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Its not just electric cars.
Electric bicycles were responsible for a record number of fires, injuries and deaths in New York City last year.
‘”And one of the problems that we’ve noticed, when you look at those taped-up batteries, you see that they are refurbished,” he continued. “These shops are going inside attempting to refurbish the batteries and do it their own way. This is a safety issue.”
Amid the uptick in e-bike fires and deaths, New York City leaders led by Adams and FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh — who said last year that e-bikes are “incredibly dangerous devices” and called for additional regulation — have spearheaded a public education campaign about the dangers of the device and pushed policies to ensure safety.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/e-bikes-caused-record-fires-injuries-and-deaths-last-year-nyc
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And eScooters.
There have been a number of cases in the UK of devastating house/flat fires caused by people charging, or just storing, their eScooters indoors.
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The problem largely arises with cheap e-scooters with Chinese batteries and also that people just leave batteries continually on charge rather than unplugging when full.
Not helped by such scooters being light enough to carry into your living room to charge in the warm or even take upstairs if you live in an apartment block.
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There certainly are a lot of “sub standard” battery packs around,..and chargers.
But if the correct lithium charger is used, it does not need unpluging at full charge, …it will automatically switch itself off when the battery is recharged.
( Unlike a lead acid battery charger which will keep the power on for a continuous “float” charge.)
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I should add that even a ideal battery charger wont prevent a “bad” or damaged battery from overheating, or even bursting into flames, before its fully charged !
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I checked, my electric assisted pedal bicycle has a Samsung battery and system including charger, and I follow charging instructions and never recharge inside my house.
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If your battery is like mine it detaches from the frame and I would say the vast majority of people will then take it inside the house to charge.
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E bikes and e-scooters are banned on a number of British trains.
Good quality expensive ones are not so much the problem, but the cheap and cheerful products with, as you say, refurbished batteries, which were probably not much use in the first place.
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“…..policies to ensure safety.” mmmmmmm policies; crisis averted then.
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I found this trio of links-two of which I posted last week-very worrying when looked at in the round. The first indicates the “elite” -that is to say around 1% of us -want much tighter rules on travel, food and our energy use to combat climate change
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/21/two-thirds-of-elite-americans-favour-food-and-energy-rations-to-combat-climate-change-poll-finds/
The second, also from another section of the elite states that “Lockdowns should be harder”
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/20/im-a-public-health-fascist-journalist-who-led-calls-for-lockdown-publishes-book-demanding-we-prepare-to-do-it-all-again-but-harder-so-it-works-this-time/
The third is this Very disturbing demand from the Dutch queen to expand digital ID in order to track vaccination status and to track bank account spending
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-dutch-queen-demands-digital-ids-track-vaccination-status/
We all know that none of the above groups would expect the rules to apply to them. Just finishing the book 1984 again and it is clear they see us as “proles” who exist only to serve their own needs and quest for power.
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I can’t see how the travel thingy will work. Airplane industries are building more and more fuel efficient aircraft for more mass travel. Will those elites want to sit in ‘cattle class’ in order for airlines to have full flights. I don’t think so. And I can’t see aircraft being powered by a battery or even hydrogen anytime soon.
As for EVs. Can’t see it as diesel power is needed for so many forms of transport. Ships and prime movers for instance. Especially in cold climates.
And as for the Electricity Grids. Windmills and solar panels and batteries just can’t provide electricity for 50 years plus without replacement let alone providing 100% continuous power for 24 hours a day, day in day out.
Reality meets pipe dreams and reality will win hands down once again.
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Johnny
As you can see from Davos, the elite don’t bother with prole aircraft, they use their own private jets.
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Coincidentally, just after I wrote the trio of links above, I saw this. The Head of the UN says at Davos that digital ID is needed to meet overarching aims of sustainable development
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-un-chief-calls-global-digital-id-meet-sustainable-development-goals/
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Warming?
Almanac for Dallas-Fort Worth Area, TX
January 22
Record Highs
Max Temperature 85 in 1909
Min Temperature 61 in 1909
Avg Temperature 73.0 in 1909
MTD
Avg Temperature 58.6 in 1907
YTD
Avg Temperature 58.6 in 1907
if “global” warming is real, why are DFW record high temps for this date well over a century ago and before all of our modern technology?
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Don’t worry, I’m sure this will be brought to the attention of the relevant people and the data “homogenised” before you know it.
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Texas weather. In the winter, Texas is known for its wild swings in temperatures. I’ve seen it go from 90 F to snow in less than 48 hours. (I’ve also seen it go from snow in the morning to 65 F in the afternoon.) But it’s a random variance, it can occur any time in the winter. (And more than once.)
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Many high temperature records are quite old. That’s why they need adjusting, homegenizing or deletion if you can get away with it.
Continuing your the the WMO temp records site is worth a look. https://wmo.asu.edu/content/world-meteorological-organization-global-weather-climate-extremes-archive
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“Continuing your theme ….. “
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Thx for the ammo! I’ll include it in my aresenal.
I am surprised Wiki keeps this link alive as most USA high temps are so last century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_territory_temperature_extremes
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Yesterday, Mayday noted how Kaliforniastan has banned the sale of new small petrol/gasoline engines such as used in lawnmowers and leaf blowers, even chainsaws.
As there are no independent thinkers in any Australian Lib/Lab Uniparty Government, Australia always adopts the worst laws of others so I wonder how long before the mentally deranged simpletons of our governments like Chris Bowen will do the same?
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As with most bans of sales. (Prohibition ?)…this will likely just lead to a black market in chainsaws etc, boost the used market value of them, and just force buyers to travel to a state that has more realistic regulations !
( thinking out loud…….ban sales of leaf blowers ,…. but not guns ?)🤔🙄🙄
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I think you’ll find there is no Constitutional right to bear leaf blowers.
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Why don’t feminists demand equal representation among garbage collectors, sewerage workers etc.?
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The likes of Clementine Ford could not work in a sewer, being full of said contents already.
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They’d break their fingernails and complain?
What do you call a letter from a feminist?
Hate male.
How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. They just hold it in the socket and expect the world to revolve around them.
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Imagine the outcry if 98% of deaths in the workplace were female?
Ever seen the lack of diversity in businesses owned and run by women?
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Tactics
“UQ academic writes on how to be a top cat”
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2001/02/uq-academic-writes-how-be-top-cat
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Come fly with me!
Australia had a homosexual as the CEO of QANTAS who trashed the reputation of our once great airliner. Luckly none crashed.
But United Airlines has a drag Queen as its CEO!
Boeing is retiring its older qualified workforce and replacing them with younger workers who tick all the DIE boxes
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/diverse-incompetent-comedian-rob-schneider-pens-open-letter-calling-out-drag-queen-ceo
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Beat me to it.
Is everyone else also sick of the typical company PR bs that is just drivel?
“Safety is the FAA’s top priority and drives all decisions.”
Then explain DEI traffic controllers instructing experienced pilots about landing because they Googled it ( and Google beats a pilot any day).
Maybe a DEI hire, iq of 80, autistic, feminist midget CAN fly a plane, but *I* won’t be on it finding out.
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The train here in Adelaide is quite pleasant into the city from the foothills – except for the occasional announcement from a 1984-sounding woman who assures me that “safety” is SA Transport’s highest priority. This is a hangover from Covid days. There I was imagining that a transport agency would have “moving people and goods” as its priority, but there you go.
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Redacted on Climate Issues.
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Donald should ultimately win and pull out of Paris, all the while heating up the climate war.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/22/retired-public-service-head-is-climate-change-too-hard-for-democracy/
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This morning the Australian government held a press conference that named a Russian man responsible for the MediBank hacking of nine million Australian’s personal information, nine months ago.
Was this event just a smokescreen to divert media attention away from the fact that Queensland’s electricity grid collapsed yesterday, unable to meet demand?
At 6pm, Energex was reporting more than 40,000 south-east Queensland premises without power (and air-conditioning) due to scores of unscheduled outages.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/power-grid-assurances-as-sunshine-state-feels-the-heat-20240122-p5ez7m.html
The maximum temperature in Brisbane yesterday was 32.0 degrees C. @ 10.30am.
& Gold Coast was 31.0 degrees C. at 10am.
https://weatherspark.com/h/d/144671/2024/1/22/Historical-Weather-on-Monday-January-22-2024-in-Brisbane-Australia#Figures-Temperature
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I did not feel a thing, they have been trying to scare the state with the nonexistent heat wave and their nonexistent cyclone, (which I have named Clayton)
Scarring the gullible will work 95% of the time though.
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The thumbnail for this vid from 7 notnews is “Cyclone Panic“
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It didn’t collapse. They and some gear over heat and fail. At not time was there are shortage of power.
I do however notice the BOM still has a “EXTREME HEAT” warning out for brisbane area…. it was a top of 28C today…
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You Will Own Nothing… Because They Will Steal Everything
David Rogers Webb (DRW) is a financial expert and former global money manager who lives in Sweden.
Recently, DRW revealed the game plan of globalists like Klaus Schwab who publicly predicts, “You will own nothing . . .” According to DRW, this is not some idle threat but a complicated active plan demonic Deep State globalist central bankers have been working on for decades. DRW has explained this theft in a free book and documentary called “The Great Taking.” It is a stunning plan to steal almost all wealth and legally not be required to pay one red cent for it.
They have worked for half a century to put this in place. So, it is quite deliberate. This is not an accident.”
He also suggests you may want to sell your stocks and bonds now, and pay off your house or any debts you have.
https://usawatchdog.com/you-will-own-nothing-because-they-will-steal-everything-david-rogers-webb/
Link to his free book, PDF:
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
Just like I’ve said for a year – it goes back to WW2 and the descendants of those players are still at it.
Pay off your debts and have reserves of everything.
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Well it is the great reset, Blacks Law dictionary defines Reset as Theft
RESET. The receiving or harboring an outlawed person. Cowell. —-Reset of theft. In Scotch law. The receiving and keeping stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, with a design of ieloniously retain-
iujg them from the real owner. Alis. Cum. Law, I3.S.
RESETTER. In Scotch law. A receiver of stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen.
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What is Scotch law?
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Scots law
Hybrid legal system of Scotland, containing civil law and common law elements
Scots law is the legal system of Scotland. It is a hybrid or mixed legal system containing civil law and common law elements, that traces its roots to a number of different historical sources. Together with English law and Northern Ireland law, it is one of the three legal systems of the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
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The headline DRW is running is a lie.
He’s just another attention seeker trying to suck in the gullible.
Don’t fall for it.
If you’re not into derivatives you don’t have a problem
If you’re not up to your ears in unsustainable debt, you don’t have a problem.
Finally, he forgets that people still have access to pitchforks.
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Huge data leak dubbed the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ sees 26 BILLION records leaked from sites including Twitter, Linkedin, and Dropbox – here’s how to check if you’ve been affected
Your personal information may have been leaked in the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB), cybersecurity researchers have warned.
Over 26 billion personal records have been exposed, in what researchers believe to be the biggest-ever data leak.
Sensitive information from several sites including Twitter, Dropbox, and Linkedin was discovered on an unsecured page.
Worryingly, the researchers who found it claim this breach is extremely dangerous and could prompt a tsunami of cybercrime.
To see if your data has been affected by historic data breaches, you can use Cybernews’ data leak checker.
Simply enter your email address or phone number into the search bar and click ‘check now’ to see whether that account information has been leaked.
Cybernews says that it is currently working on updating the tool to ensure that it will be able to check for data leaked in this latest breach.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12992157/Huge-data-leak-dubbed-Mother-Breaches-sees-26-BILLION-records-leaked-sites-including-Twitter-Linkedin-Dropbox-heres-check-youve-affected.html
Yes, it’s SAFE to enter your email address. It’s not a trap, unless your a noob mac owner. 😆
Like I warned in 2023, cyberattacks will seriously escalate in 2024…what would I know…
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Tuesday ejukayshun: physical matter is music solidified – Pythagoras
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f3583f061a24478dce390df5b1307186/0305ea63c911e952-a5/s1280x1920/797366b606b2477718207915c0fcbafabb66aa2f.jpg
Can’t argue with that one!
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WEF declares war on your Coffee
The World Economic Forum has declared war on coffee drinkers, declaring that they are causing “global boiling” and must be stopped at all costs.
According to World Economic Forum Agenda Contributor Hubert Keller, “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere.”
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1749436533185118614
Oh how they p1$$ off the human race…and wonder why their fruitloop plans are falling apart.
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Guess who will be targetted next to prevent “global boiling”?
They also forgot methane emissions from the flatulant.
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That didn’t take long to percolate to the top, did it?
I bet they drink decafe.
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Why the wealthy woke are still buying beach front properties
There has been a cooling trend in Antarctic for the last 20 years.
https://notrickszone.com/
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2023/cool-change-for-west-antarctica/
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A victory for commonsense.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/lawfare/2024/01/barossa-case-the-crocodile-mans-comeuppance/
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A very interesting read. The University of WA has been recently criticised for refusing to retract another of O’Leary’s papers, which other UWA professors have pointed out is full of holes. Trying to remember the name of another “unusual” UWA employee – Lewandowski?
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Seek Wisdom.
The black duck is dead at UWA.
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Very interesting indeed.
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A victory for science by Dr Posamentier over mumbo jumbo by O’Leary.
O’Leary’s dream time maps shown here in the Daily Mail’s article:
Mick the scientist gave a TEDx speech about ancient Aboriginal ‘songlines’ that brought a massive $5.8billion gas pipeline worth 600 jobs to a halt. There was just one huge problem
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Now They Are Calling for His Assassination?
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Bloody hell. The Soros family must be way up there as the winners of the 666 award for reviving the Antichrist.
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Tuesday wtf: that’s one BAD boating day out
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s7mqiiXz7Y1w5pr9j.mp4
Holy…
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New Research Shatters Vitamin D Supplementation Myth
A major clinical trial conducted by Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has discovered that vitamin D supplements do not enhance bone strength or reduce the risk of bone fractures in children who are deficient in vitamin D. This research contradicts common beliefs about the impact of vitamin D on bone health.
Around one-third of children have at least one fracture before the age of 18. This is a major global health issue, as childhood fractures can lead to life years of disability and/or poor quality of life. The potential for vitamin D supplements to improve bone strength has attracted growing interest in recent years, based on vitamin D’s role in promoting bone mineralization. However, clinical trials designed to test whether vitamin D supplements can prevent bone fractures in children have not previously been conducted.
Over the course of three years, 8,851 schoolchildren aged 6-13 living in Mongolia received a weekly oral dose of vitamin D supplementation. 95.5% of participants had vitamin D deficiency at baseline, and study supplements were highly effective in boosting vitamin D levels into the normal range. However, they had no effect on fracture risk or on bone strength, measured in a subset of 1,438 participants using quantitative ultrasound.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(23)00317-0/fulltext
Beliefs destroyed again.
At least we *know* you need to drink milk for strong bones, right?
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K2…any check on that?
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And D’s cofactors? Especially zinc, magnesium and vitamin C?
I’ve yet to read the paper, but will.
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Tuesday anti global boiling pictures
https://pleated-jeans.com/2024/01/20/cold-winter-pics/
There are some excellent photos there, 5 pages of them!
Show them to your AGW friends.😉
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So what is the point of United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainability related National Marine Parks for future generations, no fishing permitted now?
Boiling oceans must mean the end of seafood, the UN Chief wouldn’t lie would he?
sarc
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Well at least it’s not due to viruses being boiled away.
😉😉
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There should be some big surf arriving in Ireland and maybe France in the next couple of days. Waves in North Atlantic now up to 12m:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/01/23/0300Z/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=significant_wave_height/orthographic=-10.98,37.82,574/loc=-32.036,47.680
These waves are as big as what the North Pacific experienced a few weeks back.
The NT low, 03U, has moved well into WA and weakened. It appears to be reducing the intensity of the cyclone Anggrek in the Indian Ocean. Low 05U in thee Coral Sea has intensified and now down to 990hPa.with winds up to 75kph. Not yet named though..
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How about rogue waves?
https://twitter.com/JackMedia7/status/1749610077965713575
Now, I did see an interesting video 6 months plus ago on the topic. I’ll try to recall its name.
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There was a deep low in the Northern Pacific (974hPa) that was producing waves to 10m at 28N on Friday. Waves of the corresponding wavelength would take around 40 hours to reach the Marshall Islands at 10N but were showing to be around 2.5m at the Marshal Island. I expect that is unusual for that close to the equator.
These are coral atolls that do not have much freeboard and there may have been some land shaping to intensify the wave. A perfect combination.
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Interestingly, the Marshall Islands take the name from English Master John Marshal who commanded the convict ship Scarborough as part of Phillip’s First Fleet to Botany Bay.
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There is nothing there in reality, http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR411.loop.shtml
Only in the models https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-205.84,-19.00,3392/loc=153.427,-17.039
But the fear is real, our supermarkets have been cleared out.
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Willis E has a look at
“Maine Sea Level Panic”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/22/maine-sea-level-panic/
with the usual result – “Don’t panic”
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That graphically
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/maine-projected-sea-level-720×641.png
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The Chandler Wobble is still a mystery, some say its to do with deep ocean pressure, however the lunar theory is still viable.
https://geoenergymath.com/2017/03/04/the-chandler-wobble-challenge/
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“Like the recent finding that the moon is proving a significant gravitational forcing in triggering earthquakes, the same could be asserted for the moon’s direct influence on the Chandler wobble. ”
I remember Ken Ring in NZ being pilloried after the Christchurch earthquake because he said the next one would most likely occur on such and such a date due to the moon phase… In amongst the many aftershocks nothing major happened on that date, but many people (especially Govt) tried to shut him down. He is a long-tern weather forecaster and often at odds with NZ’s BOM, and wrote a book on the moon’s influence. Looks like he was right-
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Polar motion data have exhibited a 6-year beat for over a century, it has been absent since 2015, indicating that the Chandler Wobble was not excited.
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Dr John Campbell
“Heart release press release”
https://youtu.be/MPvy6pl2oAo
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Doctor of Philosophy, and a Nurse.https://www.youtube.com/@Campbellteaching
About
Hello Everyone,
My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and A and E nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally.
He shows good stuff.
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Before the UK Government gets fully into spending on a Unicorn-Fart future, it seems to have become fully competent at the spending habit!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68061210
Headline –
“Lower UK government borrowing raises prospects of tax cuts”
Reality –
“Borrowing – the difference between spending and tax income – fell to £7,800 million in December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.”
And … ooo-er, missus –
“The ONS data showed that borrowing for the nine months to December 2023 was £119,100,000,000”
So, this tax year, our beloved leaders – nominally a ‘Conservative Government’, remember – have borrowed about £1,750 for every man, woman, child [and ‘other’] in addition to the highest taxes in peacetime since, well, the Roman Empire, or something.
And it all has to be paid back.
And interest paid on it until then.
I weep.
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“And it all has to be paid back…. And interest paid on it until then.”
Nope! Never paid back! Interest paid forever or until the next big reset! It amazes me how the voters never worry about this, but I expect 90% of them have no clue about how money is created.
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KP,
Cynically, you’re quite right.
Is it any wonder folk borrow with no clear idea of how they’ll pay it back?
Mortgages, car loans, pay-day loans, the local pawnbroker or loan shark.
Just follow the Chancellor of the Exchequer [‘Finance Minister’ in the UK] …
But the interest still has to be paid …
Until the country, company, or person defaults.
I guess I’m old fashioned, expecting debts to be paid, on time and in full.
I won’t be in my next life!
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FWIW
“The Globalists’ New Weapon”
Pandemic X
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalists-new-weapon
Links to
“We have seen this playbook before…
The International Journal of Arts of Social Science published the paper titled: “The World Economic Forum, “The Lancet,” and COVID-19 Knowledge Gatekeeping.” That paper is seminal in understanding just how corrupting the WEF as well as the WHO have become to scientific journals, scientists, universities, and media (fact-checkers).”
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Check the last item!
” In today’s bottom story: now they’ve done it. Now they’ve gone too far. The dummies at the World Economic Forum last week argued that coffee is making too much carbon dioxide and destroying the climate:”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/migratory-tuesday-january-23-2024?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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