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Statistics
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AA8BE31DD1109314E0223E53D91871C9/S1047951124026118a.pdf/adverse_effects_of_covid19_vaccine_in_the_paediatric_population_a_focus_on_the_cardiovascular_system.pdf – “The evidence in the current literature suggests that though multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children can occur post-vaccination, such events are much more common following organic COVID-19 infection, with vaccination even having a protective effect in some cases.” …. what evidence you ask? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35025852/ assessed using a test-negative case-control design …. during July 1-December 9, 2021, the period when most MIS-C patients could be temporally linked to SARS-CoV-2
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Even though one received the jab, they are not considered “vaccinated” until after 14 or more days. This filters out a significant number of adverse effects as well as infections.
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A neat trick, huh?
Surely such misrepresentation is verging on criminal behaviour, if in fact it is not a criminal act. People died because the “vaccine,” waa claimed to be safe based on such false statistics.
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“Political science”??
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Yeah, another “trick” is that studies don’t really capture immune system damage either.
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It seems that the well being of the patient is an afterthought.
https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/12/fda-pushes-rsv-vaccines-for-kids-despite-halted-moderna-trials/
Dr. Leana Wen calls on the Biden administration to authorize “bird flu vaccines” for “vulnerable” Americans before Donald Trump takes office. (21 or 22 days, that should be enough time for thorough study.)
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DEPO POVERA… Pfizer strikes again?????? link between contraceptive “jab” and brain tumour. item on ABC TV news this morning.
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They start with children with multi-system inflammation in hospital and then look backwards to find evidence that they had COVID at some time previous … ‘at least one COVID-19-like symptom’ – based on this, COVID caused the multi-system inflammation. So even though the vaccines cause this as well, vaccines are good because they cause less than the ones we found and attributed to COVID.
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Recent temperature falls shown here
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/28/recent-temperature-falls-likely-to-put-a-dampener-on-hottest-year-evah-stories/
Whether they will continue long enough to become part of the climate story we will have to wait and see
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My feeling is that at least in Melbournistan, Sicktoria, Australia, it has definitely cooled. In my home in summer I infrequently use the cooling throughout the house (except with some rooms facing north I turn it on more frequenly) which was certainly not the case, back in the day. Most people I speak to (I only associate with rational people) also agree anecdotally that it is cooler than it used to be based on the type of things they do and how often they use cooling etc.. Everyone disbelieves propaganda claims from the BoM about the hottest eeevvvaaahh day, week, month, year, decade etc..
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“Climate change only occurs where you aren’t”.
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I agree that Melbourne has had generally cooler summer temperatures for the past 10 years or more.
I put that down to increased rainfall.
The millennial drought (1997-2010) is almost a distant memory now.
https://www.seaci.org/publications/documents/SEACI-2Reports/SEACI2_Factsheet2of4_WEB_110714.pdf
The drought was broken by flooding rains, as is often the case .
Dry conditions = hotter
Wet conditions = cooler
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Yes, it is a misconception that the heat causes lower rainfall. It is the lower rainfall that causes hot weather by the buildup of heat in the ground over time. Rain takes the heat away and cools everything down.
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So far a cooler summer in SW WA compared to last year, but to be expected with a positive SAM and little cyclone activity up north.
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Growing up in Brisbane in the 1970s we used to spend entire weekends in the one room with A/C – my parents’ bedroom, during long hot summers.
We also used to get humidity building up through the week with cracking electrical storms at night but no rain. These would reach a peak towards the end of week and end with a massive downpour. The pattern would keep repeating for much of the summer. Someone even wrote a song about it : This is Australia.
Speaking of songs remember Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning : it’s 45 degrees. These days people start gnashing their teeth about climate change when it hits 35 degrees.
Anyway I am convinced that the cycles of solar maximums and minimums are the primary drivers of climate changes.
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I don’t know the situation in Oz but during the pandemic workers had very generous terms for long term furlough which included instruction NOT to go into work. This seems to have become the norm and many workers are resisting efforts by employers to stop them working from home and come back to the office
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/28/civil-servants-to-strike-over-victorian-demand-to-spend-three-days-in-the-office/
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Simple solution; replace them with other workers who do come to the office. Promote the ones that do come to work. Without the boss the workers have nothing . They should recognise that.
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If they claim to be saving money by working from home – travel costs, clothing, etc., then reduce their pay. Also, consider paying them according to productivity targets. They would soon return to the fold.
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What Kind of Government is Better?
“More than sixty years ago today, on July 24, 1963, Bill Clinton shook hands with President John F. Kennedy when he was 16. Clinton says that handshake inspired his life of public service. Nearly thirty years later, in January 1993, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president. I, too, shook John F. Kennedy’s hand when he was running for office in 1960. It did not inspire me to become president. Look at all the Secret Service people on the tops of the buildings. I remember every building was covered. Biden withheld sharpshooter protection from Trump for two years and refused to give RFK any protection. Was it Biden’s decision or the “staff” who really run the country? I believe the world saw that the emperor had no clothes, so to speak, after Biden’s last term. We witnessed a man in severe mental decline for the past four years. There is no way he could run the country. The deep state is in control, and a good portion of the public now realizes that the president is NOT always in control.
A few things need to happen for conditions to improve:
End lobbying: All elections should be funded by the taxpayer based on the number of signatures they gather
Committees should be based on their expertise. If I were there, it would be on a financial committee, not some medical committee. People are appointed to committees based on who they know rather than WHAT they know.
Athens had the Kleroterion, where names were selected for those who would fill a position. They should be prequalified for various positions.
The Inspector General should be a separate agency NOT subservient to the Executive or Department of Justice with the power to indict anyone in government.
Terms should be limited to a 2-year maximum — there is no room for career politicians.
Public servants MUST serve the people rather than their self-interests. “Politician” should not be a career choice but a role held by a member of our society who desires to SERVE the people by providing their expertise for a limited duration.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/what-kind-of-government-is-better/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
We do not need Career ‘Pollies’ IMHO.
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“We do not need…‘Pollies’ IMHO.”
What do they do that ordinary people can’t?? How many of the thousands of laws passed in our lifetimes are really needed?? All politicians do is to try and force you to do something you wouldn’t do naturally.
How about we remove 85% of what a Govt does and hand it back to the taxpayer, along with removing 86% of the cost of Govt and 85% of the drones living off us?
How about we make taxes voluntary, so if you agree with all Govt policies you pay all your taxes. If you disagree with some of it you don’t pay that bit. We could have an itemised bill sent out to each taxpayer once a year for them to peruse and then pay. That would sort out nearly all the problems people have with Govt, unsupported policies would be unfunded.
There are lots of ways to take the power back off them, but none will ever be implemented. The word ‘sheeple’ is accurate indeed!
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Employment in government sector was more than double private aector in Australia recently. Big government gets bigger and makes unemployment figures look less worse. It’s another ponzi scheme, like renewables based electricity, where the taxpayer foots the bills.
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“If you disagree with some of it you don’t pay that bit. We could have an itemised bill sent out to each taxpayer once a year for them to peruse and then pay”
Who would fund Medicare? Aged pension? Education? Defence? And a whole host of other things that are taken for granted?
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Quite common for those who believe in the myth that governments will continue to fund “a whole host of things that are taken for granted”. Those services were generally handled within communities without queues before the bureaucracy grabbed it to make it free and efficient. In reality to become remote and financially unsustainable.
Even a simple understanding of history would allow you to understand why the waiting lists grow longer, the ‘on hold’ times to the point you give up and then you find out you are no longer eligible for the ‘hosts of things’anyway.
History has always been a problem for the socialists, that is why they leave a disaster behind them and move on to the next big grift —- sorry koala saving announcement / earth saving scam for their mates.
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I agree with your proposal that politicians should have term limits and that career politicians should have no role to play. In practice however politicians need time to learn the job and then to perform that job. Our biggest problems in Australia are caused by politicians who have never worked a day in their lives having left student politics at university, then moved onto some office job with a union or political hack and, like pond scum, have risen to the top knowing nothing outside the very narrow experience of their cloistered life. Twelve years is enough for any elected position and I would impose similar restrictions on senior public servants. They, too, should spend time in the real world before gaining their well paid sinecures.
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We don’t pay them enough — poor darlings.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/will-you-be-getting-a-20000-pay-increase-in-a-couple-of-days-therapeutic-albanese-will.html
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I love the down ticks with no response other than that. Pure negativity.
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The Western world has many thousands of undersea cables carrying everything from power to the internet. They are very vulnerable
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/nato-to-boost-baltic-sea-presence-after-cables-broken/
The UK has this crazy notion of building a mega solar farm in Morocco then importing the electricity underwater all the way to North Devon where it would come ashore. What could possibly go wrong?
Why can’t they just build grown up power stations instead, already on dry land and which can be secured AND provide measurable amounts of electricity day in day out?
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The idea of exporting electricity directly is absurd.
Aluminum is 95% electricity in value. I once had the idea to refine bauxite around the country and ship it. And use aluminium as fuel, a closed loop with no output from vehicles. It has double the chemical energy density of petrol. And when you pick up new aluminum, you drop off Al2O3 oxide. 80 kg of aluminium has a comparable power to 80 litres of petrol, but in half the space. 20x the energy of heavy batteries. (I should check out Lithium reactions too, now it is plentiful and super light with 20% of the weight of aluminium.)
But it’s all about Chinese windmills, solar panels and transmission lines. No one is being creative. Even the ‘science’ is about sun, wind and water. Animist religion, not science at all. It’s what you get when the UN retired politicians decide on science, from DNA to DC. Or unelected activist judges bypassing democracy and quoting notional UN environmental agreements in principle as binding legislation.
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Aluminium can be used as a fuel to generate heat and hydrogen according to the reaction:
2Al + 6H2O → 2Al(OH)3 + 3H2 + Q (Heat)
The main problem is overcoming the stable oxide layer.
Back in the day Australia had a lot of aluminium smelters due to an abundance of both bauxite and cheap electricity.
Now the only reason we have aluminium smelters is because they receive a taxpayer subsidy to stay here, plus they also receive payments to load shed when the wind and/or sun stop blowing and shining in order to prevent grid collapse. They are no longer viable due to some of the world’s most expensive electricity when it used to be among the cheapest.
And politicians should not be allowed to make scientific or engineering decisions without appropriate input by qualified, non-taxpayer-funded scientists and engineers.
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You can also just burn it with oxygen. It is explosive.
Try Thermite Fe2O3 + 2 Al → 2 Fe + Al2O. There are endless combinations. We used to make explosive touch powder, aluminium metal and potassium permanganate.
Oxidizing metals is as simple as oxidizing carbon. But aluminum is safe, not explosive on its own. Not an explosion risk like carbon compounds. Then you have compounds like Ammonium nitrate.
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Who is going to work for free? And is it valuable if it is done for free?
The CSIRO is awash with qualified scientists and engineers. They know where the money comes from and many have family to support. Peter Ridd is an honest scientist. And he is not alone. The system is working to discredit honesty. Look at their ABC and its rotten culture. Look at Tony Abbott.
Few people can afford to question the premise of a task they are set. Finkel was tasked with the job of an orderly transition. A key feature was to a lower emissions grid. It was deemed “independent” but who set the premise and who paid for it! Finkel was already on the government payroll as Chief Scientist.
I believe the fastest way out of this mess is for the BoM, CSIRO and their ABC to be bought to account and apologise for leading the country down a path to mutual economic destruction. The hope for that occurring rests mostly with Trump turning the tide in the USA.
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I didn’t say anyone should work for free, just that they not be funded by Government and hence likely to give the answers politicians want to hear.
In any case there are plenty of retired experts not beholden to anyone who would freely give their impartial advice.
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So what is the value of free advice?
The government pays for a chief scientist and a significant portion of the CSIRO budget. Who should the government believe – The people they recruit and pay or some retired engineer offering free advice.
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You mean the chief ‘scientist’ types who tell the government we are all going to fry in a climate armageddon of our own making?
Or retired scientists educated in more enlightened times who owe no favours?
Take a wild stab in the dark.
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Donald Trump works free of charge. Seems to work ok.
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The undersea cable for that will be 3,800km.
Subsidy harvesters in Australia want to build a solar plantation in the north and connect that via undersea cable from Australia to Singapore, the SunCable which is 4300km long.
https://www.suncable.energy/our-projects
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That would mean a loss of electric power at 5% per 1,000 km. (19-22%).
Then there is a little matter of the active tectonic fault lines which might damage the lines (yes, there is an active junction junction about 120km off Portugal – check out the earthquakes in Lisbon).
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” loss of electric power ”
AC or DC? Long distances are usually DC with aluminum conductor, steel reinforced (ACSR) conductors
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HVDC losses are around 3.5%/1000 kms. Conversion losses at each end add another 1.4% total. A typical HVAC line loss is 7%/1000 kms, with the crossover loss point between HVAC and HVDC being around 700kms.
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Like Basslink
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Exactly. Just build more Nuclear and drill for oil and gas on the mainland. Maybe even do Coal Gas or even start building HELE Coal Fired Power Stations again. Britain is built on Coal. Use many more machines to dig the stuff up. How about a load of Robots.
This Net Zero rubbish is sheer lunacy. Just copy what the Chinese are doing. They just love CO2………And so do the plants, trees, etc.
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I thought that the Xlinks Project proposal had been dropped. The Moroccan solar systems are not doing very well, with the largest proposed solar facility, Noor Midelt 1, due to start operation in 2024, but hasn’t even started construction. The dispute seems to be over the Moroccan govt’s request to change from a CSP to a more conventional solar panel system.
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In Sicktoria, I would like to see a list of who voted for and against Moira Deeming so we know which MPs can ve trusted. We know that half of the fake conservative “Liberals” voted against Moira, all based on a proven lie.
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I have little respect for most politicians who would vote for a cheese sandwich if there was a crust in it. Or a chance to be shadow minister. Trump is surrounding himself with people who cannot be bought and don’t need the job and hate the deep state. Like Nigel Farage in the UK. The Humphrey Applebees now run Washington and Whitehall and Canberra.
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There was a suggestion that Jess Wilson sided with Pesutto.
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Such a list would be beneficial in terms of distinguishing the John Pesutto supporters from the new guard who will likely have the task of trying to rectify the Andrews/Allen mess created by Labor. Clearly Pesutto thought that dismissing the media’s “guilt by association“ depiction of Deeming and neo-nazis was less important than defending the integrity of a member of his party.
Pesutto was either driving this agenda catering to woke politics or listening to advisors who prioritise social media trends above actual policies and positions on certain topics.
Hence when public protests at public libraries against drag queens doing story time with kids drove Chairman Dan to host readings at parliament, Mr Pesutto made it clear he is everyone’s everyman.
“Opposition Leader John Pesutto was not invited to the reading at parliament, but said, had he known about it, he would have attended.”
“Had I had the opportunity to know about it, I would have gone up and said hello,” he said.
“It’s their [the drag performers] house. It’s everybody’s house. I love everybody. And this is everybody’s house. Everybody should feel welcome in the Victorian parliament.”
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/parliament-hosts-drag-story-time-for-cancelled-performers-20230517-p5d8y3.html
*may be behind paywall*
Good riddance. Hopefully Battin has some backbone and this brand of lukewarm chameleon leadership is history
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In Sicktoria, apart from not allowing gas to be installed in new housing developments, the Government is considering not allowing the replacement of gas appliances in existing homes. If an existing gas appliance needs replacing, it will have to be replaced with an electric one.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/allan-govt-outlines-how-it-will-phase-out-gas-in-victorian-homes-under-controversial-road-map/news-story/c35487cb628d9d2bb5305f1132001afb
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I would love to be a gas plumber based in Albury- there is an opportunity to travel!
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In many Sydney Councils new apartment buildings are required to have all electric kitchens.
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If we ever get a rational government it will cost a fortune for people to install gas in dwellings not originally built with it, plus to install pipes in the street. Meanwhile, people will probably start using LPG (US = propane) cylinders and portable burners inside which will be a safety risk.
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I am happy with my 2 Gas Hot Water Heaters, Gas Central Heating and Gas Spa Heating
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It’s fun when the extra use of electricity triggers an upgrade of the local transformer. Can make or break a development.
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There was a comment here by an electrical person tasked with looking at whether it was viable to install EV chargers in an apartment block. He found that apart from the extra apartment costs, the street power lines all the way back to the substation would require upgrading, plus the substation would require upgrading. The proposal was quickly shelved.
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I’m not a sparky, but this article will be relevant. In keeping with the supposed trend that lithium batteries seemingly help the planet whilst lining the pockets of opportunistic
https://www.drive.com.au/news/developers-exploit-loophole-to-fit-ev-chargers-despite-fire-warnings-exclusive/
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But is that very rare , given that there are not very many electric vehicles?
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Most Chefs love gas for the cooking control. Let all ‘Pollies’ only be able to eat at Restaurants that only have electricity for cooking. Let’s see how that goes. Has Parliament House, Feral/State/ or Territory gone off of Gas yet?
Never going to happen of course.
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I agree, same as pollies should only be transported around the joint in non CO2 emitting vehicles.
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I used the Thumbs Down because I disagree with this appaling Gobmint dictatorial intrusion into our lives.
It is evil. It cannot even be counted as “misdirected environmental concern” as they must know the truth about the aboundance of gas on one side and its clear advantages for cooking and heating.
This diktat alone should spell the end of Lab-Green in politics. If only there was an alternative political party!
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I would like to see Tony Heller have a role in the TRUMP Administration. He can publicise all the Government fr@ud on climate data that he has discovered and documented.
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I think he’d need a whole team, just for the BOM in Australia. Then there’s the NOAA in America, just as fraudulent but 100 times bigger ….
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Remember Will Happer’s time in Trump’s first term didn’t achieve much.
Death of climate panel prompted Happer resignation.
You need someone with a strong personality to survive in Washington, like Marc Morano. Tony is great, and has all the data and evidence that it is a scam, but he likes his nature-lifestyle too much to deal with a bunch of public servants and the layers of government.
Patrick Moore would be another strong candidate to consider.
We can only wish.
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I thought Prof. Happer was fired from the position of EPA head by Al Gore. Apparently he asked too many questions about the EPA’s planned research rent-seekers, like “What will your research achieve?”
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In New York a woman created a virtual man using an AI “companion” site, “married” him and now claims to be pregnant by him. (From 2023.)
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No baggage? He is neutered. If she is pregnant, he should seek a divorce.
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She needs professional help, fast.
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The mouse did it!
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Not some dirty rat?
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Parthenogenesis has been induced in mice to produce viable offspring. If it can be done in a mouse, it can be done in a human.
I don’t think this should be done in humans although it would no doubt be welcomed by the Left and feminists because females could then reproduce without a man (or alternatively I guess they could clone themselves).
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Two Julia Gillards?
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Worse! Two Albaneses or Chris Bowens.
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Luckily that’s impossible. In parthenogenisis the egg is a copy of the mother with two X chromosones, fertilized without sperm. But the film ‘The Boys from Brazil’ was about cloning Hitler.
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You mean the documentary, ‘The Boys from Brazil’.
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…and that ends today’s talk on cancer reproduction.😆
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That would be clowning themselves!
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I saw what you did there, I wonder what Bowen was clowned from.
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Karl Marx, I suspect
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Blackout Bowen, the reject
(Copied from a meme.)
Rejected Mayor.
Rejected Labor leader.
Rejected Immigration Minister.
Catastrophic dud as Climate and Energy Minister.
Thinks John Kerry is someone to admire.
Believes Greta Thunberg.
Can’t even pronounce the word “nuclear”.
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Does Greta Thunberg still exist? ToM
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She now hates Israel for a living.
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She is now a Palestinian, though she hasn’t moved there yet.
Any day now, I expect.
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Except it doesn’t exist. The number of countries in the old land of Canaan is limitless. The mass migrations, the invasions, the religions, the sects, the wars. From Sumerians to Hittites to Egyptians to Assyrians to Arabs to Mongols to Israelis, Jordanians, Philistines, Iranians, Romans and more. Boundaires which never existed or were as fluid as the next battle. Even the Jews were taken wholesale to Bablyon for fifty years. The idea that anyone ‘owns’ the place is a modern fantasy. We suffer from that delusion of Post Modernmism, that Maoris own New Zealand when there are no Maories or Scotsmen or Englishmen. They are all New Zealanders.
And now people like Greta support one tribe against another in lands they do not know at all. It’s insanity presented as unfairness. Modern Israel has been built from the desert. And has no natural resources except hard work. And everyone now covets it. Meanwhile what has happened to Damascus and Bagdad and Aleppo and Beirut and Cairo and Tehran and Alexandria? Who would live there today? What were once great cities have been reduced to rubble. Is that what she wants for Tel Aviv?
Meanwhile professional child Greta whose childhood was ‘stolen‘ by terrible global warming is not the slightest bit concerned by the 7 October massacre of the children and their mothers and fathers. In her view,it is all justified by the fight for a place which does not exist except on a British/French map after WW1 as they divided up the Ottoman empire. But she could not care less about the distinct people of Kurdistan wiped off the map or the Christians of Armenia.
If ignorance was intelligence, Greta would be a genius.
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I hear the clown saying noocular all the time.
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Has he tried AntarCtic?
Or Antidisestablishmentarianism?
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Albo can’t even pronounce Australia. His version – Shtraya. ToM
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Another win for TRUMP and he’s not even President yet.
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Hmmm…the way it’s going, Jan 6 will be fireworks…
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There is a new humanoid robot from Unitree.
https://www.unitree.com/mobile/g1
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I recall seeing it. It’s pretty crude in object handling.
Try the Sanctuary AI instead:
https://youtu.be/O73vVHbSX1s?si=3hsI0W6B8LnwUy8T
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FWIW
“Why Socialism Fails”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1873281881938248189
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/29/why-socialism-fails/
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Has it ever succeeded on Planet Earth?
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I thought it was because it runs out of other peoples’ money.
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This used to be true.
Until they invented a form of time travel banditry.
They steal OPM from the future … FOPM (not to be confused with F-M).
(Billy the G and his gang of future train robbing cowpersons from Black Rock Gulch.)
The glaciers are MELTING!
A SCARY virus!
You citizens must print money (indebt your children’s and children’s children’s future) …
and give it to us in the Zen now so the we may ascend from billionaire to trillionaire enlightenment … er, we mean, save you … particularly children and grandmas.
Look on the bright side … we’re creating an entire new Luxury Doomsday Bunker industry.
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It destroys all market signals, and the economy slowly collapses when it has no natural direction from consumers.
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The intolerance we now witness of virtually all reason- and evidence-based new and alternative ideas relates to the domination of the Left, or as Americans call them “liberals” (as opposed to the pretend conservative party we have in Australia of the same name) who now dominate virtually all institutions.
It all started in 1967 when Rudi Dutschke told his followers that violent Marxist revolution was difficult but they would succeed through a “long march through the institutions” as they infiltrated all levels of society and all institutions over a long period such as government at all levels, academia, the education system, the legal system, even the large woke private corporations that so greatly benefit from the “gift” of “crony capitalism” bestowed upon them.
There are no more intolerant people than the Left either in their International Socialist or National Socialist forms.
The Left are at war against the core Enlightenment values of Western Civilisation such as the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and evidence, ideals such as liberty, ongoing progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state (they are imposing their own Leftist religion upon us).
The phenomenon of Leftist intolerance was written about by Kim Holmes in the book “The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left“.
Article: https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/how-the-left-became-so-intolerant
Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?408729-1/kim-holmes-discusses-the-closing-liberal-mind
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I had a very strange, yet illustrative, conversation with one of my wife’s close friends a couple of days ago. I can’t remember why, but she mentioned Donald Trump. Now this lady is the kindest and most genial person you could ever meet, yet when she talked about Trump she went a little bit crazy. Her voice went up an octave as she said how much she hates the “criminal”, then she asked what my wife and I thought of him. We both said we liked him and thought America needs him. She shut us down, saying, “Don’t tell me you like him or we can’t be friends.”
This is an elderly Irish lady who can’t do enough for other people, attends church and does charity work. TDS?
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Jimmy Carter has passed away.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-died-39th-president-obituary/11342151002/
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He was the first president that I voted for, as a teenager, and I didn’t know better at the time. Mistakes he made in the U.S., the Middle East and Asia are with us today. I suppose he had good intentions.
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” I suppose he had good intentions.”
Nope! Just did what he was told to by the handlers, exactly like all of them…
Check out the ReasonTv shorts on Youtube for the collateral of ‘good intentions’ they are great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwMEtuL-GQ
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He was an old-style Democrat, at least the Dems as they were past the era of their support for slavery, and opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
He had good intentions but was misguided although fundamentally honest. Quite unlike today’s Dems.
He was also the last President prior to Trump who didn’t have a war, although he should have gone to war against Iran when they took the hostages. His failed eventual attempt to retrieve them was a humiliation for America.
The hostages were released within about ten minutes of President Reagan being sworn in because the Persians didn’t want a war against Reagan.
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He died several months ago but was reanimated long enough to vote for Kamala
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Let’s scare them, eh.
BoM heatwave warning.
‘The low to severe warning, currently in effect, will see Brisbane reach a maximum of 33 degrees on Friday and 37 degrees on Saturday before dropping to 32 degrees on Sunday.’
Brisbane Council joins in the alarming prediction.
‘The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Low to Severe Heatwave Warning for Brisbane for the next 3 days, from Friday 27 December to Sunday 29 December 2024.’
Actual Brisbane’s ‘heatwave’ conditions – Friday 31.1C, Saturday 32.1C and Sunday 31.1C.
Dec average is 29.7C.
Some heatwave, BoM.
In Dec 1911, there were 13 consecutive days over 31C. Dec average was 33.2C.
Now that’s a heatwave.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_nccObsCode=122&p_stn_num=040214&p_c=-323665050&p_startYear=1911
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Even if BoM’s false prediction, designed to cause panic, was true, back in the day 37C (98.6F) wasn’t considered especially hot or unusual and certainly nothing to worry about.
It would have been considered good beach weather without a second thought.
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So true. Just comparing the ‘hype’ that’s generated today with the realities of yesteryear.
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Outside of the hype wouldn’t the realities of today be the same as those of yesterday?
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Are we exposed to the realities or just the hype? Can “citizen journalists” change that?
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David,
There is a current hyping of maximum temperatures in Melbourne as summer advances. I do not know who produces the daily predictions I hear each day on radio 3AW for the week ahead, but most often the hotter days start off a week in advance being 2 to 5 deg C higher than they turn out to be on the day. Newc Years Eve (today) started out at 25C a week ago, was forecast 23C yesterday as we await the measured number today.
This is a casual impression of mine and it could be false. I might start recording forecasts today for a trial of a few weeks into summer 2025.
Geoff S
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FWIW
“Uncommon common sense from the magnificent Peter Ridd”
https://youtu.be/u7cx357B3r4
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/uncommon-common-sense-from-the-magnificent-peter-ridd.html
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Excellent video. Highly recommended.
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Three cheers for the judge. She’s lucky that the UWA doesn’t employ her. It just shows how our universities have become bastions for wokeness.
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Ian,
Someone wants to stop that pipeline – qui bono ? That gas field contains a resource that’s worth a lot of money (and we need the gas). I would look into who is funding the shenanigans .
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FWIW
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/media2fgfjcjw6xyaarmny.png
A lesson for Oz?
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China leads in lying, corruption, product shoddiness, biowarfare, human rights abuses, organ harvesting, prostitution.
Tech? HA, that’s a joke.
Then there’s their food industry.
You think gutter oil and wasp omelettes are bad?
Hold my
beerPinot Gris…70
China still lacks the metallurgy to make the bearings for their high speed trains.
For those who follow Lei’s Real Talk her latest is on HIV, made worse by shoddy blood collection control. China has problems stacked on problems.
One thing worth noting is that over 60 heteros have strangely high infection rates.
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FWIW
“Don’t you ever let a chance go by”
“Leak brilliant on Therapeutic Photo-Op Albanese”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/leak-brilliant-on-therapeutic-photo-op-albanese.html
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Is that Peter FitzSimons in his red bandana piloting the chopper?
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Here is a very good video by Liberal Hivemind about how:
1) Patriots purchased the USA border wall materials that the Biden Maladministration sold for pennies in the dollar. They are going to return them to Trump to use to finish the wall.
2) How a judge stopped the sale of further border wall materials.
It just shows how much the DemonRATs hate the American people.
https://youtu.be/GFjIlYVMZiU
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It is amazing how the parties have flipped. in the US, the workers now vote Republican, even the teamsters and increasingly the blacks and hispanics.
In the UK, the red wall flipped. And now Farage’s party is a real threat to both Labor and Tories. The workers and farmers went Tory and now are backing Farage.
In Australia, the Liberals are finding their solid support is in the country and outer suburbs. The blue seats are vanishing, turning Green or Teal and the inner city is a hotbed of communism/socialist/Green.
And the public service has become the enemy of democracy, in Canberra, Spring Street, Washington and London. They have their own agenda and are metastasising. Especially with their literal takeover of the National grid, the dream of every dictator class. It was created so they could control everyone. Australia did not need a grid.
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I think the world is dividing itself into two camps, good (conservatives and fellow rational thinkers) and evil (the Left).
As of now, this whole process has been given a big push along by the TRUMP Revolution.
Decent people have just had enough of the Left and their evil which is destroying our Civilisation.
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There’s always been this division, because it’s human nature.
It’s just the past 4 years that’s forced the reality into people’s consciousness and the media, highlighting how half the population are clueless nutjobs. 😉
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My point is that the labour class is now the conservative class and the rich elite are the revolutionaries, the regressives. They have no idea how quickly they can become the victims. As in every revolution.
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I never realised that evil is so pervasive until Biden was elected.
I am now in the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” camp of politics. If someone declares their strong left ideology with diagnosable TDS, I would rather be somewhere else.
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Having denied he engaged in lawfare against Trump, he is now openly complaining that the DOJ did not move fast enough and hard enough to jail Donald Trump. He regrets the choice of Merrick Garland as AG as having too much concern for the law, not his desire to jail, bankrupt, besmirch Donald Trump. And says nothing about the tens of millions of dollars from China and the Ukraine. In forgiving his son for the whole eleven years and into the future, he forgave himself and his brother and his whole crime family.
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Next year should be interesting.
Posted by Tony Heller on youtube.
President Trump “decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax.”
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He is exactly right. There is no science at all in man made CO2 increase driven Global Warming. I cannot find any. The fundamental claim that fossil fuel has increased CO2 is proven absolutely wrong by direct measurement of C14. I thought twenty years ago that I would point that out to people and it would be over. I was wrong.
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As Jo has said a few times, cold is the real danger, despite the MSMs love of bright red maps
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/cold-weather-deaths-double-us-minorities-elderly-most-risk
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But heat gets boring. For weeks now our days have been in the low 30s but the nights don’t cool down much. 29 deg according to my thermometer.
That’s an annoying reading, any cooler and I can be comfortable in light cotton with the ceiling fan on med, any hotter and the aircon is on. I don’t know whether to open up the room or close it up.
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Chinese Man Gets Death Sentence For Ramming Car Into Crowd, Killing 35
The driver, identified as Fan Weiqiu, acted out of anger stemming from “a broken marriage, personal frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the way financial assets were divided during his divorce,” according to a statement from the intermediate court in Zhuhai, a city in southern China.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-man-gets-death-sentence-ramming-car-crowd-killing-35
Rage against the machine…
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So I give you this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug
JR
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And just boot out Albo and the Marxists in 2025………….
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How different wall fasteners work
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_slkh0fYa3F1wvy3pw.mp4
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Having a beer one day there was a screw on the bar. I’d never seen anything like it.
The tip was a drill bit, after that were two wings, not very solid and above that the metal-thread screw section. It is for screwing yellow-tongue compressed floorboards to metal bearers. The drill bit started the hole, the “wings” opened the hole in the soft flooring to clearance for the thread. The bit would then drill through the metal bearer, the “wings” would break off when they hit the steel and the screw would tighten the board to the bearer.
What a time saver.
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