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CFACT to BOEM: Oregon’s “floating wind” experiment likely to topple over
https://www.cfact.org/2023/11/03/cfact-to-boem-oregons-floating-wind-experiment-likely-to-topple-over/
“The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) recently weighed in on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) proposal to site two “Wind Energy Areas” (WEA) off the coast of Oregon. President Craig Rucker, who submitted CFACT’s official comments, noted “BOEM should not create administrative “Wind Energy Areas” because the technology being deployed, namely floating wind turbines, have not yet been proven economically viable.””
Floating wind is another green fantasy, comparable to EVs but at billion dollar scale. Machines that perform poorly and cost way too much.
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People visit the coast of OR just to watch big waves and storms. I hope, if built, they have webcams for the public — and the investors — to watch the demise. There needs to be some compensation for such a large waste.
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I’m just waiting for a battery powered hot air balloon. Blackout Bowen should get one as he can at least provide the hot air.
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From what I have read here about the esteemed Mr. Bowen, might he have difficulty qualifying for a second career as Balloon Ballast?
Auto – just askin’
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My recollection of the scenic Oregon coast includes the numerous Tsunami warning signs that say “head for the hills when the alarm goes off.” Near shore infrastructure might be risky.
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The major problem with all the so-called green energy ‘solutions’ is that they are so inherently dilute compared with conventional fossil fuels.
A wind turbine needs a massive footprint of land and huge amounts of concrete, steel, exotic minerals, fibreglass, transmission machjnery and lubricants as well as massive electrical cabling just to produce a piddling amount of energy – and only when the wind blows in just the right speed range.
A solar panel requires a large area aimed in just the right direction, large amounts of exotic materials, minerals, support structure and control systems to produce an even smaller piddling amount of energy – and only when the sun shines for a few hours each day when it’s not cloudy or raining.
An EV battery is costly, fragile and heavy yet can only store a small fraction of the energy that fossil fuels do at minimal cost.
Fact: 1kg of petrol holds as much energy as 53kg of lithium-ion battery. This is why EVs need to drag around up to half a tonne of battery all the time – even when they are holding no charge whatsoever.
Being so dilute in energy capabilities all three ‘green solutions’ are now proving to be failures in capability, strategic and economic terms, and are not even environment friendly.
The general public are now beginning to wake up to these facts and are protesting at the way the lies that the government and bureaucracy have been feeding them.
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Bankers…Banks and Financial institutions can do their own versions of a ‘margin call’…where they at anytime call in their loans…read your fine print.
https://www.howestreet.com/…
With Canadian homeowners in Financial troubles…
Sprung…(pieces all over…what it is, no one knows)…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macleod-future-fiat
Not looking good for the entitled.
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Our houses are valued by speculation and NOT by its actual value in a normal market place by 90%…
Home prices really have a huge way to fall to be actual value which used to include the deteriorating shack that your in and not the speculation of increased values by homeownership ladder of price.
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2023/11/04/gta-condo-sales-drop-47-as-would-be-buyers-priced-out/
Our politicians have not a clue what to do…hmmmm…
I know, let’s add a huge carbon taxes to Canadians…Trudeau’s plan.
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Houses have never been cheap and they are not unreasonable outside the major urban centres. Mine would sell for less than replacement.
This whinge about houses gives me the Tom Tits. They are the only thing dearer today than when I was a “homemaker”. White, brown goods and electronics are a fraction of what they were compared to a tradesman’s pay. Cars are cheaper to buy and far cheaper to maintain and second hand ones are better with less rust than we had available. OH I forgot – all consumer finance was at 10% fixed, that’s 20% reducing. You can eat a larger variety of food and unless you insist on beef steak every day it is quite reasonably priced.
A young tradesman today can afford a home if he gave up smashed avocados, lattes and travel AS I DID. Could have his house in a regional city by 25. We needed 20% deposit, NOT NEGOTIABLE, with no middle class welfare and interest rates nearly 10%. If saving just doesn’t have any appeal then so be it.
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You are quite right. When we had our first house built in 1970 we were only allowed to borrow to the extent that the repayments could only be 25% of my salary at that time. As I was being paid peanuts then, my very kind boss provided a letter for the bank manager that stated a fictitious figure, so we got the loan! Repayment was difficult, but my wonderful wife managed to control the finances so that we had $5AUD left at the end of each month, with which we bought one plant for our new garden, which she had dug up with a mattock while I was off trying hard to justify a salary rise, which did happen eventually.
When I tell my three 20-something grandsons this they look at me like I have come in from outer space – no idea at all of what life used to be like. Not to worry, if Blackout Bowen keeps going, they soon will.
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Same here. They can’t believe that Pizza Hut was the “big night out”.
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Friday night was fish ‘n chips from Nick the Greek’s, even if you weren’t Catholic.
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“Our politicians have not a clue what to do…hmmmm…”
They know perfectly well what to do, the problem is of their own making! However a free-market Austrian School economy only helps the people, while our Keyensian system helps the rich get richer.
Why would they want to give up their ‘velocity of money’ theory that makes them rich by making us spend every penny plus more, for a system where saving is rewarded and debt is limited to the amount of savings people have deposited in the bank.
Our debt would be low, our growth slow and careful, and our later years much richer than our younger years, quite the opposite of the present. Keyenes developed a system for the Central Banks, not for the taxpayers.
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More on the Luton airport fire
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/04/was-the-luton-airport-fire-caused-by-an-electric-vehicle/
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No matter how many times we are told that the fire was started by spontaneous combustion of a “diesel powered car -likely a Range Rover Sport”, the conspiracy theorists just won’t give up!!
That is because we suspect that we are being lied to. And lied to by the very people that we should be able to trust; the public authorities.
The more they spin this story the greater the loss of trust in our public authorities and governments.
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I’ve not read or watched anything at anytime since that changes anything conclusively from what I/we said within week 1.
The only thing I disagree with is that there is ample smoke for a diesel fire.
I was tending to think it was a hybrid at first, but looking at videos and the significant history of diesel fires in this model, I am veering that way, but still unsure.
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Doesnt matter. Diesel is insanely safe, proven by track record of use. Whoever invented the diesel engine should be deified. Diesel built the modern world, safely.
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The environmental nuts have been figuring out ways to make diesel unsafe … via the addition of a DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) in the exhaust system.
The concept is essentially just a filter, to catch soot during those times the engine might burn a bit rich. Nothing amazing about that, but where does the soot go? Well they have a burnoff phase that involves injecting fuel directly into the exhaust stream and superheating the DPF module in order to get the Carbon burning. They are a known fire risk if you drive over long grass because almost always there’s some bit of metal under the vehicle that snags some grass and the flapping strips of grass can touch the red-hot DPF and ignite.
That ignition point can then spread fire in various ways, such as falling down and starting a larger fire with grass and leaves on the ground … or the dry grass stays snagged under the vehicle and burns near a fuel line … possibly the supidly designed fuel line that runs down to inject fuel into the exhaust.
Dumbest system imaginable. You would think the could have something modular that simply bolts in and out and they could be cleaned under controlled conditions.
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I’m just a bit amused that you said ‘Whoever invented the Diesel engine …”. His name was Diesel.
Specifically Rudolf Diesel.
I hope you don’t mind my pointing that out. I myself say much dumber stuff than that every day of the week. But I bet you’ll remember his name in future 🙂
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He tried to develop a system using coal dust for fuel. It didn’t get viable and he jumped ship in the middle of the channel.
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Diesel fires produce very sooty black smoke.
Eg. https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ny308-411_2014_025243_high3.jpg?quality=85&strip=all
Also, it typically has that bellowing cloud effect on the fire while this one has that oxidant already mixed with the fuel eveness.
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It is amply smokey enough for a diesel fire. This model in diesel form is infamous for fires. Modern car diesel fuel doesn’t burn like a tyre anymore, it’s far cleaner. We’ve been over and over this, what will be achieved by repeating the same opinions/preconceptions?
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Its not high sulphur causing the smoke. Modern diesel still burns like oil.
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Videos of fires,..especially in dark areas like closed buildings …are incredibly poor at showing any realistic detail or flame effect due to the poor contrast between the heat of the flame and the lack of ambient light.
It is hard to see any detail of that vehicle and fire other than it is NOT an Evoque, its a full size RRover ,as confirmed by multiple sources, and the flames are on the left.
This article is just a regurgitated rehash of various other unconfirmed comments trying to convince everyone it was a lithium battery fire.
All will be revealed in due course…..its too big to be swept under the carpet .!
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Wot like the efficacy of Covid shots was too big to be swept under the carpet ?
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Having studied pictures of the car which started the Luton Airport Carpark Fire, I have come to the conclusion that it could be, and likely is a Range Rover Evoque.
An interesting feature was that the door mirrors seemed to be tall narrow and rectangular. That is the wrong shape but it would fit if the mirrors were folded closed, which is what happens when car ignition is switched off!
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The vehicle was in a transit lane with the lights on..ie, not parked just stopped.
So , what situation gives the lights on whilst the mirrors are folded in ?
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Good point. In truth I am not sure.
The tail lights appear to be on. However they could be illuminated by he nearby intense flames. Ie transmitted light. That could at least explain the left tail light. Not sure about the right one.
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/transport/luton-airport-video-shows-car-engulfed-in-flames-hours-before-multi-storey-car-park-partially-collapsed-4368267
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I now think, based on the shape of the door mirror, that it is likely a Range Rover Sport L461, which comes in one version as a plug in hybrid.
That is also the view of Geoff who drives cars
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One of the scary aspects of a battery fire is often the lack of warning and initial ferocity.
In the case of the Luton fire, it appears the vehicle already had a problem that was not particularly fierce because the driver has been charged indicating that the vehicle was indeed on fire when he left it for others to control. That makes me wonder if it was a rental! If someone pays GBP60k for a vehicle are they going to catch a flight when the vehicle is on fire? Avis prestige offer the Evoque PHEV in the UK. They may be other rental firms. Some people will hire a prestige car just to try them out.
The fire did develop quickly but not explosively like some do so could have been a battery providing energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_JKbZd6aPk
I think there is more to come when the driver faces court. Right now speculation is still strong.
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Renting an electric vehicle has some special issues. It is worth thinking about the details.
I just read Avis has posted out special rules in North America. The vehicle will be charged to at least 70% when you get it and has to be returned in the same state of charge otherwise you pay a recharge fee of USD70. I figure most people will return them near empty rather than wasting hours getting them recharged.
Again in North America, Avis will not allow one way hire. All EVs have to e returned to where they were hired because some airports lack suitable charging infrastructure.
If you happen to run the battery flat, your will be up for an expensive vehicle pick-up because there is no means of getting charge back into the vehicle at the roadside. (A business opportunity here for an Ice with a generator in a trailer to charge flat EVs)
Also do not take the hired EV to a car wash – they are apt to explode with brutal force. Do not know what would happen if driven through a flooded creek crossing.
I guess this puts a bit more flesh on the bone of why EVs are losing favour with rental firms.
Hopefully the fire risk and associated insurance cost will kill EVs before more money is wasted on them.
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Perhaps the rental car companies should be required to provide a map (paper and electronic?) showing all compatible charging points within 100 miles (160 km) of the point of hire?
Lack of access might be graphically shown?
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Most EVs have charger location features built in to their navigation systems.
Even Google maps on a mobile phone can find a charger near by !
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True but does it warn you if all charging points are working and are they currently in use with some cars lined up waiting to be charged ? Pull into a servo in an ice vehicle with a line up and at worst you will be waiting 10 minutes .
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Do you think a paper or electronic map from a rental company would be any better ?
But i am sure some of the Tesla systems can give “live” status info,.. for their own stations at least.
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Why hasn’t the rich berk owner’s name been released so he can be asked questions publicly?
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Arrested and charged does not confirm guilt.
Presumption of innocense before proof of guilt and entitled to anonimity ?
…but.yes, annoying !
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Arrested and charged, for most, means your name is made public. The mushroom lady has been named without a “guilty” verdict.
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She openly gave interviews to the press immediately after the event.!
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Resist the German state and you may find your social media profile and character trashed by the govt.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/11/enemies-of-the-state/
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Sefton Delmer, in his two volumes of autobiography Trail Sinister (1961) and Black Boomerang (1962), mentions things in that sphere that post WW2 German law retains from times past.
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At the AI conference Elon Musk states that no one will need to work in future. Or that there will be no jobs to do. The first may sound exciting the second sounds sinister
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/be-careful-what-you-wish-musk-warns-no-jobs-needed-future-ai-magic-genie
The excuse for mass migration is that they are needed for jobs others won’t do. Will that excuse still be used?
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“The excuse for mass migration is that they are needed for jobs others won’t do. Will that excuse still be used?”
Well,those mass graves won’t dig themselves.
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How many of them have a trade that can be transferred to here, how many have expertise in anything.
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I suspect my son would love to have an AI phantom dig the trenches for his required septic system…..
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Most interesting article about how Australia became isolated during the war as Japans surprise attack knocked out British forces and America was on the defensive
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/green-powerless-and-defenceless/
The serious point it is making is how reliant Australia is becoming on other countries for its energy security, something that can be said about many other western countries
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A couple of weeks without fuel shipments to Australia and its all over for us. Oh sorry, maybe not, our emergency backup fuel supplies are in America (Sarc).
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The military require copious amounts of diesel and kero, so that will be sequestered immediately, leaving us plebs with the choice of CNG or battery.
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If only Australia had become truly independent in 1901, avoided fighting in European wars, then the outcome might have been entirely different.
Japan had hopes of bringing about a South East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and Australia would have had no Alliances. Purely hypothetical of course, it is what it is.
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Hopefully some form of oil supply crisis will ahppen before all hell breaks loose.
Sufficiently traumatic for us to force the development of those massive oil and gas fiels that Australia floats on and are only prevented from exploiting by dud political policies and environmental lies.
We have plentyof energy and fuel resources, ….but we dont have the sense to acess and use them….maybe a major global 5hit fight will change the thinking ?
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The fleet of ANZACS that left Albany in 1914 were escorted by 4 battleships. One was the Japanese vessel Ibuki. Japanese were one of the allied forces in WW1.
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The Museum near Albany is well worth visiting.
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She’ll be right, mate…
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It is cheaper to use Singapore refineries as a distribution point than to have a refinery here and then distribute from it. I guess that means that there is little interest in discovering new oil, or developing the shale we already know about.
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These are commercial considerations in a competitive market and companies are out to make a profit.
Then when war breaks out we are caught short and our security is dudded.
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Cheapness isn’t the first consideration in a time of crisis.
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Of course, what did I say that contradicts that?
What I didn’t say is WHY, that’s because domestic shipping is prohibitively expensive. Why is that? Because the MUA has the country by the short and curlys and a Federal law that bans international ships from interstate shipping. I knew a couple of guys worked a few hours on tugs, never went out of sight of land. Their pay and conditions
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‘ … what did I say that contradicts that?’
Nothing, I was joining the dots and thinking aloud.
Most international shipping is owned by China, maybe guvmint got it right this time.
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The aus refineries were union cesspits, insane demands, wages and conditions, nitpicking and sleeping during highly paid night shifts.
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..sounds much like any unionised industrial plant i have ever worked in !
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Nature turned it up to eleven!!
Eleven out of twelve months it has now snowed in New Zealand – not bad for a place rumoured to be ‘warming twice as fast as everywhere else’ – with fresh overnight snow, and still falling this morning, on Mt Hutt, Cardrona, and The Remarkables ski areas in the South Island, with the North Island in for a taste of winter the next few days…
This is nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary, happens most years – so where’s the change! Where’s the crisis! The tipping point! I’m going for 12-out-of-12, a year’s worth of snowfalls (maybe even another snowy ‘white Christmas’ this year?) because carbon can do anything.
Meanwhile, way up north, I’m on my 2nd home-brew coffee, sitting in the sun in a pair of boardies waiting on the tide to turn so I can go for a surf: what, me panic?
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Ha ha Lefties.
Another women’s sport (North American Grappling Association) bans men from competing.
See commentary at https://youtu.be/-26TF8j03hI
Policy at:
There is a reason sport codes are segregated by gender/sex (which used to mean the same thing until the Left altered the language).
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Haha. They should – or will have to – rebrand women’s sport to Biological Women.
“Today, the Australian Biological Women’s cricket team have beaten the English Biological Women by 3 wickets at Lords”.
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And no Team bowled a maiden over……………………Remarkable !!!!!
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It is mildly annoying that in men’s cricket they now refer to “batters” and “fielders” and not the gender specific terms. But they ARE men!
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“Batters” sounds crass, doesn’t it? Batsmen is the correct term.
“Chair/chairperson”…they are ghastly too. The post is “Chairman”.
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Curious how having flopelly doppelies doesn’t affirm your gender, but surgically removing them does…
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And more horrible news about men playing in women’s sports.
Sooner or later a women will be killed by this wokeness.
Even Leftist woke Newsweek admits there is a problem with men playing women’s sports.
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I saw a meme of a doctor and patient which said:
Patient: “Doctor, I’m depressed because of the weather in 30 years.”
Doctor: “Have you tried supergluing yourself to the street?”
LoL, LoL, LoL.
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Doctor: “Is there any history of mental illness in your family?”
Patient: “Well, my uncle believes in AGW and trusts the government.”
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FWIW
“The Meatgrinder – REPORT: U.S. and EU Officials Gently Discussing Need for Ukraine to Enter Peace Negotiations with Russia
November 4, 2023 | Sundance | 351 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/04/the-meatgrinder-report-u-s-and-eu-officials-gently-discussing-need-for-ukraine-to-enter-peace-negotiations-with-russia/
What? After all that “winning” the Ysm told us about?
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Boris Johnson buggered up a previous attempt to have peace talks
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Only a dreamer could believe in the possibility of a lasting negotiated peace.
There are two choices: Give central Europe to Russia, or defeat Russia.
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Ukraine wants to take Crimea and then negotiate.
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Crimea was Ukraine until Russia illegally annexed it.
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How far back in history do you wish to go? For many years Crimea was part of the Ottoman Empire but Catherine the Great of Russia annexed it in 1783. Later the Ottoman Ermine took over again. From 1853 – 1856 British and France fought the Crimean War in support of the Ottoman Empire and thus prevented the Russian Empire from taking over Crimea once more. The Russian Black Sea fleet was destroyed and the Black Sea was demilitarised. The fighting had spread far beyond Crimea and the British were panning to attack St Petersburg but peace talks took place before that could happen. One of the reasons why the Russians sold Alaska to the United States was because they realised they would not be able to defend it in a future war with Britain.
Later on Crimea became part of the Soviet Union. After WWII Stalin deported the Crimean Tarters and replaced them with immigrants from Russian and Ukraine. After Stalin’s death Khrushchev took over the Soviet Union and in 1954 he decided that Crimea should be part of Ukraine.
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Whose is it to give?
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If Greta Thunberg ever bothered to go to school she might realise how little fuel a passenger jet actually uses per person. Both an Airbus A350-900 and the Boeing 777X-9 will consume an average of 2.9 l/100 km per passenger, much better than any car.
Then again, today’s “schools” wouldn’t teach that sort of thing…
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It’s not better than any car … a quality hybrid on good roads will get around 5L per 100km.
That’s beating your 2.9L per 100km, even with only two people in the car … but most times you can seat 4 with comfort … and if you want to be stuffed in like a regular airline you can seat 5 in some discomfort. In the extreme case it beats the airline by a factor of three.
Something else to consider … how many airlines end up with empty seats? How many motor vehicles? In practice quite a lot I would guess.
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Dunno how many with empty seats, but a year ago I couldn’t fly from DXB to MEL for days because every EK A380 was packed.
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Most cars trips are single occupant.
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You’re forgetting that the ruling class are determined to prevent the unwashed from taking flights.
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There is a discussion on the Luton fire up the page. It caused me to take a look at the Evoque PHEV. The turbo petrol version has a claimed fuel consumption of 2l/100km.
https://www.carsguide.com.au/ev/land-rover-range-rover-evoque-r-dynamic-hse-p300e-phev-88011
THe test reported 1l/100km but that included putting the vehicle on charge when available.
My son has a Toyota hybrid and is has got under 4l/100km carrying two people on a trip. My recent road trip to Melbourne-Brisbane return with two of us used just over 6l/100km.
I suspect the fuel consumption of the A380 depends on the length of the flight. More fuel is used getting into the air. So short hops would have higher fuel use than long hops.
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JUst drove Adelaide-Shepparton and back in a 3.5l V6 Kia – around 7.8l/100km.
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Amateurs- 33l/100km when driving from Glenrowan to Coober Pedy in the old oiler , was into a head wind and towing admittedly .
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I have a 3.5L Toyota Aurion (2009) . 150,000 km on clock.
Around town 9l/ 100km.
Open road 7.2 / 7.8 l/100km.
Hybrids of any make not worth extra$$.
EVs not worth the risk hassles besides the $$
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It is both strange and tragic that some of Australia’s greatest natural treasures such as uranium, coal and gas are allowed to be exported but not used locally (uranium) and restricted in their use due to “renewables” madness (coal and gas).
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Obviously our leaders think that:
1. Other countries have better nuclear technology
2. Other countries are more responsible in the way they will manage nuclear technology and nuclear waste
3. Other countries have better security
4. The risk of other nations suffering a nuclear disaster is lower or else it’s less important if other populations suffer the consequences
Either that, or our leaders are just total fools.
I know where my money is.
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You should have commenced with you ending statement with a few minor additions. Our leaders are incompetent uncaring fools only concerned about themselves,
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Its not totally their fault, the people voted to keep Australia non-nuclear.
If a referendum was held today, there is little chance of the proposal getting up.
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Not sure the people ever voted on nuclear power. I recall one party banned nuclear power and the Libs have been too gutless ever since. I think if the Libs went to an election with a policy of exploring the virtues of nuclear power as a medium term low cost base load power replacement for fossil fuels it would play well. They could also say they’d take a genuine proposal based on the findings to the following election.
Call the Greens’ bluff on their desire to move to lower cost environmentally friendly reliable power.
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Yep, massive fail on my part, the politicians did it without consulting us.
‘The Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 prohibits certain nuclear actions specified in s.22A unless a federal approval is obtained. It specifically prohibits nuclear power generation in s.140A (an amendment insisted upon by the Australian Democrats).
‘The Act states that the Minister must not approve an action consisting of or involving the construction or operation of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant, or a nuclear power station, or an enrichment plant, or a reprocessing facility.’ (wiki)
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There’s lots of vegetable-based meat substitutes for vegetarians but does anyone know of any meat-based vegetable substitutes for we carnivores?
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Cattle convert grass to meat so that prime rib you’re eating is 100% vegan .
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Yes, meat is how we humans eat grass.
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I can’t understand how vegans can so wilfully destroy the life of a turnip.
It’s ironic that many of these virtuous vegans who won’t eat an egg, are pro-abortion. Go figure.
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There is that map that gives veg names to the various cuts from a carcass – I don’t have a link
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Vegetables are for wussies and bad for you. Everyone knows that, plus they take up valuable bbq plate space that could have been used for bacon.😁
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Plenty of meat based vegetables working in Canberra!
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Basically squeeze a lemon on your meat and you’re fine
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“New Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/03/new-ocean-satellite-monitors-how-el-nino-is-shaping-up/
And Willis E has a look at
“Light Shaking Water”
“From the Ministry of Settled Climate Science, I came across a most fascinating press report entitled Surprise Discovery Reveals a Whole New Source of Evaporation.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/04/light-shaking-water/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/04/light-shaking-water/
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SEE LINK FOR REST
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No possibility of corruption or favourable opinions or outcomes there huh, no, no, no.
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Qantas pick their club members very carefully.
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Bit late now, after Joyce has skipped with his loot and the airline has crashed.
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Don’t forget today’s Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally.
Two hours drive from Melbournistan.
Celebrate internal and external combustion engines and the life-giving CO2 they produce.
https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/
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“Fauci Lied, People Died: French Study Is Latest to Find Hydroxychloroquine Is Associated with Lower COVID-19 Mortality Rates”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/fauci-lied-people-died-french-study-finds-hydroxychloroquine/
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Paper at:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297523001075
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More racism from Victoriastan’s lunatic Leftist Government.
(PAYWALLED)
And more racism.
Non- indigenous Australians need a voice!
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They need to put down the bottle, can, goon bag.
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Bloodwood – Man Made Music
“Yuendumu Flagon Wagon”
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How racist of you, suggesting that they can do this without a constitutional amendment. What are you thinking?
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So, 3% of the population have somehow convinced the government to spend 90% of this particular budget on them? And they did this without a voice? Amazing!!!
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Somehow 3% (it did rise by about another 30% after the last census – it’s obviously really tough being indigenous?) have managed to gain title to 52% of the country, with another 13% ticked off, and in the pipeline. With no representation! I guess the lord just smiles on some people?
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Well, they wanted white man’s lifestyles and they got it.
Alcoholism. Must be r-e-a-l happy with their lives but no signs of their wanting to go back to their traditional existence and be free of it all.
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Nearly 2 Billion People In The World Don’t See Climate Change As A Threat
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Climate Change Policies are the threat – to our very civilisation.
As Jo notes: –
“JoNova
“A perfectly good civilization is going to waste…”
Auto
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Civilisation will have to wait. Solar panels, turbines snd batteries are going to waste first.
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Could the Earth be heading for another Maunder Minimum ( 1645 to 1710) for the next 30 years. Who knows, but the NH would be a lot colder place if it did occur. Anyway here’s the last paragraph and the link to the Valentina Zharkova study. Shouldn’t we Aussies just wait and build only RELIABLE BASE-LOAD energy for the future?
Any ideas from anyone?
“The reduction of a terrestrial temperature during the next 30 years can have important implications for different parts of the planet on growing vegetation, agriculture, food supplies, and heating needs in both Northern and Southern hemispheres. This global cooling during the upcoming grand solar minimum 1 (2020–2053) can offset for three decades any signs of global warming and would require inter-government efforts to tackle problems with heat and food supplies for the whole population of the Earth”.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7575229/
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Civilisation won’t survive without power stations.
What a tragedy Australia and other woke countries have thrown all their money and resources away (and more borrowed money) on wind, solar and similar insanity.
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Would you want a nuclear energy power station in your backyard, the looney left often post at comments.
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I have one, it fine.
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Yes, I would be totally fine with that.
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I’ve heard that French farmers are fine with it, gives good jobs for their children, other than farming.
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As the world enters its cooling phase, what will happen to Australia’s rainfall? Increase or decrease?
All that money thrown away on toxic wind and solar should have been spent on power stations and irrigation.
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Ice Ages are DRY times; COLD and dry, a killer combination. Crops and grazing land fail. No edible vegetation – NO herboivores. No Herbovores – no carnivores of any description,apart from Hyena-grade scavengers, which will “do well’ for a while. Marine life will struggle on for som time.
A “cooler” planet yields less evaporation. Wind patterns change. IF we are VERY lucky, the planet will be whacked by a “moderate-sized” bolide or the “chilling might destabilize a lot of volcanic zones…….
Only a terminal eco-nazi declares “cooler” to be better. Furthermore, you can guarantee the “peak” eco-nazis will have “nice places”, near the equator, already lined up.
It is what Death-Cults do.
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If mention is made of both power and irrigation, Hells Gate Dam springs to mind. It is the only viable version of the Bradfield Scheme I know of.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-03-23/townsville-hells-gates-dam-north-queensland-morrison/100931270
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That’s an interesting editorial from Valentina Zharkova at ncbi (why is it in a biotech journal?). She spends time comparing near term cooling prospects with the Maunder Minimum, but her chart says it may be more like the Wolf Minimum. Maybe there is less data back that far for her to work from?
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MJ is correct, we should be focussed on the Wolf Minimum, the start of the LIA.
Remember its not only solar behaviour that brings about cooling, volcanic eruptions are also part of the mix. The great North Sea storms and floods were indicative that climate was changing.
The people had never experienced anything like it in their life time, or previous two centuries.
Meandering jet streams and blocking are major players.
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If I am reading things correctly, the Wolf Minimum appears not to have had a major effect on Earth’s surface temperatures. It came after the end of the MWP and before the start of the LIA. But everything is so darned corrupted in climate science now, with the past being mercilessly re-written, that it is very difficult to check anything. I suspect that the MWP and LIA will soon appear nowhere except in the Wayback Machine, and when they manage to destroy that we will have nothing.
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The people will recognise a cooling climate, particularly as they are so incredibly focussed on AGW.
A string of cool wet summers in Europe should clinch it, agricultural losses would force them to import foodstuffs.
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Apologies for the late catching up.
Note the reference is a 2020 paper. Interesting analysis.
Solar Cycle 24 (SC24) was showing a weakening solar flux pattern and seeming to continue a trend. Hence the talk, during the prelude to SC25, of a new Maunder Minimum trend. SC25 should be weak and continuing the trend.
But that is not the case as you can see from NOAA data which shows SC25 ‘performing’ well above SC24 and behaving more like the long term average of all recorded SC activity – maybe even a little above average.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
‘Consensus’ views in 2020 followed the Maunder Minimum trend story line and NASA/NOAA were in that mix and created the SC25 weakening predictions. Others, notably Dr. Scott McIntosh, were following alternative empirical evidence and statistical analysis methods, based on solar-magnetic trends, that suggested SC25 would be average or above average.
Evidence to date has shown this to be true; and the radio amateurs like myself that follow solar activity very closely are delighted with the result.
An added benefit is high solar flux periods cut down on cosmic ray energy reaching the earth’s surface and mid-altitude regions (airlines); thus reducing the health impacts. This is due to increased ionization at high altitudes – the same effects that enhance shortwave radio communications.
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Sounds like the sort of thing that Will Janoschka would have been interested in.
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Peter Fitsimons interview.
“Tracey Holmes:
‘It’s not the ABC it was. I hope it finds its way back’”
Stan in the background.
Vomitus, Voluminus
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Conservatives were pleased when Ita Buttrose, a seemingly rational thinker was appointed chair of Their ABC.
We were rapidly disappointed when one of her first pronouncements was that she could see no bias in the organisation.
What a waste of space (and taxpayer money) she turned out to be.
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What on earth do they see through their eyes? Can you believe they think the ABC is too racist a place to work? What? I’m lost for words.
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The left has to play the perpetual victim card, even when they are in total control. It seems compulsory for them to function, like petrol to the lawnmower.
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Aah those were the days, when all the usual ABC comedians were doing racist and sexist skits for laughs – mocking aboriginals, gays, wogs and Indians. Bloody hard trying to find any videos of ABC comedies from the 70s and 80s – they seem to have gone missing from the internet. I also remember watching “Love Thy Neighbour” and even the Black and White Minstrel Show” on the ABC.
But I’m sure the old “those were different times” argument can be applied to the ABC and lefty comedians like Magda “blackface” Zubanski … just not to any conservatives.
Oh, and never forget this from Peter Fitsimons:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/gorillas-and-the-fitz/news-story/430359b18e774d93c4f7d52987e1cd37
Again, the video of this seems to have gone missing as part of the great lefty coverup.
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Here’s a link to the article;
https://amp-smh-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.smh.com.au/sport/tracey-holmes-it-s-not-the-abc-it-was-i-hope-it-finds-its-way-back-20231103-p5ehdz.html?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fsport%2Ftracey-holmes-it-s-not-the-abc-it-was-i-hope-it-finds-its-way-back-20231103-p5ehdz.html
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BTW the Diesel generator on King island is running between 60% and 90% + AGAIN this morning and Solar, Wind and battery are SFA as usual.
Same dismal data every day we care to look. But Bowen and our Labor loonies want to WASTE TRILLIONs of $ for NOTHING and with an added bonus of WRECKING our ONSHORE and OFFSHORE environment as well.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
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I actually saw it at 100% wind solar battery recently. First time ever, I took a screenshot I was so stunned.
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Neville, you should look at the whole setup as a means to saving the people from spending excessive amounts of money on Diesel fuel. This is the only possible reason for having wind and solar. Diesel will always be the backbone of supply there.
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Just as Coal will be the backbone of supply in Australia mainland for the foreseable future or until they accept Nuclear .
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Sorry Chad, your “… will be the backbone…” is the wrong tense. Should be conditional future. Otherwise only true if the current units are kept running,
And even that future is looking to be quite short.
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So, if there is no coal generation,..there will be no “backbone” to the energy supply and coonsequently it will be very susepable to collapse !
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I really hoped that the RSL had more sense, but no. It seems they too want to go broke by going woke and upset the ANZACS all at the same time. ToM
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/bendigo-rsl-defaces-the-remembrance-poppy-lest-we-forget.html
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This goes with that –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/message-to-our-readers-from-martin-beekes-general-manager-bendigo-rsl.html
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Good Lord. I’ve never seen anything so shocking.
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Simply beyond belief. FFS!
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As an ex-serving member I am just shaking my head. This is beyond a joke. Symbolising that 25% of the defence force are alphabet people. Once again dividing rather than treating everyone as equal.
But here’s an idea. Given the vast majority of those who have served are white heterosexuals, should we not make the other 3 petals white?
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RSL = Really Stupid Lot or Reality Skipped this League.
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Thanks for posting this. The reaction will be dismissed as homophobia or transphobia but in reality, this is about something much worse. This has nothing to do with gay people. The RSL are trying to improve their DEI and ESG scores. ESG is Environmental Social and Governance.
ESG is a social credit system similar to what is used in China to control behaviour.
DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is nothing more than a way to push neo-marxism.
When Claus Schwab talks of “stakeholder capitalism”, he is talking about fascism.
The truly disgusting thing about this is this is exactly the evil that the RSL members fought and died fighting against.
My Grandfather fought in the trenches in WW1 an was awarded the Military Medal for bravery . His brother, after whom my father and I were named, died fighting in Gallipoli. My mother worked for S.O.E. in Europe and Asia in the Second World War. I am very grateful for the service of the members of the RSL.
I find this incredibly offensive because it is about those two socialist ideologies, Fascism and Communism. Any criticism will be dismissed as homophobia.
Good to see the comments resisting this evil.
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Well said John.
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I notice James Hansen has warned that the earth will reach 1.5℃ warming in the next decade and is blaming the cause on the continued use of carbon based fuels.
I wonder how they measure the earth’s temperature? And how accurate are they?
After all in a 1960 New Scientist article it was claimed that the temperature had gone up 1.66℃ in the past 100 years but….
“1960 New Scientist Dec.1 1960; The world temperature has gone up 1.66℃ (3℉) in the LAST 100 YEARS”.
“2013 The world has warmed 0.8℃ since the Industrial Revolution”
” 2020 The world has warmed 1.02℃ in the last 100 years”
It seems the temperature varies rather more you would expect.
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Most of those temperatures are based on global “homogenisation” of limited temperature data from 100 years ago.
Back then, almost the only reliable temperature data was from USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Even Australia’s past temperature data can’t be trusted since the BoM started altering the record by cooling the past and warming the present (what they call homogenising).
The rest is made up (or to use the woke fake science term homogenised from stations hundreds or thousands of km away).
Tony Heller has looked into this and has a video on it which I will post when I can find it.
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Not sure if these are the links you reference, but providing them on the chance they might be.
100% Of US Warming Since 1990, Is Due To Fake Temperatures
(do read the comments)
https://realclimate.science/2014/12/13/100-of-us-warming-since-1990-is-due-to-fake-temperatures/#gsc.tab=0
The Global Temperature Record Is Meaningless Garbage
https://realclimate.science/2015/02/10/the-global-temperature-record-is-meaningless-garbage/#gsc.tab=0
Alterations To Climate Data
https://realclimate.science/alterations-to-climate-data/#gsc.tab=0
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Graeme No 3
“It seems the temperature varies rather more you would expect.”
It depends on who has had charge of the records, and how much those records have been ‘homogenised’ [IIRC], and what the folks seek to ‘prove’, or ‘show’, or at least claim.
But 1.02C – that’s plainly scientific – lots of numbers past the decimal point.
And today, inside the M25 in Sarf Lunnon, it was 11.83206C.
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In the rain.
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That all?
At Luton Airport last week it was 1183.206C in the carpark…
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The quicker they claim 1.5 the better. People will look around and think, well it’s not too bad is it.
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except for the fact that New Scientist never published those stories.
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Have you actually checked?
There is a date of issue for one.
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NS only has online archives for the las 25 years. Obviously you are just reposting with out attribution
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You know things are true if they are ‘published’ by a ‘scientist’ … or the NYT.
Then I can be assured it’s safe and effective.
Did you know it was a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’?
So many died of horse de-wormer, many of them worms.
If we universally vaccinate before Pandemics, we can stop this.
Make glaciers stand still … and make the Next One a Pandemic of the Vaccinated
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Carbon Dioxide: Vital Plant Food
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Getting beautiful soaking rain soothing the dried soil and the parched grass. Of course, when dry the weather topic came to the fatalistic “this is how it is now, just extremes”, and of course that ends, as always.
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Lucky you.
0.5 mms here – still rather dry.
Cheers
Dave B
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They’re bringing the carbon nonsense to the dairy industry now. The hypocrisy, they like banging on about mental health of farmers, the struggles on one hand, and on the other one, they give you a big headache. A tax is all it is at the end of the day.
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A little summation. Let me know what you think of everything that flows from it.
WARNING! Someone might be offended!
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Excellent.
But on your second point that CO2 is heavier than air, maybe Greta got her ideas from John Kerry
“This is simple. Kids at the earliest age can understand this.”
John Kerry
Try and picture a very thin layer of gases – a quarter-inch, half an inch, somewhere in that vicinity – that’s how thick it is. It’s in our atmosphere. It’s way up there at the edge of the atmosphere. And for millions of years – literally millions of years – we know that layer has acted like a thermal blanket for the planet – trapping the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the Earth to the ideal, life-sustaining temperature. Average temperature of the Earth has been about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, which keeps life going. Life itself on Earth exists because of the so-called greenhouse effect. But in modern times, as human beings have emitted gases into the air that come from all the things we do, that blanket has grown thicker and it traps more and more heat beneath it, raising the temperature of the planet. It’s called the greenhouse effect because it works exactly like a greenhouse in which you grow a lot of the fruit that you eat here.
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There’s a place in Siberia where the temps in summer get up to 40c and in winter plunge to -60c, a difference of 100c, what does he have to say about that.
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No wonder that Gutters fella thinks we’re boiling…
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Siberia – isn’t that where the delightful Kerry wants to send those who disagree with him?
Or is it Kalifornia … some penal colony or other.
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Definition of irony in a simple photo , tree kills electric car .
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/sy97sp/imagine_buying_an_electric_car_to_save_the_planet/
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A beautiful picture, nature at work.
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DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care
“DETRANS: The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care” is a 21-minute documentary that focuses on two people who express deep regret for taking hormones and undergoing surgeries to reject their biological sex.
“There are so many young people who are going through very similar things that I did and are still being told that transitioning will save them,” Daisy Strongin says. “And it’s just not true. My story is tragic in some ways, but it’s very redemptive in many ways.”
Strongin’s story began when she was only a minor, battling severe depression and struggling with her self-worth. That’s when she turned to the internet, seeking answers and guidance in addressing her feelings of hopelessness.
She said after consuming gender transformation videos on her favorite websites like YouTube and Tumblr, she became “very, very interested in having a male persona.”
“The more time I spent online, the more it felt like real life,” she said. “And the more real it felt, which eventually led to me just totally transitioning.”
Strongin said she eventually changed her identity and began visiting a behavioral mental health clinic. After six days, she said the staff told her parents, “If you don’t validate him, then this is just gonna get worse.”
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/11/prageru-documentary-detrans-dangers-of.html
https://www.prageru.com/video/detrans
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Slow news day ….. hottest since 2019 in the NT.
We are doomed!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-weather-update-northern-territory-heatwave/c2c53564-0156-41f3-8baa-06af94057dd1
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Expected to get Horrifically Worse – This is Why… (shtf)
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Who Signed The Lima Agreement?
https://cirnow.com.au/who-signed-the-lima-declaration/
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-05/bengello-beach-longest-sand-monitoring-study/103057228
So what did these Professors find after 50+years of monitoring?
That the beach now remains as it was before the beach eroding 74-76 la Nina storms.
Tucked away at the end of the article is the VERY telling global warming, sea level rise quote.
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But surely this is how the long march through institutions begins.
Pass the baton to some new guy who has little loyalty to the effort and procedure of the historical record.
He may say the right things when he starts off but how do you hold his toes to fire for the long haul?
What stops him from homogenising the data at a later time?
What stops him from being attracted to government grants to “continue the consensus-CC research”?
What stops him from worrying about being cancelled for not seeing the expected clear signal in the next 50 years.
Sorry to question your integrity mate, but we have a bunch of faux-scientists these days … nearly as bad as money scammers.
Hard to sort the goodies from baddies.
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Seeing it is Sunday Comics time –
What is the major language (after English and Spanish) spoken in peoples homes in the USA?
German in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, West Virginia
French in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, North & South Carolina, and Louisiana
Chinese in Washington, California, Kansas, New York, Pennsylvania,
Portuguese in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Utah.
Arabic in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Iowa
Vietnamese in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
No idea of the numbers involved or the dates except I know that Germans were settling into Arkansas in 1720 (as part of the Mississippi boom/bust in France) and were numerous in New York in the later 1800’s as recent immigrants.
Certainly the USA provided a refuge for peoples from all over.
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Chinese beer Tsingtao is as weak as p#ss
Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer.
The clip has received tens of millions of views on social media.
The company said it alerted police immediately after the video came to its attention, adding that the batch of ingredients had been sealed.
Tsingtao is one of China’s top beer producers and its biggest exporter.
In the clip which appeared online on Thursday, a worker, dressed in uniform with a helmet on, can be seen climbing over a high wall and into the container before appearing to urinate inside it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67191242
Given everything else China does, no surprise there.
We even had one here in Oz.
P#ssbeer.com.au
Perfect xmas gift for someone. 😉
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I can almost smell this video.
https://youtu.be/e9fNWFu2Amc?si=I5V4OROLPeT7pcTe
Ah yes. 😁
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Severe Diarrhea Cases Surging Across UK, And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Infections from a parasite which can cause long-lasting, severe diarrhoea has seen an “unprecedented and ongoing” surge across the UK. This increase in infections has been ongoing since mid-August.
Almost 500 cases of cryptosporidiosis in a week were reported at the end of September alone – five times more than the expected number for that time of year.
And this may just be the tip of the iceberg, as only about one-eighth of infections are ever reported.
While cases have started to fall, they’re still well above expected numbers. And the reasons why cases are so high this year is still unknown.
Crypto is caused by inadvertently ingesting faecal matter. The parasite can be spread through food, water and contact with an infected person or animal. Many crypto outbreaks have been caused by people drinking water that had become contaminated by human or animal faeces, or consuming unpasteurised milk or contaminated foods – typically salads.
Outbreaks have also been associated with farm visits, children’s day care centres and even swimming pools.
Most people recover from crypto without needing treatment. But sometimes crypto can cause severe disease, leading to weight loss and dehydration. Infections from the C. hominis strain in particular can sometimes lead to long-term diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome, weight loss and fatigue.
People who are severely immune compromised – such as those with HIV/ Aids or blood cancer – are also at greater risk of severe and potentially fatal infections.
There’s no vaccine against cryptosporidiosis.
https://theconversation.com/infections-from-a-diarrhoea-causing-parasite-are-on-the-rise-in-the-uk-but-experts-arent-quite-sure-why-215130
It doesn’t require a subpar immune system, just an upset in the gut microbiome, which both Covid and Fakevax do.
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Says it all really:
” People who are severely immune compromised – such as those with HIV/ Aids or blood cancer – are also at greater risk of severe and potentially fatal infections. ”
Anyone who’s had some of those “safe and effective” jabs, maybe?
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Well titled thread –
“This Muhammad bloke sounds like a bit of a legend.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1720776356689035614
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/this-muhammad-bloke-sounds-like-a-bit-of-a-legend.html
And
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/the-bastards-that-caused-this.html
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Feeling low today, sorry. I’ve been trying to maintain my online connections because recently, my face-to-face interactions have pretty much ceased. In early Sept. my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 advanced ovarian cancer. I had been posting about the extraordinary occurrence of cancers in her family, but honestly didn’t expect this. Our lives have pretty much come to a halt as she undergoes chemo, and will have a very extensive operation to remove numerous tumours in December, followed by more chemo. Her prognosis is terrifyingly bleak.
I do what I can, which amounts to feeding her as well as I can, keeping on top of appointments etc, and trying to mitigate her huge mood swings – which she is of course perfectly entitled to feel. The one thing she needs me to do is beyond me – make it go away.
We have been together for fifty years, married for forty-eight. We effectively grew up together. Thoughts of her leaving me literally make my head spin and I have huge feelings of inadequacy. As a man, it’s my job to protect, but in this case I’m impotent. We had so many plans.
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Steve, I’m so sorry to read this. What a horrible situation for you both.
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Sorry to hear that Steve. I wish I had some words of wisdom but can only wish you and your wife all the best. The positives are there is a planned course of treatment which offers the hope of recovery. Have a look at thebfd.co.nz as it may offer some distraction over the next few months. Kind regards mate.
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Steve – there may be other stuff you and your wife can do. See https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/cancer-cut-burn-poison-now-add-starve-apoptosis-immune-target/ (and comments) for useful information. I hope this turns out well.
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Steve, I hope that there are moments between treatments when there’s time to sit and reflect on the past fifty years.
Those moments of peace will be precious.
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God bless you both.
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Steve,
When we have known someone well and for a long time, there are aspects of their personality which become memorised and so parts of that person live on inside us. In that sense, part of your wife will always be with you.
The situation you have both entered is horrible. One of the reasons you may feel paralysed is that you believe you can no longer make any plans. No. You can, but they have to be a new kind of realistic.
There is no long term plan you can make that is so robust that it would work just as well regardless of your wife’s presence in it. You can’t make a long term plan, but you can still plan.
Tomorrow is something you can plan for. And tomorrow you can plan for the day after that.
Sure, you cannot make the cancer go away, that is down to vagaries of the illness and the efficacy of the treatment, it is something nobody can control. But you can control how you respond to this horrible challenge. What you do today is something you can control.
Space has shrunk to what you can personally say and do and your planning horizon has shrunk to tomorrow.
As sad as that may be, it has the advantage of being realistic. That is what you can do.
You may also think of how your coping with this horrible upset will sound in the retelling. Would you be able to tell other men going through a similar crisis how they could deal with it as well as you did? Journaling may help that process too. I don’t know if you will interpret that as too much pressure or as being motivational. I hope it helps, but ignore that bit if it doesn’t.
Certainly if you make the best of every day you will not regret what you did. Best of luck to you for your resilience and your wife’s health.
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Ah Steve, try to remember to stop and treasure every moment and every thing you can right now and day by day. Tell her wonderful things every day, do all the little bright things you can.
We fought one of these battles, and I feel now the battle itself became all-consuming, and I could have done so many more little things to help and comfort, and organised more friends and gatherings. Time can go so quickly. Still brings tears to think of it nearly 5 years later.
All my thoughts and very best wishes are with you both. Miraculous results do occur and I hope and wish that is the outcome.
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🙂 🙂
Yes. In some ways the treatment is of lesser importance than making sure to treasure each moment that presents.
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The World’s Largest Biometric Digital ID System, India’s Aadhaar, Just Suffered Its Biggest Ever Data Breach
In one fell swoop, roughly 10% of the global population appears to have had some of their most valuable personal identifiable information (PII) compromised. Yet Aadhaar continues to receive plaudits from Silicon Valley.
An anonymous hacker claims to have breached the digital ID numbers, as well as other sensitive personal data, of around 815 million Indian citizens.
To put that number in perspective, it is more than 60% of the 1.3 billion Indian people enrolled in the government’s Aadhaar biometric digital identity program, and roughly 10% of the entire global population. Thanks to the breach — the largest single one in the country’s history, according to the Hindustan Times — the personal data of hundreds of millions of Indians are now up for grabs on the dark web, for as little as $80,000.
To register for an Aadhaar card, Indian residents have to provide basic demographic information, including name, date of birth, age, address and gender, as well as biometric information, including ten fingerprints, two eyeball scans and a facial photograph. Much of that data has apparently been compromised.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/worlds-largest-biometric-digital-id-system-indias-aadhaar-just-suffered-its-biggest-ever
Halfwit politicians setting data security policy.
What could go wrong globally.
Now apply this to ALL bank accounts on Earth because that’s what’ll happen.
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815 million – roughly equivalent to the entire population of the EU, plus the entire population of the US over the age of five years.
Some data loss.
And, exactly as JC II says – “Now apply this to ALL bank accounts on Earth because that’s what’ll happen.”
And retirement funds, credit and debit cards, medical records, loyalty cards, tax records, and car and driving records, etc. ….
And that’s without ‘them’ phoning you to tell you it’s your bank so give us immediate access to your money ….
World is getting scarier.
Keep cash if you can – and use it whenever you can.
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Today I went to the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally along with my neighbour and his young kids.
As I have mentioned before, the whole area has been polluted with the Stockyard Hill Wind plantation, 51% Chinese owned and 49% Qatar owned.
I explained to the kids the purpose of these monstrosities and how they are meant to make electricity from wind.
Then both the five and six year old said to me, but how can they make electricity if there is no wind?
Tragically, this very profound point by young kids is missed or not understood by most of the woke morons who rule this country and their useful idiots.
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Smarter than a politician!
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It takes a little kid to see that the emporer has no clothes.
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Alarmingly, that tale as an idiom is incredibly close to the “green” (sic) energy scam:
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California EV Hell: Queuing for chargers at midnight!!!
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Californication, you cannot leave.
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I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that our town, Mudgee, NSW, has undertaken to save the world from all that boiling and drowning and has increased the number of charging points by 400% recently, going from 1 to 5. I’ve even seen some use of at least one of them occasionally.
Installed just in time to celebrate the downturn in EV sales.
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David:
Have the town increased to supply capacity to the station?
If it is only the same then if all charging points are occupied then the supply to each with be less.
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I can’t answer your question Graeme, sorry. But there is a special transformer mounted on an adjacent power pole.
I doubt any users have experienced that problem, as I’ve never seen all occupied together. Two max, once, for me.
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Recharge Industries [Australian Co’y]: Britishvolt buyer failed to pay UK staff for months
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67312309
BBC, so treat with care; but here is an extract –
“The takeover has not gone smoothly, with some £2.5m of the purchase price still unpaid months after it was due. However, sources within Recharge Industries insist a deal with a new investor is imminent.” [They would, wouldn’t they? Auto, with apologies to Mandy Rice-Davies]
“Britishvolt was a start-up with big ambitions. It wanted to build a £4bn “gigafactory” to supply battery packs for a new generation of electric cars.”
[Unclear who was to actually buy those EVs! But the chancers [sorry, benevolent industrialists] sought to get oooodles of UK taxpayer cash … Auto]
“The plant was to have been built on the site of an old power station near Blyth in Northumberland. It was seen as an ideal location, with a deepwater port and good access to transport links. But the venture ran out of money, and fell into administration earlier this year.”
Auto
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Californication, you cannot leave.
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Was Michael Mann Exonerated by the Post-Climategate Investigations as Was Decided by the DC Court of Appeals?
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Albanese is in China to speak to his comrades about the next phase of Australia’s destruction.
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FWIW
“The Coming Collapse of Green Energy, and why EVs Will Never Catch On
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/05/the-coming-collapse-of-green-energy-and-why-evs-will-never-catch-on/
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Willis E has a look at the latest “Hansenism”
“Dr. Jim Advises Panic”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/05/dr-jim-advises-panic/
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A good explanation IMHO of how power grids work and blackstart issues.
https://youtu.be/uOSnQM1Zu4w?si=Jxs8lfi0_0Af2X8E
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“Green, powerless and defenceless”
https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=22727&page=4
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Spreading –
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/green-powerless-and-defenceless/
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“Study confirms effectiveness of newer arthritis meds”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-effectiveness-arthritis-meds.html
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Hmmm
“Flood the Gaza Tunnels”
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/11/01/flood_the_gaza_tunnels_989879.html
Via Instapundit
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Didn’t Egypt divert their raw sewage into the tunnels last time.
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Yes. And no one complained.
It’s only Israel that’s not allowed to defend itself.
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The problem is that the Hamassh-les probably have the Israeli kidnap victims in the tunnels.
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Does the IDF have an attitude that they would rather hostages die sooner in a rescue attempt than later in degrading executions?
I’m making no moral judgement but they have probably decided that retrieving any alive would be a bonus.
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Will so called A.I. be wholly powered by Wind and Solar? Please, make my day. Waiting for 0CO2AI bumper stickers.
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Cory Bernardi: calls out the ‘frighteningly obvious’ problem leading the decline of the West
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Tip for the Monday thread:
Elon Musk told Joe Rogan he bought Twitter to stop ‘extinctionist’ mind virus
There may be better links to podcasts or video
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The second link shouldn’t be a link, only the text
That seems to be the respective vid.
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https://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Australian total government debt (federal, state, local) is about to roll over to $1.8 trillion.
It’s increasing by about $5,800 per second or $182 billion per year.
And almost no one knows or cares….
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Do we have any “nation building” projects under construction? Every cent we beg borrow or steal is blown on welfare of one kind or another.
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Only nation destroying projects.
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No surprise here. Plenty of people now embrace evil. Look at all the Australians supporting Hamassh-le terrorists, for example.
Article from about a year ago.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/satanic-membership-doubles-as-christian-affiliation-shrinks/news-story/b884fb61c2fab3931cb146d7c80bbfa5
Satanic membership doubles as Christian affiliation shrinks
The number of people who worship the devil have doubled in Australia. Take a look at the latest religious trends in our interactive table.
Melanie Burgess
Data journalist
October 2, 2022
(PAYWALLED)
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I forgot to say that those supporting the Hamassh-les are of the Left persuasion.
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A new law is about to kill free speech and democracy in Australia
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/communications-legislation-amendment-combatting-misinformation-and-disinformation-bill-2023-guidance-note-june2023_1.pdf
https://www.rt.com/news/586569-free-speech-democracy-australia/
I cant see how Joannenova.com.au will survive.
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Perhaps some Pacific nations will offer “politically neutral” internet sites?
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