JoNova
A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).
Jo appreciates your support to help her keep doing what she does. This blog is funded by donations. Thanks!
Follow Jo's Tweets To report "lost" comments or defamatory and offensive remarks, email the moderators at: support AT joannenova.com.au
Statistics
First projections show lost of around 8.5% down to 12% for the Greens in German election for the European Parliament ! 😀
290
Buy an “S”, selling a “T”
150
Yes but the elections for the European Parliament in Strasbourg are a farce. It is the unelected European Commission in Brussels that runs the joint.
So much for Democracy.
310
Nevertheless it’s a hint, what people want, and what not.
280
Krishna, off topic, but there are rumours about Germany reconsidering it non-nuclear stance. Any truth in these rumours?
60
Can’t say, in least in German news no mention about.
20
Just found that
30
Ok, that’s very interesting. Thanks for the follow-up. Please keep us informed – the German experience was discussed in an article in The Australian this morning, with a lot of following discussion.
10
Ursula von der Leyen has already said she will ignore the European Parliament.
10
Right-Wing Tsunami: France “Stunned” After Macron Announces Snap Elections Following Crushing Defeat In European Parliament Vote
Update (4:20pm ET):
Following a historic loss to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party in European elections on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he is dissolving the French parliament.
Macron said France will hold new elections on June 30 and July 7, a high-stakes maneuver that the WSJ said “stunned” the nation after projections based on early ballot counts came in for Sunday’s elections for the European Parliament.
The projections showed National Rally garnering around 31% of the vote, twice the support for Macron’s Renew Party.
140
UPDATE: Italy was the last to come in as their polls didn’t close until11 pm, and Meloni has blown the doors off the opposition.
Italy🇮🇹
Georgia Meloni and her party sweep the European Parliament elections with 36% of the votes, the European Union delivers a HARD BLOW to the communists and turns to the right. Meloni, Orban and Le Pen position themselves as the new right in Europe.
210
Belgium’s Anti-Trump Prime Minister Resigns After Suffering Right Wing Election Victory
Right wing parties gained ground in Sunday’s national elections in Belgium, largely at the expense of left wing and green parties, prompting the liberal coalitionPrime Minister to fall on his sword and announce he will resign.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo will resign, he said, reflecting on the poor performance of his governing coalition in the country’s ‘Super Sunday’ election which saw residents vote for their new parliament as well as regional representatives, and for their new members of the European Parliament.
While Belgium didn’t experience a landslide victory, the gaining of ground by a handful of right-wing parties and the cliff-edge collapse of the country’s two Green parties has been enough to shift the electoral picture in the country, making the present centrist-globalist coalition untenable.
Russia hawk De Croo said on Sunday night: “For us it was a particularly difficult evening, we lost. From tomorrow, I will be a resigning Prime Minister. But the liberals [will be back].” De Croo will stay on as caretaker Prime Minister until a new government can be formed, which in Belgium can typically take an extremely long time, over a year in some previous elections.
Early results suggest the conservative-nationalist Eurosceptic New Flemish Alliance (NVA) will be the largest party in Belgium, followed closely by right wing populist Eurosceptic Vlaams Belang (VB).
150
Now that the Belgian Prime Minister is gone … they can figure out what it was he does anyhow.
40
Right-wing populists notch huge gains across EU in European Parliament elections — throwing governments into chaos
The right strikes back!
The president of France was forced to call an emergency election as populist right-wing parties made stunning gains in elections held across Europe Sunday.
President Emmanuel Macron announced he would dissolve his National Assembly and hold elections next month after he was humiliated by voters in the European Parliament election.
The anti-immigration, anti-EU National Rally party led by Macron’s arch-rival Marine Le Pen is projected to get at least 31% of the votes — more than twice as many as the president’s pro-European centrist party.
“The French people have sent a very clear message. They no longer want a technocratic, out-of-touch European construction which results in a loss of influence, identity and freedom,” Le Pen said, according to The Times.
In Germany, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party took second place in the polls with 16.5% of the vote despite being mired in controversies — even placing ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party.
Germany’s left-of-center governing coalition parties are estimated to barely secure a combined 30% of votes.
The Greens environmental party, the second-biggest in Scholz’s coalition, only secured 12% of the vote.
150
Australia still sleeping ? 😀
270
Hopefully, not anymore.
Great News –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/06/great-news.html
220
Thank God someone’s woken up to a few realities and displayed some common sense.
170
Front page of today’s Australian suggests the Liberal wing of the Uniparty shall stick with Paris. It’s paywalled, but this is the gist:
Opposition Climate Change spokesman Ted O’Brien said the Opposition is “absolutely committed” to the Paris agreement despite the Coalition’s pledge of net zero emissions by 2050.
22
Yes, but the 43% ’emissions target’ by 2030 was legislated by Laybore here in Australia. So that’s what is being proposed to be ditched.
Mission Impossible to achieve the 43% in 5 to 6 years time. Some common sense for a change.
The Opposition are still going with the so called ‘Net Zero’ by 2050 which quite frankly is nuts. But there you have it.
50
Yes, it is nuts and Dutton and O’Brian know it, but they also know that by 2030 we will no longer be talking about net zero or climate change so this “double speak” is to keep the climate worriers who want to vote for Dutton on side.
60
Some people sleep at 3am, but I don’t know why.
110
I am in the Pacific Time zone in Washington State. It is now 12:20 pm — just after Noon.
90
Good election news from France.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-european-election-results-2024-emmanuel-macron-dissolve-parliament-france/
181
Reform UK could replace the Torries as real opposition to Labour in the UK
200
350
And a lie. When politicians become experts in science, you know we are in trouble. From viruses to the weather, we want the politicians out of science. The Wuhan Flu remains a military bioweapon launched by China. And only the first successful one. In WWII the Japaneses planned anthrax attacks, nerve gas and of course everyone wanted nuclear weapons. These all now exist. So war is waged by the UN, a group captured by China in every committee including the WHO which in turn formally assured the planet that their virus was not infectious. These people belong on trial for mass murder. Fauci, Tedros Ghebreyesus and Daniel Andrews.
The idea that Daniel Andrews deserves a prize is a terrible insult to everyone who suffered and died in the most locked down society on earth outside North Korea. And he is still selling his connections with the Chinese Communists who engineered the millions of deaths world wide.
581
The dastards should be in jail for 1st degree murder
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/covid-shots-possibly-fueled-millions-deaths-47-countries/
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282
230
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/law-professor-dr-francis-boyle-who-drafted-1989/
40
“But no gong for The Maestro Scomo. ”
What did Morrison do to deserve a “gong”?
For falsely claiming he told Albanese he was travelling to Hawaii in 2019? For secretly appointing himself to five ministerial positions without the knowledge of the public or his own government?
Yeah right!
40
He made a few mistakes, nothing to do with over weaning ambition.
Anyway, he has his eyes set on the Australian ambassador’s job in the US, which Rudd now holds. It depends on the outcome of the election, a Trump victory will see Rudd out on his ear.
52
The US ambassador to Hungary got stuck into the locals for buying Russian energy and “financing the war in Ukraine”
The Hungarians reminded him that throught the war and presently, the US continues to buy Russian uranium.
Pretty typical Biden Admin stuff.
41
the Honours Council is chaired by Shelley Reys, proud Djieibul woman and activist.
Community members are:
Annie Butler, head of the nurses and midwives union:
Ellie Cole, swimmer, apparently in a same sex relationship
Robyn Kruck, public service agency head under NSW and Federal Labor governments
Professor Helen Milroy, doctor and proud Pulyku woman
Rupert Myer, of the Myers dynasty
Professor Sanina Yasmeen, Muslim academic.
A group less representative of the Australian community would be difficult to assemble
20
We need politicians out of science!
Man made CO2 driven Global Warming is a lie by the UN since they claimed responsibility for the world’s weather in 1988 by creating the political Climate Change group IPCC in conjunction with the WMO. The subsequent cost to every country and the destruction of cheap electricity has crippled progress with costs of $1,500 Billion every year since, for absolutely zero effect on CO2. Isn’t that the definition of total failure?
After 36 years of this nonsense, people are demanding that the Climate Emergency, the highway to Hell, the boiling oceans nonsense stops. Science is fact based. The UN should be focused on ending wars, not running them or picking sides. And the EU should be focused on trade, not passing laws and creating their own army. Neither were supposed to be the massive self justifying world governments they try to be. And NATO is there to defend Europe from Russia, not to attack Russia.
Left to themselves, politicians at all levels redefine their jobs to increase their power and income. All these organizations have metastasized, starting with the weather. Defund the UN, the EU. The biggest threats to world peace are North Korea, a puppet state of China and Iran and its puppets. And bring Russia in from the cold, not start WWIII which would be over in 20 minutes.
380
Video: Witnesses for US House Transportation Committee show they have no clue how much CO2 (what the Left call “carbon” (sic)) is in the atmosphere.
https://youtu.be/bJfrKNR3K2k
150
That’s great:
“We need politicians out of science!”
Wouldn’t it be useful to also kick them out of
Engineering , roadways and bridges collapsed in Europe
Medicine , vaxxines and shutdowns
Education , forget gender dysphoria, just learn reading
writing and logic.
310
Here’s Australia’s Chief Idiot and PM explaining how you can use solar panels at night to charge your EV for free.
https://youtu.be/vyS9uqRLbB8
210
Might I respectfully suggest a small editorial change?”We need our current politicians OUT”
90
We also nèed real and so called scientists out of politics, or at least arms length via a trusted and respected body, which wouldnt be the CSIRO.
30
Politicians should not be allowed to make decisions where science or engineering knowledge is required, unless they are appropriately qualified or knowledgeable.
E.g. a politician, Turnbull, should never have been allowed to unilaterally make a decision, that will waste countless billions of dollars and cause great harm to Australia, to build Snowy Hydro 2 when proper engineers said seventy or so years ago that it wouldn’t be viable which is why it was never built in the first place
311
70 years ago …there was no wind or solar generation in the grid.
70 years ago..there was no Green party
70 years ago there was no IPCC
70 years ago…there was a surplus of reliable coal generation and no restrictions on building more if needed.
70 years ago, the population was lower and grid demand was much less, peaking a middday
A lot has changed in 70 years, !
160
I forgot to add, …… 70 yrs ago civil engineering was not the same as today.
Tunnelling technology in particular has totally changed.
..Turbine pumps are far more efficient and powerful (fewer required)
20
Any headlines from 70 years ago of a tunnelling operation bogged down spectacularly in the first couple of hundred metres?
110
The earth is riddled with failed/delayed/overbudget tunnel projects
https://www.academia.edu/32351474/Catalogue_of_Notable_Tunnel_Failures_Case_Histories_up_to_April_2015
…but SN2 is handicaped by poor management and technical decisions.
Technology for tunneling through unstable geology is available and proven, but somebody on SN2 decided it was not necessary .
00
Back in the day they had geotechnical data which demonstrated SH2 would be non-viable and I believe it was ignored. There are plenty of other reasons as well. And we wouldn’t need it at all, even assuming it is ever finished, if it were not for Australia’s insane commitment to shut down its power stations.
130
“Back in the day,”…. They did not have access to current day tunneling methods !..
..and, Australia IS currently committed to shutting down fossil fuel generators, and switching to intermittent generation,….so huge amounts of storage will be necessary.!
…And there are not many viable options for that.
So , unless we can revert to a sensible grid generations, we are stuck with needing these extreme support systems.
00
Coincidentally, just been reading C.P. Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ Rede Lecture from 1959. Not much has improved since then; we still need people in government who have at least a basic STEM education.
60
Don’t forget the MBA belief that you only need to know how to manage, not to know anything about what you are managing.
I’ve heard the it actually stands for “More Bs Again”
70
I thought it was Master of Bugger All.
31
The inverse seems true, any kind of STEM education seems to be a barrier to entry or progression if you do get in.
People who ask specific questions and can understand the answers get in the way of the “big picture” thinkers like Bowen and Albanese and Co
00
TdeF,
More pressing, we also have need (proper) scientists in Parliament.
Geoff S
20
I’ll see your scientists and raise you successful private businessmen! if you haven’t run a business you shouldn’t be in control of the economy, ever!
10
There are plenty who have done both. It used to be that both Labor and Liberal were skilled people before they became politicians, but we are in the age of born to rule politicians who know no other job and study how to get to the top and how to stay in power, not what to do when they get there. Not least Joe Biden who has never been anything but a backbencher, which is why he was chosen by Obama. And Obama is still running the place through this utterly compromised geriatric ignoramus.
40
And evil unemployable Dr. Adam Bandt, Leninist who discovered the People Against Everything, the Greens but will not hide his anti Semitism. Which hopefully will expose his real nature as chasing political power at any cost, like his hero. Good luck to both Albanese and Dutton for wedging him as an utterly malign player in Australian politics. Even the Greens deserve much better. Dr. Bob Brown did fight for the environment. He was not a communist.
30
Done that. Geoff S
10
Electricity 2024 – IEA Report
Analysis and forecast to 2026
Executive summary
Page 8
Page 9
Global trends, Data Centres, and Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrencies follow.
120
Global trends
China has the largest increase in electricity demand, while India sees the fastest growth – Section Page 17
India’s electricity consumption surpassed that of Japan and Korea combined at the end of 2023.
There are signs of some permanent electricity demand destruction – Section Page 22 [Europe – astounding, must read]
90
Data Centres, Artificial Intelligence, and Cryptocurrencies
Global electricity demand from data centres could double towards 2026 – Section Page 31
Artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies are additional sources of electricity demand growth – Section Page 35
Anyone interested I suggest looking into ‘Data Centre Ally’ Ashburn, Virginia USA – phenomenol !!
30
Related:
Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won’t Exist In Five Years…?
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/betting-big-bitcoin-mining-wont-exist-five-years
Scroll down to – “Make it make sense”
“It sounds crazy now – but so did Bitcoin, back in 2009. Look at the scoreboard.”
There are families in Europe that have kept their wealth for 900 years by the third, third, and a third strategy – gold, fine art, land.
Here’s me wondering whether bitcoin would be around in 900 years and these guys are betting against 5 years.
50
>Bitcoin is estimated to have consumed 120 TWh by 2023
Australian Energy Update 2023:
Bitcoin worldwide equivalent to about 44% of Australia’s entire annual electricity production.
1 Bitcoin = US$69,646.07, AU$105,785.95
Calc using Australian values next.
20
Australia’s electricity consumption in Bitcoin terms.
Energy Account, Australia
Reference period 2019-20 financial year
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/energy/energy-account-australia/2019-20
22,072 x 0.44 = AU$9,712 million / AU$105,785.95 = 91,808.033 Bitcoin.
Stated differently, Australia’s entire 2019/20 annual electricity production value, AU$22,072 million, is worth 208,647.7458 Bitcoin.
The Digiconomist’s Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index estimated that one bitcoin transaction takes 1,449 kWh to complete.
208,647.7458 Bitcoin x 1,449 kWh = 302,330,583.7 kWh or 0.0003 TWh.
So if the same 271 TWh had been used to mine Bitcoin, 906,666.6667 Bitcoin could have been mined – about 4.3 times the AU$ value.
This is why, from CNET, “a mining center in Kazakhstan is equipped to run 50,000 mining rigs, and another mining farm in China has a monthly electricity bill of more than $1 million as it mines 750 bitcoins a month”.
30
>”another mining farm in China”
Not since 2021. China shut down Bitcoin mining then.
Bitcoin Mining by Country 2024
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/bitcoin-mining-by-country
The leading bitcoin mining by countries and their hash rates are as follows:
United States: 35.4%
Kazakhstan: 18.1%
Russia: 11.23%
Canada: 9.55%
Ireland: 4.68%
Malaysia: 4.58%
Germany: 4.48%
Iran: 3.1%
Totals in Germany and Ireland are likely significantly inflated due to redirected IP addresses via the use of VPN or proxy services.
10
Research: Bitcoin Consumes Less Than Half The Energy Of The Banking Or Gold Industries [2021]
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/research%3A-bitcoin-consumes-less-than-half-the-energy-of-the-banking-or-gold-industries
Worldwide banking 263.72 TWh per year compares to total Australia electricity production of 272 TWh.
10
Too good to be true?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/09/did-the-aussie-opposition-leader-just-call-for-cancelling-the-paris-agreement/
140
Brown Coal (Lignite) provides the cheapest reliable electricity in Australia and in a sane world Victoria should be building more brown coal power stations to bring manufacturing back to Australia and providing more plant food to improve crop yields.
Meanwhile in Germany – they are expanding a lignite mine by removing wind turbines!
https://euobserver.com/green-economy/arf0893c11#:
200
We should be replacing old inefficient coal power plants with high temperature, high efficiency ones. Not because they halve CO2, but because they are more efficient, which they are, but because it means the coal lasts twice as long! You need coal to make windmills!
Even if you support the war on CO2, a war which has seen record CO2 output, halving it is a good thing. But no one is doing that.
120
No, !..that is not what he said .!
…BUT that is what the Media heard !
120
The alarmists and Bowen have been trying to muddy the waters – must be concerned about the increasing support for Dutton’s policies.
110
That is what a lot of people heard. Sadly not true.
Of course, no Uni Party member is going to disobey their leaders. And most Aus politicians – most, not all – are in the Uni Party.
40
Correct. As I mentioned at 2.1.2 above, Ted O’Brien (Bowen’s doppelganger) has committed the Liberal half of the Uniparty to “Paris.”
20
A powerful one liner against spending hundreds of billions of dollars on renewables; yesterday Sky News “Outsiders “ program Rowan Dean accurately described the Paris Agreement as “a way to enrich the Chinese military.”
100
What he didn’t say is that we’ll honour our 2050 agreement with the help of nuclear power, its within the time frame.
Bowen tells the electorate that abandoning the 2030 agreement Australia will become an international pariah, but that is of no great importance to the voting public.
The West Minster system is still working, so we should see a movement to the right by next year.
61
My diary states that today is “King’s Birthday (NSW, TAS, Vic, NT), Queen’s Birthday (SA), Sovereign’s Birthday (ACT)”.
Make of that what you will.
50
Yes.
00
King Charles was born on 14 November 1948 – a scorpio
https://scorpiomystique.com/november-14/#:
61
Nothing about climate delusions, and talking to plants then?
130
This is ultra cringe-worthy.
A Canadian politician says “climate change” is sexist.
Sky News Australia comments.
Video 1min 36s.
https://x.com/WeAreCanProud/status/1799797344797376751
60
Well he/she/it/they got that wrong – its “racist”.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220125-why-climate-change-is-inherently-racist
40
What utter codswallop
30
Climate Change is just one of many modern ideological perspectives which require the suspension of disbelief in the implausible.
20
Hey David, as a bush walker, are you aware that there is a public protest against the great forest national park to be held in Yea tomorrow? To be held at the town hall building, the turn out is expected to be “significant” enough to attract “politicians” of which persuasion I don’t know. It will certainly be an interesting evening, no breath holding allowed!
80
At what time Sambar? We missed buying the local paper this week.
30
6.30pm Annie. Do you want to pick a time and day to have a coffee at Gossies?
20
Thanks Sambar. Wednesday at 11.15? Husband and I are both free at that time.
20
Done
20
The meeting in Yea: our grandson went to the one in Alexandra. He said there was no specific person talking, but a packed hall and people going around writing down responses on sticky notes. He’s giving the Yea one a miss but there is plenty of strong feeling around about the matter. I do note the packed hall in Alex.
30
Sorry Sambar, I can’t make it tomorrow.
20
Good grief!
Frankly, the tag “climate hysteric” fits her very well indeed.
There are far too many women in government/parliaments, stood as candidates by their parties simply because they are women, not because they have any relevant qualifications or life experience that may guide them in the sensible and sane government of any nation.
When hysterics like this misinformed and ignorant woman hold positions of influence and power, the consequences can be very dire.
And yes, I say that as a woman. My own sex sometimes dismays me in its stupidity.
180
Indeed. However, the plug has well and truly been pulled on that one, no stopping it now. The consequences are unavoidable. We were warned, however we dismissed that as bigotry, which it is, but that old bigotry had a ways of being based in truth.
My parents were bigots, completely. But everything they said produced satisfactory results. It was just poorly expressed. It’s why Pauline Hanson gets nowhere.
Pauline basically thinks exactly what Sky News thinks. She effectively has her own propaganda network. She believes what most Australians believe, but people will not vote for her because they just smell bigotry, they cant see through the bigotry filter.
We’ve been taught to reject bigotry, but it is the fatal error. Instincts are more reliable than intellectual moralisation.
60
Bigot: “A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”
Why single Pauline Hanson out? Based on the above, our parliament comprises 100% bigots.
20
Please explain – why isn’t the USA buying Uranium from Australia?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-ambassador-slams-hungary-relying-russian-energy-us-remains-huge-buyer-russian
90
only guessing but they are probably cheaper and I wonder if we are in any position to ramp up. An interesting question.
The clueless hypocrisy of the ambassador is pretty much business as usual these days.
61
Do we actually enrich uranium?
20
Probably still shipping yellow cake.
41
no, Australia does not enrich uranium. We do basic processing of the raw ore to produce Yellowcake, then export that.
20
Because ours is not enriched. It has the same isotope ratio of uranium 235 to uranium 238 as when dug out of the ground. A lot of extra plant, energy and money is needed for enrichment. Search Wiki for “uranium enrichment”for details.
Is this what you seek? Geoff S
20
It Leaked From A US-Backed Lab (article)
40
A man with minimum teeth who cuts firewood for a living and never wears shoes told me that in 2019. I don’t see why the world has such a problem admitting it.
61
So when to we get “reparations” from the US government? When do Ralph Baric and Anthony Fauci do the dance at the end of a rope? Asking for a friend.
30
I find it hard to deal with the ‘lab leak’ discussion – the question is not ‘was there are a lab leak’ but ‘how many lab leaks are there’. Buildings over the world filled with animals and animal feed that are managed by students.
Do you really think that they able to keep these buildings 100% pest-free?
There are constantly ‘lab leaks’ – the question is what are they doing in these labs?
On the biowarfare side – you reckon if they had successfully developed bio-warfare tools, they have not been tested / used on us yet? It’s just that they have not a lot of success in their research, not that it is ethical / controlled.
The elite see us as guinea pigs in their ‘fountain of youth’ fantasies.
40
FWIW
On the origins of the bird flu outbreak – today’s Covid and Coffee Newsletter
“Someday soon they’ll regret activating all these professionals who used to mind their own business. Dr. Peter McCullough and friends published a new study about the origins of bird flu this week in the open journal Cureus, titled “Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl.”
“Our new study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 “Bird Flu” Clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.”
”
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more
☕️ BAGGING IT ☙ Sunday, June 9, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Trump mystery juror update, kind of; Hunter trial update; Texas GOP W’s; bird flu origin; jabs cause worse covid; Ukraine’s F-16 plans crashing and burning; WWIII war weapons look trashy; and more.
Jeff Childers
Jun 9
READ IN APP
Good morning, C&C, it’s Sunday! Normally today is a subscriber-only post, but since we’re on vacation schedule, enjoy a quick-hitting, hotel-lobby roundup, including: update, or non-update, on Trump juror fracas; Hunter trial updates highlight differences with Trump Trial rather than similarities; WaPo fretting over good news from Texas GOP; Dr. McCullough proves origins of bird flu even before the new pandemic gets off the ground; new study undermines the last pathetic remaining jab argument; hilarious F-16 story proves more media malfeasance; and more about the most ridiculous war weapon yet deployed in World War III.
🗞💬 WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY 💬🗞
🔥🔥 Forbes reported yesterday afternoon that the Trump jury scandal poster’s identity remains a baffling mystery. I counseled cautious restraint yesterday until we know more. But another news cycle later, corporate media still can’t say who posted the claim that the fix was in.
image 3.png
Given the stakes, it’s weird that nobody can track this guy down. The alphabet intelligence agencies surely know who he is. I suspect they’d have no problem leaking his identity to compliant media if it would be helpful.
And where is Michael Anderson? If he’s not the ‘cousin of a juror,’ and is just a ‘professional s—poster,’ why not come forward and claim all the attention he obviously craves?
It is still too early to draw any conclusions, and it remains most likely this is much ado about nothing. But the longer the media pretends they can’t find him, the more interesting this case gets.
🔥 The Hunter Biden Trial is not getting the attention it was designed to get, and we might understand why. Friday,
Politico ran a trial update story under the unintentionally truthful headline, “The Hunter Biden Case Is Solid. There’s Something Rotten About It Too.”
image 19.png
Politico’s take was that prosecutors were over-proving their case. Politico was appalled at the unrelenting, day after day evidence of Hunter’s sordid lifestyle, calling the trial an exercise in “public flogging.” Oddly, their newfound anxiety about over-prosecution was AWOL during President Trump’s public flogging.
Their righteous outrage appeared in these paragraphs, which revealed much more than they intended:
image 20.png
Politico’s point was there was no point. Everybody knows the Resident’s son is a crack-addled meth addict. Why rub it in? The intended, unstated comparison was to President Trump’s show trial — apples and apples.
But Politico unaccountably missed the main point, the critical distinction between Trump’s sham prosecution and Hunter’s kid-glove treatment. To prove the lesser crime of failing to check a box on a firearm form, government prosecutors presented evidence of a long series of much worse crimes, crimes for which Hunter is inexplicably not being prosecuted.
If it proved anything, this trial proved everything Hunter is getting away with. And unlike Trump’s, Hunter’s public flogging will be completed in just few days, with the jury projected to begin deliberations next week.
🔥 In another unintentional headline, the Washington Post ran an op-ed yesterday headlined, “The Texas Republican Party has gone off the deep end.” Which is saying a lot, since corporate media loves to wring its hands about Texas Republicans.
image 23.png
The new Texas GOP platform, which terrifies the WaPo’s editorial staff, sounded pretty good to me:
image 21.png
Not only that, but Texas Republicans are working diligently to reverse the state’s inglorious slide into blue-state status:
image 22.png
Progress! The conservative counter-revolution continues gaining ground.
🔬🔬 Someday soon they’ll regret activating all these professionals who used to mind their own business. Dr. Peter McCullough and friends published a new study about the origins of bird flu this week in the open journal Cureus, titled “Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl.”
image 8.png
McCullough is looking into bird flu, and not liking what he’s seeing. A couple days ago, he described his study’s conclusion on Twitter/X:
Our new study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 “Bird Flu” Clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Before the pandemic, highly credentialed Dr. McCullough was a busy clinical cardiologist, researcher, and prolific study author. But the pandemic transformed him into one of the most prominent and influential vaccine critics and heterodox thinkers.
image 24.png
Now, he’s disassembling their silly bird flu narrative in an explosive study that properly cited virologist Geert Vanden Bossche.
McCullough’s study persuasively argued that two research labs, one in Athens, Georiga, and one in the Netherlands, caused the current bird flu ‘pandemic.’ Both labs have long been engaged in gain of function research on bird flu. So McCullough and his team mapped the spread of the current epidemic, and found geographic evidence of spread from the two labs.
image 9.png
They pulled the wool over our eyes with covid by hiding it’s lab origins until it was too late. This time, Dr. McCullough isn’t letting them get away with it. If they want to fire up a bird flu pandemic this year, the discussion will include the virus’s origins from day one.”
AND
“Another narrative-busting study published in February in the journal Frontiers in Immunology titled, “Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19.” Joining the steady drip of many other troubling findings about the jabs, this one found vaccinated patients were more likely to have severe covid outcomes than were unvaccinated patients.”
More on both at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/bagging-it-sunday-june-9-2024-c-and?
00
Two former IDF soldiers give testimony as members of “Breaking the Silence”.
Some of it related to their service, e.g. a sniping operation called the “straw widow”; some of it more recent testimony as eye witnesses in the West Bank.
They spoke to American journalist, Amy Goodman:
Transcription here: Part One | democracynow.org
And here: Part Two | democracynow.org
21
FWIW – first bird flu
“Someday soon they’ll regret activating all these professionals who used to mind their own business. Dr. Peter McCullough and friends published a new study about the origins of bird flu this week in the open journal Cureus, titled “Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl.” “
“McCullough is looking into bird flu, and not liking what he’s seeing. A couple days ago, he described his study’s conclusion on Twitter/X:
Our new study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 “Bird Flu” Clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
McCullough’s study persuasively argued that two research labs, one in Athens, Georiga, and one in the Netherlands, caused the current bird flu ‘pandemic.’ Both labs have long been engaged in gain of function research on bird flu. So McCullough and his team mapped the spread of the current epidemic, and found geographic evidence of spread from the two labs.”
“They pulled the wool over our eyes with covid by hiding it’s lab origins until it was too late. This time, Dr. McCullough isn’t letting them get away with it. If they want to fire up a bird flu pandemic this year, the discussion will include the virus’s origins from day one. “
And covid jabs
“Another narrative-busting study published in February in the journal Frontiers in Immunology titled, “Brief research report: impact of vaccination on antibody responses and mortality from severe COVID-19.” Joining the steady drip of many other troubling findings about the jabs, this one found vaccinated patients were more likely to have severe covid outcomes than were unvaccinated patients. “
More on both at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/bagging-it-sunday-june-9-2024-c-and?
70
The other Pandemic was probably running for sometime.
The pandemic Bird Flu doesn’t need Trypsin.
Treatment with Exogenous Trypsin Expands In Vitro Cellular Tropism of the Avian Coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus
10
The censorship on even Sky highlights how bad journalism has gotten. This comment on Costello’s hip and shoulder got rejected.
140
Well, they might not agree with it, but it is a reasonable comment and I do not understand why they would reject it, especially on Sky.
61
Bad policy, leads to more bad policy. The reason environmentalism makes bad decisions is because it starts from a poor fundamental. It believes nature is static and linear. Popularly called “fragile and delicate” – recently given air by the death of the NASA astronaut who took the photo of earth.
And so Net Zero policy is a poor fundamental and gives birth to the Liberal Party pursuing nuclear energy. I saw some woman Lib “if we are to get to net zero nuclear has to be included”. Which of course is bowing to the narrative Australia must not use coal – the absurdist of absurd decisions.
It is no accident that a leader of Australia’s nuclear energy movement is a school child, our very own reverse Gretta. We live in a world with children suggesting policy and the adults being capable of no better thinking. One poor decision leading to another.
Reminds me of my dating career, where we all know what causes infantile thinking.
70
And by the way, what was that 90 year old astronaut doing flying acrobatics anyway? Im assuming this was an act of going out one’s own way. Or did the ticker stop while he was pulling g forces? Strange, I didn’t realise 90 year olds would qualify for a license to fly in the first place.
70
What age would you suggest equals incompetence?
He probably had conditions on his licence. You dont have to pull high G’s to do basic aerobatics.
Flying solo and doing basic aeros doesnt seem out of order
50
Hey hey hey, as an almost octogenarian I still engage / indulge in the fantasy world of my youth. I climb trees to prune them, I clean my own house gutters from up the ladder,
worried the bejesus out of a grandkid by walking over a gully on a fallen tree, walk the dog remotely on my own etc. I know that these “practices” are generally frowned upon and all of the supposed advise proffered by alledgedly concerned and well meaning authorities is “for my own good” however, thank you for your concern, now get out of my life and let me be me. When I come to grief, and this will surely happen one way or another, I can truely say no regrets.
Until then FOREVER YOUNG!
70
Perhaps Dr Michael Moseley thought the same, at only 67. Mad dogs and Englishmen ……….. Very sad though.
10
The Cold Wars (Almost) No One Wants
The Push For A New Cold War
As we mentioned in a post last week (“Stopping The Sleep Walk Into World War III”), Western leaders have been increasingly hawkish toward Russia.
To the extent that there’s been some pushback from the foreign policy establishment, it hasn’t been against continuing a new cold war against Russia, but on fomenting one with China.
See, for example, this recent post by former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby,
Or this one, by Vienna-based strategist Velina Tchakarova.
Ms. Tchakarova didn’t answer that question about why the West needs to have a new cold war against Russia and China, probably because there is no good reason for why we should have one, and plenty of good reasons for why we shouldn’t, such as:
1. Unlike the Soviet Union, neither Russia nor China is trying to spread a hostile ideology like communism, or starting proxy wars against us. In fact, the opposite had been the case until recently, with Russia trying (unsuccessfully) to join NATO and (successfully, for a time) to join the G-7, and China seeking to increase trade with the U.S. and Europe.
2. A cold war would be a huge waste of resources, and with our current debt levels, we probably couldn’t pay for it without causing even higher inflation.
3. Cold wars can turn into hot wars, and we are not in any shape to fight a hot war against Russia or China, let alone both.
I’m aware of America’s Taiwan policy, but it’s not the ‘90s anymore. The U.S. Navy is gay,
In addition to the weaknesses of the U.S. Navy, which hasn’t fought a peer competitor since World War II, there is the industrial strength of China, which reportedly has automated factories that can produce a thousand anti-ship missiles per day.
Even if the Chinese are exaggerating there a bit, they can almost certainly manufacture anti-ship missiles faster than we can manufacture ships.
And of course, direct conventional war with China or Russia could lead to the ultimate disaster, nuclear war.
– The West’s Citizens Don’t Want It
– Why The Push For A New Cold War?
70
The Bidens Are A Horrible Bunch Of People
History is full of horrible, evil people – Charles Manson, Ad@lf H@tler, Hillary Clinton – but only one of them comes from a family completely devoid of any members with any redeeming qualities. While that may seem a bit harsh on Chelsea, the truth often is harsh.
With that in mind, we have to acknowledge the unvarnished truth that atop that list is the Biden family.
Is there anyone in that family who isn’t repugnant?
The only people associated with the family who run risk of not being total sleaze, and therefore run risk of having any redeeming qualities are the two women who are disconnected, maybe even excommunicated from it: Hunter’s ex-wife and his youngest illegitimate child.
Those two just so happen to be the ones the rest of the family seeming hold in contempt.
Joe showered with their daughter well past whatever very young age that might have been considered appropriate, which screwed her up to the point that she had her own addiction issues, not to mention how disgusting that is
Hunter used his young cousin to try to procure womenas much as 25 years younger than he is to “get over” losing his sister-in-law, the one he got hooked on crack and cheated on constantly, including impregnating a stripper and denying paternity for as long as it was humanly possible.
Then Hunter fought to prevent that child from getting his last name, which is probably the best thing to happen to her in her short life, so far.
This family is sick, this family is perverted – I give you my word as a Biden, the family is scum.
190
You know it’s bad when…Politico Nukes ‘Biden Business Dealings’ Lie
While President Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted he has nothing to do with his family’s business dealings – going so far as to say he’s never so much as discussed them with relatives, a new report from Politico completely destroys that lie.
“I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period,” said Biden.
“And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private [business interests] and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I’m going to propose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.”
As Politico notes, Joe Biden’s political journey, stretching back to his first Senate bid, has always been a family affair.
His first campaign was significantly supported by his family, setting a precedent for how his personal and professional lives would intertwine.
Throughout his career, Biden’s relatives have not only been a staple in his campaigns but have also engaged in business ventures that at times involved his political patrons, converting some business partners into campaign supporters.
This longstanding blend of family, business, and politics has made it an absurd notion that Biden has distanced himself from the actions and ventures of his relatives, particularly his son Hunter Biden and his brother Jim Biden, whose foreign business dealings have been a continual source of controversy.
Meanwhile…
130
From the Comments
– They’re bailing on him before the Convention.
Who is gonna be the new standard bearer ?
– Big Mike
– Martin Armstrong said in an interview yesterday that it will be Hillary and not Newsom or BIG Mike.
– Hillary is DONE! Even rabid feminists have abandoned her. E-mails, Uranium One, Russian collusion, Haiti, Clinton Foundation….and that is disregarding all her Arkansas (Arkancide) indiscretions.
– Gayin Newsom is the only name they’ve been exploring and name dropping. I don’t think we will have an election at this point. They will pull the WWIII card and avian STD’s. Martial Law. It’s all set up. Chinese operatives everywhere for sabotage operations. Antifa and blacks will use violence to encite whites. FBI and their crisis actors massacre non-existent kids in half a dozen buildings over a few weeks.
90
Ozzie,
RFK is the one and Gavin Newsome is the stalking horse for the democrats . RFK is the least crazy of their group . Thats not a recommendation by the way….
60
Hunter Biden’s trial is just a political ploy to protect Joe — and the compromised DOJ
Benjamin Weingarten
Don’t see the Hunter Biden gun case as an effort to hold the president’s prodigal son to account, but as a political maneuver aimed at protecting the prosecutors, perhaps the defendant, and certainly his father.
This sideshow diverts the public’s gaze from far larger corruption:
Felony gun charges are piddling when weighed against the selling out of our country, not to mention the leverage Hunter’s dubious dealings and debauchery might have provided our enemies in the way of kompromat.
The pending Los Angeles case against Hunter Biden is only slightly less deceptive.
It at least deals with alleged financial crimes stemming from his work in the Biden “family business” monetizing his father’s name, including at the tail end of Joe’s vice presidency.
But the indictment never makes reference to that name. And prosecutors further distract from the underlying corruption by focusing, in great detail, on Hunter’s lavish spending on escorts and exotic cars.
The real story of Hunter Biden’s legal troubles isn’t about sex, guns, drugs or even taxes.
Rather, it’s about the now-First Family’s global international influence peddling operation — and a government-wide effort to cover it up.
From the Comments
– Did you know that Hunter and Joe Biden were both born under the same sign?
What Sign?
FOR SALE
160
AG Merrick Garland deserves impeachment for politicizing the Justice Department
David Harsanyi
Merrick Garland is no “by-the-book” attorney general.
Even now, Garland is refusing to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur over the president’s hoarding of classified documents, despite a congressional subpoena.
As the Department of Justice stonewalls Congress, it is also prosecuting the Republican Party’s presidential candidate for the very crimes the Hur tape supposedly “exonerates” Biden from.
Considering the Hur transcript has already been released — and we know that Biden lied about it — there is even less justification for withholding the audio.
And considering the DOJ has apparently cleaned up all the “uhs” and “ohs” and garbled words in the transcript, the tape would likely further cement the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Withholding the audio is obviously politically motivated.
Which is unsurprising, since Garland has been one of the most partisan AGs in memory.
While Garland was raiding Trump’s home over a classified document dispute, he was letting the statute of limitations on the foreign influence-peddling by Biden’s family run out.
While left-wing pro-H@mas protesters were rioting and targeting J@ws, Garland was still fearmongering over the coming MAGA extremist revolution, inflating the threat with bogus statistics.
While Garland did nothing to stop the illegal picketing at the homes of Supreme Court justices and attempting to intimidate them and influence cases — not even after an assassin targeted Brett Kavanaugh — he did deploy armed teams to raid the homes of pro-life families and prosecute elderly anti-abortion protesters for praying in front of “clinics.”
80
Check out “marcopolousa” for a completely downloadable copy of “The Report on the Biden Laptop”This is all the info on the infamous “Laptop From Hell” now confirmed as genuine with info on the Biden family (All with references)that will make your hair curl!
50
This video is too long and too depressing to watch it all but maybe a little bit is a must.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdkeWo6814
10
OldOzzie,
That journalist our age and experienced named Tony Thomas has written a new compendium of President Biden’s reported strange acts including sexual.
Tony is an excellent writer – See it in today’s Quadrant Online. Geoff S
10
Based El Loco: Javier Milei Shutters Argentina’s Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity
Just six months into his term, we’re running out of accolades for Argentinian President Javier ‘ El Loco’ Milei, but as long as he keeps governing the way he campaigned — a.k.a, by taking a chainsaw to wasteful and pointless government agencies — we’ll keep a Thesaurus handy to congratulate him even more.
In March, Milei announced plans to fire 70,000 government workers. By April, he had already fired more than 24,000, and all recent signs indicate that he has every intention of following through on his promise.
The latest agency to feel the chainsaw’s cut? Argentina’s Ministry of Women, Genders, and Diversity.
100
I suspect the libs are getting ready for a bait and switch on nuclear power, they will go to elections hand on heart about it then when the pushback gets terminal they’ll say ok, HELE it is then and we get clean reliable 24/7 power.
40
I have considered that, but I doubt they are that smart. But you’ve got to have some hope.
50
Philip,
Most people I have met who dislike greens say they might be dumb, but they are cunning. Geoff S
00
The Lowy Institute’s annual poll has found 60% of the electorate is supportive of Australia using nuclear power to generate electricity.
‘ … HELE it is then …’
Only if the people can be snapped out of their malaise, we know that CO2 does not cause global warming, but they don’t.
71
Ronin,
I hope not. The Feds are utterly incompetent. In any case, where would they build a power station? Some army base?
The Feds are presently interfering in electricity in three ways:
1. They bought the Snowy scheme, then pretended to privatise it as Snowy Hydro (100% government owned, but unaccountable)
2. They created the AEMO and the phony market it operates, and all the mandated renewable rubbish
3. They have a nationwide ban on nuclear power.
Firstly, they should reverse #3 so that nuclear power stations *can* be built in the states. That’s what I imagine the Libs are talking about.
In my dreams, they would also abolish #2 and let the states get back to dealing electricity amongst themselves.
As for #1, the pig’s ear they’ve made of Snowy Hydro 2 might give an idea how good a federally run HELE power station would be. They should sell Snowy Hydro back to NSW/Vic again.
110
Robert
Did you pick up on my late link of Chiefio on System D back a few days?
10
another ian,
Yes I did, and responded. I was fairly blunt, so won’t link to it. It was in last Wednesday’s thread if you want to read it.
What irked me wasn’t what you said at JoNova’s, it was what you did at chiefio: calling in the cavalry is a bad look. They’d have been disappointed if they’d taken up your invitation; I would have agreed with them: systemd has harmed Linux, but Windows is still far worse. It could be a reason to take FreeBSD ahead of Linux, but it’s no reason at all to stick with Windows.
40
Morrison grabbed a small chunk of the Snowy 2 so that he could build a gas fired power station in the Hunter Valley. There have been cost over runs, but that is par for the course.
I imagine they will have to snaffle the rest of the Snowy monies, to build a few more government owned gas fired power plants to stabilise renewables.
The road ahead on nuclear power, there will have to be a referendum to change the Constitution, which would obviously come after the election.
If in the affirmative, then many years of planning is required and by then global warming alarmism might have evaporated, so they might stick with gas and renewables until they build Hele plants.
51
My understanding is that the ban on nuclear was an act of Parliament instituted by Howard (I think) in order to get the Green’s vote in the Senate on something else.
No Constitutional vote required to negate it, but it will be very hard to get it through the Senate, unless Dutton can get all the independents on side.
80
Thanks Peter, should be an easier run than a referendum.
61
Also worth noting that the states and territories have their own laws. We have a lot of uranium going unsold.
‘Uranium is the only mineral that is subject to different policies in different states. Currently, uranium exploration and mining is allowed only in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. Exploration for uranium is allowed in Queensland and New South Wales, but not mining.
‘Western Australia, which opened up to uranium mining in 2008, has now implemented a ‘no uranium’ condition on future mining leases, permitting only the four previously approved projects to proceed. Bizarrely, it states in a government-issued fact sheet ‘the State Government would prefer that no uranium is mined in the State’. (The Strategist)
30
el+gordo,
You mean change the Australian Constitution? I am unaware that it mentions nuclear power, so do you mean a Referendum to decide if States can be taken out of the process?
A previous start to a reactor at Jervis Bay did not need a Referendum, IIRC. Geoff S
20
Top End feels the chill, with barely a hint of an anomaly, the cause and effect, so he reminds us that its bushfire season up north.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/teethchattering-temps-in-the-nt/1889512
51
Cold mornings is normal for the NT. Mango flowers wont set without cold temps.
50
Continentality during the Southern Hemisphere winter is normal and a strong blocking high pressure is behind it.
21
Thanks to Senator Gerard Rennick for posting about this:
161
Following on from claims of Native American kids mass graves and Aboriginal kids graves in the grounds of care facilities, the ABC creates the latest revelation featuring all the usual suspects.
70
the daily dose of anti-white propaganda. No mention of the plight of Captain Cook when he visited their lands?
50
EV Mandates Are Killing Affordable Cars
According to data from Cox Automotive, the average cost of a new car in the United States as of May 2024 was $47,433 – well out of the price range of most Americans and up more than $10,000 from just four years ago.
One big reason for the jump and the sudden extinction of affordable cars is President Joe Biden’s climate policies and electric vehicle (EV) mandate.
The Biden administration has made it clear that, if it has its way, the future of personal transportation in America will be “electric or bust.”
In March of this year, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized regulations that will require two-thirds of all new car sales to be EVs or hybrids by 2032 – just eight years away. In 2023, just eight percent of new car sales were electric, even with generous government subsidies.
As The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board put it shortly after the new rule went into effect, “This is a coerced phase-out of gas-powered cars.” Though the final rule is somewhat less extreme than the original draft rule, the Editorial Board wrote, it is merely a “delay in execution” for the U.S. auto industry.
Additionally, as part of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress allocated $7.5 billion for the creation of new EV charging stations. (Notably, despite promising 500,000 charge stations, less than 10 have actually been constructed two years later.) The IRA also extended a $7,500 tax credit for “new clean electric vehicles” in the hope of making the expensive cars more appealing to consumers.
But at about $50,000 on average, EVs are still more expensive than gas cars, and 46 percent of Americans say they have no intention of ever purchasing one.
This has created an impossible situation for automakers. In pursuit of its “green revolution,” the Biden administration has essentially forced car manufacturers to invest all of their time and capital in developing electric vehicles that most Americans either can’t afford or simply don’t want.
As a result, carmakers are taking huge losses on their EV lines. Ford lost $4.7 billion on its EV business in 2023. GM lost $2.5 billion. On average, car companies lost about $6,000 on every EV they sold last year.
In order to offset these losses, manufacturers have been forced to increase prices for traditional gas-powered vehicles – essentially eliminating affordable cars. Just five years ago, consumers could choose from a half dozen new cars under $20,000. There’s now just one: the Mitsubishi Mirage. And it, too, appears headed for the scrapyard.
To put it another way, gas-powered car buyers, who are mostly lower middle- and working-class, are paying more for their vehicles to subsidize the EVs purchased by mostly upper-middle class and wealthy elites.
70
Every cloud has a silver lining – the USA is becoming the next Cuba
American cars were imported into Cuba for about 50 years, beginning near the early 20th century. After the Cuban Revolution, the U.S. embargo was erected and Castro banned the importation of American cars and mechanical parts. That’s why Cuba is the way it is today—essentially a living museum for classic cars.
60
Not sure how that would work as they are very dependent on OEM and cheap aftermarket parts from the country they are intent on warring with and from the region that war would be fought in. Hopefully non of that happens.
10
Just keep rebuilding real cars.
00
Would be a Great Proposal from Liberals – All Parents get a same value School Voucher to be psent at the School of their Choice – Public or Private
After Texas Win, School-Choice Groups Eye Other Red States
The political ground shifted in Texas last week, and the impact of the electoral shakeup could send aftershocks across the nation for months, if not years, to come.
A wave of Republican incumbents fell to conservative challengers in the Texas House in last week’s primary run-offs, turning an already red legislature crimson and threatening the state House GOP leader’s hold on power. Those who helped lead the intra-party Texas fight now have their sights set on defeating centrist Republicans in other red states, including Tennessee, Georgia, Idaho, and South Carolina.
A concerted joint effort by Gov. Greg Abbott, outside groups, and a deep-pocketed donor flipped the seats of 14 Republicans who had opposed Abbott’s school-choice measure – a state record.
Abbott’s effort to pass school choice died last fall when 21 House Republicans – mostly from rural districts – voted to strip a voucher program out of a larger education bill. Of those 21 voucher opponents, 15 now aren’t returning. The coalition defeated six GOP incumbents in March, then three more in last week’s run-offs. Additionally, the group filled four of the five retiring Republican seats with voucher supporters, and then a voucher backer won a special election run-off.
Those issues all played out in the election, but school choice was far and away the most lethal campaign issue across the Lone Star state. Its impact was especially potent considering the totality of political spending and blitz of advertisements focused on school vouchers and related issues dominating the Texas airwaves and inundating inboxes.
In response to a ballot question in 2022, 88% of GOP primary voters indicated that they support parents’ “right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student.”
70
FT – Trump kicks off Silicon Valley charm offensive with sold-out fundraiser
Republican presidential candidate raises $12mn in Democratic stronghold
From the Comments
– Neo-cons like Nuland, Kagan, Boot and Crystal will always be pushing the angle of “Democracy”.
After Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yugoslovia and now Ukraine, it’s getting really old.
Ukraine is not a democracy in any sense of the word.
Zelensky’s tired act of dressing like a street bum is not hiding the fact that he has not called elections in 5 years, as he is required by law, he has consolidated control of the entire media with no critical voice, he has removed all political opposition and Ukrainian corruption runs deeper than the ocean.
Once the war is over and nothing is left of Ukraine, and we have fought Russia to the last Ukrainian, we’ll see Zelensky and his entertainment business buddies and donors ensconced in the Mediterranean with taxpayer millions.
90
FWIW
“L A Times Editorial on How to Fight “Skyrocketing Electric Bills” Conceals Hugely Failed California Government Electricity Market Debacles”
A check list of “What not to do”?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/08/l-a-times-editorial-on-how-to-fight-skyrocketing-electric-bills-conceals-hugely-failed-california-government-electricity-market-debacles/
30
Monday satire: Do the Biden!
A new dance trend has emerged that not only mocks but also painfully underscores the ineptitude and lack of leadership of Joe Biden.
Joe Biden once again reminded the world how mentally and physically unfit he is for office by randomly crouching down during war celebrations in France.
Appearing at the D-Day 80th anniversary celebrations with French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden began hunching over awkwardly. Jill Biden and Brigitte Macron looked on in confusion as the 81-year-old continued embarrassing himself on the world stage.
This embarrassing episode has now sparked an unlikely trend on social media, leading to the creation of a new dance craze called “Do the Biden!”
The dance mimics Biden’s hunched posture during the incident by slightly bending the knees and tensing the body, as if on the verge of a bathroom emergency, all while looking confused.
https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1799611291595895126
Mop and bucket on standby for Biden! 😆😆
40
BBC Journalist – Thick as Bricks – Apologies for Insulting Bricks!
@BBC
journalist asks why Israel didn’t warn Palestinians ahead of the rescue operation 👇
Kudos to @jconricus
for keeping his composure and not bursting in laughter 👏
81
Why modern women will die alone
https://youtu.be/4GO082h2pZQ?si=VZEHw5DgM_sgsl90
A continuation of previous commentary…
Women readers here – what do you say about this?
We guys would love to know.😁
50
never seen his channel before. Surprises me these australians who have big accounts from just commenting on things in front of a camera. He’d be earning some income from that many subscribers.
20
– Well, I do my best to keep my bloke healthy ……good food, vitamin supplements, and encouragement of long walks. Mind you, he does a lot of physical work on the farm. But I really believe that many men are neglectful of their health as they age.
50
Hear hear Vicki, same here, though not the long walks but with plenty to do here and he still is involved with the local parish, taking services.
20
Just more culture wars being foisted upon us as distraction. With the weird ‘Death is preventable’ sub-text.
I think instead of worrying about all this, people got to start asking questions about who controls all the resources and why – while getting on and enjoying life in this amazing place – there is nothing out there that is causing ‘more death’, whatever our differences, we still all only get one.
30
John,
Its all about “feelings” and “emotions” . Reality doesn’t kick in until maturity. Thats happening a lot later now and in some cases avoided completely as accountability is absent .
40
A little bit of science.
I was amazed yesterday to have to explain to a group why melting ice does not produce a rise in sea level.
So here it is.
_________
Archimedes (You remember, Eureka. I think his wife said it. Which explains why he had the bath)
said
The lift (buoyancy) is equal to the weight of water displaced
Total ice block weight doesn’t change on freezing or melting. So the uplift is the same as the weight at all times.
So the volume in the water is unchanged.
__________________________
Of course ice is less dense so the weight under the water decreases and the missing weight is now above the water. The centre of gravity does move up slightly.
With a density of 0.91 you get 91% of the ice under the water and 9% above.
The rule is that the space occupied in the water is constant during freezing or melting as both buoyancy and weight are unchanged, equal and opposite. Newton’s first law. Forces must be equal and opposite if a body is not moving. Buoyancy = weight.
100
And I proposed that if the sea ice melted even for a few months at the North Pole, it would be great for shipping. Panama is under drought and the Suez is under constant attack. This is a huge cost to the world, especially for Australia. Access to the UK, Europe and Eastern Europe is in serious trouble. Also the route would be much faster and thus cheaper.
10
And it could halve the shipping distance from China/Japan/Korea/Asia generally to UK/Europe without a single bottleneck, delay or extra expense. Currently ships have to sail to the equator first and past many countries.
But sadly despite the alarmists promises a summer free North Pole does not look like a possibility in another lifetime.
80
There are hundreds of cartoons:
https://easyscienceforkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/archimedes_Eureka-1024×917.jpg
20
That’s the dumbed-down education/ indoctrination system for you.
60
This was not a young group. All at doctorate or doctor level. They just had not thought about it, which is how the scare works. When an authority tells you something, you assume they are not lying. Medical doctors in particular are trained to believe everything they are told. That’s how education works. Pilots and engineers too. The last thing you want in a pilot is a hardened skeptic.
50
“The last thing you want in a pilot is a hardened skeptic.”
No no! The FIRST thing I want is a pilot who is a hardened skeptic! The book-learners are fine until something goes wrong..
10
TdeF,
You are right but ice that is on land doesn’t displace water and will add to the oceans volume and water is essentially self levelling . This is what drives the water level falls in an ice age (but in reverse). As we are in an interglacial period there is relatively little ice and water levels are relatively stable . Just sayin…
20
True, theoretically. Ice on land will make a difference. But it is negligible.
As I have seen in America, Canada, Northern Europe, Siberia areas covered in metres of snow (and 6″ of snow = 1″ of water) melt every year. The rivers run, flood all to the oceans, often southern oceans. And the sea level does not change noticeably. Even in the Baltic which is nearly closed and low salt. No one drowns in Stockholm or Glasgow or New York in the spring thaw. And areas which were all white and cars are buried are suddenly green and lush. In Siberia the only clue I saw in summer were the young tall saplings bent double as if trying grow back into the ground. It was weird that they were recently heavily laden by snow and had yet to spring back. And the whole place comes alive as all the animals, fish, birds head north to endless sunshine and rapid growth.
My rationale is that most snow and ice is areas much higher than 40N degrees apart from mountain areas. And in the Southern Hemisphere such land doesn’t exist. There is no spring thaw. Antarctica only reaches -25C anyway except at the tip of the peninsula which nearly reaches South America, missing Chile by only 600km.
At the North Pole, the temperature can get to 23C. And 37C has been reached in areas inside the Arctic circle. You would expect a problem but the rivers often run to the South and the total amount of snow and ice is negligible, comparable to a small wave, especially as it take weeks to happen. A lot of North American snow ends up in the Mississippi which floods but I expect the tides are much more significant than melted ice and snow. And the melting North Pole ice cap is only 4 metres thick on average over an ocean 4km deep. It’s not much water on a global scale.
60
As a quick calculation the North Pole ice cap is at most 12 Million km2, average 2-3 metres thick including the 90% already under the water, so 0.3metres above the water. Which is why Russian icebreakers can sail to the North Pole any time.
This amount of ice as water is 12/361*300 mm= 10mm distributed. But in fact it would mean less than 1mm as when melted the only reason for any rise is the salinity of the ocean against fresh water in ice.
60
TdeF,
The current ice levels on earth are relatively stable contrary to the climate change mob. The ice at the poles has an annual cycle which varies but long term changes are small . If the “real science” is right the long term prognosis is more rather than less ice . We had huge amounts of ice on land during the ice age but thats mostly gone now . Glaciers are remnants . The North Pole as you stated is all ice but Antarctica is not . Antarctica has volcanos which factor into how much ice it has and both poles provide icebergs which reduce their ice loads even if they don’t contribute to water levels .
10
“The North Pole as you stated is all ice but Antarctica is not . ”
I know what you are saying but this is not right. Antarctica has mountain ranges and higher peaks than the continental USA, but the average height is 3500 metres and it’s largely solid ice and growing. As the ocean average is also 3500 metre deep it is an iceblock, an ocean on land about the size of South America. Which is one good reason it is so cold as the air cools about 1C for every 150 metres, which is about -20C cooler at the top, on average.
So winter is -50C and summer is -25C. And you are right about active volcanoes under the Western edge where areas of water are still liquid from the heat.
Icebergs the size of Manhattan peel off. But they are at least 1,000km from the pole. And you expect that because of the taper, so the ice keeps pushing outwards and calving. But they are nothing compared with two Australias in solid ice about 2 two miles high.
10
TdeF,
So… if Antarctic ice cover melted (which it won’t) sea levels would not rise ?
00
If the frozen ocean on land which is Antarctica melted, which is not going to happen in anyone’s wildest dreams, it would wipe out a lot of civilization.
Antarctica 14 million km2
World oceans 361 million km2
So the water would rise 140 metres (3,500 metres *14/361 = 140 metres. 400′
A lot of the major cities of the world on the coast and on coastal rivers would be underwater. London for example is 24 metres out of the water.
And most coastal cities would be under water but not continents. Europe average 447metres. America 763 metres. Australia 330metres Japan 380 metres. Russia 600 metres Africa 670 metres.
And vastly populated deltas like Egypt, Amazon, Bangladesh, Jakarta would be drowned.
But there would be ocean side living in the most unexpected places.
However that is going to take a lot more than a few degrees of air temperature. 99.9% of the surface heat is in the oceans not the air. And we are talking of a few degrees of air temperature, not water temperature. And in summer in Antarctica, the temperature only reaches -25C. (Inside the Antarctic circle, not the Antarctic peninsula which nearly reaches Chile)
10
Tonight their ABC 4 Corners will highlight how a lefty Green and a conservative MP have joined forces to oppose toxic, super expensive, unreliable so called renewables in Qld.
The meeting in Gladstone strongly supports more Coal power stns and also endorses Nuclear power.
The Green bloke has been interviewed a couple of times by Andrew Bolt and he’s already stopped another Wind farm in far Nth Qld. Here’s the link and 4 Corners is 8.30 pm tonight and 11 am repeat tomorrow.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/renewable-energy-projects-wind-farm-face-opposition-four-corners/103951940
50
Even the founder of the Australian Greens is now against wind farms!
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-calamity-bob-brown-angry-after-robbins-island-wind-farm-shut-down-order-overturned/
The Australian Greens have morphed into the Islamic Party of Australia and are out to destroy the rest of us!
10
Renewables receive a number of subsidies and regulatory benefits.
Regarding regulatory. Power retailers are forced to buy increasing amounts of renewables energy, bypassing the need for renewables to bid into the nem. Not that they could. There is also the requirement to purchase LSGRECs. Distant renewable generators get to socialise transmission costs via distribution regulation. They get ro rip up 500km of bush when a farmer can’t clear a field. The list goes on.
90
How can Andrews (and others) get a King’s Birthday Honour when he basically destroyed the state of Victoria and made in the laughing stock of the entire world?
It proves the awards are basically meaningless.
SEE LINK FOR REST
100
It’s a purely political move. Nothing to do with the truth. Queens honours have been replaced with local politics. It is exactly what would happen with a politicians Republic. They would all hand awards to each other. Not that that didn’t happen before. Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen and his farming friends, for example.
You can see this in most Australian towns, especially in Melbourne. Go to the war memorial. On one side are the name of very young people who gave their lives for their country and their beliefs. On the other side the councillors who stayed home and erected the monument.
90
No DM, you should wish him well.
Please consult the following arm wave chart and select the appropriate arm position.
https://imgbox.com/8kOg3H4y
😆
20
Thanks for the armchart.
It just occurred to me that’s why the Nazi salute was recently banned – to preemptively cancel its inevitable deployment as mockery directed towards the dictators Andrews & Albo.
30
Do not forget this evil bastard ran down a teenage bicylist when pissed and lied about it.
30
Kings Birthday Honours is like the Nobel Prize, virtually worthless.
30
I thought the cash that goes with the Nobel – the real one – was worth about 800,000.
Not sure now if that’s £ or $ – but that sort of number.
Auto
00
BTW here’s a recent Sky News interview with state QLD MP Colin Boyce as he tries to warn us about the lunacy of toxic W & S.
He’ll be on 4 Corners tonight and this interview is brief but informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSu_AU73Ho
50
Colin Boyce is correct that wasting 8 billion $ on BILLIONAIRES’ wet dreams is the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time.
You’d think even the Twiggy donkey would be ashamed to touch such a handout. We have to vote out these Labor and Greens con merchants and liars before they destroy our environments, jobs and prosperity.
80
not as simple as that. A big problem now is the Liberal voters who have turned Teal. We can have more hope perhaps in some Greens themselves waking up to the environmental destruction the WnS dream involves.
60
FWIW
“The German Trifecta of Failure – A saga of windpower madness”
https://youtu.be/BT3msy7nvFw
20
And this is from 5 years ago. It is most probably even worse now. Time to change direction.
Blackout Bonehead Bowen – Are you watching? Watch, listen and learn.
00
Monday lefty madness: queer time
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2024/06/she-has-queer-temporality.html
How long before all timepieces sold will be “normal” or “queer” time?
Someone make it all stop. Please! 😆
50
Sounds like a current Dr Who episode
10
Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement
An image, posted this week to a Facebook page called “Summer Vibes,” shows a smiling young woman with brunette hair. She’s dressed in Army fatigues — although, quizzically, she’s not wearing pants, and the mangled American flag patch on the arm of her jacket has only six stripes and zero stars. She’s white. She’s conventionally attractive. And crucially, this grinning young woman is seated in a wheelchair, implying that she’s an injured or disabled veteran.
“Please don’t swip [sic] up without giving some love,” reads the image’s garbled caption. “Without heroes,we [sic] are all plain people,and [sic] don’t know how far we can go.” The caption is then followed by a string of hashtags listing the names of famous actresses like Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox, and Jennifer Lopez (as well as Christian Bale and Chris Evans, for some reason.)
Needless to say, the woman isn’t real. She’s AI-generated, and to many, that’s obvious. In addition to the woefully incorrect American flag tacked onto the uniform, the last name that would normally appear on a soldier’s pocket is an illegible clump of blobs that, when zoomed out, gives off only the semblance of lettering. Her teeth, eyes, and ears are also blurry and uncanny, as are her poorly defined hands.
https://futurism.com/facebook-ai-image-disabled-veteran
Instantly obvious it’s AI generated, so it’s just low effort, disrespectful of real vets, FB garbage.
30
MAJOR: Russia Officially Becomes World’s 4th Largest Economy, Passing Japan
SIMPLICIUS JUN 10, 2024
Many will recall last year’s news that Russia had overtaken Germany for the 5th spot in GDP PPP. At the SPIEF, Putin announced that Russia has now officially surpassed Japan for the 4th spot, according to the World Bank:
But first a little background:
This may seem like old news, as people have posted Russia’s putative overtaking of Japan’s economy several months ago. However, there was much confusion as the source most used was a UK website called World Economics, which they conflated with the World Bank but which is in fact not an ‘official’ source of any kind.
What has happened now is that the World Bank announced last week that they have revised their GDP figures from 2021 onward, and in those revisions they have found that Russia had already surpassed Japan even as far back as 2021, and has continued pulling ahead up to now.
Here is their official release: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/05/30/global-purchasing-power-parities-data-released-for-2021
WASHINGTON, May 30, 2024 — New purchasing power parities (PPPs), which provide a standardized way to assess the relative buying power of different economies, were released today by the International Comparison Program (ICP) for the reference year 2021.
They have a variety of links to various charts and visualizations.
It goes on to anecdotally explain that many Russians earn up to a third of their salaries from off-the-books gray markets, with millions of ads for ‘unofficial’ services attesting to this.
That means Russia’s true concealed economic might may be even far higher and actually closer to that of India’s. I have already argued at length that Russia, being the most sanctioned and economically undermined and terrorized country on earth, via embargoes and outright industrial sabotage like the Nordstream attacks, may be underachieving—for now—while hiding a far more powerful economy than current records imply.
If you take away those artificial handicaps unfairly gimping Russia’s economy, then it is almost certain that Russia’s true unmeasured economic might is that of 3rd place behind China and the U.S.
It’s remarkable that even under unparalleled attack, Russia is able to command one of the fastest growing and most robust economies in the world.
Economist Stefan Demetz also correctly notes that Russia’s uniquely low debt structure and self-sufficiency in the form of trade surplus makes its economic value even higher than it seems:
World Bank recently reclassified PPP GDP data and Russia became 4th ahead of Japan and Germany.
But considering very low debt vs high reserve levels and self sufficiency on energy, food, military Russia looks better than these charts indicate.
50
There are many who doubt the significance of the PPP index as compared to nominal GDP, believing the inculcated Western lie that regular GDP is the ‘real one’ while PPP is just a ‘creative’ but ultimately spurious reformulation.
But that is far from the truth, at least when it comes to trade surplus countries, specifically: for them PPP is the real economic indicator.
That’s because nominal GDP is priced in dollars (USD) and therefore is only relevant if you primarily use those dollars to purchase things, which is what’s done by countries who do a lot of importing of their goods, since most goods on the world markets are bought in the global ‘reserve currency’ of the USD.
But Russia is a trade surplus, which means it exports far more than it imports.
It is self sufficient and doesn’t need to price much in dollars, but rather in its own currency.
When that is done, the “nominal” GDP priced in dollars becomes irrelevant and does not apply.
And the few things Russia does import, it now settles in other native currencies, like Yuan with China, etc. In short: for countries like Russia, GDP PPP is the only accurate measure of economic size and power, it is the nominal GDP which deceptively prices the target country’s economy in terms of a foreign currency (USD) that it doesn’t even use in its internal markets and which skews the numbers based on fluctuations of currency exchange valuations.
30
Obviously some calculate differently to The World Bank –
“Putin’s War, Week 119. What’s the Story on the Russian Economy?”
“Information is coming out that indicates the Russian economy, which is slightly smaller than New York’s, is not the vast powerhouse that its fluffers want you to believe. The GDP growth in Russia is strictly Keynesian. That is, the government is printing rubles to buy military equipment and supplies, and the civilian economy is in a steep decline. (Read the whole thread.)”
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/06/09/putins-war-week-119-n2174961
00
A “wartime economy” such as Russia’s can be mimiced here by a Gov. edict that we slash our neighbour’s tyres or smash his windows. The economic boost would be measurable but only a few would benefit. The poor would still be poor etc.
00
Notebook June 2024
Britain & the Middle East
by Jeremy Black
On misplaced blame for the region’s instability.
The battles for Gaza were tough and costly. It proved a difficult target, with the defenders well dug-in. It took three battles spread out over much of the year before the strip fell.
Is this 2023–24? No, 1917, with the attackers the British, advancing not from the direction of modern Israel, but from Egypt.
At present, Britain is blamed by Palestinian activists for having caused the current situation, and the British rule of the region now known as Israel from 1918 to 1948 was indeed eventually a period of grave difficulty.
But the impression now given by activists is seriously mistaken, for the rule of what was then called Palestine, under a League of Nations mandate, was not at all the British priority in the Middle East.
Instead, thoughts were always on Egypt, and British forces advanced into Palestine in World War I with the goal of protecting Egypt from Turkish attack, rather than in pursuit of some master plan for colonial expansion.
Egypt was crucial because of the geostrategic location of the Middle East.
For Britain, this was a matter of the route to India.
That had become more important as the British presence there dramatically increased from the late 1750s on, with Bengal effectively under British control from 1765, Mysore conquered at the end of the century, and the Marathas heavily defeated in 1803. The route to India was of central interest prior to the opening of the Suez Canal (built in 1859–69), with Britain’s first major position in the Arab world being Aden, occupied in 1839. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, an offensive explicitly launched as part of a plan to advance French interests in India, fired British concern, leading to a successful British counterinvasion in 1801 and the defeat of the French. A less successful intervention was launched in 1807, but in 1882, at Tel-El-Kebir, Garnet Wolseley inflicted a heavy defeat on the Egyptians, beginning a period of British control that lasted until the Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956, a step that led to the unsuccessful invasion of the Canal Zone by Britain and France later that year.
Compared to Egypt, Palestine was of minor consequence for Britain.
It was primarily a forward buffer. In the modern era, there was none of the emotional investment that had led Richard I and Edward I to campaign there during the Crusades.
The reason the reaction to the events of 2023 has been so different from reactions in the past essentially is the large number of M@slims who now live in Britain and their determination to take an activist stance.
This is very different in scale to previous displays of activism and makes us consider a political consequence of recent mass-migration. Instructively, the virulence and size of the current demonstrations is different to those occasioned by other instances in which M@slims have been persecuted, from Bosnia to Xinjiang.
In part, this contrast is a reflection of the salience of the issue, but it also has much to do with left-wing mobilization.
That a discussion of long-term British policies in the Middle East should end with the demonstrations in London in 2024 may appear presentist as well as problematic, mistaking the demonstrations of the minority for the views or engagement of the majority.
Certainly, there is no sign that the Israel issue trumps Britain’s strategic interests in the region, interests currently centered on following the American lead and furthering both the peace and stability of Britain’s allies.
How these will be advanced in the years to come is unclear.
Long and Interesting Article!
40
Palestinianism Began with Nazism And Today Is Based on Antisemitism, Sexism, Homophobia and Denial of Human Rights. So Why Is the Left So in Love with It?
by Alan M. Dershowitz
June 9, 2024
50
The West Keeps Rewarding the Terrorist Group Hamas
by Majid Rafizadeh
Spain, Ireland and Norway recently formally recognized Palestinian statehood…. It is unprecedented in world history for a terrorist group to attack another country, murder its people and take hostages, only to then be rewarded with a recognition of statehood – cordially facilitating its future actions, including against countries in Europe.
. We have already seen this April “thousands of protestors” in Germany demanding a Caliphate with sharia law.
. The West’s reward also sends a message that… the West will eagerly accept any antisocial behavior rather than stand up for the values of civilization that have defined it for centuries.
. The aim of anti-Israel protestors seems to be that stability can only be achieved after everyone has conceded to the terrorists’ demands. Sadly, many politicians, perhaps hoping for votes from wherever they can get them, might be only too happy to comply.
Perhaps Ireland, Norway and Spain would like to offer sanctuary to Gazans from Hamas?
“Consider the fact that no Arab or Muslim nation has been willing to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Perhaps these nations recall that anyone who has tried to help the Palestinians has lived to regret it.
[SNIP]
20
The toddler diplomats – Spain, Norway, and Ireland
Spain, Norway, and Ireland share some common experiences that may shed light on their Palestinian Arab advocacy and contempt for Israel.
Opinion. A.J. Caschetta – Jun 10, 2024,
When the governments of Spain, Norway, and Ireland together announced that they would recognize a state of “Palestine,” they assumed a responsibility as patrons to the putative 23rd Arab nation.
It was a bold move, but it was all for show.
They are out of their league and lack the ability to contribute in any meaningful way to the establishment of a new nation.
Spain can’t even find Spanish diplomats willing to live in Ramallah to staff its new embassy in the capital of “Palestine.”
Spain, Norway, and Ireland share some common experiences that may shed light on their Palestinian Arab advocacy and contempt for Israel.
Neutrality in the Face of Evil
All three were neutral in WWII.
10
Not Norway. Sweden next door was though.
00
Angus Hanton: Here’s How America Really Runs Britain (video)
10
RELEASE???????
Zoe Daniel MP (she/her)@zdaniel
Return of four Israeli hostages – statement
09 Jun 2024
We should all celebrate the release of the four Israeli hostages whose families have endured 8 months of terror and have now been reunited with their loved ones.
From the Comments
– This idiot can’t help herself.
Twists the facts to try to make HAMAS look like the good guys.
What a POS!
– All those years in journalism shine through, dont they?
– That’s an ABC level of accuracy.
– Rejoice Zoe…the scumbag Al Jezera journalist who was holding the Israeli girl hostage in his home is now chasing 72 virgins thanks to his termination by the IDF.
They killed the b*stard before he could “release” her.
20
Blaming Israel for Rescuing Its People
Opinion by The Editorial Board
It’s rare good news in a grinding war. On Saturday Israeli commandos rescued four hostages from two civilian buildings near the heart of Gaza’s Nuseirat market. It was a high-risk but well-planned and -executed mission that is a morale boost for Israelis.
Arnon Zamora was killed while leading the rescue mission at the head of his force. He will go down in history with Yoni Netanyahu, the fallen leader of Israel’s 1976 raid to free hostages in Entebbe, Uganda.
Noa Argamani, age 26, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, were all abducted during the music-festival massacre. A video showed Ms. Argamani begging for her life. Eight months later she heard a knock on the door: “It’s the IDF, we’ve come to rescue you.” She can now visit her terminally ill mother. Mr. Jan was mobbed on his return by friends chanting, “He is one of us, and we will never give him up,” a refrain of sports teammates now given new meaning. Mr. Jan’s father died hours before his son’s return.
The non-surprise is that professional anti-Israel voices, United Nations officials and the European Union foreign-policy chief rushed to attack Israel.
Egypt condemned the operation “in the strongest terms.” How dare Israel rescue its own citizens. Didn’t it know there would be casualties?
The BBC asked whether Israel gave a warning that the rescue raid was coming.
Seriously? A tip-off to terrorists?
Perhaps read them Miranda rights too.
Hamas started the war with a massacre, took these hostages and hid them in a crowded civilian area.
Then, when Israel came to free them, Hamas responded with heavy fire, including RPGs—yet people are condemning Israel. It makes us wonder if the West has lost the moral discernment and instinct for self-preservation needed to defend itself in a world of killers.
Hamas could not survive if not for its enablers around the world.
20
ava laugh: Biden Sticks It To Hillary Over Mexico’s New Woman President (video)
10
I’m at the supermarket in Melbourne, Sicktoria and most of the eggs are sold out.
They’re trying to frighten us into submission again with bird flu scary stories.
80
Quite a few people are wearing their obedience masks as well.
70
If only there was someone who could warn us of such events in advance. 😆
31
Bird flu hitting free range birds, the cage free wackers have done us no favours again.
The reason birds were caged originally was to get them off the dirt and to facilitate mass production.
51
We had some ‘egg lulls’ here in UK when they were locking up old fellas (just as COVID lockdowns finished) – even farmgate egg boxes were getting cleared out pretty early in the morning for a bit.
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/first-person-britain-catch-bird-6453804 I remember this breaking my heart that was pretty fragile at the time: “The past couple of weeks have been hell for this family. He saw all of his ducks killed, and they were like his closest friends. And now he is stuck at home on his own while tests are run to find out if he has the disease too – and we still haven’t had the result confirmed to us. “He is often on the phone to us, asking what the doctors have said – but we can’t answer questions we don’t know the answers to.”
Since then, I have noticed bottled egg white and egg yolk in a tube have appeared in supermarkets – I wonder if it was all marketing for these products – like they used lockdowns to market vaccines. Eggs are now plentiful, but up in price 25% ish. But I remain suspicious of what next for our eggs. Pickling in large jars – not able to keep chickens in current situation.
50
Coles supermarkets introduce temporary purchase limit on eggs
“Coles has introduced an almost nationwide purchase limit on eggs as shortages linked to bird flu disrupt the supermarket giant’s supply.”
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coles-supermarkets-introduces-nationwide-temporary-limit-on-egg-purchases-after-supply-disruptions-from-bird-flu-strain-outbreaks/e96ea939-8ff1-4661-840e-8c811bba3b2e
30
When you go to Coles and buy a cabbage, you have to buy a bottle of mayonnaise as well. It is called the new Coles Law 😉
10
Uganda’s surveillance state built on biometric ID program
The Ugandan government is using its national biometric ID program to crack down on its political opponents, a report revealed this week.
Uganda first established its National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) in 2014. The governmental body began issuing ID cards to citizens that tie their national identities to their fingerprints and digital footprints. Citizens are now required to use these IDs to vote, receive medical care, complete bank transactions, and even purchase mobile SIM cards.
Approximately 60% of Ugandans are enrolled in NIRA’s ID program, which was originally promoted by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni as a way “to identify criminals accurately and promptly.”
Nick Opiyo, a human rights lawyer in Uganda who has been persecuted for opposing the government, says there is “absolutely no due process” requirement that limits government access to citizens’ private data. Officials at various levels track citizens at will by accessing their biometric data.
“There is almost no confidentiality in my work anymore,” Opiyo told Bloomberg. “There’s pervasive fear and self-censorship.”
But it is not only officials who can access citizens’ biometric data. Sixty-seven private companies and government organizations can access the NIRA databases.
https://frontline.news/post/a-cautionary-tale-uganda-s-surveillance-state-built-on-biometric-id-program
No comment needed. 😎
30
FWIW
“How To Set Up As A Global Warming, Now Called “Climate Change”, Researcher”
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/how-to-set-up-as-a-global-warming
00
Former Chinese Soldiers Reveal Truth of Being Hired by Russia in Russia-Ukraine War (video)
00
American Prometheus Chained at Mar-A-Lago
From the moment he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in November 2015, Donald Trump challenged the Gods of Washington.
Oppenheimer, the 2024 Oscar winner for Best Picture, begins with a short but incomplete reference to the story of Prometheus.
[SNIP]
Giving fire brought Man light and knowledge from the darkness. Even though it was immensely helpful to the weak and powerless, it was a direct affront to the powerful. Only one with power could bring the Truth and the light, but in so doing, it exposed the sinful plan to keep Man in the dark. With his way illuminated, Man saw the false narrative of the Gods, the lies of equality of treatment, equality of protection of the law, and the lie that those in power function to give aid, not to strip dignity. Such an act needed to be severely penalized, as it was a crime that could never be forgiven.
From the moment he came down the escalator at Trump Tower in November 2015, Donald Trump challenged the Gods of Washington. He was, is and shall always remain a deadly threat to the entrenched slugs of both parties, who would rather stay in power than do what is right. His presence brought light to the darkness that consumed the country.
——
[SNIP. Please do not submit long excerpts unless they are creative commons and copyright free. – Jo]
20
Deadly covid vacc mandates still exist in Australia to this day.
A 17 year old girl who was denied a double lung transplant because she wasn’t covid vaxxed has died as a result of not getting the transplant.
This is evil.
https://informedchoice.substack.com/p/dazelle-has-passed-away-denied-a
70
Canberra’s “implementation guide” for a couple of years time?
“The Latest On The Federal War Against Internal Combustion Vehicles”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/09/the-latest-on-the-federal-war-against-internal-combustion-vehicles/
10
In comments there –
“A famous UK politician said on his death bed to a close friend, a basic truth, something all politicians must acknowledge, but they resist doing so.
“The people always win in the end” “
20
A lot of scary statements in that article..
50 mpg is approx 5.5 L/100 km
But many current cars can already achieve those consumption figures..?
10
This is why EV battery fires are so Dangerous (video)
20
Nigel Farage Wins UK General Election Debate (video)
30
Interview with Malcolm Turnbull on ABC 7:30 tonight.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/former-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull:-how-the/103961788
Fast forward to 5:35 to get the part about Renewables, 2030 CO2 reduction target. Seek to 7:05 to hear his rebuttal about nuclear power.
Note claim that nuclear does not deliver cheaper electricity. This claim about the cost is in contrast to the actual experience of Finland introducing nuclear power, as detailed by Nick Cater via Jo three weeks ago.
The claim that we don’t have a lot of time is also false. The year 2030 is an arbitrary human-made date. Nature does not run on our schedule and we don’t have any pressing problem from climate change with a 2030 deadline attached. We have time.
50
The Court Of Climate Nonsense (video)
30