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Sam Bankman-Fried Charged in New York & Arrested in the Bahamas
From Armstrong Economics –
“Sam Bankman-Fried of cryptocurrency giant FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been arrested in the Bahamas on criminal charges, the Bahamas Attorney General’s Office announced Monday. The arrest “followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition,” the office said.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”
He will be held at MCC, the same dungeon in which Jeffrey Epstein supposedly committed suicide. WIth his connections with all the Democrats, this is going to be interesting to see if he too suddenly commits suicide.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/sam-bankman-fried-charged-in-new-york-arrested-in-the-bahamas/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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The senior DenocRATs who he laundered money for will have a lot to lose if he talks.
He should issue a declaration right now that he has no intention of committing suicide.
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Day Before Congressional Testimony, Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in the Bahamas Awaiting Extradition Request from U.S. DOJ
December 12, 2022 – Sundance
The timing is transparent, given all of the political donations organized by FTX Cryptocurrency CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for politicians, mostly Democrats, in office.
On the day before he was scheduled to give testimony to congress, a testimony likely to be entertaining with representatives asking specific questions about political contributions by the known fraud MBS to other specific members of congress, the cryptocurrency executive is arrested in the Bahamas.
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That is one fried Bank Man !
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Democrat Mega-Donor SBF Arrested Hours Before Facing Questions from Congress
Zeldin: ’Allow him to 1st testify tomorrow and answer our many questions’
Democrat Mega-donor and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, just hours before he was scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
Bankman-Fried was arrested after U.S. authorities filed criminal charges against him, U.S. Attorneys confirmed.
“Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY,” United States Attorney Damian Williams said. “We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”
However, some politicians quickly pointed out Bankman-Fried’s arrest came just hours before his highly anticipated testimony before Congress.
“Tomorrow, Sam Bankman-Fried was scheduled to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee. @HouseGOP was ready to grill him six ways to Sunday,” former New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin tweeted. “Now breaking tonight, SBF was just arrested! Why not allow him to 1st testify tomorrow and answer our many questions?”
Bankman-Fried’s scheduled appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday came after the disgraced financier previously dodged chairwoman Maxine Waters’s (D-CA) request for him to testify before the committee.
From the Comments
– The FBI/Democrats want him behind bars so he can’t talk.
Just another instance of FBI corruption.
– There are way too many Deep Staters who have way too much to lose if this joker starts talking. I suspect he’ll be Epsteined before he has a chance.
– In Epstein’s Jail Cell with the Video Cameras malfunctioning.
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Presidential pardon incoming? After all the money he handed Democrats it’s a possibility.
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Last night Cory Bernadi interviewed Bjorn Lomborg about EVs and a few minutes from the end he states that the USA estimates that just 9% of their cars will be EVs by 2050.
He also states that the difference made by these TOXIC environmental disasters to global temperature would be about 0.0001 c.
This after WASTING endless TRILLIONs of $ on these fantasies and yet the BARKING MAD lefties still BELIEVE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_71Vc32yjFA
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Another gem was his comment about US owners of EV nearly always have an internal combustion engine vehicle for longer trips.
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An EV is an impractical solution of an imaginary problem.
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There’s going to be a lot of money lost down the plug hole if EVs don’t take over.
Townsville may be the largest provincial town in Aus [Gold Coast is hardly a conventional town layout nor is it “provincial] but by no means is it big. For decades, more service stations have closed than opened in spite of more cars driving further. Suddenly that has changed, we have had at least three Liberty brand servos open with big forecourts, a new Ampol station [a brand missing for, maybe, 40 years] and another has had a major reno. To top it off we have two Seven Eleven stores under construction and the one furtherest advanced obviously has a forecourt included. The other is on a bigger block so could accomodate even more bowsers/charging outlets.
The last thing the town needs is 100+ new petrol bowsers.
So when the EVs come there will be no shortage of charge points and they will all have comfortable cafes. But why would the EVs come? The place is not big enough to have long commutes and there is little within the range of any but the extended range EVs where one might consider having a dirty weekend. I just don’t see their appeal for many away from the Uni and hospital.
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If you ignore Newcastle and Geelong I guess its right up there
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Point taken, but both are outer suburbs really, 🙂 hardly regional, but yes, I did forget them.
There are only “towns” within EV range of Townsville and if any had a “big weekend” I shudder to think how everyone would charge up to return home.
Over 200 cricket teams + families descend on Charters Towers for the Goldfield Ashes.
Landcruisers rule!
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Broke: Britain’s debt emergency – short documentary
Released 2 weeks ago and covers the current crisis faced by Manchester residents.
Some points:
People are taking out payday (predatory lending clearly isn’t outlawed in Britain) loans for food & power and paying up to 180% interest.
Illegal loan sharks activity is up 230%
60% of Brits will be in fuel poverty by Easter 2023.
In 2019 people with debt agreements took an average of 39 years to pay it off. In 2022 it’s 190 years!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=X9UlLGAywqU
Just wait until the CBDC is deployed…
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Frightening!
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yep. A hundred years ago or so, there were a lot of horse and car owners. How things have changed
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You must mean – horse and cart owners and not horse and car owners. You donkey.
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yet another meaningless and irrelevant GA comment !
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They havent changed at all really. As long as you avoid the topic everything is peachy.
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And waste disposal was a bigger problem than our plastic prob now.
But 100 years ago the electric starter was ubiquitous on cars, the horse a vanishing pain in the butt.
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Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, “protest vasectomies” among leftist men have increased 34%, says Planned Parenthood
In a show of solidarity for all the women out there who no longer have easy access to abortion on demand now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, leftist men in growing numbers are reportedly opting for a vasectomy to prevent pregnancy.
According to Dr. Grace Shih, the director of vasectomy services at Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, there has been a 34 percent increase in vasectomies ever since the Supreme Court’s June abortion ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.
Shih says one man told her personally that his decision to get a vasectomy was an “act of love” towards women and their “reproductive rights.” Others simply said they simply do not want to have any children.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/12/since-roe-v-wade-was-overturned-protest.html?m=1
Reality: finally showing some adult responsibility now the easy way out isn’t available. Lefties too – bonus!
I wonder how many “transed” will get one…
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This is a win for everyone!
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The Snip is even easier than an abortion. I don’t blame them, there are a lot of predatory women out there.
Is there a reversible snip?
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Yes, but what sane guy lets anyone go near their tackle with a scalpel TWICE! 😆
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There is a story of an English lesson in a small country school and the subject of discussion is a picture of a man walking along a country road.
The first description produced is
“The bow legged man is walking up the long white road”
Commended and then posed as how that might be in poetry?
“Up and down the long white road
Walked a man whose legs were bowed”
And then (going right up market) how might Shakespeare have described it? And the only hand up is the fiend of the class and his contribution was
“Forsooth what manner of man is this
Who walks with his balls in parenthesis”
And that is a pretty good description of the first couple of days after being snipped (IMO) so probably the same for the reversal too.
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You went to the wrong doctor if you were left in that much pain (IMO).
I have saved many men by directing them away from the fly in vasectomy marketing guru towards a local GP who specialized in the operation. 15 minutes and you were on your way without pain.
I don’t know if that GP survived the covid vaccine mandates as he actually cared for his patients.
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Yes it is reversible. I know 2 blokes who have had that done. Both became up fathers of twins.
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Getting it cut is called having the chain saw in. Get hooked back up is called a plumbing job in my non medical terminology!
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Great news, less of the clowns will breed.
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“I wonder how many “transed” will get one…”
Given how they look and speak, I’d suggest they get more than one far too often.
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Are women getting angrier?
An annual poll by Gallup suggests that women, on average worldwide, have been getting angrier over the past 10 years. Why might this be?
Every year the poll surveys more than 120,000 people in more than 150 countries asking, among other things, what emotions they felt for a lot of the previous day.
When it comes to negative feelings in particular – anger, sadness, stress and worry – women consistently report feeling these more frequently than men.
The BBC’s analysis has found that since 2012 more women than men report feeling sadness and worry, though both genders have been steadily trending upwards.
When it comes to anger and stress however, the gap with men is widening. In 2012 both genders reported anger and stress at similar levels. Nine years later women are angrier – by a margin of six percentage points – and more stressed too. And there was a particular divergence around the time of the pandemic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63874001
Well, that’ll put the cat amongst the pigeons, or cat amongst the Karens. 😆
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Poll any group which has been designated as victims, then constantly, relentlessly reminded how they are downtrodden, victimised and discriminated against every single day and you would get the same answer.
Perhaps we should call them ‘obediently oppressed’.
It’s simply the elite Left’s ‘divide and conquer’ tactics at work.
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Here is the list of tactics considered by one such elitist group.
To pursue a career and bear and raise children is a big ask of anybody. Many have done this successfully, the question would be why actively place pressure on women to work in a world where mechanization has reduced the requirement for workers at so many levels of production and services.
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On average women suffer more from neuroticism (generalised discontent, anxiety and unhappiness) and have a much stronger tendency to agreeableness – that manifests as a strong desire to seek approval and conform to peer expectations. They are more likely to jump on peer-group bandwagons and adopt whatever belief systems the majority of their peers espouse. Sadly this makes them far easier prey for fashions, fads, and irrational or even destructive beliefs – from religions old and new or secular, to self-harming manias, to social media driven manipulations and exploits of this psychology by various interests. Men of course aren’t immune either, but women appear to be more vulnerable on average.
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The Federal Government has stated today that we will not be given complete details of the Voice referendum proposal before the referendum is conducted, so what are they hiding from us and why are they not willing to be open and honest?
Please consider: ATSIC – Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Commission was legislated in Parliament but after several years and billions of dollars of taxpayer’s monies to fund ATSIC is was shut down because of a lack of governance and corruption investigated.
Now
““There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice,” the first line reads.”
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It is a referendum for a body (the voice) to exist, just like a whole lot of others are written into or implied in the constitution. Each and every one of them is formed in a fashion as determined by an act of parliament. The constitution does not determine its form, only its function. The constitution writers in the late 1890s were hiding nothing then and nothing is being hidden by anyone now.
If you don’t like what they put into law, vote in a party that changes the act that creates a voice that you like.
btw the proposal already includes the fact that the voice cannot have the power to over-ride or veto the parliament.
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It’s ridiculous to vote for an unknown change to our constitution. This is “sign a blank cheque” stuff.
Either they know what they want to achieve now and are hiding it, or they don’t know and should wait to do the referendum until they do.
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There is an expectation that Australians will vote for unknown constitutional change based on nothing more than their current feelings surrounding some long-past historical event which is now considered as a negative narrative.
Sadly, that expectation is not altogether wrong.
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Exactly and the Guv’ment doesn’t follow the Australian Constitution anyway. Same as the US Guv’ment doesn’t follow the US Constitution. This Voice rubbish will never get up IMHO. They already have a Voice at 30 billion $A a year at last count. Where does all that money go to then? Not where it should go.
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It is very clear what they want to achieve. Have you read the official web site? Which bit is hidden?
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Yes, it is very clear they want to achieve total power to provide one-sided propaganda and BS misinformation to the people. !
They want to get rid of all the current rules so they can force through whatever next referendum they want.
They are basically saying that the people should only be informed of what the government wants the people to know in a referendum.
The balanced funding of Yes and No cases is removed.
They are the ones that get to disseminate “misinformation”…with all other real information censored..
… this is leftist totalitarian socialism writ large !
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Note, they want to make these changes because they KNOW that given full information and discussion.…
… only a tiny fraction of the population would vote for the “Voice” referendum.
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In May 1967, after 10 years of campaigning, a referendum on Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution was held.
The lead-up to the poll focused public attention on the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were treated as second-class citizens.
Nearly 91 per cent of the electorate voted to amend the constitution. This change meant that Aboriginal people would be counted as part of the population and acknowledged as equal citizens, and that the Commonwealth would be able to make laws on their behalf. This was seen to reflect public recognition of Aboriginal people as full Australian citizens.
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There is no good reason to change the Constitution as the government has the right to make laws on behalf of Aboriginal Australians.
And that is how ATSIC was created.
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When we were a rational country, they were treated as they are, as they behave, according to their ability to learn, to contribute. those days are long gone. Now we are collectively insane.
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The main effect of the 1967 Constitution amendment was the repeal of section 127. Following the amendment the Commonwealth was able to include “Aboriginal” population data when apportioning federal electoral districts. The amendment reenabled a rort.
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Typical far-leftist, ALWAYS wanting the tiny minority to have power over normal people.
Everything about “Voice” is being hidden….
Yet everybody knows its a SOCIALIST takeover attempt. !
The English built the first part of this country…. they created Australia.
… they also should have a “special voice”… wouldn’t you agree. !
Reality… There should NEVER be any “special” voice in the constitution… period. !
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And it was a Brit, Mathew Flinders, who produced the first complete map of Australia, so people came to know this land was an island, and a continent.
I think it’s at least arguable that there was no “nation” before 1901 and the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Cheers
Dave B
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‘First Bikies’
GA
Please define who may be eligible to constitute this body and how you believe this eligibility should be determined? Come back when you have come to grips with this small problem.
I love the concept of ‘First Nations’.
I have come up with another ‘First Bikies’. The idea being to give a semblance of unity to a group of disparate gangs of various racial and cultural backgrounds. Groups with little common ground and a history of bitter often violent feuds.
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I havent been able to determine what problem they think this addresses. Indigenous people are already over represented in both houses, if all claims of that heritage are true.
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The indigenous people in parliament are representatives of their electorates not their cultural or ethnic affiliations.
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Which is precisely what parliament is meant to be for.
Which is nothing to do with what parliament is meant to be for.
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correct
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GA back-peddles like crazy.. Hilarious !!
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“not their cultural or ethnic affiliations.”
SO WHAT! That is exactly how it should be…
There should not be any “cultural or ethnic affiliations” special groups in Parliament or in the constitution.
Your comment is, yet again… totally irrelevant.
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Gee Aye can you tell me how the voice will help one child in the remote town of Billiluna or Balgo or any person in the community?
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MIT’s slimmed-down solar cells would add only 20 kg to a rooftop
Solar cell technology is a seen as a key pillar in our transition to cleaner forms of energy, but within this field there is all kinds of room for experimentation. Solar cells that are thin and flexible hold unique promise in the area, as they could be applied to all kinds of irregular, curvy or otherwise unsuitable surfaces. Thinner than a human hair, a new lightweight solar cell from MIT scientists continues to push the envelope in this space.
The MIT team behind the technology sought to build on its previous advances in material science, which in 2016 culminated in ultra-thin solar cells light enough to sit atop a soap bubble without breaking it. As is the case with other thin, light and flexible solar cells we’ve looked at over the years, this pointed to all kinds of possibilities, from paper-based electronics to lightweight wearables that harvest energy throughout your day.
Despite the potential, the team still had some problems to solve, with the fabrication technique for the solar cells requiring vacuum chambers and expensive vapor deposition methods. In order to scale the technology up, the scientists have now turned to ink-based printable materials to streamline the process.
This begins with nanomaterials in the form of printable, semiconducting inks, a technology with wide-ranging potential when it comes to electronics. These are deposited onto a plastic substrate only 3 microns thick, along with a printable electrode, to form a solar module. That module can then be peeled off and glued to a fabric substrate that offers the mechanical strength needed to prevent tearing, while adding minimal weight.
The finished product is a flexible and ultralight solar cell with one hundredth the weight of conventional solar panels, but an ability to generate 18 times more power per kilogram. In testing, the team found the solar cell could generate 370 watts per kilogram (2.2 lb) when adhered to the fabric, but up to 730 watts when standing alone.
“A typical rooftop solar installation in Massachusetts is about 8,000 watts,” said co-lead author Mayuran Saravanapavanantham. “To generate that same amount of power, our fabric photovoltaics would only add about 20 kilograms (44 lb) to the roof of a house.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smtd.202200940
Sweet. Now – how to attach them!
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And yet they still will stop working when the sun goes down or on cloudy days, and their efficiency will still be limited to around 24% maximum. And when they eventually fail after a short lifetime, they will end up on the local dump, where they will leak toxic chemicals into the ground forever. I have to wonder why they are making the effort.
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That’s pretty good efficiency. 😎
Of course the US gubermint has put limits on the efficiency of inventions that would hurt their oil cash cow. How many such inventors have been “Clintoned” now over the past 50 years?
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Sweet. Now – how to attach them!
Duct tape.
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Mr. Connor: More than ten years ago, a roofing contractor client of mine had an idea to make shingles that could solar heat water. It was too complicated to essentially put plumbing inside each flat and connecting it into one line. Looking back, maybe the answer was a government grant- not so it could work, just so he could get paid!
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Has weight ever been an issue? I’ve never heard of it being a constraint. You would think the would be hyping the output of anything.
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Weight would not be of any great concern.
Certainly pales into insignificance when you consider the disaster of attaching a dc voltage with current like a welder and made of dissimilar metals to your roof. Not to mention requiring your neighbours to lop trees and generally avoid shading your roof.
Just a bloody disaster visited onto the population by decree and coercion.
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I do not believe weight is a problem, but unless they can be produced and installed cheaper than current technology ($200/kW?) then they are not going to succeed
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The weight of concrete tiles as roofing can be a problem…. requires more substantial walls and roof supports
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Daycares in Finland Built a ‘Forest’, And It Changed Kids’ Immune Systems
Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest’s undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child’s immune system, according to an experiment in Finland.
When daycare workers rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth (such as dwarf heather and blueberries), and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on the skin of the young kids appeared healthier in a very short space of time.
Compared to other city kids who play in standard urban daycares with yards of pavement, tile, and gravel, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds at these greened-up daycare centers in Finland showed increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood within 28 days.
“We also found that the intestinal microbiota of children who received greenery was similar to the intestinal microbiota of children visiting the forest every day,” explained environmental scientist Marja Roslund from the University of Helsinki in 2020, when the research was published.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba2578
Which is why I promote dirt and dislike excess cleanliness. 😎
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So long as they don’t snort the potting mix and invite the wicked witch Legionella Longbeachae into their lives. I’m with you all kids should get dirty climb and fall out of trees and other character building stuff it is the best way to learn. In the words of that other great French botanist “Let them eat worms”.
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Some playgroups in Melbourne have “bush” days for the little ones to play in amongst the rough and tumble a little. And do gardening. My young grandson does this and absolutely loves it.
I’m not clear the rationale for starting this, but the lad was born in COVID, struggled with his development, and endured isolation when he needed socialisation when he was wanting to talk. Now he’s catching up, thank God.
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I wonder how many times we need to study and “discover” the same thing? I guess its a generational thing, as things get lost or discredited and then have to find their way back into the mainstream. As I said to my Dr once, our Nannas actually knew what they where talking about when it comes to basic health and hygiene.
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US Soil Could Be Eroding Up to 1,000 Times Faster Than It Should
In the Midwest, one of the world’s most productive farming regions, researchers have calculated that current soil erosion is up to a thousand times greater than before modern agriculture’s rise.
That’s much, much more soil loss than what should be allowed following what the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) says is sustainable in its soil management guidelines.
“For the first time, we know what the natural rates of erosion are in the Midwest,” says geologist Caroline Quarrier, who completed the research as part of her master’s thesis at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst.
“And because we now know the rate of erosion before Euro-American settlement, we can see exactly how much modern agriculture has accelerated the process.”
The study is based on the presence of a rare element known as beryllium-10, which Quarrier and colleagues detected in the topsoil of 14 native prairies across the US Midwest that have been undisturbed by agriculture.
Before modern agriculture, average erosion rates across prairies in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas were about 0.04 millimeters a year, Quarrier and colleagues found. That was the case stretching back to the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
But the situation has changed. Previous measurements from agricultural fields adjacent to the native prairies studied show these cultivated areas are losing topsoil at far greater rates – a thousandfold faster at some sites.
The USDA’s current sustainability rules are based on the idea that topsoil in the Midwest can withstand only a millimeter of soil erosion every year.
But this ‘baseline’ level of erosion, it turns out, is 25 times greater than the average pre-agricultural erosion rates Quarrier and colleagues calculated. In other words, the erosion the USDA considers ‘tolerable’ for these locations is far, far above natural erosion rates, according to these latest figures.
This is a worry because, at this rate, America’s topsoil is simply unable to recover; it’s disappearing faster than it can accumulate. As a result, more and more go missing every year.
Earlier in 2022, some of the same researchers at UMass Amherst found that agricultural fields in the Midwest have lost 2 millimeters of soil per year on average since the Euro-American settlement. That’s equivalent to about 57.6 billion metric tons of topsoil lost in roughly 160 years.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/doi/10.1130/G50667.1/619178/Pre-agricultural-soil-erosion-rates-in-the
I did post a while ago about a return of the dust bowl era.
Doesn’t matter as you’ll all be eating cultivated bugs anyway…
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So , ..” dissapeared” ?….where do they suggest it is all going ?
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If Australia really does want to look at battery storage then why not go with a vanadium battery storage system that was initially developed in Australia in the early 1980s. Our own Australian Technology no less.
Abstract
The vanadium flow battery (VFB) as one kind of energy storage technique that has enormous impact on the stabilization and smooth output of renewable energy. Key materials like membranes, electrode, and electrolytes will finally determine the performance of VFBs. In this Perspective, we report on the current understanding of VFBs from materials to stacks, describing the factors that affect materials’ performance from microstructures to the mechanism and new materials development. Moreover, new models for VFB stacks as well as structural design will be summarized as well. Finally, the challenges, the overall cost evaluation, and future research directions will be briefly proposed.
https://www.australianvanadium.com.au/vanadium-batteries/
Vanadium redox flow batteries employ vanadium ions in different oxidation states to store chemical potential energy. To make a VRFB, vanadium pentoxide (V₂O₅) is processed into an electrolyte solution.
The electrolyte is stored in two tanks and pumped through electrochemical cells. Depending on the applied voltage, the energy sources are charged or discharged electrochemically.
The charge controller and inverter represent the interface to the electrical energy source and the user respectively.
The VRFB can switch between charge and discharge instantaneously and can cycle often and deeply, differentiating it from its solid state, lithium-based cousins. It can also be left completely discharged for long periods of time with no ill effects.
And they don’t blow up and ignite like the Lithium Batteries do.
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The Aussie flow batteries worked well on the Tassie islands didn’t they? Had to be all ripped out and replaced with other storage batteries. Tassie Hydro doesn’t want to discuss that debacle. And it might be worth looking at Rud Istvan’s comments about flow batteries before being too enthusiastic.
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And this is a much better explanation of those vanadium flow batteries –
In late September, a new power station opened in Dalian, northeastern China.
It’s a big battery – but it doesn’t look much like one that Tesla would sell you. The station is filled with tanks and pumps, moving liquids filled with vanadium throughout the facility. The only lithium to be had is in the phones of the staff operating the plant.
It’s a “flow battery”: a 40-year-old Australian invention that is receiving renewed focus as our energy grids transition.
Large white tanks, several metres high, containing flow battery electrolytes
The tanks containing electrolyte for the flow battery. Credit: DICP
How flow batteries work
Flow batteries were first developed in the 1980s, by now-Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos at the University of New South Wales.
“Most of the batteries that we use are enclosed systems,” says Associate Professor Alexey Glushenkov, a chemist and research lead in battery materials at the Australian National University’s Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program.
In conventional batteries, the metals and salts that react to make electricity are all held in the one unit: the anode supplies electrons into an external circuit on one side, and the cathode accepts them on the other.
This is called a reduction-oxidation, or redox, reaction.
Flow batteries use the same chemical principle – they’re also called redox flow batteries – but their physical structure is different.
“Flow batteries have a different system that consists of two parts,” explains Glushenkov.
First there’s the reactor, hosting an anode and a cathode, where the electricity-generating reaction takes place. An analyte and a catholyte – two liquids – are pumped through this.
“The second part of a flow battery is actually tanks of these electrolytes,” says Glushenkov.
“You pump the two liquids through the reactor, and their oxidation state changes when they’re in contact with the electrodes.”
Electrons and ions are transferred between the analyte and the catholyte, and electricity flows. The batteries can be charged and discharged by pumping the electrolytes back and forth.
The most promising flow batteries have both their analytes and their catholytes filled with dissolved vanadium: specifically, V2+ and V3+ ions.
Providing when lithium doesn’t (and not providing when it does)
This liquid vanadium dodges three of lithium-ion batteries’ most pressing problems: price, safety, and longevity.
The price and safety of the batteries are better simply because they don’t have lithium in them – an energy-dense, but reactive and resource-strained material.
But the longevity is thanks to the vanadium itself.
“There’s no consumption or degradation at all of that solution, because you’re either in one form of vanadium or the other,” says Vincent Algar, managing director of resources company Australian Vanadium.
“So the nature of that vanadium flow battery is that it doesn’t consume any of its reagents – you’re not going to get any reactions taking place which might destroy the cell over time.”
Matt Harper, chief commercial officer at vanadium battery manufacturer Invinity, says that their batteries are expected to last at least 25-30 years, based on the tests they’ve run and batteries that are still performing after five or six years.
While he’s confident in their data, “the only way to figure out the battery’s really going to last 30 years is to run it for 30 years,” he says.
“The only way to figure out the battery’s really going to last 30 years is to run it for 30 years.”
Matt Harper
So: what’s the catch?
“They have less energy density. Therefore, to build a comparative battery you need to make it very, very large,” says Glushenkov.
Aerial shot of dalian flow battery energy storage peak-shaving power station
The Dalian vanadium flow battery station. Credit: DICP
The Dalian station boasts a current capacity of 100 MW/400 MWh, which will eventually be expanded to 200 MW/800 MWh. Australia’s biggest operating battery, lithium-ion and taking up about the same space, is 300 MW/450 MWh.
Flow batteries also can’t be superior in power – kilowatts – but they can do better in energy storage. – kilowatt-hours.
“Our fleet, our phones, our devices, are all going towards lithium-ion: that’s become a power problem,” says Algar.
“But when we talk about changing our grid, to be able to handle all the renewable energy that we’ve currently got coming into it, we need to think about energy storage.”
“When we talk about changing our grid, to be able to handle all the renewable energy that we’ve currently got coming into it, we need to think about energy storage.”
Vincent Algar
Over a longer period of time – say, a night instead of a few hours – vanadium flow batteries are cheaper grid additions.
“The crossover point is, we think, about six hours at the moment, where the economics of using vanadium is better than lithium,” says Algar.
“Lithium-ion batteries do a really good job at replacing the gas-powered generators that run for something like 500 hours a year,” says Harper.
“Whereas what we look at is using the combination of our batteries and renewable power to provide baseload power.”
The batteries getting built
In late November, energy company North Harbour Clean Energy announced plans to develop what will be Australia’s biggest flow battery, at a modest 4 MW/16 MWh, alongside a manufacturing line in Eastern Australia.
Invinity is further along the line, currently shipping a battery half the size to Yadlamalka, north of Port Augusta in South Australia.
Originally slated to be done by the end of 2021, the project was delayed after heritage assessments on the original site for the battery found a large number of Aboriginal artefacts.
Having found a new location, the project is now expected to be operational early next year. It will be a 2 MW/8 MWh addition to the grid.
“What we look at is using the combination of our batteries and renewable power to provide baseload power.”
Matt Harper
“The project that we’re building at Yadlamalka, I think, is a perfect example of where the technology fits well,” says Harper.
It’s a place with abundant solar energy, that could do with some more overnight storage – as is evident from Port Augusta’s revived solar thermal hopes.
“Remote microgrids are perfect for flow batteries of all scales,” says Algar.
“They’re not temperature sensitive, like lithium-ion batteries, so they can operate quite comfortably in hot conditions, which is a real benefit. And, obviously, they’re non-flammable.”
While China, with nearly half the world’s vanadium, is throwing its efforts behind huge plants, Australia’s first users of vanadium might be farms, mines, and small remote communities.
“Those are all run by diesel right now, yet we’ve got so much renewable resources in those places,” says Algar.
Australia’s first users of vanadium might be farms, mines, and small remote communities.
There’s mining revenue as well as utility to be had here too: Australia has around 18% of the world’s vanadium reserves, mostly in Western Australia – hence Australian Vanadium’s interests. The element is still, mostly, used in steel, but flow batteries are going to change things.
“There’s only a handful of primary vanadium mines in the world at the moment,” says Algar.
“There is going to be a restriction of supply unless some new mines get developed.”
Invinity, conversely, has partnered with wind turbine manufacturing giant Siemens Gamesa: their heightened storage makes flow batteries a better partner for wind projects, which are often much bigger energy generators than solar farms.
“The combination of solar power and batteries together has been a huge story over the last three or four years, but we’re just starting to see the combination of batteries plus wind,” says Harper.
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Rubbish. The “world Biggest Battery”… Hornsdale SA , 2019, was installed to back up the Hornsdale wind farm
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Experimental Treatment Helps 13-Year-Old Girl Achieve Leukemia Remission
Doctors in Britain have hailed a pioneering treatment for an aggressive form of leukemia, after a teenager became the first patient to be given a new therapy and went into remission.
The 13-year-old girl, identified only as Alyssa, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2021.
But her blood cancer did not respond to conventional treatment, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
She was enrolled on a clinical trial of a new treatment at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) using genetically engineered immune cells from a healthy volunteer.
In 28 days her cancer was in remission, allowing her to receive a second bone marrow transplant to restore her immune system.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common kind of cancer in children and affects cells in the immune system, known as B cells and T cells, which fight and protect against viruses.
GOSH said Alyssa was the first patient known to have been given base-edited T cells, which involves chemically converting single nucleotide bases – letters of the DNA code – which carry instructions for a specific protein.
Researchers at GOSH and University College London helped develop the use of genome-edited T cells to treat B-cell leukemia in 2015.
But to treat some other types of leukemia the team had to overcome the challenge that T cells designed to recognize and attack cancerous cells had ended up killing each other during the manufacturing process.
Multiple additional DNA changes were needed to the base-edited cells to allow them to target cancerous cells without damaging each other.
”This is a great demonstration of how, with expert teams and infrastructure, we can link cutting edge technologies in the lab with real results in the hospital for patients,” said GOSH consultant immunologist and professor Waseem Qasim.
”It’s our most sophisticated cell engineering so far and paves the way for other new treatments and ultimately better futures for sick children.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11526903/Brave-girl-13-beats-leukaemia-world-clinical-trial.html
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Will GMO people be banned? Will they be allowed to reproduce? Will cannibals be allowed to eat them? All sorts of ethical questions arise.
Will this be done “in utero” ? For.what reasons would it be allowed?
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I forgot to mention that I’m happy that the young lass is better at present and seems to recovering. Hope things keep improving for her.
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Video.
Styxhexenhammer discusses Hunter Biden’s likely strategy with legal cases he is launching.
https://youtu.be/me2HauKHu_U
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Here is another of those interesting videos from Pakistan of extreme and primitive working conditions, but yet productive, making things. In this case they cut up ship anchor chain and forge and machine it into truck axles.
https://youtu.be/buXCfLnyp3A
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Resourceful for sure ,..but i cant help thinking that anchor chain is likely not the best material for making high torque truck half shafts from !
Maybe that is why they are making so many ?,
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THE EXTENDED SOLAR CYCLE: So you thought you knew the solar cycle? Think again.
A new paper published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences confirms that there is more to solar activity than the well-known 11-year sunspot cycle. Data from Stanford University’s Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) reveal two solar cycles happening at the same time, and neither is 11 years long.
“We call it ‘the Extended Solar Cycle,'” says lead author Scott McIntosh of NCAR. “There are two overlapping patterns of activity on the sun, each lasting about 17 years.”
Solar physicists have long suspected this might be true. References to “overlapping solar cycles” can be found in research literature as far back as 1903. A figure from the new Frontiers paper seems to clinch the case.
11 years vs. 17 years. 1 cycle vs. 2 cycles. What difference does it make?
“The Extended Solar Cycle may be telling us something crucial about what’s happening deep inside the sun where sunspot magnetic fields are generated,” says McIntosh. “It poses significant challenges to prevalent dynamo theories of the solar cycle.”
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.923049/full
The science is
settledNEVER settled. 😁30
I can’t wait until Leftoids blame solar changes on burning hydrocarbon fuels.
Many or even most of them are stupid enough and ignorant enough to believe that.
In fact, I search Goolag from time to time looking for the first evidence of such claims.
Most are unaware that the sun is a variable star.
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The serious blind spot is that the solar energy into the two hemispheres is equal. That is true but you get blank stares when you point out that the SH energy all comes in in 180 days and the NH in 186 days. Most people have never calculated the current time between equinoxes.
Peak solar energy to the SH is 180 petawatt compared with NH of 169PW. But that difference is now closing and will eventually reverse. NH has rising solar input and SH falling solar input. Is it any wonder the NH is warming and the SH is cooling:
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5739727.1601065481!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/august-2020-temperature-anomalies-map.jpg
“Global warming” is an improper name for “termination of the modern interglacial”. NH will warm a lot more before the snow fall overtakes the snow melt al the way down to 40N. Although some might argue that look a real prospect at the minute.
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This plot has the response curves for 11 of the 12 zones across two hemespheres, with land and ocean surfaces separated into tropical, temperate and polar zones.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNhHkLC3n4v0VHT0t-?e=bnOL7j
There is no GHCN temperature data for Antarctic land so the SH polar zone is missing.
It shows how differently the different regions and surface respond to solar forcing. Southern Temperate oceans gets 34% of Earth’s total December sunlight and it drops to just 9% of the June sunlight but despite that the temperature only swings 4.3C.
The highlight is how much the land in the NH polar region responds to varying sunlight. It gives an indication why a a little extra snow pushes up the minimum temperature. That -30C is where the temperature is really skyrocketing up as the NH gets more sunlight.
The temperate oceans in the northern hemisphere has more than twice the thermal response of the same region in the Southern Hemisphere; shift 8.5C for a solar swing of 312W/m^s in the NH temperate ocean versus 4.3C for a swing of 372W/m^2 in the SH temperate oceans.
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This is NOAA’s global temperature anomaly for August 2020:
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5739727.1601065481!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/august-2020-temperature-anomalies-map.jpg
It must be getting hard to maintain the idea that CO2 can alter Earth’s energy balance. It appears more plausible that heat rises to the top!!
When the remnants of the current human race are still looking at the temperature anomalies in 25,000 years, the globe will look like the it is being heating from the bottom.
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Can we have some globull warming in Victoriastan please it’s bloody cold .
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“FRIGHTENING FINDINGS” stun… “immediately after vaccination start on December 27, 2020, sudden and unexpected deaths exploded in Germany.”
This is shown by just released data of the 72 million insured by Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV)
Worth reading and passing on given the continued denials by health authorities that the vax kills.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/12/12/breaking-data-of-72-million-insured-shows-massive-sudden-unexpected-deaths-exploded-in-germany-since-2021/
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Yeah, but:
1) Covid
2) Lockdowns
3) Despite being right, those numbers are wrong
4) Vladimir Putin
5) Trump did it
4) Look over there ->
5) Shut up
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You didn’t mention the squirrel by name
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On another forum we were discussing the 13% increase in deaths in Aus and a pro-vaxxer dismissed it as all being dementia. When asked how something that takes a decade to kill could suddenly be slaughtering thousands, a link was given where vascular dementia was mentioned.
Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain.
The argument seemed to be that brain damage has nothing to do with heart damage, that clots cannot effect both.
And they vote.
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“The argument seemed to be that brain damage has nothing to do with heart damage, that clots cannot effect both.”
Sounds like the early warning signs of vascular dementia!
“And they vote.” Yup! That’s why I reckon democracy is a failed experiment.
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We agree on little but “50% +1” is not democracy,’tis theft by consensus.
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Easy to pull things down. Propose better system, preferably one that can be observed working already and has at least some possibility of being sold to the masses.
The best model I have seen is the Swiss one , where its more bottom up and issues can go to the people more readily. You have to like voting though, there is lots of voting.
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Joe Rogan & Matt Taibbi EXPOSE The WOKE Media!!!
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David
Did you see my reply to you on the Cold Australia thread, with a link to an old book?
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We haven’t heard much about Australia’s very own suicide doctor lately, Philip Nitschke.
Well, he is making “suicide pods”, the first of which will be used in Switzerland where he already has a waiting “patient”.
He is also hoping to incorporate artificial intelligence into the process. A machine might make the final decision.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/13/1060945/artificial-intelligence-life-death-decisions-hard-choices/
SEE LINK FOR REST
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A Vanadium Redox battery was installed on King Island, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but I remember that it was closed down prematurely.
Can anyone tell us the history of this project?
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For all us lucky enough to live in Victoriastan we can now shop at Danningswarehouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcyveixTNkM
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Yes and buy up all the crowbars that you can.
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Sorry all our warehouses are full of thousands of tonnes of “recycled” soft plastics. You will have to come back later.
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Governments Are Headed into Major Catastrophe
From Armstrong Economics –
“I pointed out at the WEC that all my efforts to try to defeat my own model have failed mainly because in our Republics, which are not Democracies, no politicians care about the future – only the next election, Whenever I would be in meetings and warn that we cannot keep borrowing indefinitely with no intention of paying anything off, the response was always twofold (1) they won’t be there in 20 years, it will be someone else’s problem, and (2) we are the government so we are the exception.
The Crisis in the London debt market was profound. The institutions no longer wanted the long-term debt for (1) interest rates were rising, and (2) pouring money into Ukraine for a proxy war with Russia always undermines the currency and leads to inflation. With the expectation of rising interest rates, whatever you buy in the long-term today is worth less tomorrow. It is like trying to buy stocks in the middle of a crash. Of course, those in government are indeed ignorant of how the economy functions in addition to science.
We lack expertise in government and the very structure of our governments being Republics dominated by Socialism, means that politicians are always only interested in the next election and constantly run for election with promises of free giveaways like they use to do 30 years ago – open a new bank account and get a free toaster.
There is simply no possible way to prevent the collapse of our Republican forms of government. But since the media promotes always one-sided leftist fake news, they will be leading us down the path of authoritarianism for the cancel culture is all about silencing any opposition. As Sagan points out, without skepticism we are doomed. What we must start planning for is the reconstruction of a new form of government post-2032 when this one collapses like Communism from its own corruption and weight. No revolution will be even needed.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/govt-incompetence/governments-are-headed-into-major-catastrophe/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Should be exciting! Hope I’m still around… I think the countries of the world may split before then, the more astute may bail out of the Western ideals and inject some common sense.
The Woke West is toast unless the energy crisis blows away all the crap about renewables and in doing so reduces the lifestyles of people enough to re-focus their minds on survival instead of how many sexes there are.
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“Anthony Fauci merges COVID & Climate: Infectious diseases ‘largely the result’ of human ‘encroachment on nature’ & ‘often aided by climate changes’ – Published in New England Journal of Medicine”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/12/anthony-fauci-merges-covid-climate-infectious-diseases-largely-the-result-of-human-encroachment-on-nature-often-aided-by-climate-changes/
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I find life so difficult. The anti violence against women ads say that I should SPEAK UP to protect women from violence. There is a small problem here, I don’t know any of my friends [the only people I MIGHT talk to] who beats his wife.
In the same vein I have never, in my 80 years, met anyone who is bad to the bone so simply cannot conceive pure evil. History tells of a few who were but they were one in a million and not current.
So how is the US infested by a hundred, centred in DC? Fauci is not even a standout.
To our US friends, I’m not speaking of J. Citizen but you must try harder.
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He’s right! There’s some fascinating work on how we have had so many diseases appear since we harnessed electricity and EMF waves!
Of course we bathe the whole globe in radiation of many wavelengths these days, it affects animals and insects as well. Sadly no-one wants give up all electricity and return to nature as a trial…
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The whole globe is bathed in radiation indeed. Much of which we have no part in producing. Along with electricity has come a giant leap in our ability to understand and diagnose things so it not surprising that many things have appeared since then. An interesting topic.
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Mark Latham stars aga
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I thought I deleted that. Mark is not a suitable topic here.
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Is there a search function that I have never found on this blog? Even the ability to find one’s own posts would help.
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Go outside the blog and use a good search engine with your name, JoNova and around the dat you posted. That works sometimes.
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Did you have a look at the upper right corner ?
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Hanrahan, there is a search box in the top right (highest corner).
I also have the ability to search through comments by keywords, phrases or emails inside the dashboard, so let me know if you get really stuck. It’s slow because there are 865k, but it is possible.
There is also an INDEX (right column) where every tag is hotlinked. But that only applies to my posts, not the comments. Often I just google (DDG is worse, dang) “joannenova Drought” or some combination.
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Ctrl (control) F opens a page search block that works on the open page, too.
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Thanks Jo et al. Small as it is I had found the “search” button but it just seemed to open the search engine function.
Cmd F [Mac] looks promising. Thanks.
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Gas company insiders accusing government of ‘plotting’ sector overhaul in secret
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“My company just did a diversity survey. I checked every box and submitted it. I’m a Black, Hispanic, Caucasian, Asian, Native who’s male, female, transexual and 2 spirited.
I expect I’ll be the CEO next year.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/12/heh.html
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The last hill …
the one we get chased to in avoidance of conflict.
Debanking … the ultimate expression of the infamous ism, the one the starts with a F.
The ultimate self own of the Left that are the true F-ists.
Take Kanye, debanked for you-know-what ism, the circular ironic hypocrisy is staggering.
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/debanking-when-your-bank-acts-like-a-political-party/
I see no structure in the Western legal political establishment to fight this, or any of the authoritarian abuses that have been manifested by Clima/Trump/Pandemia and the rise of the Woketopian Reich.
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..and that’s why Govts want to get rid of cash! They can’t control who hands $50 to someone else.
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As of today the total number of people I know that “died suddenly” has risen to 3.
I fear that number will continue to rise
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I have the same stats Crakar24. Wondering when Johnny average wakes up to it.
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Actually make that four.
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Friends of ours in our local car club lost their 6 year old grandchild in a sudden death. Just collapsed and died. There was no investigation into the cause.
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Valentina Zharkova: “in next 30 yrs, global warming prob. will be last thing in our mind”
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Our problem will be prevention of global warming induced poverty.
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Warmism certainly a big problem – big waste of money and an attack on democracy, freedom etc. Any global warming not – less climate deaths, more agriculture -> more food. Heat good, cold bad.
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A Green agenda that absolutely is not green, says Neil Oliver
https://www.gbnews.uk/opinion/a-green-agenda-that-absolutely-is-not-green-says-neil-oliver/404894
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Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination
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Doctors Peter McCullough and Robert Malone have been reinstated on Twitter.
The RNA covid vaccines have been found to migrate from the arm injection site to the heart, brain, lungs, liver, and so on. The RNA covid ‘vaccines’ including the new bivalent ‘booster’ force the body cells, including heart cells, brain cells, liver cells, and so on to produce a version of the Wuhan-1 spike that has been modified to make it more difficult for the body to eliminate. Normally the body can eliminate RNA products in a few days. The Wuhan-1 vaccine produce spikes remain in the body for up to a month.
Peter McCullough
https://twitter.com/search?q=peter%20mccullough%20md&src=typeahead_click&f=top
Robert Malone
https://twitter.com/search?q=Robert%20Malone%20MD&src=typeahead_click&f=top
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Thanks for the hint !
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I just read in German news, NZ will prohibit smoking. No one born on or after Jan. 1st 2009 will be allowed to buy cigarettes. Target 2025 NZ will be smoker free… as first country in the world….
Will they prohibit tobacco too ? wasn’t mentioned…
Nanny is calling you….. 😀
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Search result: Smokefree amendment bill passes third reading in Parliament
Tobacco too…..
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It appears my daughter was able to buy cigarettes and liquor from the age of 15. She just purchased some ID.
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PS, In Quebec bootleg tobacco is big business.
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IIRC it makes a few headlines in Oz too
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After I quit smoking and while it was still OK in pubs I could pick when someone was smoking chop chop – it smelt better, cleaner.
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This is the NZ govt. in desperate damage control mode , prompted by a drastic collapse in popular support; not hard to see why.
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Check the facial contortions: statesman-like . . .not.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300764061/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-calls-act-leader-david-seymour-an-arrogant-prick
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Damn! The clip has been severely clipped by the censors since I viewed it this morning.
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“Water, Water Everywhere…”
“”The world’s largest solar PV farm uses 200,000 litres of water each day to keep the panels clean. Yet some people think that we are soon going to source all our electricity from solar farms in deserts.”
#cop26 #cop26 #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/13/water-water-everywhere/
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It must be quite a big battery in the tractor doing the spraying…
But, maybe, just maybe, it’s got an older engine??
Cheers
Dave B
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Where is that global warming?
I started a batch of home brew beer yesterday – with the mid-winter heat lights!
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“UK’s Arctic Blast and Australia’s Cold Spring Contradict Climate Narrative”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/13/uks-arctic-blast-and-australias-cold-spring-contradict-climate-narrative/
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The covid scene warming up
“DeSantis Petitioning FL Supreme Court to Impanel a Statewide Grand Jury to Investigate Coronavirus Vaccines”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/13/desantis-petitioning-fl-supreme-court-impanel-statewide-grand-jury-investigate-coronavirus-vaccines/
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The Qld police shooting, sorry, “executions”, is all due to conspiracy theories according to the mainstream meme, but pages of rubbish written in the SMH completely fail to mention what conspiracy theory anyone believed in .
I get the feeling we are being set up for yet another propaganda push into the arms of those in power. Believing some thing not stated will make you an immoral compassionless terrorist.
I’m waiting to see if the words Far Right start to get thrown around like the word ‘execution’ for a shooting.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/as-a-principal-he-was-feted-for-his-success-now-he-s-linked-to-two-police-killings-20221213-p5c601.html
https://www.smh.com.au/national/slipping-through-the-killers-sights-a-rookie-cop-hid-in-burning-grass-and-sent-goodbye-texts-to-her-family-20221213-p5c5vv.html
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The EU is desperate for taxes, so they are going to tax imports of goods they can no longer make from countries that they exported their manufacturing to! All this does is add to the inflation that makes every person in the EU poorer!
These are basic commodities you need every day to make civilisation run, steel, cement, aluminium, fertiliser and electricity. Its like taxing diesel and then being surprised when everything goes up in price.. Oh wait, they are going to tax all carbon-containing organic chemicals as well!
Seems like communism did win the cold war and they will all end up with a standard of living just like East Berlin’s, in more ways than one.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/eu-becomes-first-major-economy-to-legislate-world-first-green-tariffs-20221214-p5c63w.html
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The ‘climate comedy’ spells ‘future calamity’
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2 1/2 years late:
Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4
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“DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money”
https://babylonbee.com/news/lawmakers-prosecute-sam-bankman-fried-for-running-out-of-bribery-money
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Just so people are aware. Armstrong Economics, that John Rotten is frequently posting is run by an unrepentant convicted fraudster.
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Also, someone calling himself Bourne1879, commonly referred to as Rooster, is threatening to move over from Catallaxy to here. Rooster is very boring and unfortunately actslike a bitchy little queen.
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