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Check out the supply chain of lithium ion batteries!
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People need to know about this… Never throughout the history of slavery there has been more suffering that generated more profit that was linked to the lives of more people around the world…
https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E
Preview YouTube video The Disturbing Reality of Cobalt Mining for Rechargeable Batteries
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The DRC is claimed to have 50% of the world’s cobalt reserves, with an estimated 3.6 million tonne available for extraction in the country, but accounts for around 70% of global production (95,000 tonne).
Australia’s known reserves are 1.4 million tonne, 20% of the global share, but its annual production is just 5,700 tonne (2020 data)
The WEF claim that 70% to 85% of extraction in the DRC does not involve artisanal mining. Can the WEF be believed?
In any case, Australians need to ask Glencore why it appears to capitalise on its Cobalt project in the DRC alongside domestic miner Gécamines rather than its Murrin Murrin mine in Western Australia. The Gécamines Glencore et al operation in the DRC involves a cooperation accord with the Hong-Kong-listed corporation China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining.
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When will Australia require the processing of mineral resources before export? Perhaps an example is being set with lithium?
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Perhaps I messed up the link reference?
https://qz.com/why-zimbabwe-has-banned-the-export-of-raw-lithium-1849918099
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““No lithium-bearing ores, or unbeneficiated lithium whatsoever, shall be exported from Zimbabwe to another country except under the written permit of the minister,””
Aha- the next ‘richest man in Zim’..
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Given that by now virtually every household in the world has at least one device with a Li battery there is presumably a large industry based on reclaiming the Li and transition metals in the used batteries. As a (retired ) chemist I am interested in the commercial efficiency of the reclaim process which, after separation of the casings is basically an acidic dissolution and fractionation of the components.
Does anyone know if this process is financially successful, is it environmentally safe, and would it help the supply of raw materials in an era when, for example, Li battery based transportation becomes more significant.
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No, it’s not economically feasible to recycle lithium. One company is the U.S. is supposed to be recycling lithium, but it appears that this is a private arrangement with Tesla. The other companies claiming to recycle lithium batteries are very careful to avoid saying that they recycle the actual lithium.
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In Orange, Central West NSW, we are approaching an entire year without the temperature reaching 30 degrees.
And the official measurement is taken at the airport.
Last 2 months maximum has been 5 degrees less than the long term average.
Last year was similar.
Fits nicely with us entering the Grand Solar Minimum.
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Even out my way it’ll be in the 30’s next week so way hot early.
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As you read this, you are experiencing the accumulated global warming from 4.5 billion years of Earth existence due to the ever-present atmospheric CO2 which is absorbing and re-radiating part of the infrared spectrum released by the Sun and ‘Greenhouse Gas’ heated surface.
Perhaps our climate scientists should revise their catastrophic climate predictions to a few billion years hence, if ever?
Merry Christmas all.
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The GSM is only speculation and unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future.
‘For the first time since the early 20th century, low solar activity and a decreasing AMO phase are taking place simultaneously. The prediction is that there will not be any warming until at least the mid-1930s, and a slight cooling will take place.’ (Javier Vinos / wuwt)
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Warming in mid-1930s is certain, mid-2030s perhaps?
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“Grand”
I’ll need to think about that.
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8 days to go and Mudgee’s highest for the year is 33.5 degrees. 27 today.
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Apparently Sydney has had only 4 days over 30 all year with the highest for the year 31.9
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It will still be the hottest year ever, don’t worry, the BOM will fix it!!
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It also fits nicely with a substantial increase in evaporative cooling due to high water tables:
Orange rainfall history (859m AMSL)
Wettest This Year 110.2mm 14/11/2022
Wettest This Month 14.2mm 13/12/2022
Total To December 1281.5mm 154.0 days
Total This Month 30.2mm 6.0 days
YTD Average Rainfall 929.4mm 139.1 days
Long Term Average 82.2mm 8.4 days
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You’ve all got it wrong, the cooler temperatures are because we’ve beaten global warming, by using unreliables. Congratulations everyone!
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You sound like Dan Andrews when he congratulated most Victorians for, by his use of the most up to date and reliable medical advice, he kept us safe from the dreaded Covid.
sarc.
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Yep, the rain drives the heat away but what causes the rain is that the Maunder minimum. The cause and effect is unclear and usually interpreted incorrectly.
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I dont know if it is the intrinsic quality of the programme “Aussie Gold Hunters ” (probably scripted but appears not to be) or the abyssmal qualty of the
rest of the viewing on British TV , but it is currently by far the most interesting series on TV (IMO). In the Series 6 ( date at the end of the credits:2021), there were a lot of problems caused by rain storms in the Victorian goldfields, with a simple explanation of how La Nina produced storms in that region (no waffling nonsense about climate change).
Also it was refreshing to see a total absence of masks and covid nonsense at a time when, according to reports here (ie in the UK), all other Australians were being herded around like muzzled sheep (and depressingly, happy to be so).
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LeoG,
It is known beyond doubt that rainfall is a major factor to explain statistical variance of temperature taken conventionally. Bill Johnston gives 3 recent case studies just posted on his bomwatch web hosting. Geoff S
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We lived in Bathurst for many years and I used to commute to Blayney – even colder and higher than Orange.
Will have to chase up one of my friends in Bathurst and get his view on this.
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Prophet,
In 1962-3 I spent most of the cold season an the top of Mount Tennyson 1,070 metres above sea level, while based at Bathurst looking for molybdenum deposits like that one near Yetholme. We reconstructed an 1880s home built for the Mines Inspector of the times, but then idle for decades before we arrived. The previous tenants were sheep, who left a foot of garden fertilizer over the floors. The sheep knew how to get out of those chilly southerlies. There was no electricity supply so we ran the wood stove overtime. I still have photos of fairly heavy snow Bathurst to Lithgow 1963. I vividly remember the four of us working hard all day collecting stream sediment samples, up 500m, down 500m, up the next creek 500m then 500 m down, then at night, pretty tired, trying to find every tiny crack in the rough hewn timber walls to paper over with flour water and newspaper, for every tiny opening seemed to let in large volumes of whistling chill. We did not find a new mine, but I did meet my present only wife to live in warmer Townsville for a few years. One trip to Canada took us to la Ronge Saskatchewan with night minima reaching -40 C with chill factor. Two weeks later at Mt Isa it was +40 C with chill factor. Geoff S
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Elon Musk Perplexed as Twitter Begins Widespread Suspensions of Accounts Critical of U.S. Funding for Ukraine and Zelenskyy Grift
Against the backdrop of Twitter triggering suspensions and content removal for any account critical of U.S-Ukraine policy, apparently Elon Musk is perplexed about the system operators of his platform acting to support government and control public opinion.
Either Elon Musk really doesn’t know who is operating his platform, or this is a very public exhibition of Mr Musk pretending not to know. You decide.
Meanwhile, the FBI is claiming that anyone who notices their influence over the platform content is a “conspiracy theorist” intent on delivering harm to the United States by spreading disinformation. It’s as if the powers that be within the FBI are desperate to keep the American people gaslit.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/22/elon-musk-perplexed-as-twitter-begins-widespread-suspensions-of-accounts-critical-of-u-s-funding-for-ukraine-and-zelenskyy-grift/
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Also remarkable the suspension of IT, business and SM journalists’ account. Amazing coincidence that they are critical of a certain person.
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“that they are unwarranted, petty and from the far-left…..
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yes of course “critical” , sure thats all there is to it
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Perhaps the FBI or Leftist staff who were removed, or both, have a “back door” into the system.
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There’s backdoors in just about everything made by the USSA (which is why I use Kaspersky.)
Anything the US government hates must be good.😉
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I think we have to cut Musk some slack … it’s a wide web of wokeness he’s got a hold of and will need some time to unravel it …. He’s proven he’s up for the fight with buying the stupid company and getting the files published …. Let’s not assume he has had a chance to drag out all of the deep state yet ….
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CBS News: ‘Climate Change Is Making Planes Crash’
CBS News has declared that climate change is now causing “severe turbulence” that can cause planes to crash.
Following an incident of turbulence aboard a flight from Phoenix to Hawaii in which 36 people were hurt, CBS produced a video claiming that climate change is literally causing planes to crash.
As detailed in the above report, the source for articles was one Taylor Garland, spokesperson for the Association of Flight Attendants, who claimed turbulence caused by severe weather is going to become more common due to climate change.
https://summit.news/2022/12/22/video-cbs-news-claims-climate-change-worsens-air-turbulence/
The stupid, it burns…
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So this is real science from the Association of Flight Attendants? Really?
It just shows, everyone is an expert in Climate Change. And it’s really the greatest threat to mankind in all of human history and an emergency and a crisis and causes disasters everywhere in just everything. I’ll stake my handbag on it but not my roll on luggage.
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They are probably about as accurate (sarc!) as Climate Scientists but at least they look much prettier.
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Never let the facts get in the way of a good climate scare.
A quick web search found this data, it only goes to 2014 and the trend is down.
https://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-planes-crash-every-year-how-many-people-die-plane-crashes-chart-1560554#slideshow/1560832
So correlation says climate change is good for the airline industry and there are less crashes and less fatalities.
Probably has nothing to do with the fact that for each crash more is learned about how and why the crash occurred and the risks are reduced as corrective and preventative actions are put in place by the airlines,
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Ok, My wife is a flight attendant.
The CBS article (gratefully provided by JCII) states:
“Following an incident of turbulence aboard a flight from Phoenix to Hawaii in which 36 people were hurt.”
“claiming that climate change is literally causing planes to crash.”
Ok, my comment.
I surmise the article may be misleading, heresay or spurious in claim. The article doesn’t list the injuries and it doesn’t define the term “hurt”.
So what is the trend? Are serious injuries/fatalities increasing due to turbulence?
Lets have a look.
The FAA have published these findings 2009-21. (See link below)
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/turbulence
Part 121 Serious Turbulence Injuries 2009 to 2021
Year Passenger Crew Total
2009 10 8 18
2010 2 10 12
2011 3 15 18
2012 2 12 14
2013 1 4 5
2014 0 6 6
2015 3 10 13
2016 2 11 13
2017 1 12 13
2018 3 7 10
2019 2 11 13
2020 0 5 5
2021 1 5 6
Total 30 116 146
Definitions of injury.
The NTSB requires airlines to report serious injuries and fatalities. A serious injury is “any injury that
(1) requires the individual to be hospitalized for more than 48 hours, commencing within seven days from the date the injury was received;
(2) results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes, or nose);
(3) causes severe hemorrhages, nerve, muscle, or tendon damage;
(4) involves any internal organ; or
(5) involves second-or third-degree burns, or any burns affecting more than five percent of the body surface.”
My comment.
If anyone can establish via the data, that there has been a trending increase in injuries/fatalities due to turbulence over the preceding 13 years (2022 not yet reported), then let me know.
I have an interest, My flight attendant wife could be at serious risk from the supposed “increase in turbulence due to climate change”.
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Not exactly a downward trendline as one might expect from progressively improving air safety.
Perhaps we can blame the legitimate increase in cosmic rays instead…
Cross referencing injuries against the NTSB report (https://icao.usmission.gov/air-carrier-turbulence-related-injuries-can-be-reduced-ntsb-finds/) we see that “The report noted that in recent years flight attendants accounted for nearly 80 percent of turbulence-related injuries because their jobs frequently require them to be up and about without the safety benefit of a seat belt.”
So the flight attendants freedom of movement is responsible the bulk of the injuries they’re blaming on climate change…
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If the figures were adjusted for airmiles flown, you might well find that downward trend.
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No JC, its an “acceptable level” of injuries, so the highly-inflated injuries are within the margins of airline insurance. So long as the airline can afford that level of injury, there is no reason to pay good money to reduce it.
Ah, takes me back to the good ol’ days of freezing workers in NZ with their back injuries and compo. Now they wonder why they all got replaced by machines…
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How do you get a downward trend line on a statistic bouncing between zero and sfa? And do the flight attendants spend more time strapped in their seat now with your “progressively improving air safety” than before? Those stats show the crew at higher risk. But so are truckies. [I do not wish to make light of ANYONE’S work hazards]
https://www.flightradar24.com/28.5,-86.5/4
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Here ya go – reworded for you.
Not exactly a downward trendline as one might expect from progressively improving air safety./sarc
Jeez…
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It used to be called CAT – Clear Air Turbulence – and was usually mentioned in the safety announcement before take-off, with the advice to keep your seat belt fastened even when safely in your seat. I think I first heard that message in 1969.
Cheers
Dave B
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Biden COVID Czar FINALLY Admits the Truth About Masks
https://rumble.com/v21wmde-biden-covid-czar-finally-admits-the-truth-about-masks.html
Yup.
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Your imputation is that masks don’t work.
That might be right, but it is not what he said.
Listen to it again.
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No, I didn’t mishear or misunderstand what he said at all.
But…
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Whitehouse Top COVID adviser, Dr Ashish Jha, said:-
He clearly implied that masks don’t work to reduce COVID infections.
His comments are sensible.
Social distances were determined on the basis of the respiratory exposure threshold required for a sustainable infection (about 500,000 virions at about 40,000 per sq cm of airway tissue). Masks were not recommended as PPE directly to reduce exposure, but more to simplify the dispersion modelling (the uniformity of mixing of expired air from an infected person).
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Good try Leo.
If you put his comments in context he was comparing masks to clean air (air pollutuion) and saying clean ait is better than masks – not that they don’t work.
In other words, if you want clean air get rid of the pollutants. Mask aren’t as good as clean air.
In Beijing, for example, pre-Covid the populace wore masks especially on highly polluted days. The better solution is to do what the PRC did during the Beijing Olympics – clean up the air. Then you won’t need the masks.
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He said: “There’s no study in the world that says masks work that well” when compared to air quality.
Listen to it again.
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The mask study most frequently used by the CDC (Vietnam hospitals study published in BMJ) compared the risks of hospital workers using either high quality surgical masks, standard cloth masks, or no masks. Mask use followed standard hospital protocol of replacing the mask after high-risk contacts.
The highest rate of infections was for those wearing cloth masks. Surgical masks appeared to be marginally better than no masks.
There is serious risk involved in mask use, particularly for those infected and in the early stages of infection. It increases mouth breathing and reduces the clearance of virions in the airways and increases infiltration to lung tissues. It increases blood CO2 and thereby has vascular effects.
Accordingly, mandatory mask wearing outside of professional protocols does not reduce infections but does increase the severity of infections.
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Masks will never score 10 out of 10.
But till somebody can show me otherwise the biggest source of infection is surely the spittle that flies when people are talking.
If a mask caught 90% of that spittle that would score 5 or better. Most masks would do that.
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Actually , there is a report from a controlled test where volunteers were directly contaminated with “fluids” from infected patients and compared to a control sample of people with masks and distanced from the infection.
There was NO difference in the infection rates !
I will try to find that trial report.
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There have been many studies investigating CoV-2 viral loads in droplets and bio-aerosols captured during breathing, coughing etc and these all indicate that the concentration in droplets is too low to significantly contribute to infection.
Public health measures reflect that realisation and concentrate on increasing indoor air turnover to reduce free virion and aerosol concentration.
It was known that acidifying indoor air was very effective in eliminating influenza virus and this has been tried against SARS-CoV2. It hasn’t worked- the SARS virus survives very acidic conditions.
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“Utah Man’s 2020 Election Case Quietly Makes It to the Supreme Court – Biden, Harris and 385 Lawmakers Named”. While I’m not sure of the accuracy of this article, it will be interesting to watch. Perhaps others have more information. ToM
https://patriotdailywire.com/utah-mans-2020-election-case-quietly-makes-it-to-the-supreme-court-biden-harris-and-385-lawmakers-named/
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This is very strange. If you look at the main SCOTUS docket (list of cases to be heard), the case isn’t there. But if you “root around” in the guts of the SCOTUS website, it is there. The docket number is 22-380.
There are no oral arguments to be heard. The case will be heard in the standard closed Friday case discussion – January 6th.
Here is the docket for the case – https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-380.html
Yet in searching the certori grant, I can’t find it. It doesn’t show up on the granted list.
Curiouser and curiouser. . . .
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After a very deep dive, I have figured this out. The – request- for hearing has been made; but it won’t be considered by the SCOTUS until their meeting Jan 6. Only then will the decision to hear or not hear will be made.
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Thanks Red. You had dived deeper than I had which is why I questioned the accuracy. Will keep an eye on it. Happy Christmas to you. ToM
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Decades of Data Shows Strange Temperature Swings Pulsing Through Jupiter’s Clouds
A close study of 40 years’ worth of data has revealed something a little hinky going on with Jupiter.
According to a wealth of information collected by both ground- and space-based telescopes, the temperature in Jupiter’s upper troposphere exhibits regular fluctuations that don’t seem to be tied to any seasonal variations. This surprising and intriguing finding could help scientists finally understand the gas giant’s strange weather.
“We’ve solved one part of the puzzle now, which is that the atmosphere shows these natural cycles,” says planetary scientist Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester in the UK.
“To understand what’s driving these patterns and why they occur on these particular timescales, we need to explore both above and below the cloudy layers.”
Scientists never expected Jupiter to experience significant cycles in temperature variation, but until now, long-term datasets on the planet’s heat profile haven’t been available to check whether this was the case. Until now.
Data from instruments aboard the Voyager and Cassini space probes, and from the Very Large Telescope, the Subaru Telescope and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, gave a team led by planetary scientist Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory decades worth of thermal data to work with.
To their surprise, they found temperature fluctuations with periodicities of 4, 7 to 9, and 10 to 14 years, involving different latitude bands. These seem disconnected, they found, from seasonal temperature variations.
However, there is some internal consistency: as temperatures rise at specific latitudes in the northern hemisphere, they go down at corresponding latitudes in the southern hemisphere, specifically at 16, 22, and 30 degrees. It’s as though Jupiter is a mirror of itself, split by the equator, maintaining thermal balance.
“That was the most surprising of all,” Orton says.
“We found a connection between how the temperatures varied at very distant latitudes. It’s similar to a phenomenon we see on Earth, where weather and climate patterns in one region can have a noticeable influence on weather elsewhere, with the patterns of variability seemingly ‘teleconnected’ across vast distances through the atmosphere.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01839-0
The Science (TM) is only settled here on Earth…
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Gene therapy cures kids with rare “bubble-boy” disease in new trial
A rare genetic disease that renders children without a functioning immune system from birth has been effectively cured by an experimental gene therapy. A new study is reporting on the first 10 children treated with the therapy, all of whom are now healthy and living normal lives.
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a collection of genetic diseases that result in impaired immune functions. The condition is informally known as the “bubble-boy” disease, following the infamous case of a child with SCID who spent 12 years of his life living isolated from the world in a protective bubble.
There are eight different types of SCID, each the result of a different genetic mutation. The two most common forms of SCID – X-SCID and ADA-SCID – have been successfully treated with an experimental gene therapy where a patient’s bone marrow stem cells are harvested, modified with a healthy copy of the targeted gene, and then infused back into their bodies.
Over the last decade researchers have seen extraordinary success treating these common forms of SCID with gene therapy. Trials have seen nearly 100% response rates, however, long-term safety concerns have slowed the treatment’s path to clinical use.
This form of gene therapy uses a modified virus to deliver its healthy gene payload. In the past that viral vector was a retrovirus but because those viruses can only enter a cell’s nuclei when it’s dividing they can potentially generate adverse side effects. Over long periods of time some gene therapy trials using this viral vector have detected cancerous side effects.
So more recently many researchers have shifted to using modified lentiviruses as the optimal viral vector for gene therapies. These viruses can enter the nuclei of non-dividing cells meaning they should be safer and more effective.
In 2021 a long-term follow-up study tracking 50 children with ADA-SCID treated with lentiviral gene therapy found every subject was alive and healthy three years later. All but two children were essentially cured of their immunodeficiency.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2206575
For dawg’s sake, now they’re cured, don’t give them a clotshot!😎
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Heat-activated hydrogel could stop battlefield bleeds
When soldiers are wounded in battle, getting the bleeding under control is one of the most important life-saving measures medics can take. Due to the particular demands of doctoring in the field, however, this can be a significant challenge. A new injectable hydrogel that is activated by the body’s own temperature may offer a way forward.
Hydrogels – chains of molecules that can store significant amounts of water – are something of a modern wonder material. Experiments have shown that they can function as armor, pull drinking water out of thin air, and act as window coatings that keep buildings cooler.[snip]
According to an analysis of battlefield wounds between 2001 and 2011, 87.3% of all battlefield deaths occurred before soldiers could reach a medical treatment facility, and of the potentially survivable injuries, 90.9% of the victims died of hemorrhage. So an easy-to-administer, effective solution that can stop bleeding could clearly have an impact on soldier mortality.
https://terasaki.org/institute/news/pr/rapid-temperature-sensitive-hemorrhage-control.html
One to add to your first aid kit once they go public.
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I have no wish to make light of any battlefield first aid, but I use a form of hydrogel in pot plants. Keeps them alive when I forget to water them. Even desert roses, which hate too much water do well with them.
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Too Good to be left on Lower Threads
ABC News Journalist Breaks Her Silence, Reveals She Developed Heart Condition Due to Covid Vaccine
A reporter for ABC News Australia has broken her silence after suffering a heart condition following receiving the COVID vaccination.
Eleni Roussos, a journalist in the Darwin ABC newsroom and also the presenter of ABC’s flagship 7 PM News in the Northern Territory, revealed that she developed pericarditis after receiving her first dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine, describing it as “a living hell.”
Koulla Roussos, Eleni’s sister, posted on Facebook last year to explain that Eleni had been hospitalized and diagnosed with pericarditis (inflammation of the outer lining of the heart) and hence was unable to attend the NT Media awards ceremony.
Eleni Roussos said that former AMA President Kerryn Phelps’ decision to go public with her own personal suffering had encouraged her to do the same.
“Inspired by [Dr. Kerryn Phelps] today I want to say I too have been in a living hell with pericarditis because of the Covid vaccine,” Roussos wrote on her Twitter account.
“Vaccine injuries are real and serious and I sincerely hope more people will speak up,” she continued.
Dr. Phelps responded to Roussos’ tweet, “I hoped my submission to the parliamentary inquiry would spark the conversations we need to have about long covid and vaccine injury. I hope we can find answers leading to recovery for you and others.”
Harves
December 23, 2022 at 9:31 am · Reply
I wonder if Elena Roussos will be apologising for this article she wrote about people spreading misinformation about the ‘vaccine’.?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-28/nt-remote-communities-covid-vaccination-santa-teresa-ali-curung/100572230
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Yet strangely, the ABC still hasn’t stumbled over this story …
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I am sure that she doesn’t want to be left out of the # me injured too.
What about her article. Any apology?
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Dr Kerryn Phelps’ wife opens up on her debilitating vaccine injury that has her unable to WALK without pain 19 months after her first Covid shot – as she issues desperate plea
. Kerryn Phelps said she and her wife suffered ‘devastating’ vaccine side effects
. Claimed medical authorities failed to follow up and censored discussion of them
. Jackie Strickler-Phelps said she was still unable to walk without pain
. Both the couple kept spruiking Covid vaccine well after adverse effects started
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Talk about Doctor’s Wives! Social winger and opinionated but uninformed.
Did Mrs Phelps take a second dose?
That was unclear.
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DuckDuckGo now blocks Google sign-in pop-ups on all sites
DuckDuckGo apps and extensions are now blocking Google Sign-in pop-ups on all its apps and browser extensions, removing what it perceives as an annoyance and a privacy risk for its users.
DuckDuckGo offers a privacy-focused search engine, an email service, mobile apps, and data-protecting browser extensions. A standalone web browser is also in the works, currently in beta and only available for macOS.
The company announced today that all its Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Microsoft Edge apps and browser extensions will now actively block Google sign-in prompts displayed on sites.
Google offers this single sign-on option on websites to enable users to quickly sign in to new platforms using their Google account for convenience and unified control.
Simply put, instead of having to create new accounts and manage multiple passwords on various sites, users can just sign in with Google when the option is available and skip the hassle.
The downside of this practice for users is that the websites and apps users sign into can be tracked by Google.
While Google states explicitly, “Data from Sign In With Google is not used for ads or other non-security purposes,” DuckDuckGo says their tests show that Google still collects data.
“See our testing in the attached image which shows Google is collecting data on sites when signed in with Google.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-now-blocks-google-sign-in-pop-ups-on-all-sites/
Yandex…
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Yes, I moved to the Yandex browser a couple of weeks ago after Opera had become intolerably sluggish.
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I don’t believe that for a moment.
They are a woke corporation and sooner or later, if not already, they will be fully tracing, tracking and reporting to authorities all thoughts and actions of the rational-thinking community. Or unpersoning them altogether.
Google already incorporates artificial intelligence.
It is already a woke corporation.
Independent thinkers are its enemy.
When artificial intelligence is powerful enough it will become like Skynet in The Terminator (of which John Connor I is a hero).
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“Safe and Effective tm”
“VAERS: 4070% Increase In Miscarriages & Stillbirths Since MRNA Roll-Out”
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/vaers-4070-increase-in-miscarriages-stillbirths-since-mrna-roll-out/
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“4070% Increase In Miscarriages & Stillbirths”
Certainly effective then !!
Remember, this jab is courtesy of the WEF and its members… seeking population reduction.. !
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40 times increase and doesn’t give the TGA’s idea of significance a nudge?
It would suggest that a concentration on recreational sex might be a good idea pending further results?
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Blocking high in the Tasman promises fast times for the Sydney to Hobart fleet.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/super-fast-conditions-for-sydney-to-hobart/1000572
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It says that the anti-cyclone centre is East of NZ , when it clearly shows that it is West of NZ .
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Breaking: Gov. DeSantis receives approval from the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury to investigate mRNA COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers.
Some good news (for the great unwashed) for xmas.
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Why cant Australia have some politicians in power like that?
We do have two or three good politicians but not in positions of power.
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Prediction 1: the masses will donkey vote, which they did.
Critical mass in awareness has to be reached, so a long way to go unless reality deals the right hand to force awareness.😎
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In 1975, Senator Frank Church gave this dire prediction of what would happen to America if entities within our own government turned technology meant for war, against We The People. This is prophetic.
https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1605692539478106113
Too late, and has been for decades
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Due to the dumbing-down of the education system over the last forty or fifty years, most people no longer know how science works, including some who “identify” as such.
We need to correct their misconceptions that:
1) Scientific fact is decided by “consensus”. FALSE
2) There is such a thing as “settled science”. FALSE
3) Dissenting opinions must be repressed. FALSE
Also:
Quoted from elsewhere:
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I thought they meant trust seance.
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In checking Space Weather ( https://spaceweather.com/ ) I scrolled down, something I usually don’t do.
Today there is a heading: Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere
Therein is this statement:
“ A number of controversial studies (#1, #2, #3, #4) go even further, linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.”
I do know that the heart is controlled by electrical impulses – those can be the source of information doctors use to assess heart health.
As for the studies linked to in the Space Weather document, I am just passing on the info without comment.
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Changes in cosmic ray and it’s consequences didn’t start simultanely with vaxx rollout…..
😀
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https://www.radarbox.com/flight/SANTA2022 Santa is on the way!!!!
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The Shadowy Group That Brought Mask Mandates to the U.K.
In our supposedly liberal and transparent democratic country, it seems that it was a group of remote and unnamed scientists, outside of the formal SAGE infrastructure, who effectively imposed masks on British citizens. Were they well-meaning academics offering their expertise, or conflicted ideologues engaged in a global endeavour to control the masses? You decide.
The volte-face on mask recommendations and regulations by the U.K. Government and its public health experts in 2020 is one of the many unfathomable policy decisions we witnessed during the Covid era. Within little more than a month, our ministers, senior scientists and medical leaders flipped from a stance of repeatedly imploring us all not to wear a face covering in community settings to a totalitarian one of imposing mask mandates. Who was primarily responsible for this remarkable U-turn?
[snip]
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/22/the-shadowy-group-that-brought-mask-mandates-to-the-u-k/
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Take all binary assertions about masks, good or bad, with a container-ship of salt. Remember all doctors wear masks themselves and I don’t recall any protests from them about that — they clearly believe they have some use. Indeed it’s unethical to do placebo controlled studies and expect doctors to randomly give them up. ICU staff I talked to were considering leaving their jobs if the government ran out of masks. Wu-Flu #1,
See https://www.fast.ai/posts/2020-06-26-particle-sizes.html for a beginning of the layers of complexity about mask science.
Masks can stop single 100nm viruses with electrostatic effects. Their lowest efficacy is about 300nm, and that’s theoretically where the 95% efficacy is supposed to be measured.
I won’t ask anyone to wear a mask. I’m just saying it’s a complex topic and I am unmoved by flat declarations either way.
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Us older folks in the US have a “Wellness Visit”. Mine was Thursday.
My “doc”, talented as she is, still has to enter the 2 m. zone
to look at my throat, ears, & listen to my heart.
I’m in favor of masks for both of us in that situation.
Ps/ I’ll shop for chocolates in january.
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Jo, i have utmost respect for the medical profession for many reasons, ..but there is a key word in your statement ..”believe”.. which i suspect is very apt. .
As you say , its a complex subject, and the effectiveness or otherwise or masks will indoubtedly vary for different virus etc.
So any belief or known effect for one desease, may not be the same for a covid variant.
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Docs wearing masks while operating it’s more to protect the patient’s open wound from bacteria to prevent infections.
They are used to wear masks and how, and not over hours.
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“The Holy Grail Quest for President Trump’s Tax Returns Ends with the World’s Loudest Sad Trombone
December 22, 2022 | Sundance | 131 Comments
For seven years the media have walked the American people through a journey to publicize President Donald J Trump’s tax returns, using phrases like “bigger than Watergate.” Promising, almost daily, the results of their quest would be “the beginning of the end” of Trump.”
“The world’s most anticipated and promoted financial disclosure in the history of the modern universe, was a complete nothingburger.”
“Yes, Donald Trump is the first President of the United States who lost money as an outcome of his political ascendency because he never sold his office to any individual, corporation, multinational or financial interest. President Donald J Trump worked for the American people, using policies that were designed to benefit the American people, from within an office that was created to benefit the American people.
For the media, the world’s largest sad trombone.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/22/the-holy-grail-quest-for-president-trumps-tax-returns-ends-with-the-worlds-loudest-sad-trombone/#more-241266
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” I haven’t seen it posted here yet, but Canada’s gun ban research was extensive.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6317685844112 ”
Tucker Carlson
Via SDA comments
http://www.smalldeadanimals.c
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Gun control = population control.
The hotspots for gun crime in the USSA are the gun prohibition cities like NY and Chicago, as unarmed people make easy targets, in both senses.
Even das gubermint’s own data for many years, courtesy of the FBI and DOJ PROVE it.
A gun is just a tool like any other if used properly. Being used improperly by gubermints in foreign orchestrated wars is the real crime.
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“Never trust a Govt that uses guns they ban you from owning”
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The world’s biggest Dalek collection, over 1200
https://youtu.be/V7bXTOqZGG0
Strange, I thought the WEF, world gubermints and puppets held that title.🤣
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It’s in Canberra, they are called Albos.
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Friday strangeness – plane at the edge of a cliff.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rh5mqbNACG1rsiwsh.mp4
No idea what the deal is, but I wouldn’t be walking out on the wing.
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Nice beach mobile home.
High winds could be a problem.
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First: Be careful about your shoes.
I once had to refuel a Hastings, an ugly toad like pommy aircraft, a tail dragger with a thick wing chord. The wing was damp and I reckon that, even with my approved shoes, had I stepped far off the marked walkway I would have been on my arse, very sore, on the deck.
http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/7/9/1454972.jpg?v=v40
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I have the same symptoms as Dr Phelps and I finished up at the hospital because I past out and slammed my head on the concrete floor.
The doctor said that I probably past out due a drop in blood pressure, but none of the three doctors told me that it was covid vaccine related even though the first doctor ask if I had been vaccinated recently.
They recommended I wear a Heart monitor for 24 hours which I did. A month later my curiosity got the better of me and I rang up and ask if I could have the results of the monitoring, and the reply was the monitor didn’t work and that would have to be sent away for repair.
Clearly I had been fed crap!
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Obviously made by the same company that makes the Police cameras that never work at the crucial times, and Police Station interview room cameras that also suffer failures at the most important time.. I recall they also made the 24/7 monitoring cameras for Epstein’s cell..
Easy enough to buy your own Fitbit and heart pressure monitor, then build up your personal records.
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I am more concerned about hypotension than hypertension. The difference between my systolic and diastolic is almost never less than 60 points, sometimes 70 points.
But this “pandemic” has proven that GPs tend to work on autopilot.
Your BP is still high, here’s a stronger pill. Thank you Madam Dr.
I wasn’t feeling well so left the dinner table to go upstairs. As I walked into the bedroom I fell like a bag of spuds. I wasn’t unconscious because as I fell my glasses hit the corner of the dressing table. There go my glasses I thought. When I hit the floor I said to self, “Relax you can’t fall further”.
Imagine if I was driving?
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“EU Approves a €28 Billion German Renewable Energy Scheme”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/22/eu-approves-e28-billion-german-renewable-energy-scheme/
Blueprint for Elbow’s next move?
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Gosh, isn’t that what they’ve been doing for the last 30 years or so?
When are they going to work out it’s useless?
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FWIW!
“Academics Pursue Project to ‘Decolonize Physics’”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/22/academics-pursue-project-to-decolonize-physics/
Sounds more like “physic”
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/physic
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Or, I guess, you can’t use “:” in a physics publication?
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That was published in “Physics in Canada” for your “edification”
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I wouldn’t mind a stiff reward from the Govt of Canada for being on a Goodleaf! Someone throwing taxpayers money at their friends/relatives..
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An important message from London.
They are having an Xmas Not Of Color.
Cold is the New Warm.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rZSBCXBIOaXA/
Merriness to all. (I know we can’t say ‘all lives matter’, so I apologize for ‘all’.)
(Merriness to those of applicable cultural, religious, ethnic and gender orientation.)
We have 1024, or so days, left.
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Flashback to a previous xmas:
Christmas
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
There’s just one thing I need
I don’t care about the presents
and all that capitalist greed.
I just want to stop climate change
Though my friends think I’m deranged
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas
Is to impose my world-view.
I don’t want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don’t care about the presents
And would never cut down a tree
I don’t buy china made stockings
And would never light my fireplace
Santa Claus won’t make me happy
His plastic toys are a disgrace.
I just want to fight global warming
i don’t care if i am conforming
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas
Is to impose my world-view.
I won’t ask for much this Christmas
I won’t even wish for snow
I’m just gonna keep on waiting
For the big coal overthrow
I won’t make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
I would rather stay awake
and study Mann’s hockey stick.
I just want to get climate right
Thats why i won’t turn on the light
What more can i do?
Baby all I want for Christmas is
to impose my world-view.
No lights are shining
There is darkness everywhere
And the sound of children’s
Laughter vanished into thin air.
Nobody is singing
But i hear those alarm bells ringing
Santa won’t you help me with my scruple
And make Christmas Carbon Neutral.
Oh I don’t want a lot for Christmas
This is all I’m asking for
I just want to see this world
Become like Orwell’s 1984
I just want warming to slow
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is to impose my world-view.
Baby all I want for Christmas is to impose my world-view.
Baby all I want for Christmas is to impose my world-view.
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FWIW
https://prostitutescollective.net/financial-times-the-women-turning-to-sex-work-to-make-ends-meet%ef%bf%bc/
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FWIW – Ukraine
“A Small Price (for us) To Pay”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/23/a-small-price-for-us-to-pay/#comments
I wonder if “The Mouse that Roared” is one of the Z-man’s favourites?
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The EU has a problem, they just realised it, the have to much vaxx doses, in billion € value…
They try to discuss about contracts…
😁😁😁
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We have what may be new green language. Weather is nit climate, right? But now weather is a “climate event”!
See “Impacts to transportation infrastructure from extreme weather and other climate events can cause immediate or longer-term changes in the way people use local infrastructure and where they choose to locate. ”
Sentence 1 here: https://mailchi.mp/nas/apply-now-rfp-on-managed-retreat-to-address-extreme-weather-natural-hazards-and-climate-impacts?e=11bd51549a
Political vagueness personified.
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Nothing what’s not climate or climatechange related.
One drop rain to much or less, one degree to much or less, what evewr, it’s climate.
The difference between climate and weahter, completely lost out of not existing little brains.
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Should be an answer to David Wojick
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Australia, the world’s most fanatical follower of UN decrees.
So, here it comes.
“If you see anyone posting anti-government, anti-police, anti-Covid conspiracy rhetoric, call police or Crime Stoppers”
https://youtu.be/mOj0h8G7qSI
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Next week we will start into 2023, not 1984
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A waking Rip van Winkle might not be able to tell the difference?
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After a very deep dive, I have figured this out. The – request- for hearing has been made; but it won’t be considered by the SCOTUS until their meeting Jan 6. Only then will the decision to hear or not hear will be made.
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https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/words-shakespeare-invented/
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From this morning’s “Covid and Coffee Newsletter”
” Speaking of life expectancies, back in February the International Journal of General Medicine published an under-reported study titled, “Total Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis of 175 Contemporary Populations.”
The study — of 175 countries! — compared meat and carb intake with life expectancy, after controlling for a whole bunch of factors like caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, and education levels. Their conclusion:
Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies… In contrast, carbohydrate crops showed weak and negative correlation with life expectancy… Meat intake, or its adequate replacement, should be incorporated into nutritional science to improve human life expectancy.
I demand an immediate national program increase meat production, to counteract falling U.S. life expectancies”.
This will have to get buried (/s)
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Things getting hairy in Scottish parliament.
https://order-order.com/2022/12/23/chaos-in-the-pubic-gallery/
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One way of expressing your summation of an idea – with attention that the verbal version wouldn’t have received!
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“The Effect of the COVID-19 Vaccine on the Menstrual Cycle Among Reproductive-Aged Females in Saudi Arabia”
“Nobody knows why, but this is of no concern whatsoever.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/23/safe-and-effective-105/
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In comments there
“Dr. Malhotra: “If you smoked, ate badly, & never exercise you are better off than taking the VAXX”.
UK Cardiologist December 9, 2022”
And other comments there
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Canadian Firearms laws!!!!
“Butt Of A Joke”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/23/butt-of-a-joke/
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“Now the Cleveland Clinic publishes a study that, once again across tens of thousands of employees, all with access to excellent medical care since they work for a medical concern, have the exact opposite outcome the jab proponents claim: Take them and you are less-likely to get sick.
No you’re not.
The more jabs you have the more likely you are to get sick.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247688
Also mentions a study on HCQ working that got “forgotten”
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“The modern slave trade”
https://youtu.be/CIWvk3gJ_7E
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/24/the-modern-slave-trade/
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“Guest Post: Mother Lode – A Pagan Christmas”
Read and find out
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/24/guest-post-mother-lode-a-pagan-christmas/
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So this American woman takes her kid’s Girl Scouts troop to the Xmas show at Radio City, she was pulled aside and told by security she wasn’t allowed in. She works for a firm of lawyers that is currently suing the company behind the show.
What I found interesting is they picked her out, knew her name and who she worked for, by using a facial recognition program loaded with people they wanted to deny entrance to.
So its not just Bunnings using it, you really will be personally tracked everywhere you go it seems, and banned from places that disagree with you
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2022/12/23/no-entry-for-enemies-of-jimmy/#more-50240
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“Your Home is The Alamo, Act Like It
December 23, 2022 | Sundance | Leave a comment
Perhaps the #1 question I see raised in our discussion is a variation on “what are we going to do about it?” ”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/23/your-home-is-the-alamo-act-like-it/#more-241298
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FWIW
Better hope he’s wrong – but it would be better on that if it were was someone else doing the analysis
“In It To Win It & All Means Necessary collides with Existential Threat Perception in Russia”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/in-it-to-win-it-all-means-necessary-collides-with-existential-threat-perception-in-russia/
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Also FWIW
“Uses & abuses of military history
by Victor Davis Hanson”
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/1/uses-abuses-of-military-history
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