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Chris Mitchell has given sanity on the CV19 issue an outing in The Oz.
This time they might listen.
Soon he might be able to do the same for the CO2 issue.
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Excellent article by Chris, quoting a couple of well considered experts and making a fool of those that advise the ABC and Guardian. Well worth the read.
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Cant read the article because of the paywall but here is a group of Australian drs who have formed AMPS – Australian Medical Professional Society – who have written a succinct commentary of the injectables fiasco and mailed it to medical associations, parliamentarians etc.
http://npaq-8630368.hs-sites.com/covid-19-an-update-of-evidence-based-information
Great letter, should be widely promoted, I wonder if Chris Mitchell got hold of it?
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Brenda – click on https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/13/open-thread-weekend-13-aug-2022/comment-page-5/#comment-309592
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Don’t miss this one, there cited.
https://8630368.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8630368/AMPS/Altman%20Report%20Final%20Version%2011-8-22%20(1).pdf?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9nEBHPFwhaeFFJiLbgkeKIOgeW8Q9KHeyAsrEgE98ltENzzYfvL1qTZPPpSjN17bDx9iGC
Dr Phillip Altman had a scathing letter on Quadrant a year ago, backed by Professor Clancy.
This time he brought the lawyers. I haven’t read it yet, but expect it to be good.
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Ted1
I got 404 not found on that
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https://8630368.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8630368/AMPS/Altman%20Report%20Final%20Version%2011-8-22%20(1).pdf
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Mmmm… it seems it still has a problem – highlight the link, up to and including the ‘.pdf’, copy and paste it into a new tab.
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…maybe this one?
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https://8630368.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/8630368/AMPS/Altman%20Report%20Final%20Version%2011-8-22%20(1).pdf?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–ogkGqNYrhfEn2OKsyrgrFptpdmJC-OjM-9HSDqXXLZ0idvLTOWmwI2ppUOzMpqLQNzRGp
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That’s twice it didn’t work. The link was in Brenda’s post.
A year ago Dr Phillip Altman publihed on Quadrant a scathing letter. This time he is bringing the cavalry.
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I was able to get it to work by copying upwards from the end (…NzRGp) and doing a “paste and go” .
Cheers
Dave B
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Brenda & others re Australian. Professional Medical Society:
I highly recommend all the professional material being produced by this group to educate the community on the realities of the Covid vaccination development.
Dr. Phillip Altman – one of the co founders & a professional with over 40 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry is someone I know personally who has also helped found and inform a group of dissenters to the experimental gene vaccine in the Lower North Shore area in Sydney. As he said in an interview recently, the vaccine mandate have “rocked his world” in that they violate every protocol that has directed the development of vaccines over his lifetime.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:24 am
Media groupthink obscures truths about Covid deathsChris Mitchell
6:40AM August 15, 2022
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Trust the experts, journalists say – ignoring the fact that experts often disagree.
Polarised media have worked out which experts to quote to reinforce the political positioning of different news businesses.
The ABC and Guardian Australia often quote members of the OzSAGE group, that describes itself as “a multidisciplinary network of Australian experts from a broad range of sectors relevant to the wellbeing of the Australian population during and after the Covid-19 pandemic”. It advocates for stronger public health mandates, popular among leftwing journalists for whom resilience is not a virtue and no spending by governments is ever enough.
Why wouldn’t Australians, almost 10 million of whom have now had Covid and recovered quickly, not be sceptical of calls for increasing mask mandates or getting vaccine boosters? The messaging around both has been misleading.
Australians should have been told earlier that vaccination does not prevent infection. They need more exposure to the truth about the side effects of vaccines. This column reported heart disease side effects of mRNA vaccines last July, but this has not received the same level of publicity that the rare side effects of AstraZeneca did earlier last year, largely because AZ became a symbol for journalists and doctors campaigning against the former Coalition government.
Australians should have been told that mask-wearing may be wise in some places but that masks are not a barrier to viruses. Governments need to admit they got a lot wrong in the first two years of the pandemic when people were locked down – golf, fishing and swimming were deemed too dangerous and people were arrested for sitting in public parks.
Some journalists have recently been breathlessly reporting Australia now has the world’s highest Covid mortality rate. Of course Covid case numbers and deaths have risen in our winter.
About 12,600 have died with the virus. Yet our death rate per million people last week sat at 484 since early 2020, compared with more than 3000 in the US and over 2500 in much of Europe. Even New Zealand, lockdown capital of the world, has a higher death rate than Australia, at 489.
Click link to read on
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The Benefits of Australia’s response to Covid
Chaos erupts at Sydney Airport with 150m long queues stretching out the door as travellers fume at having to wait outside in the cold
– Massive queues formed outside Sydney domestic airport on Monday morning
– The security line was 150m long and stretched outside the doors of the terminal
– Sydney Airport tweeted that many security staff had called in sick
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Sick with Covid, or sick of Covid? 😀
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Oh well at least it isn’t snowing. You have to now that if you fly at the moment a random degree of aggravation is just a roll of the dice away.
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OK. So how many people died in Australia over the last 2 and a half years of –
1. Heart attacks.
2. Strokes.
3. Cancer.
4. Car accidents.
5. Murder.
6. Suicide.
7. Drug overdoses.
8. Alcoholism.
9. Smoking.
10. Sniffing petrol/glue.
11. Meteorites falling on their heads.
12. Falling over themselves.
13. Climate Change (lol).
32. The Virus.
Any guesses?
For goodness sake Guv’ments, ‘Pollies’, ‘Egg Spurts’, Medicos, the UN, just put things in perspective will ‘yer…………
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Thank you OO. Interesting read.
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Nice to see you back Brenda.
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Thanks Ted 😁
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Denmark announced it would prohibit those under 18 from getting the China Virus vax. We went from mandating they get it to prohibiting them from getting it in a year!
But, “Trust the science.”
https://thecountersignal.com/denmark-bans-covid-vaccine-for-youth-under-18/
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It is simply astonishing. Science goes polar opposite in a year. Wow.
Though it is not actually science that changes, it is management that changes. That is why allowing scientists to do the management is a bad idea. They’re not very good at it, as we have seen here.
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I read that as Trust the SILENCE . . . . .
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Yes, I am getting a bit paranoid!
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…and the CDC’s pulling of advice re unvaxxed immunity as well as spike protein retention and effects on DNA…
I just now notified hundreds of people at the CDC why they aren’t able to find any vaccine-related deaths
I just sent the email below to nearly 300 people at the CDC who are known to be involved in the COVID vaccine program.
I pointed out that existing autopsy protocols cannot find vaccine deaths and asked why isn’t the CDC notifying medical examiner and pathologists how to find COVID vaccine-related deaths?
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/i-just-now-notified-hundreds-of-people
The Covid/vaxx narrative is going up in smoke faster than a Chinese EV now.
Where will the pollies and “experts” hide?
In the corner of a jail cell hopefully…
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Been incommunicado for a while. But I read the ABC has quoted an Australian expert who claims that the virus most certainly did not come from a lab but a seafood wet market. So there! You can trust the ABC as much as a crocodile when your camping on a river. Finally, after 2 years I’ve finally got the kungflu.
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Haven’t had the Wu flu yet and haven’t had any of the shots , the missus has had it twice and people I’ve been in contact with have had it but so far nothing . Sort of disappointing really .
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My latest nontechnical educational piece from Range Magazine:
Reliable wind and solar are not cheap
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2022/08/11/reliable-wind-and-solar-are-not-cheap/
The beginning: “You often hear that wind and solar power are cheaper than burning coal or natural gas, so we will save money by switching. But as the song says, it ain’t necessarily so. In fact it is almost never so. That wind and solar are cheaper is at best a half truth, more like an eighth truth.
Here is the reality you never hear of. That wind and solar are cheaper is true in one way, but it is a small way. It is also a technical way, with the grand name of the “levelized cost of electricity” or LCOE. Now “levelized” is not a word you hear every day, to say the least. This might tip you off that something is going on.”
The middle: “However, when used in the grid to power America, wind and solar are far from cheaper. This is the fact that proponents of wind and solar like to ignore, or in many cases do not even know about. In addition to the LCOE there is the high cost of making wind and solar reliable.
The basic fact is that coal and gas are reliable while wind and solar are not. What this means is that with coal and gas we can generate the electricity when we need it. We can rely on it. Wind and solar only generate when the wind blows strong and the sun shines bright. Since we cannot rely on wind and solar we have to have gas or coal generators standing by, ready to run when wind or solar don’t.
Having gas or coal fired power plants standing by is a big cost that is not included in LCOE. These generators could be supplying the power instead of the wind and solar, which would pay for them, but they are not. They are sitting there waiting to run, which still costs a lot of money. The big cost of these idle plants is part of the cost of wind and solar. It is the cost of reliability.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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I don’t quite understand just which component of unreliables is ‘cheaper, it the cost for companies to install S&W, which carry govt subsidies, or is it the selling price to the grid, because ‘they don’t need to pay for fuel’.
There is also the unmentioned replacement cost due to their comparatively shorter life compared to traditional generation. (15-20 years vs 50-60 years for coal)
Either of those ‘costs ‘are not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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“I don’t quite understand just which component of unreliables is ‘cheaper,”
It’s easy really, with unreliables, the energy that is converted to electricity, ie wind and sun, is free. The cost is in converting the free energy to electricity, making the unreliable electricity, reliable, and getting the electricity to users.
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Australian coal is free, you do not write a cheque to the maker. The cost is in the harvesting and much of that is wages and royalties, money that stays within the country and bolsters the economy.
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Yes but the average person, who doesn’t think much about this stuff and doesn’t really do much critical thinking about the world around them, sees that coal has a price $100’s of dollars a tonne, gas has a price (it must have its gone ballistic) and the “know” that winds blow and the sun just shines so obviously its free, so clearly it must be cheaper. This simplistic thinking is echoed in the MSM and spouted by the likes of Bowen and D’Ambrosio and Kean. I dont know if they are stupid or are gaslighting the public.
The public have not one inkling of the cost of harvesting and the complexity introduced and costs inflicted on others. Some things are self evident in this bubble, but unknown out in the world.
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LCOE is supposed to be the life cycle cost of the generator divided by the juice produced, so the shorter life of renewables generators would not appear. My impression is that they do not include end of life costs either, just construction plus O&M.
A point I did not make is that if fossil plant use is curtailed to make room for “must take” wind and solar that increases the fossil LCOE. By reducing the juice. It also reduces the fossil plant capacity factor.
LCOE is a gimmick.
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David thanks for your comment. So do you agree with Francis Menton about the true cost of net zero using S & W energy?
He calculated the entire USA true cost at about 433 TRILLION $ and he also tried to bring some sanity to New York’s recent idiocy to replace fossil fuels.
Again have you ever tried to fully cost their net ZERO lunacy and if so what is your estimate of the cost?
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-5-3-my-testimony-on-new-yorks-scoping-plan-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-emissions
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What Merton’s estimate shows is that net zero is impossible, given US annual GDP is around $20 trillion. The impossible cost is due the having to store a significant fraction of the juice generated by intermittent wind and solar, hundreds of millions of MWh. This is the cost of reliability.
Estimates of future storage unit costs range over an order of magnitude so no estimate is possible. But even the fantasy low estimates give a total cost of several times GDP.
Given this impossibility the interesting questions are when and how it will show up? In the UK, EU and Oz it may already have.
Note that Merton’s estimate is actually from Ken Gregory, who pioneered hour by hour analysis of required storage capacity. This is the analysis that the states and utilities should be doing, but both are ignoring the impossibility.
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In the commercial world bean counters work with a 10 yr amortisation. This is ok for ordinary business, you really can’t “plan” further than that, so anything beyond that is cream.
But bean counters should be told to sit down and shut up where large infrastructure is concerned and power plants, [coal, hydro or nuclear] are just that. They are an investment for the next generation. [But don’t expect any thanks]
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Most of the world’s energy think tanks have discarded the use of LCOE, one noting that this method is “incomplete”. And incomplete it is to put it mildly. LCOE doesn’t truly compare all costs over the full lifetimes of the longest energy source, which is nuclear. When you accurately compare costs over this longer lifetime, renewables come out at twice the cost of coal, gas and nuclear. And this is without including any firming/backup or the extra transmission lines required to support renewables. Nor does it include adjustments for lower CFs than the 35% figure commonly used.
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Unreliability – sun doesn’t always shine, wind doesn’t always blow, storage solutions are very poor – heavy, low capacity. Distance between charging EVs short. Charging time 4X petrol fill up time – requires 4X the customer flow through – 4X the capital cost plus the extra filling stations and the extra generation capacity (more coal and gas power stations and more transmission lines).
The challenge I always give the warmies \ greenies etc is: Via the use of zoning regulations – ie via private finance – create a town that is 100% fully off grid – off grid electricity generation via solar and wind, all electric vehicles, no external power, off grid water and off grid sewerage, and off grid rubbish disposal. Completely self contained. Complying 100% with your ‘renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ criteria. Implement it and let’s have it running with plenty of publicity – let’s see how it goes.
If they are so convinced that their way is a viable solution then show us how it will work. And remove all subsidies and let the free market operate.
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here you go
https://www.facebook.com/totallyrenewableyack
These guys have it all down pat. There old web page and again on this Fbook page is littered with pics of them giving , getting and sharing awards. The old claim was energy “sovereignty” (whatever that meant) by 2023. When I asked what the plan was to hit 2023, what the key milestones where and what success looked like they got all defensive. The 2023 reference has since quietly gone away. Still, its a hobby and as long as the grant money flows you can keep building. I guess at some stage it will become the taxpayers money to do the maintenance and replacements and things age out, but that has yet to be seen. Till then more awards and photo opps.
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Good idea Kim, I hold out hope that the ACT might show us plebs the way by going full 100% off grid, so the pollies can share in the glory, or not.
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Thanks for the article link, David. Short and precise which I will pass on to my ‘green’ friends.
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Thanks John, that is the idea. So simple even a politician might understand it. Sometimes. Maybe.
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Thanks David. Saved and will be sent on to No 1 grandson who insists on telling me that wind and solar is ‘free’. Went to a private fee paying school too. When I queried their science teacher on the material they were being taught (all climate change mantra) he said “we just follow the curriculum”!
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“We just follow the curriculum” Just like in Germany, the teachers said during the Nazi regime when describing race theory.
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The usual cop out to avoid actually engaging with the parent or doing any work. They are “time poor” I read yesterday. I guess that explains why the first day of term is a pupil free day when they have been free of pupils for weeks prior.
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Is it any wonder teachers say they are stressed and time poor, if they didn’t have teach all the climate crap and the binary sex crap and all the other crap, they would have oodles of time and be much happier and have time to talk to parents.
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That’s a very well written communication script David. The whole thread was good.
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Dr. Pierre Kory has a 3 part series on Uttar Pradesh’s miraculous conquering of Covid-19 using Ivermectin. Well worth reading for newbies to the subject and as a review for the rest.
Part 3:
https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-miracle-not-heard-around-the-1ee
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Really interesting article, Don B. Thank you. I have tried several times to comment on Uttar Pradesh and Ivermectin in The Australian, but my comment has always been rejected. I noted, with great interest, that the Indian Health Dept’s recommendations on both Ivermectin and HCQ ceased immediately after Bill Gates met in India with Modi. One wonders if Gates and Fauchi will ever be brought justice for the perfidy of their support for vaccination only, rather than the use of cheap anti-virals as an aid to treatment.
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Just came across this on Wikipedia article on Argument from Authority fallacy. It’s from a mathematics perspective, but applies to most academic education these days – especially climate science.
“If…a person accepts our discipline, and goes through two or three years of graduate study in mathematics, he absorbs our way of thinking, and is no longer the critical outsider he once was…If the student is unable to absorb our way of thinking, we flunk him out, of course. If he gets through our obstacle course and then decides that our arguments are unclear or incorrect, we dismiss him as a crank, crackpot, or misfit.”
David, Phillip J.; Hersh, Reuben (1998). New Directions in the Philosophy of Mathematics (PDF). Princeton University Press. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.
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Actually, as Kuhn pointed out over 50 years ago in The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions, this is true of all scientific disciplines as well. They are, after all, social systems governed by the entrenched beliefs. Thus scientific revolutions are just as hard as social revolutions. And afterward the revolutionary ideas become entrenched. This is necessary for stability.
What Kuhn did not consider was a discipline being captured by a political idea, as climate science now stands. This means the scientific revolution cannot occur without a social revolution, which makes progress doubly difficult. I how we get out of this mess remains to be seen.
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You have answered your own question. 😁
Fundamentally flawed science never lasts.
All the “learned men” once declared the Earth to be the centre of the universe and the sheeple did followeth and believeth in the science (or be tortured into compliance. Sounds sorta familiar.. )
People always wake up and react eventually.
The end of 2022 should do it…
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I would put Richard Dawkins in that category, a leader of the social system of the entrenched belief. I read The God Delusion, entering agreeing with the author and ended up wary of him.
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And a reminder: Einstein was treated as an outsider – he was given a patent clerk job.
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“If he gets through our obstacle course and then decides that our arguments are unclear or incorrect, we dismiss him as a crank, crackpot, or misfit.”
A bit like the treatment dished out to Prof Peter Ridd.
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If we stopped using grains in bio fuel we could feed the world
https://ussanews.com/2022/08/09/there-is-no-food-crisis-if-only-we-stopped-burning-it-as-biofuel/
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However, regardless of that, there is no world food shortage.
There’s plenty of food.
It’s corruption and chaos in certain Third World countries that cause people to starve.
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And banning and/or making too expensive synthetic fertilizers. Which is starting to happen in the first world too.
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Agreed. It’s all part of the plan. Control the food supply, the energy supply and the means of communication and you control the people.
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“expensive synthetic fertilizers”
I have a real issue with the words ” synthetic and chemical” when it comes to fertiliser. Fertilisers are just concentrations of naturally occurring elements and minerals.
Funny how it is impossible to convince people that whats in the bag from the hardware store is EXACTLY the same stuff that is present in the ground just the concentration levels are different. I tried the analogy of starving emaciated people in areas of famine and as soon as they receive “fertilzer” i.e. food, they flourish. Eyes glaze over, heads shake and people wander off. Apparently I’m just a weird old guy who just doesn’t “get it’.
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I understand. It’s like special salt. It’s NaCl. I decided to go ahead and use the term to differentiate what we are talking about from poop.
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I have a mother in law that think she if allergic to sulphur (I dont know where she gets that from)
She looks at bottles and if any component is a sulphate, then its banned. I tried to explain to her that it was a different compound and wasnt Sulphur anymore (not even trying to go near the alleged allergy) I tried to use salt as an example. You put it all over your food but if you ingested a table spoon of Sodium or a tablespoon of Chlorine you would be dead or badly injured. Didnt work. I dont try anymore.
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‘When the body metabolizes sulfur compounds it produces ammonia as a byproduct. Ammonia is toxic to the body but most individuals are able to easily excrete it through the urine. Unfortunately, some individuals have particular genetic mutations that do not allow them to effectively metabolize and eliminate ammonia and these individuals may need a low sulfur diet.’
https://drjockers.com/cbs-mutation-low-sulfur-diet/
More information here about CBS:
http://www.heartfixer.com/AMRI-Nutrigenomics.htm#CBS:%C2%A0%20Cystathionine%20Beta%20Synthase
I react to methylsulfonylmethane, metabisulphite and sulphates – they make me feel the same way that taking ammonium iodide does, or eating too many eggs.
Maybe your mother in law thinks she is allergic to sulphur because sulphur compounds and a high sulphur diet make her ill.
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Maybe she does but she is unable to describe any effects. I think its something that she has read or heard somewhere and latched onto. She is inclined to obsess about random topics. Apparently you cant mix water and electricity which is why she wont have a steam iron. We dont talk about the kettle, the dishwasher or the washing machine.
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Yeah, nah TonyB. The US had excess corn for decades and so it was actually quite sensible to produce Biofuels from that oversupply. You will have found this type of article and theme floating around in the US media for 20 years. It’s a lack of understanding how modern agriculture works. It’s only now with the Ukraine conflict that maybe some of that could be used for other purposes. Soon as the Ukraine conflict ceases that need will disappear.
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The guy who was witnessed by hundreds of people as he continually stabbed Rushdie pleads not guilty of attempted murder . Can anyone here explain how a defence lawyer could put forward such a plea?
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Iran has issued a death sentence. This guy was just the executioner. Therefore, legal killing.
Alternatively, he was offended. That is a get out of jail card that is good for any non-white, non Christian.
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gaol. And you spell your name like mine.
This US spelling check on this blog loses it a point. I don’t use z I use s, I use …our not ..or and gaol is gaol, not jail. I will not be swayed on this. Our British version spelling is our culture.
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It is staggering that people including police are “mystified” by the motive.
This was a religious killing instructed by the 1989 issuance of a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini for saying not-nice things about a certain religion.
The instruction is specifically based on the following verse (see link).
https://legacy.quran.com/8/12
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Mens Rea vs Actus Rea
Just cause you did something doesn’t mean you meant to do it…
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I find it hard to understand how Rushdie agreed to appear on stage without someone with a handheld metal detector at the entrance door and a couple of beefy security guards beside him on the stage, instead we have a muslim who can get a knife into the room and 20 seconds of violent stabbing occurs until someone gets off their arse to provide some ‘protection’, a massive fail.
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Apparently the organisers had agreed to provide proper security but they failed to provide any.
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This is why many Americans provide their own security. They ” carry “, to use their terminology.
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In the perps mind it was a failed fatwa.
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Its the Blues Brothers defence. He was on a mission from God.
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(From Jul 7, 2022)
Dr John Campbell talks about the “mysterious” dramatic statistically significant increase of excess deaths that are not caused by actual covid infection..
https://youtu.be/7f45S6vmQgA
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Latest insanity from the Left.
They are going to rename monkeypox because (supposedly) the existing name might offend someone… Unbelievable!
“Current best practise is that newly-identified viruses, related disease, and virus variants should be given names with the aim to avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional, or ethnic groups, and minimize any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare.”
“while work continues on the disease and virus names.”
https://www.who.int/news/item/12-08-2022-monkeypox–experts-give-virus-variants-new-names
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How about these diseases and viruses named after Australian places?
Ross River fever.
Hendra virus.
Bairnsdale ulcer.
Murray Valley encephalitis.
Barmah Forest virus.
Etc..
No one is complaining about them…
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Nor German Measles.
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Chicken Pox !
Insult to all cowards ?
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My chickens say they are deeply offended.
This is the reason they suspended laying this winter.
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No they stopped laying because of climate change !
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Do you reckon that isn’t scary enough?
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I have a few suggestions for names. Probably get banned from everything in this woke world if they are written down. Even thinking them may get me erased, gone in a poof. Pox be upon the thought police.
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Pfizer marketing experts think “Monkeypox vax” would be a hard sell.
Perhaps Hankey Panky Pox Vax might work. But then, people might assume it was just another mRNA vaccine.
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I do like the name ‘monkey business pox’ though………………….
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Do you think “monkey business Italian greyhound pox” would get an inside running? Actually Monkey Business could be the hounds track name, or French Tickle.
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bender pox?
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Hankey Panky Pox Vax
That broke me up. Thank you for making my day!
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I haven’t heard any monkeys complaining, so must be a professional complainer.
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The WHO renamed the Wuhan Flu to something to make it seem less country, even city specific. COVer up ID. And not the first time, the 19th. Sounds better than American frozen chicken flu.
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Is there a Monkey named Karen who has been taught sign language? Turned into a Monkey Complainer!
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It’s not Left insanity. They want to give monkeys the vote as equals.
But this might be another Left failure, after all monkeys are smarter than the average believer in man made Climate Change and they have evolved to look out for predators and know where their food comes from.
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Breaking Alien News!
“As expected, Humans murder Walrus Ambassador”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/freya-the-walrus-that-drew-oslo-crowds-put-down-by-authorities-20220815-p5b9sz.html
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And in Victoriastan we have government sanctioned shooting of brumbies (wild horses for international readers ) from helicopters. Apparently this method of culling numbers has RSPCA approval so chasing wild horses through heavily treed mountain terrain with a helicopter is acceptable. Note no one checks on any animals that may be wounded, nor any animals with broken limbs after the mad dash through fallen timber, precipitous terrain and giant mountain ash trees that make low level runs impossible. Hmmm. Back in the day of course the mountain cattlemen used to have brumby runs where they were pursed on horseback and driven into yards where they were drafted for breaking, re homing or the knackery. This of course was considered cruel and dangerous. Now the public outcry is simply ignored, after all brumbies are only part of Victorias heritage and must be got rid of like mountain cattle grazing. The lack of any government empathy is atrocious. The greens of cause, those bastions of protecting all living things except humans also want the brumbies gone because, you know, not native so therefore fair game.
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Sambar there are many factually incorrect statements in your comment , if I didn’t use my real name I could address each one and give you some actual facts without the emotion but you have little understanding of how these type of culls are actually done . As for the emotive side of it as in the Brumbies are part of our heritage , Banjo Patterson and all that I can see why people are against the proposed cull . Unfortunately though there is a little thing called reality and the reality is that Australia has evolved without any cloven hoofed animals and these animals are damaging large and sensitive areas of the national parks . I’m actually all for cattle grazing and selective logging both of which do have an impact but I believe the benefits far outweigh the negatives .
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Hey RR, Im certainly open to errors being pointed out, My main gripe was the double standard of government when it suits their own purposes.
Re “Many” factual errors, don’t know how you could let me know but if a way could be found im happy to take your points .
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Can’t say much but I’ll give it a shot (heh heh) , chopper used is specifically fitted out for this purpose and the motor has a massive power increase over the standard model . The pilot is highly trained and skilled in this type of flying in and around trees and obstacles with the goal of giving the F,A,S,T shooter a stable platform . Weapon , calibre and special modifications including specific projectiles which ensure a quick clean and humane kill . Before large scale operations are approved a small scale trial (depending on state) is conducted with each animals location recorded via GPS and a vet or vets will go in and do an autopsy to determine if the animal was despatched quickly and humanely. You can Google the acronym F,A,S,T shooter (I’m sure they still go by that name) , these are highly trained experts and marksmen and women . Forget about trees , cover and chasing / harassing etc and let me assure you it’s a very quick and humane process . These days drones flying at night with night vision aid the process by pinpointing where the animals are .
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As for double standards etc no argument from me and the rest I’ll just keep to myself .
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Many thanks for that. I certainly was not aware of the vet ground follow up and can only say this is a good thing. Nor was I doubting the skills of the operators, but the best laid plans of mice and men oft times go awry. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.
Regards
P.S. I will also do a bit more research in future before I shoot from the hip
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It’s a common misconception Sambar but due to the nature of the process and secrecy not a lot is understood about the process be it ground teams or from helicopters . Participants for ground crews also undergo training in various areas like ethics , animal physiology to name but a few . Every member of the crew also has to prove themselves at a range and be consistent with a target about the size of an orange at x distance . So secretive the process is I’m amazed that it’s only horses and kangaroos that people complain about .
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submitted without any comment at all
https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/dog-reportedly-contracts-monkeypox-from-owners/
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Notice also the doublethink regarding Monkeypox. Articles refer to vaccines being available to those “at risk”, without saying what makes someone “at risk” because… somehow it’s offensive to state that the overwhelming majority of reported cases are homosexual men, and it would apparently be offensive to target a real public health campaign at that group.
No sane person thinks it’s a disease only afflicting one social group, but apparently feelings are more important than anything else…
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A reminder: Only Government Creates Inflation – Milton Friedman (3 min video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94jGTWNWsA
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Also, for an excellent explanation of how the free enterprise system works, I recommend Prof. Friedman’s 1980 ten part TV series (and book) “Free to Choose”.
The videos are free on YouTube. Here is the playlist (ten videos).
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10CF0016FC94D2ED
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An example of how the Left are revising history concerns the pygmy tribes of North Queensland.
These people really existed, they were even mentioned in Manning Clark’s “A Short History of Australia” and there are people alive today that met them.
However, officially they don’t exist and never did.
Here is a 2002 essay in Quadrant magazine about them.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/
If you Google “pygmy Aboriginal” you will see extensive “debunking” on Leftist sites saying these people never existed. E.g. here is an entry on the Australian Museum website.
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/debunking-australian-pygmy-people-myth/
George Orwell’s prophetic Nineteen Eighty Four was correct:
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David,
This is such unscientific , politicized cherry-picking, debunked many times even by non-left authorities.
Speaking of which, in what way is the Australian Museum leftist ?.
Next you’ll be claiming Trump won the 2020 election!.
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They sure are – this is from the information on Australian Pygmys on their website. Note the word “invasion”.
More recently, researchers have checked the earlier work and declared that there is only one source population of all known skeletal remains in Australia prior to invasion, and it is Aboriginal people (2)(3).
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“Invasion”
That’s the rolled-gold indicator of leftist thought.
The finger print of ideology.
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On the museum web site they also claim as bogus the idea of early European settlement in North America (E.g. Clovis spearheads, but they don’t mention it, or possible Polynesian settlement e.g. Kennewick Man) and pre-Maori settlement in NZ, even though Maori themselves had a tradition of this. These are all legitimate hypotheses that need to be investigated, not dismissed because of ideology.
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Denisovans were probably the first Australians, they came down from the north and travelled through New Guinea. They cohabited with the locals and during a glacial low tide they walked to Australia, settling around Cape York and Lake Carpentaria.
The DNA evidence is fairly conclusive.
At a later date new arrivals came via Timor, it was much closer to Australia during glacial times. They could see the smoke from bushfires 60 kilometres away, so it was only a matter of a short sea journey. Island hopping was already a normal practice, so they must have built some kind of water transport.
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David, they have a new name; ‘ Queensland negritas’. There were photos on line a few years ago and an article in The Quadrant again with photos. There is also an interesting photo of Truganni( spelling is not right) in Tasmania , she is sitting on a dining room chair and her feet do not reach the the floor, she looks the size of a small modern eight year old.
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So are they trying to ‘bury the evidence’?
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I have met and spoken with people of the North who are from the small stature people who live around Mareeba. Interesting conversation regarding their interaction with the Native Police of the low lands.
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On second thought, the Denisovan DNA may have reached Australia around the same time as the Timor adventurers.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9940-210813-denisovan-dna-philippines
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“A Short History of Australia”
About pygmies, LOL
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Unsung Heroes of the Night War Came to Sydney
Examples of unpunished incompetence and unrewarded excellence in the Japanese attack on Sydney Harbour, 31 May 1942.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2022/08/unsung-heroes-of-the-night-war-came-to-sydney/
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Interesting Lance. My father told me of the treachery of the left run unions during WWII. My Dad was a merchant seaman officer and saw plenty of it on the wharves of Sydney at that time and after. I am not saying all Unions are bad, but it put me off voting for Labor ever since.
Good article about those times, also in the Quadrant:
LINK
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So the unions supported the Nazis fighting against the Communists…
Doesn’t sound like it fits their public persona.
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So …are you saying unions weren’t looking after the National Socialists ? …the unions who pushed the White Australia Policy …
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I agree with your post JohnB. My father fought in New Guinea taking ammunition barges up the rivers. He witnessed some of the “traitors” in action ..also on the wharves of Sydney. He was stationed in the Hunter Valley, at the time, and he and others rode “shotgun” on the ammunition trains down to the wharves in Sydney..where they were loaded onto the ships. He recalled to me one incident where the Unionised “wharfies” refused to load US plane replacement parts..onto the ships. At that time the Americans were also in Sydney supervising loading of some of the supply ships…A US Office in charge had an argument with one of the wharfies, on the day, and after again refusing to load the ship ….the Officer discharged his rifle into the wharves leg. Dad recalled ..the ship was loaded after that ..pronto.! Apparently their was a continual “War” with the Unions on the waterfront.! They felt no guilt, while their fellow Australians, fought to protect Country and Countrymen. My father, never forgot what he witnessed, and never forgave the people who were doing this… throughout WW11.
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Townsville was a garrison town and our wharfies were saboteurs. The Yanks couldn’t unload their own tanks so the Aussies skylarked in them and stole the tools.
They also stole the valves out of a radar set which likely would have vectored a flight of fighters home. Instead they were lost at sea.
Our guys in New Guinea were threatening to take their rifles to the wharves to sort them out but those bits were censored.
I’ll try to remember the book written on the topic.
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“I’ll try to remember the book written on the topic.”
H, are you thinking of Hal Colebatchs’ book called ‘Australias’ Secret War’, describing how the wharfies sabotaged equipment meant for our troops.
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Agreed on all points John B. Read the book “Australia’s Secret War”. you will never vote socialist again.
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Sorry I missed that Ronin had already posted on the book.
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My Father was another New Guinea man. The Unions refused to load their equipment when his unit was ordered to embark for Borneo.
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A relative of mine was there that night and went down to the harbourside to see what had happened, the Kuttabul was sinking or had sunk and some sailors had escaped and were trying get the others out, so being a carpenter said Relly offered to run back to his digs 5 mins away and get a hand saw and an axe, the Navy buffer said ‘stand back men, this will be done the Navy way, an hour later the trapped sailors had run out of air and nothing had been done, 2 hours later someone cut into the timber structure with an axe.
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It is regularly mentioned here but the Bass Strait islands of Flinders Island and King Island are small scale demonstrators of attempting to run a small grid off wind, solar and Big Batteries (unreliables).
See web site of installer, owner and maintainer.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/our-power-stations/bass-strait-islands
These installations only work at all because of extensive use of diesel generators. They cannot run on wind, solar and Big Batteries alone.
Surely the infeasibility of such installations at a small scale should be a warning about scaling up unreliables to a national grid level.
And those islands are arguably an example of where even skeptics would agree unreliables might have a chance of working, given the isolation of the islands.
Hydro Tasmania refuses to release financial data for the installations.
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“And those islands are arguably an example of where even skeptics would agree unreliables might have a chance of working, given the isolation of the islands.”
And given their location in the path of the ‘Roaring 40s’, a very windy part of the world, if S&W can’t work alone there, it can’t work elsewhere.
I watch Flinders all the time, it’s my first go to site whenever I log on.
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I would like to see the total cost of the venture, capital and on-going.
To me, a successful outcome would be a reduction in the consumption of diesel fuel, (damned expensive), which is made available by the new equipment IF it can be shown to be financially sound. Demonstrate a sensible payback period to prove the point.
I would support a simple addition of some solar panels and an inverter into a diesel powered grid, I would expect a SMALL solar installation would reduce my diesel consumption. If the savings recover the cost of the installation within five years, then I would consider this a benefit.
However, I suspect that the majority of the installation on King Island, especially since it is remote, will not show a return on investment of less than 5 years. Diesel price rises may change this opinion, the only way to be sure is to see the numbers. I would hope that they publish them so that we can see which of the equipment shows potential and which do not.
Is it too much to ask to see the data. Hydro Tasmania is state owned, surely there is a responsibility to the public to publish the data. If not, why not?
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I can report one success The Falkland Islands. They installed 3 wind turbines and reduced diesel usage by 30%.
Unfortunately I’ve lost contact with the then chief engineer – very intelligent and determined. He fought the bureaucrats who wanted the turbines to be unrestrained and the diesels (8 of various sizes) to run intermittently. He gained control of the turbines and used their blade angle motors to stabilise the output. The operating diesels could then run at their optimum.
The last I heard was that this system was going to be adopted at other remote island e.g Ascension island.
Mind you The Falklands are notably windy and remote.
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Now that sounds like a sensible solution. Anywhere that fuel is being used should ALWAYS be used at the optimum efficiency, whether it be direct to grid or into a storage. Let the intermittent supplies vary their output, (also assuming their income), to match demand.
I’d prefer to see all W&S be used to charge their own batteries and then supply from their battery reserve, ensuring that they keep at least 24 hours of contracted supply in reserve for future W&S failings.
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It’s a pity that Flinders and King Islands diesels aren’t run that way, they are left to chase the output up and down like a brides’ nighty.
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The King Island project cost was $18M in 2011 dollars. It saves around 2Ml of diesel a year. I do not know the real price of diesel on King Island. For that you would need to exclude taxes but add shipping costs. At present $2/l is probably a reasonable figure. So they are saving $4M/yr. Under a five year payback on that basis.
However some of the saving is due to rooftop solar that is not counted in the $18M project cost.
At current fuel prices, it is likely that they should be aiming to expand the level of solar input. Solar is an economic replacement for diesel fuel. A number of mines operating off-grid are using solar as a diesel fuel replacement.
https://www.mining-technology.com/analysis/mapping-renewable-energy-projects-at-australian-mines/
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And now add the maintenance and the on-going consulting fees. The last time I looked into a power station’s on-costs, the labour was the killer. Surely the W&S, flywheel and batteries aren’t all maintenance free. As a minimum I’d be asking for 6 staff to cover the absolute minimum of 24 hr/7 day coverage. With a wage of $150k, (light on for a remote site), that would add another $900 per year, plus super, insurances, etc, that’s a $M each year right there.
I said a SIMPLE addition because it involved no labour beyond commissioning. Any defects are on-off jobs, no on going wages. No control room. No family relocations, nada.
So back to the sums, $18M capital, (exclude inflation for simple sums). $1M/year wages. Sum cost after 11 years, (excluding external consultants, etc), $18+$11 = $29. Cost per 5 years equals $13M. Not looking so good against that $4M diesel saving is it.
Release the cost benefits analysis. It should be informative, not secretive.
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The big cost with running a diesel power station is engine overhauls. Extend the maintenance interval and those costs are lower. Overall, I doubt they have needed to add labour. If you can find that out, I will be interested.
So your sums are not comparing like-for-like. You are making assumptions that are easily shot down.
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If you look at the island before W&S, they had maintenance, they had diesel generators and they had staff. Those maintenance people were probably specialised as diesel mechanics and electricians.
Now let me think what skill set a diesel mechanic is going to bring to a windmill? Not a lot. Hence bring in MORE staff. And those electricians who were good with the diesel generators and the switch gear are now expected to now expected to also manage the power stations with a flywheel, a large battery and a suite of inverters all with software settings and balanced to operate as a set. Again, more labour required, a sparkie who can handle a diesel generator and switchgear is not going to run your new kit.
Those engine overhauls are already in the mix, they are not new costs. And guess what, they occur more often on a generator that is idling, glazing the pots, rather than one that is running near peak efficiency at a regular operating temperature. So yet again, the W&S is increasing the maintenance period. Even switching off the generator incurs maintenance penalties. You might typically service at 2000 hours run time. That 2000 number consists of one unit for every hour run PLUS a penalty of 20-40 units, (brand specific), for each restart from cold. And a runtime hour occurs even when the system is idling, waiting for the wind to stop blowing.
So back to you, show me where the sums are wrong. I was conservative. You’re in dream land if you think the island is running any cheaper now that with diesel alone.
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Re diesel engine maintenance
I saw an ad recently where Rolls Royce has extended the time to first major overhaul of their new marine diesels to 96000 hours and possibly up to 25 years depending on use.
https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2021/01-12-2021-rr-extends-tbo-intervals-of-mtu-series-4000-engines-for-commercial-marine-application.aspx
It was 30,000 hours on some of their earlier ones.
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Now let me think what skill set a diesel mechanic is going to bring to a windmill?
The skills of a diesel fitter are easily transferred to wind turbine maintenance. Likewise for the power station electrician.
I expect that Hydro Tasmania provide any required support for the system. A wide skills base and on tap as required.
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“The big cost with running a diesel power station is engine overhauls.”
Genset diesels will attain fewer hours TBOH, if and when engines are underloaded and said engine is stopped and started frequently such as King and Flinders Is ones are.
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TBOH ?
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The battery reduces the need to stop and start diesels.
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Rickwill the key word here is “reduce” , I thought the aim of weather dependant electricity generation was to replace fossil fuel electricity generation . Seems to me there are now more Diesel generators in Victoriastan and South Australia than there were 10 years ago . For the grid that is .
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That doesn’t sound right Ian. We used to run a 40 kW Dorman non-stop in an outback location where I was for two years. (There were two, and they were swapped regularly) And all we had was a single mechanic to look after them, plus his other duties. Only one major maintenance in those two years. They just tonked along night and day, reliably delivering power.
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Surely there should be a cost included for the rooftop solar panels, even if privately owned?
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Diesel use at $2M annually is about 38,000 odd litres per week, so about a good semi trailer load, so they could negotiate a good price, it’s the barge fees weekly that would jack up the cost. Does anyone know what their power is charged at.
Norfolk Island was 63c Kwh when I was there in 2017.
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“Diesel use at $2M annually”
Sorry, 2 million litres, not $
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Saw a figure of 40c/kWh for Flinders or King islands in a comment here recently.
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Rick, there was a “Flinders Island Fuel Supply Study” generated in July 2014, that discusses in detail the island’s existing fuel arrangements. Author Tim Philips, Resonance Consulting. Still available online.
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Exactly. If these types of electricity generating set ups were so successful then surely the ‘Owners’ would be shouting from the roof tops and replicating the success everywhere. And making loads and loads on money.
However, they are not. Which tells you that something fishy is going on……………….And they are not catching fish. Unless of course the Consumers are the fish.
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David, As at 8:10am Monday 15th King Island has two flows toward the “output” which are coming from wind 79% and diesel 21%.
Flowing out is power to the population, to the battery, to the resistor and to the flywheel. So even when they get to a stage where they can turn off the diesel and run totally wind/solar/battery even that period, which no doubt boosts their overall record of times when they were operating “totally renewables”, is a deception given diesel allowed the battery to be recharged. Even though we know all this it still needs to be noted/recorded/advertised. Cheers.
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Earl, I regularly check on the Flinders Is site because I believe it is one of the ‘better’ renewable sites on the net, there’s no doubt that the S&W does result in quite a reduction in diesel used, but it is far from ‘fossil free’ and likely never will be, also I notice the battery doesn’t charge when the diesel is running, it only seems to recharge when the diesel is off.
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Ronin, I’m with you as far as noting the battery charges when diesel is off…. that is why I have a screeen shot mp4 of it apparently charging this morning while the diesel was on. Cheers.
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“Ronin, I’m with you as far as noting the battery charges when diesel is off…. that is why I have a screeen shot mp4 of it apparently charging this morning while the diesel was on. Cheers.”
Ok Earl, I stand corrected. !
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Ronin, don’t get me wrong – logic/common sense had me expecting a renewable source would be used for the battery recharge hence this morning when I saw, for the first time, diesel and only wind generating while the battery was apparently charging I thought it strange. Cheers.
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David,
If you search that site you can find this!
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
Today was the first time I have seen it actually working, I wrote yo Tas energy some time ago asking for some history stats on the power supply for my work. they came back with diddlysquat! Anyway it is interesting to watch how the balance runs and how the diesel input fluctuates so much in 24 hrs and over a week.
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Euan Mearns has made an effort to collect data for King Island. He has a report here:
https://euanmearns.com/an-update-on-the-king-island-renewable-energy-integration-project/
There is no doubt that solar and wind are effective diesel fuel replacements in most parts of Australia.
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Rick?
Come on.
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Rick is saying nothing more than that the addition of wind and solar means that the diesel engines s can be throttled back, at least part of the time, and so less diesel fuel is consumed. He is saying nothing about the cost benefits overall since some of the costs are not known.
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“There is no doubt that solar and wind are effective diesel fuel replacements in most parts of Australia.’
Lol! But you have to keep the diesel generators idling away all the time anyway!
We’re not short of diesel, burning it does not have a downside, why bother with W&S to start with?
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I doubt that they’ll be kept idling – that is not good as it glazes the cylinders,
More likely they will be kept at a low end of operating temperature and run as start when needed.
That was how the Cat diesels on the emergency pumps in the Fort St Vrain nuke were set up.
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I think he means displacement (fuel reduction) rather than replacement
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A reduction in FFuel usage is one thing, …but King & Flinders projects demonstrate the NET ZERO is not achievable without some major..yet to be developed…additions to the Wind + solar + Battery, ..approach.
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There is a really good peaceful volcanic eruption in Iceland at the moment.
There is a fellow who has taken many videos of it by himself and with a drone.
Here he discovers some people who have actually walked out onto the fresh lava flow and he chases them off with a drone.
https://youtu.be/E5gRuyuyy_I
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Were they really taking much of a risk?
The lava flow was almost static.
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The hydrogen story spills over
“The Disciples of Klaus”
Canada – Germany now
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/14/the-disciples-of-klaus/
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‘Novelty fuel’, love it !
If Germany is ‘pinning it’s hopes’ on Hydrogen, they are going to be in a world of hurt.
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They’ve been practicing it seems
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Because it’s so easy to handle and store liquid hydrogen at −253 °C /−423 °F and a gas that will embrittle most metals and/or leak through solid metal.
And few rocketry organisations apart from NASA are willing or able to deal with it.
It will make a marvelous consumer fuel, LoL!
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Now while the explosive limits of hydrogen in air range from about 18 — 60 % the flammable limits are from 4 — 75 %,
For comparison, gasoline in air is flammable roughly between 1.5 – 7%.
The A bomb lead to the H bomb. So the Greenies aren’t satisfied with lithium batteries they want a bigger bang.
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methane has a flammable range of 5% – 17% in air (round numbers).
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FWIW – Modern medicine under the microscope
“Call It All Fraud Until Proved Otherwise”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246607
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I said above:
1) Energy supply. The Left clearly have implemented their energy starvation policies and they are working in all Western countries.
2) Means of communication. The Left have clearly implemented that via all the major social(ist) media platforms and the Legacy Media.
3) Food supply. That’s the latest front opening up. We have seen a test case in Sri Lanka, followed by The Netherlands and the war against “nitrogen” (sic). The more extreme Left countries are eagerly following, NZ being a nearby case to Australia. E.g. they plan to tax cow and sheep burps.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61741352
IT IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY. IT IS OBVIOUS FOR ALL TO SEE.
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The spread of animal diseases is next, ones that take out everything, you know, like foot and mouth.
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And since new zoonotic diseases like covid-19 and Langya virus come from China, why not humanise foot and mouth disease as well? No doubt the Chi-comm Bioweapons Division is already doing “gain of function” research on it.
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Control of Production, Distribution and Exchange has been the core tenets of Socialism – including National Socialism – since it first appeared on the scene.
Just sayin’
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Johannes Leak Cartoon today on Albasleezy
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Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe it, what does he think they will spend that cash windfall on, fresh fruit and veg, gym classes, books on the environment.
Ha. !
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There is an old rule about not destroying or removing anything till you really, really understand why it was put there.
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Indigenous peoples have an aversion to fruit and green leaf vegetables.A rip off occurs at stores where fresh produce rots due to lack of interest. Stewed macropods with potato gets a go with traditional mob. In desert areas it’s puddytat.
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“A Signed 2018 contract providing proof that OBAMA kept classified documents outside of government control — for years.”
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/a-signed-2018-contract-providing-proof-that-obama-kept-classified-documents-outside-of-government-control-for-years/
And
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/when-the-largest-government-in-the-world-is-against-you/
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Every saint has a past
Every sinner a future
Oscar Wilde (or maybe Stalin)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-14/australian-held-captive-by-the-taliban-returns-to-afghanistan/101331834
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Back where he belongs I guess
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Why has he gone back?
I hope that we don’t have to exchange him again for convicted terrorists.
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Polio or Monkeypox: Which Virus Will the Left Use to Save Drop Boxes in November?
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would love to find a new boogie man virus to keep us locked down in November, perhaps to avoid the behind-the-shed beating Democrats know is coming. The question is, which virus will it be?
We have two contenders for now, though I wouldn’t be shocked if the CDC and their comrades at the World Health Organization (WHO) can witch-brew up a few more in the next ten weeks.
Contender #1: Monkeypox
Contender #2: Polio
Contender #3: Dark-horse Viruses
Conjunctivitis: You can’t see the ballot if your eyes are covered in goop.
Prickly heat: If you have time to itch, you have time to b**** — but not to vote.
Rapunzel Syndrome: This malady causes people to eat their own hair. Ballots will be tossed out once you cough up a furball all over them.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: This illness distorts everything you see. Objects appear to be larger or smaller than they really are. It’s hard to vote when your ballot is 10 feet tall.
We have roughly 10 weeks until the red wave comes to enema the commies out of office. Don’t be surprised if the Democrats unleash waves of killer zombie squirrels.
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Tipo184 BUILD AN F1 LEGEND AT HOME
Build your own 1930s Grand Prix car using a single Mazda MX-5 donor.
Get inspired to roll-up your sleeves at home, and at your own pace transform your MOT failure MX-5 into an F1 legend.
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McMurtry Automotive Speirling (Irish for thunderstorm)
Spéirling means thunderstorm in Irish, and plays on the car having a fan used for active downforce which can be controlled by the driver using buttons on the steering wheel. The twin fans produce a noise level of 120 dB at full fan speed, and provide an added downforce of 19.6 kN (~2000 kg) available from a standstill.
McMurtry Speirling breaks Goodwood Hill RECORD! EV Batmobile
New Record
The Speirling took to the Goodwood hill during Sunday’s Shootout event with former F1 driver Max Chilton at the wheel and set a record-breaking time of 39.08 seconds besting the VW ID.R’s time by almost a second.
The keys to its stunning performance are its huge power, small size and use of downforce-producing fans to provide, according to McMurtry, 4400 lbs. of aero grip at 0 mph. An F1 car travelling at 150 mph makes around 3500 lbs. Forget driving upside down, this thing can park upside down.
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“this thing can park upside down.” for a while at least
good effort beating the IDR, I wonder if it has the range to do Pikes Peak?
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Hmm?… those fans would do a good clean up job on the dirt road sections !
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There arent any dirt sections anymore, its pavement to the top. Since 2012 I think (he says guessing)
It would be good if it blew it out the side but it appears to go out the back. A bit more thrust I guess.
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Remember the fuss made in the media, and by the green lobby whenever a coal fired Unit drops off line, huh, even just for regular maintenance.
Well, on last Wednesday, August 10th, both wind and solar failed, a pretty monumental failure really.
You can read all about it in the article at this link.
Hey, it’s my own site and my own article with my own text, and while you might think, there’s Tony, drumming up visits to his own site again ….. well, it’s the only place you’ll read about, because try as I might with as many text options as I could think of for search engines, it’s not reported anywhere that I can find, your typical case of look the other way when it’s those ‘renewables’.
The horror and outrage when a single 500MW to 660MW Unit fails typifies the supposed unreliability of coal fired power ….. apparently!
Well, this failure, was ONLY wind plants and Solar Plants, (the power plants, so not rooftop solar) and the failure, (you know one Unit is such a disaster for the grid) well, this failure was 4700MW, the equivalent of NINE of those coal fired Units, and hey, if nine coal fired Units dropped off line at the one time, you would NEVER EVER hear the end of it. 4700MW, hey, not all that much eh! Well at the time of the failure, that 4700MW was 17% of what Australia was consuming at that time, so this actually WAS a significant failure.
There was an immediate loss of 3600MW in 15 minutes as a large majority of plants failed, and the total loss over 45 minutes was 4700MW in all, as even more plants went off line.
And hey ….. did anyone even notice?
Well, no, and a couple who frequent this site did notice, and in fact both of them then contacted me via email, and also a comment at my home site.
I watched as it happened, and then waited for the news release, well at any source really, but …..’crickets’.
And you know why no one noticed?
Because, in the same manner as when a coal fired Unit fails, NO ONE EVER notices, because those Engineers who control the grid had it sorted ….. in real time, and as it was actually failing no less.
At the instant of failure, grid operators had Hydro come to the rescue, as it always does, because that comes on line in, quite literally, minutes.
Wind and Solar lost that first 3600MW in 15 minutes. Within ten minutes the Hydro Units at Tumut 3 (the pumped hydro plant) the two underground plants of Tumut One and Two, (now referred to as Upper Tumut) and both hydro plants Murray One and Two, (now under just the one name of Murray) came on line delivering 2200MW in TEN minutes and a further 250MW in another ten minutes. Most are only small Units, so this was around ten to fifteen Units all up.
At the same time, Engineers were ‘on the blower’ ….. losing (probably) a couple of big consumers as well, to assist with some of the remainder.
Oh, and you know that old crock of how useless coal fired Units are because they CANNOT ramp up and down, (huh despite doing JUST that every single day by around 4500MW to 5500MW, twice every day) well in this case, here we have ALL the black coal fired plants, and that was 15 Units in NSW and 22 Units in Queensland, well ALL of them ramped up a little bit, and ….. within TEN MINUTES they were ALL delivering an extra 650MW into the grid. It would seem that the only people who know that coal fired power CAN ramp up and down like that ….. are the grid engineers actually doing the work.
Who would have thought, eh! Coal fired power to the rescue of wind and solar.
It took two hours for wind and solar to get back to where they were before the crash.
Huh! No need to mention this, as hey, no one ever knows anyway, because the grid controllers sort it all out ….. AS IT HAPPENS. (oh, and also, no need to mention it, because it wasn’t coal fired power)
I have the text and the images at the link to my own site, probably the only place you’ll ever read about it.
Tony.
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Once again, you verify that a dispatchable generation mix is necessary to a stable grid.
Coal, Hydro, Gas: they provide the foundation. Solar and Wind power are simply expensive, unreliable, fluff.
Thank you, Tony, for all that you do, to teach things that ordinary folks wouldn’t be allowed to know, if our betters had their way.
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Lance, thanks for the kind words, and if there’s one thing to come out of all this, the next time a coal fired Unit fails, and we hear interminably all about it, we can say that it happens with wind and solar also, and when they ask to be shown if and when that might have happened, (safe in the knowledge of saying that, having never been reported in the first place) I have the proof.
Well, actually I also did all of that detailing of wind generation failures (265 failures in 800 days no less, and still failing) with my Series detailing those sudden and prolonged failures.
Huh, with wind generation, the difference between the high and the low ….. EVERY DAY, averages around 2000MW. You might think, hey you said that the coal fired power difference is around 4500MW to 5000MW, also every day, but that wind generation difference averages out at almost 65% of all daily wind power generation, while that coal fired difference is barely 25%, and the difference in coal fired power EXACTLY matches the load curve for actual power consumption, and in four years of keeping the daily data for wind generation, I cannot recall the load curve for wind generation EVER matching the load curve for actual power consumption.
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Next time someone complains about a coal-fired station failing etc, why not say to them : There’s xxx Gigawatts of solar and wind capacity, why can’t we simply crank up some of that to cover the shortfall.
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Tony, brief reference on AEMO about Aug 10 solar/wind failure: Over-Constrained Dispatch has been resolved for this interval
Today from trading interval 1135 hrs, AEMO observed a large change in FCAS requirements for all fast and slow contingency ancillary services. This also resulted in violation of those FCAS constraints and market price caps for those services in all regions and for energy in Tasmania.
AEMO has reversed an approved change to NEMDE that was implemented from trading interval 1135 hrs. Dispatch appears to be operating correctly from trading intervals 1240 hrs
AEMO is continuing to investigate.
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Robber,
thanks for finding this.
The odd thing was that at first I thought it might be a ‘recording’ error, as this has sometimes happened with rooftop solar. You look at the NEMWatch site and with all sources shown there, the immediate loss looked a little confusing, so I went to the Aneroid site, and isolated out just the wind component and saw the loss, and then I also checked (individually) every other source. I then noticed that added large loss from those Solar Plants, but the overall loss was just from those two renewables. When I then looked at the (overall) for Hydro, I noticed the upwards spike at the same time, and then isolated out just those Units which came on line immediately to cover the spike. Then, as is most often the case, Natural Gas plants come on line to also assist, but in this case, there were none coming to help. Even so, there was an uptick on that fossil graph, due solely to coal fired power (just those black coal fired Units) and with the much smaller scale of the (huge) Fossil Fuels graph, I then isolated out just the black coal Units and saw that upwards spike as well.
I can only make conjecture here, because it seems, umm, how shall I put this ….. convenient, and here, be aware that this needs careful explanation ….. probably very careful explanation, so bear with me here.
IF it is that FCAS problem, then they have isolated out the, umm, offending wind and solar plants as a whole bunch of them, just those wind and solar renewables, and then for the second added loss, there were more of them isolated, umm, until they ….. rectified the situation.
Now I suspect that perhaps they might have had an inkling they were going to do this ….. and why I say this is because of the time stamp I was very careful to place on my images. That time stamp is at 11.35, not just for the first failure, but the exact same time for the ‘rescuing’ Hydro, and also the coal fired Units, all of them, and the failure ….. and the rescue started at EXACTLY the same time.
In other cases I have seen (quite a lot of them now) the rescue does not start until five minutes after the ‘crash’, and has not EVER involved an instant response from coal fired power, and why coal fired power you ask. Because coal fired power is ALREADY running at the exact frequency, so the tiniest extra for all of the changes that frequency by ….. zero, so there’s no change at all, and Hydro is exact as soon as it comes on line, all of those small Units I mentioned.
It also explains why the ‘immediate’ rescue only involved Hydro and coal fired power in almost the exact total for the loss in that first fifteen minutes, and that there was no rescue for the added loss of power from wind and solar over the next 45 minutes, progressively ‘staged’ a plant at a time.
I have sent an email to AEMO asking what might have happened, but no answer as of yet, other than the auto response of my comment being logged in for later reply, and those replies have sometimes been two weeks later.
This has been a very curious thing. When a coal fired Unit fails, it’s just one of them, and this was many many many power plants as a whole.
And you last comment there sort of says it all really
The time frame, as I mentioned, was exact. As ‘X’ nameplate of wind and solar went off line, the exact nameplate was being replaced by Hydro, so, at the end of 15 minutes, what was ‘lost’ was replaced.
I really dislike saying it, that this looks orchestrated ….. now.
The fact of the exact time, and the total loss being replaced in that same time frame as the loss.
Again, thanks for finding this, and also thanks for the spur with your original comment at my home site, because even though I saw it too, I didn’t look deeply until after your comment, and like I said above, it looked like a recording error at first.
Had I not found the same loss in solar, and then the recovery from Hydro and coal fired power, it all meant absolutely nothing.
Please don’t say this was a c0vering up of wind and solar, because no one needs to know. (/sarc) This was 17% of total power consumption, so it’s actually a major loss.
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And also Robber,
wasn’t that ‘BIG battery’ supposed to be the ultimate renewable answer to FCAS, so they glowingly told us.
Maybe the FCAS is more of a problem than the battery can handle, and now I see why no one has mentioned it, because (a) it’s a humungous failure of renewables, and (b) if it is FCAS, then it’s ALSO failure of the ‘big battery’ AS WELL.
No wonder there’s crickets.
Tony.
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While most of the “swings” in electricity generation in WA are handled by the gas generators, I amazes me the amount of swing in the coal fired plants.
Pm 10 Aug, coal produced 313 MWh in the noon period and 598 MWh in the 6:30 pm period. Gas in the same periods went from 251 MWh to 907 MWh.
Total solar went from 797 MWh to zero.
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The joys of working in infrastructure. You do a good job and nobody notices because the service is always there and therefore taken for granted.
At one stage in my career we had finished building a network of factories and offices around Asia Pacific (network, windows infrastructure, corporate email and some other “stuff”) New “thought leader” style manager deems this to be a one off piece of work, fragments and redeploys my group and myself and expects this all to hold itself up somehow. Surprisingly it took about 3 months to fail badly and for people to stop putting on band aids and let it fail. A new “thought leader” position emerged in the US and my manager was whisked of to lead those thoughts and as my bosses boss put it “not be near anything operational”
The group was eventually redeployed all over the world anyway (a talented group I was blessed to work with) but it was done a bit more gracefully with new people coming on board in a controlled way. Opportunities a plenty back then.
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My little corner of the world events. Nice to see cruise ships back to boost the economy. No (repeat NO) indication that it was the flu but apparently on the weekend off Airlie Beach there was a medivac take off incident involving one of them. Then this morning our local coffee shop announces it is closing since its landlord (a national profitable supermarket chain) has put their rent up by (they claim) 60%. So guess we wont be sitting down over coffee to discuss our next trip…. which was never going to be a cruise anyway.
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I’m with you. I realise we are all different but I dont get cruises. I take one look and all I see is a floating potentially gastro/covid riddled prison ship. Its a big industry though, or at least it was. Some friends of our are going to “do NZ” one one soon. I hope it goes to plan.
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Today, I mentioned the disaster in Sri Lanka to some people. I should say I introduced them to it. They had no idea. But it got virtually no coverage in the US. Everything which may contradict the Democrat’s world view or serve as an example of what can happen as a result of their policies gets ignored.
I would be surprised if many Americans know what has happened in Venezuela. I would be surpised if many know about what is happening in the Netherlands. I suspect that many are not aware of the energy crisis in Germany and the UK, especially the underlying causes and that Trump warned them that this could happen.
How many know that while Zhou Bai-den was in Tokyo the Chinese sent a squadron of warships circling around the Japanese main islands, and that the Chinese Navy has been provoking/posturing against the Japanese (not just against Taiwan) in the Ryu Kyu’s well before the pelosie trip.
The MSM are more than incompetent. More than criminally negligent. They are delibribrately misinforming, and lying by omission.
Yes the MSM is that bad over here.
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Indeed, the MSN are agents of the Enemy.
The US and the West in general won’t be defeated in a hot war, the Enemy has its agents working hard to defeat our countries from within, and sadly, they are succeeding.
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Coverage of Sri Lanka in Australia focused mainly on the riots and growing poverty. There was no mention of the underlying cause.
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The Chinese navy has most to fear from the Japanese Self Defence Force, as it is the closest navy and committed to defending the approaches to the Japanese Home Islands.
This was the case in WW2.
If the Chinese take on Taiwan by assault it will all be over very quickly.
The Japanese will have crippled their navy, leaving the US navy the role of mopping up, when it finally shows up.
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You have to be joking. The Japanese are no match against the Chinese. This is not WW2 but WW3. The Chinese will blockade Taiwan as they do not wish to destroy the Taiwanese Semiconductor Plants or other Industry. Whether it works will be very interesting. All IMHO though.
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China will do precisely nothing.
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Exactly, they know an invasion of Taiwan means Australia would cut off their supply of ironore, which would necessitate them attacking Australia. Premier Xi has no intention of starting WW3.
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No-one knows what Xi Jinping will do, possibly not even Xi Jinping. Best to recognise all possibilities. That means preparing for military attacks on Taiwan and Australia, and for all sorts of other things that might happen instead (or as well).
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Taiwan could be thought of as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier”.
If they have the common-sense – and they probably have – to stock up on ship-killing missiles in well-concealed and hardened bunkers, then the Chinese navy would find it VERY expensive to even get to Taiwan, let alone fight their way across the island.
There are always the unknowns… but the West does have examples of Russian technology (via Ukraine) which the Chinese have supposedly copied.
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It is now clear that Mediterranean hurricanes (Medicanes) are increasing. This is something that confirms the increasing spring/summer sunlight over the Mediterranean.
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/sicily-braces-for-second-cyclone-this-week.911001
They are not really cyclones as observed over open ocean but rather intense thunder storms. The weather conditions in Egypt must have been very good 5k to 10k years ago to support the rise of civilisation. The planet is 500 years into the next phase where the northern Sahara becomes the perfect place to be and Northern Europe and Canada become ice mountains again.
The increasing monsoon in the Mediterranean will eventually lead to greening of northern Sahara. This will dramatically increase the potential for food production in the region in the coming centuries.
The Mediterranean has the fastest rising surface temperature of any ‘ocean’ water. It is increasing at 2C/century:
http://climexp.knmi.nl/data/isstoiv2_monthly_mean_0-35E_30-40N_n_su.png
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Talking to my agronomist (farm cropping advisor) this morning. He is really worried about restrictions to fertiliser and chemicals, both due to trade restrictions, and government meddling.
He, I, and anyone with a grain of sense understands that without fertiliser, food production drops massively, but there is no reason to believe that politicians who have mishandled Covid, Power Generation and the associated economic problems so badly, will suddenly get smart about agriculture.
It is far too likely that Albo will find some way of imitating the Dutch, the Canadians and the Sri-Lankans, but there is no “fat” to trim from modern agricultural systems. We have been increasing efficiency for decades, so anyone imagining that there are magic ways of maintaining production while reducing inputs is in fantasy-land, but that is unlikely to stop them trying.
Best case in that, for me, is to go back to running things the way my Grandfather was farming before fertiliser….. at half the productivity, and living off my own produce while you all queue up for bread. Maybe get paid (with your taxes, naturally) to grow trees for “carbon sequestration” while you sit in the cold eating turnip soup.
Worst-case, is that they call me a Kulak, claim that I am deliberately underproducing to sabotage the Revolution, and ship me off to the Gulag.
What’s your plan?
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Hey! $10k a year for each solar tower on your land… How many can you fit?
My plan to increase the chicken numbers as chicken shit will go up in value tremendously too.
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“grain of sense” I see what you did there
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The biggest news for me in the last 4 days was the almost complete reversal of US CDC guidelines regarding COVID. Well at least the treatment of vaccinated vs unvaccinated and the cessation of asymptomatic testing. You know all that basic common sense stuff we all knew about at least 2 years ago. Also, that leaky (or non-sterilizing) vaccines developed in about 6 months were essentially useless vs a Coronavirus capable of quick mutation. I wonder what’s next, maybe the FDA (and our TGA) will proclaim HCQ and IVM to have some potential in the treatment of COVID. Because now, with the relaxation of guidelines all the worst affected people are saying ” .. what are we going to do now, when we get COVID?”. The answer is definitely not Paxlovid. Basically, all the Great Barrington Declaration guys and gals are saying ” told you so”.
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I think 30+ US states have relaxed guidelines for IVM use, telling Drs and pharmacists they will not be struck off for prescribing it.
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I had heard that. So, why hasn’t that spread to Australia?? We tend to ape everything the US does. Too many people with egg on their faces- including our federal CHO’s?
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Meanwhile in victoriastan, my wife will be sacked shortly from a govt office job that has no public interaction, for not being ‘up to date’ with boosters. Submit to experimental, ineffective injections whenever we demand or be thrown on the unemployment scrap heap…The sheep at her work are lining up for boosters the minute they are eligible – so they ‘don’t die from covid’ – insanity.
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How will Justin maintain the hysteria in Canadia?
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Very easily, knowing Canadians.
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Fifty one years ago today President Nixon closed the so-called “gold window” and thus killed off the last vestige of the gold standard.
Since then every country has been using fiat money.
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So what? Are you another Gold Bug?
Money has been anything that was useful throughout the ages. Sea shells, amber, beads, copper, you name it. Money is a medium of exchange and NOT a store of wealth. There is a BIG difference.
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That’s not true!
The British coins bought exactly the same amount of goods for centuries, there were long periods of no inflation.
The moment ‘promissory notes’ were invented devaluation went from clipping coins and debasing the precious metal to outright theft by those issuing currency.
Look at a graph of inflation in the last 100years and you will see David Maddison is quite correct. Once off the gold standard inflation went up an asymptope.
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OK, so gold isn’t money it is a store of wealth.
What do you call a bank account getting 0.1% interest in times of 5%+ inflation?
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If money ceases to be a store of wealth then it will soon after no longer be a medium of exchange. If transfer of goods is not measured by gold, transfer will be backed by lead and iron.
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Nickel and brass?
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Listening to some discussion on The Voice, which supposedly we have to have, as none of the other talk fests seem to work. I just don’t see how any of these ‘initiatives’ can work, when people are having, ‘you are not responsible for your life’, pumped into their heads. Might the consequences of ‘you are not responsible’, and throwing billions of dollars, be an inadvertent modern equivalent of poisoned flour or infected blankets? I guess I’m getting more and more racist as I get older. Stupid white people drive me crazy.
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“Miserable Ghost Malcolm uses The Guardian to fight for Albanese on The Voice”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/miserable-ghost-malcolm-uses-the-guardian-to-fight-for-albanese-on-the-voice.html
No doubt that’ll help swing the vote!
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The noisiest speakers on the subject do not appear to want to solve any actual problems or make life better for Aboriginals generally. As usual it’s about power and money, while using guilt as a weapon.
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Like Jacinta Price on them not needing another voice because they’re not listening to the ones that are there now
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Belgian scientists make insect butter, claim it to be more ‘sustainable’
Belgian scientists have been experimenting to use larva fat instead of butter in waffles, cakes, cookies and other food items, international media reported.
Scientists at Ghent University, Belgium have been experimenting to use larva fat instead of butter in waffles, cakes, cookies and other food items, international media reported. Researchers reportedly opined that using grease from insects is a “more sustainable” option as compared to dairy products.
Daylan Tzompa Sosa, the Principle investigator while talking to international media said that there wasn’t any harm in using “insect ingredients.” He added that they were more sustainable as insects used less land than cattle and were more efficient at converting feed. He further said that the insects also used less water to produce butter.
https://republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-news/belgian-scientists-make-insect-butter-claim-it-to-be-more-sustainabl.html
A 2020 article…this has been planned for a while..
No dairy industry = no milk, cheese, butter and no slices of cow.
Maybe we can switch to dog’s milk (h/t Red Dwarf).
Dog butter, dog cheese…😅
Keep waiting for Jo to do an expose/comparison of CO2/Carbon/AGW for current animal & crop agriculture vs WEF’s crop only agriculture.
Let’s see how green it really is(n’t) and destroy their nonsense forever…
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No doubt that will help the Belgian chocolate market
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They are surely going to need acreage the equivalent of several small countries for the insects to forage. Then millions of tiny cowboys to round them all up. Should be fascinating to watch.
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I read a Tweet that stated that none of the major human rights organisations HRW, ACLU or Amnesty International responded to the attack on an intellectual and critic, Salman Rushdie, that was inspired by a rogue state.
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First, this is not to do with the remit of Amnesty or HRW and if your implication was about the ethnicity of the attacker, they are extremely vocal about political prisoners and human rights in countries where that is a major religion.
The ACLU most certainly should and, lo and behold, they did https://www.facebook.com/aclu. The ACLU is currently partnering with Rushdie in a law suit you might be interested in https://www.aclu.org/other/statement-pen-american-center.
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IIRC they have been known to stick their noses into other things beyond their remit
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What has ethnicity got to do with it.
It might be about rogue religion
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Amnesty Int. had to backtrack their claim that 70% of arms sent to Ukraine have been stolen.
I have no doubt that there are friends of the Bidens that would LOVE to get their hands on it but it would a difficult trade in that environment.
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Macron Under Fire For Jet-Skiing After Telling French Citizens To Save Energy
French President Emmanuel Macron has caused a stir among his countrymen for jet-skiing as his France faces the worst energy crisis in decades.
He has also been branded an eco-hypocrite by ecologists after being pictured using a gas-guzzling jet ski after demanding that citizens conserve energy.
His jet ski antics, which comes just three weeks after Macron asked compatriots to ‘prepare’ for shortages and ‘energy austerity’ plans, has led to comparisons betweeb him and Marie Antoinette who was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/14/macron-blasted-for-jet-skiing-while-telling-public-to-save-energy/
There’s never a hungry white pointer around when you need one…
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Justin Trudeau is also rather partial to jet skis.
Aren’t all climate warriors, along with private jets of course?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-aga-khan-bahamas-rcmp-1.5382374
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…and you can bet the “grub” won’t be grubs…
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Speaking of hypocrites, there are many scientists and support crew in the Antarctic, with many scientists studying the effects of climate change, etc. But given the climates of the Antarctic, what is the source of the energy required to enable these people to live in such climates. I suspect that all would be from fossil fuel sources and all would be shipped in, thereby adding even more CO2 to the atmosphere
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Its like John Kerrys private jet fuel burning. Its a small price to pay for fighting the good fight and bringing the insights and massive value add to the table that they do.
Ive still got it. Jeez I can still churn out those corporate weasel words.
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G’day M
“Shipped in”, that’d be with wind powered vessels of course, and transferred across the ice with dog sleds.
Cheers
Dave B
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This is a wonderful 1939 educational film from Westinghouse in the US about how power is made and distributed from a time when electricity production in accord with proper engineering and economic principles was taken very seriously (unlike today where it is increasingly seen as a luxury service).
https://youtu.be/pwdPghMvlAE
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WEF Advisor: ‘Common People’ Should Live In Fear, ‘We Don’t Need The Vast Majority of You’
“Common people” are right to be fearful of a future in which they will be made “redundant“, according to World Economic Forum (WEF) advisor Yuval Noah Harari, who said “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population” in the early 21st century given modern technologies.”
Harari’s extraordinary remarks were made in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday, and represent the strongest warning yet that Klaus Schwab’s WEF is intent on depopulating the world.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w7DohVZS5Yo
That’s what the trans fad is all about and has been for decades – shutting down relationships, families and births…
Stop ALL births?
We think it’s best and most considerate for humans to not come into existence, which for them will be facing serious and severe problems (that could have been avoided) and exacerbating problems that threaten all life and ecosystems on earth. Each additional human is a gamble with no guarantees. We believe there are no reasons for having children that aren’t self-focused (besides through force) and that having children is unethical and irrational—despite the fact that birth is a natural process.
Followed by:
We Are Pro-Choice: Pro-Choice All The Way
https://www.stophavingkids.org/
I guess these loons are in so it’s ok to shut the gate now…
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Its just human nature..
If you were a billionaire I expect you’d feel the same, all these peasants living grubby lives while its obvious the Earth can’t support that many if they all want to be rich.
War is messy and unpredictable, so its best if most don’t have children and there are just enough left to run the technology needed to give billionaires & their families a comfortable life.
..and it seems it is also human nature for the peasants to want someone in power above them to tell them what to do, so we are seeing the natural progression of the most violent and power-hungry rising to their place at the top as rulers, either politically or economically.
Those of us who don’t want rulers are crushed by the current rulers and ostracised by the ruled, the expected outcome from an economy of scale going from a village to a city-state to a country and finally to a world economy.
Otherwise we would eat them!
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“so its best if most don’t have children and there are just enough left to run the technology needed to give billionaires & their families a comfortable life.”
The problem is that the billionaires & their families need more than just enough to run the technology need to give then & their families a comfortable life. Without the millions and billions of people using the products and services provided by the billionaires, the billionaires quickly lose their billions.
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LOL. How can we be Common when we are ALL unique? My fingerprints are unique. And as for people, we are ALL people.
And I have no fear.
QED
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He is right actually. My question is why does he think anyone needs him?
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Yes, this moron is most welcome to lead by example – he’s no more than a temporary parasite anyway.
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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition
A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California.
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers.
In the experiments performed to reach this ignition result, researchers heat and compress a central “hot spot” of deuterium-tritium (hydrogen atoms with one and two neutrons, respectively) fuel using a surrounding dense piston also made from deuterium-tritium, creating a super hot, super pressurized hydrogen plasma.
“Ignition occurs when the heating from absorption of α particles [two protons and two neutrons tightly bound together] created in the fusion process overcomes the loss mechanisms in the system for a duration of time,” said the authors in a paper publishing the results in the journal Physical Review E.
This landmark result comes after years of research and thousands of man hours dedicated to improving and perfecting the process: over 1,000 authors are included in the Physical Review Letters paper.
Despite repeated attempts having not been able to achieve the same energy yield as the August 2021 experiment, all of them reached higher energies than previous experiments. Data from these follow-ups will aid the researchers to further streamline the fusion process and further explore nuclear fusion as a real option for electricity generation in the future.
“It is extremely exciting to have an ‘existence proof’ of ignition in the lab,” Hurricane said in a statement. “We’re operating in a regime that no researchers have accessed since the end of nuclear testing, and it’s an incredible opportunity to expand our knowledge as we continue to make progress.”
https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fusion-energy-milestone-ignition-confirmed-california-1733238
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From wikipedia:On 8 August 2021, an experiment yielded the world’s first burning plasma.[108] The yield was estimated to be 70% of the laser input energy. It produced excess neutrons consistent with a short-lived chain reaction of around 100 trillionths of a second.[109] The material of the hohlraum was changed to diamond to increase the absorbance of secondary x-rays created by the laser burst, thus increasing the efficacy of the collapse. The capsule surface was further smoothed. The size of the hole in the capsule used to inject fuel was reduced. The holes in the gold cylinder surrounding the capsule were shrunk to reduce energy loss. The laser pulse was extended.[110] This result slightly beat the former record of 67% set by the JET torus in 1997.[111] These numbers are the ratio of energy created by fusion against the amount of energy reaching the plasma. This is not the same as overall power in to power out. The experiment used ~477 MJ of electrical energy to get ~1.8 MJ of energy into the target to create ~1.3 MJ of fusion energy
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UK Gov’t Release ‘Most Spectacular UFO Photo Ever Captured’
The British government has released a photograph of an alleged ‘alien spacecraft’, and has described the picture as “the Holy Grail” of UFO evidence.
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/features/211532/revealed-after-32-years-the-top-secret-picture-one-mod-insider-calls-the-most-spectacular-ufo-photo-ever-captured
Finally – a photo NOT taken with a 1960’s Brownie camera, at 10pm in a fog with the ISO set to 1 million. 😅😅
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Possible explanation: reflection of a small conical object (rock?) in the surface of a pond as plane is reflected in same surface.
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The jet came back and circled the ‘thing’ before heading off on its original course, as if the pilot had seen the object too and had come back for a closer look.
Eventually the two men stuck their camera out from where they were hiding and fired off six frames. At that point, the object shot vertically upwards and disappeared way, way up in to the sky.
Correct me if I’m wrong but reflections don’t do that.
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That picture could be of anything you want it to be. A battleship grey background in the middle of nowhere. Could be a cardboard cut out stuck onto a photo of a gloomy English (UK, Irish) day as the background. What a load of BS and where was the alleged photo taken from? The back of a motor bike?
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My guess is that if they eventually find the thing and strip it down, being in Britain, it’s nuts and bolts are more likely to be BSW or BSF rather than metric.
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and it would leak oil
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‘The back of a motor bike?’
No, they were on foot and hid for a spell until one of them plucked up the courage to take six shots.
It disappeared straight up at phenomenal speed without making a sound. It was real.
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A report from one of the earliest investigators UK govt UFO investigator Nick Pope. Pretty compelling. https://twitter.com/nickpopemod/status/1559185281764323330
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Thanks for that, good to hear the story from inside.
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Reserve Bank of Australia rolling out Central Bank digital currency
“The Reserve Bank of Australia will trial a digital currency in a “ring-fenced” pilot program as part of a collaborative research project into how it could be used by consumers and businesses that is set to last about a year.
Australia’s central bank has previously declared its interest in digital currency, which could be a digital equivalent of the dollar and rival privately minted cryptocurrencies, but the research project announced by the bank on Tuesday with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre would focus on how such an asset could actually be used.”
This is also right after bank branches are being closed down across the country.
https://www.ezfka.com/2022/08/09/here-it-comes-reserve-bank-of-australia-rolling-out-central-bank-digital-currency-right-on-time/
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So where will the trial be? The Supreme Court or the High Court? How to spend such money? This weblink does not say and is just more BS IMHO.
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Disgraced Tavistock Trans Kids Clinic Faces Lawsuits From 1,000 Families
Over 1,000 families are expected to bring legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which operated the only gender clinic for children in England before being ordered to shut down over safety concerns.
The Tavistock Centre and its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which has been accused of offering puberty blocking drugs to children after as little as just one consultation, is now facing legal action from families over allegedly misdiagnosing their children.
Since opening in 1989, the Tavistock Centre “treated” some 19,000 children for alleged gender dysphoria, a condition in which an individual feels a disconnect between their biological sex and their gender identity.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/12/disgraced-trans-tavistock-child-clinic-faces-lawsuits-from-1000-families/
GOOD! Sue them to oblivion for their crimes…
I just can’t understand how any medical person with any integrity can go along with this nonsense.
Half the planet’s sane, the other half’s beyond hope…
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I hope not only the organisation is sued but also specific individuals responsible for hormonally, surgically and psychologically mutilating the children.
Tragically, the damage done is permanent in most cases
But there are plenty other places doing the same thing right now. They must also be stopped.
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DM – Like
“The Children’s Hospital touting for ‘gender-affirming-hysterectomy’ business”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/the-childrens-hospital-touting-for-gender-affirming-hysterectomy-business.html
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Romania Gifts Moldova One Million Potassium Iodide Pills
The world is preparing for the worst – a nuclear disaster. Romania gifted Moldova one million pills that protect against radioactivity due to fighting near the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine. Russia has control of the plan but claims it will not begin a nuclear war. Still, the Commission for Exceptional Situations of Moldova is distributing potassium iodide pills to citizens as a precaution.
The pill is supposed to prevent the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine and must be taken within 24 hours of exposure.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/romania-gifts-moldova-one-million-potassium-iodide-pills/
…and shelter under the nearest wooden table too…
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Lead in eggs from hens in city backyards raises urban farming concerns
A striking new study has found eggs from hens kept as pets in urban backyards can contain up to 40 times more lead than eggs from commercially farmed hens. The researchers recommend those living in inner-city locations test their soil for contaminants before raising chickens or growing food.
Millions of households in the United States keep chickens, and those numbers have reportedly increased since the pandemic kicked off in 2020. The growing popularity of the trend has been spurred on by local food movements, inspiring people to produce their own food.
The new study was published in the journal Environmental Pollution.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749122010120
…and of course a similar study here in Oz came out recently…
You vill not be allowed to buy ze meat or grow ze meat. Ve vill shutdown all ze meat!
You vill eat insects.
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I agree. The Chickens eat the insects/worms/grubs and I eat the Chickens and eggs. Therefore, I am eating the insects by default. QED (Quite Easily Done). Case closed.
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..probably more lead in that duck I shotgunned over the weekend.
Mind you, since we took the lead out of petrol I’ve noticed the world has become markedly more intelligent!
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/endSatire…
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Maybe they’d better put it back in?
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We dug a swimming pool in an area of Montreal that had been market gardens in the 19thC. Then a middle class suburb heated with coal until the 1960’s. We had to dispose of the soil as toxic waste.
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The Big Vote –
Why would anyone vote YES for a Constitutional change where there is no detail of the change? These ‘Pollies’ are so stupid. This will never get up. It will just blow up in the face of Sleazy Albo and his/her mates. And a good thing too. But what a waste of time and money it will be.
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I agree with the sentiment, I fear the public does not have the same desire for detail that you/we/him /her/zir/axolotl have
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It has even less chance than the republic referendum. It is pure theatre to PROVE rub-n-tug Elbow “cares”.
I was a denizen of a pub, once The Empire but changed to The Republic at that time. Even there there was no consensus™ because there was no popular model presented.
Watching the chaos in the US where the President is FIXED, with no mechanism for removal, and Britain where the opposite is true us non-monarchists but with a “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude are still likely to sit on the fence.
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Cornea implant made from pig skin restores vision in landmark pilot trial
A cornea implant made out of collagen gathered from pig skin has restored the vision of 20 volunteers in a landmark pilot study. Pending further testing, the novel bioengineered implant is hoped to improve the vision of millions around the world awaiting difficult and costly cornea transplant surgeries.
More than one million people worldwide are diagnosed blind every year due to damaged or diseased corneas. A person’s vision can be easily disrupted when this thin outer layer of tissue surrounding the eye degenerates.
A person suffering corneal blindness can have their vision restored by receiving a corneal transplant from a human donor. However, a lack of cornea donors means barely one in 70 people with corneal blindness will ever be able to access a transplant. Plus, the surgical procedure can be complex, amplifying the lack of access to this vision-restoring procedure for people in low- and middle-income countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01408-w
What’s the point in doing research like this when animals are on the WEF orchestrated extinction list?
Maybe we can do the same thing with crickets…😄
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A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal
It was a good but bizarre day when the CDC finally reversed itself fundamentally on its messaging for two-and-a-half years. The source is the MMWR report of August 11, 2022. The title alone shows just how deeply the about-face was buried: Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022.
It would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall in the brainstorming sessions that led to this little treatise. The wording was chosen very carefully, not to say anything false outright, much less admit any errors of the past, but to imply that it was only possible to say these things now.
“As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate globally, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post–COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death. These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.“
In English: everyone can pretty much go back to normal.
Focus on illness that is medically significant. Stop worrying about positive cases because nothing is going to stop them. Think about the bigger picture of overall social health. End the compulsion. Thank you. It’s only two and a half years late.
What about mass testing?
Forget it: “All persons should seek testing for active infection when they are symptomatic or if they have a known or suspected exposure to someone with COVID-19.”
Oh.
What about the magic of track and trace?
“CDC now recommends case investigation and contact tracing only in health care settings and certain high-risk congregate settings.”
Oh.
What about the unvaccinated who were so demonized throughout the last year?
“CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur, though they are generally mild, and persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
Remember when 40% of the members of the black community in New York City who refused the jab were not allowed into restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, or theaters? Now, no one wants to talk about that.
Also, universities, colleges, the military, and so on – which still have mandates in place – do you hear this? Everything you have done to hate on people, dehumanize people, segregate people, humiliate others as unclean, fire people and destroy lives, now stands in disrepute.
Meanwhile, as of this writing, the blasted US government still will not allow unvaccinated travelers across its borders!
Not one word of the CDC’s turgid treatise was untrue back in the Spring of 2020. There was always “infection-induced immunity,” though Fauci and Co. constantly pretended otherwise. It was always a terrible idea to introduce “barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.”
The vaccines never promised in their authorization to stop infection and spread, even though all official statements of the CDC claimed otherwise, repeatedly and often.
You might also wonder how the great reversal treats masking. On this subject, there is no backing off. After all, the Biden administration still has an appeal in process to reverse the court decision that the mask mandate was illegal all along. “At the high COVID-19 Community Level,” the CDC adds, “additional recommendations focus on all persons wearing masks indoors in public and further increasing protection to populations at high risk.”
The problem from the beginning was that there never was an exit strategy from the crazy lockdown/mandate idea. It was never the case that they would magically cause the bug to go away. The excuse that we would lock down in wait for a vaccine never made any sense.
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LOL. There is no Normal.
I never had the Jab as to me it was all about an experimental emergency approved drug and not a vaccine. Fortunately for me I was and still am retired so did not need to agree to all of this mandate BS.
My Innate Immune System which has been passed down to me from eons ago and most recently from my Mum has held me in good stead for this BS Virus.
So here I am happy as can be at age 69 years having fun and sticking my fingers up at the so called ‘egg spurts’.
When the Black Death killed one third of Europe in the Middle Ages, there were still two thirds who were left alive. How come? Because they had immunity.
Now that was a Pandemic/Epidemic/’Bad Thing To Happen’ and not this so called ‘Virus Crisis’.
Get real the World and wake up to the Alarmists.
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Too little, too late: Disband the CDC now
Dissolve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last week, the CDC released updated COVID-19 guidance. The agency now believes we should be taking an individual approach to mitigating our COVID risk. In layman’s terms, we are all Florida 2020 now.
The new guidance suggests ending “test to stay” so kids exposed to someone with COVID-19 can remain in school. Of course, this was only related to known exposure. People are exposed to COVID all the time, but only children who were aware of that exposure were punished. Kids lost so much throughout the pandemic because of terrible, irrational CDC guidance like this.
The fresh guidance also says people without symptoms no longer need to be routinely tested.
And the CDC permits us to come within six feet of each other again. Finally! Husbands, tell your wives it’s on!
But most important, the agency has finally faced some truths about the vaccine that it should have long ago. “CDC’s COVID-19 prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur.” And it’s admitted that “persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection.”
Cities across the country fired teachers, firefighters, health-care staffers, police officers, sanitation workers and so many others because they refused to get vaccinated. Many of these people had worked through the early days of the pandemic — and contracted COVID many times over — while we baked banana bread and patted ourselves on the back for ordering from Uber Eats. Now the CDC acknowledges this was the wrong thing to do. Whoopsie!
The new guidance is all fine and good, sane even, but it’s August 2022 and fully absurd that the CDC is only now recognizing that people aren’t staying six feet apart and that a previous COVID-19 infection offers a layer of protection similar to the vaccine.
When COVID first hit our shores, we naturally looked to the CDC for direction. The agency may have previously offered its thoughts on how we should cook our burgers (well-done) and whether we should eat sushi (no), yet it was primarily in the background wagging its fingers at us while we ordered our steak medium-rare (another no-no).
But with COVID, its word became policy. In what should go down as one of the most disgusting moments in public health, the CDC allowed, with direction from the Biden White House, Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers chief, to craft school-opening policies that forced classrooms across the country to remain closed in winter 2021.
No one has been fired for this dereliction of duty. No one has even been openly chastised for allowing a special-interest group to control our health-care policy. This alone is why the CDC must go.
A health agency that refers to pregnant “people” instead of “women” is one we can’t take seriously anyway, but one that plays with semantics like this during a pandemic is broken and cannot be repaired.
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I’d vote for that. Maybe also the WHO as well.
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Are there many US institutions that are trusted and valued by the majority of the public?
insert your country for that matter
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Are there
manyUSinstitutions worldwide that are trusted and valued by the majority of the public?Amnesty Int. has just blown their cover.
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Red Cross have blotted their copybook on occasion.
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H
There is this “vote of no confidence”-
“Call It All Fraud Until Proved Otherwise”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246607
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Thought for the day:
A rocket will never be able to leave Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936
…and to this day no-one has ever left Earth’s atmosphere…
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And the meek shall inherit the Earth. More BS from the Bible.
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God bless the meek
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Is that the Meeks from up on High St or the Meeks down by the railway line? ( sorry, couldn’t resist)
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History has taught us that those that beat their swords into ploughshares generally end up enslaved to those that didn’t.
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If the meek inherit the Earth, who gets Heaven?
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Our ancestors left the oceans. That’s why we still have 400m2 of tissue in our wet lungs to extract oxygen. We brought it with us. Human blood is very close to the salt content of the seas at that time. And when humans left the earth, we took our wet atmosphere with us. But we did leave, poked around on the Moon, planted a flag and came home. Some fish possibly did the same thing a billion years ago.
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In fact, seawater contains 250% more sodium than human blood.
There is a reason why we cannot drink seawater to quench our thirst…
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A good easy to understand explanation of sea water, salt, minerals, and the relationship to blood cells, high blod pressure, etc..
Well worth watching.
https://youtu.be/cBuK73K7t_0
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No fish for the hook today either? 😉
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“And I said to Orville and I said to Wilbur “That thing will never get off the ground” “
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I find it curious that in 50+ years, no attempt at human travel outside the magnetosphere has been attempted, that I am aware of.
There has been virtually no human travel in ‘interplanetary’ non-Earth atmosphere ‘space’.
I think maybe that human space travel may have the same logic flaw as ‘anthropogenic’ … well, anything.
We don’t occupy the landscape …
we are are the landscape.
If we build a functional ‘space’ ship, it may have to be big and spherical with a molten core, complete with anthropogenic climate change.
The unvaccinated will have to be included in the passenger manifest.
There will be no Millennium Falcon.
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There will be ….. when we get fusion!!
Cue Curly
Tony.
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Gun control and firearm confiscation working well in Aussie I see-
“Gunman arrested after shots fired in Canberra Airport terminal”
“Two women shot dead in Sydney’s south-west”
Typical weekend…
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You make it sound like all forearms were confiscated , which is not the case
There are many more forearms in the community than before the buyback/confiscation
Mental health services have not improved. There will always be organised crime.
You can have all the gun controls you lie but that doesnt effect the criminal element, except to make them work harder (a friend of mine suffered an aggravated burg to get his guns)
As we have no evidence of what the do nothing case is its difficult to know what is working or not. We arent Chicago at least.
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If that was the case, it would be pretty hard to fire a gun.
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I’m kinda glad not all forearms were confiscated, scratching my arse would be somewhat awkward with such short arms.
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😳?.. wow,.. are people growing FOREARMS now to attack with ?
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Yarp…
We can get a very good idea of what “works”.
The first is to compare the long-term trends in violent crime in Australia. Violent crime and homicide were decreasing before the Howard gun-grab, and continued to decrease at the same rate afterwards. Any variation is less than the normal year-to-year variability.
The second is to compare homicide rates world-wide with firearm restrictions. Gun-grabbers love to cherry-pick their comparisons, but when all nations are compared, Almost every nation that has above-average homicide has the same gun-controls that are supposedly keeping us “safe”. There is no positive correlation between gun-control and publuc safety.
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Measuring the extent of the Myocarditis Iceberg?
In 2015 a team of researchers employed by the medical services of the US military published a peer-reviewed paper on the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis after smallpox vaccination (SPX) and vaccination with an inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV).
Despite being published 7 years ago before anyone had heard of “covid”, the findings in this study could have very significant implications for the Covid-19 mRNA injections.
In this study, the researchers found that:
When active surveillance systems are used, significantly more myocarditis cases were identified than in earlier studies which had relied on more passive reporting.
The incidence of cases of possible myocarditis without symptoms – detected by testing all subjects vaccinated regardless of symptoms – was far higher than the cases in which subjects developed symptoms such that they would seek medical help.
Given these observations, it seems highly likely that the incidence rates of myocarditis following Covid vaccination have to date been severely underestimated.
Subjects receiving SPX were predominantly young (mean 23 years) and male (88%), those in the TIV cohort were more evenly balanced (54% male) and older (mean 36 years)
8.8% of the SPX recipients reported severe cardiac symptoms (defined as >3 out of 10 on a visual scale for at least 2 days).The most frequently reported cardiac symptoms were chest pain and dyspnea on exertion.
Despite no significant differences in pre-vaccine health self-assessment between the cohorts and fewer reported physical limitations in the SPX cohort, there was a significantly higher incidence of new onset cardiac symptom(s) post-SPX (10.6%) compared to the older post-TIV cohort (2.6%), p200 x background expected rates.
https://www.hartgroup.org/measuring-the-extent-of-the-myocarditis-iceberg/
Moreover, initial claims that myocarditis risk might be higher after Covid infection compared to vaccination have not held up to scrutiny. The latest study – based on a large (~200k) cohort of adults in Israel – found no increase in the incidence of pericarditis or myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19.
Study link:
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/8/2219
So…if Covid isn’t causing it, then…it must be absolutely anything but the vaxx!
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Interesting and amusing short video about recent disastrous road conditions in Death Valley, USA, due to floods.
https://youtu.be/Vn4IJFERCRM
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More Climate Change…………………..
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Spokin’ Joe is wheely spiteful
By Miranda Devine
How convenient for Joe Biden that he is far from scrutiny on an extended vacation in a borrowed mansion in a secluded community on Kiawah Island, SC, the very week his attorney general unleashed a political firestorm by authorizing the FBI raid on the home of their shared nemesis, Donald Trump.
But the president couldn’t help a little subtle gloating as he rode a bike on the beach past the waiting media, flashing a cheery smile.
Asked about his vacation, he replied: “I’m enjoying it a great deal. I’ve been on the phone a lot, monitoring news reports.”
Yes, you can bet he is monitoring the news, with relish.
If there is one defining adjective for Biden’s presidency, it probably is spite. His consuming hatred for “the former guy”, whose name he often can’t bring himself to utter, is palpable.
He makes no secret of the fact that he despises Trump voters, too, all 74,223,369 of them. His unusual malice — fuelled by Trump-deranged historians he keeps inviting for endless “Socratic dialogues” in the White House — has had a corrosive effect on America.
If only Biden had been the unifying president he promised he would be, and shown a little grace in victory, commended Trump for Operation Warp Speed, perhaps, not spitefully unwound all his policies, not branded half the country “white supremacists” and “domestic terrorists” in his inaugural speech, not sicced the FBI onto parents at school board meetings, not weaponized the federal government’s security apparatus against his political enemies, not supersized the IRS to go after the little guy, not tanked the economy and lied about absolutely everything.
[snip]
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ABC’s Jonathan Karl: Isn’t Name Of Inflation Reduction Act “Almost Orwellian” Since It’s “Not Gonna Bring Inflation Down?”
Random act of Journalism in questioning White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “Isn’t it almost Orwellian? How can you call it the Inflation Reduction Act when the nonpartisan experts say it’s not gonna bring inflation down?”
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Some people still wearing masks here, including the head librarian at the public library. What are we up to in Victoria? Day 876 of two weeks to flatten the curve?
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Well for starters, you have a psychopath (dictator dan) in charge of what turns out to be a growing number of sheep.
The smart ones – who deserted the flock – are now ex-Victorians.
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Andrews is a symptom, not the disease.
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https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-interviews-with-ryan-cole-deb
SEE LINK FOR REST
NOTE: There is a link (download) to a specific autopsy protocol to determine if a death was vax related or not.
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I went to the Doc’s today for my driver’s license health check today and asked for an exemption to the vaxx mandate because of a bad reaction to jab no. 1 but the answer was that without anaphylaxis no can do.
Bloody ‘ell, anaphylaxis is deadly and fast. So unless you have survived a near death experience ya takes ya chances, like everyone else.
How do I get my Lady into care if I’m not allowed in the gate of the home?
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Pretty much everyone else is just editing the pdf of someone else’s certificate.
Ask a teenager if you need someone to do it for you.
There’s no need to sacrifice yourself for an unjust rule.
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“Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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An amazing visualisation perspective sensitive painting of human aging
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1558475106208436227
Very well done. 👍
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SCOMO’s Secret Ministries!
As if Scott Morrison hadn’t created enough problems already, it now seems that he secretly appointed himself a Joint Minister for Health.
Now he is even more in the Gun (responsible) for all the vaccine problems which are now unfolding. He should have listened: Don’t Be a HUNT!
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🙂
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This ABC story confirms it:
” In a statement on Monday afternoon, David Hurley confirmed he had secretly signed instruments that allowed Mr Morrison to administer other portfolios. ”
David Hurley is our Governor General.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-15/scott-morrison-secret-ministry-appointments-covid-19-pandemic/101333856
Perhaps he (Scomo) still is?
Cheers
Dave B
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So Turnbull was right about one thing: He is a control freak.
I know there are honest, capable men/women out there, why can’t they bubble to the surface?
Let’s get Gina to lead the libs and Twiggy the left? Surely they could take some time off.
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If you read Catlin Johnstone she explained how our system puts those who are willing to be the most vicious criminals into power.
Honest, capable men and women do not become politicians.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/08/12/all-our-systems-are-built-to-elevate-viciousness/
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Now I understand why Hunt followed the the WHO of the UN (and WEF). He has the letters UN in his name. H UN T…………..
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All good lessons for the next conservative govt, don’t be a Scomo.
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Just think: The libs couldn’t get rid of Tony fast enough. Shame. Shame.
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On the unfolding aftermath of the Great Pandemic …
to anyone with half a wit, “follow the Science” has become a vacuous political slogan.
A joke.
The relationship of Science with the the public has been ‘reset’.
Not in the way the Resetters intended.
Building Back Better will require the adjudication of the Resetters.
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Can anyone explain the short term correlation between the price of gold and the A$ exchange rate? Gold is not a significant export earner compared with mundane commodities.
On long term charts the POG has been inexorably up in the last 31 years [today as someone noted] while our exchange has been rangebound but for a brief time above parity.
Maybe it proves a strong POG shows USD weakness, not A$ value, long term trends ignored.
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Is there global warming. ?
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, QUAD VAXXED, gets Covid!
I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for #COVID19. I am thankful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am isolating and have started a course of Paxlovid.
https://twitter.com/AlbertBourla/status/1559145992594784256
Who the hell still believes the lies at this point????
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I wonder if he even took his own poison?
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First case of transmission of monkeypox from human(s) to dog.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/14/dog-reportedly-contracts-monkeypox-from-owners/
It is also reported in The Lancet but warning about pictures.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01487-8/fulltext
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Poor dog, its owner might face some awkward questions from authorities.
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EpochTV On Argentina –
Inflation in Argentina hits 71% pa (annualised rate).
From Martin Armstrong –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/socialist/argentina-raises-interest-rate-to-69-5/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
It’s only a short video but very much to the point.
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Excellent piece by Rita Panahi with interview of Alex Epstein from Centre for Industrial Progress. Outstanding. Please watch. (8 mins)
https://youtu.be/0kRFXlgX9AY
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Starbucks and a ringing endorsement of mail in voting!
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/15/margin-of-fraud-105/
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“Established in 2021, Akaysha has nine battery storage projects in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. Its most advanced is the 150-megawatt Ulinda Park battery at Queensland’s Western Downs substation, which will have two hours of storage duration. Another is the 200-megawatt, four-hour Orana battery near Wellington in central-west NSW.”
Uh-huh, Aussie will run on 50MW per hour…
“BlackRock to spend $1b on batteries in Australia as coal closures loom”
$1,000,000,000?? I’d take another $100M off Blackrock for end-of-life expenses in a decade! No doubt the price of power will double and the taxpayer get screwed.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/blackrock-to-spend-1b-on-batteries-in-australia-as-coal-closures-loom-20220815-p5b9xo.html
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I just wish someone would educate journalists on how battery capacity is specified, and the difference between power , capacity, and “size” !
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..and $1,000,000,000, will buy not much more than 1.0 GWh of battery capacity !
Only any use for FCAS and profit harvesting from arbitrage !
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August 15, 2022
Horowitz: German insurance claims hint at millions of unreported vaccine injuries
What if 1 in 23 individuals jabbed with the COVID bioproduct experienced an adverse reaction strong enough to trigger an insurance claim? Now consider the fact that 5.31 billion people in the world received at least one jab, with hundreds of millions receiving three or four jabs, and you will realize we are in uncharted waters in human history.
According to data from Techniker Krankenkasse, the largest German medical insurance company, there were a total of 437,593 insurance claims billed under the four diagnostic codes for vaccine injury in 2021. To put those numbers in perspective, the total numbers billed for a vaccine injury code in the two preceding years was 13,777 and 15,044, respectively. As the Daily Skeptic notes, given that TK insures 11 million people, that means 1 in 23, or 4.3%, had a medical treatment billed for vaccine injury. And that assumes all 11 million were vaccinated. The background vaccination rate in Germany is 78%, although most of the unvaccinated are children, so the rate of injury per vaccinated person is likely even higher (5.1%).
Putting aside confounding factors, but just to provide a rough estimate to open your mind to the scope of this problem, a 4.3% clinical level injury rate, if extrapolated for the 223 million vaccinated in the United Sates, would equal approximately 9.6 million injured Americans. While that number sounds unconscionable, remember that this data harmonizes almost perfectly with the Israeli health ministry survey that found a 4.5% rate of neurological side effects just from those who received booster shots (not total doses, which is likely more).
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A work in progress
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“Depression, I was wrong”
Dr John Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZhgvr2rbwE
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If it doesn’t rain it pours.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11114849/Three-million-homes-risk-incredible-deluge-week-Brits-told-prepare-emergency-bags.html
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Jordan Peterson: Back Off, Oh Masters of the Universe
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Thus Spoke Anna-fluster:
Sure, but there’s no such thing as a free lunch. If you avoid drought you’re more likely to get the results of *too much* water: which is firstly floods and a lot of regrowth, and then the following year after seasonal die-ff, you have even more *fuel* on the ground than normal.
So we can expect “a big bushfire season” at the end of 2023 then.
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Stop The Presses: Everything is normal.
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Oz and NZ drought index from 1500 to 2012 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-xzhQoyUY
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ENSO was active and La Nina doesn’t seem to dominate throughout the LIA.
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With everything else going on, wars, politics and the gasoline price, Americans are less concerned about the impact of climate change on themselves.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/16/poll-concern-about-climate-change-warnings-is-plummeting/
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Science by polling is painful.
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