Sunday Open Thread

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    Adellad

    Watching a horrible Irish UN yooman rights rapporteur on Erin Molan’s show on Sky telling us that we are simply unsophisticated if we do not welcome these wonderful ISIS brides. The UN is full of such people and we all pay for them. It is sickening.

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      Leo G

      … we are simply unsophisticated if we do not welcome these wonderful ISIS brides.

      Just keep repeating: “Christian millenarianists* bad, Wahhabist millenarianists good, international non-governmental millenarianists very good, even better if engineered by German economist Klaus Schwab.”

      * millenarianists believe society is about to change greatly, and everything we know will soon end. Good millenarianists recruit many new members by promising them cheap slaves.

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        Memoryvault

        millenarianists believe society is about to change greatly, and everything we know will soon end.

        Trouble is Leo, they’re right. But for all the wrong reasons.
        The planet is starting to cool very rapidly now, and soon the Great Dying will begin in earnest.
        We in the Western world are totally unprepared for it, and that is by no means an accident.

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          Dennis

          LIA 1700 to 1850 and cycle for solar decline about every 150 years is it not?

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            Memoryvault

            Yes Dennis.

            Cold 1400 to 1550, warmer 1550 to 1700, cold 1700 to 1850, warmer 1850 to 2000, and now we are cooling down again. Because of a convergence of both related and unrelated factors, this downturn will be a particularly bad one.

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              el+gordo

              The Southern Hemisphere shows a gradually cooling trend, but in the Northern Hemisphere it remains warm because of a positive AMO.

              Not sure about this 150 year cycle, what are the mechanisms involved?

              For the record, the LIA began around 1250 AD when large Greenland icebergs began drifting further south and a little later a volcanic eruption somewhere made condition worse.

              Have you heard of the 1300 AD event? Its proof that sea level was falling dramatically and global cooling had begun.

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              el+gordo

              ‘In 1257, a catastrophic eruption occurred at the Samalas volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok. The event had a probable Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7,[a] making it one of the largest volcanic eruptions during the current Holocene epoch.’ (wiki)

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              el+gordo

              ‘ … a convergence of both related and unrelated factors …’

              What was happening with the TSI and oceanic oscillations?

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                Memoryvault

                The ‘related factors’ are the cyclical nature of solar activity which has been discussed here.

                The ‘unrelated factors’ are to do with the upcoming conjunction of the gas giants – Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter which last occurred in the first century AD.

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                el+gordo

                I have grave doubts about your conjunction theory, but I’ll casually pursue the matter.

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                el+gordo

                The Great Conjunction was in 2020 and nothing untoward seems to have happened.

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              el+gordo

              The Wolf Minimum began in 1250 and ended in 1350, which means solar forcing is a major contender.

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        Dennis

        Opposition Leader Peter Dutton travelled to Western Sydney during the past week and met with community leaders who are concerned about the ISIS people returning to live in their communities where many refugees from ISIS terrorism now live after being accepted for resettlement from UNHCR refugee camps.

        Peter Dutton told them the advice the Morrison Government received from Australia’s intelligence agencies resulted in the decision not to permit the ISIS followers to return, the risks are too great and other factors.

        So Albanese Labor claims they have advice from the same agencies that repatriation can proceed, and has started of course.

        Given the history of deceptive commentary and claims Labor have while in opposition I believe Peter Dutton.

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      James Murphy

      I’ve no doubt there are some genuine victims caught up in the disaster that is a lot of the Middle East. Are these women and children such cases? who knows…
      If we are going to welcome anyone, we should be thinking of Kurds who support or are part of the YPG, and Yezidis, and others who can demonstrate that they were not aiding and abetting Islamic State or other like-minded groups.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Fair enough but, where there is doubt, the safety of those people who did NOT join a murderous, anti-western cult should be the deciding factor.

        strange, isn’t it, how the precautionary principle is one moment paramount, then it isn’t, then it is again, then it isn’t – almost like it depends more on the side than the principle itself.

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        Catherine

        news.com :
        Australia preparing to repatriate dozens of ISIS brides and their children
        The dangerous mission to repatriate up to 60 women who married ISIS fighters and their children is set to cost taxpayers millions of dollars.(year in year out…)
        October 3, 2022

        “I’ve no doubt there are some genuine victims caught up in the disaster that is a lot of the Middle East. Are these women and children such cases? who knows…”
        I agree, but I doubt that all of these women are victims!

        “Female members of ISIS are often perceived as being passive, naïve, or even as victims. This is a dangerous and wildly inaccurate characterization.” — Free Yezidi Foundation.

        “It is important to stress that the true victims of ISIS’s hateful practices are not the thousands of women and girls who willingly joined ISIS and actively participated in the group’s horrendous crimes against humanity, but rather the hundreds of thousands of Christians, Yezidis and Muslims whom they displaced, tortured and killed.”

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          Catherine

          The Netherlands
          from the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD):
          ‘The role that these jihadist women play within the jihadist movement should not be underestimated. In many cases, jihadist women are at least as dedicated to jihadism as men. They pose a threat…by recruiting others, producing and disseminating propaganda, and raising funds. Moreover, they indoctrinate their children with jihadist ideology. Women form an essential part of the jihadist movement…’

          Belgium:
          ‘However, Bouchra and her sister-in-law Tatiana traveled twice to ISIS territory, because in 2013 they returned to Belgium to give birth in our country, but a year later they went to Syria again. On social media, Bouchra then sneered at deradicalization experts who had escorted them after their return, and threatened police officers. “You didn’t manage to stop us. What is in our hearts, you will never get out of it,” —–> on Facebook at the time.’

          France:
          The Deradicalization of Jihadists has been a Total Fiasco

          (In 2017 France had an estimated 8,250 hardcore Islamic radicals.)

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        James Murphy

        To clarify, I’m not promoting the idea of letting anyone willingly affiliated with terrorist organisations into Australia, I see no reason why they should get any support from the Australian government.

        As usual, the people who approve the applications will not have to face the consequences of their actions if, or more likely when something horrendous happens.

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      Hanrahan

      If there were a sign of contrition, maybe just wearing a scarf, not a niqab, I might feel less hostile.

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    another ian

    Southeastern U.S. Begins Running Out of Diesel Fuel

    November 5, 2022 | Sundance | 219 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/05/southeastern-u-s-begins-running-out-of-diesel-fuel/

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    James Murphy

    Joe Biden again signals his dislike of American fossil fuels, and presumably America.

    “No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant,” Biden said on Friday at an event touting his administration’s economic policies in Carlsbad, California. “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-comments-on-coal-fired-plants-slammed-by-manchin-ahead-of-us-midterms/ar-AA13MaLe

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    Mike Jonas

    Inflation

    We currently have high inflation, right around the world. Central banks are trying to fight it by raising interest rates. But does this make sense?

    Inflation is usually caused by high demand caused by an increase in money supply. Governments did pump money during the coronavirus pandemic, but that ended a while ago. What if inflation this time around is being caused by insane energy policies that push up the cost of energy and therefore the cost of everything? In that case, inflation will indeed go up, but a lot of demand will already be going down. Then, a central bank policy of increasing interest rates will not bring prices down and may even push them up further by increasing the cost of doing business, but it will hurt people who are already hurting and it will eventually bring demand down even further. There is surely a serious risk that we will enter a deflationary downward spiral. Will we end up in another 1929-type of crash? (NB. That’s a question not a statement).

    The only government policies I have seen that addressed the problem properly and looked after the people’s interests were Liz Truss’s in the UK (borrow to cap prices and pump gas, use the proceeds to pay off the debt) and look how quickly the forces of evil tore her down. It was a miracle that her party managed to elect her in the first place, given how the elites in the party controlled the ‘election’ process. Note that Rishi Sunak was appointed by the Tory elites to replace Liz Truss, without any vote by party members.

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    Copper. B.F. Randall’s Twitter thread -all you did not know about mining copper and were afraid to ask.

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      robert rosicka

      Worked in a mine near Tennant Creek late 1980’s , mine was mixed with copper , bismuth and gold being the main metals recovered. Bismuth was recovered as a yellow powder for the cosmetics trade , gold came and went but copper was always there . Very interesting process to recover the copper from the ore .

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        Geoff Sherrington

        Robert R,
        That sounds like Warrego Mine, one of several discovered by my old company Geopeko, mainly using geophysics to model the size and shape of the magnetite-rich host body through its subtle distortions of the earth’s magnetic field as measured at the surface.
        There is a tendency to poke fun at models used in climate studies, but these geophysical magnetic models were extremely good in the right hands. Their first development was done on hand calculators by L A Richardson and Associates, before personal computer times. It was very clever work that generated a great deal of new wealth for post-war Australia. Geoff S

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    Honk R Smith

    POTUS declares he will shut down all oil and coal.
    https://news.yahoo.com/biden-vows-shut-down-coal-141249268.html

    A respected Presidential historian has declared that if Republicans win “our children will be arrested and conceivably killed”.
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/historian-michael-beschloss-if-gop-wins-our-children-will-be-arrested-and-conceivably-killed/

    Not just here in the US but Worldwide, the Intelligentsia have excavated a rhetorical and political abyss.
    They will keep digging.
    Even after Tuesday, no matter the outcome.
    Query … would one allow one’s fellow citizens to ‘vote’ on the mortal fate of one’s children and the planet?
    Seems those that so loudly claim to cherish the sanctity of ‘democracy’ have reasoned themselves out of it.

    Cue Carl Jung …
    https://academyofideas.com/2021/02/mass-psychosis-greatest-threat-to-humanity/

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      Dennis

      And Albanese Minister Plibersek announced recently that coal and gas will be closed down here to help with net zero emissions soon.

      Remember that at COP26 PM Morrison refused to agree to stopping coal mining when asked to do that.

      And contrary to the misquoting he did not “sign up” for net zero, he said Australia will have “an aspiration goal” subject to development of new technology and without damaging the economy.

      The Morrison Government was discussing Modular Nuclear Generators with Rolls Royce UK and the UK Government that has placed orders with RR, subject of course to convincing Labor Greens to vote to repeal the ban on nuclear legislation.

      They also recommended four gas fired generators, two NSW and one each VIC and QLD, and one coal fired power station for NTH QLD and with Federal Government underwriting the loan if necessary.

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        yarpos

        ? pretty irrelevant what Morrison mighta/shoulda/coulda done, we are in a different time space continuum now.

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        Correct Dennis

        Exactly my recollection of PM Morrison’s comments at COP which typically have all been twisted into deceitful leftie propaganda.

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          Dennis

          Unfortunately some more conservative commentators have adopted the left lines and state that Australia (Morrison period) “signed up” to net zero.

          I just emailed one of them and asked if he would enlighten me and supply a link to the signed document for me to read,

          Also, to even attempt to correct Labor propaganda before the May 2022 election attracted a barrage of abusive replies, but the list of deception targeting PM Morrison and the Coalition is long.

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      John Hultquist

      Michael Beschloss needs a brain scan. If he has one, there is likely a tumor pressing on the cerebrum.

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      Hanrahan

      What a fascinating man is Jay. He made some money and has pursued his passion. Billionaires everywhere must envy him.

      Gates would never dare be seen with him.

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    MrGrimNasty

    How times change. Rebellion becomes mainstream. Once upon a time hard rock/metal was derided, the fan base typically long haired head-banging greasy male teens in a dingy pub.
    BBC points of view just had an ordinary 40ish woman praising the soundtrack to an SAS drama series. In included Saxon, Judas Priest, and several AC/DC tracks like If You Want Blood and Livewire!
    I feel robbed of my private pleasure.

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    CHRIS

    I note that 30000 + delegates are attending the COP in Egypt. Must be the greatest gravy train/snouts in troughs talkfest in history.

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    Richard+Ilfeld

    There are a couple of things to watch for in the US vote, IMHO for those not living here.
    First, what is the magnitude of the “submerged” vote if any? Historically, Republicans run 2-4% better than the average polls on election day tallies; A greater margin than that probably shows votes that were unpollable; cancel culture victims willing to break their own inertia and speak up at the ballot box. Example: if you are a public school teach, you daren’t whisper a hint that you might not vote democratic, for legtimate fear of adverse real life consequences; similar if you are an African American public employee. A significant change here opens the debate as to whether we are seeing a culture shift or a protest vote.
    Second what will the exit polling say about energy prices? If energy/economy is top-of-mind for the rightish voters a new congress can reverse much of the war on fossil fuels; if its crime or schools that will draw the most attention and inertia of green stupidity may continue for a bit.
    Third, how will the late mail-in vote counts go.
    If again a couple of states are obvious and improbable outliers, with no presidential tug or over-riding Democratic issue, the fraud question may finally get a real audit, and the notion that ballots without out a firm attachment to a voter numbering 20% of those cast floating around after election day is ok put to bed with a resound thud.
    Fourth, how will the minority vote go. If the net Democratic vote among ‘people of color’ falls below 85% they are worried, below 90% they are panic stricken. “Demographics is Destiny” assume that the coastal elites will play the tune, and the intersectional minorities will reliably dance. If this is no longer true, we are witness the start of a reordering of a new set of coalitions, as our non-parlimentary system pushes us into two camps before elections.

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      Looks like the Senate will stay close to evenly split so no major partisan legislation is possible except a Recon finance bill a year. But the Republicans will harass the Biden Admin a lot.

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      John Hultquist

      Third, how will the late mail-in vote counts go.

      For about 10 days, I’ve had the information guide and ballot for the election next Tuesday. All I have done so far is to ignore the dozens of phone calls that want me to listen to a pre-recorded message that tells me how someone wants me to vote. I pay for the phone and the connecting service and for 3 or 4 weeks the political types use the phone more than I do. I think I should get 25¢ for each time they call.
      Anyway, I’ll complete my ballot and drop it in the box at the Court House on Monday. Washington is a 99+% vote-by-mail state.

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        Richard+Ilfeld

        Correct, but Washington is not a “late count” state. These are where the poll vote is counted and published but it is still legal to receive mail-in ballots, presumably properly postmarked, which are then tabulated days or even weeks later.

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          Graeme No.3

          Richard:
          We all know that the left like to join “bandwagons” and also banning stuff, without thinking looking ahead.
          Start one calling for a ban on shredded cheese. They will join in enthusiastically not knowing that it would Make America Grate Again.

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      Curious George

      Should the Republicans prevail in elections, that would be the end of Democracy as represented by the January 6 House Commission. It would be replaced by a Due Process.

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      Mike Jonas

      Third, how will the late mail-in vote counts go. We know that. Late mail-in votes are collected and counted until the democrats win.

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    Don B

    “For generations, Democrats have taken the Hispanic community for granted. But now, their coasting has caught up with them. The Democrats’ jolt leftward has alienated their own base, and many Hispanic voters are finding a new home in the Republican Party. As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, I’m proud to welcome them to the GOP.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/as-democrats-lurch-leftward-hispanics-move-toward-republicans

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    John Hultquist

    The Inflation Reduction Act Is Already Killing Potential Cures
    The law’s price controls do away with incentives for research and development of life-saving drugs.
    By Joe Grogan in the WSJ Nov 3rd

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    Memoryvault

    I’m not biblically inclined, but this three-minute geography lesson left me gobsmacked.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/waXz8txYlvXb/

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      farmerbraun

      Are you saying that it didn’t blow your mind?
      Clearly you are not reading nearly enough scripture.

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        Memoryvault

        No farmerbraun, it did blow me away. I didn’t realise all those organisations were in the one place.

        And for the record, Marilyn and I spent most of the 90’s studying the scriptures. And not just the Bible. Maybe sometime we could have discussion about the wedding of Jesus and Mary. Or the Epic of Gilgamesh. Or the Trinity Prophecy, which predates Christianity and Judaism by several thousand years, and featured in such diverse places as the assassination of JFK and the Sydney Olympic Games.

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    Memoryvault

    Mary had a little lamb

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    farmerbraun

    An interesting promo for a radio interview making fun of, even ridiculing Biden appeared on Radio NZ this morning .
    I think this is a sign that the Bidens are idiots who are no longer useful.

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      Greg in NZ

      I’ve got to stop listening to “Ah En Zed” radio: what used to be good for a laugh is now incessant cult programming for the faithfool believers.

      This morning an elderly Irish woman was interviewed about CROCK-27. Poor thing kept confusing weather for climate. Turned out she, Fiona Harvey, was a churnalist for The Grauniad on a paid work-vacation in Sham-e-Shake (I should’ve known).

      This afternoon an excitable Australian was interviewed from Wollongong: I never heard the question but the answer was, ‘electrify everything’! He seemed to have a bee in his bonnet over “fossil fuel cars” and somehow (maybe magic?) cheap & clean electric vehicles would return us to the Garden of Eden (or somewhere east of it). This proselytiser, Saul Griffith, previously advised the Biden mis-administration on ‘energy policy’! I should’ve known better.

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    Memoryvault

    Jo, this is NOT a duplication.
    It is a completely different video on a completely different subject.

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    David Maddison

    Bizarre new Mercedes Benz ad features man in a dress.

    Get woke, go broke.

    https://www.freecarmag.com/why-does-mercedes-benz-hate-its-customers

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      David Maddison

      They wouldn’t let this get out if that wasn’t the case.

      They need a plausible reason to remove him and they don’t want him to resign or invoke the 25th due to his dementia.

      In fact, they couldn’t invoke the 25th for dementia because Republicans would have to agree and they wouldn’t because Harris would be even worse than Biden.

      So he has to be removed without the incapacitation reasons of the 25th.

      The 25th will still apply for resignation. They will likely hand Biden a piece of paper and he will sign it without knowing what it is and it will be his resignation.

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    David Maddison

    Never forgive, never forget.

    Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen discusses how some of those who caused social and economic destruction with covid are now begging for forgiveness and why pro-reason, pro-science, pro-freedom people should not grant it.

    No pandemic amnesty! Prosecutions instead!

    https://youtu.be/zeZO34kuUXA

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      Terry

      ‘never forget’

      Indeed. Not just the crimes and who committed them, but WHY they occurred and HOW they can be prevented from recurring.

      ‘Never forgive’

      Well, at least not until contrition and atonement occur first.
      Any forgiveness must be preceded by:
      * Contrition
      1. An admission of guilt;
      2. Acknowledgement of just how heinous and immoral the actions were;
      3. Commitment to never attempt to repeat the actions; and
      4. Vow never to be involved in public service again.

      -and-

      * Atonement
      1. Subject to additional contributions (forever) to the financial compensation of those that were wronged by the state;
      2. Forfeiture of any pensions due;
      3. Additional payment towards compensation from estate; and
      4. Prison time – yes the consequences are real (it could be and probably should be worse)

      Contrition and Atonement will be beyond most involved. They prefer to “forget” and “walk away” until they are offered another opportunity to re-offend (apparently without consequence).

      No, there will not be any “Amnesty” – humanity can simply not afford it.

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    David Maddison

    At last, NBC in the US fires one of its biggest racists.

    https://youtu.be/0ncwAC8wlOI

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    David Maddison

    Elon Musk threatens to “go thermonuclear” on woke Leftist corporations who boycott Twitter because they are opposed to free speech.

    Will promote pro-freedom companies instead.

    Get woke, go broke.

    https://youtu.be/0ukDcoqdP5Y

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    David Maddison

    What price do you pay for freedom?

    Elon Musk probably paid too much for Twitter based on financials and the huge number of fake accounts.

    But that is the price he was prepared to pay for himself – and pro-freedom people – who will now be able to use his platform.

    Freedom is never cheap.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I would be interested to see where that money came from. It won’t just be Musk’s. He will have backers and partners. Might make interesting reading.

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    David Maddison

    I worked out why the Teals, who are really a political party, are not registered with the AEC as such.

    It let’s them escape election funding restrictions and enables billions or subsidy harvesters to support them.

    E.g. in Vicdanistan, election contributions are restricted to $4000 per person per 4 year period.

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      David Maddison

      Errata: should read “billionaire subsidy harvesters” and lets not let’s. (Unnoticed changes by stupid spell checker.)

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    It’s already Monday. Maybe time for another thread?

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      Graeme No.3

      J.R.
      Don’t forget there are parts of the world that are about 18 hours behind eastern Australia.

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        David Maddison

        And Australia is centuries behind some places as we rapidly revert to the pre-steam age and try to rely on wind power which was once replaced by steam.

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      MrGrimNasty

      Still a wet Sunday here, just over 2 more hours to kill!

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    el+gordo

    ‘Dark Emu takedown up for PM’s Literature Award.

    ‘One of this year’s most controversial books, a fierce critique of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, has been shortlisted for ‘scholarly accomplishment’ in the Australian history category.’ (Oz)

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      David Maddison

      Is the award for the fantasy fiction genre?

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        Leo G

        The book, up for the PM’s Literature Award, is not Bruce Pascoe’s 2014 book (Dark Emu), but is the June 2021 critique of that book (Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe).

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      Neville

      Yes EG I heard that revelation this morning on their ABC.
      Andrew Bolt was very early to pounce and correct AGAIN and he interviewed the authors and also Blainey etc understood this BS and fraud from the beginning.

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    Neville

    Their ABC is yapping about how much was donated to parties and groups like the Teals in 2022.
    But I can’t find a link so far this morning…..yet.
    But the AEC will reveal all the dirt at 9 am 7-11-22, so not long to wait.
    Here’s the link. I hope Jo has the time to have a look?

    https://www.aec.gov.au/media/2022/10-31.htm

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      David Maddison

      I don’t believe Teal funding will be revealed because they are not a registered political party.

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        David Maddison

        Theoretically Teals might have to disclose but how would that even be checked without a formal structure?

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      James Murphy

      One of the Teals”, Kyle Tink, admits to 40% of funding coming from Climate 200
      https://www.kyleatink.com.au/donation_transparency

      The cognitive dissonance is painful to read:

      Climate 200’s funding played a crucial role in helping to level the playing field. The early support they provided to the campaign was important and helped ensure the people of North Sydney had the opportunity to vote for an Independent at the 2022 election. The funding we received was provided to assist in campaign costs, including advertising and marketing expenses.

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    David Maddison

    I have now downrated my prediction for the Vicdanistan election from no chance of the Liberals (pretend conservatives) winning to a huge wipe out.

    The billionaire green energy subsidy harvester backed Teals have specifically targeted Liberals in marginal seats. And their unlimited budget shows.

    I mentioned above the loophole they use to escape election funding restrictions.

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    OldOzzie

    Are Lithium-Ion Batteries Safe in the Home?

    Fires may be very rare, but Chief Fire Marshall Daniel Flynn says this is almost the 200th fire caused by a lithium-ion battery from a micromobility device just this year in New York City.

    “This particular apartment, we believe the occupant was repairing bikes in the building, and the fire was right behind the front door,” he said. “We recovered at least five bikes from this apartment.”

    Fire officials emphasized the rising cause of fires from e-bikes and encouraged residents not to charge them overnight or to use batteries damaged in any way.

    “These fires, they come without warning, and when they do go on fire, they’re so intense that any combustibles in the area will catch fire,” said Flynn. “So we’ve seen secondary fires.”

    The more devices that are powered by this battery system, the more fires there are going to be. We better figure out a way to either make these batteries a lot safer or develop the technology that will allow us to extinguish the fires they set.

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      yarpos

      Probably finding the sweet spot for fires. Just enough cells to make a package requiring high quality manufacturing (and to have significant fire potential) squeezed into a consumer package more driven by low cost everything.

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    David Maddison

    The Western world falling apart is a classic example of what happens when conservatives and other rational, pro-science, pro-reason compatriots get complacent and lazy and stop opposing the civilisational destruction of the Left and let them go “free range”.

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      yarpos

      Most people take stuff for granted and think that which has been built over the last 100 years in particular isnt easily destroyed. Sadly that is 100% wrong. Look at what Biden has achieved without one missile strike on US soil,
      and on the home front watch Bowen go!

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    The spotted Pardalote pair that was nesting in a rolled-up piece of insulation in my carport were set free yesterday as the young ones left the nest. What was most interesting was watching the parents frolic, play and re-acquaint themselves after the exercise – job well done!
    I’m told that they usually nest in burrows in the ground but SE Australia has been very wet due to La Nina #3, so survival mode must have kicked in and alternate nesting arrangements found.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I love the simple call of the Striated Pardalote. It will forever remind me of my first year in Australia, when we lived on a property 30kms outside Canberra. I was amazed and delighted by the fact that winter in Australia could be so sunny, with blue skies, a novel concept for us Brits. I used to enjoy sitting by our dam while the Pardalotes chirruped overhead. It’s a very rudimentary and monotonous call, but at the same time, cheerful and optimistic. I now live near Brisbane and if I hear the Striated Pardolote on my morning walk through a nearby forest, it still makes me happy and I am instantly transported back twenty-odd years to that paddock, sitting in the sunshine.

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      Gee Aye

      Yes… wombats are on the move in the ACT due to inundation of their usual burrowing sites. Hopefully they can do as well as the pardolotes in renesting.

      I’m with Steve- pardalotes are near the top of my favorite bird list

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    Neville

    More yapping from their ABC AGAIN about the terrible climate change misery caused by wealthy countries against so called developing countries.
    Can anybody tell us what these terrible, unusual climate events are that are penalising these countries and how we are responsible?
    AGAIN look at the African data since 1950 or 1970 or …… and then prove your case? Or tell us why China is a so called developing country?
    And don’t forget to link to the data that proves you’re correct?

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      Ian George

      I would really like someone to explain the discrepancy in mean temps for Darwin by NASA.

      The first graph is the original data for Darwin from around 1880 – 2010 and shows a cooling trend.

      https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=501941200004&dt=1&ds=1

      The next graph is for Darwin showing the adjusted mean temp for Darwin and now shows a warming trend.

      https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/stdata_show_v4.cgi?id=ASN00014015&ds=14&dt=1

      But you can still see the unadjusted data in light yellow which mirrors the original data.

      Man-made GW or Man-adjusted GW? So even the data has been adjusted to reflect the meme of GW.

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        RickWill

        Darwin may have a real cooling trend but the big temperature increases are in the Arctic.

        The Greenland plateau average has increased by almost 10C over the past 70 years. It is an enormous increase and no doubt makes a significant contribution to global warming along with the rest of the Arctic.

        When you look at the actual temperature for Greenland you see that the minimums have risen by about 20C in the past 70 years, around MINUS 50C to MINUS 30C. The minimums are the major contributor to the measured warming. The peaks around MINUS 5C have hardly changed.

        This is how climate science works. The changes are generally so small that they would not be obvious on a chart so the concept of temperature anomaly was born to exaggerate the natural and human induced changes.

        With regard human induced change, global primary energy consumption was 144E18 Joules in 1960. In 2021 it was 572E18 Joules; a 4-fold increase and most of the energy consumption occurred in population centres where the majority of thermometers are located.

        The nutty part in all this is the misguided belief that CO2 can somehow cause Earth to warm through the magic of the “greenhouse effect”. It is climate phiisics; totally divorced from real physics..

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        Adellad

        Anyone living in Adelaide will tell you October was a bloody cold month. Nonetheless BoM’s imaginative 1-second electronic temp readings in small Stevenson Screens near West Terrace (one of the city’s busiest roads) managed to get Oct maxima to within a fraction of a degree of normal. The lying is blatant, in your face – but they don’t care. It’s all in the name of their religion – and the $$”s.

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          b.nice

          UAH has October for all of Australia at -0.1ºC and September at -0.29ºC !

          I agree, neither month was in any way “warm” on the mid east coast, either.

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          b.nice

          You have to remember, though…

          … “Normal” includes all the downward “homogenisation” of past temperatures, as well as the unaccounted for urban warming effect on more recent values.

          So a value just below “normal”, means it was pretty cold. 😉

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    another ian

    “This Is How We Get Nuked”

    “When you become “one with the military” in a war you are a party to the war.”

    “Assuming this is true Musk and everything he owns and controls is now a legitimate military target for Russia.

    All of it.

    Yes, that includes Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, which in turn means his satellite constellation in low-earth orbit is now a completely legitimate military target under International Law and if it gets blown up or even if Musk or any of his firms’ employees get blown up via a direct Russian strike it is not a violation of anything whatsoever.”

    More at

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247369

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      OldOzzie

      It is also arguably illegal, in that only Congress has the power to enter a war on behalf of the United States, and without letters of Marque and Reprisal no private party has the power to do so either; to do so is to act as a mercenary, which means you have no rights at all under the laws of war and can be executed on the spot if caught with all of your property and “helpers” involved in same being summarily destroyed.

      Russia has every right, under the laws of war, to put a hypersonic missile right through Musk’s bedroom window right here in the United States, target Starlink’s command and control (including the people working for SpaceX here in the US) or even act against the satellite constellation in orbit.

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    OldOzzie

    PA Pundits – International

    “the relentless pursuit of common sense” FEATURED ARTICLES are at the TOP. SCROLL DOWN for TODAY’S posts.
    Australian Weekly Wind Power Generation Data – Introduction And Permanent Link To All Data Posts

    Posted on Mon 09/26/2022 by TonyfromOz8

    By Anton Lang ~

    With this Series of Posts, I will be detailing the data for wind generation across all Australian Wind Plants across the vast area covered by the AEMO, and this is the major Australian Grid covering all of Australia, excepting the State of Western Australia, which has its own Grid and that is only an independent total that is the equivalent of 8% of that AEMO coverage area.

    With this Introduction, I’ll explain the data, using the example of the most recent week’s data for wind generation from the week of first Posting this Introduction. That data will be shown on a table, the example shown below. Each of the Weekly Posts will be visible all the time at our Site here, and each day, I will add the data from the previous day. At the end of the week (Sunday) I will then add to this the totals and averages for the week, and then also add both of the long term averages for Capacity Factor as well. The following day, a new Post will be added for the coming week.

    Each of these weekly Posts will then be placed into a consolidated group for all Posts in the Series, and they can then be always available, and all Posts in this new Series can be viewed at this link.

    The image shown below is of one of the recent additions to the Industrial Wind Plant Inventory here in Australia. This is the Stockyard Hill wind plant in Central Western Victoria. It has a total Nameplate Capacity of 531MW, and has 149 individual wind towers with Nacelles on top, each nacelle containing a Goldwind generator of 3.57MW Capacity. This wind plant is majority owned by Goldwind Australia, a subsidiary of the Chinese Goldwind Company, which builds, owns and operates wind plants in Australia. Each tower is 110 metres tall, so the same as for a 33 storey skyscraper, and the blades as they rotate are another 70 metres on top of that.

    For the last four years now, I have been keeping the daily data for all wind generation for the vast AEMO Grid coverage area here in Australia. I had one year’s data as part of my Series on all power generation, and to that, I added the last three year’s worth of daily data in the Series just dedicated solely to Wind Generation on its own. All of that daily data can be seen at the following two links.

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    David Maddison

    Diwali for Hindus has just passed. I was in Kathmandu on 11th November 2015 during Diwali. Diwali celebrates “victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance”.

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    David Maddison

    “When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”

    -Stephen Jay Gould

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      Leo G

      “All the Biden campaign wants to talk about is abortion and Nancy Pelosi’s hubby having a two o’clock at night altercation with another man dressed only in his underwear has to be some sort of new low in American elections. …
      The GOP as a party have managed to strike a familiar note with electorates by simply campaigning on issues that are relevant to them, not abortion or hammer wielding maniacs in split-crotch knickers chasing Pelosi’s Hubby around the house somehow being a clear and present danger to democracy.” – Pointman

      The US Democrats consistently rely on corrupt media, corrupt government agencies, unlimited public credulity and psychological projection to build their political narrative.

      The Biden/Depape affair is just an exemplar.

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      Dave in the States

      But this remains ominous:

      Anyway, that’s my ten cents on the whole thing. If by some miracle the voters are not again cheated out of making a legitimate choice,

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    TdeF

    The Telegraph reports

    “Britain opens the door to climate change reparations for poorer nations
    No 10 could be forced to pay out aid cash to countries hit by global warming disasters”

    So now billions in cash handouts for carbon dioxide, more than half of which is created by China, none of which has been proven to produce any changes in temperature let alone climate and total fossil fuel content of CO2 is under 3%.

    Why isn’t Rishi Sunak getting the physicists of Oxford to check out the idea that CO2 is man made? In 1958 it was conclusively proven to be wrong, as reported in a Royal Society paper.

    And why is a white imperialist supremacist British PM like Sunak kowtowing (a Chinese term) to anyone? It’s all getting surreal.

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      Dennis

      Old Arab saying: the dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

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      el+gordo

      The Pakistani floods are not man made, but we could all throw in $50 million each to build all the houses on stilts.

      Essentially we are looking at strategic considerations, Australia is going to give more money to our Pacific partners, while Washington is intent on embarrassing Beijing.

      ‘The US in particular has come around to the idea but has argued that China, which considers itself a developing nation, should also contribute.’

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        KP

        Yuck! Such wankers! We would get NOTHING out of hosting such rubbish here, just like the Commonwealth HOGs bunfight. The working man pays to lay it all on for these excruciable clowns and on top of that we have our day to day working life ruined by closed roads and cavalcades of cops moving these dickheads around!

        You can really see the divide between the public and those in power over them these days!

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    TdeF

    And more

    “Legendary Greek footballer Vassilis Tsiartas has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence over comments critical of child sex changes.

    Tsiartas, who played a key role in the Greek national team’s shock victory in the UEFA European Football Championship in 2004 and finished his career without receiving a single red card, was prosecuted under a supposed anti-racism law which, somewhat perversely, includes provisions against public incitement to violence or hatred on the basis of gender identity.”

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      TdeF

      Vassilis Tsiartas called it an abomination, which it is. That now is hate speech.

      Copying Stalin, Hitler had concentration camps for deplorables like Vassilis. All Hitler’s political opponents went in. Few came out. Somehow Hitler is now painted as not a Socialist or Fascist but a conservative extremist, a Republican. It shows what you can do when you control the press and a hero can get a prison sentence for daring to speak the truth.

      In Australia we jailed Cardinal Pell for a year in solitary, released only because the High Court not only found there was zero evidence, but the alleged crime was not possible. And the ABC Journalist Louise Milligan received a Golden Quill for reporting. At their ABC, no one says sorry when you control the press and the taxpayer pays all the legal bills, even for private matters.

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    another ian

    A picture of pay for play

    “DeSantis Megadonor, Billionaire Head of Citadel Investments Ken Griffin, Explains Why He Purchased Ron DeSantis for 2024 and What He Expects from His Investment
    November 6, 2022 | Sundance | 306 Comments

    When politicians in Mexico and South America take financial payments from corporations and billionaires, we call it “corruption.” When politicians in the United States take financial payments from corporations and billionaires, we call it “lobbying.” The process is identical.”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/06/desantis-megadonor-billionaire-head-of-citadel-investments-ken-griffin-explains-why-he-purchased-ron-desantis-for-2024-and-what-he-expects-from-his-investment/

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    Lance

    Neil Oliver. “Winter is Coming.” Take note. He isn’t wrong.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6y-8kfjEWM

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    Dennis

    “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government stands by the “evidence” that “renewables are the cheapest form of power”.

    “And the best way to get power prices down is to get renewables up,” Mr Albanese said.

    “And that’s exactly what this budget has done.””

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    b.nice

    ““And that’s exactly what this budget has done.”””

    Hang on tight to your wallets, everyone !

    And try not to get left in the dark !

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    Very sad situation here at work.

    A triple jabbed fellow has been going downhill and has eyelid droop and double vision. He is ok to talk to for short periods but beyond that his words become all garbled and basically unintelligible.

    His doctors are unable to work out what is going on and fear he will never return to work. Well, I will help them here. Its the untested and dangerous concoction, that he was assured (falsely) was “safe and effective” by our incompetent health bureaucrats, that he has taken.

    Another young fellow at work suddenly had pains in his jaw and arms appear within 2 weeks of the second jab. So bad he could not work for months. Fortunately we managed to get him back, but the pains are still there.

    There are many many more, mostly unreported as vaxx injuries across our nation, as well as those who have sadly passed due to these vile substances and horrific actions from our “health” experts. We need to ban these jabs immediately and immediately move to Nuremburg 2.0 here to get to the bottom of this situation. No amnesty, just investigate and jail those have so badly let down our country with their reckless actions.

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    David Maddison

    It’s hard to believe Australia is undergoing a technological reversion from steak back to wind.

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    David Maddison

    I just heard an ad where Dictator Dan of Vicdanistan said he is proud to “lead the most progressive government in Australia”.

    Translation: the most communist government in Australia.

    How can people be so indescribably stupid as to vote for this psychopath?

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    another ian

    More miracles needed on the way to net-zero –

    “The US doesn’t have enough transformers to effectively deal with electric grid problems due to natural disasters

    https://www.cooperative.com/news/Pages/NRECA-Says-Transformer-Squeeze-Poses-Unacceptable-Risk-Asks-DOE-to-Aid-Production.aspx#

    You’d think the gang green politicians who say they want everyone to switch to EVs, and switch natural gas heating to electric, would pay attention to grid issues like needing more transformers?”

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/07/november-7-2022-reader-tips/#comment-1704757

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      David Maddison

      https://cmsedit.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/july/the-weak-link-how-china-built-in-a-backdoor-threat-that-could-take-down-the-us-electric-grid

      ‘A Cyber Pearl Harbor’: How China Built in a ‘Backdoor’ Threat that Could Take Down the US Electric Grid

      06-08-2022

      While the U.S. electric grid consists of thousands of them, the high voltage carriers make up less than three percent. Even so, they are responsible for transporting 60 to 70 percent of our electricity.

      “These are 500-ton, 20-foot tall, multi-million dollar machines,” Weiss said.

      They’re also custom-made in China and experts like Weiss say, while the U.S. is busy securing its networks, China has the ability and opportunity to sabotage the equipment we rely on them to manufacture.

      Essentially, they’ve created a “backdoor” into our electric grid.

      “What they have is the ability (to do)…they have their finger on that trigger today that they can take over that transformer and everything that transformer supplies coming in or going out. That’s a very big deal,” Weiss cautioned.

      He said this is no hypothetical warning. The U.S. has already discovered backdoor electronics in a Chinese-made transformer.

      It was that discovery that led then-President Donald Trump to sign an executive order in May of 2020 banning, “…the acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation” of any bulk-power systems from “foreign adversaries.”

      SEE LINK FOR REST

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      yarpos

      There are many aspects of the great green plan where (if you have any basic knowledge) they must have key milestones marked with:

      “at this stage a miracle happens”

      they just seem to think that just because they say stuff, it will happen. Bowen is a classic example, Kean and D’Ambrosio other local examples. I would say Biden but I dont really think he knows what he is saying from one minute to the next at this stage.

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    Adellad

    My comment at #1 above drew 3 red ticks – I had no idea so many miserable Irish UN rapporteurs read this blog!

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    David Maddison

    A summary of some of the changes Elon Musk is making at Twitter.

    He may have a way of avoiding paying out the top three executives $100 million severence due to their fraudulent claims. I hope so.

    A redesign is planned.

    My view is that if he can redesign the platform and incorporate some functions of Facebook and YouTube with free speech, the $44 billion will have been worth it.

    https://youtu.be/s2fF5vBPNOQ

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      Memoryvault

      incorporate some functions of Facebook and YouTube with free speech, the $44 billion will have been worth it.

      Whether or not it ever makes money as a social media platform is largely inconsequential to Musk. Elon’s latest all consuming passion is artificial intelligence – AI. He has already refashioned himself as a leading developer of brain-enhancing microchip inserts.

      In 2012 Twitter was a small one man show social media site with 60,000 subscribers. Then Ms Julie Inman Grant stepped in as Senior Acquisitions Manager with an apparently unlimited source of funds to buy up all the leading companies in the field of AI R&D. Twitter is now parent holding company of all that AI research.

      If the name rings a bell, Ms Julie Inman Grant is now our eSafety Commissioner tasked with implementing our Online Safety legislation which will soon see sites like this blacklisted, and our emails and SMS texts monitored. She is also a regular Speaker for the WEF at their Davos conferences.

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    David Maddison

    Imagine how bad things must be if even CNN is “fact checking” Biden.

    They really are planning to throw him under the bus.

    https://youtu.be/zlJlXO4xMJM

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    Zane

    Finally some welcome warmth has arrived in Victoria. Last week was fleece and beanie weather.

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      yarpos

      mmmm last week lunch in Melbourne with old workmates in their de rigueur black puffer jackets. Melbourne is even more black, black , blackety black than NYC when the weather is cold.

      shopping this morning in short sleeve shirt.

      personally I dont care what it does as long as it stops bloody raining.

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    David Maddison

    Deceptive Vic. Labor website.

    If you Google “victorian state election 2022” without quote marks you get as the first hit https://www.vicvotes.org.au/
    which is actually a Labor site.

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    David Maddison

    The seven species of humans.

    Homo habilis (“handy” man)

    Homo erectus (“upright man”)

    Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals)

    Denisovans

    Homo floresiensis (the “hobbit”)

    Homo naledi (“star man”)

    Homo sapiens (“wise man”)

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    another ian

    “New Revelations About Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop (Twitter) Surface Under New Management
    November 7, 2022 | Sundance | 27 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/07/new-revelations-about-jacks-magic-coffee-shop-twitter-surface-under-new-management/#more-239490

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    Saighdear

    What Happens to Scooters That Break Down? How to be green and waste resources, having fun a the same time ( Illegal to use in the UK – what spoilsports they are )
    The lifespan of most e-scooters is about three months to a year. With the short lifespan, most micro-mobility operators often collect and scrap electric scooters from the market rather than make repairs.https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/how-does-the-1-4-billion-electric-scooter-market-work/?ecms_id=f0202614-b965-4f9b-bc0b-c39e1ec9b6e7&ecms_short=ART8215&doc_type=ted_article&sponsored=&acct=&parent_id=bcd82dcf-8ff4-4a91-96ea-86c7acea8d36&utm_content=featuredstory&position=2&linktype=title&channel=email&campaign_type=thomas_industry_update&campaign_name=tiu221107&utm_campaign=tiu221107&utm_medium=email&utm_source=thomas_industry_update&tinid=228365584

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      MrGrimNasty

      They can’t possibly be ‘green’ with such a short lifespan.
      From what I’ve seen the vast majority of users would have been pedestrians or public transport users, so again not helping resource consumption, increasing it.
      The cost in terms of numerous injuries and occasional deaths is also horrific – but as usual with all things supposedly green, barely mentioned and given a free pass.

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    David Maddison

    Apparently there are people in the US (and elsewhere) that still believe Biden is a good President.

    How bizarre.

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    Saighdear

    Need a Coup d’état if you ask me
    Got the cruet dish out on the table this morning: some spicey bits The real cost of wind and solar: Why rates don’t match the claims https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/the-real-cost-of-wind-and-solar-why-rates-dont-match-the-claims.354684/
    We have no wind here today ( The Heron is frustrated and so’s his ITS mate the Pelican) but gridwatch tells me that UK has 43% generation. Eeee ba goom lad! thar’s cheap power …. really – charged at the price of Gas ? https://gridwatch.co.uk and all those private jets flying to Buck Pal and then off again to Buck’s Fizz in Sharm el-Sheikh. Drunk on their own fumes, if you ask me.
    and then from my neighbours: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/needed-something-reliable-so-i-sold-the-saab-and-bought-an-alfa.359567/ how creepy is that? colors and models aboutthe same .. but a good read Cars ? Big business Hops n Flops – who is pulling ths strings when Marques disappear ?

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    another ian

    Back when things happened

    “This evening we travel back to this day in 1885 to learn about Canada’s first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, being completed in British Columbia.

    Your best transcontintental tips are mightily appreciated!”

    SDA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54kCX3K5Erc

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    KP

    “Slovakian officials respond as polls reveal half of the population trusts Moscow more than Washington –
    The Slovakian government has accused Russia of waging a “disinformation campaign” on Facebook and announced it would invest in artificial intelligence programs to help its Hybrid Threats division cope with social media narratives.
    Slovakia’s Center for Countering Hybrid Threats – a subsidiary of the Finland-based European Centre of Excellence – is run from the Interior Ministry, which is charged with domestic law enforcement.
    (Initially) pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian narratives on social media were at parity in February, when the current conflict in Ukraine escalated, “but in the course of a few months, the situation shifted.”

    “Pro-Russian Facebook posts prevailed more and more. It is the result of this disinformation campaign, part of the population is indoctrinated by pro-Russian propaganda,” Milo said, adding that Slovaks are prone to believing in conspiracy theories.”

    So, are all those jokes about Poles and Slovaks being thicker than a plank of wood true, or are they cleverer than their masters would like, and can see through American propaganda…

    Coming to your country soon, I am sure!

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    CHRIS

    What goes around, comes around. Lessons are NOT learned.

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