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German supermarket bans colour blue as it is the same colour as the “far right” AFD party
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/31/german-supermarket-chain-takes-brave-stand-against-the-colour-blue-in-latest-effort-to-stamp-out-fascism-and-preserve-our-democracy/
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So no Blueberries or blue vein cheese then? What if I am a German football player/supporter and I decide to shop there wearing my blue football shirt?
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A worse scenario is when the sun shines thru a clear blue sky to run their solar farms!!
DECISIONS , DECISIONS………one can only laugh……😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
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So if/when Kamala Karma Chameleon visits Germany she’ll be dressed in a Trumpian RED suit? Or a gangrenous GREEN outfit? Or perhaps a Joseph-like coat of many colours – minus the blue?
What happens if Germans enjoy ‘Blues’ music – banned? There’s a rugby team here called ‘The Blues’ – thankfully we don’t live in Germany… yet.
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Kamala? Germany? She doen’t know where it is. Or Mexico. It is beyond my understanding that you could live in San Francisco for thirty years and not go near the ‘border’, like San Diego or Tijuana which is in Mexico. She really has no idea about geography or history. And just parrots the latest Marxist tripe, as do so many. The latest is tax on ‘unrealized capital gains’ which is a tax on inflation caused by her own government. So your assets grow in dollar value but you get taxed on the worthless increase and have to sell them to pay the tax? It is punitive Communism, to strip everyone of their hard earned wealth. As if inflation does not do that anyway. It was also proposed in Australia, the latest fashion in government public greed. And only fell over as the public service and the CFMEU are now middle class and some very rich.
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Well, of the three articles in the SMH covering the American elections, only three of them were blatantly pro-Kamala and anti-Trump! She is ahead in the polls, she will make every American happy, she will shatter the glass ceiling to become the first woman president…
“She filled the void left by the ageing Joe Biden with speed, killed off any potential rivals and wrapped up the nomination with hardly a murmur of opposition. There is no question that she is a formidable political street-fighter. In response, her Republican rival Donald Trump has been left floundering, and looks old and exhausted. Harris is ahead in the polls, and is the favourite with the bookmakers.”
Yep, she might be a complete bimbo, but the driving forces in the USA are determined she’ll be President.
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She has two qualifications. Female and Hindi. Sorry, Jamaican. Her father is alive but you wouldn’t know it. But promoted so far past her level of competence she is only second to Joe Biden. More rollmop than role model.
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Let’s be honest here.
She is a D.E.I. hire.
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“Let’s be honest here. She is a D.E.I. hire.
What is honest here is that Kamala Harris currently is ahead in the polls.
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Just like Hillary was in 2016.
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Fine, but why not competent and qualified and democratically elected as well? 14 million Democrat party members did not vote for her.
And she refuses to talk except on her terms with a teleprompter and precorded with editing rights and a chaperone? There are 4 billion women in the world, hundreds of millions of whom would be more qualified and knowledgeable. When has she ever been subject to any scrutiny?
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BREAKING: Trump just released an ad of Afghanistan Gold Star families tearing Kamala Harris apart to MILLIONS all over the country
The ad starts with family members saying, “Vice President Harris…” and revealing she hasn’t called any of them in over THREE YEARS.
This is one of the greatest ads in political history.
But how sad is it that Kamala Harris hasn’t even bothered to reach out?
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True or not, they are pushing this narrative so that a fraud election will appear plausible.
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And where’s “president” Biden?
At the beach, forgotten and alone.
Amazing how KamAllah went from massively disliked in 2020 with a ONE percent approval rating, to the next president with ZERO policies (not copied from Trump anyway), and all promises will disappear on day one in office making China look like paradise.
Come in USA, your time is up.
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The fracking ban would be reversed but not in Federal land and will be taxed so much it won’t be viable.
The wall would be built but have gates in it.
Crime will decrease because the definition of crime will change.
This is the way of the left politicians. They have no class, no morality, no shame.
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Dave you are probably right and most likely the polls are rigged especially if they were paid for by the CNN or some wealthy Democrat supporter.
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correct
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and no Blue Monday there (or here).
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These crazy ideas always seem to “come out of the blue”.
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Monday singalong: we’re all far right now
https://youtu.be/LsbRrTULpgA?si=NcPnDeR3XmyjtVq0
And proud of it! 😎
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New poll shows that Harris is seen as less sincere than Trump
https://slaynews.com/news/most-americans-kamala-harris-deceptive-trump-authentic-poll-shows/
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Indonesia starts to roll out digital National ID’s
https://slaynews.com/news/indonesia-begins-rolling-out-national-digital-ids/
Its only just across the water from you so Australia might as well join in.
Is there a date for a digital ID in Oz as there was a lot of talk about it but not sure if anything came of it.
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Banks in NZ set about creating digital IDs for all borrowers , about a year ago.
I caused a little flurry by having neither a passport, nor a driver’s licence.
The office lady had to swear that I was me , in order to achieve compliance.
LOL
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Our State of Victoria has already created the digital driver license. A license is a primary source of ID.
It’s still optional.
As part of the govt info FAQ’s, one of the questions related to what to do when you need to show your license but are out of internet connection range, or your phone battery was flat. The answer was they recommend continuing to carry your physical license with you. 😆
That was after the initial trial of going digital was in our area. The emails sent out to drivers had wrong surnames paired with correct first names. That didn’t do a lot for onfidence in the digital offering.
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Given the general level of incompetence among Public Serpents you can bet it will be easy to hack.
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tonyb we had a referendum and voted No.
Quite a while ago.
When terrorism was further away.
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On our highways, and in some other places too, we have gantries hanging over the road with cameras monitoring traffic.
These cameras can read registration plates and sometimes faces of drivers and occupants in vehicles.
At first these were spaced hundreds of kilometres apart, ostensibly to catch long distance speeding trucks. Over the years they have constructed a lot more, and I am quite sure that their primary purpose now is to monitor our movements. Commit an offence in one place and move to another, those cameras will have recorded the time and place of your movements.
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And then arrived the Medicare card, TFN and if you deal with Centrelink a CRN. Teamed with your handheld tracking device we have lots of ID before we even venture into drivers licences and passports.
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Arctic ice seems quite healthy this year but melting likely to continue for another few weeks
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/greenland-icecap-carries-on-as-normal/#more-75108
In another month we will know if the ozone hole over Antarctica continues to increase.
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If the DMI thickness data is to be believed the volume is the lowest in their data, and the area of barely there ice is vast. I would say the alarmists very nearly got the headline they are desperate for this year.
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I don’t think the Russkies believe the Arctic Ice will disappear for a while.
Russian’s New Combat Icebreaker Starts Sea Trials
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It’s the ice-free summer headline the establishment is after. Once that happens, look out, public opinion will go into panic mode.
Or it may have the opposite effect if people are intelligent enough to see that now the bad news has happened it makes little difference to reality (as long as decision is not asked during a hot day). But I will put my money on the first option.
An ice-free summer passage is looking quite possible. Tony Heller is always talking about sea ice extent, but never the modelled volume of the DMI.
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There is no ozone hole. The earth has a covering of ozone and it’s just thinner over the poles.The layer is particularly thinner over Antarctica because it’s been winter and dark 24/7. Sunlight creates Ozone (O3) when its strikes O2. No sunlight, no ozone. Always has been an ozone ” hole” over Antarctica, always will be.
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Another warmer than average English summer according to the CET mean.
June was average.
July marginally above.
August pretty warm.
Overall summer 2024 was +0.5C (1961-90).
It ranked 106 out of 366 years.
17 summers since 2000 have been well inside the top 100, so some people may have perceived 2024 as relatively cool.
Have to wait for the UK figures, but the warmth didn’t seem to reach Scotland as much, so it may have been nearer/below average there.
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Being in a holiday area on the South Coast, we are more than usually aware of warm summers as that is a huge factor in tourism. it has been a pretty poor summer overall. Several people on local media commented on putting their heating on several times.
Will be interested to know if it has been wetter than average. August 1.69 warmer than average. Hmmm.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html
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I’m on the south coast and have had the same max/min mercury thermometer in the same place in unchanged environs since 1982. I’m more than happy the CET is reflecting reality.
August alone was +1.2C, you got the wrong no.
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Being a tourist for the last dozen years I got an impression that Europe indeed got warmer while we here are much-much colder
However the truth to be told I also got older and wear two jumpers indoors…
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I agree with you about the weather on the southwest coast of England this summer. We have had some nice weather but not a lot. I intended to give you an uptick but accidentally gave a downtick instead.
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I am quite open about downticks Roy. My operatives know where you live and will be along shortly to give you some friendly advice on voting.
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Are longterm temperature records by winemakers published somewhere?
There must some wine cellars which are a 100-200 years old….
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Look at all the streets named after the wine industry – Vine St – etc. Britain had much warmer temperatures back in the Roman times. Also Western Europe’s warm temperatures are largely determined by the Gulf Stream. Go further east – Germany for example – and it becomes distinctly colder, especially in winter.
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Maybe night-time temperatures were a little higher then previous years.
And certainly, there have been some hot days – not all at Heathrow [about 5 square miles of concrete, with more jet exhaust than anywhere this side of Schipol] – but I feel [no measurements] that it has been an average [daytime] summer.
We’ve had hotter ones.
We’ve had colder ones, too.
I am located inside the M25, so obviously some UHI effects, but suburbia, thus, most likely, not extreme ones.
Yesterday was certainly the Hottest Day in September so far, although I haven’t seen the Met. Office ‘screamer’ to that effect. Yet.
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Labor is getting desperate. They want an election this year because their chances next year will be worse due to the economy going down, down (unlike prices, costs etc.)
They had it all set up; a tax cut, an electricity rebate (paid by taxpayers later) and with better weather and Christmas making people more cheerful, all they wanted was an interest rate cut. Chalmers is attacking the Reserve bank hoping that could induce a slight easing of rates soon. The soonest they MIGHT get one is early November and they cannot try for an election until they get one. Will they gamble on that hope? Or wait and have a rush election before Christmas?
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Albo is getting desperate – he has postponed his wedding to his rent-a-girlfriend to focus on an early election in the coming months.
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Graeme no 3 I think the Coalition have to be careful when they talk about cutting GST to force states to build more housing.
Already Labor are telling WA voters that the Coalition will reduce their GST funding and I’m afraid they could be on a winner.
And Dutton needs everything to fall his way and he doesn’t need to hand loony Albo and the Greens a free kick.
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GST is of course collected by the ATO and distributed to states and territories in accordance with an agreement, the distribution formula must be agreed to by all.
And the amount of GST is 10 per cent everywhere in Australia.
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When Goods & Services Tax of 10% was introduced as State and Territory revenue to relieve the Federal grants begging parades every year Wholesales Sales Tax was abolished, the range was 17.5% to 27.5% depending on the goods type.
Goods became cheaper to buy, services were taxed for the first time.
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“Never get between a premier and a bucket of money.”
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“There was no way the cash pledged by Labor for Gonski or a national disability insurance scheme was ever going to be delivered. The federal government simply couldn’t afford it.”
lol!! ..and they can’t afford it these days either!
Back in the good ol’ days when Joe Hockey was treasurer and our debt was 1/10th of what it is now!
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Another reason Albo is panicing is this:
https://www.muslimvotesmatter.com.au/
In the Uk Labour lost 5 seats to Muslim “Independents” and in Australia Labor has several western Sydney seats at risk.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-04/muslim-vote-movement-targeting-federal-labor-seats-/104054846
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Co2 lover the UK system is first past the post, but in Australia the preferential system will probably return the votes to Labor or Greens.
But surprises could still happen in some seats. Who knows?
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It has happened before.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/14/independent-mp-dai-le-looks-to-spin-success-in-western-sydney-into-new-political-movement
Kristina Keneally defeat a wake-up call on parachuting in candidates, Labor diversity group says.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/10/kristina-keneally-defeat-a-wake-up-call-on-parachuting-in-candidates-labor-diversity-group-says
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More pain for Albo. Schadenfreude, the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune.
Greens leader Adam Bandt announced his party was focusing on at least five key seats across the country where he believes it has a strong chance of winning.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/watch-live-greens-leader-adam-bandt-unveils-robin-hood-tax-plan-to-target-private-sector-at-national-press-club/news-story/a679bd5a04c68b09779a2375e3f5898a
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Religion of peace?
https://youtu.be/B-vvoRwJSPc?si=nxqeQ5rxiXWUNRMO
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Perhaps the Problem is rather than the RBA, Federal & State Labor Governments spending like Druken Sailors & throwing Australian Taxpayers to the Wind?
Treasurer Jim Chalmers blames Reserve Bank for ‘smashing’ households with higher rates during cost of living crisis
Australia’s cost of living crisis has been worsened by the Reserve Bank hiking rates and “smashing the economy,” Treasurer Jim Chalmers has claimed, as the government seeks to shift the blame ahead of new data on economic growth.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has hit out at the Reserve Bank, blaming it for “smashing” households with higher interest rates during a cost of living crisis as he sought to shift blame ahead of new data on Australia’s economic growth.
Households have been struggling to keep pace with high inflation, slow wages growth and the fastest monetary tightening since the 1980s, with the RBA hiking rates 13 times from a record low of 0.1 per cent to the current level of 4.35 per cent since May 2022.
While the bank has elected to keep rates on hold since November last year, resilience in the economy and a lack of progress in quickly returning inflation to the two to three target band has all but ensured no cuts will occur this year, while some economists are still entertaining the possibility of another hike.
Despite the signs of resilience, Australia’s economic activity has slowed dramatically, with figures due to be released on Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics expected to show GDP growth in the June quarter of just 0.2 per cent.
If the data meets expectations it would cut economic growth from 1.1 per cent over March to just 0.9 per cent for last financial year, the weakest annual result since the end of the 1990s recession – not including the COVID-19 pandemic.
GDP per capita, each individual’s share of the economy’s spoils, is also forecast to slump for the sixth consecutive quarter, well and truly cementing claims the nation is in a GDP per capita recession.
In anticipation of the potentially dire results, Mr Chalmers on Monday sought to shift blame away from the Albanese government, instead repeating past claims about international volatility and attacking the RBA for how it has managed the fight against inflation.
Comments NOT Kind
– Chalmers is sadly like most Labor MPs and has no real world experience, hence he is totally out of his depth and floundering,
– Chalmers supported by incompetents is wrecking the economy. Any serious analysis of the government policies will demonstrate that the only way is down. They are doing nothing to drive productivity.
– And they continue to spend money like water. Everyone that is ‘feeling the pain’ has been tightening their belts for ages, but this government feel they don’t need to and don’t want to. When will they ever learn.
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Summed up by 3 Articles in Today’s The Australian!
Chalmers lashes out at rates as growth slows to a crawl
Industrial relations and other policies are harming small business.
Bad policy, nation underpowered
Business and consumers will pay dearly for years of green lawfare
Tax grab sparks Melbourne home price slide
Investors in Melbourne are selling up at the highest rate of any of our capital cities to avoid hefty property taxes, with prices rising just 15.5pc since the start of the pandemic, compared to 75pc in other cities.
As the commenter says above Chalmers is sadly like most Labor MPs and has no real world experience, hence he is totally out of his depth and floundering
Labor/Green/TEAL MPs both Federal & State have no clue. that Businesses under Commercial Leases are required to pay increases in Land Tax & Council Rates, and that is one of the things, besides Energy & Government Red Tape, sending Businesses Broke!
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Greens’ housing solution: hire 1000 public servants and slug landlords
The Greens want to hire another 1000 public servants and create fines of nearly $80,000 for dodgy landlords and real estate agents under the party’s latest populist housing policy push, which could duplicate powers held by state and territory governments.
The minor party wants a new National Renters Protection Authority that would run inspections and investigations of real estate companies and property owners, and would have the power to refer serious offenders for prosecution and face big fines.
The policy would cost $200 million a year.
Along with NSW Government Land Tax, why I am selling out of my Investment properties at the end of next year – Not worth the Effort or Return.
PS – Meant to have Money – Perhaps the Problem is rather than the RBA, Federal & State Labor Governments spending like Druken Sailors & throwing Australian Taxpayers Money to the Wind?
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Albanese’s approval rating plunges to equal-lowest level since last election
Aussies are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Prime Minister as it was revealed Anthony Albanese’s net approval rating plunged in the latest Newspoll.
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Ozzie,
By the end of this year property prices will have dropped considerably more . If house prices crash completely the economy is toast as its been soaking up a lot of the cheap/free money the government and banks have been pumping out . It will be a defacto devaluation of the dollar and trigger financial crisis V2 . Assets will count . The greens are the fairies at the bottom of the political garden and are losing support . I will be holding rather than folding . If the economy goes bottom up physical gold is probably the best bet. It appears the proposed BRICS currency will be pegged to gold .
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Physical gold, as in ingots, or virtual gold as in a physical gold ETF (Exchange Traded Fund), is not the only way of protecting investments against a falling $A. Another way is via ETFs with overseas assets. There are lots of these now, so you can buy into various US and other sharemarket and bond indices, etc. The hard part is working out which one(s) to buy.
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PETER VAN ONSELEN: Australia’s economy is far from flourishing. So what does Jim Chalmers do? Blame someone else much more qualified than himself, of course
The late American political satirist PJ O’Rourke once said that blaming central banks for high interest rates is like blaming your bathroom scales for putting on weight.
That’s exactly what Treasurer Jim Chalmers did last night when he accused the Reserve Bank of Australia of ‘smashing’ the economy with its interest rates strategy.
Never mind that the RBA has repeatedly pointed out that it’s had little choice but to put rates up because of out of control inflation.
Why is inflation too high? Because of the fiscal recklessness of government spending.
While inflation continues to drop around the world, allowing overseas central banks to bring rates back down, that hasn’t been the case here in Australia.
Why? Because of home grown inflationary pressures. State and federal governments spending beyond their means, stoking inflation and worsening the cost of living crisis with their economic incompetence.
Yet Chalmers chooses to attack RBA Governor Michele Bullock for simply doing her job.
It’s unedifying, ignorant and out of line.
Readers can decide for themselves who they trust more when it comes to managing the monetary and fiscal policy settings of the economy.
A Treasurer (unqualified in economics) whose PhD in politics looked at Paul Keating’s political communication. Or Bullock whose postgraduate study in economics from the London School of Economics, no less, examined the ins and outs of interest rate policy design.
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Too much wind now!
How windy has it been over the last few days where you live? I only had one tree blow over!
The learned U.K. Royal Society has recently analysed 37 years of wind patterns across Britain and concluded there is a serious underestimate of the amount of storage required. Around 50 academics and specialists led by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith of Oxford University state clearly that batteries are not the answer to the vast storage required. But like many learned people, wedded to the idea that it is possible to remove the fossil fuel source supplying 80% of the world needs in less than 30 years, they fall down at the practical level. Having lost batteries, the study goes for hydrogen, an idea only slightly less dumb than digging up the planet to produce vast quantities of limited-life batteries.
The Royal Society report envisages dissolving huge salt caverns capable of storing ‘green’ hydrogen. To keep the electricity grid functioning when renewables go off line, around two to three million tons of hydrogen would need to be stored for decades at a time. Wind not only stops for days during periods of intense cold in winter, but the Royal Society found recent periods when speeds were low for a number of years in the UK.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/03/batteries-will-not-solve-renewable-energy-storage-problem-says-royal-society/
But Hydrogen has now be confirmed as being worse than fossil fuels!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/01/shock-new-claim-green-hydrogen-produces-37-times-more-global-warming-than-carbon-dioxide/
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Nitrous oxide is harmful because it is directly harmful. Where SO2 from sulfur rich petrols and diesel is hygroscopic and instantly forms sulphuric acid, nitrous oxide forms Nitric acid. So acid rain is back! But it also eats your ultra thin lungs. This is why diesels which were almost law are now banned because at higher pressure they form a lot of NO2.
I had not thought of the implications of releasing pure hydrogen into the atmosphere in quantity but there are many and ozone is guaranteed. Another very dangerous gas which is carcinogenic. In the 1890s it was all the rage and you were treated with ozone, which is higher at low altitude near the beach. So the steamer Ozone, various beach hotels Ozone. And then it was found to be deadly.
This is what happens when Andrew Forrest decides he is a genius instead of just being very rich. Like Cannon Brookes. Or Bill Gates
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There are companies that sell ozone machines for use in wineries. These generate ozonated water for rinsing tanks gassing tanks. Apart from the risk to the employees, these machines cause degradation of the rubber membranes in the tank valves and cause the wine not to hold sulphur dioxide very well. Keep a decent amount of sulphur dioxide in wine and adjust your pH early to be below 3.5 and then you will not have spoilage problems. Also make sure you are getting 12 plus percent alcohol. Normally not a problem in Australia but in cooler climates chaptalization will be required.
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NO2 – Nitrogen dioxide
N2O – Nitrous oxide.
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Correct. It should have been Nitric Oxide and more. And it is tied up with ozone in many ways. And now hydrogen with ozone and nitrous oxides. All for a Greener environment? Unintended consequences.
“The primary car pollutant, directly emitted, is nitric oxide (NO), together with a small proportion of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
NO is oxidised by ozone in the atmosphere, on a time scale of tens of minutes, to give NO2.
In rural air, away from sources of NO, most of the nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere are in the form of NO2.
NO2 is split up by UV light to give NO and an O atom, which combines with molecular oxygen (O2) to give ozone (O3).
Therefore, during the day NO, NO2 and ozone exist in a quasi-equilibrium which depends on the amount of sunlight. Eventually, NO2 is oxidised to nitric acid (HNO3, vapour) which is absorbed directly at the ground, is converted into nitrate-containing particles, or dissolves in cloud droplets. At night, different oxidation processes convert NO2 to nitrates.
Although nitric acid is rapidly absorbed on contact with surfaces (cloud droplets, soil or vegetation), the other nitrogen oxides are removed only rather slowly, and may travel many hundreds of km before their eventual conversion to nitric acid or nitrates. Consequently, emissions in one country will be deposited in others.
The UK exports about three-quarters of its emissions of NOX.
Measured NO2 concentrations show the predominance of traffic and urban sources, with the largest concentrations in the large conurbations and adjacent to the motorway network, with annual mean concentrations in excess of 10 ppb in these areas.”
And while the Dutch are being punished for nitrogen output in agriculture, the Greens are organizing more ways to achieve the same thing. First diesel. Now hydrogen.
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I live in the Dandenongs east of Allentown. Fallen trees have caused many blackouts in recent years, some lasting up to a week. Miraculously, there hasn’t been one during the last week despite the intense winds.
I’m sure there would be a lot more fans (pun intended) of renewables on this blog if intense episodes of wind could be stored long term in batteries and later released into the power grid as needed. But the reality is that it is not happening and is highly unlikely to ever occur. The doldrums are the flip side of these said weather events, stationary turbines can’t generate anything but debate
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Wanted to share this email to gather some more names. ToM
“Albo’s Green Energy Plan
Subject: Albo’s Green Energy Plan
As a rule, I don’t pass along these “add your name” lists that appear in emails, BUT this one is important. It has been circulating for months and has been sent to over 20 million people. We don’t want to lose any names on the list so just hit forward and send it on.
Please keep it going!
To show your support for Albo’s GREEN Energy Plan , please go to the end of the list and add your name.
1. Chris Bowen .
2.
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As U.S. Forces Dutch Semiconductor Giant To Punish China, Beijing To Cancel G7 Grain Imports (video)
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The “Far Right” in on the march in the Fatherland.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13802403/German-AFD-wins-landmark-victory-hard-right-party-tops-regional-vote-time-country-Second-World-War.html
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In both regions the AfD and the Conservatives (CDU) vied for the top position.
The major parties (the ones also running in the Federal Coalition Government) lost votes.
Better still, the Greens more than most.
It seems Germans don’t like austerity and uncontrolled immigration.
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In old east Germany.
‘In Saxony, the CDU’s prime minister campaigned strongly against further arms deliveries to Ukraine and called for peace negotiations to end the war.
‘These AfD and BSW share these positions. Over 70% of voters in the most important eastern German state voted in favor of politicians making similar calls on the Ukraine war.’ (Asia Times)
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Finally, a real uni course for us fellas.
(I’ve been doing this for years without a degree). Hope this gets me credits.
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Mansplaining…. Any time facts disagree with your feelings.
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FWIW – today’s “bargain”
“Why Is Cheap Wind Power So Expensive?”
Willis E has a look
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/28/why-is-cheap-wind-power-so-expensive/
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Well Wind has taken out one of our 3 phases again same as last Wednesday 28 August,
Ausgrid took till 1000 next day to fix – saying after 0700 tomorrow to fix.
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I just finished watching Adam Bandt at the Nat Press Club last week. Very poorly attended but those journos who did were true believers. Same old commie BS but with new buzz words. The GBR is “boiling”. Profits are “obscene” and “grotesque” but only in certain industries.
I did like the election results in the NT.
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Global warming saves lives says Lancet.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/09/01/rising-global-temperatures-saving-millions-of-lives-study-finds-cold-kills-30-times-more/
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FWIW – bioweapons, covid, mRNA, etc
“This Deserves A Read…”
“As I’ve pointed out repeatedly: We have a crappy understanding of how all the components of the immune system function together. We understand perhaps 10% of the whole — and that part quite poorly. Further, we fashion ourselves as “training” it when in fact it is the continual assault by the natural world that does this. This is why mimics can work (and sort of do, most of the time) but as soon as you venture off that path into artificial stimulus or “augmenting” mimicry you’re asking for trouble and are very likely to find it.
This is why mRNA was and remains stupid as the very premise of it is not mimicry but rather the deliberate abuse of cellular machinery in the body to produce an antigen. ”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251947
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Just had that discussion with my wife. She was of the same opinion. A fit forty year old sports teacher at the local school just dropped dead. Same with a healthy young woman teacher at another regional school. My wife’s news feed was talking about a soccer player dropping dead on the week-end.
Her thought was that anyone recommending or administering this vaccine should be dealt with appropriately (see above). The problem initially with summary justice was the medical profession was dosing themselves and their children. They appear to have backed away from leading us over the cliff and the Pharmacists who received the poison chalice appear to be either having problems finding takers or are themselves a bit wary.
A simple rule is do not take anything with an upside down black triangle unless you have a serious condition and only if you will not be passing any genetic errors onto progeny.
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FWIW
“What did you expect?”
“Oh yes, let’s “hold people accountable” when you let them destroy reliably-priced base and peaking power sources in favor of pie-in-the-sky, thermodynamically-bankrupt “renewables.”
Let me say it again: The laws of thermodynamics are not suggestions.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251938
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New report shows that vaccinated mortality rate was around 3% for a people below their 60s, meanwhile initial strains of COVID had mortality rate ~0.3%, later strains were even weaker:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352914824001205?via%3Dihub
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Another opportunity to destroy your immune system!
Both vaccines are under evaluation by the TGA, and approval is not guaranteed.
Money moves mountains!
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/australians-could-get-two-new-covid-vaccines-as-new-strains-run-rampant/news-story/a13dde8a91ad4015a54afb5f44161580
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I did an environmental science degree out of school, and the one thing I noticed is how the green minded kids in the course basically expected everything in nature to be static. Any difference was bad. That was their understanding of the world and its ecosystems.
This is the erroneous underlying foundation of environmentalism, and why they get nearly everything wrong. Start with bad foundations and nothing true will follow.
This was a long time ago, when the lecturers were far from green and the course was basically a watered down offshoot of environmental engineering. They used to roll their eyes at the “wanna-be green” activists enrolling these days. I’m certain it’s not like that anymore.
There was only one lecturer who was radical green, an American called Harry Recher, but that was it. I overheard him one day on a field trip in conversation and he stated the only thing that can save the environment is an end to private land ownership. How much more commie could you get?
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The ABC guy reckons the wind and rain they are experiencing at the moment is ‘unprecedented’.
How do we turn this around, so many people with short attention spans.
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A future lecturer will say.
In south east Australia we can look back and see the cyclic nature of climate change.
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/joc.3812
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What Happened? – Climate Changed and no Humans were involved!
https://www.dinosaurtrackways.com.au/
Fossil Site of Lark Dinosaur
Located 110 km southwest of Winton, Queensland, Australia, Lark Quarry is a significant fossil site featuring thousands of three-toed dinosaur tracks. The tracks were preserved in rock and date back approximately 95 million years.
Stampede or Not?
While often referred to as a “dinosaur stampede,” there is debate among scientists about whether the tracks actually represent a chaotic, panicked group of dinosaurs fleeing a predator. Instead, the tracks may simply show a large group of dinosaurs moving together in a natural environment.
Conservation Park and Tourism
The Lark Quarry Conservation Park preserves the dinosaur footprints, and guided tours are available to visitors. The site is also listed as a National Heritage Place, recognizing its importance in understanding Australia’s prehistoric past.
Key Facts
. Approximately 3300 dinosaur footprints preserved
. Tracks date back around 95 million years
. Location: 110 km southwest of Winton, Queensland, Australia
. Part of the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument
. Listed as a National Heritage Place since 2004
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The young ones will ignore something that happened a long time ago, we have to make it relevant.
It has all the hallmarks of a tipping point.
‘A representative survey of 446 Australian university students conducted between September 2021 and April 2022 revealed that climate change is the top environmental concern for Gen Z with 81% of these young people being significantly concerned and many experiencing serious climate anxiety.’
(Sustainable Earth Reviews)
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My granddaughter reckons I know nothing, as the internet wasn’t available until late in my life! She also deplores my lack of knowledge of” interdisciplinary” topics! It won’t surprise anyone to know that she is a first year undergraduate in a “”Communications” degree.
She cries a lot and runs to her room when this poor creature of the pre-digital era cites a critical piece of evidence in an argument.
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I have three kids, no grandkids. Sometimes I envy friends, other times I think I’m lucky. Thanks Vicki.
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Takes some people a while to get over themeselves as a first year undergrad. They think they represent the intelligent elite and understand things mere mortals cannot. Really they are a step of opportunity which may or may not lead anywhere that exciting.
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Lecturers should be saying that today.
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The Starmer Parody That could be a Real Speech! (video)
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The Grounds opens new Wonka-esque locomotive-inspired coffee factory in Eveleigh
A complex coffee transportation system decorates the sprawling space, with former Otto Ristorante and Cafe Sydney chef James Kidman bringing “an Australian fleck” to the menu.
Compare with Starbucks Post Office Milan – A nice place to have coffee upstairs overlooking the Complex
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There are lots of reports coming out right now that Australia has just endured the warmest winter ever (Channel 7’s Jane was into it last night). I can verify that my wood pile is still in fair shape and I did not burn a lot of wood in August.
Anyhow, I have been forecasting milder winters and summers in Australia as the precession cycle gradually shift the peak sunlight northward.
I posted this chart to show how the summer (February) and winter (August) UAH TLT has changed over the past 43 years.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UAH_Summer_Winter-1724985960.4364.png?fit=720%2C1040&ssl=1
It shows the changes globally and you can see that northern hemisphere is doing the opposite to the SH with weather in the NH getting more extreme; warmer summers and cooler winters although not universally.
My take is that milder winters in Australia will reduce heating costs where heating is needed and that has to be good for the economy.
Been windy in Victoria. Two large pots blown over that have not blown over before. The Spirit of Tasmania trip was cancelled. Tasmania is getting flooding as well as the wind.
Should be as good year for wood scavenging because there will be lots of trees down. I will start taking some of the load off my trees once the wind dies down.
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Maybe in Melbourne but not where we live in North Central Vic. We have had bad damage, if not terminal, from too much frost to three of our citrus. A large lemon tree, a blood orange tree and a beautiful lime tree. The lemon had just finally started to fruit well after bad frost damage about four years ago, the orange was loaded with fruit and the lime was a picture of health and loaded with beautiful fruit. They all now look terrible but it’s too early to prune them. We lost the crop, except for some underipe fruit I picked early because I felt that the frost was getting worse.
As for firewood, we went through a huge amount last year because the winter, although not the coldest, went on for a very long time, and that despite a gap of three weeks last June (2023). This year, wge’ve had even higher fuel burning because it’s been colder.
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That’s a bummer about the citrus.
My uncle was a commercial citrus grower. On nights of expected frost they turned the sprinklers on for a burst to wet the trees. That way ice formed on the trees and protected them from frost.
I assume the wetting needs to occur closer to when the frost is expected. So a sprinkler and timer tap might be the go. Rather than just a spray before bed.
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Looking ahead, BoM is predicting warmer temps, day and night throughout Spring.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/summary
The IOD and ENSO are in neutral, so the super computer is flying blind.
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It emulated a coin toss eleventy billon times and then adjusted the output to the preferred forecast.
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The UAH August temps haven’t dropped yet, but I suspect they will remain high.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_July_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg
You can see Mann’s hockey stick.
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August in Australia saw unprecedented heat.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/australias-warmest-august-on-record-by-a-huge-margin/1889819
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There you go – the deep red heart of Australia.
I survived this blistering August heat wave. Unprecedented heat. Sounds more convincing than not as blistering cold as previous years unless you live where Annie lives.
THe August ‘anomaly’ in the UAH data has the hotspot further west than the weatherzone image. But the UAH data was from 1980 to 2023. So not exactly an anomaly; just the difference.
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David Starkey: The Fall of England: the Destruction of the First Nation State (video)
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The Guardian is now calling for the arrest of Elon Musk over free speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-wealth-power
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What a load of rubbish. Is an opinion “miss information” or just an opinion? Wealthy people have always had Power.
Free speech is paramount. Please keep up the great work Elon.
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Jonny,
We have had the language altered radically . Lies is now misinformation , gene therapy has become vaccine , and wars have become special military operations . Soon thanks to censorship a lot of language will become illegal – Germany is leading again…
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> Is an opinion “miss information” or just an opinion?
Misinformation is unintentionally wrong information, whether opinion or supposed fact.
The reason they’re panicking about Elon is because of malinformation.
Malinformation is inconvenient true information, whether opinion or fact, that is counter to the propagated narrative.
Another reason they’re panicking about Elon is because they can’t afford to upset him too much, they rely on him. He’s too powerful, they need SpaceX.
On the other hand, if they can get a handle on Pavel, they might be able to get a solid backdoor into Telegram which is the encrypted platform the Russian Military uses. That would give the US Hawks a massive advantage.
Mike Benz, Tucker Carlson, the real reason Pavel Durov arrested
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Rule by Narrative – Control of the Narrative – is power – hence censorship lest they lose that power. Hopefully Elon will keep X Twitter free.
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Why stop at Musk? Why not arrest everyone who disagrees with the Guardian? The Democrats have arrested Donald Trump many times. Even raided his home, fully armed with a licence to kill. And went through his wife’s underwear drawer. People who disagree with the Guardian should not exist. Stalin and Hitler agreed on Camps as the final solution.
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Repeated from yesterday
Found elsewhere
Descartes – “I think, therefore I am”
Now
Descartes (UK) – “I think, therefore I am in jail”
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Or, as JCII would say, “I think therefore I’m redthumbed”.
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Interesting that the author of the article, Robert Reich, suggests one of the ways to “reign him in” is regulators should “threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X”, among other suggestions.
But not one of the suggestions is to proliferate X with the truth and love.
Given the Guardian also spreads some lies; I wonder if the arrest of the author and editor is an option Reich supports. Afterall, they’re more culpable for any lie than Musk is. Musk simply allows someone else’s comment to be shown. The Guardian author creates the lie.
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Love it!!!
“The US government – and we taxpayers – have additional power over Musk, if we’re willing to use it. The US should terminate its contracts with him, starting with Musk’s SpaceX.”
Do it!! DO IT!! Then you clowns can ask Russia really nicely on bended knees if they will take your astronauts up to the ISS, and you can kiss your use of Starlink goodbye for your little wars all over the world. Musk is going to space, and he doesn’t need the US Govt to help him up there!
I dunno how that rag makes any money at all! It must be subsidised by a Govt for employing the mentally deficient.
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And all politicians can terminate their X accounts today, if they believe it to be so execrable. Go right ahead, make Elon’s day. Also still waiting for all those second rate actors and celebrities to return to the U.S. after having left due to Trump’s election victory. They did leave didn’t they? Didn’t they?
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More around that with links –
“Elon Musk vs. Corrupt Brazil”
“Update: Right on cue, the little dwarf, Robert Reich, is calling for Elon Musk’s arrest in the UK. Interestingly, he’s ashamed to post a link to his article on X.com. But people instantly connected the dots and are lighting him up big time!”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/09/01/elon-musk-vs-corrupt-brasil/
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Sounds like the Guardian is inciting hate towards Mr Musk
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Emily in Paris is fake, this is what France really is (video)
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More “peace” on the way?
“Launch of ‘Muslim Votes Matter'”
Note the attachment
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/launch-of-muslim-votes-matter.html
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I saw this again the other day:
https://youtu.be/B-vvoRwJSPc?si=nxqeQ5rxiXWUNRMO
About Benghazi but it describes the radical Islam aspect brutally well.
A modern classic savage takedown.
Must watch!
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One of the reasons Albo will be calling an early election
Just had their first official meeting and are now looking for troups on the ground for the next election.
The longer Albo waits the more troups will be manning election booths in the Labor Seats that the Muslims will be targeting
Former Labor Senator Fatima Payman was as DEI hire who has come back to haunt Albo and Western Sydney Labor MPs. (Schadenfreude, the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune)
https://www.muslimvotesmatter.com.au/
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/02/muslim-votes-matter-australian-federal-election-campaign
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You can bet that the Greens and @Muslim Votes Matter@ will be cross preferencing each other.
Mehreen Saeed Faruqi (born 8 July 1963) is a Pakistani-born Australian politician and Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens!
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What’s the point of re-electing those that CAUSED all the problems?
The alternatives are the same – pushing their own beliefs and agendas, all detached from reality.
This is why the newly formed “alternative” parties around the world are doing so well.
No such party here, and 80% are still in La-land.
All governments KNOW they’re on borrowed time and there’s NOTHING they can do to stop the inevitable.
Tighten the screws more, no plandemic needed, just more laws and regulations.
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People with your attitude will get labor/greens/teals reelected.
No red thumb now. 🙂
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What sane country would allow a situation where a religious ethnic group could decide the fate of government?
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It’s becoming more and more apparent that the crusades will need to be fought all over again.
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IVERMECTIN should be given to ALL Advanced Breast Cancer patients – outperforms chemo Paclitaxel and kills Cancer Stem Cells!
A 2017 bombshell study by Mexican researchers should have changed how Breast Cancer is treated. Forever.
In the 2017 paper “Ivermectin as an inhibitor of Cancer Stem Cells”, researchers from Mexico City take on a theory that Ivermectin could annihilate Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
How long has it been known that Ivermectin can be used to treat cancer? Since 1996!
https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1829834071608082498
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Money buys you Justice and fake Mediciations (whose patent has not expired!)
Merck’s patent on ivermectin expired in 1996.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622926/pdf/15375444.pdf
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I HAVE BEEN TREATING MY SELF WITH Ivermectin for prostate cancer for several years now. My situation is fine. This is a wonder drug and underrated.
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I know someone who treated a dog for cancer, supposedly beyond help, with IVM. Nothing to lose was the decision. The dog was doing well until it stupidly tangled with a snake.
It’s a wonderful drug.
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New York: “Please go inside immediately until the trucks have passed”
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1829829108462727396
No doubt a good idea.
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Monday flashback: safe and effective
https://imgbox.com/mCutVjln
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It’s even more ridiculous and evil than it was then. But where is Tedros Adhonom’s categoric public statement as President of the WHO that ‘the virus is not infectious, human to human’. 26 January 2020?
It shows the extent to which Communist China has taken control of every committee in the UN.
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And then you get proposed VP Tim Walz who has been openly sponsored and paid by the Communist Chinese government, lived there for years, made 30 trips, openly and often praised the communist system and even honeymooned in China. He defends the Tienamen massacre as no worse than Wounded Knee. It’s unbelievable that he is chaperoning current VP Harris as her mentor and guardian. When before did a proposed US President need a chaperone to answer questions?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8226381/Beijing-says-no-evidence-coronavirus-man-fends-accusations-lab.html
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/27/who-health-china-coronavirus-tedros/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/health/china-virus-who-emergency.html
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Stable isotope testing: humans are designed to eat meat
https://youtu.be/VaKLo33BX70?si=AhyT8W1rxx8Pd3fy
ChatGPT says the opposite, gets proven wrong, changes its mind and agrees.
/LOL
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Thus proving it is more intelligent the most people.
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Yup.
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Not if the next time it is asked the same question, it gives the same wrong answer.
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I don’t think there is any residual effect. ChatGPT will get it wrong the next time too.
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https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f60a128e-fcba-4712-a154-2c27b4ece1fc/gif
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But we aren’t carnivores, our dentition is wrong. Even the big cats don’t eat “steak” exclusively, they partake of offal meats and partly digested vegetables by opening up the bowls first.
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I always suspected that meat was eaten primarily. What else could give you the energy for effort? It’s like coal, nothing comes close to its pragmatic greatness.
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There are millions of magpie geese in the north, they nest in the reeds in the swamps. I have this vision of the natives being egg eaters for a month or two every year.
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H
See if your library can dig up a copy of Tom Cole’s “Hell, West and Crooked” for you and you can read about “Time belong goose”
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One for the redthumbers
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
Redthumb this and prove the point! 😆
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I can’t know of course but have you never red-thumbed me and Leaf? Many of your friends do.
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I rest my case. lol
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Take it as a badge of honour..
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Is Keir Starmer’s England going fascist? (video)
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In order to impose a fascist regime the most powerful group in society must be subjugated. Hence why we are demonised – hence why the racism. None of it is about morality. Morality is just a tool.
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Whereas other fascist regimes have subjugated and demonised minorities and elevated the most powerful groups.
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In 1930s Germany the Jews were rich and powerful and, as bankers, held a lot of debt. However this time around it is different in that they tried with Ethno Fascism and Soviet Communism and Mao Communism and failed so they are going for broke – they’re trying to take down the one power that took those down. They’ve spent 500 years recovering from the 1st Reformation and are now being hit by the early days of the 2nd Reformation.
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A modest statement, I have been assured by persons of a certain age that tho’ they owned only half the media, they controlled all the money.
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“Whereas other fascist regimes have subjugated and demonised minorities and elevated the most powerful groups.”
So Last century.
Nowadays you just import a whole new demographic, turning your previous ethnic majority into the new minority.
Of course you must continue to ‘demonize’ this newly politically and culturally marginalized group as bigots … even though they consented to the surrender of their previous status.
As Humza Yousaf says, there’s too many white people in Scottish government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3JBBlmej4
I don’t know where the Blue Bonnets went, but it wasn’t over the border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MFgjFYlfA
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RFK spills the beans on Ukraine
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1830335810350244208
Meanwhile, things are hotting up with Ukraine striking over a dozen targets just 15km from Moscow.
September…
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“Those who do not learn from history are condemned to relive it”
George Santayana.
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Exactly what Ukraine has learned. They are not trying to capture Moscow.
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I already know the correct answer, but why don’t you tell us what you think Ukraine’s objective here is?
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I can’t speak for Leaf, but MY guess is they are fighting their enemy where they are fragile and might capture a few thou prisoners.
Politically, they have brought conscripts into the war, and that’s a can of worms for Putin.
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Bargaining chips.
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Until now I have not heard from anyone claiming to know the objective of Kursk operation. Plenty of guesses, attempting to monetise the clicks on YouTube.
Allow me a simpler question – what was the objective of the War ?
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The objectives of the war appear to have been (1) access to the Mediterranean, (2) regaining some territory lost from the breakup of the USSR. There may have also been an element of face, aside from (2).
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Do they actually know what they want to capture?
In doing so they have lost a lot of lives and heavy equipment. For what? Some villages consisting of a dozen or so houses and some mid-sized rural towns in a sparsely populated area? The transfer of their best troops from the south has allowed the Russians to run over the hardened fortifications that they have built over the last 10 years and currently threaten taking a major rail and road hub.
They literally have given up their last line of defence for a publicity stunt.
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Moscow and St. Petersburg have been aloof from the “war” ’til now. This, and last night’s attacks on the power grid on the outskirts of Moscow will concentrate their attention.
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Woman Who Got Soldiers Killed Condemns Man Who Comforted Their Families
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The woman who got 13 U.S. Service members killed in Afghanistan has issued a statement condemning a man for going to comfort the families of the fallen soldiers.
“How dare Trump go lay flowers on the fallen soldier’s tombs, just because their families asked him to,” said Vice President Harris. “It’s disgusting — showing up to a memorial service you were invited to. Anyway, why should he be the one invited when I’m the one who got them killed?”
According to sources, Trump has been accused of accepting invitations from multiple Gold Star families to a solemn ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where he honored their fallen sons and daughters. “It’s disgusting,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarbarough, watching as Trump laid a wreath onto a tomb. “This just shows what depths Trump will go to, even leaving the campaign trail to attend a memorial service. Is there no low this man will not stoop to?”
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REHOBOTH, DE — President Biden briefly got up from his beach chair this morning to build a little sandcastle in honor of the American hostage brutally executed by Hamas after almost a year in captivity.
“I did everything I could while sitting in a beach chair to bring him home,” sighed Biden as he built a tower. “If only there was something more we could have done. Well, there was — but something that wouldn’t have hurt our polling in Minnesota.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/touching-biden-builds-sandcastle-to-honor-murdered-american-hostage
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The Death of the Main Stream Media [MSM] – (Schadenfreude, the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13803401/Michael-Leunig-age-sacked.html
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“So noted”
With faint praise
“ELLE Canada
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@ElleCanada
Follow
Over the past year, these eight incredible Canadian
Women have broken the glass ceiling, paving the
way for those behind them. #ELLECanada
ellecanada.com/culture/societ…
Readers added context they thought people might
want to know
Several of the “women” in the article are men. ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GWRxfJhWQAA1dFN-704×1024.jpeg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/31/so-noted-3/
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EV Madness: Tesla driver’s insane home charging “solution” (video)
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It’s Worse Than You Thought! Starmer’s Net Zero Plans Exposed… (video)
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FWIW
The Dems are going to have to print a lot of votes to cancel that (IMO)
“Exceptionally moving campaign ad from President Donald Trump. Lest We Forget.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/exceptionally-moving-campaign-ad-from-president-donald-trump-lest-we-forget.html
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Some big-knob said anyone questioning the results of the election should be jailed.. So that’s the start of their campaign to push Kamala through and crush any dissent about the faked election.
This makes sense-
“Betfair has Donald odds-on for the win…. Whilst left wing governments invariably go broke, the opposite is true of bookmakers. I’d give the bookies more credit than Taser.”
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FWIW
Trouble with that “whiteness problem”
“Because of course she did”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/because-of-course-she-did
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FWIW
“World War II In the Indian Ocean: Ondina and Bengal versus Aikoku and Hōkoku”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ujZemGqzJo
Via SDA
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Very interesting story. Thanks. Am forwarding it to a gent who has dived on some Japanese wrecks, perhaps this one.
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Just wow! A young, self taught, guy, who is so erudite, and able to link modern times to history, with clarity. Chris Williamson pushes back, allowing a real discussion, sweeping through culture and psychology, the past and the future. An A+ for this one. 1.45, but drop into it anywhere for stimulating discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXr8FFm6TDA
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Those biolabs the Yanks have in Ukraine..
“• Washington retains a strong interest in acquiring biomaterials from citizens of Russia, Ukraine, and other post-Soviet states.
• Evidence of large-scale collection and transportation of biomaterials has already been revealed by the Russian Ministry of Defence. The USA and its allies had managed to export at least 16,000 biosamples out of Ukraine before the special military operation started. As part of the UP-8 Project alone, blood samples have been taken from 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Simultaneously, dangerous pathogens and their vectors (over 10,000 samples) were exported.
The USA is reportedly continuing its efforts to develop bioagents capable of selectively targeting different ethnic groups.
• The United States has started to actively involve Moldova and Romania in biomaterial logistics systems with the use of their own controlled organisations.
• More than two thousand biomaterial samples were officially transported through Moldova between August 2022 and May 2024.
• The inclusion of Moldova and Romania in the transportation programme could be seen as the beginning of a large-scale programme to change the logistics chains involved in the mass export of biological materials to the USA.”
Maybe we’ll get more in Melbourne so we can help our masters by sacrificing Australia in some lab leak.
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..and here’s an odd side-effect of trying to maintain a disarmed UN-friendly society in a war zone..
“Millions of illegal military-grade firearms are circulating in Ukraine and Kiev is now trying to get the situation under control, Interior Minister Bogdan Drapaty has said.
While an exact number of illegal weapons held by Ukrainians is unknown, it is likely between two and five million pieces of military-grade firearms, the minister said, citing estimates by Kiev’s “European partners.” The weaponry being held unlawfully includes “trophy” pieces found by civilians in combat zones, as well as firearms handed out in an uncontrolled fashion by the Ukrainian authorities themselves in the early days of the conflict with Russia, Drapaty explained. To avoid legal trouble, citizens must register their arsenals by December 25, he said.”
rt.com
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