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Dyslectics of the world untie.
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DAU…. United Dyslectics Association.
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Please don’t forget DNA.
National Dyslectics Association.
I’m a member, I think.
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Have you heard about the dyslectic athiest? Lies awake all night wondering if there is a dog.
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you mean agnostic? By definition an atheist doesn’t wonder about the existence of dog.
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He actually was a pedantic, dyslectic, agnostic insomniac.
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Well in that case
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FAIL!
An atheist still wonders as like all believers (he believes in the impossible to prove and hence IS a believer) he occasionally has doubts. An agnostic knows that there is no answer to that question and doesn’t bother.
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errr no, the burden of proof isnt on the atheist. They have nothing to prove.
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Then prove there is no god. Atheists make an assertion then typically deny the need to prove it. Good One! What believers think has nothing to do with the atheism premise. Atheism is the negative twin of theism and is just another belief structure: dogmatic, evangelical and has no proof. The absence of evidence is not proof. Rather hypocritical IMO to say that the “burden of proof” lies only on one side.
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Funny. Prove something to prove where the burden of proof lies.
Atheists don’t really make an assertion. Christians do. Atheists just respond to the assertion that they don’t believe the assertion. How can the burden of proof be on the Athiest when the Christian can’t prove their assertion.
Christianity is a “faith” for a reason.
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To Strop:
you have missed the point utterly. I am not a theist, atheist or deist and frankly I find the proselytizing by any who are such, to be rude and ignorant.
Sure, believers claim that there is a god: aka a faith in the impossible to prove.
BUT! Atheists who claim to simply tell them to prove it as a test of “proof” have evolved into a belief structure, or faith if you will, also, as they are aggressive, dogmatic, evangelical and equally have NO proof either. Atheism is the negative mirror image of theism and equally on the same insecure ground. It is really not that hard to understand.
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To Will.
I didn’t miss the point. We just don’t agree.
Yarpos said the burden of proof is not on the athiest. You responded with, “Then prove there is no god”. Yarpos wasn’t making a statement that there isn’t a god. Just stating an opinion on where the burden of proof lies and your reply was not appropriate.
I’m a Christian. I believe God is the creator and Jesus is the son of God. That means I accept certain other things which affect how I live my life (or should according to the bible’s teachings) and how I think others should. Athiests don’t have any obligation resulting from their non belief in God.
The Christian has the burden.
If I told you there was a guinea pig living behind Ayers Rock and therefore you had to believe that or face a consequence, you’d say, “Ok, what proof do you have the guinea pig exists”.
For me to then reply and say, “Well, I haven’t seen it. No one I know has seen it. In fact I don’t know of any credible claims by anyone to have seen it. But a book was written about it so therefore you have to prove it doesn’t exist rather than me prove my claim that it does exist”.
Would you really say that you take on the burden of proof simply because you don’t believe something I can’t prove?
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Interesting reply and unexpected TSTL.
I am agnostic as befits a quantum universe although I do believe in (and have personal evidence) of immortal souls. Strange that isn’t it?
I seem to spend far too much of my little IT time in wars with k*ran bashers, leftist atheists or the odd fanatical Christian. I see the man, JoN as the liberating soul of the west and hopefully mankind and mo as his antithesis. I have no time at all for organized religion (resigned from the Anglican church as 10yo) as it is, and always has been, political man at work (current pope epitomizes that).
But to the point: having copped the argument from both sides: theists and atheists, I can see that both of their arguments are parallel. One makes a statement about a fact and the other disagrees and asks them to prove it: the burden of proof lying on the one who stated the “fact”.
Where we differed was that your comment applied to what was specific and said above and I can see that now.
While my comment was general and applied to the whole argument/debate overall.
I almost always have this problem with atheists as I am not a theist and when they try their little “burden of proof” tactic upon me, I always say that I make no such claim as I can never know the truth and that they are, in essence, stating an unprovable fact to me, as the basis of their stance, and then the “burden” of proof lies upon them. Being a theist yourself you would never have met this as they place you on the defensive immediately by dropping that upon you. You belie your avatar name.
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The original version:
Have you heard about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac?
He lies awake all night, wondering if there is a dog.
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I defer to TattyMane and ponder how for some a label once applied means there is no scope to wonder/reflect on anything outside their definition.
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Thought he sold his soul to Santa.
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Did you ever see the dyslectic cooking show/porn movie Debbie Does Salad?
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A group of Nuns made their own version – Debbie Doesn’t.
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Look on the bright side if you are dyslexic. Personalized number plates are easier to get.
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The Energy Storage Conundrum
“When you do the simple arithmetic to calculate the storage requirements and the likely costs, it becomes obvious that the entire project is completely impractical and unaffordable.”
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-1-the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived
Full paper: https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/11/Menton-Energy-Storage-Conundrum.pdf
“This report seeks to shine a light on the critical aspects of the energy storage
problem that governments have been willfully ignoring.”
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What makes me laugh (or is it cry?) is that we will have endless supplies of cheap clean energy and the means to cheaply store it, except for one problem. The technologies to do all this do not actually exist and some of the proposals seem to defy the laws of physics
This from the report, which sums up these delusional people well;
“Menton writes that the push to Net Zero without a fully demonstrated and costed solution to the energy storage conundrum “is analogous to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, and assuming that the parachute will be invented, delivered and strapped on in mid-air in time to save you before you hit the ground”
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But watch the other hand –
“King Coal: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/king-coal-reports-of-my-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated-apologies-to-mark-twain/
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The UN muppets don’t actually want us to have ready access to power, that’s why they are going all out to make it as expensive as possible, to limit usage, same with your cars.
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… is a more likely motivation for limiting energy storage capacity to less than 0.1% of what is necessary to meet the proposed timeline of transition to “net zero”.
So what is the underlying motivation for these measures?
Surely, at some stage along the path to destroying the energy source required to support the present human population, you might expect that population to wake up to the fact that they are being subjected to genocide on a vast scale?
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It’s not that passive.
They actually want us to not have power.
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and that has nothing to do with electricity or vehicle fuel.
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Well the governor of the ARB went on record in the senate last week saying “that we never embarked on this to lower energy costs, but rather to save the planet”, so forget about “cheap and free”, they’re coming out of the woodwork now to show us the “change of the global financial system” will just be a different bunch screwing the consumer, and even more so than in the past. It was always about control and a battle for the money, and nothing else. The bunch that’s playing for the power grab just seems a bit more scary than the devils we currently know.
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It’s time to ask, save the planet from what? Or for what?
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The analysis ignores (and our fake media ignores/hides) the current fiscal/economic existential crisis and ignores the fact that schemes will not reduce CO2 emissions.
The battery storage schemes do not significantly reduce a country’s CO2 footprint if the energy to produce the battery storage systems and replace the batteries every 7 to 10 years is considered. All of the fake green energy calculations assumed future miracle ‘breakthroughs’ where lithium-ion battery storage system costs drop to 100 kWh, while actual lithium-ion battery storage system costs, are roughly $500/kWh and are increasing not decreasing due to material shortages and high input energy costs.
The UK, US, France, Italy, Germany and so on have run out of the ‘ability’ to borrow more and more money every year. The super in debt, countries are going to be forced to balance budgets and reduce energy costs. There is therefore no means/GDP to pay for the super green scam. The US cannot borrow $350 trillion dollars to pay for a scheme that will just make electricity super expensive and will cause economic collapse.
Quote from the paper.
“If you further assume that the cost could be closer to $500/kWh than $100, then the total price for the (William: US battery storage of 230,000 MWh at $500/kWh) storage could go to $350 trillion. By comparison, the full annual US GDP is less than $25 trillion. And lithium-ion batteries only last a few years, and would then need to be replaced.”
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Just as Blackrock, Vanguard and State street has snuffled up 15% of all the stocks on Earth to control things via their WEF muppets, a question that is NEVER answered is WHO are these countries indebted to? WHO is controlling the flow of capital toward “sustainable energy”. What is being “Sustained” – sustenance- poverty. (^D^)
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Great idea!
A bomb in every home.
That is what I remember someone on wattsupwiththat commented many years ago when they thought about how much energy was required to be stored to power a dwelling for long enough to be of any logical use.
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https://indaily.com.au/news/2022/11/24/torrens-island-power-station-to-close-in-2026/
3.5 years until SA runs out of spinning inertia
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In a previous thread I posted this
“Here you go, pay particular attention to the chart on page 16. materials intensity to build turbines
https://www.blackrock.com/uk/literature/interim-report/blackrock-energy-and-resources-income-trust-plc-en-gb-2019-interim-report.pdf
It goes to an excellent graphic showing the vast amounts of material to build wind turbines. Has anyone seen anything similar that relates to solar panels or even better solar farms intended to deliver substantial amounts of power? It would be useful to be able to put the two together
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Not that I’ve seen. There are some interesting niches for solar. An example is at Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington State.
Here are two locations:
46.916461, -121.653095 Building with diesel generators
46.914499, -121.643784 Buildings with solar panels
The second location is the main compound of the Sunrise Visitors Center, elevation 6,400 feet. It is open to visitors during July/August/September, the three sunny months.
Until recently, electricity was provided by generators in the building at the first location, ½ mile from the parking lot. Fuel was carried from sea level, I think Tacoma. This is 65 miles – one way.
Solar panels have been added to the two buildings behind the main Visitor center. Compare the current image with the one from 2017.
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Re the Blackrock chart. Because of the difference between Nameplate and Capacity Factor, shouldn’t the wind turbine figures be multiplied by at least 3?
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Not only that Hatrack but all those turbines would have to be replaced every 20 years or so whilst the gas turbine would last 40 or 50 years with proper maintenance. So you would have to multiply your figure of 3 by a further 2 to 2.5 to get a result of at least 7.
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I’ve put this reference up here several times now.
https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf
Even the abstract deals in some detail on the real issues, including your questions. The core of this report was summarised recently on WUWT, where the estimated “scarcity” of critical minerals, including rare earths, resulted in (eg) known copper ore deposits globally being 90% short of estimated requirements for 2030, and germanium (IPhones, anyone ?) needing another 4000 years to achieve supply.
Oh well …
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Ianl
Thanks very much.
That is a massive piece of work. I will try and read through it over the next few days. As yet I don’t know if it answers the question of a nice simple graphic that shows solar requirements that is as clearly set out as on Page 16 of my link regarding wind turbines.
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Railroad workers in the US can do everything possible to help the system work and the trains run on time….or they can do everything possible to strictly enforce every single work rule, inspection rule, and safety rule to the letter. And cause chaos.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/railroad_workers_get_railroaded_again.html
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They put rules in place, then expect everybody to work around them.
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A lot of rules are at the union insistence, not the company’s. This is precisely so they can cause the chaos you describe.
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Aussie Road Block Climate Protestor Sentenced to Actual Jail Time
Essay by Eric Worrall
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/aussie-road-disrupting-climate-protestor-sentenced-to-actual-jail-time/
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UK: Watch: Waitresses at Salt BAE’s Restaurant Physically Remove Animal Rebellion Protestors
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/03/watch-waitresses-salt-baes-restaurant-physically-remove-animal/
Activists have targeted the Knightsbridge steak restaurant owned by Salt Bae.
The Animal Rebellion group, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, said eight people entered the Nusr-Et steakhouse in the upmarket central London district at about 6pm and sat at tables which were already reserved.
Salt Bae, whose real name is Nusret Gokce and who shared a picture of himself at the World Cup on Friday, became a viral internet hit for his technique of sprinkling salt on to his dishes.
The protest group said in a press release it is calling for “a plant-based food system and mass rewilding”.
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Like saturated fat has been exonerated, Salt is only deleterious for 1% of the population that has hypertension due to salt sensitivity. The remaining 99% then over eat on low salt foods to get the salt they need. In a huge study of salt consumption (measured by urine collection and analysis) vs all cause mortality, the optimal salt intake is 4g-6g a day. And here is the Heart foundation and meddling dietitians screeching for us to have 1.6 g a day until 2017 when they allowed 2 g a day. A trend I see is “they” want us poor and unhealthy as possible. Dietitians seem oblivious to the orchestra of hormones that control metabolism and satiety! No wonder they are dancing in the dark about why our biggest cost in the health system is NIDDM which basically didn’t exist 200 years ago- was an extremely uncommon disease.
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I remember as a medical student 40 years ago seeing a senior nephrologist, one of the smartest doctors I have ever known, sprinkling salt very liberally over his lunch in the hospital cafeteria.
When we students asked him why he used so much salt, when it was apparently a major health risk, he replied that “that’s why God gave us kidneys”.
I have since subscribed to that sage advice, and food tasted all the better for it
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I buy salted butter. On toast it needs no jam, tastes good.
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We all had to take daily salt tablets in New Guinea & the Solomon islands, & of course anywhere else with a hot climate, & up the number taken if working hard, to replace the salt lost in sweet.
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Ditto in the British Army at one time.
If I have ever been very warm and ‘glowing’ (!!) and start to feel a bit nauseous, a half teaspoon of salt in a glass of water cures it in 30 minutes.
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I picked up some pretty good head injuries in an air crash a long time ago when I was a young soldier. The cardiac arrythmia onset 12 months later had me and the cardiologists stumped. Exploratory surgery with a view to maze treatment, etc…nothing abnormal detected.
30 years later, after a lot of personal research, I can now tell 10 times out of 10 when my electrolytes are low because my heart starts buggering up.
Turns out decent head injuries lead to endocrine problems. My fight/flight thing leads me to produce far too much adrenaline. Consumables for that also happen to be magnesium etc. Explains the constant diarhoea and the heat intolerance for 3 decades; I’ve essentially been shit-scared for 30 years.
It’s mainly potassium and magnesium I’m low on because I now make sure I get plenty of sodium and calcium in my diet.
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Head injuries also change gut flora. Bizarre eh? There are things that need fixing after severe head injuries, not just heads. And perhaps this affects your electrolytes too?
Study links concussion to changes in gut bacteria
https://newatlas.com/medical/study-concussion-gut-bacteria/
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/leading-medicine-blog/articles/2022/jan/what-the-gut-microbiome-can-tell-us-about-concussions/
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when cooking/baking use salted butter and forget the salt shaker (added salt)
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We used to make butter with The Kangaroo Butter Churn. And for kids that wasn’t light work.
Part of the procedure was to wash the butter with a bit of salt in the water. I always wondered why the salt? I didn’t think it was to change the flavour, or to preserve the butter. But maybe it altered the way the wash worked.
The butter had a beautiful flavour, rarely matched in the shops. The Hunter Valley Dairy company sold Oak butter with that flavour, but with all their milk going to the Sydney fresh milk market they imported butter from Victoria in half hundredweight blocks and packaged it at Hexham.
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This bloke makes some good stuff in his tiny kitchen – and here he makes delicious sounding butter. Haven’t tried it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FSihHtAjio
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A dear friend of ours lived to 103, having always been very liberal with her salt intake.
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A quick test that I’ve heard for salt adequacy – if you are sweating lick the skin. If it doesn’t taste salty you need more.
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The other one I learnt whilst in shipping – if it’s hot and sunny, especially if doing physical work, look at the colour of your urine.
If straw coloured or lighter, you’re getting enough water – but take salt tablets.
If darker than straw – you need fluids, water or milk; and salt tablets.
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People would be much healthier on meat and animal products ONLY. All required nutrients including Vitamin K2 can be obtained from grass fed meat or certain soft cheeses. Vitamin D is present in only small amounts so as with other diets still needs safe levels of sun or supplements.
Salt should be according to taste only or for known sensitivity as Strop pointed out.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-020-00407-1.
Salt sensitivity is:
The Left are now heavily pushing insects as “food” and claim they are nutritious. I doubt it and won’t be eating them in any case. They have already snuck insects into 1000 Aussie schools.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
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Speaking of insects, “Slugger” Sutton shut down a food company over a picture of a slug- they were avante garde!
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IIRC that was a “competition slug”?
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Disappeared from view after the St Basil’s inquiry hearings.
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You leave me no choice but to report you to Herr Schwab. Sorry.😁
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I have to confess, the other day, I did swallow a fly. But then, I’m an old lady.
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Just remember to stop before you get to the horse, Aunt Janet.
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Well, that’s funny MV. Your comment wasn’t showing when I put mine up.
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You haven’t worked your way up to the horse, obviously?!
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Far too much of modern health advice is based on misinformation.
Fat was demonised by the sugar industry decades ago and so people equated dietary fat with body fat and they shunned fat in food. Low fat became the new fad, but the reality is of course that sugar is the real problem.
Salt too gets a bad rap. It’s essential for the body and you could consume 10x the RDA no problem. Your kidneys are salt city! That’s how they work.
Low carb, low cholesterol etc – just profit making fads.
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Did you mean “low fat, low cholesterol”?
Cholesterol is a repair molecule. It fixes the damage done to the endothelium from inflammation. It is NOT bad. People with sky high cholesterol do not have increased heart disease. It is interesting that only 500 g of glycogen (carb storage) exists between the liver and the muscles. Once that is filled, the carbs turned to fat. Fat storage is unlimited essentially. We also derive twice the energy per weight from fat vs carb/protein.Uncontrolled glucose excursions is essentially diabetes with the other elements of “Metabolic syndrome”. By eating “Low fat” and “Plant seed oils” in addition to sugar being in 80% of the products sold as food in supermarkets we destroy our bodys. David is right- the base of the Food pyramid should be a cow, the middle a pig and the peak a Hen. In real terms, Ronald McDonald will kill more Chinese than any tactical nuclear warhead delivered by a b21 bomber!
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No, but add “low fat” to the list anyway. Low carb has mostly replaced low fat.
“Low anything” seeks to blame specific food types for health and obesity and drastically reduce or eliminate them.
It’s an example if the ridiculous reducability notion. Everything can be blamed on/explained by/eliminated by/cured by one thing.
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Sorry but low carb diets have been shown to mitigate (even reverse) the effects of type 2 diabetes.
However self control is required to see the results.
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Ozfred:
Yes, I know, but you’re missing the point.😉
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“How Ancel Keys Brainwashed the Masses Into Fearing Meat (He’s Wrong)”
https://carnivoreaurelius.com/ancel-keys/
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Also there has been some “medical trial archaeology” on a big US diet/cholesterol/heart attack study with which he was associated. Someone noted a scarcity of results in the literature and tracked down a grandson of one of the authors, who it turned out, had the whole data collection – punch cards, PDP 11 tapes etc. He found someone who still had the gear to read that and they went looking.
IIRC diet could reduce cholesterol level but that didn’t reduce expiration from heart attacks.
Found it!
“Records Found in Dusty Basement Undermine Decades of Dietary Advice
Raw data from a 40-year-old study raises new questions about fats”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-dusty-basement-undermine-decades-of-dietary-advice/
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/10/12/the-sound-of-settled-science-58/
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IIRC They swept that bit under the carpet as it disappointed them. I understand the diet heart hypothesis of Saturated fat- cholesterol – ischaemic heart disease was busted 50 years ago. The Sydney heart study busted it. In fact, we should enter the Diet- Heart hypothesis in the Guiness book of records for being able to be debunked countless times while still being accpeted. IIRC Ancel Keys ran his theory past a room of European Physiologists and they laughed at him. He then became a scientific villain pushing his dud hypothesis at the Presidential level (Ike). Later in life he tried to recant that lowering cholesterol in foodstuffs was futile (we just make more de novo) but it was too little too late. The “Mediterranean Diet” was basically a Junket to escape the North American winter. It is a confabulation.
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What’s in Nutella?
Choccy and hazelnuts?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/cbbd452cfa79607cad31d0843435442a/29479e8f2ee971f4-c3/s1280x1920/d9e5cb4f34df4b3187c3623d1a714ce253e907da.jpg
Type 2 diabetes in a jar…
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If the rerwilding includes me, I’m for it.
I would assume the plant eaters return to their previous evolutionary status of prey.
I would also expect their eyes to evolve to the sides of their heads.
They already express herd behavior.
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A good start but a pathetically low sentence and not enough to discourage it (preferred pronoun unknown) or others from doing it or similar again.
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On appeal she will be lauded by the reviewing judge and released. A bit like the other deluded lass who blocked the harbour tunnel and was exonerated by a north coast magistrate. Demonstrate of course, but when you disrupt others going about their work and inhibit emergency services you need to pay a penalty.
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4 Chinese people tell why they are protesting against President XI
https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/four-chinese-tell-why-theyre-protesting-xi-zero-covid-policy/
Bearing in mind that lockdown restrictions have been eased today, it seems they have had some success. Mind you, some of the horrors sound a bit like the reports coming out of Victoria, which shocked me as did the behaviour of many of Oz’s police, who obviously thought they were part of the SAS and the general public were the enemy
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Not trying to excuse the behaviour of the various state police forces in Australia, but they exist to uphold laws defined by their respective governments, not to help people – except where helping people coincides with upholding laws.
Do some police officers go above and beyond their basic duties to help people? I guess so, but when push comes to shove, thats’s not why they are around.
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“they exist to uphold laws defined by their respective governments, not to help people”
They apparently did not adopt the motto commonly adopted by US police forces, “To Protect and to Serve”. Ironically enough, this motto was originated by the Los Angeles, California police department, the police department that today is least likely to follow it.
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““they exist to uphold laws defined by their respective governments, not to help people” ”
Sounds like the motto of Centrelink!
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If “upholding the law” isn’t to help people generally, why do it? Defund.
It is certainly not the Army’s job to help citizens. Why do we insist they do, after every disaster?
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“Just following orders” or the plea of “superior orders” hasn’t been acceptable since the trials of Peter von Hagenbach (1474), the trial of Australian Breaker Morant (controversial) in the Boer War, Lieutenant Karl Neumann, U boat captain in WW1, and most famously the National Socialists in the Nuremberg trials.
Victorian police and other public serpents tasked with doing things contrary to Australian tradition would do well to remember that.
It was frightening to watch the enthusiasm and joy with which many of VicPol members assaulted fellow Victorians, used excessive force, shot fleeing people in the back with rubber bullets, sprayed people with chemical agents such as capsaicum spray (which is banned in warfare under Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention), patrolled the streets with armoured personnel carriers and issued some of the world’s (if not the world’s) largest fines for not following Dictator Dan’s decrees.
The mistreatment if Victorians by VicPol is used as stock film footage all around the world as examples of police brutality and covid lockup totalitarianism. It’s is embarrassing for all Australians.
They were acting as Dan Andrews’ personal thugs, not a police force of and for the people. Their behaviour was shameful and has massively damaged their reputation to the extent that many or most people don’t trust them any more.
Prior to the covid lockups in Victoria, I could never understand how certain people in a supposedly advanced society could commit atrocities such as were committed by the National Socialists and International Socialists. Thanks to VicPol, I now fully understand how easy it is to happen.
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But a dingo couldn’t take a baby?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11500415/Dramatic-moment-father-saves-two-year-old-daughter-ambushed-coyote.html
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It wouldn’t be much of a dingo that couldn’t drag or carry a 12 week infant.
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Germany Ordering Farmers No Fertilizer
From Armstrong Economics –
“Germany is to comply virtually immediately with the EU directive to end fertilizer following the same path as the Netherlands. There is just no support in the data for Climate Change Mania. This is part of an agenda that will no doubt reduce the population along with the termination of fossil fuels. These people want war it appears to reduce the population as well and the people are fools to buy into this agenda. The lowest peak average temperature was in the year 2000 at 72.7 degrees. The low in this data set was 1888 and 72.6.and it was 72.8 in 1869. That is when we were rising from the Mini Ice Age all without soccer-moms driving SUVs to take the kids to games and schools. This does not support the proposition that CO2 from the Industrial Revolution has caused climate change.
I am sure this post would be canceled in 3 seconds or less on YouTube and Google will block it. This is the government’s own data since 1869 on New York City. I do not see some drastic warming trend as they have argued. The temperatures have oscillated with the energy output of the sun and as we head into Solar Minimum, it will get colder and dryer into 2024.
I’m sorry, but this Climate Change is absurd and it certainly does not justify what is being carried out all in the name of saving the planet. It seems that they want to kill off our children and grandchildren – not theirs between reducing food production and creating World War III. They seem to be just evil.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/germany-ordering-farmers-no-fertilizer/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Translated:
Red alert among farmers in NRW: As of Thursday, there will be new rules on how to fertilize under pressure from Brussels. A bureaucracy gift shortly before Christmas, which causes sheer horror among farmers across the country – and was also an issue in the state parliament on Wednesday.
In the specialist committee, Minister of Agriculture Silke Gorißen (50, CDU) said that she considered the expansion of the areas to be a “step backwards”, has long been pushing for exceptions, especially for exemplary farmers, and speaks of “urgent need for action”.
The new regulation means that the area on which less fertilizer can be used will be drastically increased from the last 165,000 to 500,000 hectares – a third of the usable area!
Gussen explains: “If a wheat field requires 200 kilos of fertilizer for optimal yield, farmers would now be forced to use 40 kilos less. That means falling yields and the quality of the wheat will suffer!”
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“They seem to be just evil”. Now we’re getting to the truth of it – and guess what? The Bible (yes that one that it’s fashionable to despise nowadays) tells us so.
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The Dark Agenda Behind the WEF’s Green Energy Push…
“Recently, the COP27 meeting concluded in Egypt with the World Economic Forum laying out 40 metrics the world must accomplish by 2030, including the below ones that I thought were the most revealing of the ones they outlined:
(1) Shut down 925 average-size coal plants a year;
(2) Increase public transportation infrastructure 6X’s faster than the current rate to decrease individual driving;
(3) Lower CO2 from cement production 10X’s faster than the current rate;
(4) Reduce the rate of deforestation 2.5X’s faster;
(5) Shift to plant-based diets 5X’s faster (call for a drastic reduction in beef consumption per capita in developed nations); and
(6) Phase out oil subsidies 5X’s faster”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-12-02/dark-agenda-behind-wefs-green-energy-push
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Which oil subsidies would that be?
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So they will stop burning trees?
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And both China and Russia did not attend this ‘BS Talk-Fest’. Not too sure what India agreed to but with the number of Coal Fired Power Station Plants being planned for and built per year just in China and India, Item 1 on that List is impossible to achieve for a start.
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India was one of the leading forces negotiating the “road map” forward with Chris Bowen from Australia parroting everything the Indians were saying (we must DO SOMETHING), but the caveat will most probably be that “The West” must do everything and India gets classified as a developing country and are absolved of any obligation.
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According to Wikipedia there are 8500 coal plants in the world.
At the suggested rate of 935 per year it would take about 9 years to destroy them all.
Of course, Australia as the world’s most fanatical follower of the UN, WEF and the anthropogenic global warming fraud, will redouble its efforts and do it in half the time.
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They won’t all be destroyed – they’ll all be rebuilt new and you beauter in China, India et al
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I don’t understand their Beef with Beef!
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Strop. It’s not the cattle that they want to get rid of. It’s the small business capitalists who own the cattle.
When food gets scarce and the cattle range freely ‘they” will become hunters again.
When the Hawke government in 1986 started this campaign by putting their own brand of “social scientists” in charge of the real scientists at the CSIRO Agriculture was the last sector of the economy still dominated by small business capitalism. Neville Wran was the first chairman of the CSIRO who was not a scientist.
That was where this methane madness started.
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There’s a religious superstition dating back to at least the Middle Ages, that eating red meat is sinful, because it makes people virile and lustful. That’s why they would eat fish in order to cleanse themselves, or if they were very holy they would fast and not even eat the fish.
I doubt there’s a lot of science backing this … but the most likely guess is that for people who are often nutritionally deprived on borderline diets consisting of mostly carbs and chewy plant fiber, eating red meat made them healthier which in turn led to virility and probably other observable behavioural changes.
People have been trying to self-justify this superstition ever since, and this “War on Nitrogen” is just the latest ridiculous episode. You can be sure that plenty of the reddest meat will still be served at climate conferences … that’s one thing you never need worry about.
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‘Virile and lustful’? I like the sound of that.
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The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
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Their numbers would be orders of magnitude more than educated people and sea farers who thought it was flat in the time of Columbus.
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Today’s funny,
Presidential campaign collusion:
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/12/918/516/cartoon.png?ve=1&tl=1
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Here is a video (link below) of a teardown of an Audi S6 V10 5.2l engine. It produces 435hp.
This engine is ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated and difficult, expensive or impossible to maintain or repair. It might be “highly engineered” but it is not elegant because it is far too complicated for the job it has to do.
A slightly modified GM LS series V8 engine could easily produce the same power for the same displacement in a much simpler, maintainable, repairable, cheaper and elegant package and probably far more reliable as well.
According to one of the comments below the video, most Audis with this and other similar engines require the engine to be removed for many maintenance procedures.
Among many features of bad or excessively complicated design are timing chains at the rear of the engine, a water cooled alternator and shaft driven a/c compressor. Apparently a lot of owners therefore refuse to do the scheduled maintenance after the warranty period.
https://youtu.be/AMj5bIRqiLE
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Typical Euro trash.
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It’s a high end engine designed by computer to be as compact as possible and provide ever increasing power outputs up the model range and through the model life, with potential to turbocharge I expect, with minimal changes. It’s actually detuned, probably failed as someone was chasing 1000bhp+!
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And yet an LS engine with relatively simple, even DIY modifications (for the motoring enthusiast) could still match it in power and still be cheaper and likely far more reliable and certainly easier to maintain.
And when GM developed the LS engine from a clean sheet design, they determined after extensive testing that “obsolete” pushrods and only two valves per cylinder were perfectly adequate and suitable for future performance engine development.
Plus an LS engine is still light and compact, maybe more so than the Audi engine. E.g. a random example is that a GM 6.2 Liter V8 LS3 Engine weighs 183kg.
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Maybe so. But 4 valves per cylinder gives much better breathing and hence potentially more power. Also the spark plug can be optimally placed in the centre of the cylinder head.
Push rods increase the mass of the valve train and limit rpm.
Push rods and 2 valves per cylinder seems very antequated nowdays.
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And yet when GM did the clean sheet design for the LS series engine, all possible engine configuration is were considered. Push rods and only two valves per cylinder might be considered antiquated but it works. And if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I would much rather drive an LS powered car, than any Euro engine, and I do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_LS-based_small-block_engine?wprov=sfla1
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The choice of pushrods instead of over head cams, was likely to keep the physical size of the engine smaller.
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“But 4 valves per cylinder gives much better breathing and hence potentially more power. Also the spark plug can be optimally placed in the centre of the cylinder head.”
You can do that spark plug layout with a 2-valve hemi head – check an older Pommy motorbike or a 4-cylinder Alfa for example
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Having 4 valves also means they don’t need to open as wide so the engine can be “free running” if the timing belt breaks, as I found with my little 1.6 Honda Integra. No holed pistons.
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“Push rods and 2 valves per cylinder seems very antequated nowdays.”
By the fashion of the moment.
IIRC even double breasted suits made a comeback.
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The most powerful engines in motorsport are pushrod engines
Serviceability and reliability matter as much as outright performance
Forced induction has made the valve configuration discussion retro beer talk. a bit like tuned length extractors
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You prefer your American V8s and getting wasted by euro trash and JDM shopping cars, that’s cool. Each to their own.
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Vrooom.
https://www.hotcars.com/audi-r8-stock-engine-1800-horsepower/
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“5 miles or 5 minutes”?
Or “the way to big horsepower – cubic inches and cubic money”
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I worked out decades ago that poverty is owning Euro cars.
While speaking of unrepairable engines the Jag V12 deserves an honourable mention. Those that weren’t just parked in a shed had a V8 fitted.
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Yes, often with an LS, although purists hate it.
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Remember the NZ “E Type Worrier”?
A full house Corvette drive train in a Mk 3 Zephyr body.
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The fastest land vehicle in the world has two valves per cylinder and pushrods.
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1968 I won the Bathurst Gold Star Formula 1 race driving a Brabham Repco. The engine was a 2.5L single over head cam 2 vertical valves per cylinder engine developed by Repco using A Rover/Buick alloy V8 block.
It was so simple that a mate & I had rebuilt the thing in a West Ryde suburban back yard garage. Simplicity was it’s advantage giving the reliability to win 2 world championships in it’s 3.0L form, against the best the world could offer.
Simple does not mean cheap. It used the best of metals, & could rev all day to it’s red line of 9700 RPM.It was only red lined at that as higher revs produced less power.
The more complication the more chance a 5 cent O ring will fail & destroy the whole thing.
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Has-been,
I was at the 1963 Bathurst races, when they used to have 2 days of bikes and 2 of cars. My boss drove his Studebaker Avanti down Conrod, to show it off. That was the year the sing of 11,000 rpm 4 valve DOHC 250 cc bike engines from Honda began to take the pants off the old 1 or 2 cylinder 500 cc thumpers. Being a petrol head persisted. My car today’s engine is the Holden supercharged 3.8 litre V6, which is more fun than a succession of 308 V8s from earlier years. Try GPO Kalgoorlie to GPO Perth in 5 hours flat.
From about 1950 to 1970 my Dad was a GMH rep who got a new latest Holden every 5 months, so a lot of Holden memories.
Despite that the most memorable car was a 1936 Buick straight 8 of about 6 litres that my brother bought for trips shooting kangaroos. Long stroke, electric engaged starter motor, on level ground I could get rolling in top gear with no clutch or throttle just by pressing the start button. I think we got it close to 100 mph a few times, but the mechanical brakes were hairy. Geoff S
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In the 1960s a gent managed to do Kal to Perth in under 4.5 hours. Had to outrun the constabulary though. Considering the state of the country roads at that time, that was quite an effort.
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Forgot to add that I was a passenger in a Monaro on a Kal to Perth run once, bunny-hopping around corners at 90 mph.
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Dr John Campbell looks at German post mortem pathology micrographs of people who were killed by the experimental covid vaccination.
I hope Goolag/YouTube don’t cancel him because of this as it goes against The Narrative and the Left hate alternative opinions.
https://youtu.be/j_DdSMn55cA
Link to journal article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5
Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination
SEE LINK FOR REST
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They try to hide side-effects of vaxxing, even the Charité is involved, that’s where Drosten, the German Corona “pope”, is director of the virological institute.
After the death of a patient, as the family believed by the booster shot, the docs wrote down the possible natural reason for the death and that an autopsy wasn’t desired, what was untrue, the family never was asked.
The family organised an autopsy on its own costs and the death reason was encephalitis and myocarditis, both under presence of vaxx spike proteins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxD9OHKbvXo
It’s subtiteld, and my have an automatic translation.
mdr is an German TV station part of the official public broadcasting.
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On the homepage of the same broadcaster mdr a comment was published:
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/panorama/corona-impfung-wirkung-kritik-ungeimpfte-100.html
The text is in German, you may have to translate it, it worth the effort !
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This is a video of an interview with patholgist Dr Ryan Cole. He explains why the vaccines (which produce wuhan spike protein) are more dangerous than infection with the current omicron virus.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/from-wildfire-cancers-to-foot-long-clots-dr-ryan-cole-explains-the-dangers-of-the-spike-protein_4813813.html
In the full interview he explains immunofluorescent histochemical stains and how they can be used to differentiate tissue damage from the vaccine from tissue damage caused by Covid virus infection
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Wuhan Whistleblower: Former EcoHealth VP Says Covid “Man Made”, Escaped From Lab
Just hours after we find out that the Hunter Biden laptop not only wasn’t “Russian disinformation”, but rather was being actively covered up by social media, another “conspiracy theory” that wound up costing tons of honest truth seekers their social media accounts (including Zero Hedge, who was first to talk about the lab leak all the way back in February 2020), is inching closer toward being validated as reality.
That’s because a scientist who formerly worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has now gone on record and has said that COVID was “man-made” and leaked from the lab.
The claims are according to the Post, who cited The Sun, who was provided a copy of the scientist’s forthcoming book.
The gravity of the allegations, which I have written about at length over the last year, would make the global Covid-19 pandemic cover up among the most stunning lies ever perpetrated on modern humanity.
The whistleblower, epidemiologist Andrew Huff, called the lab leak the “biggest US intelligence failure since 9/11″. He detailed his allegations in his book “The Truth About Wuhan”.
Huff is the former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, which studied coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He worked for the company from 2014 to 2016 and, per the Post:
[SNIP]
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wuhan-whistleblower-former-ecohealth-vp-says-covid-man-made-escaped-lab
Covid is just part of a much bigger and dirtier US-led bioweapons programme.
Dog help us if the other projects get loose…
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Interesting citation.
In my own case, I developed episodic cardiac arrhythmia within a week of receiving the second AstraZeneca vax.
I have a history of arrhythmia episodes associated with thiamine deficiency, caused by a variant Solute Carrier 19A2 gene.
The condition responded to an increase level of thiamine supplement. More than a year later I still appear to need an increased level of supplementation to avoid return of the symptoms.
Another member of my family received the vax on the same day, and also developed symptoms of thiamine deficiency (not the arrhythmia though- she has a CRT pacemaker).
She does not carry the defective thiamine transporter gene, but is susceptible to thiamine deficiency due to gastric bypass surgery.
Cardiac arrhythmia has been known to be a possible manifestation of thiamine deficiency since the 1920s (it’s called cardiac beriberi).
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Prima facie evidence that fruit and vegetables are not a natural part of the human diet is that in their natural state most are inedible, toxic and/or unusable. They required strong selective breeding to create their modern forms.
Meat and other animal products are the preferred and natural diet.
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And yet, while not a natural part of the diet, humans have found ways to use a lot of these plant products that go back to the dawn of time. The fact that many plants and their parts are also “energy dense” must have been recognised by early observers and ways found to utilize what was not nessescarily a primary food source. Things that spring to mind are acorns, bitter inedible and toxic and yet the mainstay of many North American primitve peoples who ground and leached the “flour” to make it safe to consume in large quantities. Some of Australia’s northern aboriginal tribes did the same with the fruits of cycad palms and ackee fruits in the Caribbean or fern fiddles in Japan, all are examples of utilizing a resource not really suited to humans. I guess the trade off is in the balance. One of the other things to consider is / was human life span. If life expectancy was say fifty years maybe the longer term effects of these foods was irrelevant. Jam another 30 years on top of that and the cumalitive effect may well be significant. A classic example would be smoking, most people can smoke for decades without to much effect on their lives, but it has major impacts in later life.
As aways David, life has many questions, absolute answers, not so many.
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Hi Sambar, in nature toxic foods taste bitter. Herbivores have far more taste buds for bitterness than omnivores and carnivores. When watching horses or sheep graze and you can see how careful and selective they are in picking which plants to eat. The aboriginal people soaked the fruits of the cycads for around 3 weeks to reduce their bitterness. Vegetarians know you must soak dried beans/peas overnight before you cook them. Kidney beans are particularly toxic.
Botanists such as Joseph Banks when examining new plants on their discovery tours, would take a tiny bit of leaf about the size of a match head and roll it around inside their mouth, if it tasted bitter they would then spit it out and classify it as poisonous. This technique is still used by modern botanists doing field work.
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A natural diet is what we eat so obviously claiming that F and V are eaten but are not natural is absurd.
As Sambar points out, humans have been supplementing meat with non meat for a very long time and it is surely one of the reasons we are so successful – it has allowed growth beyond the capacity of the land to provide meat and for mobility via carrying energy rich foods that don’t go off. Over such a long time selection will have acted in favour of the humans who have the genetics to digest and metabolise vegetable products – again a natural process.
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Natural selection likely occurred quite quickly as the economic and technological power manifested by farming readily displaced the hunter gather societes.
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I can see an argument there but not the hard selection argument you seem to be making.
There was a long period, like millions of years, before significant agriculture when selection was occurring. This simply meant that there was likely a lot of suitable variation in the population so that a shift to a higher percentage of a plant diet was quick but not so dramatic.
Also, farming societies WERE hunter gatherer societies a generation before relying on farming. They are the same people changing cultural practices. You are getting cultural and genetic evolution mixed up.
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“Over such a long time selection will have acted in favour of the humans who have the genetics to digest and metabolise vegetable products – again a natural process.”
A good example is people who have the ability to utilize dairy products as food, possibly exceeded by the people who are lactose intolerant.
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Dentition tells the same story
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Wolves eat berries, and yet grapes can be toxic. Cats can’t eat any vegetable matter.
We probably evolved to compliment our fish diet with vegetable matter rather than the other way around.
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Cats eat grass all the time … I’ve known lots of cats and they all eat grass.
Dunno how much nutrients they get out of it, but I think it mostly works to scrub them out.
Also worth noting that when cats eat meat, they do not slice out the prime cuts like humans do. Instead they usually eat the whole animal (not always) including the contents of their victim’s stomach, and the stomach itself.
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They do but not for nutrition, like dogs. Dogs, though, can digest vegetable matter for food. Cats are obligate carnivores. Because of this, you don’t feed your cat dog food that has high vegetable content. Although not toxic, like my comment might have suggested, just feeding on it will cause health problems.
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I should add that we evolved after learning to cook, so our digestive tract has evolved to not be omnivorous but cooked omnivorous. We would starve if we ate raw vegetables and the amounts of meat and fruit that our ancestors could find.
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Preferred yes. High energy yes. But hunters also gathered anything else they could find. You do that when you spend most of your waking hours searching for food, before the invention of agriculture a mere 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent.
So seeds and fruit were prized but rare in a post ice age Europe. The symbiotic relationship between primates and fruit elsewhere is obvious. It what makes Australia so different, no fruit and no monkeys, despite the remaining tropical environment. Monkeys in South America too arrived only recently, about 30,000 years ago by raft and were not native. Nor were the humans.
But in Africa and then SE Asia, fruit remains a major source of food for our nearest relatives and has always been so. Most trees are fruit trees. A corollary of this is that without fruit and grain stores Australian aborigines uniquely had no rotting carbohydrates to produce alcohol, so I believe they lack the gene to metabolize alcohol, which is a deadly poison to them. About 20% of Japanese have the same serious problem. In Africa I have seen videos of elephants and giraffes drunk on rotten fruit. Kangaroos are universally sober.
Anyway you can see the evolution our omnivore diet from the teeth, incisors for cutting, canines for ripping and molars for grinding and the history of our diets. No history book needed. And our teeth limited our lifespan, only two sets.
It is fascinating to see the very rapid growing ground plants from above the snowline. Pumpkin and squash grow with incredible speed in the short Northern summer and then hide in their thick impenetrable casings under the snow where large ruminants would find them, smash them, get a feed and spread the seeds. Growing pumpkins is fun. And until recently a minor infestation, humans learned from their larger relatives. Potatoes and beets also worked the same symbiotic distribution scheme, but have spread far rapidly with humans.
Then non sweet watery fruit like tomatoes. I am always amazed at the very poor diet of the Romans. It is hard to imagine Italians without tomatoes, potatoes, chillis, capcicum, spices, leavened bread, rice. Salt and beer were a currency and soldiers were paid in these, like the Egyptians. Thus sal for salt became salary. And fruit was prized, but rare. And citrus fruit had still to make the long journey from South East Asia where it was still tied to our simian ancestors. So Romans without limoncello.
Pepper and cardamon were the only two spices of the Romans and pepper came from SE Asia at great expense. There was a statue of Augustus on the coast of India. Even today we get salt and pepper on every dining table, a memory from when pepper was the king of spices and worth far more than gold. And salt was white gold.
It was a strange world based on meat as you say, but anything else they could find. And so much early lust for expansion and conquest and adventure was the search for new food. Breadfruit was fascinating and taken from SE Asia as an attempt to feed the slaves in the Caribbean. It was only the discovery of agriculture which enabled towns and sewage which enabled cities and transport which enabled ultra large cities. All powered by fossil fuels most noticeably in the totally unsustainable cities of the Middle East which grow no food, have no water and are in impossibly hot places.
I believe if you go back far enough, fruit and vegetables and seeds were the diet of African humans, and meat because without weapons, we could not get out of the trees. The opposable thumb was the key and then fire and the burnt stick. Restaurants came much later.
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The teeth and musculature of the real ground dwelling apes is fearsome. A ground dwelling omnivorous baboon can tear other animals to pieces. While we have the same 32 teeth, the bite of a baboon will break bones. Humans have nothing like their physique, teeth, claws, sheer strength. Don’t go near one. That applies to cute chimpanzees as well which hunt smaller monkeys in large packs of deadly chimps. With sheer strength they pull their smaller cousins to pieces. Without weapons we are quite harmless, weak, defenceless and edible, possibly delicious but we could survive on fruit, seeds and vegetables and with weapons we humans became invincible and could develop a taste for meat. A lot of the world is still largely vegetarian.
That is not true in the oceans were almost all animals are carnivores living on the chain of food based on CO2 and sunshine but where the oceans are far too deep and dark to support vegetables. It all starts with surface photo plankton, then krill, shrimp and all the way to whales, dolphins, tuna and sharks, only the first two being mammals.
And it is a world driven entirely by CO2 capture of sunlight. CO2 is the gas of all life, from which all living things are made. It is only since the United Nations declared themselves the masters of life on earth that the assault on CO2 has started. The story of hell fire has been used since ancient Egyptian times to scare people. And it still works and is now called Climate Science.
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This latest Matt Ridley summary of the delusional, CORRUPT and super expensive, TOXIC Wind farm scam should be compulsory reading for every kid at school.
This scam wrecks the entire grid and always leads to much higher prices and reduces co2 emissions by SFA.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-tories-wind-power-delusion/?mc_cid=0f00695edd&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
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Matt wrote a great book in the nineties: “The Origins of Virtue”. I even bought a copy.
To answer where does the altruistic instinct come from, he looks not only at humans, but parallels in the animal kingdom, e.g. vampire bats(?). I bet you didn’t know they have to cultivate ‘friendships’ in order to survive missing 2 or more ‘blood meals’.
There’s also some game theory. I think the example was called the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Something like that.
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“The one thing the wind industry is really, really good at is selling itself. It never mentions intermittency and hides the scale of its contribution to decarbonisation by talking about ‘powering a thousand homes’, a meaningless metric.”
It horrifies me that no-one asks the wind-power fanatics to explain how they power a thousand homes. It is always thrown around by politicians and their slimy ilk pushing wind farms, yet is an outright lie. Does the public notice?
Still, every second person has a below average IQ…
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You only have to look at Flinders Island to see how variable the wind is and they are in the path of the Roaring 40’s.
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As European agriculture is systematically destroyed by government policy (e.g. Netherlands, Germany), where is the food going to come from to feed them?
The US is busy feeding the Third World with food donations, as are Australian food donations.
So it will come down to which people will be allowed to starve. Europeans or the Third World?
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The population of Africa has increased 10 fold in a century. It is quite possible for them to feed a family of 4 but not a family of 8. The IQ of the subsaharan Africans is 70 on average, so they so NOT thrive in a European country- 85% would be unemployable in skilled labour force. But they can breed alright! So the kind souls that “Save the children” are extinguishing a fire with kerosene! I wonder whether to 30% hit to birth rates from the $camdemic will recover.
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I’ve noted that Martin Armstrong has mentioned the 2028 timeframe a couple of times lately and I don’t recall seeing him ever mentioning it previously.
2028 will see a massive global food crisis he says.
Now, 2028 is also on my timeline but my sources and data differ to his. I won’t be elaborating, but an end result of a food crisis is probable.
Given that such a crisis would take years to develop, the cause would seem to be looming large, probably in 2023/24.
There are a limited number of causes for such a crisis and we’re seeing them shape up right now.
The WEF orchestrated destruction of the food supply won’t be the cause but it will certainly exacerbate the crisis.
The climate alarmists won’t be able to blame this one on man…
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It’s yesterdays news but the Australian Government is going to examine ways to reduce energy prices for Australian households and businesses. Energy Minister Bill Shorten said all options will be on the table. No mention that the options that would be effective will be off the table very quickly.
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And the answer is….
More wind and solar!
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In the People’s Demokratik Republik of Vicdanistan Dictator Andrews promised to establish a state-owned power company because it supposedly wouldn’t “rip off” consumers like those “nasty, greedy power companies”.
Given that wind, solar and batteries are INTRINSICALLY more expensive than proper generation such as with coal, gas, real hydro (not SH2) or (gasp!) nuclear (according to honest accounting) the only way “cheaper” electricity could be produced is for:
(1) electricity consumers who are also taxpayers to subsidise it via their taxes
or
(2) more money will be borrowed to pay for it and will be added to the already-massive state debt for future generations to pay for it
or
(3) Andrews will apply special taxes to private electricity producers to force them to be more expensive than the state-supplied product
or
(4) some combination of the above.
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David:
He will also shut down those brown coal fired plants which provide the cheapest electricity.
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And then scramble to explain why prices suddenly leapt
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Finally the GWPF has accepted Francis Menton’s long and detailed report on the CORRUPT and super expensive S & W energy delusion.
If he’s correct this is a disaster in the making and leaves entire countries futures at risk and for a ZERO return + ZIP change to temp or climate.
So why don’t they first use a controlled experiment in a small way to see whether this is viable or not?
Here’s his first instalment detailing his longer study.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-1-the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived
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Totally agree.
Download the paper from the GWPF.
Read it.
Then send it to any MPs or other legislators – and if sending by email, you’ll likely get an acknowledgement – the Pollies had the information, in a readable, understandable form. And you have an acknowledgement . . .
Auto, thinking about holding pollies responsible – for once – for their decisions.
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Warm day in North Central Victoria yesterday, temperature in my area reached 31 c. We are after all in the fourth day of SUMMER. Television weather report declared that Victorias mini HEAT WAVE would be short lived with temperature much lower for the rest of the week. I can distinctly remember when a 31 degree day in SUMMER would be described as being a beautiful temperature for outdoor activities.
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In my part of Victoria, it’s back to winter again today. 13˚C, but feels far less with a cold SW wind.
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Quite cold in my area now ( 4:45 pm) decided to pull the pin on the tractor work as the wind is blowing hard on the exposed ridge areas and I didn’t have a jumper on. Back inside for a great welcome from the dog. He is ALWAYS so happy to see me. He knows when the tractor engine note changes that means Im on the way home. Standing at the gate tail wagging and an evil look in his eye that suggests he is going to jump up on me. Certainly not allowed, but he trys to push the boundaries anyway.
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On the central tablelands of NSW it was a glorious day, just a brief shower at sunset to water the garden.
Over at Weatherzone they are more concerned with the heat on the Top End than what is happening in midlatitudes.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/hot-and-getting-hotter-in-northern-australia/965959
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I was watching a video about the impact of cold weather on the war in Ukraine done by an Australian commentator and as an aside he mentioned that an Australian might not be a good person to evaluate what cold weather is because, in his words, an Australian considers warm weather as any time you can wear shorts and cold weather as any time you can’t wear shorts.
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We actually registered 33C yesterday, shock horror! Today, at roughly the same time, it is 17C, with a cold wind.
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Most people may have missed this
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/defence-facing-a-personnel-crisis-with-thousands-more-uniformed-members-needed-20221114-p5bxz7.html
Its full of all the usual political gibberish and misses the real issue as always so the issue will never be addressed.
The bottom line is 80% of the defence comprises of white males and when you discriminate against 80% of your work force you generally find they want to leave and no matter how much propaganda you generate or how many “benefits” you give your favourite minority figures they dont want to join the defence force. You end up with a reduction in manning.
The govt plan all along was to:
A, Get rid of the white male (reduce drastically at least) and,
B, Employ more preferred minority groups
The problem is the minority groups dont want to join.
Some musterings (important ones) are on their knees due to a lack of manning. This is not just a Defence problem, the APS work force has shrunk as well. The benefits are crap the pay is crap, the governance is soul destroying and the quota systems all combined are killing the defence force.
As the gov cant fix the problem it will only get worse, much worse.
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Simple solution – Create an Australian Gurkha Regiment
Great Nepalese Immigrants already in Australia – use the UK Gurkha Regiments with Citizenship for Families at end, as an example.
Great Fighters
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Simple solution #2.. Blackwater or Wagner. The Americans have gone in for private military contractors big time, it saves face for their abysmal army or politically correct mis-gendered social warriors and then the PMCs can ignore all that and get onto the real business.
A lot of the background work that keeps marines on the front line is done by PMCs too.
..or instead of earning citizenship by going to war you could have prisoners earn their freedom. We will see how it turns out for Wagner. America is saying the prisoners are used as bullet sponges and sent on suicide missions, the Russians say Ukraine does exactly the same with the foreign volunteers.
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Start drafting the trans crowd. That’ll give them something useful and productive to do with their time for a change.
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crakar 24,
“Some musterings (important ones) are on their knees due to a lack of manning. This is not just a Defence problem, the APS work force has shrunk as well. The benefits are crap the pay is crap, the governance is soul destroying and the quota systems all combined are killing the defence force.”
Is this a bug or a feature?
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According to a recent tweet from Miranda Devine, the FBI spied “on Rudy Giuliani’s cloud in 2020 with a covert surveillance warrant“. They had “access to his emails from John Paul MacIsaac and me”.
(by ‘cloud’ I assume she means he was using a Cloud Storage Account for his emails)
So it looks like the FΒI who knew from their sneaky surveillance that Miranda was preparing to publish her story in the NY Post, DELIBERATELY primed Social Media outlets to suppress it as false information when it was published.
They did this even though they had been in possession of the laptop since 2019 which was plenty of time to verify that it was NOT Russian disinformation but instead contained REAL evidence of Biden crimes.
So the FΒI intervened in the 2020 election on the side of Joe Biden. Isn’t that proof of the Big Steal, right there?
What else do you call it when government agents conspire against a sitting President, to help his opponent? Why wouldn’t you call that Treason?
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Bring Back The BOSS
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This guy may not be quite right.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tubIA3vANILu/
Trudeau reading a satirical children’s book about a Canadian Prime Minister that becomes a tyrant … which is him.
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Has to be a deep-fake but is quite well done.
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Good morning one and all, I see we survived The End Of The World, Part 24/7/365, again. Congratulations! A few things I noticed during the weekend:
• Auckland’s dams are now “99.94% full”, huzzah! Carbon® destroys drought, as well as a few ‘educated’ model predictions
• Auckland’s CBD now 30 kph speed limit, bike & bus lanes going in everywhere (cars & trucks squeezed into one lane), roads closed and/or coned-off due to underground rail tunnel construction, tiny little boxes (apartments) sprouting all over the show, thanks to the previous mayor’s Green Agenda Garbage, or GAG
• Jabcinda apologised, and gave $177 million, to a tribe for something which happened 150 years ago. No apology yet for her ‘security forces’ dragging & manhandling their employers, ie. the public, off Parliament grounds earlier this year
• Three Waters / She Pua Pua (slimy Greens plan) ‘entrenchment’ dead in the trenches. Jabcinda can’t recall where she was, says ‘there was a mistake’, and apologises
• PR piece on RadioNZ via ABC (cue music): Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart… NOT! Cecilia (not her real name) has “been unwell most of the year” even though she’s been triple-jabbed. However, she’s “keen to get her fourth dose” to make sure she’s fully protected
• Snow & freezing temps for Tassie later this week? And the South Island too? Oh for some of that old-fashion ‘warming’…
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So what is Jabcinda doing to recognise the pre-Maori inhabitants of NZ?
https://youtu.be/rf_inGOubEg
A highly recommended series of videos.
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I see NZ exports 98% of its beef to China and the USA, worth billions.
What will that do to the NZ economy when Judas Jacinta shuts it down?
Time for some KFC – Klaus Fried Crickets 😆
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Yesterday I was speaking to the 20-something daughter of a friend. She is an exceptionally rare example of an independent thinker and well-informed person in that age group.
She explained that she was forcibly vaxxed for work under Australia’s compulsory covid vaccination laws. She had no choice as she wanted to/needed to have the job.
She told me how her smart watch now regularly sets off a heart alarm as she is resting or sleeping as her heart shoots up to 120bpm for no apparent reason. She attributes it to the vaccine. Before covid “vaccination” she was perfectly healthy.
Plus she mentioned cycle irregularities.
Two of her close relatives also spent weeks in hospital with vaccine-induced myocarditis.
It is NOT the “rare side effect” claimed by the Official Narrative. It is likely frequently undiagnosed or worse, doctors are too terrified to make the diagnosis because that would go against The Narrative.
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I was in intensive care and then high monitoring wards 18 months ago in the UK. The first question they asked any new admissions with heart issues was had they recently had the vax, not their status, RECENTLY. Not a single nurse or doctor was slightly bothered by my negative status, and there was a general feeling expressed by the staff that they did not want the booster.
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As someone mentioned the other day, it’s time for a Melbourne meet up.
It’s been three years since the last one.
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Perhaps let the current very high plague levels drop. Wuhan flu is rampant and dozens of other flus and colds as people celebrate their first post lockdown Christmas.
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Claim: Clouds Less Climate-Sensitive than Assumed
Charles Rotter
He had to add this statement so that is grants wouldn’t suddenly stop:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/claim-clouds-less-climate-sensitive-than-assumed/
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Maybe some have come full circle back to the basics.
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Massive eruption at Semeru volcano, volcanic ash up to 15.2 km (50 000 feet) a.s.l., Indonesia
A high-level eruption occurred at Indonesia’s Semeru volcano on December 4, 2022, prompting authorities to raise the Alert Level from III to IV — the highest. The last major eruption at this volcano took place on December 4, 2021, leaving 51 people dead and several hundred others injured.
VONA issued by the Semeru Volcano Observatory at 02:18 UTC today indicated eruption to 8.6 km (28 000 feet) above sea level, but IR temperature of -66 °C (-86.8 °F) indicated eruption is significantly higher to 15.2 km (50 000 feet) a.s.l., moving SW, according to the Darwin VAAC VA Advisory issued at 03:05 UTC.1
The Aviation Color Code was raised to Red.
https://watchers.news/2022/12/04/massive-eruption-at-semeru-volcano-volcanic-ash-up-to-15-2-km-50-000-feet-a-s-l-indonesia/
Erupted the same day last year!
Not a JC2 #3.2 yet…
There’s a sudden and marked increase in volcanic activity from a number of volcanoes in recent days which is a bit strange.
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Well, will it keep the Earth cool and the rain coming, like Tonga did? We might not slide back into the normal drought as quickly as expected. Maybe it will add a lot of rain to India/Bangladesh as it moves Westward.
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John Connor:
Taupo in NZ has been having a series of tremors. As it is partly under a lake, and it has a history of massive eruptions (the last I think about 40,000 years ago) it may join in the chain of eruptions.
I note also the continuing speculation about possible magnetic reversal.
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How much does the average doctor actually know about vaccines?
And Canadian Dr. Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist, confirmed doctors’ lack of knowledge about vaccines in an interview with NZ’s Freedom TV, see video below.
“In Canada … specifically in Ontario … the average number of lectures that somebody who gets an MD, so that’s a medical doctor, so that’s somebody who would be training to become a physician … they average between 5 and 12 50-minute lectures [in immunology] in the first year of their program … within that, they might get 15 minutes of coverage on vaccines. So, the reality is, the average physician has only the most superficial understanding,” Dr. Bridle said.
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/01/discrimination-and-harassment-of-baby-in-new-zealand/
An important point. How can we trust doctors if they have such a limited grasp? How can they responsibly and ethically promote that which they don’t understand?
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We cant anyway. They are confined to the rules of AHPRA who are in term influenced by TGA and the CHO’s. Then, they are also confined by Medicare and what is claimable. It’s a business after all, is doctoring.
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Might be getting worse than that. I recently saw an item on the requirements for a knowledge of organic chemistry at a major US medical school.
An eminent organic chemist had been teaching (for free) .the organic part of the pre-med requirements.
The student body has deemed that his exams are “too hard” so he has been sacked and organic is now a tick and flick with no real knowledge required.
“Which doctor” or “witchdoctor”
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Not more than the representative of the selling pharma enterprise will tell him.
The last lectures the doctors has had are long in the past, and the newest developments he can’t follow.
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‘War against humanity’: Netherlands to shut down 3,000 farms
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Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid
The reason lockdowns didn’t work in the United States or the United Kingdom is because they weren’t strict enough, according to many in the expert community.
Of course, their excuses have been conveniently ignored as China’s repressive zero COVID lockdowns have continued, with horrific consequences.
Now that mass protests have broken out in the country that “The Experts™” revered for their COVID handling, there’s a massive effort to disregard their own previous advocacy.
The bewildering lack of awareness of their own hypocrisy seems to be a feature of COVID-obsessed politicians and public health authorities.
Another similar, oft-repeated assertion is that the failure of universal masking can be explained by the type of masks being used by the public.
Even though the CDC and Dr. Fauci explicitly claimed that wearing anything to cover your face would be effective at preventing transmission, many have now quietly dismissed that messaging.
Fauci specifically said that “cloth coverings work,” not just surgical or N95s. Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams famously suggested that rolling up a t-shirt in front of your face would be effective protection.
There is new research that has been released showing that masks are ineffective, regardless of type.
And it’s not just new research, it’s high quality research.
52 of 497 participants who wore medical masks got COVID-19, and 47 of 507 in the N95 group got COVID-19.
No matter how “high quality” your mask is, it’s entirely irrelevant.
https://brownstone.org/articles/not-even-n95-masks-work-to-stop-covid/
Now – someone explain this to the hysterical anti-science GREENs. Green by name, green (ignorant) by nature.
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Woke California teacher who identifies as ‘trans demi-boy non-binary’ is teaching kids about gender and pronouns using ‘gender-fluid’ stuffed UNICORN and narwhal
A woke teacher who identifies as ‘trans demi-boy non-binary’ teaches children about gender and pronouns using ‘gender-fluid’ stuffed unicorns and narwhals.
Skye Tooley told TikTok followers how fifth graders at Saturn Street Elementary in LA are taught using the bizarre methods.
Tooley told the 13,000 people who follow him there are ‘many more genders out there in the universe’ – using a stuffed toy to demonstrate.
In one segment, the teacher says: ‘This is a lama unicorn… I thought it was so cute to let my kids name the llama unicorn.
‘It was a mistake. So this little llama is gender-fluid; we will be practicing pronouns with this little llama.
‘[Children] are very much ready for these topics and are way more accepting than adults when it comes to discussing these topics and talk about gender, gender assumptions, pronouns, all the things.
‘And it is child development appropriate and age appropriate,’ the teacher, insisted while writing various pronouns on a classroom flip chart.
It comes amid fierce debate over the right of teachers to try to indoctrinate students to their woke viewpoints when they are so young.
http://www.madnesshub.com/2022/12/woke-california-teacher-who-identifies.html
There’s something seriously wrong with these people…
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The YouTube channel, Odin’s Men, owned by a former US Marine, regularly reviews such woke Leftist garbage as constantly posted on Tiktok.
https://youtube.com/@OdinsMen
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It’s amazing how few real power stations (coal, gas, real hydro (not SH2), nuclear) are needed to run a country, in contrast to tens of thousands of windmills, solar panels and battery subsidy harvesting devices.
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David writes this:
This is always an interesting exercise.
Whole of year 2021
Coal Fired Power – Nameplate – 22,500MW – Delivered Power – 128,008GWH – SIXTEEN power plants.
Wind Generation – Nameplate – 10,277MW – Delivered Power – 22,968GWH – SEVENTY NINE power plants.
Solar Plant Generation(NOT rooftop) – Nameplate – 8809MW – Delivered Power – 8824GWH – EIGHTY NINE power plants.
So, 16 coal fired power plants with a Nameplate just 18% higher than Wind and Solar with their 168 power plants delivers ….. 4.03 TIMES the power.
16 ancient coal fired plants from four levels of coal fired technology ago versus 168 supposedly state of the art renewable power plants.
Build more renewables ….. Hmm!! That’s a pretty long way to go.
Tony.
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Left out one line of comparison. (Wind and Solar total)
Coal fired power – Nameplate – 22500MW – Delivered Power – 128000GWH – 16 Power plants.
Wind and Solar total – Nameplate 19086MW – Delivered Power – 31792GWH – 168 Power Plants.
Cola fired larger delivered power by a factor of 4.03
Tony.
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U.S. Military Unveils New Superweapon That Will Change The Battlefield In America’s Favor
The U.S. Military unveiled its new strategic long-range stealth bomber this week, Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider, which will serve as the backbone of the future for U.S. air power for decades to come.
The U.S. Air Force unveiled the bomber at a special ceremony in Palmdale, California, Friday night.
The bomber will become operational in the next few years and will slowly phase out aging B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers that are currently in service.
The B-21 is the first new bomber that the U.S. has developed since the end of the Cold War, more than three decades ago. Officials expect to have at least 100 B-21s in service, costing nearly $700 million each.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/12/us-military-unveils-new-superweapon.html
But will it be able to take photos of UFO’s that aren’t fuzzy 1960’s boxcam bigfoot quality, unlike current “advanced” fighters?🤣
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I hope the Chicomms don’t have copies of the plans.
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Probably built the prototype?
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If you don’t have the skills and technology the plans are little help. The Concordski was an abject failure and the Chicoms still can’t make a good jet engine in spite of reverse engineering.
No one is flying an F35 knock-off yet.
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The Concorde wasn’t a “failure”. It was retired due to age, falling profitability and maintenance costs…
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This one
https://ukaviation.news/concordski-the-history-of-tupolev-tu-144-sst/
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Not mentioned there but IIRC it had a range problem as well
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Try this series on the South African “Franken-Mirages”
“Weekend Wings #39: South Africa’s “Franken-Mirages”, Part 1 of 3″
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/06/weekend-wings-39-south-africas-franken.html
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/06/weekend-wings-40-south-africas-franken.html
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/07/weekend-wings-41-south-africas-franken.html
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And a bit more on Mirages
Back in the day when we had them and had lost one when the fire went out. A description I heard was –
“With the fire out they have the glide angle of a brick dunny with the door open”
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Can you believe that the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption was nearly a year ago?
Time flies.
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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
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The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance
In 2015, a viral pandemic from Northeast Brazil exploded into the news, supported by breathless public health alarms that Zika — a flavivirus acknowledged for decades as harmless — was now suddenly responsible for congenital microcephaly (babies with small heads; diminished intellect). WHO-aligned experts within Latin America recommended that women forgo childbirth indefinitely — possibly until a Zika vaccine’s fabrication (still unrealized). Massive panic predictably ensued.
Not a single case of human medical illness had previously been attributed to Zika — a near twin of the dengue virus (which itself brings a million South American “bone-break fever” cases, yearly) – – and never with any associated congenital microcephaly. Brazil’s medical research establishment treated the Zika- (and later microcephaly-) claims with initial skepticism — but were twice overwhelmed by vested parties’ self-serving media leaks – the latter of which spiraled into full-fledged national panic.
The upheavals from Zika-microcephaly included outsized public health overreactions: travel advisories; Brazilian soldiers on the streets; indelible fear; emergency injunctions proposed for abortion; the eternal absence of more than 100,000 “ghosted” Brazilian children (babies not conceived during the panic).
Fortunately, the Zika pandemic has fizzled out inconspicuously and unceremoniously; never fulfilling the analysts’ predictions of an additional million microcephalic births yearly, worldwide. Nonetheless, its complete disappearance hasn’t resulted in a single scientist questioning the credibility of the underlying (likely false) premise: that receiving a Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito-bite early in pregnancy may irrevocably damage the cherished life within.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-mysterious-case-of-zika-microcephalys-disappearance/
Where fear mongering and idiot-experts get you.
Dengue, as I’ve posted on numerous times is still raging, as expected. Bird flu is too and at somewhat higher than expected numbers suggesting an external driving factor, which is currently unknown (but there is a suspect).
The recent fear over Ebola going global has petered out too. It was never going to spread anyway.
I have just acquired some VERY interesting information on bioweapons but I’ll keep a lid on it for now…
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Monkey pox anyone?
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No thanks, I’m right.😁
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Me too.
But they did TRY to make it something.
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Didn’t it suffer a marketing defeat when it got christened “Man Hole Pox”?
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If there was “massive panic”, they would have funded accelerated vaccine research to develop vaccines pronto.
As it is, there is no “massive panic” and about a dozen potential vaccines are being developed including several that have been in Phase I trials for a few years, a couple that have been in Phase II trials for a while and one vaccine undergoing Phase III trials in Brazil.
“Not a single case of human medical illness…” is batshQ!t nonsense. Where on Earth do you get such cr4p from?
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/healtheffects/index.html
Zika virus disease is generally mild, and severe disease requiring hospitalization and deaths are uncommon.
Zika infection during pregnancy can cause serious birth defects and is associated with other pregnancy problems.
Rarely, Zika may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome, an uncommon sickness of the nervous system in which a person’s own immune system damages the nerve cells, causing muscle weakness, and sometimes, paralysis.
Very rarely, Zika may cause severe disease affecting the brain, causing swelling of the brain or spinal cord or a blood disorder which can result in bleeding, bruising or slow blood clotting.
Currently there is no outbreak.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/zika-countries
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AUH global temperature for November due out anytime now.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_October_2022_v6.jpg
Will it be up or down?
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Are you taking bets? I am betting on it going up or down.
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Clarkson on “Middle-of-the-roaders”
“Careful you don’t bruise your arse on the cats eyes”
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‘I am betting on it going up or down.’
I’m betting it stays the same.
The first week of winter will see cool conditions in Europe because of a negative North Atlantic Oscillation, while America should enjoy a relatively warmer than average start.
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remember the red line is a running average. The month being dropped from the average is as important as the new month.
I’ll put aside the almost impossibility of it remaining the same.
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Its almost the same.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_October_2022_v6.jpg
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Almost the same is pretty much true every single month.
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That’s a great promotion for this terrifying global warming then?
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Did anyone say that there would be dramatic changes from one year to the next? I must have missed it.
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The continental divide of the Rocky Mts. in North America has a big influence on weather. When it’s cold in the west its usually mild in the east and the opposite.
Additionally, storms which come out of the Gulf of Alaska and the N. Pacific in winter and hit the Pacific North West states and BC tend go across Montana and down the east side of divide bringing hard winters to the northern plains, but west of the divide less snow fall and mild conditions. Storms which come straight in from the west and the southwest often combine with fronts from S. Oregon and N. Cali and bring in heavy snows. However, that pattern usually occurs after the normal “January thaw” brought in by shinook winds in late Jan. and during the early spring months.
But overall America will usually have both mild and hard winter conditions at the same time depending on where you are at. But the North East and Coast Atlantic states have the most population, and where most of the media are headquartered, so it dominates the weather narrative.
California/Nevada is a desert, so it is always having an unprecidented drought and unprecidented brush fires. It’s been going on for thousands of years.
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This is what the modellers think.
‘Medium-range forecasts are trending warmer across North America and especially the U.S. The catalyst to this warmer trend is a cold stratosphere over the polar region stretching south across Canada’ (Climate Impact Company)
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Ummm?
Wouldn’t that be one set of modellers?
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Siberia experiencing the best global warming can offer.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/12/04/oimjakon-siberia-sees-extremely-low-temperatures-as-mercury-plummets-to-65-below/
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Shouldn’t proponents of the experimental covid “vaccines” be up to their fifth, sixth, seventh or even more shots by now?
If not, why not?
Every single politician and public serpent involved in forcibly vaccinating people must be made to continue taking them.
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A married couple I know both got their fifth Covid shots a couple of months ago and about a month later, the wife tested positive for Covid (which she thinks she caught at work), then apparently spread it to her husband who tested positive for Covid about a week later. Neither one got seriously ill but the wife did have short-term brain-fog and loss of taste. This (and other cases I am aware of) make me doubtful that the booster shots either prevent you from getting Covid or prevent you from spreading it.
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On the other hand natural immunity, once acquired, seems to be effective on both counts.
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It took this situation to make you come to this realisation? Not the thousands of examples previous to this?
WOW
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“It took this situation to make you come to this realisation?”
No, but it was one of the most clear examples of it that I personally witnessed.
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California, a Free State Since 1850, May Pay $233k in Reparations per Slavery Descendant
Although it’s true that California was admitted into the US in 1850 as a free (non-slavery supporting) state, The Democrat party that overwhelmingly runs the State now was the Slavery party in 1850, all through the US Civil War and beyond, so by the Democrat’s own logic, they can never be forgiven for their past, and it is the Democrat Party, not the State of California that should be paying any reparations that are required.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/04/california-a-free-state-since-1850-may-pay-233k-in-reparations-per-slavery-descendant/
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Monday stupidity
Man Wearing an Ankle Monitor Robs Bank and Uses Birth Certificate to Write Demand Note.
A man in Springfield, Missouri, attempted to rob a bank using his own birth certificate for the demand note. Not only did he give away information about his own identity, but the suspect was also wearing an ankle monitor at the time from a previous robbery.
Loyd has tattoos on both arms, which were clearly visible during the robbery. The writing on the note was written in pink ink, according to the criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
https://bestlifeonline.com/news-bank-robber-birth-certificate-demand-note/
That’s at least one worthless oxygen waster right there..
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French hospital suspends operations after cyber attacks
A hospital in Versailles, near Paris had to cancel operations and transfer some patients after being hit by a cyberattack over the weekend, France’s health ministry said Sunday.
Six patients had been transferred by Saturday evening — three from intensive care and three from the neonatal unit — said the minister, Francois Braun, as he visited the hospital. Others might follow, he added.
The regional health agency (ARS) said the hospital had cancelled operations, but was doing everything possible to keep walk-in services and consultations running.
Extra staff had to be called in to the intensive care unit because, while the machines there were still functioning, more people were needed to watch the screens as they were no longer working as part of a network, aid Braun.
The cyberattack had led to a “total reorganisation of the hospital” the minister added.
For several months now, hospitals and health systems in France have been targetted by hackers for such cyber attacks.
According to Braun, the same hospital had already seen off cyberattacks in recent months.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20221205-french-hospital-suspends-operations-after-cyber-attacks
India’s AIIMS is still recovering a month on, and now Safdarjung in Delhi has been hit too.
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New Zealand Health Insurer Investigates IT Provider Hack
A cyber incident at an external IT infrastructure provider for New Zealand private health insurer Accuro may have affected the personal data of the underwriter’s 34,000 customers.
The Wellington based not-for-profit insurer said its investigation into the incident so far hasn’t revealed evidence of a data breach “but we cannot rule out this possibility.”
A Thursday statement from CEO Lance Walker said day-to-day operations and customer service have been impacted by the incident, warning of delays in service including claims processing. The company notified the New Zealand Government’s Computer Emergency Response Team, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and has brought in outside cybersecurity support, the company said.
Company Chief Financial Officer Joe Benbow wouldn’t confirm or deny the incident is a ransomware attack, reported the New Zealand Herald. Benbow also declined to identify the third party infrastructure provider.
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/new-zealand-health-insurer-investigates-provider-hack-a-20621
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Engrish teecher sez that gramerr and riting rules are baysed in white soupremacy so she trize to undermyne it in her classruum
https://twitter.com/i/status/1599466639740706816
Grammar nasis gonna hate.😆
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If you are writing to be understood it helps if words have actual meaning, otherwise you may as well talk to your parrot.
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I talk to the parrot and she has some very funny responses!
Words have meaning, even to parrots. (just not the same, necessarily)
Just sayin’
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Readin’ and writin’ are making a comeback.
‘An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a decade-long decline in writing standards has left teenagers without vital literacy skills.
‘In changes to the NSW English syllabus for years 3 to 10 to be released this week, grammar will become a core focus to help students express complex ideas, write clear sentences and lift academic results.’ (SMH)
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They could include teaching youngsters how to hold a pen and pencil properly instead of the inept way so many do these days.
I get very fed up with that endless video on Sky News, during any mention of educational matters, of the inept hold of the writing implement, not to mention the scruffy, nearly but not quite disappeared purple nail vanish (and the shot of 3 shuffling youths in scruffy trousers).
Come on Sky…update your video shots!
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They will have to recruit some much older teachers to teach the younger ones. Express complex ideas? Yeah, nah.
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Serious question:
Do you think the average person has any clue that wind and solar are intermittent and random and the problems thereof?
I seriously doubt it.
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Prolly not, while every new subsidy farm is promoted as being able to power XX,000 homes. They think wind can ACTUALLY do that, dumbasses
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of course they don’t , anymore than they understand the operation of a coal or gas plant. Why would they care? they pay the bill and it comes out of the wall socket. I doubt they understand how their smartphone or their car works either, they just use them.
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I fear, Elon Musk has to fear for his life, he should have a loyal army of bodygards around when he publishes the papers about censoring by gouvernement conc. the Hunter Biden Laptop…
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I believe that Trump would have been Arkancided by now if he were totally reliant on the SS for security. That didn’t work too good for JFK who, I suspect, was naive. Both he and Musk have security hired purely on merit. In Trumps case I imagine that there was always private security looking over SS’s shoulder.
JFK proved there is no one too big to whack.
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I see George Orwells 1984 is on Wednesday night at 9:25 on SBS.
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Followed by Brave New World, Soylent Green and Logan’s Run?
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Socialism with a human face.
‘Almost 80 per cent of voters back energy price caps to tackle soaring bills, polling has found.’ (SMH)
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My latest power bill was $1:80/d with solar augmentation [not at 40c FIT]. That’s in the tropics where life is supposed to be unbearable without aircon. No way will I go primitive to save that.
What matters is industrial input costs. If a metal refinery can afford to operate, its workers can afford $2/day power. They are in deep dodo if the refinery closes down.
There seems to be a disconnect where everyone is more concerned about their power bill than their neighbour’s job.
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Units of uncertainty at SkyNews Australia.
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/watch-lava-spews-from-hawaiis-mauna-loa-volcano/video/60944e48532ee03d69b8420010944039
The anchor describes the lava as moving at 12 metres per second, shortly before the filed story describes it as 40ft per hour.
Methinks they converted it to metres per hour, but the units were misread by the host. Perhaps 3mm per second wasn’t scary enough?
Less excusable is the trailing statement that the volcano is “causing havoc”. The filed story had just finished telling us the lava was not threatening any properties or lives and they didn’t know when or if it would ever reach the nearest highway.
So a blast was really a trickle and the havoc was oddly serene.
It’s times like this that you have to sympathise with Musk’s contention that Twitter will be the main way real news travels in future, not through the MSM.
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If the lava reaches the ocean, just another tourist attraction.
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https://youtu.be/k1oJGKEmd8M
Long but worth it IMO
That video reminds me of a comment from one of our Oz agricultural advisers –
“Having a business plan that you ignore has an unintended consequence – failure comes as a complete suprise”.
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‘A great deal of suffering’: European winter energy shortage
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An informative interview with Steve Kirsch
If he’s only half right, we are a long from Kansas without ruby slippers.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PxZc5kNNVF2j/
A few of the things that seem glaring …
complete disinterest by Public Health establishment in early treatment
disinterest in origin
bounty paid by government for COVID diagnosis and approved ineffective, probably harmful treatments
the astonishing level of organized character assassination of qualified skeptics
The slowly unfolding level of assault on the global public is staggering.
There is no governmental structure for accountability because the governmental structures are the perpetrators.
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An eye opener on reality in 51 Pages
1901. – WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
ABORIGINES DEPARTMENT. – REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING – 30 TH JUNE, 1901.
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Yep! A far better grasp of reality in 1901.. people had a definite feeling of the White Man’s Burden and what they had to do to drag the rest of the world forwards.
You couldn’t colonise Australia with the current inhabitants!
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China!! They are not relaxing covid restrictions in places they had demonstrations. They are ramping them up, except in areas that stayed quiet. It’s Q code hell. Really China is the lefts’ poster child. That is where they would all love to go.
They get into the demonstrations aftermath at about 31.00, but if you want the stomach churning look at our future just go to 60.00. It is horrifying! The WEF is china’s love child. It makes 1984 look like kindergarten!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxbQwWFcb4&t=8s
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The Liberal-National Coalition has been discussing nuclear power stations as an option to replace the existing coal fired power stations as they reach scheduled replacement time, the Howard Government organised an inquiry conducted by a nuclear physicist and the report recommended small modular reactors located around Australia along the interconnected grid and elsewhere. However, around that time early to mid 2000s (Howard Government lost the 2007 election) there was a decision in Parliament to ban nuclear, Lucas Heights Sydney reactor exempted. During the period 2013 to 2022 discussions and investigation continued and while PM Morrison was in the UK to attend COP26 in Glasgow he and others discussed nuclear with Rolls Royce UK and the UK Government that had ordered SMRs from Rolls Royce. The following email from a National Party MP should be of interest I trust;
“The Parliamentary Friends of Nuclear Industries, a multi-partisan committee, hosted a Nuclear Energy Forum in Parliament House in which we heard from some of the best and brightest and most experienced Electrical Engineers, Grid and Transmission Specialists and Nuclear Energy.
Specialists were assembled for the Forum including Australian and world-leading experts in both nuclear and electricity generation as speakers with all the latest information and explanatory sessions.
A number of the key speakers launched several reports on Nuclear Energy, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and analysis of the GenCost Report.
Small modular reactors of less than 300MW capacity do not require the grid expansion that is planned under the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System Plan, which maps out the details of the nation’s energy transition to a decarbonised grid.
It is a huge, complicated, expensive process when any grid is dominated by renewables and introduces huge reliability risk and rising costs.
SMRs could be installed into our current grid as a “plug and play” replacement for retiring coal and gas plants, saving billions of dollars. They would also deliver increased grid-generating capacity and inertia, stability, reliability and reduced costs to consumers. Like all nuclear generation, SMRs have incredibly low carbon emissions, as good or better than wind and solar.
Our economy will not be dependent on the weather or on solar panels and wind turbines, 95 percent of which are made offshore.
Having a civil nuclear industry would increase our sovereign independence with additional long term benefits to the AUKUS initiatives.
To arrive at full life-cycle cost comparisons between a renewables-predominant system to one with nuclear, you must also account for the very short lifespan of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, which will need replacement four times over the 60 to 80-year lifespan of well maintained modern nuclear plants.
The new Generation III+ SMRs have a design life of 60 years, but this can be extended to 80 years with midlife refurbishments, as Canada has done. SMRs by design have a 90 per cent reduced geographical footprint compared with conventional nuclear plants, and have 50 per cent less material intensity. They are constructed off site using the economies of series production, not as bespoke builds, and have passive safety systems in place so that “Fukushimas” and “Chernobyls” can’t ever happen.
SMRs reflect 70 years of continuous evolution in design just like that of cars, trains, jets, computers and iPhones. They are scheduled to appear on grids in Ontario, Canada, in 2028 and 2030 in the US, not some far distant decade.
Evolution of Generation IV micro-modular reactors, ideal for remote sites, islands or mines, is also proceeding apace.
Digital cloud providers and industrial complexes are already turning to SMRs to secure their industrial facilities and cloud data systems. Britain, France, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Romania and Japan have announced plans for new SMRs.
Through further innovation, all of these countries have worked out how to recycle spent fuel as well as harvest valuable medical isotopes. Gen IV plants also have the ability to burn spent fuel, reducing the amount of waste fuel, while deep geological repository is an internationally established safe method of final storage. The Australian-developed and deployed Synroc process reduces the final volume of that storage even further.
Modern nuclear is cost-competitive when designs are 100 per cent complete and approved, with skilled project management and supply chains in place, before the first sod is turned. Second, it’s important to build nuclear plants as part of a series – this is at the heart of SMR design. The UAE has demonstrated how building in a series can be done in the space of 10 years and has just deployed three large reactors with a fourth to follow.
Australia is a modern advanced country that already has a nuclear capability and excellent regulatory framework. We need to wake up and stop ignoring the obvious.
We should embrace this latest generation of nuclear technology and remove the legislative prohibitions at state and federal levels.
Australia can be reassured SMRs are incredibly safe, they are as clean as wind and solar and, with the right energy mix of renewables, will deliver affordable, reliable electricity for everyone.”
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This profile on the Labor PM is interesting and an indicator explaining maybe why he opposes the nuclear option even now;
“Albanese attended St Joseph’s Primary School in Camperdown and then St Mary’s Cathedral College. After finishing school, he worked for the Commonwealth Bank for two years before studying economics at the University of Sydney. There, he became involved in student politics and was elected to the Students’ Representative Council. It was also there where he started his rise as a key player in the ALP’s Labor Left. During his time in student politics, Albanese led a group within Young Labor that was aligned with the left faction’s Hard Left, which maintained “links with broader left-wing groups, such as the Communist Party of Australia, People for Nuclear Disarmament and the African National Congress”.”
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Today’s comments in The Australian, for an article where Albanese disagrees with the SA Premier about using nuclear, are all saying the same thing. SMRs can be installed on the sites of existing power stations, thus eliminating the need for more transmission lines.
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As idea not so bad at all
Follow-up:
BREAKING: Elon Musk is considering putting together a team of medical experts to fact check all the false things government officials have been saying!
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The question will be, if he will ask the meds banned from Twitter because of political wrong, but from scientific point of view correct results.
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In response to Elon Musk’s free speech policies on Twitter a Leftoid wrote:
Unbelievable! Most people here would know the history, but if you don’t, look up Operation Paperclip. Musk hasn’t hired a single National Socialist but guess who did?
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There is apparently a huge demand for “pure blood” blood for transfusion. I.e. blood from people who haven’t had the experimental covid “vaccines”.
https://youtu.be/b2Iz5o_bihE
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Crystal clear summary of the RNA vaccine mandate issues. Exceptional, clear short speech. Senator Gerard Rennick is a hero who will not give up. Rennick is requesting that all Australian parties should unequivocally support a new bill to immediately prohibit any future forced/mandated RNA covid vaccination. Rennick provides evidence to support this bill, by quoting from Pfizer’s own RNA vaccine test data and report.
https://rumble.com/v1ytqx6-australian-senator-gerard-rennicks-amazing-vax-rant-leaves-opposition-parti.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The FDA and Pfizer were planning to hide the unbelievable RNA vaccine side effects, from the public for decades. A US judge forced the FDA to release the Pfizer RNA covid vaccine, test data and report. There are now hundreds of independent peer reviewed studies that show the first release RNA covid vaccines are not effective against Omicron, that Omicron is 30 times less dangerous than the first release Wuhan-1 version of covid, and that the RNA covid vaccines have caused an unacceptable number of deaths and injuries. Key evidence, to determine cause of damage/death, is new peer reviewed pathological analysis which can differentiate between damage caused by the spike protein as opposed to the covid virus. The pathological analysis uses newly developed ‘stains’ which only react to the spike protein as opposed the covid virus.
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The big awakening begins to start here and there, has to continue everywhere and loud
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A speciality stain has been developed that reacts with a protein that is found on the RNA covid vaccine produced ‘spike’ that is not found on any of the versions of the circulating covid virus spike.
This new stain enables pathologists to determine from tissue samples, whether the RNA covid vaccine spike or the circulating covid virus spike caused the tissue damage and death. There are now multiple peer reviewed pathological studies that prove and show how the RNA covid vaccines, are killing people and causing unacceptable tissue damage to people. This YouTube video discusses a few of the new pathological studies.
Myocarditis German photographs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA
The RNA vaccines produce a version of the Wuhan-1 spike that has been modified by the vaccine ‘scientists’ to make it more difficult for the body to eliminate. This explains why the first release RNA covid vaccine produced spikes can remain in the body for up to a month, as determined by invitro, peer reviewed studies.
It is not clear why the new bivalent vaccine forces the cells to produce, the super dangerous modified Wuhan-1 spike. The Omicron covid spike is chemically different than the Wuhan-1 spike (Omicron has more than 50 mutations in its spike) which explains why Omicron is 30 times less dangerous than the Wuhan-1 virus.
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If I remember well, they found mRNA and respectively produced spikes after 2 month around lymph nodes
found one of the links ad hoc
For the mRNA, I only remember, can’t find anymore, but it was discussed here in a comment.
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The latest Trump smear, an undisclosed loan with a N.Korea linked company. This evil company – Daewoo!
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Seeing Elbow has Covid it must be time for his 5th and 6th vaccinations, the earlier ones have obviously worn off. They should be compulsory for all politicians and medics who backed them earlier on…
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Some poor losers here.
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