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    tonyb

    More photos have come to light of the car park fire at Luton airport including a video

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12619171/The-moment-Luton-airport-car-park-COLLAPSES-exploding-Range-Rover-sparks-huge-inferno.html?ito=rss-connatix&traffic_source=Connatix

    Some say the fire appears to be in front of the Range Rover rather than coming from it but a couple say they saw it burning but it was already to late to stop it with their fire extinguisher. That a diesel engine could catch fire in this manner seems extraordinary and for the car park to collapse suggests the fire must have been very intense.

    If the initial blaze came from the diesel vehicle then it seems it must have been very close to EV’s and the fire then increased in intensity when they caught fire. No doubt the Airport, The Airports insurers, the insurers of the various vehicle involved and the fire dept will carry out their own investigation.

    It seems likely EV’s added fuel to the fire but may not have been responsible for the initial conflagration. We shall see

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    tonyb

    There were various pro Palestinian demos in cities as far apart as London Berlin and Sydney.

    There are now large groups of people who have not been assimilated into the host country and who may have serious issues with other citizens, nationalities, clans, religions and their former governments. So we are likely to increasingly see the dangerous issues of other countries and their people being played out on our own streets.

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      John Hultquist

      You make a very good point. In the U. S., assimilation for various groups did not happen without difficulty, but in most cases it did happen.
      Columbus Day was a response to the ly. . .ing of 11 Sicilian immigrants by New Orleans vigilantes. Of various possibilities of “good” Italians to launch a counter trend, Columbus was chosen because of name recognition.

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        Skepticynic

        Heavens above!
        Is lynching now one of the forbidden words?
        I hadn’t read that decree. When was it issued?
        We’re going to need a public list of forbidden words if we’re to avoid offending the mentally and emotionally unstable among us.

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          John Hultquist

          It was just a guess by me, and I wanted an immediate posting.

          Correction too: most of the folks were shot in the jail.

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      James Murphy

      There’s now a large police and military presence on the streets here in Paris.
      Reminiscent of the ubiquitous patrols and guards around for a long time after the Bataclan attack by the 7th century loonies.

      I have no “side” to back. Both have thoroughly dehumanised their enemies and, as a result, have carried out some horrendous attacks on each other over the years.

      Just like Ukraine, I believe the only involvement by Australia should be humanitarian aid to both sides, if anything at all.
      Of course my opinion is just as worthless as any other opinion on the internet.

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        Just like Ukraine, I believe the only involvement by Australia should be humanitarian aid to both sides, if anything at all.

        That is commonly known as “fence sitting” ,.. which usually results in splinters in your rr’s !
        Grow a pair, and commit to a side !

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          Robert Swan

          commit to a side

          That’s fine for (a) partisans, and (b) people who are fully aware of all the facts.

          For ordinary people, what’s wrong with a null hypothesis that it’s baddies vs baddies?

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            Gee Aye

            Agree with this. Another way to look sat it is there are non-combatants (citizens) in Gaza and the rest of Israel who just want to get on with their lives without a war raging around them.

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            DOC

            ‘If you don’t know vote NO!’ So true, especially if one isn’t willing to seek information.

            Today’s problems come largely having the youth of western nations taking their ‘knowledge’ from curriculums required to be taught by many teachers and lecturers happy to take the left side. That’s reinforced via msm and social media. Enforcement or tacit aceptance comes by cancellation, loss of jobs, vicious isolation social exclusion. There appears to be no insight by ‘students’ that they must do their own historical investigations in order to achieve an informed conclusion. Governments, using CEO lackeys, TV, msm, and elite opinion in unison, push their worst policies upon us.

            Those groups see mutual power, or largesse from one to the other, at the expense of the citizens eg Climate debate, the ‘voice’. I would suggest also in the immigration debate of the 1980’s. Merkel showed the same cleverness, inducing the European migrant ‘invasion’. Our governments accept presumed good citizens but find the continued vetting of extremists and appropriate expulsions too politically hard.

            The voice debate shows the people are starting to wake up, as far as the polls can be believed. The next year of big business shareholder meetings could be very entertaining as shareholders demand answers about how their funds could be expropriated and used for non business donations. Boards and managers better have their replies ready!

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          James Murphy

          Why should I commit to a side when I do not have any personal connection to anyone invoked, I’m neither Jewish nor Islamic, I know more than most but am still ignorant of a lot of details that keep tensions simmering?

          You remind me of the Celtics vs Rangers discussion I had, started by people who just wanted an excuse to fight.
          Them: Which team do you support?
          Me: neither, I’m just visiting Glasgow for a few days, I’m Australian, not from Scotland.
          Them: ok, there’s the Celtics and the Rangers, so if you had to pick a side…?
          Etc, etc…
          It didn’t stop until I left the pub.

          Perhaps you can explain how my picking of a side, or my continuing to not pick a side will make any difference to anyone?
          Perhaps you can explain the benefits of picking a side even when not adequately informed on the good and bad points on each side?

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        Adellad

        May I suggest, in the nicest possible way, that any and all moral equivalence arguments concerning Israel and the Islamic hordes surrounding it be vented only in private. To do so publicly proves that one has no moral compass for all to see.

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          MP

          “and the Islamic hordes surrounding it, To do so publicly proves that one has no moral compass for all to see.”
          The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, just so you can reset your compass.

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      Robdel

      That’s multiculturalism for you. No possibility of integration into the host society

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    John Hultquist

    AU Climate Activist Matilda Lane-Rose is the only named person that I find trespassed on the Perth home of Woodside Director Meg O’Neill.

    The foiled solo protest was to be part of a string of actions organised by Disrupt Burrup Hub, . . .

    Note the “solo” in the quote.
    I wonder if each of the “string of actions” was meant to garner as much media coverage as possible rather than having the entire cult rounded up at once. How did the other stuff work out, or did this shut it all down?
    Further, was it in the plan to get arrested? I think a cult member would learn early about the things that ought not be done.

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      John+in+NZ

      The phrase “string of actions” is concerning. The strategy used by these activists is to ramp up the protests until they get an over the top response from the authorities. They appear to be following the advice of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.

      The strategy is to make it so the authorities look bad no matter what they do. If they do little, they look weak. If they react strongly they are called fascists.

      This is a Marxist strategy and it tells me what the climate activists are.

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    tonyb

    The UN seems to be suggesting that western people should no longer live in traditionally built homes (cement, brick, tiles) due to the embedded carbon. They seem to be suggesting that other perhaps less permanent materials should be used. This is a big report with the most relevant part being Chapter 8 where conclusions and recommendations are made/

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cYHq0HDL78xJjo-uWd13bqwZ24Elgz5L/view

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      David Maddison

      Good find.

      They are suggesting timber, bamboo and biomass.

      All mostly temporary structures as opposed to long-lasting traditional Western building methods

      We (non-Elites) will live like primitive peoples in small huts, eating insects and with no personal transport within the confines of small tribal villages (“15 min cities”).

      That of course is the plan.

      The only thing that surprises me is that they are pushing this stage of the regression to a more primitive lifestyle now. I would have expected it in 5-10 years.

      The regression is moving at a faster pace than I expected.

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        Barry

        We’re already half way there. If you look at a typical Melbourne house, the top floor is wood, with a foam shell. Will last about 20 years, and need to be demolished. I live in a 130 year old double brick house that’s still going strong. That’s more than 6 of the newfangled straw houses. Can’t possible be more carbon efficient.

        The three little pigs had it right.

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      Plain Jane

      Thanks for the links Tony. Usual UN rubbish. Pity our councils will probably take it up. Dont quite see how stopping all logging in native forests, which I think has been done in Vic and has been drastically reduced in other states,is going to go with stopping all other sorts of building materials. Usual UN stuff to justify destroying economies and industries.

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    tonyb

    Some useful facts and figures of the impossibility and huge costs associated with net zero, from Prof Michael Kelly

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/green-energy-net-zero-biden-command-economy-impossible/

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    Jojodogfacedboy

    Is it a wonder that Canadian Citizens are trying to break away from their Uniparty Governance?

    https://www.rt.com/news/584757-canada-funds-ukrainians-celebrate-nazi/

    At least the world is seeing what crazy crap our politicians are pulling.

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    Vene

    Food for thought. Today’s subject is ‘Postglacial genomes from foragers across Northern Eurasia reveal prehistoric mobility associated with the spread of the Uralic and Yeniseian languages’

    During covid-time I did some genealogy and I interested in population genetics. I ‘knew’ earlier that my Y-haplogroup is N. Finally I bought a test and my Y-haplogroup indeed is N. This study sheds light on movements of peoples before there even was Uralic people.

    All Uralic peoples except for the hungarians have some Siberian-associated ancestry. In Finns that ancestry is about 7% – 10% and in Samis it can be over 20%.

    It is mindblowing to think that there is a line of fathers who have lived in Western Siberia in distant past. How did they lived?, How many of them died in wars and violent incidents? and so on. Because there wasn’t agriculture majority of those forefathers were hunters and fishermen.

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    David Maddison

    Despite polling showing a disastrous Voice vote and the people will vote NO against Apartheid, I have little confidence that the vote will not be manipulated in some way and the result might still be a YES in favour of Apartheid.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/referendum-for-the-voice-set-to-be-defeated-according-to-latest-poll/news-story/172d49096f950dbcb243c6f63bf558fb

    See Tweet from Rukshan Fernando.

    https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1712061215592382495

    I’ve had multiple people contact me now about their personal experiences with AEC officials making their family members with dementia and other cognitive impairments Vote Yes after visiting the facilities they are getting care in. How widespread is practice and why is it even allowed?

    Go to link to see report of a relative he cited as I can’t copy and paste it.

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      Gee Aye

      hysterical nonsense.

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        Adellad

        I lived and worked in Cbr for a long time; the APS is a leftist cesspit; there is no way this can be simply discounted as hysteria. Normal Australian values are under siege everywhere, the streets and homes of Canberra suburbs being one of the key frontlines. Scoff all you wish, you are still wrong.

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    David Maddison

    Makarrata is the Aboriginal word proposed for a “treaty” with Aboriginals.

    But what does it REALLY mean?

    “Stupid white man” deceived again.

    Even Their ABC admits the following.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-10/makarrata-explainer-yolngu-word-more-than-synonym-for-treaty/8790452

    “Makarrata literally means a spear penetrating, usually the thigh, of a person that has done wrong… so that they cannot hunt anymore, that they cannot walk properly, that they cannot run properly; to maim them, to settle them down, to calm them — that’s Makarrata.”

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      Annie

      I substitute the word ‘revenge’ instead. Makarrata sounds very nasty and is a good enough reason to vote NO.

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      MichaelB

      The ever entertaining and accurate “Bearing” also provides very good reasons why to vote no… This is one of his more serious short opinion pieces.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87qJBMBVdmM

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        David Maddison

        Ray Martin calls anti-Apartheid believers “d-ckheads” and “dinosaurs”.

        These are de rigueur ad hominems of the Left these days.

        And what a pathetic way Ray Martin is ending his career as a once semi-respected “journalist”.

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          Annie

          I should have looked for a little dinosaur badge while in town yesterday.
          While there I fell into conversation with two people who are of like mind to me.

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          Strop

          Ray Martin didn’t call no voters or “anti-Apartheid believers” those things.
          He said,

          What that asinine slogan is saying is if you’re a dinosaur or a d***head who can’t be bothered reading then vote No.

          He is calling those who can’t be bothered reading or finding out information dinosaurs or DH’s. Not the same as calling no voters that.

          I disagree with Ray Martin’s position but I do think that criticism and attribution of comments should be accurate.
          His following comment that the details don’t matter and never have is more worthy of criticism than his name calling. He had to pretend that is the case because of the lack of detail available. Even to those who have been bothered reading and trying to find out.

          What Ray should have said is the Govt is treating the public with disrespect by expecting us to approve the Voice with little detail. The question and proposed amendment is not detail.

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      Annie

      There was a very good article in TCW by Viv Forbes. I think that’s your link (not following it right now as time is short).

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    Peter Fitzroy

    Nearly half of the world’s flowing plants are facing extinction according to the Daily Mail, BBC and others.

    This is because of human activity, and the degradation of the environment by externalising costs for farming, extractive industries, and to a small extent by global warming.

    “A perfectly good civilization is going to waste” the planet

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      David Maddison

      according to the Daily Mail, BBC and others.

      Yes. But what is the actual evidence for this bizarre claim?

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        Tel

        I guess those news sources figure they can’t damage their reputation any worse than they already have. Sensational headlines sell advertising … the news media need the money as their audience drains away.

        In the unlikely event that any of their readers cares enough, and has a long enough memory to go back in a few years and ask why the prediction didn’t happen … they can simply say they were reporting on a potential risk and never said it was certainty.

        Remember when they got called on the whole “Global Cooling” thing in the 1970’s and then they said, “Oh that wasn’t real climate science, that was just a news media thing!”

        ok, so the principle is established that news media are not a trusted source for science … one of the few things that skeptics and alarmists agree on.

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      Graeme No.3

      PF:
      There is a previous button before you comment and an edit one just after you comment.

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      MP

      https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67011558

      “Of the nearly 19,000 new plants and fungi species discovered since 2020, 77% are thought to be endangered“. Well we all know what thought, thought.
      “There is a backlog of around 100,000 new species of plants found by botanists that are still to be formally classified. The Kew team says these should be automatically described as threatened unless proven otherwise“. Threatened, only after discovery, with absolutely zero evidence, from a reporter with a law and journalism degree.

      You have finally achieved Net Zero with your facts PF. Fact free opinion piece.

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      R.B

      That might be half the species of flowering plants, with huge assumptions.

      Australia has about 5% of plant species on the endangered list. A good example is the Wollemi pine whose numbers were very low before European settlement. Many threatened orchids are the same. The numbers were low before European settlement. The conditions that they evolved to thrive in were long gone before the first fleet, although settlement rarely improved things ( not always the case)

      If you are talking about the actual number of plants, 50% of species could die tomorrow with only specialist biologists noticing.

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      Philip

      LOL. The ultimate fantasy of every botany student: THREATENED SPECIES.

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      Peter Fitzroy

      Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the latest group to evolve, mostly outcompeting the angiosperms which had themselves pushed out the ferns (where all our cool comes from). To achieve this they maximised their production (in the botanical sense), but this makes them vulnerable to habitat changes.

      The daily mail et al were reporting from this source.. I prioritised the daily mail as I understand that most commentators here rely on this publication

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        MP

        Would you consider clear felling hundreds of thousands of acres of forest, makes them vulnerable to habitat changes.

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    another ian

    I presume that they might show up here eventually?

    “An LED Bulb I Might Use – Philips Ultra Definition”

    “The Phillips Ultra Definition LED Light Bulbs are the best lightbulbs on the market, and it’s not even close. High CRI, low blue spike, low flicker, exceptional dimming and a reasonable cost. These are the bulbs you should be using:”

    https://youtu.be/XeR2uPPCA2k

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “When It Comes to U.S. Intelligence Community Claims, ie. Egypt Warning Israel, Apply Strong Cynicism
    October 12, 2023 | Sundance | 140 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/12/when-it-comes-to-u-s-intelligence-community-claims-ie-egypt-warning-israel-apply-strong-cynicism/

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    David Maddison

    How about instead of just one race being represented in Parliament by “The Voice”, we demand that politicians actually do their jobs and represent all Australians?

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    David Maddison

    I have come to the conclusion that a lot of warmists and Leftists in general suffer delusional disorder.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder?wprov=sfla1

    Delusional disorder, traditionally known as paranoia, is a mental illness in which a person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect. Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis. Delusions can be bizarre or non-bizarre in content; non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs that involve situations that could occur in real life, such as being harmed or poisoned. Apart from their delusion or delusions, people with delusional disorder may continue to socialize and function in a normal manner and their behavior does not necessarily generally seem odd. However, the preoccupation with delusional ideas can be disruptive to their overall lives.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Ian

      “I have come to the conclusion that a lot of warmists and Leftists in general suffer delusional disorder.”

      You may well be correct but I’m sure you also realise that many others perhaps even a majority have come to similar conclusions about climate sceptics and Rightists.

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      Hanrahan

      They are certainly sad people.

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      Strop

      I’d like to think you’re being humorous but labelling like that doesn’t add to the debate and doesn’t welcome readers to this blog who probably need to read it the most.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Bitter Taste of Climate Alarmism in Your Beer

    Climate change could make your beer taste worse”

    But the reviewer’s conclusion –

    “This latest research, published in Nature Communications, is a classic example of the narrow lens through which many studies view the world of climate aka climate catastrophizing. Instead of jumping on the climate alarmism bandwagon, perhaps it’s time to enjoy a cold one and savor the rich history and tradition of brewing, rather than brewing unnecessary panic. Cheers to clear thinking and good beer!”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/11/the-bitter-taste-of-climate-alarmism-in-your-beer/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Electric Grid Reliability: Texas vs. EPA”

    In the “muddling”

    “Wishful Thinking

    As one might expect, EPA does not entertain the idea that their proposed regulations could devastate US power grids. The reason is that the EPA models assume that replacement generation will always be built to replace shuttered coal and natural gas power generation. This was pointed out during the EPA public hearings by Michelle Bloodworth, the President and CEO of America’s Power:

    EPA’s modeling concluded that it would not cause any resource inadequacy. However, EPA’s model is designed to never project resource inadequacy because the model simply adds replacement capacity to offset retiring capacity regardless of whether this new replacement capacity would actually be built in the real world and provide the same accredited capacity value and reliability attributes as the coal fleet, such as fuel security.”

    More at

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/12/electric-grid-reliability-texas-vs-epa/

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Another Tacit Admission That COVID Mandates Were a Disastrous Mistake

    https://brownstone.org/articles/evidence-that-covid-mandates-were-a-disastrous-mistake/

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/another-tacit-admission-covid-mandates-were-disastrous-mistake

    The UK’s Health Security Agency (HSA) recently posted a lengthy examination on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions at preventing or slowing the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

    Unsurprisingly, they found that the evidence base on COVID interventions was exceptionally weak.

    In fact, roughly 67 percent of the identified evidence was essentially useless.. In fact two-thirds of the evidence identified was modeling.

    Two-thirds of the evidence identified was based on modeling studies (100 out of 151 studies).

    There was a lack of experimental studies (2 out of 151 studies) and individual-level observational studies (22 out of 151 studies). Apart from test and release strategies for which 2 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were identified, the body of evidence available on effectiveness of NPIs in the UK provides weak evidence in terms of study design, as it is mainly based on modelling studies, ecological studies, mixed-methods studies and qualitative studies.

    This is a key learning point for future pandemic preparedness: there is a need to strengthen evaluation of interventions and build this into the design and implementation of public health interventions and government policies from the start of any future pandemic or other public health emergency.

    Modeling, as we know, is functionally useless, given that it’s hopelessly prone to bias, incorrect assumptions and the ideological needs of its creators.

    Sounds familiar.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    If there is one group in the ME that can’t catch a break it’s the Bedouins.

    Displaced by The Nakba and now having to fight ISIS and Hamas:

    Bedouin Tribes In Sinai Accuse Hamas of Aiding Islamic State
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2017/05/28/bedouin-tribes-sinai-accuse-hamas-aiding-islamic-state/

    Bedouin tribes fighting against the Islamic State group in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula have warned Hamas against continued support for IS in Sinai. The tribes accused Hamas of allowing fighters outside the Gaza Strip to join IS’s ranks through smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza to the Sinai while providing sanctuary to IS members.

    The internet news site Al-Arabiya reported that the tribes threatened “to take violent measures against Hamas” because they believe Hamas has given permission to terrorists to join the Islamic State group by exiting Gaza through the tunnels. According to the report, senior tribe members said that IS fighters captured by the tribesmen admitted that they receive logistical support from Hamas, which they said treats their wounded and gives the terrorist organization’s fighters safe hiding places.

    The Bedouin story gets lost in the prevailing Islamic State – Modern Israel dichotomy. But they’re the collateral damage of both of those entities.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Teach your children well,

    But in Jenin, West Bank,

    Their father’s hell did slowly go by,

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    John Connor II

    New Study Upends Modeling, Finds Earth’s Rocks Are A Net Source Of CO2 Rivaling Volcanic Emissions

    For decades rock weathering has been thought to be a net sink in carbon budget models. New research finds rock emissions are a large net source of CO2 to the atmosphere.
    A few years ago Buesseler et al., 2020 discovered that all of the climate modelers’ previous estimates of global ocean carbon uptake are substantially wrong because they were measuring from the fixed “canonical fixed 150-m depth.” The alleged new-and-improved way to assess carbon uptake is from much shallower depths: the euphotic zone (Ez). This is the section of the upper ocean layer that sunlight is able to penetrate, and it can “vary from less than 20 m to almost 200 m” in depth.

    When the variable Ez depth is used to estimate carbon absorption versus export, the absorption estimate changes by more than a factor of 2, from 2.8 petagrams of carbon (PgC) per year to 5.7.

    https://billkloss.law.blog/2023/10/12/new-study-upends-modeling-finds-earths-rocks-are-a-net-source-of-co2-rivaling-volcanic-emissions/

    Ban rocks!!

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    John Connor II

    Thought for the day

    A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
    – Mark Twain

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    John Connor II

    The woman of the year award goes to…

    https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1712474531896709522

    The front lines for all of ’em. 😁

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    John Connor II

    Friday funny: Russian propaganda exposed!

    https://imgbox.com/zH7tOVKu

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    John Connor II

    “I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. It’s like I could see the whole thing, one long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see everything that happened, and everything that is going to happen. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realised we’re all part of it, and all trapped by it.

    With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.”
    Finch – V for Vendetta

    I have been tormented by the thought all the chaos, financial insanity, censorship, wars and insane promotion of lawlessness by politicians is somehow connected. The scene in V for Vendetta when Finch connects all the dots fits perfectly with how I feel about the world today. Since 2016 it feels like dominoes have begun to fall and it is just a matter of time before things turn really nasty.

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/10/12/things-will-turn-nasty/

    Know the feeling?
    2024 will make the past 3 years pale.
    I’ve said much bigger events will happen well before 2030 and 2032 and here we go – the middle east lead in.
    Shortages and panic buying coming up. Get in first (on the buying).

    Sorry Zelensky, your usefulness has ended.

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    John Connor II

    REVR plans to turn your ICE car into a plug-in hybrid for US$3,200

    This year’s Australian national Dyson Award winner tells us more about the bolt-on REVR retrofit kit he’s developing, that aims to convert ICE cars to practical, efficient hybrids for less than US$3,200, taking less than a day to install.

    It sounds like a bonkers proposition from the outset, but RMIT University design student Alexander Burton is well into prototyping the most mechanically complex part of the system: the flat, power-dense, liquid-cooled 50-kW motor designed to sandwich in between your wheel and brake disc.

    The battery pack, along with the motor controllers, will go in the well in the trunk where your spare tire would normally fit. “Similarly to new electric vehicles such as Teslas,” Burton tells us over email, “we see the spare tire being removed entirely – however, it’s up to the customer what they want to do.”

    That round space should allow room for about a 15-kWh battery pack, which Burton says is enough for more than 100 km (62 miles) of all-electric range at stop-start city driving speeds, using regenerative braking.

    https://www.revr.tech/

    From what I’ve seen of these conversion kits so far, I’ll pass.

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      John Connor II
      October 13, 2023 at 11:40 am · Reply
      REVR plans to turn your ICE car into a plug-in hybrid for US$3,200

      Hub motor conversions have been proposed numerous times but always fall short on their promiss.Most of t he big auto makers have tried this.
      They are tricky from an engineering viewpoint with serious suspension/braking /handling implications. Motor power (torque) is dependant on battery size, and a 15 kWh battery is not going to provide 50/100 kW safely…..or for long !
      And, 15kWh battery alone, is going to cost a lot more than $3200 …before any motors, engineering, controls, etc, etc. !
      Tell them they are Dreamin’…!

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        The practical working equivalent to this that has been adopted by automakers worldwide, is the MILD Hybrid system, which uses a low voltage (48v) electric motor combined with alternator functions to act as a ice assist, srarter motor and regenerative charging.
        These systems are installes widely on many current main stream vehicles

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    MP

    Whatsherface on the vaxxine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTjWol8qG54
    Bit of comedic reality

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    NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley has continued to come under fire for her handling of Monday’s night’s anti-Semitic protests at the Sydney Opera House

    Police and Counter Terrorism Minister….
    ….previous experience…..Librian ..!😳😳
    seriously ..?

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Can extreme heat make parts of the Earth too hot for humans?”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/12/can-extreme-heat-make-parts-of-the-earth-too-hot-for-humans/

    In there is a table of wet bulb temperature and danger levels as related to relative humidity and air temperature

    https://i0.wp.com/andymaypetrophysicist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/a-chart-with-different-colored-numbers-descriptio.jpeg?w=1110&ssl=1

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    Harves

    It’s fascinating how the Labor Party and the left in general drop all their moralistic concerns about Modern Slavery, ethical sourcing, sustainable production, and environmental protection laws when it comes to renewable energy and EVs.
    The cult’s hold is strong.

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    another ian

    “Norwegian Agency: Man-Made CO2 “Not Sufficiently Strong” to Cause “Systematic Changes” in Weather”

    https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/norwegian-agency-man-made-co2-not-sufficiently-strong-to-cause-systematic-changes-in-weather/

    Another “wailing and gnashing” in 3, 2, 1

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    another ian

    In Canada – would you believe?

    “Ratio’d | The truth about Indigenous female murders in Canada”

    “New data released by Statistics Canada reveals that, once again, the far-left, anti-Canada message peddled by activists and politicians about missing and murdered Indigenous women does not match the facts. The data shows that Indigenous women are being murdered by other Indigenous people, which is contrary to the federal inquiry released back in 2019, which claims Canada is committing ongoing genocide.”

    More at

    https://tnc.news/2023/10/12/rhf-indigenous-murders-in-canada/

    And

    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/32327

    Via SDA

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    another ian

    FWIW –

    “News has come in that airline pilots are suffering the effects of covid vaccination. This is seen in the statistics of them trying to fly but failing. When an aircraft puts out a 7700 squawk on its transponder, it alerts Air Traffic Control that the aircraft is in imminent danger. From when mandatory vaccination for airline pilots started in the US in November 2021, worldwide 7700 alerts have increased nearly 400% from the pre-2019 average.”

    More at

    https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/33363/covid-had-its-origin-in-a-lab/

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    MrGrimNasty

    Range/land rover fires. Hybrid?
    Credit NetZero watch.
    https://youtu.be/G-zKTqe19ss

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    another ian

    FWIW – just up

    “Israel Warns UN to Evacuate the Northern Gaza Strip Within 24 Hours”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/just-israel-warns-un-evacuate-northern-gaza-strip/

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    another ian

    “The Blood of Exceptionally Long-Lived People Shows Key Differences”

    https://www.sciencealert.com/the-blood-of-exceptionally-long-lived-people-shows-key-differences

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    another ian

    FWIW

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1712506478735806487

    A pretty elaborate way to light a fart?

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    Hanrahan

    Here’s a moral dilemma the suggestion that postal votes should be banned stoked.

    Mrs H is away with the fairies, unaware of her surrounds and unable to verbalise but capable of walking down the corner to vote. I will need to have her name marked off the roll and I will fill out her ballot.

    Would the clerk be within rights to disallow the vote?

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