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From the Daily sceptic;
Like all of the best ‘quick drink’ catchups, ours ended in the small hours with a drunken row about whether Robespierre regretted his actions.
“Surely,” I slurred, “committing 17,000 to Madam Guillotine would have given him pause: think of all those severed heads leering at him.”
My friend, the rationalist, laughed, “Oh naïve simpleton, it’s never about the people, it’s always about the idea.” Hmm, sounds familiar.
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I am no technophobe-having ran a web co as early as 1995 but this over digitalisation of our services and increasing reliance on the Internet does worry me.
To paraphrase TS Eliot “This is the way the world ends not with a bang, but a cyber attack.” Assuming the energy system doesn’t collapse first, as the grids struggle to get to grips with the vast amount of energy needed 24/7 to power vast data centres requiring up to 25% of all electricity within a few years.
Still, intermittent working of data centres caused by intermittent renewable energy shouldn’t be a problem. Perhaps to save energy in times of shortage they could just leave out one word in two or every other letter?
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Yes.
Apart from privacy issues and woke Governments wanting to trace, track and monitor every single thing we do there is an additional problem.
The Internet requires huge data centrea which require vast amounts of inexpensive reliable power.
This has to come from coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro (not SH2).
The Elites who wish to control us will rely on such traditional power sources while expensive, random, solar, wind and Big Batteries will be relegated to the Proles.
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Also consider that the original concept of the Internet was that everything would be decentralised and redundant. Now everything is being centralised in data centres.
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How do you know this.?
I suggest that basic market rules still apply.
Who is going to pay now?
Who is going to pay ten years down the track?
What will be the determining factor?
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I just read their report.
How will intermittent renewables power such centres?
Dedicated nuclear power probably, or just throw the masses to the energy wolves.
But of course this is projected data, and doesn’t factor in the big events that will swamp it.
You don’t (can’t) go anywhere, CBDC’s control your purchasing and spending, online censorship and monitoring control your speech, but we need gigantic data centres to do…what exactly?
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Its origins in ARPNET was due to fear of Russia targetting western phone lines, disabling communication.Multi route data packets could counter local attacks, which led to the birth of what we now call the internet.
The very first communication crashed the system (one transmitted word), and that was just 2 computers back then, before communication protocols existed.
Some 12 years later, the TCP/IP protocol transformed the internet by adding stability and integrity to communications.
10 years later the web was born with the first web browser -Mosaic – the precursor of the legendary Netscape. In 1992 the US Congress made the internet and web available to the public.
…and the age of LOLcats was born…
Of course, governments had been spying on everyone since the 1950’s with project Echelon and satellites, but spying really took off with the release of the internet.
Yes, it’s been going on for a L-O-N-G time, with the masses quite oblivious…
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Meanwhile in Australia the Penny continues dropping!
Chanticleer
How much will hungry data centres take out of the power grid?
Australia’s ability to make the most of AI and digitisation is only as good as its energy sources. Next decade, that will become a hot topic.
Data centres, or “AI factories”, are only as good as their ability to source power.
In Australia, data centres take that power from the grid – the same national electricity market that keeps lights on in homes in most of the country and Western Australia’s South West Interconnected System.
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The Penny Wong has no idea along with Bonehead Blackout Bowen. Crash and Burn here very soon.
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Henry V111 had a very sophisticated system of spying ran from a room accessible from the complex now centred on Downing Street. Its successor lives on to this day and has offices and courses in various countries including Australia
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Nuclear SMR powered data centres and Europe’s grid crisis
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a surge in demand for power-hungry data centre capacity in Europe. This demand faces a number of obstacles including grid capacity constraints and an energy mix that is increasingly prioritising and reliant on domestic intermittent low-carbon intensity power generation.
One solution that has the potential to help address grid capacity limitations and the inherent intermittency of traditional renewable power is the use of small modular reactors (SMR) and micro modular reactors (MMR) as a rapidly deployable, low carbon and (relatively) cost-efficient method of increasing distributed base-load capacity. Whilst obstacles to adoption such as perceived project-on-project risk, cost concerns and challenges associated with schedule alignment have been widely noted, the concept of SMR/MMR powered data centres nonetheless presents strategic, logistical and technical benefits which compliments the imperatives of onshoring critical infrastructure, maximising energy efficiency and mitigating environmental impact.
Unsustainable strain
In 2023, data centre demand significantly outstripped supply in the FLAP (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris) regions which are now considered to be Europe’s “mature” data centre markets. Scarcity of supply, caused by a shortage of space for new sites in densely populated areas, rising construction costs, community resistance and Europe’s grid crisis, has been compounded by the widespread pre-selling of data centre capacity to hyperscale consumers (such as cloud and AI providers) attracted by high density colocation.
Generative AI, which requires more performance-intensive and specialised infrastructure than conventional data centres, continues to drive unprecedented demand for high density data facilities with AI processing. To accommodate the changing demands of data centre customers and alleviate capacity constraints, data centre providers are increasingly considering SMR/MMR powered data centres which offer the benefit of being compact, portable (in some cases) and can be installed closer to data centre consumers.
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Nah just an SMR in the car park and the standard UPS and diesel set up (mega model)
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I think the ‘cyber-attack’ has already happened. Look at the Ports last year – 2-3 weeks shutdown (with Government stepping in to determine the ‘essential’ imports that would be released – now we all accept that Government can decide what is essential after the COVID fraud). Why does a Port need the internet?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gove.12715 “We find that the proliferation of digital interactions in the 21st century has not led to a substantially more citizen-centered approach, at least not in terms of the amount of navigating that citizens must do between different branches of the state. This raises the question whether communication technologies can change citizen–state interactions while the underlying legislation and professional hierarchies remain intact. We also note in the paper that digital technologies have in recent years brought the state back into people’s homes. The period between the Second World War and the 1980s was the apogee of the idea many of us perhaps still have of the state as an organization whose agents you are most likely to find in a purpose-built office. Today, as in the early nineteenth century, you are quite likely to interact with the state in your own home, the difference being that the state now enters your home in the form of electronic signals, not in the form of a country doctor or clergyman who appears on your doorstep. These findings raise important theoretical questions about how everyday interactions influence the power dynamics between individual citizens and public officials.”
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What are they doing in those data centers, are they imitating the Stasi and holding files on everyone.
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Decisions in so many aspects of our lives are being made without context, thought, or for short term gain. That’s all very well, but as we have seen with our politicians, Banks, Media, Major institutions and Quangos, our elite decision maker are nowhere near as clever as they think they are. A problem affecting much of the Western world and neatly highlighted by a quote in the latest issue of the Sunday Times by American economist Irwin Stelzer.
Commenting about Biden’s avalanche of expensive, often socialist policies, he comments;
“There are good reasons for many of these policies. There is no good reason for all of them. As one observer told me; This is without doubt the least policy co ordinated administration in my lifetime. It is amazing how no one thinks through unintended consequences. Or about setting Priorities. These policy makers come to a fork in the road and they take it.”
I am looking at you IPCC and those Governments following your instructions.
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Oh, they have thought about the consequences. Those are the intended consequences.
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“Decisions in so many aspects of our lives are being made without context, thought, or for short term gain.”
Don’t know how short, but you can track their gains here.
https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades
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In case you missed it, the UK is having its quinquennial attack of the vapours – or a ‘General Election’ in pollie-speak.
Today, the Red part of our Uni-party, ‘Labour’ pledged: –
“Labour says it won’t announce any more tax rises”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce990eg3rq2o
“Shadow chancellor [Finance Minister] Rachel Reeves has promised that there will be “no additional tax rises” beyond those she has set out if Labour wins the general election.
“In her first major speech of the election campaign, Ms Reeves said that every Labour policy “will be fully funded and fully costed – no ifs, no ands, no buts”.
“But the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), an independent think tank, has warned that whoever wins may have to raise taxes or cut spending.”
No mention is made, for example, of the batteries needed to bring the UK’s Electricity to Net Zero by 2030.
Yup – five and a half years!
The two main parts of the UniParty – Blue and Red – have not publicly admitted that – errr, rather a lot of batteries will be needed.
Nor that they do not have a blind idea how they will charge them – if they could be made [resource shortages]; bought [money shortages]; and connected [copper shortages].
And, as we’ve seen at https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/24/the-lithium-ion-battery-energy-storage-facility-blaze-you-hadnt-heard-aboutis-still-burning-n3788991 – these batteries are not simple strainers for unicorn farts.
No acknowledgement of that.
Divorced from reality, much?
And one of these two clown-shows will govern us for five years from July 4th 2024.
Not a great look-out for the UK.
I weep for my country.
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The UK is a Nation and not just one Country. Probably not very United anymore though.
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The Irish bailed out in 1921 – Why are the Scots and Welsh still hanging around?
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Despite the long history, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, England at last share a common language, a common democracy, a common bloody history and despite the endless machinations to divide, it is nonsensical to build walls everywhere. That’s been tried.
Cross the water 20km and you find Europe with only a now unnecessary common currency and a common NAZI(Socialist) supra government and three parliaments which is basically France and Germany dominating everyone else with their own massively indulged aristocracy. A new Second Estate. If anyone should bail out it is all the countries of Europe. And it is starting in Italy, Hungary, Holland. When will the Germans have had enough of unlimited migration and attacks on fossil fuel? The Common Market was great. Schengen too. Everything else is disastrous. The European Community. The European Union. Parasitic and absolutist and useless.
Meanwhile aggressive France is actually putting troops in Kiev to accompany the German tanks. How many times is this in the last 200 years? When will they learn? Perhaps they could sort out their colonies first from Algeria to New Caledonia. And come up with a solution which is not brute force. Which always fails.
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“What we need is to get 18 year olds to vote for the Tories” said Rishi wistfully, as the Cabinet clustered round their leader in Downing street, tears running down their faces and splashing on the fine Mahogany table, as they thought of the shelf stacking positions that would be the only jobs available to people of their meagre talent, following the coming election rout .
“But how can we do that?” asked Rishi thoughtfully, as the rust got to his brain following his astonishing rain soaked announcement of the much to early Election date.
“Ah I know! he exclaimed to frightened groans and sobs. “We will introduce National conscription for 18 year olds. That will surely get them voting for us!”
There was then a loud whirring as his brain seized up with the water ingress and he toppled over.
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So you threaten all the 18 year old new voters with being forced to join the army? That is an insane promise for the coming election. Why?
Biden is offering young people zero university fees. And Rishi is threatening new voters with conscription?
Another Malcolm Turnbull, very rich and super self important. If he cannot be Prime Minister, he will bring the house down. He has no intention of winning.
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To figure out why Sunak announced his crazy conscription idea, you have to look beyond what it means for Sunak himself. First, you have to consider WHO controls Sunak. Whose agenda is he driving and how might this stupid strategy support it? Only then might you make sense of it.
Like all of our putative leaders in the west, the real power lies behind the thrones, behind the curtains.
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If we knew what was really going on in the globalists’ minds, we would jump ship and take our chances. Nothing is as it seems. No words from a pollie’s mouth should be believed. They have either been threatened if they don’t comply or have been promised rewards they could never even dream of. One thing is for sure, their integrity, decency, honesty, loyalty and love of country are just fast-fading memories and they care not. ToM
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“The plan would involve 18-year-olds working closely with the professional armed forces on a 12-month rotation or a ‘community work’ basis. ”
Suggested in past decades and the military said “What do you think we are, a bloody child-minding center!”
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Suni and Team Blue must want to spend a few terms on the sidelines.
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That would be Rishi.
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https://www.lawyersrussia.com/residence-permit-in-russia#:
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Doesn’t every country do that? And how many people really want to live permanently in Russia? It’s a very cold place where Global Warming would be a vast relief.
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A lot of battery talk. I wonder what they think they will charge them with?
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Scottish government to review wood burning stove restrictions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cneeyej4jy4o
[There is an election coming up ….]
“The Scottish government will review a new law that effectively bans wood burning stoves in new build homes. The policy was designed to help reduce air pollution and tackle climate change, but rural communities had called for a rethink.
“Gillian Martin, the minister for climate action, told Holyrood she would adapt the New Build Heat Standard regulations to suit the differing needs of urban and rural areas. Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes previously said she had concerns about the ban, citing the impact it could have on older people in her Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency.
“The Conservatives described the announcement as a “screeching u-turn” from the government.
“The rules had aimed to ensure that heat pumps and heat networks were used instead of oil and gas boilers, or bioenergy sources such as wood and log burning stoves, fire places and firepits.
“Protestors against the legislation had said they didn’t have access to the main gas supply and relied on log burners for heat during power cuts. Homes that already had the appliances in place were not affected by the new legislation, which took effect from 1 April.”
There’s more – and some pretty pictures of log fires – at the link.
Whilst Kate Forbes seems to be a little more switched on to the needs of a rural population, she is still by no means a wholly-sensible polly.
And there’s an election coming up!
Who’s a thunk??
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Using peat releases a lot of carbon and hurts the environment. Perhaps it’s time to take up gin.
https://www.treehugger.com/scotch-whisky-lovers-learn-to-live-without-peat-5221041
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The Left are out to destroy EVERYTHING that is enjoyable or convenient for non-Elites.
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You’re almost right. What they seek to do is prevent such pleasures being enjoyed by the plebs. In the future they envision, peat will still be used in the manufacture of whiskey but only small amounts may be harvested, thus making whiskey too expensive for the drones – but not too expensive to include in the drinks cabinet onboard their superyachts.
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I agree Steve. That’s why I included the reference to non-Elites. For Elites, anything goes, including private jets, megayachts and peated whisky.
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“For Elites, anything goes …..”
And, likely, personal service from the more attractive non-elites, as concubines of both sexes!
Oh? There are more than two sexes you say?!
Well ‘concubines of all sexes then!!’.
Being elite will have its privileges – if that can be fixed.
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Fire is so fundamental to humanity – lifting a low spirit on a cold winter day. I guess they figured they were able to get idiots wear masks, basically they could regulate how people breathed, so why not move onto this ‘keeping warm’ fundamental activity next?
If carbon change is going to warm things up, people are gonna light their fires less often anyway – seems like a self-correcting problem to me?
In the mean time, if you don’t like wood smoke – move somewhere warmer.
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Did you ever wonder why there is a “d” in “fridge” but not “refrigerator?
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No
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Why the “d” in Frigid?
The word refrigerator dates to the early 1600s, and refrigerate, from the Latin verb refrigerare and ultimately from the adjective frigus, meaning “cold,” dates to the preceding century. Frigus also gave us our adjective frigid.
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A little search:
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“The father of refrigeration”
James Harrison founded the Geelong Advertiser newspaper and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and Victorian Legislative Assembly. Harrison is also remembered as the inventor of the mechanical refrigeration process creating ice and founder of the Victorian Ice Works and as a result, is often called “the father of refrigeration”. In 1873 he won a gold medal at the Melbourne Exhibition by proving that meat kept frozen for months remained perfectly edible.
Harrison’s first mechanical ice-making machine began operation in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point (Newton) in Geelong
The James Harrison bridge spanning the Barwon River in Geelong is named in his honour.
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The Natural Ice Trade
In the early 1800s, a young American entrepreneur called Frederic Tudor conceived the idea of transporting ice from Boston to the West Indies. He reasoned that people in tropical climates would welcome the chance to have cool drinks and chilled food. His first trip, in 1806, was a failure, but over time he succeeded in creating a market for his product.
For a time, during the 19th century, ice became a major export of the United States, second only to cotton. While early harvesting was labour-intensive and done with hand saws, the process was soon mechanised. Accounts of the ice trade and the harvesting method were published in English and Australian papers.
Tudor founded the Wenham Lake Ice Company, trading on the name of a Massachusetts lake particularly renowned for the purity of its water. Ice was shipped to England, the West Indies, Brazil and even, eventually, to India. Norway also entered the ice trade, supplying England and Europe.
The first load of ice arrived in Sydney from Boston in January 1839 followed a year later by a second shipment. The shippers also supplied ‘refrigerators’ – ice chests that could be used to keep food cool. Then there appeared to be a hiatus until the trade resumed in the 1850s. Adelaide’s first shipment of ice was advertised by theatrical entrepreneur George Coppin in 1848.
While the trade in natural ice continued elsewhere into the early years of the 20th century, in Australia it was replaced in the 1860s by manufactured ice.
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There was a Harrison ice making machine at the World Exhibition held at Coolgardie in 1899.
However, the miners preferred the ice sourced & shipped from California !!!
Coolgardie is 350 miles inland from Perth.
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They could have just used the ‘Coolgardie safe,’ surely.
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….🤔🤣
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To stop it being a Frig, which nobody seems the care about.
Besides it English, it doesnt have to make sense.
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Latest from Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs.
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For interested only
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Just FYI mate, I never click links that don’t have a description of where they will take me.
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Hear hear, right here!
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“Rapid, decisive international action is required to force the closure of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), which operates under and answers to Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. A blacklist issued by the CCD July 14, 2022, naming more than 70 leading journalists, academics, politicians, military, and other professionals from 22 countries, as “Kremlin propagandists,” is a hitlist, posing a grave threat to the personal security of those named therein. ”
“The CCD is a wholly-owned creation of the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom and the NATO alliance (with the European Union dutifully in tow). The CCD was set up at their instigation. It is funded and closely advised by the U.S. State Department, British intelligence, and NATO in every step it takes. ”
Just the preferred method of removing disinformation from the net..
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Looks like 1914 all over again.
“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-confirms-france-will-send-military-trainers-its-soil
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Or Vietnam
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Vietnam was a little different, clearly its hegemonic, US capitalism against communism. They set up puppet governments until it all collapsed in defeat.
Vietnam is a communist state in name only, having embraced western style capitalism.
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“Vietnam is a communist state in name only, having embraced western style capitalism.”
Is that different to China at all?
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It was the Chinese template until that fascist Xi became dictator for life, Vietnam has no intention of looking backward.
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The situation today is different to 110 years ago, the assination of a German prince was the spark which created a conflagration.
The only similarity to WW1 is trench warfare.
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I don’t know if he also said this but –
“And I will have to reasses everything you have said previously”
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Mr. M: Was Nietzsche talking to our own Dr. Fauci when he said that?
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FWIW- for your prepping checks
“Even small fuel canisters can be deadly”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/05/even-small-fuel-canisters-can-be-deadly.html
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FWIW – some relativity
California reacting to a budget deficit of $US 45 billion
“California’s Democratic Legislature is scrambling this week to delay the state’s higher healthcare minimum wage, which is scheduled to take effect on June 1. It’s not uncommon for politicians to reverse themselves, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom is walking back a law that he signed only last October. What’s changed?
The state’s budget deficit has ballooned to $45 billion. Mr. Newsom projects that the new healthcare minimum wage would cost the state $4 billion more a year owing to higher Medicaid costs and compensation for workers at state-owned facilities. Legislative analyses warned about these costs, but Mr. Newsom signed the law anyway.”
https://instapundit.com/650223/#disqus_thread
And
“Queensland debt heading for $188B but this idiot is going nuts.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/queensland-debt-heading-for-188b-but-this-idiot-is-going-nuts.html
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Why should Politicians care about the debt they run up?
The highest denomination banknote ever issued was the Hungarian million billion pengö note (100 quintillion; 1 with 20 zeros), which was printed on 3 June 1946 and withdrawn on 31 July. It was printed during the worst case of hyperinflation ever recorded.
https://navonanumis.blogspot.com/2012/09/worlds-highest-denomination-banknote.html
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The first thing Queen P did when they got accidently voted back in was to shift a whole heap of govt debt sideways onto some other govt entities, I haven’t heard any mention of this by the blue team… yet.
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I’m interested if anyone has actually done an evaluation of the relative whole of life emissions of nuclear compared to wind, solar, new transmission combination. Jo had an article about a VW comparison which actually showed that the petrol car had way less emissions than a before it left the showroom and took a lifetime of the car to catch up.
I suspect that because one square kilometre of nuclear plant provides energy equivalent to around a hundred square kilometres of solar and two hundred square kilometres of wind that the emissions excess in the production process means that renewables will
never catch up to nuclear. Furthermore the shorter life expectancy would mean that over the 70. + years life of nuclear the excess emissions will get worse as the wind and solar will need to be replaced at least once if not twice.
I think the actual numbers would shock and would be an exercise that would be worthwhile for the Liberals to undertake.
Besides the destruction of habitat and farmland , reliability and cost this what I suspect is massively excessive emissions could be the argument that gets the greenies over the line.
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There is also “Whole of Life” cost
These include initial capital cost then operational costs and finally decommissioning costs.
The capital cost of a nuclear reactor can be amortised over 70+ years while the capital cost of wind turbine and solar panels can only be amortised over 15-20 years.
In the USA the Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) requires nuclear power plant licensees to report to the agency the status of their decommissioning funds at least once every 2 years, annually within 5 years of the planned shutdown, and annually once the plant ceases operation.
The corrupt CSIRO ignores these “Whole of Life” costs when they falsely claime that “renewables” {aka Unreliables} are cheaper than nuclear energy.
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Things you ought to know (IMO)
“Oh Gawd: Windoze 11 To Record All Your Screens Are Belong To Us…”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/27/oh-gawd-windoze-11-to-record-all-your-screens-are-belong-to-us/
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…and there’s a serious swing back to Windows 10 as a consequence, looking at current OS market share…
FYI – the Win 11 product key is valid for Win 10 too, so you can roll back if you’ve upgraded, or fresh install W10.
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There a few of us who have favorite programs (easy as 1-2-3?) that will not run on Win10. Though I could wish the web browsers were a bit more stable on Win8….
And someday I will need to regenerate a system with XP. My on again off again family history software only will run on that….
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Everything runs on Windows if you know how to configure it.
At least it’s not ” just use malware free Linux” nonsense.😎
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Does that include a Canon printer deep sixed by W 11?
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I had great fun with the Oxford debate between Nancy Pelosi and the former banjo player for the band Mumford and Sons.
Not because I’m a member of Congress, but because I also am a former banjo player in a band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hCN7NJazY
Mrs. Pelosi uttered her new focus grouped term … ‘ethno-nationalism’ multiple times.
An election season replacement for ‘white supremacy’.
The banjo player arguing the pro ‘ethno-nationalists’ side … priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nh7qkPYXo
Besides being a banjoist, I am also my own second cousin.
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It was a well-reasoned statement and well worth listening to. About 14 mins.
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White, male, American, Banjo player with a dash of inbreeding?
Is this you?
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“Never forget what they did” Wednesday
Vaxxed Deaths Recorded as Unvaxxed to Make Covid Shots Appear ‘Safe,’ Official Data Shows
A disturbing new study has uncovered evidence from official government data showing that deaths among people vaccinated for Covid have been recorded as being unvaccinated.
The move apparently sought to make the Covid mRNA injections appear “safe” while also stoking fear among the unvaccinated by showing a false spike in deaths of people who purportedly hadn’t received the shots.
The alarming discovery was found in the database of the UK government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) for mortality rates in 2021.
Initially, the official figures suggested a large spike in deaths for the non-Covid vaccinated.
https://slaynews.com/news/vaxxed-deaths-recorded-unvaxxed-make-covid-shots-appear-safe-official-data/
Deaths Surge 1,236% after Covid Shots, Dr. P. McCullough
A jolting new study has found that deaths surge by over 1,200 percent among people who have received at least one Covid mRNA shot.
The study was conducted by a group of world-renowned epidemiologists, cardiologists, and data experts.
The pre-print paper for the study, co-authored by celebrated cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, was published Monday.
The study, titled “Excess Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Mortality after COVID-19 Vaccination in King County, Washington,” sought to investigate concerns about major spikes in serious cardiovascular adverse events, including myocarditis, myocardial infarction, and venous thromboembolism, all of which can lead to cardiopulmonary arrest.
https://slaynews.com/news/deaths-surge-1236-covid-shot-top-study/
Japan: vaccines now openly discussed on national tv
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8JmBfnNI48kT/
Malaysia: backlash against the shots and WHO
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zGqZ7Z6TCksl/
I don’t know where these pollies and health experts are going to hide 😉
If they try to hide near me I’m going to kick that rock over.
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NIH Admits mRNA Shots Permanently Alter Vaccinated DNA For Generations To Come
Peter McCullough delves into the widespread censorship of the study across social media platform LinkedIn, despite its endorsement by the NIH’s National Library of Medicine.
The study itself paints a chilling tableau, revealing that mRNA gene therapy vaccines, including those rolled out for Covid, imprint an enduring mark on the genetic fabric of their recipients.
What’s more disconcerting is the notion that this genetic interference extends beyond the immediate host, impacting generations to come through the integration of mRNA into human DNA.
As McCullough explains, the genetic blueprint from Pfizer and Moderna vaccines remains etched within the human genome indefinitely, as per the unsettling findings of the study.
“So as we sit here today we have to reconcile that Pfizer and Moderna potentially could have permanently changed the human genome.”
https://x.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/1793633287472025619
That’s what it’s all about! 😎
Operation Warp Speed just pulled the pre-developed stuff off the shelves where they’d been sitting before Covid was a thing.
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https://twitter.com/CraigKellyPHON/status/1795424722811048199?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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The Fauci cover-up is falling apart
By Washington Examiner
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci has already been caught lying about COVID-19 many times.
Now newly released emails from his longtime colleague Dr. David Morens, a senior adviser to the director at the National Institutes of Health, show a broad-based conspiracy, including involvement from disgraced Department of Health and Human Services contractor Dr. Peter Daszak, to cover up the trio’s role in facilitating gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The 150 emails released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic show Morens knowingly and intentionally attempted to conceal evidence embarrassing to himself, Fauci, and Daszak. These efforts included deleting sensitive emails, conducting official business on a private email account, and strategically misspelling keywords to escape the reach of the Freedom of Information Act.
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Fauci & Co. need to pay a price for funding Wuhan lab research — and trying to cover it up
By Post Editorial Board
Bad enough that Anthony Fauci and other top officials flouted the law by funding gain-of-function research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the COVID bug is believed to have originated.
But their attempt to cover it all up only compounded the horror, making it more difficult for honest researchers to understand the virus’ origins.
Now that it’s all in the open, those officials need to pay.
At a House hearing last week, emails revealed that a key Fauci aide at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. David Morens, used a “secret back channel” to hide evidence that a grantee had funded the dangerous research.
Morens bragged about deleting “smoking gun” messages related to COVID’s origins — in blatant defiance of record-keeping laws and in an attempt to obstruct a House probe — to protect Fauci and other colleagues.
He also used a private email address to avoid Freedom of Information Act requests.
In a Sept. 2021 message, Morens noted that he’d “always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and he’d “delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
In a Feb. 2021 email, he wrote that he “learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d.”
Could evidence of a coverup be more blatant?
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Now I’ve heard everything. Ol’ Twiggy is so desperate to get his rent-seeking plans in order that he’s now flirting with foreign Energy Ministers.
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Quite a morning for the believe all wymmins crowd
Looks a bit young but this met be her with her lived experience
I think that “lived experience” might be a clue.
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Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi reacts to lady who ‘prefers’ to be called ‘it’
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“It puts the lotion in the basket.”
Do they even have a clue. 😆
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When you don’t have enough psychologists…
Let’s bring in the perfessers because they’re the experts
Ah, I knew it was all my fault
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Australian Labor Party Federal Budget 2024
Statement 4:
Meeting Australia’s Housing Challenge – 40 Page PDF
Australia has a housing shortage.
There are not enough homes being built in the right areas to meet the needs of our communities. This statement focuses on the reasons for the current undersupply of housing, how it affects affordability, and the changes required to more quickly unlock supply to meet the housing needs of all Australians.
It also sets out how the Government’s policy responds to these drivers of undersupply.
The Government is responding to build more homes for Australia. It has a $32 billion plan, including $6.2 billion of new initiatives in this Budget.
It represents a long-term response to a complex structural challenge.
Australia’s housing supply is low by international standards. Australia has among the lowest number of homes as a proportion of the population in the OECD. Undersupply is a key factor that has driven increases in rents, mortgage repayments and house prices.
Australia’s housing system has been too slow to respond to demand. The causes of this are multifaceted, complex and affect all stages of the housing construction process, including all levels of government and industry. Planning and zoning and land release practices are
often slow and are not effectively factoring in urgent need for housing in suburban areas. Industry’s capacity to add new supply has been hampered by a lack of essential infrastructure in greenfield developments, a critical shortage of skilled labour and fallingproductivity in the sector.
At the same time, there has been a long-term, chronicunder-investment in social housing.
Higher interest rates have added to Australians’ cost of living, particularly through higher mortgage repayments. Supply chain bottlenecks flowing from the COVID-19 pandemic and higher costs of construction and finance have contributed to making new housing supply more expensive, limiting how quickly homes can be built.
Fixing supply and improving affordability will require concerted, cooperative and substantive efforts from all levels of government. The Government has a plan to increase supply, fund more social homes, better support renters, provide a pathway to home ownership and double its dedicated funding for homelessness services
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“The Government is responding to build more homes for Australia. It has a $32 billion plan, including $6.2 billion of new initiatives in this Budget.”
Just throw OP money at it and all will be well.
Do they realise that the generation who would be of the age to become brickies, carpenters, plumbers concreters, electricians etc, aren’t interesting in doing anything that can’t be done from the sofa with a phone or laptop.
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Not many tool belts or nail pouches in this mob.
From the Comments
– “Albo would not know a nail from a screw.” Don’t forget the Thai massage parlour…….
– No tool belts, but lots of tools.
– Today’s Labor politicians wouldn’t recognize a worker if they fell over one, in the street.
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New homes?
Could it be that the newly expanded requirements of the Australian Building Code might be partly to blame for the increased costs of “building”?
And a generation of over eager local council building inspectors?
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KiwiBuild is a real estate development scheme pursued by the Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand. It began in 2018, with the aim of building 100,000 homes by 2028 to increase housing affordability in New Zealand.
By September 2019, the scheme had produced only 258 homes, far below the set targets.
By October 2020 the scheme had produced around 600 homes, and by May 2021, this number had increased to 1,058. By December 2023, this number increased to 2,229.
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Bill Gates Freaks Out as WHO Pandemic Treaty Collapses!!!
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Ok I passed all 6 Questions – Nearly half of Australian school students failed this science test. Can you pass?
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Paywalled and if I can’t get past that…
Is the answer to all the questions “climate change”?
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(Year 6 Q1) After cooking an egg in boiling water, there will be less water in the saucepan than when you started cooking. Why is there less water in the saucepan after boiling?
The water was absorbed by the egg.
The water has leaked out of the saucepan.
The water changed into a solid as it cooled.
The water has become a gas and evaporated.
2.(Year 6 Q2) 150 cm is the same as ___
REVEAL OPTIONS
0.15 metres
1.5 metres
15 metres
150 metres
3.(Year 6 Q3) What causes day and night?
REVEAL OPTIONS
The Moon moving around the Earth
The Earth moving around the Sun
The Sun spinning on its axis
The Earth spinning on its own axis
4.(Year 10 Q1) This is the symbol for carbon from the periodic table. Using this information, how many electrons are in a neutral carbon atom?
Credit: ACARA
REVEAL OPTIONS
0
6
12
18
5.(Year 10 Q2) Some rockets use kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene reacts with oxygen to produce massive amounts of hot exhaust gases. The reaction between oxygen and kerosene is called ____
REVEAL OPTIONS
corrosion
combustion
neutralisation
precipitation
6.(Year 10 Q3) Using the graph, what was the bounce height when the ball was dropped from 40 cm?
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6.(Year 10 Q3) Using the graph, what was the bounce height when the ball was dropped from 40 cm?
10cm
20cm
40cm
80cm
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As I’m scientifically illiterate, would the answer to that be 20cm because of gravitational restraint?
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It was a graph reading problem.
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Back in the USA days of punch card answering there were 5 possible answers.
3 were ridiculous, as was the 4th if you thought about it.
Took me from a “50% is a pass, 51 % is wasted effort” scholar to an “A” scholar.
Now deflated to four categories?
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You cannot be too smart if you subscribe to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Who subscribes?
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The psychology (and related) perfessers are out in force today
We’re definitely not importing violent offenders
You could choose a perfesser who is a WEF Young Global Leader
Or a 16 year old senior lecturer who likes horses
Perhaps a blonde “doctor”
Or a brunette facing the other way
Still looking for someone with a proper job
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Why can’t Forestry find any gliders, when everyone else can?
It has all the ingredients of a Monty Python sketch: bureaucrats shuffling around a forest looking for nocturnal animals in the middle of the day.
It would be funny if it wasn’t true, and it didn’t have such lethal consequences for our native wildlife.
The gliders typically come out within an hour of sunset, zip around the forest at night, and return to their homes at sunrise.
It emerged last year that Forestry was doing its wildlife surveys during the day and, surprise, surprise, not finding any greater gliders or den trees. A cynic might think Forestry didn’t want to find them.
In February, the EPA put a stop to this nonsense, and said Forestry must do its surveys for the nocturnal species at night, starting within one hour of sunset to increase the odds of seeing them leave their dens.
Yet during 243 surveys after this rule change, Forestry found only nine den trees and four potential den trees. Sure, 261 gliders were sighted, but their homes were not identified, and therefore not protected.
The reason?
Public records show Forestry started more than three out of four surveys more than an hour after dark, sometimes after midnight, when the gliders had well and truly left their dens and were out foraging.
Even with a torch and a map, they couldn’t find what they were meant to be looking for. Meanwhile, citizen scientists had no problem.
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That brings to mind Jennifer Marohasy’s report of a while back where “the Experts” with a couple of million worth of fishing gear declared the Murray cod in danger of extinction because they didn’t catch many. At the same time commercil quantities of them went to market from an adjacent Murray channel.
One of the local newspapers headlined its report as “Good Cod!”
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Copied from elsewhere:
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Ah, but you can sit in your EV with the A/C on…in fact you’ll probably have to! 😆
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Albo has this sorted
https://www.facebook.com/HollieHughesSenate/videos/huh-solar-panels-need-the-sun-anthony-albanese-theres-no-sun-at-nightand-for-the/1422775818182338/
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Apparently “we” signed up for the WHO Pandemic Treaty in full last night
I’m always a bit suspicious of videos where the lips and sound are out of sync but Craig Kelly is reliable. Bird flu it is, then.
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Bird flu pretty static apart from the 500k cull in Oz.
It’d pay to stock up on eggs, preferably the smoked ones, as they last 6 months+
The world has been pretty quiet for ages except for Dengue which is now picking up and hitting western countries.
The event I was watching is growing and spreading, albeit slowly, but it’s the class of disease and susceptability I’m interested in.
Oohh, what’s this? Hmmm, nasty! And spreading in the EU.
Better keep an eye on this one too.
Wouldn’t want to be vaxxed. You’re going to need that immune system in top shape. 😉
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another ian
May 28, 2024 at 6:07 pm · Reply
FWIW
“Rude and Crude but Definitely Justified – Quadrant Online”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2024/05/rude-and-crude-but-definitely-justified/
Makes it onto https://www.powerlineblog.com/ front page –
Picks
Buttigieg’s charger debacle — JAMES FREEMAN, WALL ST JOURNAL
Big government the biggest threat — JOHN TAMNY, RCP
Rafah reminds us — BRENDAN O’NEILL, SPIKED
Only one constitution can survive — ELLMERS & ANTON, KLINGENSTEIN
Rude & crude but justified — DINA RUBINA, QUADRANT
And now, when finally shocked by the monstrous crime of these b@stards, Israel is waging a war of annihilation against the Hamas terrorists who so carefully prepared this war, who placed thousands of shells in all the hospitals, the schools, kindergartens…
The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community, which wears “arafatkas” [keffiyehs], the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies under the slogan “Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea”, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). “Academics”, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located.
And it is this same public which asks me “to express a position clear on the issue”. Are you really serious!
As you know, I have been a professional writer for over 50 years. My novels have been translated into 40 languages, including Albanian, Turkish, Chinese, Esperanto, and many more.
Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless “intellectuals” who are interested in my position to go f@ck themselves.
— Dina Rubina
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America breaks global rules as it defends the free world
Washington should dial down its claim to be protecting an international order that is clearly in decline
DEATH THREAT: Georgian PM Says EU Commissioner Menaced Him With ‘The Fate of Robert Fico’, as the US Increases Pressure Against ‘Foreign Agent Law
Meanwhile
Georgian Parliament Overturns the President’s Veto and ‘Foreign Agents Law’ Is Approved, Despite Unprecedented International Pressure – Pro-EU Groups Protest (VIDEOS)
The Georgian government has scored today a great big win, despite international pressure of an unprecedented scale by the US and the EU.
The Georgian Parliament, led by the Centrist Georgian Dream Party, has just announced that, by a majority vote, it overcame President Salomé Zurabishvili’s veto on the law on foreign agents.
That concluded the long and hard-fought legislative process that saw the law approved in three consecutive Parliament votes, then be vetoed on May 18 by the President, and now the veto was overturned and the law will be adopted.
All this under mass protests organized by the same evil NGOs as in the West, under threat of sanctions by the US, of ostracism by the EU, and finally, a EU Commissioner reportedly threatened the Prime Minister.
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Noone mention FARA, law since 1938 in the USA.
EU and France just are on the way to introduce comparable laws, where is the protest ?
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Living brain-cell biocomputers are now training on dopamine
Current AI training methods burn colossal amounts of energy to learn, but the human brain sips just 20 W. Swiss startup FinalSpark is now selling access to cyborg biocomputers, running up to four living human brain organoids wired into silicon chips.
The human brain communicates within itself and with the rest of the body mainly through electrical signals; sights, sounds and sensations are all converted into electrical pulses before our brains can perceive them. This makes brain tissue highly compatible with silicon chips, at least for as long as you can keep it alive.
For FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform, brain organoids comprising about 10,000 living neurons are grown from stem cells. These little balls, about 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter, are kept in incubators at around body temperature, supplied with water and nutrients and protected from bacterial or viral contamination, and they’re wired into an electrical circuit with a series of tiny electrodes.
https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/
As I said, the future of AI will be a cyborg fusion, with a lot of DNA editing thrown in.😎
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The Monster from the Id is the main antagonist of the 1956 American science fiction film Forbidden Planet. It is a creature made of solidified psychic energy derived from the subconscious thoughts of Dr. Edward Morbius, powered by the Krell Great Machine.
“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.
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Say it again and I’ll set GA on you. 😆
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Host Goes Silent When CDC Director Admits This Huge Vaccine Issue
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Coming Soon to a Bank Near You: Australia’s Bankwest Bank Will Close ALL Its Branches by the End of 2024 to Become a Fully Digital Bank
“Bankwest has shocked customers and staff closing everyone of it’s 60 branches.”
Australia’s Bankwest Bank has announced that it will close all its branches and ATMs by the end of 2024, in order to become a fully digital bank. Coming soon to a bank near you, as part of the globalist push towards programmable CBDCs.
Bankwest says it’s not a sign of its demise, but rather a signal of its “exciting digital future”.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/coming-soon-to-a-bank-near-you-australias
Vote with your feet and let them go under.
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Apparently my local BW branch will become a CBA branch….
The ATM will stay
If it takes deposits for BW accounts……
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Probably not the usual reaction –
“Albanese Proud.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d3b45db6200b-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/albanese-proud.html
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FWIW
“The destruction of the Ukrainian People in one graph:”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Population_of_Ukraine_from_1950z.svg/1280px-Population_of_Ukraine_from_1950z.svg.png
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/that-crapping-their-pants-sound-from-eu-dc/#comment-170467
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Ukrainian People?
Russians continue to be the largest minority, though they now constitute less than one-fifth of the population. The remainder of the population includes Belarusians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, Roma (Gypsies), and other groups.
The Ukrainian language is easier to learn than Russian, as Russian has more complex grammar. Learning Ukrainian also makes it easier to learn other Eastern European languages, as it is closer to Czech, Slovak, and Polish.
The ethic Russians voted to leave – but then real democracy is always quickly crushed.
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So they’ve lost 16million of their 45million people since Euromaidan, and less than a million of them have been killed by Russia. Looks like America bringing democracy and peace to Ukraine wasn’t appreciated.
Some Govt clown was whining that Russia is committing sabotage all over Europe, blaming them for all the fires and things going wrong. I find that amusing as they’re the same people who made jokes about how badly Russia ran things when there were explosion and fires in Russia..
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Something to get your worry beads spinning –
“Albanese’s Nett Zero Economy.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/albanese-nett-zero-economy.html
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We should be ready to be taken over by China quicker than we expect.
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“Dr Ross brings with him a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of labour markets and economics.”
So at his first meeting he should be able to announce that Net Zero is economically impossible and immediately resign…
This has the stink of Covid and the bureaurats about it! When it all falls apart he will slink offstage and pocket the money. Yucky people!
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Shell has withdrawn from participating in the Victorian offshore wind projects. Suggested wholesale costs are in the region of A$300/MW, well above the current wind prices around A$120/MW, and higher than the U.S. New York offshore offers of around A$300/MW.
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Sorry, New York prices were A$200/MW.
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The Rapacious Copper Needs of Renewable Energy, Explained
“In short electrifying the world by 2050 is a politician’s pipe dream that will never happen.”
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-the-rapacious
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things hotting up in Ukraine-
Sweden getting enthusiastic to “me too” for NATO-
“The AWACS aircraft supplied by Sweden will obviously be used to monitor the air situation and target (for) F-16 fighters, which without interaction with the “radar aircraft” would be much less effective. This also includes the supply of medium-range air-to-air missiles AIM-120 AMRAAM, which will be used with the F-16 in conjunction with the Swedish Saab 340 AEWCS to counter Russian aviation. ”
“Sweden will supply Ukraine with Saab 340 AEWCS AWACS aircraft, all existing Pbv 302 armored personnel carriers, AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles , surplus tanks and artillery shells – the country’s Defense Minister Paul Junson. In addition, Ukraine will receive satellite communication terminals with a paid subscription, resources for servicing supplied equipment and assistance in creating its own defense research institute. ”
“Footage of Zelensky’s visit to the Melsbruck airbase at Brussels airport, where the F-16 fighter planned to be transferred by Belgium to Ukraine was demonstrated, as well as Ukrainian pilots undergoing training. Let us recall that Belgium announced that it would transfer 30 fighter jets to Ukraine by 2028. ”
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milinfolive?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
Some also here, personal notes from the front-
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/veles_v_okope?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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Back in the day
“Mariner IV: Developing the Scientific Experiment: Attention to detail and continuous tests at all stages were responsible for the success of the mission.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.151.3709.413
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FWIW
“Downplaying Light Stress To Hype Global Warming Misinforms The Public About Coral Bleaching”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/28/downplaying-light-stress-to-hype-global-warming-misinforms-the-public-about-coral-bleaching/
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Update: Deadly Ebola-like bleeding virus ‘surging through Europe’ and could come to UK next
Cases of “vole fever” are being reported hundreds of miles away from where it is typically located, with the potential for it to turn into an Ebola-like fever.
A potentially deadly virus that can jump from animals to humans is already sweeping through northern Europe, putting the UK highly at risk.
The horrifying virus can be transmitted from rodents to humans and cause Ebola-like bleeding, according to new research.
Bank voles in Sweden carrying the pathogen have already infected two people, causing them to come down with a Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) – the same type of illness as Ebola.
Back in 2018, doctors in Sweden diagnosed a case of nephropathia epidemica caused by the virus carried by the voles – the Puumala virus.
Now, cases of what has been dubbed “vole fever” are being reported hundreds of miles away from where it is typically located with the potential to turn into a VHF.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1904941/vole-fever-ebola-europe-uk
Well, it’s hit the MSM now, so we’ll see the reaction.
So far it’s confined, but the whole thing is a bit odd…
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