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Windmills as Health Risk
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Attended a local “update” on a proposed wind factory in my area yesterday. This facility is proposed by FERA . Interesting on a number of levels. The recycling of alledgedly all materials used in the construction and end of life materials was discussed. The Fera representative claimed that in future the blades WILL be recyclable, its just a matter of developing new resins that will break down in land fill. Hmmmm, apparently its always some time in the future. The bases will not be recycled, they will be reduced to 500mm below the surface level and the surface will be restored to “look like “ what it was before construction. This wind factory has a design life of 40 years with and estimated 10 to 15 years extension. The meeting was organised by Fera, a private company who are to be the owners of this development. Fera claim that the company will wholly fund the development and will not receive any government subsidies what so ever. The arguement that wind was the “cheapest” form of electricity was trotted out. No comment that the nearest wind factory to this new development ( about 20-30 kilometres away on esentially the same line of ridge ) reportedly runs at 38% efficiency. Looked at from a slightly different perspective this means that wind factories actually only generate electricity for 4 months out of 12 per year! Now tell me, how can any facility that only runs a random 4 months out of every 12 actually produce “the cheapest form of electricity”. No engineer or accountant worth his/ her salt would think this could be profitable without either HUGE prices for what ever energy is produced or the reciept subsidies. The meeting degenerated into statements about climate change ( pro and con) and was starting to heat up. People just walked out enmass. General consensus was it was just another bulls–t attempt at keeping the locals informed and on side. It failed in this. Almost 100% of attendees thought the development was a fait accompli, after all the minister has the final say, regardless of any other opinions.
Couple of observations.
1/All attendees were on the wrong side of 40, not a single young person to be seen.
2/ The proposed construction site is in the Strathbogie Ranges, apparently no opposition from the local aboriginal land council. ( raised eyebrows, they oppose everything!)
3/ Will it go ahead? Without doubt and the locals be damned. Every vote in rural Victoria doesn’t add up to one inner city electorate.
4/ The dog and I will attend any rally to further oppose this development, both of us will be barking.
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That sounds like a replay of the meeting in Ruffy a while back, not to mention one on a private property. Thanksfor your comment Sambar.
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Yes just another PR job I’m afraid.
Also forgot to mention that bird and bat deaths were brought up.
These deaths were justified by statistics and a “so what” attitude. Figures quoted, drawn from international studies on bird mortality by “human means” suggested that a mere 1% of bird and bat deaths could be attributed to wind turbines. So cars, buildings, power lines etc kill more than wind turbines will. Of great interest was the throw away line that “by the way far more birds bats and insects are killed by pollution from coal fired power plants than wind turbines and solar panels” No attempt to prove how this was measured, just a statement that like so many other statements, sounds good and holy but no research, just believe us.
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It is obvious that, despite all commonsense efforts at discussing all the issues, there is a full intention to press ahead. Never mind local opposition, the implied threat that smacked of certainty was that the Vic government would force it through anyway.
The damage that would/will be done in what is a very beautiful area is astonishing. As a family, we nicknamed FERA ‘Feral’ as their logo is their name with an outline of a wind turbine which part looks like a wonky ‘l’.
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J D Vance, climate “denialism” and left wing sensibilities. A potent combination that will get you sacked
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/26/how-appreciating-j-d-vance-got-me-cancelled-at-forbes/
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As most of us here have experienced, that is the thing they are most insecure about, and why they have zero tolerance on the issue.
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That was a VERY strange Olympics opening ceremony last night. I didn’t see the significance of this tableau at the time so don’t know if Breitbart interpreted it correctly
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/07/26/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-recreates-last-supper-with-drag-queens-trans-performers/
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Olympics opening ceremony blasted ‘extremely disrespectful’ with millions insulted
The Paris 2024 opening ceremony for the Olympics was forced to take place in the rain on Friday night but it was the performance that caught the attention of social media
The opening ceremony of the Olympics has come under fire for a performance that seemed to satirise Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic ‘The Last Supper’. The act, which included several drag artists, echoed the renowned depiction of Jesus and his apostles during their final Passover meal before Jesus’ betrayal and subsequent events leading to his crucifixion.
The portrayal was met with immediate backlash from various Christian figures, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who took to Twitter to express his disapproval: “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
Professional boxer Ryan Garcia also weighed in on Instagram, calling for a boycott: “The Olympics needs to be boycotted now. You can’t disrespect religion in front of millions. This ain’t right no one watch.”
American commentator Clint Russell voiced his astonishment on social media, saying: “This is crazy. Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the The Last Supper with men in drag. There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate: NOT WELCOME.”
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Meet the French Theater Director Behind the Olympics’ Drag Queens, Same-S@x Foreplay, Queer Last Supper Opening Ceremony
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris kicked off Friday with an opening ceremony that left many stunned and repulsed — drag queens cavorting in the streets, raunchy same-s@x foreplay, and a gender-queer re-enactment of The Last Supper.
There was even a bearded “woman” crawling around on all fours in a provocative blue bustier.
Who was responsible for the unfolding artistic atrocity? Meet Thomas Jolly, a theater and opera director who was little-known outside of France before Friday’s broadcast — which was viewed by more than a billion people worldwide — turned him into a global curiosity.
In interviews prior to Friday’s broadcast, the openly gay Thomas Jolly gave no indication that he would be turning the Opening Ceremony into a Pride parade.
But he did emphasize the importance of inclusion and representation.
“How do you write a show in which everybody, at one point, feels represented and a part this bigger thing, this bigger ‘us’?” he said. “It’s ambitious but also complex because one has to broaden one’s own imagery, one’s own outlook and include everyone, understand everyone so that no one feels left behind.”
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Meanwhile – Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology
Several X accounts that posted videos and/or screenshots about the absurdities of the Olympics’ opening ceremonies have been hit with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaints enforced by Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Your account has been locked because X received a compliant Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Notice for content posted to your X account. Under the DMCA, copyright owners can notify X claiming that a user has infringed their copyrighted works. Upon receipt of a valid DMCA notice, X will remove the identified material.
X maintains a repeat copyright infringer policy under which repeat infringer accounts will be suspended. Accruing multiple DMCA strikes may lead to suspension of your account.
JUST IN — They’re now targeting anyone who dared to complain about the blasphemous woke agenda during the
@Olympics
opening ceremony.
It’s as if they’re using “1984” as their instruction manual.
Another X user said, “Lots of DMCA takedowns of Olympic opening ceremony footage. Weird, it’s almost like they don’t want you to see it now.”
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Suddenly IOC and French Nervous About Those Opening Ceremony Videos
JUST IN – Users on X are hit by the IOC with copyright strikes for sharing videos of the controversial Olympics opening ceremony: reports
The Dank Knight 🦇
@capeandcowell
lol they’re nervous now
Perhaps the reaction to their edgy wokeness is not what they were anticipating eh?
When I went back through my X feed this morning after reading this, there are a lot of blank tweets where they’ve already taken down the most offensive snippets from last night’s performances, many of them European broadcast clips.
They may have a tougher time here with folks who simply recorded what was on their TVs. I downloaded and screenshot what I could.
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Was this the worst Opening Ceremony EVER?
Tennis ace Serena Williams speaks for millions as she pulls anguished face during Olympics opening ceremony
People watching footage of the four-time Olympic gold medallist commented that they thought she looked like she might be sick and that she looked like how people felt watching the controversial opening.
One person said online: ‘This is how the rest of us felt watching it.’
Someone else said online: ‘She hated it as much as everyone else!’
Another quipped: ‘She saw the rest of the opening ceremony.’
A social media user said: ‘Much of the audience felt sick, too.’
Another said: ‘What an embarrassment to France that opening ceremony was. The French people must be fuming.’
The Paris Olympics opening ceremony has been slammed by critics who dubbed it the ‘worst ever’ with poor audio caused by the near-torrential rain and some joking online that organisers needed to ‘stop the boats’.
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‘Dark stain’: The day the world turned on the Olympic Games
The global backlash to a controversy-filled opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics continues to plague the start of the event.
The Paris Olympics are at risk of being overwhelmed by an outpouring of anger as organisers deal with a seemingly unexpected level of controversy over the opening ceremony.
Paris spent $1.5 billion on its attempt to dazzle the world with a four-hour extravaganza, but even the appearances of megastars like Lady Gaga and Celine Dion have been overshadowed by the fury of viewers dismayed a perceived attack on the Christian faith.
A segment entitled “Festivity” began with a group of dancers and drag queens sat in poses that recalled depictions of the Last Supper, the final meal Jesus is said to have taken with his apostles.
It was set to music by lesbian activist DJ Barbara Butch who sat at the centre with a silver headdress that resembled a halo.
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>What an embarrassment to France that opening ceremony was
What an embarrassment to France, France has become.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
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>Was this the worst Opening Ceremony EVER?
Well, there was the celebration of the Black Artemis Cult (multi-breast goddess) that King Juan Carlos is said to have promoted at the 1992 Barcelona opening ceremony. That was grotesque and nothing whatsoever to do with sporting competition.
Then,
The Occult Symbolism of the 2012 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies
https://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/the-occult-symbolism-of-the-2012-olympics-opening-and-closing-ceremonies/
Sport?
Then there was the 2022 Commonwealth games in UK that featured Baal worship (the big brown bull – see below). Also nothing whatsoever to do with sporting competition.
So there were pointers as to where it is all going.
Olympics Opening Ceremony Features Dancing Drag Queens And Bizarre Symbology
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/olympic-opening-ceremony-features-dancing-drag-queens-and-bizarre-symbology
See UK Baal worship at bottom (bull).
Also,
Financelot @FinanceLancelot
Sport?
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>Olympic ceremonies – Baal/Bull worship – Pride
Brian Kennedy @Brian_Kennedy
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Dr. Simon Goddek @goddeketal
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Or a sign from Allah about who is now calling the shots in France!
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BREAKING: 🚨 FRANCE SUBLIMINAL ATTACKS ON STATUE OF LIBERTY!!!
Opening TV animation for @Olympics has some animated balloon travelling past the Statue of Liberty and she is
BEATEN BATTERED AND HAS BULLET HOLES IN HER. WTF Macron??? Is that what they want? F*Uck France.
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BREAKING: 🚨 FRANCE SUBLIMINAL ATTACKS ON STATUE OF LIBERTY!!!
Opening TV animation for @Olympics has some animated balloon travelling past the Statue of Liberty and she is
BEATEN BATTERED AND HAS BULLET HOLES IN HER. WTF Macron??? Is that what they want? F*@ck France.
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One view
“Demonic, Foul, Obscene and Disgusting – The Olympic Opening Ceremony in Paris
July 27, 2024 | Sundance | 231 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/27/demonic-foul-obscene-and-disgusting-the-olympic-opening-ceremony-in-paris/
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Jolly,
So not sport then.
“Everybody” is NOT a part of the actual Olympics.
National qualification is an exceptional contest prior.
There are exceptional athletes of all types sitting at home because of 100ths of a second or whatever.
Jolly is guilty of the Left’s “cultural appropriation”.
That is, a stolen opening ceremony for Lefty activism.
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Putin’s critique of the “West” is spot on.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/25/ioc-investigation-child-rapist-steven-van-de-velde-paris-olympic-games-2024
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You can imagine the outrage if the ceremony had parodied the isla*mi* equivalent of the last supper. Paris would be engulfed by days long riots.
A very strange ceremony and France has shown a face to the world that does it no credit.
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>France has shown a face to the world
Its an old face.
Medieval Inquisition, torture and mass killing of heretics (50 million Europe all up?).
French Revolution did the same in reverse and the rivers ran red with blood (20 million France all up?).
So a bit of Christian blasphemy isn’t much in that context.
Just that now its govt. driven propaganda broadcast to all the world with Pride.
Not to mention the hypocrisy of course.
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>So a bit of Christian blasphemy isn’t much in that context.
French Bishops Deplore ‘Derision and Mockery of Christianity’ at Paris Olympics
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/07/27/french-bishops-deplore-derision-mockery-christianity-paris-olympics/
Yeah, about that Inquisition…..
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Yeah, but we’re not the ones still living in mediaeval times.
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The sick olympics.
Dr eli david olympics forbid israel to wear yeiiow ribbon but palestinians can wearing t shirt showing bombs
The Olympic Games have been marred by controversy surrounding Israel’s participation. According to reports, Dr. Eli David, an IOC official, allegedly prohibited Israel from wearing yellow ribbons, a symbol of solidarity with victims of terrorism, during the Olympics.
Meanwhile, Palestinian athletes have been permitted to wear T-shirts featuring imagery of bombs, sparking widespread criticism and protests. These T-shirts are seen as a provocative statement, given the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Israeli’s responded
The Israeli Olympic team were not allowed to wear yellow ribbon pins for the hostages during the Paris Olympics.
So instead, they did this
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>So instead, they did this
Cool.
Couldn’t see it in the Reddit link but the image brings it out.
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>France has shown a face to the world
Wokery and Macron’s face.
France Committed National ‘Suicide’ with Woke Olympic Opening Ceremonies, Says Ex-Cabinet Minister
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/27/france-committed-national-suicide-with-woke-olympic-opening-ceremonies-says-ex-cabinet-minister/
There are are other faces, thankfully.
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Tech company pulls Olympics advertising after opening ceremony display many deem to be anti-Christian
Mississippi-based C Spire pulled its advertising after being ‘shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper’ during the 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Mississippi-based telecommunications and technology company C Spire posted on X that it had pulled all of its advertising from the Olympics over the ceremony’s mockery of painting created to show a biblical moment crucial to the Christian faith.
“We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics,” the company posted. “C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics.”
Another user wrote, “Gaga’s Olympics performance was the worst I’ve seen since Britney’s MTV show in 2007. It was the equivalent of defecating on [the] French flag. She insulted America, insulted France, and has no shame whatsoever.”
Still, one other Twitter user said, “I’m actually embarrassed on behalf of France, this is going down as the worst opening ceremony in history.”
Prominent far-right French politician Marion Maréchal denounced the performance on social media.
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the Paris 2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking, but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation,” she posted on the social platform X, a sentiment that was echoed by religious conservatives internationally.
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>You can imagine the outrage if the ceremony had parodied the isla*mi* equivalent of the last supper
And yet parodies of the Da Vinci Christian Last Supper are ubiquitous:
The Best Last Supper Parody Illustrations
https://www.mediadump.com/the-best-last-supper-parody-illustrations/
Last Supper in South Park
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Fast Food Mascot’s Supper
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Popeye Supper
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iPhone Supper
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Lego Supper
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Looney Tunes Super Stars
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Mickey Mouse Supper
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Models Supper
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Peanuts Supper
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Simba and the Lion King Cubs
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Sopranos Supper
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The Latht Thupper
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The Lost Supper
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The Smurf Supper
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The Super Smash Brothers Supper
Meanwhile – Islam and blasphemy
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There’s never a flaming meteorite going to hit the perv games when you want one, is there.
Once again, the degenerates try to force their illnesses onto the masses.
They are in the extreme minority despite their squeaky wheel incessant blathering.
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Folks need to get with the programme:
The actual “modern” Olympiad, not the 1896 / “Chariots of Fire” sort of caper, have their roots in the Berlin Olympics of 1936.
See if you can find a copy of Leni Reifenstahl’s epic “documentary”, “Olympia”. Her other big hit was “The Triumph of the Will”, in case you missed the timing.
The “over-the top” parades, with massed “Kultur” om show, the Greco-Roman architectural pastiche via Albert Speer. The ultra-nationalism. The MONEY.
I have long avoided the whole circus; difficult when it pervades everything for a few weeks. If the DNC had held off their Chardonnay Putsch for a week or two, nobody would have noticed their coup in progress.
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Food Situation in Olympic Village Ongoing
Food has become a major issue in the Olympic Village as the Paris Games are underway. Adequate food supply and uncooked meat are among the concerns.
Grilled chicken and eggs, in particular, are among the items in short supply. As a result, some athletes have resorted to bringing packed meals back to the Village for lunch and dinner, according to the Times of London.
British athletes are staying away from the restaurants in the residential complex and officials have sent an extra chef to Paris to provide proper meals for the team. Caterers are working to increase their food orders — especially in regards to eggs and chicken, which Paris Olympics officials wanted to source from France.
“At the beginning of every Games there are usually two or three issues and the transportation is always one,” British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Anson told the Times.
“But the big one this time is the food in the village, which is not adequate.”
Paris Olympic officials attempted to offer more plant-based foods in an effort to reduce the Games’ carbon footprint.
While there is a variety of cuisine available to accommodate the tastes of different countries — and an abundance of baguettes in France — vegan meals aren’t in line with what the athletes prefer to eat while competing.
One British athlete told the Times that the food situation is chaotic compared to the well organized facilities in Tokyo.
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WORDS cast SPELLS
OLYMPIC = I COMPLY
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Paris Olympics: Furious young Aussie says what most wouldn’t dare about opening ceremony stunt that mocked one of the West’s most sacred images
Weren’t they supposed to be celebrating things French?
The Last Supper is nothing to do with the French.
It was painted by an Italian and is in Milan – not even in the Louvre – so what was the connection?
Or were they just being disagreeable?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13678509/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-christian-islam-carla-efstratiou.html#comments
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https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/601735-olympics-opening-ceremony-criticism/
“Easily one of the worst Olympic opening ceremonies in recent history… Paris sh*t show,” one user wrote.
“This will ultimately be an unforgettable opening ceremony for the Olympics forever, a memory we so wish we could ultimately forget,” another echoed.
Addressing organizers after the ceremony, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to ignore the criticism it evoked, praising their work and saying he was “proud” they “made France shine.”
He posted a similar message on his official X account, but it has since received several thousand comments from users asking, “What is there to be proud of?”
Meanwhile
France facing glut of unwanted Olympics tickets – FT
Over 270,000 tickets reportedly remain unsold ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
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Cérémonie des Jeux Olympiques Vulgaire, Sale, Dégénérée et Cathophobe, La Volonté de Macron Don’t speak French? aucun problème – you should be able to get the gist. Bonne Chance! 😎️ (video)
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Guy with his balls out on stage https://www.zerohedge.com/political/olympic-opening-ceremony-features-dancing-drag-queens-and-bizarre-symbology says it all. We got to keep talking about it – they want everyone to shut up.
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Does Oz have the equivalent of the mad British desire to travel n the very first day of the summer holidays, knowing that everyone will be doing the same thing?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13678373/olympics-travel-chaos-britain-dover-queues-eurostars-axed.html
Why not wait a day or two when it will be relatively quiet? Its the same with bank holiday weekends when people seem determined to get away, knowing the traffic will be horrendous.
Incidentally the French also seem to do this but being a bigger country it is not so noticeable. The return home at the end of the French holidays has no equivalent here though.
We were in the South Of France one very busy day in late summer. We managed to find a crowded restaurant and earmarked one for the next day.
The next day it was closed as were all the others as the French had left to go home en-masse.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun,
The Japanese don’t care to.
The Chinese wouldn’t dare to,
Hindoos and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one.
But Englishmen detest a siesta.
In the Philippines
There are lovely screens
To protect you from the glare.
In the Malay States
There are hats like plates
Which the Britishers won’t wear.
At twelve noon
The natives swoon
And no further work is done.
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
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Which is why the Englishman came to create and dominate the real world.
I’ve been reading Max Weber who made theory the protestant work ethic formed capitalism. It was heavily criticised later – how do you explain France and Italy – but I think he’s more or less correct.
My parents had the protestant work ethic in their bones, genuine life long dairy farmers. It didn’t wash off on me, but they could never sit still, always out in the midday sun.
My mother is now 84 and the hardest thing for her is to sit and do nothing, destroys her mind, she hates not being physically capable. The other day she dug a trench to bury some pipe. I was furious with her, but tip my hat in respect.
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how did “real world” get in there? I meant “new world.
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Heads should roll over the electric car fiasco
Policymakers have wasted billions chasing a net zero pipe dream. It is time they were held accountable
Profits at the German auto giant Mercedes plunged on Friday as sales of its slick new range of electric vehicles (EVs) went into freefall. Porsche abandoned its sales targets for battery-powered cars amid waning demand from customers. Ford is losing nearly $50,000 (£39,000) on every EV it sells, while Tesla’s profits dropped 45pc. Meanwhile, battery manufacturers such as Germany’s Varta are getting wiped out.
Over the last few days, it has become clear that the EV industry is on the brink of collapse. Hundreds of billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been pumped into this industry by political leaders and the subsidy junkies that surround them – and it is surely time they were held to account for the vast quantities of taxpayer cash that has been wasted.
In the last few days alone, there has been a steady stream of bad news from auto manufacturers. Mercedes, the company founded by Gottlieb Daimler that pioneered petrol driven cars, is struggling to replicate that success in the battery version. Group net profits were down 21pc on Friday, mostly on falling sales of its new range of EVs. Earlier in the week, its great rival Porsche watered down plans for its electric models.
Across the Atlantic, Ford reported that profits were down by 35pc in the latest quarter amid losses in its EV unit. And Tesla slashed prices and offered generous financing deals to try and revive flagging demand.
The list goes on and on. In reality, the EV balance sheet looks to be awash with red ink. It is not hard to work out why.
Costs are too high, as companies such as Ford have discovered, with electric cars much more expensive to produce than their traditional petrol rivals, and with shortages of critical materials pushing prices higher all the time.
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Communism (Command Economy) at work vs a Demand Economy – no surprises at all.
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CO2 lover,
Agreed, I think you hit the nail on the head.
For me, it is an expectation that a free market economy trumps central planning, much like it is an expectation the Aussie relay teams will dominate Olympic swimming. As they are. Maybe the swimmers are inspired by seeing what has been possible in past Olympics when contestants operate in an environment of freedom from do-gooders. Geoff S
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Add another one
“Company halts construction of $2.7B battery project in eastern Ontario”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/07/26/hold-your-horses/
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when have policymakers ever been held accountable … for anything?
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Covid fiasco far more harmful than any net zero pipe dream https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/ten-points-about-post-lockdown-economics
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“Global Warming” and Offshore Windfarms
And where is Genius Bowen planning to build Offshore Windfarms?
https://www.9news.com.au/national/ocean-temperature-off-nsw-coast-warm-enough-to-support-tropical-cyclone/0d495ff5-f504-43c0-aa10-57652ae6f8fb
Sygna, a Norwegian bulk carrier that ran aground off Stockton Beach during a heavy storm in May 1974
This subject also applies to the east cost of the USA
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/26/east-coast-wind-turbine-fiasco-in-the-making/
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Who killed the Shooter? Not the Secret Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6or6UOk6fY&ab_channel=PeakProsperity
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si4F3DMmeAo&ab_channel=StephenGardner
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>PP – Let’s Label the Roof ‘Lanes’
I like that term a lot. I used ‘external roof purlins’ but ‘lanes’ is much better.
Makes West-East measurement easy. 4 lanes Crooks to rifle (about 5 1/2 ft), about 21 1/2 ft rifle to end of roof.
It’s South-North measurement that’s problematic. Remember crooks was in shooting position so that the rifle was above the ridge line.
I mention this in respect to where the cartridges ended up. Yesterday I did an ejection analysis that shows, given speed/angle/height/bounce, that Crooks final position does NOT explain cartridge positions – especially the one directly AHEAD of Crooks.
And no, “official” story that USSS Team 2 made the dispatch shot doesn’t ring true. Head wound for starters.
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Shots fired at Trump at 6:11:33 p.m.
At around 6.20 pm first responders to the “sloping roof” count five casings as captured on a body cam recording
At around 7.10 pm an ABC television crew is taken to the “sloping roof” and onother count of casing is made and the bumber is now eight!
Media then claims all eight shots made by the dead shooter even though sound recordings of the first three shots are very different to the next five
Nothing to see or hear here!
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>ABC …..number is now eight!
“Up to eight”
Also – “shimmying up the slope of the AGR building’s roof to the area”
Assuming that means STRAIGHT up the roof this was his route (see video below):
Link Canopy => bag => rifle
NOT,
Link Canopy => bag => body
Gunman identified as video shows body and rifle on roof after Trump shooting [Roof Video]
https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-shooting-video-shows-apparent-gunman-on-roof-13177673
The body is blurred out but you can see where it is. It is OFFSET from the direct route – Link Canopy => bag => rifle
Stands to reason (ok, maybe obscured by trees so moved) that Crooks clambered up from the Link Canopy onto the roof, dropped his bag, then went STRAIGHT up the roof to where his rifle is in that video and THAT was his shooting position.
I’m not saying this is the definitive interpretation; just what stands to reason from what is observed in the video.
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>The body is blurred out but you can see where it is. It is OFFSET from the direct route – Link Canopy => bag => rifle
My point here at its simplest is that Crooks moved from his shooting position, leaving his rifle, and was THEN shot, probably by ESU from 2nd story window.
NOT that the body was in the shooting position and the rifle was moved to its final position by first responders as reported. That report defies logic and is it fact anyway? I don’t think so.
Again, not a definitive interpretation of events but an application of reason, logic, and observation combined with a healthy scepticism of media reporting.
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My impression was that he remained low on the slope but shifted laterally, raising his torso to move over the roof corrugation.
I wonder how he assessed he was below a viable shooting position and how he knew President Trump was in position on centre stage.
There is also the issue of the final rifle position relative to Crooks body.
It is clear that the AR-15 was not shot away from the body as initially claimed. It is likely that the first responders separated the rifle asap after photographing and witness-marking.
But it is possible that Crooks tossed the rifle to one side after firing.
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Leo
1) >My impression was that he remained low on the slope but shifted laterally
Maybe but speculation – not fact.
Why would he take the rifle up STRAIGHT (pos.1), then shift laterally with rifle (pos.2), then rifle ends up at pos.1 again?
That defies logic. But Ok I did make a qualification:
So not out of the question I agree.
2) >It is likely that the first responders separated the rifle asap
Maybe but speculation – not fact.
Makes no sense either – the guy was expired, he wasn’t about to do any more shooting. And local police/SWAT/ESU are hardly likely to go rearranging the crime scene.
But again, not out of the question I agree.
3) >it is possible that Crooks tossed the rifle to one side after firing.
Maybe but speculation – not fact.
This one just does not ring true to me. The rifle ended up lying in EXACTLY the direction it was used to make the shots and in the EXACT STRAIGHT route up the roof. Not randomly tossed and ending up skew-whiff
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>This one [ 3) ] just does not ring true to me. The rifle ended up lying in EXACTLY the direction it was used to make the shots and in the EXACT STRAIGHT route up the roof. Not randomly tossed and ending up skew-whiff
Screen grab from body cam of rifle closeup in final position here:
Investigation into Trump shooting started within minutes on the roof, but questions linger
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/07/27/new-video-investigation-trump-shooting/74546627007/
Photo/Screen Grab,
AR15 style rifle on roof – Beaver County
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/07/26/USAT/74558277007-trump-gun.png?width=980&height=577&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
That wasn’t thrown there in frantic haste.
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Not speculation, but based on observation.
Crooks is first shown in one video as he enters the roof onto a prone position with his lower legs swinging back as he lands.
That video clip had a perspective which included the roof gutter and its vertical support columns.
He then lifts his body with a kind of awkward hopping action without moving up the slope.
He repeats that several times without upward progress, suggesting he moved laterally across the corrugation.
That video did not show him moving up the slope, an action he must subsequently have taken.
Other later video shows him at what appears to be his firing position, but the later video had a perspective overlooking the gable end from an angle which obscured Crooks distance from the ridgecap.
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Leo
>That video clip
>He repeats that several times without upward progress, suggesting he moved laterally across the corrugation.
That’s this video:
Video shows shooter Thomas Crooks wasn’t stopped for nearly two minutes before shooting Donald Trump
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-14/visual-analysis-of-the-attempted-assassination-of-donald-trump/104096376
@ 0:15-0:016-0:17-0:18 he barely moves.
@ 0:33-0:34-0:35 he shifts his body but there’s no lateral movement.
@ 0:43-0:44-0:45-0:46 he shifts his body but again there’s no lateral movement.
O:46 – end of video
That position is at the bottom of the roof adjacent where he left his bag i.e. directly above the Link Canopy where he (and everyone else) climbed up from Canopy to roof.
There’s no lateral movement from that position in that video. And it’s not the shooting position at the top of roof anyway.
>That video clip had a perspective which included the roof gutter and its vertical support columns.
Yes, critical.
Except that West-to-East perspective produces a photographic foreshortening effect so impossible to determine Crooks bag position in respect to, what appears to be, the vertical support columns.
But they are actually gutter downpipes – not support columns. Support columns will be internal.
A clear precise view is North-South from ESU body cam in the Grassley update video here:
SENSITIVE CONTENT: Full Bodycam Footage Obtained by Grassley from Beaver Co. Emergency Services Unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzus2Ilw-mg
@ 7.20 – 7:30 shows the wall and roof East end to past the Link Canopy, Crooks bag, and the gutter downpipe. You can also see the gutter connection from Link Canopy to downpipe.
The downpipe is 1st from end of building and 3 ‘Lanes’ West of Crooks bag. Crooks bag and rifle are in the same ‘Lane’.
Crooks body is 1 ‘Lane’ West of the downpipe and 4 ‘Lanes’ West of Crooks bag and rifle.
>That video did not show him moving up the slope, an action he must subsequently have taken.
Yes. I posit he moved STRAIGHT up the slope from his bag to where his rifle ended up – not laterally (why would he do that?).
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Resolving the shooter position issue.
The only way to resolve this that I can think of is a photo from the rally side of the building showing Crooks head.
It would be easy then to count the number of ‘lanes’ from the end of the building to the position thereby confirming where, exactly, Crooks made his shots.
I did see such a photo from, I think, an ESU body cam with the position encircled in red. I can’t remember in which article and it will probably take me a month of Sundays (heh) to find it again.
Working on it.
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>It would be easy then to count the number of ‘lanes’ from the end of the building to the position thereby confirming where, exactly, Crooks made his shots.
16 ‘lanes’ (about 20+ ft) from the end of building to rifle. Easy to count here @ 6:21:
SENSITIVE CONTENT: Full Bodycam Footage Obtained by Grassley from Beaver Co. Emergency Services Unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzus2Ilw-mg
Doesn’t resolve where the actual shots were fired from unfortunately.
>I did see such a photo from, I think, an ESU body cam with the position encircled in red. I can’t remember in which article and it will probably take me a month of Sundays (heh) to find it again.
I found that again – not helpful.
The first responders placed a red cone by the body, report then encircled the red cone in red.
Does nothing to ascertain where, exactly, the shots were fired from.
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AGC area survey – ABC News
Some days back both CO2 guy and myself made a comment about the apparent lack of area survey.
Turns out the FBI were there surveying the area:
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474
Scroll down to photo:
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team, work near the building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 15, 2024.
https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/4adad547-8a39-4ba3-8497-3b2492678707/fbi-embed_1721208332109_hpEmbed_3x2.jpg?w=1500
Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters
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There is body-cam footage of the G men on the roof while the body and rifle were still there and he counted eight shells.
I don’t know what to believe so I’ll wait a month and see if they genuinely know anything then. I know Trump was winged and came up fighting, that’s enough for now.
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Indeed!
Note that the response was that the count was “at least 8 casings”. So the responder was not referring to actual data.
I also noted that the ABC report started with body cam sequence taken well before 7am and cut in a sequence from a different sequence taken perhaps 30 minutes later.
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>“at least 8 casings”
No, “Up to eight”
See ABC quote from #7.2.1.1:
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You are not referring to the same report.
Examine the video on the link below to the FoxNews report.
Note this is not the same video that was the basis of my earlier comment, but does repeat the same “at least eight” shell casings comment.
It appears the charade was repeated several times with different counts. The report is inconsistent with the report given during the Grassley released videos.
From Fox News- go to 1 min 51 sec mark
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359219154112
Definitely “At Least 8” on the audio and in highlighted text.
For comparison, the Grassley video (go to 7 minute 55 sec mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzus2Ilw-mg
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Leo
>From Fox News- go to 1 min 51 sec mark
[Link – FOX]
>Definitely “At Least 8” on the audio and in highlighted text.
Gottit.
That’s the Beaver County ESU guys saying “At Least 8”, not FOX.
Then ESU again,
So exactly eight according to ESU count.
>For comparison, the Grassley video
Yes, same Grassley video from ESU.
Leaves 2 shots (I think. Conflicting audio analyses – see below). My take assuming 10 shots:
Shot #9 dispatched Crooks from 2nd story window by ESU (consistent with head wounds).
Shot #10 was a miss by USSS CS Team 2.
Have to say I haven’t had my head in the various audio analyses except that what I have seen doesn’t tally with 8 shots from Crooks + 2 (1 ESU, 1 CS Team 2) = 10.
Conflicting audio analyses next.
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Audio analyses – Chris Martenson and Mike Adams
[This is not to say I subscribe to any of this but just an example to address]
Trump & the crowd were shot at by at least two separate people
New evidence from Chris Martenson and Mike Adams
https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-crowd-were-shot-at
[Note: Mike Adams runs Natural News that i read for a while but stopped. He also runs a testing lab]
Forensic Audio Analysis of Trump shooting – FIRST 7 ROUNDS – best current analysis by Mike Adams
Round 1: 0.22s snap/boom delay = 400ft – 450ft distance
Round 2: 0.22s snap/boom delay = 400ft – 450ft distance
Round 3: 0.22s snap/boom delay = 400ft – 450ft distance
(roughly 2.5 second pause)
Round 4: 0.22s snap/boom delay = 400ft – 450ft distance
Round 5: 0.22s snap/boom delay = 400ft – 450ft distance
Round 6: 0.366s snap/boom delay = 600ft – 700ft distance
Round 7: 0.714s snap/boom delay = 1100ft – 1500ft distance
MOST LIKELY EXPLANATION OF ROUND ORIGINS BASED ON CURRENT KNOWLEDGE:
Round 1: Crooks on roof
Round 2: Crooks on roof
Round 3: Crooks on roof
Round 4: Assassination sniper inside building
Round 5: Assassination sniper inside building
Round 6: Medium-range sniper at unknown location
Round 7: Long-range sniper at unknown location (water tower? need to check)
* Assumption for rounds 1 – 5 = 2500fps average velocity
* Assumption for rounds 6 – 7 = 3000fps average velocity, due to likely a larger caliber, longer-range cartridge, such as 300 Win Mag
# # #
Caveat: Mike Adams, and his authors, sell sensation on Natural News. There’s a lot of good stuff and a lot of iffy stuff.
Having said that, Adams does run a scientific testing lab that has to pass Accreditation – see next.
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Consumer Wellness Center Labs (CWC LABS)
– Mike Adams
https://cwclabs.com/About.html
Accurate Screening and Quantitation
CWC Labs offers extremely accurate quantitation of heavy metals, minerals and elements, achieving sub-ppb quantitation limits for many elements. LC/MS-TOF instrumentation can also screen samples for tens of thousands of known industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical chemicals. Quantitation of chemicals is also available for over 250 common agricultural pesticides.
CWC Labs is also able to scan almost any sample for unknown contaminants using Time-of-Flight instrumentation. This can help manufacturers and consumers identify hormone disruptors, industrial contaminants or agrochemicals they may not have known to look for. Such as:
Lead in municipal water
Fluoride in beverages
Pesticides in processed foods
CBD in hemp oil products
Mercury in fish or vaccines
Active phytochemicals
Chemical runoff in soils
Heavy metals in soils
Lead in calcium supplements
Arsenic in seaweed
# # #
I used to work in a materials testing lab for a while so I know the precision required in the above (nanograms).
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>I know the precision required in the above (nanograms)
That was the limit of my experience – 9 decimal places of a gram, last 3 are nanograms.
Adams’ lab gets down to “sub-ppb quantitation limits for many elements”.
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Yes. I was unaware that Grassley’s video of the Beaver County ESU on the roof showed both counts- the first counting 5 shell casings, and the second count (reporting 8 casings) 19 minutes later.
The second count suggested there may be more than 8 casings.
The response team were either incompetent crime scene observers or there was a political need to change the count.
Apparently, news services didn’t think it politic to highlight the discrepant reports.
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Peter C was confused by the mirror reverse shot of the dead bloke in your previous posted image attempting to confirm both images alive on the retaining wall and dead on the roof were the same guy.
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Re back and forth yesterday in respect to Broadie’s video.
Peter C and myself involved.
Much said about pants length, bare calves/lower leg, Tee shirt.
Completely ignored has been footwear and socks.
@ 0:32-0:33 in that video there’s a clear view of Crooks.
Grey footwear (Crooks), black ankle length socks (Crooks).
So from bottom up (see 0:32-0:33):
Grey shoes
Black ankle length socks
Bare pale calves
Knee length pants
Demolition Ranch Tee shirt
Long hair
All Crooks.
I’m just not seeing Broadies “other” guy on the roof.
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>I’m just not seeing Broadies “other” guy on the roof.
But I do see @ 0:40 “Possible suspect spotted” on the ground in the following ABC video:
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474
Video: Trump shooting timeline: How the assassination attempt unfolded
I think this is Broadies guy. Hopefully he will confirm/deny.
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Better photo of Crooks from horizontal (cropped from video):
Video shows shooter Thomas Crooks wasn’t stopped for nearly two minutes before shooting Donald Trump
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-14/visual-analysis-of-the-attempted-assassination-of-donald-trump/104096376
See,
The suspected shooter in a prone firing position facing the stage where Trump was speaking.(Supplied: TMZ)
Plenty in that photo to ID Crooks.
Grey shoes
Black ankle length socks
Bare pale calves (play video 0:35-0:36-0:37)
Knee length pants (play video 0:35-0:36-0:37)
Demolition Ranch Tee shirt
Long hair
All Crooks.
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‘Wot’ the Guy in the long sleeves?
Posted previously as evidence of other similar clothing. Glad you agree. This chap had knee length light pants.
I am with Hanrahan. We need to stop the speculation and actually look at and if possible validate images and our perception of them.
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>Glad you agree. This chap had knee length light pants
Re: The “Possible suspect spotted” on the ground @ 0:40. in video
Yes light pants. No I don’t agree those are knee length but immaterial anyway because its obviously NOT Crooks.
This “Possible suspect spotted” on ground(ABC) is a dead-end, red herring, wild goose chase, whatever.
Just that I’ve been looking for “your” guy, whoever he is. You seem to be denying so which is what I was hoping upthread with:
You apparently deny. Ok.
So we’re left with just Crooks:
Grey shoes
Black ankle length socks
Bare pale calves (play video 0:35-0:36-0:37)
Knee length pants (play video 0:35-0:36-0:37)
Demolition Ranch Tee shirt
Long hair
All Crooks.
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Love the Body Cam guy 26:09 walking across from door access to roof from two storey building to the dead guys roof. Richard asked how guy in shorts was able to access roof from his picnic spot. Possibly used the nearby door ’12’ up the stairs and through onto the roof. Would need to know internal layout to understand the timing and possibility.
Commentator appears to kill the sniper team 2 kill shot theory.
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Broadie >Richard asked how guy in shorts was able to access roof from his picnic spot
This is getting tiresome.
No, I did NOT say that. Quote me. Don’t put words in my mouth I never said.
I never said anything about “picnic spot” (i.e. you’re lying Broadie).
I asked how did Crooks ACTUALLY get from ground to roof?
What access route – EXACTLY?
“Official” story was that he climbed “air conditioner unit”:
Trump would-be assassin climbed air conditioning unit to access shooting perch: report [FOX News]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-would-be-assassin-climbed-air-conditioning-unit-to-access-shooting-perch-report/ar-BB1q9vDD
Ok, fine – air conditioning unit.
Which air conditioning unit EXACTLY?
Against which building EXACTLY?
On which side/end of building EXACTLY?
No-one has the answer to any of that.
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ABC/FOX,
Which unit EXACTLY?
The unit on the NW corner of the South building (shooter roof) is AWAY from the wall of the building and clearly visible by onlookers. It would be a supreme physical feat to cross the gap from unit top to roof.
It is also at the opposite end of “the building” (West) to the shooter position (East).
Which building EXACTLY?
“The building” is an assumption – not necessarily fact.
There are at least 4 buildings (divided in 2), the South building (Crooks shooting position) is signed “Building 6” on South half and “Building 5” on the other half i.e. 5/6.
Next building North (4/5) has the 2nd story at back.
Then further North Buildings 3/4 and 1/2.
There’s multiple air conditioning units around the buildings. One “model” even made up the location of one.
Not one specific air conditioning unit against one specific building has been identified.
So much of the narrative is simply speculation. The “air conditioner” story is a case in point.
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Wrays story,
Suitably vague is Wray. Nothing at all specific about that.
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>Which [air conditioning] unit EXACTLY?
>The unit on the NW corner of the South building (shooter roof) is AWAY from the wall of the building and clearly visible by onlookers.
Closeup photo of that unit from Eli Crane:
Air conditioning unit on the NW corner of the South building
https://abruptearthchanges.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/second-floor-window-down.jpg?w=473
I suppose Spiderman could have made the leap.
From,
The second-floor snipers
https://abruptearthchanges.com/2024/07/25/trump-shooting-of-july-13th-the-second-floor-snipers/
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I identified the bloke in the grey top, short pants and black shoes chillin’ on the lawn while everyone else was a hollerin’ about the shooter on the roof above him. I suggested he looked like he was having a picnic.
I quote your comment above:
and:
My statement above to which you have responded:
It was the guy in the shorts picnic spot ‘his’ not yours.
I understand there may have been a misunderstanding or:
This is a technique where you construct a ‘straw man’ then beat it up. Your attempts to avoid a logical reply to my questions should in my opinion cast the purpose of your numerous and repetitive posts into question.
Words from your mouth:
So my point remains. I agree let us do one step at a time. As I said we do not need to do conjecture until we have some facts, like does door 12 allow access to the roof?
So:
Step 1.
Why was one guy in grey and white knee length shorts with shoes talking to a Policeman and discussing the building in the direction to which a guy in similar outfit would be found dead?
How was this guy in the same frame chillin’ on the grass while our attention was being drawn to the ‘gun man’ in grey top and long white pants?
Is this the same guy who was seen an hour before standing looking towards the stage area in front of where the body was found?
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(Canada) Former chair of Liberals’ ‘green slush fund’ found to have ‘improperly furthered’ business interests
https://nationalpost.com/news/head-of-clean-tech-fund-conflict-of-interest
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Environmentalists are very fashionable at the present time, and you may be tempted into acquiring one. You must realise that you never own an environmentalist, you are merely permitted to support it. They are very demanding and will rule you life, and can turn savage if ignored. As maintaining them can be very, very expensive it is important to make an informed choice.
Here are some of the more popular choices.
The Albanese – was popular once but has declined in support lately. Very noisy and may have to be put down, especially if dementia strikes.
The Bowen Barker – very costly in upkeep and needs lots of land to roam, as it tries to hurdle any fence, even those impossible.
The Tealie – it’s breeding doubt-full (a cross between a Green-piece and an unknown one?). Must be given luxurious surroundings or it complains to the ABC.
The Yelpie – popular in some streets, noisy, insecure and demands lots of paint & glue. Will suddenly stop moving at the most inconvenient time.
The Flannerois – Much out of date. Prone to hysteria especially if someone utters the word nuclear. Best avoided (also the ABC)
The Green-piece – avoid this at all costs. Very unstable and will bite you without warning if you don’t supply its wants, which are very expensive.
I try to discourage people from adopting Environmentalists. The inevitable change in fashion in a few years will mean that current supporters will be unwilling to make the expenditure that they require.
A better choice, if you care for your children, is the reliable Dutton Terrier. Not a handsome creature but dependable.
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Do not forget the Hanson Hound – strikes terror into the rest of the pack.
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I just got a message from a friend that her daughter, who works at a school in Melbourne, and thus was in receipt of compulsory multiple covid “vaccines”, now has heart disease as a result.
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My wife and I were able to avoid the “Death Jab”, however both our daughters were force to get the “Death Jab” – one forced to do so by Coles and the other to return to Australia from Japan (which did not force her to be jabbed while teaching in Japan). I now live in dread of similar news.
Our enemies are not China or Russia – our enemies are our corrupt politicians and their corrupt public serpent mates.
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Our enemy is poor thinkers dominating public life.
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Mrs H and I had the first jab when I could see no alternative because I was trying to get her into hospice care. I had a crazy BP episode a month later [220/180] and am booked in for a pacemaker tomorrow, although I am not blaming THAT on the jab. Old men’s hearts do run down naturally.
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Introduction
Cardiovascular disorders have been extensively reported during COVID-19 illness, including arrhythmias such as atrioventricular conduction disturbances. To date, one case of transient heart block has been reported after COVID-19 vaccine.
My bold.
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good luck mate
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That’s so sad. Our sons had the jabs too but will not take any more. Fingers crossed.
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One is a pilot, isn’t he? He had little choice.
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True Hanrahan, unfortunately. All good, so far.
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CO2 lover,
Agreed, I think you hit the nail on the head.
For me, it is an expectation that a free market economy trumps central planning, much like it is an expectation the Aussie relay teams will dominate Olympic swimming. As they are. Maybe the swimmers are inspired by seeing what has been possible in past Olympics when contestants operate in an environment of freedom from do-gooders. Geoff S
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Our unsung pioneer women swimmers
Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie.
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FWIW
“Automaker Stellantis Takes Big Hit, Talking Big Changes”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/07/26/automaker-stellantis-takes-big-hit-talking-big-changes-n3792321
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Meanwhile Toyota is going from strength to strength
Toyota has a well won reputation for quality and bet on hybrids and not on EVs.
Since the cost of hybrid Toyota’s is only a few thousand dollars more that an equivalent ICE (and not tens of thousands more for an EV version) Toyota has drooped ICE versions for many models for hybrid version only.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/2025-toyota-camry-unveiled/
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A safe bet.
If the “consensus on climate change” was based on reality the surest route to manage a rapid transition to electric vehicles without causing an increase in anthropogenic emissions.
That would avoid the need to replace electrical power distribution systems throughout developed and developing countries, massively increase lithium and copper mining, replace all ICE vehicles with non-hybrid electric vehicles, and shift energy intensive industries to China and India (arbitrarily increasing global emissions).
But, of course, woke reality is an oxymoron.
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My 2010 Toyota hybrid is still running perfectly, the HV battery is still good but if it failed I would probably replace it rather than wreck the car it is so good.
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LOL. ChSoros showing the wymmins surfing. You have to hear the commentator exaggerating the little waves which last about 5 seconds.
And The Simpsons nail it again
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“According to ACT police, 132 drivers have been reported for various road offences through a new online reporting tool, which launched in May 2024, that allows anyone to upload “digital imagery” of illegal behaviour on state roads.”
So, get a picture of someone failing to indicate a turn, send it to the Police and they will prosecute for you. Divide and rule is the usual Govt method, and this will be a classic example of it. The comments instantly divide people between drivers/cyclists and slow drivers/tailgaters with the same hatred as Democrats and republicans in the USA.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/dangerous-drivers-busted-as-part-of-act-polices-new-online-reporting-tool/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_2&utm_medium=partner
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If the photo is taken from the drivers seat do you also cop a fine for using your phone?
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“If the photo is taken from the drivers seat do you also cop a fine for using your phone?”
Clever!
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Crikey. ABC Insiders. Niki Savva has had fillers under her eyes instead of her lips.
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Chiefio on the “Secure Boot” computer security issue
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/w-o-o-d-14-july-2024-trump-shot-near-miss-brics-grows-eu-uk-usa-decline-fed-dithers/#comment-171678
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The most chilling words today: I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 07/27/24
Recently, I wrote a Hill column criticizing NewsGuard, a rating operation being used to warn users, advertisers, educators and funders away from media outlets based on how it views the outlets’ “credibility and transparency.”
Roughly a week later, NewsGuard came knocking at my door. My blog, Res Ipsa (jonathanturley.org), is now being reviewed and the questions sent by NewsGuard were alarming, but not surprising.
I do not know whether the sudden interest in my site was prompted by my column. I have previously criticized NewsGuard as one of the most sophisticated operations being used to “white list” and “black list” sites.
My new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” details how such sites fit into a massive censorship system that one federal court called “Orwellian.”
For any site criticizing the media or the Biden administration, the most chilling words today are “I’m from NewsGuard and I am here to rate you.”
Conservatives have long accused the company of targeting conservative and libertarian sites and carrying out the agenda of its co-founder Steven Brill. Conversely, many media outlets have heralded his efforts to identify disinformation sites for advertisers and agencies.
Brill and his co-founder, L. Gordon Crovitz, want their company to be the media version of the Standard & Poor’s rating for financial institutions. However, unlike the S&P, which looks at financial reports, NewsGuard rates highly subjective judgments like “credibility” based on whether they publish “clearly and significantly false or egregiously misleading” information. They even offer a “Nutrition Label” for consumers of information.
Of course, what Brill considers nutritious may not be the preferred diet of many in the country. But they might not get a choice since the goal is to allow other companies and carriers to use the ratings to disfavor or censor non-nutritious sites.
The rating of sites is arguably the most effective way of silencing or marginalizing opposing views. I previously wrote about other sites supported by the Biden administration that performed a similar function, including the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
GDI then released a list of the 10 most dangerous sites, all of which are popular with conservatives, libertarians and independents.
Yet, NewsGuard is in the business of labeling people . . . and warning advertisers. It considers my writings to be conservative or libertarian and wants to know “Why is this perspective not disclosed to give readers a sense of the site’s point of view?”
It does not matter. Apparently from where NewsGuard reviewers sit, I am a de facto conservative or libertarian who needs to wear a digital bell to warn others.
It is a system that includes what Elon Musk correctly called “the advertising boycott racket.” Musk was responding to another such group pushing a rating system as an euphemism for blacklisting. For targeted sites, NewsGuard is now the leading racketeer in that system. It makes millions of dollars by rating sites — a new and profitable enterprise with dozens of other academic and for-profit groups.
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Who are the Druze? Arabic-speaking residents of Israel town hit by Hezbollah rocket that killed at least 11
The northern Israeli town ravaged by a Hezbollah rocket attack Saturday that killed at least 11 people — mostly children — and injured dozens of others is home to members of the Druze community.
The Druze are an insular Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious minority who originated in Egypt roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Isl@m. Its members keep secret the tenets of their faith, which bars converts and frowns upon marrying outside the religion.
The Druze faith was influenced by the Quran and Christianity and Judaism, but also Greek philosophy and Eastern mysticism, according to the American Druze Foundation.
Out of the estimated 1 million Druze living in the world today, roughly 152,000 reside in Israel, making up 1.4% of the nation’s population, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Unlike most Arab communities in the Middle East, however, the Druze are known for their support of the Jewish state and are required to enroll in the Israel Defense Forces when they turn 18.
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Tommy Robinson London Demo Sees Tens of Thousands Rally Against Censorship and Mass Migration
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/27/tommy-robinson-london-demo-sees-tens-of-thousands-rally-against-censorship-and-mass-migration/
Carl Benjamin @Sargon_of_Akkad
And,
And,
MSM will be right on this in 3….2….1….Breaking News
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Peter C asked simply asked for an image of the supposed shooter in long pants.
‘Everyone agrees’. Where have we seen that before?
For a clear understanding of that image you are referencing. Clearly long pants at 31 secs. Could be a compression issue though should be easily cleared up with a file on the phone.
Footwear mentioned many times, though I would like to clear up the obvious first
Clothes doth maketh the man? We do not know which shooter was ‘Crookes’, if in fact any. You have made many excuses for the fact the dead person is filmed in shorts with dirt on his knees. ‘Police always rip pants off to search for bombs’, camo etc
My point about this image right from the start was that he is filmed taking a shooting position at the gutter end of the roof away from Trump and could not have from this point made the shot at Trump. This was on Michael Smith’s Blog and quite possibly was the beginning of the slopey roof controversy. Granted the commentary appears to say at the end of the clip “he is standing up” so he may have moved at this point.
None so blind as those who cannot see! Two of the ‘other guys’ are in the same frame at 8 seconds though his face is blurred in the video. Was he the understudy?
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>‘Everyone agrees’. Where have we seen that before?
Who are you quoting? I didn’t say that.
Don’t put words in my mouth that I didn’t say.
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>Clearly long pants at 31 secs
Blurred and indistinct.
Clearly knee length 0:32-0:33.
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Broadie >My point about this image right from the start was that he is filmed taking a shooting position at the gutter end of the roof away from Trump and could not have from this point made the shot at Trump.
“Gutter end”?
What film is that and from what perspective? horizontal? overhead?
A horizontal perspective will produce a foreshortening effect depending on camera/lens (and think depth-of-field in photography). These smart phone camera photo/videos are not SLR cameras with telephoto lenses or equivalent TV cameras used at sports events:
Lens Choices, Subject Distances, and How They Affect the Visual Impact of Your Photographs
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/lens-choices-subject-distances-and-how-they-affect-the-visual-impact
From upthread #7.2.1.1
ABC – shooter seen “shimmying up the slope of the AGR building’s roof to the area”
Assuming that means STRAIGHT up the roof this was his route (see video above):
Link Canopy => bag => rifle
NOT,
Link Canopy => bag => body
Gunman identified as video shows body and rifle on roof after Trump shooting [Roof Video]
https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-shooting-video-shows-apparent-gunman-on-roof-13177673
The body is blurred out but you can see where it is. It is OFFSET from the direct route – Link Canopy => bag => rifle
Neither rifle or body is anywhere near the “Gutter end”. The distance rifle to end of roof is just over 20 ft (count ‘lanes’, equate to feet).
Stands to reason (ok, maybe obscured by trees so moved) that Crooks clambered up from the Link Canopy onto the roof, dropped his bag, then went STRAIGHT up the roof to where his rifle is in that video and THAT was his shooting position.
Both rifle and body are near top of roof. Again nowhere near ‘Gutter end”.
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>“Gutter end”?
Also see discussion with Leo about this @ #7.2.1.1.3 here:
#7.2.1.1.3
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/07/sunday-67/#comment-2785627
Topics:
Lateral movement or not?
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Roof gutter and gutter downpipes
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Specific downpipe in respect to: South end of building; Crooks bag/rifle; and, Crooks body.
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Unresolved question: did Crooks move STRAIGHT up the roof to rifle position or LATERALLY to body position.
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On viewing other video of Crook’s lateral shimmying along the roof close to the gutter, his lateral movement is eastward (not westward).
Chris Wray may have provided a clue to why Crooks may have done this.
Wray reported that Crooks earlier navigated a video drone to a position 200 yards north of his shooting position, and that he believed Crooks was finding a shooting position where trees obstructed the line of sight for both counter-sniper teams on the “barns”.
The implication is that Crooks climbed onto the roof, left his pack at that point, moved about six feet to the east before climbing to the shooting position, corresponding to the final position of the AR-15.
He fired, then for some compelling reason, abandoned the AR-15 and moved back to the west and into the line of sight of one of the counter-sniper teams.
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Me >I’m just not seeing Broadies “other” guy on the roof.
Broadie >None so blind as those who cannot see!
From #7.3.1 upthread:
But I do see @ 0:40 “Possible suspect spotted” on the ground in the following ABC video:
Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474
Video: Trump shooting timeline: How the assassination attempt unfolded
I think this is Broadies guy. Hopefully he will confirm/deny.
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Richard,
Do you keep posting to fill up the recent comments field?
Is that why a simple uncomfortable fact appears to attract so much rehashed cut and paste?
Gutter receives water running down the ‘lanes’. The gable is at the end.
The live guy in long pants appears to be filmed near the gutter and not at the ridge. The woman at the end of the video appears to say he is getting up or something similar. So that may have been when he advanced up the roof. The video cuts at that moment. At the same moment the guy in the light cap, grey shirt and shorts that was chillin’ on the grass appears to be entering the image from the left. Maybe he was heading to door 12? He was the one who had previously had the discussion with the security guy in black about the roof and appeared around the front without his cap an hour before?
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Just Stop Oil Gets Stopped (video)
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FWIW – USA
“East coast wind turbine fiasco in the making”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/26/east-coast-wind-turbine-fiasco-in-the-making/
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Upgraded –
“The 24 Hour Rule And Biden’s Speech”
Biden’s watch time
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251760
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Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Commrade Albanese will announce his reshuffle this afternoon.
Whatever the outcome remember most of us are sailing in Third Class at the bottom of the ship.
With over 1000 third class passengers on board, accommodation was basic. Cabins slept up to 10 people and were located at the noisy bottom part of the ship close to the engines. Single men and women were split up at the front and back with families in the middle. There were only two baths for everyone in third class!
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Reshuffle: Picking up pieces of dog poop and moving it around doesn’t change anything.
Surely one bath each is enough? 😁
Everyone got a brisk bathing in the end.
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(I responded on the other thread but the original was deleted and so was my response.)
Apparently Toyota is being asked to recall 100,000 engines in the US because of the possibility of containing machining debris which might make them suddenly stop in traffic.
https://www.motor1.com/news/727930/toyta-replace-100k-engines-tundra-lexus/
It seems an extreme measure to replace 100,000 engines especially as only 1% or 1,000 might be affected.
And I think it is unlikely that machining debris left in the engine is likely to cause a sudden stall at highway speeds.
It seems ridiculous risk aversion.
Why not just replace any affected engines? And if it can’t easily be determined which are affected they could do wear and debris monitoring on the 100,000 possibly affected engines by doing regular sampling of the oil or oil filters.
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Engines stop when they have no bearings and this is the first time I’ve heard a complaint that a manufacturer is overreacting to a product fault.
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Well, will they give them away free to get rid of them? Why don’t they offer 75% of the cost of replacement to the owners and let them decide if they want to take a gamble. A lot of people would take $15k cash and keep their old engine.
The oil filter is designed to intercept any particles big enough to cause wear problems, so if you keep to the service schedule you have no problems. Maybe its not really a debris problem they are trying to solve… The absolute worst would be wearing out an oil pump and then the oil pressure drop would be noted. There’s no way it would ruin crank bearings, and I can’t see a danger if it did. If you’re driving on an engine rattling from crank bearings you shouldn’t have a licence!
Replacing the engines and junking the old ones is just bad for the environment and humanity as a whole.
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.. but any machining debris left in the oilways between the filter and the crank etc, can still cause a big problem
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TCCN did a video on Toyota’s problems:
https://youtu.be/EyI4ujjxxuk?si=Wr2DGxHmzowJgdJy
Still better than buying a HyunDIE or Kia.😉
Even Honda has been having issues of late.
Cost cutting and Mexican manufacturing are the key problems for the USA.
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Apache tribe member accused of sparking huge Arizona wildfire by burning American flag
https://nypost.com/2024/07/26/us-news/tribesman-keanu-dude-accused-of-starting-wildfire-by-burning-us-flag/
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Aren’t they meant to care for the environment?
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Barnaby takes a walk on the wild side.
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/sober-barnaby-completes-solo-trek-through-the-warrumbungles/
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Sunday reality
DEI: Danger, Entering Idiocracy
h/t Martin Armstrong contributor
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Cold wave grips Antartica.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/07/27/chinese-academy-of-sciences-antarctic-cold-spells-shattered-records-in-july-august-2023/
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Why This Theory Is Making Scientists Question Everything (video)
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Chaos, like entropy, is misunderstood progressive reorganisation into order.
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FWIW
“Governments Must Act Now On Proper Forest Management Or Wildfires Will Get Worse”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/governments-must-act-now-proper-forest-management-or-wildfires-will-get-worse
For the “howmanyeth time”?
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FWIW
“A crisis situation is unfolding in the California desert. Thousands of people headed to Las Vegas have been stuck on the I-40 for many hours, running out of gas and water. This is all due to the lithium battery truck fire that closed down I-15 yesterday.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/07/28/we-dont-need-no-flaming-sparky-cars-185/
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It’s been nearly 3 months since Milwaukee Elections Director Claire Woodall was fired for printing 64K ballots with Biden’s name on them, in the back conference room of City Hall on election day 2020.
Trump only lost Wisconsin by 20K votes! The media remains SILENT as usual!
(X)
Laches
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EU fines Hungary €200 million for refusing open borders
And an additional €1 million every day that they don’t open the borders.
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FWIW
“Polish up your snifter”
“Inhaled ethanol may treat respiratory infections and stop pandemics”
https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2023/4/27/inhaled-ethanol-may-treat-respiratory-infections-and-stop-pandemics
As explained in the tip –
“Seems a glass with an orifice that your nose fits, preferably warmed, loaded with some liquor about proof from which you inhale the vapour does a good job of making 20-30% ethanol available across the respiratory tract and stops current pandemic causing type bugs in their tracks in said tract! Also it avoids the problems so readily pointed out in the literature from chronic (in their terms) alcohol use pushing ethanol out from the blood into the respiratory system.
So, charge your glass any time you feel one of these little sets of buggers attack, get sniffing and keep well!!!“
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FWIW
“Wild Rube Goldberg Machine”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1817181191818088653
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/07/27/wild-rube-goldberg-machine-n3792365
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The Plunder of Private Equity Billionaires (video)
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Russia laughing at the “woke Olympics”
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I am often in awe about how selective the woke left can be in its thinking.
A tiny % of the population (drag queens) is over represented everywhere and forced on children. This is seen as good.
In the US blacks are way overepresented in violent crime statististics. If you notice that it is bad.
We are inclusive and job discrimination favouring black people is good.
We are inclusive and job discrimination giving equal opportunity to white and asian people is bad.
Loony alarmists will tell your your “emissions” will destroy the planet
Loony alarmists go on flights to ski holidays wearing “just stop oil” t shirts
and I guess the whole COP travel club and circus.
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