Wednesday

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      DD

      It’s groundhog day.

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      David Maddison

      That’s very good news.

      Once Great Britain’s police have degenerated from arguably the best in the world to the worst and wokest.

      Hopefully this measure will restore confidence in them and they’ll stop sending teams of seven police to arrest autistic 16 year old girls for supposed breaches of wokeness.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12399911/Revealed-Mother-autistic-daughter-16-dragged-home-police-saying-female-officer-lesbian-like-nana-set-SUE-force.html

      EXCLUSIVE – Revealed: Mother whose autistic daughter, 16, was dragged from home by police after saying a female officer was ‘a lesbian like nana’ is set to take legal action against the force

      By Mark Branagan and Arthur Parashar
      Updated: 16:16 12 Aug 2023

      And looking at the female officer who complained, I think the girl was correct in her assessment, not that the girl said anything wrong or derogatory or even not woke.

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        Strop

        Perhaps life does imitate art. I recall my parents used to enjoy watching The Bill. But then it went down a path of “woke” and they switched off. (I guess a lot of people did given it’s long run came to an end) The UK police seem to be somewhat following their TV image. Problem with reality is you can’t just switch it off.

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      Philip

      Big white pill. But why should it be? It’s just completely logical to have politically impartial Police.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      Interesting to contrast the way those very same police deal with the Just Stop Oil mob. The difference is of course that governments around the western world are secretly supporting JSO because they too have an anti-fossil fuel agenda.

      It’s been said before; most western police forces are now effectively the enforcers of our (mostly) socialist governments.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Relevant here is the contrast between how authorities are quick to shut down talks by the likes of Ben Shapiro, because they IMAGINE that folks might get violent, versus the continuing support for London’s Notting Hill Carnival, which always involves stabbings, fights, destruction and widespread thefts. Again though, one is an event with a conservative audience while the other is one, which usually involves ACTUAL violence but celebrates one of the left’s chosen ‘minorities’ is therefore untouchable.

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      Philip

      ‘He’s conning us out of our hard earned money. I only drive 3,00 to 4,000 miles a year. I don’t do the mileage to cause a lot of pollution yet they want me to pay £12.50 a day. It’s outrageous.

      ‘I’m living on a state pension of £186-a-week.’

      No need for further comment. That says it all.

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    tonyb

    Here we see a good example of people not appreciating the consequences of supporting green energy

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1807116/pylons-national-grid-essex-ardleigh

    By definition most wind and solar farms are either off shore or in less densely populated countryside. As a result the power needs to get where it is is needed which means it will need to be put on pylons going through peoples backyards.

    When heat pumps are routinely installed in future, neighbours will be driven mad with their noise and dismay their installer with the costs and poor performance and perhaps they will realise they have been hoodwinked.

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      John Hultquist

      heat pumps are routinely installed

      HPs are not intrinsically bad but the requirements are not met in many places. I have a “stick-built” house designed with ducts for AC and heating. Insulation is good and electricity costs low. The only alternative would be a large propane tank in the yard. {See: https://www.midwaygas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/propane-tank.jpg }
      Piped gas is not an option.

      I have a modern wood stove with a catalytic burner, my own on-site wood supply (trees), and a chainsaw. Cold winters require an emergency source of heat. The AC/heater has resistance heaters so low temperatures require their use and more cost. The house also has a separate (not part of the HP) electrical-resistance water heater.

      Places that don’t come close to matching the above situation shouldn’t install heat pumps.

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    Reader

    CDC, increased infection risk in vaccinated
    Dr. John Campbell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RFMQEEmU8g

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      Honk R Smith

      Nothing to see here, move along, get your booster.
      BTW, nice stat graph from OZ is featured in this vid.
      Also POTUS cameo.
      Never dropped acid, was it like this?

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        Honk R Smith

        Allow me to restate …
        what do we call it when public policy is being guided by the hallucinating?

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      David Maddison

      Sorry Reader, in my eagerness to post, I didn’t notice your post when I did mine, but I added more details as well.

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        another ian

        Call it reinforcing (IMO)

        Along the lines of

        To get your message across tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and tell them what you told them

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    Skepticynic

    ‘Out of Africa I’ challenged

    A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago.

    https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ancient-ape-trkiye-story-human.html

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      David Maddison

      It’s very possible because current “out of Africa” theories don’t seem to account for the sudden appearance of Cro Magnon or as they are now known by their politically correct name, European Anatomically Modern Humans.

      And modern humans appear to be a hybrid species with various populations/races have varying degrees of admixture (or not) of Neanderthal and Denisovan and there is possible evidence for another “ghost species” in some African populations.

      Human species, all extinct except one, are:

      Homo sapiens
      Homo habilis
      Homo rudolfensis
      Homo erectus
      Homo antecessor
      Homo heidelbergensis
      Homo floresiensis
      Homo neanderthalensis
      Homo naledi
      Homo denisova or Homo altaiensis (to be confirmed)

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      Gee Aye

      That is literally not what out of Africa means. OOA is the evolution and spread of modern humans in the much more recent past. OOA theory is unaffected by where the common ancestor to Pan, Gorilla and Homo evolved.

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      el+gordo

      They have found a third lineage in China, only goes back 300,000 years, but its impressive because its neither Denisovan or Erectus and has homo sapien traits.

      https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html#:~:text=In%20their%20study%2C%20reported%20in,a%20part%20of%20East%20China.

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    David Maddison

    US CDC admits vaxxed are more susceptible to getting latest covid variant, BA.2.86.

    I reported this the other day. It was discussed by Dr Philip McMillan:

    https://www.youtube.com/live/P8c2ynqrOd4

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40592-4

    Now, Dr John Campbell talks about how the covid vaxxed are MORE SUSCEPTIBLE to getting BA.2.86 as admitted to by the CDC.

    Fancy that, a “vaccine” that makes you more susceptible to the disease it’s supposedly meant to protect you against. The CDC also says that if you have previously had covid, it also makes you more susceptible but Dr John doesn’t accept that, and it doesn’t seem plausible in any case.

    NOTE: Even the CDC admits to this.

    Video: https://youtu.be/9RFMQEEmU8g

    Note to covid vaccine pushers: Time for your 13th dose. Go and get it.

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    James Murphy

    I’m not in Australia, but I read a lot of noise about ticks versus crosses on the referendum form, but ultimately the AEC says it must be “yes” or “no” as text.

    Anything to distract people from thinking about how incredibly racist a “yes” vote really is, I guess…

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      David Maddison

      ultimately the AEC says it must be “yes” or “no” as text

      A “tick” will be accepted and count as “yes” but a “cross” will not be accepted as no.

      And it will be up to individual polling booth managers to decide what the “voter intention” was.

      What could possibly go wrong?

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        DLK

        a tick in the “no” box will count as a “yes”?

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          David Maddison

          Looking at the official AEC website, that particular point is ambiguous.

          It comes down to whatever the polling booth manager thinks the voter’s intention was under the so-called “savings provisions”.

          https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/aec/faqs.html

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          Stanley

          Oddly there is only one box for the voter’s response. Why there are not two boxes (one for yes and another for no) is beyond my pay-grade. A mark of any type in either box would then indicate the voter’s intention.

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          Bushkid

          There is no “Yes” or “No” box.

          You have to actually write Yes or No in the single box provided.

          do not tick or cross at all – write the word of your choice in full.

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            DLK

            then a tick or a cross is an informal vote and should not be counted.

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              strop

              That’s the obvious and reasonable way to assess it. But that’s too sensible for an election authority. The AEC has suggested a tick is likely a yes but a cross is too obscure to determine so it’s an “informal” vote.

              I always vote informal. No point getting dressed up for a Saturday morning trip to the local school hall.

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                Gob

                For over a decade I have been advocating that the only sensible vote in Australia is informal; this has the added benefit that the three dollar contribution to the nominated party does not get allocated from the public purse.

                When the day comes that the major parties’ policies are distinguishable one from another my advice will likely change.

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                DLK

                a tick could just mean they they turned up.

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      Gee Aye

      If it is a distraction then the No campaign, who is complaining about this, is doing the distracting.

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        Adellad

        The entire “voice” matter is a distraction – the double standard concerning ticks and crosses merely shows us how corrupt our institutions have become.

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        el+gordo

        For the illiterate or lazy, a tick or cross will suffice.

        “Let’s be very clear,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “Voting No leads nowhere. It means nothing changes. Voting No closes the door on this opportunity to move forward.” (SMH)

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          David of Cooyal in Oz

          And voting “yes” leads to apartheid, rule by minority, and unchangeable discrimination.
          Just make sure you spell “No” correctly in that single box.

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      Gary S

      The left may just have painted themselves into a corner concerning their ‘Voice.’ Imagine a scenario where the ‘Yes’ vote succeeds and the worst outcome is achieved – Aboriginal treaty, ownership of all lands, waters, etc., reparations. Then the only course of action open to white and other hued Australians is to IDENTIFY as aboriginals. The left have already decreed that no proof is required, so all you need to do to retain your property is pick a tribe and Bob’s your uncle, or elder, or something Anyway, your property and rights are safe.

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    David Maddison

    Here is an outstanding 15 min video explaining schizophrenia based upon the theory of “aberrant salience”.

    Excellent. And I found it fully describes a person I know with schizophrenia.

    https://youtu.be/OXsDdY6Xo90

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    Reader

    But we have the very best press that money can buy!

    Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations
    Billed as purveyor of ‘unbiased news,’ wire service strikes lucrative sponsorship agreements with progressive charities

    https://freebeacon.com/media/associated-press-coverage-of-courts-climate-bankrolled-by-dozens-of-left-wing-foundations/

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      David Maddison

      Apart from politicians, I think “journalists” belong to the most morally and financially corrupt of professions.

      Back in the day, even Leftist journalists at least attempted to be honest.

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        David Maddison

        I should have said, a “vast majority” of journalists. There are a handful that are honest and not morally corrupt.

        And I am referring to “professional” journalists, not citizen-journalists like Jo who are the genuine and honest journalists these days.

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    David Maddison

    https://www.rebelnews.com/australia_s_first_female_pm_can_t_define_a_woman

    Australia’s first female PM can’t define a ‘woman’

    Julia Gillard grapples with simple question at an Adelaide event.

    By Rebel News August 28, 2023

    In a recent speaking event at Adelaide’s Government House focusing on ‘women’s advancement’, footage revealed Australia’s former prime minister Julia Gillard navigating a seemingly simple query.

    Biddy O’Loughlin, a women’s rights activist in the audience, posed the question: “What is a woman?” She further probed Gillard’s stance on statements by Queensland’s Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman and UK’s leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer concerning the inclusion of trans women within the definition of ‘woman’.

    Julia Gillard expressed her concerns about the “divisive nature” of the discussion, calling it a “gotcha parlour game”.

    She urged the community to appreciate the diversity of life experiences, emphasising empathy for those who “identify as transgender”.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

    This is the same being who “purchased” for itself (not sure of its pronouns) an honorary doctorate and professorship from the Unversity of Adelaide by gifting them $100 million of taxpayer money 12 days before she lost the prime minister job. Why else would she get one, she was an utterly unworthy PM and individual?

    https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news64562.html

    JULIA GILLARD TO BE HONORARY PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

    Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accepted an honorary Visiting Professorship with her alma mater, the University of Adelaide.

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      Leo G

      She urged … empathy for those who “identify as transgender”

      Presumably, this empathy involves identifying as transgender.
      No harm in that?

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      Forrest Gardener

      There will be no hyperbowl or carbon tax under a government she leads.

      Always marvel at how the dimwitted and dishonest rise up the greasy poles of power so smoothly.

      I just add it to the very long list of things I do not understand.

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        Hanrahan

        I’ll never forgive Gillard. I just can’t pronounce “hyperbole” correctly now and as Gillard fades from memory I just sound ignorant.

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        KP

        “Always marvel at how the dimwitted and dishonest rise up the greasy poles of power so smoothly.”

        Same reason the German Police use Alsatians and not Dobermans. They started with schooling Dobermans but found they were intelligent enough to disobey an order that might get them shot, then they found Alsatians were stupid enough to do anything they’re told.

        They people controlling politicians don’t want bright ones, you only get to vote between the stupid.

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    David Maddison

    Video of modern reproduction of possible techniques ancients might have used to move and raise megaliths.

    The principles of mechanical advantage (force amplification) are used, something that used to be taught in schools, back in the day.

    https://youtu.be/xD5Lc3-5iDs

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      David Maddison

      As Archimedes said (Wikiquote):

      Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.

      This variant derives from an earlier source than Pappus: The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus, Fragments of Book XXVI, as translated by F. R. Walton, in Loeb Classical Library (1957) Vol. XI. In Doric Greek this may have originally been Πᾷ βῶ, καὶ χαριστίωνι τὰν γᾶν κινήσω πᾶσαν [Pā bō, kai kharistiōni tan gān kinēsō [variant kinasō] pāsan].

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      John Connor II

      It’s somewhat different constructing a pyramid to lifting one block of stone on its end though.
      Even a multi-generational effort given the sand, soft timbers and quarry distances of the Egyptian empire gives further credence to the Egyptians colonising pre-existing cities.
      Stonehenge of course is way easier, as that video and numerous others showing the same techniques demonstrate.

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    David Maddison

    There is a railway station in Japan called Seiryu Miharashi Station (清流みはらし駅, Seiryū Miharashi-eki).

    It connects to no roads or footpaths and there is no way in or out.

    Its sole purpose is to stop and look at the scenery.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I love Japan. I find it hard work to get around and, in Tokyo at least, I usually start to feel like an ant after three or four nights and desperate to get out into the country. I love the Japanese culture, too. It’s so lovely to see so much courtesy, especially among the young, including toward visitors. I remember when the UK used to be like that.

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        Adellad

        It’s not one-way traffic though is it? Bushido as manifested in the 1930’s (Nanking) and during WWII was hardly an exemplar of consideration for others.

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          Steve of Cornubia

          That’s OK because it isn’t 1930 any more and modern Japanese had nothing to do with Japan’s decision to enter the war.

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      John Connor II

      It connects to no roads or footpaths and there is no way in or out.

      Sounds like a 15 minute city. 😁

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “How it started:

    “Instead of trying to blame people, let’s encourage people to protect themselves,” Scalise, who received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning, told ABC News Correspondent Kyra Phillips on ABC News Live. “In terms of hospitalizations, that’s where you see people that aren’t vaccinated showing up the most and so you want to encourage people to get it.”

    Except that was a lie; we now know that any protection you got faded off quickly and thus it was basically worthless. Which was exactly what we should have expected from a couple of decades of trying to vaccinate against coronaviruses: It has never worked in either man or beast and there was utterly no evidence that it would this time either, nor that we could interrupt transmission (that is, protect others.) In fact Dr. Birx admitted she knew (as did anyone else who read the original protocols for the trials and studies) that she had no evidence that would be the case and neither did anyone else.”

    More at

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249579

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      David Maddison

      we now know that any protection you got faded off quickly and thus it was basically worthless. 

      It was worse than worthless because the long lasting legacy you were left with was a damaged immune system making you more susceptible to covid than unvaxxed and possibly other unknown effects.

      SEE my post #6 above.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I saw my cardiologist a few days ago, just for a routine consult. Apparently my buggered old ticker is still limping along.

      For the second time, he suggested I try a new mRNA-based treatment for lowering cholesterol which is/will require just an annual jab rather than daily tablets. For the second time I explained to him that I do not trust any mRNA-based treatment and have no intention of risking it at this stage. He didn’t push too hard, but later in the conversation he admitted that he wouldn’t risk it either, yet!

      So how many doctors push medications that they themselves wouldn’t take? What happened to medical ethics?

      To be honest, he might have thought his confession would mark him as an honest broker but it has convinced me to – finally – seek another cardiologist. Had I simply accepted his initial advice – to take the mRNA concoction – would he have gone on to tell me he thinks it’s risky?

      The problem now of course is finding a new, honest and ethical cardiologist. Untill they do something like that you really don’t know who you’re dealing with. Maybe, at the very first consult, I should start by asking his/her opinion on the new mRNA cholesterol medication?

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        David Maddison

        And this is not medical advice but you might want to look into whether having “high bad cholesterol” i.e. high LDL is genuinely bad for you or not.

        Or is it junk science?

        Do you supplement with K2? You might want to look at that too.

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          Steve of Cornubia

          Yes, I take vit. K2 along with my D3. As for LDL, I’m sceptical but nevertheless aware that elevated LDL correlates very strongly with coronary artery disease, which I have and which led to me having a heart attack. My brother has had elevated LDL for decades and he too had a heart attack a few years ago. My sister meanwhile, who is obese and drinks like a sailor with a shore pass, has no cholesterol problem or heart disease.

          The only thing I’m sure about is that I can’t be sure of anything …

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            Strop

            Alcohol apparently limits the bloods capacity to carry cholesterol. Maybe that’s what has helped your sister?

            I don’t drink and have nine stents. Five in my late 40’s and four more a few years later. (even with daily cholesterol lowering tabs)

            Probably all the sugars I’ve consumed drinking tea with two, cordial, and soft drink instead of alcohol. 🙂

            My cardiologist said there was an increase in young people seeing him after covid vaccination. He said they haven’t been back for a follow-up so they either got over their initial symptoms/reactions or died.

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          John Connor II

          And this is not medical advice but you might want to look into whether having “high bad cholesterol” i.e. high LDL is genuinely bad for you or not.

          Or is it junk science?

          Anyone want a post on the topic?
          Short answer – forget what your doctor and the msm told you.
          I can blow it all out of the water like the Nordstream pipeline. 😁

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            MP

            I went to my quack for a medical for work, as soon as I sat down, before even a hello, she stated “you will be wanting a flu vaxx”.
            The only test results I have had done were three years ago, which showed nothing out of ordinary, I left with a script for Statins, went straight into the bin.

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            Hanrahan

            I haven’t the vaguest idea what my cholesterol levels are. That suits me fine, I have no curiosity.

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        Ronin

        “at the very first consult, I should start by asking his/her opinion on the new mRNA cholesterol medication”

        That should be the first thing to be asked of a new doc, they would be on an earner from the pharma just like their push on the earlier statins.

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      Richard C (NZ)

      >”Scalise, who received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning”

      House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Diagnosed With Blood Cancer

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/house-majority-leader-steve-scalise-diagnosed-blood-cancer/

      At least the vax was ‘safe and effective’, or not.

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      KP

      “TES and others over on X (along with myself) have noted a very statistically-significant increase in cancer diagnoses and spending since the jabs rolled out. Not since Covid showed up — no, this was more than a year later that it magically appeared and it hasn’t gone away. ”

      When I skimmed over that my mind clearly read ‘a very satisfactorily-significant increase in cancer..’ Dunno, they say the mind puts words into your head.

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      Hanrahan

      Is Scalise as bright as we think he is?

      WASHINGTON — Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, said Tuesday he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma and is undergoing treatment.

      Must want to turbocharge his cancer.

      Should read the whole thread. 🙁

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    Leo G

    Recall that project which Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen asserted to be the critical element in doubling the energy delivered through the grid from renewables to 82 per cent by 2030?
    From today’s Sydney Morning Herald:-

    The cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project has doubled within the last six months to be close to $12 billion, according to a new cost estimate, forcing the Albanese government to make a critical and costly decision about the project’s future.
    The massive 2000 megawatt expansion of the Snowy pumped hydro scheme was announced by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in March 2017 with a completion date of 2021 and a price tag of $2 billion. By May this year that had blown out to $5.9 billion and a 2029 deadline.

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      David Maddison

      How much has been blown so far?

      And if they cancel, how much extra will it cost to restore the environmental damage already done?

      And if they do go ahead, I think the price will at least double to $24 billion and completion will be 2035 AND IT WILL STILL BE USELESS AND COAL POWER STATIONS WILL STILL PUMP THE WATER UPHILL.

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      David Maddison

      Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to make engineering decisions.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Absolutely. Nor should they interfere with free markets in a supposedly capitalist economy.

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        Forrest Gardener

        A lot of things would be done better or not at all if the politicians and public serpents had some skin in the game. Using other people’s money is a very hazardous source of funding.

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          Steve of Cornubia

          Well gifting $100M of taxpayers’ money to Adelaide University worked well for Prof. Gillard.

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      Ronin

      It sounds like the time has come to quit while they are only a bit behind.

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      The cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project has doubled within the last six months to be close to $12 billion…….

      BUT…. Even at that cost, it is still a much cheaper alternative for storage than batteries.
      SN2 is stated to have a capacity of 240 GWh,..
      …….so costing $50,000 per MWh
      At current prices Utility scale battery systems are costing Au $634,000 per MWh ..
      ….12+ times as much as Snowy 2 !
      So the equivalent cost for 240 GWH of battery storage would be..Au$160+ billion !
      If Bowen & co are committed to intermittents + storage,…then they know they have to keep going with SN 2 !
      https://electrek.co/2022/03/21/tesla-hikes-megapack-prices-backlog-extends/

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    Richard C (NZ)

    EV Fail: Car Dealers Turning Away From Electric Vehicles After Learning Harsh Economics Lesson
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/ev-fail-car-dealers-turning-away-electric-vehicles/

    The pool of consumers wealthy enough to afford an EV and risk-tolerant enough to be willing to be an early adopter of EV technology has largely bought what it’s going to buy, Insider reported.

    Saturation setting in in the US at least.

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      Graeme No.3

      Yes, and as the BRICs nations expand and their economies increase, we in the gullible politicians zone will be worse off.

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    MP

    Just when you think society has hit rock bottom, you realise there are still many levels to fall.

    https://www.bigw.com.au/brands/deddy-bears

    DEAD WRONG: BIG W ‘DEDDY BEARS’ ANOTHER ATTACK ON OUR KIDS’ INNOCENCE

    Yet another concerning product has made its way onto the shelves of Big W. The items brought to our attention this time are ‘Deddy Bears’ – plush toy bears that are presented in body bags accompanied by autopsy reports.

    These ‘toys’ are far from appropriate for children and represent yet another disheartening assault on the innocence of our young ones. At a time when protecting the pure and unblemished nature of childhood should be paramount, it’s disconcerting to witness such products being made available.

    We ask you to stand with us in sending a strong message to BigW and the ACCC to request the removal of these morbid items from the shelves. Our children deserve a childhood untainted by such inappropriate influences, and together our voice can make a difference.

    Even Teddy Bears are dying suddenly, now we definitely need a royal commission.
    Read the autopsy reports.
    natoffice@acl.org.au

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    DD

    If you have 12m 45s to waste, watch this UK Talk TV debate between host Rosanna Lockwood, Reform UK’s Richard Tice, the Grantham Institute on Climate Change’s Bob Ward, and Professor Judith Curry. All we learn from it is that so-called debates are just a complete and utter waste of time, because they always descend into:
    ‘Yes it is’
    ‘No it isn’t’
    ‘Yes it is’
    ‘No it isn’t’
    ‘You’re a liar’
    ‘No you’re a liar’
    ‘No you’re a liar’
    ‘No you’re a liar’
    The only way to catch a person out is to sit them down, one-on-one, and ask them to state their position on an issue, which you then proceed to refute with pre-prepared facts. In other words, don’t ask a question unless you know what their answer will be and you have prepared a fact-based rebuttal to it. But, of course, no half-smart person will allow themselves to be put in a position where they will be challenged like that, will they.
    The handful of conservative politicians in this country who are principled and courageous enough to question officials on government policy should heed this. Too often we see them begin their question with an assertion, which the respondent immediately refutes with ‘alternative facts’, leaving the politician in a position where they have to try to defend their assertion, which takes us back to ‘yes it is, no it isn’t’ and so on, and often casts the politician in a not-too-complimentary light.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      You only have to watch the odd parliamentary enquiry to see that those who have important questions to answer, whether it be around Covid, the vaccines or the Biden Crime Family’s activities, are adept at simply and unashamedly ignoring well-prepared and researched questions. They will simply dodge the question and waffle on about something else. If that doesn’t work, they will ‘take the question on notice’ and then, as we saw with the Pfizer Australia execs recently, ‘forget’ to provide answers afterwards.

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      Strop

      Seems like a good spot to insert the Monty Python classic Argument.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc

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    Strop

    [Comment removed by request from Strop.]AD
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    Richard C (NZ)

    Meta Drops University-Based Fact-Checking Group After Bias Exposed

    From Down Under comes a rare triumph for victims of manipulative social media “fact-checking.”

    Facebook parent Meta has suspended the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) from its fact-checking operation after investigative reporters exposed its leftist bias and the expiration of its fact-checking certification from the entity that coordinates Meta’s policing of speech.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meta-drops-university-based-fact-checking-group-after-bias-exposed

    Originally paid up to $740,000 a year but they did the job free of charge when its certification expired.

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    John Connor II

    Mozart Can Act as a Painkiller For Newborns, First-of-Its-Kind Trial Suggests

    Babies that are about to get poked by doctors may benefit from the lullabies of Mozart.

    A recent randomized, blinded control trial has found that calming background music during minor medical procedures can somewhat alleviate signs of pain in newborns.

    The authors conclude “music intervention is an easy, reproducible, and inexpensive tool for pain relief from minor procedures in healthy, term newborns.”

    Today, there is considerable evidence to suggest music can significantly reduce pain perception among adults, and yet it’s not clear how song achieves this incredible feat or whether it’s innate or learned.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-023-02746-4

    Reading comments from certain un-named individuals here has also been known to produce a numbing effect. 😆

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    John Connor II

    Thought for the day.

    They managed to demonise coughs, sniffles, standing too close, and having no symptoms at all, but normalised blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, neurological issues and sudden deaths.

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    John Connor II

    Maui leaves many wondering just what technology government has – analysis

    The Space Preservation Act of 2001 (H.R.2977), which detailed which weapons were not included in its ban on space-based weapons, sparked debate about the extent to which the government was developing non-conventional weapons.

    Just not from space

    As a public law passed by congressmen debriefed on weapons research, the government not only acknowledged various “exotic” weapons, but declared them to be legal so long as they were launched from land, sea or planes. The Act specifically limited the weapons ban to weapons systems based “60 kilometers above the surface of the earth” and, to remove any doubt, expressly stated that other weapons may be developed and produced.

    The Act went on to specify examples of weapons systems which would be allowed to be deployed from land, sea or planes, including Directed Energy (laser) Weapons (DEWs) and “exotic weapons systems” including chemtrails and electronic harassment (psychotronic attacks).

    Man-made earthquakes?

    The Act clarified that “exotic weapons” includes tectonic systems designed to destroy a “target population or region.”
    The term exotic weapons systems includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems . . . or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region

    https://frontline.news/post/maui-leaves-many-wondering-just-what-technology-government-has-analysis

    Then factor in black budget projects.
    Now, there was that manmade major “weather event” in the USA going back to the early 1900’s. I must fish it out of my archives…

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        If you want to understand AFRL mission at Maui/Haleakala, here are the (free) 2022 papers presented at the AMOS conference which is attended by scientists, engineers and military from all over the world.

        https://amostech.com/2022-technical-papers/

        AMOSTech would welcome your attendance at the next session; altho I believe it’s overbooked this year, being very popular. I’ve been there, and all over the Haleakala AFRL/UofHI site and it’s a fun trip.

        The AFRL mission there is Space Situational Awareness. Of course AFRL does DEW work, was well, as indicated on their website. But the big money in that is elsewhere.

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    KP

    Caitlin Johnstone- How to fake America’s greatest icon.

    “The most distinctly American fact you will ever learn is that the piercing cry you associate with the bald eagle ..is the single most American thing in the known universe. It’s more American than talking loudly at tourist attractions. It’s more American than a Bible covered in ranch dressing fingerprints. It’s more American than a Marvel movie about superheroes drinking Mountain Dew in monster trucks. It’s more American than a deep-fried aircraft carrier.”

    Except its a fake, its actually the cry of the Red-Tailed Hawk, which Hollywood has been dubbing over Bald Eagles for decades.

    “Hollywood overdubs the bald eagle with the red-tailed hawk in precisely the same way it paints over the United States with a fictional land in which capitalism is working perfectly, and the cities aren’t full of homeless people, and the citizens aren’t stressed out of their minds working multiple jobs and freaking out on TikTok all the time asking how anyone is getting by in this environment”

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/30/even-the-bald-eagles-call-is-propaganda/

    Just watched the video clip and I can see why they do!

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    John Connor II

    Authorities in denial over vaccine link to soaring pilot deaths

    PILOT deaths are in the news again as three more have ‘died suddenly’ this month.

    Meanwhile there are reports of 15 other incidents involving pilot collapses and deaths. One caused a crash that killed everyone on board, including a two-year-old girl.

    In March alone we reported on five pilots who either collapsed or died. Canadian physician Dr William Makis, author of more than 100 peer-reviewed medical publications, has also been tracking pilot deaths with numerous articles on his Substack page like this one from June 2023 that detailed four Singapore Airlines pilots who died suddenly, or with cancer.

    Many think Covid vaccines, rolled out at the end of 2020, are to blame. Between 2021 and 2022, the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) ‘unfit to fly’ numbers showed a 75 per cent increase, while the RAF said that 27 per cent of their pilots were medically downgraded. All pilots need to demonstrate a less than one per cent chance of developing serious illness to pass their annual medical, which makes these numbers unusual.

    Former Virgin Australia captain Glen Waters from the pilot support group Aussie Freedom Flyers revealed disturbing information: ‘Heart attacks and strokes in our industry are extremely rare.

    One specialised GP with aeromedical qualifications known as a Designated Medical Examiner (DAME) said he had seen a significant increase in the heart condition myocarditis (that can be fatal), and pericarditis. I thought it was one in a hundred but the DAME said no, it’s more like one in ten. He did say that a lot of the symptoms he’d seen were treatable and transient.

    ‘Privately, I’ve spoken to pilots who know they’re vaccine injured. One pilot hardly made it home from his second shot. It took him three and a half hours to drive an 80-minute journey. He had to keep pulling over because he was fainting and sweating. He thought he was going to die. He ended up with pericarditis and leukaemia.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/authorities-in-denial-over-vaccine-link-to-soaring-pilot-deaths/

    https://www.aussiefreedomflyers.com/injury-reporting

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    John Connor II

    Wednesday madness from the mask sheep

    https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1696327316753031670/

    The fear and ignorance of the mask wearers, like the medieval witch burners (which is not remotely funny 😎).

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    Ronin

    Was listening to the local State Sponsored Propaganda station, and what I heard the wheels are really coming off the Ruinables Scam, led by the Snowy 2 scam, barely started but costs blown out to $12B, then the dispatchable 24/7 coalies being replaced by ‘big batteries’, some dimwits are just beginning to realise that batteries don’t generate power.

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      robert rosicka

      Possibly why the gumminint is now going to stop coal fired power generation from closing by paying big subsidies to them , someone has made them realise the facts .

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        Hanrahan

        That’s the weirdest thing: They subsidise ruinables to put coal out of business and then subsidise the coalies to fill in the gaps of S&W.

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          Tel

          If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

          People laughed when Ronald Reagan first said that, but the more you look at how these things work … turns out he was exactly right.

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    another ian

    “Shock News–Pavements Get Hot In Summer!”

    “Of course, if Guardian journalists understood why roads and pavements get hot in summer, they would also appreciate why urban areas get much hotter than rural ones, and that the temperatures they regularly trumpet for cities like Phoenix are not representative.”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/29/shock-news-pavements-get-hot-in-summer/

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    el+gordo

    There are rumours that the Gleissberg Cycle will be upon us in 2024-25.

    I have my doubts.

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    another ian

    “The DOJ’s ‘Totally Legit’ Plan to Investigate the Bidens

    The Department of Justice has appointed federal prosecutor David Weiss as special counsel so he can oversee the botched Hunter Biden investigation run by federal prosecutor David Weiss.”

    https://youtu.be/k3ApGNvEwYM

    https://patriotpost.us/videos/100044-the-dojs-totally-legit-plan-to-investigate-the-bidens-2023-08-29

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    another ian

    For your amazement – or maybe not

    “Don’t go to stupid places. Don’t associate with stupid people. Don’t do stupid things.”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/dont-go-to-stupid-places-dont-associate.html

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    Turtle

    West Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest was pushing a new climate scare today. Says we’re all going to die of high humidity. He’s pushing the climate scare because he wants to power the world with hydrogen. What do you get when you burn hydrogen? Water vapour. The question is, if a big city was full of hydrogen vehicles, how would that affect humidity? Would there be a local humidity island effect, so to speak? Maybe someone with better physics than me can do some calculations.

    Of course we’re not going to be doomed by high humidity. But where does this guy get his scientific advice from?

    He’s also wearing a cravat lately.

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    Reader

    Climate activist smears paint over Tom Thomson piece at National Gallery of Canada

    https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/climate-protester-splashes-paint-on-tom-thomson-piece-at-national-gallery-of-canada-1.6539387

    A climate protester splashed paint on a Tom Thomson piece hanging in the National Gallery of Canada Tuesday as part of escalating activities demanding a national firefighting service.

    A member of the group On2Ottawa, which periodically blocked traffic in Ottawa this month, splashed paint on Thomson’s 1914-15 painting “Northern River”. A video shared by the group on Instagram shows a member smearing pink paint on the glass that protects the oil on canvas painting and then gluing himself to the floor…

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