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Coldest day of the year and I didn’t need a thermometer, the coconut oil in the cupboard has solidified. 🙂
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That just means it is the coldest day in your kitchen.
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It would have solidified anyway below about 22°C. 🙂
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Doh!
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A car took out a power pole near here, & of course our power early this morning. Of course it was the coldest morning so far this year at 3C.
I have a 10 KVA gen set with remote start, but it has to be manually connected in 3 places, & the mains connection closed manually. As it would only be a short outage I decided to do with out water, coffee, hot food etc, rather than go out in the cold to connect it up.
This was a foretaste of our future with Liddell closed, & another scheduled. I’ll have to bite the bullet & spend the money to install automatic connection before the rolling blackouts start, these old bones don’t handle the cold too well these days.
Might be time to install a gas stove & heater, before the rush.
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Keep the BBQ handy, with spare bottle.
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That should be spare battery Ted1, after all “gas bad”
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Won’t be allowed to install a gas stove soon either.
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separate LPG gas ring burner?
https://www.bbqsrus.com.au/products/category/cast-iron-burners
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Biden has a 36% approval rating. Who in ‘ell are these people?
Are 36% so scared of AGW that they would prefer to see their standard of living destroyed than risk a republican?
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No he doesn’t. He has a 36% “he’s not Trump rating”. If Trump wasn’t around his approval would be about 5%, the genuinely insane.
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Dunno about that. Biden seems to ahead of DeSantis, and he ain’t Trump either.
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They say Biden won by the highest number of presidential votes ever.
True.
The highest number of fraudulent presidential votes.
Please see this video before they censor it. Someone posted it here recently.
https://youtu.be/4eTG32YC_Uw
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“Are 36% so scared of AGW that they would prefer to see their standard of living destroyed than risk a republican?
Maybe it’s a case of anyone other than Trump or perhaps the American voters don’t want Republican leaders just as Australians clearly don’t want Liberal leaders judging by Dutton’s abysmal polling
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What do you mean Australian’s don’t want Lib leaders? We elected three of them in the last 10 years and the Lib coalition Leader got 3% more of the primary vote than the Labor leader at the last election. Non-election polling isn’t worth much.
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It would have to be a totally irrational person to approve of Albo and Bowen!
Destruction of the country and its infrastructure… lunacy.
Although, I’m sure there will be some people who relish the thought of that, and back them to the hilt !.
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That just shows how many people in America put their side ahead of their principles – and their country.
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That is a comic version of what every voter thinks of anyone who votes in a way other than themselves. Are you in a cartoon?
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Care to list all Biden’s accomplishments, the good reasons to vote for him?
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Gee gee, I’m with you.
As my POTUS Biden has clearly stated, a vote against him is a vote against “Our Democracy”.
It also means “you ain’t Black”.
https://youtu.be/89uJMPSP32g
I ain’t black, so I’m a bit confused.
But with your help there is hope.
Someday I will be not a cartoon, but a a real boy … I mean person.
(Has that cartoon been fixed yet?)
Thank you.
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Socialism with US characteristics, just like Australia with our particular version of socialism. The budget was sensible.
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Top Ender says:
May 9, 2023 at 1:18 pm
The Norwegian shipping company, Havila Kystruten, has banned electric, hybrid, and hydrogen cars from its ferries. After a risk analysis, it was concluded that the risk to the safety of the shipping fleet was too significant. If a vehicle catches fire, the fire can no longer be extinguished.
The risks for ships from the transport of Electric cars (EV) have been discussed since the “Felicity Ace” sank off the Azores, Portugal, last February. E-vehicles on board had caught fire. The fire could not be extinguished. Finally, the colossal ship sank with thousands of electric cars, including Porsche and Bentley “green” vehicles.
Capt. Rahul Khanna, global head of marine consulting at Allianz (AGCS), a marine insurance specialist, explains that the problem with EVs is that lithium-ion batteries in the cars can actually propagate the fire, igniting more vigorously as compared to conventional cars. A single vehicle fire could prove catastrophic.
E-cars are a danger for ship passengers
According to a report by the TradeWinds shipping news service, Havila’s Chief executive Bent Martini said the risk analysis showed that the fire in an electric car required a particularly complex rescue operation. The crew on board could not afford this. Passengers would also be at risk. This is different for vehicles with combustion engines. A possible fire is usually easy to fight by the ship’s crew.
After the sinking of the “Felicity Ace,” Greenpeace also warned against e-cars on ships: “In general, electronic components and especially electric vehicles pose a risk for every transport.”
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No problem. Just push them overboard. Let them burn on the bottom of the ocean. Which they will.
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It’s too bad Venus never acquired the right conditions to have any form of complex life. If it had a suitable atmosphere with oxygen; and water, carbon and other ingredients and a surface temperature below 100C earth might have had a habitable twin with similar gravity to earth plus it’s believed to have tectonic plate activity, important for all sorts of mineral deposition.
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and it would be somewhere we could send all the climate change worriers.
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Not possible. Venus is nearer to the sun and receives about twice as much solar radiation.
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Not to mention the surface pressure being some 92 to 93 bars !
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We could set up camp above the clouds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#/media/File:NASA_Cloud_City_on_Venus.jpg
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This morning I heard Treasurer Jim Chalmers say the tonight’s budget will show a surplus of $4 billion, the first budget surplus for 15 years. Perhaps someone should explain to the treasurer that it’s only a budget, not reality. I recall that former Treasurer Wayne Swan’s 2008 budget for FY 2008-09, predicted a surplus, probably the one Chalmers referred to, but the surplus was well and truly gone just a few months later, August 2008, when the GFC started to take effect. In hindsight, the 2008 budget surplus was probably for show, since around January 2008 the US was starting to make provision for the GFC.
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Aren’t they going to steal several billion from the oil and gas companies which means even higher prices for the consumer? Are they counting on that for the supposed “surplus”?
And what of the $1.6 trillion total government debt (federal, state and local governments)? The silence about that is deafening.
Plus, as you say, Maptram, this is not reality. And in any case they are probably or more likely, almost certainly lying about the figures.
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The surplus is not because of the ALP superior economic performance but because of the massive tax revenue received from the exact same commodities they ( ALP,GREENS,TEALS) want to get rid of…oil, gas, coal……ironic no?…bwahaha.
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Without coal royalties Qld would be in debtors’ prison. Plukka must be laughing, selling heaps of power into NSW and pocketing the coal royalties on the side.
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Poor Plukka, so many things to worry about. She was on Victorian telly advising the country that “youth crime” is to big to be fixed. I remember a similar statement made about boat arrivals. Funny how something is to big to be fixed then some one with a different political bent just pulls a “fix” out of the proverbial hat. She made need to start running the state for everyone instead of her own political fiefdom.
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At the same time youth crime is spinning out of control she is talking about raising the age of criminal responsibility.
What is it about the left being pro-criminals?
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The 2019/20 Budget Plan by Treasurer Freydenberg contained a budget surplus but unforeseen Covid pandemic expenditure from early 2020 stopped that surplus from being achieved.
Budget Plan July 1 2023 to 30 June 2024 is not yet completed.
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India to remain reliant on coal – report
The fossil fuel will dominate power generation due to surging energy demand, a government agency has said
India will remain heavily dependent on coal as the largest source of power generation for the next decade, even with its efforts to ramp up renewable energy projects, according to a government report published on Thursday.
The Central Electric Authority (CEA) said additional plants will need to be built as coal-fired power generation will still account for about 54% of India’s total electricity output in 2030. Fossil fuel currently accounts for almost three-quarters of the country’s power generation.
India is reportedly the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. It is looking for ways to meet surging electricity demands, while at the same time setting ambitious goals to decarbonize its power sector.
“Availability of affordable and reliable electricity is a key factor in sustainable growth of the country,” Ghanshyam Prasad, chairperson of the CEA, said in the report.
India plans to phase out about 2 gigawatts of coal-burning plants and install solar, wind, hydro, biomass, and nuclear plants with a total capacity of more than 500 gigawatts by 2030.
Meanwhile, new coal plants designed to deliver about 27 gigawatts are already under construction and an additional 19.1 gigawatts may have to be built to cover India’s energy needs, according to the CEA.
Emissions from India’s power sector are expected to surge by about 11% on current levels by the end of the decade, the authority said, and will reach 1,114 million tons of carbon dioxide.
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We were in the northern tablelands yesterday and last night, Towoomba to Tenterfield. Wow was it cold, get you right through to the bone.
Tenterfield is a lovely small town. Good quality shopping for the missus and if you want some quality warm clothes. Worth staying in the Commercial Hotel. Expensive but beautifully renovated old-style rooms and the restaurant had a lovely open fire, and the food was genuine top notch, the chef knows what he/she is doing. Rare.
One of my gripes of living in regional Aus is the woeful lack of decent food. We’ve basically given up eating out it’s always so disappointing, so it was a refreshing change and genuine surprise.
The Commercial Hotel Tenterfield. Highly recommend.
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Bit of a generalization about regional living and decent food. We are happily sandwiched between three wine regions so good food options are readily available. Depends where you are.
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The top Indian restaurant in Dubbo, the Royal Indian Restobar, has the best Indian food that I have tasted in this country. Great decor and first class service. Plenty of good country restaurants around if you know where to look.
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I recal a visit to San Francisco about fifteen years ago, when I spent the evening in the company of a couple of locals who were attending the same conference. As the visitor, I was given first dibs on choice of dinner and said I was craving a good curry. One of my guides turned out to be a fan of Indian food too, so off we went to the best Indian in town.
I have to say I was not in the least surprised when we walked into the restaurant, with it’s plastic chequered tablecloths, basic decor and flimsy menus. My experience in the UK taught me that the quality of food in Indian restaurants is inversely proportional to the swankiness of the wallpaper and fittings. The more painted gold stuff there is, the less you’re going to enjoy the food and, if the waiters are in fancy dress … get the heck out.
Well the food was superb. My guide was on first name terms with the cook, who wasn’t formally trained. He was just ‘Dad’, was born in India but raised in the UK. We had a great meal.
Now I’m hungry.
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Agree, Philip, Tenterfield is a surprise, a nice town we had always passed through but made a last-minute overnight stopover a few months ago. Lovely town, and the Commercial is a gem.
Since the Plague, we have been doing a lot of mid-week trips to small places in NSW that we used to visit years ago. Many more to keep us busy for a while yet, and we are rarely disappointed by food and accommodation, as many young people and newly arrived immigrants are doing interesting projects in the regions.
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FWIW
“We may have finally broken ChatGP”
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/05/08/we-may-have-finally-broken-chatgpt-n549239
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In the five minutes or so it went quiet, ChatGP must have found a person to ask to sort the problem out. Marvelous.
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Or it may have asked another AI bot…
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Lying is a tricky task because of the need to remember previous lies. Computational power will help.
It is interesting how it gets things wrong and immediately apologizes.
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FWIW
“”Bigger = better” isn’t working out for wind”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/08/bigger-better-isnt-working-out-for-wind-n549389
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Another hidden cost of wind is that the systems don’t last nearly as long as claimed, which in turn is only about a quarter of the lifespan of a coal, gas or nuclear power plant. In fact it’s even worse than that, because the random energy generators only work for about a third of the time or less so their true lifespan (in terms of actual operational time) is far far, less than claimed.
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Dr John Campbell is back on YouTube after having been banned for supposed “misinformation” although YouTube won’t tell him what information in particular (probably because there wasn’t any).
They seem to have banned him for interviewing a sitting member of UK Parliament, Andrew Bridgen.
YouTube and legacy social(ist) media regularly interfere with the democratic process by banning or threatening elected representatives. Yesterday I reported how they have threatened Senator Babet here in Australia for not following the Official Narrative on covid.
https://youtu.be/Wv5AZseNbLQ
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You can see the censored video here:
https://rumble.com/v2l3cfk-mr-andrew-bridgen-mp.html
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This little bit on ‘Public Health’?
‘Excess deaths in UK rise’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgubA8BF3CM
Wish he would stop ringing the camp bell, we’re sleeping.
Besides, what’s ‘excess’ when we’re trying save the planet from anthropogenic activities which are all excess because humans are excessive.
I blame opposing thumbs.
Gaia’s biggest mistake that we must fix.
Can’t afford private air transport?
Thumbs removed by order of the King.
Long Live the King.
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Giant Study Reveals Why Moss Is Vital For The Planet
“We were gobsmacked to find that mosses were doing all these amazing things,” exclaims David Eldridge, an ecologist at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Sampling mosses from over a hundred sites across eight different ecosystems, Eldridge and colleagues estimated populations of the plant cover a staggering 9.4 million square kilometers in the types of environments surveyed. This is comparable to the size of China or Canada.
We’ve taken mosses out of a packet after 100 years, squirted them with water and watched them come to life. Their cells don’t disintegrate like ordinary plants do.”
The researchers compared soils with and without moss in each of their studied areas and found greater movement of nutrients in mossy soils, increasing the cycling of everything from nitrogen and phosphorus to organic matter. Moss also acts as a storage pool for nutrients, including carbon, currently keeping about 6.43 billion metric tons of this vital but currently problematic element out of our oversaturated atmosphere.
“You’ve got all the global emissions from land use change, such as grazing, clearing vegetation and activities associated with agriculture,” explains Eldridge.
“We think mosses are sucking up six times more carbon dioxide, so it’s not one to one, it’s six times better.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01170-x
I’ve never really liked moss much. Might have to rethink that.😎
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Interesting data on the “Spanish Flu” is published by accident…
…and gave NY Times the data and NYT accidentally published the truth! We can forgive them, they didn’t mean to. This came out in an article where NYT tried to say covid was like the plague, but worse, trust us! They were trying to make the point that in 2020 the death rate in NYC skyrocketed. Seems like they don’t want to show the data after 2020, that will look very bad for the official narrative, and will reinforce the anti-vax sentiment…
However, what really attracted me to this chart is the accidental truth about the so-called “Spanish Flu” that it revealed. Spanish Flu was supposed to be the black death bigger than the black death until the current black death came along… But seems like in reality it was not a big deal. A blip, relatively speaking in comparison to the 1850’s.
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/more-data-on-the-spanish-flu-comes
A fake-news spreader and heretic!
Burn her! 😄😄
And most people died from viral pneumonia from mask wearing in the Spanish flu too.
Burn me! 😄
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A 2009 letter by Tsunetoshi Shimazu published in the British Medical Journal reported that the high institutional death rate during the Spanish Flu pandemic was largely the result of Aspirin poisoning.
The standard aspirin dose recommended during the epidemic was 30 gram per day, which is 8 times the present maximum safe dose.
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Strictly speaking, it facilitated and exacerbated the viral pneumonia…
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In any case a disaster multiplied by diagnosis and treatment.
Considering the Spanish Flu, Climate Change apprehension, SARS-CoV2, etc this is the Iatrogenic Age.
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It looks like another high pressure system will dominate on Thursday.
[Farmer Phil, best not put your email into the URL commenting box as it becomes visible to everyone. Thanks to Gee Aye for the notification. I have deleted it. – Jo]
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Friday is a better bet.
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Victor Davis Hanson on the middle class and California:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r0m4UCPKHw
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Covid FWIW
“Social Media Awards? Check This Out… “Awards For Covid-19 Influencers”
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/05/social-media-awards-check-this-out.html
COVID19 – Propaganda AWARDS!!! – Not much leaves me speechless. This just has!”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/09/may-9-2023-reader-tips/#comment-1775726
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WEF Member Calls for 86% Reduction in World’s Population
A celebrated member of the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for a staggering 86 percent reduction in the population of humans, arguing that the goal can be achieved “peacefully.”
Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.”
Meadows is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic Forum.
Despite his book being published over 50 years ago, his ideology is still very anti-human.
Meadows argues that most of the world’s population must be wiped out so that the survivors can “have freedom” and a “high standard of living.”
During a 2017 interview, Meadows claims that genocide of 86% of the world’s population is “inevitable.”
However, he insists that a “benevolent” dictatorship could accomplish the mass de-population “peacefully.”
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-member-calls-86-reduction-worlds-population/
Let’s start with pollies, health experts, WEF members, lefties, demonrats, just stop oil bunnies, flat-earthers, totalitarians and sociopaths. That’s about half. 😁
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“Let’s start with pollies, health experts, WEF members, lefties, demonrats, just stop oil bunnies, flat-earthers, totalitarians and sociopaths”
A Venn diagram would have huge ∩‘s !!
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The CoR book was based on the World3 model, never validated, just like climate “models”.
I posted the following on this site on May 29, 2022.
START
The following was written ten years ago so the CoR model is now 50 years old and still failed to predict anything.
SEE LINK FOR REST
Incidentally, a criticism of the World3 systems dynamics model used by CoR was published:
Cole, H. S. D.; Freeman, Christopher (1973). Models of Doom: A Critique of the Limits to Growth. Vhps Rizzoli. ISBN 0876639058.
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Genocide as funerary art for freedom loving WEF dictators.
No need for a vote on this new deal, but remember to vaxx early, vaxx often.
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Europeans unwilling to give up their lifestyle to save the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/02/many-europeans-want-climate-action-but-less-so-if-it-changes-their-lifestyle-shows-poll
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A new campaign sign observed in my neighborhood …
Vote Democrat …
UNTIL every child is Non-Binary
UNTIL every thief is freed from jail
UNTIL the glaciers begin advancing
Plus a little revolution fist logo thingy.
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This article in the Washington Post is truly mind blowing. Absurdity upon absurdity.
This is the gist of it:
1. We won’t be seeing as much warming as feared. (No kidding)
2. Renewables and carbon mitigation have helped (The numbers show this to be absolutely absurd).
3. We will get lots of extreme weather anyway. (Isn’t the warming supposed to cause this, according to the alarmist narrative? Or does CO2 magically cause stronger weather, without any actual causal link?)
Warning: this article made my brain hurt. Not because it was difficult but because the illogical twisting and turning is just too silly.
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Just an other conspracy theory debunked:
Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
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Batches and adverse reactions were correlated in the individual states of the US. The results varied wildly between batches. This was over a year ago.
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Now it’s affirmed by scientific research what it wasn’t before.
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Re the Spanish flu post. “Dissolving Illusions- Disease, vaccines, and the forgotten history,” is an excellent book, pointing out that vaccines arrived on the scene once all the basically industrial revolution pandemics were over. The diseases were beaten by regulations for food, water, housing, refrigeration, sterilisation, and work practices. There were massive revolts against smallpox vaccinations in the late 19th century, and the practice pretty well died out, along with the disease. Measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever(which was almost the worst killer of them all, and for which there is still no vaccine, but it died out anyway.) all just faded away, long before big pharma turned up to save us. Polio in it’s non paralytic forms was always world wide, and it only became widely savage, coincidentally with the arrival of DDT. Yes, yes, yes, correlation is not causation, but they just seem to have appeared, then disappeared in sync. One of life’s mysteries.
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The first clear description of a paralytic disease of infants consistent with polio was published in 1789.
Sporadic case reports of small groups of afflicted patients first appeared in the 19th century. Speculation about deformities in ancient remains have more likely explanations.
There have been suggestions that polio was a bovine virus which was given an opportunity to infect humans by early methods of “vaccination” in the late 18th century from shortly before 1796 when Jenner demonstrated the use of cowpox virus (vaccinia) to protect against smallpox in humans.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Global Warming
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Does anyone know how many long, medium, and short range missiles we could get for 360 billion dollars? I’m just scratching my head. I guess going down that path would interfere with several fiefdoms, and the bureaucrats would just hate that?
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Best ask the Russians… Cheaper and field-tested!
I’ve seen figures for Himars, $80million each launcher and radar system. Its a lot cheaper to use guided bombs and radar-controlled artillery, and suicide drones for blowing missiles launchers, artillery and armoured troop transports.
Best way is to contact one of the many mercs in Ukraine and buy some directly when they arrive in from Poland.
I see Ukraine is trying to convince everyone they shot down a Kinzal missile at Mach5 plus. Its a great testing ground for everyone…
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‘Tis a long time since we have needed missiles more and welfare less.
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Our imbecile government is still wasting sh1tl0ads of taxpayers money pushing dangerous covid-19 “boosters” with their “top up, pump up” TV ads.
It amazes me that they haven’t yet explained how one gets a “booster” when you didn’t succumb to the initial experimental injection in the first place.
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Funny how things happen. Y’day I wore a PWC shirt, years old but never worn so still bright white. Today the firm is in disgrace. That shirt goes back where it came from. lol
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I still wear my school rugby shirt when it’s cold, nearly antique now, not like modern clothes that dissolve after a few washes.
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I heard that on the car radio a couple of hours ago.
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“A high level participant in the IPCC (purposely vague to protect their identity) has confirmed to me that the major error on tropical cyclones that I recently identified was (a) indeed a major snafu and (b) a result of claims being inserted into the IPCC outside its review process.”
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1655963283168305153?cxt=HHwWgoCx5aL1lPstAAAA
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That cannot deny its been quiet down under.
‘The 2022–23 Australian region cyclone season was the fourth consecutive season to have below-average activity.’ (wiki)
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“Twitter Community Notes vs. Leftist Lies”
“If you’re not sure why the Left is rabid about controlling all legacy and social media, sit back and enjoy learning about what is happening these days on Twitter.
This is absolutely hilarious!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_YFQKHzf4
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/09/twitter-community-notes-vs-leftist-lies/
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“A History of Russian Innovation”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/a-history-of-russian-innovation
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FWIW
“IT’S NICE TO BE QUOTED BY REX MURPHY:
From the Instapundit site I find this ever so telling comment. Will anyone deny the obvious truth it contains?
“All the people who want to ‘regulate the planetary climate’ and demand the power and unlimited resources to do so are people who have proven themselves incapable of competently managing and running recently built, closed, man-made systems. They cannot competently run power grids, or municipal water systems or trash pickup; they cannot competently maintain, let alone repair, the ‘roads and bridges’ they are always pratting about; they cannot competently run or maintain the public housing they increasingly want people to live in, or the public transportation systems that they want people to rely on …
“Yet they want people to believe that they can, and should, be permitted to try and regulate the planetary climate.”
To which we really must add that they (or one particular government I have in mind) cannot manage international airports, passport issuance, legitimate protests, civil service payroll systems, support for their veterans, maintain a sufficient military, a national health-care system (which used to be the pride of the country) inter-provincial relations, and conflict of interest legislation. To be fair, they are good at handing out contracts to their friends and running up consultancy bills.
The graft isn’t a side effect. It’s one of the chief goals.”
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rex-murphy-the-trudeau-liberals-are-coming-for-your-jobs/ar-AA16zN0C
Via https://instapundit.com/583439/#disqus_thread
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Clintel Report documenys error inlatest IPCC Reporthttps://clintel.org/thorough-analysis-by-clintel-shows-serious-errors-in-latest-ipcc-report/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Clintel Report documents errors in latest IPCC Report. Well worth reading.
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Figure 5 chapter 1 sums up clintel.
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The IPCC discounts natural variability for sea level rise.
‘The IPCC claims there is an acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise in recent decades. Clintel has shown this claim is flawed, because the IPCC ignores decadal variability in sea level. We also show that its sea-level tool – made available for the first time – shows a mysterious and improbable jump upward in 2020.’
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That is the intro chapter not chapter 1
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There are many reasons for decadal variations in sea level.
There’s changes in ice volumes, ground water extraction, draining of seas and surface waters, erosion, tectonic effects.
No one has a very good understanding on any of these to the extent that would allow precise and accurate quantification
and attribution to sea level.
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A strong La Nina can make sea level fall as Australia is flooded.
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“The more things change the more they stay the same”
“Looks like the Duke of Wellington had the same problems with red tape as modern commanders…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/looks-like-duke-of-wellington-had-same.html
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