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Those poor cows
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Just in case this comment was confusing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-14/explosion-at-us-diary-farm-kills-18000-cows/102221736
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LOOKED at that: explosion killed….18 THOUSAND animals takes up a lot of space – to explode? BLACK SMOKE ? Oh I see, Methane , methinks!
Surprised you didn’t post this link, https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/how-the-woke-left-is-trying-to-destroy-the-farming-industry/video/dd37fe139be6653d1c64d67ba1e66201
So far as UK is concerned, our NFU is complicit with the nonsense …. Not sure whether they are TOWING or pushing the Gravy Train here. and likewise the Educational institutes all over Europe and USA ( from what I see).
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As soon as I saw that I felt it was a deliberate act to smash the cattle industry.
They blamed it on cow farts but I think that cows are smarter than that.
We built this world, and now “they” are destroying it.
At the very best all that can be expected is an ” independent Commission of Inquiry”.
Totally and absolutely independent.
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They say that under global warming there will be less tropical cyclones, but they will be more intense,
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/ilsa-roars-inland-after-record-winds/1211936
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1975 Darwin and environs, Cyclone Tracy.
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Cyclone Tracy was from 21/12/1974 to 26/12/1974
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Thanks Ian, memory lapse, I was in Darwin early in December after working on construction equipment at a bridge site on the then new highway to Kakadu National Park as it now is. I had been a site visitor two to three times a year, gravel track and semi-trailer transport provided by the construction company MD who drove the truck carrying supplies to camp.
My worst trip was after the International prime mover was written off after colliding with a Bull Buffalo heading back to Darwin empty, so a borrowed Toyota under powered towed the tri-axle loaded trailer and it was so hot in the cabin that we stood outside on the running boards with the doors roped to the bullbar. Iced drinks at the Humpty Doo pub were gulped down during a brief stop.
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Dennis,
There are few road hazards as frightening as a near miss of a big bull buffalo on the highway at night when all are topped up a little with dare and 160 kph in the no-speed-limit NT.
They seemed to like the heat and space of the highway on a brisk night. When they faced away from your headlights, you could not see them until too late.
Lady Luck could give you a near miss, but the memory persists for many decades.
I drove the Darwin-Jabiru track about 20 times before the era of machine gunning the buffalos from choppers, plus many, many local excursions for fishing after work. Or during, now and then. The early trips were on gravel and further south, because your fine bridge was not yet built.
Geoff S
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Saw the result of a truck hitting a camel in the Fraser Range, out of Norseman. Made a real mess of the cab, even though the truck had a bull bar.
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My only up close encounter with a Camel was on the track between the road to Kings Canyon and the Stuart Highway, after visiting Kings Canyon with two passengers on a holiday trip not long after I retired in 2001. It was late afternoon and I decided the shorter route to Alice Springs would be interesting, in many places the track is a creek bed, many deep holes to watch out for. I was driving a Pajero 4WD. Camels were scattered around as we approached and the leader was not happy when our vehicle approached and decided to let us know. No real drama but I am sure he would have done some damage if I had not driven away quickly.
On the Stuart Highway I realised a rear tyre was deflating but kept going and reached Alice Springs safely, but as I drove into a service station and stopped the tyre deflated. Something had pierced the tubeless tyre and left a small hole.After having a tube put in next day I drove to Darwin a couple of days later and the day after arriving the same tyre deflated while the vehicle was parked. The tyre service replaced the original equipment Yokohama H/T tyre with the same matching brand. After days in Kakadu National Park and heading towards Daly Waters on the Stuart Highway the same “new” tyre lost its tread and that flogged the mudguard and did serious damage, but the tyre case did not deflate. I drove to Daly Waters with no tread, slowly and had new Bridgestone A/T tyres fitted to the rear where the load was heaviest. No more tyre problems all the way back to my Fraser Coast retirement second home.
Various smart Alecs asked me why I went on that trip with two women, I was not married. I explained that before leaving I read instructions on remote area driving and the rule is to take a spare of everything.
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Geoff, on my last visit to that bridge project they held a drinking party with a BBQ excuse and invited many people from other construction camps, many characters who were happy to be in a remote place away from whatever “troubles” they left behind. They supplemented camp food with wildlife they shot or fished for. When we arrived late in that Toyota prime mover too late for dinner the cook gave us a “fish soup” I thought it was followed by Buffalo steak. After the meal he took me into the freezer room to view brown snakes hanging on hooks, that was the fish I ate with onions and tomatoes.
On that last night I was the target and everybody wanted me to have a can of beer with them, I ended up rolling cans unopened under a portable building. And don’t really remember going to the visitor accommodation caravan. However I woke up at dawn and opened the door, I was in the river, they had relocated the caravan to high tide mark after I fell asleep, which was probably instantly. The drive to Darwin was not kind to my head but I managed to board the aircraft to Sydney.
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Our exploartion and mining company, Peko, had about 80 employees and family there when Tracy arrived. None was injured.
Our 4WD Toyotas from Tennant Creek were perhaps the first outside help to arrive. Their radios worked and helped break the news to rest of world.
My job as a Sydney head office wanker was to take calls from rellies all over the world, telling them that thair families were ok. That was nothing compared to the clean-up that followed, medical as well as civic, but it was emotional. Pleople crying down the phone, time after time.
My best story from soon after was the two Hippies walking down the street saying “What a trip! I’ll never touch that stuff again!”
I was interested in how the angles of the metal telephone poles varied with distance from Darwin from flat to 90 degrees upright, by about the Mt Bundey Mine turnoff.
Geoff S
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I had a family of husband, wife and child relatives in Darwin at that time, he worked for the Attorney General’s Department so the telephone operator would answer, and during that visit before the cyclone I had dinner at their home before heading to the construction site. He had his wife and newborn child home from hospital and held them in the reinforced concrete floor bathroom as the cyclone raged.
Their government house was torn apart, even a cabinet freezer full of food for Christmas was blown away. A friend told me he and his family lay down outside along a fence to be protected as best they could be from flying debris as their home was being demolished.
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Cyclone Tracy arrived on Christmas eve 1974 and was over by 8 am the following morning (Christmas Day) – the anemometer at the Darwin Airport where I worked recorded wind speeds up to 300 plus knots (nautical miles per hour) as the stylus on the drum lifted over the top rim of the drum during gusts, and was still in that position the following morning. Most media reports gave the speed in kilometres per hour, however the aviation industry then, and now, uses nautical miles per hour. The trees had been stripped of leaves, there were no insects for 3 weeks and no birds for 6 months after Tracy. It was a very intense Cyclone, and the shrieking noise of the wind was so loud that our family did not hear the roof, walls and furniture being torn off the floorboards, even though we were only inches below the floorboards sheltering in the Laundry.
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Caused by global warming obviously!
Mate of my younger bro lives up there in a timber house atop a concrete block lower storey. When he bought it he had the house moved back square on the downstairs, but left the big arcs of scratch marks in the wooden floor of the lounge.
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Cyclone Tracy arrived on Christmas eve 1974 and was over by 8 am the following morning (Christmas Day) – the anemometer at the Darwin Airport where I worked recorded wind speeds up to 300 plus knots (nautical miles per hour) as the stylus on the drum lifted over the top rim of the drum during gusts, and was still in that position the following morning. Most media reports gave the speed in kilometres per hour, however the aviation industry then, and now, uses nautical miles per hour. The trees had been stripped of leaves, there were no insects for 3 weeks and no birds for 6 months after Tracy. It was a very intense Cyclone, and the shrieking noise of the wind was so loud that our family did not hear the roof, walls and furniture being torn off the floorboards, even though we were only inches below the floorboards sheltering in the Laundry.
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Covers all cases doesnt it. Papers over the lack of cyclone events and when a big one comes along, as they normally do eventually, they can say “see, we said so”
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A sort of “cover-all” prophesy… like any other religion.
Read into it after the event.
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Only 15 years since the last big one in the NW. Can recall when there appeared to be many more cyclones up north every year. And a lot of the properties are now built to cyclone standards so are better able to cope with the occasional problem.
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I spent the later 70s & most of the 80s running tourist boats in great barrier reef waters, mostly the Whitsundays. I can only remember 2 years when we weren’t hiding our boats up mangrove creeks from cyclones that either hit us or scored very near misses.
I was fortunate enough to miss any of the really big ones.
There have definitely been less cyclones in recent years.
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Climate change.
sarc.
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fewer
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I would like to know who they are.
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BoM mentions it. The graph indicates that the number of tropical cyclones impacting Australia is on the wane because of global warming.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/climatology/trends.shtml
I don’t think TC are more intense, but leave room for debate.
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As usual the linked reference in your linked BoM paper takes you through to a non-existent page. An increasing phenomenon for the BoM (and CSIRO too).
Same thing with the CSIRO’s Dr Debbie Abbs cyclone paper that was once on the CSIRO site. Gone. Even the spot it was relocated to is now missing the paper.
What did Abbs say back in the day?
Dr Debbie Abbs, a principal research scientist for the CSIRO’s Marine Atmospheric Research Division, says her team looked at the outputs from 12 climate models that focus on the Australian region.
“We are finding an approximate 50 per cent decrease in the frequency of occurrence of cyclones affecting our region,” she said.
50% reduction. And:
Dr Abbs says although there may be fewer cyclones, they could be more severe.
“Of those smaller number of cyclones, the proportion of them that will occur in the severe categories will actually be greater,” she said.
“If we had 10 per cent of storms at the present time that were the most extreme categories… the severe storm categories, then in the future we might have 12 or 15 per cent.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-04-04/global-warming-could-make-cyclones-stronger/2628496
Fancy their ABC being good for something!
Do the sums.
A 50% reduction in total numbers and an increase from 10% to 15% in severety still gives a reduction in numbers of severe cyclones. A very significant reduction.
No wonder they hide the data that don’t suit their biases.
They’re no longer scientists – if they ever were.
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The rating of a cyclone is subjective, there are not 50 anemometers measuring the wind strength and size, there must be a lot of modelling. The BOM cannot be trusted with this more than the temperature record.
A number of years ago one crossed the coast at Yeppoon to Rockhampton. The BOM was still rating it as cat 2 with scary warnings while the Rocky residents were already out in the streets sightseeing in calm air.
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This is a question I have – the short-term measurement of 289 kmh on Bedout Island last night made me wonder how long the island has had an anemometer capable of measuring to this level. IIRC, the wind measuring gear in Qld was unable to measure the full wind strength during their last cyclone.
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Yes I have seen totally false reporting of wind strengths.
If the wind hits 90 knots most trees are totally stripped of leaves. It doesn’t take sustained 90 knots, a few gusts will do it. I have seen this a number of times.
To day we see reports of high cat 3 & low cat 4, with the trees still in full leaf after it’s passing. We are being lied to & most southerners are dumb enough to believe it.
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Intensification.
‘In multiple basins and the global dataset, we detect a significant increase in intensification rates with a positive contribution from anthropogenic forcing. Furthermore, thermodynamic environments around tropical cyclones have become more favorable for intensification, and climate models show anthropogenic warming has significantly increased the probability of these changes.’ (Bhatia et al 2022)
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Anthropogenic intensification is the most unnatural and intensely impactful.
Poor trans communities of color are the most severely impacted.
Having been historical victims of forced intensification.
Un-equitably forcing their probability of negative impactification outcomes.
This is why we must intensify our rate of decarbonization forcing to achieve positive Net Zero.
Then we can began to work toward N2Z (Net Negative Zero).
With meaningful global climate policy we can probably increase the probability of positive intensification forcing globally.
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Sorry, forgot the citation … and the quotation thingys.
(Honker et al 2023)
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Tropical Cyclone Ilsa.
Looks Like Tropical Cyclone Ilsa took out the weather station on Bedout Is, WA at 21:30 last night.
The record stops at that point.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60801/IDW60801.94310.shtml
There were strong winds about 8pm, followed by a bit of a lull, likely due to the eye of the cyclone passing near by. Then the wind returned with a vengeance with peak gusts of 156kts, (289kph). That should be enough to knock a lot of things over.
Strangely I thought I had seen some strong winds at Bedout Is earlier in the day but the record does not show that now.
I have taken a copy of the webpage so I can take a look later on.
The cyclone is supposed to have made landfall at Pardoo. The BOM station there seems to be inactive.
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Many of the remote roadhouses now have a container secured to a concrete slab that is able to withstand the cyclones. This serves as a refuge when things turn nasty.
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2 at the Pardoo roadhouse were on the ABC news about 1 hour ago saying they had survived in their container, but there wasn’t much left of the roadhouse.
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80 mile beach and the Pardoo roadhouse must have copped a hammering by the look of it , great mudcrabbing at the camp spot there .
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When they rebuild the roadhouse, perhaps this time they will build it to cyclone standards. Looking at the photos of the remains, the roof at least doesn’t look like it was secured to the higher standards required.
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Sounds pretty grim at Pardoo.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-14/pardoo-roadhouse-bears-brunt-of-cyclone-ilsa/102223426
Cheers
Dave B
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Another sign that BOM ought to test its gear more thoroughly to handle the new normal weather that is supposedly coming?
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Son is at a site near Marble Bar, Isla blew past them very quickly to the north-east early this morning, still windy but all operations back to normal since noon. Poor old Pardoo, husband and I had some interesting times at the roadhouse in years past.
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Yeah love that camp spot opposite Pardoo we spent a bit over a week at the 80 mile beach and loved it .
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Pardoo roadhouse has had its roof ripped off according to a post of theirs on Facebook with a photo .
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The IMF Has Just Unveiled A New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit” That Is Supposed To Revolutionize The World Economy
A new global currency just launched, but 99 percent of the global population has no idea what just happened. The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new “global currency” would be a giant step forward for the globalist agenda. The IMF did not create this new currency, but it was unveiled at a major IMF gathering earlier this week.
Today, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF.
Universal Monetary Unit (UMU), symbolized as ANSI Character, Ü, is legally a money commodity, can transact in any legal tender settlement currency, and functions like a CBDC to enforce banking regulations and to protect the financial integrity of the international banking system.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-digital-currency-monetary-authority-dcma-launches-an-international-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-301793163.html
Easter over, and the porta-slums (caravans) back home.
Will you be able to go away next Easter? 😎
In France the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, just announced that Europeans will not be allowed to use more than $1,000 euros in cash, anymore… and if you do spend more than your “allotted amount” you will face jail time.
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“and if you do spend more than your “allotted amount” you will face jail time.”
The billionaire bureaucrats will, of course, be exempt.
This rule only applies to the general 97%* of normal everyday pleds and serfs.
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How might the global population respond when they hear of a proposal for a Decimal Unicorn system traded with “You-moos”?
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In the Sea of Many Islands, Polynesia, an ‘umu’ is an earthen cooking-hole, a hole in the ground filled with fiery rocks, the food to be cooked, with moistened leaves on top to seal in the goodness. The Maori version is called a ‘hangi’, mmm mmm: ya just made sure you weren’t ‘the food’ being cooked.
UMU you say… we have been warned ⚠️
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Have had several Māori friends over time… been to the occasional “hangi”.
Lots of meat, and LOTS of whatever that hi-starch vegetable stuff was (can’t recall the name at the moment)… casava?
No wonder they grow to be such “large” blokes !! 🙂
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There must be a typo in the DCMA article. “Apr 10, 2023” should be “Apr 1, 2023”. Shouldn’t it?
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“Unicoin” is a bit of a giveaway.
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Time for the Barter System to take off once more. Takes you off the Grid and is so much more FUN.
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Why didn’t they call it the Base Universal Monetary Unit?
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Russia conscription: and you thought lockdowns were tough.
The Russian Parliament has adopted a number of amendments that make it more difficult to get out of a call for conscription. Russians will be called up electronically for the first time and those who do not report will immediately bear the consequences.
Currently, a conscription subpoena must be issued personally and against receipt to the conscript in question. Those who did not want to be called up made sure that they were not at home or at work or fled the country. That will no longer make sense, or even no longer be possible at all.
Call letters will also be allowed to be delivered digitally by the new rules, via a special portal from the Russian National Service. And the convocation is considered to have been received when it appears on the conscript’s personal account.
Then an extra measure will immediately come into effect. Conscripts will no longer be allowed to leave the country from the day the convocation letter is issued.
A second message will follow through the portal within 24 hours: if the conscript does not report to the military registration and recruitment agency within 20 days, a number of other measures will take effect. He will no longer be able to register as a self-employed person or entrepreneur, will no longer be able to buy a house or car, will no longer be able to obtain a driving license and will no longer be able to take out a loan. Local authorities can also cut benefits and other support measures.
Now that the Duma (lower house) has approved the amendments, they are going to the Federation Council (upper house). If approved, they will be signed and entered into force by President Putin.
https://www.hln.be/buitenland/rusland-maakt-het-pak-moeilijker-om-dienstplicht-te-ontduiken-wie-zich-niet-meldt-zal-het-meteen-voelen~a923df87/
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Meanwhile, Americans are being conscripted into a reality-media version of the 1983 movie Wargames (with 21-year old Massachusetts Air National Guardman and online gaming enthusiast Jack Teixeira playing the Matthew Broderick part).
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Ooh look – another squirrel!
Is time really speeding up or is it just manufactured digital cosmic debris?
No wonder the kids are confused…
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“ … the kids are confused…”
They’re just electric sheep in an AI dream.
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Co-opted as useful idiots by the look of this –
“The Leak Was the Op – White House and Congress Demand New Powers, Think Restrict Act, in Aftermath of Classified Intel Leaks
April 13, 2023 | Sundance | 110 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/13/the-leak-was-the-op-white-house-and-congress-demand-new-powers-think-restrict-act-in-aftermath-of-classified-intel-leaks/
And the two items above this one
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More around that
“Suspicious Cat’s Correct – Johnson and MacGregor Give Details
April 14, 2023 | Sundance | 337 Comments
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/14/suspicious-cats-correct-johnson-and-macgregor-give-details/#more-245573
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And here
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/level-four-friday-april-14-2023-c?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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An Honest Doctor’s Experiences on the Front Lines During COVID-19
Suddenly, our hospital outcomes and quality data became hidden and opaque to us. Prior to this, most all data was openly shared and discussed in quality assurance meetings. The hospital forced upon us a narrative that was pure lunacy and contrary to all available observations and previously available data. A chilling example is the following: I was working a shift in the ICU in late April 2020 and had basically nothing to do because greater than half our beds were empty. We were “low censusing” any nurses willing to go home because there were so few sick patients. I was having a cup of coffee, chatting with the staff and another ICU physician, who was in leadership, when the daily newspaper was delivered. Prior to the paper being delivered, we were all relaxed, jocular, and noting how little work we all had. The other ICU physician picked up the local paper where the main headline said, ‘Local ICU Overwhelmed.’ The article was referencing our ICU, as we were the only hospital in the county. He looked at me, started sweating, panicked, and said, “What are we going to do? We may not be able to handle this!” I replied with, “Pour another cup of coffee and laugh at the morons writing the paper.” He became visibly distressed and left to call the hospital administration about the situation, who confirmed they were complicit with the newspaper article. This colleague was one of the medical directors of our ICU. Our hospital and ICU were not overfull at the peak number of infections in March 2020. In fact, the ICU was never overfull, even after the horrible protocols that hurt so many patients were established. I knew we were in serious trouble as a medical community when clinical leaders started believing the words in a newspaper and hospital administrators more than their own eyes and experience.
Then, I watched as every policy, practice, and quality metric that makes a trauma and surgical program have good patient outcomes be undermined or abandoned by my colleagues and hospital administration.
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So, in February of 2023, I returned to practicing medicine and started working as a Primary Care Physician at a holistic clinic where no patient is turned away. I discovered that I enjoy being a Family Physician, too. I lost my prestigious career and my social position, but I did not lose my ethics or integrity. I did not violate my oaths of practice. So, ultimately, I have won. And I’m happy.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/an-honest-doctors-experiences-on
An example for all in the medical “profession”.
A massively and needlessly bloated, corrupt and inept medical system which has been swollen to bursting point with administrative staff that caused all these problems.
Purge 80% of the admin staff, replacing them with non-left doctors and nurses…
https://fee.org/articles/the-chart-that-could-undo-the-us-healthcare-system/
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Meanwhile, Americans are being conscripted into a reality-media version of the 1983 movie Wargames (with 21-year old Massachusetts Air National Guardman and online gaming enthusiast Jack Teixeira playing the Matthew Broderick part).
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Where are they practicing?
Prepared to pay cash!
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Meanwhile, Americans are being conscripted into a reality-media version of the 1983 movie Wargames (with 21-year old Massachusetts Air National Guardman and online gaming enthusiast Jack Teixeira playing the Matthew Broderick part).
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The Australian..
Although we’ve seen mixed reactions over the past fortnight to the deal that delivered a beefed-up “safeguard mechanism”, Australia’s industrial and emissions outlook is now more certain and better placed as a result.
But .. It won’t make us a clean energy superpower.
To not only weather the storm of decarbonisation, but to emerge stronger and better positioned to thrive in a changed global economy. Realising such an ambition requires an overarching plan – a superpower roadmap that lays out where we will deploy our resources, how we will play to win and how government will unlock the investment and innovation that’s required from the private sector.
What appalling nonsense!
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There are buzz phrase generators to help with generating that BS.
https://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html
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Excellent. Renewables will intrinsically transition resource-sucking meta-services.
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Actually I think the article was AI entirely generated using only buzzword and phrases. Perhaps even a joke.
How can an emissions outlook be ‘better placed as a result’? This is utterly meaningless AI verbage.
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AI will be “ used “ to avoid accountability. If AI commits a crime, say,a libel/ defamation case emerges from an AI article who is responsible, who is accountable in a court of law. If AI spruiks some BS to do with medication & a death occurs, who is accountable. Same with politicians basing policy on AI generated BS!!
Where does AI source it’s information. I think it comes from the same source as the Global Warming Hoax, the Climate Change hoax. O course there will now,not be any to hold to account!
AI information sources are simply what’s fed into the system by humans. Result is :
BS in = BS out with the advantage of Zero Accountability!
Sounds to me like a politicians dreams all coming true!! AI is not something to laud or be proud of. Even Elon Musk is more than sceptical. Big scam is about to be unleashed on the world!!
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You mean bigger than”Global Warming,Climate Change(TM pending)”?Bye the bye,has anyone noticed that almost ALL legislation that has been passed in the last 50 odd years has never been to help OR protect”We the People”?Why is this so????????
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“safeguard mechanism” .. “the certainty is that Australia’s Industrial outlook is more certain”.
Yes, total devastation from mines, metals, to all transportation, rural trains and all railways and shipping and aircraft, even water supply. Shut down by 30% in 7 years.
Clean energy superpower? Really? We can’t build a transistor or a car or a toaster or coffee machine, but we will be a superpower?
Storm of decarbonisation. That’s right. All massive self inflicted harm.
and finally “Government .. investment and innovation that’s required from the private sector.”
When did that ever work? How does a government require innovation?
An article by Zoe Whitton. Managing director and head of impact at Pollination, a global climate change advisory and investment firm.
Tell ‘er she’s dreamin’.
And I wish this cr*p was labelled advertising, likely generated by an AICr*pbot.
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mmmm innovation! coz that’s what government is all about. Your one true source of innovation and “truth”
sounds like many volumes of shelfware that will be of great assistance in the coming blackouts.
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Everytime someone points out that something is impossible, the response is that (private sector) innovation will fix it. This is well past a Cargo Cult. We now have government plans to absolutely devastate the 250 biggest companies (outside banking, insurance, retailing, education and health) in Australia based on the impossible arriving on time without any idea how or when or if.
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“to emerge stronger and better positioned to thrive in a changed global economy. ”
One wonders why all necessary steps to achieve optimal EROEI in all industries would not be the most viable strategy.
Perhaps I’m missing something , but efficiency of energy usage seems to be a straightforward and easily computed metric which should satisfy everyone.
Unless the agenda is not about energy usage at all.
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What a tragic waste of resources.
The world needs power stations, not this garbage.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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And they’ll all form nice manmade reefs for the fish in a decade.😉
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The foundations of an unsustainable concept. Built by an Indonesian corporation for an Indonesian company selling wind energy to the UK.
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These are the blowflies gathering to the carcass which is Australia. And we are supposed to be building nuclear submarines? Absolutely impossible. We could not build a toaster.
And our attempt to drill utterly useless Snowy II with a 2,500 ton drill was lost in the length of the drill. And already blown out from $2.5Bn to $12.5Bn with the drill buried forever.
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Did you know das gubermint spent taxpayer money fitting curtains to submarines?
Damn peeping tom fish! 🤣
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Innovative Australian designed fly wire doors for submarines. It’s our country specific expertise.
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You don’t need to worry until they install fly screens.
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If we apply government and health expert thinking, then water won’t penetrate the flyscreen in the same way a virus won’t penetrate a facemask 😉
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Yep Tdef, After 4 months in-operable and a week of resumed operations, “Florence the Snowy 2 borer” is stuck again.
Snowy 2 say that it is not “stuck”…. Hmm… As a mining engineer I’d say otherwise.
To all,
The problem our famous borer “Florence” is facing is that the strata it is attempting to tunnel thru is unstable.
Florence uses hydraulic jacks to operate.
Those jacks apply pressure to the bored tunnel walls to deploy shields and to keep the cutter centred, in line with the tunnel.
Behind the shields, to the rear of the head, hydraulic jacks are used to place the preformed concrete tunnel walls in place.
If the ground which the borer is tunneling thru is “soft’, fractured or unstable the hydraulic jacks become useless.
The borer can’t bore. It also can’t retract as there is no reverse hydraulic ram and the tunnel behind it is lined with precast concrete segments.
The finished tunnel is smaller in diameter than Florence.
Snowy 2 can spin it anyway they like.. The truth is Florence is stuck again!
So the engineers will now spend their time trying to stabilise the ground around the borer “Cutting” head for the next couple of months to try to get it moving again.
Cost blowouts anyone?
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Digging a hole in a sand bank? How could they not have spotted that? The dramatic and extensive and deep collapse of the soil up on the surface shows it is unstable all the way to the top. Wrong place to drill. They need an excavator.
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They must have test drilled as part of the feasability study. One can only think that the core analyst, rather that being trained in engineering and geology was a cost accountant concluding that soft ground would be quick and easy to excavate rather than the exact opposite
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‘There is no art which one government sooner learns of another
than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.’
Adam Smith was not wrong!
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The three boring machine have been named. Florence is the one that has managed 200m of its proposed 17,000m before the roof collapsed.
They are now changing direction with the tunnel now being bored under pressure. They are currently working on the infrastructure for this.
If they can maintain 200m a year, it will only take 85 years to bore the headache unless Florence dies of old age before then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8TvZ_7p9gg&t=201s
Listening to this you get the impression that nothing is drastically wrong with the project.
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The stuck boring machine should be renamed Malcolm.
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President Malcolm?
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I thought I had heard some years ago that this part of the Snowy scheme was abandoned originally because it a) wasn’t cost effective/useful and b) the geological conditions were known to be difficult and unstable. Is this the case, that this has been known since the 50’s?
So is this scheme just a deliberate wasteing of money done on purpose to tear down the nations finances?
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That’s it.
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Yeah but they weren’t powered by lefty wishful thinking and fairy dust back then so they made no “progress” Onwards and upwards comrades! the next engineering and economic calamity awaits!
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“So is this scheme just a deliberate wasteing of money done on purpose to tear down the nations finances?”
No, I think these projects are done to show the city populace that the government is looking after them and they should all sleep easy in their beds at night.
Think back to the big drought in Victoria where a government decided to divert water from one drought stuck area ( the Goulburn Valley, the food bowl of Vic and NSW.)To another drought struck area. Melbourne. A billion dollars worth of infrastructure that was NEVER used. This project was absolutely lied about by govnment ministers who claimed that this pipe could pump water in both directions, so, when Melbourne had a water surplus water could be pumped back into the Goulburn system.
Ignore the fact that pumps had only been intalled at one end, ignore the fact that the gravity fall side of the pipe could not be used as a high pressure pipe, ignore the fact that droughts generally cover the entire state, so when the Goulburn Valley is short of water, Melbourne is also short of water. No, facts are just useless distractions from reality.
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Why did all major media organizations share the same incorrect Covid narrative?
https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1646510939100057604
TNI -LOL…
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When the government tell the gas companies who they can sell their gas to, & how much they can charge for that gas, it sounds pretty much like a command economy to me.
I wonder who is next.
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It’s interesting to note that while oil & gas producers are being accused of making more money than ever before, at the expense of the consumer, I haven’t seen oil & gas company shares in Australia take off, even before the government announced its active measures to kill the industry.
I’m not a share trading expert by any means, but based on the 4 or 5 companies I’ve looked at, I would have expected to see share prices go up by some appreciable amount if such profits were genuinely unprecedented and widespread.
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Excellent short video from Paul Joseph Watson on “stupid wokology”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DCOYGHRfZXw
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The most terrifying transgender on TikTok.
This is symptomatic of the dying days of Western Civilisation.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Jj0grqyyzrE?feature=share
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Ask not why children want to see drag queens, but why drag queens want an audience of children. 😉
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Experts on red alert for mega-earthquake off the US coast – after discovering a crack in 600-mile long fault line at the bottom of the Pacific
Scientists fear a hole in a 600-mile-long fault line in the Pacific could trigger a catastrophic earthquake that would decimate cities along the northwestern US.
The hole spewing hot liquid sits 50 miles off the shoreline of Oregon, on the boundary of the dipping fault known as Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans from Northern California into Canada.
This geological feature is capable of unleashing a magnitude-9 earthquake in the Pacific Northwest – and the hole could be the fuel it needs.
The leak was first observed in 2015, but a new analysis led by the University of Washington (UW) suggests the chemically distinct liquid is ‘fault lubricant.’
This liquid allows plates to move smoothly, but without it, ‘stress can build to create a damaging quake,’ researchers said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11970435/Experts-red-alert-mega-earthquake-coast-analyzing-hole-fault-line.html
Just discovered a 1,000km long crack.
I thought the science was settled, so how can there be almost daily new discoveries in every scientific field? 😄
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“The hole spewing hot liquid sits 50 miles off the shoreline of Oregon”
Remember the “Big Blob” of warm water off the US west coast that accompanied the 2015/16 El Nino !
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Oh wait, oceans can only be warmed from above, and only by CO2 “back-radiation” 😉
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Maybe a big quake and tsunami could wash California clean… ?
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But, if you are of that mindset, you can feel that they are not there (/S)
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Here is the latest Propaganda/Progress Report from Snowy Hydro 2 for March 2023. It is essentially devoid of useful information but gives an idea of some of the construction done.
Nothing about the stuck tunnelling machine.
A $12.5 billion+ White Elephant.
https://youtu.be/m8TvZ_7p9gg
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Actor Struan Rodger or the White House Resident?
Interesting video whatever the truth might be.
https://youtu.be/0dnoQEOPxz8
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Anheuser-Busch has lost about US$7 billion of market capitalisation since using a transgender to be the face of Bud Lite.
It’s about time conservatives and fellow rational thinkers showed the power of their wallets.
Get woke, go broke…
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It’s interesting that this initiative is by their female Marketing manager who perhaps doesn’t like the traditional beer drinkers anyway. She is seeking to educate men in bars to be more inclusive of flat chested skinny men in dresses drinking light beer. Good luck with that.
But not worse than Nike who has utterly offended women who are now burning their sports bras as the same Dylan Mulvaney pretends he needs and recommends a Nike Sports bra. For what? Caitlyn Jenner would have more credibility advertising jock straps.
There is no one more woke than a marketing executive trying to reeducate clients. And women are supposed to relate again to a flat chested male trying to look sexy in an exercise bra and outfit. That’s not woke. It’s idi*cy.
How both companies managed to massively offend both men and women customers with transgender Dylan Mulvaney simultaneously is the stuff of marketing legend.
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As for the market response, they are expecting shares to plummet with sales. The next shareholders meeting will be interesting in both companies.
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And I see the absurdly names Safeguard Mechanism as insanity. All the mines are included. They use diesel to cut away mountains. They to transport the ore to ports in huge trains. They have to reduce this activity by 30% in 5 years? How?
Plus the ships they use. One of our only shipping lines, TT lines which runs the Tasmanian service is also targeted for a 30% reduction in services? How?
Glass makers reduce your output by 30%? How?
The government has already conceded that steel and aluminum and concrete cannot be reduced except by closing Whyalla and Port Kembla and manufacture of concrete. You cannot without building new furnaces. So they have allowed only 5% closing of business, so I guess they will squirt some hydrogen in.
It’s quite insane how bureaucrats in Canberra have decided to shut down the mines, shipping. Even rural train lines like V-Line in Victoria will have to get all electric trains or stop operations. And how are farmers going to ship their produce without trains or trucks?
Meanwhile the bureaucrats are getting higher and higher wages for plotting the shutting down of Australia. It’s a crime.
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Exactly.
It’s a crime.
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Sheep and cattle will move via drovers.
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They are being targeted separately. Methane producers.
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The govt have been shutting down the stock routes and not permitting stock to be driven. Part of the plan I would say. Also I believe just about all stock routes have had aboriginal land claims put on them. Our local ones had a number of years ago and I was told it was at least state wide.
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Can insects be herded?
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The Florida House passes a bill enacting death penalty for child rape
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1646664993927200768
Will men in dresses in Florida be nervous now? 😄
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No, they are protected by their femininity.
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It is also hilarious that the Unions are complicit. Where do they get their fees if there is a reduction of 30% in workforce.
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We are talking about millions of lost jobs. What unions?
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And the Clean Energy Regulator is attacking the basis of electrical and motive power in Australia in their quest to eliminate CO2 in Australia. But it is the coal and iron ore industry which is paying their wages. Othewise we can afford nothing. And closing down steel and concrete and aluminum and lead and food means we have to import everything. How are we going to pay for that?
This is the department for chopping off all the branches of the tree and wondering why there is nowhere to sit.
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Wouldn’t it be that they are chopping at the main branch on which they are sitting?
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And no fruit. It’s quite insane even if you think there is no evil CCP plot behind this. The sheer st*pidity of the Safeguard Mechanism is breathtaking. Quite apart to the idea that Australia of all places is carbon dioxide negative along with the entire 1/3 of the planet in which we live. All CO2 is from overseas but we are shutting down the country? Why?
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The Melbourne Water Corporation is on the hit list! Why? It seems they are generating CO2 in Sewage West. So let’s not eat?
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And CSL Australia. Commonwealth Serum Laboratories?
“For over a century, we’ve been an unstoppable force, from developing medicines that save and improve lives to vaccines that protect the” Shut them down!
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‘Why?’
Export Emissions Footprint
‘When we think of big fossil-fuel-producing nations, it’s usually Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and maybe Venezuela that spring to mind — but a new report places Australia near the very top of that list.
‘The analysis, released on Monday by public policy think tank the Australia Institute, measures fossil fuel exports according to their carbon dioxide-emissions potential.
‘It ranks Australia as the world’s third-biggest exporter behind only Russia and Saudi Arabia.’ (ABC)
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Great. So just stop exporting coal and iron and wheat. Even wine and lobster is turned into CO2. Stop all exports.
Now how do we buy our electronics, our phones, our cars, our aircraft, our machinery, our tractors, our clothes, our windmills, our solar panels?
It’s quite insane.
Everything you do generates CO2. So stop doing anything. Brought to you by the Greens.
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You’re kidding, right?
Please tell me you just forgot the sarc/ tag.
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The “Australia Institute” always gets a free pass no matter what it publishes, despite being as strongly aligned to Labor/Greens as the IPA is to the LNP.
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That’s about it.
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I wonder where the concrete and steel for all the wind turbine foundations will come from?
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Unions: a group name given to the official caste who have gained power by control of the elections that appoint them. Union income from the employee members is in decline but the official caste now have wealth and power as trustees of superannuation funds.
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If you can find it The Bulletin Magazine 2006, a story written by journalist max Walsh explains what he described as a “corporate-style takeover by the Union Movement of the ALP”, union executives put into safe Labor electorate seats, ultimate objective to control Australia’s governments.
The founder of the Liberal Party based LINO left, so I have read on a website in his name, had/has a similar objective involving an alliance of globalist left to form one governing alliance party with the same objective.
So add into the mix the deregulation of banking and finance after 1985 followed by Superannuation Guarantee Levy on employers for employees.
And then, after a long list of things including using member’s funds to by shares in corporations to gain board level access and influence, the latest news that industry super funds will invest in Federal-State government projects, public housing, wind and solar “farms”, VicGov’s new State Electricity Commission, and more.
Also, AWU establishing the US activist group model here they call GetUp, for political purposes and propaganda to voters.
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Where do they get their fees, HP? Your superannuation fund.
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Yep – currently 25 billion plus dollars a year.
Union membership fees are petty cash in comparison.
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Most, if not all Unions in Australia have long since stopped pretending to be “pro-worker”. They are generally complicit in allowing governments to effectively ban strikes and other industrial action that actually has an impact (whether you think the strikes are justified or not).
The last time I was in a peripheral position during enterprise agreement negotiations, the Union representative was professional, knowledgable, and did, at first seem to be on the side of the members, however, they also did not put up much of a fight, and we ended up with (in my opinion) a nett loss of conditions.
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My son has told me similar stories about his past life working for a multicultural construction company and approaching the union rep on behalf of the mostly labourers and some trade qualified people. They moved between sites but were not being paid the correct site allowances more often than not. The Rep told him nothing could be done until the next workplace agreement negotiation time arrived. In short, peace on all sites by agreement between unions and construction company.
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Dr John Campbell discusses the BBC/Elon Musk interview.
https://youtu.be/HdJAJknnfbA
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This was probably better than the famous Newman v Peterson cage match.
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Fascinating video about horseshoe crabs and the demand for their copper-based blood.
https://youtu.be/9mYpbee25Kg
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Where do the Unions get their funding – via our Super Funds : indeed they do ! ( never ask a question to which you do not already know the answer). Explaining this to others is quite difficult. I am against compulsory superannuation in the form we have it here in Australia at present.
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Unions are a drain on workers ability to work.They are as useful as”Tits on a bull”
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Fight back –
“Woke Alert: Group Announces Text Alert System to Help Shoppers Avoid Products from Woke Companies”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/woke-alert-group-announces-text-alert-system-to-help-shoppers-avoid-products-from-woke-companies/
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Still Friday here, so: What’s the common denominator: @shellenberger “The idea that governments worldwide are working together….. It’s increasingly clear that there is just such an organized effort involving, at a minimum, the US, Canada, UK, & New Zealand.” ? and then too, at https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/1646925578434404361/photo/1 : what the WHO had to say way back before my time.
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