriess’ ‘The Desert Column’. He was in the initial battle, when the Light Horse took Gaza, but the high command thought they couldn’t hold it, so withdrew, and it took them 3yrs to get it back! He was at Beersheba, and may have seen the charge? But he writes about it well anyway. And he writes about the different populations living in different villages.
They reissued the book last year.
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Haven’t read that one. Thanks for the tip.
You may be familiar with it, but in case not. Horrie the Wog Dog by Ion Idriess is a good read. Set in the middle east during WW2 about a dog that adopts an Aussie batallion as his mates.
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Only a matter of time-Astra Zeneca being sued for vaccine harm
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1832962/Oxford-AstraZeneca-covid-vaccine-legal-efficiency
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Big Pharma made defective vaccines but they did not mandate them and force them on unwilling subjects. Those crimes were done by politicians and public servants.
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Petition for a Royal Commission in Covid 19 in Australia at http://www.pandemicrc.com.au
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Since 2006/7 it was known, that the Adenovirus causes brain and liver thrombosis in gene therapeutic research.
Why use it as vector in a “vaccine” ?
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Source of my claim:
Adenovirus-induced thrombocytopenia: the role of von Willebrand factor and P-selectin in mediating accelerated platelet clearance
Adenovirus-Platelet Interaction in Blood Causes Virus Sequestration to the Reticuloendothelial System of the Liver
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But didn’t they say these vacces are safe and effective ?
They did, and they pretended to have tested safety and effectivity. MY opinion: they didn’t seriously.
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On a similar Covid theme…
Following the FBI and the US Energy Agency concluding earlier this year that the C19 virus did “most likely” originate from a Wuhan Laboratory …. Sky News are continuing to investigate and report on the updated information..
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/sharri-markson-unveils-what-really-happened-in-wuhan-the-next-chapter-documentary/video/384beaea13cb7c746d90170ed6f12148
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The UK is famous fr it’s sunshine so it’s no wonder giant solar farms want to gobble up retreating Devn farmland in order to provide huge benefits to our energy infrastructure
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-67335386
Incidentally our area get around 1750 hours of sun a year. Look at the number of cars emissions that will be saved that have been cited as the clincher for this development
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Noticing around the covid scene
From today’s issue
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/give-us-a-credit-wednesday-november?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
“In an interview with Canadian industry rag The Metal Voice, Steve Riley friend and W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless marveled over how so many of his friends have been dropping like flies lately:
“In an 18-month period, I lost 11 people and not one of them to COVID,” Lawless revealed. “It was just one thing after another, and 11 people in that short a period of time, I start thinking to myself, ‘What’s going on here?’ This is a wave that personally I’d never seen before. And to be honest, to write eulogies over and over and over, it’s draining, because one of the conclusions I came to, and I don’t mean for this to sound insensitive: death sucks. There’s no other way to describe it. Because as a writer, I learned there’s no words that we have that we can say that we can assemble together to make sense out of those losses. It’s like love. They say love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because there’s not words to describe what it really is. Death is the same way.”
I agree with Lawless. What is going on here? It’s the question of the age, isn’t it? It’s a ‘wave’ that none of us have personally ever seen before. That’s a literal fact. We’ve never seen excess deaths numbers like this, not in our lifetimes.”
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WASP, there’s a blast from the past, more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap. Apparently he was right about not wanting a doctor, despite appearances.
https://youtu.be/CNgFCIclvDs
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“Czech Physicist: Claims Net Zero Would Be Cheap And Easy Are “Completely Insane” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/07/czech-physicist-claims-net-zero-would-be-cheap-and-easy-are-completely-insane/
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To late 😀
With original source 😀
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Call it reinforcement. The aim is to spread the message
Not to have a bunfight over who posted first (IMO)
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“Is The EV Revolution Still Happening?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ev-revolution-still-happening
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Different management strategies for getting a fly in a cup of coffee –
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/11/heh.html
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Is The EV Revolution Still Happening?
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I’ve been thinking that we passed “peak EV” this year, maybe at the time of the Luton fire. The bad news is piling up.
The car companies [or at least some of the CEOs] are no longer behind it, there are new headlines almost every day, [today’s headline: HUGE NEWS! Ford CEO Shocking WARNING To All EV Makers!] and they have the ear of government, us motorists, not so much. The car companies NEEDED the EV revolution because the standard product of the good manufacturers was TOO good and was lasting the customer more than twice as long as it did 50 years ago with far fewer replacement parts. The bottom line was haemorrhaging. The not so good manufacturers were being found out, so both the good and bad needed something new.
Bad news, some will bankrupt themselves.
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So still got that… “an EV/Hybrid started the fire”….meme in your head , then ?
Tried and convicted dispite the evidence , eye withness reports and expert comment.
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I didn’t say that an EV started the fire. Why haven’t we seen the actual owner say what car he owned. The fire we see is not a diesel fire and such a wealthy prig is unlikely to own a straight diesel. What matters is the headlines and the doubt.
The other thing that matters is that the damage to other cars and the structure would have been minor and wouldn’t have been world headlines without batteries magnifying the intensity of the fire.
Outside of China EV sales are off the boil which is why I say we have passed peak EV. Why am I wrong?
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Obviously its not possible to get November data yet,….but i would not expect a fire in the UK to seriously interupt this performance..
November update…
So where are you sourcing your data ??
https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/vfacts-2023-best-selling-electric-cars-australia-october
And a few EVs in amoungst 1000+ cars with semi full petrol tanks (50,000 ltrs ?) …is not going to change the fire dynamics greatly !
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I didn’t pretend to be quoting data, I said “I’ve been thinking…….” and based those thoughts on the amount of -ve opinions and links I see. Even believers are hedging their bets more than they have in the past.
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You saw the violent explosion at the left front of the vehicle, you saw the grey-white smoke. Having seen that, what is your explanation for a lack of back diesel smoke and a lack of a nondescript explosion to start things off?
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Mr. Adelad: Mr. Chad has been 110% certain that it was a diesel model land rover from the very first reports, and he has explained that the white-hot smokeless fire on that video is diesel fuel under pressure, spraying onto a hot exhaust. He doesn’t care how idiotic that opinion is. His certainty in defiance of that video has not flagged, and he continues to quote the fire chief as if he knows it, even though the forensic investigation has not even started. I suggest not wasting any more keystrokes on it with him, he ain’t budging.
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Mr Paul,..
Firstly, many people, experts in their own way, have studdied the same poor quality video footage, and come to various different conclusions.
This has resulted in numerous different identities of the rego number, type, model, age, of the vehicle, the “type” of fire, etc…. IE totally inconclusive !
The Fire Chief in charge has access to far more info, from casr park entry camera’s, ticket logs, Police data, as well as his own resources on site.
So i suspect he knows better than all the combined internet analysts !
He would quickly know the actual vehicle type, fuel involved, location , etc…
…because that is his job !
So, if he is confident it was a diesel RRover, i would believe him over any amature armchair expert. !
Further, the one thing i do know , is that guessing the type of fire from its colour, intensity, fuel type , etc , from a poor quality video , is not something anyone can do with confidence….have you tried videoing a fire in poor lighting situations with a. Phone ?
…Contrast, colour tone, detail, etc are all totally out of wack !
I cannot concieve any reason the Fire authorities would want to hide the root cause……but plenty of reason why those with an obvious anti EV bias will like to promote their beliefs.
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…sorry, but can you link to that video where you saw the violent explosion ?
All the videos i have seen the vehicle is burning before the video starts !
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Walking backwards for your health
Head into any gym, and you may find someone walking backward on a treadmill or pedaling in reverse on an elliptical machine. While some may be employing reverse motion as part of a physical therapy regimen, others may be doing so to boost their physical fitness and overall health.
“I think it’s amazing to add in some backwards motion to your day,” said Grayson Wickham, a physical therapist at Lux Physical Therapy and Functional Medicine in New York City. “People are sitting way too much today, plus they lack varied movement.”
Why is backward motion so helpful? “When you’re propelling yourself forward, that’s a hamstring-dominant movement,” said Landry Estes, a certified strength and conditioning specialist in College Station, Texas. “If you’re walking backwards, it’s a role reversal, where your quads are firing and you’re doing knee extensions.”
As a result, you’re working different muscles, which is always beneficial, plus gaining strength. “Strength overcomes a lot of deficiencies,” Estes said.
You’re also moving your body in an atypical way. Most people spend their days living and moving in the sagittal plane (forward and backward motion), and almost exclusively in the forward sagittal plane, Wickham said.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/the-significant-health-benefits-of-walking-backward/1593448
I used to walk backwards up a slight incline to build my Vastus Medialus muscles to balance out the V. Lateralis, to ensure proper knee balance. People didn’t understand what I was doing. The VM is a hard muscle to develop but it’s important if you have knee issues.
Leg extensions don’t even come close to walking backwards up a slope.
Try it. You’ll understand very quickly.😁
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Albo and Comrades must be very fit.
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Slithering backwards doesn’t qualify
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Just not fit for purpose…..
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What about walking backwards down a slope, something I do every day (to ease a bad knee)?
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I’ll just walk backwards for Christmas, á la Goons…
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MP Philip Thompson is reporting that Albo and Marles have come up with a Baldrick cunning plan to retain and recruit ADF personnel.
All ADF drones must now have non gender specific names !
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The use of the word “unmanned” when referring to a drone is no more and looks like any gender specific words such as “he” or “she” , the Australian newspaper apparently originally broke the story .
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12722979/Australian-Defence-Force-goes-woke-renaming-unmanned-drones-gender-inclusive.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Ks3XVUn2a8dBOYe71zPmoSGGlf0w2tbxWul094A0UytFKxXV-LYImNd0
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‘The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been branded “defective” in a multi-million pound landmark legal action that will suggest claims over its efficacy were “vastly overstated”.’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-jab-defective-claims-legal-case/
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Paywalled 🙁
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Delete cookies and refresh works for me in UK.
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In the YSM we trust – not (by the comments)
“I’ve got $5 here that says the syringes were full of saline.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/08/no-3/
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Anyone hungry? yummm, meal worms
https://www.foodprocessing.com.au/content/the-food-plant/news/industrial-scale-plant-for-insect-derived-ingredient-maker-126099754
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Re: the Optus failure yesterday.
Why did none of these businesses use the manual click-clack backups as available to vendors via all the big banks?
Now, it is true they cannot imprint your phone … but, what sort of a numpty goes about with their sole source of available funds in just their phones?
Boomers and the OG Gen X’ers had no real problems, where the Me-llenials and Gen Z-losers were totally incapacitated.
There is a lesson to learnt – will nobody impacted learn it?
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Re: the Optus failure yesterday.
Being off line I had to talk to my wife and kids. They seem like nice people*.
*Rhetorical comment only.
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Oh, the obsolete, never seen card imprinters.
I doubt many have such old stuff and it’s no good for online businesses. CNP (card not present) transactions are too risky.
A simple SIM swap to the opposition was the answer for most.
I suspect OPTUS may be called OPTOUT before long.
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I’ve have a history of work in Cinemas and Servos – both had manual backups up until 2016 against both computer failure and connectivity failure.
But, I have just started work at a newer ‘re-branded servo’ that does not. In the event of a computer failure or any connectivity issue – it just shuts down until services are restored. That could be several days of really pissed off customers – so not a smart business option.
As for the online businesses – a day or so’s delay is neither hither no wither … they are after all an ‘online’ business.
BUT,
the local coffee shop turning away customers for the want of an alternate payment method (that the banks will provide, even if archaic) is madness – yet that is all the MSM seem focused on.
& now these same businesses are demanding compensation for the lost business they would not accept.
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‘Card Not Present’ = CASH.
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CASH.
Absolutely.
Use it, or lose it.
Cash has the added advantage of being [very] much less visible to ‘The Powers That Be’, so even if you only pay tips in cash …
And, as with the Optus farce, cash still works.
Auto
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Anybody else notice that PM Albanese used one of the two RAAF VIP Flight Boeing 737 Executive Jets to fly to China, but then changed aircraft on the way to the Cook Islands and arrived in the much larger RAAF Airbus combo passenger-air to air refuelling jet?
And for anybody who did not see this: ““”Xi Jing Ping met with the Prime Minister of Serbia and the Prime Minister of Cuba on the same day that he met with Anthony Albanese.”.”
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I was so impressed by the Chinese displays for our Albo. Welcomes by military parades and lots of show. Albo lapping it up probably thinking that the displays where there because he is so important.
I read it slihghtly differently of course. All these soldiers, all this military glitz, no shown for respect but more likely a bit of Chinese inscrutablity, demonstrating to our own dear leader that we could be crushed like a bug if China so decided. Keep grinning like an inane school kid Albo, I reckon you have missed the point.
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He didn’t wear his Alliance deputy sheriff’s badge, AUKUS minion. Albo is doing OK on the world stage.
First and foremost he wants Beijing to lift the tariffs on wine and lobster, he has to clean up the mess that Morrison created. We also demand that Australians locked up in Chinese prisons be released.
All that military stuff shows their high regard for this occasion, they badly want us to be friends again. So as these small matters are resolved we can then get onto serious political discussions and tradeoffs outside of trade.
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Why would China want Australia to be friends let alone badly want it?
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Forrest Gardener:
There is the little matter of our trades of coal and iron ore, lithium ore and some others like rare earths?
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There is a lot at stake, the Chinese economic miracle is over and a quiet revolution is festering. Xi knows the omens are there for a total collapse.
They are our biggest trading partner and we should embrace that relationship.
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The CCP imposed trade sanctions illegally ignoring the Free Trade Agreement between our two nations, and they did that because PM Morrison and other leaders dared to ask China for an inquiry into the source of the COVID-19 virus, nothing more.
Trade sanctions were also imposed on other nations that asked the question.
The gradual removal of trade sanctions is all about China saving face because the sanctions did not do much damage or result in Australia backing down until recently when the Albanese Government withdrew trade complaints that would have embarrassed China when the hearing inevitably found that the sanctions were illegal.
You are following the Labor propaganda.
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All that you say is true, we are dealing with a fascist regime and they don’t play fair. Beijing lost face over Covid and Morrson dared to say what we were all thinking at the time.
Xi’s behaviour in applying trade sanctions was reprehensible, but we have to move on and visualise what China will look like after the CCP falls from grace.
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China and Cuba have a lot in common, both of these economies are in free fall.
‘Marrero’s visit comes as Cuba’s economy, which is heavily dependent on food, fuel and other imports, is close to collapse amid a more than 50% decline in its export earnings, which are needed to purchase imports. The Cuban government blames U.S. sanctions and COVID for the economic downturn.’ (Reuters)
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With a storm approaching in Mudgee the lihhts are flickering a bit after going right out for a second or so. This on iPad
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Fewer Americans believe that CO2 (produced by humans) is causing our climate to change.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/08/americans-beliefs-on-climate-change-causes-shift-survey-insights/
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Sabine Hossenfelder “I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here’s How It Works.”
This woman seems to be very bright, and makes difficult subjects easier to understand. This time her information and explanation does not square with what was published in the late 1980s; and many many more papers/articles showing human caused climate change is in error in a major way. I do not know enough to say “this is where she went wrong”. Hope some commentator here watches the YouTube clip and points out the faults in Hossenfelder’s explanation
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