As David Maddison, Penguinite, MP, Andrew McRae, Konrad and others suggest:
Don’t forget to put your submissions in opposing the latest proposed Australian Government censorship legislation.
“New ACMA powers to combat misinformation and disinformation”.
They don’t have to be long. But it closes on August 20th.
Read Konrad’s submission here.
https://fordauthority.com/2023/08/farley-shares-his-ford-f-150-lightning-charging-experience/
Road trip: Ford CEO Jim Farley struggles first-hand as he embarks on a road trip in a Ford F-150 Lightning, one that began in Silicon Valley and is set to end in Las Vegas.
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John. Interesting that one of Farley’s EV-charging problems was his hotel not having a charging station….
Two major issues which will NEVER be solved: A) How many charging stations would a hotel or motel need if EVs were the majority of vehicles parked at a hotel or motel…and where would the power come from? and B) Will hotels and motels continue to allow ANY EVs parking at / on / under their premises as they continually self-detonate?
The latter issue leads me to wonder how accommodation houses react to guests bringing suitcases full of explosives into them today. Same way as they’ll be reacting to EVs tomorrow?
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Guests probably shouldn’t be allowed to bring in large tanks of flammable liquid either.
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When ICE vehicles catch fire it’s far less hazardous than when a BEV catches fire.
The risks and consequences aren’t as dire.
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I think William pointed out that when an EV goes up, it requires a large amount of emergency response vehicles, which then reduces their use for other emergencies. But when an ICE catches fire, they only send one response vehicle.
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Simon makes another really silly comment.
Despite knowing that ICE car fuel tanks practically NEVER self-detonate, and that EVs often do…so often that numerous car ferry companies refuse to have them aboard (whilst happily carrying hundreds or thousands of fully-tanked ICEs), Simon writes the silliest thing he can think of (and that IS saying something!).
What pleasure does it give any human being to constantly play the fool with no “cunning” point to make at all?
Sad!
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Simon isn’t playing a fool.
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Yes, and Simon should be on the stage. One leaves town very soon so be on it.
Which reminds me –
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
– Confucius
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I wonder if Simon knows that there is a narrow window of flammability for fuel.
Too much fuel vapour or not enough oxygen and nothing happens.
You can take a 5l petrol can, 75% full and drop a lit match in it.
No Hollywood explosion. The match goes out.
Hollywood has a lot to answer for.
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It’s not a round-trip. interesting…
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At least America will have electricity to charge EVs as even under the Maladministration of the White House Resident power stations are not being destroyed as they are in Australia.
In America it seems unreliables are a mere annoyance rather than economy-destroying as in Australia.
Also in the US, unreliables subsidy harvesting works differently. In Australia the subsidy payments are harvested directly from the consumer electricity bill. In the US they tend to be invisible on the electricity bill but come in the form of tax credits.
Warren Buffet said:
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That’s not to say that the White House Resident isn’t doing everything in his power to destroy the US economy, he, or rather those that tell him what to do, just aren’t doing it with windmills which is the main weapon used in Australia (apart from massive debt spending).
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I am disappointed with Samsung phones because 1) they no longer support SD cards and 2) the 1TB S23 is only available with the large physical size phone, not the smaller one. The larger size is too big for my shirt pocket but I want the 1TB memory plus option for an SD card. They are becoming just like Apple. This is not progress….
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You convinced me. I will stay with my S5 a while longer. I like my N minus 18 tech.
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I think that in today’s Australia all Governments are doing and have done in recent years, just every single thing wrong that it’s possible to do wrong.
As a result our freedom; our energy supply; our physical, mental and economic well being during and after covid; have all been destroyed.
These are mostly things we will never get back if conservatives and fellow rational thinkers remain silent.
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Our only hope is if they run out of wrong things to do.
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Don’t forget to put your submissions in opposing the latest proposed Australian Government censorship legislation.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/new-acma-powers-combat-misinformation-and-disinformation
“New ACMA powers to combat misinformation and disinformation”.
They don’t have to be long if you don’t have time. A short submission will do if that’s all you can manage.
You can do a short online form submission (no more difficult than a blog post here), or submit a full 20 page (or however short or long you want) document as I have done.
Due by August 20, 2023.
Remember, it WILL HAPPEN if conservatives and fellow rational thinkers remain silent.
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Pretty sure it will happen regardless of submissions.
The process is not really intended to consult with the public … everyone knows this will be used for political csnsorship, so you write in a submission, “This will obviously be used for political censorship”.
They shrug and say, “Yeah we like it that way” … but then simply deny like always.
It’s not a voting system where they count the positive and negative submissions … they don’t need to explain the decision making and how a conclusion was reached. There’s no ultimate responsibility here, only the ability to grab power and use that.
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Possibly true Tel, but we must try.
Dictatorship and slavery is where it’s heading if we don’t fight.
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There again: ‘keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome’. The madness of playing ‘their ‘ game !
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By not participating you forfeit the game.
It will be ignored, but not because you didn’t participate.
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I wonder if by participating you get put on a list for early targetting.
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Of course! There is nothing more certain. This whole charade is a ploy to identify the first people to hit.
Following the banning of internet access for the noisy ones who make a submission, the Govt will turn on the opposition and use it to stifle their criticism of any Govt policy. They will drive this tyranny until they are safely back in the pre-internet days when they controlled the media completely.
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Of course it is! This whole submission game is to find out who to hit first!
After they have cleaned up the forums they don’t like they will move against the opposition parties and silence their criticism too. The opposition will do exactly the same when they get power.
Next year’s pandemic should be interesting..
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Did you read the “when you can win easily” bit? Making a futile effort and then saying, “Well I tried” is not the same as winning easily in my books.
Besides that … in the case of the Churchill speech, he wasn’t a great wartime leader, his military strategy was crap and he never made it clear how exactly his whole “win easily” system was supposed to work. The USA eventually bailed him out. Churchill sounded impressive and was good with his words but to a large extent he was the guy who lost the British Empire.
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Maybe you’re right, but I think the British Empire was done for after the mass slaughter of the empire’s youth in WW1. That and the awakening of the USA giant sealed the Empire’s fate.
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I don’t believe any Government of the world is a more fanatical believer in the anthropogenic global warming fraud than Australia’s, all states and federal.
An alternative Government led by a pretend conservative Liberal Party is no different. Dutton pretends to support nuclear power but only because 1) he actually believes CO2 is bad and 2) he knows it would be impossible to build a nuclear reactor in Australia for half a century or more, given that it took 50 years to decide on a second Sydney airport.
Even the wokest nations of Europe like Once Great Britain and Germany are seeing what is (un)common sense and reopening old power stations, something that wouldn’t happen in Australia because once a power station is shut down they are immediately destroyed with great urgency.
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“The government you elect is the government you deserve.” ― Thomas Jefferson
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“Vote 1 Muppet! you will get one anyway”
– a roadside sign
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David, Australia is still exporting masses of gas and coal. We have risked national security and increased sovereign risk, but unlike the UK, Germany and the Netherlands we didn’t shut down our own production of fossil fuels.
We live the daft hypocrisy of making our own energy unaffordable but governments would not cut off the money flow from exports.
I suspect the only reason we haven’t reached the same point in the U-turn as Europe is only because we are too rich with energy, the pain isn’t burning here as much as it is there. Our winters are not as cold.
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Jo:
Germany didn’t shut down their coal production, only stopping some generation plants (but not destroying them as our morons do). And they expanded one mine recently even removing wind turbines there).
Even as the Engewende reached its peek they still got their electricity from 23% (brown coal) plants. Now the figure is more like 33%.
And there used to be some chemical works using lignite (to make Waxes etc.) but I assume that these have gone in the depression.
The policies in the UK are similar to our morons but there are slight signs of sanity returning e.g. Drax may have to go back to coal (although the coal seam the plant was built on may not be usable from neglect – a customer for Australian coal? )
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No comrades, do not think of the windmill bursting into flame, it did not burn until it was gutted, it did not emit clouds of toxic fumes, it did not spill oil and burnt toxic debris into the sea; the headline story is that it merely gently self-extinguished!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-66510193.amp
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Burning windmills are beautiful.
The best fires are when the blades are still spinning and you see a spiral pattern from the smoke downwind. Like this: https://youtu.be/PHCaaSMPBnc
But destruction from out-of-balance due to extreme overspeed is good too, like this one: https://youtu.be/oAWMpxX60KM
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I’m guessing somewhere in the world the head advisor to a Wind Turbine Clean Energy committee is one Ms Catherine Wheel.
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The second one! I must be a bad person to get so much joy out of seeing something explode…
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Nah, just join the club.
Cheers
Dave B
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Drs Richard Lindzen and Will Happer in a letter to the EPA
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Happer-Lindzen-EPA-Power-Plants-2023-07-19.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
An excerpt from the letter below. It’s worthwhile reading the whole letter. Easy reading, understandable and factual.
Here the EPA relies on a number of studies, cited and analyzed below, that do not use the
scientific method and therefore are not reliable. Instead, all use what we call the “Unscientific
Method”: consensus, peer review, government opinion from the International Panel on Climate
Change (“IPCC”), models that do not work, falsifying data by omitting contradictory data, and
fabrication of supporting data. None of this produces scientific knowledge; only the scientific
method does.
In science, omitting contradictory data is such an egregious violation of the scientific
method that it is deemed “falsification.”6
It is illustrated by what can be called the “world is flat
analysis,” which involves cherry-picking a limited set of favorable data and then failing to consider
contradictory evidence. Under this method, the theory that the world is flat is true if one uses only
eyesight data and does not consider the voluminous other evidence that it is round.
The Unscientific Method of analysis, relying on consensus, peer review, government
opinion, models that do not work, cherry-picking data and omitting voluminous contradictory data,
is commonly employed in these studies and by the EPA in the Proposed Rule. None of the studies
provides scientific knowledge, and thus none provides any scientific support for the Proposed
Rule.
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Thanks. A lot of good solid data in that document.
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“Here the EPA relies on a number of studies, cited and analyzed below, that do not use the
scientific method and therefore are not reliable. Instead, all use what we call the “Unscientific
Method”: consensus, peer review, government opinion from the International Panel on Climate
Change (“IPCC”), models that do not work, falsifying data by omitting contradictory data, and
fabrication of supporting data. None of this produces scientific knowledge; only the scientific
method does. In science, omitting contradictory data is such an egregious violation of the scientific
method that it is deemed “falsification.”6”
Seems the perfect submission to the Censorship Bill!
“7-1(a)The content contains information that is false, misleading or deceptive; ”
Takes in all global warming and Covid vax at once!
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Here is an excellent Tucker interview of RFK Jr.
https://youtu.be/HN5A6lhjV0c
Unlike modern Leftists, RFK is “old school”. He is polite, he is an intellectual, he knows history, he is pro-science and pro-rationalism, he is patriotic, he is a decent and honest human being. He is also more conservative than typical GOP members today. He is not obnoxious in any way.
No wonder the modern Left hate him and the White House Resident refuses to give him Secret Service protection.
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RFK is pro-science when it comes to vaccines and the creation of Randomized Controlled Trials before approval versus Big Pharma fixing the game with Government scientists and politicians in on the payoff. News is just out in the States that primary care physicians were getting at least $50 a CoVid Jab in some states as part of their incentive package from the emergency pandemic spending.
But, RFK is anything but pro-science when it comes to climate change. I pulled this article in a quick search, but it’s where he stood, and probably still does even though he may be backing off AGW running for a President. But, I think we all know politicians go home to roost after they get elected.
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-climate-change
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Yes, he’s all for the “transition to renewables” to “save” the planet.
The treatment he dished out to his second wife didn’t end well either.
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I find it hard to believe that RFK Jr is the new messiah that is going to change the USA and help the rest of us.
He appears to have bought into a lot of the green BS and appears to be anti nuclear. This alone means if he was president the pain and economic ruin would continue.
Also, he has bought 100% into the zionist playbook and shows no sympathies for the Palestinian predicament. This wouldn’t bode well for world peace.
On the positive side he speaks well and he is, IMO, spot on with the Covid fiasco, USA state corruption and he has stated he would free Julian Assange if elected.
His real chances are insignificant so at the moment he can say what he likes, if elected we would find out if he is real or full of bluster.
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China Abandons Clean Energy Goals Making US Efforts Painful And Pointless
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FWIW – more on the covid scene
“DrBeen Has A Bit Of Burn per FDA Defense ~”It’s OK when Government Lies”… ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/08/12/drbeen-has-a-bit-of-burn-per-fda-defense-its-ok-when-government-lies/
TGA primer notes?
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It was quite cold in Melbournistan overnight.
According to my private weather station (inner urban area with heat island effect) it got to 4C / 39F overnight.
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Toasty! -3C here. 😎
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We had -1C minimum last night, same the night before, 0C the night before that. Lovely sunny days once the fog clears.
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Glacier scientist does actual science, makes “surprising” discovery:
B.C. Glaciers 28-49% Thicker Than Models Estimated
https://electroverse.info/record-cold-denver-historic-snowpack-full-utah-reservoirs-b-c-glaciers-thicker/
Cap reminds us of Montana’s National Park Service removing of all their ‘Glaciers Gone by 2020’ signs.
That must have been a humiliating exercise.
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“Those models work pretty well in the absence of data”
ummmm, no.
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Now what was that recent UK poll where das gubermint said they would ignore the 80% swing as they believed the public were exposed to misinformation, and so the results were invalid?
If voting could change anything they wouldn’t let you do it.
Look at Pedo Joe:
Joe Biden Announces ‘New World Order Is Here’, There Is No US Election.
https://rumble.com/v37xzn9-joe-biden-announces-new-world-order-is-here-there-is-no-us-election.html
Maui’s getting very interesting:
The Insurance companies are now telling Maui residents they have zoning infractions on their land and won’t be paying out.
https://twitter.com/Xx17965797N/status/1691319974457978880/video/1
Zoning infractions???
The emergency alert system didn’t even squeak.
How about those development plans?
https://twitter.com/catsscareme2021/status/1690499296204898304/
Or Biden’s slap-in-the-face one-off payment of $700 per household to Maui as compensation, while asking congress for $24B for Ukraine.
Naaahhh…it’s just a conspiracy theory like 15 min. cities…
By the end of next year CBDC’s will be here, climate lockdowns and global chaos.
Buying that small farm in the sticks is the very best thing you can do.
Not a single worthwhile, competent, non-corrupt/power-crazed political party on the horizon for the coming Oz elections, I see.
Now what would such a party look like I wonder.
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OK everyone – As Pauline H would say – “please explain”
Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change
Fire and Fury: The Story of the Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change is a gripping and eye-opening account of one of the most devastating wildfires in Hawaii’s history, and how it reveals the urgent need to address the global climate crisis. The book chronicles the events of August 8-11, 2023, when a massive fire swept across the island of Maui, fueled by drought, heat, and hurricane winds. The book describes the harrowing experiences of the people who lived through the fire, as well as the heroic efforts of the firefighters and rescuers who battled the flames. The book also examines the causes and consequences of the fire, both locally and globally, and how it exposes the vulnerability of our society and our planet to the impacts of climate change. The book draws on scientific research, eyewitness accounts, official reports, and media coverage to provide a comprehensive and compelling narrative of the Maui fire and its implications for climate change.
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Implications-Climate-Change-ebook/dp/B0CFCTLXJJ
How long does it take to write a book?
Published Aug 10th…
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It was written for Australia so they just quickly changed the names.
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Wht an impressive creation!
” …chronicles the events of August 8-11, 2023, …”
Published August 10!
And with all that thorough investigation . And attribution I suppose.
Think I’ll buy a comic.
Cheers
Dave B
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Not long using ChatGBT.
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The government should not have to the power/ability to define mis-information.
In particular I used the following quote attributed to Michael Crichton at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, USA on January 17, 2003
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science, consensus is irrelevant. What are relevant are reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus
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Done already…
“For the purposes of this Schedule, dissemination of content using a digital service is misinformation on the digital service if
(a) the content contains information that is false, misleading or deceptive; ”
and disinformation is defined as the same. Translation- ‘Anything we don’t like someone saying’
Of course it is obvious all election promises will have special exemptions from the law!
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“This is unbelievable. Anthony Albanese admits he hasn’t read the Uluru statement in full.
The Uluru Statement asserts that Aboriginal sovereignty “co-exist” with the crown.
It literally calls for two sovereign nations, one white, one black, and Albanese hasn’t read it.”
PM in reply to a question on radio by Neil Mitchell
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“Lightweight Therapeutic Albanese hasn’t read the Uluru statement”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/lightweight-therapeutic-albanese-hasnt-read-the-uluru-statement.html
Reckon there has been any in depth reading on wind and solar either?
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Peta Credlin on this
https://youtu.be/W1tsTh7OxWA
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There is no mention of any of this in the statement.
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I think I’m disgusted, but not surprised.
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Albo seems be channeling Kamala Harris with the depth of preparation and understanding of his initiatives.
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He’s a politician. They are Gods. Facts, Science and Truth is for the plebs. They don’t need to read anything because they define our reality.
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LinkedIn accounts hacked in widespread hijacking campaign
LinkedIn is being targeted in a wave of account hacks resulting in many accounts being locked out for security reasons or ultimately hijacked by attackers.
As reported today by Cyberint, many LinkedIn users have been complaining about the account takeovers or lockouts and an inability to resolve the problems through LinkedIn support.
“Some have even been pressured into paying a ransom to regain control or faced with the permanent deletion of their accounts,” reports Cyberint’s researcher Coral Tayar.
“While LinkedIn has not yet issued an official announcement, it appears that their support response time has lengthened, with reports of a high volume of support requests.”
“My account was hacked 6 days ago. Email was changed in the middle of the night and I had no ability to confirm the change or prevent it,” wrote an affected user in Reddit thread about the hacks.
“No response from them anywhere. It’s pathetic. I tried reporting my hacked account, going through identity verification, and even DMing them on @linkedinhelp on twitter. No responses anywhere. What a joke of a company..”
Cyberint says there are also signs of a breakout reflected in Google Trends, where search terms about LinkedIn account hack or recovery record an increase of 5,000% over the past few months.
https://cyberint.com/blog/research/linkedin-accounts-under-attack-how-to-protect-yourself/
How fortunate! I closed my account a week ago.
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Here we go: Scientists demand Britons wear face masks as new Covid variant spreads
The variant could “potentially cause a big wave”, Brits have been warned, as a professor said the UK is “worryingly” ill-prepared for such an event.
Scientists have suggested Brits may need to don masks again as a new variant of Covid-19 is recorded in multiple countries.
Dubbed BA.X, online virus trackers have found the virus in Denmark and Israel, although this has not yet been independently verified.
Some scientists are already calling for new measures to be introduced – but others say it is too early to determine whether the variant could lead to another pandemic.
Dr Trisha Greenhalgh, an internationally-renowned expert in primary care, based at the University of Oxford, tweeted: “It looks like it’s once again time to MASK UP”.
Meanwhile, Professor Christina Pagel, a mathematician from University College London who sits on Independent SAGE, said: “To everyone else — very very early days but this coronavirus variant (now in 2 countries) has a LOT of new mutations that makes it v different to previous Omicron strains.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1802588/covid-face-masks-variant
“a LOT of new mutations” eh…
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Winter is coming, Kids are back to school in a couple of weeks. Inevitably there will be a lot of colds and flu – as there has been for decades at this time of year. TPTB will use this as an excuse to promote pandemic fear – again.
[SNIP. People will not get the joke. – Jo]
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Anthony Albanese has NOT read the full Uluru Statement: “Why would I?”
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Apart from Kim, who else is here and not watching the Matildas?
I watched the last half hour of the last game and it didn’t win me over.
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I didn’t watch, I loathe soccer.
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How Did The Devastating Maui Fires Really Start?
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Is that the real Q? Even if started by arsonists they should have been controllable. So who didn’t clear the undergrowth?
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Tricky to control anything, let alone a wildfire…. in hurricane force winds !
But someone should have thought of the potential risk before it happened. ?
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Quebec energy minister says number of cars will need to be reduced by 50%
https://tnc.news/2023/08/16/quebec-minister-reduce-cars/
“Quebec’s energy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon said on Monday that the number of cars currently on the road will need to be reduced by 50% to help facilitate a green transition.
“I’m one of those people who believes that electric cars… Everything has to be electric. But you have to have half as many,” said Fitzgibbon in a press conference.
His comments come amid Quebec pursuing a net-zero agenda, which includes a ban on the sale of all new gasoline cars in 2035 – similar to those pursued by the federal government…”
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