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Monday entertainment – Greta – the climate crisis doesn’t exist
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1586723433492217856/pu/vid/720×900/8_OLIzniI2NmmZbr.mp4
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Democracy is important to Greta. I wonder if her definition of democracy matches the standard definition.
Pretty sure she didn’t complain when Biden signed the executive order cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline…
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Speaking of the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation, which would have carried lower gravity crude oil to refineries which is useful in making diesel, etc….
“Mansfield Energy issued the alert Friday stating there was a developing diesel fuel shortage in the southeastern region of the United States. The company speculated that the shortage could be generated from “poor pipeline shipping economies” and a historically low supply of diesel reserves.
“Poor pipeline shipping economics and historically low diesel inventories are combining to cause shortages in various markets throughout the Southeast,” the company said. “These have been occurring sporadically, with areas like Tennessee seeing particularly acute challenges.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fuel-company-issues-diesel-shortage-warning-says-conditions-rapidly-devolving
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If you watch the video carefully, you can see that there was a break between what she said about democracy and her statement that the climate crisis doesn’t exist. It’s obvious that something was cut from the video.
Having said that, why the heck would anybody suggest that the President of the United States (no matter how addled his brain is) ask a teenage high school dropout for her advice?
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Yes, that part is obviously taken out of context. I am 100% guessing, but I think it’s from an interview when Trump was in power.
You’re not acknowledging that Greta is an accomplished author. How dare you!!
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446610/the-climate-book-by-thunberg-greta/9780241547472
At 464 pages and 1.38kg, I think it could help people keep warm this winter, for a little while anyway… and as wood fibre is classified as renewable when it is used for fuel, then there are no worries there.
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Australia Now a Cyberattack Hotbed With Defence Department the Latest Target
The Australian Defence Force has become the latest target in a spate of ongoing cyberattacks against major organisations in the country .
The Defence Department’s internal communication platform, Forcenet, was targeted in the ransomware attack. The platform is used for communication between serving defence members and their families, containing data from 2018.
Matt Keogh, the minister for defence personnel, said there was no evidence personnel information had been taken.
“We haven’t seen any evidence of that information being made available to anyone as a result of that attack, but we just want to make sure that all Defence staff and personnel remain vigilant, and we’re working with that external contractor now to make sure we get the best picture of what has occurred,” he said in a press conference on Oct. 31
https://www.theepochtimes.com/australia-now-a-cyberattack-hotbed-with-defence-department-the-latest-target_4830520.html
Cash on hand, people.
It’s going to get a lot worse…
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Cyberattacks in healthcare sector more likely to carry financial consequences
Netwrix announced additional findings for the healthcare sector from its global 2022 Cloud Security Report, revealing that 61% of respondents in the healthcare industry suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months, compared to 53% for other verticals. Phishing was the most common type of attack reported.
“The healthcare sector is a lucrative target for attackers because the chances of success are higher. The first two years of the pandemic exhausted the industry. With patient health being the main priority for these organizations, IT security resources are often too stretched and are focused on maintaining only the most necessary functions,” comments Dirk Schrader, VP of Security Research at Netwrix.
“Plus, the high value of data gives cyber criminals better opportunities at financial gain: they can either sell stolen sensitive medical information on the dark web or extort a ransom for ‘unfreezing’ the medical systems used to keep patients alive.”
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/10/31/healthcare-sector-cyberattack/
Das gubermint needs to focus on significant punishment, like 10 years jail no parole ( or 5 vaxx shots 🤣), for hackers, rather than only blaming businesses who could be vulnerable to 0day attacks.
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German copper smelter Aurubis in cyber attack
Aurubis, Europe’s biggest copper smelter, said it was targeted as part of a wider cyber attack on the metals and mining industry, which had forced it to shut down its IT systems and disconnect them from the internet.
Germany’s BSI cybersecurity agency warned earlier this week that cyber risks were the greatest they had ever been.
BSI said, however, that there did not appear to be any overarching campaign against German targets.
“The attack was apparently part of a larger attack on the metals and mining industry,” said Aurubis, without naming any other companies.
Aurubis said it was able to largely maintain production even though it was forced to shut down numerous systems at its sites and disconnect them from the internet as a precaution.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/german-copper-smelter-aurubis-in-cyber-attack-587159
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Queensland government losing millions, at risk of cyberattack: audit
The Queensland government is losing millions of dollars and putting itself at risk of cyberattack because it’s “unwilling to learn” from mistakes and failing to be upfront about their own performance, a report says.
Queensland Auditor-General Brendan Worrall says almost a third of 454 recommendations he has made to improve government performance in 2018-2020 are yet to be fully implemented.
He says the failure to make changes is impacting oversight, use of IT and data, and sometimes cost millions through poor contract and project management.
“My experience has been that entities are either unwilling to learn from the past or each other, or lack the systems or corporate knowledge to understand the reasons for past failings,” Worrall wrote in the report, published on Monday.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/queensland/queensland-government-losing-millions-at-risk-of-cyberattack-audit-20221031-p5buga.html
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Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, multiple customers have been locked out of their accounts after the incident.
Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, threat actors attempted to access customers’ accounts by carrying out credential-stuffing attacks.
What is credential stuffing?
“Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists of compromised usernames and passwords to defeat authentication and authorization mechanisms, with the end goal of account takeover (ATO) and/or data exfiltration.” In other words, attackers glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. Then, they enter those accounts for the purpose of abusing permissions, siphoning out data, or both.
Air New Zealand chief digital officer Nikhil Ravishankar pointed out that threat actors did not hack any company’s systems, but only individual accounts were impacted.
“The breach only occurred with a small number of Air NZ customers, and no fraudulent transactions or sensitive information was accessed by the scammers, he [Ravishankar] said.” reported the website Stuff.co.nz.
“The accounts were locked and customers were contacted to be advised to change their login details before using the Airpoints system again, he said.”
The company is urging customers to change their passwords before using the Airpoints system again and also change their passwords on all accounts that used the same “Air NZ” password.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/137793/cyber-crime/air-new-zealand-breach.html
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“My experience has been that entities are either unwilling to learn from the past or each other, or lack the systems or corporate knowledge to understand the reasons for past failings,” Worrall wrote in the report”
That was absolutely my experience with State and Federal departments in the window of my career that was contracting and consulting. If anything of significance reared its head it would be buried in obfuscation and a focus on procedure rather than outcomes.
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Remember the Qld Health payroll fiasco?
https://www.couriermail.com.au/extras/qweekend/fff/features/pdfs/338.pdf
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Yes. I’ve had a long lifetime of dealing inter alia with various “public” services. Some of the interactions were hair-curling.
The reason their culture is like it is: an individual can have their behind kicked for failure of procedure (protecting the public Treasure, you know) but they cannot be sacked for a failure in outcome.
In the lower ranks, the result is generally inertia in the face of difficulty. For the upper ranks, maintaining that inertia is protective.
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It’s remarkable that some important control systems are exposed to the internet when there is no desperate need to be.
5-6 years ago, I tried to get dynamic positioning and ballast control data sent from the control room of a floating oil rig to another system on the same rig. I couldn’t get the data because it turned out that these systems had no (official) interface capable of connecting to a network, and no (official) way of dumping data onto portable media. It was the latest generation of such hardware, so it was indeed deliberate. Seems sensible to me…
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The IOT is just for convenience and realistically apathy and laziness.
No-one really needs an internet-connected fridge!
There will be a price to be paid for this.😉
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IOT is just 2 letters short of idiot.
The only thing IOT has been good for, is the revenue from ongoing and essential subscription fees if one wants to continue using certain “connected” products. In my opinion, it’s on par with inkjet printer cartridges when it comes to throwing money away, but at least your average inkjet printer cartridge doesn’t expose your house and contents to security vulnerabilities…
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Sometimes nothing at work works because defence is a joke so we blame China as a joke but in reality they are poking around looking for the soft and squishy bits in our network
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And they want us to go to digital currency?
With all this hacking stuff going on?
In their dreams.
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not so much “want”, as will force us to do it, I think.
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James,
I fear you’re right.
Keep with the cash as much as you can.
Auto
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In my little part time job the takings are still 30% cash. Not sure if its a country thing or more general. We are a tourist area and a lot of the Melbournites are also peeling of $50 and $100s to pay the bill…. and most of the local tradies 🙂
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Virginia Military Institute Went Woke, Enrollment Fell 25%
The Virginia Military Institute is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the presence of women at the nation’s oldest state military college with an appearance by Kimberly Dark: a fat rights activist and author of lesbian fanfic who wants to “reimagine masculinity”.
“Why couldn’t we see that America has been racist forever, sexist forever?” Dark ranted in a post titled, “For those who do not want a Trump presidency — this is what we will do now.”
Under Superintendent Cedric Wins, this is what the Virginia Military Institute has become.
The institution that gave us Patton, Marshall and Byrd now asks about your “gender role”, urges you to reimagine “masculinity” and spews hate toward anyone who happens to be white.
VMI’s Preston Library’s DEI resources features “The History of White People” and “White Guys on Campus” discussing “whiteness” and the “habits of racism among white male undergraduates” along with the racist ravings of Ibram X. Kendi in “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me”.
The message at VMI is one of undisguised loathing for white people, injecting the ugliest racist concepts of critical race theory directly into the campus dialogue while trying to silence critics.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/virginia-military-institute-went-woke-enrollment-fell-25
Can’t really imagine Paton in a dress with pink lippy & a handbag. Might have to crank up Photoshop…
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I upport the rights of fat people to remain fat if they choose! I also defend my right to be lean.
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Once again they have lost track of their customers and think their own bubble thinking represents reality. Do they really think that the people motivated to choose a military academy and shell out the fees really buy into this cr@p? The only surprise to me is that enrollments only fell 25%. That number will probably increase.
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Ancient Traces of a Giant Ocean Have Just Been Discovered on Mars
You’ll no doubt be familiar with the dry, dusty appearance of Mars as it looks today – but scientists have found evidence of a vast ocean existing on the surface of the red planet around 3.5 billion years ago, likely covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
That evidence comes in the form of distinctive shoreline topography, identified through numerous satellite images of the Martian surface. When these images are snapped at slightly different angles, a relief map can be constructed.
Researchers have been able to chart out more than 6,500 kilometers (4,039 miles) of fluvial ridges, apparently carved out by rivers, demonstrating that they are most likely eroded river deltas or submarine-channel belts (channels carved out on the seafloor).
There are huge areas of what might be fluvial ridges all across Mars, and the simulations run by the team are remarkably similar to the shape of the landscape on the red planet – suggesting that there was extensive water coverage at one time.
We’re seeing more and more signs that water was once abundant on Mars, and work continues to figure out what it might have led to and where that water is now – though looking back through billions of years of time isn’t easy.
“If there were tides on ancient Mars, they would have been here, gently bringing in and out water,” says Cardenas. “This is exactly the type of place where ancient Martian life could have evolved.”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2022JE007390
Martians and their petrol cars destroyed it all! Or Martian Putin…
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You got to be kidding. You left Trump out?? How can you be so I’ll informed. Really!!
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How did we get to 3.5 billion years again? It’s been such a long time, I forget.
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None of us getting any younger!
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Monday WTF. Shocking Study Finds Nose Picking Could Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s and Dementia
In new research, Griffith University scientists have demonstrated that a bacteria can travel through the olfactory nerve in the nose and into the brain in mice, where it creates markers that are a tell-tale sign of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study revealed that Chlamydia pneumoniae, a type of bacteria that can cause respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia, exploited the nerve extending between the nasal cavity and the brain as an invasion path to assault the central nervous system. In response, the cells in the brain began depositing amyloid beta protein which is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The study was published earlier this year in the journal Scientific Reports.
“If you damage the lining of the nose, you can increase how many bacteria can go up into your brain.” — Professor James St John
Professor James St John, Head of the Clem Jones Center for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research, is a co-author of the world first research.
“We’re the first to show that Chlamydia pneumoniae can go directly up the nose and into the brain where it can set off pathologies that look like Alzheimer’s disease,” Professor St John said. “We saw this happen in a mouse model, and the evidence is potentially scary for humans as well.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06749-9
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Professor James St John has been picking his nose for far too long. We all know climate change is the real culprit, followed closely by Jan 6,!
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I vaguely remember picking my nose but I’m just not sure when that was, or where I was, or where I’ve been since. Um, I just can’t put my finger on (in) it.
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Obviously you’re another “ old fella “!!
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So revenge is sweet for those who endured the pick it, lick it, roll it, flick it bullying of their school days.
Gentlemen prefer a cravat.
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I didn’t pick my nose..
I was born with it !
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…and they somehow forget to mention what having a cotton wool swab jammed up your nose right to the brain does to the lining…
So a big increase in Alzheimers coming after compulsory Covid testing..
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Hyperbolic Propagation: Columbia Physicists See Light Waves Moving Through a Metal
New research finds evidence of waveguiding in a unique quantum material. These findings counter expectations about how metals conduct light and may push imaging beyond optical diffraction limits.
We perceive metals as shiny when we encounter metals in our day-to-day lives. That’s because common metallic materials are reflective at visible light wavelengths and will therefore bounce back the light that strikes them. Although metals are well suited to conducting electricity and heat, they aren’t typically thought of as a means to conduct light.
However, scientists are increasingly finding examples that challenge expectations about how things should behave in the burgeoning field of quantum materials. New research describes a metal capable of conducting light through it. Conducted by a team of researchers led by Dmitri Basov, Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia University, the study was published in Science Advances on October 26. “These results defy our daily experiences and common conceptions,” said Basov.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add6169
All these recent amazing discoveries that shouldn’t exist if the science is settled…
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B-52s to be located at RAAF base Tindal… this seems… slightly worrying.
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Its just in case Guam tips over I believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
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Rep Hank is Democrat I believe.
He’s about six foot at the longest um…um..side, and about two foot long at other side.
The thickness of two planks comes to mind. A product of long-term post-modernist saturation.
The USN officer needs to be awarded a Purple Heart in recognition of the internal damage he took in avoiding laughing himself to death.
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Just seen a report somewhere that says the long range bombers are and have been a regular visitor up north .
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I’m sure they have, but I think there’s a difference between visiting and refuelling vs building dedicated facilities for them. If China gets upset about it, then maybe it’s a good thing after all?
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What’s the logic that says we need big brother, Uncle Sam, so we can shelter under their umbrella while simultaneously saying big brother can’t actually keep troops on our soil lest they make us a target?
Sorry, Pine Gap is already there, permanently.
I like the BUFs. Some pilots today are flying the same planes their grandfathers flew, possibly the same airframe.
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In the US, these planes are usually called BUFFs, Big-Ugly-Fat-Fs (“Fs” = “Fellows” in the PG version). If that has been reduced to BUFs I assume that: A) they have gone on a diet or B) The second F is no longer politically correct.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-b-52-bomber-got-nickname-buff-69796
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Yes, you are correct. I just didn’t think it important.
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I wasn’t commenting on whether US forces should be based in Australia or not, more that it will be seen as an escalation, and I can’t say I am too fond of the idea of open conflict, no matter who starts it.
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” it will be seen as an escalation,”
Yes, and just another nuclear target along with Pine Gap and Darwin.
2.5billion people on Earth are dragged along by American madness and apparently support them, while 6.5billion say “What?? The American Empire? Lol!” and either hate them or try to avoid them.
We will be on the losing side.
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You’re not happy here are you?
I had just been born on the shore of the Coral Sea at the time of that decisive battle. I appreciate the Yanks and don’t expect something for nothing.
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Hard to see the escalation compared with Diego Garcia, Guam, Okinawa or even Hawaii (or those in the air).
I guess you might get an extra minute or two to get them in the air before the hypersonics arrive
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GET WOKE, GO BROKE
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/10/29/train-wreck-wall-street-slaps-facebook-after-market-value-falls-by-700-billion/
‘Train Wreck:’ Wall Street Slaps Facebook After Market Value Falls by $700 Billion
Facebook (now known as Meta) has suffered a $700 billion drop in market value since its peak high of more than $1 trillion in September 2021. One analyst labeled the company’s dismal earnings and future strategy a “train wreck.”
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Latest on the Cold Air Outbreak.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/massive-november-cold-front-has-footprints-of-midwinter/898306
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22C and 70 km/h winds here today. Snow forecast this week.
Crazy weather…
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A great time to watch what goes missing and how temperature maps record the event. It is politically incorrect for Thredbo AWS to ever go below -10.4 degrees C. Now that it is known that it and several more were unable to measure below that prior to 2017. It is unlikely to go that low this time but interesting to note that this year on July 20 nearby Perisher went down to -11.7 and the normally warmer Thredbo Village went to -9.7 on the day Thredbo AWS has no data.
What a random fault can do. Just dumb chance that the only missing reading since January is the extreme cold one, or are there more technical problems warming the records?
Thredbo http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/202207/html/IDCJDW2132.202207.shtml
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This is a disaster for global warming. A few readings below -10.4C and the next thing the BoM will have is global cooling.
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Likely more of a headline stopper than trendline stopper but outliers do make much more difference to averages than near average readings. It is also a 3 dimensional effect. Area average and average over time.
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I wonder what part weather modification and research activities around tbe world are having on extreme weather events?
Of course geoengineeringwatch would like to blame a lot on human manipulation but it would be interestibg to see some good info on the topic.
I have (somewhere) an old US newspaper article from the early 1900’s when a local government funded rain production project went catastrophically wrong and caused a severe flood. If they could do it easily back tben, I have no doubt they could do it today without trace too.
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Kate Bush is running the show, it’s obvious.
https://youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw
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Ice sheet increase in East Antartica is probably related to the fact that Antartica and Southern Ocean have been cooling for 40 years.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/30/nature-geoscience-eastern-antarctic-peninsula-ice-sheet-has-grown-over-last-20-years/
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Dinesh D’Souza must have been unbanned from Twitter and Tweeted:
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Why are the Left so terrified about Paul Pelosi being exposed as a probable closet gay?
Aren’t they constantly and endlessly promoting “pride”? Shouldn’t they be celebrating?
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That was being saved for the week after next
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It was reported by some left media outlets that the intruder had MAGA underwear when arrested.
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First rule of Underwear Hammer Fight Club. Never talk about Underwear Hammer Fight Club.
(saw it as a meme somewhere)
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And a dope head.
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“Shouldn’t they be celebrating?”
Getting hammered?
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There was no problems with spreading rumours of Trumps alleged sexual antics, even after it was obviously made up by drunks at a bar.
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“Paul Pelosi being exposed as a probable closet gay”
Being married to Nancy would certainly push a person that way!
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But “Where is Nancy” in all this.
Why is no-one making the most obvious comparison between her failure to protect the security of the Capitol on 6th January 2020 and her failure to protect the security of her own home?
It appears that a standoff developed between Paul Pelosi and David DePape after DePape decided to have a nap, allowing Pelosi to take possession of the hammer and use the privacy of an ensuite bathroom to call 911.
The big questions:
Did a Capitol Police crew allow a drug-addled homeless backpacker to enter Nancy Pelosi’s California home?
Will the sleepy prospective kidnapper now be portrayed as a closet MAGA-insurrectionist?
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Paul Joseph Watson comments on the numerous oddities about this case.
https://youtu.be/5JkEEyqDmsk
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Comments on Daily Mail – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11374713/Paul-Pelosi-attacker-wanted-hold-Nancy-hostage-break-kneecaps-warning.html#comments
Not kind to the FBI or Pelosi’s
– Lol! Nice cleanup by FBI!
– This is underwear gate coverup!
– That neighborhood, you know there are cctv cameras everywhere. Yet we haven’t seen one inch of video, nothing.
– Who believes a word the FBI is saying? They’re reading out whatever the DNC is telling them to. Look at the evidence and figure it out for yourselves
– Hunter was always taking pictures in his underwear.Do you think there is a connection?
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Paul Pelosi Attack – Follow The Evidence, Not The Media Spin
The evidence will reveal the truth, the media will not (at least not before the midterms). This supposed MAGA perp “lived with a notorious local nudist in a Berkeley home, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a tree.”
I always enjoy the Comments
– Hunter Biden was the third person.
An unnamed source close to the Pelosi’s revealed….
– “The evidence will reveal the truth, ”
Then they won’t reveal the evidence.
– Bingo. Nobody should talk about this story until video evidence is released.
– Let’s be clear. This was probably a person invited in to the residence.
I’d really like to take out life insurance on him.
– The Pelosis are a couple of drunks – God knows what these two weirdos do in their spare time.
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The narrative appears to be that there is no secured perimeter protecting the rear entry to the Pelosi home, and that there is no secret service agent to conduct visitors into the house.
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Everyone is Laughing at the Ridiculous Pelosi Big Lie
Meet the underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley.
October 31, 2022 by Kurt Schlichter
How dare you reject the Official Approved Narrative parroted by the regime media about the weird Schiff that went down at Casa de Pelosi the other night. There’s only one possible explanation, according to experts, licensed journalists, and our betters – an underwear-clad MAGA assassin from a hippie commune in Berkeley who is best known for his nudist activism broke into the oddly unguarded mansion of the Speaker of the House, a wealthy woman who has her police force and has not been shy about expounding on the perilous peril she faces from murderous insurrectionists, carrying a hammer and encountered the wide-awake Paul Pelosi, also in his skivvies, who the intruder then let go off and call the cops wherein Mr. Pelosi referred to the guy as his friend.
Look, it’s pretty clear that this was just one more Trump-inspired attack on Our Democracy, and to fail to accept this wholeheartedly is to be a conspiracy theorist who is blaming the victim and doing Putin’s bidding. It’s also racist.
That’s certainly one way to look at it. Perhaps a guy walking through San Francisco in his Fruit of the Looms with a hammer in his hand at 2 a.m. might not draw a lot of attention, but a lot of things don’t quite add up. Hey, I don’t know about you, but I have a few questions, some of which could be quickly answered with a House oversight committee deposing Paul Pelosi once he recovers and, just to be sure, sending a subpoena to Grindr.
The smart play would have been to say nothing, to pass it off as some random transient breaking into the Pelosi pad. Heck, a lot of people would buy that even if the lack of security seemed odd. And then you move on to other things and this gets forgotten and Nancy quietly places Paul Pelosi into Sunny Acres so he stops embarrassing her with his sordid antics. But no. No, they had to try to hang this incident around our necks. And they are so used to having the assistance of social media in hiding unapproved narratives – like the demonstrably true Hunter Biden laptop revelations – that they assumed no one would be able to raise any questions about their Big Lie. Except for not only did Elon Musk buy Twitter but he also pushed back when Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit – herself a seasoned pro at cleaning up the sexual shenanigans of her hornier half – joined the “MAGA people did it!” chorus.
The regime media is in full effect now, acting as janitors for their political masters in the Democrat Party.
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No wonder the ABC loves it.
One in the eye for a Billionaire, eh, you know one who sinks her own money into supporting Australian Netball, nice one Gina Rinehart. And now the woke people, front of queue the ABC, saw that was knocked on the head.
And now, they have their same $15 million financing, saving Netball Australia from probable bankruptcy.
And who stepped into the breach, why
Dear old Dan Andrewsthe Australian taxpayer no less.Oh for joy. I now own a fraction of Netball Australia.
All I can say, is ….. well done Gina, you saved your money there.
“We’ve got backing of 15 million big ones. Your futures are secured.”
“Huh, it better not be from a d@mned climate denier, among other things.”
Tony.
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Being American, and the resulting cultural sensitivity deficit …
I had no idea what Netball is.
So I did a quick search.
The first result informed me, rightfully so, that Netball HQ is on the land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation…
and something about the Ngunnawal/Ngunawal people.
(I am too culturally ignorant to understand the significance of one n as opposed to two n(s).)
So being Cro-Magnon, my attention span was too short to actually find out what Netball is.
I do now know there are Ngunnawal/Ngunawal people.
And Netball should get off their land immediately.
(I have no idea where the traditional land of my People is, we’ve been chased out of so many we lost track.)
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You reminded me of the experience of a Canadian a few years ago when he discovered another British/Australian sport courtesy of his local tv news network. The Canadian commented to an antipodean friend how he had discovered this great game called cricket where people were racing up and down between wickets sometimes throwing themselves along the ground to get “safe” like baseball. The ball was being smashed all over the stadium. It was so energy charged and entertaining that he was immediately and totally enthralled at what he was watching. He just couldn’t understand why the game wasn’t played in Canada let alone American.
Then the newsreader cut in and stated that the cricket news item was the 5 minutes highlight package of the 5 day first test…. Suddenly he realised why it wasn’t played in the Americas.
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We took our relatively new boss (ex pat Canadian) to the cricket one day. Corporate supplier boondoggle , everything laid on. We explained the game and ways to get out etc to him (probably till his eyes glazed over).
Next day it was apparent we had missed a vital step. He was talking about what a good time he had but he had one question “why did everyone get so excited when they knocked over those three sticks”
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So netball rejects Rinehart’s money because of a remark by her father some years ago and goes on to accept money from Dan Andrews despite the racist remarks by an Andrews predecessor , Arthur Calwell about 75 years ago (wongs and whites). Hypocrisy on steroids!!
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Wettest October on record for the MDB.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-31/october-rain-records-broken-australia/101573566
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I am prepared to believe that there was high rainfall because I’ve seen it with my own eyes, although I wouldn’t necessarily believe any claim of a record from Their ABC or the BOM because they have proven themselves to be not trustworthy sources.
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It appears that BOM has admitted that WA has had an unusually cold October. That must have been tough for them.
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Ah, that was like earlier, when they were trumpeting WA having major heat and global warming would kill us all, while NSW was having the coldest weeks of any autumn and it never got a mention.
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How is Australia going to handle a cold summer? Where will all the energy come from to keep warm?
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Political hot air.
We have an abundance of it.
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Trouble is that hot air seems to just rise at location and only its effects on “things” moves laterally and not the heat
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? same place it does in winter I guess
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Yes, but Australia keeps shutting down proper power stations or failures are not repaired.
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As pointed out in various places – when told you’ll be closed the week after next the best financial strategy is flog its earning power till something breaks and then don’t fix it
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Sweat the asset.
A perfectly rational response.
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While playing pothole roulette on the way to town and back today I noticed that a kind soul had used marker paint to highlight some potholes. What a good idea I thought. It will take time to fix the eleventy million potholes out there, but in the meantime daytime travellers could be helped by this simple action.
I wonder how well Teslas full self driving automation deals with potholes?
Visited the Eildon Dam wall this morning and its spilling many gigalitres a day at the moment and they expect that to continue for a week at least. Conditions likely to stay soggy downstream for a while yet.
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We no longer have potholes in the road into town.
We have a gravelly ditch randomly crisscrossed with occasional strips of bitumen.
The road was completely resurfaced 12 months ago.
Another marvel of modern technology.
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Bitumen spead-humps.
Save the roos.
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Speed.
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Kills.
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I thought electric cars were substantially heavier than ICE counterparts, but when I did a very brief comparison, it seems maybe not as much as I thought. The reason I mentioned it is because, from memory, doubling a vehicles weight increases road wear by a lot – by weight^4 or something like it (don’t quote me on it).
Holier-than-thou EV owners think they are above the need to pay road taxes, but I was thinking if they are heavier on average, they should pay a lot more!
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Road wear varies with the axle load ratio after/before to the 14th (fourteenth) power.
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I knew it had a 4 in it…!!
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42, surely . . .
Auto
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May I suggest “A Day in the Life” by the Beatles as your drive time muzak.
“I read the news today, Oh boy
4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire
Although the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”.
I wonder if the marker paint wasn’t a council workman indicating for the resurfacing crew. Just hope it is not like that stupid NRMA ad where the trees designated for removal (hazard reduction) with marker tape get that tape removed by the pre-pubescent nature justice warriors. Cheers
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It struck me later after looking at the spillway. About 10 years ago I has driven over the bridge at the far end of the lake behind that dam, and there was no water as far as you could see and undergrowth and small trees growing in the lake bed. Droughts and flooding rains and all that.
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My comment 11 – there’s that stocking thread count word again, sorry.
Tony.
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Rick Morton gets a scoop on BoM.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2022/10/29/its-kind-horrific-bom-cuts-compromise-forecasts#mtr
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I’ve noticed the Sky news meteorologist is calling things and getting most of them right compared to Bom , as for the accuracy of 24 hour forecasts they are as much a joke as their long term ones . We have had many storms here that weren’t predicted .
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Imagine
Locked in a steel tube;
Hundred metres underwater;
and with you is an array of hard working lithium batteries, made in China.
Volunteers sought.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/power-play-chinas-submarines-going-lithium/
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No thanks although at least there will be plenty of water handy to keep the fire in check .
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Salt water is actually the preferred dousing agent for lithium battery fires as it’s conductivity helps short out batteries and dissipate energy via routes other than through the combusting/shorting portion of the battery – reducing the energy released. But you need a whole lot of water to do it well – a lithium battery fire can give off enough heat to turn twice its weight of water into steam. EV fires are going to be a new killer in coming decades – cooking people in bad accidents, irrevocably burning down houses (basically all you can do is watch), raising insurance premiums, and likely requiring new specialist fire-fighting robots to move burning EVs.
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Nice to know the fire is out as you settle, permanently, on the bottom.
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Saltwater will form a toxic and explosive mix of chlorine and hydrogen when electrolysed. I doubt the is a recommended means of quelling a battery fire.
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Not saying lithium batteries are better, or worse, but Hydrogen generation while charging the batteries in the Collins Class subs (and others) is already considered a significant safety hazard.
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it is fair to say that operating submarines carries significant risks of quite a few kinds
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If we are talking about China then Indoubt it will be tested by volunteers.
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The (not sure whether it was an) urban myth I heard regarding a soviet pilot who defected in his mig back in the 60s was that the yanks were amazed to see that the craft was fitted with a valve radio. Initially they dined out on how antiquated the “mighty” soviet airforce was. Then the penny dropped and they realised that in the event of a nuclear war the generated em pulses would knock out all but valve radio communication so the Russians were in fact more (mentally) advanced. Given the dangers associated with mobile phones as far as certain grades of petrol and premature activation of terrorist bombs is there any research on what pulses/em interferance options there may be to disrupt batteries. No doubt this would probably be heavily censored since you don’t want petrol heads waging war against ev cars. Be kind I don’t even have an electric toothbrush.
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Japan have had lithium battery storage in submarines for several years.
But, remember the saga of Boeing Dreamliners with Lithiun auxilliary battery packs bursting intoo smoking mess, a few years back .
They solved that by fitting smoke exhausts to the pack enclosure !!😲😳
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Re Musk “taking down”
“Musk Begins Releasing Internal Notes from Twitter Execs Highlighting Intent to Hide True “Objectives and Key Results” During Lawsuit
October 30, 2022 | sundance | 132 Comments
An interesting dynamic begins as Elon Musk takes ownership of Twitter promising increased transparency. Mr. Musk tweeted out an internal message from Yoel Roth (still employed) to some unknown entity where the head of Safety and Integrity of Twitter tellingly implied the executives in charge were withholding information from Musk and lawyers during the lawsuit.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/30/musk-begin-releasing-internal-notes-from-twitter-execs-highlighting-intent-to-hide-true-objectives-and-key-results-during-lawsuit/
Eh! Gee!
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“MILLOY: Europe’s Energy Crisis Is A Warning To America. So Far … Democrats Haven’t Listened”
https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/30/opinion-europes-energy-crisis-is-a-warning-to-america-so-far-democrats-havent-listened-milloy/
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More taking the mickey
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586919685664169984
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Add this to that survey of satisfaction at braving the “vax”
https://sorryigotvaxxed.com/
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The video has Eric Clapton speaking about his adverse effects following two jabs from the Astra Zeneca.
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Including IVM and HCQ as treatment.
Worth reading :
N-Acetylcysteine as Adjuvant Therapy for COVID-19 – A Perspective on the Current State of the Evidence
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Been taking NAC as well as all the other antivirals for over 3 years now – happy to be unvaxxed
Still only one in Family who has not had Covid
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As I do, just searched again for proof to convice someone it’s worth using it.
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#PedoJo at it again: Public Outraged As Biden Fondle’s Underage Girl’s Breast: ‘You’re a Pedophile’
President Joe Biden was filmed fondling an underage girl’s breast during a public event over the weekend, and then kissing her in front of horrified onlookers.
During the event, Biden chose a girl to quickly place an “I voted” sticker on her chest. He was then filmed rubbing the sticker onto her breast and pulling her in for a kiss on the mouth while continuing to fondle her breasts in front of reporters.
https://twitter.com/realnewspunch/status/1586994231348019203
He’s too far gone to save, not that he’s even worth it.
The Demonrats are are walking disaster area.
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it was his grand daughter and she was voting so not under age, but I was amazed at the brazen fondling even aftee the peck on the cheek finished.
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World Health Organisation Partners With YouTube To Stop Spread Of ‘Misinformation’
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is now taking control of the content that is promoted on YouTube through its new partnership with Google.
They claim that the aim of the partnership is to address “the spread of misinformation and disinformation.” The real aim is to manipulate public opinion.
On its website WHO states: “WHO and partners recognise that misinformation online has the potential to travel further, faster and sometimes deeper than the truth – on some social media platforms, falsehoods are 70% more likely to get shared than accurate news. To counter this, WHO has taken a number of actions with tech companies to remain one step ahead”
https://www.who.int/teams/digital-health-and-innovation/digital-channels/combatting-misinformation-online
Too late. The world has the truth it needs to end all the lies.
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The WHO and Google fighting misinformation? and its not the Babylon Bee?
I cant decide; is that ironic, oxymoronic or just misinformation?
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CV19 Vax Destroys Hearts & Brains of Billions of People – Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi
World renowned microbiologist and virologist professor Sucharit Bhakdi MD has won many medical and scientific awards and has more than 300 peer reviewed research papers. Dr. Bhakdi was one of the first top global doctors to warn about the deadly and debilitating effects of the CV19 vax. He was right. Dr. Bhakdi says there is proof that if the injections reach the heart or the brain, they will be damaged beyond repair.
Dr. Bhakdi brings up one autopsy that found this and explains, “In multiple parts of the brain in this deceased man, the doctor found the same thing. . . . He found the damned spike proteins in the smallest capillaries of the brain. . . There is no repair because what the doctor found was these small vessels were attacked by the immune system and destroyed. The doctor found irrefutable evidence of brain cell damage of cells that are dead and dying. This poor fellow died because his brain cells were dying. . . . The same patient that died . . . . had this multifocal, meaning at many different locations, necrotizing, meaning dying, encephalitis. . . . He had typical things being seen now in people post vax. They lose their personality. They lose their minds. They lose their capacity to think. They become demented. They can’t hear. They can’t speak. They can’t see. They are no longer the humans that they were. They are destroyed human beings. Their brains are destroyed.
https://usawatchdog.com/cv19-vax-destroys-hearts-brains-of-billions-of-people-dr-sucharit-bhakdi/
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What temperature does a domestic clothes dryer operate at?
I’m thinking of using an air frier to finish hard to dry women’s “smalls”? They are expensive and I don’t wish to bake them. Washing instructions simply say “hang to dry” but it will get V humid here soon.
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Most clothes dryers have a LO and HI setting plus something like a 20 minute “cool down” period. I’m guessing for cotton items try LO for 30-45 minutes and cool down for 20.
See if that is sufficient to dry and/or vary your times accordingly.
For polyester etc. Slightly less time.
Probably a trial and error situation I guess..😄
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Domestic clothes dryer temps, from what I can find:
Low: 51C, 125F
Med: 57C, 135F
Hi: 60C, 140F
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Fan heater on low directed at clothes on a drying rack ,..is a better solution.
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I was surprised to learn that there is still a requirement for people (legally) entering the USA to be “vaccinated” against the wuhan flu. I think there will be some interesting discussions with my boss if I am required to travel there and I say I can’t.
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Just fly to Mexico and walk across the border…
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A friend just went with his wife and kids but none are vaxxed, however I just realised they are all US citizens. US citizens are exempt from having to be injected. The only other exempt category are illegal immigrants.
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It’s quite shocking really. Even Australia has dropped the vaccine requirement for visitors. It’s unusual to find a country with a more unhealthy obsession with covid vaccines than Australia.
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Did you know only 5% of the Leftist Elites of the World Economic Forum drive electric cars? The rest drive gasoline cars (or presumably are driven by chauffeurs).
In any case the Left don’t want non-Elites driving cars.
Video: “The WEF is coming for our cars”
https://youtu.be/jn7zTYoTYiw
As fanatical followers of the UN and WEF, I’m sure Australian governments will be fanatically enthusiastic about adopting these measures. We already see signs of it happening.
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“only 5% of the Leftist Elites of the World Economic Forum drive electric cars?”
It will pick up now, Rolls Royce have just released their electric Spectre. Goes 500Km on a slight downhill with no headwind at a very constant speed.
https://www.press.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/rolls-royce-motor-cars-pressclub/article/detail/T0404820EN/rolls-royce-spectre-unveiled:-the-marque%E2%80%99s-first-fully-electric-motor-car?language=en
You won’t be elite enough without one, probably compulsory for the WEF inner circle.
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Wasn’t the “Rolls Canardly” the first with all that?
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“The efficacy data keeps coming.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/another-new-study-yes-a-second-one/comments ”
“Another new study – yes, a SECOND one – says the “Omicron-specific” mRNA Covid boosters are worthless”
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FWIW!
Jailerman “An American Sea Shanty”
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/10/28/jailerman-an-american-sea-shanty/comment-page-1/
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That’s got to be an illegal high tackle by the ‘lady’ in the emerald dress.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11372079/Brisbane-racegoers-filmed-brawl-Spring-Racing-Carnival-descends-chaos.html
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Good to see the girls keeping the Spring Carnival classy. Melbourne is usually more shrieking women carrying their shoes and falling into garden beds. Its a big day out.
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Disneyland COVID Gulags are China’s Annual Halloween Tradition
Videos showed people rushing to the park’s gates, which were already locked.
October 31, 2022 by Daniel Greenfield
Remember this from last year?
Thousands were gathered Sunday for Shanghai Disneyland’s Halloween party when suddenly the gates closed and health-care workers fully dressed in white protective suits descended on the site. It was like a scene out of a scary movie, but these people weren’t in costume.
On Sunday, Shanghai Disneyland, a theme park partially owned by entertainment giant Disney, promised customers that they were in for “wicked Halloween surprises.” Safe to say that no one expected the biggest shock of the day to be medical staff in hazmat suits conducting mass tests for COVID-19, with tens of thousands of visitors being unable to leave.
Now it happened again.
Shanghai’s Disney Resort abruptly suspended operations on Monday to comply with Covid-19 prevention measures, with all visitors at the time of the announcement directed to stay in the park until they return a negative test for the virus.
The Shanghai government said on its official WeChat account the park was barring people from entering or exiting and that all visitors inside the site would need to await the results of their tests before they could leave.
Anyone who had visited the park since Oct. 27 would need to test for Covid-19 three times in three days, it said.
What is going on in China with regards to Covid?
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“What is going on in China with regards to Covid?
Hunting for the latest release by America…
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The UK PM didn’t want to attend the COP climate fest, so that he could stay home and fix the budget, but woke forces have mounted a heavy attack and now Rishi is considering his options. He could ask the king to attend.
‘Whether or not Rishi Sunak will attend COP27 is “under review”, Downing Street has confirmed – as the PM faces mounting calls to attend the climate conference in Egypt.’ (Sky News)
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“mounting calls” really? from who? anyone important? Call on line one from Klaus
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Top Endersays:
November 1, 2022 at 11:29 am
Methane emissions tax will rip heart out of NZ farmers
Jacinda Ardern plans to tax the agricultural sector so heavily that by 2030 an estimated 20 per cent of sheep and beef farmers and five per cent of dairy farmers will be forced out of business.
By MURIEL NEWMAN
It seems inconceivable that at a time of hyperinflation and global unrest, any government would deliberately destabilise the agricultural sector by introducing policies that would increase costs to primary producers, reduce production, and fuel price increases. Yet that’s what Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government is planning to do.
Our Prime Minister, the poster child of modern-day socialism, wants once again to boast on the world stage that she’s taking the lead in climate policy – this time by introducing a price on agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases.
That she wants the owners of ruminant livestock to pay a penalty for a by-product of a digestive process that is older than the dinosaurs, is madness personified.
Since New Zealand has only one per cent of the world’s farmed ruminants the actual contribution of Kiwi livestock to methane in the atmosphere is almost too small to measure.
Announcing her plan, the Prime Minister boasted: “No other country in the world has yet developed a system for pricing and reducing agricultural emissions, so our farmers are set to benefit from being first movers. Cutting emissions will help New Zealand farmers to not only be the best in the world but the best for the world; gaining a price premium for climate friendly agricultural products while also helping to boost export earnings.”
In other words, the PM plans to tax the agricultural sector so heavily that by 2030 an estimated 20 per cent of sheep and beef farmers and five per cent of dairy farmers will be forced out of business.
Agriculture is New Zealand’s biggest industry, generating more than 70 per cent of our export earnings and about 12 per cent of our gross domestic product.
The impact of Ardern’s tax on the sector will be significant. Prices of homegrown protein – including milk, cheese, and meat – will undoubtedly rise as local production falls. Our crucial export returns will decline – by up to an estimated 5.9 per cent for dairy, 21.4 per cent for lamb, 36.7 per cent for beef, and 21.1 per cent for wool.
We can see the potential fallout by reminding ourselves of the consequences of a previous reckless decision by our Prime Minister when, without warning, she banned new offshore oil and gas exploration on the eve of a meeting of world leaders – so she could boast about her decisive climate change leadership.
That decision contributed to the closure of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery – with a loss of 240 local jobs and many hundreds more indirectly – leaving New Zealand dependent on imported fuel that we used to produce ourselves – and, paradoxically, increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Like that decision, this policy will have profound and widespread consequences, far beyond the damage to those farmers who are expected to be forced out of the industry; their departure will impact heavily on farm services, meat processing plants, local schools, and the other local businesses.
The tax is being forced onto our productive sector at a time when almost 200 coal-fired power stations are under construction in Asia. The world’s major emitters of China and India have already admitted they’re not planning to take serious action on reducing emissions for up to fifty years, as they prioritise the economic wellbeing of their nations by expanding essential electricity supplies.
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RBA lifts cash rate by 0.25pc to 2.85pc
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In VIC these days we have the VIC emergency app that tries to keep us up to date on emergencies as they evolve (floods, bushfires, approaching storms etc). Its a result of loss of life during the 2009 bushfires and the failure of communications around that event. I’m guessing each State does something similar.
I was just looking at a flood update and I noticed this warning tacked on the end (along with one about mosquito born diseases and gastro due to floodwaters) I am guessing the flood clean up has provided some surprises.
“Do not put Lithium-ion batteries with general rubbish. Dispose of via a municipal battery collection facility. Damaged or defective batteries can overheat, catch fire or explode releasing projectiles and can release toxic gases”
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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
This about sums it up for me.
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The authorities in charge of Hume weir near Albury have been caught out again not leaving enough airgap in the dam for flood mitigation, right now they are releasing 73,000 mega litres a day which will cause considerable flooding downstream . A high security water extraction license for SA farmers costs between $6000 and $7000 per megalitre so it’s easy to see why greed takes precedence over flood mitigation .
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About 6 flanerees of rain today in Gippsland Victoria Au.
There are 1000 Milli-flans in a Flaneree
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“ERCOT Renewable Energy: Reality Check”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/31/ercot-renewable-energy-reality-check/
One might say that the difficult which you don’t face immediately greatly extends the time to produce the impossible
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It seems the state of Western Australia is also a lemming and following the rest over the cliff.
Western Australia’s latest news. re grid and energy. Last 30 days.
Links in chronological order from 4th Oct to 1st November 2022.
Bluewaters Power Station
Link posted on the 4th October 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/failed-griffin-coal-mine-owes-close-to-1-5-billion/101500338
“problems with the Griffin coal mine, which supplies the Bluewaters power station. Bluewaters accounts for around 9 per cent of the state’s electricity supply and any disruption to its coal supply from Griffin would reduce available supply well below the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)’s reserve capacity target”
“receivers were appointed to Griffin Coal, one of the state’s main coal mines.”
The Collie Power Station
Link posted on 10th October 2022.
https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/fears-raised-over-collie-coal-station-shutdown/
“The Collie Power Station generates about 7 per cent of the power for the state’s main power grid.”
“State-owned utility Synergy has confirmed it made a strategic move to take the station offline from mid-September “to further build its coal stockpiles.”
WA Today reports:
“It has shut its Collie coal-fired power station until January to preserve coal supplies for summer heatwaves and instead increased the use of more expensive gas turbines in Cockburn and Kemerton that both used more than five times the fuel in the September quarter than a year ago.
Next:
A Just Transition for Collie That Leaves No-one Behind
Posted on the 24th October 2022.
https://www.collie.wa.gov.au/public-notices/a-just-transition-for-collie-that-leaves-no-one-behind/
“Edith Cowan University and the Climate Justice Union are coordinating a project to understand how the reduction of coal mining and coal-fired power and the economic transition in Collie can meet the needs of different groups of people in our community.”
My comment:
Thankyou Climate Justice union for your care. (sarc)
Next:
Coal mining troubles push WA power prices to record highs. WA Premier Boasts.
Posted 27th October 2022
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/coal-mining-troubles-push-wa-power-prices-to-record-highs-20221026-p5bt8t.html
“AEMO’s report came the day after WA premier Mark McGowan boasted that his state’s energy market was superior to the east coast where the electricity price is predicted in the Federal Budget to rise 56 per cent in 18 months, with gas prices up 44 per cent.”
“They sold off their electricity assets, and they don’t have a domestic gas reservation policy … the whole thing is in turmoil over there,” McGowan said.
My comment:
Premier McGowan tells all, that he has everything in hand. (That is what he states… So citizens of WA, You will all be OK.)
Yet just days later after reassuring his serfs that the WA grid is firmed, he states this JUST 5 DAYS Later:
Mark McGowans’ latest response: WA will likely have to import coal
Posted 1st November 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-01/mark-mcgowan-says-wa-will-likely-have-to-import-coal/101601850
“Premier Mark McGowan said finding enough coal would continue to be a challenge.”
“We will continue to need coal until 2030 to keep the system operational,” he said.
“That will be a challenge to make sure that we have that supply while we keep the system operational whilst we convert to 80 per cent renewables and 20 per cent gas.”
My comment:
(Disclaimer. I hold a Mining engineer degree. During the 1980’s I was employed by AIS, at the Metropolitan Colliery Helensburgh, NSW.)
Ok, WA you have a problem. An expensive one. The AEMO believes if sufficent coal is not available, WA will have blackouts. Your electricity bills will escalate.
The Collie power station receives it’ s coal from Premier Coal.
Blueswaters power station receives it’s coal from Griffen Coal.
Premier Coal is in deep trouble. Griffen coal is in deep trouble. Govt Policy, both state and national, make it hard to invest in a venture that has been told it has no future. Banks or Investors won’t lend to a project that has 7 years or less left to operate.
WA presently, does not have enough coal tonnage supply to run both the Collie and Blueswaters power stations.
Those power stations supply approx 16% of the power to the WA grid. Good luck losing those.
As I stated before. Western Australia is following the rest of us lemmings off the renewable madness cliff.
Here is another elected Einstein stating the captain obvious:
The WA Minister for Energy, Bill Johnston. Stated 11th June 2022:
“Coal power stations are ill-equipped to deal with the competition from renewable energy because they are designed to run in a steady – or baseload – state all the time.
Renewable energy by its nature is variable in its output and this is forcing the coal-fired plants to cycle up and down to accommodate production from wind and solar generators.
As a result, the coal plants are earning less revenue at the same time as they were racking up ever-larger maintenance bills, killing their business model.”
So WA, welcome to the madness of our renewable world.
Does anyone ever learn?
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“Theoretically sound but practically imperfect” suggests that you should have another look at the theory
Plus my comment at #43
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Chanticleer
[Originally the Australian Financial Review]
What investors can take from Ray Dalio’s warning on war
[snip]
How then should investors interpret the latest warning from Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of hedge fund manager Bridgewater, who says the world order is approaching stage six – the war stage – of what he calls “the Big Cycle”?
“To be clear, when I say that I believe we are on the brink of civil and/or international war, I am not saying that we will necessarily go into them or that, if we do, it will happen very soon,” Dalio writes in a lengthy LinkedIn post that appeared on Tuesday night.
“What I am saying is that the different sides in domestic and international conflicts are preparing for war and if events are allowed to progress as they typically do, there is a dangerously high probability of us being in at least one of these wars if not both in about five years, give or take about three (with the highest risk point being in 2025-26).”
So, is it time to sell your consumer stocks and jump into defence companies and steelmakers? The column has no idea and frankly, neither does Dalio, the investment legend-turned-amateur historian.
But there is something to be extracted from his analysis of a quite startling confluence of events that will make the next few years.
Dalio’s “Big Cycle” is based on his study of historic market cycles, primarily focused on the last couple of centuries but also looking back across a longer sweep of history.
Stage one follows a big war, when a new world order is formed, new leadership consolidates power, debts are forgiven or restructured and wealth gaps are closed. Stage two is the consolidation of this new order and stage three is peace and prosperity.
Global debt pile
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Alberta’s New Premier Under Attack For Refusing To Associate With WEF
Recently noted as an opponent of vaccine and mask mandates, new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is breaking previously established ties with the World Economic Forum, which has been deeply involved in a “health consulting agreement” revolving around the province’s covid response.
The United Conservative Party premier said she is in lockstep with federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has stated he and his caucus will having nothing to do with the World Economic Forum. Earlier this month, on her first day as premier, Smith stated that people not vaccinated against covid are the most discriminated group she has seen in her lifetime.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/albertas-new-premier-under-attack-refusing-associate-wef
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“UK Trapped in The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/01/uk-trapped-in-the-green-energy-cul-de-sac/
And in the current climate of banning fossil fuel by about the week after next who would pay to build a new natural gas export facility in USA? Let alone several “who’s”. Or anything else?
So flog it hard for profit now until it breaks.
A Market Ticker of a while back suggests that any other option would be deemed illegal by current business rules,
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CDC ‘Excess Death’ Reports, Insurance Data Sounding MAJOR Alarm Bells
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Europe remains warm this Autumn.
‘The anomalous warmth is likely to linger during mid-November across Europe and Western Russia. The warmest anomalies are across Western Russia.’
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what happened at the climate 360 debate ?
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Cassie of Sydneysays:
November 2, 2022 at 8:20 am
From The Oz..
Journalist’s speech to women lawyers ends in tears
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
If one were in search of evidence of the way in which sections of the legal profession are damaging their own profession and our society, it was recently handed to us by the Women Lawyers Association in the ACT.
For its recent gala dinner to celebrate the contribution of female lawyers to the law, this group chose ABC journalist Louise Milligan as its keynote speaker. The event, held on October 21 at the National Museum of Australia, turned into a public humiliation for many lawyers.
Some women at the gala dinner were in tears, many more were hurt and upset, as they sat through an address they say shamed female barristers and lawyers who defend people accused of sexual crimes. Female defence lawyers who attended that evening, from senior members of the profession to more junior ones, claimed to The Australian they felt under attack by Milligan’s address. They spoke of the public humiliation they felt as other female lawyers applauded Milligan’s attacks on their work as criminal lawyers.
Lawyers present at the gala dinner have claimed to The Australian that Milligan railed against the incompetence of prosecutors and criminal defence lawyers, citing suicide by complainants and claiming that the way victims were treated in court caused long-term trauma worse than the actual sexual assault they suffered.
Milligan, say these lawyers, claimed that women would not lie about sexual violence and that they should be called victim survivors, not complainants.
After the address, many lawyers present wondered whether, on the Milligan measure, we needed a justice system at all. Should we simply go from allegation to jail?
Contacted by The Australian, Milligan said the claims relayed to The Australian by women at the dinner were “a complete distortion of my speech and contain multiple allegations that are demonstrably untrue”. She specifically denied describing prosecutors and criminal defence lawyers as incompetent, suggesting that cross examination could be more traumatic than sexual assault or saying that women would not make false allegations of sexual assault.
The Australian asked for audio or a transcript of the speech. None was forthcoming. The ABC told The Australian it was not an ABC event.
Not up for dispute is that many female lawyers who heard Milligan’s speech were deeply upset, with some lodging written complaints with the WLA. Some have cancelled their WLA membership. In response to complaints, the WLA said “we are reviewing our process for selecting speakers”.
One female criminal lawyer at the event wrote to the WLA on the following Monday: “In attendance on Friday were a significant number of female criminal practitioners, some defence (like myself) and others prosecutors. All were insulted, hurt and disappointed by the speech of the keynote speaker and the sentiment of other lawyers who spoke afterwards. While it was sickening to have to sit through an hour of being lectured about the supposed failings of my profession by someone who does not possess a practical knowledge of our system (yet voiced her outrage when she was accused of something ‘without evidence’), what rang in my ears all weekend was the applause at the end, which was raucous from all except the criminal law community.”
The Australian has been told of other written complaints to the WLA about Milligan’s address.
One offered the WLA executive “some of my observations of the aftermath”. After detailing the distress she witnessed among female lawyers after Milligan’s address, the lawyer wrote: “And so the evening went, with one after another of my colleagues raising the tenor of the evening in bewildered hurt. Criminal law is a close community, so I know that it was not only myself who was upset all weekend with how our hard work is perceived.
“All of these women are clever, kind and fierce advocates who were brought down by an evening supposed to lift them up.”
Another female solicitor whose practice includes defending people accused of sexual crimes told The Australian: “I like to think I have a pretty thick skin given the area of law I work in and the nature of our work, but it really, really got to me. And it’s very rare that things do, but it felt like a personal attack on our profession.”
Milligan’s views about the prosecution of sexual abuse allegations are well known. Her reporting is on the record. As this newspaper has reported, her coverage of rape allegations against Christian Porter omitted critical material that would have allowed viewers of her television journalism to better evaluate the problematic nature of the allegation. Instead of trusting viewers with more relevant information, Milligan and the team at Four Corners picked what suited their story. Milligan’s journalistic treatment of Andrew Laming was equally lamentable.
As for Milligan’s role in the matter of George Pell, that is a matter of public record.
While Milligan reportedly claimed she understood the law because she had a law degree, this wasn’t apparent to many criminal lawyers who spoke to The Australian. As one said, it is one thing for the ABC journalist to deliver an address that makes no mention of why our system has legal protections for an accused person, protections such as the presumption of innocence, the right to silence, due process and a fair trial. It is another matter for female lawyers, who have sworn an oath to uphold the rule of law, to applaud the pitiful legal vacuum at the core of Milligan’s address. When sections of the legal profession celebrate this ignorance, it points to their legal illiteracy. That, say the lawyers, is what upset them the most.
Katrina Musgrove was at the gala dinner. A criminal barrister, Musgrove was part of a team of lawyers acting for Bruce Lehrmann, who pleaded not guilty in the Brittany Higgins sexual assault trial. The jury was still deliberating. Lehrmann’s lawyers acted without the public fanfare that has surrounded lawyers in the Higgins camp. Lehrmann’s lawyers also acted pro bono.
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Cassie’s Comments on above Article – Superb and to the Point of Today’s Society
Janet Albrechtsen’s pieces lately have been superb, particularly on the “trial in Canberra”. The above is a depressing read, if people want to know why I despair of this country (and the West in general), it’s because I wake up, I turn on my computer and I read of things like this. I sometimes think I should stop reading the news, stop commenting here, stop watching Sky, go to the beach, fill up a bucket with wet sand and put my head in that sand so that I can stop myself from reading about what’s going on in this country and the world. I sometimes think that maybe with my head stuck in the wet sand I’ll be happier. I envy those who remain clueless about what’s going around them. We’re witnessing in real time the total denigration, corruption and capitulation of all of our institutions and none more so than our legal institutions.
As for the above, notice the smell? Actually it’s a stench, a stench that won’t go away. Those of you who remain naive or who have had their heads stuck in wet sand might ask what’s causing the stench? Well, here’s a clue, the one and only Louse Nilligan. Before I go on, it’s worth remembering that Louse Nilligan has never apologised for l’affaire Pell. And nor has she apologised for what she did to Porter, Tudge and Laming with the result that Laming and Porter’s political careers ended thanks to Nilligan’s journalistic lies and omissions. I do though admire Laming for hunting down and taking action against each defamer, all started by Nilligan on Twitter and remember this, their ABC, an organisation thrown more money by useless Coalition governments, paid Nilligan’s costs to Andrew Laming. But has Nilligan apologised? Nope. You see, Nilligan doesn’t say sorry. Actually, I erred above, it was you and me, long suffering taxpayers, who paid the damages to Laming for Nilligan Twitter’s comments. But why was Nilligan invited? In a better world Nilligan would be totally discredited, but we don’t live a better world, or even one that aspires to be better or decent. In any fair and decent society, after the l’affaire Pell, Nilligan would have been forced into silence and obscurity, totally discredited, instead she gets invites to law dinners to lecture, sneer and smear lawyers about what she and others like her want, which is the denial of the presumption of innocence to men, particularly the following types of men, Catholic prelates, conservative politicians and young white men like Bruce Lehmann.
As each day passes, it’s very clear to me that Lehmann is the patsy here, the patsy that the mean, nasty, vicious, toxic, vile, sinister cabal of females* (and a few males) have decided is the one who is going to be lynched for their cause, bugger the law. It’s no different to what happened to Cardinal Pell.
But what really concerns me here is that there appears to be lawyers, such as the one (Janet mentions her name above) who accompanied Brittany the Knickerless to court everyday, who have total contempt for the legal process. I get the uneasy feeling that they actually want to see miscarriages of justice because it suits their narrative, their cause and their ideology. This is unbelievably dangerous. We saw similar with Pell, and we’re seeing it now in real time with Lehmann. Facts and evidence be damned. Once upon a time, when miscarriages of justice happened, it was more often than not unintentional, yet now I feel that it is the intent of many to disregard presumption of innocence and evidence, to deliberately target people, particularly men. This is Stalinist. It is Pell redacted, this time with the name Lehmann.
As for the women above who were rightly upset Nilligan’s comments, instead of crying, they should have stood up during the dinner, vocally expressed their concerns about Nilligan’s presence and her adolescent and dangerous nonsense and they should have walked out.
But that takes courage, and courage nowadays is as rare as hen’s teeth.
* I hope that one day their sons, their brothers, their husbands and their fathers are falsely accused.
Rant over.
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Lunacy of the West Today
A man in Norway is sparking backlash after being sympathetically profiled on television for his “trans-disability.”
Jørund Viktoria Alme is able-bodied, but uses a wheelchair “almost all the time” because he identifies as a woman who is paralyzed.
And the West knocks Putin
Putin Warns Wokeness Is Destroying The West: It Happened In Russia, It’s Evil, It Destroys Values
“We see with bemusement the paralysis unfolding in countries that have grown accustomed to viewing themselves as the flagships of progress,” Putin said during an event where he spoke for a few hours. “Of course, it’s none of our business or what is happening, the social and cultural shocks that are happening in some countries in the Western countries, some believe that aggressive blotting out of whole pages of your own history, the affirmative action in the interest of minorities, and the requirement to renounce the traditional interpretation of such basic values as mother, father, family, and the distinction between sexes are a milestone … a renewal of society.”
Putin said that Western nations had a right to do whatever they wanted to do but that “the overwhelming majority of Russian society” rejected these new ways of thinking.
“The preparedness of the so called social progress believe that the bringing a new conscience, a new consciousness to humanity, something that is more correct,” Putin said. “But there is one thing I would like to say: The recipes they come up with are nothing new. Paradoxical as it may seem, but this is something we saw in Russia. It happened in our country before after the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks followed the dogmas of Marx and Engels. And they also declared that they would go into change the traditional lifestyle, the political, the economic lifestyle, as well as the very notion of morality, the basic principles for a healthy society. They were trying to destroy age and century long values, revisiting the relationship between the people, they were encouraging informing on one’s own beloved, and families. It was hailed as the march of progress. And it was very popular across the world and it was supported by many, as we see, it is happening right now.”
“Incidentally, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of other opinions, different from their own,” Putin continued. “I think this should remind you of something that is happening. And we see what is happening in the Western countries, it is with puzzlement that we see the practices Russia used to have and that we left behind in distant path, the fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity, when great authors of the past such as Shakespeare are no longer taught in schools and universities because they announced as backward classics that did not understand the importance of gender or race.”
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Putin’s tolerance is legendary.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
Meanwhile
Twitter Policy Head Vijaya Gadde Cried At Board Meeting Following Elon Musk Takeover; Billionaire Slams Her For Censoring News Agency
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Perth LIVE with Oliver Peterson
@PerthLive6PR
BREAKING: @oliverpeterson has confirmed that unvaccinated health staff will be able to return to work at public hospitals across WA from Friday, as part of the Emergency Management Act being rescinded.
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Pentagon: United States Military Personnel Operating in Ukraine to Track Weaponry
United States Military personnel have been deployed to Ukraine to, it is claimed, keep track of weaponry and ammunition supplied at the expense of the American taxpayer, the Pentagon says.
In order to alleviate concerns that American military equipment will end up on the black market, a U.S. “defence attaché” of military personnel has been sent under the command of Brig. Gen. Garrick Harmon to conduct arms inspections of weaponry supplied to the Ukrainians.
The military operation, which is being conducted alongside the Office of Defense Cooperation operating out of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, will also seek to bolster the ability of Kyiv (Kiev) to set up border checks for weapons smugglers, step up training for Ukrainian inspectors and guards, as well as providing training on how to properly dispose or destroy weapons and munitions.
Speaking at a no-names Pentagon briefing, the transcript of which has been published, a “senior defense official” said “There have been several of these inspections”.
Describing the “proactive steps” taken to keep American arms out of the hands of smugglers and criminals in Ukraine — emphasising the Department of Defence had not yet seen evidence of equipment being “diverted” — the unnamed official said “ensuring accountability of advanced weapons donations is a top priority”.
Confirming that U.S. forces were officially deployed inside Ukraine, the unnamed official said: “U.S. personnel have recently resumed on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks in country whenever and wherever the security conditions allow. The return of our defense attaché and Office of Defense Cooperation personnel in country has allowed us to resume this critical function.”
American troops officially left Ukraine on February 14th, ten days before the full-scale invasion of the country by the Russian military, in order to prevent potential conflict between the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
However, while American military personnel have not been acknowledged to have been operating in the country until now, intelligence operatives from the CIA have allegedly been on the ground to provide training as well as logistical support to the Ukrainians, the New York Times reported in July. The paper went on to claim that a “few dozen commandos” from NATO nations, including Britain, Canada, France, and Lithuania were also still operating in the country.
Meanwhile
Appoint a Watchdog for Ukraine Aid – Bloomberg
More transparency over how billions are being spent would protect US taxpayers and sustain political support for the war.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the Kyiv government has received more than $60 billion in security and humanitarian assistance from the US, making it by far the world’s biggest annual recipient of such aid. Now some Republican leaders want to toughen oversight over how those funds are being spent. They’re right to do so.
The scale of the aid effort is unprecedented. In just seven months, the US has provided Ukraine with nearly double what it gave all of western Europe on an annual basis during the Marshall Plan in real terms. Support for Ukraine’s military this year equals what the US provided Israel, Egypt and Afghanistan combined in 2020. Washington has accounted for two-thirds of all military and humanitarian assistance offered to Ukraine since the start of the war; in dollar terms, it has contributed twice as much as the entire European Union.
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“You Murderous Hypocrites”: Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians
The Atlantic has come under fire for suggesting that all the terrible pandemic-era decisions over lockdowns, school closures, masking, and punishing an entire class of people who questioned the efficacy and wisdom of taking a rushed, experimental vaccine – for a virus with a 99% survival rate in most, should all be water under the bridge.
“We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID,” writes Brown Professor Emily Oster – a huge lockdown proponent, who now pleads from mercy from the once-shunned.
“Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward,” she continues.
Except, they weren’t “in the dark” about Covid. There were numerous sources pointing out the actual science that ran contrary to the mandate claims, and they were deliberately silenced by a vast media campaign. Evidence suggests that media platforms worked in tandem with Big Tech, the CDC and the Biden Administration. It was not a simple matter of overreaction, there was collusion to remove all counter-information.
Nice try, Emily.
As the Daily Sceptic’s Michael P. Senger puts it: “There’s a lot wrong here. First, no, you don’t get to advocate policies that do extraordinary harm to others, against their wishes, then say, “We didn’t know any better at the time!” Ignorance doesn’t work as an excuse when the policies involved abrogating your fellow citizens’ rights under an indefinite state of emergency, while censoring and cancelling those who weren’t as ignorant. The inevitable result would be a society in which ignorance and obedience to the opinion of the mob would be the only safe position.”
And look at that ratio:
In one epic Twitter thread, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) excoriates Oster’s entire premise;
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In one epic Twitter thread, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) excoriates Oster’s entire premise;
Hey—sorry you lost your job b/c of the vax that doesn’t work and your grandmother died alone and you couldn’t have a funeral and your brother’s business was needlessly destroyed and your kids have weird heart problems—but let’s just admit we were all wrong and call a truce, eh?
It’s too bad we shut the entire economy down & took on tyrannical powers that have never been used before in this country—looking back, you should have been able to go to church and use public parks while we let people riot in the streets—but it was a confusing time for everyone.
Hey I’m sorry we scared the hell out of you & lied for years & persecuted & censored anyone who disagreed but there was an election going on & we really wanted to beat Donald Trump so it was important to radically politicize the science even if it destroyed your children’s lives.
OK, yes we said unvaccinated people should die & not get healthcare while never questioning Big Pharma once but we are compassionate people which is why even though we shut down the entire economy we also bankrupted the nation & caused inflation. You’re welcome! Let’s be friends.
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With whom does Emily Oster want an amnesty? Moms, so they will return to the democratic fold
Just another cynical attempt to ask women to forget the harms of the last few years.
Emily Burns – Nov 1
We are still a long ways from a place where a COVID amnesty can be granted.
The political establishment—left and right—want desperately to move on, to pretend the last 30 months didn’t happen. With very few exceptions (Ron DeSantis, Kirsti Noem, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Ron Johnson, and a few others, later), they betrayed their core values. Many Republicans and so-called Libertarians quickly capitulated the primacy and importance of individual liberties. Whereas supposedly equality-loving democrats embraced policies that in no uncertain terms screwed women, children and the poor. The 2020 democrat campaign slogan might as well have been “protect the rich, infect the poor.” Or “only the rich need to learn.” They’d all very much like that you forget about that. They’d like to go back to the fights they know how to fight, the golden oldies that turn the bases out, and turn us against each other. But COVID policies turned the whole thing on its side, jumbling us all up and causing all sort of hitherto unheard of alliances. And when your business is maintaining the status quo, that is very dangerous.
Which is why Emily Oster is pleading for an amnesty.
First, let’s be clear to whom Emily Oster is speaking. She’s speaking to the furious well-educated suburban women who are swinging towards Republicans in this cycle, even in the bluest of states.
Because it was the bluest of states that were hit hardest by these policies. It was in blue states that the schools were closed longest, that the economic devastation was worst, that crime spiked the most, where masks were required longest. The damage done by these policies is at its beginning, not its end. Dr. Oster, would like these women to believe that it was all just a mistake, a mis-understanding, and remember that it is the Republicans who are looking to limit their freedoms. That while democrats had no problem sacrificing the well-being of your living children for three years in support political power, it is Republicans that pose a true threat to you as a woman.
The problem for Emily is that while the hardcore democrat base of women voters never questioned any of these policies, others did—and they incurred significant personal costs for doing so.
An embarrassing portion of well-educated women acted as the regime’s stormtroopers. They sicced social media mobs on any who dared to voice a question, much less dissent. The pain of having family, friends and neighbors turn on you for voicing an opinion or asking a legitimate question caused many women to seek out others with similar questions.
In so doing, we found a smart, snarky, data-driven community pushing back hard on the totalizing power of a government trying to re-define reality. In some cases women were the generals, in others we were the infantry, going forward and taking constant fire from above, so that some recently discredited truth might once again retake its rightful place in the sun of acceptable opinion.
Emily Oster would like us to forget that. But we can’t—and I hope we won’t—because we were there bringing the government’s own data to shine a light on the lies it so ceaselessly manufactured. These weren’t lies of omission, they were lies of commission. They were lies that were wrought by smelting the credibility of science and medicine in the fires of politics to create weapons wielded by the powerful against us. They literally called us terrorists for our opposition.
Now, after having been called terrorists by our governments for arguing for the well-being of our own children, Dr. Oster wants us to forget that. In asking us to forget, she beseeches those who strayed from the flock to return, to believe that it is not their shepherd who takes them to slaughter that would do them harm, but the wolf lurking unseen in the shadows of the wood.
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The Changing World Order Is Approaching Stage 6 (The War Stage)
Ray Dalio – 1 Nov 2022
In this post, at the beginning I will show you how what is now happening is tracking the archetypical Big Cycle, and near the end I will show you how wars typically change how the systems work and how the markets and economies behave. In these 4,500 words, I will be packing in a lot to explain the mechanics of what is happening. While I tried to make it simple, if you find it too dense, just scan to the next section. I promise you that it will be worth it.
– The Big Cycle
– How The Big Cycle Works and What’s Now Happening
To review, the Big Cycle is most importantly made up of three big cycles: 1) the long-term debt-money-economic cycle, 2) the internal order-disorder cycle, and 3) the external order-disorder cycle. Together, they determine the levels of financial stability, internal stability (within countries), and international stability (between countries). These levels change via intertwined cycles that reinforce each other, producing both improvements and deteriorations in conditions that together make up the Big Cycle.
– Where We Are in the Three Cycles That Make Up the Big Cycle
As far as where the world is in these three cycles:
1) The long-term debt-money-economic cycle
2) the long-term internal order-disorder cycle.
3) the long-term order-disorder external cycle.
– How the Big Cycle Transpires in Stages
In brief, whether it is an internal or external order cycle, the progression from each order to the next typically progresses in the following sequence of steps:
. Stage 1 is when a) the new order begins after a war, b) the new leadership consolidates power, c) debts are restructured or monetized so debt burdens are reduced, and d) wealth gaps and conflicts over them are reduced, which leads to…
. Stage 2, which is when there is a further consolidation of power and the building of resource allocation systems, which leads to…
. Stage 3, which is when there is peace and prosperity, which leads to…
. Stage 4, which is when there are great excesses in spending and debt and a widening of the wealth and political gaps, which leads to…
. Stage 5, which is when there are bad financial/economic crises and intense conflicts between comparably powerful parties within countries and between countries, which leads to…
. Stage 6, which is when there are wars, which leads to…
Stage 1, Stage 2, etc.
– The Wars
“There are five major kinds of fights between countries: trade/economic wars, technology wars, capital wars, geopolitical wars, and military wars” The first ones on this list tend to come before the last ones and they all tend to become increasingly intense.
– What Do Military Wars Look Like?
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It’s not as easy to get your UV exposure in the tropics as is assumed.
I have rooftop solar and a bore that pumps a lot of water in an hour. I have just spent an hour watering to use my own generation, my hat was shading my feet and my shoulders have had a lifetime of sunburn so I wear a shirt. I just checked and the UV index is 12.6 with a deep blue sky [Melb is 8.6].
I would have had less than a sq. foot exposed so not much of the sun vitamin generated. A tourist sunning by the pool would have got plenty but would be at high risk of burning.
BTW Anyone with the time and money to fly north for a few days, the forecast is “magic”. 😀 Limit the time in the sun though.
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Some of your shaded parts will get UV via reflection though I suspect it wont add much.
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Calm down, Old Ozzie. It is not as bad as it seems…even if Vlad goes nuclear. Context!!
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