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Harvard study found that taking a daily vitamin D pill prevented telomeres from shortening, a hallmark of aging.
Fox News and others have a report:
“Vitamin D linked to slower biological aging”
Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences located at the ends of chromosomes that protect them from degradation and prevent the loss of important genetic information during cell division.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/common-daily-vitamin-shown-slow-aging-process-over-four-year-period
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916525002552?via%3Dihub
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Bret Weinstein has argued that telomere models from laboratory mice are invalid because they don’t realistically represent natural ones so much telomere research based on mice is invalid.
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Of course, not only telomere research but drug research because laboratory mice have a great capacity to repair cellular damage from harmful trial drugs, which humans do not. Thus a drug might be approved as it does not appear to harm mice but it will definitely harm a human. Viox is used as an example by Weinstein. It caused cardiovascular damage in humans but did not in lab mice as they could repair the damage.
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Axolotls anyone?
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As we are in Prevention,
Lithium is said to prevent Alzheimer
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease
The earliest molecular changes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are poorly understood1,2,3,4,5. Here we show that endogenous lithium (Li) is dynamically regulated in the brain and contributes to cognitive preservation during ageing. Of the metals we analysed, Li was the only one that was significantly reduced in the brain in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to AD. Li bioavailability was further reduced in AD by amyloid sequestration.
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Probably best to discuss lithium on the blog post announcing the paper two days ago.
Is lithium the missing essential nutrient for brains that could prevent Alzheimers?
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👍
Sorry, I missed that, absence from Home
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No problem. 🙂 it is a tantalizing study, and not one you’d automatically expect to see here.
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About Lithium orotate
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/lithium-and-its-potential-protection
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There’s no wood pellet smoke without fire.
The Drax scandal rumbles on.
‘Power from Drax is more expensive than from gas, it’s more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil. The idea of sustainable biomass at this scale has been pushed beyond believability for most people.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15045201/Probe-Ed-Miliband-backed-power-station-UKs-biggest-green-plant-investigated-months-Energy-Secretary-agreed-pour-billions-taxpayer-funds.html
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How the climate had wringers could distort reality so much that they could pretend the whole Drax fiasco makes any environmental sense at all, should be a case study in modern propaganda (and maybe self delusion if they beleive their own BS)
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FWIW
“Rue, Britannia”
“Rue, rue Britannia indeed. So much for never being slaves.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/74862.html
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Careful, you’ll upset the Royal family fans.
DYK, the Crown Estate us around 6.6 BILLION acres around the world (1/6th of the total land area)?
The Royal Family owns all of the UK, Australia (you lease, you don’t own land here…), NZ, Canada, and a swathe of islands.
That’s some serious personal profit from handwaving!😉
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Actually, except for the socialist people’s paradise of the Australian Capital Territory, land in Australia is freehold.
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FWIW
A considerable amount is not, you know. Our family grazing property is about half leasehold.
And don’t neglect the government “fiddling with what freehold means”.
A friend had the option to convert his leasehold title to “freehold” and worked out that he had a more secure title if he left it as leasehold.
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And I should mention “perpetual leasehold” in this mix
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As far as I am aware the Crown estate owns no land outside of the UK where it only owns bits and pieces (not the whole country) considerable maritime estates and some of the foreshore. It was acquired by William 1st and therefore did not include OZ which was not discovered until somewhat later than 1066.
I think it would be fun if it were true that Williams conquests extended to Australia just as it would be fun to discover Roman settlements there.
However I think this story of the Crown estates land has grown in the telling
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Mineral rights?
Only the US has private ownership (freehold) of the minerals under the land. . .
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FWIW –
“Eh? Gawd!”
“Crown land, also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown. It is the equivalent of an entailed estate and passes with the monarchy, being inseparable from it. Today, in Commonwealth realms, Crown land is considered public land and is not part of the monarch’s private estate.”
Even Wiki couldn’t make it worse than that!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_land
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“The King will continue to, in strict legal terms, own all the lands of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 32 other members (around two-thirds) of the Commonwealth, and Antarctica.
Despite the belief held by many Australian landholders that they own their land absolutely, including anything above or below it, due to the Doctrine of Tenure, the law in Australia holds that the Crown has absolute ownership – not withstanding any native title claims.
According to Brisbane and Melbourne-based DSS Law, while freehold property ownership (the most common property title granted in Australia) entitles the owner of the land to own it for perpetuity, it is in essence a type of legal relationship landholders are granted with the permission of the Crown.”
https://www.apimagazine.com.au/news/article/does-the-royal-family-own-property-in-australia
Like I said…
I think people are getting confused over Crown land.
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“The Crown” in Australian law is specifically defined as the governments of the state or territory, and not the person of the monarch, so none of that 1.9 billion acres belongs to The King”
Any countries that still has the Monarch as head of state will have crown land but that specifically belong to the country concerned , not the monarch.
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FWIW – re the CDC and the heath scene
“THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE:
Spare me the crocodile tears at the CDC exits! This institution DESTROYED children and RUINED trust in health institutions for a generation. The whole place needs to be gutted!
When historians look back on the COVID years, they won’t just document a virus. They’ll document the collapse of America’s most trusted health agency into a factory of fear, censorship, and bad science. The CDC didn’t just miss the mark –> it repeatedly tripped over its own contradictions, buried evidence, and treated the public as an obstacle instead of a partner.
Read the whole thing.”
https://instapundit.com/741196/#disqus_thread
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I was just waxing nostalgic about the old days when we are against Communism and worried about a new Ice Age.
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That would be great.
Here are some classic videos of the era:
Leonard Nimoy warns of the coming Ice Age (1978): https://youtu.be/7tAYXQPWdC0
President Reagan challenges President Gorbachov to “tear down this wall” (1987): https://youtu.be/WX00QkvK-mQ
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Aah, the good old days when there were Reds under the bed.
We’ve seen climate alarm oscillate between fear of global warming to global cooling several times since the late 19th century. If global cooling started to prevail in the next few decades, no doubt the alarmists would do a backflip and insist this is further evidence of climate change. That is, their brand of climate change, not the phenomena that’s been naturally occurring for millions of years.
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Back in the 1970’s it was noted in the USA that the living range of the (9-banded) armadillo was moving south – PROOF of Global Cooling.
Back in the 1990’s it was noted in the USA that the living range of the armadillo was moving north – PROOF of Global Warming.
I don’t know the intellectual capacity of an armadillo but it seems similar to those Climate “Scientists” who appear on the ABC.
It is found that even an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2, which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce an increase in the surface temperature of less than 2 deg. K.
Schneider S. & Rasool S., “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols – Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate”, Science, vol.173, 9 July 1971, p.138-141
Those results were based on a climate model developed by none other than James Hansen, incidentally. Him of The Maldives will be underwater by 2018 (along with parts of Florida and New York).
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Now the reds rule instead of being under the bed!!!!
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Why the past tense?
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Because they’re no longer under the bed, they’re in office 😉
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I have detailed files…
Lada owner?
https://imgbox.com/Ur3FxHUR
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Lol- When was that? Soviet Afghanistan? Back when we were training and arming the Taliban instead of fighting them..
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Refusal to service Lada cars in protest against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Toronto, 1984
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FWIW
“Democrats Demand Common-Sense Prayer Control”
“At publishing time, Democrats had clarified that the proposed prayer restrictions would not apply to broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-demand-common-sense-prayer-control
Via SDA
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FWIW
“Can the Ukrainian War be Ended Anytime Soon?”
“The Democrats and the Legacy Media are clearly hoping that Trump will fail in terms of bringing an end to the Ukrainian War. They might reflexively deny this, but that’s precisely what they’ve been saying. Here’s a fascinating discussion on the subject.”
Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAd5v-Oajec
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/08/29/can-the-ukrainian-war-be-ended-anytime-soon/
And comments
(Note that currently just a cease fire seems to be off the table)
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“Areas of western Ukraine, including former regions of Poland such as Lviv, Rivne, Transcarpathia and Volyn, which were heavily under control of “Ukrainian insurgents” – adherents of MI6-supported Stepan Bandera – during World War II, were judged most fruitful “resistance” launchpads. There, “nationalist activity was extensive” during World War II, with armed militias opposing “pro-Soviet partisans with some success.” Conveniently too, mass extermination of Jews, Poles and Russians by Banderites in these regions meant there was virtually no non-ethnic Ukrainian population left.”
From a 1957 paper prepared by the CIA for causing civil war in the USSR and breaking Russia into small pieces. Anyone who thinks this war started in 2022 is extremely naive.
“areas of Ukraine forecast by the Agency to be most welcoming of US special forces were precisely where support for the Maidan coup was highest. Moreover, in a largely unknown chapter of the Maidan saga, fascist Right Sector militants were bussed en masse to Crimea prior to Moscow’s seizure of the peninsula. Had they succeeded in overrunning the territory, Right Sector would’ve fulfilled Langley’s objective, as outlined in Resistance Factors and Special Forces Areas. ”
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/declassified-cias-covert-ukraine
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‘Anyone who thinks this war started in 2022 is extremely naive.’
I thought it started in 2014.
Thinking about the breakup of the Russian Federation after Putin, let us return to 1991 and start again.
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“let us return to 1991 and start again.”
You’d get the same result, Communism had run its course and obviously couldn’t support a modern society, which is probably the lesson that China learnt and started a Communist capitalist economy.
If we’re lucky someone like Putin will come along and rescue Australia before we turn into some broken semi-Communist 3rd-world hell-hole.
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The USSR was in deep economic trouble before it was broken up and became a Federation, during this time Putin was determined to regain what was lost.
The reform movements in Russia and China failed because of two dictators, Putin and Xi Jinping. But that is coming to a close because regime change is happening in Beijing and the new reform movement is backed by the military.
Democratic socialism came into being as a bulwark against Communism, that seems to have worked out fairly well. In our Westminster system ‘someone like Putin’ would never get elected because he is a thug.
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Putin was determined to get rich, filthy rich. He succeeded.
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Putin values imperial splendour, its out of date and he is on the wrong side of history.
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2008, when Putin started a war with Georgia which marked the latest phase of his territorial ambitions.
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Neither of military complexes want to end the new tech and methods R & D.
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No need for blasting out the Valkyries – in Bush 1’s kinder, gentler, new world (dis)order, the chosen song is The Carpenters’
We’ve Only Just Begun…
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Only if another one ramps up instead to drag in Russia, because the destruction of Russia is, and always has been, the objective.
Bye bye EU – 2 years left now.
You messed it all up from day 1, and your time is about up.
I wonder how well the gimmigrants will run the show?
LOL.
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(Bumped from yesterday as posted late.)
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Land owners (farmers mostly) will no longer be able to block entry of builders wanting to destroy their properties with transmission lines in support of wind and solar subsidy-harvesting plantations.
Australia is effectively a One Party State. Without any opposition political parties with a realistic possibility of winning an election, or TRUMP-like leaders, and the voting masses dumbed-down to an extraordinary degree, Australia might not be fixable.
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These same farmers are required by law to know who is on their farms for biosecurity reasons, hence all those signs on farm gates advising anyone entering to sign in.
These rules also require fees to be payed to the government for, you know, management purposes.
So, if your from a power company you can drive your vehicle over multiple properties and multiple districts without the need for deep cleaning anything. The very term “Biosecurity” is complete Bullsh-t. Noxious weeds or soil born disease, all ok as long as the powerlines go in. Oh, then persecute property owners who don’t do the required “controls” that another government dept deems necessary.
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Good points Sambar.
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“Australia is effectively a One Party State…Land owners (farmers mostly) will no longer be able to block entry”
More Russian than Russia! You will own nothing and be forced to pretend you’re happy..
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I seek feedback on a continuing problem that asks “Is it me being stupid, or is there a scam at work?”
Problem: I join a service such as streaming TV in the Netflix or Britbox style. After sampling it, I wish to withdraw. I cannot find a way to cancel the monthly payments. My big bank says that they cannot obey my instruction to cease giving them my money.
Question: Has this happened to you?
Note that decades ago I resolved where possible to use written words, not phone calls, for commercial transactions, because I was getting dudded too often, so please don’t suggest resolution from a quick phone call will solve the problem. It does not work so far. I have 4 separate cases on foot of this inability to stop payments after I have given my debit card number online. One vendor has increased the monthly take, without discussion, by 400%.
Is this simple theft?ll
Geoff S
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Maybe go to the Banking Ombudsman.
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DM,
I did that months ago, with the Australian Financial Complaints people. For months they have been reporting that they are working on it, while not yet advising of any relevant finding.
Believe me, I have tried many ways to pass this brick wall taking my money against my wishes. Geoff S
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I went through this with Amazon Prime. My wife wanted to watch a sport tournament which Prime had rights to. Turned it on for a month and cancelled after the event ( after some difficulty in finding out how to cancel)
Payments kept being taken out (once corrected and refunded by them, but then reappeared) I raised a disputed transacton complaint with the bank online and attached the confirmation of cancellation I got from Amazon. That resolved it.
In general we never use a debit card for these subscriptions and never do direct debits, basically we limit access to our accountscto us. For small transactions we tend to use Paypal (linked to a small balance credit card) They have a very well oiled machine to handle disputes. I think vendors do not want to upset their payment provider. As an individual you are just noise, if Paypal contacts them they listen.
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” My big bank says that they cannot obey my instruction to cease giving them my money.”
That is surprising- time for a change of bank?
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KP,
Do you know of a bank that would not do likewise? Why enter into the time consuming job if changing banks without being able to know the outcome? For the present, my preference is to recommend the bank reviews its actions and sees a need for a change. Geoff S
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close your bank account!
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Perxactly Penguinite,I run a debit card account with an separate bank from my major bank.I use it to buy stuff on ebay or similar.I keep a few dollars in it and transfer funds to it as I require, so if some thieving hacker,etc hooks into it I Lose little and close it down. Bank charges $3 per month for this account, so for $36 bucks a year I sleep contented.
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Maybe cancel that card or take all the money out of it?
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Cancelling the card for a new card wont fix the problem without closing the credit card account altogether and losing it. I did this and the payment still kept going. I had a zombie account I could not access taking money for 4 years until i made major efforts. I wont use direct debits any more because i have had difficulty stopping payments going out multiple times. I use Paypal now because I can cancel through paypal easily. If I cant use Paypal I wont subscribe to the service.
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Geaff
What you have to understand is that there are usually no people directly involved in any of this. You are dealing with computers in the initial contact and often to do the entire task. No streaming service is going to pay anyone to help you or anyone else Unsubscribe. Their business is getting subscriptions.
All my computer savvy sons have subscribed and unsubscribed multiple times from various streaming services. I know this because when they visit, they occasionally log in so they can view their streaming service on our TV and it stays available until they unsubscribe or we get automatically logged out.
What I suggest is you have a go at using the unsubscribe procedure on this link:
https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-cancel-netflix-au
There is a Netflix contact web page:
https://help.netflix.com/en/contactus
Usually these contact web pages provide email tracking of exchanges.
The fact that this web page exists means that the procedure is not intuitive.
It appears that the banks cannot stop recurring payments. So you need to get Netflix to stop using it.
The other possibility is to get a trusted computer savvy person to help you out.
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Louis Rossman has covered this topic a few times now. Cancelling should be as easy as signing up but it’s typically way harder.
I do have a simple solution for you though – get a rechargeable credit card.
Once the credit is used, that’s it.
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JCII,
Yes, that is a good solution for after the event. It is wider than streaming services. I managed to close one by a registered letter to the Managing Director at his Double Bay address. There was a similar problem with the exit from ChatGPT after an initial task to see it work, which finally was resolved after a real person became involved and moved quickly and sympathetically.
Yes, Rick, the problem is the old one of trusting the computer too much. The trouble starts when the software does not envisage certain exceptions and is left flabbergasted. BTW, I started programming with machine language in 1971. Not entirely computer savvy, but perhaps more than most.
I have raised this topic here because the more I talk about it, the more people tell me that yes, they have one or a few recurring small deductions each month, not enough to bother them much because the sums are small.
What if, as I suspect, we have seen just the tip of a new iceberg. There sums could easily aggregate into a swindle of millions a month.
So, I ask again – have others encountered the problem of exiting from periodic payments?
Geoff S
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Breaking up is hard to do, tra la la.
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Yes, repeatedly, back to the 1990’s. I had long battles with WBC over a direct debit by an organisation taking a reasonably large payment after the organisation had gone bust and was not functioning properly. I have had troubles since, lately with Youtube. And some in between. I subscribe using Paypal now as Paypal makes recurring payments easy to cancel. If I cant use Paypal I dont subscribe.
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Yeah, cancelling gym membership, you can sign up online, but to cancel you have to send your cancellation form to the gym by certified mail!
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FWIW – an unequal contest
“Witless Sturgeon v Witty Rowling”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/08/29/witless-sturgeon-v-witty-rowling/
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/29/witless-sturgeon-v-witty-rowling-n3806276
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Aa bad as Victoriastan Liberals are, they are still far less bad than Labor.
But Labor/Greens would still win an election if held now.
The Liberals need to become a genuine conservative party, not woke Labor Lite. Unfortunately, they just don’t have a clue.
https://www.pollbludger.net/2025/08/21/resolve-strategic-labor-32-coalition-33-greens-12-in-victoria/
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FWIW
“RFK Jr. Hits the Medical Cartel Where It Hurts Most With Game-Changing HHS Move”
“Imagine this: you go to your doctor, and they give you ten minutes. You say, “Hey, Doc, I got a problem. How do I fix it?”
The doctor writes you a prescription, you take it to the pharmacy, and then you take that pill for life—until you die.
This is what most people experience when they see a doctor.
But RFK Jr. is changing that with a bold new vision to improve the doctor-patient relationship for good.
He announced that he’s leading a team at HHS to overhaul the medical education system and finally put a focus on what’s been ignored for too long—nutrition training.”
More at
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/rfk-jr-hits-medical-cartel-where-it-hurts/
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All the incentives seem to be on the side of making you better, rather than keeping you well. I dont realistically see that changing , so it seems to be up to the individual on how they engage with the medical industry.
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Agriculture, particularly horticulture have been doing this for decades. We sap test several times from budding to harvest and adjust nutrient requirements by fertigation. We do it again soon after harvest to set the plants up before they go to sleep for the winter.
Nutrients are becoming more important with livestock as well. Since 2020 my girlfriend [ wife ] and I have been taking supplements that have had life altering results. I have been waiting for others here to comment on similar.
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Settle down Albo! There is no way The USA will facilitate a vote at the UN to sub divide Palestine! The truth is that Albo knows that all too well but attempts to curry favour with the Middle Eastern diaspora masquerading as Australians and when they learn that they have been duped by sleazy duplicitous politicians it will not end as well as they (Labor) would have hoped. Pretty much like the Higgins back door 2.4 million $$$ payout that was meant to cruel the Liberal election pathway and denigrate them and especially “Scomo” in the eyes of female voters
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All depends on what Usman tells him to think apparently.
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There are many claims that iodine deficiency causes or influences cancer growth.
However, is iodine deficiency even an issue in Western countries?
In Australia and I assume most Western countries iodine is added to table salt or other substances. It’s difficult to avoid getting iodine in one’s diet, I would have thought.
Note also a dietary claim that salt is bad and intake should be minimised.
On the other hand, from Wikipedia:
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US lawmakers probe Wikipedia over bias claims
The platform has been accused of pushing anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine narratives and promoting hate through its ‘early life’ sections
US lawmakers have opened a probe into Wikipedia after it was accused of spreading anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine narratives, and of promoting “coded hate” through its ‘early life’ sections.
The platform’s credibility has long been questioned over an alleged left-leaning bias.
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, led by Republicans James Comer and Nancy Mace, formally requested that the Wikimedia Foundation provide records of editing activities and explain its methods for addressing organized campaigns to shape content.
The lawmakers said the probe follows multiple complaints about attempts to “manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences.”
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Good news. The fundamental issue is that donations to Wikipedia are tax deductible in the US and to qualify for tax deductibility organisations must be unbiased and not spread hate etc..
I stopped donating to Wikipedia long ago due to its Leftist bias (although not tax deductible for Australians). Many others have too.
The Left destroy everything they touch, including Wikipedia.
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Its not just the iodine they add to table salt, there are ‘flow-enhancers’ and anti-caking agents. I stopped buying cheap salt when I found titanium dioxide in it, I figured it was something I don’t need. Now its rock crystal salt in a grinder. Home-made bread too,from flour without iodine added.
I’ll rely on cream, yoghurt and eggs for my iodine.
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Ah, salt. What an exercise in marketing. That cheapest of all commodities, Easily produced from saline water anywhere, easily mined from large deposits and worst of all “Dirt Cheap”.
How do you make something that’s dirt cheap earn more money, attribute it with “magical powers” and voila, it costs more for exactly the same stuff. Sea salt, produced around the world, generally white in colour, add mud to make it grey or brown and claim a beaut new source of life extending minerals, inland Australian salt, stained red from inland sands and probably a high iron content, used to be used for industrial purposes and cheap as dirt, now its designer Murray river Red salt, value soared, same stuff different marketing.
Medicate the masses, salt is in everything so way to go. I would have thought that natural sea salt was high in iodine anyway, maybe its removed when the salt is washed to make it whiter than white and there for be “pure”.
We preserve a bit of meat in our house, salt of choice, Australian produced swimming g pool salt. declared on the bag ingredients “sodium Chloride” coarse grained, can easily be ground down to smaller particle size if required. Price, well dirt cheap at $6.00 for 20kgs at the big red hammer.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“The War On Reality is Over
“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-war-on-reality-is-over
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FWIW – from today’s Coffee & Covid newsletter
“I call progressives’ awful, anti-natalist ideology the Burning Man Ethos. Burning Man is an annual drug-fueled orgy in the Nevada desert, where organizers construct a temporary city in the sand (“Black Rock City”), which is itself consumed by the week-long excess of radical self-expression and personal autonomy (and rampant STDs, but I digress). By the event’s climactic end, only trash and sand remain— gone with the desert wind.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/burning-man-ethos-friday-august-29?
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” in the U.S., birthrates among self-identified progressives fell a full point from 2.8 kids per mother in the 1970’s to only 1.8 by 2024— below replacement levels. Meanwhile, for conservatives, the decline was much smaller, dropping only 0.1 to 2.7 kids per mother. The same appears true for the rest of the world, too.”
Sounds great to me! The Left will un-breed themselves and in a democracy that means conservatives take over…
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CFACT helps kill $430 million offshore wind grant in California. DOT just terminated its grant for the Humboldt floater factory. We asked them to do that in June.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/10/dot-asked-to-terminate-illegal-floating-wind-grant/
Woohoo!
12 project grants killed. Here is the list:
https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-terminates-and-withdraws-679-million
Says OSW projects are “doomed”! Humboldt is the big one.
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Yesterday PF said:
When is he and other Leftists going to go back to wherever their or their ancestors came from? If not, why not?
And the land was not “stolen”. It was peacefully settled.
Captain Cook’s instructions from the Royal Society and Admiralty included:
And had the British not settled Australia it would likely have been settled by the Germans, French, Belgians or others who would likely have enslaved or wiped out the native population. It’s a good thing it was Britain, the most peaceful and sophisticated of the European colonisers (although admittedly not perfect either). Lacking writing, technology beyond the Stone Age, sophisticated legal or government systems, etc. the 600 or so disparate endlessly warring tribes would not have remained as they were for long as the world around them advanced and they remained in the Paleolithic.
Note also, pre-European Australia was no Utopia as the Left would have you believe. Life for the inhabitants was incredibly savage and cruel as testified by numerous early eyewitness accounts and even up until the 1950’s for remaining isolated groups as documented in The Lizard Eaters by Douglas Lockwood.
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The middle east and South Africa are not nice places these days, that’s why. 😁
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We are constantly harangued on the subject of aboriginal ownership, being ‘reliably’ informed that our native population has been here for – what is is today?, sixty thousand years? – but the obvious question is never asked, that is; ‘where were they before that?’
Obviously, they did not evolve here, unlike the marsupial population, but originated from somewhere else, just like the rest of us.
Seems like we were all in line to arrive here in Oz, some just got here before others.
I would also like some politician or so-called ‘journalist’ to locate their spine and ask publicly just what the ‘native population’ have to say about the current wave of invasion, as they are claimed to be so unhappy with the previous one.
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It used to be taught that there were at least three waves of peoples arriving in Australia. each replacing what was here before, so, colonists. The huge differences in Tasmanian aborigines verses mainland aborigines, versus the pygmy groups of North Queensland underscore this “fact”, we however only acknowledge the rowdiest latest group of arrivals. The ones that claim 40, 50 or 60 thousand years of habitation, but may have in fact only arrived with their dingos 7 to 10 thousand years ago.
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From my reading dingoes came to Australia around 4000 years ago.
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Jo,
Health prevents me attending the march tomorrow. All I can do is endorse your preference for people to be there. There is a great deal at stake if we all sit back and hope for improvement to pop out of thin air when the present is showing so many actions harmful to proper, honest folk that are the backbone of this proud nation of achievers. Geoff S
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Lest we forget the effectiveness of the much bigger anti-vax and anti-lockdown marches, when biggus blobbus apologised and reversed it all.
/sarc
Do you seriously think the pollie piggies give a stuff unless it seriously threatens their own future?
/and it doesn’t.
“Ikea democracy repair kit” on standby. That WILL work.😎
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““Ikea democracy repair kit” on standby. That WILL work”
With the patent fastenings they use the repair won’t last for long!
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BREAKING: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces that schooling for doctors will now include NUTRITION – so doctors can teach their patients how to tackle chronic disease via lifestyle, not drugs.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/rfk-jr-doctors-will-now-learn-nutrition-so-they-can-prescribe-diets-as-well-as-drugs/
LOL…
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UK council offers emotional support to staff “Discomforted” by seeing the national flag
A council in the county of Essex, close to London, has been ridiculed for offering emotional support to employees they claim are feeling unsettled by seeing so many people raising the national flag in the streets of towns and cities across the country.
As we have highlighted, the action is being taken by everyday people in Britain who are sick to the back teeth of mass illegal immigration and the falllout it’s having on their communities.
https://modernity.news/2025/08/29/uk-council-offers-emotional-support-to-staff-discomforted-by-seeing-the-national-flag/
Maybe these unpatriotic cowards can go “culturally enrich” the countries that the gimmigrants came from?
/now with extra sarc.
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Putin’s interview ahead of China visit (FULL TEXT)
The Russian president discusses wartime legacy, economic ties, strategic cooperation and shared international goals
President Vladimir Putin has outlined the deepening alliance between Russia and China, highlighting their shared historical legacy and common vision for a multipolar global order, in a written interview with Xinhua News Agency published ahead of his visit to China.
Putin praised the neighbours’ united stance against historical revisionism and outlined broad cooperation in trade, energy, education, defence, and multilateral diplomacy.
Below is the full text of the interview as published by the Kremlin:
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Putin is in for a shock, Xi has already been stripped of power.
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” Xi has already been stripped of power.”
No sign of it this month, or last month.. Let’s see what September brings, one day you will be right, even if he dies of old age!
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Its all happening in slow motion.
The September 3 military parade will offer a subtle hint, Zhang Youxia will salute the troops and not Xi, who will be telling Putin we can no longer buy your cheap oil and coal.
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We are told that the 3rd is the day to watch.
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The Axis of Evil will be a sitting target. Beijing has been locked down.
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That sounds unlikely … nothing personal but whatever you think of Putin’s morality, he didn’t get this far by being stupid.
Somehow I doubt you are better informed than the Kremlin.
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Maybe I have not looked before but Putin appears to be following Trump exposing his thoughts on a range of topics in the public domain.
Trumps open cabinet meetings are interesting. He gets a lot of stroking from his supporters. But there is a lot of information exchanged.
Every leader needs to be mindful of surrounding themselves with like-minded people. It narrows the range of views and increases the risk of not being pulled up when going down a dead end. Musk was the most visibkle with opposing views but his role was only temporary.
The great part of the US system is the POTUS can only serve 8 years.
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Rick
IIRC Putin has been doig that for a while
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Dogs are a man’s best friend they said
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t1rglqOgNB1z23obp.mp4
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Thanks second coming, made me laugh after my melt down a bit lower
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Totally different guy. No association.
Nowhere near as awesome or modest as me.
I don’t give up my weekends for anyone. 😆
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The unvaccinated didn’t spread disease.
They spread resistance to the fear…and that’s when they became dangerous.
The more you know, the crazier you appear to ignorant people.
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FWIW
“Lies, damn lies and news reporter lies”
“‘Undercover’ Spy At Center Of WSJ Sob Story Is Actually A Public CIA Russia Hoaxer”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/28/undercover-spy-at-center-of-wsj-sob-story-is-actually-a-public-cia-russia-hoaxer/
Via Hot Air
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Goliath’s Curse: The history and future of societal collapse
“For the first 200,000 years of human history, hunter-gathering Homo sapiens lived in fluid, egalitarian civilizations that thwarted any individual or group from ruling permanently.”
Now we live in a single global Goliath. Growth-obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, big tech, and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species, from climate change to nuclear war.
Our systems are now so fast, complex and interconnected that a future collapse will likely be global, swift and irreversible. All of us now faces a choice: we must learn to democratically control Goliath, or the next collapse may be our last.
PDF, 700 pages.
https://ufile.io/a75eyqd9
Be quick, auto-deletes. 😎
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“we must learn to democratically control Goliath,”
Rubbish! We must learn to live past Goliath and ignore it. The less you interact with it the weaker it becomes.
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How much do you interact with government and how weak is it?
Honestly…
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FWIW
Made the big time!
“These Are The World’s Most Unaffordable Housing Markets”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/these-are-worlds-most-unaffordable-housing-markets
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Pffft, buying a house is the easy part, after just receiving our latest rates notice we are quite amazed that we simply cannot afford to live in our chosen home any more.
As self funded retirees we have a limited income and being eighty years old I have limited ability to earn more. These things just simply dont’ matter to governments of all levels.
So, we have a municipal rate, plus a Municipal charge, plus a community waste charge, plus a 3 bin service charge, plus an Emergency service and volunteer charge, plus a Emergency Residential fire levy.
Don’t you love the obfuscation, a “municipal charge” that’s what our bloody rates are. A community waste charge, well we used to look after our own waste, apparently we are now responsible for the community, a 3 bin service Fee, for a service that we do not require and have not used in 30 years, councils advice, we will charge you whether you use the service or not. Then the “new” state government Emergency Services and Volunteer fund, broken into 2 units to look officiall but is actually just away to increase the fee without it, you know, being to onerous.
So in the past, what was you property rates that covered, you know, council services, is just another opportunity to tax people into poverty and government dependence.
Of course I have suggested that council stick to roads, rates and rubbish thereby reducing costs, but no, we are inclusive, diverse, acknowledge the traditional owners and spend money on executive salaries that makes your eyes water.
Can’t pay your rates old timer, bad luck, sell up and move into some tiny little bungalow we don’t care that you may have worked all you life for what you have, don’t you know we the governments of Australia, want it.
rant over
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And
“Switzerland Tops US As World’s Wealthiest Nation Per Person”
“Elbow” has a lot of downward possibility by that
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/switzerland-tops-us-worlds-wealthiest-nation-person
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How you research your bioweapons to kill Slavs..
“According to David Collum of Cornell University, 36 biolabs operated in Ukraine for testing medical drugs on humans. Collum was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. In order to do this you need First World technology and Third World subjects, he said.”
The Pentagon put out tenders for 10,000 blood samples from Slavs in ‘Eastern Ukraine’ just before Putin invaded.
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-b6a
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…and those new missiles that will stop the war by defeating Putin..
” The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has announced the launch of an investigation into Fire Point, the developer of the Flamingo missile. Another name for the missile is FP-1, and the real developer is rumored to be in the UK.
Surprisingly, until recently no one inside or outside the professional community of UAV developers in Ukraine had heard about the development of this missile, like Fire Point. However, according to the data received, this new “development” received the bulk of the budget funds of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense for drones. The likely beneficiary of the company may be businessman Timur Mindich, whose second nickname is “Vladimir Zelensky’s wallet”. ”
So… why did Zelensky seize control of that Anti-Corruption Bureau again? No wonder he didn’t want it poking around!
https://voenhronika-ru.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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Elon: People of the great nations of Britain & Ireland, rally NOW to save your beautiful countries
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1961481368157777991
The smart money has already left the UK.
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FWIW
“Slavery Facts From 2 Blacks – At Last.”
“Those Who Remember Real History Are Set Free Of Narrative Prison
This is an interesting video for a couple of reasons. It starts with a “white guy”, Douglas Murray, stating a fact about the slave trade, and getting pushback from the audience. I’ve seen the actual video that is an intro thumbnail here. Essentially pointing out that it was the British Empire that ended the Slave Trade. But this just shows an introduction of a few seconds of it; then a Black Man, Kaizen D Asiedu, reacts to the truth of it. Which then transitions to the main body of the video where a Black Woman from Nigeria expands on it all. This being from her channel.”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/slavery-facts-from-2-blacks-at-last/
One might ask if Starmer and Co are trying to erase this historically and physically?
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Clarke & Dawe classic: the EU debt crisis
https://youtu.be/I5QwKEwo4Bc?si=Srdfzv8YkWVrqaWU
Big badda boom!
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds.
Modelling of effects on a poorly understood circulation, when using exaggerated effect of CO2 emissions giving an extra 8.5W/m2 in 2100 using climate models with a thumb on the scale, which once still only came up with 10% chance until Rahmstorf jumped on the terminal.
I’m going to take it with a pinch of salt but still would like to read anyone who has looked closely at the “research”.
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Federal appeals court rules Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal
On Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that most of President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal. The 7–4 decision slices into the core of his trade war strategy.
The court stayed its ruling until October 14, giving Trump time to appeal to a Supreme Court he helped build. But business confidence is already unraveling.
Firms that restructured production to dodge tariffs now sit in limbo. Projects delayed. Capital frozen. Supply chains stalled. If the Supreme Court confirms the ruling, those adjustments are wasted.
https://wallstreetsuntzu.com/market-marco/federal-appeals-court-rules-trumps-sweeping-global-tariffs-illegal-in-a-stunning-constitutional-defeat-that-could-force-billions-in-refunds-and-freeze-u-s-trade/
Businesses just can’t function with such uncertainty in supply chain logistics.
Oh well, let’s wait for the fallout next week.
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This just proves (for those people still unaware) that the Long Slow March has pretty much been completed. America is no longer a democracy and the people have little say.
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US democracy should survive, Donnie may become a lame duck after the Mid Term elections and the Democrats will organise to regain office.
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FWIW
“THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION PROGRESSES:”
https://x.com/ESpeaksFreely/status/1961543553232101544
Via https://instapundit.com/741226/#disqus_thread
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Interesting insight into a proposed pumped hydro plant in NSW.
https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/projects/muswellbrook-pumped-hydro-energy-storage
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It is, although it would be much more interesting if it had .hrs after the megawatt projection!
No mention of the MW.hrs on the front page, is it 500MW for 15minutes or 8hours? No doubt it will be touted as powering 100,000 homes in NSW.
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You are correct. A pumped hydrogen generator is essentially a peaking plant. Pumped hydrogen has the advantage of operating longer depending on how much water was pumped uphill. Their disadvantages are droughts and the land footprint.
Funny how we can build these but not real dams to collect water for agriculture and major cities.
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??..pumped Hydrogen ??
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He, Jock, means pumped hydro.
Fingers could not be stopped?
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