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Truly funny:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/13/experts-warn-adjective-climate-crisis-could-lead-to-dramatic-outcome-by-year/
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In a recent report by Babylon Sea, (commonly known as BS) scientists have sounded the alarm about the catastrophic calamitous effects of climate change. According to Alfred E. Neumann, Chief Consultant to BS, if global temperatures rise by just 0.0000001 degrees Celsius, we could see catastrophic impacts, including windmill blades spinning in reverse and sucking whatever electricity is left in the grid back into the air, causing massive lightning strikes in a cloudless sky. Lions and hyenas will stop attacking prey, leaving southern Africa overrun by wildebeest, and giant flies, known to only inhabit sheep farms in New Zealand, will mass and relentlessly attack Australia.
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Gerry, ‘climate change’ to the rescue!
Friday 15 Nov, South Island, NZ,
Snow to 800 metres.
Saturday 16 Nov (ditto),
Snow to 800 metres.
Everywhere else, cold rain, which rhymes with Spain. Is it carbon or is it cosmic: Friday is the moon’s 6th-closest perigee and Saturday it’s full – can you feeeeeel the difference?
Hopefully Maori protesters walking to Wellington (with a little help from buses & vans & motorbikes) don’t catch a cold or pneumonia or sumpfink worserer – it certainly won’t be heat-stroke.
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Experts Warn: Sea rise Could Lead to refilling the DC swamp by 2040.
Experts Warn: Climate Crisis Could Lead to wind turbines running backwards and draining power from the grid by 2030. (h/t Gerry)
Experts Warn: Climate Crisis Could Lead to solar farms reflecting too much heat and burning off Earth’s atmosphere by 2100.
Experts Warn: Climate Crisis Could Lead to Labor getting voted in again by 2026.
Experts Warn: Climate Crisis Could Lead to scientists being baffled as to why scientists are baffled.
Experts Warn: Climate Crisis Could Lead to record high numbers of politicians getting filthy rich by the time the lie is fully exposed.
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Takes me back to my school days when Alfred was on the cover of a magazine I used to read. He has come a long way to be a leading expert.
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The top Republican who single handedly frustrated Trump’s Presidency last time was Paul Ryan, former speaker of the House. Donald Trump is ‘unfit for office’ and unelectable. And he is still on the board of Fox.
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And spectacularly about how to win, not a single word about policy! It’s all about personalities and polling. Just like Turnbull whose strategy was to ride public sentiment which by definition is policy as driven by the legacy media, including Fox.
So in Paul Ryan’s view, while not said explicitly, politicians are just popular actors on the stage, liars without policies. Empty suits. You want the most popular, presentable, young, dynamic, and presumably good looking in the right suit, matching tie and good hair. Great image. You can see why Hollywood think they should have an actor like George Clooney in the White House. (Alec Baldwin has been too busy after the disaster with his disastrous film Rust.)
I just rewatched the both incredibly funny and appalling South park film, Team America and the control of the world by actors, members of FAG, the Film Actors Guild led by Alec Baldwin. You have to watch through your fingers. But in hindsight it is an amazingly accurate parody of America and world politics led by Hollywood and image actors like Paul Ryan and John Kerry and George Clooney. When Ryan talks about younger strong image people to run for President, he means himself. Or another member of FAG like George Clooney. Hair is very important too for image. Ask John Kerry, a complete hair head.
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Donald Trump on Socialism.
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Speaking of Turnbull and those with their snouts in the trough, he stood up and said we have to stick by Rudd, for what would he do in a cold heartless world without a high-paid sinecure amongst his mates. Obviously Rupert Murdoch has criticised Turnbull somewhere along the way..
“Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to stand by Rudd, arguing the push against the ambassador was driven by News Corporation’s desire to gain revenge against Rudd for his past criticisms of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire.
““I didn’t have success with Trump as prime minister because I kissed his arse. You have to be tough.” ..said the lapdog poodle talking to the other dogs in the alley.. Everyone knows Australia has absolutely no bargaining power with America, our politicians do as they are told, hoping to become an ambassador after they get booted out of office. Others standing shoulder to shoulder in support of sinecures are-
“Former prime minister Scott Morrison has backed Rudd, as have previous US ambassadors Joe Hockey, Arthur Sinodinos and Kim Beazley….Former prime minister Tony Abbott…Foreign Minister Penny Wong has insisted Rudd was “absolutely” the right person to represent Australia in Washington ”
The Trump Team said- ““Obviously, [Rudd’s criticism] is a little bit tough to take, and maybe we would want to choose someone else.””
Pack your bags, you were useless here and you’re useless over there! We’ll find you a spot as a director in our new Ministry of Censorship, we’ll need hundreds of bureaurats in there!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/key-trump-ally-taunts-rudd-on-social-media-20241113-p5kq6x.html
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KP,
But you do have to admire the deep irony of (“rat effing”) Rudd being called a diplomat.
Incidentally, thanks for your reply in yesterday’s. I have responded there.
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And, in once-great Britain:
https://rumble.com/v5oowzz-they-got-a-big-surprise.html
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It somewhat hypocritical that people in the UK complain about the stuff they voted for. Clearly the meeting inside the church was at odds with the majority of the people outside protesting the meeting inside.
UK is now offering reparations for the crusades a few centuries ago by rehoming the descendents of the then enemy.
Geoff S posted this image on WUWT:
https://www.geoffstuff.com/fans.jpg
This is UK’s future. All those women complaining about adolescent male refugees leering at their young daughters need to be pulled into line. Their primary school daughters are all prospective brides.
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Does anyone have an archive.org account and would care to save the following Web page before it’s “disappeared”?
https://www.paulfletcher.com.au/media-releases/new-disinformation-laws
Or otherwise preserve this page.
It needs preservation because someone mentioned to me that they had no idea that the fake conservative Liberal Party were responsible for the censorship bill.
The following needs preservation as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/21/peter-dutton-now-backs-laws-to-crack-down-on-above-the-law-social-media-companies-over-misinformation
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Archive.org????
https://webtopdf.com/
Or Adobe Acrobat, or Hypersnap scrolling capture or print to pdf or browser extensions or lots more.
I saved ’em…
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Did anyone expect anything else?
Top men onto it –
I am an experienced police executive with a demonstrated history in law enforcement and a focus on leadership and diversity.
Traitors the lot of them
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I notice Krissy loves the Gates Foundation as well. Lovely people.
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While we’re (me) talking about the AFP…
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My son was telling me about a contractor he knows who contracts to maintain certain local council property. He was called to a meeting in the council offices to discuss pronouns and gender labelling. The meeting opened with the usual welcome to country and then proceeded to discuss the wording in numerous documents and signage that were not gender neutral.
The contractor estimates the rate payer bill for the time of the people involved in the 4 hour meeting was $6,000. This waste is going on in government departments and businesses throughout the country.
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I know of a small country school,about 35kids, that is getting a petting zoo. Kangaroos roam through town every hour of the day and night, deer wander through after dark, area has sheep,cattle,goats, dogs,cats, but hey, the kids need a petting zoo
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If only we had someone like Trump and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy from Trump’s soon-to-be Department of Government Efficiency who actually cared about curtailing Government waste and woke nonsense.
In Australia, the Government waste and wokeness just keeps getting worse, without any restrictions whatsoever.
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I think the Misinformation bill is distraction. It is so draconian it will probably be defeated but in the background the over 16 years for social media is being pushed. This will give the government unprecedented information on every person using the media as everyone will have to prove their age.
This is maybe another step on the road to digital ID. What’s next bank accounts, social credit score, travel?
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Yes.
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The work the Trump teams did to get out the vote, and protect the count was phenomenal, and possibly difficult for someone else to repeat. (Easier for the Dems with their love of organising committees, and talk fests.) Non voters in swing states got 3 home visits, and follow up texts. If an abusive text came back, it was replied to civilly. And after the election was called, everyone on their lists was texted, asking what issues they wanted to most have addressed. After the result!
Charlie Kirk got tictok to have him back on tictok, allowing him to build up to an audience to 60 million hits a day, of collage tour questions and answers.
Their election integrity committee had 500 volunteer lawyers in each swing state (5000 for the whole country) and 230 000 scrutineers, watching every vote counted.
They put in the ground work.
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New Google Pixel AI feature analyzes phone conversations for scams
Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer.
Google has also added a new real-time protection feature to Google Play Protect that detects when unsafe apps are found on Google Play.
The features have been made available to Google Pixel 6 devices and newer models of the series, but more Android devices from other OEMs are expected to receive them in the coming months.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/new-google-pixel-ai-feature-analyzes-phone-conversations-for-scams/
Save time and just record all conversations by the NSA. Oh, they already do…
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Contemplating the emotional abuse the Democrats have put their own voters through (as well as the rest of us).
“He’s Hitler … and a Russian agent”.
(Excuse my history nerd chuckle over that one.)
“He will end Our Democracy!”
“Women will die”.
“He will use the military against his opponents”.
Then Joe Biden welcomes him to the White House to celebrate the ‘peaceful transition’?
What?
Oh, it was just electioneering?
There should be a committee, a report, and a strongly worded letter.
(As soon as the one on the Pandemic response is finished.)
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https://youtu.be/a9gpztY7WGE?si=_1_19T_kVirryN6r
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How about instead of adding a pink ribbon to their products, companies actually remove the ingredients from their products that CAUSE cancer.
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Democrats set to ban new motorhomes in 6 states starting January 2025
You won’t believe this: starting January 1, 2025, new motorhomes will be banned in several states, all in the name of an extreme environmental agenda. California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are set to enforce regulations that will drastically limit the sale of new motorhomes with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) over 8,500 pounds.
The reason behind this shift? The Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation, which requires vehicle manufacturers to progressively sell a larger percentage of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). While the rule does not outright ban motorhomes, it effectively makes the sale of new traditional motorhomes with internal combustion engines unfeasible, as manufacturers are forced to pivot toward electric vehicles to meet the ZEV sales targets.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/democrats-set-to-ban-new-motorhomes-in-6-states-starting-january-2025/
An electric motorhome?
Someone hold me up, I’m laughing so hard.😆
On a sidenote, there’s a youtube channel called Liz Amazing that exposes the motorhome market and shonkies.
An eye opener. Well worth checking out.
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They learned nothing from the Trump victory?
I wonder if Trump has the authority to stop that insanity or is it strictly a state’s issue?
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New published study showing a massive up tic in cerebral thrombosis (probably from a pretty low base line?) with well over 5000 cases world wide, in covid vaccinated people. Short, from 4.00 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFwPdJPPj0
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Thursday funny: DOGE
https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/1856523236655161373
Totally accurate! 😆
Elon Musk:
All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency.
Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!
We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.
Oh for DOGE here too.
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If I was an American, my simple (but not easy) suggestion would be to start by enforcing truly independent and accurate annual financial audits of government organisations, at every level. These would have to include properly detailed records of spending, i.e where the money REALLY goes. They would also have show how each and every dollar spent aligns with their official objectives and role.
Step Two would be to tag every dollar spent on items that fall OUTSIDE of their remit, on things that aren’t mission critical or politically motivated. Those dollars to be cut from the following year’s funding.
I believe this would open a very smelly can of worms in terms of waste, corruption and political hijacking of public services.
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How to save web pages for posterity
Contrary to the popular belief that anything online stays online, the internet doesn’t remember everything. In a previous post in this series, we examined no fewer than nine scenarios in which you could lose access to online content. We also provided a detailed guide to what information you absolutely must (and preferably quickly) back up to your computer and how to do it. Today, we’ll discuss how to easily save web pages to your computer, how to organize these archives, and what to do if your favorite site has gone AWOL.
Want to reminisce about music news and gossip from 2005? Good luck with that — the MTV News site shut down and all its articles and interviews are no longer available. Check references in Wikipedia articles? 11% of them lead nowhere, even though they were working when the article was published. This phenomenon of “link rot” — the gradual deletion or relocation of online content — is rapidly becoming a major problem. 38% of pages that existed ten years ago are no longer accessible today.
https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/blog/how-to-use-web-archives-and-permanently-save-webpages/28419/
You think archive.org is big?
Hold my beer.
Sssshhh…😎
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FWIW
“About That Hegseth Guy and the Pentagon He’s Walking Into”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/11/13/about-that-hegseth-guy-and-the-pentagon-hes-walking-into-n3796961
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FWIW via The Bee
“Dems Warn: Eliminating Ed Dept Could Make Kids Too Smart to Vote Democrat”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/11/13/dems-warn-eliminating-ed-dept-could-make-kids-too-smart-to-vote-democrat-n3796964
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Just when you thought children will never know what snow was…
YUGE bitterly cold Arctic blast to slam the UK and other North Sea countries this weekend as Santa comes prematurely. Expert Scientists™️ say it’s so hot at the North Pole that Santa and his little helpers need to escape to cooler climes in Europe 😱
Your BoM is also predicting snow for Tasmania today and again on Monday – in November.
And as noted up-thread, NZ’s in for 2 days of snow on the Alps. Talk about “1.5 to stay alive” – anything above freezing is good! All we need is one little dusting of snow next month, December, and that’ll be 12 months (one whole year!) of snowfalls, despite despicable delusional claims of ‘hottest year EVAAAH!’
COP is CR@P.
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FWIW – more “didn’t earn it”
“Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go To ‘Better’ Grades?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/schoolhouse-limbo-how-low-will-educators-go-better-grades
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Worth a read and a look
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/doomed-planet/simple-but-still-beyond-chis-bowens-ken/
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