Sunday Open Thread

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    PeterPetrum

    My 55 year old daughter just told me that she was going to get her Covid booster tomorrow!

    She has already had Covid so I strongly advised her not to take another mRNA shot. She asked me to send her evidence to prove what I was saying and, thanks to this site, I was able to send her four articles that Jo has presented over the last 12 months, including the Blackrock interview from last week and the article on the injuries to the US forces.

    Thanks Jo, hopefully my daughter and three grandsons will take the advice I was able to provide, thanks to your diligence in finding this critical information.

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    RickWill

    Melbourne dried out through February. Not particularly unusual but indicative of impending El Nino.

    The convective potential is moving eastward from Australia. New Caledonia and Fiji could have exciting weather:
    https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/03/03/1200Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=cape/orthographic=-178.63,-23.17,462/loc=174.487,-16.793

    The high convective potential in the western Pacific now is more localised than the eastward shift observed in 2019:
    https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/03/03/1200Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=cape/orthographic=-178.63,-23.17,462/loc=-173.616,-9.461

    But quite different to last year when the Australian land mass was having a large influence on the convective potential:
    https://earth.nullschool.net/#2022/03/03/1200Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=cape/orthographic=-178.63,-23.17,462/loc=150.152,-20.607

    The next few months will show if the ENSO switch has been flipped. Indications are that it could flip once the sun’s zenith shifts to the NH and the Gulf of Mexico starts to warm up.

    My expectation is that any impending El Nino will not reach the 2016 level. But Australia will warm up as it dries out.

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      el+gordo

      The coming decade will be full of Modiki, like the first decade of the 21st century.

      https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2023_v6.jpg

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      robert rosicka

      After having both water tanks spilling over all winter (around 33,000 litres) we are now faced with having to get water trucked in if it doesn’t rain this week .

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        RickWill

        I can understand your situation. We have resorted to watering the gardens this month to keep some more fragile stuff alive. That is the first time for more than a year.

        We may not be in El Nino yet but no longer under the influence of La Nina.

        As the NH hemisphere warms up, the eastern Pacific will likely win the convective tug-of-war along the equator than the SH so El Ninos are likely to be more frequent but still centuries before the changes are significant and by then, Southern Australia should not be getting long, oppressive summers.

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        Brett

        You should have more storage, just like Australia should have more dams

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          Lawrie

          People thought I was over the top when we built in Wingham, a generally wet place with an average of 1100 mm per year, and I put in 2 x 92,000 litre tanks. During 2019, a very dry year here they were down to a third full before the La Nina kicked in. The more water you can store the better. You may need it for fire control if not for drinking and washing.

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            Ross

            Depending on your situation you also realize that 184 000 L is actually not much supply, particularly in Australia when it doesn’t rain for months.

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          yarpos

          When we were building our place we were standing at the location of the water tanks talking with the plumber about tank sizes and numbers. His reaction was “you’re asking the wrong person, I don’t reckon you can have too many water tanks, do you ever here people grumbling about having access to too much drinking water?

          We ended up going larger and also put in 25,000 ltrs just for gardening (can be topped of with a bore , if overflow from the main tanks is absent)

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          KP

          Ah, yes… don’t rely on your reticulated water.. Orange suffered strong restrictions just before Covid, like many country towns, but once the rain started all was forgotten. The Council has a massive house-building program it is overseeing with all the people flooding out of Sydney, yet not a squeak about how they will find water for the extra thousands when the rain stops next.

          They seem blind to any downside of a bigger population, and their first priority for the last two years seems to have been getting new lines all over the roads and lots of pedestrian blisters.

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    David Maddison

    Are the majority of the Sheeple now so dumbed-down that it’s impossible for them to understand the dangers of the existing covid “vaccines”; and also the truth about the anthropogenic global warming fraud?

    I am inclined to think so.

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      robb

      So many of the sheeple think they’re so clever they dont even need to research the facts. Its intellectual arrogance if anything, especially amongst the university educated. But if things get bad enough, the facts will stare at them in the face so they cant be ignored. Its a bit like a phase transition. The pot is slowly boiling, you dont notice and the next minute it boils over. One just has to keep plugging away trying to spread the truth.

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        Leo G

        So many of the sheeple think they’re so clever they dont even need to research the facts.

        Perhaps they’re just addicted to guvmint flavoured facts.

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        yarpos

        research often means going to a selected “fact check” site to have your original opinion re-inforced

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      Lawrie

      Many older people trust authority because in their formative years authorities were trustworthy. Younger people have been progressively taught what to think rather than how to think so accept BS from the powers that be. Then there are those like you and me who believe what they see rather than what they are told. I grew up on a farm and observation is the key to success.

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    David Maddison

    Sunday music:

    Yuja Wang plays Flight of the Bumblebee, a very hard piece to play at high tempo, or at all.

    https://youtu.be/8alxBofd_eQ

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    David Maddison

    Sunday music 2:

    Top 10 most difficult piano pieces.

    https://youtu.be/4gv0LiOe4dg

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    David Maddison

    Sunday music 3.

    Widor Toccata from Fifth Organ Symphony in F minor, Op 42, No. 1 played by Frederick Hohman.

    https://youtu.be/DKejfYzB3ak

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    David Maddison

    There are new fire danger levels throughout Australia.

    Now there are:

    Moderate
    High
    Extreme
    Catastrophic

    I assume the new ratings are designed to fit with the “climate emergency” narrative.

    https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/prepare/#fire/afdrs

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      Leo G

      I assume the new ratings are designed to fit with the “climate emergency” narrative.

      The narrative seems to start with the message “there is no low risk for fire danger”. If the bar is at the lowest mark that means the risk is unstated- be prepared for the worst.

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      Mike Jonas

      They need a long drought. When it’s raining, no-one’s going to believe ‘Moderate’.

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      Annie

      What happened to ‘Low’? Although we are mostly dried out around here again now, bushfires would have been a pretty low risk last winter and spring, if not nigh-on impossible!

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      Ian George

      Agree with you, David.
      I am a volunteer fireman and I can’t believe these new ratings either.
      However, I have seen a ‘No rating’ category though not officially listed. Not sure whether this means that the rating is low or no-one has figured out the category yet (or they’re just covering their white shirts’ backsides.

      So, they have redefined heatwaves and cyclone categories and now fire ratings. They are also looking at changing the SOI definitions. When the climate won’t match the meme. just change the parameters.

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        Ian George

        Oh, another one I found where they can’t do the maths.
        ‘The national mean temperature for January was exactly equal to the 1961–1990 average.

        Area-average mean maximum temperature for January was 0.30 °C below average nationally, while the mean minimum temperature was 0.28 °C above average.’

        Um, wouldn’t that work out that the mean was actually below average?

        Can’t have a below average month, can we?

        They’ve already cancelled the below average mean temps for 2001 and 2011. What next?

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    Sambar

    Just heard about a new “miracle” cholesterol reducing drug that has great potential to reduce heart disease etc. Apparently this new drug only required FOUR YEARS of trialling before approval was granted for human use. The manufacturers clearly hadn’t been advised that there were new guide lines that allowed drugs to be approved after just a few weeks of testing

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      David Maddison

      In any case, I think the data that high cholesterol is bad is based on junk science isn’t it? Even the fully woke and far Left BMJ allows a non-barrative report to be published.

      https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/doubt-cast-on-wisdom-of-targeting-bad-cholesterol-to-curb-heart-disease-risk/

      But they add: “Considering that dozens of [randomised controlled trials] of LDL-cholesterol reduction have failed to demonstrate a consistent benefit, we should question the validity of this theory.”

      And they conclude: “In most fields of science the existence of contradictory evidence usually leads to a paradigm shift or modification of the theory in question, but in this case the contradictory evidence has been largely ignored, simply because it doesn’t fit the prevailing paradigm.”

      [Sorry about the delay in moderation. Out today! – Jo]

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        KP

        Didn’t they find that it was the high sugar in the blood that caused the cholesterol to precipitate out on the vessel walls? Cholesterol is fine for you, sugar definitely isn’t. American diet disease..

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      another ian

      Or – just maybe – the manufacturer happened to believe in thorough testing and an intact reputation?

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      Honk R Smith

      Guess the last miracle is facing a market decline.
      They statin Gummy Bears didn’t take off.
      Statin boosters?
      Having become distrusting of the scientific and medical establishment, I find my barely science literate self putting ‘cholesterol’ in the same ignore bin as CO2.
      But I’m just conspiracy minded because I only listen to Fox News and Tucker.
      https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
      I’m thinking of socially distancing from doctors.
      Close hospitals for two weeks to flatten the curve?
      Just little Pandemic jokes.

      Once had a CEO client that bought CEO insurances.
      Had two doctors come same day one after the other.
      Each took a blood sample.
      The two cholesterol results differed by 20 points.

      They wanted to Reset something.
      They did.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      Having had a heart attack, I took statins for many years but suffered the all too common side effect of joint and muscle pain. Since Covid led me to become more cynical toward the pharma and health industries I have decided to wean myself off as many meds as possible by changing my diet and losing weight. I haven’t had my cholesterol checked yet, after four months off the statins, but in the meantime I have lost 10% of my weight, almost totally cut out carbs and taken more exercise. One dramatic change has been my blood pressure, now lowered sufficiently to allow me to drop off the blood pressure meds. I now need to get the cholesterol checked, but I hope to lose more weight so might put that off for a while.

      At 90kg I wasn’t enormous but the weight was all around my middle – the worst place of all to have it, apparently. My target is 75kg, so another 5kg to go, but I plan to maintain my current diet and exercise regime and see where I land.

      The other noticeable benefit has been my breathing. I have suffered sleep apnea for quite some time and have to use a CPAP machine. Just the weight loss so far has allowed me to reduce the pressure required to prevent obstructive apneas, improving my sleep and reducing the side effects of being inflated all night.

      So far, so brilliant!

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      Steve of Cornubia

      Having had a heart attack, I took statins for many years but suffered the all too common side effect of joint and muscle pain. Since Covid led me to become more cynical toward the pharma and health industries I have decided to wean myself off as many meds as possible by changing my diet and losing weight. I haven’t had my cholesterol checked yet, after four months off the statins, but in the meantime I have lost 10% of my weight, almost totally cut out carbs and taken more exercise. One dramatic change has been my blood pressure, now lowered sufficiently to allow me to drop off the blood pressure meds. I now need to get the cholesterol checked, but I hope to lose more weight so might put that off for a while.

      At 90kg I wasn’t enormous but the weight was all around my middle – the worst place of all to have it, apparently. My target is 75kg, so another 5kg to go, but I plan to maintain my current diet and exercise regime and see where I land.

      The other noticeable benefit has been my breathing. I have suffered sleep apnea for quite some time and have to use a CPAP machine. Just the weight loss so far has allowed me to reduce the pressure required to prevent obstructive apneas, improving my sleep and reducing the side effects of being inflated all night.

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        yarpos

        Go you! 🙂 I hope you can ease into something that you can maintain longer term. Looks like you have everything headed in a good direction.

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    The Energy Transition is impossible in the time frames being mandated by ‘Pollies’ and Climate Alarmists.

    Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute – A 15 minute Interview –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLgXFWH7lg

    Tennis Elbow and Blackout Bowen, please take note.

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      David Maddison

      Energy transition is as absurd as that other destructive and impossible phenomenon beloved by the Left, “gender transition” (sic).

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      yarpos

      Regardless of time lines, it’s impossible with the current technology set, unless we are talking nuclear.

      Never mind , we live in an era where facts don’t matter and wishful thinking abounds; so something will come along because “magic happens!” Minister Bowen will fill in the blanks shortly.

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      Memoryvault

      Johnny, David, Yarpos,

      In case you guys haven’t worked it out yet, the plan isn’t to “transition” to anything.
      The “Plan” is to make electrical energy a scarce, rationed commodity as yet another means of controlling the population.

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      Lance

      Feasibility for achieving a net zero economy for the U.S. by 2050

      Effectively, zero chance. USD 300,000 cost per household for the US alone. USD 1.5 M per household if US assists globally.

      This assumes the raw materials exist in sufficient quantity, which isn’t the case.

      https://judithcurry.com/2023/03/04/feasibility-for-chieving-a-net-zero-economy-for-the-u-s-in-2050/

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    another ian

    Would that be called “Map Reading” or “Lost the plot”?

    “Compare and Contrast – Biden’s army with Indonesia’s.”

    https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/compare-and-contrast-bidens-army-with-indonesias.html#comments

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    Man,

    It’s just so hard to believe that ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ turns 50 this week.

    I have more than 400 Long Play vinyls, and this album was one of only two that I wore flat, and went out and purchased a second copy. That was before I started taping all my LPs to cassette, keeping the LPs just for an occasional run, and using the cassettes for everyday listening.

    It sold 50 million copies, arguably the biggest selling album in history.

    Almost one thousand weeks on the Billboard Top 200 albums, and that’s almost 19 years, and no album will get close to that let alone break that record.

    I bought the album the day after it was released here in Oz, and I have no idea why I wanted to buy it. After hearing it, I went out and got hold of every Floyd album I could, and now I have ALL 15 studio albums ….. on vinyl.

    Their next album ‘Wish You Were Here’ is far and away my favourite album of theirs.

    Clare Torry was hired for the princely sum of twenty pounds to come into Abbey Road and make up what David and Rick wanted for the ‘funeral’ song. She did that after an hour or so, and to this day, it takes three singers to sing that one song. She later got a cut of the royalties as composer.

    The Great Gig In The Sky – https://papundits.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/new-years-day-music-the-great-gig-in-the-sky/

    Man, what an album.

    The album is being played somewhere right now, and this album has been played constantly, every hour of every day, somewhere around the World since the day of its release in 1973.

    Tony.

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    another ian

    “Is the CDC’s Rochelle Walensky just plain stupid or a liar?”

    “The CDC’s changing vaccine story (Vinay Prasad analyzes Walensky statements)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUlnkd8nOs

    Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/03/05/stupid-or-liar-5/

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    another ian

    WUWT today

    “Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part II)”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/reliable-vs-intermittent-generation-a-primer-part-ii/

    “Feasibility for Achieving a Net Zero Economy for the U.S. by 2050”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/feasibility-for-achieving-a-net-zero-economy-for-the-u-s-by-2050/

    “Round 2 gets started in the only lawsuit that can derail the Biden EPA’s PM2.5 railroad. Read the opening brief of appellants Stan Young and Tony Cox.”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/appellant-brief-filed-in-young-v-epa/

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    David Maddison

    When compliance and conformity is rewarded and any shred of critical thinking is punished, when the purpose of education has become to teach how to obey orders…you get a society helplessly dependent on authority and hopelessly afraid of freedom. Joel Rafidi

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    another ian

    “Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC Analyst, Big Pharma Over COVID Vaccines And MSNBC’s Bias (VIDEO)”

    “Russell Brand went on Bill Maher’s show and destroyed MSNBC analyst John Heilemann over the COVID lab leak theory and big pharma.”

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    Saighdear

    On the back of the Music thread, I fell over this : amazing what youtube seems to know what you are doing and feeds you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1RiAmB1J5k&t=41s

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    MrGrimNasty

    Global Ocean Treaty.

    Sounds like the global socialist government just got another notch on the rachet to me.

    Being ‘protected’ is a shield from climate change!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64815782

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      Greg in NZ

      Heard that world-renowned climate scientist, Jane Fonda, blather on about her ‘brethren fish’ and oxygen or sumpfink™…

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      Steve of Cornubia

      The elites are working hard to wreck the food supply for plebs through reducing available farmland, creating artificial fertiliser shortages, making the business of farming uneconomic (red and green tape, fuel prices, etc) and leaving farmers suspiciously vulnerable to the ever more monopolistic supermarkets. In light of this, the open oceans represent a workaround for nations increasingly unable to feed themselves. The oceans must therefore be locked up and put out of bounds so that the destruction of the food production industry can achieve the intended result.

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    Honk R Smith

    Dr. Marty Makary JHU testifying about CDC and US government COVID lies.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arbvv3K0xRo
    (Notice obscured name plate)

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/03/01/dr_marty_makary_the_greatest_perpetrator_of_misinformation_during_covid_was_the_us_government.html

    Wonder how his performance review will go?

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      yarpos

      Whenever governments, WHO/CDC talk about actions against misinformation, my first thought is they should just stop doing it then. In retrospect they have gotten very little right.

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    TdeF

    The reinforcement of the alleged peril of CO2 is quietly everywhere

    In The Australian today

    Seaweed has a far greater impact on carbon reduction than previously known and could play a significant role in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to new research co-led at Southern Cross University.

    Mona Andskog, a PhD candidate at SCU. (Southern Cross University presumably) found that much of the carbon absorbed by brown algae – another name for the seaweed found in temperate and polar regions – is sequestered away from the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.”

    Why is this news? And a single PhD candidate on the Gold Coast is a respected seaweed scientist with earth shattering news?

    Underneath this the idea that CO2 levels in the atmosphere are determined by the plants of the world. Also that humans could control CO2 by growing seaweed?

    CO2 levels are natural, a simple matter of the temperatures of the ocean surfaces, evaporation like H2O. As are phenomena like La Nina and El Nino and the monsoons and all the world’s weather, based on water. And the oceans contain 98% of all the water and 98% of all the CO2. Heat the surface and it boils off.

    But implied by these endless articles is that CO2 is controllable by mankind. Which is the nonsense behind Nett Zero and the whole anti CO2 movement which is wrecking Western democracies and now attacking everything from steel to concrete to food production.

    It’s not true. But the reinforcement of this lie never stops. And a PhD Candidate has a solution with seaweed?

    Who demonstrated 50% higher CO2 over 250 years was a problem anyway? The anti CO2 propaganda never stops. It’s not science.

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      David Maddison

      I hate how they keep talking about “carbon”. It sickens me. They apparently don’t even realise they are talking about carbon dioxide. Nor do they seem to be aware of what which to be taught in schools, the carbon cycle.

      It’s tragic that an entire PhD mind and money is being wasted on this. I wonder if the candidate is a quota placement?

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    Roger

    Anyone for a 5G Brain tumour ?
    Swedish and US research studies the danger to humans from 5G microwave radiation and finds significant risk of brain and other cancers

    https://americasvoice.news/justthenews/sun-new-study-warns-health-risks-5g-microwave-radiation/

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      yarpos

      mmmmm it would be nice to have one of these outside your bedroom window

      glad I live in the country

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      David Maddison

      I am sceptical. 5G signals have very low penetration power and don’t even penetrate tree cover. If a 5G link can’t be established it reverts to 4G.

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        Graeme#4

        Also very skeptical, as the energy drops off as the square ( or is it the cube?) of the distance. Which means the level drops off very quickly. And as I keep saying, if anybody is really worried, just buy a field strength meter and go around measuring levels yourself. We accuse alarmists of ignoring the data and focusing on beliefs, yet we still see folks doing the same thing with 5G and other emissions.

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    another ian

    “Intellectual Froglegs, The Great Reject
    March 5, 2023 | Sundance | 99 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/05/intellectual-froglegs-the-great-reject/

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    David Maddison

    This happened 3 years ago.

    On Their ABC RN today it was stated that Australian Aboriginals have been practicing science and the scientific method for the last 60,000 to 100,000 yrs through physics, agriculture, astronomy, medicine, nutrition etc..

    This is simply not true and yet another example of how the Left are simply rewriting history as it suits them. Orwell’s “1984” was a warning, not an instruction manual!

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      yarpos

      Well surely its all in the documentation David, how could you doubt? Clearly 60,000 years of medicine and nutrition is evidenced by the the longevity of indigenous people.

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        TdeF

        As a friend told me, the aborigines have survived 50,000 years. That is a huge achievement apparently.

        My response was that so has everyone else and far more successfully. And thanks to real advances in medicine, agriculture, science and (nearly) stopping them killing each other, in just 200 years there are now ten times as many aborigines as there have been for the last 50,000 years. And they know where they live, Australia.

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      Ian Hill

      In 1994 there was a lot of controversy and protests about the building of a bridge from Goolwa to Hindmarsh Island at the Murray Mouth in SA. This was to replace the ferry service which could no longer cope with the rapid increase in population on the island. One of the arguments against the bridge was that it would impinge in the rights/dignity of the Aboriginal women because the river and area were sacred for fertility reasons. The bridge would violate that. A map of the Murray revealed that from about Mannum to Goolwa it *roughly* resembles a very pregnant belly.

      Many people bought it until one of the male activists revealed that it was a fabrication which occurred when some of them were looking at a map of the region.

      I was always incredulous at the time – how did the aboriginals know that the river curved like that on a large scale? Were they known to be map-makers or were they able to fly higher than commercial airplanes?

      The bridge was finally built with no controversy since.

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        Ian Hill

        I recall that the Aboriginal women living in the area were puzzled by this “fertility” revelation. They had never heard of it. It would surely have been handed down through the generations. I believe this is what eventually caused the activist to confess the fabrication.

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      Ross

      Don’t worry , CSIRO are all over this as well. Apparently, any new major science project will now have input from aboriginal culture. So, all the rainbow serpent stuff, I presume.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The UK Lockdown Files”

    “The release of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages from the British government cabinet members is the most monumental crack in the dam of silence of any government to date. Those who choose to bury their heads in the sand, dismissing this as a “UK problem”, are beyond naive. The messages are very likely emblematic of what occurred in every government around the world that followed the cruel, non-fact based lockdown, mask, and vaccine policies.

    Here are some key links to follow this breaking story:”

    More at

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/03/05/the-uk-lockdown-files/

    TGA on a skewer?

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      David Maddison

      And the UK health secretary had an affair during the lockups. Other people couldn’t even see their legitimate loved ones like elderly parents.

      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15388014/matt-hancock-secret-affair-with-aide/

      And Neil Ferguson whose misguided interpretation of “the science” (defective modeling) led to lockups in the UK also flouted lockup laws to see his lover.

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/05/uk-coronavirus-adviser-prof-neil-ferguson-resigns-after-breaking-lockdown-rules

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      yarpos

      There is a layer of stupidity in using WhatsApp for government business. Then you get to the content. I guess when you think you are born to rule then you can do and say what you like , wherever you like.

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      Skepticynic

      Still waiting on some juicy leaks on the many nefarious happenings inside the Andrews regime and the ALP/VicPol/ABC/ACTU/ cartel, but they’re operating in full stealth mode and the secrecy is thick.

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        David Maddison

        And according to former Vicdanistan Premier, Dennis Napthine, the Andrews regime is likely to be in power for another eight years, maybe twelve.

        The “opposition” is useless. In fact, I think they like being out of power. They don’t have to do any hard work.

        It is an unbearable thought. Andrews will not only destroy Victoria, but he’ll bring down the whole country with massive debt. Albanese looks like a good economic manager compared to Andrews.

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          Simon Thompson ᵐᵇ ᵇˢ

          David, remember the bankers always have the mirror perspective- debt is good.
          Therefore Dandrews is their darlink. He goes into debt coz he can!

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          Skepticynic

          Both the government and the opposition are captured.

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      MrGrimNasty

      Breaking? no, that was 2 or 3 days ago when I first posted!

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Doctors, Scientists Call On Mississippi Officials To Take COVID Vaccines Off The Market”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/doctors-scientists-call-mississippi-officials-take-covid-vaccines-market

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    John McKerral

    I got them from the Australian Amazon site. They are not free on the USA one. It was for a limited period. Tat may have expired!
    John

    [This refers to what? – LVA]

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      Probably the books offered theoretically for free on Amazon mentioned above in the thread. I looked and it was not obvious whether they were free — perhaps only free with the Amazon App, as a sign up enticement?

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    The Covid 19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) was patented in 2003. Since nature, legally, cannot be patented this means that SARS-CoV-2 was assembled under laboratory conditions.
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1631363125269209088

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    another ian

    “We’ll Soon Find Out”

    “The crown of America sits in a gutter begging someone to pick it up before the nation collapses— Auron MacIntyre, The Blaze”

    https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/well-soon-find-out/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “SARS- CoV-WIV”

    Dr Malone

    “Over a year ago, Project Veritas broke an enormous story that never quite made it to the state-sponsored “main stream” media. The story and supporting documents can be found on their website: “Military Documents About Gain of Function Contradict Fauci Testimony Under Oath”

    At the core of these documents is a report to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense written by U.S. Marine Corp Major, Joseph Murphy, a former DARPA Fellow.”

    More at

    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/sars-cov-wiv

    Via https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2023/03/05/too-good-to-be-true/#comments

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    another ian

    A farm machinery roll call

    “Timeline of Ag Equipment ‘Firsts’ ”

    https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/4269-timeline-of-ag-equipment-firsts

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