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If you do not support erecting Chinese made solar panels and wind turbines in the outback then you are a Racist.
This is a new twist for the Climate Cultists in the Labor Party.
How about we stop treating “Aboriginals” like animals in a zoo and bring then into the cities to get jobs – this would “close the gap” in no time.
They can still go walkabout on their local land on annual leave.
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>How about we…
Can’t do that! We need to keep these people marginalised, we need the poverty, the abysmal education standards, the dysfunctional “communities”,and the Community Aboriginal Corporations. If they’re gone how can we justify the 60 billion dollars/year industry? /s
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Well how about we look at other real world examples and take their lead. This time from the Arab community and how they treat their Bedouin, the walkabout version of the Aboriginal.
Great backgrounder of possible interest…. particularly the part that states “Modern Arab countries tend to regulate the nomadic lifestyle. Bedouin want to provide their children with health care and education and for this they need to settle in urban areas.”
The crux of the problem is put where it belongs… with those who choose to be different.
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Why this morning Insiders show was even more repulsive than usual ?
The Aborigines, human being just like us, are deliberate kept in the state they are in, so blood-sucking leeches may enjoy fruits of XXI century civilisation.
Our Constitution does need a 2paragraph amendment.
The first para should say that we are Next Culture. There is no first, second nations, people or civilisations, we just recognised the fact that Australia was populated in 1788 CE.
The second should totally separate the State from issues of Culture, Race (yes, the word race must be used), Religion, Ethnicity, Gender, Age, etc,..
That is all.
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“We need to keep these people marginalised, we need the poverty, the abysmal education standards, the dysfunctional “communities”, and the Community Aboriginal Corporations.”
‘Incidentally, if they vote at all, they’ll vote socialist – to keep the money flowing.’
Not at all a consideration for a politician with the country’s best interests at heart, of course …
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How do they justify the accusation of racism on the one hand yet ignore the child labour, slave about and coal power used to make those panels on the other hand?
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Speaking of cheap Chinese solar panels
https://notrickszone.com/2024/08/03/handelsblatt-reports-photovoltaics-causing-problems-electricity-distribution-grids/
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Thanks Tonyb,
Some real words out of Germany.
” As more and more small-scale systems get installed, the more unstable power grids are becoming, experts are warning. Because wherever more electricity gets produced than consumed, the grid can collapse. ”
Amazing!
Cheers
Dave B
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Just about everything with the Left involves double standards, hypocrisy, Orwellian Doublethink and outright lies about everything, and especially their false claim that they actually care about people.
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How?
“Situational ethics”.
If they did not have double standar=ds,they would have NO standards at all.
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Around eighty per cent of Australians who claim to have indigenous ancestry, at least in part, live in mainstream society. The others who choose to live in country including remote country areas are disadvantaged as all Australians who live far from services are disadvantaged.
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Better idea is for government to buy large cattle stations out west and top end to give them jobs. Run it at a loss, it would be much better money spent. They have to work though or no benefits.
It was the sand through the hands by Gough that destroyed everything. They were good cattlemen and then they got sit down money. Put a curse on them
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The left just can’t help themselves, what was the first thing Elbow did when they got in on 32% of the vote, gave them full access to their cash card, household money went straight to booze.
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Several cattle and sheep stations have been purchased and placed under Aboriginal Land Council control, most have been run down as the people lost interest.
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In Vicdanistan the proposal is to revert all state forests to National Parks and have indigenous groups to manage them and live on site.I don’t recall any of these policies at the state or federal elections.
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Of course it would collapse. Like the croc hotel from Ranger mine money, run down and busted before not too long. You need solid management, not just let them run the show. And why would they work when you get the sit-down money? Cut that out and they will work.
However this idea of getting them to go to school, will not work. They’re not interested in school. Get them to work with skills they have. Even white kids aren’t interested in school, most of them just goof off and learn very little. It’s just a cultural thing so they attend. It’s not in the aboriginal culture though. You have to want to go to school to learn, and the ones who do want that, let them of course, should be encouraged. But it’s not reality.
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This begins with the Education dept. Many aboriginal communities speak ‘Pigeon English’ and this is taught in the remote schools. When challenged the Ed. Dept argued that aborigines do not want to leave their settlements and country, therefore it is not necessary to teach them English. This is now a catch twenty two situation. They can’t go to the cities for work because they can’t speak English.
Mark McGowan, former Premier of WA, made a U Tube video using a Pigeon English translator to pass on messages about Covid to remote communities.
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Former Coalition WA Premier Richard Court had an indigenous Australian step-daughter and he and his wife were very supportive of Aborigines, he tried to introduce Monday to Friday boarding schools in WA but was turned down by most communities who claimed the plan was another stolen generation situation.
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Dennis,
Tony Thomas has written a small book that summarises the hundreds of pages that historian Roger Franklin wrote to show that there was no stolen generation event. Let me know your address and I’ll send you one. It is beautifully written and compelling. Geoff S
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Geoff where would another interested lurker be directed if he earnestly wanted to read Tony’s small book?
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I think it’s “pidgin English” Chris. It’s where local or dialectal words are merged with English and it’s not too hard to learn if you are immersed in it. When I was working in PNG the locals where I was referred to a helicopter as “him big mixmaster in sky”. (Goodness knows how they knew what a Mixmaster was). Someone who had died was “him gone true” – (he is really dead) – and so on. The word, I believe, came from an early form of Chinese pidgin.
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emi dai pinis.
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Em i pinim sala warra.
Him, he fights salt water.
He’s swimming.
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Total direct expenditure on services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in 2012-13 was estimated to be $30.3 billion, accounting for 6.1% of total direct general government expenditure.
The same report also found that:
Estimated expenditure per person in 2012-13 was $43,449 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, compared with $20,900 for other Australians (a ratio of 2.08 to 1 — an increase from a ratio of 1.93 to 1 in 2008-09).
https://cass.anu.edu.au/news/factcheck-qa-30-billion-spent-every-year-500000-indigenous-people-australia
Yet still they moan, have street parades demanding more money and land, disrespect the laws as they think they own ALL of Australia and white fella laws don’t apply to them, and all so they can buy houses, flat screen tv’s and nice cars, and live the lifestyles of those they blame.
Perhaps we white fellas can claim equal compensation from them because our ancestors were wronged too. The only claim anyone has is against the perpetrator of that crime, long gone from this world, and all descendants are crime and guilt free.
Hatred runs long and deep, just look at the Ukrainian Holodomor.
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As a Scot by birth I feel the same about the damned English coming across the border and clearing out the Highlands so that they could claim their huge estates that they are now prostituting out to wind farms. I’ll take my compensation in Scotch whisky, thanks.
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And, after trying so many Single Malts, the best of all (IMHO) is Cardhu, the 15 year old if you can get it, but the 12 would have to do if you cannot get the 15. (and good luck trying to find either of them)
Tony.
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Renewable (wind, solar, mini hydro) for last mile electrification INSTEAD of grid – makes sense.
It is the grid-ification of renewables / adding to energy markets that is madness.
People in remote communities are not the madness.
This is a distraction from the madness.
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The importance of energy autonomy and security instead of relying on others (in Australia’s case the Chinese)
Roughly 40 percent of Ukraine’s electricity imports pass through the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, which means Hungary is not entirely powerless in the face of a Ukrainian blockade on oil supplies. In fact, Hungary may be forced to cut electricity to its neighbor if push comes to shove.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-slovakia-consider-cutting-electricity-supply-ukraine-if-kiev-keeps-blocking
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The neocons are losing their orchestrated war in Ukraine so it’s shifting to old faithful in Israel to draw in Russia and hopefully weaken Russia on multiple fronts.
It’s going to get ugly.
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Police were relying on cell phones to communicate when it should have been obvious that with 20,000 people close by in a regional area cell phone coverage might be unreliable.
Where was the dedicated radio channel or channels – more Keystone Cops stuff.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13705289/Bombshell-police-radio-transmissions-Trump-assassination-attempt-lay-bare-shambolic-29-minute-hunt-shooter-Thomas-Matthew-Crooks-lost-sight-him.html
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Reuters,
Q: When is a “command post” not a command post?
A: When the command goes AWOL.
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Secret service guy in building when Police let into lower floor (Body cam). Guy dressed as Secret Service walks from west end of building. He looks like the same guy next to Ashlii Babbit in a suit with two masks over his beard at J6. After she climbs then falls, he bends over her when she lands on the floor and directs the guys dressed as SWAT.
Secret service officer on list of personnel assigned to building. Cullen on crowdsourcethetruth previously presented this list with redacted names on their blog.
They have what appears to be bullet entering the rear of the bloke on the roofs head from the direction of the west end of that building.
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“Rowe also noted that the Secret Service had not been present in a command post set up by local law enforcement in Butler, Pennsylvania.”
Where were they ??, gone for a pizza ?
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There appears to have been a rapidly spreading negligence epidemic around the Butler event. Perhaps they were self-isolating.
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Gone for a pizza? Maybe they were taking the ladder away that was reported to be used for roof access, because the ladder has also gone missing.
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Security has collapsed. But the show must go on!
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Leo G
In any good script there is always the guy disabling the traffic lights, security cameras & phones
Anybody come up with an internal layout of the buildings yet?
WE know there is desperation with the official narrative when we see how the images are appear to be reworked.
The guy seen discussing his future demise with a guy who appears to be a Policeman previously described as one hour + before any speech. The conversation probably going something like, “OK, so I use the keycard for the door there, Door 12, toddle up the stairs grab the gun in the bag run across the roof and shoot the Bad Orange Man. And, you promise not to shoot me, it will be hard to drive my new Ferrari if I have a bullet hole in my tush!” He is now a helpful bloke pointing out the gun man on the roof to a Policeman while Trump is talking despite having been in the same frame with the bloke on the roof sitting having a picnic in the video when everyone is a hollerin’ and a yellin’ and Trump is speaking and shot.(First frames, bottom left)
Go Figure?
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It’s a pretty common mentality. Take things for granted, no real understanding of the basics of how they work, be suprised and unprepared when things go wrong.
The cashless society, fragile supply chains, the electricity grid, new age forest management, running a country with two weeks reserve of diesel.
In the Butler case you would have imagined the Secret Service to be running fully independent opetational comms. Not so much apparently.
I guess you see what you are looking for, however for me more and more this stuff just seems like ongoing examples of the crisis of competence that is sometimes discussed here.
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I see strategic incidents of incompetence which appear to be co-ordinated with the plan of attack used by an assassin or assassins.
I also recall that the US Intelligence agencies have a history of such behaviour.
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Also,
July 13 Butler Rally First Time Secret Service Sent Counter-Sniper to Trump Event
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/03/july-13-butler-rally-first-time-secret-service-sent-counter-sniper-to-trump-event/
Better late than never I suppose.
But cold comfort for the Comperatore family and the other 2 guys that took a bullet.
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I’m often amazed at how technologically backward America often is. Integrated digital networks are common in many parts of the world. Networks such as Tetra, NXDN, DMR etc.
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Kim >I’m often amazed at how technologically backward America often is
Same. I saw a write-up of a guy’s fight to get a telecom/internet connection sorted in Florida, mainly outside cabling granted.
Couldn’t believe the mission. I’ve got fast-fibre, phone over fibre ($5/month, crystal clear), plug-n-play router, pain-free, zero-hassle.
Not everyone’s experience here in NZ but not uncommon either.
I’m one of very few that has a land-line over fibre though (power off – no fibre phone). Getting a long enough inside connection cable was a fruitless search for a while. Finally asked at one telco shop and the guy went “oh yeah” – went to the recycle bin and hauled out exactly what I wanted. No charge.
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Yep, its entrenched behaviour. I was travelling a lot with work in the 90s. I could get off a plane in Europe, Asia, Japan and my phone would just work. Go to the US and everything was a fragmented PITA. I recall seeing a TV advert trumpeting a roll out of GSM mobile. What a triumph! It covered the “entire tri state area” ( a little bit of the top right hand corner) Meanwhile across the border in Canada the whole country was covered.
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One would think that an image was not going to add any actionable information.
Perhaps sending the phrase “There’s a guy on that roof carrying a rifle” may have been more useful.
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Job opportunities for Dictator Dan’s Gestapo in the UK.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/britain-burning-riots-protests-35-towns-cities-as/
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It’s usual for anyone showing anger at uncontrolled migration and destruction of society to be called FAR RIGHT.
The clear incompatability of extreme muslim ideology with traditionally Christian British life is held to be xenophobia or organized political aggression based on White Imperialism or a perverse pride in being British. A sort of evil British MAGA movement. What’s wrong with thinking the extreme left progressives in both Labor and Tory parties are deliberately causing havoc in society? As in most of Europe and America?
The extreme left/Greens/Progressives want riots so they can take over in a coup d’etat like their hero Lenin. Who cares if they are race riots? And label the people as extreme right racists for reacting publicly to the mass stabbing of helpless children. It’s not racism. It’s anger and distress at the loss and the danger of extreme and uncaring government policies.
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The trouble is that the sort of completely unacceptable overtly racist thuggery that is currently occurring will merely give the politicians the excuse to shut down and outlaw all ‘far-right’ groups/views/demos.
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In UK now anti illegal immigration protests are being attacked by Islamist immigrants with knives axes and hammers.
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Yer, right.
And not punching lone innocent ethnic people just walking down the street, or pulling them out their car, calling them the P word and burning it.
All these rioters are doing is inviting an authoritarian crackdown, and the political classes will be happy to oblige, so they can just carry on with destroying the country.
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How they Rule Ya
Will this protest grow or will it be stamped out?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YV6tqQTtu1o#searching
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I think it’s just the start, PeterC. Once these feelings bubble to the surface and become widespread there is no stopping it. Nigel Farage has been warning of this for years.
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Muslim is not a race, it’s a religion.
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It’s not only the UK.
The São Lázaro Cross in Portugal, built in 1386, was destroyed yesterday by Pakistani immigrants.
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>Far Right…
Witness fights to save teenager after machete attack in Melbourne, the “no black gangs here” city
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This conflict is bound to happen in mass multiculturalism. Doesn’t matter who is wrong or right.
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80 years ago the brownshirts were decimated, as ideology but also physically.
Their country, women and children suffered badly through occupation.., enough to cool possible revanchists of the next generation.
35 years ago redshirts ideology was defeated and normal People rushed to help populace out in their strife.
So what the next generation do ? Aha ! Only 50% change the shirts to green, the rest are the same as their fathers and grandfathers.
Do not take my words – check Moscow’s Victory marches under “Grandfathers Won” and (we)”Can Repeat!”
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“It’s usual for anyone showing anger at uncontrolled migration and destruction of society to be called FAR RIGHT.”
It’s usual for anyone showing even a frisson of concern at uncontrolled migration and destruction of society to be called FAR RIGHT.
That’s how it seems here – leafy South London.
Much of the MSM – not least, of course, the BBC – has had very little to say about the weekly protests/riots in London – allegedly in the cause of the (pro-massacre) Palestinians.
But here after three murders [and, I know, incited (by whom?)], when concern is expressed – it’s the FAR RIGHT.
There should not be violence, and many of the perps are probably disaffected, looking for a fight. One or two may have had a beer!
But it is the tarring of a whole section of society – quite a large section, I believe – as FAR RIGHT, by the BBC and others, that causes many people to think – may be Farage and his little group of UKIP/Brexit/Reform/whatever-next buddies do have a point.
Very extreme Socialist – ‘words mean what I want them to mean’.
You disagree with me – you’re an (ugh!!) extremist!
Where is the Tory party?
[Locked in a leadership battle, with no interest in ideas or consequences outside individual ambition, it seems]
Labour ‘will crack down’ [on the Far Right!!]- but how much do they say about the ‘Pro-Palestinian’ violence?
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Seems like the UK government has already copied, and applied, the Chinese approach:
” Keir Starmer has barely been in office a month after winning a mere 33.7% of British votes July 4. Starmer announced a police crackdown using facial recognition technology and internet censorship. Facial recognition would prevent protestors “from even boarding a train”, the Socialist PM said, apparently suspending the presumption of innocence in UK. ”
Cheers
Dave B
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” Keir Starmer has barely been in office a month after winning a mere 33.7% of British votes”
David – he got 33.7% of votes.
Of all voters – including those who opted not to vote at all [for whatever reason]
– The Beige Knight’s “Powerful Mandate” amounted to less then 21% of all voters eligible to vote.
So >79% did NOT in fact vote for his shoddy coalition of the left.
Yet they are pursuing doctrinaire policies …
Auto – who knows votes have consequences.
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Not only Manchester, Hull, Nottingham, Newcastle, but Spain and beyond. The West has had enough immigrant violence and police favoritism. The West has begun to find it’s backbone and it’s beginning to fight back.
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Re climate change/Global boiling…
It is not about the CO2 level or Methane Level in our atmosphere. A fool engineer like me can see that.
Both are trace gases. Methane is so tiny in volume as to be irrevelant.
Those gases cannot drive warming. So why the continual Gov/Academic/Media/UN alarmism?
It seems that since I was a young one, “GAMUN” has prophesied for 3 decades… and have been just as reliable as my Sunday page horoscope.
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When I heard this, I checked to see if the slow and very small CO2 annual increase was man made. It was proven in 1958 to be 98.0% natural.
Then the idea that the CO2 increase caused warming. Spectroscopic modelling shows that the warming effect is zero as CO2 aborption is saturated.
Then the idea that ’emissions’ were causing the increase in CO2. CO2 levels have shown no connection to emission levels.
Then the idea that we could reduce CO2 levels by growing trees, the basis of Carbon Credits. That is proven absurd by the rapid growth of trees world wide with increased CO2 levels.
And most importantly, it has never been shown that gases such as CO2 and Methane are NOT controlled by the oceans, as a physical chemist would expect. After all who set the level in the first place? It wasn’t us. And the idea that a 50% increase in CO2 over 250 years is rapid is silly. We would love inflation to be only 0.2%. That’s as close to constant as you can have in the real world.
So as you say, it’s all obviously silly. But the idea that politicians control the weather and so have unlimited right to control society is pure evil and very, very profitable. Communist science in league with the globalists, the traditional definition of fascism.
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Research from the University of Athens https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379016741_Net_Isotopic_Signature_of_Atmospheric_CO2_Sources_and_Sinks_No_Change_since_the_Little_Ice_Age. Isotope analysis of the carbon in the atmospheric CO2 clearly shows that increase in CO2 is natural and man’s contribution is around 4%. Other research by the Athens team shows that rising CO2 levels are caused by rising temperatures, not the other way round.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373901502_On_hens_eggs_temperatures_and_CO_Causal_links_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere. “All evidence resulting from the analyses suggests a unidirectional, potentially causal link with T as the cause and [CO₂] as the effect. That link is not represented in climate models, whose outputs are also examined using the same framework, resulting in a link opposite the one found when the real measurements are used.”
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Bronco >increase in CO2 is natural and man’s contribution is around 4%
Yup. I get a 3% difference in Mauna Loa (ML, NH) vs Baring Head (BH, SH) trends by rough-as-guts analysis and comparison of the respective timeseries downthread at #7.2.1.1.1 here:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/sunday-68/#comment-2787623
I’ve emailed the NIWA contact on this – Inbox bomb on Monday morning (welcome back to work).
But thing is, the ML-BH divergence has been known since at least 2007 (see #7.2.1.1 at comment link above).
The implication from that thread below is this:
Summary (Rough-as-guts)
+33.33ppm/decade – Natural+Human (ML)
+32.33ppm/decade – Natural (BH)
+1.00ppm/decade – Human
1/33.33 x 100% = 3%
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BTW guys,
Our rebuttal-provoking forum-accoutrement Simon thinks ALL of the CO2 increase is human emissions.
That’s 100%(Simon) vs 3-4%(Us).
Classic example of the gulf between CO2-centric Climatistas and Natural-cause Cynics (referring to myself there).
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A regular commentator in The Australian insists that the anthropogenic amount is 33%. But never explains how he arrives at that figure. Think it’s something to do with the amount he claims exists in the atmosphere, not the annual contribution.
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Coal is Satan’s Rock
Burning coal produces evil CO2, while burning trees (eg Drax Power Station) produces “good” CO2.
When you treat Climate Cultism as a new age religion it starts to make sense – sort of!
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So where does this “good” CO2 go to? And what does it do? The mind bogles.
When I did Chemistry at School in the 1960s, CO2 was just CO2 and had no evil. Only a good as plant food and bubbles for nice drinks, etc, etc, etc.
Send all the ‘Pollies’ and Dopes back to School in the years before this Madness started for a proper scientific education. Doctor Who where are you?. We need your Time Machine right now.
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The “models” also seem to be dodgy.
CO2 does NOT accumulate in the upper atmosphere but hangs about below about 12000 feet. One of the reasons for the existence of the “tree line”
The models also seem to have NO acknowledgement of convection or lateral air currents. A closed, static atmospheric system?
Methane is your basic hydrocarbon. It will oxidize steadily in the presence of oxygen, forming, of course, two convenient “greenhouse gases. Simply put; water vapour, which is NOT the gaseous phase of water, rather that phase is “steam”, a whole different matter. Thee other “party” is Carbon dioxide, which, as soon as it cools, falls to the lower atmosphere. As for the planet “boiling? In a vacuum, water will boil at extremely low temperatures. It will also freeze at the same time. At higher altitudes, ice and snow often go from solid to gaseous phases, skipping “liquid” via a process known as “sublimation”. Thus endeth the junior school science summary.
Furthermore the spherical (roughly) planet is in NO way like a closed structure made of sheets of glass. And, the big Nuke in the sky heats the planet from the OUTSIDE. The nuclear-powered furnace below out feet warms it from the inside. (And occasionally, bits of that “leak out”).
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>A closed, static atmospheric system?
Like a greenhouse, perhaps.
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Hi Richard C. As you are in NZ, I trust you will be tuning in to Patrick Gower: On Ice. A 2 part doco staring on TV3 Monday 12th about the melting Antarctic and climate change. Even just the short trailers I have seen are full of nothing but misinformation, disinformation and out and out lies, yet this will be broadcast to NZ as the truth behind our impending doom. Unfortunately the climate mafia have this sort of reach, unavailable to the rest of us. I would love to find a way to kick up a stink about this, although I would suggest that a strongly worded petition to the broadcasting standards committee would probably go nowhere. Number one lie on the trailer – Tuvalu is sinking due to climate change and, in the near future, it will only be seen on old film and VR head sets.
Fact check. The population of Tuvalu is growing. In 1960, the population was 5404. In 2023 it was 11,396, more than double. With the exception of 2016 and 2017 when there was a small drop of 25 and 24 respectively, there has been a year on year population increase. Strange for a nation that is supposedly sinking in to the Pacific. According to research from the University of Auckland, using aerial photography and satellite images, it found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu’s total land area by 2.9 percent. Island change has lacked uniformity with 74% increasing and 26% decreasing in size. Results challenge perceptions of island loss, showing islands are dynamic features that will persist as sites for habitation over the next century.
A paper published by Institut du Littoral et de l’Environnement, University of la Rochelle-CNRS, La Rochelle, France clearly states:
“Over the past decades, atoll islands exhibited no widespread sign of physical destabilization in the face of sea-level rise. A reanalysis of available data, which cover 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls including 709 islands, reveals that no atoll lost land area and that 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted. Atoll islands affected by rapid sea-level rise did not show a distinct behavior compared to islands on other atolls. Island behavior correlated with island size, and no island larger than 10 ha decreased in size.”
Mr Gower, when it comes to Tuvalu, the term “cherry picking” comes to mind. So, BS or truth. Conclusion – so much BS I can smell it before the program is even broadcast.
Any ideas guys. This type of scare mongering bollocks has to stop. To quote H.L. Mencken “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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Bronco >I trust you will be tuning in to Patrick Gower: On Ice.
No sorry. I’ve given up watching television for the reasons you cite (among other things) – “misinformation, disinformation and out and out lies”.
I used to tune in to as much News as I could crunch – TVNZ One, TV3 Warner/Discovery, Prime/Sky – just to see what spin the Lefty-biased low-info media crowd were foisting on their viewers.
But I just threw it in. I decided not to waste my remaining days on drivel and superficial hot-button group-think narratives.
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>Patrick Gower: On Ice
TV3 had a current affairs program:
‘Paddy Gower Has Issues’.
So when TV3 owner Warner Bros/Discovery axed all their News and Current affairs that became the joke:
‘Paddy Gower Has Tissues’
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Anyone who has used a greenhouse knows that you have vents in the roof and louvres at the side plus a door.
Hot air rises so the temperature in the greenhouse is controlled by opening the vents and releasing the hot air.
There is also greenhouse shading which can be used to reduce the build-up of heat. (Clouds?)
If the climate models use a ‘static, closed system’ like a closed greenhouse then something is missing.
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To me, it’s all about water vapour, if it is not counted then they are just playing with themselves.
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It’s Authoritarianism –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
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As a postscript in 2024, CO2 is still 97.0% Natural CO2. Not fossil fuel. That is not disputable.
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Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery
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From Net Zero targets “Unachievable” says Air New Zealand on Thursday #20.1.1.1.4.
CO2 Comparison: Mauna Loa (ML) – Baring Head (BH)
Monthly Data: Date, ML, BH, Diff, Cycle High/Low
2000 1 2000.0417, 369.45, 366.09, -3.36
2000 2 2000.1250, 369.71, 366.01, -3.70
2000 3 2000.2083, 370.75, 366.16, -4.59
2000 4 2000.2917, 371.98, 366.37, -5.61
2000 5 2000.3750, 371.75, 367.03, -4.72, ML Hi, BH Lo
2000 6 2000.4583, 371.87, 367.24, -4.63
2000 7 2000.5417, 370.02, 367.14, -2.88
2000 8 2000.6250, 368.27, 367.69, -0.58
2000 9 2000.7083, 367.15, 367.37, +0.22, BH Hi, ML Lo
2000 10 2000.7917, 367.18, 367.80, +0.62
2000 11 2000.8750, 368.53, 367.79, -0.74
2000 12 2000.9583, 369.83, 367.87, -1.96
Monthly Data: Date, ML, BH, Diff, Cycle High/Low
2023 1 2023.0417, 419.47, 414.92, -4.55
2023 2 2023.1250, 420.31, 414.87, -5.44
2023 3 2023.2083, 420.99, 415.10, -5.89
2023 4 2023.2917, 423.36, 415.18, -8.18
2023 5 2023.3750, 424.00, 415.69, -8.31,ML Hi, BH Lo
2023 6 2023.4583, 423.68, 415.84, -7.84
2023 7 2023.5417, 421.83, 416.42, -5.41
2023 8 2023.6250, 419.68, 416.94, -2.74
2023 9 2023.7083, 418.50, 417.23, -1.27, BH Hi, ML Lo,
2023 10 2023.7917, 418.82, 417.58, -1.24
2023 11 2023.8750, 420.46, 417.44, -3.02
2023 12 2023.9583, 421.86, 417.93, -3.93
Sources:
ML: Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/weekly.html
BH: NIWA contact, Atmospheric Scientist
https://niwa.co.nz/atmosphere/carbon-dioxide
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The theoretical CO2 forcing component of total DLR was 6 W.m2 in the 1976 Standard Atmosphere (Wang & Liang 2009).
About 7 W.m2 now. Berkeley labs measured the change in-situ at 2 sites 2000-2010 at 0.2 W.m2/decade.
Total DLR has been measured at 440 W.m2 at Darwin.
If you see what I’m getting at.
See also,
Reply 1 to Simon Saturday
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/saturday-70/#comment-2787278
Reply 2 to Simon Saturday (follows Reply 1)
Also, from,
An efficient hybrid method for estimating clear-sky surface downward longwave radiation from MODIS data – Cheng, Liang, Wang, and Guo (2017), and Wang & Liang (2009)
My analysis:
DLR components of the Standard Atmosphere and typical DLR.
Summary:
315 W.m2 total DLR estimate (typical)
277 W.m2 WV component (implied)
7 W.m2 CO2 component (Std Atm)
31 W.m2 Residual (ozone, cloud water, cloud ice, aerosols, fog)
None of that typical 315 W.m2 DLR that varies all over the planet but is greatest in the Tropics is a surface heating agent – it does NOT heat water for example. And doesn’t energize PVs (See replies to Simon 1&2 above).
In short – DLR is Apparent power, not Real heating power (using electrical analogy).
And Theoretical GHG Forcing and the entire GHG Theory of Global Warming is a bust.
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CO2 Query to NIWA contact, Atmospheric Scientist.
I’ve queried the NIWA contact in regard to the apparent divergence of the Mauna Loa CO2 timeseries from the Baring Head series. The following is my query to that contact.
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I made a simple tabular comparison of the Mauna Loa (ML) CO2 series and the Baring Head series you sent me Friday (thanks).
Just the 2000 and 2023 data:
Monthly Data: Date, ML, BH, Diff
2000 12 2000.9583, 369.83, 367.87, -1.96
2023 12 2023.9583, 421.86, 417.93, -3.93
Monthly Data: Date, ML, BH, Diff, Cycle High/Low
2000 5 2000.3750, 371.75, 367.03, -4.72, ML Hi, BH Lo
2023 5 2023.3750, 424.00, 415.69, -8.31, ML Hi, BH Lo
2000 9 2000.7083, 367.15, 367.37, +0.22, BH Hi, ML Lo
2023 9 2023.7083, 418.50, 417.23, -1.27, BH Hi, ML Lo,
The ML series seems to be diverging from the BH series, I haven’t bothered to graph each series ML vs BH and apply trends but just going by the comparison above:
2000 12 – 2023 12 ML-BH Diff +1.97.
+1.97 over 2.3 decades gives +0.857ppm/decade
Similarly May ML Hi, BH Lo Diff +3.59
+3.59 over 2.3 decades gives +1.56ppm/decade
Is that divergence a reality?
If so, why is it occurring?
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Hi Richard. I will have a look when I get home but it might be just the northern and southern hemispheres are out of sync.
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John >the northern and southern hemispheres are out of sync
Yes, that’s already a known – NH and SH are opposite phase.
What is NOT known is the respective trends NH vs SH.
In other words, what does the graph of ML vs BH CO2 look like? All I can find is this:
Fig. 9. Baring Head and Mauna Loa CO2 growth rate and the Multivariate ENSO Index (Wolter and Timlin, 1993).
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Baring-Head-and-Mauna-Loa-CO-2-growth-rate-and-the-Mul_fig7_236264156
From,
Analysis of a 39-year continuous atmospheric CO2 record from Baring Head, New Zealand (2013)
Britton Stephens, Katja Riedel, and Sara E. Mikaloff-Fletcher
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Baring-Head-and-Mauna-Loa-CO-2-growth-rate-and-the-Mul_fig7_236264156
And, from an NOAA CO2 conference on an unknown date but circa 2007,
A COMPARISON OF THE BARING HEAD AND MAUNA LOA ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORDS
A.J. Gomez, G.W. Brailsford, K. Riedel, and D.C. Lowe
https://gml.noaa.gov/co2conference/pdfs/baring_head_abstract.pdf
I made the comment in the Thursday #20.1.1.1.4. thread that the Baring Head data is a natural-source trace.
Gomez, Brailsford, Riedel, and Lowe apparently concur.
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>the Baring Head data is a natural-source trace
The implication being that the difference in trends – ML vs BH – is due to human emissions.
Which, from my 3rd comment today upthread, is about +1.00ppm/decade.
But the trend in ML is much greater:
CO2 at Mauna Loa 1960 – 2020
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2_data_mlo.png
About +33.33ppm/decade. So,
Summary (Rough-as-guts)
+33.33ppm/decade – Natural+Human (ML)
+32.33ppm/decade – Natural (BH)
+1.00ppm/decade – Human
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>But the trend in ML is much greater:
CO2 at Mauna Loa 1960 – 2020
[ML Data Link]
About +33.33ppm/decade [6 decades – by eye]
This was wrong (by eye was Ok, calc wasn’t).
+100ppm/6 = 16.67ppm/decade (6 decades)
John’s graph and trend of ML 2000 – 2023 can be relied on I think (BH dodgy though).
+22.397ppm/decade (2.3 decades)
In the right ballpark then, even by eye.
Summary update:
Summary (pending John’s BH update trend)
+22.397/decade – Natural+Human (ML)
+21.397ppm/decade – Natural (BH) (pending)
+1.00ppm/decade – Human (pending John’s diff)
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Hi Richard
I am not saying you are wrong. It’s just I haven’t got my head around it yet.
I just now calculated the annual average CO2 since 2000 using monthly average data from here.
https://gml.noaa.gov/dv/data/index.php?category=Greenhouse%252BGases¶meter_name=Carbon%252BDioxide&type=Flask
Baring Head has a lot of missing months, I assume because of the covid lockdowns and they will have skewed the averages. There are only 3 months of data for 2021.
There is a wobble at the end of the BHD graph that looks like it is caused by the missing data.
I have drawn a graph. Hopefully this Dropbox link will work.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/efalinzlgtfnw05g7ryh3/CO2-Annual-Averages-2000-to-2023-BHD-and-MLO.jpg?rlkey=5015kze3yagemi3fypc6hy74f&dl=0
Annual Annual
Ave Ave
BHD MLO
2000 366.74 369.79
2001 367.91 371.46
2002 369.45 373.18
2003 372.34 376.05
2004 375.13 377.73
2005 377.04 380.11
2006 378.82 382.06
2007 381.03 384.14
2008 382.53 385.84
2009 383.93 387.56
2010 386.32 390.03
2011 388.33 391.92
2012 390.22 394.06
2013 393.07 396.86
2014 394.98 398.93
2015 397.73 401.06
2016 400.83 404.34
2017 402.68 406.64
2018 404.99 408.86
2019 407.43 411.60
2020 410.25 414.05
2021 411.23 416.31
2022 415.40 418.54
2023 417.08 420.98
I have to get back to work now but will be giving this some thought.
I realise I haven’t really begun to address the points you are raising.
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John
>Baring Head has a lot of missing months
I wouldn’t go by the GML data (even though BHD).
The NIWA contact provided me with the complete dataset (since Anonymous FTP server URL went to a blank page – “looking into that”) which is compiled by BHD.
2023 side-by-side:
GML Flask Data, NIWA Data
BHD 2023 1 415.16, 414.92
BHD 2023 2 414.69, 414.87
BHD 2023 3 415.14, 415.10
BHD 2023 4 999.99, 415.18
BHD 2023 5 999.99, 415.69
BHD 2023 6 999.99, 415.84
BHD 2023 7 417.16, 416.42
BHD 2023 8 417.84, 416.94
BHD 2023 9 418.13, 417.23
BHD 2023 10 418.30, 417.58
BHD 2023 11 418.62, 417.44
BHD 2023 12 418.65, 417.93
>I have drawn a graph
Yes, that’s the graph that needs to be drawn and you’ve nailed it – trends too.
But the GML data you’ve used is not appples-to-apples with either the data NIWA supplied (also BHD) or NOAA’s Mauna Loa here:
Mauna Loa CO2 monthly mean data (text) or (CSV)
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/data.html
Example,
NOAA ML, GML ML
2023 12 2023.9583 421.86, 418.65
Can’t say I know exactly why the discrepancy (except GML “Flask”).
>I realise I haven’t really begun to address the points you are raising.
Gottit.
To get the NIWA CO2 data just leave a request at the NIWA Contact page here (since the FTP server link is broke for the time being):
NIWA Website enquiries
https://niwa.co.nz/contact
Same day service, for me anyway.
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Thanks Richard.
I realised the GML data starts in 1999 so wasn’t ideal. I didn’t think of going straight to NIWA. I will do as you suggest and leave a request at the NIWA contact page.
Hopefully they might send me something tomorrow.
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John, I did a summary update pending your BH data revision, trend, and ML-BH difference:
See #7.2.1.1.1 (up) for details but here’s the update:
Summary update:
Summary (pending John’s BH update trend)
+22.397/decade – Natural+Human (ML)
+21.397ppm/decade – Natural (BH) (pending)
+1.00ppm/decade – Human (pending John’s diff)
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Richard. Could we meet up in real life?
I don’t want to publicise my details but I am near Hamilton.
Could we arange to meet at a cafe perhaps?
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John, I’m in Mt Maunganui. Think you may be in Hamilton.
I’ve done the cafe thing before with others, decided it’s not my thing.
I really don’t want to become immersed in CO2 – not my thing either.
But I add what I’ve already racked over to a forum like this when I think it’s appropriate. Draws some in-depth stuff out into the light of day that people such as yourself have been sitting on and other stuff that’s not common knowledge.
Crowd-source learning in other words. Hard data is my go-to being a data junky/analyst (your approach too obviously), otherwise just a lot of hand-waving going on.
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Mauna Loa?
A huge ACTIVE volcano, merrily out-gassing non-stop for decades.
See also:
Kilauea, with its enormous, gas-spewing caldera, in the nearby “Volcano National Park”.
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I think they are supposed to collect the samples when the wind is blowing from the ocean so the volcanic CO2 ought not to be a problem.
I don’t have a problem with the data or how it is collected. My issue is with the IPCC explanation as to why it CO2 is rising. My reason for disagreeing with the IPCC is because of the data that comes from these labs.
The data show that changes in temperature precede changes in CO2 so I actually am grateful to the people who provide hard data that the IPCC is wrong.
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John >The data show that changes in temperature precede changes in CO2
I did a normalized graph of HadCRUT4 vs CO2 years ago (think it was HadCRUT). Might be on a flash drive somewhere so might try digging it out (prob lost tho).
Not just normalized but identical rise in the Y axis. So both beginning at 0 and rising to the same Y level on the graph i.e. 2 rising curves.
In the mid to late 1990s (I think it was), Temperature was leading CO2 by about 20 years (from memory).
CO2 caught up and crossed Temp around 2000ish from memory.
Not sure if anything can be made of that though.
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Richard. I have looked at HadcruT5, GISS, NCEI and the best of all, UAH lower Troposphere.
They all show the same thing.
It is not the correlation between Temp and CO2 that matters.
It is the correlation between change in temp and change in CO2 growth.
If X is the cause of Y, then a change in X should cause a change in Y.
If emissions are causing CO2 growth, then a change in emissions should result in a change in CO2 growth. That is not what has happened.
A change in emissions does not result in a change in temperature.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ruc1mma59pgvp8/Change%20in%20Emissions%20vs%20Change%20in%20CO2%20Growth%20mlo.PNG?dl=0
When temp rises, the rate of CO2 growth goes up.
When temp goes down, the rate of CO2 growth goes down.
So we have a correlation between temp going down and CO2 going up.
This means it is the temperature that is the independent variable (the cause) and CO2 change the dependent variable. (the result)
I have things to do so I must stop now.
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When temp rises, the rate of CO2 growth goes up.
When temp goes down, the rate of CO2 growth goes down.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zkjcb0isor472brddq6xp/Change-in-Temp-and-Change-in-Atmospheric-CO2-Growth.odt?rlkey=bezcucdka23ce6cjbadxhi743&dl=0
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John, either of those 2 graphs – Emissions Change vs CO2 Growth Change, Change in UAH vs Change in CO2 Atm Growth – is a clincher.
In combination – slam dunk.
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oops. Above I said “A change in emissions does not result in a change in temperature. ” It should have been “A change in emissions does not result in a change in CO2 growth. “
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John,
Over a year ago WUWT kindly published my article urging caution about Mauna Loa accuracy for routine CO2 measurements. You cannot use 2 figures after the decimal.
You might get away with +/- 0.5 ppm error. It is almost standard practice for Establishment climate researchers to exaggerate analytical competence and quote accuracy that they cannot obtain. Remember that they cull their readings to keep only those that satisfy certain criteria. If we did that for ore resource calculations, were could face jail. Geoff S
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>CO2 Comparison: Mauna Loa (ML) – Baring Head (BH)
Cape Grimm conforms to Baring Head, near enough.
Similar divergence from Mauna loa.
Cape Grim Data
https://capegrim.csiro.au
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I calculated the annual average for the Cape Grim data and plotted it with the Mauna Loa annual average over time.
I’m not convinced the difference is large enough to call it a divergence.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mi6zr65tns59gap3iat7t/CO2-Annual-Ave-Mauna-Loa-and-Cape-Grim.jpg?rlkey=0qxvcpor6ierc7rwbgzkmbecs&dl=0
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John >I’m not convinced the difference is large enough to call it a divergence.
Don’t forget that’s a 46 yr (4.6 decade) timeseries in that plot.
Truncate to 2000 – 2023 (2.3 decades). Should be much the same divergence as MLO-BHD over 2.3 decades given the similarity of data.
In other words, the latter part of a rising curve has a greater linear slope than does the slope of the entire curve, which includes the early falling part (in respect to linear trend).
In any event the NH-SH divergence has been known since at least 2007. From #7.2.1.1 upthread:
A COMPARISON OF THE BARING HEAD AND MAUNA LOA ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORDS
A.J. Gomez, G.W. Brailsford, K. Riedel, and D.C. Lowe
https://gml.noaa.gov/co2conference/pdfs/baring_head_abstract.pdf
And,
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I calculated the percentage difference between them and plotted the graph. The slope is positive but not much. The coefficient of determination(R-squared) is 0.27
which isn’t great but could be worse.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4h9oq0s6g709v0h6hjfpy/Percentage-difference-between-MLO-and-Cape-Grim-over-time.jpg?rlkey=ql7bmdd3dorssv6p7rpj3ri6x&dl=0
I kind of expect there to be a small difference, so about 1 % is not big for a “well mixed” gas. I am more interested in why. The tropics are a net source of CO2 from the warm ocean outgassing. The polar oceans are net sinks. Cape Grim and Baring head being at about 41 South, I would expect their numbers slightly lower than at Mauna Loa, But not by much. This is what we are observing.
The difference is much less that the difference for methane which has about a 7% difference between the samples in the north of the northern hemisphere compared to the south of the southern. Given that the official turnover time for methane is 9.1 years, compared to 4 years for CO2, methane should be much better mixed than it is. The simplest explanation is that methane has a much shorter turnover time, and therefore much larger total emissions than the IPCC currently accept.
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John,
You are assuming these CO2 analyses to be more accurate than they are. There might be no change over the years when Baring Head is subtracted from Mauna Loa. Their noise envelopes probably overlap. OTOH, there might be a real difference. It would take a lot of work to clarify. There is a common problem in climate research that the numbers are so small, especially numbers measuring change over time, that uncertainty plays a big part.
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Geoff >You are assuming these CO2 analyses to be more accurate than they are.
Yes, the published data is just the central point of a whole bunch of readings. You can see that here:
Mauna Loa Daily, Monthly and Weekly Averages for two years
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/graph.html
Interactive so to see the day readings:
Display:
day [Y]
month [N]
week [N]
Then mouseover the datapoints.
At MLO peak in May:
428.59 – 2024/04/26
425.63 – 2024/05/18
Then there is the difference between the earlier “flask” and later “in situ” measurements.
The temperature analogy being the difference between LIG and RTD measurement (sort of).
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You are right Geoff. I am probably not giving the uncertainties enough credit.
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John >I am more interested in why
Same. I’ve asked NIWA for their latest given the 17 years (at least) since the divergence was mentioned in that NASA conference.
Waiting for a reply now.
They must have done a lot of work on since I would have thought.
If it is about 1ppm/decade as I (roughly) calculate then that’s the difference between a non-industrial natural-source trace and a, potentially, industrially-boosted trace (from China mostly).
And if I’m right, the human component is negligible given the 2023 MLO growth rates.
MLO 1 decade
Year, Growth Rate.
2014 2.17
2015 2.95
2016 3.03
2017 1.90
2018 2.85
2019 2.49
2020 2.28
2021 2.38
2022 1.81
2023 3.36
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html
So about 22.4ppm/decade (as per above and John’s MLO trend 2.3 decades), 1ppm/decade of that human-boost.
NIWA’s explanation will be interesting.
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Olympic Politics
But in the latest twist to the scandal, the IBA are set to award Carini with a $AUD75,000 bonus in a move that pours fuel on the war between the boxing governing body and the International Olympic Committee.
The war ignited in 2019 when the IOC withdrew its recognition of the IBA and then in 2023 the IOC voted to expel the governing body of amateur boxing from the Olympic movement.
It was the first time in its 129-year history that the IOC kicked out a governing body.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/beaten-crying-boxer-angela-carini-at-centre-of-shock-payment-twist/news-story/c48e6c0083c75676099b9c1b35574e9c
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Womens’ sports are for biological females. Gender was invented as a term in psychology only. You cannot change biological sex with clothes, education, lifestyle, drugs or surgery. Regardless of the statements of the IOC. Women have XX chromosones. No amount of makeup will change that. Everyone else can fight in the open division.
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Oxford dictionary:
Gender the male sex or the female sex, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones
History: Gender identity as a concept was popularized by John Money in the 1960s. He founded the Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins University and formulated, defined, and coined the term “gender role”,
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John Money, was he that Kiwi? What a piece of work his mind was.
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Where should XXY Males Compete?
Klinefelter syndrome is a congenital (from birth) condition in which males are born with one or more extra X chromosomes. It is not inherited. Klinefelter’s syndrome is also know as XXY syndrome. Klinefelter syndrome is common, affecting 1 in every 500 to 1000 males born in Australia each year.
The answer is in male sports since XXY males to all appearances are males and the syndrome is only confirmed by laboratory tests generally when they have trouble conceiving children.
Therefore XY males should only compete in male sports even if their mental illness has them beleiving that they are females.
It is not our role to validate someone else’s mental illness.
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Everyone can compete in the open events. If you are human.
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The only chromosomal abnormality in which 46,XY individuals with female phenotype might conceivably be permitted to play in female sports is for those born with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (not partial). They are totally unable to respond to androgens (which even normal females can respond to). Thus there is no chance of them having or developing any male-like characteristics. They appear externally as females with typical genitalia and breasts.
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No. In the open event. The women’s event is for XX. It’s very simple. That includes centaurs and fauns and Minotaur.
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The story of being male or female is not as simple as having either XX or XY chromosomes: those two young people are not “cheating” as they have been identified as girls at birth, grew up as girls, but they just happen to carry one of dozens of genetic XX or XY aberrations which can occur. It is in my opinion, probably ideal that they are not permitted to compete in high level competition, due the doubts which do arise and the fact that it will likely cause more psychological harm than good to all involved.
(See below; examples of XY females, and XX males)
However!: undoubtedly tall fully developed males who post puberty opt to call themselves girls in order to win championships should certainly be excluded, and probably deserve all the scorn that eventuates.
46,XY Swyer syndrome
People with Swyer syndrome have female external genitalia and some female internal reproductive structures. These individuals usually have a uterus and fallopian tubes, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) are not functional. Instead, the gonads are small and underdeveloped and contain little gonadal tissue. These structures are called streak gonads. The streak gonadal tissue is at risk of developing cancer that is often hard-to-detect, so it is usually removed surgically. Swyer syndrome is also called 46,XY complete gonadal dysgenesis; the medical term “dysgenesis” means “abnormal development.”
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/swyer-syndrome/
46,XX testicular difference of sex development
46,XX testicular difference of sex development is a condition in which individuals with two X chromosomes in each cell, the pattern typically found in females, have a male appearance. People with this condition have male external genitalia. They generally have small testes and may also have other features such as undescended testes (cryptorchidism) or the urethra opening on the underside of the penis (hypospadias). A small number of affected people have external genitalia that do not look clearly male or clearly female. Affected children are typically raised as males and develop a male gender identity.
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/46xx-testicular-difference-of-sex-development/
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An interesting look at Rhodesia/Zimbabwe as it is now. I am pretty ignorant about the finer points of this part of African history, and while I don’t take everything said in this video as absolute historical fact, it’s highly likely to be more “balanced” than I could expect from any legacy media organisation.
It’s just over an hour long.
https://youtu.be/bHOvQ5P5Mr8?si=ONWOA2Hn1E6qMNIR
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Here is a fantastic video to watch this Sunday.
It is 1hr 11m but extremely informative and entertaining and talks about the history of southern Africa and Rhodesia and takes a look at present day Zimbabwe.
As is typical after the removal of European-style governments from African nations, the results are exactly as expected with infrastructure in decay or not working at all, a dysfunctional economy, Zimbabwe as a food importer rather than the “bread basket of Africa” etc..
It’s as though ALL progress and civilisation stopped after the natives started “governing” the country.
Now, as with all of southern Africa, the dominant tribes are themselves relatively recent migrants (much like the whites) so cannot claim to be indigenous. They are mostly Bantu, Ndebele and Zulu among some others.
The true indigenous of southern Africa are the Khoisan or Bushmen.
It’s a fascinating video and also interesting from an “archeological” point of view as it shows how quickly things degenerate after they cease being maintained or used. In a few decades or no more than a century there’ll be virtually no visible evidence that Zimbabwe ever had a European style civilisation.
Much of the West is starting to go the same way unless things can be turned around.
https://youtu.be/bHOvQ5P5Mr8
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Ian Smith was literally trying to build and install a genuine multicultural society, the apparent dream of the left. He had a good chance of succeeding too.
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Great idea.
And then, disgusting creatures like Malcolm Fraser and the execrable “Lord” Carrington helped engineer the sidelining of Joshua Nkomo, himself backed by the soviets, and the rise of the utterly despicable Robert Mugabe, who was Beijing’s choice.
After his installation, the more observant noticed a lot of folk of different hues “fleeing the village”, with little but the shirts on their backs.
The “Zimbabwean Armed Forces have a distinctly “Chinese” flavour, especially in hardware. Who ‘da thunk it?
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It’s the same video as in #9. I started watching but when the names of people or tribes is so botched, the history mangled and the true nature of country misrepresented I give up.
I spent several holidays in Zimbabwe. It was a beautiful country and the people I met, black and white, were all friendly and seemed to be well educated. The quoted figure was an astounding 98% adult literacy rate. Not bad for a 3rd world country. The race relations on the surface seemed to be really good – certainly far, far better than South Africa. I think that if Ian Smith had been supported by the West, present day Zimbabwe would be very different in a good way.
The Nguni tribes – Ndebele (Matebele), Zulu, Xhosa, etc, are Bantu. The Mfecane waged by Zulu king Shaka, killing all in their path drove the Rhodesian Ndebele northwards and all but wiped out the San in the eastern half of SA. Khoisan is a word used to lump the San and the Khoi into one. They are different people.
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Late 1980’s I got hold of a book on South Africa and race relations written by an overseas airline pilot who had been stationed in South Africa.
The book was loaned and never returned so I no longer have author or title.
The gist was the tribal relationships in Africa still apply from Eritrea to the Cape of Good Hope and –
– firstly that 500 or so years of European influence/interference has not changed who hates whose guts one iota
– but it has changed in places which tribes are now in charge
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This probably won’t get mentioned either but there was
“The Natural Resources Act Southern Rhodesia 1941”
I doubt anywhere else in the world had used those NR words in a single sentence at that time – let alone in an act of parliament.
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“Millions” Wasted On Electric School Busses As Maryland Pivots Back To Diesel
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millions-wasted-electric-school-busses-maryland-pivots-back-diesel
And,
ZH – Who says government isn’t an efficient allocator of your tax dollars?
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Electric vehicles: A ‘boondoggle of mind-blowing proportions’
‘What happens when pie-in-the-sky government agendas clash with boots-on-the-ground reality’ [USA]
By Patrice Lewis
https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/electric-vehicles-a-boondoggle-of-mind-blowing-proportions/
And,
And,
Saga continues at link….
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Apparently in colder states they found you can complete the school run without heat or you could have heat and have to bail out halfway through the run, but you can’t have both, unlike the diesel buses where the heating costs nothing and has no effect on the run length.
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A friend recently had fitted to his diesel Merc Sprinter camper a diesel heater (it runs on fuel from the main tank, and heat exchanges fresh air into the van) and he tells me the thing keeps his van as warm as he needs all night when the engine is off.
But, get this …. it uses 100 ml of diesel an hour! Thats almost 1 litre per night, just to sleep comfortably!! (Thats about 27 fluid oz for the Yanks).
Yes, I’m being sarcastic. And I know the fuel use of the bit of heat scavenged from a cooling system would be almost immeasurably low.
Both my friend and I were astonished at the efficiency of that camper heater. Can you imagine the batteries required to do that job.
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Swiss Government Takes Child Away From Parents Who Refused Puberty Blockers
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swiss-government-takes-child-away-parents-who-refused-puberty-blockers
The parents uncovered evidence that their child had been groomed by her teachers, school councilors and even doctors to adopt trans beliefs…
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Expect this in Australia under a Green/Labor Coalition Government
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The Swiss? the home of true democracy? Surely not?
Popular among some, the idea we need a system of direct democracy like the Swiss have. I’m not so sure it delivers the utopia people think it would.
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Why not? because there isnt an instant solution?
Not saying its utopia, but there is a process once an issue is indentified and it does actually work if the people get behind it? Like many things there though, it takes time and will not be rushed
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Still has governments taking children from non-conformist parents. That’s pretty bad.
As George Calin said, think of how dumb the average person is and then consider that 50% of people are way dumber than that.
I must confess I’m not a huge fan of democracy in one person one vote form, women’s suffrage, universal suffrage. Look what it’s done to Australia. My theory is Aus would be twice as rich as it is today if we didn’t have all those socialists voting for free lunch. Letting these people vote on whether they should get more money or not, I just can’t trust. Fox in charge of the chicken house.
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Carlin wasnt quite right really , but that’s just my inner pedant.
Not a fan of our democracy but do like the Swiss more bottom up system.
So if not democracy ,what is ypur ideal? and does it exist anywhere?
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This is the problem, cant work it out
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I once came up with an ideal system:
Have citizen-elected officials to run the towns, counties, districts
Have a subset of citizen-elected officials from the above elected local officials who are promoted to run the regional or state government.
Have a national government voted in by the local and regional representatives to run the country.
What could go wrong? I asked.
I was soon informed that I’d just described the supposed system of the Chinese Communist Party, and it soon devolves into an unaccountable committee at the highest level deciding who gets promoted up through the system.
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Karma Chameleon
Donald Trump calls out Kamala Chameleon‘s racial shtick
By Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/donald_trump_calls_out_kamala_chameleon_s_racial_shtick.html
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Explosive Scandal: Kamala Harris’ Husband Doug Emhoff Cheated on First Wife with Daughter’s Nanny and Got Her Pregnant
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/explosive-scandal-kamala-harriss-husband-doug-emhoff-cheated/
I used to be mildly interested in the TV series ‘Dallas’, but this reality show wins that ratings war hands down.
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>I used to be mildly interested in the TV series ‘Dallas’
An aside here,
In the Dallas intro there was the view of down-town Dallas and lots of reflective glass cladded buildings many of which had Oil&Gas connections.
What was not realized by most was that much of the office space in those buildings emptied out over the time of the series.
The Dallas series ran from 1978–1991. That time span can be clearly seen in this interactive graph:
Crude Oil Prices – 70 Year Historical Chart
https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart
Oil price crashed from US$150.06 in May 1980 to US$21.50 November 1998. Currently US$77.91 July 2024.
Hence the empty office space in CBD Dallas by 1991.
The oil price actually went down to US$10 over several days in 1998 (graph is monthly average). I lost buckets of dough having been trading O&G Exploration options at the time but didn’t have the skills/knowledge to trade a falling market (i.e. cut your losses short, get out, among other things).
Youngies I talked to much later refused to believe me when I told them about $10 oil in 1998.
Then in April 2020 (see graph) the oil price plummeted to US$23.08.
Remember, those prices are NOT inflation adjusted i.e. the actual inflation adjusted price in 2020 was probably about the same if not lower than 1998 in real terms.
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‘F— white women!’ Harris ally told Zoom meeting full of leftists –report
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/f_white_women_harris_ally_told_zoom_meeting_full_of_leftists_report.html
This is incendiary.
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Kamala Harris’s ‘as-if’ personality
By Peter A. Olsson, M.D.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/kamala_harris_s_as_if_personality.html
See Psychoanalytic References
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Kamala Harris doesn’t have the mental capacity to do a REAL Debate against me, scheduled for September 4th in Pennsylvania. She’s afraid because there is no way she can justify her corrupt and open borders policy, the environmental destruction of our country, the Afghanistan embarrassment, runaway inflation, terrible economy, high interest rates and taxes, and her years-long fight against saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ I’ll see her on September 4th or I won’t see her at all. She is acknowledged as the Worst Vice President in History, which complements the Worst President, Crooked Joe Biden. Together these two low-IQ individuals have destroyed our country, but we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1819799235392606234
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Olympics: Here’s who excels in ‘lying-down’ sports
By Noel S. Williams
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/olympics_here_s_who_excels_in_lying_down_sports.html
Presented without comment (on the OZ-US+GB stoush).
Except to say this (from 2012):
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Sitting down and going backwards…
No wonder Polynesians thought Lieutenant Cook’s men were goblins with eyes in the back of their heads as they rowed shoreward.
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I found that piece rather ironic. An American talking about poor Australian sportsmanship. Spare me. You can tell things havent gone well so far.
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As the Left’s war against the food supply continues and they prepare us (non-Elites) for vegan and insect poverty food diets we have this:
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The Govt only registers something so they can take it off you. Guns, cars, dogs, cats, children.. all have been taken off people by Govt in the past.
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Like the old days of The Egg Board. Chickens were long regulated in quasi socialist Australia. My parents had about a hundred chickens and when rumour The Board was about, we had to keep them locked up.
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If they’re not exposed to other bird species, they’re safe. Unfortunately that means no more true free ranging for now.
Registration is a knee-jerk mindless reaction from the loony left.
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But free range will soon be compulsory in Victoria.
That means they’ll ban chickens altogether I guess.
That’s the excuse they need. Then they’ll offer insects instead.
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Apart from dwindling cases in the USA, and a handful of outbreaks in India, bird flu is virtually absent worldwide now.
Fear mongering government garbage is totally unwarranted.
Chook farmers could employ any number of effective methods to scare off unwanted birds and protect their birds, allowing for free ranging.
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If that’s the case I hope those insects are free-range.
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The UK has already regulations [of a ‘Conservative’ [seriously] Government] that require registration of all chickens.
These rules apply from 01 October 2024 – so, not yet in force.
Even if you keep a couple as pets [no eggs, even …].
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-as-a-keeper-of-less-than-50-poultry-or-other-captive-birds#:~:text=In%20England%20and%20Wales%20you,if%20you%20do%20not%20register.
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Incidentally –
“Registering a racing pigeon establishment
“Registering a racing pigeon establishment is voluntary, unless you want to move pigeons to the EU or Northern Ireland for immediate release for racing back to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).”
Brexit works, unless you send pigeons to Ulster!
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Heavy Snow Hits New Zealand; Chilean Ski Resort Remains Open Despite Volcanic Activity; Too Many Polar Bears In Greenland; + British Farmers Paid To NOT Produce Food
August 2, 2024 Cap Allon (Freebe)
https://electroverse.info/heavy-snow-hits-new-zealand-chilean-ski-resort-remains-open-despite-volcanic-activity-too-many-polar-bears-in-greenland-british-farmers-paid-to-not-produce-food/
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John Anderson (former Australian deputy PM) interviews Konstantin Kisin about arrests due to social media posts in Britain.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DIl-HO9Ng3I
In Russia in 2023, 400 people were arrested for social media posts.
In Once Great Britain 3300.
Australia is going the same way with an enthusiastic e Safety Kommissar who wants to suppress truth telling.
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We saw the form of our Safety Kommissar when there was only one victim of a knife attack (from the usual suspects) – what would be the response if the victims had been children with three deaths?
In fact, the victim wanted the world to know what had happened to him.
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The problem with government deficit spending is that those (largely young) someday will grow up and realise that they have to payback that deficit & interest by higher taxes and charges. Those still working will also have to payoff that spending spree. When they look for those politicians who voted for this expenditure they will have gone.
The elderly, who have seen this before, won’t mind as they won’t be around either, although they may be upset by the grab on any inheritance they were planning to leave.
The only ones who are enthusiastic are those on the Government payroll who assume that they won’t be affected. They can’t see that they will be blamed by the downtrodden. Much as in the French Revolution where Lavoisier was guillotined for investing in a tax farming scheme. Only those far sighted like Talleyrand who, as an ex-bishop, was enthusiastic for the revolution but lived out the more dangerous times by becoming Ambassador to the Americas (that is those had already revolted from the British over taxes).
Our rulers in Canberra think they will be unaffected but the coming revolution will leave many losing their positions.
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“but the coming revolution will leave many losing their positions.”
Positions? Should lose more than that!
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Steve of Cornubia
August 1, 2024 at 1:55 pm · Reply
I’m 68yo but we’re unable to plan much beyond next week due to my wife’s cancer. She has a consult tomorrow, to review the results of a recent scan. These consults are terrifying, just waiting to hear bad news. It’s coming up to a year since her cancer was discovered and we’ve spent that year in a state of continual ‘bipolar’ emotional swings. Of course we’re hoping for no ‘new’ bad news tomorrow. If it goes OK I will hastily put together a little break somewhere – if she feels up to it.
David Maddison
August 1, 2024 at 7:02 pm
Wishing you the very best news Steve.
And none of those things OldOzzie mentioned could hurt either, including IVM.
Steve,
What David was referring to re IVM was this Article – https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661820315152
I have downlaoded the 12 page PDF referenced at the site and sent a Copy to my CLL Haematologist to discuss in our meeting early Sepetember 24
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug
Ivermectin, a widely used antiparasitic drug, has been found to exhibit potential anticancer properties. Its mechanisms of action involve:
. Inhibition of various signaling pathways: Ivermectin has been shown to inhibit the Wnt pathway, Akt/mTOR pathway, MAPK pathway, and YAP1 protein, among others, in different types of cancer cells.
. Induction of programmed cell death: Ivermectin has been reported to induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) in various cancer cell lines, including those resistant to gemcitabine.
. Inhibition of cancer stem cells: Ivermectin has been found to inhibit cancer stem cells in breast cancer.
. Modulation of ion channels: Ivermectin has been shown to activate chloride channels, leading to increased apoptosis in leukemia cells.
Cancer Types Affected
Ivermectin’s anticancer effects have been demonstrated in various cancer types, including:
. Breast cancer
. Colorectal cancer
. Ovarian cancer
. Glioma
. Melanoma
. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
. Prostate cancer
. Lung cancer
. Leukemia
. Renal cell carcinoma
Future Directions
While ivermectin’s potential as an anticancer drug is promising, further research is needed to fully understand its mechanisms and to explore its efficacy in clinical trials. Additionally, the development of ivermectin derivatives with improved anticancer properties and reduced toxicity may enhance its therapeutic potential.
Context
http://www.sciencedirect.com
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug – ScienceDirect
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug – PMC
http://www.researchgate.net
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug
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When the required double blind effectiveness studies (of existing off patent drugs) are so large and costly that they can only be funded by international pharmaceutical companies, they will be avoided.
There needs to be a mechanism where people with otherwise difficult to treat cancers can in conjunction with their medical providers report the conditions where the existing drugs were used along with a continuing report of the outcomes.
Hopefully supported by a university network and totally independent of pharmaceutical company and federal government support.
And the study contents would need to be accessible by the general population.
Or perhaps like the drug adverse reaction database was supposed to be.
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Thanks Mate. I have been reading up on IVM use to treat cancer and found many papers suggesting that it does indeed work. I’m also trying to persuade Mrs Wife to give it a go on the basis that, OK it probably won’t work but then again it might – at low cost and low risk.
I haven’t been able to find out anything about HOW to use it, i.e. dosage and frequency. I note too that some studies say that it should be used alongside chemo rather than on its own.
I still have some in the fridge and I’m going to order some more. Even if she decides not to try it, I like to have it around.
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2 mg for every 10kg body weight. Though overdose limits seem very generous. As for frequency I have seen multiple variations on a theme.
Given the infusions for cat 1 bladder cancer are weekly (don’t ask) I would go weekly for at least two to three months. Then perhaps monthly. I read the literature as IVM being an inhibitor of cancer growth/metasizing.
The first couple of weeks dosage will likely assist in the “re-stabilization” of the lower GI tract. Might actually be useful for some IBS sufferers. 🙂
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Chronology of wake up music that NASA has used to wake up astronauts after their sleep periods.
The particular music used is chosen by the astronauts.
The list goes from 1965-2011.
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/wakeup-calls.pdf
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As an Owner Builder early 80s – Something I have been noticing in Knock Down Rebuilds in our Area is the following!
NSW residential construction: plastic vertical formwork solutions
Based on available information, the following plastic vertical formwork products are suitable for use in house building in New South Wales (NSW):
. Geoplast Recycled Plastic Formwork: Geoplast offers a range of modular formwork products, including Geopanel, Geopanel Star, Geotub, and Geotub Panel, which are lightweight and suitable for constructing concrete columns, pillars, walls, plinths, and foundations directly on-site. These products can be used for various construction and planning requirements, including columns and pillars of different shapes and dimensions, as well as walls and foundations of different thicknesses and heights.
.PVC Wall Panel System: The PVC Wall System by Big River Group consists of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) panels that serve as sacrificial formwork for concrete walls. Once filled with concrete, these panels act as structural elements, reducing construction time and cost. This system is suitable for building concrete walls in NSW.
Note that while other products, such as PALLISIDE Weatherboards Direct Fix, are mentioned in the search results, they are primarily designed for horizontal applications (weatherboards) and not specifically for vertical formwork.
It is essential to consult with manufacturers and conduct thorough research to ensure compliance with local building codes and regulations in NSW before selecting and using any plastic vertical formwork products for house building projects.
Context
hipages.com.au
Find out more about concrete formwork, including how to build it
http://www.geoplastglobal.com
Recycled plastic formwork products – Geoplast – sustainable construction solutions
http://www.eboss.co.nz
Plastic Building Materials in Sustainable House Design – EBOSS
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Thank – you Old Aussie,
I have been working on the concept as a domestic solution to tilt slab and you provide a link to an effective and reusable solution.
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Broadie,
what surprised me was that they had curved plastic vertical forms as per following
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-seaforth-145577744
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From a lake core in the Australian Alps it was discovered that Southern Hemisphere warming broke out at the same time as the start of the Dark Ages in the Northern Hemisphere and it continued for 600 years, until the beginning of the Medieval Warm Period.
‘What surprised us most, however, was discovering a large increase in mercury at this time.’
‘Mercury, which occurs naturally in the environment, is the only metal that’s liquid at room temperature, and is particularly sensitive to temperature changes. Higher temperatures enhance mercury deposition from the atmosphere, and our study shows a five-fold increase in mercury flux 1,600 years ago.’ (The Conversation)
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Being on that far Left propaganda platform The Conversation, my immediate thought is, is that even true?
They are trying to claim that the Dark Ages Cold Period (c. 400-765CE) was associated with warming and warming in the SH finished at the start of the Medieval Warm Period.
It seems like they are trying to erase the existence of both as demanded of anthropogenic global warming ideology.
See http://www.co2science.org/subject/d/summaries/rwpdacp.php
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‘It seems like they are trying to erase the existence of both as demanded of anthropogenic global warming ideology.’
Good point, but focussing on the science we get a clearer picture of whether the hemispheres are regularly out of sync.
‘Here we show for a marginal alpine region of Australia using a carbon isotope speleothem reconstruction, warming over the past five decades has experienced equivalent magnitude of temperature change and snow cover decline to the RWP and MCA.’ (McGowan et al 2018)
You can see their bias with MCA (Medieval Climate Anomaly).
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Something for the Palestinian Protest Idiots in Australia!
‘Dismantling Hamas from within’: IDF uncovers trove of Hamas secrets
IDF and Shin Bet uncover extensive Hamas intelligence, revealing lists of suspected LGBTQ+ individuals, brutal tactics, global operations, and systematic terror tactics.
The intelligence included Excel tables showing the readiness levels of special units, companies, battalions, and brigades, including the scope of training, weapons, and ammunition.
It also included documentation of orders in the various units and the review of equipment lists for each fighter, protocols of meetings, discussions, and the decision-making process at senior and junior levels.
Security officials stated that the level of order and organization was a significant surprise for the intelligence community.
“Hundreds and thousands of interrogations of terrorists and senior leaders would not have yielded such intimate intelligence on their methods of order and organization in such a short period,” said a military official exposed to the intelligence material.
For example, during the ground maneuver, official documents of the terrorist organization were found, including procedures and investigations of those suspected of being part of the LGBTQ community.
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Procedures of Hamas for those in the LGBTQ community
The official documents of Hamas’s “rulebook” reveal brutal behavior against anyone suspected of belonging to the LGBTQ community.
Additionally, documentation of interrogations and testimonies about aggressive questioning focused solely on s@xual preferences and orientations was found, indicating that those suspected of being part of the LGBTQ community faced a single fate – death.
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“After consolidating all Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, based on what we saw in maps and documents and what was actually discovered, it is clear that Gaza was constructed as one large military base, including the use of kindergartens, schools, clinics, hospitals, and m0sques,” said a source who reviewed Hamas documents. The source added, “They intended to infiltrate a large number of IDF bases, including Air Force bases.”
In the clothing of the commander of the raid on Sderot, a handwritten note was found in which he stated that according to the Q0ran, their souls would ascend to heaven and, in exchange for their s@distic actions against soldiers and civilians, including torture, they would be welcomed into paradise.
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– Very detailed account of Hamas military organization. This highlights how dangerous they are. Israel made a huge mistake with the withdrawal from Gaza and the disengagement. This let Israel dependent on its intelligence services to assess about the threat posed by Hamas. Sadly, nobody could imagine the extent and the sophistication of their preparations for war and to attack Israel as they did in Oct. 7th.
Now that Israel knows, it would be completely reckless to leave Gaza again under the control of Hamas.
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Will the 800 Hamas members Penny Wong has invited to Australia be bringing a copy of this “rulebook”?
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Look out, Penny.
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“Queers for Palestine”
https://www.instagram.com/queers.for.palestine/?hl=en
“Chickens for KFC”!
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A tad ironic that Penny Wong wants to import this to Australia.
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She should be nominated for Father of the Year.
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Did your intel source have an Aussie passport?… https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-26/mossad-factory-churned-out-fake-australian/343612
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FWIW
“Countering the climate exaggerators squatting in the house of weather”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/03/countering-the-climate-exaggerators-squatting-in-the-house-of-weather/
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Some lessons need to be learnt repeatedly it seems
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millions-wasted-electric-school-busses-maryland-pivots-back-diesel
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Access to many Australian public parks is race-based under Australian apartheid laws.
So now, a hiker has been fined for using a national park and not being of the approved race.
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Sacred? People keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it does.
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Copied from elsewhere. (Farcebook) It was a comment referring to the article at https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2020/01/aboriginal-history-goes-to-pot/
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As if recognising elders past present and emerging isn’t enough, we have the curious “ism” ( call it relevantism ) made known wherever possible. An example or two: last evening at a WASO classical music concert we were told that First Nations had been making music here for thousands of years. A few weeks ago our former Federal Agricultural Minister, at a food conference, said that First Nations folk were the first farmers.
So at every gathering we are brainwashed into a new paradigm. Will First Nations folk be regarded as the first bankers at a Banker’s Convention, or the first cleaners at a Vacuum Retailers Convention?
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The First Nations people certainly had no congestion on their freeways.
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The coastal mobs (how aren’t they offended by that word?) fared very well in comparison though with abundant year round food.
Some middens were the size of white fella rubbish dumps.
These days bush tucker means KFC in the suburbs.
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How very PC. NT Chief Plod
Meanwhile at his day job
Action for Alice on FB
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You’re a copper, how about doing something about crime instead of trying to undo the last 150 yrs of history.
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Really am finding Brave AI Answers Excellent – Meanwhile at his day job
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That NT murder rate per 100,000 in the link is worse than the US , generally regarded as a leader in the field.
I guess we have they same sort of issues as the US in this area, generally quite safe but dont be naive about the places you visit and what you do.
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“Boeing’s crewed Starliner spacecraft mission to the International Space Station was initially expected to last just a few days, but it has stretched into weeks and now two months….after two months, Boeing has yet to publicly ask Elon Musk’s SpaceX for help.
Optically, this would be a major blow to Boeing’s image, especially considering the series of mid-air mishaps involving its 737Max commercial jets. Additionally, it’s an election year for the Biden administration, which has been on a crusade against Trump and his supporters, but also is very anti-Musk. Any rescue mission by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is undesirable news flow for Democrats…>>Boeing is not allowed to ask Elon to save them in an election year…”
but..
“One informed source said it was greater than a 50-50 chance that the crew would come back on (Musk’s) SpaceX Dragon. ”
Well, eat crow and ask the opposition for help?? ..or tell the couple to get in the spacecraft and take the risk of them burning up on the way down? Tough times for Boeing and NASA, especially if Starship 5 has clean orbital run in a week or two.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/greater-50-50-chance-spacex-may-save-stranded-boeing-starliner-crew-iss
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was designed to the highest DEI standards which had been approved by the US Secret Service!
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The Trump campaign could make good election capital out of Boeing’s failure, its low DEI non-standards and the fact that the Biden Maladministration is so against Musk.
SpaceX’s Dragon can pick up the stranded crew from the ISS.
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/
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Interesting that this mostly escapes the news cycle
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Wind has again gone missing this morning on the WA SWIS grid, dropping to 2.5% at the peak morning time at 6:30am. Started dropping last night, down to 4% at midnight. It seems that unless we have a storm front passing through, almost every winter evening and morning is a no-wind time.
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Kevin being Kevin
Questions –
When and in which country was the pic taken?
What happened that distracted the chillun?
Would you prefer to listen to Olivers Fruit Salad narrated by this annoying wymmins or by KRudd?
How many grandparents do you know who have a garden full of fresh fruit and veggies?
Has your state gummint or local council banned the growing of fresh produce in your garden yet?
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“White Lives Matter” – especially white children
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13706221/Profiting-chaos-Looters-advantage-riots-steal-wine-phones-crocs-ransack-shops-Liverpool-Hull-Manchester-anarchy-sweeps-Britain-police-officers-hospitalised-thugs-clashes-rival-groups.html
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From Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech on made on 20 April 1968.
https://anth1001.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/enoch-powell_speech.pdf
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Non citizens admit to voting in US elections.
https://x.com/OversightPR/status/1818762206806217099
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In line with the generally accepted accounting practices of the (current) US government, the variation of result is “not material”.
I am certain that the big 4 (used to be big 8) accounting firms agree.
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: WEIRD EDITION
There’s a flashback scene from an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” where Leonard Hofstadter responds to the ad for a roommate from uber-nerd Sheldon Cooper, but knocks on the wrong apartment door, and greeted by a large black man in a bright red halter dress with big ear rings. Hofstadter asks, “Dr. Cooper?” “Nah, you want the crazy guy across the hall.”
An instance of art imitating life in the Democratic Party. Democrats, the party of Dr. Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton, wants us to believe that J.D. Vance is “weird.” Oh-kay. Speaking of weird, the Olympics???
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WATCH: Michaelah Montgomery Sets It Off at the Atlanta Trump-Vance Rally
Truth to power, and not from Trump’s mouth—it’s from a Black woman embedded in the Black community.
“The first step in destroying the Black community is dismantling the Black family.” What does record inflation, unemployment, and financial woes do to any marriage or family, whether they are white, Black, or green?
Montgomery also exposed where Harris’ loyalties lie. No matter how much they try to play on the Kendrick Lamar tune, Kamala Harris is “Not Like Us.”
As Montgomery warned, “she chose her side and it wasn’t ours.” Harris’ record of ignoring the Black community until convenient, targeting and jailing the men and their mothers, and then putting on debauched entertainment as a sop and excuse to ignore policy discussions has become legendary, especially the longer she refuses to do any form of a press conference and plays ChickenMala with a presidential debate.
#Chickenmala new campaign poster? 🐓
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il Donaldo Trumpo@PapiTrumpo
CHICKEN-MALA HARRIS!!!🤣🤣🤣
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The Census Bureau is not really known for anything but data. Raw data. Who was born, who has died, who has children, who does not, and so forth.
So. What could the Census Bureau tell me about the results of the 2020 presidential election? Well, it told me quite a bit.
It told me that Joseph R. Biden received 81 million votes, and it told me that Donald J. Trump received 74 million votes. Three million people also voted for the Communists, the Greens, or themselves. Okay, what else did it tell me? Well, it told me that at the time of the 2020 election, there were 168 million registered voters.
So, I got out a pencil and a pad of paper and did me some flyover country cipherin.’ My remedial math skills are not very good, but this was not much of a challenge.
81+74+3=158
158 is 94% of 168. (I had to use an online percentage calculator for this, because again… poor math skills.)
But, Hmm…
So, just using very rudimentary data provided by the Census Bureau, we can see that for the first time in American History our voter turnout has finally rivaled that of the old Soviet Union, Communist China, and Casto’s Cuba. Huzzah… I knew someday we’d finally catch up.
Now, the Census Bureau is not known for making mistakes, but if these figures are not merely wrong but catastrophically wrong, then we oughtn’t have a census bureau at all.
So this is what there is:
A written synopsis of the 2020 election on the Bureau’s website states that voter turnout was 67%, but for some reason this is not included as a data point in their table of percentages for the last 100 years.
However, in more recent decades, say from 1960 to 2016, the average turnout has risen to 62% with the pinnacle being 63% in 1964. Since then, we have turned out in numbers below that. Until the last general election, that is.
Either because America loved Joe Biden with a passion or hated Donald Trump with the same, the electorate apparently kicked in the doors to the polls and stampeded en masse to vote in never-before-seen numbers.
But again, such figures while possible, are not especially plausible. Sure, one could attribute mail-in voting procedures — put in place to address Covid — as a cause for the jump (and notice none of these procedures have been revoked back to normalcy now that Covid is no longer a thing), but then we are still left to wonder about that annoying 94% turnout rate that the Bureau’s data actually reveals after you do simple math.
This is a 33% increase over just the previous election’s numbers and nothing close to the 67% turnout rate claimed in the Census Bureau’s written synopsis.
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I wonder how many of those people who voted for Biden know that they did?
Of course that amazing turnout could also be due to the high numbers of temporarily-resurrected voters who, after voting, promptly returned to their graves, therein to wait for the call to elect Kackala Harris.
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Hacking DEI.
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Robots in rehabilitation: enhancing physiotherapy with socially assistive robots socially assistive robots (sars) are transforming physiotherapy for post-stroke patients, significantly improving rehabilitation outcomes by providing consistent, encouraging guidance and interaction.
Socially assistive robots (SARs) are revolutionizing physiotherapy for post-stroke patients, leading to improved rehabilitation outcomes. These robots provide consistent, encouraging guidance and interaction, addressing a critical need in patient motivation and adherence to rehabilitation exercises.
Key Benefits
. Consistent Motivation: SARs offer tireless encouragement and guidance, helping patients stay motivated and engaged throughout their rehabilitation journey.
. Personalized Interaction: Robots can monitor patients’ progress and adapt their interactions to individual needs, providing a more personalized experience.
. Reduced Burden on Caregivers: SARs alleviate some of the burden on informal caregivers, such as spouses and family members, by assisting with rehabilitation exercises and providing emotional support.
Challenges and Future Directions
. Human-Robot Interaction: While patients appreciate the robot’s ability to provide guidance and encouragement, they also desire more human-like interaction, including physical contact and empathy.
. Robot Personality and Authority: The robot’s personality and authority must be carefully designed to establish trust and rapport with patients, ensuring effective therapy.
By addressing these challenges and continuing to develop SARs, we can further enhance physiotherapy outcomes for post-stroke patients, improving their quality of life and overall well-being.
Context
jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com
Socially assistive robotics for post-stroke rehabilitation | Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation | Full Text
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A Socially Assistive Robot for Stroke Patients: Acceptance, Needs, and Concerns of Patients and Informal Caregivers – PMC
http://www.frontiersin.org
Frontiers | A Socially Assistive Robot for Stroke Patients: Acceptance, Needs, and Concerns of Patients and Informal Caregivers
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Must be an early election in the works!
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See #43 below.
This is why they ALL have to go.
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Hmmm…make that #45 below!
Even though it showed as #43 when I posted it, it’s now #45.
Another blog bug.
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Steady on, it’s not a blog bug; for the disambiguation your yearnings crave use of https://joannenova.com.au/…/#comment-NNNNNN is essential.
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News from Londonistan
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1244304019/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-muslim
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Oops!
“OUCH! Speaker at Trump Atlanta Rally Ends Kamala Harris’s Career with One Question About Willie Brown (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/speaker-trump-atlanta-rally-ends-kamala-harriss-career/
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FWIW
“Buffett Calls The Top: Berkshire Quietly Dumps Half Its Apple Shares Amid Unprecedented Selling Spree”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffett-calls-top-berkshire-quietly-dumps-half-its-apple-shares-amid-record-liquidation
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No problem, she is an Indian American again now and since the subject was raised.
sarc
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What is a coomb unit of measure
A coomb is an ancient unit of volume, primarily used in England, particularly in Norfolk and Suffolk, to measure dry goods such as grain, wheat, and corn. The exact original details of the coomb are not well-documented, but it was defined as 4 bushels (~140 liters) in 13th-century England.
Historically, the coomb was used as a dry measure, and its value remained relatively consistent over time. It was commonly employed in farming and trade, with records showing its use until the late 18th century in Norfolk and potentially later in Suffolk.
In Norfolk, the coomb was used as a standard unit of measurement for grain, and it was also the international shipping unit for grain, with the 4-bushel bag being the standard container. The coomb remained in use until the widespread adoption of combine harvesters with bulk grain tanks, which ended the practice of handling grain in sacks.
It’s worth noting that the coomb is not a part of the modern International System of Units (SI) and is no longer widely used today. However, its historical significance and regional importance make it an interesting example of an ancient unit of measurement.
Context
en.wikipedia.org
Unit of measurement – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Coomb (unit) – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Coomb – Wikipedia
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Joining in retirement with the liquid one – a firkin (as in Ale).
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And the bath was never used in England.
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Not too distant from a Coulomb, the measure of electrical capacity for charge as in Capacitance.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (born June 14, 1736, Angoulême, France—died August 23, 1806, Paris) was a French physicist best known for the formulation of Coulomb’s law, which states that the force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The Coulomb force is one of the principal forces involved in atomic reactions.
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Must have been a mate of ScumMo!
A Sydney businessman was given up to $110million by the government during the Covid pandemic to import gowns and face masks, most of which were useless, before he splashed millions on oceanfront properties.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13691951/Jack-Reuben-ran-electronics-company-Bdirect-won-taxpayer-funded-contracts-worth-110million-supply-useless-Covid-masks-went-massive-oceanfront-Sydney-property-spending-spree.html
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“Go ahead punk, make my day”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/retired-cop-goes-viral-after-winning-silver-medal/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ishbTwXf1g
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Sunday funny: the Orstralyan governmint doesn’t want a culture of secrecy
https://youtu.be/n6O7gHI5YKA?si=YAnWZtFf3246BuTH
Start with the bullsh#t vaxx coverup then.
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Celebrity snail:
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I need to clarify the 3.0% of fossil fuel CO2 in the air. This is NOT per year. This is total since 1750. The increase is demonstrably natural.
So what happens to all our CO2 emissions? In terms of volume they are trivial and go into the ocean. Fast. They are only old leaves anyway.
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CO2 is extremely soluble, which everyone knows. 98% of all CO2 gas is freely dissolved in the vast oceans.
Therefore 98% of all emissions end up in the oceans too.
The little bit of CO2 in the atmosphere, essential for all life on earth, exists only because some escapes.
Just like most of the water is in the oceans, most of the CO2 is in the ocean.
And why has CO2 slowly gone up in a straight line? Slight surface warming. It’s exactly what you would expect with any dissolved gas. Slightly warmer molecules are more likely to escape.
And what effect has human CO2 had on total CO2? None at all.
More CO2 means more life on earth, more trees, more phytoplankton, more food.
And does extra CO2 since 1750 heat the planet? It’s a tiny effect, negligible compared with H2O which is the third biggest gas at 1% to 4% across most of the planet and a vastly stronger greenhouse gas. Water vapour, clouds, ice, snow dominate after the effects of sunshine and osciallations in the vast heat bank which are the world’s oceans which never freeze, even at the North Pole.
So what’s the problem? There is none. The use of Hell Fire to scare people has been going on since Ancient Egypt. And it still works. Send money.
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As for developments on the near assassination of Donald Trump, today there was a major admission, though no one seemed to notice.
The rally at Butler was the FIRST time and therefore only time the secret service had sent a counter sniper to a Trump rally.
The job of a counter sniper is to spot snipers and eliminate them. And he did. After eight bullets were fired at Trump at nearly point blank range from an extremely obvious and likely and totally unguarded position.
Cookes would have died immediately afterwards whether he succeeded or not.
So what prompted the secret service to send a counter sniper? And why didn’t he do his job?
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Neither of the counter-sniper teams was assigned the task of observing the security zone which included the American Glass Research building complex.
The offer by the Secret Service, to provide counter-snipers for the Butler PA rally to enhance President Trump’s safety, was no more than a bait-and-switch technique, a deception aimed at reducing protection against assassination.
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Secret Sniper = Patsy Eliminator.
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… or Patsy Eliminator Obscurant.
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And it’s great to see the battle between the New York Times and GLAAD, Hollywood’s favorite TRANS promoting organization. It’s quite unbelievable.
“In its investigation, the Times found that Ellis spent nearly half a million dollars to rent a seven-bedroom chalet, for herself and GLAAD staff, in Switzerland for a week while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. She reportedly billed back approximately $18,000 for a home office renovation at her Long Island residence — including a new chandelier.
She reportedly took more than 30 first-class flights over an 18-month period. And GLAAD reportedly picked up a $60,000 tab for airfare and accommodations for Ellis and GLAAD COO Darra Gordon to attend the Cannes Lions advertising summit in France.
Ellis had a base salary of $576,000 for the fiscal year ending in 2022, which is the most recent year for which GLAAD’s financials are publicly available”
So it’s all about the rights of TRANS people? A bit like the IPCC is about Global Warming. These are money machines.
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“GLAAD is a non-profit LGBTQ advocacy organization focused on cultural change to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive representation to advance LGBTQ.|
It’s fully behind efforts to insert men into biological women’s boxing.
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Billionaires Selling Stocks Preparing For Major Crash – Wall Street Freaking Out As Economy Implodes (video)
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“The Energy Transition Ain’t Happening: “Green” Economy in Retreat” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/03/the-energy-transition-aint-happening-green-economy-in-retreat/
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Meanwhile here’s one for the collectors.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-02/top-us-officials-discussed-minting-trillion-dollar-coin-memo-reveals
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Government censorship is an inversion of democracy itself,” Mike Benz, Executive Director, Foundation for Freedom Online
Everything You Need to Know about the Government’s Mass Censorship Campaign(video)
https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/elon-musk-wins-against-australian-government-censorship-attempt/video/dd7c411f47485c163b870101bc5ecddd
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