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    PADRE

    We had a delightful Carol service in one of little churches this morning. Next item on the agenda – a trip to the tip.

    Happy Christmas one and all

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    Jan

    I thank God for the beautiful summer heat. Also thankful for an electric fan.

    I have always been puzzled by the fears of warming.

    Some Scottish highlanders bred in the far North of Ross-shire settled in Murrurundi, not removing for colder climes despite the paper regularly reporting, as they did in 22 December 1883, it was ‘intensely hot’ being ‘104 in the shade’.

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      PeterPetrum

      Well, this blogger (with my mother’s maiden name Ross for my middle name) spent the first three years of my life in Fort William in west coast of the Highlands. I have to admit, that when I arrived in Sydney in October of 1966 I found driving out to Parramatta and Penrith during that summer in a non air conditioned car pretty taxing. Now almost 60 years later I am totally used to it, enjoy hot summers and have to also admit, that I quite like air conditioned cars, and dwellings.

      But if I can cope with a max temperature change over that time of almost 20°C I can’t see humans having much problem with a 2°C rise in “average” temperatures or less over 100 years.

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      Adellad

      Yep, here in Adelaide today has hit a sweltering 16.4 after yesterday’s 16.8. With the massive southerlies it feels like Macquarie Island (as I imagine it)

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        Graeme No.3

        Macquarie Island has a volcano operating. In the Adelaide Hills it is more like 12℃.

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        Ian Hill

        Just checked other areas of SA:

        Moomba 43.4C (110.1 F)
        Oodnadatta 15.3C (59.5F)

        Unbelievable contrast for these weather stations in the Far North but divided today by the trough. In between Marree was 24.2C (75.6F).

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          Ian Hill

          Looking at the table again, second hottest weather station in SA today was Renmark at 26.2C (79.2F). Wonder how many stations in SA will be homogenized up to 10C above what it really was because of Moomba’s outlier observation?

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    John Connor II

    ‘Chilling’: Some Smart Toys Can Collect Kids’ Iris Scans, Fingerprints, Vital Signs and More

    This year’s 38th annual “Trouble in Toyland” report, produced by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, highlighted a new threat: “smart toys” that pose a privacy risk to children and families by collecting children’s data without parents’ knowledge or consent.

    According to the 38th annual “Trouble in Toyland” report, released in mid-November, “Toys that spy on children are a growing threat.” The threats “stem from toys with microphones, cameras and trackers, as well as recalled toys, water beads, counterfeits and Meta Quest VR headsets.”

    “The riskiest features of smart toys are those that can collect information, especially without our knowledge or used in a way that parents didn’t agree to,” said Teresa Murray, Consumer Watchdog at the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and author of the report. “It’s chilling to learn what some of these toys can do,” Murray said in a press release.

    Murray told The Defender:

    “This primarily means microphones, cameras, geolocators, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capability or that connect to an app. We’re also watching for developments with artificial intelligence [AI] built into toys, although this isn’t happening much — yet.”

    Smart toys include “stuffed animals that listen and talk, devices that learn their habits, games with online accounts, and smart speakers, watches, play kitchens and remote cars that connect to apps or other technology,” according to PIRG.

    https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/trouble-in-toyland-2023/

    No tech toys!
    Buy outdoor toys that produce healthy kids, not indoor phone zombies.
    /and no noise producing toys either. No drum sets, whistles or trumpets. 😁
    /and no dogs. They’re not toys or gifts but lifelong commitments.

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      GlenM

      The days when boys wanted Matchbox toys for Christmas…

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      David Maddison

      Those tech toys would be a good way for the Chicomms to conduct espionage when placed into the homes of individuals of interest, much as they already do with TikTok.

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    ozfred

    the fourth generation Shidaowan plant, a modular 200 megawatt (MW) high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGCR) plant developed jointly by state-run utility Huaneng, Tsinghua University and China National Nuclear Corporation,
    Perhaps a start of the mythical “small modular nuclear reactor” that the green lobby suggests will never come to pass?

    https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/12/09/007250/china-starts-up-worlds-first-fourth-generation-reactor-readying-giant-nuclear-ship

    And from the comments. they meaning the country of China =
    They are not trying to meet any carbon emission goals. They have no goals, other than growing the economy and making it sanction proof.

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      el+gordo

      ‘ … growing the economy and making it sanction proof….’

      China is having an economic melt down and their Tofu constructions are dodgy.

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        Adellad

        That is a matter of Marxist centralised and paranoid control with associated ineptitude, not intent.

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        Hanrahan

        A couple of reds I see EG. It is amazing how much support there is here and generally for socialism and how much animus towards our allies.

        Why do they choose to live among us barbarians?

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      CO2 Lover

      “No Goals…”

      Australia is destined to become Hong Kong MK11.

      China needs Australia’s mineral wealth.

      Plus most of our politians are in on the game.

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        Hanrahan

        Australia is destined to become Hong Kong MK11.

        China needs Australia’s mineral wealth.

        Wot rot. They can buy our stuff cheaper than than going to war for it. How is war working out for Russia?

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          el+gordo

          Premier Xi has no intention of starting a hot war, fought with conventional weapons, Beijing would surely lose.

          The West has decided to push back against dictatorships, through economic means, and allow real democracies to flourish. The Chinese population is facing immense hardship and there is bound to be a mass uprising.

          After the dust settles we’ll probably sell our iron ore for Yuan instead of US dollars.

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          yarpos

          The comment you responded to didnt mention war, that’s your creation.

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    David Maddison

    I THINK WE NEED TO REVISIT HOW WE DEAL WITH THE ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD.

    By pointing out that the data on which the fraud is based comes from fraudulent data from NASA/NOAA, BoM and presumably European agencies as documented by Tony Heller for the US, Jo Nova and Jennifer Marohasy for Australia etc..

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      PeterPetrum

      Absolutely. The recent videos from Tony Heller that show what NOAA, in particular, are not just adjusting historic temperatures downward, they are adjusting current temperatures upwards and even inventing records for stations that no longer exist. It really is a scandal and the media just will not touch it.

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      Factsarefun

      Have you considered why your evidence fails scientific standards ?.
      Either the world’s collective scientific output is corrupt OR, you’re wrong.

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        David Maddison

        Have you considered why your evidence fails scientific standards ?

        The evidence presented by Tony Heller fails no scientific standards whatsoever.

        You are welcome to refute Tony Heller’s recent videos to which I am referring, or indeed any other of his videos:

        https://youtu.be/AIgfzAgYDjE

        https://youtu.be/coh52TUZcZM

        We’re waiting. But I know you won’t refute anything. You’ll just go with the fact-free “consensus”, which is not how scientific fact is established contrary to what the propaganda teaches.

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        Leo Morgan

        The concept of “The world’s collective scientific output” is new to me. I’m sure you didn’t mean there is no error nor corruption in all the scientific output of the world. Nor can you mean there is nothing wrong in today’s scientific consensus; the whole concept of scientific advance is predicated on today’s consensus being wrong.

        But could much of climate science be profoundly wrong? You already know the answer is yes. It’s eliminated the forecast Al Gore used that the North Pole could be melted by 2013. It acknowledges that the ‘Father of Global Warming’, James Hansen was wrong about New York City being underwater by 2020. It’s downgraded the maximum sea-level rise in a hundred years from 28 metres to one foot. It’s dithering over whether it’s forecast of Antarctic Ice growing due to warmer air bringing more snow was accurate or not.

        But could it be corrupt?
        As retraction watch, Climategate, and many more reveal, the answer is yes again.
        We’d love to believe we can trust our institutions. But we are wrong to do so blindly. Science as an institution is riddled with corruption.
        The mistaken belief that an institution is above corruption has protected wrongdoers in education, government, the clergy and science for far too long.

        https://retractionwatch.com/
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents
        https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffreykabat/2015/11/23/the-crisis-of-peer-review/?sh=2293e51b463e
        https://www.google.com/search?q=scientific+fraud&sca_esv=589543827&tbm=nws&sxsrf=AM9HkKnaFk5tVbePs7AG60BGXZLcy68GOg:1702205762654&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA58TO2oSDAxUAcGwGHTQTDikQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1632&bih=936&dpr=1

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          Fran

          A lot of time retractions are forced by people who disagree with the findings. EG, a recent paper on Rapid Onset Gender Disphoria.

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        Dave in the States

        Talking about evidence failing scientific standards? Well, that certainly applies to MBH98. Steve McIntyre, among many, has debunked it six ways to Sunday and twice on Saturday. The Hockey Stick is the very foundation of the “collective scientific output” of which you refer. Therefore, the whole rotten edifice of AGW is built on a shaky foundation. Climate Gate, have you heard the term? I suggest you look into it in depth.

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        Ted1.

        Dig a bit deeper, Faf. Which scientific standards? Try this.

        The Air Vent comes across as a decent citizen with some expertise in the evil science of statistics

        A few months back he ran a few sorts on official 2002 vote counting data from I think Michigan. No matter if I have the wrong state, we are only representing the problem, not prosecuting it.

        WE all remember that on the counting night a “water leak” forced them to stop counting and send the scrutineers home at 11 o’clock-ish. Then they started counting again at four-ish.

        When they stopped counting, Trump was well in front. The Air Vent did some sorts.

        Sorting for “batches above a certain size” he found 18 batches totalling about 340,000 votes, all coming after counting stopped, which all went to Biden. None for Trump. And 340,000 was enough to put Biden in front.

        The Air Vent says that is impossible. So does Ted1. To get that many people all going the one way.

        So where could those votes come from? We saw on CCTV a trolley being rolled out from under a table to a vote counting station. Could they have been votes for Biden which had already been counted and sorted? But surely not! It’s preposterous. But the signs are there. Keep watching.

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      Ted1.

      Revisit?

      What has changed?

      When did it change?

      There was one tipping point, just one. The Australian federal election of 2013, where the electorate tried to put an end to the AGW scam and the reckless spending of the Marxists by giving Tony Abbott a landslide mandate.

      However Clive Palmer split the conservative vote by campaigning to the right of the coalition, thereby collecting four seats in our senate, then, at Al Gore’s call, delivered those four seats, which represented the fringe right wing votes to the fringe left wing of our political system, “protecting” both the RET and the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd government’s mad spending program. Clive and Al tipped Abbott’s landslide the other way. Without that switch the AGW scam world wide would have come crashing down in the first year of the Abbott government.

      And neither the commentariat nor the coalition parties noticed.

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    David Maddison

    I tried to post a link to this website on YouTube in response to one of Tony Heller’s latest videos about data tampering at NASA/NOAA to cool the past and warm the present and my comment was about how “our” very own BoM was doing the same and the AI bot at YT deleted it.

    Here is the link that was deemed too terrifying and dangerous to post on YT.

    https://joannenova.com.au/2014/08/the-heat-is-on-bureau-of-meteorology-altering-climate-figures-the-australian/

    I reposted my comment but just used the words of the title of the article which people can use Goolag to find.

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      David Maddison

      Actually, it appears that my second attempt to repost a comment has now also been removed.

      The video is at: https://youtu.be/coh52TUZcZM

      And my comment said (with link removed):

      Australia’s Bureau of Meterology has been doing a similar thing to Australia’s historic temperature record by the secret and undocumented and hence scientifically invalid process of “homegenisation” with the overall outcome to cool the past and warm the present. It has been documented on the Jo Nova website. Much of the analysis was done by Jennifer Marohasy. It’s almost as though BoM and NOAA are are singing from the same song sheet. (Edit: the link I posted to the Jo Nova site seems to have been deleted by YT so this is a repost without the link. Search for ” The heat is on. Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’ ” with the outer quote marks.)

      My other comment remains.

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      John Connor II

      Goolag DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Bing, Qwant, Web3, Tusk, Torry……

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      David Maddison

      And here’s something to think about.

      As meteorological agencies like NOAA, BoM can no longer be trusted, why not establish a crowd-funded, research-grade, open source climatology network. It would be made with standardised weather stations, properly located and housed, and produce honest, open source weather data.

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    John Connor II

    Sunday funnies

    Is your cat overweight?
    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4qieokHpl1w5pr9j.mp4

    What’s wrong? The saw won’t cut!
    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4uhg5M2US1w5pr9j.mp4

    Towing a seaplane up a ramp. Weird..
    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4euan6zlD1w5pr9j.mp4

    Determined hungry seagulls are a menace.
    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s3pv67TMMp1w5pr9j.mp4

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      David Maddison

      1) Fat cat.
      2) It’s so stupid I think its true, not a stunt, especially as it involves Gen Z.
      3) Interesting custom made vehicle to do the job.
      4) Poor situational awareness of the victim and good hovering technique by seagull flying into headwind.

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    wal1957

    Pluckaduck has resigned!

    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/time-for-me-to-leave-annastacia-palaszczuk-to-quit-as-queensland-premier-20231210-p5eqdr.html

    I reckon the pubs up here will run out of beer due to everybody celebrating that she has finally gotten the message.

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      John Connor II

      You can only stuff things up so much before you have to move on, but at least “Queensland’s in good shape”.
      Riiiiight…

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      David Maddison

      Following after Dictator Dan of Vicdanistan?

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        Honk R Smith

        But Dave …
        without centralized power, you Ozzians will become “listless and adrift”.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjOcSEMDEEk
        Without it you’ll all probably drink beer, BBQ defenseless creatures, surf while encroaching on indigenous Great Whites, visit elderly dying relatives, day dream about reliable electricity, feed Kookaburras off your back porches, box with roos, watch that derivative of American baseball on tele, throw darts at Dan’s portrait, and other listless stuff.

        At least we have Joe Biden, leaving me only Australian political leadership to complain about.
        You call that dictator, this is a dictator.

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      another ian

      IIRC she just got a pay rise of about $34,000 a year so the pension will be “more better” now

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        robert rosicka

        Tapped on the shoulder by the party hierarchy and told to POQ which will come out , best part is the most hated dullard in QLD politics Miles has put his hand up and will probably get the top job . If I was the Lib opposition leader I would start a campaign of traditional conservative values and maybe a promise of a Royal commission into the handling of Covid and a separate commission into state corruption.

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    Greg in NZ

    Anyone living outside of Australia would think the whole place is suffering an endless ‘heatwave’ if they read/watch/listen to Newspeak Inc. (perhaps even some living within the country believe as much) so after my morning swim and, having made a coffee, did a little re-search on the interwebs…

    Butlers Gorge in Tasmania was -2.2 C today, while Kunanyi (-0.7C) had a windchill of -8.0 Celsius. Ouch – not really spontaneous combustion material.

    Adelaide, apart from the RAIN and the WIND, to max-out on 17C, while yesterday some eedjits in Melbourne protested about the weather: I’m not surprised because it looked wet, cold and ugly – I’d be complaining too.

    Deadly ‘heatwave’ in the Arctic? The Danish Met Inst had a graph showing Arctic temps jumped ten degrees (!) from -25 to -15 Celsius. Phew, that’s OK, everything’s still frozen solid, including the sea ice surrounding Santa’s workshop up at the North Pole… relax kids.

    The South Pole? 25-below freezing (with ‘snow flurries’) which should counteract Sydney’s 25-above freezing: do ‘heatwaves’ only last one day now thanks to climate change?

    Jackson Hole in the USA just passed 2 1/2 metres (100″) snow, while the European Alps received 1 metre last week with another metre of snow due this week… and with less than 2 weeks till summer solstice and Christmas, our mountains and volcanoes in the North Island are in for ‘snow to 1,000m’ on Tue/Wed.

    Wonder what’s on tonight’s menu at COP?

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    David Maddison

    Wonder what’s on tonight’s menu at COP?

    It certainly won’t be insects as they are forcing Aussie schoolkids to eat.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/

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    another ian

    More on the covid jab scene

    “Finally, this week Florida’s outstanding Surgeon General, Dr. Joe Ladapo, sent a letter to the FDA demanding answers to three difficult questions over the presence of DNA plasmid contaminants and oncogenic SV40 promoter genes in the mRNA shots:”

    https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/chicken-soup-saturday-december-9?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

    Other things there too

    And some constitutional ones around those “vaccines”

    “Oh, Dictator Eh?”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=250271

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    another ian

    “Net Zero’s dirty secret: Britain’s green transition is powered by Chinese coal”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/09/net-zeros-dirty-secret-britains-green-transition-is-powered-by-chinese-coal/

    Check the trading partner’s diagram

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    el+gordo

    ‘A slow-moving rainband has delivered the heaviest December rainfall in decades to parts of South Australia, with strong winds starting to take hold.’ (Weatherzone)

    Back in 1948 South Australia experienced this unusual phenomenon.

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      robert rosicka

      “Unprecedented “ .

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      another ian

      A “further back than that” story

      Towards the end of 1974 there was a rangelands meeting in Alice Springs. At that stage Alice had had a monumental rainfall for the year.

      Some of the group met an old ringer in one of the pubs, who allowed

      “First normal year since 1923”

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    David Maddison

    Why smart meters in your home?

    Why electric vehicles?

    Why digital currency?

    Same reason. It’s all about control. They can turn them off whenever they want.

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      John Connor II

      Retire early and enjoy it now before the crazies destroy it.
      I did.

      The realities:
      I love my country but I’m ashamed of the government.
      The only thing worse than an enemy is a traitor.
      The government says “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide”.
      If that’s true, shouldn’t the government declassify everything?

      The US primary debate. What the public saw – 8 minutes of black screen and fluff.

      https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1732974839810416666

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    David of Cooyal in Oz

    Evening all,
    From today’s Sunday Telegraph. Paywalled.
    I haven’t seen this sort of words in MSM before.

    The letter is headed: ” Is there a plan behind incompetent leaders? “, in the Letters page on page 92, written by Peter Campion of Tolga (in Qld).

    ” The globalists who control the Labour-Liberal twins and the legacy parties in most other countries have placed incompetents in many leadership positions – Biden, Trudeau, Macron and Sunak. ”
    Albo is similarly categorised.

    A very powerful letter, and I’m surprised it’s been published. But glad.

    Cheers
    Dave B

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    Steve of Cornubia

    Mrs Wife is scheduled for extensive surgery on Tuesday, to remove as much of her ovarian cancer as they can. Typically for ovarian cancer, it had spread beyond her ovaries by the time it was diagnosed, so what they call surgery is quite frightening in its extent. It’s a weird place to be in, simultaneous fear combined with hope, but I guess that’s what everybody undergoing potentially life-saving surgery feels.

    So we’re trying hard to be positive. Once again I would like to praise Brisbane Mater Hospital’s Cancer Care Centre staff which, combined with the gynaecologists in the main hospital, have been absolutely wonderful. Poor Marian has run a gauntlet of tests recently, on top of the dreaded chemo, and her arms are covered in bruises from the many blood tests. We’re rarely away from the hospital for more than a couple of days, but seriously, how good is that? Not only has the Mater team been thorough but they have also been diligent and reliable. When they say “You should hear from us in the next two days.”, you can guarantee the phone will ring and any follow-up consults will already be scheduled. Also, every consult so far (and I don’t think we’ve seen the same specialist twice) has been with staff perfectly happy to indulge our need to understand every aspect of the proposed treatments.

    This contrasts so severely with our experience of the UK’s NHS it makes me sad for our relatives over there, many of whom are also aged. We really can’t come to terms with their experiences when faced with life-threatening conditions. One example is Marian’s cousin, who has advanced melanoma. He waited weeks and weeks to see a specialist yet, when he turned up, he was sent away because she “hadn’t turned up”. The consult was rescheduled for three weeks later – and this is a guy who has very serious cancer!

    So once again Marian and I find ourselves feeling so, so grateful that we had the opportunity to emigrate to Australia. Imagining what it would be like for her had we stayed in England fills me with horror.

    Wish her luck, please.

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      Graeme No.3

      My best wishes for a successful outcome.

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      theotherross

      Have been thinking about you and your wife from time to time and wish you both the very best. Good Luck.

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      robert rosicka

      Wishing you and your wife all the best Steve .

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      Hanrahan

      I’ve spent the day admitting Mrs H into hospital. Sadly there is no candle at the end of the tunnel, just a black hole. We have fought dementia for nearly 10 years but over the last few weeks her condition has nosedived to where professional care is mandated.

      Kudos to Qld Health, the hospital has met expectations whenever I’ve needed them. A big raspberry to the care homes who have been absolute bastards. Is there some dispute between the aged care industry and the Federal Gov? The post-event services could talk the talk but didn’t walk the walk.

      But i wish you and your wife all the best Steve.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        Good luck, and I mean that both sincerely and ironically I’m afraid. You’re dead right about the ‘care system’, which is totally profit driven. Good homes and good carers DO exist however, so I wish you the best in finding care for your wife.

        Marian had to go through this with her mother just two years ago. Her mum lives in the UK and, because her only other child point blank refused to do ANYTHING for her, and used all sorts of disgraceful tactics to have her committed to care, she was forced out of her home. We were lucky to find a good home for her (hugely difficult working from Australia) but, because her dementia actually wasn’t that advanced, she found it all overwhelmingly distressing. Others in the same home, with more advanced dementia, were clearly much better off and mostly unaware of what was going on, especially those who had regular family visits. Their spouses and partners could at last sleep at night, knowing their loved one was safe and secure.

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        robert rosicka

        That’s also terrible news Hanrahan, some “care” homes need to be shut down and by some I mean every facility that treats the elderly in their care as a product. There are many of them unfortunately and even worse they talk to each other when one finds a cost cutting method that adds to the bottom line .

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      Wishing you both all the best.

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        Kjay

        Agree.. Thoughts and prayers for you both and families. These are paths that we hope never to take, but we seldom have a choice..

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      Lloydww

      Belated best wishes. It helps to take a one day at a time attitude.

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    John Connor II

    China’s humanoid robot factories to go online in 2025, HALF of human labor force to be eliminated

    The year 2030 is shaping up to be the endgame year for a multitude of major globalist projects, which include humanoid robots that will replace much of the human labor force, both blue-collar and white-collar.

    Communist China says it plans to begin unleashing its own humanoid robots, one of which is called GR-1, as soon as 2025. GR-1 will supposedly be so advanced as to render many human workers obsolete – you can see a picture of the GR-1 concept at Fftai.cn.

    An English translation of a Chinese article about humanoid robots explains how they will come integrated with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-end manufacturing and new materials. They are expected to become disruptive products similar to computers, smartphones and new energy vehicles when these were all first released.

    http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/12/chinas-humanoid-robot-factories-to-go.html

    At least robots can walk a dog better than those phone-hugging humans.
    https://ufile.io/hdm4w76l

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    David Maddison

    Excellent video clip just posted by Tony Heller.

    Does anyone remember the TV cop show sitcom series “Barney Miller”, 1975-82?

    Here is a segment from 1977 about a climate activist.

    https://youtu.be/Cm0ARggsQWA

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    Environment sCeptiC

    A sincere question.

    Does a virus have have a ‘vapour pressure’ so that it can merely evaporate into the air?

    Supplementary sincere question is, can a virus attach itself to a H2O (molecule of water) to become airborne?

    https://www.britannica.com/science/vapor-pressure

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      All molecules have a vapor pressure.

      But viruses are far larger than a water molecule. Attaching to a water molecule would not help (or probably make much difference). But some viruses do manage to stay airborne for hours. Depends more on charges and other bonding probably and whether the viruses clump together or not. Viruses that clump will obviously fall out faster.

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        Environment sCeptiC

        Thanks Jo.

        Perhaps a worthy experiment would be to get a really hot cup of tea and dissolve some concentrated virus into it, about one and half teaspoons full of pure virus should be ample sufficiency 🙂

        Then, let the tea in the tea cup evaporate and measure if the full one and a half teaspoons of pure virus is left in the tea cup 🙂

        I won’t bother with the question of the ‘boiling point’ of pure virus since any heat would likely destroy the virus. A hot cup of tea with some virus dissolved in it to mimic the epithelium is the temperature limit in my opinion. Nothing hotter than a cup of tea to measure how much virus evaporates into the air:)

        The idea that is a big part of the media narrative is that an afflicted person is breathing out virus even when not mechanically coughing which just totally does not make any sense in view of my questions and tea cup technology.

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          Except people breathing out virus is exactly how airborne viruses spread. It’s not a “media narrative”, but textbook virology, something confirmed thousands of times and known for decades. With saliva and lung secretions containing 10^6 to 10^12 virions per ml, how could air flow out of an infected throat or nose without containing any virus?

          Many experiments have already been done showing how long viruses stay airborne and you will find scores of graphs from papers telling us what humidity and temperature and air speed do to each particular virus or variant. Covid in 2020 was prone to clumping so was not as infectious as later variants. It was too big to stay suspended for long.

          As I said it depends on the charge/bonding/etc and clumping as well as the molecular weight. Humidity affects both the “clumping”, the airborne time, and also the viability. So does temperature.

          We already know the best thing anyone can do indoors is increase the airflow, so open windows, let the viruses blow outdoors where the sun will degrade them in minutes.

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            Environment sCeptiC

            Mechanical coughing will make body fluids airborne. Totally agree.

            Will virus evaporate off a epithelium surface? I remain very unconvinced.

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    el+gordo

    Words are cheap, Ted is grand standing.

    ‘Opposition climate change spokesman Ted O’Brien vows that in government the Coalition would join a 22-country partnership pledging to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050.’

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    David Maddison

    https://stopthesethings.com/2023/12/10/worlds-energy-dunce-australia-slammed-for-embarrassing-anti-nuclear-power-stance/

    World’s Energy Dunce: Australia Slammed For Embarrassing Anti-Nuclear Power Stance

    Every country that’s vaguely serious about reliable and affordable power has nuclear power plants or is in the process of building them, in earnest.

    In the current global energy climate, Australia’s legislated ban on nuclear power is beyond embarrassing; it’s positively idiotic.

    Australia holds the world’s largest uranium reserves and, despite its shifting policy of limiting the number of mines and states that have banned them, is the world’s third-largest uranium exporter. Happy to export it, but too dim to use it ourselves.

    That Australia, among the world’s largest uranium exporters, doesn’t rely on nuclear power astonishes those from the 30 countries where you’ll find nearly 450 nuclear reactors currently operating – including the French, Americans, Canadians, Japanese and Chinese. Another 15 countries are currently building 60 reactors among them. Nuclear power output accounts for over 11% of global electricity production. But not a lick of it in Australia.

    As the climate cult and those profiteering from the great wind and solar scam gather in Dubai, Australia’s embarrassing refusal to embrace nuclear power is drawing fire from anyone gifted with something approximating common sense, as these pieces from The Australian outline below.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    FWIW

    “Stranger Than Historical Fiction: The Haavara Agreement”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-12-09/stranger-historical-fiction-haavara-agreement

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