Just looking at the AEMO dashboard. NSW is generating 4.6 Gw but is demanding 6.0 Gw leaving a significant gap. They are importing from both Qld and VIC, which is not unusual.
When Liddel closes on Friday where is the 800Mw it produces going to come from?
When Liddel closes on Friday where is the 800Mw it produces going to come from?
Unit #4 shut down permanently yesterday so there are only two units running producing 623MW.
The easiest way to get 600MW is to turn Tomago smelter down to standby level. Doing this once a year is unsettling and risky because aluminium smelters are a just-in-time production line that gets out of kilter when the electricity is wound back. Doing it on a regular basis will make Tomago a high risk business. If it goes cold, I doubt there would be a case to restart it. They would find it impossible to insure for business loss and damage. Even higher risk than a BEV fire.
2pm Anzac Day and the price for NSW electricity is $89/MWh. This does not look good for what will happen next week. It is already interesting with just one more set down so will get VERY interesting after the next two shut down for good.
We can only hope that they start demolishing the units as soon as they come off so they cannot be restarted. Then Tomago freezes up after losing power. Rio Tinto decides to permanently close down the smelter as a reward for their woke support of the climate change agenda. And the rest of NSW gets by until Erraring closes.
While all that is happening in NSW, some public servant in Bowen’s department in Canberra has to inform him that the sun does not shine at night so solar panels do not work at night.
An article in The Oz today said that Callide is our only super-critical coal plant. Is this true? Thought there were more. Answered my own query. Kogan is also a super-critical plant.
I had some friends from QLD stay a few days and I asked what they paid for electricity. They were not sure so I looked it up to find the following :
Price summary General charges:
Daily supply charge 96.80 cents/day, General usage rates 23.10 to 26.40 cents/kWh, Solar feed-in 5 cents/kWh exported.
I pay $1.75/day supply charge, Peak 44.22 cents/kWh, off peak 23.991 cents/kWh, shoulder 41.184 cents/kWh, solar feed in 10 cents/kWh.
So QLD electricity is about half the cost of NSW electricity so what is the reason? QLD still own their coal plants and NSW has more wind and solar. See the pattern? But W and S are so much cheaper because the wind and sun are FREE.
Last I heard Callide repairs were at a standstill. The bill payer is broke.
I don’t know how many arm’s lengths are involved, but to me it looks suspicious.
Could the breakdown have been due to sabotage?
I read that a generator “motored” for more than 30 minutes before it blew up. I would have thought the system would ring very loud bells the moment that started to happen.
Yes I know, but the demolition doesn’t start until 2024. I’m wondering if they’ll deliberately do something to render it permanently unusable before that, just to make it impossible for anyone to change their mind.
Destroying it makes their green electrons permanently more valuable, so their share price goes up and they have bigger profits.
Note it has to be destroyed for the shares to spike. I would look for the action on AGL futures trading to see who benefited.
My mental picture of the NSW Government is them sitting in a chair watching Al Gore videos, slowly rocking back and forward while sucking their thumb. Occasionally muttering “it will be alright….it will be alright”
With all manufactured goods being primarily of Chinese origin, it make sense to settle in CNY.
China imports most of the world resources and converts them to stuff that other countries buy. Makes sense that world trade should be dominated by CNY but it still has a long way to go to top the USD.
USA is already allowing Russian banks back into USD based settlements. If the growth in CNY settlements keeps going at present rate, the current US inflation rate will look mild. As far as I can determine, USA does not have any foreign obligations in other currencies. That is unique but has to change as countries move away from USD denominated trade. The US runs an enormous current account deficit. That will have to change and will hit growth hard.
How will the USA buy solar panels, wind turbines and batteries if they need to pay for them in CNY. Maybe US can sell China some nuclear submarines. One a month would just about fix the current account based on the price Australia is paying.
We are living through a digital revolution and it will change everything.
‘Even though China’s digital yuan will be beneficial in many different ways, one of the areas where it can bring more value is that of promoting the use of the yuan for cross-border payments, by trying to convert some of the US-dollar-denominated international trade transactions into renminbi-denominated ones, thus trying to challenge the dominance of the US dollar in international trade and finance.’ (Macaubusiness.)
“The death of the US$ has been greatly exaggerated.”
I reckon you’ll live to see it H. It happens slowly, then fast, as they say. Debt is suddenly a problem when other countries don’t want to loan them money, and like any bank run, that is a cascade. Canada, Aussie, NZ & the UK will say ‘Yes’, but most of Europe will hum and har in embarrassment and think their money safer elsewhere.
Along with that is the loss of demand for dollars every time some two other countries transact business without the $US in the middle. The BRICS & non-aligned are over half the world’s economy now.
The third leg about to be kicked out of the stool would be tax rates and multinationals. As the demand for dollars decreases the Americans will have to actually work for a living, meaning the Govt gets desperate for cash, and tax rates go up.. So multinationals move overseas, making the tax take smaller, meaning higher taxes..
“These international currency functions were broadly shared by sterling, the French franc, and the German mark before World War I. They were shared by sterling and the dollar in the 1920s. From this vantage point, it is the second half of the twentieth century that is the anomaly, when an absence of alternatives allowed the dollar to come close to monopolizing this international currency role.”
I have read that China has asked the oil producers to accept CNY for oil purchases. And China is in the habit of getting what they ask for as they are the largest customer for most commodities and the largest supplier of manufactured goods.
The BRICS have their own trade settlements system not involving USD.
The iron ore producers in Australia have tested blockchain based e-CNY with Chinese steel producers.
Cross border trade settlements are still dominated by USD but CNY is fast growing and the Russian sanctions have accelerated the uptake of CNY in trade settlements.
‘That is unique but has to change as countries move away from USD …’
It should be a relatively quick changeover as India and China work together as BRICS masters.
The US is in debt to itself, sort of on the never never, by both sides of politics. This indebtedness must have its day of reckoning, what do you think might happen over the coming years?
We all know that the US is hopelessly in debt. What we don’t know is: Who holds the paper [it’s not China] and who will be foolhardy enough to call in the liquidators. Would the chaos be survivable?
Slowly sell the paper or run it to expiry, dont buy more, just as the PRC has been doing. Look for the bigger fool (and maybe encourage them) just like the share market
“Some analysts wondered how the US would react to this trend. Decades ago, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi sought alternative use of the US dollar in energy trade, before they were accused of tyranny, toppled and eventually killed.
But times have changed. The sanctions levied against Russia by the US since last year have shown how the greenback is being “weaponized”, observers said. The appropriation of Russian tycoons’ dollar-denominated assets, deemed to violate the very basis of capitalism, chilled many in business circles.”
India is the largest democracy in the world and they are critical of the status quo. This is Australia’s big chance to give the dollar and Alliance the flick.
‘India has called for a “major course correction” at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by raising three pressing questions, including whether effective multilateralism can be practised by defending a charter that makes five nations more equal than others.’ (Economic Times)
If the USA loses its appeal to migrants, where will they next head to? Why is this important?
On average worldwide, migrants send between US$200 and $300 home every one or two months.
‘Australia is on track for net migration of more than 300,000 people this year, more than 25% higher than Treasury forecasts, due to a surge in arrivals, according to a former top immigration official.’ (Guardian)
Meanwhile building firms are bankrupt, shortage of tradies and materials coupled to rising material costs and other operating costs and tradies being snapped up by other builders with more work than they can handle, private and public sector.
The Jester In The Trench
by Leon Gellert
“That just reminds me of a yarn,” he said;
And everybody turned to hear his tale.
He had a thousand yarns inside his head.
They waited for him, ready with their mirth
And creeping smiles, – then suddenly turned pale,
Grew still, and gazed upon the earth.
They heard no tale. No further word was said.
And with his untold fun,
Half leaning on his gun,
They left him – dead.
And again, the GOOLAG header pays no respect to those who gave everything, just as there was no acknowledgement of Australia Day. They can come up with a glib meme for national possum day, or whatever, but refuse to pay respect to real institutions. Disgusting, but entirely predictable.
“Turbocancer” x 2 – Just lost my 60 yo brother to widely metastatic squamous cell skin cancer AND Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that killed him in 4 months. Jabbed and boosted. I remember telling him about the mRNA evils last June and he simply said “You mean we are all fvcked?” (he was a trucky) and the conversation ended. Hate to see this in my family. Eight months after burying Dad with the ‘Vid.
I lost my brother to covid y’day. We seldom discuss anything and after a strong put down when I mentioned supplements years ago health was never discussed.
His middle-Europe wife is hard to understand but I believe they were still wearing masks and were fully boosted.
* Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA jabs, as the Covid vaccinations face unacknowledged yet ever wider cultural and social repudiation.
The number of unflattering press stories has been growing since the bivalents flopped last Fall.
* Dentists Say Millions of Vaccinated Patients Are Now Losing Their Teeth
Dentists across America have reported seeing an alarming number of patients with severe symptoms associated with teeth and bone since the rollout of the mRNA COVID vaccines.
Since the vaccines were rolled out, Hartsfield has seen an exponential increase in patients with head and facial neurovascular and myofascial pain, including headaches, toothaches not caused by the tooth, osteonecrosis of the jaw, sleep issues, tinnitus, and oral and facial autoimmune conditions.
Face masks may raise risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline due to build-up of carbon dioxide, study warns
Face masks may raise the risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline in children, ‘explosive’ new research suggests.
A review of dozens of studies on face coverings suggested they can cause mild carbon dioxide poisoning when worn over long periods.
The German academics who carried out the research believe masks create a pocket of dead space between the mouth and mask, which traps the toxic gas.
They say the build-up of CO2 in pregnant women’s bodies could cause complications for the unborn fetus. They point out that CO2 also contributes to oxidative stress, which can affect cognition and cause testicular issues in men.
The rise of the machine: Nanowire networks can learn and remember like a human brain
Nanowire networks mimic the networked structure of the human brain. But can they learn and remember like a human brain can? New research indicates they can.
The brain’s powerful ability to process information is largely attributable to the network of connections formed by neurons and synapses. While we understand much of the brain’s workings, some aspects, such as higher cognitive functions like learning and memory, remain elusive.
A kind of nanotechnology, nanowire networks (NWNs) are typically made from highly conductive silver wires, invisible to the naked eye, covered with plastic material and formed into a mesh. The nanowires self-assemble to form a dynamic and complex network that integrates memory and processing, similar to that seen in the brain.
Now, an international team, led by researchers from the University of Sydney, has proven just how similar NWNs are to the human brain.
“This nanowire network is like a synthetic neural network because the nanowires act like neurons, and the places where they connect with each other are analogous to synapses,” said Zdenka Kuncic, a co-author of the study.
“In this research, we found higher-order cognitive function, which we normally associate with the human brain, can be emulated in non-biological hardware,” Loeffler said. “Our current work paves the way towards replicating brain-like learning and memory in non-biological hardware systems and suggests that the underlying nature of brain-like intelligence may be physical.”
…and how many Aussie tv bobbleheads have been canned for investigative journalism and telling the truth?
Zero. Says it all.
I haven’t watched msm news in ages.
Unfortunately , some of those previous lame stream journalists said some pretty wicked things about the vaccine hesitant demography. In the club are Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil and our own Sharri Markson. All have recorded footage of them saying COVID unvaccinated should basically be treated as outcasts and that mandates were just fine. But, I suppose like the politicians, they will say they got fooled by the science. It wasn’t their fault they didnt seek alternate opinions. I mean locking everyone down and almost literally forcing mass vaccination was hardly news, was it?
Fox fires @TuckerCarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless. For many years, Tucker has had the nation’s biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of CNN. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.
There is an odd coincidence of conservative media personality purges.
A local conserv talk host in my area, plus Fox and Dan Bongino just parted ways.
Methinks this has something to do with POTUS election clown season about to begin.
(They are announcing the poor old man’s candidacy today! I suspect elder abuse.)
Except they will shield him from embarrassment by protecting him from debates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–DOAMiC7ms
New born kittens will envy the tongue bath the media will give this man.
Questioning ‘Our Democracy’ is semi-fascist anyway.
It is wholly fascist to have an opposition party when one of the parties is so obviously fascist … like the Republicans … like duh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qancRwya1w
Don’t know why we’re bothering to hold an election.
Can’t criticize Pharma.
Can’t question ‘climate change’.
Can’t question election integrity. (Try searching ‘is Dominion voting machine software proprietary?’).
Can’t say only women produce children.
Can’t say children shouldn’t be sterilized.
We’ll all probably be required to line the streets waving Biden flags and wearing masks by November 2024.
(Not a joke … in my neighborhood a ‘Republican’ bumper sticker on a vehicle will result in vandalism.)
Recent graffiti … ‘Your white silence will not save you’.
Ah, life in a colle … I mean, monster factory town.
The fallacy of temporal proximity. Just because those things were recent doesn’t mean they are causal, especially as he and others on Fox have made statements like that previously.
Does anyone know what happened to this chappie? I quote from a Tont Thomas Quadrant piuece of 2018:
“Dr Rajendra Pachauri, D.Sc. (Hon) UNSW chaired the IPCC from 2002 to his abrupt resignation in 2015. I assume he qualified as ‘unassailable’. He continues to have his trial delayed involving charges of sexually harassing and outraging the modesty of a young woman working for his private think tank. He denies the charges. The deferrals in India’s labyrinthine court system have lasted more than four years. Eventually there might be an unassailable verdict one way or another on this climate paragon, much feted by Australian academia”.
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Another follow-up. What happened to Jagadish Shukla from George Mason Uni in 2015? Steve McIntyre wrote on Climate Audit
“Shukla’s university salary increased dramatically over the decade reaching $250,866 by 2013 and $314,000 by 2014. (In this latter year, Shukla was paid much more than Ed Wegman, a George Mason professor of similar seniority). Meanwhile, despite the apparent transition of IGES to George Mason, the income of the Shuklas from IGES continued to increase, reaching $547,000 by 2013. Combined with Shukla’s university salary, the total compensation of Shukla and his wife exceeded $800,000 in both 2013 and 2014. In addition, as noted above, Shukla’s daughter continued to be employed by IGES in 2014; IGES also distributed $100,000 from its climate grant revenue to support an educational charity in India which Shukla had founded.”
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Do we have cases of academic abuse being left unpunished?
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I expect the cold winter in Philadelphia results in a higher attrition rate than in Australia. They have a mechanism that enables authorities to force rough sleepers indoors to avoid hypothermia but some still ie from the cold. hypothermia less likely in Australia.
When I was a child in Brisbane many, many years ago, the rough sleepers lurched around with their bottle of booze (usually watered down methi) and competed with stray cats and the rats for food scraps. The rats down near the river were big. I once saw a rat terrier come off second best when it cornered a native water rat.. The rat was almost as long as the terrier.
So yesterday, I spent two hours getting thoroughly depressed reading about trans legislation and court actions across the country and around the world.
The intent had been to do some sort of summary (pro and against), but…
Frankly, I am having a hard time processing it all. In the end, I feel like there is so much more to just explaining how the world got to this point.
Because making sense of this mess is going to require a deep dive into some ugly history.
In 2018, Psychology Today published an article summarizing trans research and what was happening in the culture that is truly shocking.
That is, a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil.
Littman raises cautions about encouraging young people’s desire to transition in all instances. From the cases reviewed in her study, she concluded that what she terms “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) appears to be a novel condition that emerges from cohort and contagion effects and novel social pressures.
From this perspective, ROGD likely exhibits an aetiology and epidemiology that is distinct from the “classical” cases of gender dysphoria documented in the DSM.
Littman hypothesizes that ROGD can be cast as a maladaptive coping mechanism for other underlying mental health issues such as trauma or social maladjustment, but also for other exceptional traits like high IQ and giftedness.
Dr. Peter McCullough: Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
Warrier et al, published a detailed analysis using multiple psychological instruments among a large sample size (N=641,860) with gender dysphoria treated with transgender hormonal/surgical therapy. The results are striking. Compared to normal reference groups, transgender individuals had up to a 12-fold increased risk of autism.
The authors summarized: “In conclusion, our study demonstrates that transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis, related neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, and autistic traits compared to cisgender (normal) individuals. This study has clinical implications by highlighting that we need to improve access to care and tailored support for this under-served population.”
Via the DSM-5, which is the 2013 update of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association, the prevalence rate of gender dysphoria is between 0.005 percent to 0.014 percent for males, and 0.002 percent to 0.003 percent for females.
In 2022, Pew Research puts that rate at 5% of all young adults!
With a self harm/suicide rate over 50%, maybe the medical profession should treat the problem for a change – their mental health! But of course the WEF and their Caligula-like members don’t want that.
Not So “Novel” Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 found on NIH website in 2006
2006: “We tried to directly package a 1200-nucleotide–long foreign RNA sequence containing gene fragments of hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV-1, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV1), and 👉SARS-CoV2👈 into the original armored RNA production vector pAR-1 “
In a similar vein I watched a Glenn Beck interview with Pat Boone last night, he is nearly 90. When I saw it was movie length I decided against it, but never switched off.
Am I supposed to apologize for being a white person, and specifically a white man?
Well, some people may think so. They may even think I should pay them simply because I am, and they’re not. My answer is “No.”
If you press it far enough my answer will be delivered in a way you won’t like. That’s not a threat, by the way; its a promise that you will not assault me without consequence. Stealing money is an assault. Some think they can do this and wave around guns and other thuggish behavior in various places, like just recently turned deadly in Alabama. If you do any of that you deserve the response you get.
Let me tell you in detail what I won’t apologize for, even though I didn’t personally create any of it. Other white men, however did, and since group association is considered valid by all the “DIE” folks that works both ways by their rules, and thus I’m taking credit for all of it.”
Nor could they ever make that claim. So what they good for? But here we aren’t taking about vaccines. Language matters. Nor are we talking about MRNA , since no RNA has been found in the shots.
So you have come out in favour of [Snip]AD Australians? That’s what you are telling us? Disney lies to you bro. You can’t make these things real just by wishing on a star.
Gee Aye doesn’t the Polio and measles and TB vaccines prevent infection or if infected nullify the disease ? And that’s to name but a few vaccines that do what they are supposed to do especially the polio vaccine ?
They do and do so quite well but they are never 100% and the definition of vaccine does not require them to be so. An example of polio from somewhere on the cdc
Two doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) are 90% effective or more against paralytic polio; three doses are 99% to 100% effective. A person is considered to be fully vaccinated if they received: Four doses of any combination of IPV and trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV), or.
– polio is one of the better (not the right word really) ones.
Just looking at the AEMO dashboard. NSW is generating 4.6 Gw but is demanding 6.0 Gw leaving a significant gap. They are importing from both Qld and VIC, which is not unusual.
When Liddel closes on Friday where is the 800Mw it produces going to come from?
NSW generation is nearly half wind and solar.
Blackouts and Brownouts??
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Hopes and dreams…?
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Unicorns.
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Isn’t it 2000 Mw
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Unit #4 shut down permanently yesterday so there are only two units running producing 623MW.
The easiest way to get 600MW is to turn Tomago smelter down to standby level. Doing this once a year is unsettling and risky because aluminium smelters are a just-in-time production line that gets out of kilter when the electricity is wound back. Doing it on a regular basis will make Tomago a high risk business. If it goes cold, I doubt there would be a case to restart it. They would find it impossible to insure for business loss and damage. Even higher risk than a BEV fire.
2pm Anzac Day and the price for NSW electricity is $89/MWh. This does not look good for what will happen next week. It is already interesting with just one more set down so will get VERY interesting after the next two shut down for good.
We can only hope that they start demolishing the units as soon as they come off so they cannot be restarted. Then Tomago freezes up after losing power. Rio Tinto decides to permanently close down the smelter as a reward for their woke support of the climate change agenda. And the rest of NSW gets by until Erraring closes.
While all that is happening in NSW, some public servant in Bowen’s department in Canberra has to inform him that the sun does not shine at night so solar panels do not work at night.
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If I am reading AEMO correctly the extension cords to Vic and Qld would max out at about 2 GW so they will be bumping that max capacity consistently.
Odd that Qld is fixing Callide C4 while NSW is closing operating turbines.
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An article in The Oz today said that Callide is our only super-critical coal plant. Is this true? Thought there were more. Answered my own query. Kogan is also a super-critical plant.
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I had some friends from QLD stay a few days and I asked what they paid for electricity. They were not sure so I looked it up to find the following :
Price summary General charges:
Daily supply charge 96.80 cents/day, General usage rates 23.10 to 26.40 cents/kWh, Solar feed-in 5 cents/kWh exported.
I pay $1.75/day supply charge, Peak 44.22 cents/kWh, off peak 23.991 cents/kWh, shoulder 41.184 cents/kWh, solar feed in 10 cents/kWh.
So QLD electricity is about half the cost of NSW electricity so what is the reason? QLD still own their coal plants and NSW has more wind and solar. See the pattern? But W and S are so much cheaper because the wind and sun are FREE.
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And in Qld we occasionally get a dividend, our share of the profits of the state run enterprise.
No big deal but it should increase as we sell more to the Mexicans. 😀
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Last I heard Callide repairs were at a standstill. The bill payer is broke.
I don’t know how many arm’s lengths are involved, but to me it looks suspicious.
Could the breakdown have been due to sabotage?
I read that a generator “motored” for more than 30 minutes before it blew up. I would have thought the system would ring very loud bells the moment that started to happen.
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I wonder how fast they’ll destroy Liddell to the point that it is impossible to reinstate?
Mothballing it, as a smart country would do, has already been ruled out.
It’s like the plan of the National Socialists, the Nerobefehl (Nero Decree).
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Maybe you forgot that AGL contracted Delta Group to perform the demolition three months ago; https://agl.com.au/about-agl/media-centre/asx-and-media-releases/2023/january/agl-appoints-demolition-contractor-for-liddell-as-energy-hub-tak
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Yes I know, but the demolition doesn’t start until 2024. I’m wondering if they’ll deliberately do something to render it permanently unusable before that, just to make it impossible for anyone to change their mind.
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Destroying it makes their green electrons permanently more valuable, so their share price goes up and they have bigger profits.
Note it has to be destroyed for the shares to spike. I would look for the action on AGL futures trading to see who benefited.
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I think you would find that they have already sold Liddell’s coal supply, months or years ago.
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Generator batteries of course.
sarc.
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My mental picture of the NSW Government is them sitting in a chair watching Al Gore videos, slowly rocking back and forward while sucking their thumb. Occasionally muttering “it will be alright….it will be alright”
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Alan Jones used to get Chris Minns on Sky TV. He came across as a very decent, level headed bloke.
Trouble is the company that he keeps.
Work on him, and keep hoping.
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World shifts away from using the dollar as the Reserve Currency.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202304/25/WS64470c2fa310b6054facf869.html
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With all manufactured goods being primarily of Chinese origin, it make sense to settle in CNY.
China imports most of the world resources and converts them to stuff that other countries buy. Makes sense that world trade should be dominated by CNY but it still has a long way to go to top the USD.
USA is already allowing Russian banks back into USD based settlements. If the growth in CNY settlements keeps going at present rate, the current US inflation rate will look mild. As far as I can determine, USA does not have any foreign obligations in other currencies. That is unique but has to change as countries move away from USD denominated trade. The US runs an enormous current account deficit. That will have to change and will hit growth hard.
How will the USA buy solar panels, wind turbines and batteries if they need to pay for them in CNY. Maybe US can sell China some nuclear submarines. One a month would just about fix the current account based on the price Australia is paying.
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The CNY is not freely convertible AFAIK.
The death of the US$ has been greatly exaggerated.
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We are living through a digital revolution and it will change everything.
‘Even though China’s digital yuan will be beneficial in many different ways, one of the areas where it can bring more value is that of promoting the use of the yuan for cross-border payments, by trying to convert some of the US-dollar-denominated international trade transactions into renminbi-denominated ones, thus trying to challenge the dominance of the US dollar in international trade and finance.’ (Macaubusiness.)
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Lots of things happening all over the place , little by little then all at once
https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2023/03/21/bi-pushes-ahead-with-domestic-credit-card-to-cut-reliance-on-foreign-ones.html
Many seems stuck in “but we have always done it this way” however thats not the world we are in
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“The death of the US$ has been greatly exaggerated.”
I reckon you’ll live to see it H. It happens slowly, then fast, as they say. Debt is suddenly a problem when other countries don’t want to loan them money, and like any bank run, that is a cascade. Canada, Aussie, NZ & the UK will say ‘Yes’, but most of Europe will hum and har in embarrassment and think their money safer elsewhere.
Along with that is the loss of demand for dollars every time some two other countries transact business without the $US in the middle. The BRICS & non-aligned are over half the world’s economy now.
The third leg about to be kicked out of the stool would be tax rates and multinationals. As the demand for dollars decreases the Americans will have to actually work for a living, meaning the Govt gets desperate for cash, and tax rates go up.. So multinationals move overseas, making the tax take smaller, meaning higher taxes..
“These international currency functions were broadly shared by sterling, the French franc, and the German mark before World War I. They were shared by sterling and the dollar in the 1920s. From this vantage point, it is the second half of the twentieth century that is the anomaly, when an absence of alternatives allowed the dollar to come close to monopolizing this international currency role.”
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400888573-015/html
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We would not agree on anything involving US and Russia/China.
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The US$ gained 1% against most currencies including the A$ and BRICS overnight. Puts Au back over A$3,000/oz.
Just sayin.
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I have read that China has asked the oil producers to accept CNY for oil purchases. And China is in the habit of getting what they ask for as they are the largest customer for most commodities and the largest supplier of manufactured goods.
The BRICS have their own trade settlements system not involving USD.
The iron ore producers in Australia have tested blockchain based e-CNY with Chinese steel producers.
Cross border trade settlements are still dominated by USD but CNY is fast growing and the Russian sanctions have accelerated the uptake of CNY in trade settlements.
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Yes, the Saudi’s are accepting the Yuan
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‘That is unique but has to change as countries move away from USD …’
It should be a relatively quick changeover as India and China work together as BRICS masters.
The US is in debt to itself, sort of on the never never, by both sides of politics. This indebtedness must have its day of reckoning, what do you think might happen over the coming years?
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We all know that the US is hopelessly in debt. What we don’t know is: Who holds the paper [it’s not China] and who will be foolhardy enough to call in the liquidators. Would the chaos be survivable?
Let he who is without guilt cast the first stone.
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Slowly sell the paper or run it to expiry, dont buy more, just as the PRC has been doing. Look for the bigger fool (and maybe encourage them) just like the share market
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They’re not mincing words EG-
“Some analysts wondered how the US would react to this trend. Decades ago, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his Libyan counterpart Muammar Gaddafi sought alternative use of the US dollar in energy trade, before they were accused of tyranny, toppled and eventually killed.
But times have changed. The sanctions levied against Russia by the US since last year have shown how the greenback is being “weaponized”, observers said. The appropriation of Russian tycoons’ dollar-denominated assets, deemed to violate the very basis of capitalism, chilled many in business circles.”
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India is the largest democracy in the world and they are critical of the status quo. This is Australia’s big chance to give the dollar and Alliance the flick.
‘India has called for a “major course correction” at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by raising three pressing questions, including whether effective multilateralism can be practised by defending a charter that makes five nations more equal than others.’ (Economic Times)
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There are two ways to look at this “de-dollarization” propaganda.
The following video dis-agrees with the premise you present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcJVRznD5E
The following YT channels have many videos on similar subjects.
serpentza
laowhy86
AdvChina
TheChinaShow
ChinaFactChasers
I have watched ‘serpentza’ for over a decade and watched him realize the down side to the CCP and the chaos of China.
I’m not a fan of Laowhy86 presentation but Laurel and Hardy go together.
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Doesn’t that chap and a mate ride around China on a motor bike?
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I should have watched to the end before commenting. 🙂
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If the USA loses its appeal to migrants, where will they next head to? Why is this important?
On average worldwide, migrants send between US$200 and $300 home every one or two months.
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The land of Oz.
‘Australia is on track for net migration of more than 300,000 people this year, more than 25% higher than Treasury forecasts, due to a surge in arrivals, according to a former top immigration official.’ (Guardian)
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Meanwhile building firms are bankrupt, shortage of tradies and materials coupled to rising material costs and other operating costs and tradies being snapped up by other builders with more work than they can handle, private and public sector.
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Unemployment is historically low and once the markets settle down we can absorb large inflows.
The housing crisis would disappear if baby boomers were allowed to rent out their granny flat, without Centrelink taking away their pension.
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We are just home from our ANZAC Day parade, service and lunch in Marysville. Many people were there on a perfect autumn day.
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And again, the GOOLAG header pays no respect to those who gave everything, just as there was no acknowledgement of Australia Day. They can come up with a glib meme for national possum day, or whatever, but refuse to pay respect to real institutions. Disgusting, but entirely predictable.
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“Turbocancer” x 2 – Just lost my 60 yo brother to widely metastatic squamous cell skin cancer AND Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that killed him in 4 months. Jabbed and boosted. I remember telling him about the mRNA evils last June and he simply said “You mean we are all fvcked?” (he was a trucky) and the conversation ended. Hate to see this in my family. Eight months after burying Dad with the ‘Vid.
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In that area
“The Jab – Damage and Some Causality Info”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/the-jab-damage-and-some-causality-info/
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Sorry to hear of your loss, Simon.
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I lost my brother to covid y’day. We seldom discuss anything and after a strong put down when I mentioned supplements years ago health was never discussed.
His middle-Europe wife is hard to understand but I believe they were still wearing masks and were fully boosted.
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Sorry to hear of your loss, Hanrahan.
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Sorry to hear that too – it is frustrating when your relatives ignore you
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Nigel Farage interviews Neil Oliver on lockdowns and the media:
https://youtu.be/a_P5aHeucbs?t=533
(segment is around a minute and a half long)
And on the ‘conservative’ government’s intention to send alert messages to people’s mobile phones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_P5aHeucbs&t=648s
(segment is about 1 minute long)
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I’m just thinking about the ways in which a leftist government could use a mobile phone alert system. Here’s one possibility:
Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power
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Fakevax ™ and the damage it does
* A 370% increase in bowel cancer in young people:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MamZJ9RuwTmX/
* 92% of COVID Deaths were among the Triple+ Vaccinated in 2022 according to UK Gov.
https://expose-news.com/2023/04/23/pfizer-killed-your-friends-family-for-profit/
Look at that graph – the unvaccinated barely show.
* Vaccine injuries become the dominant theme of German reporting on the mRNA jabs, as the Covid vaccinations face unacknowledged yet ever wider cultural and social repudiation.
The number of unflattering press stories has been growing since the bivalents flopped last Fall.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/vaccine-injuries-become-the-dominant
* Dentists Say Millions of Vaccinated Patients Are Now Losing Their Teeth
Dentists across America have reported seeing an alarming number of patients with severe symptoms associated with teeth and bone since the rollout of the mRNA COVID vaccines.
Since the vaccines were rolled out, Hartsfield has seen an exponential increase in patients with head and facial neurovascular and myofascial pain, including headaches, toothaches not caused by the tooth, osteonecrosis of the jaw, sleep issues, tinnitus, and oral and facial autoimmune conditions.
“I’ve seen patients with no previous history of health issues [who] have perfectly healthy teeth and now have pain syndromes associated with these healthy teeth”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/dentists-unexplained-pain-tooth-loss-and-bone-problems-may-be-linked-to-covid-19-vaccine_5201385.html
Fancy dental work and dentures?
Thank your government today!
JC2 – Looks like *dried* Ginger is shaping up to be an amazing treatment for a wide range of cancers.
https://dailyhealthpost.com/ginger-destroys-cancer/
https://youtu.be/l_63LdecPwM
A product called 6-Shogaol is the reason but it’s important to note that DRIED Ginger provides far more than fresh Ginger.
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventionresearch/article/7/6/627/50348/6-Shogaol-from-Dried-Ginger-Inhibits-Growth-of
People might want to grow their own.😉
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Face masks may raise risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline due to build-up of carbon dioxide, study warns
Face masks may raise the risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline in children, ‘explosive’ new research suggests.
A review of dozens of studies on face coverings suggested they can cause mild carbon dioxide poisoning when worn over long periods.
The German academics who carried out the research believe masks create a pocket of dead space between the mouth and mask, which traps the toxic gas.
They say the build-up of CO2 in pregnant women’s bodies could cause complications for the unborn fetus. They point out that CO2 also contributes to oxidative stress, which can affect cognition and cause testicular issues in men.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11982039/Face-masks-raise-risk-stillbirths-testicular-issues-cognitive-decline-study-says.html
Gotta blame something for those problems…
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Facemasks and testicular dysfunction… sounds like the facemarks are being worn incorrectly, very incorrectly…
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No, its just that they’re d**kheads
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The rise of the machine: Nanowire networks can learn and remember like a human brain
Nanowire networks mimic the networked structure of the human brain. But can they learn and remember like a human brain can? New research indicates they can.
The brain’s powerful ability to process information is largely attributable to the network of connections formed by neurons and synapses. While we understand much of the brain’s workings, some aspects, such as higher cognitive functions like learning and memory, remain elusive.
A kind of nanotechnology, nanowire networks (NWNs) are typically made from highly conductive silver wires, invisible to the naked eye, covered with plastic material and formed into a mesh. The nanowires self-assemble to form a dynamic and complex network that integrates memory and processing, similar to that seen in the brain.
Now, an international team, led by researchers from the University of Sydney, has proven just how similar NWNs are to the human brain.
“This nanowire network is like a synthetic neural network because the nanowires act like neurons, and the places where they connect with each other are analogous to synapses,” said Zdenka Kuncic, a co-author of the study.
“In this research, we found higher-order cognitive function, which we normally associate with the human brain, can be emulated in non-biological hardware,” Loeffler said. “Our current work paves the way towards replicating brain-like learning and memory in non-biological hardware systems and suggests that the underlying nature of brain-like intelligence may be physical.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3289
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/24/nanowire-networks-learn-and-remember-like-a-human-brain.html
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Without Tucker, there is no reason to watch Fox News, or any other Lamestream Media.
Get woke, go broke!
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…and how many Aussie tv bobbleheads have been canned for investigative journalism and telling the truth?
Zero. Says it all.
I haven’t watched msm news in ages.
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I follow the MSM fairly closely, reading widely to discern the credibility of what is being said.
We have to differentiate between a celebrity commentator and a properly trained journalist.
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Unfortunately , some of those previous lame stream journalists said some pretty wicked things about the vaccine hesitant demography. In the club are Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil and our own Sharri Markson. All have recorded footage of them saying COVID unvaccinated should basically be treated as outcasts and that mandates were just fine. But, I suppose like the politicians, they will say they got fooled by the science. It wasn’t their fault they didnt seek alternate opinions. I mean locking everyone down and almost literally forcing mass vaccination was hardly news, was it?
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Saw this today and thought it sums up Jo’s blog – a beacon of light in the storm.
It’d make a nice header image.
Whadya think?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/bca78c8ad20112bba45ecdea15d5b3ad/a061f75797e2b4a5-03/s1280x1920/9d0e3e13fbf97cc973dfa43e2425c869a794a475.jpg
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Remember Nadia Comăneci? She is now 61 years old.
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Wherever did the years go?!
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Tweet from Robert F. Kennedy Jr:
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There is an odd coincidence of conservative media personality purges.
A local conserv talk host in my area, plus Fox and Dan Bongino just parted ways.
Methinks this has something to do with POTUS election clown season about to begin.
(They are announcing the poor old man’s candidacy today! I suspect elder abuse.)
Except they will shield him from embarrassment by protecting him from debates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–DOAMiC7ms
New born kittens will envy the tongue bath the media will give this man.
Questioning ‘Our Democracy’ is semi-fascist anyway.
It is wholly fascist to have an opposition party when one of the parties is so obviously fascist … like the Republicans … like duh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qancRwya1w
Don’t know why we’re bothering to hold an election.
Can’t criticize Pharma.
Can’t question ‘climate change’.
Can’t question election integrity. (Try searching ‘is Dominion voting machine software proprietary?’).
Can’t say only women produce children.
Can’t say children shouldn’t be sterilized.
We’ll all probably be required to line the streets waving Biden flags and wearing masks by November 2024.
(Not a joke … in my neighborhood a ‘Republican’ bumper sticker on a vehicle will result in vandalism.)
Recent graffiti … ‘Your white silence will not save you’.
Ah, life in a colle … I mean, monster factory town.
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The fallacy of temporal proximity. Just because those things were recent doesn’t mean they are causal, especially as he and others on Fox have made statements like that previously.
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Coincidence theory.
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Does anyone know what happened to this chappie? I quote from a Tont Thomas Quadrant piuece of 2018:
“Dr Rajendra Pachauri, D.Sc. (Hon) UNSW chaired the IPCC from 2002 to his abrupt resignation in 2015. I assume he qualified as ‘unassailable’. He continues to have his trial delayed involving charges of sexually harassing and outraging the modesty of a young woman working for his private think tank. He denies the charges. The deferrals in India’s labyrinthine court system have lasted more than four years. Eventually there might be an unassailable verdict one way or another on this climate paragon, much feted by Australian academia”.
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Another follow-up. What happened to Jagadish Shukla from George Mason Uni in 2015? Steve McIntyre wrote on Climate Audit
“Shukla’s university salary increased dramatically over the decade reaching $250,866 by 2013 and $314,000 by 2014. (In this latter year, Shukla was paid much more than Ed Wegman, a George Mason professor of similar seniority). Meanwhile, despite the apparent transition of IGES to George Mason, the income of the Shuklas from IGES continued to increase, reaching $547,000 by 2013. Combined with Shukla’s university salary, the total compensation of Shukla and his wife exceeded $800,000 in both 2013 and 2014. In addition, as noted above, Shukla’s daughter continued to be employed by IGES in 2014; IGES also distributed $100,000 from its climate grant revenue to support an educational charity in India which Shukla had founded.”
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Do we have cases of academic abuse being left unpunished?
Geoff S
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He died.
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Henry Winkler is 77 years old.
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Here is a video of what it’s like “living” on the streets in the DemocRAT-run paradise of Philadelphia.
https://youtu.be/tGN5J1QBRQY
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Australian homeless is probably worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGUIB6EqDss
I expect the cold winter in Philadelphia results in a higher attrition rate than in Australia. They have a mechanism that enables authorities to force rough sleepers indoors to avoid hypothermia but some still ie from the cold. hypothermia less likely in Australia.
When I was a child in Brisbane many, many years ago, the rough sleepers lurched around with their bottle of booze (usually watered down methi) and competed with stray cats and the rats for food scraps. The rats down near the river were big. I once saw a rat terrier come off second best when it cornered a native water rat.. The rat was almost as long as the terrier.
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Dr. Robert Malone: “Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria”
So yesterday, I spent two hours getting thoroughly depressed reading about trans legislation and court actions across the country and around the world.
The intent had been to do some sort of summary (pro and against), but…
Frankly, I am having a hard time processing it all. In the end, I feel like there is so much more to just explaining how the world got to this point.
Because making sense of this mess is going to require a deep dive into some ugly history.
In 2018, Psychology Today published an article summarizing trans research and what was happening in the culture that is truly shocking.
That is, a large minority of kids have developed a belief system whereby they, as a group, espouse that being a normal biological female or male is akin to being immoral and evil.
Littman raises cautions about encouraging young people’s desire to transition in all instances. From the cases reviewed in her study, she concluded that what she terms “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) appears to be a novel condition that emerges from cohort and contagion effects and novel social pressures.
From this perspective, ROGD likely exhibits an aetiology and epidemiology that is distinct from the “classical” cases of gender dysphoria documented in the DSM.
Littman hypothesizes that ROGD can be cast as a maladaptive coping mechanism for other underlying mental health issues such as trauma or social maladjustment, but also for other exceptional traits like high IQ and giftedness.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-rogd
Dr. Peter McCullough: Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
Warrier et al, published a detailed analysis using multiple psychological instruments among a large sample size (N=641,860) with gender dysphoria treated with transgender hormonal/surgical therapy. The results are striking. Compared to normal reference groups, transgender individuals had up to a 12-fold increased risk of autism.
The authors summarized: “In conclusion, our study demonstrates that transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis, related neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, and autistic traits compared to cisgender (normal) individuals. This study has clinical implications by highlighting that we need to improve access to care and tailored support for this under-served population.”
Via the DSM-5, which is the 2013 update of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association, the prevalence rate of gender dysphoria is between 0.005 percent to 0.014 percent for males, and 0.002 percent to 0.003 percent for females.
In 2022, Pew Research puts that rate at 5% of all young adults!
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/elevated-rates-of-autism-other-neurodevelopmenta
With a self harm/suicide rate over 50%, maybe the medical profession should treat the problem for a change – their mental health! But of course the WEF and their Caligula-like members don’t want that.
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If you do a search for “turbo cancer mrna spike protein” (without quotes) you’ll find a dramatic difference in results between Goolag and DuckDuckGo.
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Yandex…😁
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FWIW
“I Hope You Like BOTH Freezing AND Broiling”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248633
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Not So “Novel” Coronavirus SARS-COV-2 found on NIH website in 2006
2006: “We tried to directly package a 1200-nucleotide–long foreign RNA sequence containing gene fragments of hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV-1, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV1), and 👉SARS-CoV2👈 into the original armored RNA production vector pAR-1 “
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7542541/
Nothing to see. Move along. Just a typo, repeatedly.
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I saved it in the Wayback Machine.
They can’t delete it now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230425095203/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7542541/
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No need as it exists as a physically printed publication.
Back then new variants of the original 2004 sars virus were named ad hoc. Note that it is Sar-cov2 not Sars-cov-2
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Video: Styxhexenhammer talks about the Tucker Carlson firing.
https://youtu.be/HZKMO8LrS4A (8 mins)
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Video:
Dr John Campbell talks about a “mysterious” increase in stillbirths and miscarriages.
https://youtu.be/EE2RH89r3YM
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Vale Harry Belafonte, passed away, age 96.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-26/singer-harry-belafonte-dies-aged-96/102265522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLfWO8PesyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JW4aHHm5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKqOwWwOHKc
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R.I.P Harry, I like your music very much
One of my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCmKmofaKA
One of several live versions on YT
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I grew up with Harry. One of the brothers bought a 33RPM of him wearing a pink shirt on the cover, I still remember it and how good looking he was.
RIP Harry.
He starred in Carmen Jones, an all black cast remake of Carmen. Recommended. Pearl Bailey was also in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88rRu4F1WK0
In a similar vein I watched a Glenn Beck interview with Pat Boone last night, he is nearly 90. When I saw it was movie length I decided against it, but never switched off.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Uses ‘4000 Dead from Pollution’ Stat to Justify Crippling Climate Tax, But Official Numbers Prove His Claim is Nonsense.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/04/21/londons-mayor-said-4000-died-pollution-officially-number-closer-just-one/
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FWIW
“Apologize? No. Never.”
Am I supposed to apologize for being a white person, and specifically a white man?
Well, some people may think so. They may even think I should pay them simply because I am, and they’re not. My answer is “No.”
If you press it far enough my answer will be delivered in a way you won’t like. That’s not a threat, by the way; its a promise that you will not assault me without consequence. Stealing money is an assault. Some think they can do this and wave around guns and other thuggish behavior in various places, like just recently turned deadly in Alabama. If you do any of that you deserve the response you get.
Let me tell you in detail what I won’t apologize for, even though I didn’t personally create any of it. Other white men, however did, and since group association is considered valid by all the “DIE” folks that works both ways by their rules, and thus I’m taking credit for all of it.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248626
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This might be news!
“FDA: Vaccines Don’t Have To Prevent Infection Or Transmission”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-vaccines-dont-have-prevent-infection-or-transmission
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Or death.
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No vaccine has ever guaranteed those things.
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Nor could they ever make that claim. So what they good for? But here we aren’t taking about vaccines. Language matters. Nor are we talking about MRNA , since no RNA has been found in the shots.
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you be you
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So you have come out in favour of [Snip]AD Australians? That’s what you are telling us? Disney lies to you bro. You can’t make these things real just by wishing on a star.
[No where has Gee Aye said that.]AD
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You’d be fun at parties.
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Gee Aye doesn’t the Polio and measles and TB vaccines prevent infection or if infected nullify the disease ? And that’s to name but a few vaccines that do what they are supposed to do especially the polio vaccine ?
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They do and do so quite well but they are never 100% and the definition of vaccine does not require them to be so. An example of polio from somewhere on the cdc
– polio is one of the better (not the right word really) ones.
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FWIW
“Alan Longhurst’s “Doubt and Certainty in Climate Science” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/25/alan-longhursts-doubt-and-certainty-in-climate-science/
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