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Two good links to follow, many, will now be aware of John Cullens work. The other video is a Heartland Institute, interview with doctor, who is well acquainted with the use of hydroxychloroquine and much more.
Establishing facts from fiction.
https://www.patreon.com/IAMJOHNCULLEN/posts
Oct 24, 2020 at 7:30 AM
Fact-Checking MasterClass – Cullen Schools the Boys, on YouTube
The Heartland Institute
Michael J. A. Robb, M.D. joins Free to Choose Medicine Director Christina Herrin to discuss COVID-19. Their conversation focuses on patient rights during the pandemic. Should patients have access to medicines that carry risks if there’s a chance it will save their lives? Dr. Robb and Christina discuss this question and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuwiPhQ_4I&feature=emb_logo
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A dynamite piece by Paul Driessen:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/24/the-biden-family-green-new-deal/
Lots of good stats and facts about what 100% renewables takes, with or without Biden. The corresponding absurd numbers for Oz would be interesting.
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Some time ago I put aside thinking of Donald Trump’s human foibles and started to live in hope: the hope that he might get another term and continue the amazing turn around that has revived America.
We are now two weeks away from the big decider and the excitement is building.
The past year in the U.S. has been almost surreal with conflict and raging mobs of activists creating fear and chaos everywhere.
The fact that such violence has gone unchecked for so long is frightening but what is even worse to consider is that the angry mobs have had been created and supported by a hidden political manipulator.
If Trump loses then this manipulating force can have its way: scary.
This is going to be an exciting few months.
KK
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Yes KK, the average or ‘quiet American’ has had a taste of a leader working for them instead of the constant stream of troughers, traitors and radicals that has infested their levels of power and negatively impacted their way of life, Trump is how the American Constitution is supposed to work and more Americans are waking up to the fact and loving it.
A loss for Trump will mean a victory for a liberty crushing left ideology that the already converted will embrace and others will join out of pure fear of being on the wrong end of apparently justified hate and violence, this will not save them as their system by nature alone will create further divisions until complete chaos is rampant and only then will the architects of this plan come with a solution to end all the woes of the people.
People scoff at this idea but refuse to read what has already been laid out in countries via UN frameworks, treaties and agendas that create a “problem” then offer solutions that strip them of wealth and sovereign powers, ignore at your own peril.
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“GODFATHER JOE BIDEN IS NOW MORE EXPOSED THAN JEFFREY TOOBIN”
https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/18591/joe-biden-implicated-in-the-hunter-biden-laptop-scandal/
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This is good. Trump Supporters Rally in Beverly Hills!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/24/beverly-hills-goes-maga-as-thousands-of-trump-supporters-rally/
That is taking it right up to the Hollywood Elites. Maybe there is a groundswell of support by people who have had a “gut full” of being lectured to by the Hollywood elites and lied to by the swamp.
I hope it is going to be enough.
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‘The dams will never be full again’… oh dear. ‘Drought is the new normal’… oh my.
Meanwhile, on planet Earth, today: rain along the eastern seaboard of Australia, snow on the higher parts of VIC & NSW, cool wet sou’easterly winds, for the next few days, rain…
I know, it’s ‘only weather’, a minor glitch in the theory called System of Belief (SOB) aka the Climate Cargo Cult. Hot and dry NOW means cold and wet – and it’s still our fault. Yet thanks to el gordo’s blocking high pressure, we’ve now got YOUR pleasant climate (calm warm sunshine) for the next few days…
More people have died on NZ roads this long holiday weekend (4 so far) than from the deadly Crown virus (0). If only there was a vaccination against stupidity.
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And with all this rain falling free from the skys Victoriastans desalination plant continues to use fossil fuels to convert sea water to fresh to bolster our ever expanding water supply.
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I have some good news about global warming
Global warming will probably cause some problems, but it won’t be catastrophic
And global warming will cause some benefits
Unfortunately, Alarmists don’t want to hear good news
If you have any scientific curiosity, then please read this thread
https://twitter.com/Snarky_Aardvark/status/1320036804628676608?s=20
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Sorry Sheldon..
Much as i enjoy a scientific debate……
But to some of us, Twitchatter is a no go zone…..
Like sticking your head in a trash can and banging on the side. !
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snowflake
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I guess some types are attracted to piles of crap.
There is nothing to be learned there, just piles of other peoples waste thoughts to wade through and contaminate your mind.
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Chad
Twitter is a tool
It can be used well, or it can be used badly
I use Twitter well
Please yourself. It is your loss if you don’t look
On Twitter, I post under the name “Snarky Aardvark”
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Its OK Sheldon..
I shall continue to please myself !
There are not enough hours in a day to waste on trivia/ and word salad.
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NO MOORE’S LAW FOR BATTERY STORAGE!
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/moores-law-and-battery-technology-no-dice/
An important rejoinder to people who think that the Big Elon Musk Batteries are going to get Bigger and Cheaper at the same rate as data storage in recent times, roughly doubling every two years or so.
So much for the second leg of the “holy trinity” of Transmission LInes, Batteries and Pumped Hydro that the proponents of RE think will enable us to junk the coal-fired power stations.
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An update on progress towards a fast neutron molten salt reactor by Ed Pheil of Elysium Industries.
This type of reactor is quite agnostic in its fuel requirements and, in particular, it can burn Plutonium of pretty much any isotopic
composition. Given the (now) hundreds of tons of Plutonium around the world from ex-nuclear weapons to recycled fuel rods a method of
getting rid of the Plutonium that doesn’t involve a large hole in the ground or the nuclear arsenals of states you wouldn’t sell a nerf gun to would be of considerable and urgent interest. Ed Pheil goes all cute when talking about their current activities but from his earlier videos it seems that Elysium is working with the Savannah River project on a 10MW demonstration reactor to start consuming the Plutonium stockpile.
The Elysium fast neutron reactor uses Sodium Chloride as the molten salt with the Plutonium or other trans-Uranic waste converted to Chloride salts. The campaign life of the reactor is expected to be around 40 years with about a third of the fission products coming of as gases which can be collected and allowed to decay and plate out. The final fission product waste is expected to have a time to background of about 300 years, considerably better than the thousands of years for PWR fuel rod waste.
If this country ever bothered to “look to windward” and see opportunity on the horizon… Japan has about 70 tons of Plutonium and no clear way to get rid of it and well as several hundred tons of fuel rod waste. Smart people would be thinking that here’s an opportunity in that the Japanese would pay someone lots to take the Plutonium, convert it into something fairly benign, store it until it decays to background. A country with lots of space, a need for baseload generation to replace old coal plants could make a shitload out of a project like that.
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Victorious New Zealand PM Urged to Apply Covid-19 Lessons to the Climate Crisis
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/24/victorious-new-zealand-pm-urged-to-apply-covid-19-lessons-to-the-climate-crisis/
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Some interesting comments at WUWT on this rather silly story.
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Have added to the comments on Eric’s rather silly story: the ‘Amanda Larsson’ he quotes is a [foreign agent] campaigner spokes-mouth for Greenpees (sic) NZ who hails from your neck of the woods, David. She’s a regular squawker & squealer, yet thankfully her shrill voice doesn’t travel far (until now).
Another American agitator is Julie Ann Genter, ex-Assistant Minister of Transport (and Greens Party member) who wants us all riding bicycles and eating rabbit food, to save the planet y’know.
Update on NZ deaths this weekend:
Fatal vehicle/road ‘accidents’, 6,
Crown virus complications, 0.
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Harsh winter on the cards for UK and Europe.
https://notrickszone.com/2020/10/24/great-britain-september-mean-temperatures-cooling-also-models-suggest-harsh-long-winter-ahead/
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Wow… What a headline:
” All of South Australia’s power comes from solar panels in world first for major jurisdiction ”
And from such a reliable source:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-25/all-sa-power-from-solar-for-first-time/12810366
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But: ” “Never before has a jurisdiction the size of South Australia been completely run by solar power, with consumers’ rooftop solar systems contributing 77 per cent.”
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And there’s a small proviso, not exactly implied in the headline:
” All of SA’s power came from solar for one hour on October 11 “.
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At least they did include the details I’ve quoted.
Cheers
Dave B
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Did you know that for almost one hour, almost a full one hour, all of South Australia’s power was provided by Rooftop solar and the two solar plants. This was on a Sunday, the day of (far and away) the lowest power consumption of the week in a State where on that day, power consumption was almost 5% of Australia wide overall power consumption.
And on top of that, those natural gas fired plants were also in operation, as were the wind plants which were operational as well. However, luckily for all us humans, all that power being generated by natural gas fired plants and wind plants was exported out of the State, because for that one hour, (well, almost an hour anyway) the grid was able to discern which power was which, so the State was only supplied with solar power, and ALL that other power was what was exported.
As I was reading the article, (oh, it was at the ABC) I thought to myself …… just you wait, there will be people out there who will actually believe this.
Hmm, no wonder they call it a ….. ‘smart’ grid. It can actually tell where the power is being generated.
Read it and
weeplaugh, all you disbelievers.Solar Power Comedy
Tony.
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And dont forget..
Roof top solar is not measured…its only “Estimated” !
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Outsiders cut short because the dictator is spouting forth. I’ve walked away from it; can’t bear to look at it.
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No worries Annie I sacrificed what sanity I have left and watched 5 minutes (all I could stand) only to find out that SHOCK HORROR! the current rules and restrictions will not be changed because they are waiting on the results of 1000 tests in the North of Melbourne (120kms from me), so otherwise just another weak excuse not to release the stranglehold this regime has over the state and its people.
For anyone out there that still thinks Andrews is sincere in his actions let me repeat a critical lesson now forgotten from radical left systems,
NO AMOUNT OF POWER OR RIGHTS YOU GIVE THEM IS NEVER ENOUGH, THEY WILL TAKE AND TAKE UNTIL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE!
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Baldric-call-me-Dan’s Cunning Plan is to keep us locked down until the next state election over two years away which shouldn’t be too hard given that in a population the size of Melbourne’s there’ll always be a little pocket of some thousands being threatened by new spontaneous outbreaks with no help from PRC consular staff.
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Me too Annie.
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We understood that there was to be a special programme at 8pm on Sky News, by Peta Credlin, about the appalling situation with the inquiry into the hotel quarantine stuff-up here in Victoria. What happened to that? Was it on Sky subscription only or ‘vanished’ altogether? Does anyone here have any knowledge of what became of it?
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Sky News on WIN, is where we had thought we would see it; no mention at the time of not being on the FTA channel.
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Picking up Tony’s point, see the difference between the RE at lunch and dinnertime in the first chart in this post.
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/10/04/unreliable-energy-the-holy-trinity-vs-the-icebergs/
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Impact of Covid on NZ political culture.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri16/nzelect20.png
The enormity of the pandemic should see minor parties become marginalised in Australia.
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Eureka! A new element has been discovered. It has been given the name Governmentium and the symbol Gv.
https://morningmail.org/the-chemical-composition-of-governments-governmentium-%e2%98%ba/
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Anyone noticed that the Biden campaign rally “sound bites”. ..are mostly Obama now ?
I get the feeling the Dem’s are not wanting to risk Joe trying to talk senseably at this stage.
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His minders have him on a short leash.
‘When freshly minted Senator Barack Obama first encountered Joe Biden in action, in 2005, he passed a three-word note to an aide. It said: ‘Shoot. Me. Now.’ Oz
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Wales in strife.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/24/escape-from-wales-britains-most-out-of-control-covid-19-lockdown/
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After monitoring the betting for the US Election for the last month, I have noticed an interesting pattern which seems to smack of manipulation. I can only think this manipulation is for nefarious political purposes – perhaps to demoralise Trump supports in the same way the fake polls are being exploited. UK betting shop Betfair provides evidence to support my suspicion. Overall bets on Trump outweigh Biden bets 83 million pounds to 74 million pounds and yet the top 10 bets including a recent bet of 500,000 pounds are all Biden bets.
https://www.freetips.com/politics/us-political-betting/us-election-betting-500k-bet-on-joe-biden-to-win-presidential-election-20201024-0014/
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‘Mr Soros, I presume?’
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I should clarify what caught my eye in the betting trend was the correlation between good news for Trump (e.g. Hunter Biden’s email revelations, better poll numbers) and a significant lengthening of Trump’s betting price. Those two things should not happen at the same time and yet it has been the established pattern. It just shows what lengths the global oligarchic class is prepared to go to remove Trump.
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Just a thought as to why dangerous Dan from Victoriastan won’t allow the restrictions and state of emergency to be rescinded .
If restrictions are lifted the state of emergency is no longer needed and if that happens he will then be liable and chargeable for the workplace manslaughter laws he introduced which will apply to the hotel quarantine because it was a workplace.
When writing the new laws they forgot to make government exempt from it .
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Thursday morning, I did exactly what US President Donald Trump did. I stepped into a Florida early vote center and cast my ballot for Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)
I urge my fellow Americans to do the same in their home states, even those of you who live in California. Vote a straight Republican ticket. Vote for Republican House and Senate candidates. Let’s make the lefty new media in the USA choke on their own bile for the next four years.
Thank you.
This ad, exhortation, prayer was approved by me.
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Interesting description of kids’ programming on the ABC:
Aspire to being a hollow television presenter and think of extreme weather as punishment for wrongdoers.
Perhaps my initial use of the apostrophe was misleading.
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So, heading into the first year end of lockdowns, masks, social distancing, quarantines, folks spraying all sorts of chemicals around, one can make the same “science based” observations from the “evidence”:
1. masks, social distancing incubate and spread Covid-19
2. when a killer virus appears, the human species will disappear.
A corollary is Governments are extremely dangerous and are so incompetent, corrupt and subject to bribes that they will be the primary root cause of species extinction. Making Darwin, again, correct.
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Electricity Shutoff Looms for 450,000 in California as High Winds Approach
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/10/25/electricity-shutoff-looms-for-450000-in-california-as-high-winds-approach/
Too bad they don’t have more wind-generators so they could take advantage off all of that … oh wait, they said high winds, so they’d have to shut down the wind generators anyway … never mind.
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US Senate seeks censorship stories
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/share-your-censorship-story
Sen Blackburn heads the Big Tech Taskforce investigating censorship by Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc. They need lots of evidence so send her your stories. You need not be US citizens or residents. This is a worldwide issue.
Blackburn says “These companies are not the arbiters of truth, but they have been censoring information as if they are.”
Spread the word!
David
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Link dead so trying again:
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/share-your-censorship-story
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While the Tech Giants rule, it’s always going to be difficult to stay independent and unbiased. My solution has always been to BREAK THESE GIANTS UP. There is an “antitrust” law in the USA…I think the lawmakers should start using it. And they should start with Microsoft.
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