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There is nothing of importance happening today.
Everyone go back to bed.
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Oops!
Klyuchevskaya Sopka Volcano erupted.
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Say John, is that anywhere near Eyjafjallajökull. (and just you try pronouncing that little beauty in Icelandic)
Tony.
(Umm, no Tony, there’s 6702 Kilometres between them.)
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Some light reading if you find yourself on an aeroplane:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12706175/Moment-fire-JetBlue-American-Idol-Jimmy-Levys-backpack-exploded-JFK-airport.html
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pilot-incapacitation-jet2-flight-ls-1711-man-dlm-manchester-uk-dalaman-turkey-first-officer-became-incapacitated-pilot-diverted-aircraft-budapest-landed-safely/5838846
Enjoy !
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This seems an astonishing headline
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/02/quarter-of-americans-know-someone-killed-by-covid-vaccines-nearly-half-would-join-lawsuit-poll/
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These are silly surveys.
Let’s assume 5,000 people have met an elected representative from their town, district, whatever. These folks go around drinking beer, shaking hands, flipping pancakes, and kissing babies — and asking for money and votes.
Say, the poor sot gets Covid and dies. 5,000 people can say they knew the deceased. Big deal.
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Ok, so let’s play that out. The survey says 50% know someone who died from the vaccine. There’s 340,000,000 people in America. So, 170,000,000 know someone who died from the vaccine. Now let’s use your scoffing argument that it might be the same death for every 5000 people. So that’s ONLY 34,000 people killed by the vaccine.
That’s about 70% more than the total gun deaths in the USA last year. Yet every day the leftist media is calling for guns to be banned. Covid vaccines … not so much.
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John the referenced article says, in part:
47% personally know someone who was killed by the Covid virus.
24% personally know someone who was killed by the Covid vaccine.
Note the word personally, so of the 5,000 who have met your public figure, how many would have his/her phone number?
The ratio of covid deaths to vax deaths known to the respondant is ONLY 2:1. Significant, methinks.
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Just to lighten the day. Many will know Vienna is a very elegant city. Unfortunately their latest fountain is nothing of the sort
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/behold-viennas-brand-new-19-million-public-art-travesty
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Someone’s laughing all the way to the bank.
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Maybe urban grime will improve it.
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That most welcoming of countries to migrants -Germany-seem to have followed the Dutch by realising the consequences of unfettered migration.
https://rmx.news/germany/majority-support-for-muslim-migration-ban-as-3-in-4-germans-say-newcomers-hate-western-society/
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Eventually it will be 100% agreement. But it will be way too late by then.
But still, they hold out. Was watching John Anderson interview Peter Hitchens and on multiculturalism Peter simply replied, I think we’ve all got on quite well together. Astonishingly simple from such a complex man.
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Ok.. before the Australian summer bushfire climate change hysteria begins.
A lesson for all.
Fire science 101.. Subject: Lightning causing bushfires.. How the statistics are distorted. (In laymans terms)
OK understand all… Smoke is a great conductor.
A bush fire will cause smoke . If that smoke is thick enough, high enough and weather conditions allow, you can/may then get lightning strikes to ground. These strikes can occur at a significant distance, usually further away downstream from the initial bush fire. Up to 20 -30 Kilometers
Multiple fires spawned from the initial bushfire can/or may then occur.. So now we may have 5 separate bush fires.
The cause, we may determine, is “Ignition via lightning due to smoke via initial incident” .
Ok, this is where the fire data re lightning, can be distorted by someone. Either by ignorance, stupidity, malevolance or agenda.
They will read our fire reports and record 5 fires caused by lightning. They will discount the conditions caused by the initial fire and the subsequent conductor.
They cannot correlate or understand that it is all part of the same initial incident.
They usually call themselves an “Expert”. In my professional opinion they are nothing of the sort.
Often the “data” that they report is distorted. Sadly, It seems, that this is endemic in what happens in science today.
How do I know this?… I am actually one of those that investigates and compiles/submits the fire reports.
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“Smoke is a great conductor.”
Yes, used to be well recognised. Equally heavy smoke can also cause high tension power lines to arc, thus thousands of new kilometres of these lines will potentially add to destroying the environment while saving the planet.
While on the topic of fires, just recieved a letter from my council telling me that all boundaries must have at least a 10 metre firebreak to prevent or slow the spread of any ignition. The letter goes to some pain to point out that “only grass must be slashed and any plants, trees etc cannot be touched”.
Now our place has always been well maintained and we have always put in our own “breaks”. On the other hand the roadside verges are covered in scrub, blackberries, other assorted weeds and combustibles. i.e the most likely place for a fire to start. If a fire does get into these verges any 10 metre break will have the same effect as p–sing into the wind.
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Asking a question, not for me, of those who follow these issues: Is there an asociation with low red blood cell count and the covid vaxxes?
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Ask Astraceneka and Thrombocytopenia.
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I have a natural low red blood cell count, so Covid shots don’t change that.
Heparin can (rarely) do that —
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
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It has been reported.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34920343/
As well as a possible direct autoimmune attack on the heamopoetic stem cells in the bone marrow, the vaccines have been associated with turbo cancers including leukaemia.
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Which may account for the blossoming of billboard advertising along the highways for leukaemia treatment.
The cynic in me wonders how long it will be before there are advertisements for a “vaccine” for leukaemia…… You know, like there have been ads for a shingles jab over the past couple of years.
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1) long term flu like symptoms – use Echinacea, 2) debilitation of recovery system – use Vitamin D3, also use magnesium, iron, multi minerals. Get salt levels up. Ensure natural sugar levels are ok.
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A blood test from your GP to determine your vit B12 levels .Low B12 can affect your red blood cells and can be caused by many factors including some medications. A B12 shot from your GP can help boost red blood cells over a three-month period. Your GP will best advise if this is suitable.
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For something different –
“A possible, practical, grassroots solution for Africa?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-possible-practical-grassroots.html
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This link has the co-ordinates given for Joba:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/8°02'38.2%22S+30°01'56.2%22E/@-8.0687646,29.8241925,77923m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d-8.043941!4d30.032271?entry=ttu
This is the only way to build independence. Never ending aid just builds aid dependence.
There has to be evil forces at play. Arming would-be terrorists whose only knowledge of survival starts at the trigger of a gun and ends with the barrel of a gun. Someone is making these guns and getting paid to make them.
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Who couldn’t predict that AI tech would be used for this.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/02/news/ai-generated-nudes-of-girls-at-nj-high-school-trigger-police-probe/
On the positive side, blackmailers are going to be out of business. The victim can just claim the video or photo or conversation was AI generated.
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What, precisely, is wrong with teenaged boys imagining naked girls?
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Sat entertainment: watchout for overhead power lines!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s3hkk21SIp1xpb6og.mp4
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An illuminating experience.
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Illuminating indeed.
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See, its not only electric cars and scooters, electric excavators catch fire too!
It was just a normal excavator on a normal day, but the moment it became electric… boom!
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On October 7, Hamas brought rocket-propelled grenades into quiet Israeli neighborhoods and shot at ordinary people driving in their cars.
This chilling footage is from Sderot.
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I guess you forgot the link(?)
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/the-hamas-covenant-in-action.html
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Sat retro futurism
Ah yes, a typewriter! 😆
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b9c356a09467c16e51d6cc330729d0b8/3274f029f11713aa-56/s500x750/ab23fd97335d135490cf331366d55d563d551c05.jpg
Atom blasted seeds:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5473849ac059f298422c2adf97f9e62/8e84d89947798202-97/s640x960/800c87b4ddec650d06bebe5d92bd230d4af147d8.jpg
Nuclear bomb effects computer:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d37480574361e9656f3b9582341f2e2/79097329be8e34f3-7c/s640x960/609f263953c722bb96eaae18580bf379be99201d.jpg
TV remote that works by ????:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/a0ecf3c967726efdd15c9302d4d9ba80/4d512859e98e7f58-5c/s500x750/e475bc25dc9989e46cdf253bd9f27432df2676f3.jpg
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Was able to almost guess how the battery-less Zenith remote control worked, but thought it would use audible tones. Very clever.
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We Need to Talk About EV Depreciation!
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What happens when a country legalises drugs
https://youtu.be/Qwcp2mcOH0Y?si=60Zqwy1c3dhtTbZ8
Bye Canada…
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Legalising drugs,
Il-legalising free speech.
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phoo! that’s awful. So in this great woke world , Blah blabla, where’s the big street protests AGAINST all this political liberalism?
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The bad news for the EV industry keeps on coming. The Hertz revelations are particularly damaging I think, especially the implications for current owners’ resale values, but fires and charging problems run close behind. Tesla is clearly suffering (20% price reductions) and I expect this is just the beginning.
While I watch this unfold, bucket of popcorn in my arms, I wonder how China will react should the EV market truly hit the skids. They are the biggest player, in so many ways, meaning that such an occurrence would be very painful for them.
Any supportive measure undertaken by governments henceforth, such as more subsidies, grants or purchase assistance should therefore be seen as support for China, and questions asked.
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Top End feels the heat because of a late monsoon.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/majority-of-month-over-37-degreestick-build-up-heatwave-over-the-top-end-/1601368
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FWIW
“The Jewish American Dilemma”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/the-jewish-american-dilemma/
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That’s some small read. Phew IMHO I dunno how / where to start without inflaming the situation. Certainly seems to explain many things going on in the world. I can see that for myself. Suspicions confirmed for other reasons.
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Who needs windmills ? And they want to rename BIRDS? The loss of birds over the past decades alarms scientists. On a single day this past fall, due to the design of the windows in a single building – McCormick Place in Chicago – 1,000 migrating birds crashed to their deaths. Indeed, since 1970, we’ve lost three billion birds in North America. That’s one out of every four birds.
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