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Nuclear Energy v Coal
Should Australia follow their example given that Australia is the world’s second largest exporter of coal after Indonesia?
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/03/28/facts-beat-feelings-medias-grand-green-energy-transition-narrative-unravels/
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It should follow their example, but they won’t. I wonder how much research is going into genuine carbon capture so burning coal is seen as no worse than burning gas and if it could be shown to be cleaner, then a huge new market opens.
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Carbon Capture is VERY expensive and a Furfie.
(I have worked at 2 sites where it was being ATTEMPTED).
UNLESS, you are planting TREES, where it can be VERY useful.
And just imagine when the Carbon Dioxide escapes from the hidey-hole
where they are FORCING it.
Remember, CO2 is heavier than air. Would not like to be in a valley when this happened.
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On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons (1.6 million tons, according to some sources of carbon dioxide (CO2). The gas cloud initially rose at nearly 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph; 28 m/s) and then, being heavier than air, descended onto nearby villages, suffocating people and livestock within 25 kilometres (16 mi) of the lake.
The event resulted in the supersaturated deep water rapidly mixing with the upper layers of the lake, where the reduced pressure allowed the stored CO2 to effervesce out of solution.
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Could we have such a release out of lake Burley Griffin? I realise it is not deep enough to have such cold water but we can dream.
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The atmosphere over Canberra is comprised mostly of hot air.
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Furfie?
Asking for a freind.
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J Furphy and Sons were a foundry in Shepparton who manufactured water carts that went to the front in the Great War. When a digger went to get some water he would talk to others and swap rumours. He would bring that rumour and the water back to his mates. It was a “Furphy”.
https://ehive.com/collections/5386/objects/401052/furphy-water-cart
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Australia should farm coral reefs … very easy to seed a new one, just dump a pile of steel junk on the seabed and grab a little bit of starter coral from an existing reef.
They sequester massive amounts of calcium carbonate, they grow exponentially, they provide fish habitat and unlike trees the coral can’t burn so you don’t need to worry about bushfire management. Great for tourism, and at least some of the reef fish make good eating.
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“Carbon Capture”?
Basically a monumental fraud and “spillage” generator.
There are these things called “plants” that have actual “form” in this area, and have had for some time. Were it not for “proto=plants” and the emergence of photosynthesis, there would be NO free Oxygen; it would be permanently tied up in a myriad “Oxides”, as, so it happens, much of the planet’s Oxygen is, today.
The top couple of feet of the word’s oceans is where most of this takes place. Forget the crap and corruption about the Amazon basin being the “Lungs of the World” Just more eco-nazi lies. “Mature” forests are at best, “Carbon neutral”. Between the fact that all plants go into “reverse cycle” at night and that a forest floor is often dodgy soils covered with a thick mat of rotting vegetation; CO2, Methane, etc. abound. Cuddly old trees are NOT where it is at.
NEW GROWTH is the go, if you want to sequester “Carbon”. But, such activities are am utter anathema to the eco-nazis. And, there is a LOT less scope for “spillage” in their direction. CROPS, plantation forestry, etc, and try not to poison the oceans which cover approx 70 percent of the planet.
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Years (decades?) ago when I read of this it was suggested that the CO2 could be pumped into depleting oil wells. In the US there are old oil wells and pipelines everywhere. It made sense, to me at least. Never heard of that in the years since.
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The amount of CO2 that can be stored in an exhausted oil reservoir is a tiny fraction of the CO2 generated from the produced oil. Tbere are (from memory) a few dozen CCS facilities in operation, and together they are sequestering about 0.1% of global CO2 emissions. And it’s a bit worse than that, because the easiest places get used first, so the more CO2 you sequester, the more difficult and expensive it is to store the next lot.
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And, at the same time, there are operational CO2 WELLS, extracting the gas from deep underground, for incustrial use.
Several in Queensland,in fact.
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For some reason, unbeknownst to me, there is a recent shortage of this food grade CO2. A well in SA went off line so soda/beer manufacturers are/were limited in their production. I noticed because the cheap “home brand” lemon, lime & bitters I drink was off the shelf. Manufacturers prioritised their supply for premium brands.
Back on the shelves recently though. 🙂
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The market for carbon capture would be based on the false premise that atmospheric CO2 is bad.
What I am certain about is that the scam associated with CO2 induced warming will end in due course. I cannot be certain about the timing of that. However it will become increasingly apparent why the Northern hemisphere is warming. Once the cause is obvious, there will be every effort to increase atmospheric CO2 to ensure the survival of the biosphere through the next cycle of glaciation
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Tony,
We want to bury two oxygen atoms and one carbon atom?
Have I got that right?
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We don’t, they do.
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The World’s Oceans do a good job on CO2 capture. Naturally. At Net Zero cost.
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50 times the amount of CO2 in the oceans compared to the atmosphere
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Whether I think “carbon capture” is a good idea or not is immaterial as I am not in charge of the Worlds energy systems. Our no nothing politicians and fanatical green activists are the ones to convince its not necessary and as we have spent decades trying to point out the real facts, their conversion to common sense and science is unlikely to happen.
If the West want to burn more coal that will unfortunately mean Expensive CC.
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The Australian Government and the useful idiots of the Left are fully committed to destroying Australia’s energy supply (and similarly in other Western countries but not their beloved China).
It is simply not physically or economically possible to build enough wind and solar plantations with enough bettery storage to provide a civilised nation with 24/7 power, especially in winter.
Note: rational thinkers typically talk about the absurd and destructive economics of wind and solar but we need to start also talking about the physical impossibility of providing inexpensive, reliable power for industrial societies based on the wind and solar plantation model.
The physical impossibility of providing enough hydro battery storage for the United States has been discussed at:
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
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And to destroy their borders. It’s all part of the same plan. Energy security, physical security, political security. Look at the mess in Europe and the US with mass uncontrolled muslim migration, even disrupting Biden’s fundraiser protesting that the people of Gaza are innocent victims. Yes, of their own people. Even the loyal left are being disrupted by these policies as the migrants refuse to play ball.
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We Must do what has been done to the Pyramids in Egypt.
That was where their Power came from.
The people at the top are causing ALL of our pain.
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In 2017 in winter, Germany experienced a 5 week period of Dunkelflaute with very little wind (and when solar out put was also very low)
It was brown coal, black coal and natural gas to the rescue plus nuclear – however all nuclear reactors were shut down in Germany in 2023.
Having enough battery back-up power to last 5 weeks would run into the Trillions of Euros.
https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2017&week=02&source=public
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Thank you for that excellent report. Gratifying to see the carpetbaggers being exposed but what concerns me is that no action is happening to slow the suicide, indeed Bowen and Albo here are speeding up our demise. Who exactly are they working for? It is not us.
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None of is will be surprised that the climate catastrophe is causing the earth to slow. Ice ages and searing heat will follow, locusts will devour the Amazon forest, forest fire will destroy every corner of the Ice caps. It will be dire
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/29/climate-change-is-slowing-the-earths-rotation/
Of course there will be knock on effects as the slowing will cause stars to fall from the sky.
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The dumbing down of our young is a real disaster. Kids are guided by bs videos and mindless crap that convinces them that they know everything that needs to be known at 17 years old. Opinions are now knowledge and influencers make income via monetisation of online BS content. What used to be week long whisper campaign at school is now instant ostracism and social castration. Greta full steam ahead with nonsense mumbo jumbo that kids have to be deprogrammed from but by whom – kids don’t trust their parents although that is not new.
So parents are helpless in controlling this media so where does the awareness education need to come from – schools! God help us!
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They have been brainwashed (females more than males because of the maternal instinct) and the quickest way to end the ignorance is to audit BoM and the ABC.
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Readers will remember that last year the Spanish women won the world cup and in full view the Football president kissed the captain. The court system is being urged to throw him in jail for 2.5 years
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/spanish-prosecutors-seeking-2-5-year-jail-term-for-world-cup-kisser/
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Another famous kiss.
George Mendonsa spotted Greta Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss. The two had never met. The photo, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is called “V-J Day in Times Square” but is known to most people simply as “The Kiss.”
https://apnews.com/article/times-square-kiss-photo-veterans-affairs-memo-b24d5dba6930be867e9ac1be6dff16e5
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And another,the sculpture by Rodin.
Looks comsensual though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Rodin_sculpture)#/media/File:Rodin_-_Le_Baiser_06.jpg
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With two copies of the photograph hanging in the couple’s Rhode Island home – it is clear that the photo holds special memories for the couple – the day the war ended, and, their first date.
While Greta and George have reunited several times in the last six decades, they have never once reenacted the kiss.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160599/Hes-kissed-like-Sailors-wife-reveals-feelings-man-embracing-woman-iconic-WWII-photograph-spot-background.html
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Kissing the captain of a football team in a moment of elation is considered bad and jail is called for but it is considered perfectly OK for men dressed as bizarre caricatures of women to read LGBT propaganda books to children in Drag Queen Story Hours in public libraries..
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Odd isn’t it that apparently so few women object to being displaced by caricatures and parodies of women.
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My guess is that real women know there’s no serious competition from them.
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If I recall this terrible crime clearly, the woman in question was at first unbothered and seemed to take it as it was given – a moment of reckless joy with no harm done. It was only after the media amplified the screeches of outrage coming from the feminists that she appeared to change her mind and condemn him.
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In Australia “Money buys you justice”
However, this is not the case in China
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has intensified pressures, psychological or otherwise, on the Chinese officialdom.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/24/china-democracy-political-system-autocracy-elites/#
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Australia is also a “paradise” for corrupt public servants – with ASIC being top of the list.
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And none of them had any connection to the Clintons.
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Now that the bill seems to have been passed, digital id’s are on the way to Oz
https://slaynews.com/news/australian-lawmakers-pass-bill-roll-out-wefs-digital-id-public/
It is only 2 years or so ago that we were all horrified as to the extent that China could control its citizens actions via the digital id.
Hopefully the OZ version has many more rights built in?
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In 1985 when the Australian Labor Party (ALP) attemeped to bring in the “Australia Card” for ID purposes this was the reaction of one Member of Parliament
ALP backbencher Lewis Kent said the card was un-Australian and that it would be more appropriate to call it a “Hitlercard or Stalincard”.
How times have changed.
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Yes, of course it’s only voluntary. Very similar to the Covid “vaccine” that wasn’t mandatory.
Just like the “vaccine” when many were prevented from earning a living and still are (SA Health workers for example), unless vaxed; you will not be able to bank, renew your driver’s license, get Medicare rebates and every operation “supplied” by government.
Think it’s going to be bad, go to the One Nation website and sign the petition against it, there’s still time to stop it if we all react.
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tonyb,
You certainly are a dreamer.
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tonyb. I am yet to read / hear why the digital ID is so horrid. Aren’t we ALREADY digitally ID’d?
MyGov links loads of govt departments with whom we interact. The cops “know” all about us BEFORE we answer any questions. My CC and telephone statements have been mapping my movements FOR DECADES.
What’s the latest worry all about?
BTW: IF anyone believes it’s all about a digital currency with spending controls, read up on EFTPOS around the world. Controls would be very very difficult to implement in Oz since the RBA does not run it…in the way the Central Bank does in SOME countries
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Perhaps it’s an ending part of the long march?
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Relatively trivial for any bank to cut you off as the Canadians found out.
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Interesting turnabout from those most high that guide our way …
US Army ask vaccine refusniks to return.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/news/army-invites-back-soldiers-discharged-for-refusing-covid-vaccine/
Remember …
it was a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
An once of vaccine is an ounce of prevention.
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You would have to be dedicated to go back and expose yourself to banishment again on the next idiot whim of government and what passes for military leadership.
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Remember how President Trump banned the import of utility scale power transformers and ceetain other Chinese products into the USA? The ban was undone by the present White House resident.
The Australian Government was once warned about this as well.
Don’t let anyone, especially politicians and senior public serpent, say “they didn’t know” or “they weren’t told”.
Of course, nothing did or will happen. A good deal of our politicians and senior public serpents are loyal to the Chicomms, not Australia.
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Gullen Range Wind Farm is a wind farm in the locality of Gurrundah in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It consists of 73 wind turbines and produces up to 165.5MW of electricity. It is owned by BJCE Australia and built and operated by Goldwind Australia a Chinese company. Gullen Range was BJCE Australia’s first wind farm, when it bought the project in 2014
BJCE Australia [Beijing Jingneng Clean Energy (Australia) Holding Pty Ltd] is the Australian arm of BJCE, one of Beijing’s largest clean energy generation companies. BJCE entered the Australian renewable energy market in 2014 by purchasing Gullen Range Wind Farm and setting up its Australian headquarters in Sydney, NSW.
White Rock Wind Farm is another one. Biala Wind Farm is another.
What could possibly go wrong?
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That would be 165.5MW Installed or Nameplate Capacity.
Capacity Factor AEMO rating maximum 35 per cent of the above rating.
As compared for example to the recently closed NSW Liddell coal fired Power Station 2000MW from 4 x 500MW generator units.
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Fauci said “I don’t recall” 174 times in a single deposition as in this compilation.
https://youtu.be/iGH7ZU9eSKA
He’s almost as bad as Victorian politicians and senior public serpents.
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There is a mysterious worldwide increase in cancers.
Dr John Campbell has discussed this before but I think he is in Australia now and speaking to experts here about it.
https://rumble.com/v4m7zzl-global-cancer-concern.html
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John Campbell is in Australia and will be speaking at a conference in Sydney on 2 April sponsored by the Australian Medical Professionals Society.
Covid-Lessons learned, Challenges Faced, and the road Ahead
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https://amps.redunion.com.au/covid_revisited
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There is an important legal case running in Australia with potentially global implications.
The Lamestream media are ignoring it which is probably why most people haven’t heard of it.
It addresses the question of whether biological men (XY) who identify as women can enter or join the biological women (XX) only spaces of biological women who only want to interact with other biological women.
Now, the Left say a man can become a real woman but we know from basic biology that this is not true. Even primitive tribespeople know that.
This case addresses whether it is legal for biological women to self-select those other biological women they wish to associate with and purchase services from.
A woman (XX) who established a woman only (XX) App is at the centre of this and a trans-activist made a complaint about her to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The essence of the case is based around Australia having signed a UN treaty protecting the rights of biological women (XY) but the former Gillard Government introducing legislation that considers sex/gender to be whatever a person (XX or XY) thinks it is. Thus the two laws are contradictory, creating a Constitutional question.
https://youtu.be/uReIlB4nv70
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It is said that there are 72 genders. There are not, there are two genders, the remainder are mental problems.
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IMPORTANT: The are people who are born XXY – Are they male or female?
Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition that results when a boy is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome. Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition affecting males, and it often isn’t diagnosed until adulthood.
These are not males who identify as women.
This confirms that am XY males who identifies as a women is a nut case.
47,XYY syndrome is characterized by an extra copy of the Y chromosome in each of an individual’s cells. Although many people with this condition are taller than average, the chromosomal change sometimes causes no unusual physical features. Most individuals with 47,XYY syndrome have normal production of the male sex hormone testosterone and normal male sexual development, and they are usually able to father children
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Rare genetic abnormalities are a red herring and not relevant to the argument concerning what is the sex/gender of people with normal XX or XY karyotypes.
There is also complete androgen insensitivity syndrome when an XY individual presents externally as a completely normal female.
There are also other genetic abnormalities.
These are not relevant to discussions of transgenderism in XX and XY individuals.
Note: Sex and gender used to mean the same thing until Newspeak came along.
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An XY male who is sexually attracted to other XY males is a homosexual and not a woman.
An XX female who is sexually attracted to other XX females is a lesbian and not a male.
Is Alan Joyce a woman? Is Senator Wong a male?
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The use of the XX and XY descriptions is a furphy. I’ve mentioned before that gender dysphoria is caused by damage to growth procedures during pregnancy.
That damage can be minimal or extreme.
It’s complex.
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Yes, and this is where the Leftist minds explode because the Left say men and women are essentially the same mentally.
On the other hand they heavily promote transgenderism because they say certain men or women can’t feel fulfilled unless they identify as the opposite gender.
There are two contradictory positions.
Back in the day, a girl might display masculine traits such as climbing trees or a boy feminine traits such as playing with dolls. They frequently turned out to be heterosexuals but sometimes homosexuals.
But now there is an urgent need to transgender children with horrific impacts on their bodies such as sterilisation and mutilation and destruction of their lives.
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An intriguing question is why has natural selection not eliminated homosexual behaviour when homosexual and lesbian couples cannot reproduce?
A 2019 paper states that same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in over 1,500 species – so why is homosexual behavior so common?
Why is male homosexuality more common than female lesbianism?
Are children who are born to be homosexual or lesbian now being mutilated based on fake “science” that they were born in the wrong body?
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There is this new theory that gays are naturally different for social reasons.
https://theconversation.com/homosexuality-may-have-evolved-for-social-not-sexual-reasons-128123
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The reason that natural selection doesn’t eliminate gender dysphoria is because it is not caused by genetic factors and it’s related to damage to the initial embryo as it transforms to Male OR remains as Female.
All gender dysphoria occurs in embryos that were genetically intended to be male.
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So,why are WE allowing men with MENTAL problems to read to OUR kids?Because some PUBLIC SERPENT living in God knows where says so?Not this little black duck.This stops the minute WE kick the UN out of OUR lives.
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Marcia Langdon is writing a book about the wisdom of Aborigines. Various government departments feel obligated to ask “First Nations” people for advice on a range of subjects so why don’t the learned lawyers ask for some good old Aboriginal wisdom when considering such a fundamental problem.
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Because the only chromosomal structure they understand well is XXX
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Are there any universities left anywhere in the world devoted to genuine scholarship and not wokeness? Where academics are allowed to express opinions not in conformity with the Official Narrative?
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Trump University is no more
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The University of Austin, Texas.
A new, start-up.
Worth looking into.
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Thanks Ian. It looks interesting.
Some of the statements on their web page look the complete opposite to what goes on in our broken Lamestream “universities” today:
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Tweet from Elon Musk.
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I would argue the Roman empire improved the lot of its vanquished regions at least from an infrastructure perspective.
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It was the drunkard Churchill who helped Britain’s enemy Russia instead of helping Germany fight Russia.
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Who made the hardware Britain supplied to Russia via those terrible Murmansk convoys?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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“There is no historical precedent for a nation with so much power helping, rather than destroying, its defeated enemies.”
Still hasn’t happened.. America invaded both those countries, took them over and hasn’t let go. They have infiltrated all levels of society and control all major decisions. There is an article from a person who has lived in Japan and America and looked into it, and all major Japanese decisions need approving by the Yanks, and of course the permission has to be sought in English. There are enough American troops in those countries to make sure there is no revolution.
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USA military presence in Germany is 151k and 53k in Japan. So large presence
To put it in some perspective, Australia’s permanent defence force is 64k. UK has a permanent military force of 164k. Total active USA 1358k. So more than 10% in Germany.
The large US military presence is interesting. I wonder who benefits the most. US bases are typically a good source of income for local economies. Japan hold a lot of USA debt but Germans very little. I wonder if the locals resent the presence.
Germany and USA are currently aligned on the war against CO2. Not certain about Japan on this front.
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Very interesting point.
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Here is the opening title sequence of Gerry Anderson’s brilliant UFO TV series, made 1970 but set “in the future” in 1980.
https://youtu.be/j2PoXfZdYVU
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Along with Silvia Anderson’s bucket loads of lovely eye candy. 😁️
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Sixty Minutes Australia is running a hit piece on Elon Musk and Tesla this Sunday.
Note that they wouldn’t be doing this had Elon Musk not expressed support for free speech, conservative causes generally and President Trump.
Until he did these things, Musk was a darling of the Left, but as we know, a Leftist hates nothing more than an alternative opinion.
Incidentally, I believe many of the claimed problems of Tesla “self-driving” relate to a misunderstanding about what it is meant to do. It is meant to be a driver aid. The driver is still meant to be in control. It is no different to an “auto-pilot” on an aircraft.
Preview at https://youtu.be/TNXiG3KWd24
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Very generous of you. Elon is famous for over promising. If you call something “Full Self Driving” and talk it up what did they think the bleeding edge idiots would do?
The idea of turning on a car auto pilot and sitting there ever vigilant is a nonsense that would never happen in the real world. Commercial aviation can do it as separation is ensured and these days they have TCAS. They need to be present and awake not on edge ready to pounce on the controls. Even then they have cases of them going to sleep.
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Lighthouse keepers used to be sacked if they fell alseep while on duty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfBdO0PZD4o&t=2075s
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In Historic Reversal, US To Restart A Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant For The First Time Ever
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Even the Biden Maladministration knows they need the power. If the US grid goes down during the lead up to the election, that would be a very bad thing.
Meanwhile, Australia continues to destroy its power stations, physically and economically.
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Apologies if this has already been posted, but it needs to go viral. The President of Guyana tears a BBC guy to shreds with facts.
https://twitter.com/anasalhajji/status/1773754505059852529
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That British Broadcasting Crap guy is a real pompous arse!
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Watch it again..
The man (Ghana Pres) is a pompous fool who does not understand Net Zero and is simply justifying his countries ,and personal, gains from a massive oil deal !
P.S…The interviewer is an equally pompous arse trying to support the Net Zero ideal !
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Whoops!
I retract my green thumb.
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Net Zero is a total crock. CO2 is not a problem.
Whether inadvertently or deliberately, Mohamed Irfaan Ali was right.
Forests, wildlife, biodiversity, habitat, ecosystems, wilderness, these are wealth and Guyana is lucky.
Pollution and the devastation of nature are evils, CO2 is good, but it is being used as a fictitious bogeyman, an excuse to extract billions from Western taxpayers and to weaken and destroy the Western freedoms, cultures, and hegemony.
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Thanks Ross.
The BBC zealot got an a$$ whipping!
What a great start to the day!
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“Huge Problem”: Pentagon’s Rapid Wartime Response Cargo Ships Trapped In Baltimore After Bridge Collapse
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That “accident” was certainly highly beneficial to the enemies of the United States, the Left and the Chicomms.
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My very first thought was this is a terrorist attack!
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At first I wondered but clear footage and subsequent info confirms it was just an accident, why there were no tug boats escorting ships under this bridge is something I can’t understand or believe given the possibility of what could and did happen . Incompetence and lack of planning are at fault here .
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Hard to believe, if its a real issue , that the might of the US combined armed forces engineering capabilities could not rapidly clear a passage good enough for military vessels to exit.
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ABC “fact checkers” (sic) claim the following countries run on 100% “reneables”.
Albania, Bhutan, Nepal and Paraguay.
Assuming that’s true, these are all poor developing countries. I guess Their ABC considers the low standard of living in those countries acceptable for non-Elites.
There are also countries blessed with plenty of hydro, which is not really in the same category as wind and solar as hydro is a properly engineered system and will provide 24/7 power if not mismanaged.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-22/fact-check-dick-smith-renewables-entire-country/103617364
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The problem with weather-dependent hydro.
Bhutan imports electricity from India in January, February and March when the volume of the rivers decreases and hydropower plants’ power generation capacity dwindles to 415 MW. The hydropower plants can generate 2,300 MW energy during the summer.
https://www.bbs.bt/news/?p=181477#:~:text=Bhutan%20imports%20electricity%20from%20India,MW%20energy%20during%20the%20summer.
How did the ABC “fact checkers” miss this fact?
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And Nepal also imports 23% of its power from India. The ABC still refuses to correct its misinformation on its website.
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The ABC spouting garbage and failing to do basic research again?
Perhaps they should go into meteorology instead.
Albania, generation in 2021:
Hydro 100%
Solar 0%
Wind 0%
Bioenergy 0%
Geothermal 0%
Nuclear 0%
Bhutan, gen in 2021:
Hydro 100%
Solar 0%
Wind 0%
Bioenergy 0%
Geothermal 0%
Nuclear 0%
Nepal, gen in 2021:
Hydro 99%
Solar 1%
Wind 0%
Bioenergy 0%
Geothermal 0%
Nuclear 0%
Paraguay, gen in 2021:
Hydro 99%
Solar 0%
Wind 0%
Bioenergy 1%
Geothermal 0%
Nuclear 0%
Data from IRENA.
Hydro is renewable of course but solar and wind utilisation is virtually zero…
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JC II
As CO2 l’vr above shows….. “Generation “ does is necessarily the same as demand or total consumption !
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JC, Those figures are wrong, as Albania imports 19% of its power from non-renewable sources. Nepal imports 23% from India and so does Bhutan.
The only country of the four mentioned that obtains almost 100% of its power from renewables is Paraguay, but that country also has regular power blackouts of up to 7 hours duration.
The ABC still has false information on its website.
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FWIW – more covid
Instapundit –
“THE TIMES LOOKS BACK ON COVID: “The New York Times looks back on covid, four years down the road, and says ‘Here’s what we’ve learned.’ I would say we have learned some things that the Times doesn’t touch, like the idiocy of shutting down stores, businesses, churches and, especially, schools. But admitting that would be a bridge too far for the Times. Even on the lessons the Times acknowledges, you sometimes have to read between the lines.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the-times-looks-back-on-covid.php
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And
A chance todouble your chances?
“Great news! Pepé le Pew, I mean Moderna president Stephane Bancel, announced Moderna’s newest mRNA vaccine product this week. You’ll be happy to know it was (also) developed at warp speed, thanks to its “new platform.” I assume Bancel meant the new regulatory platform. Anyway, the terrific new jab product helpfully combines the risk of vaccine injury from the mRNA flu vaccine with the risk of vaccine injury from the mRNA covid vaccine — it’s two risks in one!”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/three-ways-friday-march-29-2024-c?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And some other things of (might be) interest
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Warps your DNA at speed at least…
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More – Conservative Tree House
“Upcoming AMA, Great Replacement Theory, General Information
March 29, 2024 | Sundance | 285 Comments”
(AMA = Ask Me Anything)
“So….
Tomorrow, Saturday, at 18:00 U.S. Eastern (6:00pm EST), my plan is to post an “Ask me Anything” thread, where I can answer your specific questions.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/29/upcoming-ama-great-replacement-theory-general-information/#more-256905
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And now for something completely different – Although it does relate to ICE cars
My first car was a VW Beetle (far more enjoyable than two Mercs I later owned)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3aIiK67UH8
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I think that will be the way of the future for we non-Elites who want to keep driving.
It will involve taking old ICE cars and bringing them up to modern standards but with open source engine management modules like Speeduino etc. and body control modules and no communications with Big Brother.
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That’s somewhat different to converting from points and a distributor to electronic ignition though.
Realistically it’s a ridiculously expensive dead end, like solar and wind. 😆
My car has 3 printed manuals, totalling about 950 pages, all in English.
Modern cars are too complex to repair as Scotty Kilmer said the other day.
Ford USA is requiring dealership mechanics to be retrained to continue working as around 50% of warranty claims are wrong.
ie incorrectly diagnosed faulty parts.
If anything cars need to be simpler with less useless fluff devices and far less emphasis on cheaper plastic parts, and yes I am looking at you BMW, VW, Audi, Mercedes…
Then there are the “green” disaster techs like cylinder deactivation. Guarantee you’ll be up for a new engine just out of warranty.😎
Uneven thermal distribution ruins your engine, just like the old air cooled VW bugs. Always #4 furthest from the air flow to go first.
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A Diesel is a good start to minimise modern electronics etc.
However, anyone venturing far from main dealer support still has to choose carefully.
For a “cross country” tour of the west last year i deliberately chose a Mitsubishi diesel because they are common vehicles for mines, farmers etc and the country mechanics are familiar with them (tools , spares, experience, etc)
Even so, a minor rubber hose failure ( simple fix) resulted in an engine error code that prevented normal running. Despite being in a town with several mechanical businesses, there was only one tech guy within 300 km who had the equipment and skills to reset that fault code and get us going again !
The take away is that any vehicle built within the last 10 years or so, requires a highlevel of specialised electrical skills and equipment ( those $200 OBD decoders wont cut it !) in order to be correctly maintained.
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Some years ago an auto-lec friend told me to keep what we had running for as long as we could.
He was up for about $20,000 and still had to hope he had the right gear when a problem arrived
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On August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel used peanut oil to run his first automobile engine.
The Greenies should be backing diesels that will easily run on bio-fuels instead of EVs that mainly run on coal in most locations.
Just showns how dumb the Greenies are.
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Well….
There is an EV charging station on the Nullaboor that is closely connected to a large diesel generator…but..
There is a large tank of fuel for the generator with a sign on it that says..
“ fueled by used cooking oil”
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More on German Supercars – Hitler’s Supercars
To claim that Herr Hitler was once widely popular in Germany is now deemed to be “misinformation”.
However, here is one of the reasons why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_vIyLiZOUc
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Ssshhh, don’t mention
the warVW and BMW.20
Chiefio looks at the Baltimore ship accident –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/some-notes-on-dali-downs-baltimore-bridge/
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Some reading for “ElBowen”
“Biden Administration Just a Little Behind in Building 500,000 EV Charging Stations by 2030”
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/03/29/biden-administration-just-a-little-behind-in-building-500000-ev-charging-stations-by-2030-n4927759
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Modern household appliances hit the scrapheap sooner than older models
White goods such as microwaves and dishwashers have a shorter lifespan than they did in 2011 as tech becomes more complex, figures show
Household appliances have a shorter life expectancy than a decade ago with experts warning that “planned obsolescence” was on the rise.
White goods such as microwaves and dishwashers are packing up more quickly than their retro counterparts as manufacturers pack them with cutting-edge touchscreens and “smart” technology.
Figures show that dishwashers, microwaves and electric hobs have a shorter lifespan now than they did in 2011. Meanwhile, customers are increasingly searching online for help with repairs and spending more on appliances.
Dr Mansoor Soomro, a lecturer in sustainability and international business at Teesside University, is undertaking UK-based research on how and why appliances are not lasting as long as they used to.
He believes that the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term has increased in recent years. This is despite laws by UK and EU governments to prevent this.
“It’s difficult to pinpoint an exact start date, but the declining lifespan trend seems to have gathered pace continuously,” Dr Soomro, who plans to publish his report in the summer, told The Telegraph.
“It varies in terms of the make, brand and robustness, but as an estimate I would say the lifespan has gone down by 20 to 30 per cent over the last two decades.”
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Just what I need – a smart fridge to tell me when my beer supply gets below 4 cans.
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My 1994 40l Engel is still going strong after miltiple trips across Simpson Desert, Canning Stock Route, Victoria High Country etc, and is used with 240V by Son-in-law as overflow Bar Fridge in our Garage
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Funny isnt it that , for all they talk of conservation and sustainability, major appliances effective lives are claimed to be reducing. More frequent replacements, more resource usage plus haphazard recycling. You would think if the hand wringers were serious they would be campaigning for more durable and reliable consumer goods.
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“.. if the hand wringers were..”
We’ll be needing plenty of those if the washing machines are going to pack up!
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At Manhattan Fundraiser The Boys Reminisce About All The Good Times They Had Together On That Other Island
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They’ll call it “Russian disinformation” but Putin’s observations of the West are spot on.
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Putin is a beacon of hope.
Banned same sex marriages for one thing – the first step to mass debauchery which is now plauging the West.
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No wonder Western ‘leaders’ hate him! If only he was running Australia!
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Funny how Australia has a more Commie (and woke) government than Russia!
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Pretty much what he said… ‘We tried it all in 1917 and it didn’t work out well, we’re not going back.’
Which leader will be remembered in 100years? Biden? Putin? This week’s PM in the UK? What’s-is-name here in Aussie? Some Ayatollah in Europe who will be elected before they meet their CO2 targets?
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FWIW
“Which Power Source is Best”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/28/which-power-source-is-best/
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In Illinois US, they are building “all gender” bathrooms in one particular high schools, US$6.8 million.
JP comments:
https://youtu.be/gV1LOP1GcZQ
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https://imgbox.com/JDmPMmhz
Sums it up.
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A huge fail
No mention of litter boxes for “furries”
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But if they don’t dig to cover up after then they are “fake furries” – or makbe correctly “furphies”
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Pollies hard at work
https://64.media.tumblr.com/52a3d1581df818c8b3836fd28804ca4a/fcfdc79e0b84fc29-0c/s640x960/27dd2846ef0d0b794c637a4415a18c1d49ff5ad0.pnj
Sack ’em all. Replace ’em with chatbots.
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Chris Bowen and Albo have set a very low bar to be replaced by AI chatbots.
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New Report: History Of ‘Extreme Weather’ Reveals Little Has Changed
A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation challenges the popular but mistaken belief that weather extremes – such as flooding, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires – are more common and more intense today because of climate change.
Drawing on newspaper archives and long-term observational data, the report, written by Dr Ralph Alexander, documents multiple examples of past extremes that matched or exceeded anything experienced in the present-day world.
“That so many people are unaware of past extremes shows that collective memories of extreme weather are short-lived.
“The perception that extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity is primarily a consequence of new information technology – the Internet and smartphones – which have revolutionized communication and made us much more aware of such disasters in all corners of the world than we were 50 or 100 years ago.
“The misperception has only been amplified by the mainstream media, eager to promote the latest climate scare. And as psychologists know, constant repetition of a false belief can, over time, create the illusion of truth. But history tells a different story.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-report-history-of-extreme-weather-reveals-little-has-changed/
Who’s going to tell the ABC?
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re # 11. University of Austin has just opened with the lofty goal of being an educational institution. I think Chicago has a reputation of ‘sticking to the science’? There is another I can’t remember that gets a lot of praise, but the US has so many, so some have to be sliding under the radar? There are plenty of religious universities too.
Roland Fryer being interviewed by Barri Weiss, as University of Austin starts to open. A heartwarming interview that just makes me smile; but to get to the guts of it, try from 1.08.20; there is 9 mins to the end. The guy is another Jordan Peterson!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9tTottjB8&t=20s
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Saturday funny: dealing with the CNN trolls be like this.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sav0hiWKUb1s1ddrj_720.mp4
Yup.😆
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Remember the name of this being in infamy, Katy Gallagher, responsible for Australia’s Digital ID and person numbering system.
https://www.financeminister.gov.au/media-release/2024/03/27/digital-id-bill-passes-senate
Of course, a digital ID remains part of the policy of the fake conservative Liberal Party.
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Note, so far it has only passed the Senate.
It still needs to pass through the House of “Representatives”.
Write to your local Federal “Representative”.
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One of the “Mean Girls” who drove Kimberly Kitching to an early death
Has more “b**ls” than beta male Albanese though.
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CO2,
Kimberley Kitching understood the rules.
https://citizensparty.org.au/media-releases/plot-thickens-did-morrison-and-kitching-coordinate-their-ambush-australia-post
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The Miracle of ‘Ben-Hur,’ Hollywood’s Tastiest Christo-Zionist Epic
A story of unabashed Jewish pride and human depth that honors Christians and Jews alike, with a sly gay subplot courtesy of Gore Vidal
BY THOMAS DOHERTY – MARCH 29, 2024
In the American Masters documentary Directed by William Wyler (1986), Charlton Heston tells the kind of story that gives actors night terrors. He is starring in the title role of MGM’s $15 million epic Ben-Hur. The dailies are coming back and director William Wyler is not happy. Heston can take criticism, he can work with a director, he appreciates guidance. What do you need? he asks.
“Better,” snaps Wyler.
Heston got better of course. Ben-Hur went on to win 11 Academy Awards, save MGM from insolvency, and imprint itself on the popular imagination. A successful roadshow reissue in 1969 solidified its status and television made it a yearly ritual beginning on Feb. 14, 1971, when CBS devoted a long Sunday night to the first telecast, with a pan-and-scanned version interrupted, lamented one critic, by an “unmerciful number of commercials.” (No matter: It drew an estimated 86 million viewers, more than any film yet broadcast on television.) In a line-up of bloated and overlong biblical epics (see Demetrius and the Gladiators [1954], The Ten Commandments [1956], and The Bible: In the Beginning [1966]), it remains a compulsively watchable exception in a genre that has dated badly. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, usually the scourge of grandiose Hollywood religiosity, called Ben-Hur “by far the most stirring and respectable of the Bible-fiction pictures ever made … grippingly conveyed in some of the most forceful personal conflicts ever played in costume on a giant screen.” (Spartacus [1960] is not a biblical epic.)
Before its definitive rendering, however, Ben-Hur had already passed through a series of hugely popular iterations on what were not yet called media platforms: a bestselling book, a hit stage play, a one-reel short from the dawn of cinema, and an equally spectacular feature film from the silent era. Each version reflected its distinct cultural milieu and media moment, with the two major film versions serving as convenient bookends for the rise and fall of classical Hollywood cinema. The first version in 1925 launched Hollywood into its vaunted “golden age,” when the machine works of the studio system proved that the art of cinema could depict most any landscape conjured by a writer’s imagination; the second arrived when the studio system was on a downward slide but not yet out for the count.
The origin story of Ben-Hur begins not in Hollywood or Rome but in Santa Fe, in the territory of New Mexico, where territorial Governor General Lew Wallace—lawyer, Civil War hero, and diplomat—wanted to add novelist to his list of accomplishments. In 1876, he began work on the one he would be remembered for, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, published in 1880. Teleporting readers back to Judea and Rome at the time of Christ, the book caught the retro zeitgeist of a nation transformed by industrialization (the essential skill set in the novel, horsemanship, was already something of a throwback). Within a decade, the novel had sold 250,000 copies. Ben-Hur has been called “the most influential Christian book written in the nineteenth century”—that’s wrong, the correct answer is Uncle Tom’s Cabin—but it ranks a close second.
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The Coming Electricity Crisis
Opinion by The WSJ Editorial Board
President Biden and the press keep raising alarms about a climate crisis that his policies can’t do much about.
Yet in the meantime they’re ignoring how government climate policies are contributing to a looming electric-grid crisis that is more urgent and could be avoided.
These pages have been warning for years about an electric-power shortage. And now grid regulators and utilities are ramping up warnings.
Projections for U.S. electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from a year ago.
The major culprits: New artificial-intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and the government-driven electric-vehicle transition.
Georgia Power recently increased 17-fold its winter power demand forecast by 2031, citing growth in new industries such as EV and battery factories.
AEP Ohio says new data centers and Intel’s $20 billion planned chip plant will increase strain on the grid. Chip factories and data centers can consume 100 times more power than a typical industrial business.
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Another one for the lexicon:
DEI – Didn’t Earn It.
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden Both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania this week.
Here is what they looked like back to back.- 1 min 10 secs
Incredible.
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Doesn’t matter. Trump does not code the vote counting machines.
Biden won Pennsylvania 3.4M to Trump’s 3.3M in 2020 – highest ever combined vote I expect Biden’s side will be working hard to show a bigger majority this year to give Hom a lift.
The only way Trump can be a winner is to get over 5.2M votes. That is more than half the population above voting age. If Biden got more than 5.2M to win then there would be no doubt of voting fraud and Trump would likely be blamed. So Trump needs to be working on how he will defend accusations of voting fraud.
No matter the initial result of the election, you can bet there will be accusations of voter fraud and a long delay before there is certainty of outcome.
If Trump manages to regain the Presidency, I will be interested to see if he goes after Biden or just view that as wasted effort on a demented soul.
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I remember after ‘walk-in’ Tuesday, Trump was 13 points ahead in Pennsylvania. The next day he was only 1 point ahead. Mmmm!
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Hell Hath No Fury Like A Single Liberal Woman
BY: JENNIFER GALARDI – MARCH 29, 2024
I know because I was one.
Last month, conservative news host Jesse Kelly told Megyn Kelly on her podcast that “the mentally ill single woman is the beating heart of the Democrat Party.”
He proclaimed over 70 percent of single women vote Democrat.
Furthermore, he declared that “studies” show approximately 60 percent of those women had been diagnosed with some sort of mental illness.
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Private schools
OPINION – ‘Retro, wealthy and weird’: The old boys who are afraid of young girls
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
It’s not often you get such a frank admission. But the old boys of Sydney’s Newington College – the latest blue-ribbon male institution facing a backlash over its plans to go co-ed – have made no attempt to hide the truth.
They are afraid of girls; they’re anxious about the effect girls could have on “their” school, concerned about the problem of “integrating” female students and providing “facilities” for them; and, overall, they’re just worried about the loss the introduction of girl-students would represent.
Changing schools is not an option.
“You can’t just go and sign up to Joey’s or King’s as they are full too,” he continued.
He further complained that “there is also no pressure on girls’ schools to go co-ed”.
This is true – but it has less to do with an ideological agenda than with market demand.
But while parents of boys increasingly want co-education, many parents of girls still want the option of keeping their girls segregated from boys during school hours.
But the Newington conflict is a fascinating study in the emotionality and recalcitrance some men have when it comes to giving up space to women. We have seen similar debates play out when university colleges and private members’ clubs have moved to include women.
The woolly talk of “culture, tradition and heritage” feels like code for something they daren’t say: a loss of privilege, and a generalised fear of a more meritocratic world.
Recently, I attended my high school reunion. I received an excellent (public) education at an all-girls school
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Drugs aren’t just for tradies and ravers. Middle-aged, middle-class women do them too
Kate Halfpenny – Regular columnist
March 29, 2024
With my daughter still asleep in our tent on the last morning of the Golden Plains festival a few weeks ago, I ticked off tasks. Had a crack at cleaning my filthy Orc feet with a baby wipe. Grabbed a bacon and egg toastie. Texted my husband that we’d survived the heat. And hit up the drug and alcohol testing tent to make sure I was fine to drive us out.
For the uninitiated, you do your test then wait in a holding area for results. Maybe it was the early-ish hour, but there were lots of women my age there, unwashed hair scraped into low buns, all of us with no makeup, no hangovers and no discretion.
“I should be right. I only had a tiny bit of LSD,” one told our little random gang. “I’m worried I had that last pinga too late,” said another. There was general consensus cocaine had been a better bet this year than MDMA –“you don’t want your brain to melt” – in the blast furnace conditions that reached almost 40 degrees at the peak of the weekend.
I felt confident about getting the all clear. While we put up the gazebo on Saturday, my millennial camp-mate Nurse Jackie had clocked I was no hardened campaigner. A drug dilettante. Stick to cannabis gummies, said Jackie. A couple of mojitos, maybe.
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Meanwhile 1 day later
Woman dead and two others in a critical condition after suspected mass drug overdose on Gold Coast’s Surfers Paradise
A woman in her 40s has died and two others are fighting for their lives in hospital after a group is understood to have taken a cocktail of drugs inside an apartment on Good Friday.
Two other women – also in their 40s – were taken by ambulance to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition.
Three others were checked at the apartment but declined further treatment or hospital assessment, Queensland Ambulance Service said in a statement to Sky News Australia.
According to The Courier Mail, it is understood the group had taken a cocktail of drugs which included ketamine and GHB, also known as fantasy.
Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic, but it can be used by people to also get high causing hallucinations.
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No mention of charges being laid. A death toll like that in a boating “accident” would definitely have someone charged.
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Cannabis is definitely NOT the choice of drug for FIFO miners – it takes too long to clear.
My son was once asked how long he had been a “user” when flying into one mine. He was shocked. He had the option of flying home at his own expense or doing another test which if he failed he would have to pay for, and then fly home. After a suitable time he passed and it was assumed that the sesame seed roll he ate was the cause. He was a contractor so this was all on his own time.
If this testing is mandatory for a “worker” why not those with the greatest responsibility of all: Making laws and declaring war?
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Only 60%? I sometime think I married the only sane one in town and sympathised with others. My brothers and son hooked up with some doozies.
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Why is the number 37 so common?
https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98
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Why was 69 excluded?
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Why can’t blondes count to 70?
😉
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How high can you count using just the fingers on your hands?
10?
60 is the correct answer. One of the explanations as to why the Babylonians had a base 60 number system instead of base 10.
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For many years I’ve been showing people that using binary a thousand and twenty-three is the largest expressible integer value.
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FWIW
“Modern medicine is being replaced with incantations: it’s called “indigenous ways of knowing”. Or, in this ridiculous paper published in
@BCMedicalJrnl
— “two eyed seeing”. ”
https://twitter.com/katewerk/status/1772794434289090578
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/29/i-napoleon-175/
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The behind of that – FWIW
“Two-Eyed Seeing: Current approaches, and discussion of medical applications”
https://bcmj.org/articles/two-eyed-seeing-current-approaches-and-discussion-medical-applications
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Does anybody have the life expectancy data for Australian Aborigines before 1788?
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I’m sure they’ve got some centralised statistics stored somewhere…
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Would stats be relevant with infanticide so prevalent?
Mrs H has a black “uncle” who was simply left behind when the group went walkabout. The station owners raised him and gave him a life. Was he “stolen”?
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I have two adopted cousins who came into my family in very similar circumstances from Central Australia in the late 1950’s.
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What does the future hold?
Will there be beta males getting together to showcase the EV cars of the 2020s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoJ-KPnWrkM
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Men back in the day vs beta males today:
https://www.motorbikememes.com/2653/1970-v-2020
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Good on you Singo – full page ad in The Australian to thank Ben Roberts-Smith VC, MG
Saturday, 30 March 2024
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I second that.
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I agree with it, but I wonder what motivated an old rich occasional Labor supporter like Singleton to write it?
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Weekend Australian report on the recent announcement and picture opportunities by Prime Minister Albanese at the now closed Liddell Power Station location in the NSW Hunter Valley regarding manufacturing solar panels at that location, a billion dollar taxpayer funding gift offered.
AGL are a partner and plan to offer the solar panels to their electricity consumer customers however right now it is all about virtue signalling and feasibility studies, business planning, so definitely not even a factory built.
How would solar panels manufactured here compete with world market leader China?
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There was a suggestion that the site was chosen to avoid a nuclear power station being built on the site.
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WXMaps having a dose of the “Climate Koolaid Colouring Disease”
Check the temperature scale- goes from bright red to black at 30 C
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
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92 F = 33 C
Warm but not burnt….
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BBC Drops Easter Service Broadcast for Being ‘Offensive to Muslims’
The broadcast was traditionally one of the cornerstones of the BBC’s Easter coverage but was quietly dropped from the schedule just days before it was due to air. A BBC source claims that pressure from both outside, and inside, the corporation has seen Easter ‘downgraded’ in importance compared to others.
The BBC now claim that there is still sufficient ‘religious programming’ across the their network but fails to mention much of that ‘religious’ programming isn’t even Christian, with a number of the broadcasts being for other faiths, or of no faith at all.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/bbc-drops-easter-service-broadcast-for-being-offensive-to-muslims
Can’t offend the majority. 😎
You’re a minority in your own country now.
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World Backup Day: Safeguarding personal & company data becomes paramount
A staggering 92 per cent of organisations are committed to increasing their data protection spend this year.
In an era where cyber-attacks and data breaches are rampant, safeguarding personal and organisation’s data has become paramount, industry leaders said on Saturday, ahead of the World Backup Day that falls on March 31.
https://odishatv.in/news/cyber-security/world-backup-day-safeguarding-personal-company-data-becomes-paramount-231444
The #1 cardinal rule in computing – BACKUP!
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and check that you can access and use the back ups you think you have
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They have no idea…
News.com Jamie Seidel
The Middle East’s mega-rich oil kingdoms can see the writing on the wall. The time of big oil is over. The future is all about critical minerals. And they’ve got the money to leave Australia’s ambitions in the dust.
Oil and coal were the lifeblood of the world’s economy.
That’s now rapidly moving to sustainably generated electricity.
(Only in the woke Western world, the rest? Massive increases in fossil fuels)
And while nobody owns the sun or wind, they can control the supply of essential minerals and metals needed to harvest both.
A wind generation facility needs nine times more minerals and metals than a gas-fired power plant. An electric car needs six times that of a petrol-driven car.
(So instead of depleting oil, coal and gas, let’s instead dig up trillions of tons of minerals, genius!)
“An energy system powered by clean energy technologies differs profoundly from one fuelled by traditional hydrocarbon resources,” states the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Yes, “differs profoundly” by having to dig up the planet 10 times more, transport, refine trillions more tons of “crucial ” minerals than if you stayed with oil, coal and gas!
Do these numbskull read what they write before publishing?
OBVIOUSLY NOT!
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Seidel is a strong supporter of “the message” both on climate alarm and politics.
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Another win for the thinking community.
A judge in the US has ordered the FDA to remove it’s infamous anti-Ivermectin “you are not a horse” Tweets and all other anti-IVM statements.
Unfortunately they are not required to admit any wrong doing, pay compensation or to apologise for the lives lost because they discouraged or effectively prohibited the use of IVM.
The judge also ruled that the FDA had no authority to prohibit the “off label” use of already-approved drugs.
Many other countries also followed the FDA to ban IVM such as the former “Health” Minister and former(?) WEF employee, Greg Hunt in Australia.
I am still waiting for an apology and compensation from Australian Government authorities for the unnecessary deaths they caused by banning HCQ and IVM.
https://youtu.be/jo8bbnSPWX0
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THIS is how conservatives should fight back – by using the left’s tactics against them.
Jon Stewart, an alleged “comedian” and avowed leftist Trump-hater, said this about Trump’s NY conviction: “The attorney general of New York knew that Trump’s property values were inflated because when it came time to pay taxes, Trump undervalued the very same properties,” Stewart added. “It was all part of a very specific real estate practice known as lying.”
Imagine my joy when I read just now that there are calls for Stewart to be prosecuted for doing EXACTLY the same thing. He apparently declared in 2014, for tax purposes, that the value of his own property was $847,174 yet, in the very same tax year, he sold it for $17.5 million.
A lefty AND a hypocritical liar? Who would have thought? I haven’t seen one of those for oooh, let me think. At least several minutes.
However, I hold out little hope that the Republicans will actually follow-through. It will probably just fade away when it meets the lightest resistance.
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I can’t see the Republican/Democrat dichotomy anymore.
It’s the same everywhere.
More like nation statist vs. Globalists.
It’s Gubmint/Elite overlords vs. the rest of us.
Very strange that the only hope for us peasants is a bombastic TV celebrity real estate billionaire from NYC born into wealth.
Reminds me of ‘Braveheart’, when a kilted blue faced Wallace screams ‘FREEDOM’, which in context meant, ‘we want to be ruled by this family of nobles, not that one’.
They won’t stop until they force us into spontaneous gatherings with pre-industrial night-vision devices and manual pronged hay redistribution implements.
At which point they will unleash their intelligence apparatuses.
Organizations akin to medieval military orders the run things from behind the curtain.
A principle challenged Teutonic Order that can’t wait for a the next campaign season to lay waste to the Insurrectionists territories.
A security clearance being one’s secret initiation ceremony.
Probably complete with swearing allegiance to Baphomet.
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After Biden wins the upcoming wartime election on November the fifth one of his first deeds will surely be to pardon Sam Bankman-Fried in appreciation of the prodigious fundraising feats FTX delivered the Democrats.
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I doubt he will be officially pardoned, but he won’t serve the full sentence – no matter who wins the election.
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Think about how much pardoning he will do when he loses! Himself, hunter, all of the Democrat party!
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An appropriate headline IMO
“Green Energy Beaten Black And Blue: Video Shows Massive Hail Damage To Texas Solar Farm”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/green-energy-beaten-black-and-blue-video-shows-massive-hail-damage-texas-solar-farm
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“Behind the scenes of Dyson Farming with James Dyson”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0miKj4UOiA
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Av a Laugh: Russell Coight VS Animals! – All Aussie Adventures 😎️
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