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The word on the street explains why Russia is so intent on taking out patriot missile sites.
Seems that the Ukes snuck a patriot battery close to the Ru border and shot down those two fixed wing and two rotary wing A/C early in the week. Nine airmen were killed in that exchange and Ru can ill afford to lose trained aircrew.
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Some more meat for the red thumbs: (CNN) The arrest of three Russian scientists on suspicion of treason has been criticized by members of a Russian scientific institute, who warn the move has created a chilling effect in the community.
The three Russian scientists, Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk and Valery Zvegintsev, were detained by the country’s security services in the past year, according to the open letter published this week by members of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM).
Their work included research into the development of hypersonic aircraft.
More specifically – the Kinzhal. If the Kinzhal is unbeatable as the anti-American clic here claim, why are the scientists being accused of treason?
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Expect arrests of the members of the Russian scientific institute
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Hanrahan asks:
They’ll be stitched up for selling top secret design details to China, no doubt.
After all, the USA doesn’t need that detail since its systems are far in advance of both China and Russia.
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It seems I had cause and effect about face, these men were arrested some time ago but only made public now.
But everything is a moving target. If the facts change again I will change my mind again. 😀
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Truth being the first casualty of war and all that. Russia leads in hypersonic missiles which purportedly travel Mach 7? Ukraine suggests Patriot anti missile batteries shot several down. This could be true but it pays to be suspect about the media reports and issues from State Department. Ghost of Kiev stuff IMHO.
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FWIW
More on “Patriotic stuff” – well, “stuffed” if this stands up
“Anatomy of MIM-104 Patriot Destruction + Primer on Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-mim-104-patriot-destruction
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Did you read ALL that?
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I did read all of that. Passing this lot to those more qualified though –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/w-o-o-d-19-april-2023-ukraine-drags-on-us-being-trashed-dimocrat-cities-crime-spree/#comment-164203
And note Chiefio’s response as to why the claimed “shoot down” –
“A very clever system, this Dagger… ”
In case my comment # 1.1.2.1.2 stays in moderation
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I believe a number have been shot down, proving Ru doesn’t lead the world in hypersonics – or anything else.
It’s cool and chic to poo poo claims Uks are doing well, that they are lying bar stewards, but there is no solid basis for this.
Me? I just read the news, I don’t know how this war will pan out.
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“Me? I just read the news, I don’t know how this war will pan out.”
Haha- It all depends on which news you read! So, DIDN’T you read all those words H?? It was most interesting… Just because the Ukies lucked in with one or maybe two being shot down, it doesn’t mean that Russia doesn’t lead the world in hypersonics. I haven’t seen anyone else come up with a missile as effective, and after all, it just took out the world’s leading anti-missile system!
Its a great way to test all your weapons, all you need is some 3rd-world shithole to fight in.
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Yet the very next day after the Patriot take out claim, all but 1 Russian cruise missiles from a mass attack were taken out.
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Hanrahan – the Russians claim no Kinzals were shot down. Also the Russians claim that the Ukies are claiming more Kinzals shot down than were launched. Who does one believe. I don’t believe a word from the MSM about anything any more unless I can verify it from an alternative source.
What I find interesting is that at hypersonic speeds within earths atmosphere the missiles heat up so that they form a plasma layer which makes them undetectable with radar. It is only once they are slowed down enough that they become visible on radar and air defences have a very short time to respond. ?90 seconds. The other problem with the plasma layer is that they cannot receive any Electro-magnertic signals such as GPS for course correction.
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If you read the link to “simplisticius 76” and then the maths analysis from “Moon of Alabama” (copied to the Chiefio link) it seems there is only about a 5 second window where the Kinzhal is visible to radar.
And that it can release spoof targets before that as a distraction. Which would really light up the Patriot’s radar as a target. Seems it and the control vehicle are the big dollar, not fixable on site items
The problem of getting course corrections also gets mentioned.
All FWIW though because you’d need a high level Russian clearance to know how it really works
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It most certainly does depend on what news you read. I take no notice of Russian trolls.
Just read this:
Without the jets, Ukraine is having to improvise, officials say. Defence officials and congressional staffers told CNN that Ukrainian troops have in recent weeks used the US-made Patriot air defence system to shoot down at least one far away Russian fighter jet. The Russian jets have largely been staying behind defensive lines, making them difficult for Ukraine to target with shorter range systems like NASAMs.
I’m just a keyboard warrior thousands of miles from anywhere, I don’t know the truth. Neither do you.
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How can it open a hatch to release decoys at hypersonic speed? It would disintegrate as Columbia did. Such speeds are hard to achieve and would be impossible with a heavy payload and still be aircraft launched.
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Some details on “How” here – as far as is known from public sources
“Anatomy of MIM-104 Patriot Destruction + Primer on Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-mim-104-patriot-destruction
Has a photo of the hatches at the rear end
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Not to China, more likely the EU or U.S. (who have suddenly realised how far behind in hypersonics they are).
Remember, the concept of stealth aircraft, and the math necessary to model them were a Russian invention, duly stolen and implemented by the U.S.
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mmm CNN says
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Do the research yourself. Shooting the messenger isn’t legit.
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Not a Patriot battery, they don’t sneak worth a damn.
A HMMWV mounted NASAM system fitted with the latest model AMRAAM missiles and a Link-16 module (to get targeting data from outside sources- no local radar required)
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So a Patriot is too big to move but small enough that one missile can destroy it. Have I got that right?
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They are large and unwieldy to move and set up. There is the radar vehicle and each battery with 16 missiles is on a separate vehicle. The US has always parked them close to each other in large open spaces. Who knows what the blast area is from a Kinzal?
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You KNOW how the US sets them up? Really? Or did the Ukes set it up?
Anyway it is repaired already. A Kenzal costs millions BTW
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If you believe the Ukies set it up and operate it I have a bridge to sell you.
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If you KNOW the Yanks are in Ukraine you may be interested in that bridge yourself.
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Subtropical ridge stuck in summer mode because of global warming, believe it or not.
Here we show that the STR is projected to strengthen and move pole-ward under global warming, contributing to reduced rainfall in the cool season in south- east Australia. This result is largely consistent among 35 models examined, and CMIP5 shows a greater increase in intensity relative to position than CMIP3 did.’ (Grose et al 2015)
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Mean while it is still raining here in South Eastern Australia in spite of the predictions of 35 climate models!
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Yairs.
35 computer models.
All trying to do the same thing.
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Yes Ted1, Taking big wads of money from the public purse for playing computer games. Just because a computer game you are playing says that you have won $5 Billion does not mean you are rich. However if you choose to believe it please do not make it a problem for the rest of the community.
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What ‘global warming’ el+gordo ?
CO2 is a simple molecule that does not generate heat in any way whatsoever. The temperature of the Earth can only be warmed by receiving heat energy from a source that is hotter than the Earth. That happens to be the Sun, hence the changes in the Earth’s temperature as the Sun cycles between hot and colder periods.
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We have to prove that the subtropical ridge drifting south is natural, otherwise we don’t have a leg to stand on. Any suggestions on why the STR is misbehaving?
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9degrees this morning in Proserpine Qld . Bloody cold!
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We seem to have had several blocking highs to the east of New Zealand. Maybe this is what is causing all the tropical lows to track over or NZ or the Tasman.
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From Friends of Science
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Friends of science newsletter #388
https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=2892
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The developed world will follow South Africa in secession from the electricity grid. Western grids are bound toward socialising electricity grids driven by the church of climatology. They will be third world grids where power will be available when the weather permits.
Japan is now employing a viable technology that makes household power generation economically viable:
https://www.osakagas.co.jp/en/whatsnew/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2021/09/16/210910.pdf
The 5kW units probably make sense in cold climates and Panasonic is now taking this technology to Europe.
Australia would be better served with smaller units in combination with battery and solar panels. A natural gas fuelled heater/fuel cell rated at about 1kW tied to a 20kWh battery and 6kW of solar panels would be enough to get most Australian households off the electricity grid.
Grid secession is the alternative to a socialised grid run by climate zealots.
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But didn’t Professor Ross Garnaut say on Friday at the CEDA climate and energy forum in Brisbane that Australia has everything necessary to be a green superpower except sufficiently grandiose thinking?
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Hmm ?…off the Electricty grid, but still on the Gas grid ?
….out of the (electric ) frying pan,…and into the (gas) fire .!,
That does not seem a smart move to me .
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A little nugget I saw somewhere – the tip of a massive wind turbine blade can be rotating at up to 350kmph. Good luck at dodging that little birdie.
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Birds must learn to be renewable or they can expect to fall into disuse.
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They have no problem sacrificing humans to their climate cult.
It may be a false hope to hope to dissuade them by concern for birds, or large aquatic mammals for that matter.
Plus …
did anyone notice how Extinction Rebellion and art soup was a thing for a while, until the press turned sour.
Now crickets.
Someone killed the switch.
The one next to the Pandemic switch.
Switchboard location unknown.
Brussels?
And since Orange Man Bad is replaced by Goodness and Light, Antifa seems to have put their ninja LARPing costumes in the attic.
I’m now going to see if I find a six pack with a rainbow on the cans.
Or a Ukraine flag will do.
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Fakevax: Show this to people who use the ‘it’s-because-of-the-high-number-of-shots’ argument
It’s not… there IS something definitively different about the COVID shots and they ARE associated with considerably more deaths.
Perhaps the most striking observation one can make about this graph is the stark difference between influenza and COVID-19 with regard to deaths per million doses. Even though there were a staggering 2,231,400,000 influenza shots distributed, only 771 people were reported to have died in 16 years.
The death rate per million doses for COVID is 35.6 versus 0.3 for influenza. That’s 119 times higher.
So if the COVID shots were the same amount of lethal(ity) as the influenza shots, then we would see a 2.8:1 death ratio for COVID:FLU – the death ratio is 146:1 in reality.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/show-this-to-people-who-use-the-its
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John Connor II, the Australian Health Departments web site gave the daily deaths and vaccinations. A graph of the 7 day moving averages showed that the first and second jabs caused a minor, gradual increase in the death rate. However the third and fourth jabs caused major peaks in the death rate for January and July 2022. Shortly afterwards the Department ceased listing the data in numeric format, clearly it was too embarrassing for the bureaucrats to show the public.
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Friday fun
Driving ability:10, intelligence:0
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r65oabCQkI1z5l2rv.mp4
The laws of physics don’t apply to goats:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r5svsqanC01z2jv0d.mp4
Making washers by hand:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r4gr7vXwxy1w5pr9j.mp4
Now that’s a landslide:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qx2if6bMsf1r0uzl6.mp4
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BTW, landslides are caused by Climate Change.
Marginalized populations are the most severely affected.
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Antarctic sea ice shrinks and expands naturally, this has nothing to do with industrial CO2.
‘Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest monthly extent in the satellite data record, at 34% below the average for February, breaking the previous record of February 2017.
‘Antarctic daily sea ice extent also reached an all-time minimum, surpassing the previous record set in February 2022.
‘Sea ice concentrations were much below-average in all sectors of the Southern Ocean.’ (Copernicus)
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Arctic sea ice is well above the 15 year average.
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Nothing to do with atmospheric temperature, either.
https://ibb.co/d4Qnhvc
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The Southern Annular Mode is implicated.
‘Our analysis shows that the wind anomalies related to the negative SAM during the 2016/2017 austral summer contributed to the record minimum Antarctic sea ice extent observed in March 2017.’ (Doddridge et al 2017)
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I agree gordo, and the historical records for Antarctic sea ice, re satellite data, starts in the year 1979.
That is just 44 years of data.
Today the scientists, and media releases scream “record low sea ice level”.. They justify that by comparing sea ice coverage from 8 years before, when there was an all time “record high sea ice level” in 2014.
The scientists will claim that there is catastrophic climate change due to CO2.
Yet they won’t explain why at the start of the historical record in 1979,
The sea ice coverage was at 18.2 millon sq Km, dropped to 17.6 million sq km in 1986, then peaked at 19.8 million sq Km in 2014.
Look at the historical graph in the link below. Anyone can see that they cherry pick to suit their narrative.
https://www.climate.gov/media/15124
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Australian police insanity?
On the news now.
A 95 year old woman on a walking frame in a nursing home was TASERed by police.
No, it’s not The Babylon Bee.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/a-95-year-old-woman-is-fighting-for-life-after-being-tasered-by-police-at-her-nursing-home/w960t96rz
You have got to be joking.
The use of potentially deadly force in that situation is abhorrent.
Police nationally need PROPER training is disarming techniques, which this event and others in recent times clearly show is nonexistant.
The Judo based techniques employed now are laughable as this shows. The police need specialised training, and there’s no excuse for not doing it.
Proper knife training would have defused that situation in 5 seconds.
Utterly shameful.
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Was the knife on the end of a Lee Enfield 303?
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I studied Tomiki Aikido in Melbourne in the 1970s. This martial art involved defending against knife attacks. It was taught to the Victorian Police Force and their Police Academy. The kota gaeshi,wrist twist, is a very successful technique to use against knife attacks. A proficient Police officer should have easily sorted out the knife situation
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After the covid lockups, and extreme powers given to all Australian police (not rescinded), they came to view “the people” as the enemy and unworthy of respect.
It happens in the early phases of all dictatorships.
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Once a “Penal Colony”, ALWAYS a penal colony?
The “Rum Corps” only needed a bit of “badge engineering”, apparently.
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The UK police recently took it to the other end of the spectrum, an 11 yo with a butter knife, supposedly.
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If I was a 5’2 woman weighing 59 kg like many of them are, I’d use the taser too.
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If she has any relatives or children, are they allowed to visit her now?
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she is receiving “end of life” care.
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I’m sure NZ must have the world’s highest death rate amongst the Police, one of the few unarmed constabularies in the world..
..or maybe they are taught to handle dangerous situations when unarmed!
As for the tasers, ‘A tyranny is when your Govt uses arms against you that they have banned you from owning”
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UK police need all the weapons they can use, they may make mistakes, but front line work is getting ever more risky. People slashing at each other in the street with massive knives and machetes hardly even raises an eyebrow any more. Carrying like this is almost normal in some areas.
https://youtu.be/EPMx8O-AHhE
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The NZ police seem to arrive only once the situation has resolved.
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If you are in Australia and covid vaccine injured (or possibly even if you were just injected and not obviously injured as long term effects are unknown as they weren’t tested for), you may be in interested in this class action.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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And…….death.
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I thought to post a further reply to Neville’s question at #12.2 in the comments at Jo’s post yesterday:
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/the-french-are-leading-a-nuclear-power-alliance-in-europe-and-threatens-to-block-the-renewable-energy-directive/
as to whether nuclear reactors are a viable and practical alternative to coal-fired power stations over periods of decades, and therefore otherwise in the long term.
I mentioned yesterday that I know that a Canadian CANDU reactor holds the outright record for the number of operational days between shutdowns. Here’s a link:
https://www.ans.org/news/article-2618/canadas-darlington1-ends-record-run/
World Nuclear News also covers this topic. The Darlington 1 report is: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Candu-unit-sets-North-American-operating-record
What emerges from these reports is that the Darlington reactor’s record is not an isolated case by any measure. See also at WNN, as one such example, the report on the Indian Point reactors in New York at: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Indian-Point-celebrates-record-run-as-closure-appr.
The tragedy here is that the Indian Point “closure” was totally unnecessary, being the result of sustained, institutional, anti-nuclear opposition.
It is a fact that even though many of the world’s nuclear reactors are upwards of 50 years old, many of them continue to operate routinely and reliably, at sustained high availability factors, for long periods between what are scheduled maintenance outages, where the latter for the most part, in the case of the PWR design, are for necessary refuelling. By any measure, it is an extraordinary success story. Nuclear reactors thus provide a long-term, viable alternative to coal-fired power stations with the very considerable advantages that there are no large stockpiles of fuel required, no day-to-day concern about price fluctuations in fuel prices, a very clean, quiet and safe working environment, etc.
The tragedy for Australia is that we could have had a CANDU-design reactor here, and used it to build up local operational experience from the early 1970’s onwards, but our governments lost their nerve in the face of determined anti-nuclear opposition. What is now clear is that we have a doubly-tragic situation here, with the country continuing to head down the completely idiotic, futile, and very expensive path of attempting to rely on weather-dependent renewables.
Paul Miskelly
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I believe that the very successful 5.6GW Barakah nuclear plant, designed and built by the South Koreans, is actually a CANDU design.
And the Benzau nuclear plant in Switzerland, commissioned in 1969, is still operational, but with upgrades.
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Europe Approves World’s First Cryptocurrency Regulations
The European Union has approved a set of rules—the first such regulation in the world—to regulate crypto assets like cryptocurrencies and tokens in a bid to curb money laundering activities and protect investors.
The markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) legislation was approved on May 16 by EU ministers. The new rules will increase transparency and create a comprehensive framework for businesses operating in crypto markets, including compliance with anti-money laundering rules, according to a May 16 press release. “Recent events have confirmed the urgent need for imposing rules which will better protect Europeans who have invested in these assets, and prevent the misuse of crypto industry for the purposes of money laundering and financing of terrorism,” said Elisabeth Svantesson, Minister for Finance of Sweden.
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/europe-approves-worlds-first-cryptocurrency-regulations
As I posted months ago, gubermints “claim” that people need to go to CBDC’s as criminals use cash. (suitcases full of it no doubt, with transactions made off coastlines, with perps piloting Scarabs, Miami Vice style ..)
And now they claim the crypto industry needs to be regulated too to stop money laundering.
Yes, crims can use cash AND crypto, but why didn’t gubermints mention that fact years ago?
Yep. Progressively acclimatise the masses to digital money via cryptos but make no effort to intervene, push everyone into CBDC’s, eliminate cash, then make ALL non-CBDC crypto illegal, leaving 100% monitored and controlled CBDC’s.
They’re not fooling the wise.😎
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“The new rules will increase transparency” I thought the whole idea of cryptocurrency was that it was cryptic, the opposite of transparency as the Govt would like it! Everyone could see what happened & where the coins went, but no-one knew who did it. I’m sure it will end up with everyone needing an ATO number to have a crypto account, the same as their web-ID they continually push for.
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“Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain on The Aboriginal Industry”
https://youtu.be/9BzobfWTLGM
Via https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/pauline-hansons-please-explain-on-the-aboriginal-industry.html
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Tony Grey, chairman of the World Nuclear Association, has written a good article in The Australian today, “How long can Jim Chalmers and Chris Bowen ignore the nuclear answer?” (Behind paywall):https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/how-long-can-jim-chalmers-and-chris-bowen-ignore-the-nuclear-answer/news-story/ae7d2c20a74a30114897360f84db962b
He points out that the federal govt’s efforts to achieve 82% of energy from renewables by 2030 is not convincing, and highlights many of the problems of trying to achieve that goal. He also mentions the recent Onkalo plant in Finland, which is supported by the local community and the Greens party, will result in cheaper energy.
He also notes that, over the longer operational life of nuclear, plus the short lifetimes of renewables that require firming/backup and long transmission lines, results in nuclear being cheaper.
So a lot of the issues raised here are now being consolidated in the national press, which is good to see.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1slEiLELkJI
Awesome interview with BF Randall on nuclear.
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“How long can Jim Chalmers and Chris Bowen be ignorant?
All their lives !
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Will AlbBowen include the costs of dismantling and disposal of their solar panels and wind turbines in their fiscal estimates? I doubt that the Chinese will be interested in taking them back!
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Styxhexenhammer talks about brewing scandal about how FBI refuses to release further J6 footage.
https://youtu.be/3SM-LDjXwA8
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It looks like the FBI is all dirty tricks now and solidly Democrat. But when 98% of Washington votes Democrat, what would anyone expect. That’s one of the problems when one side hands out all the cash and jobs. The FBI is a Democrat machine. And those millions of illegal migrants are expected to vote Democrat. So Texas is shipping them to Democrat cities like New York and Chicago.
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What is ironic about the Democrat/Labor push for illegal immigrants is that they want slavery back, including children. That was the very origin of the Democrat party after the Civil war. Now talking trillion dollar reparations but in practice doing their very best to recreate their no accountability super cheap labour market. And there are millions who would rather be slaves in America than citizens in bankrupt violent societies with no hope. Which is what Democrat cities are becoming.
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Well, I’m glad the science is settled and the climate is fully understood,the weather fully explained…
“Continuing working through the ‘New science of Heaven’ by Robert Temple. We have an excellent discussion of Birkeland Currents which have not really been understood and if anything been mostly ignored because we lacked a working model.
The fundamental problem with our observable space is that both positive ions and electrons have powerful repulsion force. They fly apart unless bound to each other. It is my contention obviously that DARK MATTER acts to quell this powerful force while not actually binding it. I use the swork sticky to describe the lining up of an NNP axis with an electron or Ion axis along with the force is applied at a little distance. the net force is low and also it is easily disturbed by passing energy in the form of photons.
What we now have is both massive and micro flows all through our solar system and even our galaxy which we have seen. Better yet, all this is sub light. It is really interesting that these also drive our jet streams and that they can be supersonic. No wonder jet streams gain the speeds they do without any obvious explanation based on aerodynamics.”
https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2023/05/birkeland-currents.html
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Q&A started out as a show that appeared to let (almost) anyone ask any question they wanted of the panel. For a long time though, it has been an absolute joke.
The easiest way to get a lot of people offside is to whine, claim “racism” without any tangible proof, and play the victim. When will people like Stan realise that the sane part of the populace does not condone actual racial abuse, and feel some sympathy towards those who are genuine victims of it.
Stan Grant leaving Q&A will result in nothing of value being lost.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-19/stan-grant-qanda-coronation-backlash-abc/102369746
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What a great bedtime story to end the week. Very relaxing voice too 🙂
You couldn’t make it up”
https://rumble.com/v2om0jv-you-couldnt-make-it-up.html
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FWIW
“Masks and the damage they’ve caused”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/masks-and-damage-theyve-caused.html
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Windy Wellington is living up to its name and Aukland is blowing a gale. [Source: windy.com]
Has this year been more windy than usual? Seems a lot of lows are passing that way.
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