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Dr. Anthony Fauci (remember him?), the public face of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic response, was hospitalized earlier this month with the West Nile virus,…
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… after a mosquito bit him in his backside? or was it his backyard?
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The title says it al. Flying climate sceptics to be shot at in new game.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/24/german-state-media-broadcaster-develops-virtual-reality-game-in-which-players-shoot-lasers-at-flying-climate-denialists-in-perhaps-the-most-eccentric-effort-to-propagandise-teenagers-known-to-man/
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Teaching kids to shoot people who have a different opinion?
What happened to the DEI, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion they are so proud of?
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Obviously that doesn’t apply to people they disagree with.
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“What happened to the DEI, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion they are so proud of?”
Now, I’m just guessing here, but might there be a need for the opinion to be, well, ‘approved’?
Officially checked and found ‘good’? With a fancy digital certificate and stuff …
Auto
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They are now the crosshairs of intersectionality.
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What it is REALLY all about; in their own words:
This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution. – Christiana Figueres; Executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change.
No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart; former Canadian Minister of the Environment
“But one must say clearly that we redistribute de-facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole”. – Ottmar Edenhofer: UN IPCC OFFICIAL
Death-cults; all the way down.
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It’s all propaganda – Pravda (Truth).
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Hence the old soviet joke.
Pravda (Truth) and then there was “Tass” (News”.
The joke went:
There is no “news” from “Tass” and no “Truth” in Pravda, and vice versa.
And, looking at the Global LSM; Ve know vere ze vice is versa.
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Delusion, Egotism, and Incompetence?
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There is a disturbing middle eastern “educational” video being shown in schools teaching just that.
I won’t link it as it’d end up in the moderated pit of misunderstood posts…
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The one I had in a much earlier reference (Gaza primary school readers) “disappeared” between then and now…
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That is a disturbing new development, even by the low standards we’ve come to expect of “climate change” propagandists.
And even worse, because it’s happened in Germany, a country with not exactly a good track record when it comes to demonising a particular group with state-sponsored propaganda.
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What happens to the bodies in this new German game of “Shoot the Denier” after they have been shot?
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Is the Penny Finally Dropping in Australia? – The Australian Web Site Today Today!
‘Perfect storm’ warning issued to east coast energy market
Australia’s east coast energy market is facing higher global LNG prices, volatile renewables penetration, coal plant outages and extreme weather, increasing fears of gas shortages, spiking power bills and blackouts.
Geoff Chambers and Colin Packham
Nothing but hot wind as gas bursts Canberra bubble
Australia has become a world leader in shooting itself in the foot. Despite an abundance of almost every resource that should make the lucky country an unbeatable powerhouse, Australians pay power bills at extortionary rates under constant threat the lights will soon go off.
Geoff Chambers – Chief Political Correspondent
The sun is setting on our renewables ‘superpower’ fantasy
There is increasing evidence the US has reached the point of peak renewables, as the pool of private investors shrinks and winning community approval becomes harder.
Nick Cater – Columnist
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/death-woke-queer-activist-video-game-funded-eu-cant-find-players – let’s see how many players they will get
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I expect that Big Wind Bowen is about to enter the gaming community…
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The person who allegedly stabbed to death three people in German Diversity festival is arrested.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13778053/Suspect-26-handed-police-terror-attack-German-festival-left-three-dead-Syrian-applied-asylum.html
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It redefines refugees as violent murdering religious fanatics, not victims. The ordinary people can see this, but not the politicians who let them in, as in Australia.
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‘Family considerations’ in Hamas support, says Shorten
Bill Shorten concedes some Palestinians fleeing the war in Gaza may be Hamas supporters but insists the government is weeding out those who present a security risk.
Ben Packham
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Australian taxpayers are paying for this.
🔴 IDF’s Nahal Brigade discovers massive weapons cache near school in Rafah
Also found were explosives hidden in UNRWA bags pic.twitter.com/PtvFvmqrFj
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 22, 2024
From the Comments
– The weapons are only for the killing of J@ws, Albo doesn’t really truly mind. Saving Labor Burke’s seat is infinitely more important.
– Yes Burke Labor Home Affairs Minister with the biggest M@slim seat. What could possibly go wrong?
Let’s get real, very real, 3000 Visas for Labor Votes.
These tourists will be encouraged to apply for refugee status and these will be fast tracked, God Speed as they say just in time for all their votes.
Labor – The most disturbing dishonest cabal of evil nation hating b@stards.
Get rid of them.
The enduring mystery of the 21st. century is US J@wry votes Democrat.
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>The enduring mystery of the 21st. century…
Only if you remain in the nation mindset. Never forget the overarching goal is international, transnational, supranational, global.
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‘Palestinians’ celebrating 9/11
This is how thousands of Palestinians cheered and celebrated on 9/11, which resulted in the loss of 2,977 innocent lives.
Just as they celebrated on October 7th.
Don’t you ever forget. pic.twitter.com/dodQvcq34o
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) August 25, 2024
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Panicking Hamas leader ‘hiding in plain sight disguised as woman’
Having already narrowly escaped capture, Hamas’ political leader Yahya Sinwar – who masterminded the October 7 atrocities in Israel – has now been forced to flee Gaza’s terror tunnel network.
HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar has abandoned Gaza’s terror tunnels and is hiding among Palestinians “dressed as a woman”, Israeli intelligence sources said last night.
The architect of the October 7 atrocities, Sinwar was already a target on Israel’s hit list when he was promoted to leader of Hamas’ political wing following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this month.
Israeli military chiefs believe that capturing or killing the new terror leader would deal the final death blow to Hamas’s political hierarchy, causing it to splinter and dissolve as an entity.
So worried is Sinwar about his personal safety that last week he insisted on adding a new condition to fragile ceasefire talks in Cairo which protect him from Israel’s retribution .
“Sinwar emphasizes that the security of his life and well-being must be ensured,” an Egyptian official said.
And Israeli forces came within just “minutes” of capturing him ten days ago, when they raided his lair in a Gaza tunnel.
“We were close. We were in his underground compound. The coffee was still hot,” said Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, the outgoing commander of the IDF’s 98th Division.
Since then the 61-year-old has been hiding in plain sight, among the throngs of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as Israeli forces engage in a race against time to apprehend him.
“We have actually been minutes away more than once,” said Shalom Ben Hanan, who led three divisions of Israel’s security agency, the Shin Bet., and is considered to be closely involved in the hunt for Sinwar.
“As we have discovered through other elimination operations, Sinwar will not be sitting underground in tunnels or special underground zones for more than 24 to 36 hours at a time.
“He knows we can find such underground locations through advanced technology. And he knows if a mistake is made or we find sources to tell us where he is, we will get him. He needs to be on the move to avoid that mistake becoming fatal for him.
“So now we are looking for him using technology and human intelligence and believe he is likely to be hiding in plain sight,” a senior source told The Sunday Express.
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Hezbollah Mocked After Attack Hits Israeli Chicken Coop
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror organization that controls much of Lebanon, is being widely mocked after claiming on Sunday that it was attacking military targets in Israel, but hitting a chicken coop and little else.
With 100 Israeli aircraft participating in the mission, a significant portion of the Hezbollah rockets were prevented from being launched, and Israel’s missile defense system took care of the rest.
But one, apparently, hit a chicken coop
Israel Hayom reported that Nasrallah was being mocked by on social media, including in the Arab world, for his exaggerations, and for offering what amounted to a very flimsy retaliation against Israel.
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Don’t stress about it. They don’t want to offend anybody so they’ll release him again in a couple of days!
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The Palestinian Flag: As Inauthentic as the Palestinian People
Robert Spencer
On Saturday morning, a man went to the Beth Yaacov syn@gogue in the seaside French resort of La Grande-Motte, where he set two vehicles on fire. The fire spread to the doors of the synagogue and injured a police officer.
A French intelligence official stated: “The suspect is Ar@b with a Palestinian flag tied around his waist and a handgun on his belt.” Of course he was.
As NBC News noted in mid-July, “the Palestinian flag has become a symbol of solidarity for the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.”
Yet the Palestinian flag, this ubiquitous symbol of “resistance,” is as inauthentic as the Palestinian people themselves.
The Palestine flag itself is an indication of the fact that the Palestinians are a newly-minted ethnicity — invented, in fact, by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in the 1960s to be a weapon against Israel.
Before it was the flag of Palestine, the flag was the banner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz, which was established in 1916 and absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925.
In 1924, it also became the flag of the Sharifian Caliphate, which occupied much the same territory as the Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz in what is now Western Saudi Arabia and lasted until 1931.
The Hejaz is in Arabia — not “Palestine.”
The designer of the flag was not a Palestinian, as there were no Palestinians as such in those days, but an English Colonel named Mark Sykes.
What is known today as the flag of Palestine was never actually the flag of Palestine at all. The name “Palestine” historically refers to a region that was so named by the Romans after they expelled the Jews in 134AD. The Romans took this name from that of the Philistines, the Israelites’ Biblical enemies, who had long since died out. But Palestine for the Romans (and everyone else) was just the name of a region, not of a people, and it had no flag.
Nor do we see this people or its flag throughout history. There was never an independent Palestinian state, and Ar@bs in the area never flew this flag. A 1939 world atlas shows a flag of Palestine, that is, British Mandate Palestine.
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What can YOU learn from the Islamic invasion of Lebanon.
What can we learn from the Islamic “invasion” of Lebanon?
Shii Hizbullah and Sunni “Palestinians” turned beautiful and civilized Lebanon into ruins.
Hizbullah and “Palestinians” are determined to finish what they have started 50 years ago. The potential war they have been… pic.twitter.com/BTYa5tqjkJ
— Mosab Hassan Yousef (@MosabHasanYOSEF) August 13, 2024
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Harris blasted as an extremist
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/abbott-blasts-harris-california-liberal-extremist
How someone so ill considered a few weeks ago is now hailed as the new all conquering hero of the Democrats beats me.
She is very lightweight but reads an autocue well as we saw at the conference. I don’t think Trump helps himself with his constant ill tempered attacks on her and general negativity.
He needs to set out his policies and aim warranted criticism at his opponents more directly, otherwise he is going to alienate the tens of millions of floating voters he will need to win.
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So speaker after speaker at the DNC, every single speaker slams Donald Trump as liar, rapist, convicted felon, …. and that is positive? Not a single policy? Not a single criticism of ‘sharp as a tack Biden’ and the people who hid that for four years? Biden was still being presented as perfectly competent by everyone until the entire world saw the truth. Who was lying? Why is he still President? He doesn’t know where he is because he is senile. Hindi Harris doesn’t know where she is because she never did. She is not an African American any more than the Obamas.
As for Trump, two failed impeachments, the Secret papers/Mar El Lago raid with lethal force permitted, , the alleged Mar El Lago financial fraud without a complainant and $459 million fine, the absurd Jean Carroll rape case with no evidence and no year and an $80 million defamation judgement, the Pee Pee Dossier funded by Clinton, a centimeter away from being assassinated thanks entirely to the Secret Service who killed the shooter only after he was disarmed by Butler police and it’s all Trump’s fault?
Trump tells the truth, defends himself and that is being ‘negative’? Perhaps he should copy Harris and say nothing, not speak to the press? Great. A silent campaign.
All his policies are written out on his web site. He has even written up Kamala’s poliicies because she has refused to name even one.
This story of negativity is what happens when the media is completely one sided. And they are just a bit miffed that Kamala Harris Vice President and Joe Biden, President will say absolutely nothing to the Press.
It’s past insane that both Obamas, both Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer all speak for the President and he says nothing himself. Nor does Harris. Everyone attacks Donald Trump, including most of Hollywood.
The whole democratic process has been utterly corrupted. The current US President and US Vice President have locked themselves away and will speak to no one. The ONLY topic is how bad Donald Trump is.
The US is 70 days out from an election and Trump is being ‘negative’? He is lucky to be alive and not in jail or bankrupted a dozen times over. Has any political figure in modern history been under such continuous assault? Lucky to be alive and standing he is now attacked for being critical and negative? What?
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Even the US Supreme Court had to intervene to say the Trump prosecutions were illegal. Even the appointment of a Special Proesecutor was illegal. And while Joe Biden was found to have really sold state secrets while just a senator, he was too senile to stand trial. No one in the press even cares. If it wasn’t for a few outlets like Breitbart, no one would even know the truth.
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TdeF:
The public won’t be so enthusiastic, what with the economy getting weaker and inflation still going.
Only those really rich and those on the Federal public payroll will want to vote for Harris. Just over 2 months to Election Day.
It’s a pity that there will be another 2 months before Trump gets control. All those files/reports/communications etc. being burnt will make the Washington atmosphere (in winter time) so bad that quite a number willl have to go somewhere else (for their healths sake).
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>All those files/reports/communications etc. being burnt …
True. It’ll be a mad scramble.
>Only those really rich and those on the Federal public payroll will want to vote for Harris
Nope. There are people on the left-hand foothill of the IQ bell-curve who resonate to her frequency. She talks, with plenty of big smiles, affirmative head-nodding, and laughter, at the level of a kindergarten teacher trying to explain something simple to her little charges. Even though she’s making no sense at all, they can understand her! They relate to her mode of delivery. She doesn’t have to actually say anything or make any sense. Even though there’s virtually zero cognitive processing going on, they feel comforted and warmed by her big smiles, laughter, and slow, patient delivery.
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And news media pushing her ‘joy’ and ‘happiness’, the only way they can cover up the incessant nervous cackling. And the sheer idiocy of her public statements. Trump only has to play videos of her and people laugh. And she looks up to see the ‘cloud’.
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NEW: NY Post Op-Ed Claims Kamala’s Brother-in-Law Fleeced Taxpayers for Billions While a DOJ Lawyer
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You can be a loyal Democrat, but Trump says
no tax on tips and so many are dependent on tips.
he will halve energy costs. And so many drive to work, more than in Australia and further.
He will end the slaughter in Ukraine, both sides speaking Russian and no one else seems to care. Half a million dead at least. Those 155mm shells are $US5000 each. In war most people are killed by artillery.
He will end the war in Gaza. Turn off the money.
And he will bring Israel and Saudi together with the Abraham Accords so Sunni muslim countries in a military and economic partnership with Israel against the axis of evil Iran.
And he will stop Iran going nuclear. Something Osama Hussein Obama dearly wanted.
He will stop buying Venezuelan and Iranian oil and literally fuelling war with American cash and weapons, despite Washington neo cons, Hawks and the Lords of War. The military industrial complex Eisenhower warned everyone about on his retirement, having led the allies in WWII.
He will restore the essential fuel reserve, replenished by Trump and emptied by Biden to artificially lower prices. Even China was buying US cheap oil from the reserve!
and he will drill, baby, drill. As we should be doing.
The whole world is hoping he can do what Obama did not want, make America great again and restore Pax America which has kept everyone save for 80 years.
Ordinary Americans cannot afford groceries or to feed their pets or to travel or even buy fast food or gas. And what is Harris offering? Nothing. More war.
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Most Australians do not understand that tips are wages for Americans. In many places the Maitre D’ is not paid but has to buy his job. He relies entirely on tips. Waiters are paid nothing and rely on tips. This is so different for Australians for whom tips are optional or the Japanese where tips are an insult.
As Trump said, Harris used her casting vote to employ another 80,000 tax inspectors to chase waiters.
While she has since said she would copy the exemption, the tax assault was brought by her own casting vote.
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It’s why you often notice good service in the US. Not so much here in Australia where they get paid no matter how inefficient or unfriendly they are.
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Also Karine Jean Pierre, DEI spokesperson for President Biden who never answers question, says prices have gone down. In fact consumer prices are up 44% since Biden took office. The voters know this. It is quite unbelievable that anyone could claim prices have gone down.
And the other biggest issue for voters is house affordability, which has vanished. There are super cheap houses, free even. No one wants to live in Democrat cities. But other housing is rising faster than people can save. As in Australia and the UK. This is all a direct result of government policy to control inflation with high interest rates, which in turn is caused entirely by record government deficits to handle mass migration to take people’s jobs. It’s simple. You cannot print money without devaluing the currency.
The people are angry. As in the UK. And it will soon boil over in Germany. Hungary has slammed the doors. Others are deporting. And an exploding handgrenade a day in Stockholm is enough even for the Swedes.
Trump is saying what everyone feels. That criminal, mad, unwanted, lazy economic uninvited and unchecked migrants should be sent home. If they have disabling criminal ‘mental’ problems who let them in?
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‘ … Ukraine has no claim at all.’
They are staking their clam now, war is brutal.
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‘He will end the slaughter in Ukraine ….’
Donald might cut off support and allow the EU to carry the can, which is not a bad thing.
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The Germans are very upset that Zelensky blew up their gas line. Either Germany or Russia could have just turned it off.
Zelensky should have at least discussed it with Germany. For Ukraine to destroy without notice or agreement was an appalling act of vandalism with massive commercial and political costs for Germany. Secretly approved and kept secret by Zelensky. The Americans even blamed the Russians for blowing up their own pipeline. I think the Germans have lost interest in this war. Belorussia are not interested. Nor Hungary. There is no point in continuing when it is obvious Ukraine cannot win.
Waging war on Russia is extremely dangerous for all involved, especially using the latest US weapons now inside what is indisputably Russian territory on which Ukraine has no claim at all. France wants to continue, but as the world’s biggest arms supplier, that is not surprising. But if Russia starts using small tactical nuclear weapons, we are all in danger.
I believe Putin is gambling on it all being over soon. And the Ukrainian incursion could be wiped out, but enough have died. It is all over, waiting for the US election where the game may change completely. Even Zelensky has admitted that Russia should be invited to peace talks. Duh!
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Nordstream was a legitimate target.
Ukraine has asked Belorussia to move away from their mutual border, strategically this poses a problem for Ukraine.
‘But if Russia starts using small tactical nuclear weapons, we are all in danger.’
So in your estimation we should raise the white flag now and accept defeat?
I saw a BBC doco where they interviewed Russian people in the street, their ignorance is profound. Some of them seem to think the Ukrainians are fascists.
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Was just wondering if the ( DNC ) Democrat National Cabaret will go on a national tour & if successful do you think they’ll go international.
Must say other than the sub standard comedy there were a couple of “ catchy “ songs!!
Can’t see any special awards or anything like that. Suppose it gives the unemployable something to keep them occupied!
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Speaking of the Democrat National Cabaret:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUctFu46_c
Any “resonance’, boys and girls?
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TdeF,
Scoll down this page to see how bad Kamala is – https://nypost.com/opinion/
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Don’t stress about it. They don’t want to offend anybody so they’ll release him again in a couple of days!
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Tonyb, if I was running the dem campaign I’d be trying to spook Trump as well.
You ran the same line a day or two ago.
Your premise of Trump running constant attacks and no policy is false. But it is entirely consistent with the dems doing EXACTLY what they falsely accuse others of doing.
Try not to be so sucked in by the bad guys.
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Kamala’s tie-breaking Senate votes as VP led to drastic increases in costs of food, rent, gas – Question Is DemoCrap Kamala, Labor Albolseezy’s Doppelganger?
“Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the two biggest legislative drivers of inflation: the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act.”
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It’s déjà blue: The media is promoting Kamala Harris without substance – just like Obama in 2008
By Michael Goodwin
Re: It’s déjà blue:
Artist behind Obama ‘Hope’ poster creates new one for Harris: ‘Forward’
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Labor Australian Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong would approve???
Kamala’s Legacy: Three Years After the Botched Biden-Harris Afghanistan Withdrawal, Taliban Announces New ‘Vice and Virtue’ Laws Banning Women’s Voices and Bare Faces in Public
Democrats and the media don’t like to talk about it, but the botched Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has put a brutal regime in the driver’s seat.
AP reports that an emboldened Taliban, who recently embarrassed the US by holding a parade with abandoned military equipment, has issued new ‘Vice and Virtue’ laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.
From AP:
The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021.
The ministry published its vice and virtue laws on Wednesday that cover aspects of everyday life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.
Article 13 relates to women. It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.
Women should veil themselves in front of all male strangers, including M@slims, and in front of all non-M@slims to avoid being corrupted.
A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public.
It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.
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Hill Dems try to tamp down backlash to Harris’ grocery price gouging pitch
In private, some lawmakers are telling voters and food industry officials her proposals will never pass through Congress.
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THIS IS THE DUMBEST TIMELINE:
Wall Street Silver@WallStreetSilver
She has no clue what collective bargaining is.
Love the Minion at the end!
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Who is Kamala Harris’ ‘combative Marxist economist’ father, Donald J. Harris?
VP Harris briefly mentioned her father during her DNC acceptance speech for the presidential nomination
Following Harris rising to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and formally accepting the party’s nomination last week, Fox News Digital examined her father’s background and legacy within academia.
Donald J. Harris, who coincidentally shares the same first name as VP Harris’ Republican rival, former President Donald J. Trump, is a retired Stanford University professor of economics, whose econ background is steeped in Marxist theory, which earned him the description from the Economist last month as a “combative Marxist economist.”
“He is a clear writer. There are few compound nouns or sentences that run for paragraphs. Yet he is still a Marxist and his writings are sprinkled with obscurantist theorising.
Republicans who have mocked Ms. Harris for word-salad speeches will find precedent in her father’s writing,” the Economist wrote of Harris’ father.
Donald J. Harris was born in 1938 in Jamaica, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of London before moving to the U.S. to complete his doctorate in economics at the University of California in Berkeley in 1966. He met the vice president’s mother while attending Berkeley, with the pair marrying and sharing daughters Kamala and Maya Harris.
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Walz wrongly claimed he won schoolboy award in latest case of truth stretching
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Schweizer: Chinese Communist Party Has “Groomed” Tim Walz; “Big Help With A Little Bad-Mouth”
Author Peter Schweizer suggested that Gov. Tim Walz is a stooge of the Chinese Communist Party during an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.
MARIA BARTIROMO: Do you believe that the Communist Party has been grooming Tim Walz?
PETER SCHWEIZER, PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: Oh, I think there’s no question about it, Maria.
It goes back to the exchange program that he ran and brought hundreds of students from the United States to China. In the early press accounts, Tim Walz describes it as unique and unusual and different, a program that nobody else has. And at the same time that he’s bringing those students there, by the students’ accounting, Tim Walz is saying things like, well, in China, nobody is poor because everybody shares in China, as if sort of the compulsive arm of the CCP is voluntary, I mean, sharing is voluntary.
It’s a ridiculous statement to make. There are other comments he made. He told students going to China to downplay their Americanness. There’s an account from one student — I haven’t been able to independently verify it — saying that he brought back lots of copies of Mao’s “Little Red Book” when he was in China.
So this is a relationship that’s longstanding and it carried forward when he joined Congress and the actions that he was taking in Congress as well.
BARTIROMO: This is very concerning. You also have notes on a meeting that he had with Premier Li in 2016.
SCHWEIZER: Yes, this is very interesting. He goes to China in 2016 with a few other Democrats. He recounts how he’s meeting with Chinese officials and he says, oh, I was in China. I was here in China in December of 1989. And they said, no, it was February of 1990.
I mean, in other words, they had been tracking him when he was a young man. But in that meeting with Premier Li, it’s a classic example and what the Chinese call big help with a little bad-mouth. Tim Walz has talked about the human rights condition in China, but it’s never in the context of doing anything about it.
And during this meeting with Premier Li, he told Premier Li, well, don’t look to the United States as an example of how to do this, because we don’t know how to do it right either. Those are his descriptions of what he told Premier Li.
So it’s this massive moral equivalence, which is exactly what China wants from the United States. Talk about human rights, but don’t do anything about it, and also create this moral equivalence that the Chinese system is not any worse than ours. That is exactly what Tim Walz has done over the years.
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The BLM and the George Floyd riots were run by the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.Tim was the Governor who did nothing
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Israeli F 35s with FA 18 “missile trucks” as their wingmen were unscathed while doing massive damage to Hezbollah.
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Hezbollah have 300,000 missiles. Many of these are Katyusha rockets. And ready to launch them at civilian targets. As in Ukraine, people have four months before a new US President and given the munitions supply to Ukraine and support for Hamas/Hezbollah dries up. As Trump says, war would be over in a day. And that does not suit the makers of munitions as played by Nicholas Cage in Lords of War.
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TdeF,
Yes… one of his more ridiculous utterings. I don’t believe it for a moment, but it appears you *do*. How do you see it playing out?
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Hint: Ukraine is not funding its own war effort.
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Hint- a day???
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Negotiation. The way all wars end unless everyone is dead.
Turn off the cash, weapons or simply threaten to do so. It is what is fuelling the war. It is like Ireland and England and Northern Ireland. A civil war, historically funded by US cash too. Religion is just an excuse.
Ukraine has been shelling the Donbas for two decades. It was a war zone when the Malaysian jet was shot down ten years ago in 2014, saving money flying over a no go area.
This civil war is between groups, one of which wants to go back to being Russia which Crimea was until Kruschev. And the fiercely Russian Eastern Ukraine where wars were fought with invaders since Sweden. Western Ukraine is a cultural mess with Catholic Poland/Lvov and areas grabbed by Stalin but the east has always been Russian. Even Zelensky speaks Russian as his first language, like most.
The killing could end in a day. Everyone knows that. But war is a huge industry and all countries could flog off their old tanks and planes and munitions. And everyone gets to see a more modern war with drones, drone submarines, new concepts like Himars, new weapons. Trillions of dollars are being spent and the arms manufacturers are partying. Every is updating their weapons and business is booming. Even Australia is now making Norwegian missiles. And we will invest in drone submarines. What fun! Jobs for everyone and massive profits. After all, everything you make is blown up. The consumer society, which consumes lives.
It’s not about anyone’s freedom. The upper age conscription cutoff in Urkaine is now 45. Cannon fodder, as in Russia. And it weakens both, which is fine for the UK, Germany, France, the ones who have invaded Russia and killed Russians for two hundred years, hoping to break up the world’s biggest country.
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Ok. Which part of all that takes just one day? Will we get Superman to slow the rotation of the Earth? Or will we only start counting the 24-hours *after* negotiations months/years into Trump’s next presidency, which might happen to be one day before the ceasefire comes into force?
This wasn’t the art of the deal in action, it was the less skilful art of the hype.
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About negotiations, etc,..
I heard it from our Parliamentarian, in plain English, after visiting PLA Authority – there will never peace deal because Abu Mazen team does not want peace.
You should understand them – the time is absolutely on their side, they are winning now, why should they give up in clear view of ultimate victory?
Now back to V. Putin, who has recognised Ukraine borders once, signed the deal which Russian Parliament ratified, who has much bigger resources, populace and uncounted square miles of territory no one needs, also – the support of majority of Earth people.
So he had a day of rest before next invasion…
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‘ … the support of majority of Earth people.’
First I’ve heard, do you have a link?
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No, E+G , I do not have a ready link; for that I apoplogise.
However, would you accept India + China +…. +…. + … material support of Putin’s war effort as a sign of what World population thinks ?
Just to think that even on this page there are people on his side !
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Ah yes, the BRICS mob, China and India have been buying cheap oil from Russia.
There are a few anarchists on this page, at least we have freedom of expression, unlike totalitarian dictatorships.
The flood of refugees heading towards Moscow must be of concern to Putin who is planning for another round of mobilisation, he is calling it the ‘new normal’.
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Ukraine wants out.
Russia wants out.
Germany wants out.
Hungary wants out.
And how knows what France wants? Not even the French know that now that Macron has done a deal with the communists to shut out Le Pen.
The world is waiting for the US election. The new President will settle it or President Harris will throw Europe to the wolves. She has no idea where Russia is.
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Nobody wants war, except Putin and he’ll have to be dethroned by his own people.
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If they all want out, why are they still in? It might be because each wants out on satisfactory terms, and the different parties’ ideas of satisfactory don’t square.
Assuming President Trump gets his second term and decides, say on April 1, to act on the Ukraine, this is pretty much what he has given us of his schedule:
8.59am Decide to resolve Ukraine war
9am ?
10am ?
11am ?
…
11pm ?
12am ?
…
7am ?
8am ?
8.59am Yay. Peace!
Can you sketch in some plausible items for those intervening hours?
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Some people prefer war continues – weapons manufacturers and other such business beneficiaries, for example.
Things that kill and maim are worth a lot of money to those who invest in them, so war is kept going at the cost of lives and economies, way beyond what would otherwise happen.
I don’t think Donald Trump would wait until 1 April to get things underway (the minute the election is called in his favor, changes will be happening), and I am also pretty sure he isn’t going to tell everyone his negotiation tactics – that isn’t how negotiating works, is it?
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GreatAuntJanet,
No strong disagreement with what you’re saying, but if Mr Trump jumps into gear “the minute the election is called in his favour”, that suggests that, like me, you think it’s going to take considerably more than 24 hours to get the job done.
Mr Trump is free to keep his tactics to himself for now. I was only asking TdeF to give his *guess* of the tactics. After all, he’s a rational fellow who wouldn’t be given to blind hero-worship, and he reckons the “one day” claim plausible, so he must have some sort of idea how it’d happen in a day.
I confess the 1 April bit was tongue-in-cheek.
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Not wanting to mind-read or anything, but TdeF seems quite used to how Donald Trump speaks, as are many of us. To fasten onto his ‘one day’ description as a vital factor seems extraordinarily useless to me.
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‘Germany wants out.’
That is a blatant lie, Germany has offered its full support and the Balkan States are also 100% behind Ukraine. TdeF you need to get out more.
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This is not a direct reply to TdeF, his post is the last with a “Reply” button is all.
I’m a country boy Aussie but I think I understand Trump’s “New York property developer” mannerisms more than many, or maybe many just don’t want to understand.
He is prone to hyperbole. Once you forgive that it is all OK.
Russia could be rolled back like a sardine tin lid. All it would take is commitment. Defeating Saddam in the “Mother of all wars” took about six weeks as I recall. Putin would take less, and he won’t go nuclear.
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GreatAuntJanet,
I’m familiar with how Mr Trump speaks too. As you and Hanrahan say here, just a bit of salesman bombast.
My bone of contention is with TdeF, not Trump.
In this sceptical forum, Jo gives climate scientists a well-deserved roasting when they spout “sales talk” from the activists’ songbook, dressing it up as science. I think TdeF (obviously one of the most prolific sceptics here) earned a little roasting when he put his sceptical seal of approval on Trump’s hyperbole:
Was rather un-sceptical don’t you think?
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Wars end when there is a victor and a vanquished followed by a just peace, Victory over Japan is the perfect example.
Negotiated peace is an artifice for delaying the war while the opposing sides reequip to fight another day, the Treaty of Versailles [1918] and the partitioning of Korea being notable examples.
Ukraine could win their freedom if the US and/or NATO decided that it must happen. The sooner they make this decision the fewer the deaths. Russia is already stretched to the limit. They don’t have the power to resist Ukraine in Kursk, they appear to have ceded that land and the thousands of conscripts south of the Syem R.
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Japan was not finished. The losses from a physical invasion would have been horrendous. On both sides.
Iwo Jima proved that! Roughly one Marine or corpsman became a casualty for every three who landed on Iwo Jima. 50,000 US casualties. 90,000 Japanese casualties. 150,000 civilians. That’s more people than both atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Plus Russia had 6 million troops in Manchuria ready to invade. The deaths would have been in the millions. The bombs saved face for the Emperor. And allowed Japan to rebuild as a democracy with a constitutional monarchy.
Korea was not settled. It was an Armistice, not a surrender by either side.
Versailles was a peace settlement, but the reparations destroyed Germany, permitting the rise of Hitler. It is considered a total failure for both sides, fuelled by a desire to cripple and punish one side.
Kursk has been fought before, perhaps the biggest battle in history after Stalingrad. Russians have little interest in fighting other Russians this time. The Revolutionary war was terrible.
Wars are settled on fair terms or not settled. And that settlement can fall apart in another generation. It often does.
But in a nuclear world, everything could be over in 20 minutes. That is the only thing which stops modern war. Otherwise wars are about the money. These are proxy wars. Profitable.
Consider Vietnam. We lost. The US lost. Now Australians happily vacation in Vietnam. Their greatest enemy was China. And after the war with America, which the Vietnamese won,
they went straight into a huge war with China. Which stopped China totally. Which was the original idea. Vietnam was a pointless war, a newborn America against Colonialism and Imperialism and perversely trying to prop up the Colonial French while also training Ho Chi Minh to undermine the same government. They also trained Osama Bin Laden to fight the Russians.
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Australia was never defeated in battle in Vietnam. Our troops withdrew in 1973. The then Senator Joe Biden moved in the Senate to stop all support for the South Vietnamese.
No parts for their airforce or parts for the tanks etc were allowed. So the South’s tanks couldn’t move or their planes fly. Before the Communist take over, Biden also moved that the Vietnamese refugees in America could not be provided with accommodation or food. President Ford had to ring up the Churchs to provide accommodation and food for the refugees.
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Len, that’s interesting about Bidens activity.
The part played by Russia in that mess has been cleverly hidden, but just a few points:
Vietnam was forced to pay reparations to Russia for the huge amount of weapons and equipment sent down to north Vietnam.
Russian was taught in Vietnamese schools and Russian tourism was a big item.
During the war China helped Vietnam and after the war had to be pushed out; that was the ugly fight after 1975.
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Kalm Keith. There were Vietnamese:Russian Dictionary captured. I understand that the Soviet Army advisers never had their service acknowledged with the NVA and Vietcong.
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That’s my point. Nth Korea was virtually bombed back to the stone age. There were no longer targets worthy of the effort of bombing but the allies were fighting China and Russia and the US kowtowed to them and took the cowards’ way out instead of chasing the MIGs over the Yalu R. and obliterating their bases.
Peaceniks never prevent wars and they never see them through to their logical conclusions, they just pull on heart-strings. They are holier than me.
Iraq was destroyed in 6 weeks in Desert Storm, 1991. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf called it Shock ‘n Awe. Again it was not allowed to climax. TV screens in the US showed videos of the Highway of Death when the Iraqis were retreating out of Kuwait [where they should not have been] and insisted that the US cease operations. How did that work out?
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Pat Condell had some excellent commentary, although the following is old (ten years plus) and a repost by someone else and predates Hamas’ October 7th atrocities. Condell left YouTube as the conservative nature of his material meant he was at risk of being permanently deleted anyway. He made his final announcement ten months ago after Leftist YouTube removed another of his videos.
https://youtu.be/cYmB38n1Y6Q
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Excellent.
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Agreed. And the two red thumbs predictable.
I would go a step further. Even the violent extremism and mass murder is a way to enormous wealth. The three Hamas leaders worth at least $US2.5Billion and living in Qatar. One just died in Tehran, unexpectedly.
How did they get rich? Gaza has been the most funded refugee business in the world. With the money which has poured in, it should have been another Monaco. But that money was drying up and the begging bowls were out. There is nothing like another war and dead children to get the world’s muslims to send cash.
Also not said is that the Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians and the rest will have nothing to do with Gaza refugees. The last time this happened Jordan ended up in civil war and 360,000 people died. Never again.
So Australia has taken 3,000? Why? And why not any other muslim country. We will pay the price, as every European country has worked out.
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Since the number of air particles in the lower mesosphere and upper stratosphere is very small, it is difficult to explain how the temperature rises in these levels. In my opinion, UVC radiation before hitting an O2 particle is a wave that becomes a photon only when an O2 particle is in its path.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_MEAN_JAS_EQ_2024.png
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Wave/particle duality.
the concept was developed because in different situations when trying to understand this invisible “force” on some occasions it’s easier to visualize and calculate from the perspective of the wave.
And vice versa.
As you say, it’s perplexing that a region of the upper atmosphere can be termed hot when there’s almost nothing there.
Interesting.
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More than just Wave/Particle
In a letter to Max Born in 1947 Einstein said of the statistical approach to quantum mechanics, which he attributed to Born, “I cannot seriously believe in it because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance” – making reference to quantum entanglemet
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Yes, it has been proven that it is impossible to predict the properties of electromagnetic radiation, although it is fully real, as confirmed by observations.
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The excess energy that is produced by the Chapman reaction is converted into the kinetic energy of neighboring air particles, both oxygen and nitrogen.
https://apollo.nvu.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter1/vert_temp_therm.html
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I was in Cambridge (the UK one) on the weekend. there was a sizeable group of Ukrainian flags being waved and a few people giving self-aggrandising and boastful speeches about how much they had done to help Ukrainians in Cambridge.
It was actually pretty hard to listen to. Some Ukrainians sounded a lot more normal by comparison.
There were about 7 or 8 Ukrainian flags and one Union Jack, I guess they are still allowed at “approved” events…
I did wonder if the same wonderfully generous, kind-hearted, and peace loving crowd are offering the same care and support to Russian civilians being attacked in Russia by Ukraine…against all the original agreements about US and allied munitions being used on Russian territory…
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Russian soldiers are looting the shops in their own towns before abandoning their positions. The videos are out there.
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My dear wife loves to watch live street cameras where we used to walk in our youth, out of pure unadulterated nostalgia…
For your viewing pleasure I attached a short clip: https://youtu.be/I6AJUiSZQH4
Now, James, I do not want to insult your intelligence by suggesting that you also check how Ukrainian towns & villages look today.
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I do not “support” Russia, nor the puppet masters controlling Ukraine either. I have seen the footage of battles, of Ukrainian and Russian cemeteries crowded with recent burials. It’s a tragedy on every front, and it should be, and could be stopped. If my country was the one being invaded, I imagine I may feel differently, but as a spectator, I see no benefit to anyone except arms dealers and corrupt politicians by continuing the death and destruction.
I was pointing out that the people who talk the most loudly about “helping” others, are self-centred.They also seem fine with civilian deaths as long as those civilians have a different passport. The hypocrisy is astounding – they all say they want peace, but they do not. They say they want freedom of expression, but they do not…
Somehow my desire for an end to pointless death and destruction, and the calling-out of self-centred hypocrites gets me a handful of red thumbs. Amazing.
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James, you might have seen the video of Russian Security Council meeting on 22/02/22 on YouTube, no need to speak Russian to understand that Council members wanted the War like a colon cancer.
(That Council may be added to TdeF’s List of Wanting Out. BTW – their children are indeed out in full sense, having good life in the despised West)
Even the Capo di tutti Capi did not plan for it, all he wanted a police operation with maybe few dozen dozen killed and few thousands thrown in camps. Did not happen that way yet the bloodthirsty beast just can not help himself. I am not a farmer but I heard of some who kill all chickens when get into the coop though they could carry out one or two…
About hypocrisy on Ukrainian side – that is not their worst sin. They only started on a way to statehood two years ago, they will go through many idiotic and vile things because nobody learns on the errors of others.
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It seems that the temperature in the upper stratosphere in the tropics should be more constant on an annual basis. However, this is not the case, and this is due to the angle of the Earth’s axis to the plane of orbit.
https://i.ibb.co/DbWkTLd/05mb2525.png
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the temperature in the upper stratosphere in the tropics should be more constant
The temperature follows the sunlight with a slight lag. Actual peak in sunlight at the Equator occurs in March at 437.4W/m^2.but there is a second peak in October at 431.3W/m^2. The minimum is in July at 287.5W/m^2. The a secondary minimum of 413.6W/m^2 in December.
So it is not just the tilt of the axis but also the distance from the sun as a result of orbital eccentricity and a slight thermal lag..
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I agree, but it is interesting that the effect is so visible at 35 km above the surface in the tropics.
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Also due to the distribution of water and land – more of the land is in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The Greenwich meridian is in the wrong place?
Well, it actually can’t be because it’s location is arbitrary anyway.
However, it is a different meridian than the IERS Reference Meridian (IRM), which is 102m or 334 feet to the east of the Prime Meridian which is used by GPS.
The original meridian did not take into account the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere and the centre of the earth in space was slightly mislocated.
https://www.timeanddate.com/geography/prime-meridian-wrong.html
https://youtu.be/XB5xuAhrkWE
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-33919429
https://www.iflscience.com/why-is-the-greenwich-meridian-not-where-it-should-be-70259
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We have incredible accuracy now. I have always marvelled at the fact that the poles are flat and the sea level at the North Pole is 40km under sea level at the equator. How? Why don’t the oceans rush 40km downhill at enormous speed?
It works as the water at the equator is doing 1200km/hr and the water goes around the centre of the earth once a day, like a ball on a string. This centripetal force drives the oceans West into continents and thus into gyres CW in one hemisphere and CCW in the other can be explained by centripetal force. And that currents push hot water around and up and down mechanically. The Gulf stream is an example of a current jet stream doing 9km/hr on the surface and 100km wide and 1km deep carrying all the hot water from the super hot Caribbean to Norway in what is a straight line on the great circle.
But Climate Scientists study the air? Why? It contains almost no energy. Air might be 50C on the ground but jets fly at around 3km up and its −40 to −70 °F (−40 to −57 °C). Water at the bottom of the ocean is 3.5km deep on average and never frozen. The fish know it.
All weather, all climates, all water, all storms come from the ocean and the sun and so the currents. And what does Australia buy? A hugely expensive computer to model air currents.
We are not the Smart country. But then a lot of people walk outside and think they can’t be moving at 1,000km/hr because the trees, ground, water, sky all move with them. And they must wonder why the sun rises too.
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And another observation is that hot air goes up with great force. Hot water does not because the water does not expand much and the temperature differences are small. So current carry vast heat and vast amounts of gas, especially CO2 because below 50 metres, in any quantity it is another liquid. The stories of limited CO2 absorption by the ocean are silly as Coca Cola knows. So at night we can quickly drop 20C in temperate zones, possibly because hot air goes up and cold air goes down. And also because it can all radiate. Oceans cannot, except the relatively cool surface. The heat is trapped except for evaporation which drives our climates.
Very little of this is discussed. Just the tiny but valuable and saturated Greenhouse effect of CO2. No real atmospheric scientist thinks this is true. Especially not Prof WIlliam Happer at 16:34. He shows conclusively that all greenhouse effects are understood from the gases and that doubling of CO2 to 800ppm would increase the effect only a negligible 1.1%.
So I do wonder how this hoax has been kept alive, like wars, because of the money.
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>how much they had done to help Ukrainians
They’re helping Ukrainians get slaughtered if they’re supporting the war.
Also:
Ukrainian forces use chemical weapons against Belovsky power station workers in Kursk region.
and, Australian Bushmaster destroyed on Russian soil
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I hope this slaughter stops soon. Between half a million and a million lives. For what?
And the evacuation of the civilian population means the Russians will soon be fighting the old way with the God of war. Artillery Wheel to wheel for kilometers. And God help anyone or anything in the way. Pine log defences?
What an incredible tragedy. And so unnecessary. There is no winning in a civil war, except for the outsiders funding the disaster. And they can suffer too.
This happened when the new French King intervened in the US War of Independence 1775-1783. The ‘Americans’ won but it bankrupted France and a subsequent drought was the cause of the French Revolution and end of the King Louis XVI.
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Wrong!
Russian invasion of Ukraine is less a Civil War than was the War of 1914-1918 in Europe.
All reigning monarchs were blood relatives – you know it in a greater detail that I ever will.
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Now that in Australia there’s no legal distinction between what used to be known as biological females who were born with a (usually) 46,XX karyotype and men who were born and remain with a 46,XY karyotype but who now “identify” as females how will this work with international sporting competitions where males are excluded from competing in women’s events?
And what if such comps are held in Australia and the international body doesn’t allow it but Australia makes no distinction?
How about local sporting competitions under Australian rules? I think there will be a huge influx of men into women’s sports because the men might be uncompetitive in male codes but superior in women’s codes.
Come to think of it, why have women’s sporting codes at all if men can join as in Australia? It could and probably does mean the end of women’s sports.
And ladies, enjoy creepy men coming into your change rooms to look at you and your daughters…
Remember what the judge said “sex can be changed”, a hereto unknown biological fact for humans (only a few lower animals can do this). And the proof? Australia lets you change the sex on your birth certificate, although in Victoria it can only be changed once per year.
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conservative western caucasions are civilized.
the other side storms the proverbial bastille to get their desires and cowardly pols bow down in fear of their violence.
IMO Ironically, they way things are progressing, the woke are preparing the planet for Muslim domination and their own demise.
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In that case (Victoria limiting sex change once a year) perhaps they should introduce a day for sex changing.
It would have to be in summer because they wouldn’t want to disrupt the local religion so January 26 seems to be a likely choice. Already a public holiday but those names (Sorry Day, Invasion Day etc, including the original name) would have to be replaced. We might have a “Name the Day” with prizes for the right name – after all Victoria has lots of money to spend on frivolous ideas.
The WOKE media would be all enthusiastic about it. Of course there would be some who would campaign about the “right to change sex” whenever they like – especially in their team looses at the Week End.
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The average gender ratio was 101 males for 100 females globally in 2021.
So what will be the gender ratio now in Australia?
The gender ratio in Russia attained a value of 86 males to 100 females in 2021.
Is this why there are so many mail-order Russian brides?
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Do we bother gender-differentiated statistics anymore? Eg. Life Expectancy? Economic statistics – measuring the ‘glass ceiling ‘ seems pointless if the blokes in the boardrooms just need to put on a frock
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Changed only once per year…. That’s not real fluid is it?
It’s time that law was challenged, if you feel a change, then the change is real, and that should be as often as you want.
I’d vote for that, just to stir the pot that little bit more and maybe, just maybe, make some idiots realise what they’ve already thrown out with the bath water.
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The ‘Gay Games’ will be interesting.
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Looking forward to the Australian Open woman’s final in coming years.
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Be a bugger if your wife was into it and you weren’t.. “Yeah, g’day, I’m Trev and this is my husband Sue”
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According to the headlines in the Victorian Herald Sun, Premier Allen will not lock up Victorias state forests into national parks and the general population will be able to continue to pursue their chosen recreations.
While this “outcome” may be seen as a victory for people power, I would only see it as the premier speaking out of both sides of her mouth. I doubt the desire to lock up the forests has gone away, rather political expediency. With looming problems with the CFMEU ( many members of which pursue outdoor recreation) and the resounding victory of the CLP in the Northern Territory, this is probably a battle that the Labour Party don’t want in the run up to the next election. If Labour win I am certain this issue will be high on the agenda, get it through early in the term and hope people forgive or forget by the time the next election comes round. Like the Victorian population voting strongly to reject the Aboriginal voice to parliament, the Victorian government is implementing state based “treaties” with all aboriginal groups and the majority be damned.
Still, minor victories will be celebrated, I will enjoy the great outdoors with the grand kids for a little while longer but the guard will not be dropped, the desire of government to control the populace is strong, the “need” to save our forests from ourselves will no doubt be slipped back on the agenda under a different guise.
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A victory for common sense and freedom – in Victoria?
There must be a deeper, hereto undisclosed, agenda.
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Ms Lia Finocchiaro just got herself a chance to start return of Australia back onto civilisation path.
They have a single-chamber Parliament in NT, everything in CLP hands and I would not bore you with a list of current disasters there.
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Well so says Wikipedia!
RFK Jr. On Joining Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbqI4SrV4A
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As far as I know, nobody has debunked his book and any of his heavily referenced claims about covid mismanagement and other issues.
It does trigger the Leftoids though who are thoroughly in love with Big Pharma and the removal of individual rights during covid and which remain to this day in the more extreme Nanny States such as Australia. (E.g. you can’t, to this day, get an organ transplant in Australia unless you take the covid vax.)
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RFK Jr has riled the largest company in Europe. They are literally banking on a massive pay day as the USA broadens government paid use of Ozempic.
The modern western world is hooked on instant gratification. The dopamine hit from eating can now be countered by Ozempic.
Ultimately it comes down to a lack of control or inability to self-regulate.
I discussed the RFK Jr speech with my son. He gave the example that a 30 year old woman who weighs 250kg is not going to change her eating habits in 4 years. The USA is hooked on instant gratification and it will take at least a generation to just alter the course.
It would be far better for the USA to elevate the importance of self-regulation above climate control for example. The #1 issue for the USA is self-regulation. Learning to live within your means. Not shooting someone who disagrees with your view. It is from the top down. Look at the USA government debt. There is no self-regulation and it clearly starts in Washington DC.
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RFK Jr will be undermined by the DemonRATs and even his own wife and family.
They may even JFK or RFK him.
We already know how intolerant the Left are of alternative opinions.
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RFK Jr’s concession speech was the most significant I’ve heard, possibly ever. Sadly few will hear it with an open mind.
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CFO the favourite in battle for ABC’s top job
The race to find David Anderson’s successor is a marathon, not a sprint. But a leading pack is emerging.
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FWIW
“UQ “deforestation” research strikes similar tone to WWF lobbying”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/uq-deforestation-research-strikes-similar-tone-to-wwf-lobbying/
Where were they on all that area flattened for wind and solar “adventures”?
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Russian member of parliament Maria Butina said on Sunday, “Pavel Durov is a political prisoner – a victim of a witch-hunt by the West.
“The arrest of Pavel Durov means there is no freedom of speech – it means that freedom of speech in Europe is dead,” she continued. “Now basically they have a hostage and they will try to blackmail Russia, they will try to blackmail all the users of Telegram and not only try to get control but also try to block the network here in Russia.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-calls-detained-telegram-founder-political-prisoner-demands-france-provide
Putin’s Russia defending freedom of speech! What has the world come to?
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1827460234887008277
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4.7 quake near Muswellbrook last Friday? Followed by a 4.5 aftershock on Shatterday?
Trust everyone in NSW is safe and not too much garden furniture was knocked over…
What’s being blamed: climate, carbon, or coal?
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At 10.27am on Thursday, 28 December 1989, Newcastle was devastated by an ML 5.6 (MW 5.4) earthquake.
I was in Newcastle at the time but several km from the epicentre.
Used to visit the Workers’ Club occassionally – one of the buildings destroyed.
https://www.ga.gov.au/news/30-years-on-commemorating-the-1989-newcastle-earthquake
There are a lot of underground coal mines under Newcastle! I have been down in one.
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Leftists do, in fact, think climate change causes earthquakes.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/08/climate-change-trigger-earthquakes-volcanoes/
https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/press/news/details/mehr-erdbeben-durch-menschengemachten-klimawandel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/climate-change-triggers-earthquakes-tsunamis-volcanoes
Back in the day, they were attributed mainly to tectonic plate and related activity and relief of pressure along fault lines.
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Reported somewhere ( can’t remember where, curse this short term memory loss) that coal mining was the most likely cause. Sounded quite authoritative but didn’t bother to explain why there were no eathquakes in W.A where significantly larger volumes of earth are moved. Minor details I suppose.
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No earthquakes in WA? WA lost an entire town, Meckering, in 1968, having to be rebuilt in a different place. If the same earthquake had gone on for another 30 seconds, a lot of Perth would have been severely damaged. As it was, a lot of buildings were damaged in Perth, the southern freeway dropping down either side of the Narrows bridge about one metre, and a long north-south rift that cut the eastern highway, rail and pipeline, with a upheaval of around one metre. Even today I can still see signs where the earthquake substantially altered the landscape. Followed a few years later by another lesser quake. Look at the rift valleys in the ocean ending up at the mouth of the Swan River.
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The Cadoux earth quake. I was driving my car and missed it 🙂
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The Cadoux earthquake was later. But I also missed the Meckering quake, as it occurred on a Monday of a long weekend and I also was driving. Lucky, as there would have been many more casualties if it had happened on a workday.
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Viv Forbes reviews the history of Eating Meat and concludes that too many vegetables are making us all obese!
https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/37141/green-foods-fail-olympics/
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Absolutely. People need more meat, animal fats and far fewer carbs and no processed seed oils.
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I read it as the processed foods promoted by the ‘greenies’- instead of real food (meat, fish, dairy etc, including vegetables) – are what has made people fat and sick. Didn’t see it as anti-cabbage at all.
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“Illegal Immigration” is now to be classified as “Irregular Immigration”.
This quote is attributed to Joseph Stalin, Josef Goebbels and assorted other tyrants: “He who controls the language rules the world.”.
Notably, the government has dropped the term “illegal migration”, replacing it with “irregular”. This term is favoured by those working in the migration sector to describe the movement of people outside of the formal migration system, but who are still eligible to apply for asylum.
https://twitter.com/ColinYeo1/status/1816117583080231062?
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Bit like prisoners are now “clients” police forces are now “police services” and men are “women”.
I’m havig trouble keeping up!
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And the Left call pedophiles “minor attracted persons” (MAPs) as if it was some harmless fetish.
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Justice, Europe Style: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested Due to ‘Lack of Moderation’ on Platform
Rumble CEO Escapes France after Telegram CEO Is Arrested for Not Censoring Free Speech
(articles)
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“Musk Should Be Nervous” – Deep State Lackey Admits Real Target Following Telegram Founder’s Arrest (article)
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CEO of Telegram Messaging App Arrested in France For a ‘Lack of Moderators’ on the Russian Messaging Site
The Russian messaging App Telegram could be the last relic from a time when the internet was the wild, wild west. Anyone can use the encrypted messaging app, including terrorists, drug dealers, and low lifes of all sorts.
But Telegram has also served as one of the only sources of uncensored news in Russia where many of their 900 million users reside. It’s also available in Ukraine and oppressive societies around the world.
The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been a marked man in Western Europe for allowing all of this freedom to go on without a sufficient number of moderators. The French struck first, arresting Durov when he landed in France on his private jet.
French authorities are being very tight-lipped about their special prisoner.
Aside from vague references to the lack of moderators and non-cooperation with authorities, specific charges have not been filed against Durov.
He may be indicted as early as Sunday.
Elon Musk referred to Durov’s arrest, sarcastically calling it an “ad for the First Amendment.”
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Escalates (video)
Have the CEOs of any of the French telecom companies been arrested for “lack of moderation” on their networks? I’m sure their networks have been used for all sorts of nefarious activities. And what about French website hosting companies? Telegram has no moderation – no censorship – therefore it’s a common carrier, not a publisher.
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Telegram Messaging App Founder and CEO Arrested in France
August 24, 2024 – Sundance
Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai are genuinely brilliant tech programmers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs.
The Durov brothers founded the Telegram communication app in 2013. Telegram now has 950 million active users who can send messages, photos and videos, take part in chats for groups of up to 200,000 people and broadcast to unlimited audiences.
Telegram is the preferred messaging and communication app for those concerned with privacy. In my own travels, plans and purposeful interactions, I use Telegram frequently. It is the best communication tool available, and the tech interface is brilliant. However, various government agencies hate Telegram because of the privacy it provides.
Pavel and Nikolai Durov are originally Russian; their app was created and tested deep inside the surveillance state. The Russian government could not compromise it, and Pavel’s unwavering perspective on private communication has been thoroughly tested in subsequent years. Telegram is a success because Pavel Durov has proven he is trustworthy.
Pavel Durov was just arrested by the French government for refusing to compromise on the user privacy of his app.
Emphasis below, mine!
The arrest of Durov marks a major escalation in the global debate over the balance between privacy and security, and could have profound implications across multiple dimensions:
Legal Precedent: This incident could set a legal precedent for how nations handle the regulation of encrypted communication platforms. If Durov is prosecuted for the actions of users on his platform, it might lead to increased pressure on other tech companies to monitor and control user behavior, potentially compromising the commitment to user privacy.
Government Surveillance and Privacy: The case highlights the tension between government surveillance and individual privacy rights. Governments may use this incident as a justification to demand greater access to encrypted communications, arguing that it’s necessary for national security and law enforcement. This could lead to broader legal and regulatory changes that erode privacy protections in digital spaces. (read more)
In the wake of the attempted assassination of President Trump, we have already seen the professionals in DC start the process to outlaw private communication apps like Telegram. {See Here}
The Intelligence Community would like to remove the ability of Americans to communicate privately without the government intercepts.
The BASELINE
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Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson
Pavel Durov left Russia when the government tried to control his social media company, Telegram. But in the end, it wasn’t Putin who arrested him for allowing the public to exercise free speech. It was a western country, a Biden administration ally and enthusiastic NATO member, that locked him away.
Pavel Durov sits in a French jail tonight, a living warning to any platform owner who refuses to censor the truth at the behest of governments and intel agencies. Darkness is descending fast on the formerly free world.
Here’s our interview with Durov from several months ago:
Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson
17 Apr
Ep. 94 The social media app Telegram has over 900 million users around the world. Its founder Pavel Durov sat down with us at his offices in Dubai for his first on-camera interview in almost a decade.
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Elon Musk Reacts to Arrest of Telegram CEO in France, Slams Zuckerberg for ‘Caving to Censorship Pressure’
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“Musk Should Be Nervous” – Deep State Lackey Admits Real Target Following Telegram Founder’s Arrest
Russia is demanding answers following the arrest Pavel Durov, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram. He was detained by French authorities at the Bourget airport outside of Paris Saturday evening after arriving in his private jet.
The Russian embassy in Paris has demanded that the French government explain itself, and has so far said that French authorities are being uncooperative. The latest reports say Durov is expected to appear before a judge Sunday evening.
Durov was detained by the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF), over the alleged facilitation of various crimes including terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and fraud. “On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offences and crimes to be committed, for which he did nothing to moderate or cooperate,” a source told TF1 TV.
The arrest was characterized by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom as part of the “crackdown against free speech.”
Other prominent figures have voiced alarm over what this means for free speech, or even the question of who is next to be targeted by Western governments…
And in case you wondered, none other than deep state bagman Alexander Vindman makes it clear who the real target is…
Alexander S. Vindman ❎@AVindman
While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter. There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability.
Musk should be nervous.
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From The Comments
– “The Russian embassy in Paris has demanded that the French government explain itself,”
French government: “We’re just following orders.”
– The french govt sucks donkey ****.
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“Musk Should Be Nervous”
Lol! Hey Mr President, do you want your astronauts to go into space AND come back?? Are you willing to eat crow and ask the Russians to please take them up?? Well, SpaceX goes where X goes..
I’m just relieved there are very few tech billionaires who went down the path that Gates has! Give me an honest money-grasping genius any day over someone want to rule the world or ‘help us into his future’..
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Sometimes the descent of the West into the Underworld seems to horrific to believe. It just cant be happening. But here it is – the police state actually arresting the head of a social media company.
The internet, and social media in particular, remains the most powerful medium and bulwark against this determined power grab by the globalist oligarchs.
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The pols must be terrible headline of the day –
Courier Mail.
Available in paperback from Mills and Boon.
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I should have scrolled down a bit further to get a second excellent headline –
If only the government would fund… oh, wait
Queensland, we have a problem
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I knew Queensland was screwed but its apparently worse than I thought!
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Must be 1 very busy boy…or girl 😎
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As with so much this important bit is ignored, we can’t talk about it. How was the Voice supposed to overcome the disadvantage and depravity rife in northwest Queensland?
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The women in NW Queensland explains the massive use of alcohol. I expect the disease only spreads down the riverbeds.
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FWIW –
“Don’t Let Them See The Stubble”
“When not suing women who would rather not participate in his fantasies of sudden-onset womanhood, Mr Tickle spends his time sharing Instagram photographs of his underwear and neck hair, and cartoon sex toys.”
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2024/08/dont-let-them-see-the-stubble.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/25/dont-let-them-see-the-stubble/
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Yuck.
I wonder if you can legally have chromosome-labelled groups for anything? Like an XX Health Club, or an XY Mechanics Chat Group – with no interfering from other chromosome labels allowed.
Or will they just be fined/imprisoned for being chromosomist?
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Why State Enforcement Of “Fairness” Is Wrong (article)
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Good quote from Hancock Energy reported today in the Australian “90 per cent of our primary energy sources in Australia today still come from fossil fuels” compared with 94 per cent in 1984. What a terrible comment on what must be $200-$300Billion in Clean Energy cash stolen from Australian consumers to fund public servants, windmills and solar panels.
And the wonderful news about horrid gas, essential now to survival,
“the ACCC expecting an average price lift to $19/GJ in the first half of next year compared to $12.50 in 2024.” That’s an immediate 50% increase in prices. And likely shortages.
Australian politicians are idiots, China’s useful idiots.
As Donald Trump says, he could halve energy prices. So could we. It’s our major export and we have to import gas and we are not allowed use our own coal? Who is running Australia? President Xi?
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TdeF, the allegedly fossil fuels also provide so much more than “energy” and this is apparently lost on the people who want to save the planet.
There is a worldwide shortage of IV fluids, essential to so many hospital procedures. Why? Well it seems that the issue is materials to make those single use “bags” that contain the solutions with guarranteed sterility, stability and shelf life.
Australias solution, allow the only plastics resin producer to close down, partly because of a lack of affordable feed stock.
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Agreed. But also they were forced to shut down, because of the 35% Carbon Dioxide tax. This is never mentioned by the government or the media. All prices will skyrocket when the 35% carbon tax takes hold. The first 5% is now due and grows at 5% year. Everyone is going to pay and businesses are going to close across the country. Even sewage has to pay. All transport. All aircraft. All trucks. All ships. Everyone. 35% tax. Of course QENOS go out. The company was made worthless overnight and 800 jobs and about 20 plants closed. Where are the Green jobs?
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FWIW – research done
Yet another thing “Trump did” that he didn’t
“REVEALED: Foo Fighters falsely claimed Trump used their ‘My Hero’ song to introduce RFK Jr. without permission”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-foo-fighters-falsely-claimed-trump-used-their-my-hero-song-to-introduce-rfk-jr-without-permission
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If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again…
U.N. Chief Warns of ‘Annihilation’ of Pacific Islands from Climate Change
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/23/u-n-chief-warns-of-annihilation-of-pacific-islands-from-climate-change/
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They will all die of “Lethal Humidity” according to Twiggy Forrest!
https://fortescue.com/news-and-media/news/2023/12/02/open-letter-lethal-humidity-and-heat-are-already-upon-us.-our-actions-today-will-determine-how-many-millions-of-people-die-or-are-forced-to-migrate
In the proloque of “Twiggy” (2013) – Andrew Burrell states:
“At the other extreme, people view him as a hyperbolic fool who can’t be trusted to deliver on his promises and is motivated by greed. Four jusges in four seaparate court cases have questioned his truthfulness. “An idiot who got lucky”, is how one prominent Perth business leader describes him””.
More recent examples being SunCable to Singapore and Twiggy’s “Green Hydrogen” rent seeking schemes (scams).
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Trump whistleblower Eugene Vindman accused of violating federal election law in Virginia congressional race
Vindman gained national attention in 2019 when he and his brother Alexander Vindman exposed details of a phone call between then-President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a disclosure that led to Trump’s first impeachment.
Trump had been asking Zelensky about the circumstances of the firing of a prosecutor under Zelensky’s predecessor, a firing that then-vice president Joe Biden bragged about instigating. Biden had told Ukraine that congressionally approved aid to the nation would be delayed until the prosecutor was fired.
That prosecutor was looking into energy company Burisma, on whose board Biden’s son Hunter sat, and for which service he was paid some $80,000 per month. Congress alleged that Trump attempted to withhold aid from Ukraine until the details of the firing were revealed.
Vindman has since leveraged his public profile from this incident to raise millions for his congressional campaign.
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Chiefio – “Epcot Report #1 – A Sunday”
Disney downhill
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/08/24/epcot-report-1-a-sunday/
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David Starkey: The Quiet Death of Parliamentary Democracy (video)
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Power in Paradise – Where cancelling can get serious! Sharia in the Maldives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVg7rBSfCyM 8.30 mins
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https://www.youtube.com/@smiuq/videos
Simon Michaux has continued his analyses of Net Zero/Green Transition fantasies, concentrating on the hopeless impracticality of materials supply required to meet the wished-for magic space.
There is a UTube of a presentation he gave for a UQ webinar about 9 months ago which can be found on the link above – just scroll down till it’s listed.
He has developed these themes further, with another UQ webinar last Friday August 23rd, which I’m told will be posted shortly on the site listed above.
After several years of real effort, he has also had these analyses peer-review published. When the details of this are available, that information will also be posted.
Irrespective of whether one wishes to follow this in detail or not, the effect of these hard analyses on the political/MSM class is cataclysmic. While there is plenty of geoscientific argument going on, as there should be, the panic in the political/MSM class is spectacular. This is because these people are absolutely clueless (scientifically illiterate, mathematically innumerate) and the implications of the developing work scare them ever more witless.
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What hapens to these when the Loonies are let out on the street and the former male inmates believe they are women?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-13778919/australian-restaurant-year-tasmania.html
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FWIW
“Zelensky Announces That ‘The Enemy Has Been Defeated’ ”
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/08/25/zelensky-announces-that-the-enemy-has-been-defeated-n3793645
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Most people realise he was trying to destroy Ukraine, that was his real enemy…
He could have given up the areas that wanted to be Russian, spared over a million deaths and saved the country he is dictator of.
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FWIW
“‘Black Trees Matter’ — VP Kamala Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice’”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/07/black-trees-matter-vp-kamala-harris-asks-nasa-can-track-trees-race-environmental-justice/
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Are your sure this was not from the Babylon Bee?
Babylon Bee is the definitive source of fake news you can trust.
Kamala Explains 93% Of Staff Quit Because They Couldn’t Handle The Joy
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-explains-93-of-vp-staff-quit-because-they-couldnt-handle-the-joy
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Kamala: (yard) “signs of the times”
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1827805191657431309/
😆
Corrupt, incompetent, and destroying America.
It can’t survive the demonrats, and THEY know it.
Maybe that’s the real plan – destroy it all now then onto the WEF reset & utopia…
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Black Lives Matter signs
Tip of the day: always carry a big felt pen and put an “O” before “Lives” so it reads “Black Olives Matter”
😆
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Electrifying beaches to turn sand into concrete
As coastal communities around the world grapple with the growing threat of erosion, researchers have uncovered a surprising potential solution: electricity. Scientists from Northwestern University say that applying mild electrical currents to marine sands could create natural, sustainable defenses against the relentless assault of waves and rising sea levels.
Coastal erosion is a pressing global issue, with approximately 40% of the world’s population living in coastal areas. As sea levels rise and storms intensify, nearly 26% of the Earth’s beaches could vanish by the end of this century.
Now, Northwestern’s Alessandro Rotta Loria and his team have found a way to turn sand into a rock-like substance, creating a natural armor for our coasts that could last for generations.
In their laboratory experiments, the team applied mild electrical currents (ranging from 2 to 4 volts) to seawater-saturated sand. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, were nothing short of miraculous. The electricity triggered chemical reactions that converted naturally occurring ions and minerals in the seawater into solid calcium carbonate—the same stuff seashells are made of—and other mineral compounds like magnesium hydroxide and hydromagnesite.
These newly formed minerals act like a super-glue, binding sand particles together into a solid, immovable mass. “After being treated, the sand looks like a rock,” Rotta Loria explains. “It is still and solid, instead of granular and incohesive. The minerals themselves are much stronger than concrete, so the resulting sand could become as strong and solid as a sea wall.”
https://studyfinds.org/how-electricity-saves-beaches-coastal-erosion/
That’s amazing and just reverse the polarity to get your sand back!
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Another possible kind of border control?
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Sounds like a bit more work still needed:
” However, as with any new technology, there are challenges to overcome before this method can be widely implemented. The researchers note that the process is sensitive to variables such as sand density and ionic concentration in the seawater. Scaling up from laboratory conditions to real-world beaches will require further study and refinement. ”
Or
perhaps it will follow green hydrogen into oblivion?
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Surely the Greens will ban it, it will destroy the beach ecology and kill millions of creatures who burrow and live in the sand.
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Actual facts fail to change minds once people are exposed to misinformation
In the age of social media and instant information, misinformation spreads faster than ever before. A new study published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching reveals a startling finding: when people are exposed to misinformation first, simply presenting them with the actual facts afterward may be the least effective way to change their minds.
This discovery challenges the common approach taken by many educators, science communicators, and even government agencies in combating false information. The study, conducted by researchers Robert W. Danielson, Benjamin C. Heddy, and their colleagues, suggests that our current methods of addressing misinformation may need a significant overhaul.
The researchers found that participants who first read misinformation about adding fluoride to water, followed by a straightforward presentation of facts, showed the least improvement in their understanding of the topic. This group performed worse than those who encountered the correct information first or those who read texts that directly addressed and refuted common misconceptions.
This finding has profound implications for how we approach science education and public communication, especially on controversial topics. It suggests that once misinformation takes root, it’s not easily dislodged by mere facts. The study introduces the concept of “conceptual contamination,” which describes how incorrect information can interfere with or disrupt the learning of correct information.
https://studyfinds.org/facts-fail-to-change-minds/
Which is why, as said b4, it’s largely a waste of time trying to wake people up…
Just educate those that are.
The economy’s doing great under Biden, but Harris will fix it on day 1.
Understand now?
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Mark Twain — ‘It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.’
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“Have more than you show, speak less than you know”
– Shakespeare
10%/90% 😎
Binary Synthetic Bioweapons…
Hands up if you’ve ever heard of them.
No link (but I can – US MIL). Go looking then join the dots.
/gigantic clue to what awaits
“A good teacher show students where to look but not what to think.”
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Well, this guy is a laugh-
“George Mason University’s Gregory D. Koblentz says, “Biological warfare favors the attacker.”
It certainly doesn’t favour the developers, Covid19 showed that! A mistake is far more likely in the country where the biolabs are, which I suppose explains the Yanks having them in Ukraine & China, and, I expect, in Melbourne! It would be difficult to attribute blame to a lethal disease coming out of Ukraine now, American labs or Russian binary diseases.
This is what it is all about-
“…foresee the possibility of “specific ethnic genetic attacks” on whole racial or ethnic groups, “
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No doubt those responsible for the Covid biblical “truth” understood this research and applied it. It is still very hard to convince some people that the “vaccinations” neither prevented infection, nor prevented transmission. It is just staggering.
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https://shiftedparadigms.substack.com/p/inquest-into-the-death-of-mohamed – for example
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” though no viral infection was detected by PCR. ”
Ridiculous! PCR can find Covid in anything at all!
So the coverups and misinformation still continues, and those vaxxed just cover their ears and yell ‘lalala..’
It has been the greatest propaganda coup by Govts ever, they hit the world with misinformation from day one and saturated the media with lies, so when the truth started coming out, no-one would believe it.
We will have to wait and see what level of excess deaths are acceptable to those remaining vaxxed public. The statistics of early death amongst the hoi polloi versus Pfizer employees and politicians will prove to be interesting.
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Megyn Kelly: Tucker Carlson: RFK Endorses Trump, Creepy Walz Vibes, and More (video)
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If Australians could vote for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the result would be a landslide, says survey
New polling conducted by consultant and pollsters Talbot Mills Research has found Australians — who won’t get a vote in November — are overwhelmingly ready to elect Kamala Harris.
Even Coalition voters prefer Kamala Harris in Australia to Donald Trump. That’s right, centre-right voters in our country prefer Harris.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104267762
Why Oz won’t/can’t break free in time either.
Everyone enjoying their early retirements? 😎
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Rubbish!
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Disparaging your fellow Australians.
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Which water cooler was that?
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Craig Kelly is doing a Twitter poll today in response to this – it is still going, but at the moment the post says:
So, if you are Australian, and you could vote in the US Presidential election – who would you vote for ?
Harris 4.8%
Trump 95.2%
10,438 votes 19 hours left
https://x.com/CraigKellyPHON/status/1827881447354761725
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Oh – an X post! LOL.
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Would a liberal adherent be willing to read anything attributed to Craig Kelly.
I know my USA liberal acquaintances refuse to read conservative USA sites.
Statisticians would claim selection bias in the survey class.
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>New polling conducted by consultant and pollsters… has found…
If you are the one funding it, a poll can find whatever you design it to find.
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How the Democrats and their Deep State puppeteers operate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13778667/rfk-jr-secret-service-2024-trump.html
But then is having “Secret Service Protection” itself more of a risk!
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GLENDALE, AZ — The presidential race underwent a shakeup today, with Donald Trump adding a Kennedy to his team in hopes he will draw all the sniper fire.
Following an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July, Trump sought to take drastic steps to increase his safety for the remainder of the campaign, including bringing on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a member of a family with a reputation for being shot at.
“A brilliant move by the Trump campaign,” said one political strategist. “With lingering questions about the competence of the Secret Service, Trump has decided to take matters into his own hands. Nothing will draw gunfire away from him more effectively than having a Kennedy standing next to you.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-adds-a-kennedy-in-hopes-he-will-draw-all-the-sniper-fire
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‘Angel of death’: Underworld figure Tarek Ayoub gunned down ‘execution-style’ by multiple shooters in Sydney’s west
Underworld figure Tarek Ayoub – dubbed the “Angel of Death” – was gunned down in a “hail of bullets” in Sydney’s west overnight, police have revealed as more details emerge about the fatal shooting.
From the Comments
– incredible the lack of standards we have and who we let in…safety/security=good luck=more votes for the left
– Yes and Albo reckons there are no problems, Tourist Visas are fine.
– Add a few more thousand of them. Should be a nice place to visit in the near future. Thanks Albo
– there’s more coming..Visitor Visas..no worries
– For a replacement, see Albo for a visa.
– How come it’s always an upmarket getaway car?
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VISA = Visiting Immigrants Shootup Australia?
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Labor Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt defends ‘heavy-handed’ industrial relations reforms as business issues warning
The Albanese Labor government’s new industrial relations laws come into effect this week, with Labor Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt forced to defend the reforms from accusations they will tank productivity and harm the economy.
The controversial new laws came into effect on Monday, with businesses now required to limit contacting employees outside working hours, clamp down on the use of independent contractors and provide an easier path for casual workers to become permanent staff.
In addition, the Fair Work Commission is also being empowered to set minimum standards for gig economy workers, the first time legislation has been applied to oversee the sector.
Critics of the legislation have warned the changes could damage productivity, with major business groups arguing the government was creating a mess of red tape that would leave employers hamstrung.
In a statement, the Business Council of Australia hit out at the reforms, with CEO Bran Black claiming they “risked creating an environment in which it’s harder to employ people.”
“These laws put Australia’s competitiveness at risk by adding more cost and complexity to the challenge of doing business, and that means less investment and fewer job opportunities,” he said.
“At a time when productivity has flatlined and insolvencies are increasing, we can’t risk making it harder to do business with added red tape.
“Combined with the recent intractable bargaining and same job, same pay changes, we’ve now risked creating an environment in which it’s harder to employ people.”
Mr Black added the “heavy-handed” approach was also likely to push up costs and harm productivity, with the effect on small business particularly acute due to low margins caused by high interest rates and inflation.
From the Comments
– Australia is rapidly becoming the most entitled, lazy, expensive and inefficient workforce in the world, soon you’ll be expecting to be paid not to work at all, oh wait thats unemployment!
– Well the Labor wrecking ball is in full swing once again, this time targeting businesses. It never ceases to amaze me when Labor uses the reform word, when in reality they are actually saying dismantle or destroy. I really don’t think Labor has any grasp on reality, because they have no grasp at all on economic stability.
– Mr Watt – have you ever owned your own business or been an employee?
There is give and take in the employer employee relationship.
This legislation is heavy handed and not necessary.
– Thanks Mr Watt & Burke for sending more Australians businesses to the wall. Labor do not understand the concept of profitability and government need funds from Australians in private enterprise jobs.
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Love this Comment!
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the British and European elders, past and present, who introduced civil society and prosperity to Australia.
– As someone said this morning, this legislation is a solution looking for a problem. Labor is trying to become a de facto partner in businesses by dictating how many independent contractors a business may use. A building company may have some trades under its roof but needs specialised contractors from time to time.
Is Labor saying that the company must employ those specialists full time? Labor must let businesses run their own race, employ people and contractors as they choose which should mean that those who use those businesses will get a fairer price. Isn’t this one of the reasons given for putting administrators into the CFMEU?
As regards casual employees, a lot of businesses are only able to compete by using casuals, businesses like sandwich shops who employ casuals to cover a lunchtime rush. Statistics tell us that in the early 1990’s casuals in the workforce totalled about 20% and the latest ABS numbers still show that same 20% figure applies. Again, Labor is trying to impose additional unnecessary costs on businesses.
Plus
– Another incompetent Minister in this Labor Government, he is also the person for killing the sheep trade
– The biggest threat to workers security and stability is not Employers but an incompetent Government that is destroying the economy and driving businesses to the wall. Business Confidence =s Employee Security
– Don’t worry. Albo’s government is creating plenty of jobs, all dependent on the tax payer. It hasn’t created any that don’t but hey, what does that matter.
– I see a lot of redundancies coming up. Many workers will have no job, thanks to these stupid laws.
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Anyone for Tennis?
Scroll down to end https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ to see today’s full size Johannes Leak Cartoon
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The Ultimate Example Of DEI?
How Much More Qualified Can You Get?
Peloton is best known for its stationary exercise bikes, but it also has rowing machines. And–you would think–the best-qualified person to teach its rowing classes, Nick Mead, who just won an Olympic gold medal in rowing. But Peloton has Mead working logistics for them instead.
Bear in mind, being a Peloton instructor can be a pretty good gig. As ChatGPT notes,
On average, Peloton instructors are reported to make between $100,000 and $500,000 per year. Some of the most popular instructors, who have built large followings and have become key figures in the Peloton community, may earn even more, potentially reaching up to $1 million per year when including bonuses, endorsements, and other income streams.
For example, some Pelton instructors have published books, that wouldn’t have sold without their Peloton followings. Others have endorsed sports drinks, appeared in commercials for them, etc.
Who Peloton Has Teaching Its Rowing Classes
So who did Peloton hire as a rowing instructor over Nick Mead, the Olympic gold medalist?
One rowing instructor they hired was Ash Pryor, who helpfully informs readers on her Peloton bio that she is a black woman.
This seems like the ultimate example of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI):
A white male Olympic gold medalist taking a back seat to an overweight black woman.
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See her here:
https://www.onepeloton.com/en-AU/instructors/Pelo_A
A fitness instructor?
Oh please…
I was a qualified fitness instructor, with distinctions, with 10 years brutal gym work behind me.
Rowing machines are TOUGH. There’s no way she has any serious competencies there, not with that physique. Just another DEI bs hire.
Did I mention I’m a quantum physicist and astronaut? DEI ones. 😆
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Total BS, she wouldn’t fit in a boat for a start.
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Speaking of dei hires and rowboats maybe it’s time to update that old joke about the lakeside hire company conversation between the business owner and the brand-new recruit.
New recruit over pa system: “Boat number 9 your time is up please return to the jetty now. Thank you”.
Business owner to new recruit: “We only have 8 boats to hire”.
New recruit over pa system: “Boat number 6 are you in trouble?”
[Updated post dei punchline]
“Boat number 9 please move away from our boating area you are creating a hazard and endangering both yourself and our customers. Thank you”.
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“Did I mention I’m a quantum physicist and astronaut? ”
So YOU’RE the one responsible for the 8month holidays at the ISS!
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WHO issues important advice to all UK households following lockdown update over mpox spread
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging Britons to improve their hygiene practices as mpox spreads around the globe.
The public health warning comes after WHO declared the infectious disease a global health emergency on August 14 and Sweden confirmed its first case of the dangerous new variant at the heart of the latest outbreak.
The health body has issued laundry guidance advising not to share towels and to wash them at high temperatures to kill germs.
Even freshly washed towels contain 190,000 counts of bacteria, increasing to 17 million after just one day of use, and soaring to as high as 94 million after a week.
Despite this, a survey from shower enclosure specialists Showers to You has revealed that as many as 1.5 million Britons only wash their towels once a year.
https://www.gbnews.com/health/mpox-virus-outbreak-lockdown-uk
Brits can’t afford power, food and heating and now they’re expected to run hot washes every time?
Only washing towels once a year? You’re joking!
WHO says to prepare for mega lockdowns
https://twitter.com/IvankaNews_/status/1827670322696355933
Just remember: you may have Mpox and not know it, you could be A-chimptomatic.
“You comply because you want it to end, but because you complied it’ll never end.”
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There was always a rumour that the British only washed their towels once a year because they were not often used. There was a report decades ago that the water usage per person between Australia and Britain was double on the way to Britain to what it was on the journey back. The British were then known as the Great Unwashed. Once a common expression.
On my first stay in Ireland, in a hotel in Wicklow, the bath was in freezing water because the manager explained it was not worth heating the water. It was a revelation. Lovely place Ireland but I could see why my ancestors left.
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On the Titanic, in contrast to first and second class, there were only two baths to serve the more than 700 third-class passengers on board at any one time.
(humorous, Australia, colloquial, slang) A quick wash using a facecloth, often while still partly clothed.
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In our house, an English Shower is a squirt of deodorant. Not to be recommended without an Aussie shower prior…
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My understanding was that the term “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” was based on the bathing pecking order of father, mother then children according to their age. The water therefore was absolutely filthy by the time the youngest got “washed” and could be missed when emptying it…. out the window onto the street hence that other saying “look out below”.
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FWIW
“WAYNE ROOT: I Just Made a Huge Bet on Trump to Win the Presidency. But the Really Good News is the Biggest Gambler in Vegas Just Bet $1 Million on Trump- and He Doesn’t Lose!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/wayne-root-i-just-made-huge-bet-trump/
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Estonian birthrate plummets.
https://estonianworld.com/life/estonias-birth-rate-at-an-all-time-low/
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FWIW – a triple for you –
“SEEMS LIKE IT WAS ONLY A FEW DAYS AGOTHEY WERE WORRYING ABOUT THE OCEAN OVERHEATING – IT’S LIKE WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT DRIVES GLOBAL TEMPERATURES: Part of the Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why.
WAIT IT WAS A FEW DAYS AGO: The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
AND OF COURSE TWO MONTHS AGO IT WAS A CRISIS AND SUPER DANGEROUS: Three reasons why the ocean’s record-breaking hot streak is devastating.
Anyone else out there wanting to scream “Augurs, read your own entrails?” No? Well, you’re more patient than I am.”
Three links at
https://instapundit.com/668930/#disqus_thread
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I expect the cooling. As predicted by Prof Carl Otto Weiss and friends, it fits.
The recent peak is the coincidence between the peaks of the De Vries 250 year cycle and the AMO/PDO ocean cycle.
Both are now plummeting. The ocean surface is should start cooling at record speed. NOT because it is cooling but because colder water is replacing warmer water. The water can only cool by
evaporation from the surface, radiation from the surface and there is very little surface. Cooling is therefore due to current oscillations.
Right on schedule.
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FWIW
Instapundit lead-in – “THE SCIENCE(TM) HATH SPOKEN! BOW DOWN BEFORE THE SCIENCE(TM)! ”
“THE SCIENCE(TM) HATH SPOKEN! BOW DOWN BEFORE THE SCIENCE(TM)! Can tree rings really tell us the earth’s temperature 1,488 years ago to 100th of a degree?”
“Can tree rings really tell us the earth’s temperature 1,488 years ago to 100th of a degree?”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/can-tree-rings-really-tell-us-the-earths-temperature-1488-years-ago-to-100th-of-a-degree/
Via https://instapundit.com/668934/#disqus_thread
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The tree rings that I am familiar with are very hard to read. First, we have no deciduous trees. Second variations in rainfall would have a much greater message than variation in temperatures.
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FWIW
“The Ultimate Example Of DEI?”
“How Much More Qualified Can You Get?
Peloton (PTON) is best known for its stationary exercise bikes, but it also has rowing machines. And–you would think–the best-qualified person to teach its rowing classes, Nick Mead, who just won an Olympic gold medal in rowing. But Peloton has Mead working logistics for them instead.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-25/ultimate-dei-scenario
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Korea’s “90% EV charge limit in car parks” Won’t Work (video)
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FWIW – you’ll no doubt be pleased to know!
“UK nurses may refuse medical care to “racists” but not terrorists.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/uk-nurses-guidelin.html
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