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“A perfectly good civilization is going to waste…”
Indeed- The young seem to have no idea of how their living standard is going to fall, how their ‘new normal’ will be what we viewed as a dystopian future of tyrannical Govt & shortages of everything from food to lodgings to energy to travel..
I suppose they are banking on spending their ‘Boomers inheritance’.
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I believe that there was a daughter who said to her Dad, “I hope your last cheque bounces”.
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It was John Singleton that I heard say if you manage your affairs well the last cheque you write should bounce.
It’s a long time since I have written a cheque.
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With our crusty old Treasurer stepping down recently, our local car club has boldly stepped into the 1990s and will now do payments by electronical funds transfer. Go us!! living on the ragged leading edge of technology.
Given the club is small we could just maintain a shoe box and pay cash but we do like to be business like.
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Based on an assumption of no offspring.
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In a worst-case scenario, today’s youngsters might be reduced to thinking of a small bottle of lemonade as a treat, having no mobile phone, no TV in their bedroom, having to walk three miles to work (full time from fifteen years old) and, at the age of 17 (and engaged), a ‘night out’ is a walk to the fish and chip shop then sharing on a park bench so that they can save up the insurance on a decrepit old car.
In other words, my life in the early 70s.
Don’t get me started on my childhood unless you’ve got a violin.
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“unless you’ve got a violin.”
The size of my thumb ! 🙂
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Inevitable post:
https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k
🤣
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And out of those 4 ‘Yorkshireman’, only one is alive today. John Cleese.
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Michael Palin?
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The original 4 Yorkshiremen sketch was written by and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
Most people are familiar with the Monty Python Versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch
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“The young seem to have no idea of how their living standard is going to fall”
And yet THEY are the ones causing it !! Quite bizarre.
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Have been exchanging notes with an old work colleague (German living in Switzerland) he was saying that much of what they used to take for granted in terms of freedoms, services and commodities is uncertain or sometimes missing. He often corrects my now 17 year old perceptions of life there. If this is the case in Switzerland I dont like to think about what is going on in Europe generally. I expressed a hope that his family and friends (Bavarians) werent affected too much by all thats going on, and noticed the he avoided talking about the home country. Seems to be a sense of going over a crest.
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The thing is, they’re being brainwashed into thinking what we call dystopia is a good thing.
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Neil Oliver @ GBNews speaking on Excess deaths and the elephant in the room. 472K views today.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1614329227272421376
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Fortunately. the global Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda has not silenced Neil Oliver.
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Remember 18 months ago, we had to flatten the curve of those infected, when we got daily updates from Premiers in every State on the Covid death toll? The media was in overdrive with fear and panic about the Covid virus.
Now we have excess mortality in Australia @ about 13%
Plus hundreds of Covid deaths every week.
All I hear is crickets while the Australian Dept of Health and Aged Care floods Twitter with advertised warnings about the dangers of a mosquito bite…………………Please explain?
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March 2020. Almost 36 months ago.
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‘Possible’ explanation …
The ‘Pandemic’ was pre=planned and orchestrated political theater.
A perception of ‘excess’ deaths had to be manufactured.
Even propaganda assemblers Snopes had to half heartedly correct this one.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mass-graves-covid-19-deaths/
Then there’s this …
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YkSeO7Yb5MI9/
“Now we have excess mortality in Australia @ about 13%”
(You know it’s true because they DON’T talk about it … the new standard.)
OZ is lucky, I think it’s higher elsewhere.
Crickets?
Because the plan worked.
Think of the ‘Pandemic’ as the Star Wars I of political theater.
We have to be patient to see what the next blockbuster will be.
Trust The Science Luke.
BTW, if a virus doesn’t get you, you will die a burning death of carbon incineration, provided your high cholesterol doesn’t kill you first.
I’d pick a gender identity while you still can.
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Oh, and being a serious progressive citizen, I offer this assistance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gender_identities
It is important that you read and empathize with each one before choosing.
You are welcome.
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Thank you , this will be most useful at the next census
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Yet.
I am a big fan of Neil Oliver.
And when I say a big fan,
I do not mean wind turbine.
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Hopefully our host Jo will take a few minutes to watch this excellent Neil Oliver video.
Just maybe it might help her realise the perps deserve a tad more than a flogging with a soggy spaghetti noodle.
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Maybe MV will read my blog? I’ve said nearly everything Neil said here, here, here, here here, here here, here , here and here. Even the elephant too.
I like Neil. It’s good that he’s catching up to things I said in 2021.
Grumpy today MV?
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maybe just a short memory Jo?
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Low Vaultage ?
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Eight strokes will make you forgetful, I dearly pray for Peter Sawyer if only folk here could ever realise the importance of his political life.
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It was only seven strokes, Will.
I had my reasons for my comment which had nothing to with the links Jo provided. As you will see if Jo ever lets my reply to her out of moderation.
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MV, thanks for explaining what you really meant this time. But since I think the topic you are annoyed at me is net loss for science, skeptics and this blog I voted “no” and explained it to you in your comment. I have no time. I don’t need to fight other people’s non-science, non free speech related battles. But feel free to get back on topic of how scientifically awful those medical experiments are.- Jo
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Fair enough Jo. Your blog, your rules.
However, I will continue to disagree. Being “polite” and “nice” about it all didn’t work for me 30 years ago. I’s not working for you now, and it won’t work in the future.
Ms Inman Grant will soon see to that.
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Thanks Will. Well said.
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Worth thinking about, I spent some time yesterday researching Australian Aborigines which is what they prefer to be called, as compared to Australians of indigenous ancestry and mostly mixed ancestry, in total at the last census 810,000 of whom about 100,000 are Australian Aborigine direct descendants and most of them live in country areas including remote communities.
Aboriginal Australians, according to Andrew Bolt, already have many “voices” to Parliament (Federal); a Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, more than 30 Land Councils, more than 2,700 Aboriginal corporations and the Council of Peaks, representing 70 top Aboriginal organisations.
Most importantly , 11 Federal politicians identify as Aboriginal. That’s nearly 5 per cent of MPs, when Aborigines make up no more than 3.7 per cent of our population.
The history of the politics of Australian Aborigine activists spans back a long way and reached a very active period during the 1960s with US style freedom bus rides around Australia with activists aboard. Many of whom have been high achievers and graduates from universities. The activists have cleverly created a politically correct sales and marketing model based on appealing to the wider community’s sense of fair play and equality, etc. Based on this campaigning, noting that primary responsibility for Aboriginal Affairs is for State governments, State and Federal taxpayers have committed hundreds of billions of dollars to fund many projects and including addressing the problems of disadvantaged communities, yet today the problems continue. Obviously cultural matters and division by tribal or clan differences and languages are a major issue.
But the disadvantaged Australians of Aboriginal ancestry or direct descendants are not the only Australians needing assistance, approximately 1 in every 8 Australians love below the poverty line, are homeless and thousands are children.
Adding a new, or is it ATSIC reinstated as ATSIV “voice” of Canberra based bureaucrats is not a solution for the people, just another politically based gravy train club for well educated self styled elites remote from the remote communities.
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“love below the poverty line”
It’s sad to know there’s a poverty line for love ! 🙁
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Dennis,a vote for this will not be for one voice but for a SECOND voice,As you said there are many MP’s,councils and organisations for the indigious plus squillions of wasted dollars.ATSIC was described by one elder as “Aboriginals talking shit in Canberra”.These groups are getting upset now at all the people identifying as Aboriginal with no need to justify it,maybe they don’t like more noses at the trough.Australia does not need to be South Africa.
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The Facebook page for I think Halls Creek has an interesting barny going on between someone who knows what’s happened in the past with city centric bureaucracy and lives in the community and someone else full of hate and bile for anyone questioning the voice .
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Yes, and in response to your conclusion, as I recall, Pauline Hanson made similar comments in her maiden speech. That is still held as a cross against her even now. Having for a long time developed an appreciation of your political sympathies from reading your posts on this blog, I wonder if you are prepared to advise just how you felt about such things way back then?
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I followed ATSIC closely and when the Howard Coalition Government decided to abolish ATSIC based on auditing and police reports revealing the lack of governance and the corruption taking place I was relieved and fully supported the abolition decision. So did the Labor Opposition and noting that Labor created ATSIC. In fact refreshing my memory recently I read again that in Parliament the Labor Opposition stated in support of the Government decision that if they had been in government they would have reached the same conclusion.
To quote Andrew Bolt, Daily Telegraph, January 9, 2023: “This Divides Not Unites – This “reconciliation” movement has already failed. After three decades, race relations seem more poisonous than ever. Example Greens MP Lidia Thorpe. No wonder. When you give activists power because of their “race”, they must exaggerate racial division to keep the money flowing. Assimilationists get nowhere and separatists prosper. The voice will just make that worse.”
“This Is Permanent” – This voice will be written into our Constitution, making it almost impossible to remove. It could fail horribly, like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and we cannot sack it.”
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Well here is a fine example of political double speak, even quoting Bolte as an authority, and at this stage has earned 6 green thumbs; I don’t accept what you have written as a worthy response.
Your conclusion to which I referred was: But the disadvantaged Australians of Aboriginal ancestry or direct descendants are not the only Australians needing assistance, approximately 1 in every 8 Australians love below the poverty line, are homeless and thousands are children.
Adding a new, or is it ATSIC reinstated as ATSIV “voice” of Canberra based bureaucrats is not a solution for the people, just another politically based gravy train club for well educated self styled elites remote from the remote communities.
In 1996, Hanson said:
Pauline Hanson’s comments about Aboriginal Australians saw her disendorsed as the Liberal candidate for Oxley but the decision came so late in the campaign she still appeared as a Liberal on the ballot paper.
Here is the transcript of her 1996 maiden speech to Parliament.
Mr Acting Speaker, in making my first speech in this place, I congratulate you on your election and wish to say how proud I am to be here as the Independent member for Oxley. I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life’s knocks.
My view on issues is based on commonsense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop. I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals.
We now have a situation where a type of reverse racism is applied to mainstream Australians by those who promote political correctness and those who control the various taxpayer funded ‘industries’ that flourish in our society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other minority groups. In response to my call for equality for all Australians, the most noisy criticism came from the fat cats, bureaucrats and the do-gooders. They screamed the loudest because they stand to lose the most – their power, money and position, all funded by ordinary Australian taxpayers.
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals. Along with millions of Australians, I am fed up to the back teeth with the inequalities that are being promoted by the government and paid for by the taxpayer under the assumption that Aboriginals are the most disadvantaged people in Australia. I do not believe that the colour of one’s skin determines whether you are disadvantaged. As Paul Hasluck said in parliament in October 1955 when he was Minister for Territories:
“The distinction I make is this. A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. We do not want a society in Australia in which one group enjoy one set of privileges and another group enjoy another set of privileges.”
Hasluck’s vision was of a single society in which racial emphases were rejected and social issues addressed. I totally agree with him, and so would the majority of Australians.
Dennis, my question to you stands unanswered.
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maybe allow some % for those of us that identify as indigenous lesbians who speak French at home for census purposes
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It’s my opinion that anyone promoting a “yes” vote in this referendum is genuinely racist. No matter what form it takes, basing a government apparatus on skin colour is a backwards step, and is (or should be) the antithesis of what passes for Australian values and ideals at the moment.
This “voice” won’t solve the truly shameful disparity in life expectancy, in education, in career or life goals. The main Aboriginal players who want the “voice” see nothing but dollar signs and power for themselves, they don’t give a damn about their fellow Aboriginals living in poverty, or they’d have made some effort before now.
Then, there’s Albo and his idea that the Australian public are too stupid to be allowed to know what form the “voice” will take. Another reason to vote “No”, if there weren’t enough already.
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JamesM,
Thank you for writing unpopular words.
Many different plans and vast monies in the past have failed to solve “the problem”. (I have been deeply involved in some past plans). It follows that any new plan has a high probability of failure and that it really has to be new and not a re-hash of old.
We face not so much an optimistic future plan as a grab by the he usual suspects for more power and more money (for them).
The main “new” part of this voice plan is the guarded silence about what its real intentions are. Who would vote for such a blatant pig in a poke? Geoff S
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Geoff S,this is the best explanation of the Voice I’ve seen,plain and simple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQo4D7NRNoY
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I like to think our government is more concerned with “forward thinking” “planning for the future” as well as “allowing for cultural harmony”
Somehow the proponents of “The Voice” will need to convince me that those goals form a large part of “their interests” rather than “tradition”.
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Pharma Fail: Arthritis Drug Accelerates Arthritis, Alzheimer’s Drug Approved Via Fraud
Among the many lessons that we should have collectively learned as a society in the post-COVID era is that the pharmaceutical industry willfully lies, manipulates, bribes, and threatens the American public for the sake of profit and social control. Often, the products it markets don’t work or have extremely negative side effects or both.
A pair of recent stories further illustrate the point:
An arthritis drug that actually exacerbates arthritis, and
an Alzheimer’s drug rushed through clinical trials that costs more than most people’s annual salaries yet doesn’t actually do much of anything to improve the disease trajectory.
“Two recent studies have shown that corticosteroid injections, which are commonly used to treat the pain associated with knee osteoarthritis, may actually contribute to the progression of the disease…
Statistical analysis showed that corticosteroid knee injections were significantly associated with the overall progression of osteoarthritis in the knee, specifically in the lateral meniscus, lateral cartilage, and medial cartilage.”
“Two months before the Food and Drug Administration’s deadline to decide whether to approve Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab, a council of senior agency officials resoundingly agreed that there wasn’t enough evidence it worked…
On June 7, the F.D.A. greenlighted the drug anyway — a decision that has been met with scathing rebuke from many Alzheimer’s experts and other scientists and calls for investigations into how the agency approved a treatment that has little evidence it helps patients.”
https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/pharma-fail-arthritis-drug-accelerates-arthritis-alzheimers-drug-approved-via-fraud/
No proof it works but roll it out to make money of the desperate anyway. Sounds familiar and typical.
Unsafe and ineffective…
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The dubious case for a Treaty
From The Quadrant Online –
“All of the above factors are reasons why Australia did not form a national treaty. This was not preordained or based on abstract legal doctrines. Rather, it was historically contingent to the circumstances the colony found itself in, and unravelled over time, based on the political nature of colonisation and the relationship they had with the Indigenous population.
Whether it is historians or activists who ignore the complexities of our history without considering the proper context the British found themselves in after 1788, Australians should be cautious about calls to form a national treaty. For instance, with whom would we sign the treaty? Not only are many Aboriginal people today of mixed race, but Aboriginal people themselves represent hundreds of different “nations”.
As I hope this article has demonstrated, it would have been neither right nor wrong to sign a treaty in 1788. The government at the time lacked the need and ability to form one. Australia already has over 800 regional treaties with indigenous groups. As Peter Sutton points out, these land grants have made no difference to social outcomes.
A national treaty cannot change the crimes of the past and the disadvantages of the present. Forming one would not unite us but divide us.”
Much more here –
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/01/why-new-zealand-has-a-treaty-and-australia-doesnt/
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There are around 100,000 Australian Aborigines today and most live in country areas including remote communities and cultural issues are a major issue when trying to improve their lives and the lives of their multicultural community members who are partly Aboriginal. There were 810,000 Australians who claimed to be Aborigines at the last census and that included 130,000 people who hadn’t registered in the census before.
Suzanne Ingram, a board member of the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office complained on SBS last year that 300,000 of the 810,000 Australians claiming to be Aborigines were fakes, Andrew Bolt reported in e Daily Telegraph. He wrote: “How can we create an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament (“voice”) when up to a third of the people it represents are actually white pretenders?”
In my opinion the Aboriginal activists have placed politics far ahead of the disadvantaged Aborigines who are mainly communities based and away from the cities, as was acknowledged when ATSIC was established. We must try harder to be fellow Australians and at the same time mindful of the disadvantaged Australians regardless of cultural background or history case by case, and of course provide targeted special assistance where identified as being necessary. But isn’t that what NDIS, Medicare, Centrelink and all of the other government services meant to do?
Possibly the 100,000 Australian Aborigine direct descendants need targeted care mindful of the cultural differences involved and including related directly to them Australians.
Aboriginal Affairs are primarily State and Territory government’s responsibility with Federal funding assistance and certain areas of service, like Centrelink and Medicare, NDIS.
Adding to a Canberra or other city based bureaucracy has not worked well and a new direction is needed, as Senator Jacinta Price, Warren Mundine (former ALP National President) and many like minded Australians with Aboriginal ancestry are saying.
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Pfizer under the microscope.
An “analysis” showing technological products.
By Dr. David Nixon.
https://odysee.com/@FwapUK:1/Pfizer-Vials-Under-Microscope—Structures-Grow-in-Electromagnetic-Field.-:0
It’s amazing how many medically qualified people talk complete and utter BS when it comes to tech.
It looks like a computer chip therefore it must be.
What else could it be, right?
While reading the following article I noted the microscopy and explanations.
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/relative-lethality-of-covid-19-vaccines
Naturally occuring substances like cholesterol, sucrose and salt fit nicely, or calcium oxalate, uric acid crystals, cysteine, pseudogout and more.
A cholesterol crystal:
http://www.ndt-educational.org/images/FOGAZZI-57.jpg
Aaahhh!!! Self-assembling nano-tech with 5G brain control and mutate capacity! 🤣🤣🤣
Or how about humble calcium carbonate, a common good ingredient.
http://kentchemistry.com/links/bonding/CaCo3.crystals.jpg
That’s a nano-tech city. The elite really control you now.🤣🤣🤣
Time for these “experts” to stick to science rather than science fiction…
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The smallest RFID chip I could find by Google was in the single mm range.Which is pretty impressive for something stand-alone that will answer you back.
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Sunday entertainment, amazing video clips
Waterfall:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ro4il7RHm61u1hnvc_720.mp4
Drone: whales and boat:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ri5eidz2E31sxtkq8.mp4
Drone FTV: extreme mountain biking:
https://youtu.be/R_J_BIX7chU
Drone: diving the Burj Khalifa:
https://youtu.be/s0WfDoNuliw
Sweaty palms time. 😉
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This is flying the Burj Khalifa, not that drone nonsense
Sweaty palms come from real commitment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4qsWnjsNU
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At NCAA Convention, Athletes Oppose Trans Intrusion In Women’s Sports
The NCAA convention in San Antonio had some unwelcome publicity on Thursday, in the form of dozens of protesters speaking out against the collegiate athletics organization’s insertion of transgender athletes into women’s competition.
“Today, we intend to personally tell the NCAA to stop discriminating against female athletes by handing them a petition that we have garnered nearly 10,000 signatures on in just a couple of days,” said Gaines.
The NCAA has allowed transgender athletes to cross gender lines since 2010. Full implementation of a 2022 update of that policy was set to happen by August 2023, but, amid growing pushback from women and those with empathize with them, the NCAA Board of Governors his week opted to delay it to the 2023-24 academic year “to address operational considerations.”
“I want to show the NCAA their discrimination against female athletes like me does not go unnoticed,” protestor and former Lee University volleyball player Macy Petty told Daily Caller. “I will not stand by as they allow biological men to take over female athletics.” Petter had to compete against a trans athlete in USA Volleyball qualifiers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ncaa-convention-athletes-oppose-trans-intrusion-womens-sports
10k signatures in a few days.
Guess everyone’s sick of this trans nonsense.
If the only way you can win is by an unfair advantage then you can never win and your victory is a self-deluding lie.
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Famous Dutch Studies Cited To Support Child Sex Changes Had Severe Flaws, New Research Shows
A new study found that even the “best” evidence for child sex changes is of extremely low quality and should not be relied upon as justification for medically transitioning minors.
A peer-reviewed paper published last week critically analyzed the “gold standard” evidence in support of medically transitioning trans-identified children, known as the “Dutch studies,” and found it has “profound, previously unrecognized problems,” and requires “urgent attention from the medical community,” according to the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM), an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers.
“These problems range from erroneously concluding that gender dysphoria disappeared as a result of ‘gender-affirmative treatment,’ to reporting only the best-case scenario outcomes and failing to properly examine the risks, despite the fact that a significant proportion of the treated sample experienced adverse effects,” said SEGM. (emphasis theirs).
The paper, titled “The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine,” focuses on the two Dutch studies and the resulting “Dutch protocol” that inspired the “gender-affirming” model of care now used worldwide. The Dutch protocol was often considered the more cautious, conservative approach to the radical “affirming” method, but all justification for even carefully selecting minor candidates to medically transition falls apart upon closer inspection.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-study-finds-methodological-flaws-and-significant-risk-of-harm-in-dutch-protocol-for-pediatric-medical-transition
REAL science is a beatch…
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The real issue is that in true instances of gender dysphoria it is almost impossible to determine the location, extent or form of damage suffered.
How then can you “repair” it?
The arrogance of these doctors who are essentially operating blind is unbelievable.
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I thought Once Great Britain was going to be the first Anglo “democracy” to become a full-on dictatorship, but now I think it will be Canada under Trudeau.
In this short video (14 min) Russel Brand hits the nail on the head. Very, very, good.
https://youtu.be/r05jhBs1ICE
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DM
Just got a message from a friend in NZ that he isn’t allowed to open that – “blocked by Microsoft Edge”.
More when I know more
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Oops!
Cancel that for DM and apply to link [rpvided by John C in link in #10
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No problem in NZ with that one either.
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Maybe because it’s a ‘stove of colour’.
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NZ might get there first.
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The backlash is building steadily. Don’t worry about us ; we’ve got this.
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The NZ govt. deliberately ignored medical advice .
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-covid-and-our-kiwi-kids-part-1?postId=e4fdcd45-cc7b-4c9a-8618-c9914c2bc62c&utm_campaign=40e5337a-4af5-4b27-b2e0-5edb6e36af51&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=2313bd22-be54-4e91-b048-06b903f86daa&cid=5fe2b238-632c-4493-bb22-9df9db3084bc
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Sunday satire. The risk of assault gas stoves
https://twitter.com/MostlyPeacefull/status/1614005428421292032
Sums it up perfectly.
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Now that’s hilarious!
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I’m interested in any comments on BOM’s Perth forecasts for max (min seems to be reasonably accurate, and a delightful experience I must say). For the past two weeks in particular, but certainly since last summer’s failures of prediction, I’ve noticed the forecast just one day ahead is at least 2deg. higher than actual. Sometimes 3deg. Like today.
I’m pretty sure that in the old days a forecaster getting it wrong more than three days in a row would be moved to another desk.
Was that the case, or am I making it up?
(I also realise that we still have the furnace of Feb-Apr to come.)
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Once did a system cutover in Perth during February. Could not believe the lack of relief at night if weather was coming off the inland. Mid 80s and avoided the real summer months thereafter.
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Great to see the Sun Cable come to its logical conclusion. I get annoyed when they announce these things and people get excited about it, with no skepticism at all. Very cringe.
They look good on cartoons these things, but isn’t it beautiful when they fall over.
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more than just cartoons , millions of dollars have been spent , careers have been advanced, bonuses have been paid when anybody with half a STEM educated brain (who was honest) could have told Twiggy and the other dill “yeah , nah!” but it isn’t what they wanted to hear, and telling management what they don’t want to hear isn’t a career enhancing move.
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I’ve just watched the better half feeding the usual kookaburras that rock up on our rear deck balustrade late in the afternoon.
She’s been giving them raw steak for years but she has a favourite that always gets looked after, Reggie (as in Reginald).
You can tell the difference between him and any others, he’s gentle taking the food from her and when he has others to feed, he has a few bits for himself then leaves with steak in his beak to make his delivery. He also has history showing off when he catches his own food, he’s rocked up on occasions with lizards etc in his beak just to boast. Other times he’s just sat there with us for hours, just hanging out while we watch TV on the back deck.
I was astonished only moments ago as I watched him make deliveries and come back multiple times (4 in all) for more. It’s raining and he was quite wet and I could see he struggled each time he left to get over the roof of a nearby 2 story building, the last time he barely got over.
Absolutely incredible to watch.
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we watched a kookaburra tend its nest this year. When the baby left its nest it sat on our roof for half a day. Its now getting about the forest valley making a loud squawking sound all the time. They’re great birds. King of the jungle.
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Lithgow locals don’t want pumped hydro
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-15/pumped-hydro-dam-lithgow-culturally-significant-mountain/101584054
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“Wiradjuri man Adrian Williams….” uh,huh
and here’s me thinking they were putting the heritage of the Lee Enfield at risk
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Nine News asked for people to come forward if they’ve suffered a heart attack, and let’s just say things did not go as planned
Nine News Sydney asked their Facebook followers to come forward if they’d suffered a heart attack and were concerned about the long-term effects.
The comments immediately blew up with stories of vaccine injury and pointy questions.
The question was, did Nine News want to spotlight heart attack victims and investigate causes? Or was this the Fascist Pharma-Gov-Media complex getting out in front of the story with Shane Warne level spin?
Today, the post was gone, along with all the comments.
https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/9-news-asked-for-people-to-come-forward
When those complicit are impacted firsthand is when the awakening happens, as we’re seeing more and more.
The MSM is already a dinosaur and their lies & fake news with blind faith in “ze vax” will only hasten their own demise, assuming that (pseudo) AI doesn’t make them all redundant in a year anyway. Chat GPT can write entire essays or news articles. No script regurgitators needed.
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Canada’s largest alcohol retailer’s site hacked to steal credit cards
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a Canadian government enterprise and the country’s largest beverage alcohol retailer, revealed that unknown attackers had breached its website to inject malicious code designed to steal customer and credit card information at check-out.
LCBO revealed on Wednesday that third-party forensic investigators found a credit card stealing script that was active on its website for five days.
While the malicious script was active on the retailer’s website, the attackers could harvest various personal and financial information submitted by customers during the check-out process.
This includes customers’ names, email and mailing addresses, credit card information, Aeroplan numbers, and LCBO.com account passwords.
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadas-largest-alcohol-retailers-site-hacked-to-steal-credit-cards/
Best to pay by bank transfer if possible for online purchases…
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“The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a Canadian government enterprise and the country’s largest beverage alcohol retailer”
Does that not seem a little odd? If Albo hears about this he will be annexing Dan Murphys
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Was thinking about the history of ‘science’.
It’s been barely a hundred years since we figured out there were other galaxies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_knowledge_about_galaxies%2C_clusters_of_galaxies%2C_and_large-scale_structure
Only slightly more that ‘surgeons’ decided they should wash there hands.
The Fauci.
It’s settled.
To be followed without question.
Now we know all and must begin engineering the climate.
What a joke.
Then there’s this guy …
https://marypatriotnews.com/2023/01/12/justin-trudeau-decries-rise-in-authoritarian-leaders-video/
(Sorry, best link I could find of his statement.)
We now live in opposite world.
I think CERN has some ‘splaining to do.
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Lew Rockwell has Dr Mercola picking up Dr Campbell’s examination of Africa and the lack of Covid… and Bill Gates trying to make sure Africa follows the WHO guidelines to death. Dr Campbell had Youtube censor him when he looked at Africa’s Covid response.
“October 23, 2022, the WHO, Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins cohosted a global challenge exercise dubbed “Catastrophic Contagion,”14,15 involving the outbreak of a novel pathogen called “severe epidemic enterovirus respiratory syndrome 2025” (SEERS-25).
Tellingly, this tabletop exercise was focused on getting African leadership involved and trained in following the pandemic script. Participants included 10 current and former health ministers and senior public health officials from Senegal, Rwanda, Nigeria, Angola and Liberia.
African nations just so happened to go “off script” more often than others during the COVID pandemic and didn’t follow in the footsteps of developed nations when it came to pushing the jabs. As a result, vaccine makers now face the problem of having a huge control group, as the COVID jab uptake on the African continent was only 6%.16
They cannot reasonably explain how or why Africa ended up faring so better than developed nations with high COVID jab rates in terms of COVID-19 infections and related deaths.17
The WHO desperately needs to get rid of this control group, so they’re enlisting and training African leaders how to push for widespread vaccination using the WHO’s talking points. This, I believe, is the only reason the WHO is still speaking about COVID-19 in catastrophic terms.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01/joseph-mercola/why-has-covid-spared-africa/
Somewhere in there I read the classic lie from WHO, the unvaxxed are making the Covid virus mutate and are a danger to everyone…
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Some are still trying to paint the belated “let it rip” Chinese situation as bad.
60,000 dead since December they scream.
Over a million Chinese ordinarily die in 6 weeks pro rata, it being winter, it is probably 2 million or more normally. And the average age of the Chinese covid dead is just over 80.
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Listening to Dr Campbell and his Ugandan Dr talk about more important things than Covid vaccines, I realised that the WHO is a complete waste of time and oxygen! They’ve had 70years to give Africans fresh clean water and improve their living conditions, and nothing has happened!
What use are they? Endless jobs for bureaucrats? Careers for failed politicians? A publicity stunt for the powerful behind them to run the world? Anarchy seems preferable these days!
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Great summary.
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Pick any UN agency and scratch one layer down. They will be much the same.
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Giant Wind Arrays Invade the Ocean As BOEM Spins the Story
https://naturalgasnow.org/giant-wind-arrays-invade-the-ocean-as-boem-spins-the-story/
A fun version of my giant wind article, by Tom Shepstone.
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There is no need to further change the Constitution, as with ATSIC the replacement wanted by the activists, ATSIV, could be legislated based on ….
In a referendum held on 27 May 1967, Australians voted to remove references in the Australian Constitution discriminating against First Australians.
The changes to the Constitution included the repeal of 2 sections, Section 51 (xxvi) and Section 127. This enabled the Australian Parliament to:
make special laws for First Australians
include First Australians in the national census.
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FWIW
“This Data Is VERY Bad”
“I don’t think you can overstate how bad this is, so I’ll just put a couple of snippets here and you can follow the link for the whole deal; Steve certainly deserves to get both the credit and reads for it:
In a study (not yet published) of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated), cardiac injury was objectively measured in 70% of the people measured (ages 8 to 84).
Oh, that’s not good. Want worse? Here’s a highly medically supervised group of people, which makes this sort of news much worse:
In the US military, they did a thorough investigation of a large number of soldiers and found markers of cardiac injury in 68% of our soldiers. This was kept under wraps, but I am friends with the doctor who did the study.
That is nasty because the correlation in injury rate is very high. If there was no common denominator or, in the alternative, one or both of the studies was trash, with two studies where each was performed by different and unrelated researchers you’d expect materially-different outcomes but that’s not what you got in two distinct sets of people who had reasonably-similar jab rates.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247873
Links to
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/jonathan-bing-just-bet-me-50k-that?r=o7iqo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Grinning Greta Thunberg is carried away by police as officers clash with group of climate protesters at demo at German village being razed to make way for a coal mine
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More on those gas stoves
“In Science, Size Matters. In Climate Science?”
https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/in-science-size-matters-in-climate-science/
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The mainstream is mixing memes.
‘Gas cookin’ up latest storm in US climate war.
‘When you oppose Covid-19 lockdowns and support free choice of stoves then you have to expect heat from the American left.’ (Oz)
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Organization of ‘nonbinary scientists’ influences universities, professional organizations, publications
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21013
and some video help in explaining this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9edtHJMaws0
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Isn’t it utterly bizarre the attention demanded/given to such a tiny minority ~0.4%
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/genderidentity/bulletins/genderidentityenglandandwales/census2021
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Video clip from Sky News Australia:
Claimed to be a result of price caps legislated in December. The retailers cannot buy the gas at a price that can be reclaimed by resale, and is possible some gas retailers will go out of business because of that.
Less than 18% of LNG produced (or imported) in Australia is actually used here, the vast majority is exported.
https://www.energy.gov.au/themes/custom/energy/australian-energy-flows-interactive.html?v=20221004
A domestic price cap means local buyers can’t compete with international buyers who have no such price constraint.
May also lead to more gas being exported (where higher prices can be paid) although this depends on whether the export contract leaves much wiggle room for supply variance either down or up.
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It really is basically CRIMINAL that in a country like Australia, with its huge resources of coal and gas, companies cannot guarantee to supply at a reasonable price. !!
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Yes, A condition of export should be that the DOMESTIC market must be supplied at domestic prices before a single litre of gas is sold off shore for off shore prices. Why domestic prices must be tied to foreign prices is a complete mystery.
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When a gas field is proven up the company then must go to the market for finance to develop it. To get that finance the gas co needs to show the financiers “take or pay” contracts.
Domestic users are entitled to bid for supply. Clearly they did not do so, so don’t blame the gas co – they take big risks, need to put up a lot of investors’ money and then wait years for a return.
Besides Vic has oodles of onshore gas in Gippsland, right where it is needed.
Australia should be building more pipelines and fewer liquefaction trains.
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What Is Take or Pay?
Take or pay is a provision in a contract stating that a buyer has the obligation of either taking delivery of goods from a seller or paying a specified penalty amount to the seller for not taking them. Take-or-pay provisions benefit both parties by sharing risk, and they benefit society by facilitating trade and reducing transactions costs.
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Australia SHOULD be the Saudi Arabia of the Pacific, we have everything but the oil but we can trade iron ore/coal for that. Besides, how come we have the gas but no oil?
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We have been pumping oil out of Bass Strait for decades. There are other resources but how that could be bought market in todays climate is problematic to say the least. Fair to say what we actually know about and confirmed is only a few year multiples of our own consumption.
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This gem from wonder boy Matt Kean “We’ve worked hand-in-glove with the commonwealth government, and consumers can expect that electricity prices will be a lot lower than they otherwise would have been had it not been for the NSW government’s intervention.”
so just shut up and be grateful for whatever we dish up
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The only thing positive will be the price rise
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/so-much-for-therapeutic-albaneses-promised-power-bill-cuts.html
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Hunga Tonga back under the spotlight.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/15/claim-the-tongan-volcanic-eruption-might-cause-a-breach-of-the-1-5c-global-warming-limit/
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Marine heatwave in NZ breaks record.
‘Ocean temperatures along the South Island’s south-western Coast are reaching new records says a MetService oceanographer, with sea surface temperatures six degrees higher than normal, causing an ‘extreme’ marine heatwave.
MetService oceanographer Dr Joao de Souza said “by comparing the current or forecasted temperature to the average of the last 25 years for each location and day of the year, we get a picture of how much warmer than normal the oceans currently are,” he said.
“A six degree anomaly is a whole new level compared to what we have seen before.” (Otago Daily Times)
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yet another cooling signal
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How many ocean bouys/engine intakes/buckets of water were used to measure the temps GA? Oh whats that? you have no idea? Of course you dont, all you have is a religious belief in “carbon pollution” how sad you are.
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Looks more like a signal of a local warm pool , does it not?
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How are those submarine volcanoes going atm?
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