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Premier Xi exhibits a sense of humour.
‘Cuba to host Chinese base to spy on US.
‘An eavesdropping facility in Cuba would allow China to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern US, where many military bases are located.’ (The Oz)
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That is not too ridiculous not to be true.
But it probably wouldn’t be necessary because the White House resident allows Chicomm spy balloons freedom of access to US skies plus there are no doubt numerous Chicomm spies embedded in the Biden Maladministration.
And remember Fang Fang?
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They don’t need to build a similar base in Vanuatu just to neutralise Australia. I believe we already have a covert Chinese militia in our midst, ready for the call and, unlike Americans, most Australians are unarmed.
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‘ … covert Chinese militia in our midst …’
They are also unarmed.
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How would you know?
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Australia is not America, only gangsters have illegal weapons and they are intent on killing each other.
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Mr. gordo: How can you tell the difference between gansters and chinese military deepcover? I don’t know Australia well, but on the map there is alot of coastline, what would stop chicomms from bringing in stashed weapons of any kind?
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Mr Courtney, let me assure you that Beijing plans to take over the economy of the planet, however, it has no intention of starting a hot war to gain political control.
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“what would stop chicomms from bringing in stashed weapons of any kind?”
Our world class submarine fleet, of course ! 😉
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Young, female, English reporter for BBC in N.Y. exhibits a sense of D’OH! on the radio this morning:
“This is New York City’s worst air quality day in recorded history – well, at least as far back as the 1960s.”
Tony Heller (as usual) has a great collection of wildfire end-of-days haze from the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, where the “sky turned red… Men prayed and women wept… Children were sent home from school”. Nineteen-sixties huh… history is so like yesterday.
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Does anyone actually believe these forest fires were NOT lit by Leftists?
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I’m convinced the leftists are innocent, lightning strikes seem more likely.
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Who knows? If this video is accurate it suggests no cloud, so, I guess, no lightning – but lots of synchronous activity…
https://twitter.com/shadygrooove/status/1666308602225901573
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Thanks nb, different culture, they maybe ecoterrorists.
“We are bringing in arson investigators from outside the province,” she said. “We have almost 175 fires with no known cause at the moment.’ (Premier Danielle Smith)
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‘ … no cloud …’
Blocking high pressure.
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More than likely with Government help in planning, financing & execution knowing the thinking pattern of Trudeau!
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Mr. gordo: Moving to Cuba from where? NYC?? The chicomms set up shop in New York, but they probably found the electronic comm’s they picked up in Northeast USA were …. not useful. They couldn’t filter out the TV networks.
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The Beijing mouthpiece has an answer for everything.
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202306/09/WS64829964a31033ad3f7bb664.html
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Trump indicted yet again, as America slides further into Banana Republic territory. He’ll be in jail soon, one way or another. There’s no way the Democrats are going to allow a re-run of the last debacle.
Meanwhile, here in Oz, Albasleazy managed to avoid answering questions about Labor’s alleged political interference in the Higgins affair, despite overwhelming and growing evidence that they absolutely did, along with their besties, Wilkinson and FitzSimons.
I have zero doubt that this, potentially a huge story, will be sidelined by the media. I expect Their ABC will ride to the rescue any minute now with a suitable distraction. Time to make up something about Dutton, methinks.
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I meant to add, the timing of this latest indictment is typical of the Democrats, coming at the same time that the FBI finally release the documents alleged to incriminate the Bidens for taking bribes. I expect Trump’s latest persecution will drown out any talk about the Bidens.
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This is just the start of a whole string of vexatious persecutions against Trump specifically designed to draw attention away from the Presidential race and to make Republicans scared that their chosen nominee might be in jail at voting time.
And you have to ask why they are allowing the present White House resident to seek to extend his stay there? Clearly the DemocRATs are confident that this election will be so strongly rigged he can’t lose.
And they absolutely don’t want Kennedy to run. He is an old style Democrat and intellectual from before the Dems went totally insane and fully Marxist and post-modernist. Even I would not find him totally objectionable as US President.
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“And they absolutely don’t want Kennedy to run. He is an old style Democrat and intellectual from before the Dems went totally insane and fully Marxist and post-modernist. Even I would not find him totally objectionable as US President.”
I agree, and there are still, among the Democrats, our own Labor and the UK’s Labour party, rare examples of people who, while I disagree with their policies, I nevertheless respect them and could accept them winning government in a fair fight.
With one caveat. Increasingly these days I find myself disappointed by politicians who, once elected, turn out to be weak. They might well have good ideas and/or a sound platform, but they fail miserably in office. Abbott was one such disappointment and even Trump struggled against the Swamp.
This phenomenon is relatively, though not entirely, new and reflects the almost complete capture of the permanent public service by the far Left, and the overwhelmingly Leftist bias in the media. Both of these make it almost impossible for real conservatives to act as such, and for moderate leftists to steer a less extreme course. Consequently, no matter who we vote for, we end up with a progressive left government or representative.
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there may well be rare examples of people among our own Labor party who you nevertheless respect and could accept them winning government in a fair fight
but the truth is that labor party cannot have their own views or conscience and cannot cross the floor without breaking party rules, they must toe the party line
eg… MP Kaushaliya Vaghela
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/alp-moves-to-expel-rogue-mp-kaushaliya-vaghela-20220214-p59wa0.html
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Mr. M: They don’t WANT Kennedy to run, we’ll know they are serious when they start telling us that he’s backed by Russia. It’s worked for them so far.
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Craig Kelly interviewed on Alexandra Marshall live.
Topic is censorship, political interference, the political and medical response to Covid-19 plus other matters.
https://watch.adh.tv/videos/craig-kelly-monday-5-june-2023
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Johanes Leake’s cartoon in The Australian today is priceless.
Makes up for all the blocking of comment that we would like to make about the Brittany Higgins saga.
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Posted on Michael Smith News.
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The Trans “healthcare” fraud. An interesting expose.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/06/08/trans-healthcare-is-mutilation/
Interesting how they are:
1. Breaching their basic oath of “first do no harm”.
2. Refusing to even properly assess “patients”, green-lighting suicidal patients.
3. Perpetrating prolonged and blatant insurance fraud.
4. Falsifying documents.
5. Destroying lives.
** Possible content warning for the “sensitive” **😎
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Aldi in London require your QR code to enter
https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1666716289853734912
Made a counter-narrative post on a blog?
Das gubermint says “no food for you”.
Coming soon to your city.
Boycott! 😁
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Australian Governments will love that.
Full tracing and tracking of everyone.
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Doctor Aseem Malhotra – 2023 NATIONAL TOUR
CURING THE CORRUPTION OF MEDICINE
A NEW BEGINNING
The final Event is in Perth on Saturday night (tomorrow).
In addition to Dr Malhotra the evening features Naomi Wolfe, John Shipton (father of Julian Assange) and Ed Dowd.
Ed Dowd is a financial analyst who has found alarming evidence for vaccine mortality in US life insurance claims.
Topher Field is MC for the evening.
I can highly recommend this event.
You can watch the event on Zoom by buying a ticket here for just $17:50.
https://theaussiewire.vhx.tv/
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More CO2 Is GOOD For Earth – Seeing Is Believing
Isolated for 42 days in chambers of ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations, we periodically document the growth of cowpea plants (Vigna unguiculata) via time-lapse photography.
“Many people don’t realize that over geological time, we’re really in a CO2 famine now. Almost never has CO2 levels been as low as it has been in the Holocene (geologic epoch) – 280 (parts per million – ppm) – that’s unheard of. Most of the time [CO2 levels] have been at least 1000 (ppm) and it’s been quite higher than that,” Happer told the Senate Committee.
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change was created to disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 content.
It meets this objective through weekly online publication of its CO2 Science magazine, which contains editorials on topics of current concern and mini-reviews of recently published peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, books, and other educational materials.
https://principia-scientific.com/more-co2-is-good-for-earth-seeing-is-believing/
Ah yes, but more CO2 means more food for the masses, which means less justification for control by the elite…😉
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PetSmart Faces Boycott Calls Over Pride Collection: ‘Unacceptable’
PetSmart’s You Are Loved collection, timed for LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June, includes a range of pet toys and garments styled with rainbow colors—such as a reptile tank top with the words “pride vibes” emblazoned on the back, rainbow aquarium ornaments, and a crown and cape two-piece set for small pets.
https://www.newsweek.com/petsmart-boycott-calls-lgbtq-pride-pets-range-1803130
How many readers would outfit their pets this way?
Someone just push the button.
What’s that? This month? Oh, ok..😁
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So how do over 400 wildfires start simultaneously and why were they deliberately lit?
What’s the gameplan here?
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Maybe ..lightening strikes ?
There can be many thousands og those in a decent mountain storm !
( recruiting and orgainsing hundreds of arsonists to simultaneously start forrest fires without detection, would be quite an achievement ?)
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That would indeed be an enormous undertaking, almost on the scale of rigging an election so that the clear leader, and consistent winner of preceding polls, becomes the distant loser in the blink of an eye, or perhaps the push of a button.
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Occasional arsonist, but mostly lightning strikes.
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I should have also mentioned people who inadvertently or accidentally start a fire.
Looking at the big picture, the Washington Post has it nailed.
‘Climate change also plays a role by causing more intense high-pressure zones, which bring prolonged periods of sunny, hot conditions and exacerbate drought.’
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Is your cryptic statement referring to the Black Saturday bushfires of 7th Feb, 2009 in Victoria, Australia?
It had 400 individual fires.
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Canadian wildfires: current events vs 14 year old ones. 🙄
Not lightning, as the satellite images and weather reports show.
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I live 2kms away from one of those fires that erupted last week. Fires were popping up in spots everywhere simultaneously. The MSM would have us believe that trees and grass were spontaneously bursting into flames because of the heat caused by climate change. It was only 26c that day. I kid you not.
I say Greenies are lighting these fires. I used to be one, I know exactly how they think.
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‘ Fires were popping up in spots everywhere simultaneously.’
Sounds like wind blown fiery material.
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“It’s Really Unprecedented”: Solar Power Generation Cut In Half Due To Canada Smoke
For the sake of solar power, let’s hope Canada can bring its rampaging arsonists to heel. That’s because the shroud of smoke that covered much of the Eastern US seaboard, has sent solar power generation in parts of the eastern US plummeting by more than 50% as wildfires rage in Canada.
Massive wildfires are more commonly associated with the US West – where insurers are quietly dropping coverage due to massive fire-linked losses – but drought across eastern and central Canada has sparked thousands of blazes there so far this year, blanketing the US East Coast and Midwest in an surreal, Marsian-orange haze.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-really-unprecedented-solar-power-generation-cut-half-due-canada-smoke
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Information for all.
In Australia, the bushfire/wildfire ignition cause is 78% by humans, (accidental, well intended or by arson), 4% arcing from transmission lines, 7% due to singular weather events (eg lightning), 12% undetermined
Ok…Disclaimer: These figures are close, but are an approx from my memory.
It is my rostered day off, so I don’t have access to the database.
I recommend that you view these figures as a rough guide only. There could be an error of 1-2 %.
That aside, this will give one a general idea of the causes of bushfires, (NSW, Australia).
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Whoa …
‘Lightning is the primary cause of large bushfires in Australia, with fires started by lightning accounting for more than 90% of the area burned during the Black Summer 2019-20 Bushfires.’ (Australian National University)
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Those facts are diss/miss/in/formation. It was 4% of 0.04% what done it! It’s lockdown for you, el g.
/s
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El+gordo,
Please understand that in our database, during the 2019–20 fires, there were 11,774 bushfires across NSW alone.
The subsequent NSW Bushfire Inquiry noted that, and therefore, selected only the most significant fires (due to their size, scale or impact) to analyse.
Total analysed.. 32 of 11,774.
OK, Those fires were in remote areas that we could not easily access. Fire services used indirect attack on said fires.
Understand… The initial Fire can become “larger” because fire services can attempt to backburn, upwind toward the source. (burning tens or hundreds of thousands of additional hectares).
Also, there may be aerial ignition used. Dropping incendaries to burn ahead of the firefront, which also increases the size of the fire.
When these artificial ignitions join with the main fire, there is always a lot of area burnt. That area burnt is attributed to the initial cause.
Personally, I am not an advocate of these methods. I believe in a direct attack or a “watch and wait”. Yet I am just a tiny voice in the hierachy.
So… Of these 32 fires reviewed by the inquiry, 24 were started by lightning. (75%). That is why the ANU reports what it did.
Sounds scary, but it is extremely misleading.
Worse still, the media often runs with it and may attempt to link it to climate change.
You can see the next headline that will be run:.. 75% of bushfires caused by climate change!!!
This is also an untruth. It helps no-one.
Re the cause of bushfire ignition for all of the 11,774 bushfires. I stand by what I stated above… what I said is true.
You are free to believe whatever you want.
I am just a humble fire investigator, so what would I know?
I hope this helps, El+G.
[Apologies for the delay publishing this! – Jo]
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Brett and Heather Weinstein of the DarkHorse Podcast talk about the latest bad medical advice from the once-reputable but now fully-woke and utterly dumbed-down journal, Scientific American.
SA says “fed” is better than breastfeeding. Unbelievable. Frankly I’m surprised they didn’t call it “chestfeeding”.
I would have thought that everyone, no matter how woke they are, would have agreed breast milk is best, by far. Apparently not.
https://youtu.be/0oN0IavOvac
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Chestfeeding you say:
https://www.todaysparent.com/baby/breastfeeding/chestfeeding-faq/
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How a corrupt and incompetent government destroys the national power grid
https://youtu.be/jHxh_sQHH0E
South Africa is a warning to the world…
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One of the comments in that video is that insurance companies have stated that they won’t be covering losses due to complete power grid collapse.
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Jaw Dropping Stats – Reports Of Bud Light Memorial Day Sales Dropping -60% As Brand Boycott Continues
Memorial Day customarily kicks off summer and the beer beverage industry generally looks forward to the enhanced sales that come from summer. However, if the recently published reports of Anheuser-Busch sales are accurate, which includes a stunning 60% sales drop during the holiday, the brand position of Bud Light is in freefall.
While the impacts do have a regional trend based on consumer boycotts and patterns, when the Daily Mail reports, “numbers are suffering primarily due to a decline in Bud Light sales that reached as high as a 60 percent drop off over the week that ended on Memorial Day,” we can be certain the executive offices of A/B are watching closely. The feedback from wholesalers and distributors to the parent company must be something beyond alarm.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jaw-dropping-stats-reports-bud-light-memorial-day-sales-dropping-60-brand-boycott
Can they survive such a sales crash for any period of time?
Towing Blackrock’s line could spell the end of compliant businesses. Maybe that’s their objective.
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Customers not to Blame.
I recall when the mantra was “The Customer is Always Right”.
Maybe Anhauser-Busch should listen?
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Who cares? They have achieved Scope 3 and are eligible for more debt.
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Friday freebie: The worldwide Corona crisis by Michel Chossudovsky
From the very outset in January 2020, people worldwide were led to believe and accept the existence of a rapidly progressing and dangerous epidemic. Media disinformation and the fear campaign were instrumental in sustaining the COVID-19 narrative. Scientific lies and falsehoods have been used to sustain the legitimacy of the COVID-19 policy mandates including lockdowns, the imposition of the face mask, social distancing and the suppression of fundamental human rights.
People worldwide were led to believe that Big Pharma’s COVID-19 vaccine injections were the “solution”.
A structure of “Global Governance” dominated by powerful financial interests is unfolding which undermines democracy and the institutions of civil society. More than 7 billion people worldwide are directly or indirectly affected by the corona crisis and the destructive mandates implemented by morally depraved national governments. The entire planet is in state of economic and social chaos.
https://ufile.io/scww6dkn
Format: pdf
File availability: 1 month
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Perhaps i need to pay more attention to this. When i first found it there was just three months at -50 now…. Well see for yourself. Does anyone here suspect like me that the past is being progressively cooled a tad here at this BoM link. The contours now being a bit hard to follow.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/archive.jsp?colour=colour&map=meanave&year=1911&month=5&period=6month&area=nat
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Disturbing Rise in Cognitive Problems in 2023
The trend is a rapid decline in the cognitive abilities of many people.
The statement that RIVM makes is chilling:
“The increase in memory and concentration problems of adults seems to be a longer-term effect of the coronavirus measures as well as SARS-CoV-2 infections.”
Interestingly, RIVM admits that “coronavirus measures” could play a role in this situation.
The most significant increase is seen in people aged 45-74:
The number of GP visits for memory and concentration problems increased in all age groups among adults (aged 25 years and up), but the biggest increase was seen in the age groups from 45 to 74 years (+40%). A 31% increase was seen among adults aged 24-44, and an 18% increase among adults over 75.
If the progressing collective neurodegeneration continues, we may be running out of intellectual resources and time to handle this problem. The scientists, who need to use the full capacity of their intellect, may also be losing cognitive abilities along with their peers – potentially with frightening consequences for all of us if the above-mentioned cognitive problems deepen.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/disturbing-rise-in-cognitive-problems
Yes indeed. Is it a deliberate aspect of Covid and Fakevax ™ or a product of immune system dysfunction?
Will we run out of people with functioning brains that can think and solve problems?
8 billion Bidens.😉😆
Idiocracy 2025?
We shall see…
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A big FWIW here – Ukraine
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4206d5c9-7f50-4268-b9e4-b37dc037c50f_1024x1280.jpeg
Via https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/offensive-confirmed-afu-strikes-hard
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Yes, the Ukies are learning what the Russians learnt, attacking these days is much harder with drones, buried tank mines and mines that can be fired from artillery, plus all on narrow roads in the tree lines.
It might bog down on the lines as they are and that is enough to go to negotiations.
…and none of the weapons the West gave them has been a game-changer… Every taxpayer dollar from Australia to Germany & UK has been wasted.
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Divide, trash, and bankrupt a country, quit, then receive $millions for writing a book about it. Following in the boot-steps of ‘Barry from Hawaii’, Princess Judas Horsesh!t DGC (WEF), ex-chicktator of New Zimbabwe, has been offered a bonus-deal to tell fellow psychopaths just how easy it was to knock a country of 5 million to the ground, then rub their faces in it.
No title has yet been released, however one of my suggestions would be:
Scream Of Five Million:
How I Forked Godzone
And Made A Ki!!ing $$$
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ESG Eh?
“Damaging detritus: Run-off from GA solar farm just netted neighbors $135M”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/06/07/damaging-detritus-run-off-from-ga-solar-farm-just-netted-neighbors-135m-n556272
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Those Canadian fires –
The Law of Unintended Consequences has a say –
“Smoke Sends US Northeast Solar Power Plunging by 50% as Wildfires Rage in Canada”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/smoke-sends-us-northeast-solar-power-plunging-by-50-as-wildfires-rage-in-canada-1.1930732
And
“Satellite Imagery from College of DuPage Meteorology Department Shows Over a Dozen Fires in Quebec Start Up at Almost the Exact Same Time:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/satellite-imagery-college-dupage-meteorology-department-shows-dozen/
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Styxhexenhammer talks about the Trump indictment.
https://youtu.be/Ps1UwO-04xA
10 mins
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Greta Thunberg demands Vladimir Putin be punished for ‘ecocide’ in Ukraine
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/greta-thunberg-vladimir-putin-ecocide-ukraine
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Nothing to do with me! Trudeau blames wildfires on ‘climate change’ despite being warned for YEARS that Canada needed better forest management to avoid disaster that is now playing out
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12173701/Justin-Trudeau-shrugs-says-Canadian-wildfires-caused-climate-change-not-bad-forest-management.html
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We don’t need no stinkin’ Voice™.
The Mareeba Shire Council can’t resurface the Bourke Development Road until the only gravel pit in the area provides an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA) to the State before any more material can be removed from the pit.
ILUAs may include monetary compensation (lump sum, distributed or royalties), employment and training provisions, cultural heritage components, contracting opportunities and environmental preservation and rehabilitation. The agreements are aimed at getting consent from those who hold Native Title over the land and have the same status as a legal contract.
It can only get worse with the Voice™. The full story at:
https://www.theexpressnewspaper.com.au/latest-news/new-rules-halt-gravel-supply-to-repair-road
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Bud Light sales down 60%.
Whatever happens to Anheuser-Busch is something/nothing, who cares, but what I find interesting is that such a high percentage of Joe Sixpack voters have finally had a gutful of wokeism.
With a non-fortified election how could the dems get ANY candidate up as President, there is nothing they have done that is broadly popular.
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Interesting times continue on the grid. My morning glance at NEM dispatch presented an unusual picture. All interconnectors running in and out of VIC at max for the period (900MW NSW, 750MW SA, 450MW TAS) and 1.7GW flowing into NSW in total.
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WEF demands 75% global reduction in cars
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/wef-demands-75-global-reduction-of?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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FWIW – re the latest “case” against Trump –
“Breaking Exclusive – Right Wing Website, The Conservative Treehouse, Admits to Holding Identical Classified Documents Which Led to FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
June 10, 2023 | Sundance | 35 Comments
Yes, it’s true, according to the information contained in the Jack Smith indictment of President Donald John Trump, The Conservative Treehouse likely holds similar “classified documents” as outlined in the case by the special prosecutor.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/10/breaking-exclusive-right-wing-website-the-conservative-treehouse-admits-to-holding-identical-classified-documents-which-led-to-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago/
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“Column: Looming European Energy Crisis: A Lesson in Averages that Won’t Soon be Forgotten”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/10/column-looming-european-energy-crisis-a-lesson-in-averages-that-wont-soon-be-forgotten-2/
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And
““Green” Energy Threatens South Korea’s Economy”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/09/green-energy-threatens-south-koreas-economy/
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FWIW
Chiefio looks at Ukraine (and the comments)
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/is-orange-the-new-potus/
Third Punic War example?
“The successful Roman invasion of the Carthaginian homeland in Africa in 204 BC led to Hannibal’s recall. He was defeated in the battle of Zama in 202 BC and Carthage sued for peace. A treaty was agreed in 201 BC which stripped Carthage of its overseas territories and some of its African ones; imposed a large indemnity; severely restricted the size of its armed forces; and prohibited Carthage from waging war without Rome’s express permission. This caused Carthage to cease to be a military threat.
In 151 BC Carthage attempted to defend itself against Numidian encroachments and Rome used this as a justification to declare war in 149 BC, starting the Third Punic War.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_Wars
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