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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.
Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.
They uncovered the hidden complex – which they have called Valeriana – using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried under vegetation.
They believe it is second in density only to Calakmul, thought to be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin America.
The team discovered three sites in total, in a survey area the size of Scotland’s capital Edinburgh, “by accident” when one archaeologist browsed data on the internet.
“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.
It was a Lidar survey, a remote sensing technique which fires thousands of laser pulses from a plane and maps objects below using the time the signal takes to return.
But when Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed – a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.
That is more than the number of people who live in the region today, the researchers say.
Mr Auld-Thomas and his colleagues named the city Valeriana after a nearby lagoon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go
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The article adds
“We can’t be sure what led to the demise and eventual abandonment of the city, but the archaeologists say climate change was a major factor.”
But, this was before William the Conqueror . . .
No SUVs
No trade-carrying ships creating CO2 from bunker fuel, to move raw materials and finished products economically round the globe.
And probably a world population of perhaps 200-400 million people – https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#
Real, natural Climate Change.
A first for the BBC?
Ah – worth book-marking . . .
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>But, this was before…
As you undoubtedly know, it doesn’t need to make sense. They, and their audience, are low information, low functioning people. They don’t analyse, they just read and digest. Unless it triggers cognitive dissonance, they just swallow it unquestioningly.
“Climate Change”TM is a universal bugbear which must be conveniently blamed for every evil under the sun, (and the nighttime evils too!) It’s so over-used that it’s accepted automatically. (Goebbels is said to have observed that if you repeat something often enough it becomes accepted as truth.)
Anyway, if it wasn’t “Climate Change”, it must have been racism or white colonialists.
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Yes, natural climate change like ice ages and warm periods since before snowball earth.
But you know that to true believers this just confirms their belief. What passes for thinking goes along the lines that if natural forces can cause the ancients to abandon their cities then just imagine what mankind can do to the world.
And if they stop believing then the fear will disappear. Those who rely on fear for control and power can’t have that, can they?
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As I have said before, warmists have the Aristotlean world view that the earth is static and never changes, hence their alarm at real or imagined climate change.
Aristotle wrote in “In the Heavens” 350BCE:
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I’m not convinced that warmists have any world view. I lean toward Orwell’s 1984 where history has stopped and for these unfortunate souls there is now nothing but an endless present where the party is always right.
I’m expecting the statist view that nothing has ever changed to suddenly flip to everything has always changed. Just as Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
At any rate waiting for cognitive dissonance to kick in among the true believers continues to test the patience of rational thinkers.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dp1l8wklo
“Mount Fuji remains snowless for longer than ever before”
BBC.
“Mount Fuji is still without snow, making it the latest time in the year the mountain has remained bare since records began 130 years ago.”
So all the way back to about 1890.
Gosh.
“While a single event cannot automatically be attributed to climate change, the observed lack of snowfall on Mount Fuji is consistent with what climate experts predict in a warming world.”
While a single event cannot automatically be attributed to climate change, EXCEPT on the BBC [WHICH IS MONOMANIACAL ON THE CO2 Hoax] the observed lack of snowfall on Mount Fuji is consistent with what climate experts predict in a warming world, without having a blind idea what causes the warming, as it is not a trace gas that, actually, is plant food.
Maybe more accurate?
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I conclude from that report than Mt Fuji is without snow later in the year than at any time since my grandparents were children, possibly longer. That is a fact that I find mildly interesting. Should I panic?
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Of course PANIC Roy. It’s just what the BBC wants you to do.
What the BBC might do when the climate turns colder again is probably waffle about climate change anyway.
On second thoughts they would probably ignore it. Has anyone heard about the “children in the UK won’t know what snow is?”. That ran from roughly 2000 to 2007.
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It is a stunning reversal in logic isn’t it?
Changes in weather over an extended period represent a change in climate NOT the other way around.
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Whenever there is a lack of snow or a glacier disappearing, it’s assumed that the snow or ice is melting and the melting is caused by warming. However, ice and snow require some sort of precipitation, like rain, hail or snow, that is another component of weather.
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Meanwhile on this southern arc of the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, NZ’s skifields along the eastern foothills of the Southern Alps have retained the most snow (and it’s almost November) since, ooh let me think, when did Mt Pinatubo blow, oh yes, the early 1990s, just over 30 years ago…
Plus it’s snowing again today down south, even after last weekend’s humongous dump of never-to-be-seen-again snow, which saw hundreds of keen skiers & boarders hiking the slopes to get fresh powder turns as the ‘ski season’ ended early October and the chairlifts were turned off.
Queenstown’s Coronet Peak was the epitome of these confounding changing climate times (CCCT) as skiers schussed their way downhill underneath the recently installed summer mountainbike-riding gondola chairlifts: too much snow for riding bikes, so carry on skiing. The children just won’t know what summer was.
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On east coast Australia, it has been the mildest cool spring I can remember. Anecdotally of course, but no doubting it’s been very mild. We could’ve had a fire on last night and it’s the end of October!
We had a hot 4 days at the end of winter, and of course they were all wetting their pants, but silence ever since. If “we are heading to an ice age” was the narrative, I’d probably begin to think they might be on to something.
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Yeah you guys – New South Welshmen – have had a seemingly endless series of southeasterlies riffling up the coast, interspersed with the odd warm rainy nor’wester (maybe those 4 pleasant days you mentioned?).
A Groundhog Day-like pattern began this winter, where a low would form off Byron Bay – Australia’s eastern-most point – then drift southeastwards toward us: we’d enjoy warm NWers while you were on the receiving end of a cool south wind.
Am starting to wonder if these Climactic Gurus (self-styled ‘climate experts’) realise weather systems go round and round in a circular motion, clockwise for those of us in the correct hemisphere, or if as David reiterates, they live in a cubic straight-line world of Aristotlean dimensions, ie. Flat Earthers First! Affectionately known as 100% Hokey Schtick.
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I don’t know if this is “normal” but here’s a pictorial record of the snow on Kilimanjaro for 2021.
https://altezzatravel.com/articles/snow-of-kilimanjaro
Wasn’t Kilimanjaro supposed to be snow free by now?
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Only 130 years of records for Mt Fuji?
This I doubt!
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Ted1
It was reported on the BBC.
The ‘ever-trusted’ ‘Aunty’.
It MUST be true.
Otherwise BBC Verify will . . . back up whatever nonsense the scoundrels publish!
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The eye of the typhoon is headed between Luzon and Taiwan.
https://i.ibb.co/Rzpps1F/himawari9-ir-23-W-202410291650.gif
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I thought Mt Fuji always had snow.
Seems I was wrong;
https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowUserReviews-g1165980-d1992574-r231045263-Mt_Fuji_5th_Station-Narusawa_mura_Minamitsuru_gun_Yamanashi_Prefecture_Koshinet.html
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Mt Fuji only has snow about 5 months of the year It’s always been like that during human observation.
Most of the tallest mountains in Japan are in the south where it’s too warm for permanent snow cover.
Of course, the commies at the BBC and elsewhere blame any deviation in the period of snow cover as due to glo-bull warming, and not natural variation.
Frankly, I’m surprised that they don’t blame the lack of eruptive volcanic activity since 1708 on alleged glo-bull warming.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dp1l8wklo
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Some interesting video suggestions:
1) How cardboard disposable drones donated by thr Australian taxoayer are being used by the Ukes.
https://youtu.be/Z8P8Wp14na8
2) The AI snitch in your pocket and on your desk.
https://youtu.be/UKq_blvKCPc
3) Fun with 100 car batteries and 50,000 amps.
https://youtu.be/ywaTX-nLm6Y
4) A new pattern discovered in nature.
https://youtu.be/2HoUK9kYu4Q
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A solar techno that came to our farm reckons a mate has rigged up a series of car batteries to run his solar system.
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Doable, but regular car batteries are not “deep cycle” or of particularly high capacity. They are optimised for short bursts of high current for the starter motor, not long and low discharge.
For lead acid batteries, deep cycle types are needed for storage. They can be safely discharged to about 80% of capacity while for car batteries it’s about 50%. (Of course, any discharge of a battery causes it to unavoidably wear out, the less discharge the better, and also best not to fully charge it either.)
If the guy got a large number of car batteries free or cheap however, then why not? It just won’t be an optimal installation.
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DM meant “discharged BY about 80% of capacity”.
For standard LA car batteries, yes 50%, but bear in mind that discharged is 11-11.5v and dead flat is 10.5v, not 6v.😎
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Correct.
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Gent I know once ran a 16mm projector at a bush campsite using 20 car batteries in series. Some projectors would run on AC or DC.
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Oops, Science Was “Settled”—Until It Wasn’t: Plants Absorb 31% More CO₂ Than We Thought
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/29/oops-science-was-settled-until-it-wasnt-plants-absorb-31-more-co%e2%82%82-than-we-thought/
Referenced study: Scientists Were Wrong: Plants Absorb 31% More CO2 Than Previously Thought
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 26, 2024
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-were-wrong-plants-absorb-31-more-co2-than-previously-thought/
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I have never heard a real, independent, honest, non-taxpayer funded scientist use the expression “the science is settled”.
Science is never “settled”.
That’s not how it works.
It’s an expression coined for ignorant and/or uneducated people – like politicians and the Left in general.
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A new name for pollies I came up with today.
Totalitarian Unethical Lying Inept Politicians or TULIPs for short.
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Mr. Packham doesn’t need no steenkin’ sci-ence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvj5yev9no
“Chris Packham settles case over axing of green policy”
A case with the UK Government.
Packham, a BBC Presenter and all-round XR-sympathiser, challenged Little Rishi’s moves to inject a scintilla of sense into UK Energy policy.
So, the present Government [Sir Starmer and all] has caved in.
“The nature presenter and environmentalist will also meet with energy and net zero secretary Ed Miliband “to discuss future progress addressing climate breakdown”, his lawyers said.”
Not, quite, negotiating with the Government . . . .
And possibly not checking the highlighted paper from Oak Ridge, either!
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New documentary ‘The Real Cost of Net Zero’ examines Australia’s energy transition goals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joeer8aiG70
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“. . . If money is primarily generated within the banking system, it still results in unsound banks, price inflation, and business cycles. If the supply of money is primarily determined by central bank policy, the same applies. In the real world, both private banks and the central bank exert influence over the total stock of money and interest rates, though I would add that the banking system’s ability to engage in fractional reserve banking and expand credit is enabled by the central bank and the government.
A free banking system [i.e. without a central bank] would be constrained in its ability to expand credit due to bank competition.”
Article has links, too, if you want to go deeper. — at mises.org
The last time I looked, it was claimed 97% of the purchasing power of “the dollar” has been erased since the establishment of America’s central bank, the “Fed”.
If you have a taste for it, The National Banking Era (1863-1913) in America is also worthy of study. For 50 years before The Federal Reserve came into being, America had half a dozen banking crises (or “panics”) — which they got through by issuing ‘clearinghouse loan certificates’ to stressed (but solvent) banks — but there was nothing as devastating and long lasting as The Great Depression. (I think the Fed admit they were to blame for that.)
Another ‘win’ for the National Banking era: the purchasing power of the dollar actually INCREASED, and prosperity too! (again, that’s pre-Fed).
Maybe Soviet-style ‘central planning’ isn’t the answer.
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And just to be clear, the ‘clearinghouse loan certificates’ were a free market solution.
— they were issued by the banking industry’s own NY Clearing House.
— only issued to member banks that passed an investigation and had good collateral.
— they allowed a stressed bank to settle with other banks at the end of a trading day, and could not be refused as a means of settlement.
— the poorly managed or corrupt banks were left to fail.
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The Australian Spooner’s Cartoon today sums up the Albosleexy Covid Report!
SIMON BENSON
Anthony Albanese has failed to bash Scott Morrison and shield premiers with this Covid-19 report
The authors of Anthony Albanese’s Covid-19 inquiry have exposed the craven attempt to clip their wings before they even started.
Not only was the protection racket for the premiers transparent, it failed.
Of the key criticisms contained in the 860-page report handed down on Tuesday, the most striking were the consequences of the arbitrary state and territory lockdowns, school closures and vaccine mandates.
It’s little surprise the Prime Minister didn’t turn up for its release. This wasn’t the narrative the government would have been hoping for.
The report was notable for its praise of Scott Morrison, describing his leadership at the national level as “courageous”.
In the initial stages of the pandemic at least, the report provided a strong validation for the Morrison government’s response.
Unsurprisingly, there were failings. Every Australian who lived through the deprivation of liberties, still lives with the consequences.
But one of the most fundamental issues the report raises has been the erosion of trust.
A failure to transition to evidence-based approaches, and an absence of justification, means the community is unlikely to accept the same impositions again.
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TOM DUSEVIC
Mistakes were made in Covid response, but economy bounced back and inflation thrived
Policy errors were made by politicians and officials during the pandemic, but Team Australia emerged better than most rich countries.
As eminent economists have shown, the budgetary response gets an A, while vaccine procurement was a debacle – so the financial, social and mental health costs the nation suffered were far greater than they should have been because of the inoculation “strollout”.
With the benefit of hindsight, as the Covid-19 response inquiry found, those blunders should be used to inform better crisis management, rather than weaponised as political hits.
Jim Chalmers says “big mistakes were made”, which have “added fuel to the inflationary fire”.
The inquiry’s rear view supports the Treasurer but he’s naturally taking liberties when in the next breath he declares “the report, and the progress we’ve made since, are proof of why our responsible economic management is so important”.
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https://www.frontpages.com/the-australian/
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He looks exactly like he does in the cartoons! Which came first: ‘art’ or ‘life’? What a wally. I’d use more colourful language but there’s children visiting this site – well, three of them at last count.
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JUDITH SLOAN
Nation’s pandemic pain deserved more than bureaucratic jargon
If ever there were an event that justified a royal commission, it was the response to Covid-19.
In terms of the taxpayer money spent and the restrictions imposed on citizens, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. The relevant persons should have been made to provide evidence and be subject to close examination and scrutiny.
It is perhaps understandable that state governments shied away from this option; let’s call it the nuclear one.
There is just too much to hide and too many actions for which there were no justifications. They would prefer to move on and declare “nothing to see”.
Why the Albanese federal government would rule out a royal commission is less clear-cut. After all, it was the Coalition Morrison government that was in power for most of the duration of the pandemic.
There might even be some political points to score were it not for the fact Labor overwhelmingly supported the extravagant and liberty-sapping initiatives of the federal and state governments at the time.
Bear in mind here that most state governments were Labor at the time.
In its place, the Albanese government, through the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, commissioned an independent inquiry led by a panel of three women, including one with public health expertise and another an economist.
The terms of reference were limited and specifically excluded an examination of actions taken by state governments independently of the federal government.
In this way, any analysis of the most egregious actions taken in the name of Covid was specifically ruled out.
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Judged by the much-delayed release of the report, Covid-19 Response Inquiry: Lessons for the Next Crisis, it’s apparent the authors have been taking lessons from the master of the word salad, Kamala Harris.
There are just so many flowery words and meaningless sentences in the summary.
We are told “there is undoubtedly much to forget, but there is also much to be proud of as a nation”. And what about this guiding recommendation: “Build, value and maintain capability, capacity and readiness across people, structures and systems”?
One wonders what this even means.
We are then told “pandemics invariably involve making decisions in the face of significant uncertainty.
However, the existence of strong, secure, readily adapted, interoperable data systems, processes and capacity for generating, synthesising and communicating evidence can reduce this uncertainty by providing governments with the evidence-based intelligence they need to assess risks and minimise harm”.
Again, I’m not really any the wiser.
Rather than this rambling, verbose report full of bureaucratic language, it would have been far better to just bluntly state the facts and let those facts speak for themselves.
We spent far too much money; we imposed far too many restrictions; and we allowed our politicians and bureaucrats to grab far too much power.
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Covid response ‘disproportionately’ affected children’s wellbeing, inquiry finds
ALEXI DEMETRIADI
Australia’s pandemic response fixated on case numbers and lost sight of the broader mental-health impacts of lockdowns and school closures, a landmark inquiry has found.
The report’s authors said the effect would unlikely be fully known “for some time”, with the government urged to invest more in mental-health support for children and young people as a priority.
But the report, released on Tuesday, applauded the establishment of the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement made at national cabinet, which made Australia the first country to develop a pandemic mental-health strategy.
The report, led by senior public servant Robyn Kruk, epidemiologist professor Catherine Bennett and economist Angela Jackson, recommended better preparedness and co-ordination between governments, but also highlighted the impact of continuous lockdowns and school closures, particularly during a mental-health crisis that predated the pandemic.
“Increased social isolation, stress, anxiety, uncertainty, loss of control, disruption to daily routines and concerns for the wellbeing of family and loved ones created the conditions for either the onset of mental-ill health or deterioration of existing conditions,” the authors said.
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The report criticised state governments for going further than the national cabinet approach led by Scott Morrison, particularly savaging unilateral border closures championed by Mr McGowan.
“Different approaches being taken across the states and territories also led to distrust,” it says.
“While different approaches across states and territories could be appropriate where local conditions or different population risk profiles demanded them, some differences were not easily explained, and no rationale was provided.
“This included the operation of state border closures that states enacted unilaterally and that lacked consistency and compassion in implementation.”
Despite Labor refusing to criticise the actions of the McGowan government in the midst of Covid-19, which were popular among many locals, Mr Butler said there was not a proportionate shift away from harsher measures as the pandemic progressed “to a position that was more evidence based … that balanced risks and benefits, took account of non-health impacts of decisions being imposed on the community by governments, by leaders, and did so in a proportionate way”.
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Premier Roger Cook digs in on WA’s hard-border policy
PAUL GARVEY
One of the key architects of Western Australia’s controversial Covid regime has hit back at the criticisms levelled at the states in the Covid inquiry report released on Tuesday.
Premier Roger Cook, who was health minister under Mark McGowan during the early years of the pandemic and who is one of the last senior state political figures still standing from that era, said the state’s response was “world-leading”.
“We saved literally thousands of lives through the measures that we put in place,” he said. “But in addition to that, we kept our mining industry going and as a result of that we kept the nation’s economy going, which meant the federal government could afford for the pensions, for the payments that they provided to people on the east coast who were all in lockdown. I think the federal inquirers need to remind themselves of those facts.”
While the report did not single out individual premiers, it did attack the border closures used extensively in Western Australia and Queensland for lacking rationale and causing damage.
The report warned that the government response to Covid had driven an erosion of trust that could undermine future health initiatives.
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“We saved literally thousands of lives through the measures that we put in place,” – we made sure the old dears in WA died of dementia, not COVID. Neither COVID nor the vaccines caused any more deaths – we still all only get one.
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The “Chalmers Speech’ about he “Report” is classic “Yes Minister” statement that prepares the way to justify capitulation to the dictates of our lives by an external unelected body like the WHO. We will have a CDC subservient to the rulings of the WHO in all “Pandemic” scenarios as decided by this entity.Thats just for starters.To me it was a blueprint for total control of our lives.
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Absolutely correct, Destroyer. Early responses (except for the brilliant Judith Sloan in today’s Oz) seem to think that the Covid report promises to eliminate the hopeless role of our medical bureaucrats in dealing with future pandemics. It wont. Rather, it endorses them in the creation of a CDC modelled on the one that was so destructive in the USA.
A future CDC will almost certainly align and endorse with, the WHO in respect to their proposed health treaty to bind all nations.
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Remember DR Coatesworth. The face of vaccination. See what he is promoting now.From a promotion on Facebook. “Shortage of FAIRY FARMS GUMMIES in local pharmacies!
As far as we know, buying FAIRY FARMS GUMMIES in pharmacies is extremely difficult. This product is rarely available. Is that right? And what could you advise people?
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Unfortunately, we do not have this product in sufficient quantity for all hypertensive patients in our country. Therefore, we decided to give it to those who fill in the form on the site first.
To take part in our programme, you need to click the door on the doors below. Depending on the result, you can get FAIRY FARMS GUMMIES with a discount. You can only spin it once.
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If you want to cure your hypertension with this unique product, I recommend that you order it as soon as possible while it is still available.
Take advantage of this opportunity before others do! “
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Spooner always uses a very clear voice.
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Covid report points finger at state lockdown failings
The Australian EDITORIAL
The lasting legacy of Australia’s Covid pandemic response has been an erosion of public trust in politicians and our institutions.
Premiers, drunk on power with politics their focus, undermined what had been a well-managed initial response that put Australia ahead of the global curve.
Mistakes certainly were made but it was the rush to vaccine mandates, prolonged lockdowns and lack of transparency on why these measures were considered necessary that have left the deepest scars.
Those scars remain and include an enduring mental-health crisis affecting many young people who were denied by government impost the freedoms and experience of youth.
The Covid inquiry was not perfect but its report has done a good job in not avoiding the gross failings that resulted primarily from state leaders who could not maintain the discipline of the initial pandemic response.
In the end, the dirty politics was not in the report itself but in the timing of its release that coincided with Anthony Albanese being under maximum pressure over his personal dealings with former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce to get free upgrades on flights when he was transport minister.
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Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, who was a frontbencher during the pandemic, defended the state government’s handling of the crisis.
“There were a range of measures that were focused on public health, on a public health response, that were unprecedented,” she told the ABC.
“And they were unprecedented because they needed to be done to protect the health of our community.”
So, they were unprecedented because… they needed to be unprecedented. Without evidence.
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How much cheaper and more effective if the supermarkets/chemists etc were given foils of 1,000 iu of Vit D3 to add to every purchase.
I’m unusually healthy for my age but nobody I know follows my example of ensuring good Vit D levels. I usually get mine free but gave my slim wife 5,000 iu daily while at home and she is still fighting the ravages of AZ long after it would have killed most.
But what do I know. :sigh:
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Anyone want to talk about when we are going to get rid of the bottles of flammable gel from the front of all public spaces – or we gonna wait for the people to burn in the fire they can’t escape coz these things are exploding in the doorway?
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FWIW
“The Biggest Story that’s NOT Being Told Will WREAK HAVOC on the US Economy”
“On February 26th, 2022, the U.S., EU, UK and Canada, agreed to ban a select group of Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, aka… SWIFT.
The move was originally intended to cripple Russia’s financial system in an effort to pressure Putin into ending his military operations in Ukraine. Seven Russian banks were denied access to SWIFT, initially causing somewhat of a negative impact on the Russian economy, but this move ultimately backfired on the U.S and its allies last week when, during the BRICS conference, the bloc introduced BRICS Pay.
While there are some news outlets giving this story a bit of attention, it’s not nearly getting the exposure it deserves, as this is one of the biggest economic developments of our time. In fact, 159 out of 195 countries will have the ability to bypass the SWIFT system entirely using BRICS Pay Blockchain based payment platform. Let that sink in for a moment…more than 3/4 of the countries in the world will be able to trade in currencies outside of the U.S. Dollar.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-10-28/biggest-story-thats-not-being-told-will-wreak-havoc-us-economy
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Where our pandemic response went wrong
“The first wide-ranging inquiry into the nation’s pandemic response has found delays procuring COVID-19 vaccines cost lives and delivered a $31 billion hit to the economy. Australians’ trust has been eroded, health systems are struggling and inflation pressures from government pandemic stimulus are still hurting the economy almost five years after the first COVID-19 case was detected, the first wide-ranging inquiry into the national response to the virus has found.
The Morrison government acted quickly to shut the border and introduce wage subsidies, but its delays procuring COVID-19 vaccines cost lives and delivered a $31 billion hit to the economy, while more than $210 billion in federal government stimulus has contributed to inflation that continues to drive up housing costs.”
Best news!..
“people are now more reluctant to receive vaccines, Butler said public trust had been so broken by 2021 that many measures implemented during the pandemic were unlikely to be accepted by the population again. ”
..and nothing will happen to those responsible..
“Butler said the report did not “seek to scapegoat people who were seeking to act in the best interests of our country and the community”.”
..and our current inflation destroying the people’s wealth..
“Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the report vindicated the Morrison government’s COVID-19 spending.”
I’m sure their terms of reference excluded ANY mention of medical efficacy or various treatments for Covid!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/covid-inquiry-finds-vaccine-strollout-cost-lives-eroded-trust-20241029-p5km5j.html
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Noting also the timing of the release of the report – after the Qld election results were known.
Was there a Version B of the report with different conclusions (less criticism for the lockdowns / more support for the State actions) ready for release had Labor had won Qld….
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I am tiring of the pervasive advertising-
I have just noticed my windows wallpaper is a red toyota EV!
And updating my phone created a flurry of photos uploaded to
Google drive which then overloaded my free limit- so an account
costing money per month was hustled. After deleting the photos
the begging persisted even though I was within limits on another
device.
I guess I am spoilt with Brave browser it blocks nearly every add
and usefully ALL youtube adds.
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Well, I did offer to do a post on Win 11 fluff removal but no-one was interested.
Don’t know why I bother…
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You don’t have to wait for expressions of interest.
Don’t wait, just do it, and they will come.
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Brave has it’s own search engine which I use for anything political.
https://search.brave.com/
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Australia to get its own CDC
The Albanese Government is investing $251.7m to deliver Australia’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
Before we came to Government, Australia was the only OECD country without a CDC equivalent.
The former Government had not led a national pandemic drill for 12 years and we were woefully under prepared for the COVID pandemic.
As the COVID-19 Inquiry Report highlights, Australia went into the COVID pandemic with no playbook for the pandemic, limited readiness of the National Medical Stockpile, and badly stretched aged and health care systems.
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/delivering-an-australian-cdc
…and we the people were woefully unprepared for the unprecedented fraud, lies, corruption, totalitarianism, fake science, malevolent police, draconian laws, sickness and deaths from sham vaxxes, and NWO loyal puppet pollies.
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Australia’s FDA (the Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA) hides from questions about sudden infant deaths after vaccination
A string of sudden unexpected deaths in infants following the Infanrix Hexa® vaccine has forced the drug regulator to go to ground. India also warned about deaths following this vaccine.
A Freedom of information (FOI) request for the number of deaths reported after use of the Infanrix-Hexa® vaccine has revealed some worrying data.
The Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN) shows 17 reported deaths in infants.
A further 26 reported deaths exist in the TGA’s ‘internal’ database, the Adverse Event Management System (AEMS), according to a recent FOI report.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/australias-fda-the-therapeutic-goods
We need to dump the TGA, the bloated lying WEF-tentacle that it now is.
Maybe a CPC – Centre for Politician Control instead.
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Latest CDC Data: Cancer Cases Skyrocketed 14 Weeks Post-Vaccine Rollout—and the Surge Continues
Recent data from the CDC and US Bureau of Labor Statistics combine to highlight significant increases in unexpected cancer-related deaths and new diagnoses, particularly among younger populations, raising questions and concerns about the long-term consequences of the mRNA rollout in early 2021.
According to the latest US data, unexpected cancer-related deaths are now 7.8% higher than forecast in 2024, as the year-on-year increases continue growing exponentially.
Meanwhile, the annual growth rate for new cancer diagnoses has climbed to 2.3% — ten times higher than in previous years. This growth rate is unprecedented and signals a rapid increase in cancer’s impact across the US population.
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/latest-cdc-data-cancer-cases-skyrocketed-14-weeks-post-vaccine-rollout-and-the-surge-continues/
Damn you climate change! 😉
Lest we forget just how safe the Joyshots are:
https://imgbox.com/98NzL6ft
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We were probably better off when CDC stood for
“Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation
I remember the “LGO” card
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https://excda.webport.com.au/cdaStory.html
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We used to link into CSIRO’s system from a double cassette Texas Instruments terminal
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Trump is Hitler! – an O-L-D playbook.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_slm5dd84ei1qeow88.mp4
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General Jack Keane, a Fox News favorite, yesterday:
“Frankly, we’ve been involved in listening to other people’s phone conversations, foreign adversaries around the world for years. We’ve used that technology against terrorists — acts that kill them — because we know their location. You’ve seen what the Israelis have done, in decapitating the H[ez]bollah leaders and the H[am]as leaders, using the technology that they have IN THEIR HANDS or around them in terms of a computer or an iPad to penetrate and get access to them.
. . . Listen, what we do with the [Ch]inese] would make your eyes water, okay? Feel good about our capability to listen and penetrate what’s happening in that country . . .
I guess the Geo-location feature of that device in your pocket is handy for some people who maybe aren’t your friends. And if they don’t actually try to kill you, it might be your own govt using these tools to do a rapid ’round up’ for any excuse — like “civil unrest”, or “refusing the newest ‘vaccine’ “.
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Blocking high pressure and a reduction in lows blamed on global warming.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-30/declining-tropical-cyclone-ecl-southern-ocean-rainfall/104533506
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Here is the takeout.
‘So what’s the relationship between climate change and less frequent low pressure systems around Australia in winter? It’s theorised the link is due to a broad expansion of the Hadley Cell – a circulation of air which transports heat from the tropics to the mid latitudes.
‘Essentially, a wider Hadley Cell represents an expansion of the tropics, which is pushing non-tropical lows further towards the poles.’
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‘Multiple forcings have been found responsible for the expansion, which seems to be more attributed to the natural variability than anthropogenic forcing.’ (Tao Xian et al 2021)
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Meanwhile In Canada: Unelected Federal Regulators Push National Digital ID Without Parliamentary Oversight
Federal regulators have announced plans for digital credentials for Canadians without parliamentary approval, despite widespread skepticism and past rejections from MPs over concerns about cost, security, potential abuse, and state-sanctioned surveillance.
The proposal equates digital credentials with mandatory IDs like Social Insurance Numbers, suggesting a streamlining of interactions with public services. However, parliamentary committees have dismissed such proposals for years, citing the risks of abuse and financial implications.
Previous warnings about national IDs highlight chilling possibilities, such as police conducting identity checks—a troubling scenario that threatens personal freedoms and evokes a “papers please” mentality reminiscent of authoritarian regimes.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/meanwhile-in-canada-unelected-federal
The power drunk just carry on anyway:
Kuwait Suspends Services to Thousands for Failing to Submit Biometric Data
Kuwait has forced over one million citizens to hand over their biometric data in one of the most extreme pushes for digital ID. Kuwait introduced a national electronic ID (eID) that they say will assist with identification verification, digital signatures, E-government access, and the secure exchange of data. The deadline to file for this mandatory program was September 30 and the consequences for failing to comply were swift.
On October 1, the Ministry of Interior announced that those who failed to submit their data would be prohibited from all electronic services such as withdrawals, transfers, and account transfers. One cannot even withdraw cash. Around 35,000 people have been blocked out of their bank accounts and are unable to even view the balance. A few weeks later, those in noncompliance has their electronic bank cards deactivated. Visa, MasterCard, and K-Net all abided by the government’s rule.
Beginning on November 1, The Kuwait Banking Association stated it will implement a “complete block” on all accounts, which means one cannot even withdraw funds if they go to the bank in person. Expatriates have until December 31 to submit their biometric registration.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/kuwait-suspends-services-to-thousands-for-failing-to-submit-biometric-data/
Welcome to the digital gulag.
You WILL check-in any time we want, but you can never leave.
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A story I missed the first time around (April), about finding targets in Gaza:
• a tool [software?] called “Lavender” developed a “kill list” that included 37,000 Palestinians who were targeted for assassination with little human oversight.
• another tool “Where’s Daddy” targeted individuals when they were at home at night with their families. One intelligence officer is quoted: “[We] bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home.”
• there were official denials from the military, so the article goes into the credibility of that.
• “The report is based in part on interviews with six intelligence officers who had firsthand involvement….”
Transcript of interview with the author | DemocracyNow.org
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At the end of WWII the allies did not have a sophisticated AI program to guide their bombs. They just carpet bombed Dresden, for example, and, of course, dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wiping out whole populations of non combatants. It was argued that this would prevent continuing combat & loss of life.
Following the WWI & WWII, nations decided to implement guiding rules for future combat. But it often seems that only western nations are expected to comply with these rules.
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“No Laughing Matter” got its title from what a judge in the story said during a top-secret courtmartial of the crew of the American bomber Joy’s Pride, on the Pacific island of Banalulu, one month after the end of World War Two. Joy’s Pride itself was perfectly OK, and in a hangar there on Banalulu. It was named in honor of the pilot’s mother, Joy Peterson, a nurse in obstetrics in a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. Pride had a double meaning. It meant self-respect. It meant a lion family, too. Here’s the thing: After an atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and then another one was dropped on Nagasaki, Joy’s Pride was ordered to drop yet another one on Yokohama, [Snip – lengthy extract with some colourful language. Those interested can read it via the link. See chapter 3 pages 17 & 18 – Raquel] . https://epdf.tips/vonnegut-kurt-timequake.html Fiction. but wish it were true
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The fire bombing of Tokyo killed more than either A bomb did and the Japanese knew there was nothing they could do to prevent repeats. The only message America was getting was that the blood spilt on Okinawa was just a prelude, that Japan would fight to the bitter end. Only bleeding-hearts deny the necessity of the bombs. One should have been enough BTW.
Hitler knew he was beaten but continued to fight in a vain hope of better terms of surrender. Do a search on operation Bodenplatte on Jan 1st, 1945. Many good men died needlessly.
We cannot allow the evil to set the rules. If you aren’t cheating at war you aren’t serious.
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You get a picture of that realisation in
James D. Hornfischer, “The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at total war in the Pacific 1944-1945”
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My heart bleeds. Wars are just lies and violence. I just wish there was as much energy put towards stopping wars as there is towards stopping the weather changing or invisible viruses. Perhaps some would turn their planes around and face the court martial. ‘The greater good’ is a path to immense evil – bombing is an evil act – no justification can change that.
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Instead we get: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/30/australia-to-boost-missile-production-after-china-tests-icbm-in-pacific More missiles, more bombs to keep us safe
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” If you aren’t cheating at war you aren’t serious.”
This is why Putin isn’t serious in Ukraine! He has the power to flatten the country completely, or to terrorise civilians by killing them en masse, or to overwhelm the Ukie army using far greater force than he does… but he avoids civilian casualties, targets infrastructure instead of people and slowly pushes the front line forward which allows the Ukies to retreat and fight again.
He expects to ‘own’ the areas taken and rebuild them as part of Russia, while America could destroy Japan without worrying. They installed a military Govt overseer and have been running Japan ever since.
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Putin doesn’t want to end the war too soon. He is milking it. He wants the West to keep pouring in resources for as long as possible, then end the war.
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Gaza resembles a carpet-bombed city, too….
And it’s not a nation — its origin was ‘contentious’.
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Biden Calls 80 Million Americans Human Garbage After Comedian Sparks Mass Triggering
by Tyler Durden Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024
You may have heard. During Donald Trump’s 7-hour, celebrity-packed rally at Madison Square Garden, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” in reference to the US territory’s well known problem with overflowing landfills.
Puerto Rican politician Zoraida Buxó came out for Trump at a Tuesday rally…
BREAKING: Puerto Rico’s Shadow U.S. Senator Zoraida Buxó just endorsed Trump on stage at the Allentown rally. Her entire speech was GOLDEN.
“We need change, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are NOT the option to bring about the kind of change that you need and want and certainly not the strong leadership that the United States as a nation needs during these times of turmoil.”
Thank you to the Democrats for blowing a joke out of proportion, which allowed us to get a massive endorsement like this only days before the election.
You guys are the best opponents ever.
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The Puerto Rico Trash Problem: A Call for Change in Waste Management
The problems of Puerto Rico in waste management were not recent. Recently, it received headlines on the account of some flouting comments by an electoral campaigner. Standup comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, performing for Donald Trump, who was campaigning in New York: referred to Puerto Rico, in a tasteless joke, calling it “this floating island of garbage”.
Most people who call Puerto Rico home aren’t laughing.
The Increasing Problem of Waste
Puerto Rico is not a country to take any joke regarding waste management. The island generates around 1.3 billion pounds of trash each year. Sadly, nearly 85% of its landfills are at saturation levels. This creates a terrible state of affairs. A situation where no proper means for waste disposal and recycling facilities has further aggravated the crisis. Much of the wastes are disposed of through littering, causing harm and health problems in the surroundings.
Economic Issues with Waste
This problem can never be solved completely because of the economic instability of Puerto Rico. It imports most goods, with packaging that has ended up in landfills. Limited recycling programs for Puerto Rico leave it little choice to reduce the quantities of garbage. Natural calamities, such as hurricanes, brought more debris into the overflowing landfills.
This led to a joke by Hinchcliffe that pointed out the reality of how people look at Puerto Rico, especially considering that it ignores all real issues.
Puerto Ricans and celebrities such as Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin express their anger. Through social media, they bring into public light the waste problem, as well as ongoing struggles in poverty, infrastructure, and environmental destruction.
A Call to Action
Though the offense the comment had caused to some, Hinchcliffe does bring a much-needed reality check regarding Puerto Rico’s serious problem with trash.
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Well Played, JD, Well Played: Vance to Appear on Joe Rogan’s Podcast After Kamala Chickened Out
Kamala Harris was evidently too busy to schedule an appearance on the highly popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Then, when she realized it was a bad look, she tried to negotiate terms but ended up on the losing end.
She should read a book called “The Art of the Deal.”
But now GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance has shown her up, and he’s agreed to sit down with Rogan on Wednesday. Well played, JD, well played.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is traveling to Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan in his studio.
Donald Trump joined Rogan for a three-hour interview on Friday.
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Biden sets off election firestorm with “garbage” comment
Driving the news: On the call, Biden said: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
The White House argued that Biden was only referring to the comedian in his comments and sent a transcript in which Biden says: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.”
Asked if they had spoken to the president to ask him what he meant before sending the transcript, the Biden spokesperson requested to go off the record.
Axios declined and the White House did not respond further.
After this story was published, the spokesperson told Axios that staff did speak to Biden about what he meant to say to inform the transcript.
Axios asked for more details and the White House declined.
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Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Scandal Grows: White House Clarified Biden’s Smear on Trump Supporters Without Speaking to Biden
President Joe Biden’s aides defended his smear of Donald Trump’s supporters Tuesday night by clarifying his words despite not speaking to the president after his unscripted comments, a report suggests.
White House aides insisted Biden’s comment that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters” does not reference Trump’s supporters but comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who made a joke during a Trump rally that the Harris campaign has latched onto.
The White House released a transcript of Biden’s remarks in a flimsy effort to suggest Biden referenced Hinchcliffe.
Even before Thompson’s revelation, the White House’s characterization of Biden’s wording clearly contradicted his statement. But by refusing to confirm they had spoken with Biden after his gaffe, the already tenuous official White House clarification of Biden’s comments is further undermined.
It is unknown how Biden’s aides could have divined his intent — in unwritten, off-the-cuff remarks — without having spoken to him. And the White House’s bungled response simply adds fuel to the fire.
Vice President Kamala Harris has not commented on the escalating scandal, which has overshadowed her Tuesday night rally — intended to be her final appeal to voters — and threatens to derail her campaign.
Biden’s remarks are already being compared to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorable” comment about Trump’s supporters in 2016. Trump went on to win that election.
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CNN’s Collins: ‘Hard’ to Buy Spin on Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comments When You Can Watch Video
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I’m not sure of the details but didn’t a comedian at a dem function say that if they wanted to build “the wall” it would have to be done in a day or the Mexicans would steal the materials overnight?
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I downloaded his movie the day he was nominated as Trump’s VP. I was impressed at the time and nothing has disappointed me since.
With TDS so pervasive I wonder how/why the (D)s couldn’t find a candidate to beat Trump. Not hard surely? But I don’t see one possibility now and I’ll be amazed if they could find anyone less obnoxious in four yrs time.
The (R)s, on the other hand might have a bunfight with so many good candidates damaging each other.
Don Jr and Barron could make a dynasty.
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Vote for us – you bunch of wankers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrTLIWkuIFA
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Kuwait starts the march to tyranny
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202410/kuwait-suspends-electronic-banking-for-60k-with-biometrics-unregistered
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Wednesday history: old Ironsides
The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She carried no evaporators (i.e. fresh water distillers). However, let it be noted that according to her ship’s log, “On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum.”
Her mission: “To destroy and harass English shipping.”
Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons of rum. Then she headed for the Azores, arriving there 12 November.. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of Portuguese wine. On 18 November, she set sail for England.
In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war ships, and captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the rum aboard each.
By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted.
Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.. Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then she headed home.
The U. S. S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky, and 38,600 gallons of water.
GO NAVY!
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IIRC these days the US Navy is dry. They must have set a bad example?
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to drink that amount of spirits the crew would be dead within a few days as they would need to drink about 1.8 gallons of rum per day.
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41 out of 45 looting and burglary suspects who were arrested for allegedly targeting vulnerable Floridians in Pinellas County after Hurricane Helene and Milton are foreign national migrants
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1850292852544135277
Cultural assimilation working well then..
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TIL
Did you know the popular Monstera Deliciosa house plant can fruit?
When grown outside in favourable conditions (tropical heat) it can reach 4 metres or more in height and when mature at 5 years or so it produces large banana-like fruit tasting like a banana-pineapple cross.
I never knew that.
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Ford Lost Another $1.2 Billion in 3Q On EVs
FoMoCo lost $58,391 for every EV it sold during the quarter.
Oct 29, 2024
The ugly EV news from Ford Motor Company just keeps coming.
This afternoon, the company reported that it lost $1.224 billion in its EV business during the third quarter. In early October, the company reported EV sales “were up 14.8 percent on best-ever sales of 20,962 vehicles.” Thus, simple division shows that the storied automaker lost $58,391 for each EV it sold during the quarter.
The company’s losses on its EV business, known as Model e, for the first nine months of 2024 total $3.7 billion. For reference, that $3.7 billion loss is equal to the gross profit (Ford calls it EBIT, short for earnings before interest and taxes) it made on Ford Blue, the division that makes internal combustion vehicles.
Alas, these results aren’t surprising. Ford has been hemorrhaging cash on EVs for the past two years. It lost $4.7 billion on EVs in 2023 and $2.2 billion on EVs in 2022.
The third-quarter numbers simply show, yet again, that Ford’s leadership has made a colossal blunder.
CEO Jim Farley and his lieutenants didn’t understand what motorists want to buy.
That’s a bad thing if you’re running one of the world’s biggest car makers.
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“In early October, the company reported EV sales “were up 14.8 percent on best-ever sales”
I had a moment just like that when I worked in retail though far less than the billions in Fords case. Just finished my shift and walking out when I noticed hi-vis quilted jackets with rain hood and mobile phone pocket normally $90 were marked down to $15. I checked with my supervisor that it would be ok for me to buy some and they said but don’t use your staff discount please – a further 10% reduction. I grabbed 5.
Couple of days later on another shift new store manager did his introductions and, given all the dire news of how bad the national chain was doing I asked him what his impressions of our store performance was. He was totally upbeat stating that the store was fine and indeed clothing sales were going gang busters. Didn’t have the heart to point out I had just bought $450 worth of quality hi-vis jackets for $75 whereas I would not have bought one for $90 so that jacket “gang busters” sale would be positive only as far as the person who totaled the sales at the end of the day.
Oh and after hanging the jackets in the wardrobe for some 3 months at the start of autumn I sold 4 of them at $40 each and “discounted” the last for $30. Buyers loved the 50%+ discount that they received.
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Hezbollah names deputy head Naim Qassem as new chief
Hezbollah movement has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hasan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month.
“Hezbollah’s (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect … Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of Hezbollah,” the Lebanese terror group said in a statement, more than a month after Nasrallah’s killing.
Iran-backed Hezbollah pledged to keep “the flame of resistance burning” until victory is achieved against Israel after all-out war erupted on September 23.
Israel immediately responded by saying his time at the time would almost certainly be “the shortest in the history” of the group.
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Viking History@vikinghistoric
🔥Yesterday in Norway (9 Oct 24), hundreds of beacons were lit as part of the public opposition to wind power🌬️ Many argue that wind turbines ruin the landscape and are an inefficient source of energy.
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What about all the ‘blade technicians’ who must all be skilled rappelling, rigging and climbing for goodness sake?? … and the energy gardeners tending the wind farms?? sigh*
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Same as the Motive Power Intermediary Officers, who wipe solar panels clean of dust, or snow, I guess!
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Even though there is quite a bit of rotating inertia with a windmill, the actual electrical output comes from an inverter which has no inertia at all.
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In Japan they are planning on dismantling the wind farms in Hokkaido for much the same reasons.
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Albanese government appoints ‘global warming crusader’ as Future Fund chair
The Albanese government has appointed a “global warming crusader” to be in charge of Australia’s Future Fund, Sky News host Andrew Bolt says.
“I just read something today that should set off the alarms in every Liberal politician’s office … we could now see the nation’s savings squandered on the Albanese government’s failing and crazy global warming schemes,” Mr Bolt said.
The Albanese government has revealed former Labor minister Greg Combet will succeed Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund.
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The AEMO presents and opportunities document encouraging investment in “firming” infrastructure. You know, that stuff we never needed for 70 years but is now fundamental. Apparently adding this layer of expense and management will help further drive down the cost of “renewable” power. Somehow.
https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/nem-forecasting-and-planning/forecasting-and-reliability/nem-electricity-statement-of-opportunities-esoo
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Australia’s critical infrastructure is under cyberattack
Despite having cyber tools and teams, breaches at companies like Optus and Medibank have put cybersecurity front and centre for Australians and Australian organisations. Cybersecurity is now a board-level issue, but an even greater threat to the nation comes from critical infrastructure attacks, which can harm our national interest and our economy.
According to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), it responded to 143 incidents from entities that self-defined as critical infrastructure in 2022-23, up from 95 for the previous reporting period.
The Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI) outlines the legal obligations for those who own, operate or have direct interests in critical infrastructure. It covers 11 sectors, ranging from healthcare and medical, through to energy, water, communications and financial services.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/279148-australias-critical-infrastructure-is-under-cyber-attack-heres-how-to-defend-your-organisation/
Maybe hackers could make a city’s light flash “LOL” in morse code.😁
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FWIW
“The Most Devastating COVID Report So Far”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/most-devastating-covid-report-so-far
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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/large-fire-breaks-cumbria-nuclear-053327726.html – that will be the first AUKUS delay – how much did we pay again?
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Tuesday 29th October 2024
Snowfall on the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
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Wednesday 30th October 2024 Le Matin MA
Heavy rain, hail and snowfall expected until Thursday in several cities in Morocco (DGM)
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Civil liberties councils in Qld versus NSW differ on whether free speech is fundamental as a right (Qld is Yes, NSW is No): https://www.scienceandfreedom.org/articles/nsw-council-for-civil-liberties-votes-against-freedom-of-speech/
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Well,that organisation is a complete waste of time!
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Captain Kangaroo does a go round in a B 767
https://youtu.be/g1ZV-nkkUME?t=10
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Not to forget – be afraid, be very afraid of everything. https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/terrorism-advice-means-keynsham-remembrance-9670784
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“and God forbid that something did happen then the Town Clerk and her deputy could be held responsible.”
Civil servants being held responsible??! Who ordered this outrage?!!
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If you’ve got nothing else to do but want to keep finger on the pulse: “we will examine the rising incidence of extreme weather events, including hail, thunderstorms, hurricanes and more, and what kind of risks these events pose to solar assets in the field. …. ” Thursday, October 31, 2024 · 15:00 | London (GMT +0:00) https://www.bigmarker.com/pv-magazine-events/pv-magazine-Webinar-Navigating-Climate-Disruptions-Solar-Tracker-Technologies-for-a-Resilient-Future?utm_bmcr_source=spnl&utm_source=Global+|+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e0c422adf6-Webinar_PVH_Global_n%2Fo&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6916ce32b6-e0c422adf6-158711021&ct=t(Webinar_PVH_Global_n/o)&mc_cid=e0c422adf6&mc_eid=feba5cb3b4
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