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Just in case it is of use to somebody. Daughter in law got a good photo of the aurora from near Mudgee NSW,
She couldn’t see it, but her phone camera could.
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What model of phone was that?
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Jacinda Ahern gets almost knighted by best pal William
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13966113/Prince-William-giggles-pins-star-Jacinda-Ardern-Dame.html
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I know every reader on Jo’s blog loves electric cars so wonder how they are coping with negative equity on their vehicles?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/16/electric-car-drivers-being-plunged-into-negative-equity/
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The buyers I know are not concerned. It is a luxury second car.
Those people buying business transport on a lease, the bulk of new cars buyers, will find they cannot flip the car and will have to write it off. It’s not an investment in any sense. Hertz proved this in the US where they dumped all their electric cars mainly as no one wanted to rent them but also because the maintenance costs were double.
It’s a bit like solar power. Fine if you want power only at lunch time in summer on a clear day. Utterly predictably zero at night. We will end up like the Romans using nett zero olive oil at night to read papyrus and vellum text.
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James O’Keefe records a Senior Meta engineer explaining how FakeBook’s algorithm suppresses anti-Kamala posts
Zuckerbucks obviously lied a few weeks ago when he apologized for Facebook’s election interference last time.
He thinks we believe that.
He’s no more sorry about that than he was the very first time he testified before Congress.
From the comments:
>…blatant ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Mark Zuckerberg and everyone involved belongs in prison. META is doing exactly what they did in 2020 all over again. Rigging elections is the purest form of treason and everyone involved should share the punishment that carries.
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If there is an honest election and Trump is elected, he needs to remove Section 230 protection from social media.
This law allows social media to claim they are like a telephone service and not responsible for the content of their platforms. I.e. they are not a publisher.
The fact that non-Musk social media engages in extensive censorship and pushing a particular political point of view means they are in fact publishers with all the responsibilities and liabilities that go with that.
They do in fact perform extensive election interference by suppressing non-Leftist opinions. It was never “the Russians” but Leftist social(ist) media itself. I always said Zuck’s “apology” was disingenuous.
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The EU and OZ seem to be following similar paths at present regarding digital id.
https://reclaimthenet.org/eus-digital-id-push-sparks-fears-over-privacy-and-rushed-rollout
Looking at the wider picture we surely were much more free 10 or 20 years ago before the widespread use of the internet and mobile phones.
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Video:
Dr John Campbell interviews Australian MP Russell Broadbent who wrote to the PM with the following letter. Video at https://youtu.be/LDH16SLr8v0
I don’t expect the PM or his minders to understand or care and as the Left keep telling us “the science is settled” and “the experimental covid vaccines (sic) are fully safe and effective”. You know how scientific fact is decided by “consensus” …LoL.
Note that the Australian Government is still pushing covid “vaccines” and you are required to be covid “vaccinated” to get an organ transplant. If you don’t get the covid vax the Government is happy to let you die awaiting an organ. Compulsory vaccination still exists for some professions. For example, I have a friend who applied for some Victoriastan public service jobs and vaccination for covid was compulsory.
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