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More proof that AGW is a ridiculous theory.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/10/17/97404-direct-co2-measurements-from-1826-2008-indicate-humans-do-not-drive-co2-change/
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News to me. Good to know.
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In brief then…..
Atmospheric CO2 levels are driven by ocean surface temperature .
….as many of us have been saying.
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The “publication” appears to have not explained isotope shifts and what happens to the very large concentrations emitted by humans. Equation 6b is very odd in this respect.
He also correlates CO2 and temperature as having no lag. Not 10 years, nor 200 or 1000. It is immediate.
In summary, all human CO2 gets sucked into the ocean depths to be replaced by some fresh CO2 or something
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The isotope ratio change is evidence that humans have been burning fossil fuels. It is not however necessarily evidence that this is the cause of the rise in atmospheric CO2.
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is controlled by the equilibrium relationship between CO2 in the oceans and in the atmosphere. The solubility of CO2 in the oceans is balanced by the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere.
If humans were not putting CO2 into the atmosphere, CO2 would have moved from the oceans to the atmosphere. However, humans are putting more CO2 into the atmosphere than is required for the equilibration process and so the net movement is from the atmosphere to the oceans.
The change in atmospheric CO2 is correlated with change in temperature. An increase in temp causes an increase in CO2 growth. A decrease in temp causes a decrease in CO2 growth. This is important because a decrease in growth is still an increase. An increase in CO2 is supposed to cause an increase in temp. Therefore, the independent variable must be temperature. Temperature change must be the cause. CO2 change must be the result.
There is a growing number of studies that find CO2 change is the cause.
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Oops. That should have been “There is a growing number of studies that find CO2 change is not the cause.”
Also, I should have said that the isotope ratio argument is predicated on the assumption that natural sources and sinks are in balance. However, there is no reason to believe they are and NOAA explains the difference between annual CO2 growth as being caused by variations in natural sources and sinks. They talk about large natural variations when discussing why the drop in emissions during the pandemic did not show up in the CO2 record.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/covid2
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Thanks El Gordo, brilliant paper
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Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has stepped up her buying spree in Liontown Resources Ltd. to accumulate a total stake of 19.9%, …
There is much money being spent on Li mines at the same time the battery technology is being called out for problems that EV proponents have been silent about.
I’m not sure this is going to end well, although the AU leaders are jumping in like good grape stompers.
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Larry Hamlin has a go at the LA Times for their ‘hottest evah’ garbage.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/16/major-climate-alarmist-fail-the-hottest-summer-ever-that-never-was/
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So during his speech, Albo made this comment: “I will continue to listen to people and communities and consult on Indigenous Australians about a way forward.”
Interesting because, I thought he couldn’t do that because they had no voice to listen to?
But moving on, perhaps he’s decided that amongst Linda Burney’s bloated Indigenous Australians portfolio, someone may be able to be freed up to occasionally visit a remote community. Perhaps someone from one of these taxpayer-funded agencies?
– Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC)
– Indigenous Coordination Centres
– Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC)
– Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA)
– Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC)
– Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner
– Anindilyakawa Land Council
– Central Land Council
– Northern Land Council
– Tiwi Land Council
Or perhaps someone from the National Indiginous Australians Agency (NIAA) whose website claims its purpose is “.. to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a say in the decisions that affect them.”
I know it will be difficult to find resources in the next few weeks, because of all those who will be taking mental health days, but who knows after that?
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Le fromage grande (the big cheese) Albo (boofhead) blames le misérable deplorables (the NO voters) pour avoir gâché ses chances de promotion au WEF (for blowing his WEF promotion chances)
😆😆😆
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Albo dans la merde!
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I heard that. Interesting that he DID NOT include Price and Mundine among those he would listen to. He could have done so as a mild mea culpa.
If he just listens to those who have shown they do not know how to improve the lot of our blacks in our current system how can there be any improvement?
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This all stems from UNDRIP, the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people. Australia didnt agree in 2007 but signed up in 2009.
States
And
It’s my guess that this is why it had to be included in the Constitution!
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/un_declaration_on_the_rights_of_indigenous_peoples/
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Here is the original speech to Parliament.
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2F418T6%22;src1=sm1
That was under the KRudd regime, I’m not sure who the Minister was.
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Thanks DM. I see the usual suspects were involved back in 2009!
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Author – Jenny Macklin.
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A number of aboriginal communities requested that the cashless card and grog bans be continued after Labor/ Greens etc came to power. But Albo and his mates said they didn’t want to listen. Then all the violence and drunkenness escalated in those same communities. So, are they listening or not?
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Exactly. It’s just all their useless rhetoric. They dont listen at all, except for things they want to hear occasionally.
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We also have the not so small organisation such as BDAC with its 130 employees a large community center and a state of the art medical center for the disadvantaged aboriginals that live in Bendigo Victoria. Any Aboriginal living in Victoria is no more disadvantaged than many white people yet they have a lot of money being spent on them.
https://www.bdac.com.au/
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Most of the disadvantage in remote communities is poor housing, but is this a true reflection?
‘Architect Paul Pholeros has 30 years’ experience in Aboriginal housing. He says that 60% of housing problems arise from poor maintenance, 25% from poor initial construction and only 8% from damage and abuse by its tenants.’
Source: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/land/aboriginal-houses
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Harves – you say of the federal Aboriginal Affairs dept: “someone may be able to be freed up to occasionally visit a remote community”. Some years ago, I was in a remote community when some bureaucrats came to visit. They sat at the same table as the aboriginal elders, opened their laptops, and talked to each other. Remote communities would do better without any bureaucrats visiting.
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So stunning, brave and woke.
After destroying the Bud Light brand, Dylan Mulvaney won UK Attitude magazine’s Woman of the Year Award.
Because men can everything women can do, only better -including being women.
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He also won the Babylon Bee’s man of the year. What a talent.
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All so yesterday! Why back in the ’60s legend has it that Janis Joplin was voted “the ugliest man on campus”.
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https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/30/janis-joplin/
Janis Joplin was Nominated “Ugliest Man on Campus” by Fraternity Brothers in Texas
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Ah, Turtle Blues.. Great times!
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She had a voice though …….”all I know is something like a bird within her sang….” ……Bird Song was written remembering her heartfelt singing ……….. (by Grateful Dead)…..
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On the idea that “AGW is a ridiculous theory”.
There has never been any scientific basis to support the concept of CO2 being what the IPCCCCC and allied skimmers claim.
Certainly CO2 has specific properties but these have been abused and mythologised by the proponents of CAGW.
In my own neighborhood the late afternoon temperature dropped 10C° overnight.
That occurred because the Sun went on strike and sadly the atmospheric CO2 couldn’t hold the “heat”.
Bad CO2.
It is observed that the heat loss overnight from clear sky desert areas and cloudy non desert locations is different.
The PWIR originating from ground level is able to take energy to space but may be slowed by cloud cover (water) or move unrestricted, virtually, from deserts.
In the morning deserts can be cool while cloud cover may give relative warmth.
If the ridiculous concept of “photons” raining down on us from above doesn’t give the game away then we have to admit that we deserve all we get from our Masters in the Schwamp.
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Meanwhile, lots of men are winning women’s cycling races.
A great career move if you can’t make it competing against your own gender.
https://youtu.be/7J1ci93GG_U
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Where’s mama mia and #metoo campaigning against the evil men?
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Perhaps mana mia & #mentoo might be more appropriate.
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There’s nothing like a day mountain bike riding to turn men into women.😆😆😆
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I’m a mountain man and I love…….
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Come back Lance Armstrong, all is forgiven.
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I think that what was done to him was one of the first strikes in the Woke War on humanity.
Many cyclists were on stuff and L.A. was not alone.
He worked hard, trained hard and excelled against others who were probably his “equals” in the sense of additional support.
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They destroyed Lance Armstrong but now it’s fully OK for men to compete in women’s cycling and destroy the careers of the female cyclists who have no hope of winning against the men due to a multitude of physical advantages over the women.
Maybe Armstrong will be accepted back if he competes as a woman?
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Most of Telstra’s local staff must live in the inner-city rings of our big cities or Manila where they can’t vote in referendum anyway.
Outgoing chairman John Mullen defends spending $1m on Voice referendum. He told shareholders that as a “values-based company” it made the right call.
For those who don’t know:
“Value-based organizations thrive because they foster a common purpose among all employees.
Sharing values provides guiding principles that everyone can use when performing their functions; vital for personal accountability, better decision-making, and a great team spirit.”
Yeah – so not your average Aussies then huh?
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but not by telling employees what their personal values should be
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I’m with Telstra and I want my f……g money back.
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Study reveals that 71% of Americans DON’T TRUST the U.S. government to save them in DOOMSDAY scenarios
A new poll conducted by BonusFinder.com has revealed that 71 percent of Americans are rapidly losing faith in the ability of the U.S. government to save them from potential doomsday scenarios.
The study, which surveyed 6,200 Americans, found the majority of Americans believe that doomsday will happen in 2024.
Moreover, a total of 55.8 percent of respondents think that a climate change-related catastrophe is the most likely form of global catastrophe, while a third believe that another virus could sweep the globe and 25 percent fear the onset of World War III. Meanwhile, seven percent are betting on an alien invasion, while another seven percent anticipate a zombie apocalypse in 2024.
The study also revealed that 43 percent of Americans have stockpiled supplies in preparation for doomsday. So, the poll delved into their motivation to prepare for the potential end of the world.
Surprisingly, over 16 percent cited social media and the content they consume on these platforms. Meanwhile, one in 10 respondents claimed that watching the news led them to start doomsday prepping, while 7.7 percent credited their family and 4.6 percent cited specific movies.
Meanwhile, a blog published by the End of the American Dream in November 2022 revealed that preppers in America increased from two to three percent to approximately 10 percent after the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
John Ramey, a prominent prepper, has estimated that around 15 million Americans are actively engaged in preparing for the worst. “Broadly speaking, more and more people [are] realizing that they are their own first responder,” Ramey said.
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/10/study-reveals-that-71-of-americans-dont.html
Zombie apocalypse? About time!
Better sharpen my machettes.
How many people have still got their fingers in their ears, going” la la la, not listening”?
How many people have at least a 3 month supply of everything?
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‘ … seven percent are betting on an alien invasion …’
They can’t lose, the invasion has already begun.
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‘Study reveals that 71% of Americans DON’T TRUST the U.S. government to save them in DOOMSDAY scenarios’
Can’t imagine why …
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/01/911-calls-on-hold-for-hours-then-portland-police-closed-them-without-response-records-show.html
Plus, I think collapse of functional society is implied in ‘Doomsday’, so those expecting ‘help’ are the same folk that have forgotten the now antiquated definition of ‘vaccine’.
However, functional enlightened government can and is stopping Climate Change and establishing Climate Justice, which requires the end of human evolutionary reproductive biology be mandated by functional enlightened government.
I’ve noticed that attaching the word ‘study’ to something is no guarantee that anything has been actually studied, or that the studiers are not morons.
One of the many concepts exterminated by the ‘Pandemic’ is ‘study’.
Also ‘Public Health’.
And remember folks, you were NOT ‘forced’ to do anything.
Follow The Science … it is settled … until it changes … which can happen at The Speed Of Science.
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Tuesday did you know?
The USA recently changed its blood pressure standards so that “normal” is now stage 1 hypertension.
120/80 was previously considered normal.
If your diastolic is 80 or more, you’re in a high risk group.
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/understanding-blood-pressure-readings
Of course this is just big pharma profiteering.
The whole Australian olympic team would probably fail having “normal” bp’s.
I used to have 90/60 in my late 40’s, so superfit (or something seriously wrong 😁) but very few people now qualify as normal.
Thankfully this silliness hasn’t spread around the world yet, but it’s coming.
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There must be some new blood pressure active ingredients about to be approved. When statins were still under patent protection 20-30 years ago cholesterol was all the rage. Getting tested for cholesterol was on every GP’s to do list for all of their patients. “Oh look your cholesterol’s got too high – here take these new wonder drugs called statins” Side effects you ask – don’t be silly. Now, statins are mostly off patent and look here, most heart association now say you can eat 1 egg per day. Before, a recommendation that allowed egg consumption would have got a doctor de-registered.
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I just spent over an hour, shirtless in the tropical sun watering the lawn, so reading this, I just checked my BP, 119/62. I expect somewhat higher readings. This is a pattern I’ve noticed lately. Does the sun have an immediate effect on BP?
Anti-hypertensive and vasodilatative effects are induced by treatment with nitric oxide and compounds that increase local levels of nitric oxide-related metabolites,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086738/
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Yes, the sun plays a part, but gardening is one of the most relaxing things you can do.
Walking on a freshly cut lawn can do that too.
Especially if you have used a hand mower prior.
BP drops every time you step into the garden, lawn etc. Because it’s cathartic.
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That’s quite shocking!
Watering the lawn in full sun?
Shame on you.
Oh yeah, it’s called isolated diastolic hypertension…
A simple and cheap way of dropping BP is beetroot juice, but you need to raise your diastolic.
I’m not a doctor, just a humble genius. 😁
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I’ve read that the life expectancy of professional gardeners is way above the average person. If you want to live a long life be a gardener.
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Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar
Silkworm silk is fragile and has very limited use; synthetic fibers like nylon and Kevlar are stronger or tougher, but not both. Spider silk is highly desirable for these qualities, but spider farming is impractical due to their aggressive behavior. Researchers have successfully genetically engineered silkworms to produce spider-quality silk.
Junpeng Mi and his colleagues working at Donghua University, China, used CRISPR gene-editing technology to recode the silk-creating properties of a silkworm. First, they took genes from Araneus ventricosus, an East Asian orb-weaving spider known for its strong silk, and inserted them into silkworm egg cells.
Around 60% of our clothing is made from synthetic fibers like nylon, polyester, and acrylic. These plastics are useful, but often bad for the environment. They shed into our waterways and sometimes damage wildlife. The production of these fibers is a source of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, we have a “sustainable, eco-friendly high-strength and ultra-tough alternative.” We can have silkworms creating silk six times as tough as Kevlar and ten times as strong as nylon.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/crispr-spider-silk-silkworms/
That’s going to have a lot of applications.
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The question that comes to my mind – do the emerging moths eat their way out of the cocoon; or is it a one off and they do not breed; or are the cocoons spun before the moth emerges.
It seems this gene engineering would likely trap the moths in a prison of their own making.
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Spider silk comes highly recommended by sun birds and mistletoe birds for nest building.
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Ministry Of Bulls**t Tries To Cancel Orwell As The Telegraph Follows ‘Orwellian’ Formula
In a widely panned article, The Telegraph, which is owned by British elites, just tried to cancel George Orwell for being a “sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic and sometimes violent” person whose life was “at odds with the “decency” of his writing.”
Reactions to The Telegraph’s attempt to cancel Orwell were severe and warranted, and the outlet’s original post on “X” received a blistering ‘ratio’ (more comments than ‘likes’).
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ministry-bullst-tries-cancel-orwell-telegraph-follows-orwellian-formula
DM will not be happy! 😎
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I an amazed that anyone expects the govt to save them from anything serious. Depends what save means I guess.
You really don’t need 3 months supply of everything, just enough things to comfortably survive 3 months.
How many zombies is one expected to dispatch per day? asking for a friend.
Was a response to #9
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No, a 3 month supply of everything you’d use in 3 months, and that’s a MINIMUM recommendation.
When the middle east war ramps up it’ll seriously impact everything coming out of Asia, push oil prices up, and cause mass panic buying.
Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Or you can pay through the nose needlessly.
The masses will panic buy milk and bread in their silliness because they have no idea, for a week or 2, until reality bites.😉
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I have a three month supply of round 50c coins. Does that help?
I don’t feel inclined to buy 3 mths of booze. Bad look.
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Hell…pinot gris is the only thing that keeps me going!😆
Round 50c coins? I do have a 1kg 50 cal .999 silver bullet, which is more use! 😎
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I want some of that pinot more.
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Australian banks move towards private digital identity products as legal issues debated
Australia is debating new laws that could make its long-awaited national digital identity scheme a reality. As the national digital ID plan slowly drags on toward legal codification, financial organizations are searching for faster solutions and looking towards private identity services.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), one of Australia’s largest banks, announced last week it has joined digital identity service ConnectID which allows users to prove their identity online to merchants and other businesses. The news comes after the National Bank of Australia (NAB) also allowed its customers to use ConnectID.
The CBA is planning to use ConnectID to allow its customers to verify their identity using face biometrics through its CBA app. The tie-up suggests that banks may have run out of patience with government schemes, according to The Mandarin.
The digital identity service is a product of a collaboration between AP+ (Australian Payments Plus), digital identity solutions company Eftpos, payments platforms BPAY and the New Payments Platform (NPP), a subsidiary of AP+.
The solution is meant to provide an alternative to government digital ID schemes and is geared towards consumers. One of its features is data minimization, according to Andrew Black, ConnectID managing director, who recently spoke with Biometric Update about the service.
ConnectID was the first non-government operator accredited by the Australian government under the Trusted Digital Identity Framework to deliver digital identity exchange services in the country. The federal government has been trying to entice private sector participation in the TDIF since 2018, drawing in Australia Post, Eftpos, OCR Labs (now IDVerse) and Mastercard, according to The Mandarin.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/232499-commonwealth-bank-leapfrogs-delayed-government-digital-identity-launch-with-connectid/
https://www.idmatch.gov.au/Documents/FIS%20Access%20Policy.pdf
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/ems/r7085_ems_77593d25-9109-4171-bce4-6e90d2c78602/upload_pdf/JC010863.pdf;fileType%3Dapplication%2Fpdf#search=%22legislation/ems/r7085_ems_77593d25-9109-4171-bce4-6e90d2c78602%22
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Interested in moving to Canada and need a mortgage?
https://www.howestreet.com/2023/10/the-vortex/
I certainly wouldn’t and I live here.
Banks are really doing a number on borrowers with low income.
https://www.howestreet.com/2023/10/the-most-splendid-housing-bubbles-in-canada-prices-drop-further-as-sales-slow-and-new-listings-jump-further/
Astromically high prices everywhere.
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Move to Canada?
Mortgage?
Oh please, my sides spliteth with larfter…😆😆
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463968/
The postmodern assault on science
If all truths are equal, who cares what science has to say?
Marcel Kuntz
The scientific method has been the guiding principle for investigating natural phenomena, but postmodernist thought is starting to threaten the foundations of the scientific approach. The rational, scientific view of the world has been painstakingly built over millennia to guarantee that research can have access to objective reality: the world, for science, contains real objects and is governed by physical laws that existed before our knowledge of these objects and laws. Science attempts to describe the world independently of belief by seeking universal truths, on the basis of observation, measurement and experimentation. The postmodernist school of thought arose to question these assumptions, postulating that claims about the existence of a real world—the knowledge of which is attainable as an objective truth—have only been relevant in Western civilization since the Enlightenment. In recent decades, the movement has begun to question the validity of claims of scientific truth, whether on the basis of their belonging to larger cultural frames or through heavy criticism of the scientific method.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-propose-sweeping-new-law-nature-expanding-evolution-2023-10-16/
Science. Maybe. Maybe more philosophy …
A new Law of Nature.
Auto
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Burning Cars – General Update October 16th
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Auto Expert John Cadogan
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Waleed Aly “identifies” as an “intellectual” like most Leftist Elites, and thinks everyone else is too stupid to understand about the “yes” vote.
Maybe he’s the stupid one?
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There was generally a vote divide between higher socio-economic electorates and lower ones, and maybe tertiary education is the reason for the economic difference. Or, economic difference is the reason for higher tertiary education.
But, every electorate that had an indigenous population of 5% or more returned a No vote.
So maybe the divide isn’t education. Maybe it’s that those swanky yes electorates are full of people who don’t know, don’t meet, or don’t live amongst Indigenous people.
But I speculate.
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David:
very obviously Waleed Aly has never worked in a factory. Yes, there are some ‘dumb bunnies’ but there are also some quite clever (and practical) people. In my 40 years the best chairman of a safety group was a Leading Hand in the Filling Section (not considered the most intellectual group) and back (40 years ago) a leading hand in the maintenance dept.
The latter was sent by his employer to study engineering. The first had family problems (a child with problems) which meant he didn’t want to move.
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“Keeping You Up to Date On New York’s Progress Toward Green Energy Utopia”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/10/16/keeping-you-up-to-date-on-new-yorks-progress-toward-green-energy-utopia/
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Have heard that Biden is going on a visit to Israel. I am very perturbed.
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Seems so is Biden –
“Secretary Blinken Tells Joe Biden He’s Going to Israel on Wednesday
October 16, 2023 | Sundance | 315 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/10/16/secretary-blinken-tells-joe-biden-hes-going-to-israel-on-wednesday/
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Maybe that’s what Hamas was working towards all the time… CIA paid them to launch an attack to get rid of Mr Falling Over. Maybe he won’t return home…
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And the kids all run for cover…😆😆
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Arch Duke Joseph Biden will be flying Air force One into a war zone. What could go wrong?
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Maybe something could go right?
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Chewsday funny: Irish Alzheimer’s Association
SOME of Munster’s finest footballers of recent years will be in dazzling action in Abbeyfeale on Friday, July 16, as the town hosts a special charity game in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society.
With new Fine Gael Finance Spokesperson Michael Noonan on hand for the throw-in, Kerry greats Maurice Fitzgerald and Seamus Moynihan, Limerick’s John Quane, Danny Culloty of Cork all playing and Tipp referee Paddy Russell keeping order, it’s promising to be a massive event for the West Limerick town.
The Night To Remember — as it is called — sees the Fr Casey county champions of 2000 dusting off their boots to take on the ‘Mon Fitz’s’ — a team made up of players from the same family, the Fitzgeralds of Knocknasna. That family has fielded many former county players including Pat and Tom ‘Buggy’ Fitzgerald, (Fr. Casey’s) Conor Fitzgerald (NCW), John and Neilus Hunt (Athea), Padraig and Aiden Fitzgerald, (Ballingarry) and Eammon Stack, Moyvane, who won an All Ireland Minor Medal at midfield with Kerry.
In aid of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, it is hoped the Night to Remember will raise much towards their services in the region. Michael Noonan is on hand to help raise awareness of the disease even higher. The West Limerick deputy recently spoke movingly of his wife Florence’s battle with the illness on RTÉ’s the Frontline in which he called for a national strategy against the disease amid our ageing population.
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/news/a-night-to-remember-for-alzheimers/27396715.html
A night to remember…
The memes write themselves.😆😆😆
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Eastern Golf Club clubhouse destroyed by fire from charging lithium battery golf cart.
https://7news.com.au/news/vic/battery-caused-blaze-at-eastern-golf-club-where-greg-norman-designed-the-yering-course-c-12228878
Think I might have to move our cub cadet electric ride-on mower to the expendable shed.
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Simplicius- Israel demands Palestinians retreat to Southern half of Gaza so they can clear (and then retain) the Northern half. Followed no doubt by pushing the Palestinians further South out of Palestine into Egypt. Egypt is building an American-style wall to close that border. Hamas says ‘bring it on, you won’t win a ground war’ as Israel delays its invasion.
The mainstream media says Israelis are killed, but Palestinians ‘died’ or were ‘found dead’, part of the system of dehumanising the enemy, like the Viet Cong became gooks. You don’t want to kill humans, you eliminate sub-humans. They can’t bring themselves to admit their own Reuters videographer was killed by Israeli shelling, the closest report said he was ‘killed by missile fire from the direction of Israel.’
In the same way they are not allowed to use ‘Palestine’ anymore, it is The Palestinian Territories’, as they erase Palestine as a country from the world.
The split in the Israeli Govt is over rebuilding the Jewish “Temple on the Mount’, which means demolishing Al-Aqsa mosque. The Bible comes to life..
Israel is running out of time, as we have noted here the West is failing to replace itself with children, while the Muslims are expanding. In the 1960s Egypt had 20million, now 110M, 200M in 2050. Israel will have 14M or so then. A future Arab-Israeli war would pit 300M against them.
Russia-Turkey are talking of a humanitarian convoy to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, running the gauntlet of the American aircraft carriers…
Stand by for more excitement!
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/israeli-conflict-takes-eschatological
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Simplicius is not all wrong-
In that discussion the aims of Hamas are stated.
The recent attack is intended to provoke Israel to attack Gaza.
Hamas has had two years or more of planning.
They are very well prepared and as is well known have no qualms about the use of human shields and have good supplies of the latest US weapons from Ukraine.
As a conspiracy promoter, you could argue that Israel is provoking Russia-Turkey to provide a blockhead breaker. That way the Gazans leave, perhaps they can go to Canada and be greeted by a sympathetic government.
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Excitable Michael: While the World is Distracted Major Banks Hold Urgent Emergency Meeting
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Space X fans ? SpaceX Is Building a Satellite Network for the U.S. Military
More @ https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/spacex-to-build-satellite-network-for-the-u-s-military/
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How will centralized global authoritarian control arrive?
On the the twin horses of Climate and Public Health.
Dr. John Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lyeO9IqJzc&t=71s
TFH you say?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2spQSXQjtmdi/
It helps if everyone’s attention is on something else.
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Some more on the US government evacuation of citizens from Israel –
In case you missed the marketing email, Royal Caribbean ran a super unique cruise special yesterday, described in Haaretz’s’ article, “‘Very, very mixed feelings’: U.S. nationals escape Israel-Hamas War on emergency cruise.” Joe Biden rented the Rhapsody of the Seas for a quick 10-hour cruise across the smallest part of the Eastern Mediterranean to the closest point to Northern Israel. American citizens (mostly dual-citizens), limited to one suitcase each, were forced to sign a promissory note binding them to reimburse the U.S. government for the cruise’s cost.
The best part was the note did not specify what that amount would be. Haha suckers! As a lawyer, my advice would be to never sign a promissory note where the lender can later fill in any amount they want. It seems obvious, but there you go.
By the time you read this, the reluctant cruisers have been stranded on Cyprus Island after their 10-hour cruise. Which is, one supposes, a marginal improvement over Israel.
Haaretz’s sub-headline spoke volumes: “The atmosphere among U.S. citizens making a five-star getaway from Haifa to Cyprus on Monday was weary. Some didn’t want to leave, Others couldn’t wait to get away – all were wondering if they were going to have to pay for it.”
Oh, they’re not just going to have to pay for it, and pay dearly. They’ll probably also get audited. And that is only if Biden can’t think of what to indict them for.
Frankly, from the carefully staged pictures it doesn’t look like very many people took Biden up on his awesome, mystery-priced “cruise deal.” From what I can tell it could have been as few as only ten or twenty people. I’m not kidding. None of the articles gave a count.”
From today’s Covid and Coffee newsletter
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Can just imagine it. Called another Biden event then? ( No link so just have to imagine – maybe that’s the best way )
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FWIW
“Israel and demographic reality”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-and-demographic-reality.html
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Frightening?… Reality? Hard to say as the world is behaving just so erratically .
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‘I have a dream’. ‘The Wisdom of Solomon’ – Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, and Wall St buy Louisiana, Alabama or Ireland, and give free air tickets to return Middle Eastern refugees to Palestine. It’s something to work on? Good luck with anything else.
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Huh, What’s up today? Mid-term hols and leave the traatsch behind i.e. no reading blogs or commenting, etc Seems very quiet on here today?
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