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It’s fun to watch the swarms of commentators trying to keep their opinions of Trump up with reality. He is moving too fast for their criticisms. And comes out with a win when they are predicting Armageddon from his ‘mad’ actions. Just reported now is the first US drop in the consumer price index in three years when the common view of pundits was an increase. And stock exchanges have recorded the biggest gains in five years.
In the Australian, Sheridan is talking about a time after Trump. And we have hardly started! Trump does not do softly, softly and every country has a right to set it’s own tariffs. All do. But fun to read that everyone wants a say in the US tariffs, even if no one cared when Australia faced bans and 200% tariffs for years because we dared to question the origin of the Wuhan Flu.
The real difference is that Trump is a seasoned very successful negotiator on a grand scale who has written books on the subject. And his critics are on wages. His style is to keep everyone guessing and it is a fun ride on a global scale.
The two villains he has exposed are Xi and Macron, both promising vengeance. Everyone else is for compromise and reasonable negotiation. So in a few days Trump has established friends and enemies and levelled the tariff playing field. And blown away his critics, who are endless. What a coup!
The leaderless Democrats in particular can only watch and criticise every move. Kamala Harris even made a public ‘told you so’ comment. She knows as little about deal making, business and economics as she knows about geography. But then no one really thought she would be running the place anyway, not even Kamala.
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And whether anyone likes it or not, a resurgent and profitable and dynamic US is good for everyone. Climate Change and Woke and Nett zero and hatred for coal was killing us, quite apart from China’s virus and Fentanyl and export games including tariffs as a political weapon to intimidate. It was fun to read Xi calling Trump a ‘bully’, especially for Australians and other victims of Chinese bullying.
Now if only our political leaders in Australia had the courage to allow a new high efficiency coal power plant, the cheapest and most reliable form of power generation in the world. And coal is free and bountiful in Australia. Australia doesn’t have nuclear because we don’t need it being for years the world’s largest exporter of coal.
Energy rich but mad socialist/communist Victoria has managed to ban nuclear, wood, coal and gas in the one state in which solar and wind are a complete waste of money. And brown coal, with the 66% water removed, has the same calorific content as black coal.
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Given the passage of time and the nature of the “game”, is it possible that the vast bulk of Viktoriastanis are permanently afflicted with something akin to “Stockholm Syndrome”?
Or should we look for giant black beetles on their backs?
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Its a wonder they all dont flee to the Utopias of the other States isnt it?
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A lot have.
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No more than fled in when the cycle was the other way. People have short memories.
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No!
I don’t want people who re-elected Dictator Dan and that silly moo that’s in charge now coming to my state. We’ve got enough trouble already in Queensland.
Massive debt and lying, incompetent politicians from all parties.
In 2021 Queensland won the right to host the olympics in 2032.
4 years has passed and they’re still arguing about what will/won’t be built, how much they’ll spend, cost overruns etc.
This place has been run by two B grade teams for years.
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Swings and roundabouts Wal, overtime none of us escape governmental stupidity
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TdeF, #1.1,
____China dealing Fentanyl to the West might be seen as eye for eye following the horror of the opium stitch-up they were served 130’ish years ago.
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Primo Levi, chemist, survivor of Auschwitz, wrote an essay On Carbon,
I post it on a regular basis… C-o-2, we excude it, we dribble it C-oh-2 – is -us!
Pollution is more messiness, plastic bags and such, but planet survival is another
thing concerning the SUN and Meteorites, big bang stuff!
ustonly.com/chemistry/chem201/students/handouts/carbon_levi.pdf
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Beth your URL is crippled.
This URL works.
https://justonly.com/chemistry/chem201/students/handouts/carbon_levi.pdf
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Thank you Skepticynic.
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And here is Johannes Leak’s view on everything – LOL
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/33e30583d00af26132d9a52d0ed752a6?width=1024
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Too bad TRUMP’s critics were too lazy or too ignorant to read TRUMP’s book “The Art of the Deal”.
They would understand him much better. TDS is a terrible psychiatric condition.
This was extracted from an image posted on Farcebook:
And we can see how all countries are now panicking and coming to the table.
All TRUMP wants is fair treatment on tariff and trade. E.g. in Australia’s case don’t sell unfairly subsidised aluminium and steel or use non-tariff trade barriers such as against meat products (which TRUMP specifically mentioned).
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Except Australia does allow US beef into Australia. Australia will take beef bred, born, and raised in the US. We don’t accept the beef that the US is getting from Mexico and Canada and exporting that to us. This is because from a biosecurity aspect we trust US beef. But we can’t trust what they import and then trying to send us instead of giving us their good stuff.
Do we have restrictions on beef imports from the US? Yes.
Do we have restrictions on US bred, born, and raised beef? No.
That distinction should be made clear to Trump. And anyone else who says we don’t accept US beef.
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It does in theory. The reality is that it doesn’t. And that applies to all countries except NZ.
It is implausible that an advanced country like the US and other countries are unable to meet Australia’s biosecurity requirements.
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Unable not equal unwilling or cant be arsed for a small market.
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The US beef does meet Australia’s biosecurity requirements. We will accept US bred, born, raised beef. If in reality we don’t, it’s not because of a non-existent barrier. It would be need and cost.
It’s implausible for a country like Australia to be expected to take risks importing other products we don’t need.
Anyway, we only give beef to the US that they want for a different purpose to their own supply. Even with the tariff they’ll still take it because it’s still cheaper than theirs. So it’s not really a big deal. But the reasoning behind the tariff is flawed.
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If Australia’s biosecurity laws weren’t written as a non-tariff trade barrier, why is it in practice, close to impossible for any country, including advanced ones (except NZ), to easily export meat products to Australia?
Meat imports are theoretically possible from the few countries listed here:
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/import/goods/food/type/beef
But in practice you don’t see them or very little (except NZ).
And yet double standards seem to apply because we import farmed seafood from Asia grown in some of the most disgusting and polluted conditions.
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It is implausible that an advanced country like the US and other countries are unable to meet Australia’s biosecurity requirements.
It was implausible that the US government would be funding terrorists in Gaza, or playing with bat viruses in a lab, but it happened. When the corruption is 6 feet deep, nothing is “implausible” about the abject failure of government bureaucracies. Bio-security requires next level honesty and transparency.
Trump is a master, but bio-security threats can’t be wished away just by declaring something “implausible”. It only takes one breach…
And it’s no accident that NZ is in the same category as us. They have a moat too. Which other first world nation with a large agricultural base is surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of ocean? The UK has no land borders, but it’s hopelessly connected to Europe, and has been for hundreds of years.
Australia would be crazy to allow diseases and pests to enter solely because of some puritan free trade ideology. We don’t want free trade in disease.
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Complying with that rule is easy peasy.
Use of Ear Tags on Cattle
Ear tags are commonly used on cattle for identification purposes, providing a simple and effective method to track individual animals. These tags can be either visual or electronic, with electronic tags using Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) technology conforming to international standards ISO 11784 and ISO 11785 working at 134.2 kHz, as well as ISO/IEC 18000-6C operating in the UHF spectrum.
The use of RFID tags has been mandated for cattle in several countries, including Brazil, Paraguay, and Korea, and in the United States, the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) has encouraged the use of EID tags.
In the United States, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has approved only RFID tags as the official ear tags for use in interstate movement of cattle and bison since January 1, 2023.
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Never read “Art of the deal”, but have heard a lot about it. Thanks for that summary. I did read “Great Again”, just before the 2016 campaign and again all his policies etc are laid out clearly in a book. Which is why it always astonishes me that there are political commentators who always seem so surprised when he enacts his policies. Like, he just dreamt them up yesterday. Even now, there are journalists in Australia (eg Paul Kelly @ The Australian ) who still have a major dose of TDS. Then you have that idiot, Malcom Trundle…….
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David,
Trump has just pulled off the biggest stock market heist . By announcing the massive tariffs he tanked it (after the cronies sold out the relevant stocks) and then just before when he retreated from doing it for “90 days” they bought back in and reaped the profits on the rebound . The art of the deal…
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Democrats do not read the arguments of opponents.
Democrats are ideologues and romanticist wedded to a vision.
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“all countries are now panicking ”
NZ is not panicking because it tariffs the U.S. at 1.8%.
The U.S. tariffs NZ dairy products at 20%.
So if Trump is leveling the playing field then N.Z. is all for it.
But he is not.
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The Americans consume a lot of meat. The meat they buy from us is mainly “cow beef”, from old, retire cows. It is used for hamburgers. . This does not drive down the price for American prime beef..
The retrictions on trading are to keep out some nasty diseases tat we don’t have in Australia.
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“And we can see how all countries are now panicking and coming to the table.
I don’t think so.
Trump by imposing punitively high tariffs, was playing a high-stakes game of chicken with America’s trading partners. However he chickened out and suspended his tariffs just a few hours after they took effect. Her couldn’t ignore the worldwide economic havoc that he had caused singled-handedly stock markets were plunging, were panicking and consumers were seething.
Once again, Trump showed that his second term is one of flip-flop, of bluster and blunder, of shooting first and aiming later.
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Sky News Australia stands apart as a beacon of hope in the Australian news media. Trump only attracts scorn from the rest of the Australian media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUuACAM9DZY
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disgression
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Noted
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>Noted
Noted what? Discretion or digression?
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Was the dire wolf “de-extincted”?
It is not a clone of the original animal.
It might look like one superficially but genetically it is not identical.
The animal is based on altering the genome of the grey wolf to incorporate significant differences in DNA identified between it and the dire wolf, not a complete duplication of the original DNA.
It’s an interesting exercise in genetic manipulation but the dire wolf is still extinct and all we have now is something that looks like one. In fact, I have a friend with a Maremma dog that looks somewhat similiar. You could probably selectively breed dogs to create something that looks like the dire wolf but is obviously not one.
It should be seen as a modified grey wolf that resembles a dire wolf but not an actual dire wolf.
Of course, it is definitely a major technical achievement in gene splicing and gene editing.
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Just as long as they don’t breed something that resembles a T-Rex.
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Dire wolves are ‘de-extincted’ in the same way that dinosaurs were ‘de-extincted’ in the Jurassic Park movies. The methods used were pretty much identical. In the movies, dino DNA was overlayed onto frog DNA. In reality, dire wolf DNA was CRISPRed onto gray wolf DNA.
Are they actually dire wolves genetically? No.
Do they pass the eye (and the brown pants) test? Certainly.
Now we have to wait a decade or so to see if these are healthy animals or if they wind up having shortened lifespans due to genetic defects from the gene editing. Regardless, they are strictly a novelty, as megafauna predators are no longer viable in the wild, since megafauna prey is no longer on the menu. Even if they were healthy and released into the wild, they would wind up dying of starvation, being crowded out of the food chain by their smaller, more numerous and better adapted genetic cousins.
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Extinctions have been going on for quite a while.
We we think its a good idea to insert ourselves in that process, other maintaining a healthy environment, I do not know.
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Maybe the clever types could take a leaf from “Blade Runner”
Install a genetic “off switch” that keeps things “tidy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU7Ga7qTLDU
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Watching the election ads for the various Uniparty factions (Liberals, Labour and Green) it appears to be merely an exercise in who can give away the most “free stuff” and who can impose the most anti-energy policies.
In an attempt to slightly distinguish themselves from Green Labor, the Liberals seem to offer the least bad of all the policies on offer (of the major parties). Obviously the conservative parties offer better policies but they are not major parties.
None of the majors express any concern whatsoever about massive Government debt which the taxpayers are responsible for, or massive over-regulation, or have any solution to the huge cost of energy caused by “green” policies and are just draining the wealth and standard of living of Australians.
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One thing none of the mainstream parties will never ever addess is why things are so expensive in the first place. They promise to throw money at people to “make up the shortfall” of living expenses, but that doesn’t solve why the living expenses are so high.
1. Energy is super expensive because of what the governments have done to our grid
2. transport is so expensive because of the cost of fuel which we don’t refine anymore (add tolls to that)
3. Homes are so expensive because the governments have allowed mass migration despite not having the infrastructure, and have allowed foreign buyers to purchase homes here, which I find baffling
So we can clearly see the government’s (libs labor and green) own stupid policies have lead to this cost of living crisis, yet their solution is to throw money like a bandaid on top, not actually fix the rubbish policies that are causing the high cost in the first place.
The third point in particular angers me quite a lot, and we can thank the uniparty for that one, which is largely not fixable for a while now since building more infrastructure takes a long time.
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Yes, we are importing people, mostly future Labor voters, at about ten times the rate infrastructure, including homes, can be built.
And many such imports are among the world’s most uneducated, violent and anti-Western people who have no intention of working, assimilating or being productive, law-abiding citizens.
The policy is basically the opposite of post-WW2 immigration to Australia where we got wonderful people that helped build the country and who worked hard and started businesses etc..
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‘ … post-WW2 immigration to Australia …’
Commonly known as wogs.
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For example, my late Uncle Tony arrived from Calabria at 21 with his woodworking tools, no English , and proceeded to build project houses ending up a multi millionaire with multiple commercial real estate sites- I have not witnessed anyone as successful in my family. My favorite Uncle- but I would never call him a “Wog’.
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The Nth Qld cane fields got a high percentage of the Italian “wogs”. They worked hard, bought the farms and have left a rich heritage in the cane towns and even Townsville which has no cane in the district.
The term has fallen into disuse and few would take offence.
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In the UK a Western Oriental Gentleman
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” since building more infrastructure takes a long time.”
Only under Uniparty rules and regulations. How about we burn every Govt rule covering housing and let people built what they like, from a cardboard hovel to a mansion. Something that blows over in the wind or withstands an earthquake.. Something with a bathroom on every bedroom or a shared bathroom for a dozen sleeping cubicles made of 220L drums welded together.
Our ‘standard of living’ has made us expensive, something clearly visible on Youtube when it starts with “The most dangerous..” and shows third-world ways of doing the same things.
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Apparently a major proportion of the cost of building a house is in fees, charges, taxes etc. On larger projects I dare say union “rules” contribute.
Regulations, laws and council bylaws that impose particular “ratings” and standards, all involving application fees, inspection fees and goodness knows what other fees, all add to the basic cost of the materials and labour involved.
While some standards are sensible, like cyclone rating in areas prone to cyclones, obvious standards required for multi-story buildings (although as we’ve seen, even those seem to be able to be circumvented!), too much government imposition where it’s not necessary just adds cost. Think “green rating” requirements and council ideas about appearance.
If people would just be content with a smaller house, less fancy stuff, houses would be less expensive too. My nearly 40 year old besser brick bungalow is very comfortable and more than adequate. My neighbours with families find theirs equally adequate.
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Topher Field recently discussed the huge government impost on housing costs.
“The real crisis is the cost of government, not the cost of housing. Topher Project Ep 050 – YouTube”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KCFTinZd4M&pp=0gcJCX4JAYcqIYzv
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I have often wondered why builders don’t offer more flexible housing. It would not be difficult to construct a compact three bedroom house suitable for a couple with no or few children. The house could have a rear wall spanned by a substantial steel beam which would allow the later removal of all or part of the wall to allow for extension of the building. The existing floor slab could extend out beyond the real wall to provide an outdoor recreation area initially, whilst being engineered to take the later extension when required.
If the extension was never required, there would be smaller, well built homes available for downsizing retirees in areas where they might want to live.
I daresay like most here, I started with a small, affordable house and subsequently extended twice to accomodate a growing family.
Still here, nearly forty five years later.
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? smaller houses are available from most builders.
Flexibility is fine but comes at a cost, not sure most would see the value
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Think flexibility.
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Think flexibility. Houses on many developments are required to have a minimum floor area. Usually very high. This is to maintain the high monetary value and ‘prestige value’ of living on their particular estate. They think this attracts a superior class of residents, when what it actually achieves is an increase in the cost of a new home to first home buyers and a rise in ‘average, house prices.
Why pay more for something you don’t need at the moment?
There is a larger profit in building McMansions.
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Yorkshire man “Luxury” 🙂
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Bushkid,
The biggest expense in building a home is the cost of land . Its been artificially propped up by government policy . The cost of a block of land has risen virtually exponentially . The other point I would raise is that the quality of modern buildings is going downhill rapidly – and its being largely ignored .
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I stand amazed by the public response, or apparent lack of it, to the similarity of the three main contenders. If I wasn’t such a cynic I would think that the Labor/Libs and Greens are in a collusion-club. The spoils will be reallocated when something resembling results are eventually broadcast. The theater in our Parliament borders on farce. There is so much global evidence that the Green god/climate change/net zero is dead or dying but we just smile inanely and carry on regardless.
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“There is so much global evidence that the Green god/climate change/net zero is dead or dying but we just smile inanely and carry on regardless.”
Yes, but try consuming a diet of ABC-TV, radio, and printed newspapers and see how you feel in a month. It’s the equivalent of just watching pro-Ukraine news in the public media and Youtube, and expecting Ukraine to drive the Russians out any day now.. or just eating McDonalds all the time and thinking you’ll be fine..
Sadly there are a tremendous number of people who do just that, with no idea of reality at all.
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The left controlled anti Trump Kennedy Center in Washington for the performing Arts has been taken over by Trump. The people involved were predicting doom and gloom for the center and artists are boycotting the place. They feel they should control the center. As in Australia as theatre companies feel free to promote politics to their audiences.
But post takeover, a public fireworks event just set an attendance record with 76% of the people never having been to the Kennedy Center before.
This ownership of public events and facilities is reminiscent of THEIR ABC. The simple alternative to the ABC hegemony and extreme political bias is to make the ABC obey the same Media law as commercial media, preventing dangerous dominance. That’s why the media laws exist and the ABC should not be exempt. The so called Charter is clearly not working to eliminate extreme bias.
Otherwise like the Kennedy Center, it becomes or has become the publicly funded unaccountable private plaything of the left imbued with their extreme left politics and views. And exerts undue control over media sensitive politicians. There is no reason the ABC should be exempt from media laws designed to stop dangerous domination by any group and across different media.
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‘ THEIR ABC. ”
Correction THEIR ALPBC.
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Yep
The ‘elites’ despise the Trump era Kennedy Center, especially now that the hoi polloi have discovered it. I can’t wait for the first monster truck rally or rodeo at the Kennedy Center to draw an even bigger crowd.
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Hardly the venue for either. Successful artists appeal to everyone. The Kennedy Center had become exclusive, in the worst possible way. Like their ABC. Public money. Private audiences.
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Maybe the Secretary of Education could talk her hubby (Vince McMahon) into putting on a wrasslin’ show. Or perhaps one of Trump’s posse of rapper pals (50 Cent, Kanye, A$AP Rocky, etc.) could put on a show. Maybe Trump could even do an on-stage cameo (he has experience with both).
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Wrestling and racing and golf and rappers are as much a part of American culture as ballet and symphonies and opera and plays. And they excel in all these things. Many people would go to all of them. Shakespeare was popular public entertainment for the illiterate masses. But wordskills were far better then than the tiny sound grabs of today’s television and movies. And where does the incredibly popular Taylor Swift fit in?
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And the world is changing when people have any music they like in their pockets. And can view any museum on the same device. What constitutes entertainment is changing. And sheer skill is every much as attractive as any other entertainment. A hundred years ago people had circuses. Now they are nearly extinct. And the band played in the Rotunda in the park because for most people, it was the only way they could hear instrumental music. Times change. No group owns the culture. And there is no ideal culture.
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TRUMP has made the Kennedy Centre a place for The People, not a small cohort of hateful Leftist Elites who survive on taxes they extract from those same hard working everyday people they hate so much.
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The amateur radio satellite AMSAT-OSCAR 7 is the oldest operational (still working) satellite of any kind and has a fascinating story. (Vanguard 1 launched in 1958 is still orbiting but not functioning although tracking data gives information on atmospheric drag.)
It was launched in 1974 but suffered a battery failure in 1981 and became non-functional because the battery short circuited and any power generated by the solar cells was drained by the short.
At some point the battery became open circuit and the satellite could function again as long as sun was hitting the panels.
However, 21 years later in 2002, it was observed to be functional again.
In fact, it may have been intermittently functional before that, as it was used by the anti-communist opposition in Poland 1981-83.
The satellite is in use now and is in a stable sun-synchronous orbit.
It was built by amateur radio operators in USA, Canada, Germany and Australia.
https://youtu.be/7wSEgHYWmMI
https://amsat-dl.org/en/amsat-oscar-7/
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FWIW
“Weee! So Much Winning: Climate Change Study Funding Goes Poof”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/10/weee-so-much-winning-climate-change-study-funding-goes-poof-n3801630
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With TRUMP, the winning just doesn’t stop.
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Even when our ABC think he’s losing he’s winning!
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U.S. Global Change Research Program. Good riddance.
Like the IPCC. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The clue’s in the name. Presumably America is paying for that too.
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And Australia.
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And transgender has gone poof too.
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Pun intended!?
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My hope is that all the US funding of AGW/MM climate change goes POOF as well. That you let all those supposed climate scientists/ researchers feel some pain for a while. Then go back to them in 6-12 months time and propose that their funding will be re-instated. But that money has to be used to research other drivers of climate change. Not anything to do with CO2. All the other known and unknown factors which are the real causes of climate change on earth.
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Aa most of these “scientists” involved in the Anthropogenic Global Warming fr@ud are basically political prostitutes, they will no doubt be prepared to support any position their patrons request. Actual science has little to do with it.
They should be funded (if at all) to research climate with funding being independent of any particular political agenda.
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If at all indeed… Why should a Govt spend my money on any science at all, especially science I don’t think is worth chasing. Let the private sector handle research, and if a subject doesn’t have a sure profit on its results, then there are Go-Fund-Me internet systems, charities and bequeaths.
As long as the person handing the money over does it voluntarily, then they will take a lot more interest in how it is spent and is it spent efficiently. In other words, exactly the factors a Govt doesn’t give a sh1t about. As usual, the incentives for Govt to spend money on research are entirely wrong, and from that we get the expected crap results.
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FWIW
“WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times” ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-doge-makes-three-major-findings-regarding-unemployment/
Was that called “future proofing”?
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24,500 people over 115 years old claimed $59 million in benefits.
28,000 people under the age of five claimed $254 million in benefits.
9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69 million in benefits. In one case, a person with a birthday in 2154 who claimed $41,000 in benefits.
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How have they ruled out these being genuine entitlements with erroneous birth dates. Big databases, there’s always a certain amount of random duff data.
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Likely not. The money is real. The recipients are real. The data is wrong, obviously wrong. But how much reasonable data is fraud or just wrong if there is such an error level in the data? It would be child’s play to filter out these errors and it has not been done. There is zero fraud detection.
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Even if that were true the error should have brought the process to a screeching halt until corrected.
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Here’s a direct quote from Chris Bowen yesterday at the debate:
“More sunlight hits our country than any other planet in the world”
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And here I was thinking Chris Bowen was a M*r*n and now I realise he is an UltraM*r*n.
MEMO to Labor KEEP Chris out of public places.
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No no no, let him speak!
He’s doing a fantastic job.
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LOL, the gift that keeps on giving.
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He had strong competition from former Victoria Premier Steve Bracks who told us that dams do not make water. Genius.
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Especially at night.
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Al-bozo says solar panels can charge your EV for free overnight.
https://youtu.be/vyS9uqRLbB8
Not a single member of the Lamestream Media or anyone else questioned him on that.
In any case, you would need a very substantial panel installation plus big batteries to do that. I doubt if most houses have enough roof area to do that.
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Al-bozo says nookular, sign of a moron.
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Bowen is one of our most important ministers, responsible for the energy supply, and yet a simpleton, just like the PM Al-bozo.
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I guess it’s easier for Big Wind Bowen’s policies to save the planet if believes it’s just an island continent.
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FWIW
“Man Made Global Warming”
“Daily Sceptic- Met Office Shock: More Non-Existent UK Weather Stations Discovered Reporting Invented Data”
Link at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/10/man-made-global-warming-2/
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Ray Sanders in the UK has written a good deal about this on Tallbloke’s Talkshow.
I do like the one about the Airport site supposedly reporting temperatures since 26 years before the Wright Brothers made their first flight.
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FWIW
“Europe’s Big Pharma Companies Threaten Commission President von der Leyen, Change Trade Situation Quickly or We Go To America
April 10, 2025 | Sundance | 57 Comments
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/10/europes-big-pharma-companies-threaten-commission-president-von-der-leyen-change-trade-situation-quickly-or-we-go-to-america/
And
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/trump-tariffs-china-alex-c-is-wrong/
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I saw a shocking video of that helicopter crash in New York. It looks like the whole tail assembly became detached. Presumably a serious maintenance issue or even sabotage because that sort of thing doesn’t normally happen.
A report I read also said the main rotor blade had also come off.
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It was the rotor assembly David, looks like the “Jesus” bolts failed
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I know of the Jesus bolt, but there are also Jesus clips. I met them mainly in office equipment, little springy circlips, when you pry them off it’s “Jeez, where did that go”.
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Works on a very similar principle lol
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Like a vehicle window winder has….
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Well it is Easter time isn’t it?
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Looks like the main rotor cut the tail boom off then departed the scene.
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UK government uses AI to predict future criminals, tracks citizens’ personal data
Initially called the “Homicide Prediction Project,” it’s now been rebranded as the innocuous “Sharing Data to Improve Risk Assessment.” The change in name is the government’s first lie. This isn’t about improving anything.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/uk-government-uses-ai-to-predict-future-criminals-tracks-citizens-personal-data/
And we all know which demographic should be looked at closely but will be given a free pass.
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I have seen that movie before, it does not have a good ending
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Once Great Britain is becoming the dystopian future warned about in Nineteen Eighty Four, Minority Report (precrime) etc..
This matter was discussed on the History Debunked YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/qb5IFoJGPJ0
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I am really struggling to decide which branch of the uniparty to vote for, based on recent political advertisements i have now implemented the following voting criteria:
A, I will not vote for anyone who says anythink or it’s derivative anyfink.
B, Pronounce us as uz (SA only)
C, Pronounce power as pear/pair (SA only)
D, Use the phrase “bloody Victorians” (SA only)
E, whine like a beach about car races, building of bridges, tunnels, fringe events, new stadiums to support sporting events, roads etc etc etc.
For those somewhat confused by the last statement I leave you this.
How many South Australians does it take to change a light bulb?
None as South Australians don’t like change.
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Don’t forget old faithful – Antartica.
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Or nucular.
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The AFL football always amuses me. When a SA team is playing a Vic side in Adelaide. The crowd always booing the “biased Victorian ” umpires. Doesn’t matter if the free kick count is even, or the 50m penalties evenly shared, it’s all those damn Victorian umpires fault. There never seems to be the same effect in other states, even WA.
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>struggling to decide which
How anybody could allow their vote to go, even by accident, to the Albo ALP in the upcoming election is just staggering given all we’ve seen to date, and imagine giving him further licence to go full wrecking-ball!
Last election proved the folly of voting for smaller parties when Albo with a smaller primary vote than the Liberals, won by hiring a preference wrangler to get him over the line.
Only the two major parties can form a government so one of them will win in the end and an ALP/Green/Teal nightmare must be prevented.
Choose the lesser of the two evils.
At least with Dutton we have a chance that once in power he could be more sympathetic to reason than Albo who can’t even pronounce the word.
And at least with Dutton there’s no Àlbo, no Bowen, and no Wong.
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“The lesser of two evils” is a legitimate and rational choice.
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““The lesser of two evils” is a legitimate and rational choice.”
..and a complete waste of time! (and a vote) The Uniparty will only disappoint you H, Mutton won’t be in power for 6months before you’ll be upset with something he’s done. There is NO difference between them, the polarity that the old boys club in here imagines vanished thirty years or more back. Even calling them Labor-Lite draws a bigger gap between them than really exists.
Vote for someone who has never been in power before and clear all the bludgers and criminals out!
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Agree 100%. The main focus should be to stop the wrecking of Australia with unreliable renewables, and prevent the Greens from shutting down our mining industries. Diverting votes into minor parties will not achieve this aim, regardless of their sometimes more attractive offers.
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US Teenagers Have Less Testosterone Than Grandpa
Speaking at a press conference, Kennedy painted a grim picture of the health of the nation, declaring, “We’re seeing crises in fertility among teenagers today. An American teenager has less testosterone than a 68-year-old man. We’re seeing sperm counts drop to 50% of historical rates. Girls in our country are reaching puberty six years early—10 to 13 years old.”
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1909996115799273649
“Children of men” is shaping up to be a reality.
Vaxxing kids, destroying their health, immune systems and reproductive capacity, both male and female, plus the genetic damage gets passed on.
If they even live to becone teenagers, they don’t want relationships and kids. Just play games instead.
Modern women are too messed up to bother with, real men don’t want them.
Men only think with the little head, and that lasts for decades (eh girls).
A global population crash is on the cards far beyond the WEF’s plan…
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It may be a built in response to overpopulation? Overcrowding and overpopulation are possibly common in all species. Genetically engineered premature aging too.
Species with these characteristics would thrive where mass starvation is the only other solution to overpopulation and you can get extinction. Or perhaps regular plagues.
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It was like it was planned. Rightly or wrongly it appears there was a discussion on population control with discussion of methods to restrict fertility.
1969 Jaffe Memo on Fertility control
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The Left will be pleased. They have been at war against masculinity and maleness for decades and even consider masculinity to be “toxic”.
Indeed, they are even chemically or surgically castrating young males and pretending to turn them into women.
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Maybe this explains the developing divide between men and women in the US, where women’s lib has meant women saying they don’t need men and the men having a Newtonian reaction to this hostility and that of divorce and custody courts, and choosing independence. At least there are a number of bloggers talking about this.
I just can’t imagine how they do it. When I was young we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. Maybe there are enough accomodating ladies still fraternising with the enemy and enjoying it.
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As someone with much experience in these things once said, keep it zipped up or pay by the hour.
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Good in theory Forrest, not in practice if you are a public figure looking to usurp the dominant paradigm and those profiting from this structure.
Trump kept it zipped up and was still found guilty when civily sued by a wealthy socialite.
After paying by the hour, he was found criminally guilty on 34 counts.
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A little pedantic precision if I may …
Guilty is a criminal concept. In a civil case the defendant is not found guilty, they are found liable.
And the case where he was found guilty was founded in falsification of business records.
But yes, those able to manipulate a corrupt system can indeed use the courts. In the end I’m not sure that evil prospered. Some say it never does.
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Might go some way to explain man buns, riding scooters, lack of interest in the opposite sex, those big donut ear rings, etc.
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As expressed in this meme.
https://imgur.com/gallery/awww-Fo3Euz0
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‘Girls in our country are reaching puberty six years early—10 to 13 years old.’
Fascinating, I wonder if its universal or only American girls.
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Good nutrition promotes early puberty.
‘Girls in developed nations usually begin puberty a little earlier than those in developing nations; for instance, a 2020 review and meta-analysis found girls in the US generally grew breast buds between around 9 and 10 years old, while their African counterparts tended to start between 10 and 13 years.’ (ABC)
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“Good nutrition promotes early puberty.”
Growth hormones in their chicken, pork and beef..
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And Soy for the boys.
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Worry-some that many of the food hormones and worse the prescription hormones persist in the environment even after processing through sewerage systems. Imagine China with a mission to exploit the water supply? Oh too late….
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Spanish scientists create floating 3d graphics you can touch
A team from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) has built the first floating, touchable 3D graphics—no VR glasses required.
Led by Dr. Elodie Bouzbib and researcher Asier Marzo, the group developed volumetric displays that let users directly grab and move mid-air graphics using just their hands.
Unlike existing displays from Voxon or Brightvox, UPNA’s version supports real interaction—pinching cubes or simulating walking with fingers.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/holograms-you-can-touch-created
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Sort of along those lines in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel is the Softstop sign (but in 2D and not interactive or holographic).
https://www.laservision.com.au/softstop-barrier-system/
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They can’t even steer planes on the tarmac without hitting things
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/just-american-airlines-plane-clips-plane-carrying-several/
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Wouldn’t happen to a Tesla. Planes need to be smarter.
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I don’t imagine the visibility from up there is all that good.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.8wcrLzhpSLNtCJw3I4hZRwHaEF%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=f159e09be2976e9be520519b17b4c335aa0191556949411d9a0989a99a18d917&ipo=images
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I didn’t watch the Energy debate yesterday between Chris Bowen (ALP) and Ted O’Brien (LNP) but read reports. Apparently, Chris Uhlmann (journalist -ex ABC, now The Australian etc) managed to make little Chrissy squirm with a very pointed question. Also, the bigger news. Ted O’Brien when asked about Paris Accords etc, didn’t say they would automatically support them, but would “carefully consider” . Or words to that effect. Hence, he was leaving the door slightly ajar on the subject. Certainly didn’t say man made climate change is a scam, but his answer was very non-committal and would indicate some change in policy on the LNP side. If you throw in their other policy announcements on nuclear energy, immigration, fuel excise etc. they actually might be worth voting for. Time will tell.
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Perhaps trying not to scare a population conditioned for 37 years to the idea that the sky is falling if we don’t pay someone.
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Still do not understand why every single time you hear the proponents of nuclear energy, from Dutton to specialists in the field, they are so cautious and non-committal.
BTW, maybe coal is indeed the answer in our unique situation and will be for the next generation(s).
OK then, we can wait for an absolutely perfect source energy, super clean, pocket-size, etc,..
Today, one side says it will be $600B, 35 years to build (and pollute our pristine environment!) reliable national power base.
The other side, at best says it will be about $B400 and 10 years. Why ?!
If, according to Google, compliance cost for ordinary house is 1/3 of the total, we can realistically assume it will come to 50% for a nuclear project. That is – we will pay ourselves $200B for a “permit to work” on our project. I said – ourselves, but there will also be “participants” so hellbent on destruction this society, that they will sacrifice their own lives for a small price of delaying the project for 1 day.
Should not Dutton said – 10 years but 2 of them for inventing the reasons why not to build and 3 years to overcome those reasons?
Not once I heard from them – Koreans did it for so many $$ and years per installations, Saudis – for so many, French – for that many, and so for other 50 countries…
Make your own conclusion about “clever country”.
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You are right Vlad, there is nothing wrong with coal while the competing technologies sort themselves out.
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The Frontier Report no2 claims that a new HELE coal power station would cost more than an equivalent nuclear unit. But they included a CCS requirement in their coal pricing.
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Apparently it wasn’t the Labor Party that came up with the $600bn figure – it was the Smart Energy Council, who no doubt plucked that figure from somewhere. It doesn’t appear to be derived from any modelling.
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“but his answer was very non-committal and would indicate some change in policy on the LNP side.”
Through the rosy tinted glasses of a true fan!
A non-committal answer is exactly that, an answer that shows a slimy politician with no morals or commitment to anything except getting elected, then doing an about-face on everything promised beforehand while blaming the ‘previous Govt’..
“they actually might be worth voting for.” ..for exactly the same value of ‘worth’ as the Labor clowns!
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Measles Strikes Vaccinated Teens in Quebec’s Mysterious ‘Worst Outbreak in Decades’
Measles has suddenly surfaced in Quebec among the fully vaccinated teen population, and health authorities don’t want to talk about it. In yet more proof that vaccines don’t work, over half of the teens who have developed Measles had received both recommended doses of the measles vaccine figures show. But, instead of sounding the alarm, public health officials are busy trying to bury the evidence.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/measles-strikes-vaccinated-teens-in-quebec-s-mysterious-worst-outbreak-in-decades
Don’t need no steenkin’ immune system!
Must be climate change.
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There’s also lots of debate about the death of that young female infant in Texas. That the death is more to do with medical negligence, than the effects of the girl’s measles infection. Wrong antibiotic treatment applied too late. Medical negligence- probably one of the biggest killers in any medical system.
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It’s an extraordinary world where a death of a child is likely a mistake rather than unavoidable.
For most of history, 30% of mothers and infants died in childbirth. And 50% of surviving children died in the first year of life. Living to 21 was a major achievement and celebrated. There is one church in Vienna where the pillars are covered in white cherubim. Everyone lost babies. Increasingly it is rare and that is slowing population growth which was unexpected by the Club of Rome. So life expectancy has tripled and 2/3 of the people on the planet would not have survived to their current age in previous centuries. Soon the growth will stop and the population actually drop. Some 2/3 of women in China are not having children.
As with animals in the wild, the population can be self regulating. The alternative is the usual boom and bust. And if a cure is found for ageing, expect even more dramatic changes.
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That magic figure TdeF – 2.1.
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The 30% death rate of mothers in the 1800s was a man-made tragedy.
Evolution would have sorted out any species that lost a ridiculous 30% of mothers in childbirth. There’s no way we evolved to be that fragile. A female dying with 1 or 2 toddlers in a hunter gather situation would surely have meant the toddlers would often perish too.
Death rates in the 1700-1800s were shocking. Diseases were spread by the doctors not washing their hands, going from cadavers to live births. The women were probably also vitamin D deprived (and the rest), living on a poor diet of grains and with bodies covered in clothes.
Deaths of children before maturity was however, as TdeF says, extremely common all over the world.
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The details are long forgotten but history tells of two hospitals, one of which carried out post mortems and the other which didn’t having markedly different maternal survival.
The thought of using unsterile implements today is so unthinkable it is hard to believe that simple cleanliness was ever widely ignored.
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There are also mentions of poor ventilation in the school so one can imagine the atmosphere of damp and body odour. People didn’t have daily baths and the children were probably often fairly unwashed, while keeping their clothes clean would have been quite a task. There are lots of stories of children being sewn into their under clothes for the winter, sometimes with layers of paper and even goose fat to ward off the cold. No wonder the head often records head lice and other conditions, or says she has sent children home to wash. In 1947 we had one of the coldest winters on record.
https://www.stmartinsthompson.co.uk/?p=1604
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RFK Jr’s influence spreading beyond the USA.
Maybe this would be completely buried before RFK got any attention and raised the issue of the merit of vaccines.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76mJ2Uh5yF0
Measles creates immune cell amnesia and covid destroys part of your immune system this leads to a deadly combination for some most likely those with co morbidities, low Vit D etc.
Dr McMillan explains it quite well in the attached link
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Yet another reason to keep your Vitamin D levels high.
Vitamin D deficiency linked to Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia.
https://scientificdiet.org/2023/03/vitamin-d-deficiency-linked-to-alzheimers-vascular-dementia/
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With all these diseases (more being discovered all the time) correction of common Vitamin D deficiency prevents, I wonder how long before Australia’s TGA restricts or bans inexpensive and safe Vitamin D?
Medicare is already restricting doctors doing Vitamin D tests.
Bizarrely even the RACGP recommends against its routine measurement.
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Its beyond comprehension that the medical fraternity spurn Vitamin D. But we know why, if more attention was paid to it, there would simply be less sick people. I can understand the confusion around dosing and acceptable tested Vitamin D levels, but what should be promoted is people obtain safer sun exposure to get their Vitamin D levels up. But the whole “slip, slop slap” campaign has again scared the population witless about solar rays. Look at the weather we are getting at the moment in Victoria. Indian summer like conditions. The populace should be encouraged to go get “15 mins of sun on skin” or equivalent. Boost your Vitamin D prior to the main cold/flu season. Trouble is, no-one in the medical industry can make money out of the free sun treatment.
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Hi David, thanks for the info. I have an annual blood test that covers absolutely everything including vitamin D. My last one last October showed a level of 91 nmol/l. I started taking vitamin D at the beginning of Covid after reading about it here on Joanne’s site and at that time I was deficient, not severely but deficient none the less.
I would therefore like to take this opportunity to thank Jo for this wonderful site, I have learned so much here.
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PS, on that note I think it might be time to send her some Emergency Chocolate.
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RexAlan, thanks so much! I certainly could use some help.
I wrote about the D3 and Dementia link at the time, and plan to inject it into our election dialogue. Lord knows we could save so much money if we did preventative healthcare.
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5,000 i/u of D3 daily for years didn’t help a slim Mrs H’s Az. I am super sceptical of any claims where people say they can prevent/cure dementia. We are no further advanced than we were 20 years ago and it could never be reversed. Once a brain cell is dead, it is as dead as Cleese’s parrot.
Dr Campbell called D3 the trillion $ drug if anyone could patent and promote it. I believe he is right, just not for this.
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Rex,
ditto all you said. Except the testing.
I’m living at 47° North Latitude and do not get much sun. When I read about Vitamin D (on this site), I asked my “doctor” about it. She is a PA-C. She said “Why test? It will just cost you. Supplement up to 4,000 units a day – over 5,000 test.”
The medical folks have the difficult problem of knowing people need Vitamin D because it has several/numerous beneficial aspects and, therefore, it can’t be studied in double-blind trials for a specific one. The corollary is usually insurance won’t pay for the tests.
I’m not a doctor – people should ask medical professionals for medical advice.
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I would still do a blood test a few months after starting supplements. Some people don’t absorb D3 supplements, and you just can’t afford to be low. It appears some gut microbes are important, plus certain minerals, plus who knows what else.
I know someone taking 50,000IU a day who can’t get his D3 levels up in blood tests.
Also some people may be burning through their D3 and need higher doses. I try to test once every couple of years. And be aware that summer / winter values may be very different.
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Worth noting you can get OTC Vitamin D tests these days at chemists. Plus many more on-line, ebay, Amazon etc. Not sure how accurate, but would probably give you ball park type figures to indicate severely deficient/adequate type results.
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Dr John Campbell looked at those in one of his videos. I don’t think he was satisfied with their accuracy. His GP won’t order a Vitamin D test for him.
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Living at Lat. 19 is is easier to keep up my D3 in winter than summer. In winter it doesn’t rain but the sun is wonderful so I spend a few hours a week watering etc.
Summer it’s too hot.
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I take mine as D3+K2. It comes as a spay that you spay inside your mouth onto your cheeks. I believe it’s directly absorbed that way.
The reason I take it with K2 is that K2 helps to ensure that the calcium in your diet ends up in your bones and not in your arteries.
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G’day RA,
Be careful of that combination.
If you only want 1000 IUs a day of D, that’s fine, but if you want 5,000 IU’s a day of D and take 5 of those tablets you get five times the daily dose of K2 as well and that’s dangerous. That’s why I take my 8000 a day as 8 x 1000 IU capsules of D3 and just one of K2.
It also lets me adjust my D intake as I feel is necessary or desirable.
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Thanks David but I only take 1,500 IU’s a day as a maintenance dose now and my D levels are fine. When I first started I took more and got my blood serum levels up to 120 nmol/l but they have dropped down since. I think my levels are good now, my doctor who is very open minded and aware of what I’m doing is very happy as things are.
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VitD testing: Wife’s neurologist thought 75 was too low (and taking 2000units/day)
Increased to 2500units/day with lowered Ca supplement.
90 was considered “acceptable” after 3 months and re-testing.
I need to get outside more.
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Even the anti-energy once-scientific organisation CSIRO says a 1GW nuclear power plant would cost around A$8.6 billion*.
However I saw a Liebor Party ad and Al-bozo claim the Liberal plan for seven nuclear power plants would cost a ridiculous $600 billion**. That’s about ten times the CSIRO costing for 7 X 1GW reactors. Even if the reactors were doubled in size it would still be five times more.
And presumably the sensible thing to do would be locate the reactors in the sites of closed coal plant so all the transmission lines, cooling ponds, roads etc. would already be in place.
Do they just make it up as they go?
And can someone please teach Al-bozo to pronounce nuclear – /ˈnjuːklɪər/ .
* https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/22/australia-nuclear-power-plants-csiro-peter-dutton-liberal-coalition-plan
** https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CExwjxT2c/
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The $600bn figure is believed to have come from the Smart Energy Council.
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“a Liebor Party ad and Al-bozo claim … seven nuclear power plants would cost a ridiculous $600 billion**. ”
Costed using unionist labor…
Russians are building 2200MWe for $US6.6billion
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I must say I am surprised.
I really thought that after the re-election of TRUMP and observation of the great good he is doing such as freeing up energy, deregulating, stopping Government waste, expelling illegals, stopping transgendering of children and men in female sports, free speech etc., others would see this and emulate his example.
Instead, you see in the woke countries of most of Western Europe, Canada, NZ and Australia no such emulation of policies.
In fact, in the fanatically woke countries like Australia policies are going in the opposite direction. E.g. less free speech, more liberal transgendering of children with fewer restrictions, less free speech, further destruction of the energy supply, more regulation, no concern for Government waste, etc..
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Orange man still bad in the hallowed halls of the world’s bureaucracies?
There are still lots of pay packets which depend on pretending.
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Experts are wrong blaming Trump for delivering death blow to Free Trade – it died 2016 when Emperor Xi returned to tried and tested maoist behaviour.
No one knew, WTO was still walking smelling of roses, providing beautiful career paths and retirement plans for multitudes.
We did not know until “80% Barley” king-hit for having “too big a mouth on you” which is word-for-word my teacher’s judgement of me 65 years ago.
A bit hurting that so many Australians agree with the Teacher – we should know our place and talk to them respectfully….
BTW, UN and few others are also dead, were well before Trump, and stinking to high heaven, but !
Western is not straight talking but polite culture.
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David, the media is the same media that helped create TDS. All the institutions except for Twitter and now, the US State Dept are the same as before.
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The linked video gives a coherent perspective on Trump’s global economic strategy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA
Something I learnt from the video is that Bessent is not an economist by education. He graduated in political science but his career has been in finance. He actually lectured in economic history.
It takes the view that USA position as the global banker, while bestowing privilege, has also undermined its manufacturing industry, which leaves the country highly exposed. It points out that Trump sees the world differently to most people.
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US manufacturing jobs stands at 12.7 million, the same as in 1941. During WWII they were about 40% of total jobs. Today they are about 8% of the 160 million jobs total. The question is whether we can bring back high tech, high value manufacturing jobs that can evolve with the growth in AI. Since 2000, annual job growth, real growth in wages, gross income, taxable income and GDP have been 1/3 to 1/2 what it was during the last half of the 20th Century. Our exploding debt and faltering economic growth puts America on a collision path with disaster. I hope Trump can help because we need it. Watch for the inaction by Congress which is being peddled as action on the debt and deficit. Unless they make significant cuts to the $2 trillion a year deficit and get it below $1 trillion a year soon, interest costs will explode and become the largest component of spending and will be larger than what is being brought in by individual income taxes.
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Consider this:
China is building 2 coal power stations per week.
So over this 5 week Australian election campaign, China will build 10 more coal power stations.
Remind me again why Australia shutting down its energy supply?
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FWIW
“What if Trump’s tariffs actually make sense?
They’re messy, risky, and unpopular – but they might be part of a bigger, smarter plan”
https://www.rt.com/business/615467-what-if-trumps-tariffs-actually-make-sense/
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As I see it there is so much his admin. is doing right I would hate to see it wrecked on the reef of tariffs. By all means tackle China head on but take time to deal with all other countries individually. Even US friends insist they are “special” and should be given that courtesy.
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An update on our Channel Country floods
A friend’s son has cattle on agistment out at Nappermerrie which gets flood water from Cooper’s Creek and the Wilson River. The email has a video of using a chopper to move them across a flooded channel and even the calves took to swimming.
The Wilson was about 1.5 metres above the known record flood height – which is a LOT of water over that flat, wide flood plain and from a relatively small catchment.
Our eldest son got his start in the cattle industry as a jackaroo just up river from there. In his 2 years he saw more dust than flood.
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I learnt about the Channel Country in geography at primary school. As told the floods are the lifeblood of the country, but I also learnt of Dorothea Mackellar.
Those Robinson choppers do sterling work.
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The Tobin tax finally arrives!
“The International Maritime Organization (IMO) scheme to tax shipping.. under the guise of fighting CO2 emissions and “climate change..would give the UN unprecedented power to raise money on its own.. UN estimates and various analysts have long said the carbon tax on shipping alone could raise $100 billion per year or more…The taxation plot comes as the UN’s “World Court,” known officially as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), is preparing to rule on the supposed “legal obligations” of governments with respect to “climate change.”
A UN with its own taxation and enforcement, nothing could be worse for mankind!
https://libertysentinel.org/un-shipping-tax-to-fuel-global-tyranny/
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