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If Team Trump can reverse as much damage to US commerce as he did in 2016 and this time also drain significant amounts of swampland it’s going to be an interesting year in 2025 et seq.
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He knows the extent and depth of the swamp this time round and also its precise location and its inhabitants. Its a big job though so he will need to get moving.
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He has to tread carefully, bringing the jobs back home could potentially make everyday items more expensive.
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But…..But…
More jobs for Americans
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Its a political and economic balancing act, getting the mix just right is the goal.
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Donald has a great opportunity to play statesman on the world stage, with his radical business acumen helping China out of economic depression, but not quite yet.
Chinese dumping of cheap cars and steel on the West is being resisted and should hasten the end of Xi, these are good tariffs Behind his back they refer to Xi as the ‘great accelerator’ because he is speedily taking the CCP over a cliff.
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It is a balancing act, indeed.
Both China and Russia are at risk of political collapse and while people like me would say “Too bad, so sad.” it is not in anyone’s interest to have nuclear armed states breaking up from within.
Is Trump statesman enough to manage a soft landing for them both? If he DOES help avoid a collapse will his detractors say he is still in the pocket of dictators who he admires?
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“Both China and Russia are at risk of political collapse and while people like me would say “Too bad, so sad.” it is not in anyone’s interest to have nuclear armed states breaking up from within.”
Yes, it worries me about Britain and America these days, both in a state of collapse and in-fighting that will easily lead to civil war. France as well, all these nuclear-armed States with their no-go areas of Sharia law, their over-whelming immigration by enemies and their deep divides between political parties and the people. Everyone is at risk these days it seems…
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Your job is to spread the propaganda, not believe it.
You don’t believe that rubbish do you?
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About Russia collapsing you mean?
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‘Everyone is at risk these days it seems… ‘
On a more positive note, democracy could break out in Russia and China after they collapse. The anarchists wouldn’t be happy with that.
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“On a more positive note, democracy could break out in Russia and China after they collapse.”
Well, that will ruin them, just like it has the West. Everyone loves a country with corrupt politicians, billionaires who rule it and a subservient population kept in the dark and fed BS.
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Second time wiser, we hope. He was white anted in his first term.
The Military Industrial Complex is a powerful enemy. Another thing in Trump’s favour this time, the Republicans have control of both houses.
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Unfortunately there are Republicans and Republicans, and some of the most corruptible politicians in the world.
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One thing is for certain, whereas the media largely gave Biden a free pass on his mistakes – of which there have been many – the slightest misstep by Trump will be the End of the World. And for the purposes of triggering mass hysteria, even good results that don’t quite match or exceed his promises, or aren’t delivered fast enough, will do. The internet will be forensically scoured each day for people claiming he’s harmed them in some way, however absurd, and held up as proof that Trump hates ‘the people’.
We know exactly how the next four years (or however many Trump gets before an assassin gets lucky) will play out.
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The Fight for Free Speech
Rebecca Weisser
“The attack on free speech is one of the most disturbing manifestations of the “woke mind virus” which has captured ruling elites in the West. Donald Trump’s re-election is its most encouraging rebuttal. The historic size of Trump’s victory is evidence that we have, at last, passed “peak woke”. The lamentations and gnashing of teeth of America’s left liberals is, one hopes, its wake.
At the top of the president-elect’s to-do list he says is ending the “censorship cartel … that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called ‘mis-’ and ‘dis-information’” driven by a “sinister group of Deep State bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media … conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people” by suppressing “vital information on everything from elections to public health”.
The good news is that Trump’s proposed legislation to protect free speech in America will hamper Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s attempts to censor social media in Australia.It follows a pushback on the Starmer Labour government’s attack on freedom of speech in the UK. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s attempt to quietly throttle the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act has been condemned by more than 600 academics, writers, and public intellectuals including Stephen Fry, Ian McEwan, historian Tom Holland, Lady Antonia Fraser, and former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion. While they might have their political differences, they were united in condemning the government for not protecting “humane and liberal values” or opposing “cancel culture” in British universities.
With all this as a backdrop, the visit to Australia in October of Nigel Biggar, best-selling author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning and Chairman of the Board of the Free Speech Union of the United Kingdom, couldn’t have come at a more opportune moment.
Bringing anyone to Australia who has been cancelled is fraught with the fear that the visa may be delayed so long that it is not possible to hold the events. It happened to Donald Trump Junior, Nigel Farage, and even Graham Linehan, creator of popular British sitcoms like Father Ted and Black Books, who fell into the “black books” of Australian immigration officials for daring to refer to men who identify as women as “men in dresses”.”
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/editors-column/the-fight-for-free-speech/
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“The taboo against telling the truth is what protects the woke establishment. Trump has been derided as everything from a boor and a buffoon to a fascist. Yet it was he, not his preening critics, who observed, “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominos one by one.” Amen to that. And merry Christmas, happy Hanukah, and happy holidays to all.”
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Mister ‘Albo Sleazy’, I refer you to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Australia is a Signatory and which was signed off on by the Australian Government way before you were even thought of. Oh, and let Wenny Pong know as well as it was before before she was even thought of.
“Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
And I thought that you adhered to Australia’s International Obligations. LOL..Only the ones that you like apparently. How pathetic of you and the other Marxists in the the Feral Guv’ment..
Put that in yer’ pipe and smoke it. You Wally Pollies.
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“The historic size of Trump’s victory is evidence that we have, at last, passed “peak woke”.”
More than that, I think that vote shows that the real numbers of conservatives in society has been misrepresented by the media and leftists for some years now. Our voices have been squashed, polling fudged, comments and discussions online censored and, at the same time, voices on the left amplified. This led to feelings of insecurity on the right, and an unwillingness by many to admit they hold ‘unfashionable’ conservative values and opinions. It might also have resulted in some conservatives simply not bothering to vote, because they felt they couldn’t influence the result. It also impacted on public discourse at all levels, with conservatives scared to voice their opinions or actually feeling guilty because they don’t trust the vaccine, believe in AGW or agree there are more than two genders. This left the whole playing field vacant, with just one side free to kick as many goals as they wanted to.
So I believe the most important aspect of Trump’s win is that it shows that conservatives can still beat the combined might of the leftists, the elites, the media and the fully compromised public institutions. Let’s hope we can capitalise on it. To do that in Australia, we need a truly conservative – and credible – alternative to the pathetic Liberal party.
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Doubts are creeping in about the weight loss drugs increasingly used by so called celebs
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-itv-did-not-report-about-the-18-weight-loss-drug-deaths/
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Is it is a diabetes / weight loss drug maiming and killing the population? The evidence is that the medicine information lists everything as a possible side effect.
Next they will be linking an increase in C02 in the atmosphere to global warming.
I wonder what else these celebs were taking during that increase in reported adverse events after 2021?
Hearsay?? Let us see the data what else were the celebs doing or taking?
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Speaking of so called celebs I came across this soon after posting my comment about weight loss drugs
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/do-you-know-your-cush-jumbo-from-your-brianna-chickenfry/
Who are these people. Who makes them out to be celebs? What do they actually do?
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The title says it all. But how will the age limits be policed?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/29/australia-passes-landmark-social-media-ban-for-under-16s/
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The left are not at all concerned about proving the age of anyone at all. This is the thin end of the wedge. All aspects of the policy will be flexible enough to force various outcomes in the quest for total censorship!
The policy does not come into effect until after our general election in May. There is still the option of the new government having the brains & strength to kill the policy in its entirety.
However I’m not convinced that the opposition will act. They too can benefit from censorship!
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The key requirement in the age verification bill was for EVERYONE to prove that they WEREN’T under the age of 16 thus making it easier for “governments” to apply these rules and technology to other activities. The comparison with the Chinese social credit system is obvious – imagine if this system had been in place during the covid years with the loosely enforceable identification of the “vaccinated” being replaced by a simple camera with a red or green light allowing you to perform whatever function you intended. I believe facial recognition is likely eventually to be applied for all transactions both private and public and like all other bad legislation will remain on the statute book much longer than its shelf life would warrant. Your wish for future governments to repeal this legislation won’t be granted whilst either of the Lib/Lab uniparty are in power – the traitorous Liberals crossed the floor to ensure its passing late into the night. Other more serious issues arise though. For example social media organisations may be required to hold your biometric data for access to their services with all the attendant security issues. In other words this is a cluster of incredible proportions but Australia has a long history of these – think renewables, NBN, mandatory modRNA jabs, national debt, defence etc etc… And the power to change all this lies with the people at the ballot box but sadly it is never wielded. We get the governments we deserve.
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The coalition “opposition” – with a very few notable exceptions – supported this.
Don’t look to them for any reversal.
Even Senator Canavan (Nats) would have supported it with some amendments.
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Yesterday after I posted a comment on X regarding a low lite and what should happen to him after the horrifying ordeal he put a woman through I was advised that my post was censored as I was encouraging violence. I thought Musk believed in freedom of speech . I no longer use X
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I had an email from the government today telling me MyGovId is now MyId. So it looks like the new rules are being implemented already. Or maybe it was a scam. I binned it anyway.
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” But how will the age limits be policed?”
By requiring everyone to have digital ID.
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Agreed. I don’t see how it can be done without a digital id. Mind you the young seem very unconcerned about privacy or state control so perhaps it won’t bother them to get one although inevitably it will then spread to other services and age groups
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I figure the reason for the law is so they can bring in the digital ID but they will say it is the other way around.
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The digital ID that Labor is likely to pursue within the social media age limit Bill sounds like the Australia Card 2.0. This card was described by a critic at the time as a Stalincard or Hitlercard. Labor attempted to implement it in the mid 1980s but it was blocked in the Senate and later dropped. For those fond of using the term Uniparty, it’s probably not a surprise that the Liberals attempted to introduce a similar Access Card in the early 2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Card
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Simple. A new regulation…Everyone gets their date of birth tattooed on their wrist. (
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Not good enough I’m afraid, because we all share birth dates with hundreds of thousand of others. Much better would be a unique identifier such as a number. It’s been done before. I think it was somewhere with a weird name, ‘Auschwitz’ maybe?
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Australia already has a Digital ID law.
It is supposedly voluntary now, but like covid “vaccinations” it will no doubt become compulsory. I assume this will happen after the next federal election, no matter which faction of the Uniparty “win”.
https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/what-is-digital-id/digital-id-act-2024
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Anyone registering to a social media site will be asked to advise their birthday. The site will automatically determine their age and advise if they are old enough to register – simple,
You must have a low opinion of Australian youth if you think they would lie about their age.
I used to use Facebook. My birthday on Facebook is 1Jan1900. I used to get birthday wishes from “friends” who did not look at my age and did not know me well enough to actually know my birthday.
I know a fellow who was a world champion in his chosen sport and the Australian Olympic committee posted a lot of their details on a web site ahead of the 2000 Olympic Games. He had his identity stolen and used it to secure a $50,000 bank loan. It took him a few years to get it resolved but at some cost and great angst.
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All commentators o #5. Thru 5.3 can surely see that age etc,etc is not important in the greater scheme of the bill. THE THIN EDGE OF WEDGE is all that the Marxist ALP need.
Application & censorship is the main goal. You can be sure the ALP are laughing at all those trying to pick the bill to pieces. The “ THIN EDGE “ is firmly in place.
The opposition will regret this?
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Who is really driving this? I suspect it is the public serpents department heads pushing their communist wants
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Both factions of the Uniparty support this law.
The enforcement of this totalitarian law will be the responsibility of the Liberal created position, the e Safety Kommisar.
There are already problems with it.
The following article is paywalled but you might get one free read. Perhaps someone can post an excerpt.
https://www.afr.com/technology/how-the-world-reacted-to-our-social-media-ban-20241129-p5kui5
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ALL political parties will support it DM, no-one will ever remove a law that gives them control of the narrative. This is the beginning of the end of the ‘free ideas internet’ as Govts try to wrest control back over the information we receive.
Its no problem to implement, they just make everyone who wants to use a site prove they are OVER 16, as almost everyone has a phone with their details registered when they bought it, or a driving licence or facial recognition etc. The moment you register for Facebook the Govt have your digital ID all set up and traceable.
There will be a race to get approval for the software to do it, I expect the Govt will approve companies that have the most water-tight platform plus gather the most data about a person, plus are willing to share it with the Govt. Then they can tell the social media platform to pick ‘only one of these companies’ if they want to operate in Australia..
VPNs are hit at your local internet provider, Telstra, TPG, the NBN or whoever. You just wont be allowed to go to any site that offers VPN products.
That leaves Mr Musk sitting above us like God with his 6000+ satellites, talking directly to them might be a lot more difficult to stop.
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But how will the age limits be policed?
I would certainly think that an account that has been in existence for more than 16 years could legally argue that the account holder is more than 16 years of age?
Or am I being too un-political and logical?
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Too logical. Plus they will say the account might have been passed on to another person.
Remember, the whole point of this is to harvest IDs for ALL social media users so your Australian Government digital person number can be attached to all your missives, thus allowing a Chicomm-style social credit score to be established which will determine your eligibility for the quantity and size of housing and insect rations you get, how far or if you can travel from your 15 Minute City, etc.. Australia is now so fanatically committed to globalist UN/WEF totalitarianism that it is seen by the Elites of the Left as an ideal test case. The world’s most extreme covid lockups as we had in Australia proved to the Elites just how far the Government is prepared to go and how compliant the masses were to enforcing globalist rule. It’s tragic what has become of Australia. And we have no TRUMP.
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What is to prevent one person validating their age and sharing the account with the entire household?
Can you say Netflix multiple logons?
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Saw a car parked at my local C.F.A. station yesterday. It had a sticker on the rear window depicting three flags.
Left to right – Aboriginal, CFA, Torres Strait Islands. The most important flag of all was completely absent. Divide and conquer.
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Did their back window explode before you left?
AFAF of course.
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Rear window with a begging note demanding a pay rise????
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FWIW
“Oceans cool the planet more than we thought, study finds”
https://knowridge.com/2024/11/oceans-cool-the-planet-more-than-we-thought-study-finds/
“But this new study adds a twist: another sulfur compound called methanethiol. Methanethiol has been largely overlooked until now because it’s incredibly hard to measure.
However, researchers have now identified it as a major contributor to the ocean’s cooling power, especially in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.”
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“By quantifying these emissions, we can better understand and represent their effects on cloud formation and cooling.”
Useful knowledge, once we understand the comings and goings of water vapour, the largest greenhouse gas, it should help in our quest to free CO2 from abuse.
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If there was such a thing as “greenhouse effect” that controlled Earth’s energy balance, this would be a useful observation regarding ocean warming or cooling but there isn’t. This is just more ptolemaic nonsense to get climate models to reproduce what is observed.
The Southern Ocean is cooling as the precession cycle moves peak sunlight northward. It does not fit the CO2 warming nonsense so the climate models have to have other complication added to get closer to reproducing observations.
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Are you saying there is no “greenhouse effect” at all. Or just that CO2 warming is nonsense?
Clouds seem to make a difference to how much heat it trapped. Whether that’s a true greenhouse is questionable I suppose.
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The greenhouse effect was recognised in the 1820’s.
It depends on the insulating effect of the atmosphere, and minor changes in the composition (that absorb heat) would lead to changes in radiation to space.
Also changes in the sun’s output but these seem minor given the Climate in the Mesozoic – cooler in late Jurassic when CO2 was ~2700 ppm and warmer when the CO2 dropped to ~1400.
And changes in the Earth orbit and in the Sun’s movement around the Milky Way galaxy.
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It always interests me that everyone advising of the science behind greenhouse gases states that the molecule can absorb a specific frequency and hence retain heat/energy in the molecule and hence atmosphere.
The physics of the actions involved include, an atom in the molecule will absorb the energy of a specific frequency of EM radiation, (light in this case), and that absorption will result in the atom having one or more electrons raised to an elevated level, (above the lowest rest energy of the electrons in their orbits).
So far so good. However, have you ever heard that the same atom can lose that energy through emitting the same frequency EM radiation, possibly in a different direction?
Surely, this re-emitted radiation has also got a 50% chance of being beamed out to space.
Just how much energy is initially captured by the CO2 and emitted out to space rather than distributed via thermal means to other atoms?
Love to see the full equations on this one. Anyone got a link? Anyone heard of the climate group discussing this?
Actually, thinking about the odds, the higher the atom in the atmosphere, the more chance it has of beaming outwards. We’re on a globe after all.
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According to Happer and others, the CO2 molecule in the atmosphere has very little chance of re-radiating its acquired energy, because the energy is effectively “stolen” by kinetic collisions with other gas molecules. Happer had a very good discussion on this with David Burton on 12 November 2014, but others have also made the same observations since then, with more details.
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The “greenhouse effect” is whatever you want it to be apart from a process that regulates Earth’s energy balance.
If you want to talk about gasses that absorb and emit radiation then refer to them appropriately as radiative responsive gasses.
Ice regulates earth’s energy balance through convective instability, which depends on the ability of water vapour to condense and solidify.
If condensing/solidifying water vapour did not create convective instability then earth would be a snowball.
There is an atmospheric mass threshold for convective instability corresponding to roughly 50hPa. You will observe around the globe that ground higher than 5000m that is not getting geothermal input is covered in ice despite being exposed to sustained sunlight. Once ice forms, it is so reflective that it is not easy to melt.
This image shows a peak in the Andes above 5000m at 8S.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screen-Shot-2024-11-30-at-10.07.10-am-1732922133.8245.png?fit=955%2C757&ssl=1
Similarly parts of the Himalayas and Mount Kilimanjaro are both regions with tropical high ground covered in ice.
Ice is continuously being formed in the atmosphere to produce reflective cloud (not always visible) but that process causes convective instability when the surface is warmer than 15C. But the convective engine achieves full throttle when the surface temperature reaches 30C. At that point, the amount of sunlight reaching the surface balances the loss of heart at the top of the column.
Throughout geological time, when the atmospheric mass was lower, Earth descended into snowball condition resulting in mass extinctions. When the atmospheric mass was higher, the Earth warmed up and was biologically productive.
Anyone bringing “greenhouse effect” into a discussion on climate understands nothing about how Earth’s climate works.
The idea that clouds can be parameterised, as done in climate models, to produce something meaningful about climate is naive.
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It seems to me your concern or contention is partly about terminology.
Rather than whether components of the atmosphere have the ability to influence temperature through absorption or emission or reflection.
Would you agree that the daily temperature can be influenced by those components, either warmer or cooler?
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Water vapour in the stratosphere acts as a greenhouse gas, this recent temperature spike offers overwhelming evidence.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_October_2024_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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I do not understand the question – what components?
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Any components.
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Neon, Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Argon, water vapour. (Plus other gases)
Also dust, smoke, aerosol particles.
You may think none do. All do. Or just some do.
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As far as the energy balance is concerned, ice matters. Water vapour matters because it is the source of the ice and it produces convective potential by condensing and solidifying. The rest just add mass and matters to the extent that the greater the total mass, the greater the amount of water. Atmospheric mass that erects in a surface pressure lower than 50hPa will prevent convective instability and result in snowball conditions.
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But on no account is it ever anything to do with the physics of a greenhouse.
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Caption contest
“They thought we were political enemies but we’re worth millions. Stupid common people”.
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Just what would you think if you saw those two hugging each other in a pub? It certainly wouldn’t be “there go our leaders…” more like ‘Look at those weird quee..
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Syria is falling to the rebels, another dictatorship going down the gurgler, leaving the two main rebel groups to battle each other for supremacy.
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Assad was voted in, I don’t know why you would try to smear him with ‘dictator’. The rebels are the same ones the Yanks have been training and equipping in their fight to take control of Syria and reduce it to the level that they caused in Iraq.
This incursion is just to distract Putin, the locals probably see very little value in being stuck in a war between two sets of whites. However the West wants oil-producing countries firmly under their thumb, and if they’re at a stone-age level it doesn’t matter. So much for the morality behind renewables and the banning of oil.
Just another example of what happens when the Empire creates countries by drawing lines on a map and ignoring the traditional people who live there. ‘Divide and conquer’ seems to be their maxim.
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According to wiki he is a dictator.
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Turkey is a member of NATO, but their democracy is different, so the two Syrian rebel factions might still clash.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-liberal-democracy-in-turkey-implications-for-the-west/
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You can toss in the different religions and the different cultures too. Turkey wants to stop the Kurds from carving a slice out of Syria and Turkey for their own country. The Yanks have troops guarding the oil wells they confiscated in the South while Assad was busy in the North, and their allies ISIS has a chunk of the oil in central Syria. The Kurds have the oil in the North-East…
Its all about oil.
So all the fighting stops when the West stops using oil and goes 100% renewables, and oil becomes worthless. We should do that for sake of the peoples in the oil countries we have destroyed..
Wiki says he’s a dictator? I must go and edit that immediately!
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Their is nothing wrong with oil and who has it. There is something wrong those who seek Power and who are ruthless.
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So was H1tler.
How many elections has he won?
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More than Bowen or Dutton or Kamala or Starmer…
“28 May 2021 … Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-torn Syria with 95.1 percent of the votes cast in government-held areas.”
of course the obligatory-
“Western powers dismissed the poll as ‘neither free nor fair’, while Syria’s opposition called it a ‘farce’.”
…which ignores Biden stealing Trumps election last time. And even WORSE for human rights, they were FORCED to vote!!
“But Damascus-based student Layla* told Al Jazeera on voting day that many students were being forced to cast ballots.”
Sound familiar to Aussies..?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/28/no-surprises-as-syrias-assad-re-elected-for-4th-term
..and Putin has won 5, but of course he’s a dictator…
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Joseph Stalin said some version of “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes that count.”
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And just like that – summer’s arrived, meteorologically speaking. Happy 1st of December one and all, we made it: roll on the solstice!
The South Island and Chatham Islands: fine.
The North Island: cloudy, showers, humid.
1988-2024: 100% nett zero change, zip, zilch.
Up ‘north’ it’s a different story: the Arctic N Pole -23*C and Greenland’s summit -52*C (hopefully the elves aren’t relying on solar panels or prayer wheels to keep their lights on – think of the children!). Yesterday all mainland states of the USA dropped below freezing except Texas and Florida, yet parts were very close to the dreaded 0*C/32*F.
Mediterranean Basin winter storms have kicked-off early this season, with repeated snowfalls for Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, even the Lebanon and Syrian mountains receiving their first taste of anti-globular warming powder (and another revolution?).
How’s that permanent heatwave on Antarctica’s South Pole going? A mind-boggling scorching -38*C. I rest my case, Your Honour(s). Enjoy summer…
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And Europe is in real strife because snow & really cold temperatures has arrived early just as Russia has decided they won’t supply gas if countries like Austria won’t pay for it.
The gas comes via Ukraine where the Russians paid a fee to Ukraine (while turning a blind eye to their theft of some) but now Ukraine losses out. So too does Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Czechia and Germany which has been getting some as “made in Austria”.
Gas reserves are quite high (as they are everytime in anticipation of winter) but what happens when those reserves are difficult (and more expensive) to replenish? Look for more European governments falling next year.
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It’s OK.
They can rely on wind and solar, “the cheapest and most reliable form of energy ever devised” (sarc).
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Polar Vortex disruption forecast for the NH.
‘Fall 2024 and the kickoff to winter 2024/25 and its associated weather whiplash is why I am so convinced that Arctic change is contributing to more PV disruptions and the severe winter weather that ensues. And though I don’t believe this necessarily translates into overall colder winters, I do think it offsets at least some of the warming and winters in the mid-latitudes have not warmed as expected or as projected by the climate models.’ (Judah Cohen)
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FWIW
The problem of “search”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gdayxchxkaeongb.jpg
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Elon Musk received FCC (USA) approval for emergency services between Starlink and regular cell phones. In an emergency a regular cell phone will be able to send and receive satellite signals from appropriate Starlink satellites in the US.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-cellular-starlink-will-offer-free-emergency-service-to-all-phones
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Here in Nepal, I visited the Natural History Museum which is part of Tribhuvan University. I was told it is rare for tourists such as myself to visit, most visitors were school children. There was no one else there when I visited.
It was a single story building perhaps about 50m long by 20m wide.
It was full of collections of mainly stuffed animals and skeletons in display cases probably from about the 1920’s or so, frequently with handwritten descriptions.
I was surprised to see a mandible of an H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
It was not climate-controlled, in fact many outside windows were open and the cases and displays were quite dusty.
It was pleasing that unlike most Western museums, there was almost no Left/woke statements altering scientific or historical facts or censorship of displays. The displays were strictly factual presentations only, without any propaganda. (There was a small room mentioning the dangers of “climate change”.)
By modern display standards it is probably 100 years out of date and it was disappointing that there was no climate control to preserve the collection (air conditioning is very rare here and electricity expensive, even relatively more so than Australia) but I think it’s worth a visit to see plants and animals unique to Nepal and also a museum that is mostly devoid of propaganda as we now see in Western museums.
You can see pictures if you Goolag “natural history museum of nepal” without quote marks and select images.
https://nhmnepal.edu.np/
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Here is a video showing almost the entire collection. It will give you a better idea of what it looks like than I can describe.
https://youtu.be/I1BmzFfEfEQ
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It’s a sure sign of the imminent collapse of the Australian electricity grid that a company is offering a box with battery and input controllers to enable a private or commercial dwellings to go off-grid.
https://skyenergy.com.au/skybox/
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Cute, an inverter and a battery.. I’ll bet it costs tens of thousands! I’d never get involved with a website that doesn’t tell you how much it costs, they just do data-gathering & sell it.
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Who will be the “first” to sample the offerings and let the rest of us know?
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FWIW
Stock up on “entertainment supplies”
“BREAKING: It’s Official — Trump Names Deep State Foe Kash Patel FBI Director”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/11/30/breaking-its-official-trump-names-deep-state-foe-kash-patel-fbi-director-n4934745
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I hope the Deep State/Left aren’t busily destroying all documents and digital records proving their crimes. I believe TRUMP has taken some sort of legal action instructing them not to.
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Perhaps he has many relevant documents in possession already.
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Son sent close up photo of Charles Leclerc Ferrai F1 Steering Wheel in Pit at the Current Qatar F1 GP, which showed a Qatar circuit map on the right inside of the Cockpit near the Steering wheel
Always nice to know where you are going even at 320Km/Hr
Ferrari’s Circuit Map in Cockpit
Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari F1 car has a unique feature in the cockpit. On the right side of the cockpit, near the steering wheel, there is a map of the circuit they are racing at. This map is likely a valuable tool for Leclerc, providing him with a quick reference to the track layout and helping him navigate the circuit during the race.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/f1/charles-leclerc-monaco-map-cockpit-27101917
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Ozzie, husband and I just watched Qualifying for F1 at Qatar. Sure is a tight circuit. Very funny that Charles needed a map! We are Carlos Sainz fans (after Oscar, of course!) and think Ferrari is crackers in letting him go and hiring Lewis, who is past his prime.
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Vicki,
Totally agree re Carlos Sainz (Big Fan of Carlos Sr – El Matador WRC Champ & Dakar as well) and Oscar – I am a Max Fan. as I like his approach of take no prisoners – the Points Gap between Perez and Max shows the skill he has in wringing the best out of his car – Brazil in the Rain – A Drive of a Champion
Having finished Sunday Shopping with my wife as Sydney Storm hits, about to settle in to watching Foxtel Replay F1 Qatar Sprinr Race & F1 Qatar Sunday Qualifying with a Nice Red
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FWIW
Instapundit lead-in “CAN’T TRUST ANYTHING ANYMORE: ”
“Researchers Find Shocking Deficiencies and Toxic Metals in Prenatal Vitamins”
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-find-shocking-deficiencies-and-toxic-metals-in-prenatal-vitamins/
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Do you think politicians are evil or just stupid?
(Australia has only about one handful of politicians that are neither.)
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Most are clueless and the Cabinet ministers have no background in their portfolios. Bowen is a classic example of a politician who has no idea of what he is doing.
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They are both DM. They know how to do politics, in the way they learnt at University, but that doesn’t give them any empathy for people who stand in their way, or or any knowledge in the broad sense across the whole culture they are about to rule over.
So yes, you get politicians who know nothing about their portfolio, and who will maim people without worrying if it helps their career. Its that giant failure of democracy again, it only attracts narcissists who want power.
Hence the control of the press to make sure we don’t find out about the people they ride over, and the ‘experts’ and ‘advisors’ whom the politicians hide behind. The internet during the Covid screw-up must have scared the bejeezes out of them, and THAT’S when they realised they need censorship of popular media. They wouldn’t have a clue how the internet works, but they are cunning enough to know they need to make sure it only makes them look good.
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“it only attracts narcissists who want power.”. I’m sure there are a fair number who see it as a way to unearned wealth, especially in the US. I read somewhere that it costs about $20 million for a US Senate campaign – to earn a $174 000pa. It doesn’t make sense unless they plan to take bribes, etc. They all seem to end up stinking rich. Rand Paul, like his father before him, seems to be the exception. He still does charitable eye surgery during recesses.
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Mawm,
The people who you least want to hand power too are the ones who would do anything to get it (and hold onto it) . There is no testing for competence or honesty to become a politician or bureaucrat and the most ruthless and manipulative are the survivors . Testing and accountability are where we should be heading . Corruption is so bad now they don’t even bother to hide it – business as usual. It’s not called the swamp for nothing…
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‘Hence the control of the press to make sure we don’t find out … ‘
That is disinformation, politicians are given a hard time by the MSM, corrupt individuals get exposed. Ministers lose their portfolios if they don’t perform well and governments lose office when the people are unhappy.
Not a good career choice, best to have another job lined up just in case.
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Not so! The days of a Minister resigning are long gone, they just tough it out these days unless they accept a sideways push and get back to being a Minister by the next election. Rarely does the MSM dig up any real scandal, they are all about sexual frolics and focus on the party they hate, usually the right-wing of the country.
The only reason any party gets into power is that the people vote the current lot out, and would vote for a dog if it put its name up, so long as its not the current lot in power. Of course in 8years they’ve changed their minds and vote out those they voted in..
If one party gets voted out they re-shuffle the deck chairs and go back in next time. They never lose, opportunity only arises when someone qualifies for their golden pension and resigns.
No, sadly politicians are rarely given a hard time by the MSM where it really matters, just look at the questions that have never been asked about renewables. Its the independent media that has found out everything important, while the MSM has been concentrating on who screwed who in which minister’s office.
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In Nepal, despite it being the world’s 17th poorest country, there seems to be a high commitment to education and educational discipline. For example, the school children all wear uniforms and are well groomed, well presented and well behaved, at least as I have observed them as they go to school. Quite different than Australia where the solution is just to throw more money at schools. Teaching good behaviour and grooming doesn’t require money. And even the poor Nepali people can somehow afford school uniforms.
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Same in South Africa… We took friends for a holiday over there and they were amazed at hundreds of school kids walking home down the edge of the road, all neat and tidy in their uniforms, and just not what mainstream Western media had prepared them for. The houses were mud or concrete block, no footpaths, power reticulation was chaotic and toilets were outside. It didn’t stop the people from being happy and civilised.
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For the purposes of Australia’s censorship* and new age verification laws, does this Jo Nova blog qualify as social media?
*Note that the latest censorship laws didn’t pass (first introduced by the fake conservative Liberal Party) but the Liberal-created position of e Safety Kommissar can still issue “take diwn” orders for unapproved opinions.
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The commentariat at ZH is very impressed with Oz’s new law :-
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australian-senate-passes-world-first-law-banning-under-16-kids-social-media
Leading the world – into . . . . .?
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I do not believe that Jo’s Blog would be considered as Social Media. Social Media is not even media. However, I am no Lawyer.
The Moderators here are already on the ball, way before the Feral Guv’ment of any day.
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Why moderate this comment?
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Hollyweirdo and potty mouth Robert de Niro with a textbook case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) has lost millions in prospective fees by not being hired for two movies he was slated for. Don’t worry, like all good commies he still has a lazy US$500 million.
https://youtu.be/f7Zw-hi8FI4
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Naomi Wolfe and Steve Bannon organised 3200 doctors and scientists, to go through the 450 000 Pfizer documents, released by court order in 2022. They have a book out, and it seems their take away is that the Pfizer focus was on reproduction, rather than respiratory. The full spiracy; stopping Western reproduction, and replacing them with mutable new comers. A spiracy cant get much bigger than that!
Start at 2.00 and it goes 28.00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8anX4sze2s4&t=590s
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What probably happened with the “Clot Shot” on the Josh Mitteldorf website:
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2024/11/30/sv40-and-the-sorcerers-apprentice/
Jo will probably find this of particular interest. It gets into the guts of the mRNA vaccine went bad.
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At excellent article for people not familiar with the cell biology behind Pfizer’s toxin, and the graph is just frightening.
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https://hartuk.substack.com/p/divide-and-conquer “Let’s say the covid vaccines caused heart issues then the analysis should include both analysis of specific heart issues, such as myocarditis, but also analysis of all heart issues together. If the latter analysis is not done then the problem can be hidden by labelling it with multiple terms such that the numbers are split and small and can’t reach statistical significance.”
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The CO2 ripoff in Carbon Credits from coal power have been in place since 2001. Exactly how much has gone missing is not in the public domain but at one stage I calculated $6Billion a year from Green Certificates which coal power retailers have to buy. Probably not much change from $100Bn
Then the desalination plants, $2.5Bn each so $12.5Bn but on a French deal which was principal and interest for decades. I would not be surprised at tens of billions.
All those transmissions lines for solar farms. 30,000km. Another $30Billion? Double that? Who is paying?
Snowy II, heading North of $20Bn for something which may never be used because it did not make sense in the 1950s or today. How will we get the $20Bn back? Or isn’t that the idea.
But the biggest one of many is the Safeguard Mechanism which is a 35% tax on CO2 from the 250 ‘biggest polluters’ for which read, biggest companies which do anything. How much is involved? Government people must have a calculated, but all this will just be passed on to consumers of flights, trucks, ships, water(MMBW as in there), manufactured goods (windmills, plastics, glass, metal,..) and will devastate jobs with vastly increased costs. The total cost to Australians could be in the many tens of billions per year for something we never needed and 60% of the money was for absolutely nothing.
And does any of this get mentioned in Parliament or reported in the budget? No.
So we are talking something in the order of hundreds of billions of dollars a year which are ripped out of your pockets and for which you see nothing.
Where does the money go? No idea. Does it stay in Australia? Unlikely.
This needs a forensic accountant and the Federal government to be held accountable. It’s the End of Days scam. Chicken Little.
Because it is all totally illegal. Governments can only raise taxes or fees for services. They cannot order and enforce the enrichment of third parties like this, something for which the Government and the politicians are totally out of the picture. There is no review, no reporting, no direct accountability to parliament. All buried in groups like the Clean Energy people in Canberra, not part of the budget.
While the US attacked the giant superannuation companies for pushing up the price of coal, John Howard did this to Australian in 2001. Now every commodity, every bit of food, every service which generates CO2 is going to be robbed. And the cash sent overseas. Daniel Andrews tripled coal in Victoria and it is only legal for power generation so that went straight on electricity prices, to fund the public service.
And not any of this is even being investigated. Nothing to see here folks. This is massive robbery by our own governments. Unbelievable.
Parliament doesn’t care about Albanese’s random $1Bn of our money to buy shares in a purely speculative venture in the US in quantum computing. Where’s the business case? Or a business case for another $1Bn in making solar panels. Or $444 Million to fix the Great Barrier Reef, in the hands of private people who are totally unaccountable but friends of Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull. $132Million to ‘administer’ the money was the only answer. Six people. Who needs to work? Millionaries all.
Our scandals would be front page news in the US. No one notices theft here. Which is the whole idea. That’s real control of the media. And the excuse? Carbon dioxide ending life on earth and how we Australians will save the entire planet. It’s beyond stupid. It’s criminal. But the cash is flowing in the thousands of millions a year. To friends of politicians.
Someone needs to do the arithmetic. And this massive theft is pushing up the price of living for all Australians. It will cost a lot more even to go to the toilet. Or be buried. Or go anywhere. Or get food. And the politicians blame the rising cost of living on price gouging. No, it’s government gouging on behalf of their friends. Overseas.
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Their friends, overseas… Fink Inc.?
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China generally. Merchant bankers trading in Australian Carbon Credits. The UN.
All things are possible as CO2 is going to end our world. Which is high farce as all living things are made from CO2.
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And because all our CO2 ’emissions’ go straight into the ocean. The only bit in the air is in rapid transit to the oceans where 98% of all CO2 ends up.
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America steps down again… Not only are the Govts robbing citizens going about their business, they are going through the Fedex sorting centers grabbing anything that may contain money.
So, no charges, no arrests, no Court case… Your money just vanishes without you even seeing a cop. Its just like their raids on Bank deposit boxes, they walk in smash the place to bits, take anything valuable and walk out.
..and some people think Russia is a bad place!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/legal-plunder-indiana-police-prey-packages-transiting-huge-fedex-hub
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Unbelievable.
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FWIW – fate bites back
“Ellen DeGeneres’s U.K. Mansion Floods After She Left United States Due to Trump’s Election Win”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/ellen-degeneress-u-k-mansion-floods-after-she/
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On old maps, the Thames was known as the Isis.
In older times, hippopotamus bathed in its waters.
Some things never change.
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Isn’t there another scandal causing Hollywood folk to leave the country?
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Afternoon all,
While I’ve heard this challenge here and from Senator Roberts and Professor Plimer I’ve not previously read it, or heard of it being reported in any Australian general news source. Have you?
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From Piers Ackerman in today’s “The Sunday Telegraph” pp78 and 79 (paywalled, this extract hand copied by me):
” Senate rethink may be needed after a week of truly appalling behaviour and ignorance”, the headline, and;
” This whole fantasy is based on the fallacy that climate change is entirely due to the minute human contribution to the 0.04 per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
There has been absolutely no scientific evidence produced anywhere to probe that CO2 is the principal driver of climate change.”
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I would now add that Prof Weiss has presented a proof that all the changes in climate since 1870 can be explained purely natural cyclical events:
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2023/07/22/how-the-earths-climate-is-changing-and-why/
” The main result of our analysis is that the global warming from 1870 to the present is natural and not man made, and that it originates from the three dominant cycles. ”
Cheers,
Dave B
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FWIW
“A Clarifying Illustration of Media Climate Change Narratives”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/11/30/a-clarifying-illustration-of-media-climate-change-narratives-n3797472
“The consistency of the inconsistency”
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The BS just never ends.
Bovaer is an additive fed to cattle that “contributes to a significant and immediate reduction of the environmental footprint of beef and dairy products. Just a quarter teaspoon per cow per day reduces methane emissions from dairy cattle by 30% and up to 45% for beef cattle, on average”.
https://www.dsm.com/anh/products-and-services/products/methane-inhibitors/bovaer.html
This additive is claimed to reduce male fertility.
I received an email from George Christensen that said in part:
It’s worth investigating.
Of course, “downsizing” the population is exactly want the Left/Elites want, at least for people in the Western world.
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According to the Goolag AI Overview:
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More to the point it is the middle class they want to downsize, to approaching zero.
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They are not downsizing me. I am 5 foot 5 inches (165 cm) in height and I refuse to downsize.
I will still keep my mighty Castle as well………………LOL
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FWIW
After the graphic exposure of things that should have been tested about the jabs before release one might have thought that there was an obvious message for other new products.
One might have!
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To them, we’re not test subjects, we’re all pests.
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There’s a reason cattle ( ruminants ) emit methane gas. It allows them to convert pasture efficiently for maximum weight gain as part of their 4 stomach digestive process. Trials already have shown as soon as these methane reduction additives are used, weight gain of treated cattle is reduced. Another one of those situations that fit the rule ” unintended consequences”. If farmers go along with this garbage, then it will hit them directly in the back pocket.
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After the covid “vaccine” disaster, do you trust them?
https://informedchoice.substack.com/p/breaking-alert-if-you-buy-meat-at
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The selective ban on “social media” for children is a bad solution . The best cure for social media is to make it expensive or at least cost what it is worth – lets face it its mostly free , and you are the product . It is shaping opinions worldwide and its full of clickbait designed to misinform. Data centres which are the platform for it are not cheap to build or run and its services are almost given away – ask yourself who benefits….
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Social Media is just Gossip. Gasses for the Masses. The Elites need to keep it up for the dumb Electorate.
The smart Electorate come to places like here.
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Funny, here in the US several of the Red states have tried to limit social media access for minors.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/utah-governor-signs-laws-curbing-social-media-use-minors-2023-03-23/
Somehow I doubt many teens are not getting around the ‘rules’.
There is a positive side, this may push the evolution of a whole generation of rebellious teen cyber hackers.
I seem to have leaned a lesson, (in my case this almost always requires pain), the cultural narrative establishment is hopelessly unhip and simply chase trends that they can’t understand.
The Trump triumph seems to have proved this.
Now we have the no less than globalist starchild Justin Trudeau, within days, pilgrimaging to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of the new king (without a stopover in DC to see the current faux POTUS).
Much to my surprise, the Blob is falling over themselves to prove the old adage … “I must leave you now for there they go and I am their leader”.
The Blob is definitely down, but not out, counter attack certain.
Strength as yet unknown.
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From 2007
https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-brother-darpa-s-control-freak-technology/7603
the Pentagon is “about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person’s life, index all the information and make it searchable?. What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing?”
Once again, “security experts and civil libertarians” fail to understand the authoritarian, psychopathic mind. Our rulers do these sort of things because they are the ultimate control freaks, paranoid and suspicious of the average person ? or rather what the average person may do in order to get rid of the controllers, the parasites, who are compelled to spend billions of dollars on such projects, that is to say billions fleeced off the people they want to monitor and control. As usual, the excuse is they have to protect us from the terrorists, never mind they created the terrorists, too.
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So that would be no different than free-to-air television then?
Better stop the under 16’s from watching TV because you know it rots your brains. Somebody think of the children! Too late … we already have a generation who grew up with brains rotted by TV, and it was the Boomers.
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FWIW
Well that is a vote of confidence that will have (to somewhat mis-use an expression from gliding) “ring settings on full pucker”!
“Trump Transition Team Will Use Private Companies for Background Checks of Nominees After Chris Wray Targeted Trump, His Family, His Associates and Sent Agents Through His Wife’s Underwear Drawer”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/trump-transition-team-will-us-private-companies-background/
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Wray was a bad choice. As was Mike Pence and more. Trump learned from his first time at the job. You need outsiders to outfox insiders. Nikki Haley was another. It’s interesting how some senior Democrats have changed sides, like RFKennedy.
The Democrats are not the anti war party they used to be. And no longer represented the poor, the workers, the downtrodden, the police, the educators, the blacks and opposed war. Democrats became the party of endless war and general oppressors who used these groups mercilessly to line their own pockets. For example, after gay rights and women’s rights were won last century, the Democrats overwhelmed them all with fake Trans rights which trash both. And the inner city blacks are finding their neighbourhoods even worse off with illegal and often convicted criminal aliens, even gangs.
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This anti war reversal was so obvious with Liz Chaney supporting Kamala Harris. Any Democrat with a memory of Dick Chaney would be appalled. This alone would have flipped a lot of votes, from Democrat to Republican. What sort of mad woman was Kamala to take the leading warmonger from the Republicans on her tour?
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“The Democrats are not the anti war party they used to be. And no longer represented the poor, the workers, the downtrodden, the police, the educators, the blacks and opposed war. ”
Well, THAT sounds like the Left all over the world.. Certainly Albosleazy’s mob.
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They have never been anti-war.
Wilson was a Democrat and got the USA into WWI. He used the sinking of the Lusitania as a reason despite knowing that it was secretly carrying munitions.
FDR was a Democrat and got the USA into WWII, he used Pearl Harbour and there’s been a heck of a lot written about the deviousness of FDR in many areas.
Vietnam was also started by a Democrat … LBJ, who might perhaps have been the most crooked President ever. Started using the “Gulf of Tonkin” incident which was a total lie.
We could even argue that the US Civil War was started by the same Democrat party … although that one is less clear cut.
https://mises.org/power-market/left-anti-war-think-again
There’s a long list of historical incidents suggesting that none of the left wingers were anti-war. I mean Obama ran pretending to be just about to end the wars any minute now … but he never got round to doing anything in that regard. He put all his effort into healthcare while expanding the drone bombing campaign.
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FWIW –
“BREAKING: Did Russia and China Sever NATO Cables to Block an Attack and Delay World War 3?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/breaking-did-russia-china-sever-nato-cables-block/
Allowing that the time from “tinfoil hat” to “tin hat” has been reducing drastically
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“This act underscores NATO’s reliance on undersea infrastructure and its vulnerability to hybrid warfare. ”
A bit like relying on a gas pipeline from Russia that turns out to be vulnerable to hybrid warfare…
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Well! Well! Well!
All is explained!
““Socialism is a system that heroically overcomes difficulties unknown in any other system!” ~ Stefan Kisielewski”
(Quoted here https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/01/december-1-2024-reader-tips/#comment-1959779 ”
Why “ElBowen” are losing so much sweat!
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Gerard Holland explains to the Outsiders team why toxic W & S are a clueless disaster and the stupid warnings about NSW electricity this last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhtV9xrosA
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