The millionth comment came in this afternoon (on the Friday thread). Congratulations to
For the record, I’ve emailed all three and offered to post them a set of books, with thanks.
Of course, this really is an achievement of all the commenters who share their thoughts and expertise on a world of absurdities, and thanks to the tireless moderators who made it possible.
And thinking of those great minds who shared so much and are no longer with us…
— Jo
Big grid operator finally raising alarm.
https://marcellusdrilling.com/2024/10/pjm-ceo-says-lack-of-new-power-for-grid-threatens-our-way-of-life/
PJM is mine. Any others, in any country?
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South Australia was the first relatively large regional grid to collapse under the weight of weather dependent generation. Texas was second with more devastating consequences than SA. There will be a third but probably not PJM.
What is guaranteed is that the grid collapse will be blamed on Climate Change™. Nothing to do with WDGs, which everyone knows are low cost and reliable.
From my observation, weather fronts are the greatest risk to a grid burdened with WDGs. Sudden changes in weather from relatively clear, calm conditions that rapidly change to overcast and strong wind gusts. This results in rapid loss of generating capacity and dispatchable plant cannot respond fast enough causing grid collapse.
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Yes, the South Australian 2016 episode was very quickly memory-holed by our MSM as due to extreme storms caused by “fossil-fuelled climate change”. A complete lie.
There are accounts verified through peer-reviewed journals of very dangerous situations that arose through that black start period. None of these accounts has survived the deliberate MSM memory hole as general knowledge.
My view is that in a well-populated state such as NSW or Vic, when the inevitable first-time black start occurs, most people will not believe what will unfold. The misery and danger will need to be experienced.
So then the unfolding results of the second-time black start will be far better understood. How to control the populace when the lack of access to food, water, money, petrol …
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After Broken Hill lost power because of transmission line tower failures, it was interesting to hear that the town mayor had to ask home owners to turn off their home solar so that the small emergency gas power generator could cope in holding up the grid.
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This at Not a Lot of People Know That
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/prepare-for-blackouts-say-energy-networks/
Link there is to –
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/10/23/energy-networks-urge-winter-readiness-across-uk/
Note the UK has Mr. Miliband as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Really – two mutually contradictory objectives in one Minister’s job title!
And said Minister loves the idea of Net Zero.
Unfortunately, I am not sure if he even understands ‘Energy Security’ …
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Could this be the number 1,000,000 comment?
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It has to be close now. I think it will happen sometime today.
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Do you win something for making comment 1,000,000?
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I don’t normally leave a lot of comments, but I have to do my bit now to help Jo get to the 1,000,000 milestone.
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I want to be known for eternity as Jo’s 1,000,000th commenter.
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Surely this one has to be it.
Please tell I made comment 1,000,000.
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I just read Jo’s update on the Friday thread and I was too late… but at least we’ll be well over 1,000,000 now.
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Skeptikal — and thanks so much for reminding me tonight that I needed to update the new thread!
PS: And thanks for the enthusiasm 🙂
PPS: which reminds me that once upon a time I’m sure we had a public comment counter in the right hand column. I must see if I can get that back.
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Roll on the 2,000,000!
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Happy Weekend.
This is the level of elite political discourse in the US
Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC …
“Trump’s fascism”, and “his obsession with H!tLeR” … is “killing women … making them afraid to give birth”.
https://rumble.com/v5jz56x-msnbcs-mika-brzezinski-in-complete-meltdown.html
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Trump’s mere existence has caused the US liberal elite to become unhinged.
We are about, just like Pandemic, to be again held hostage by the unwitting victims of centrally organized and produced intentional propagandistic mass hysteria.
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The left always accuse others of their own faults.
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It’s a trait of narcissists and psychologists call it projection.
Leftists tend to be narcissists.
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Narcissism? Altruism?. The second last sentence has been on view this last week or so, as a local identity sought notice.
Note that the people supposedly represented did not wear ‘roo skin rugs.
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Playing the Führer Card
Senate Democrats associate with a man fellow Democrats claim is like Adolf Hitler.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
Is Sen. Bob Casey a closet fan of Adolf Hitler? How about Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin?
We ask because both Senate Democrats are running ads as part of their re-election campaigns that associate themselves with Donald Trump. And they’re doing this even as fellow Democrats and the press corps are suggesting that Mr. Trump admires Hitler and has similar dictatorial ambitions.
No doubt both Senators despise the German mass murderer. But if Mr. Trump is so horrific, how can they have any kind of political association with him? Their ads cite issues on which they agree with Mr. Trump in an attempt to burnish their bipartisan image. But surely they don’t want to do anything to promote the election of a “semi-fascist” (President Biden’s description), or a “fascist” (Kamala Harris), or a wannabe Führer of an American Reich.
Then again, maybe Democrats don’t really believe what they’re saying about Mr. Trump. If they did, they might not have worked so hard to help him win the GOP nomination by indicting him so he could get the sympathy of partisans. “They’re not after me, they are after you,” Mr. Trump liked to say during the Republican primaries, to good political effect.
There are many reasons to worry about how Mr. Trump might wield power in a second term—not least that he wouldn’t be able to govern successfully and would thus set up the progressive left for huge gains in 2026 and 2028.
But the climb up the rhetorical dictator chain in the final stages of this election looks like a last-ditch Democratic strategy to save Ms. Harris from defeat.
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Trump’s Media Haters Still Don’t Get It
Martin Kaufmann October 25, 20241 comment
Editor’s note: This has been excerpted with permission from the author. To read the entire article, click here.
This is an actual headline that appeared in a “journalism” newsletter 13 days before the election: “How much coverage of Donald Trump is too much?”
The column is from Tom Jones, senior media writer at the Poynter Institute and, you’ll not be surprised to learn, a man consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I’ve said in the past that Jones’ daily “Poynter Report” column would be more accurately titled, “Why I Hate Donald Trump and Fox News.”
Jones also displays the blind spots of someone immersed in the leftist bubble: “Just as disturbing, (Trump) keeps talking about the enemy within this country — his political opponents whom he has seemingly threatened with punishment if he becomes elected. And he repeatedly doubts that he’ll accept the result of the election if he loses.”
There is no shortage of video of Democrats denying election results, with no end in sight. Just two weeks ago, Axios reported that Democrats would not commit to certifying Trump if he wins. That sounds kind of insurrection-y.
As for the “enemy within” theme, well, can you blame Trump? Just this year, he’s been the target of an orchestrated lawfare campaign in New York, Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia.
He routinely is compared to Hitler (even Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin in the same column by one recent critic), and has survived two assassination attempts by nutjobs who clearly were motivated by the overheated rhetoric of the Harris campaign and the media, who have done their damnedest to memory-hole those attacks.
The reality, which eludes Jones, is that the legacy media, for which he runs cover, focuses on these peripheral matters to avoid talking about what voters say are the election’s most important issues – the economy, inflation, border security and crime. On those issues, voters favor Trump.
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Ridiculous ‘Trump Groped Me’ Story Backfires, Causes #KamalaGropedMe To Trend
The left attempted to amplify a claim by an Obama activist that she hung out with Jeffrey Epstein 30 years ago and they visited Donald Trump, who then groped her.
She chose to keep this information secret for over three decades and only decided to reveal it a few days before the election.
Funny that.
It is so ridiculous and unbelievable that it has ended up with the phrase #KamalaGropedMe trending instead.
12 days before the election, I have decided to be “unburdened by what has been” and confess that back in the day when me and Kamala were working at McDonalds together, #KamalaGropedMe.
They should keep throwing this crap at Trump, everyone sees right through it and it only helps his campaign.
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Tell ‘er she’s dreamin’!
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I find it amazing that Trump was the head of Miss America for 20 years and still was attracted to groping random Democrat activist women. Even a random woman in a cupboard in a store, Jean Carroll. But it makes no sense. As Trump said, she’s not my type but his detractors say he doesn’t care because he is mad and sex mad in particular, an out of control monster. But Bill Clinton and friends of the late Jeffrey Epstein get a free pass. I do hope Trump releases the list of visitors to Epstein’s sex island. I have read that Hillary Clinton was one regular visitor too, according to Harvey Weistein’s laptop. Which also was stolen by the FBI.
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Some of the allegations about Democrat US Presidents from the 1960s, that I have read, are very uncomfortable.
The earlier was sex-mad, but – it seems – used prostitutes regularly.
The later was – it is alleged – a predatory rapist of subordinates [or, their wives] … and hey,if you are [Vice] President of the USA, you have a lot of subordinates …
This doesn’t get a lot of coverage these days – but there are books … ‘The Dark Side of Camelot’ [Seymour Hirsch] is one I have read.
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” … looks like a last-ditch Democratic strategy to save Ms. Harris from defeat.”
Another possibility is prepping psychological justification for draconian action to prevent the winner of the election from assuming office.
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Who should Americans vote for?
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Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
It’s words like this that have made quite a few undecided voters in my focus groups say “I don’t like Trump at all, but I will cast my vote for JD Vance.”
.@JDVance: “If you discard a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, you’ve made a terrible mistake…
Don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships.
Politics is not worth it, and I think if we follow that principle will heal the divide in this country.””
Was This the Best Answer of JD Vance’s Town Hall?
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Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck
Here’s that remarkable quote from JD Vance during the #NewsNation #VanceTownHall about civility:
“We’ve got to be better at communicating and talking to one another.
The biggest thing I worry about and we talk threats to democracy — that’s a term that you hear a lot — to me, the biggest threat to democracy is the rising tide of censorship.
The idea that we should be trying to silence our fellow Americans rather than persuade them and talk to them.
That’s always going to — that’s always going to lead to people being pissed because they don’t like being told what to think or what to say.
They like to talk to one another and that one thing that I’ll always commit to.
As your vice president for the next four years, I’ll always try to talk to people.
We’ll go out there and do events with people who disagree with us. We’ll answer questions from people who don’t always see eye to eye, but I think if we set the tone from the top, the leadership of this country is all about communicating with one another, I think that’s how we start to heal the divide, but we all have a role in it.
And one final point I’ll say about this. You know, don’t get too personal all the time, but you know, one of the things I’ve seen, especially from, you know, some of my wife’s friends and some of my friends is they disagree with us on politics sometimes they’ll get very personal about it.
And, if you’re discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, then you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake and you should do something different.
Like, don’t — don’t cast aside — like, most of my family obviously is going to vote for, you know, Donald Trump and JD Vance and if they’re not, actually, I need to talk to them.
But — but I’ve got friends who like me personally — acquaintances who aren’t necessarily going to vote for me.
That doesn’t make them bad people.
And you can’t — this is my important advice, whether you vote for me, whether you vote for — for Donald Trump, whether you vote for Kamala Harris, don’t cast aside family members and lifelong friendships.
Politics is not worth it. And I think, if we follow this principle, we heal the divide in this country.”
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They have tried impeachment twice. A dozen failed criminal prosecutions. 20 armed police with written permission to use lethal force raiding his wife’s underwear drawer for state documents. A woman in a cupboard. Using his mansion including golf course on the beach fraudulently as collateral. Bankruptcy attempt with Letitia James and her half billion dollar judgement. And even allowing a real and obvious assassin to take eight shots at the President. And still he continues to fight back. Fight. Fight. Fight.
Character assasination. Criminal assassination. Business bankruptcy. And even real bullets. They must be asking themselves how they can kill Nosferatu, Donald Trump. Even Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk have changed sides. As Zuckerberg says, Trump is a real badass. And he is fighting world Fascism, so they all now call him a fascist. Of course.
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Adolf Hitler Endorses Kamala Harris
KamalAdolf
In a stunning turn of events, Adolf Hitler has endorsed Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
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Nice work.
Donald is not a fascist, but at the same time he shouldn’t be talking to a fascist mass murderer. Its like he is a deal maker looking to future financial advantage.
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Donald Trump’s real job as President is to talk to everyone. Would you prefer nuclear war?
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Donald is a business man in financial difficulty, not that I’m suggesting anything untoward, but the MSM do like to gossip.
If Trump gets the top job he may not be speaking to Putin or Kim, its not the good old days.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop bombing each others heating infrastructure until after the winter break. Tactical nuclear weapons are of no value in this type of engagement, so put that out of your mind.
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No links e+g?
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What utter rubbish.
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Apologies, I’m getting ahead of myself, it has only been mooted that the combatants might stop blasting power plants.
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-outline-end-hot-war-plan-partners-help-pressure-russia-vladimir-putin/
‘What utter rubbish.’
The North Koreans are going to fight on Russian territory and some European states want to send their troops to Ukraine to push out the invaders. Doesn’t cross any red lines.
The Ukrainians have organised a leaflet drop to encourage North Koreans to surrender, promised a warm bed and three hearty meals every day.
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The reason for blasting power plants is clear. A five hour barrage and no one is killed? This is a civil war. The Russians are trying to end the war, not just kill everyone. That’s how you do it.
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From the start Ukraine has strictly followed the current rules, avoiding collateral damage, because they want to join NATO and become a fully fledged member of the EU. Putin has been slack in this regard and there is an international warrant out for his arrest.
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Why shouldn’t he talk to Netanyahoo?
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Herr Schickelgruber began his rise as a puppet of corporatist warmongers.
US Democrats appear keen to associate with a foreign politician following the same path to the Hall of Murderous Infamy.
Their expressions of disgust for President Trump is affectation.
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Trump is “killing women … making them afraid to give birth”.
That is blatant disinformation, everyone knows women have stopped giving birth because of global warming.
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After righting the economic ship pf state after 13 years of ALP government Peter Costello called on Australians to have 3 kids.
They did.
Not because he told them to. Because in the economic environment he created the people had confidence in themselves.
Now with the fertility rate at 1.5 we are back to importing unhappy people.
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“That is blatant disinformation, everyone knows women have stopped giving birth because of global warming.”
Both funny and insightful observation.
We’ve entered a period of cultural, likely purposely manipulated, psychological breakdown of Western culture.
I would imagine most mass hysterias have an origin neurosis.
Metastasize from there.
CAGW is that foundational neurosis.
Post WWII nuke fear provided fertile soil.
Aztec culture was a likely an example of this human tendency going out of control.
The Sun will not rise unless we start gifting the sky with still beating human hearts.
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Bizarre behaviour. Hey, I see it all the time with lefties. Did I ever tell you about the time that I was kicked un the shins by a greenie socialist “man” at a polling station… couldn’t handle a rational discussion. Weird people.
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Not Sinn Fein then?
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In Once Great Britain, Tommy Robinson has again become a political prisoner, just in time to prevent his attendance at a pro-freedom rally he had planned for this Saturday in London, UK time.
Mahyar Tousi discusses:
https://www.youtube.com/live/b4Mjm27QA0w
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Charged with a terrorism offence.
Refusal to reveal phone PIN whilst entering the country!
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The UK is the nightmare scenario that Orwell prophesied.
Australia is not far behind.
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It would be leading if Albanese has his way with his MisDis bill. The left can’t stand anyone shining a light on their nefarious schemes. Truth to the left is like a crucifix to a vampire.
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I haven’t read the bill, but if the reports I have seen are representative it should be enmeshed in every dispute that comes along.
It shouldn’t take long for it to devour itself.
My take on an excerpt I read was that it was written in a state of panic by somebody suffering withdrawal symptoms.
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The UK is going ahead with more mRNA vaccines trials, with a highly beneficial arrangement with Big Pharma for a norovirus vaccine.
Meanwhile, worthy vaccine projects go unfunded.
Dr John Campbell discusses:
https://youtu.be/aURT9LLiz2M
Sadly, it appears that UK politicians and bureaucrats are scientifically illiterate (as in many other ways), just like Australia’s.
Australia is doing similar.
It is not clear if this manufacturing facility is for covid “vaccines” or all mRNA vaccines. Either way, I’m sure it will be profitable for Big Pharma and their Elite shareholders.
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Science fun building and using a 20kW microwave oven.
https://youtu.be/mg79n_ndR68
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David Maddison, #6, 🤣
____Just imagine the strength of the two donut magnets in one of those 16kw magnetrons.
____I’ve liberated the magnets from failed ovens in the past and incautious handling has brought on a minor blood blister.
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The filaments of magnetrons contain beryllium oxide so be careful if accessing that area…
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Styro is a crazy chemist…
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Congratulations on your highly successful blog and making it to a million comments Jo.
It is one of the last places where science can be freely discussed, even when the ideas don’t conform to the Official Narrative. At least until if and when Australia introduces additional censorship legislation and/or gives the E Safety Kommissar more powers.
Sadly, the scientific method itself has been corrupted with Leftist ideological concepts such that “scientific fact is decided by consensus” and for certain ideas the “science is settled” and thus cannot be debated or discussed on regular fora.
An interesting related paper:
The Type II error refers to statistical hypothesis testing.
This used to be taught in science and many other courses, back in the day.
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Without doubt the rise of the scientific method and the accompanying inductive reasoning are two of the peaks of human intellect.
But I have a confession …
As a humble BSc who chose a Mathematics double major rather than continuing with Physics and Chemistry beyond second year, it occurs to me that I do not remember being taught the scientific method either at High School or at University. Even worse when seconded into the occasional role of teaching junior science or senior Chemistry, I do not recall teaching the scientific method.
Out of the hundreds of “pracs” I cannot remember a single null hypothesis. I can remember things like extracting caffeine from tea (or was it tobacco) and calculating whether my results were consistent with theory. Or studying brownian motion and verifying avagadro’s number. Or giving the early secondary science lesson on how to use a Bunsen Burner. And requiring students to set out their aim, apparatus and method.
I do remember one of my lecturers being thrilled when his hypothesis of what would happen to light when an early spacecraft passed a distant planet was confirmed. And that is what I remember as a student scientist. The almost total absence of formal hypothesis but rather a clear evaluation of whether experimental observations matched predictions.
So in a longwinded way I think things like type I and II errors are more in the nature of statistical investigations. And who was it that said if your experiment needs statistical analysis then you should have designed a better experiment?
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The science publishing industry has a negative attitude towards negative results. They certainly don’t want to hear that some days the null hypothesis wins.
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As an experimental technologist in the agricultural industry ( 760 trials and counting ) I can say I sometimes get better results from those trials that ” fail” compared to those that are a complete success. Because, I have to provide reasons as to why a treatment hasn’t performed. That makes you understand better the conditions that promote efficacy. Something that rarely happens in most of science these days, particularly medical science. For starters admitting that vaccines cause adverse effects and then the study of those situation would lead to greater success. You would know the best people to jab or not.
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Some of my well educated friends just get their instant news and opinions from traditional print media. As with Ivy League older Americans who read the Washington Post and the New York times. Which is why the Left have exploded as Jeff Bezos refuses to endorse Kamala. They say it is the end of democracy if their newspaper does not endorse their candidate. I would say it’s quite the opposite! But I have realised that many, especially medical doctors have a different experience in education and life.
Real scientists like Jo are taught how to think. But many in the Arts and Medicine and other disciplines are taught what to think. And doctors are very time poor people in stressful occupations so they are taught where to get their instant opinions, basically from the newspapers like Melbourne’s Age and the Washington Post and New York Times. Which pander to the only people who pay to read them, the extreme left. One doctor friend says he only has time for headlines.
It’s been decades since leading newspapers had real independent journalists, not political activists or teenagers. Otherwise, why are people so upset that the newspapers do not endorse Kamala? It shouldn’t matter, but they know it does. Which is sad.
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Forest Gardner
EXACTLY! Stats are not science but a mathematical attempt to discover a pattern.
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Don’t neglect to mention the I Dee ten T error- or the 10 types of people who understand binary Dr David!
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Yes Simon. There’s rather too much of the former.
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Survey errors in Australian state borders. They remain today.
Very short video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/aAgcgQxl_hM
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David Maddison, #9,
____The conVICs kept that 2 mile strip.
____And, the SA/NT time meridian is STILL east of our eastern border.
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The common view that people believed that the earth was flat until about the Middle Ages is wrong. At least Western Civilisation has known the earth was spherical (well, actually an oblate spheroid) since the time of Pythagoras.
However, due to the engineered dumbing-down of the education/indoctrination system, increasing numbers of people believe in a flat earth. And just like climate alarmists, they can’t be reasoned with.
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The ancients were amazing. They calculated Earth’s diameter using shadows.
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The world is flat.
Gravity always points down.
If the world was spherical, then someone at the north pole would feel gravity pulling them down. As per multiple observations. Then someone at the equator would feel gravity pulling them sideways. This is not observed. And someone at the south pole would fall off the Earth. This is not observed.
So since I’ve shown that observation doesn’t fit your model, I’m calling for a flat Earth, at least gravity would always pull downward, equally, for all parts of the Earth in that model.
/s for those who might have read the above and thought, hell yeah, that makes sense. Bowen…. that means you.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving
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Just because Scientists tell us the Earth is round, and it happens to be so, does not mean that when Scientists tell us that mental illness can be cured by a penectomy, that it is likewise so.
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I love the flat earthers! They can provide an argument using some verifiable facts that prove the earth is flat and there are these huge walls at the Antarctic and North Poles. Their debate can be very persuasive. But it’s the exercise of “flat earthing” that reveals that events or incidents that we all believed to be true, can use the same argument model. Get a couple of indisputable facts, use persuasive language/ jargon and all of a sudden you have a narrative that the public will believe. Particularly if that narrative is then repeated over and over and over again.
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Bluegrassers – just ignore them and move on…
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Huh! Flat Earthers indeed, and how they can’t be reasoned with.
I once (well, more than once really, but this one time in particular) got into a (just let’s call it a debate, eh) about the question of climate change, and how the renewables of choice were the wrong answer to ‘their’ climate change debate question. I was called a flat earther in fact, and also a science ….. (word the same as stocking thread count) and c0n$p1racy the0r1$t as well. One of the three people who had ganged up on me then mentioned in passing the, umm, let’s just call them ‘the white lines in the sky’.
Now somewhat exasperated, I carefully explained that they were not what they referred to them as, and in fact were correctly called vapour trails, and, using science to explain the hot air coming out the back of the jet engine crystalising in the air behind it, and then using the adiabatic lapse rate of 9.6C per thousand metres carefully explained why they were just plain old ice crystals, caused by the exhaust vapour from the very hot jet turbine.
There were just flat out stunned looks on the three faces, and the one who originally mentioned it said ….. “You just made that up, didn’t you?”
Their science and my science were two completely different ‘things’.
Tony.
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The “ trails” are often mentioned on otherwise innocuous little blogs I read, I often ask what chemicals are in the drums stored at the airports. So far no- one seems to know or even be interested in finding out! LOL.
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I was at a private dinner last night in Melbournistan and in attendance were three young ladies about 19/20 years old who were from Florida. We discussed what happened here during covid, the world’s strictest lockups plus the compulsory vaccinations (if you wanted to work, travel, socialise or shop) and they simply couldn’t believe what we were telling them. In Florida under DeSantis there were no more than four weeks of lockdown without the brutal restrictions of Australia and compulsory covid vaccination was illegal. None of these intelligent young ladies were covid vaxxed.
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DM,
Funny that you mentioned last night dinner…
True story –
I overheard two ladies of respectable age discussing how good a certain young man was, then one lady says “… importantly he was not vaccinated, his sperm is so valuable now…”
In our time two grandmothers would compare grandchildren University degrees or business acumen, as the last resort – how well to do their fiancés are, unless of course both were midwives…
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In Melbournistan it got to 6C overnight, maybe colder. Where is that global warming we so badly need…?
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Minus 1 and good frost here in the low part of the high country. A predicted high of low twenties. Lets see.
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Snow on some of the tops in Tassie! Black Top became White Top according to our son. We definitely need heating here in Tassie am and evg. Beautiful days but with a cold wind and we’ve seen many fallen/broken trees.
We really like Tasmania; it’s a beautiful place with nice people. Our time here is wizzing past much too quickly.
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Too late for it to be form a formal hypothesis but I would expect some localized global warming beginning at dawn.
How did I go?
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Pretty well I reckon F G, and the CO2 concentration went up pretty rapidly here too giving a 10 degree C increase from dawn’s 5 to lunchtime’s 15.
No wonder that UN guy says the oceans are going to boil.
(But shouldn’t that affect my dams as well?)
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FWIW
“How EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms Expose FALSE Cheap Green Energy Claims”
“If renewables truly were delivering cheap energy to the EU, the EU would not need a border tax to prevent cheap imports from undercutting and wrecking EU based manufacturing. If renewable energy had any capacity to deliver cheap energy, renewable powered manufacturing hubs would be springing up across the EU, flooding the world with low cost energy intensive goods which even China would be unable to undercut.
Any day now, right? Do I need a /sarc tag?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/24/how-eu-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanisms-expose-false-cheap-green-energy-claims/
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WOA: World Of Absurdities… too true Jo, yet just like ‘the climate’, nothing ever changes much.
Arthur’s Pass across the Southern Alps is now CLOSED due to HEAVY SNOW blocking the road; other passes may soon follow as almost half-a-metre (1.5ft) has already fallen; southern ski areas are in total whiteout with 20-30cm of unseasonable snow down at base level (twice as much up on the summits).
Thankfully I’m up north, dressed in boardshorts, enjoying balmy northerlies (20*C and 90% humidity) laughing at the W.O.A. manifesting itself around the planet, for instance, the Global Biodiversity Framework freak-show in Colombia this week. Here’s just a few of their 23 targets they are ‘having a conversation’ about:
No.1 Plan and Manage all Areas
No.4 Halt Species Extinction
No.9 Manage Wild Species… To Benefit People
No.18 $500 Billion
No.19 $200 Billion
No.23 Ensure Gender Equality for… Action
Meanwhile in Samoa (pronounced ‘some more’ as in some more money please) men in suits and ties smile for the camera, even though it’s 30 degrees with 100% humidity – maybe the boiling ocean has finally cooked their ability to reason (sea temp is same as air, 30*C, a long way from Count von Guterres’ mythical 100 degrees of insanity).
Congrats to all of us for helping Jo pass the million comment mark – let’s keep up the good work and never stop laughing in the face of absurdity 🤪
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In Melbourne, Australia, we experienced the long term average minimum overnight and are heading for the long term average maximum.
Wind is calm and I cannot see a cloud in the sky. This is a nice day. The notion of perfect weather springs to mind but, without rain, we would not have the lush growth that I am presently trimming for mulch and fire kindling with a bit of good burning wood mixed in.
With peak sunlight making its move northward and shifting the heavy lifting of global warming from the Southern Hemisphere to the NH, I am more than hopeful that the increased atmospheric moisture will increase the rainfall over Australia for a long, long time to come. If you quietly sat out in the garden have a slow ale, I expect you could see the weeds growing.
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Here’s a surprise, Canada actually doing something that makes sense!
“Toronto: Canada is set to slash the number of immigrants that it welcomes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced, in a sharp reversal for a country that bet big on immigration to boost economic prosperity and that has long cast itself as open to newcomers.”
mainly because Canadians no longer saw immigration as a positive, and Trudeau thought he might lose…
“The about-face comes as public opinion polls show waning support for immigration amid concerns it is worsening long-standing housing shortages, pushing up rents and deepening stresses on an already overburdened healthcare system…. Trudeau, whose Liberal Party trailed the Conservatives by double digits in the polls for more than a year, in part because of housing concerns.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/in-major-u-turn-canada-to-cut-immigration-cop-population-decline-20241025-p5klcv.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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In the unlikely event he is re-elected I’m sure he’ll reinstate the population transfer.
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FWIW – But
“Quebec inks contract for one the world’s biggest green hydrogen plants”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/quebec-inks-contract-for-one-the-worlds-biggest-green-hydrogen-plants-152813060.html
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..and an article comparing Trump to Hitler, with his Madison Square Gardens rally being twinned with a 1939 rally at the same place supporting the Nazis. It’s obviously written as straight-out Democratic propaganda, gladly published in the SMH and the comments are doozies!
“Thank goodness for this article. If the MSM were actually doing their job, then these kinds of stories would be the only stories on the US election. And yet instead we get served endless guff about how Harris hasn’t been interviewed enough, or how her policies have not been fully explained, or how she needs to ‘define her candidacy not just attack Donald Trump’.
Enough!! This US election is not about choosing a President- it is about voting to save democracy. There are not ‘two sides to the debate’. There is freedom OR there is fascism. It does not matter if Harris is good, bad or indifferent- she is the last line before totalitarianism. That is the reason she must win. ”
We should push for the final death cult status of the Left, ‘If Trump wins its better to die!’ See if we can disinfect the gene pool.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/fascist-trump-s-garden-party-has-echoes-of-america-s-nazi-moment-20241024-p5kl6g.html
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The warmists and their corrupt officials, politicians, grifters, the ignorant, uneducated, the Left and subsidy harvesters run very sophisticated propaganda.
The following video came up on my a YouTube feed. Notable were many lies including that some wind plantation would provide “continuous power” plus the soothing background music presumably designed to put the propaganda victim into a more receptive state of mind.
I have only listened to the first section about wind plantations. The other two sections are on aviation and fusion power.
https://youtu.be/5qrv-slfa0g
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Trump’s warning.
Excellent!
He wouldn’t have been able to say this when the Left ran Twitter.
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I wondered what he might come up with.
This is great.
Thanks
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Anyone notice how KamAllah is dumber than Biden and isn’t even trying to campaign?
Trump is being set up big time.
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A US Government study about the effects of puberty blockers for transgender teens was hidden because the results didn’t conform to the Official Narrative.
I.e. these sterilising and mutilating “treatments” did not improve the outcomes for these mentally ill and/or indoctrinated children.
https://youtu.be/F9PdVo-GNHs
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Would you believe?
“The UN actually got it right? For once, yeah”
Read all about it at
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/the-un-actually-got-it-right-for
“I don’t care how you want to live your life so long as you don’t impose on others. You can identify as a fire hydrant for all I care, just so long as you don’t set up camp in front of my house and try to cite me for parking in front of you.
And that’s more or less what transwomen are doing when they demand to be included in women’s sports.”
“But it’s supposedly horrible to decide that maybe our daughters need to be protected from all of this when they’re playing sports.
Yet interestingly, it seems one entity is acknowledging the truth, and it’s the United Nations of all people.”
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Fever Dream
“The American ‘Left’ is fully exposed now as a demented, vicious, abusive animal of traumatizing narcissism.”
Do you hear that lonesome whistle blow? Wooooo-wooooo! It’s the last train to Palookaville pulling into the station. At this late hour, two passengers get on: Kamala Harris, mom jeans and blazer, rheumy red eyes, half-gone on chardonnay. . . and an elderly gentleman with a goatee in a colorful but shabby red-white-and-blue suit, famous long ago as “Uncle Sam.”
There’s an election on, in case you haven’t noticed, imminent even. Kamala, everyone seems to agree, has blown it. Can’t answer simple questions pitched by friendly ringers in the “news” business. Hiding somebody else’s agenda is a tough assignment, you see. All she can really do is cackle or simper and, let’s face it, that gets humiliating fast. Joy has turned to despair.
Her punched ticket says “one way.”
Whose idea was it, anyway, over at party HQ, to put her up to this contest? She wishes she knew
People of good faith have reason to believe that the country is about to be blown apart. By another odd coincidence, an outfit called the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International (AFCEA) has scheduled an “exercise simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure” for November 5 in Atlanta, Georgia. That’s election day. In a big swing state. Whose idea was that? Is there already not enough that might go wrong that some treasonous moron had to kick the risk of fiasco up another notch? Or might it be cover for another Three Card Monte caper with the Georgia votes?
You entertain these drear hallucinatory conceits despite the giddiness about Donald Trump’s seeming triumph over adversity — botched assassinations, court cases hatched by malice-crazed ninnies, blob-generated calumnies, conspiracies, ops, and hoaxes galore. And for Halloween, they painted a Hitler mustache on him, just for fun. It remains to be seen what marvels of ballot legerdemain have been concocted by Marc Elias, Esq, lawfare artist supreme, destroyer of the nation’s faith in itself.
So, more likely, we’re seeing the suicide of the Democratic Party.
Even CNN is starting to back away from them, as from a convocation of lepers. They can smell the odor of necrosis. Plus, their own instinct for survival has kicked in. They have a business to run.
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FLOODGATES HAVE OPENED! Hilariously BRUTAL Thread of All FREAK-OUTS Over WaPo NOT Endorsing Kamala WINS X
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Along with the Vindman Urkraine Twins
In response to Jeff Bezos’ decision not to endorse a presidential candidate this year, staff are having a total meltdown, liberals are canceling their subscriptions, and editor-at-large Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) just quit.
You know I think we should really lament the resignation of a man who cheered on a war that kept American men and women rotating overseas for 20 years because he said we all needed ‘the stomach’ for democracy building and that only the US could do it. And then it failed.
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Max Tani@maxwelltani
Scoop: Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan confirms to me that he resigned from the Post following today’s decision not to endorse in the presidential race. x.com/maxwelltani/st…
Zelensky & the Bidens will not be Happy, along with the American Military Industrial Complex
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Following Non-Endorsement, Victoria Nuland’s Husband Resigns as ‘Editor at Large’ from Washington Post
October 25, 2024 – Sundance
WASHINGTON – […] The Post’s newsroom and editorial team erupted in outrage. Robert Kagan, a neoconservative columnist and editor at large at the Post, resigned in response, he confirmed in a statement to POLITICO.
Allow me to take you back two-years, to November of 2023 for a reminder.
CTH ARCHIVES – Everyone in/around U.S. politics knows the Washington Post, owned by Big Tech Amazon, is effectively the PR firm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). No one inside the DC beltway does not understand this basic truth.
Therefore, when the husband of State Dept official Victoria Nuland, a man named Robert Kagan, writes an op-ed in the CIA newsletter, effectively calling for President Trump to receive the Julius Caesar treatment, the non-subtle message is for the CIA to repeat their Kennedy performance and kill President Trump.
As alarming as this acceptance might sound, there are no intellectually honest people who would deny it.
WaPo/CIA – By Robert Lagan Editor at Large –
Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. In 13 weeks, Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination. In the RealClearPolitics poll average (for the period from Nov. 9 to 20), Trump leads his nearest competitor by 47 points and leads the rest of the field combined by 27 points. The idea that he is unelectable in the general election is nonsense — he is tied or ahead of President Biden in all the latest polls — stripping other Republican challengers of their own stated reasons for existence.
[…] Are we going to do anything about it? To shift metaphors, if we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it, including many things that might not work but that, given the magnitude of the crisis, must be tried anyway?
Will those who balked at resisting Trump when the risk was merely political oblivion suddenly discover their courage when the cost might be the ruin of oneself and one’s family? (more)
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Kamala Harris – “He’s Hitler
Washington Post – “Yeah we’ve thought about it and we’re still not going to endorse you over Hitler. Sorry.”
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Congrats Jo, it’s a must read for me. A genuine sanctuary with sensible comments.
Maybe
Maybe not
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Bit Cold in Melbourne – Brrr
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From one of your links YYY Guy.
30,000 people for about a week is worth $500 million?
That’s an expenditure of $16,666 per person in the state, not to mention whatever was spent outside the state on air fares etc..
Most of us who have travelled or attended international conferences know that that’s an excessive amount of expenditure for that amount of time, unless everything is absolutely first class luxury of course.
Once again that proves what a huge scam these climate conferences are.
And will South Australia have enough parking places for all the private jets which come to these conferences?
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What a(nother) farce. They could not have chosen a destination which required more avgas to get to. It just highlights the blatant hypocrisy and disregard for we contemptibles, many of whom, sadly, applaud the efforts of the zealots who are out to eliminate our hard-earned prosperity.
Please stop feeding their egos.
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As usual, the Left do nothing and don’t care but conservatives take effective action to correct genuine problems.
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Thank you Gina!
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Jo wrote above –
“And thinking of those great minds who shared so much and are no longer with us…”
I will have you know that my mind was given a dementia test last Wednesday. Result, perfect score, 30 out of 30 correct.
Who says these things about great minds no longer with us?
Geoff S
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How did you go with the taking off seven counting back from 100?
How did you go with the question, “Do you still talk to your little friend”? Asking for a friend 😉
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Len,
30 out of 30.
Years ago I met a psychiatrist interested in male homosexuality who asked for rapid sentence completion.
He asked me to complete “He dreams about ???”
I answered “About once a year.”
Geoff S
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You are standing at the side of a busy road and you want to get to the other side. There are no pedestrian crossings or lights. What is the first thing you would do? This outdoors after doing the indoor interview.
“Wait for a break in the traffic” was not accepted. Nor any other reply I could think of. Eventually he told me: “Look right, look left and look right again.”
This wasn’t obviously connected to the interview, but I had to suspect that it was. I wondered that this was work, not play, so how many points did that score for me for or against on some academic index? I scored 27 out of 30. Don’t know where the other 3 went. But I looked up RUDAS on the internet and there it was.
But the half hour drive wiped me out. I had no fear of it, and certainly took it too cheaply, but nobody could have worked this out. They provided the vehicle, an i30. I was pleased to have the opportunity to drive an i30.
Our vehicles were a 15 years old Corolla, a 22 years old Hilux, and a 6 years old Caravelle.
I was in trouble from the start. The accelerator did not work properly. Getting power was a lucky dip. Somtimes too little, sometimes too much, often delayed.
Not being familiar with the venicle I nad decided that this must have been a characteristic or the very popular vehicle that drivers get used to. Then it got a whole lot worse.
Instructed to turn left at an intersection from a very low speed, I commenced to make the turn. The vehicle did not respond to my depressing the accelerator. Then, after a delay, it responded with a full throttle “vroom” that catapulted the car into the intersection, with a car approaching from the left.
I was stunned. I had no idea what could have caused this. I should have called a halt to the test but just meekly followed instructions. There was another equally terrifying event towards the end of the drive. I did not discuss the problems with the assessors,, because first I had to know what had happened and how.
When I got the report there it was! The car had dual brakes, and the instructor had applied them twice to prevent a collision. There is no doubt he applied them a lot more than twice, and this was the cause of all my problems, including the vroom event. and the lettered OT bloke in the back attributed it all to my “decline of cognitive processing”.
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And for that he charged $1,150.
I am still trying to get my licence back. It’s like being in gaol without one. I wasn’t having any trouble driving until I got into that car. At last I’ve got the medicos on side, but my booking for a new test is not til January. With a quote of $1,500.
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Remembering ROM, Scaper, Roy Hogue, Greg Cavanagh and many others.
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And Pat. I’d added Pat but edit didn’t get posted after an interruption.
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Rereke Whakaaro.
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Yes, definitely.
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John Kerry and Bill Gates, saying the quiet part out loud. “Democracies are not big enough, or quick enough to handle the problems we have created.” Well they didn’t actually say exactly that, and that is definitely mis information. 11 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXM-JxDiP8A
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And in breaking news, Kamala has received $750 from FEMA after the disaster Bret Baier interview.
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Canada Begins EUTHANIZING Citizens with ‘COVID VACCINATION SYNDROME’
Canada has just killed the first citizen under the Canadian government’s controversial new plans to begin euthanizing patients who have been injured by Covid “vaccines.”
An Ontario man in his late 40s has become the first person to be euthanized for “post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome.”
The man was killed under Canada’s “assisted suicide” laws via the government’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
Doctors had determined that the patient had become a burden on the socialized healthcare system.
They warned that he wouldn’t recover from “post-vaccine syndrome” and ruled that MAiD was a better option than long-term care.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/canada-begins-euthanizing-citizens
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Vaccines and the Length of Our Lives. Dr.R. Malone
The commercial imperative to extract money from human bodies is playing havoc with medical education, and the body of knowledge through which the medical professions operate. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of vaccines, and their place in determining the length of our lives.
The charts shown here, from Australia, the United States, and England, reflect those of other wealthy countries. The same findings are reflected in various published papers. Facts are facts, even if they may with time become harder to find, buried under Big Search algorithms to keep us safe. They remain facts even if medical students are taught to believe alternate realities. Such false teaching, coupled with large financial incentives, drive their desire to ensure children be ‘fully vaccinated’ according to their country’s childhood schedule. They increasingly believe a lie, undeniable misinformation, that this is why most children in our countries now grow up without experiencing the death of a friend or sibling.
https://www.malone.news/p/vaccines-and-the-length-of-our-lives
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The HPV Vaccine Tragedy Was A Test Run For COVID-19
•Two decades ago, Merck pushed Vioxx, a lucrative NSAID onto the market despite knowing it would cause a large number of heart attacks. Merck eventually faced so many lawsuits they had to withdraw it, at which point they rushed, Gardasil, a lucrative HPV vaccine to market to cover their losses.
•Gardasil was extremely dangerous. However, just like Vioxx, both Merck and the FDA ignored that data, and did all they could to promote it. This continued even after Gardasil brought forward a wave of crippling injuries, unlike anything that had previously been seen for a vaccine.
•Remarkably many of Gardasil’s issues (e.g., autoimmunity, POTS, infertility, death) are identical to those seen with the COVID-19 vaccines. In turn, there are remarkable parallels to how they were approved (e.g., doctored trials covered up vaccine injuries) and how far the FDA and CDC went to protect those products from scrutiny.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hpv-vaccine-disaster-was-a-test
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The Dark Reality of mRNA Vaccinology: Embedding Rogue Genetic Code into the Human Exome. Dr. P. McCullough
The rapid rise of mRNA technology, particularly in the form of COVID-19 vaccines, has been heralded as a revolutionary breakthrough in modern medicine. Yet, behind the fanfare lies a more sinister truth—the dangerous and reckless embedding of encrypted genetic code back into the human exome. mRNA vaccinology is not just altering immune responses; it is tampering with the very blueprint of our DNA. This technology represents a catastrophic shift, one that risks permanently mutating the human genome and triggering an irreversible cascade of genetic damage.
The assumption that mRNA breaks down harmlessly after doing its job is increasingly proving to be a dangerous misconception. The reality? These artificial sequences initiate rogue transcription—causing cellular processes to misfire, mutate, and spiral out of control. Worse still, these rogue processes embed encrypted genetic errors into the human exome, rewriting our DNA in ways that could wreak havoc for generations.
https://johncatanzaro.substack.com/p/the-dark-reality-of-mrna-vaccinology
1M posts, so time to ramp up the knowledge.😉
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At age 62 I was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrilation. They put me on Warfarin to guard against strokes.
During the last 60 years the life expectancy for an Australian male at birth rose from 73 years to 83 years.
As I see the other old blokes as I go for my regullar INR test I wonder if this rat poison is the key factor delivering that extra ten years.
When first diagnosed I looked up Warfarin. In the 1920s there was trouble near the US/Canadian border with cattle dying with uncontrollable bleeding. Investigation showed that the dying cattle had been eating mouldy clover hay.
They were able to isolate the warfarin from the mould,, and having discovered it they found uses for it.
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Warfarin works by inactivating Vitamin K. I’m sure there must be better ways of inducing an anticoagulant effect than by inducing a vitamin deficiency. Because Vitamin K is essential to keep calcium out of our arteries and put it in our bones.
I know there are a lot of plant supplements that would help, but hey, I’m not a doctor. I’m just saying — be aware. Some modern medicine is bucket chemistry. Most of the increase in life expectancy came from saving babies.
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The newer anticoagulants seem to be preferred in Australia for aFib sufferers.
apixaban:
It is used an alternative to warfarin to prevent blood clots following hip or knee replacement and in those with a history of prior clots and does not require monitoring by blood tests or dietary restrictions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apixaban
Expensive outside of Australia.
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The Dark Reality of mRNA Vaccinology: Embedding Rogue Genetic Code into the Human Exome. Dr. P. McCullough
The rapid rise of mRNA technology, particularly in the form of COVID-19 vaccines, has been heralded as a revolutionary breakthrough in modern medicine. Yet, behind the fanfare lies a more sinister truth—the dangerous and reckless embedding of encrypted genetic code back into the human exome. mRNA vaccinology is not just altering immune responses; it is tampering with the very blueprint of our DNA. This technology represents a catastrophic shift, one that risks permanently mutating the human genome and triggering an irreversible cascade of genetic damage.
The assumption that mRNA breaks down harmlessly after doing its job is increasingly proving to be a dangerous misconception. The reality? These artificial sequences initiate rogue transcription—causing cellular processes to misfire, mutate, and spiral out of control. Worse still, these rogue processes embed encrypted genetic errors into the human exome, rewriting our DNA in ways that could wreak havoc for generations.
https://johncatanzaro.substack.com/p/the-dark-reality-of-mrna-vaccinology
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Joe Rogan Experience #2219 – Donald Trump
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Wow – he is so lucid when he just talks.
We can only hope he stays in good health and gets the support to make things better in the world.
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Almost 2 hours in a Trump is now interviewing Rogan on UFC. Trump is so curious about the things and people he sees.
I wonder what Trump the movie will be like? Hopefully there best chapters yet to come.
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Donald Trump has this crazy notion that you cannot have a country without borders and borders need to be protected.
Trump also stated that he had never been asked to make it legal for men to play in women’s sport. Who finds that surprising?
He also said he had never been asked to allow children to have a free sex change operation without parental consent. Another surprise?
The last straw is that Trump expects to have voters present personal identification and be US citizens to vote. How crazy is such an idea!
Three hours is a long session but thoroughly entertaining. Currently at 4.2M views. I wonder if Harris will take up the invitation.
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Telstra will no longer support its Roku streaming device after 30 Oct. So a few weeks back I installed a Google Chromecast. It has neat feature of selecting stuff I might like across any of the steaming apps installed.
Today it had a Youtube hosted video from SkyNews called the Power Hour for reasons that become obvious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzH4J10f2SE
It gives a different perspective of how the US Presidential stakes are unfolding than what we see from the main TV channels in Australia. Host is pleasant enough but a touch of smugness in the manner of their ABC faces. But politics NOT their ABC.
I do not read all posts on the site so apologies if this has been shiown before.
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Rick,
you can get https://www.viki.com – Rakuten Viki on Google Chromecast
I originally had a Roku Box for Met Opera
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1,000,000 posts can make for a very long fence to keep out Climate Alarmists and other left wing types. A kind of Rabbit Proof fence.
Onwards and Upwards together.
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But remember that is a bloody lot of wire to maintain!
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Well worth it IMHO.
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In Australia, a data breach has compromised Visa holder data.
And the Feral Guv’ment wants us to have all of our stuff (Driver Licence, Passport, Medicare Info, etc) maintained online in one spot on one Platform?
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/cyber-security/strategy/act-now-stay-secure
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/cyber-security/strategy/2023-2030-australian-cyber-security-strategy
The Guv’ment cant even take the advice that it tries to shove up the Voters/Taxpayers. LOL
Safe and Secure (Effective). Yeah, right.
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The data held by the organisation responsible for cyber security is compromised – you couldn’t make this up….
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Its on again.
‘A criminal investigation has been launched after thousands of suspected fraudulent voter registrations were discovered in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.
‘The Lancaster County Board of Elections announced Friday that staff members identified 2,500 suspected fraudulent voter registration applications, which had been dropped off at the election office.’ (Daily Mail)
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Satire – bad news for old folk
Employee Notice For Old People ..
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Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, the Government has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early, mandatory retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment.
This scheme will be known as RAPE ( Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to the Government to be considered for the SHAFT program ( Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program ( System Covering Retired-Early Workers).
A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as the Government deems appropriate.
Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS( Additional Income for Dependents & Spouse ) or HERPES ( Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).
Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by the Government.
Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT ( Special High Intensity Training ) as possible. The Government has always prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.
Should you feel that you do not receive enoughSHIT , please bring this to the attention of your MP, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.
Sincerely,
The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)
PS – Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
/hopefully won’t be modded as it’s a 2013 classic!
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“/hopefully won’t be modded as it’s a 2013 classic!”
Ah, 2013, the good ol’ days when you could retire and relax.. So different to a decade later!
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FWIW
“Great front page – it’s the same story here.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860d81bb4200b-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/great-front-page-its-the-same-story-here.html
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“Dems Warn: It Could Take 4 Years to Count the Ballots”
“”You just can’t rush this type of thing,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “We’re talking about a very complicated process of counting. It starts with 1, proceeds on to 2, then 3, and so on. These numbers get very large. When you run out of fingers and toes, it gets even more confusing. Plus, you have to account for the fact that we’ll need to wait and find out how many votes we need to come up with. I’m afraid we won’t know who the winner of the presidential election is until everyone starts voting to elect the following president.”
(Prediction by The Bee)
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/10/25/dems-warn-it-could-take-4-years-to-count-the-ballots-n3796281
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Meanwhile in Australia with paper ballot paper, we can count a lot quicker than that.
This bloke is a Marxist looney. Josef Stalin could count the votes in 5 nanoseconds. LOL
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The Qld election was declared in 5 hours. Comfortable LNP win.
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FWIW
“If Green Energy is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/25/if-green-energy-is-the-future-bring-a-fire-extinguisher/
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Burn baby burn, Disco inferno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8TyIEAqps
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Tonight’s news item: Perth has had 95 waste truck fires from lithium batteries this year.
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FWIW – a “How to guide”
“The Art of the Smear: Head of NASA and Top Dems Demand Investigation of Elon Musk”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/10/25/the-art-of-the-smear-head-of-nasa-and-top-dems-demand-an-investigation-of-elon-musk-n4933666
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Love it!! It just shows that when your incompetence and stupidity has led you so far down the wrong path you will never catch up to the leader of the race, you make shit up to smear him and drag him down to your level!
Serve them right if Musk moves Space-X to Russia! It would be so cool!
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FWIW
If one was feeling super sarcastic this could be considered super essential reading for our lot of super greenists
“Super Genius”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/10/25/super-genius/
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Oh Dear!
I just see that Willie Nelson has come out to support Harris!
Do I purge my music collection or do I just ascribe his choice to dementia or the influence of other substances?
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Just ascribe his choice to stupidity, [snip]
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“I think that one of our biggest challenges is … we’re in a unique position in human history, where we’ve shifted the human population to vaccine-induced, to dependency on vaccine-induced immunity.” https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/did-the-head-of-the-vaccine-confidence
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That the “vaccine confidence project” is not about assuring the safety / efficacy of vaccines, but about behaviour and attitudes of the people towards vaccines says something in and of itself
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“Partners of the project are listed as follows, but not to worry as “funders have no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or writing of studies conducted by the VCP”.”
including.. WEF, GSK, Sabin, Meta, Merck, NHS-UK…
Lol! A list of people you definitely wouldn’t invite home to meet the family! They are putting up the money and they expect the results they want, no matter what disclaimers they throw about!
That mob were paid to provide data for the propaganda to be based on! Everyone involved should be tried and executed.
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Congrats, Joanne, on 1 million comments.
Regards,
Bob
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Bob, Cheers, delighted to hear from you. It’s a long battle isn’t it. 🙂
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FWIW – long and likely to stir your worry beds
“The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data”
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
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“The human brain operates within a range of frequencies, …but its default state is governed by the Schumann resonance, a natural frequency of around 7.83 Hz that the Earth’s electromagnetic field generates. However, the brain can shift.. in the presence of a persistent 10Hz signal. This process of entrainment means that the brain, instead of maintaining its natural rhythm, follows the external signal. Over time, this can lead to a potentially significant disruption in brain function, as the constant exposure to WiFi’s 10Hz pulses pushes the brain into an unnatural rhythm, overriding its connection to the Earth’s natural frequency.
The brain is your only source of reference for reality. If the brain itself is being altered, your perception of what’s happening is also altered. It’s like trying to judge the stability of a ship while standing on it in rough seas—your perspective is skewed. This entrainment effect, over time, could create a state where you’re more easily influenced—a ‘suggestible state.’ In this state, the brain is more receptive to external input, whether it’s media, marketing, or even subconscious influences. With WiFi and other sources of 10Hz modulation becoming increasingly pervasive, these signals may be subtly altering how we think and respond without us even realizing it.”
The subtle effects of a Wi-Fi world-
https://keithcutter.substack.com/p/why-is-wifi-so-uniquely-harmful
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Looks like the LNP will win in their own right in Queensland.
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The Queensland election results look interesting: have people had enough.
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