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I have been prescribed Ivermectin (not for Covid-19). I made a point of asking if it was safe. Yes it’s absolutely safe they said. But what about side-effects? No, they said, there are no side-effects to worry about.
What has changed from before Covid-19? Nothing real, I suspect, just politics.
When is someone going to be prosecuted for what they did?
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Never.
The only ones that could prosecute is the ones what did the deed.
Your wish requires pre-industrial night vision devices and pronged manual hay redistribution implements.
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Tar and feathers works well too.
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It’s been a while since any politician or senior public serpent was tarred and feathered, and it shows…
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A “Fargo” for all of them?
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Several times over the last month I have expressed increasing concern over our over reliance on computers and the internet. The technology is often flaky and the risk of cyber hacking on a major scale seems ever more likely.
Major problem worldwide today with a security update-ironically.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13651875/Global-economy-crippled-digital-pandemic-Experts-fear-outage-grounded-planes-closed-shops-left-NHS-chaos-DAYS-Mercedes-F1-team-races-fix-issues-ahead-Hungarian-Grand-Prix.html
It seems that everyone wants to digitise everything even it is not needed. Quite apart from the huge amounts of energy needed it makes us so vulnerable
“The world will end, not with a bang but a cyber attack” as George Orwell nearly said.
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I do think that we are living in Orwellian times
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We are also living in times eerily similar to the end of the Western Roman Empire.
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Workaround steps from @CrowdStrike
Another post
How to fix your computer if you are affected by the crowdstrike crash
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“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted,” Kurtz said earlier Friday.
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So are the scammers, so beware.
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>How to delete CrowdStrike.
Elon Musk Deletes CrowdStrike “From All Systems,” Warns Global IT Disruption Sparked “Seizure In Auto Supply Chain”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/largest-it-outage-history-sparks-disruptions-worldwide
For some, the worldwide IT outage seemed a little “like Y2K, except it actually happened this time.”
Update (1023ET): With the US cash market underway, shares of CrowdStrike are down about 10%, while Microsoft lost about half a percent. CrowdStrike confirmed earlier its Falcon Sensor threat-monitoring product sparked worldwide chaos and crashed Microsoft’s Windows operating systems.
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CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor “threat-monitoring product” “sparked worldwide chaos”
The threat Falcon Sensor missed was Falcon Sensor
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zerohedge @zerohedge
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Adrian Dittmann @AdrianDittmann
Downdetector image above – Bendigo Bank, NAB, Telstra , centrelink, Optus ….
Welcome to the Information Age.
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I love how people relate it to Y2k. Something that had years of warning vs something blasted overnight.
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Adrian Dittmann @AdrianDittmann
Downdetector image above – Bendigo Bank, NAB, Telstra , centrelink, Optus ….
Welcome to the Information Age.
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Apologies for the duplication above. I don’t know how that happened but I did get a “Server Issues” message which disrupted posting.
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ZH – Also, folks are saying today should be called ‘International Blue Screen Day’ …
“So much for remote workers.”
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Y’day I asked about Croudstrike’s involvement in the Russia hoax and no one responded so I did the search, ‘Twas they who verified that Russia hacked the DNC emails, [automatic assumed connection to Trump] in spite of the fact that the download was much too fast to have been done on line and Seth Rich was murdered suspiciously.
Under oath they conceded that they had no hard evidence to justify their claim. My conclusion? Sus people.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13652167/CrowdStrike-boss-sees-3-4bn-fortune-plummet-100k-9bn-wiped-firm-sends-world-Microsoft-outage-crisis.html
This is a wakeup call.
Surely China and Russia might be able to do the same thing with their smart hackers?
Cash is King
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>George Kurtz co-founded CrowdStrike, which pushed out a faulty update today
Not all they’ve pushed out. From yesterday’s thread:
Flashback: Crowdstrike, the Company Behind the Russia Hacked Emails Scandal that Offered No Evidence During the Investigation, is Behind the IT Outages that Grounded Flights Across America the Day Following the RNC
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/flashback-crowdstrike-company-behind-russia-hacked-emails-scandal/
And,
Based on information available back in 2020, we now know there is no evidence that the Russians hacked the DNC. This was made up from the start.
Today, Crowdstrike is shutting down flights in America.
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I see Elon Musk is deleting Crowdstike from all of his business systems
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Australia’s digital payment crash underscores the essential need for physical cash.
The digital payment system in Australia has CRASHED!
Some shops such as Coles are only accepting physical Australian dollars!
This is why PHYSICAL CASH is essential to economic freedom!
The CASHLESS SOCIETY is a DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE which must be STOPPED!
https://x.com/adamseconomics/status/1814281409760240058
Outage website Downdetector reported Bendigo Bank, Foxtel, National Australia Bank, Australia Post, Suncorp, Xero, NBN, Commonwealth Bank, MYOB, ME Bank, Optus, Telstra Amazon, Westpac, Google, ANZ and Microsoft being among the companies caught in the mass shut down.
Multiple media organisations reported issues with networks, including the ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Channel 9 and News Corp Australia.
Crowdstrike?
Never heard of them.
Global updates NOT deployed region by region?
Uh huh…
Now who was it that warned over and over for people to have cash on hand?
The World Economic Forum has released a video called “A cyber-attack with COVID like characteristics”!
Are we witnessing a technical glitch or pre-planned GLOBAL CRISIS by the world’s elite?
https://x.com/adamseconomics/status/1814231587183284480
Maybe Cloudflare will be the next to have “update” issues. That’ll make Crowdstrike look like a fizzer.
https://youtu.be/VJsMVSFzRSc?si=p5lhfLO5raC7Yssf
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>Crowdstrike? Never heard of them.
Dude must have been off-planet not to hear of them (see #2.3.1 upthread)
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Mercedes F1 car Crowdstrike
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, a prominent Formula One (F1) team, has partnered with CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity company, to protect its technology infrastructure and data. The partnership aims to safeguard the team’s sensitive information and systems from cyber threats.
Key Points:
. Cybersecurity Provider: CrowdStrike provides the team with its cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform, CrowdStrike Falcon, to secure endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data.
. Real-time Threat Protection: The platform offers real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, and enriched telemetry to detect and prevent breaches.
. Customized Solution: CrowdStrike works closely with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport to understand the team’s specific needs and tailor a solution to address their unique challenges.
. Racing-Specific Threats: CrowdStrike provides the team with a dossier ahead of each race weekend, detailing potential cyber threats and offering guidance on how to stay safe from these threats.
. Global Reach: As a global team with operations in multiple countries, CrowdStrike’s cloud-native platform enables seamless deployments across thousands of endpoints, ensuring consistent protection regardless of location.
Impact on F1 Operations:
. Data Protection: CrowdStrike’s solution helps protect the team’s vast amounts of data, including sensitive information on car performance, driver strategies, and technical innovations.
. Endpoint Security: The platform secures the team’s laptops, desktops, and mobile devices, preventing unauthorized access and data breaches.
. Cloud Workload Protection: CrowdStrike safeguards the team’s cloud-based infrastructure, including applications and services, from cyber threats.
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Probaly overstating it somewhat to sau the digital payment system in Australia “has crashed”
In my corner of the payment system day 1 and 2 went by worhout issue. Obviously there were major issues but the entires system did not crash.
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tonyb,
If Orwell said anything like that he was paraphrasing T.S.Eliot’s poem: The Hollow Men.
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I was meaning more Orwellian in its dystopian tone rather than the tone normally associated with TS Eliot, better known for his book on Cats. But you are right of course, although “Eliotian” doesn’t have quite the same ring!
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https://notrickszone.com/2024/07/18/arctic-sea-ice-choke-points-reducing-nw-passage-shipping-season-length-by-5-14-weeks-since-2007/
Another massive globalist fail
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Might be a global cooling signal.
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Good article on Heat pumps
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/18/dont-fall-for-the-governments-latest-heat-pump-con/
Quite where the electricity will come from is completely beyond me as we pursue EV’s, electric cookers, heat pumps and vast Data centres in order to capture often useless information.
Anyone here got a heat pump? What sort of size house is the one in the picture designed to heat?
I think there is also a need for a hot water tank-what used to be an immersion heater tank in the UK- but new houses don’t have them nor is the space for one. Its difficult to know why our govt believes these huge units needing tanks, better insulation, over large radiators and new plumbing and electrics will be eagerly installed by the general public in our small houses. That’s without even considering the cost or that they work best if left on for long periods, rather than the instant heat most UK homes are used to in the morning and when they get home from work
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I have a “stick-built” house, 1980’s vintage. The walls are built with so called 2 by 4s, meaning wood that is 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches. The 3.5 inch void is filled with fiberglass insulation. (New construction uses 2x6s, so 5.5 inches of void with insulation.) The house is just one floor, 1,600 square feet. It was built with ducts under the floor and a return air-duct in the center ceiling of the house. Near the center is an enclosure for a heater/air-conditioner, and a water tank. Water is heated with electrical resistance bars; hot water is piped to kitchen and bathrooms.
I have a Trane heat pump built and installed about 20 years ago. It looks similar to the one in this photo:
Trane-xl18i-2-Stage-Condenser.jpg (734×979) (dsairandheat.com)
The image at this site is just one type of system – the stacked boxes are the components of the air-handler. Mine is hidden in closet because it is in the center of the one-story house.
The Anatomy of a Ductwork System – How Your Ducts Are Built | Dust Doctors Blog (dust-doctors.com)
The two units (inside / outside) work together to move heat into the house, or to move heat out of the house. Such a system does not use radiators. Warm air comes up from under the floor at covered outlets. Search images for “floor registers air outlets.” The tank for hot water is a totally separate unit.
Newer heat pumps are more efficient. Mine, when outside temperature is well below freezing the “air handler” switches to resistant heating (uses more electricity). I use a modern wood stove with a catalytic burner as supplemental and emergency heat. Except for the work required of me, the wood is free. I burned about 3 cords this past winter season.
Because heat pumps require electricity, except in rare situations, any house will need an emergency source of heat.
My current “Energy Delivered” cost is $0.1021/kwh. There is also a monthly set fee of $26.60 called a Facility Charge. The rate is set once each year and does not vary otherwise.
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>There is also a monthly set fee of [USD ?] $26.60 called a Facility Charge.
Assuming that’s electricity, ours went from NZ$0.33 to $1.20 per day or $36 per 30 day month.
Even if a consumer, as I have, has REDUCED consumption over the increase period.
Facility charge = Lines charge i.e. the cost of upgrading and maintaining local lines distribution infrastructure.
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I never know what people in different countries have in mind when they say “heat pump”
For me its a split system air conditioner (heating and cooling). For some friends of ours its their hot water system. People in the UK (I think) mean a furnace replacement for hydronic heating.
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How and why there was a complete failure of the security detail responsible for Trump’s security.
https://youtu.be/G9boJpqiZTQ?si=IKGoUbxNaJQEfcCS
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There was no failure in security. The failure was the that of the plans of some evil bastards
wanting to maintain the plans to destroy the USA!
The truth will come out within the next 6 / 12 months. Trumps reaction to the attempt to kill him tells me that he knows who is behind this attempt to get rid of him.
It will not be pleasant!
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I mistakenly believed that only a bullet could take Trump down following all the failed attempts bybthe globalist cabal to destroy him. But I was proved wrong about the bullet. The bullet also failed to take him down.
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“… who is behind this attempt to get rid of him.”
Methinks the same folk that also had their undies in a twist about Saddam and Muammar.
Just making a recreational observation.
Not drawing conclusions.
I see nothing.
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Whoever, it does seem that they failed in the assassination attempt, failed in concealing the attempt to aggravate global market chaos (Austin Private Wealth caper), and failed in cancelling the Crowdstrike strike.
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Here is my shortlist
– Jill Biden
– Obummer
– Hillary and Bill
– FBI and CIA
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Trump Second-Shooter Theory Emerges
The author of the piece Matt Riley, has 10 plus years military intelligence experience.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-19/trump-second-shooter-theory-emerges
Backdrop:
The Second Shooter
The Patsy
The Heavy
The Setting
The Water Tower
People who want to remain safe from difficult thoughts or critical thinking will no doubt start shrieking “CONSPIRACY THEORY!” And they will surely have no idea how thick the irony is, that the very term “conspiracy theory” was concocted by the security state to discredit the now indisputable reality that there was more than one shooter involved in a previous Presidential assassination.
How would this theory be proven out? This of course assumes there was a legitimate investigation conducted by a competent authority with no doors closed to them. (Because the FBI and DHS will bury any real evidence under Jimmy Hoffa’s body, right next to the identity of the J6 pipe bomber) It will be very difficult and will likely come down to angle analysis and audio analysis to determine differences in the time distance of arrival of various sounds.
While it is plausible that The Patsy could pull this off solo, it is remarkable unlikely. The round that clipped President Trumps ear was incredibly accurate. If not for a remarkably timed turn of the head, it would have been perfect. But the one thing even the best sniper can’t control for is the targets movement during the 3/10th of a second bullet time of flight. Remember, if The Heavy was timing their shot with the decision of the unwitting Patsy, then they would not get to select the moment to engage. Otherwise, a shooter would prefer to wait until President Trump is finished engaging with and pointing at the visual graphic he was using. Fortunately for America, The Patsy got spooked by a local PD sticking his head up over the top of a ladder and his hand was forced on the timing.</em>
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The above 2nd Theory article is in 2 Parts, 2nd Part by Matt Riley, 1st Part (Backdrop) is by Vincent Lanci.
Lanci says this in Backdrop:
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This instant airing of theories and scenarios was simply not possible for JFK. the Feds and MSM must absolutely hate The New Media.
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Matt Riley uses the term “Tier 1 military snipers”
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Riley:
Now we’re talking.
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Riley,
See Site Photos.
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Riley,
The “cosmetic skirting” is ideal concealment in an “elevated position” but I wonder what can be seen by USSS Spotters/Snipers (4) at the rally site?
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Riley,
These 4 points are self evident in my opinion, which is probably Opinion #16,258,431 at this stage.
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While none of these you listed would have tried to prevent it I think it was deeper in the deep state. It was a Blackrock et all working with them.
Now this guy has a big mouth and I would not normally link to him but he covered this. I even queued up the relevant start for you. 🙂
https://youtu.be/D5MDzmxJquQ?t=642
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.While none of these you listed would have tried to prevent it I think it was deeper in the deep state
Reply to CO2 Lover I assume:
>deeper in the deep state
Ok but where?
I’ve posted ‘Tier 1 units in the U.S. military’ upthread:
DELTA Force – U.S. Army
SEAL Team 6 – U.S. Navy
24th Special Tactics Squadron – U.S. Air Force
Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) – CIA
Money talks. There’s plenty of Billionaires with money to throw around and are actually doing so – Reid Hoffman comes to mind.
Not suggesting it was him but anyone like that, including within BlackRock could easily “persuade” a Tier 1 sniper, not necessarily still in those forces but retired.
Ex US military personnel are working as mercenaries in Ukraine but why travel that far for peanuts when there’s high paying work at home?
My 2 cents.
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It was all going sweetly to plan until that nosey cop poked his head above that roof that was too steep to put a sniper detail, the FBI and SS are all in the know as to what was going down, they just sat and watched and did the very minimum.
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“The FBI Is Where Evidence Goes to Die – They are the Mop-Up Men for Crimes of the State” – Mike Benz on the FBI’s Lone Gunman Claim in Trump Assassination Attempt (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/fbi-is-where-evidence-goes-die-they-are/
And,
“Mop-up men for crimes of the state” – see next.
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>“Mop-up men for crimes of the state”
Exhibit A:
Mueller special counsel investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_special_counsel_investigation
But it was a raging financial success, apparently:
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Trump’s SS detail decided that within seconds.
The (D)s are are in the deep do do but I can’t see how they would be in the clear if the shot had been straight. All this conflicting evidence and phone footage would still be aired.
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>How and why there was a complete failure of the security detail responsible for Trump’s security
Couple from ZH, first for context, second a deep dive:
“MOST Of Trump’s Security Detail Were Not Even Secret Service”: Whistleblowers
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/secret-service-whistleblowers-emerge-following-trump-assassination-attempt
Choose One: Law Enforcement At Trump Shooting Was Either Incompetent Or Complicit
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/choose-one-law-enforcement-trump-shooting-was-either-incompetent-or-complicit
Option 1: Law Enforcement Was Complicit in the Assassination Attempt
Option 2: Law Enforcement Officers Were Incompetent
“Mistakes Were Made”
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Hawley: Briefing with Secret Service Director ‘Did Not Go Well’ — ‘She Was Not Well-Prepared’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/07/19/hawley-briefing-with-secret-service-director-did-not-go-well-she-was-not-well-prepared/
CAVUTO: How did it go?
HAWLEY: Badly.
I mean, let’s be honest, the Secret Service is out there and the FBI now doing these secret calls, these behind-the-scenes briefings, where, by the way, they don’t really answer questions. They limited — strictly limited the number of questions. The Secret Service director herself did not actually brief. She was present on the call, but didn’t do hardly any briefing.
When she did try to answer a question or two, it did not go well. She was not well-prepared. This needs to be done in public, bottom line. We need public hearings. We need a full and thorough investigation.
CAVUTO: … But, to your point, Senator, she has indicated she’s not stepping down. She intends to stay there. And unless the president and/or Alejandro Mayorkas, her boss at Homeland Security, pushes her out, she’s there, right?
HAWLEY: Yes.
Nobody — here’s the pattern, Neil. Nobody in this administration is ever responsible, ever takes any responsibility for anything. Look at Afghanistan, 13 service members dead, hundreds, if not thousands of civilians left behind to the enemy. And what did Joe Biden do? Nothing. Who was fired? Nobody.
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>the president – Kim’s buddy Jill taking care of that.
>and/or Alejandro Mayorkas – probably give a commendation for exceptional work.
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>the president – Kim’s buddy Jill taking care of that.
>and/or Alejandro Mayorkas – probably give a commendation for exceptional work.
Did Jill Biden get the Secret Service’s ‘A’ team, leaving President Trump with just its farm team?
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/did_jill_biden_get_the_secret_service_s_a_team_leaving_president_trump_with_just_its_farm_team.html
Secret Service Director: Oh my God
By Mike McDaniel
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/secret_service_director_oh_my_god.html
Milley Effect: Mayorkas declares confidence in Secret Service chief, pledges drawn-out ‘independent review’ into ‘failure’
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/milley_effect_mayorkas_declares_confidence_in_secret_service_chief_pledges_drawn_out_independent_review_into_failure.html
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>Did Jill Biden get the Secret Service’s ‘A’ team, leaving President Trump with just its farm team?
Tony Posante @tonyposante
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After being made redundant back in the early 80s, I went to work for a friend who had an industrial roofing business. I worked with him for over two years and spent a lot of time on the very same type of roof that the shooter used. Believe me, there is no way a person could walk or crawl around on a roof like that without the people inside hearing him. He also had equipment – bag, gun, rangefinder, phone – that he was apparently moving around, on a creaky metal roof that acts like a drum skin.
So how come the crack security people actually inside that building heard nothing, not even the ‘clang’ of a ladder being put in place?
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Steve >So how come the crack security people actually inside that building heard nothing
They were not inside that building (Building 4, South end).
They were in the top of the 2 story block at the back (West side) of Building 3 which is first North of 4, where they had visibility from the windows. Plenty of photos and drone video in yesterday’s thread (but see next comment for links).
There were 3 guys in the Building and they weren’t “crack security”. They were the local force that had the responsibility of the area outside the USSS perimeter.
Lots of denial of responsibility but ultimately the overall responsibility was USSS. We will know the full details of the security breakdown in about 5 years after investigations are complete.
Or 10 years, may take longer. Maybe never.
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>Plenty of photos and drone video in yesterday’s thread
That was here.
Federal Snipers Overlooked Rooftop Sniper from 40 FEET AWAY could have just WALKED OVER TO STOP HIM
By Benjamin Wetmore
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-attempt-federal-snipers-overlooked-rooftop-sniper/
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Steve >So how come the crack security people actually inside that building heard nothing
In addition to my first reply, there’s another aspect.
From the Mike McDaniel article linked upthread:
“She” is Kim Cheatle, the Director of the Secret Service.
McDaniel
“A safety factor that would be considered” – after the shooting there was cops on the roof, a SWAT team, a photo of at least 4 at a time, a guy washing it down.
No safety gear required – almost like it was a flat roof.
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So how come Cheatle, talking about the building the assassin used said the sloping roof was unsafe so she put people INSIDE it instead?
“Send three and fourpence. We’re going to a dance.”
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>So how come Cheatle, talking about the building the assassin used said the sloping roof was unsafe so she put people INSIDE it instead?
Cheatle hasn’t got the foggiest clue about the operation. That building was outside the perimeter of USSS responsibility; it was the Butler police who were in there.
Question is did the Butler police want personnel on the roof and were they overruled by USSS?
Cheatle just made an off-the-cuff cover-her-a*** reply that was ridiculed all over, never mind the on-site details spoke otherwise. As McDaniel puts it:
There’s nothing sane about the entire Administration, from Afghanistan to Border to Gaza Pier to ……[insert debacles here].
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FED LEAK: Now They Tell Us Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Flew Drone Over Pennsylvania Fairgrounds, Got Aerial Footage of Rally Layout
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trump-would-be-assassin-thomas-crooks-flew-drone/
Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr
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BREAKING: Massive Fire Engulfs Dallas Area Church Led by Trump Supporter Pastor Robert Jeffress (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/breaking-massive-fire-engulfs-dallas-area-church-led/
Jeffress is a white guy, not to be confused with Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit who is a black guy:
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell Delivers Powerful Speech on Final Night of the RNC “He Came to a Church Not to Speak to Us, But to Listen to Us” (Video)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/pastor-lorenzo-sewell-delivered-powerful-speech-final-night/
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The political scene in the US has been characterized as a battle of good vs. evil.
The evil being the Burners, the Woke, and the Anti-Christs.
Exhibit A:
Godless: View Co-Host Joy Behar Bashes Trump For Mentioning God, Says His Bandage “Should Have Been Over Mouth” (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/godless-view-co-host-joy-behar-bashes-trump/
And anyone remember – “Mostly peaceful protests” ?
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>The political scene in the US has been characterized as a battle of good vs. evil.
Leftists Prove They Are Zealots In The Wake Of Trump Shooting
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-prove-they-are-zealots-wake-trump-shooting
The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance
https://internationalman.com/articles/the-ascendance-of-sociopaths-in-us-governance/
Zeitgeist:
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>And anyone remember – “Mostly peaceful protests” ?
The media has finally, once and for all, lost all credibility
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-19/media-has-finally-once-and-all-lost-all-credibility
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At last! Eco terrorists get jailed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c880xjx54mpo
Chief troublemaker Roger Hallam who has been at the head of numerous eco terrorist groups was jailed for 5 years for his latest stunt, together with prison sentences for his idiotic followers
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5 years Jail!
Rodger Hallam is a repeat offender.
At last a judge is sending these idiots a message.
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1924 vs 2024
In 1924, 100 years ago the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge began construction.
The laying of the foundation stone for one of the southern abutments occurred on 26 March 1925.
The Arch construction began on 26 October 1928.
The bridge was opened 19th March 1932.
The bridge is an engineering Masterclass.
Now It is 2024… And with that, we have all the wonders and advantages of our 21st century technology, engineering and geological expertise….
Yet, our “net nothing”, “Snowy 2.0”, has only enabled TBM “Florence”, in 2 years of ops , to bore just a little longer than the length of the Sydney Harbour Bridge … and there is still approx 14km of the headrace tunnel to go
Unlike 1924, this is an engineering………
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The original real engineers of the Snowy Hydro Scheme knew about this possible extension to the scheme when they designed it in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It was never done because they knew it would not be economically viable and their geotechnical studies also probably showed that the rock would be a nightmare to tunnel through.
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They also did not have the need for pumped storage as there was a healthy surplus of cheap coal generation 24/7.
Australias first Pumped hydro facility , Tumit 3, was not built until the late ‘60 s when the need for “peaking” capacity became significant.
Current intermittent generation of Wind & Solar make pumped hydro storage an attractive / essential option to batteries.
Neither did they have the tunneling technology that is available today which can make projects like this feasible.
SN2 is expensive, badly managed, over budget, and way off schedule,….. but it is still much better value than the equivalent capacity batteries.
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Snowy 2 will die an ignominious death.
It will simply disappear in a silent haze of embarrassment brought on by fanatics with very little foresight & completely devoid of even a hint of common sense!
That’s the green left leaning Marxists!
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How many more billions of Aussie taxpayer money is going to be thrown away on this project before somebody admits that it’s a huge engineering disaster which should never have been initiated?
And in the unlikely event that the pretend conservative Liberal Party win the next election, what will they do? After all, it was their idea.
And if it truly is viable as claimed, sell it to a private company but don’t grant them any special anti-competition privileges etc.. I.e. don’t grant monopoly rights or forced purchase arrangements of its battery services.
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Malcolm Turnbull and his son own it, and Malcolm and his wife gave $444 million to that Barrier Reef mob of half-a-dozen people. He should gift his Point Piper property to the Australian taxpayers, who, througn his family’s ignorant decisions, caused these fiascoes!
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Another pumped hydro project in trouble
https://reneweconomy.com.au/genex-resumes-work-on-pumped-hydro-flagship-as-billionaire-bidder-bides-his-time/#:
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I’m struggling to see a hill to run the water down in that photo..
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Many rainbow serpents were disturbed. Surely this must be acknowledged.
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>rainbow serpents
Had to look it up – Hoo boy!
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It will used in future as a textbook example of how not to proceed with a project.
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In a recent Tom Nelson podcast, Tom Shula and Markus Ott, presentation points out that emission from the earth’s surface is decoupled from emission at the TOA by greenhouse gasses losing their energy via collisions with other gasses to produce sensible heat in the atmosphere. Via convective processes this is tranmsmitted to the TOA where most of the energy is transferred to water vapour and then emitted to space. Very interesting talk.
At the end Tom Shula points out that if you take the total irradient energy received by the earth from the sun minus 30% for albedo for a year, the total human energy production (most of which produces CO2) is 0.008% of that from the sun.
This speaks to TdF’s comment yesterday on the fact that the rise in CO2 is constant despite human emissions growing exponentially over the past century. Basically, human productions are a very small part of the earth’s energy budget.
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GLOBAL COMPUTER MELTDOWN
1) Back in the day, software updates were thoroughly tested before being rolled out.
2) A defective software update from a third party also caused a fundamentally defective Microsloth operating system to fail.
3) When such disasters occur my immediate reaction is to check the DEI policy of the company:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
4) Elon Musk also apparently is blaming DEI for the disaster:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
4) Don’t do business with woke DEI companies!
Get woke. Go broke.
Worse, we are now at the point where DEI policies are getting people killed such as the killing of an audience member during the failed President Trump assassination, who himself came within a cm or two of being killed. (Woke, DEI hire Secret Service.)
People should be hired according to suitability for the job, not gender, race or star sign.
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I hope this is not a “ test run “ by some lunatic foreign powers! There may be much worse to follow!
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Working in a few large companies, the IT sections always maintained very tight control of software upgrades, refusing to roll them out until they had been thoroughly tested. I find it unbelievable that any IT dept of a major organisation would allow uncontrolled and untested auto updates into their system.
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“Back in the day, software updates were thoroughly tested before being rolled out.”
Ahhh, but that was just a cost you know. All those development and test systems, and all those techies, they cost money. We can make that someone elses problem and it wont hurt at all when it all turns to sh1t……oh wait
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DEI disasters recently,
Boeing.
USSS.
Crowdstrike.
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Canuckistan has a new DEI hire as head of its armed forces.
https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1813962343162007984
She also has an Aussie connection and was involved in messing up Australia’s military as well, such aa helping promote women into combat roles which led to a lowering of physical standards for combat soldiers.
She also introduced ballroom dancing and “sexual conduct training” into the Canuckistan military…
We all know militaries, to be effective, must have ballroom dancing expertise and emasculated men.
From Wikipedia:
And when they say she had “combat experience”, it appears to be not actual fighting but being in a peace helping unit and mine clearance.
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And improving the look and style of military uniforms by eliminating all pockets and supplying handbags for tools, ammunition and makeup.
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Whatever you might think of Herr Hitler and his Wehrmacht -they had Hugo Boss design their uniforms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpYQJkBQp0&ab_channel=PCVJsTasmania
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Imagine how offended the leader of the National Socialists and other Leftist totalitarians (a tautology) would be by that Mel Brooks skit.
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Charlie Chaplin managed to offend Hitler back in 1940.
The Great Dictator has been up-graded – must get a copy (I only saw a few minutes while in hospital recently).
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They always looked snappier than us
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On the US election, what is amazing to me is that the Democratic party in the last eight years has not run on its record or policies.
It is all about Donald Trump as the devil, Hitler reincarnated, a NAZI, a threat to humanity and world peace.
Even when he was President he was impeached twice, for Ukraine and Russia.
And since tied up in endless fake devastating court cases organized directly from the White House.
The world can now compare the terms of two men as President.
Voters should be comparing
response to the Wuhan Flu
Economy
Out of control immigration
inflation
Afghanistan
Ukraine
Israel
China
Wuhan Flu
Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah
Suez/Yemen
Russia
Hunter Biden in Ukraine, China
but it’s all about the devil himself. Trump.
I do not recall any election in which one side avoided all discussions to
focus solely on why Trump must be in the bullseye, must not succeed at any cost, must be stopped.
And why the DHS/Security service looked the other way when they saw a shooter.
There is a real desperation to attack Trump personally, as there has been for the last ten years.
An assassination attempt was as predictable as night and day.
And commentators even overseas who are upset that the amateur assassin failed. People who have no involvement in
US politics want to have their say in the US election, even on assassination.
Meanwhile European leaders are pushing for WWIII against Russia, the very thing the world has been trying to avoid for 80 years. Assuming America will defend them from a devastating nuclear or even conventional response. Zelensky is asking the new UK Labor government for permission to fire on Moscow. What next?
And no one remembers that millions died from a Chinese Military biological weapon released with the full support of the UN/WHO. And created in a French Lab with illegal US funding.
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For any student wishing to pursue a master’s or PhD, assuming you can actually find a university that still practices scholarship, I think a suitable topic for study would be TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, a terrible, debilitating mental condition with no known cure.
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It’s a substitute for discussing anything. What actually happened in Afghanistan in 24 hours, for example, after two decades of war. Or massive world uncontrolled immigration. Why Biden paid $6 billion for six Iranian hostages and what followed. Why Iran was allowed build Nuclear weapons by successive Obama administrations, an Islamic dictatorship which has openly promised the total destruction of Israel.
TDS is a distraction to prevent any public examination of US policy, domestic or international. And avoids for example any public examination of why Dr Fauci illegally funded gain of function viral research in Wuhan. Or why Mayorkas, also in charge of the Secret Service, is pulling millions of people into US cities. From war zones or Haiti or Gaza or anywhere, any sh*thole country he can find. (Trumps’ words) On humanitarian grounds, or to utterly disrupt America?
There has never been a more anti American administration. It’s Make America Garbage. And the only beneficiary is China.
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It’s an intriguing disease with remarkable similarities to another debilitating disease known as ‘Leftism’. They share quite a few symptoms and can be difficult to differentiate.
I have seen quite a few sufferers online, where they have attended some sort of protest against Trump, or simply asked about him. The interviewer first confirms that the person has the disease by asking about Trump, whereupon the patient will say something like “Trump is racist.” A sound diagnosis however, requires that the interviewer follows-up with something like, “Can you give me some examples of Trump’s racism?” At this point, the patient will often lose the ability to speak, other than to mutter and do lots of “Errrm …” and “Aaaah …ummm.” This apparent seizure usually concludes with an episode of Tourette’s before remembering they left the iron on at home.
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Apparently some Leftists are claiming that none of them incited violence against President Trump.
How about these (from Victor Davis Hanson):
By slugging his face (Robert De Niro),
by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson),
by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park),
by clubbing (Mickey Rourke),
by shooting ( Snoop Dogg),
by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain),
by bounty killing (George Lopez),
by carrion-eating his corpse (Pearl Jam),
by suffocating (Larry Whilmore),
by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby),
by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell),
just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean)
or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).
And Biden also said:
Hopefully, when President Trump is elected, some or all of these people will be aggressively prosecuted for inciting violence. Incitement of violence is not a free speech issue and is illegal and has been determined to be so in the US. There are no First Amendment protections for inciting violence.
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That is why there will be more attempts to kill Trump.
The latest news is that many of the Secret Service “agents” on duty last week were not trained agents but staff from the DHS! Hence those short female “agents” running around confused and not even able to reholster a gun!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkHT0bwChsU
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/it-was-setup-senator-hawley-whistleblowers-most-trump/
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Causality Analysis Finds Temperature Changes Have Determined CO2 Changes Since The Phanerozoic
From the NoTricksZone
By Kenneth Richard
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/causality-analysis-finds-temperature-changes-have-determined-co2-changes-since-the-phanerozoic/
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Very simply, 98% of all CO2 gas is freely dissolved in the oceans and the human experience of dissolved CO2 is that warmer beer goes flat faster.
If warming and increased CO2 have a correlation, the likelihood is that warming increases CO2, not that CO2 causes warming. So Man Made CO2 driven Global Warming is a series of propositions which read better in reverse. Warming driven CO2 evaporation increasing life on earth.
And this is supported by all our observations. Although biology ignorant NASA call the role of CO2 as ‘fertilization’. That is either deliberately misleading or they should stick to putting people in space and leave plant biology, organic chemistry and biochemistry to others.
Plus excess highly soluble CO2 goes back into the water increasing plants in the water too.
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Plus I looked at the NASA/CSIRO story of tree cover increasing between 1988 and 2014 by the size of the continental USA and drew conclusions. That is an increase of 14% in area for trees. The CO2 increase is also 14% in that period. CO2 is the limiting factor for tree growth, not water or sunshine or trace elements. The deserts are blooming.
Perhaps the most important conclusion is that increasing trees does not decrease CO2. So tree farms, agriculture based carbon credits are scientifically wrong.
And finally that as many trillions of tons of CO2 have been sequestered and CO2 is not changed, that atmospheric CO2 is a constant regardless of inputs and outputs. Therefore it is determined by the same factors as Henry’s Law, air pressure, concentration and temperature. All of which relate to the kinematics of evaporation and nothing else.. Not human activity at all.
We do not need any more proofs that Man Made CO2 driven Global Warming is the complete reverse of the truth.
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Instead of a lump of coal, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have taken a pint of cold lager into Parliament House.
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FWIW
“Apples, Oranges, and Normalized Hurricane Damage
An incredible data error in a paper celebrated by the IPCC offers a science integrity test for climate science”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/apples-oranges-and-normalized-hurricane
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/07/19/the-sound-of-settled-science-186/
Which gives an outline “which shows how the work was done”
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When ‘Green’ Hits the Beaches of Martha’s Vineyard
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/07/19/when-green-hits-the-beaches-of-marthas-vineyard-n3792001
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FWIW – Kunstler surveys
“Slowly, Then All at Once”
” There was a lot of talk about divine intervention at the Republican Convention this week. The country has witnessed a rush of seemingly providential events since the fateful night of June 27th when, to universal horror, “Joe Biden” was unmasked as The Phantom of the White House. The attempt on Donald Trump’s life Saturday, with its intimations of blob involvement, was only the latest of countless trips, hoaxes, capers, and ops that smacked of demonic inspiration laid on the public, so you can’t blame them for feeling that “God is among us now.” ”
More at
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/slowly-then-all-at-once-3/
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“The Worldwide IT Outage Isn’t Funny, but the Memes Sure Are”
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/07/19/the-worldwide-it-outage-isnt-funny-but-the-memes-sure-are-n4930888
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You go into politics for the exciting buzz of power over other people, you leave politics for the exciting buzz of big salaries in cushy jobs-
“On Friday, the 41-year-old Perrottet announced his resignation from parliament after 13 years, and later revealed he would relocate his family of nine to Washington DC after being appointed the US head of corporate and external relations for resources giant BHP.”
He did nothing for NSW that BHP need, except the people he knows and the contacts he made.
SMH-
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However he has been in NSW politics for a lomg time. Who would know more about spin, ar$e covering and smoozing? Corporate and external relations would seem a good fit.
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..and we were talking about cars taking over from drivers the other day… Why I won’t own a new car- This is Hyundai’s update list that lets incompetent drivers take to the road.
Rain-sensing wipers (previously exclusive to Premium)
Auto-dimming rear-view mirror (previously exclusive to Premium)
Front parking sensors (previously exclusive to Premium)
N Grin Shift red button
Traffic sign recognition
Driver attention warning
Rear occupant alert
Multi-collision braking
Autonomous emergency braking with car, pedestrian and now cyclist detection
Adaptive suspension
Keyless entry and start, now with motion detection
Rear-view camera
Rear parking sensors
Lane-keep assist
Lane following assist
Blind-spot monitoring with braking support
Rear cross-traffic alert with braking support
and it has vehicle tracking and automatic emergency calls. Just wait until the electronics start breaking down in a few years. Does the car refuse to start or does it drive and then malfunction, taking over from the driver ane doing what it was not designed to do? “Lane assist” you across the road!
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…and there’s the mass exodus of mechanics from the industry – burn out, injuries, stress, cars too hard to diagnose correctly.
Ford USA says half the parts they get back under warranty are ok, but were misdiagnosed.
Yesterdays Car Wizard (youtube) had a faulty a/c problem but it worked if you turned the headlights on.
You fancy troubleshooting that?
Too much fluff tech, nowhere near enough real driving skills.
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They make simple ICE cars in India that sell for around A$6000
Why are we being forcwd to buy by unaffordable, unreliable and non-repairable EVs?
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I changed my car recently and of course had no choice but to replace my old, low-tech car with a computer on wheels. I eventually went for one which, while it has all/most of those unwanted bells and flutes, they can be easily disabled or even require that you choose to have them on (off by default). Of those that are permanently on, the implementation seems to be relatively good, with one or two exceptions.
But apart from those systems giving me the irrits, another important issue – which has always been considered sound advice in the past – is, the more ‘features’ there are, the more there is to go wrong and, as others have pointed out, diagnosing and fixing errors is beyond most DIY mechanics. I have always serviced and fixed my own cars but that’s probably over now. Mind you, I’m too old, creaky and unbendy now to fold myself under the dashboard or crawl under the car.
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One ‘driver aid’ on my new Honda is a type of cruise control that works in slow, crawling traffic. Once engaged, the car will roll along slowly while maintaining distance, braking and stopping when necessary. I’ve tried it out and it works fine, but I don’t think I’ll use it again because, at my age, I worry I might think I switched it on but didn’t, then run into the car in front.
OTOH, the ‘regular’ (radar) cruise is a bit naff. It’s rather paranoid, wasting fuel in an effort to avoid breaking the speed limit when going downhill. It will actually apply the brakes. In most situations, this isn’t necessary and, if the downhill section is followed by another uphill, I would rather let the car overspeed a little and use that to help get up the next hill. Yes, I am that stingy. Currently averaging 6.7l/100km.
I used to hate ‘lane keeping assistance’ but find myself using it more and more, though only on motorways. Once again, my age seems to mean I am less able to maintain a straight line if I turn my head to look at something out the side of the vehicle – not a massive swerve but not dead straight like I used to be able to do. Having the lane keeper on long journeys is thus quite relaxing insofar as I’m not beating myself up for wandering in my lane all the time 🙂
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”
OTOH, the ‘regular’ (radar) cruise is a bit naff. It’s rather paranoid, wasting fuel in an effort to avoid breaking the speed limit when going downhill. It will actually apply the brakes.”
I rented a newish Hyundai I30 in 2022, when I used the radar cruise it dropped from the 6th gear it was using when I was doing the speed control myself, and would apply the brakes if it still wanted to speed up downhill or it got closer to the car ahead.
Not a very economical way to drive on a long trip.
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We May Be Just Weeks Away From an Engineered Global Financial Crash
A shocking report which shows we may only be weeks away from a deliberately created shock to the global financial systems that will see an engineered massive market crash.
If something happens to the markets people’s homes could be at serious risk as they may find their property values plunging and if the loan-to-value ratios are high they would be unable to sell the property to clear the debt.
A new global AI system will monitor every transaction and control every person on the planet. Privacy and financial independence will be gone. CBDC’s are actively being prepared to be rolled out as the war on cash intensifies.
The globalists have built a new financial system which has been built undercover ready to be rolled out by November 2024.
The 2008 Credit Crisis was manufactured and planned ahead of time and played a major role in the creation of a new financial structure which the Globalists are planning to usher in starting in November 2024.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/shocking-report-we-may-be-just-weeks
Nothing to see, move along.
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Google Climate Science roundup:
1) New Study Uncovers Key Error in Climate Models: Earth’s Albedo Overestimated
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-uncovers-key-error-in-climate-models-earths-albedo-overestimated/
2) The predicament of climate scientists on the road to a super tropical Earth
https://mronline.org/2024/07/16/the-predicament-of-climate-scientists-on-the-road-to-a-super-tropical-earth/
3) Is There A Link Between Extreme Urban Heat And Climate Change?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simithambi/2024/07/19/is-there-a-link-between-extreme-urban-heat-and-climate-change/
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Re 1) Albedo overestimation
Less albedo = More insolation.
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Re 2) The road to a super tropical Earth
Noam Chomsky in article:
Radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide: A significant revision of the methane radiative
forcing
M. Etminan, G. Myhre, E. J. Highwood, and K. P. Shine (2016)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016GL071930
1. Introduction
The radiative forcing (RF) due to changes in concentrations of the relatively well mixed greenhouse gases (WMGHGs) is the largest component of total RF due to human activity over the past century [Myhre et al., 2013a]. The headline RF values for CO2 , CH 4, and N 2O presented in recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments [e.g., Myhre et al., 2013a] are calculated using simplified expressions presented in the IPCC Third Assessment Report [Ramaswamy et al., 2001, section 6.3.5]. These were largely based on the work of Myhre et al. [1998, henceforth MHSS98]. MHSS98 used updated RF calculations to modify expres-sions adopted by IPCC in its first assessment [Shine et al., 1990] which originated from earlier work of Hansen et al. [1988] and Wigley [1987]. The MHSS98 expressions have been widely used elsewhere, for example, for calculating WMGHG RF in simple climate models and in NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html (accessed 11 November 2016)). Other similar simplified expressions have been proposed [e.g., Shi, 1992; Byrne and Goldblatt, 2014], and Hansen et al. [2000] presented updates to the Hansen et al. [1988] fits.
2. Methods
The RF calculations use the Oslo line‐by‐line (OLBL) code which was described in Myhre et al. [2006].
3. Radiative Forcing Calculations
3.1. Results
3.2. Explanation of Methane Forcing Changes
4. Simplified Expressions
Table 1. Simplified Expressions for Radiative Forcing of CO2, CH4, and N 2O, Where C Is the CO2 Concentration (in ppm), M Is the CH4 Concentration (in ppb), and N Is the N 2O Concentration (in ppb)
# # #
If ever there was a contrived scientific paradigm, methane forcing is it.
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Re 3) Climate Change and Urban Heat Islands
From article:
The Costly Combination Of Urban Heat Islands And Climate Change
The combined impact of climate change and urban heat islands could cost some countries as much as 10% of their GDP or their total economic output. The study published in Nature indicated that warming due to climate change alone could reduce the GDP of the average city in 2050 by 0.9% in high global-warming scenarios. However, when combined with the urban heat island effect, this reduction could double, with the worst-off cities losing as much as 10% of their GDP by 2100.
# # #
“Could” count = 3
That’s aside from the scurrilous conflation.
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Roy Spencer confirms he’s a Luke-warmer:
From,
Climatologist: Don’t Blame Climate Change For An Unusually Warm Year Or Two
https://climatechangedispatch.com/climatologist-dont-blame-climate-change-for-an-unusually-warm-year-or-two/
He also seems to think that CO2 warming is a linear trend in temperature ~0.02 deg. C per year:
Gee Aye will be incensed with Spencer’s use of the term “natural climate variability”.
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It is tediously imprecise and can mean whatever the reader decides it to mean.
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Luckily the yartz community seem unaffected by Crowdstrike and continue their important work
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What would we do without them?
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Pretty much exactly what we do now.
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“Pretty much exactly what we do now…. but save a lot of tax
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I posted yesterday about the outbreak of cultural diversity in Leeds, which was celebrated by overturning cars and setting fire to things.
Well it turns out that the recently-elected MP for that area is the very same chap who, when delivering his acceptance speech, concluded with the now traditional English phrase used at such moments, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Once those gathered had re-emerged from under the tables he went on to signal his support for Gaza.
Well he has now let us all know why the ‘celebration’ occurred. Apparently, the problem is that the local (British) police officers don’t speak Urdu.
Import the Middle East and …
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>the outbreak of cultural diversity in Leeds, which was celebrated by overturning cars and setting fire to things.
No problem. Everyone just needs a course on Cultural Enhancement and Cultural Competency.
All will be well then.
Oh, and learn to speak Urdu. And submit to Allah, Islam, and Sharia law.
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FWIW
“Help Wanted: Storyline Developer”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/help-wanted-storyline-developer/
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FWIW
”
Did The Guardian Just Blow Up the Exxon Knew Narrative?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/19/did-guardian-just-blow-up-the-exxon-knew-narrative/
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“I had 2 Peter Fitzsimons books in my car – someone broke in and left 4 more.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/i-had-2-peter-fitzsimons-books-in-my-car-someone-broke-in-and-left-4-more.html
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A good point made elsewhere:
If the Democrats believe Biden is so frail and forgetful that he needs to be replaced as their candidate, shouldn’t they also remove him from the White House? How could he be unfit for re-election yet fit to remain president?
Which then opens up all sorts of questions about actually removing a sitting president. They surely have dug themselves a deep, muddy hole.
Of course there’s no way they will remove him at this stage, so close to the election, but it’s a fair observation and the media should be asking it. The only way out that I can see is getting him to resign due to poor health but, as I’ve said before, Dr. Jill ain’t going anywhere, at least not without enormous ‘compensation’.
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>If the Democrats believe Biden is so frail and forgetful that he needs to be replaced as their candidate, shouldn’t they also remove him from the White House? How could he be unfit for re-election yet fit to remain president?
Precedent – The Robert Hur Report:
Prosecutor faces political glare after Biden report
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68259335
And,
But still good to be President.
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FWIW on that –
“Biden quitting the race? That could be very risky for all of us”
“The news and social media are full of rumors that President Biden may announce his withdrawal from the 2024 Presidential election. That doesn’t mean he’d leave office as well, of course: that could happen, but there’s no certainty that he’d be prepared to bow out early. I suspect he’d be more likely to continue in office until his present term expires in January next year.
That could be a very big problem. Biden has already demonstrated on repeated occasions that he can be vindictive, nasty and vengeful to those he thinks have slighted him. Just how much damage could a lame-duck president do in the final half-year of his term in office? I suspect the answer is “A heck of a lot!” ”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/07/biden-quitting-race-that-could-be-very.html
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“HUGE: Italy BANS solar panels on farm land
Italy is prioritizing the food supply before Net Zero agenda”
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/huge-italy-bans-solar-panels-on-farm
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Obviously smarter than the average Aussie politicians
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Cultural misfits cause a riot in Leeds.
‘People have descended on the streets of Leeds for a second night in a row demanding the children who were taken away by police yesterday be returned to their parents.
‘This comes as the father of the children claims he is on ‘hunger strike’ until they are returned to his family.’ (UK Mail)
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“This comes as the father of the children claims he is on ‘hunger strike’ until they are returned to his family. (UK Mail)”
Jolly decent of him to provide a voluntary permanent resolution to the problem, the authorities keep the children, problem goes away, win/win.
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South America impacted by Antarctic blast and other anomalies.
‘Many images have been circulating the internet of frozen waves, rivers, streams and even animals, as the latest polar wave pushed the cold and dry Antarctic air over South America.
‘The good news is that this cold spell has come to an end, with polar jet being pushed further south and the hot northern air enveloping the region. Crazier than the extreme cold is the extreme heat this change is bringing. It’s actually being called a heat wave, as some locations in South America are receiving summer heat in the middle of July!’ (weatherzone)
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FWIW – a selection
“Stories You May Have Missed This Week: A Seismic Shift in the 2024 Election”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/07/20/the-weekend-update-4-n4930767
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Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch
13M Views. This is mind boggling.
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The Oz gets the rough end of the pineapple –
“All the drivel fit to print”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/07/20/all-the-drivel-fit-to-print/
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Closeup of Trumps ear after shot, from Snopes no less:
Trump’s description of his wound matches photographs of his ear after he was hit, prior to being removed from stage. The two circles below, added by Snopes, highlight two areas that appear to show torn skin:
https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/600?url=https://media.snopes.com/2024/07/trump-wound-enlarge.png
I didn’t realise the bullet took out 2 parts of his ear, just thought it was the lobe.
From:
Rumor That Shards of Glass, Not Bullet, Injured Trump in Assassination Attempt Is False
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
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>just thought it was the lobe
Not lobe, helix (I think).
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From Jun 25 Alexandria Occasional-Cortex making a grand entrance:
mike casca @cascamike
This has to be seen to be believed.
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We’ll be lucky to survive this extreme weather, no doubt global warming is all to blame..
“Strongest winds in 1 to 3 years impacting parts of southeastern Australia”
This is what happens when the weather is perfectly normal and your DEI hire journo has nothing to write about!… Weatherzone, so I assume BOM.
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..and I saw that the German Govt censors had banned Compoact magazine, but they gave no reason why in the mainstream media. Seems it was an interview with Russian spokesman Maria Zakharova- ie, going against the official narrative!
“German magazine Compact was shut down by German police after the interview with Zakharova because it has been judged to be ‘extremist’. The police also confiscated property.. (everything they could lay their hands on!) belonging to the magazine.
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-593
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More German troubles from RobCampbell above-
“Insolvency rates among companies in Germany are rising rapidly, according to a report by the Creditreform agency. Many are declaring bankruptcy blaming high energy prices and ‘Green initiatives’. The problem is affecting all sectors of the German economy, including construction, industry and services.”
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