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“Tom Luongo nails the essential truth about Russia”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/02/tom-luongo-nails-essential-truth-about.html
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Ditto Briz Vegas.
My rain gauge was dry at 6pm yesterday. Currently, with the Flanneries still tumbling down, the inner measuring tune (25mm) has overflowed and the outer drum, was half-full. After a bit of creative decanting, the overnight tally came to 155mm. And our little slice ov Heaven is in a bit of a bit of rain / storm shadow.
Good-old Queensland:
Beautiful one day
Flooded, burnt to a crisp, blown all over the countryside, the next.
There is a parade of very soggy birds perched on the verandah rail.Native mynahs, rainbow lorikeets, butcher birds, a couple of juvenile magpies
Living on a modest hill has its advantages, but we do not own a boat……
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Lucky you. Into our 4th week in Adelaide without a suggestion of a drop. A question – why is Brisbane nick-named in line with Las Vegas? I can see no similarities at all – The US city is very flash, rich, inland, dry, largely artificial.
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Same on the Northside of Briz Vegas
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So the old pub at Breakfast Ck = Caeser’s Palace, right?
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Wayne Bennet was in the Brekky Ck pub having a lemonade with the Broncos when the bar manager tapped him,
“Sorry Wayne, I’ve got to ask you to go”.
“Why? I don’t even drink”.
“It’s happy hour”.
My apologies to any OS readers.
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At least its a warm rain ; one of my relatives actually said that once.
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Our particular little band of near-coastal CQ has had lots of showers, even some very isolated decent storms, but in general if we don’t get any proper rain (like Bundaberg to Brisbane to the south or Mackay to the north) we could well be looking at another “green drought” this year – lots of green grass (that dies off early due to lack of sub-soil moisture) and still-dry creeks and low to empty dams. West of us over the range, they’ve had even less apart from a few patches.
We’re between the tropical north and the more temperate south and its systems. By the time the southern system troughs get to us there’s not much in them. This year’s monsoon has again appeared weak, not widespread, and coming in only a couple of short bursts so far.
It’s good to see the far west getting good falls, but we’re not seeing it here.
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Good luck
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I don’t watch closely but I suspect that no one south of Cairns has had much rain. Our dam is only 70% which will see us through the dry but we won’t want another failed wet next summer.
This cyclone in the Gulf will be good for the prawn season.
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Lots of ‘Flannery’ in Sydney City right now. The BOM forecast for Friday, today, is –
Sydney area
Cloudy. High chance of showers, most likely in the afternoon. The chance of a thunderstorm. Light winds becoming easterly 15 to 20 km/h in the early afternoon then tending northeasterly in the evening.
LOL. Well, the afternoon has come early. Oh bother.
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Your forecast for Sydney would be interpreted as cat 1 cyclone in Queensland. Gotta keep scaring the people!
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Our long, hot, dry bushfire emergency summer continues in Brisbane. Another 100mm of rain in the last 24 hrs.
Too wet for the climate activists to set fire to anything in support of their cause/cult/religion
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Saw the BOMs fearless forecast for a hotter than usual Autumn including the obligatory red map this morning. Does anyone listen to them anymore other than the hysterical MSM?
Think I will focus on firewood.
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Lots of firewood around Victoria right now but two weeks away from legal collecting in the State forests.
I already have enough for this year but there should be plenty still around by next spring for 2025.
Extra CO2 does wonders for biomass.
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Agreed Yarpos, firewood is good, especially if you can get it yourself.
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I know a lot of us live on the extreme eastern coastal fringe, but Oz is a very big place if you happen to pop over the mountains to your west. The rain you talk of is MIA for most of us, especially SA, southern NT and nearly all of WA.
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If you’re counting on rain in February in Adelaide you’d be rather disappointed more often than not.
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As Basil said once: “Mastermind, Sybil Fawlty, special subject The Bleeding Obvious”
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Heatwave coming your way.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/a-week-over-30-degrees-on-the-cards-for-adelaide-/1798921
They discuss the mechanisms involved and the subtropical ridge gets a mention.
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Sure, I hate it, but the point I was trying to make is that Adelaide is one small part of about 50% of the continent that is hot and dry – and has been for weeks now. It probably has impact on no more than 4m Australians, hence it is of limited interest. Unless you’re stuck in it.
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I am far enough south of Perth in WA to avoid the constant heat wave but this year with the absence of late fall (ad all of summer) rain means the citrus is occupying the ground below the trees for the first time in memory. And the dam in the front will go dry soon for the second time in 30+ years
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Fun Fact
During the plandemic global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels fell from from 34044.0 to 32284.9 to million tonnes per annum a reduction of 1759.1 (5.2%) or 4.7 times Australia’s annual CO2 emissions.
However this reduction had no visible impact of the Keeling curve
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Therefore if Australia were to reduce its CO2 emissions to zero this would also have no visible impact on the Keeling curve and so would be a completely useless exercise.
Woke Western goverments are spending $ Trillions to in an attempt to reduce fossil fuel emission at least as much as occurred during the plandemic but expecting a difference result.
If a major reduction in man-made emssions during the plandemic had no visible impact on the Keeling curve then what is the point and justication for such an ongoing misallocation of public funds that could be better spent elsewhere?
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If you assume man-made emissions are directly responsible for a 4 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 a year, the covid cut would only have made 0.2 ppm difference, lost in the noise of natural annual variability.
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Australia’s annual CO2 emissions locally from fossil fuels are 376.3 of a global total of 34374 million tonnes – only 1.09%.
Therefore cutting Australia’s local emsissions to zero would have no meaningful impact, especailly when India and China will be increasing their CO2 emssions for years to come.
The bridge shown in this video is a part of China’s Haoji Railway running from Inner Mongolia to Jiangxi Province. This railway mainly runs freight trains which transport coal and other fossil products from Inner Mongolia to southern China. The particular bridge is the bridge across the Fen River in Shanxi Province. The bridge was built so tall so as to ensure a smooth ride for ultra-heavy freight trains which can have trouble climbing steeper slopes. The bridge was completed on June 4, 2018 and built by the 4th Bureau of China Railway Engineering Cooperation.
The line was approved in 2014 at a cost of US$27.2 billion. The railway was inaugurated on 28 September 2019.
Another super engineering in China shocks the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG8dAjw5igk
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China now has five coal freight railways: the Daqin Railway, the Shuohuang Railway, the Wari Railway, the Mengji Railway and the Haoji Railway. Together, they transport about 1.3 billion tons of coal a year, according to Caixin calculations based on public data.
In comparison Australia exports aound 350 million tonnes of coal a year.
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It seems amazing the the engineering of the Australian Inland railway is slowed because of the potential for rain washing out sections of it and/or causing farmland flooding. Have the designing engineers never seen a railway viaduct?
Though given the length of time take to construct 3 concrete road bridges locally, perhaps they think the cost would be too high? Though in urban areas (Melbourne and now Perth) removing rail crossing (with raised railways on viaducts) now seems feasible.
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Thousands of Aussies impacted as online banking services crash in major outage
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13086937/Thousands-Aussies-impacted-online-banking-services-crash-major-outage.html
Luck we still have cash – but for how long?
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Serious question for JoNovans.
I think central to the zeitgeist here.
Is this all a cynical political lie?
POTUS Biden campaigned to “end fossil fuel”.
https://apnews.com/united-states-presidential-election-9dfb1e4c381043bab6fd0fa6dece3974
And then we are told this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/us-producing-more-oil-climate-change/676893/
Is this simply practical political hypocrisy enabled by a captured sycophantic Media/Tech/ Academic complex, which takes the cash and ask no questions?
Are the Al Gores, Bidens, Kerrys, Degrasse Tysons of this World so sociopathic and cynical that this laughable fearmongering is perpetuated for decades?
I suppose I’m seeking a human behavior explanation.
Other than my naivete and insufficient cynicism.
(Hardly thought I could get more cynical.)
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I am not sure if they lie, or if left-wing political people are inferior and stupid because they “fear the unknown” due to ignorance and low intelligence. Reducing ignorance could help (See below)
Ned Nikolov gives the most important lesson in Climate science you are ever likely to watch: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/ned-nikolov-demystifying-the-atmospheric-greenhouse-effect
Suppose emissions on Venus are 250,000 greater than on Earth. And Astronomers and Mensa members understood the Climate on Venus better than Greta understands the Climate of the Earth.
Input from the Sun and a change to thermal inertia due to pressure as a precise function of altitude are all that is needed to calculate the atmospheric greenhouse effect on Venus, Earth, Mars, Europa, Titan and Triton. Also confirmed by the fact that the average temperature at the one bar pressure points on each of the planets, is the same, adjusted for distance from the Sun, despite the different main gases, Nitrogen for the Earth & Titan, Hydrogen for Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn & Uranus and Carbon Dioxide for Venus
This revelation blows away any pretence that natural of man made carbon dioxide can cause global warming, but I have yet to see this on the telly or in a book.
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The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth’s atmosphere, falls with altitude.
Adiabatic lapse rate: Change of temperature with a change in altitude of an air parcel without gaining or losing any heat to the environment surrounding the parcel. Dry adiabatic lapse rate: Assumes a dry parcel of air. Air cools 3°C/100 m rise in altitude (5.4°F/1000 ft).
The lapse rate is a function of pressure and so if the Earth had a denser atmosphere like Venus it would have a hotter ground temperature irrespective of the compostion of the atmoshpere.
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Other points not mentioned by Nikolov are (1) In ‘Theory of Heat (1871)’. Maxwell only had data for the Earth. Gravity is mentioned by James Clerk Maxwell when he mentioned the Poisson curve in ‘Theory of Heat (1871)’. The same curve used by Ned Nikolov & Karl Zeller in the ‘Unified Theory of Climate (2011)’. The weight of the Atmosphere and the strength of Gravity decreases with height. (2) 68 million years ago the Earth’s Atmospheric pressure was 5 bar, with air pressure inside bubbles trapped in Amber reaching a high of 10 Bar 320 million years ago, much of the Earth’s atmosphere being lost to space since this time. Using the above rules this resolves two other anomalies, which are how a dinosaur’s heart could pump blood 23 feet upwards and how a giant flying Quetzalcoatlus had the energy to stay airborne, something that biology and aerodynamics says is not possible in today’s one bar atmosphere. Volcanic outgassing caused a peak of 10 bar before Atmospheric loss to space outrun Volcanic outgassing. The laps rate theories of Maxwell, Nikolov & Zeller explain why extra pressure shows why the temperature was higher, when the Sun was weaker.
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Thanks Paul, it’s about far away places but totally relevant.
P.V = n.R.T
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IMHO, the climate ‘science’ debate is used divert smart people from the political warfare being waged in ‘science’ camouflage.
We’re talking about ‘lapse rate’ and ‘atmospheric pressure’ while civilization is being burned to the ground by anti-human neo-pagans.
On their way to the revival of human sacrifice.
(See Canada’s current attempt to expand MAID to all, not just the terminally ill. A marvelous solution to government debt issues exacerbated by socialized health care. Note: Humans produce CO2 which is a threat to the planet … so do the math 🙂 )
Funny thing is this was all made clear by ‘Pandemic’.
See John Conner II #23 below.
Medical science debate has literally been made illegal in France.
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And the Mod net adds evidence to my assertion.
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It’s an election year. High energy costs, and all the other nasty consequences which follow are bad optics. It has also been pointed out that high energy costs help support certain state sponsors of terror. More bad optics during an election year.
They know the dichotomy will be given a pass in MSM. They are cynical about it all. They know they have not proven their case, but they don’t care. You can bet that once they are firmly re-entrenched in power they will get back to “ending fossil fuels.” “Too bad your getting it anyway.”
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Senator Babet, United Australia Party, is one of the few genuine conservatives in the Australian Parliament and absolutely anti-woke. I just saw this exchange on Farcebook:
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Thank you David, that post just mad my day LOL 🙂
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Hard to argue with that.
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Rumour has it that some progressive schools are now installing litter boxes to keep their “furries” happy!
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Elderly California woman, 90, FIRED from her volunteering position of 60 years at MS nonprofit because she ‘did not understand pronouns’ despite previously winning multiple awards
A 90-year-old California woman was fired from her volunteering position at the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society because she ‘did not understand pronouns,’ despite previously winning multiple awards from the nonprofit group.
Fran Itkoff had been volunteering for the MS Society, a nonprofit support group for multiple sclerosis patients, for 60 years before she was removed.
Although her dedication to the MS Society had been recognized over the years, the group recently forced her to step down after she asked what pronouns meant.
‘I was confused. I didn’t know what it was and what it meant,’ Itkoff said of her first reaction when she was asked to use pronouns in her email signature.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13086191/California-woman-90-FIRED-MS-nonprofit-pronouns.html
1. We all struggle with this woke pronoun garbage.
2.No donations to the MS Society. They have to wake up from woke.
3. Sack the clown who made the decision.
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Well, fancy that.
“Modern” forms of “teaching” with self-guided “learning” and “teachers” who themselves are likely aemi-literate and semi-numerate, ignorant and woke, leads to poor educational outcomes.
Who’d have thought…
But don’t worry, kids still learn the important stuff like the names of all 72 (or whatever) genders, that you can identify as whatever you want, and “men can get pregnant”, “white people and Western Civilisation are evil” and Australia had an idyllic, utopian society of Aboriginals who knew no war, famine or disease before European settlement…
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Illiterate people – ideal Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty voters.
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As long as the children identify as ‘literate’ all is fine. How they want to interpret any written word is simply their own truth.
Parent 1: “My 12 year old can’t read”
Parent 2: “My 12 year old can’t add or subtract”
Parent 3: “You’re both so lucky; my 12 year old uses his text books in his litter box”
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When our daughter went to school for the first time, back in 1995, she could already read more than a little, plus write simple words including her name. However, her teachers refused to help her maintain that head start and instead insisted that she sit in lessons that she found boring and unnecessary, essentially starting from scratch again. She was sent home with reading books that she left behind a year before. My wife told them not to send any more home because we would continue to teach her the way we did before she started school.
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Of course! They don’t want a square peg in a round hole, and they only have round holes! Once again society cripples itself by directing all the extra money to those less capable so perhaps they can be dragged up to the norm.
How much better off would we be after 70years of putting that money into pushing our brightest even further ahead and leaving the rest as they were??
An even better idea is to get the govt out of education and let the private sector have many different sorts of schools so different kids learnt in different ways.
Now we have the one-size-fits-all education system turning out conscripts perfect for our manufacturing industry, we don’t have any manufacturing industry left!
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Don’t know about other JoNovans, but, my parents primarily taught my brother, sister and I to read, from kids’ stories through to encyclopaedias & atlases & Nat Geo mags (back when they were readable) yet both of them had been taken out of high-school and told to go earn some money to help pay the bills: times were tough in the colonies during the Second World War.
Sure, school fine-tuned & developed certain skills, yet my parents’ enthusiasm for we three lil’ nippers to be ‘better educated’ than they were, was the driving force of our continued love of enquiry to this day.
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“….taught my brother, sister and me…”
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You did see that parade in Spain didn’t you. 😉
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“Academics Blame Lower Trust In Scientists On Everything But Bad Scientists”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/15/academics-blame-lower-trust-in-scientists-on-everything-but-bad-scientists/
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In comments there –
“The public lost trust in politicians when they were repeatedly caught out in obvious lies, deceit and sleaze. The public lost trust in the media when they were repeatedly caught out in obvious lies, deceit and sleaze. The public is now losing trust in scientists when they get caught repeatedly indulging in lies, deceit and either sleazy behaviour. There is a common thread running through this – if you want the public trust you’ll have to earn it by telling the truth and stop all the lying, deceiving and attacking other scientists or people you don’t like in the vilest way.”
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The Left’s ongoing war against science and the scientific method such as we see with anti-scientific approaches to supposed anthropogenic global warming, mismanagement of covid, the destruction of the education system, tax payer funding only of “science” that is in accord with the Official Narrative, etc. is a large part of the problem.
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“I went looking for the science and could not find any. I then went looking for the money and found the science”
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So-called ‘science’, at least those parts of it I had close involvement with, was mainly ruined by various forms of corruption. This included flying around the world to deliver the same talk over and over again, for several years, rorting the system and taxpayers. To make matters worse, aforementioned ‘research’ was often duplication of work done before, with very little added. Then there came climate change and, in the government-funded sector at least, an enthusiastic adoption of all things climate so as to secure funding – even if the climate ‘angle’ had simply been superficially added and was in any case irrelevant. This was sometimes taken to absurd levels, little more than adding the appropriate words to the funding application.
This corruption was much more sinister than its face value suggested, because these people knew that major decisions would be based on their nonsense, and unnecessary restrictions and costs placed on citizens as a consequence.
The situation reminded me of the catholic church way back in the past, when priests, bishops and popes were happy to peddle lies and spread fear simply to maintain their own power and wealth. Spare sons of wealthy barons etc would often join the church, not because they were devout but to gain influence. Many (most?) of those people weren’t actually believers, but they were prepared to go along with the whole charade while it was in their interests to do so.
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Global warming… most of today’s scientists aren’t actually believers, but they are prepared to go along with the whole charade while it is in their interests to do so…
…and that’s REALLY how the world works. 40years ago it was ‘cancer’, anything looking at a cure for cancer could get funding. I used to alternate between telling people our University was looking for a cancer cure, and saying there was no purpose in the work we did but it was very interesting.
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Look at all the power outages (link below) still remaining on the AusNet grid alone, because Australia’s “green” electricity grid can’t handle a moderate 20 minute storm a few days ago.
Cheap Chinese steel and poor engineering design of towers, plus young woke “engineers” who I bet wouldn’t know how to install a picture hook – what could possibly go wrong?
Note, takes a few seconds to load.
https://ausnetservices.my.salesforce-sites.com/OutageTracker/
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Looks like around 24,000 households are learning about the electrical grid. Seeing many are awaiting assessment their restoration could be some days or more away.
I will be able to relive my younger days in third-world Africa!
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And once they get electricity (and the internet) back how many will be pricing home generators?
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Installed ours last. Monday, $5800.00. Wife extremely happy. Sparky said they are shipping a lot to Qld.
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Yes, but going to solar and wind will stop towers from collapsing.
A lefty told me.
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https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/victoria-blackouts-looking-more-like-a-manmade-disaster-andrew-bolt/video/7296b8d3210b70270b26ee9adef7e374
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Crown-owned weather research institute, NIWA – the numpties who continually tell us our modern style of life is melting glaciers & boiling oceans – has purchased four 2024 Chevrolet Premium Silverado 4×4 utes valued at NZ$170,000 each.
CEO John Morgan said, via RNZ today:
“We investigated all the options in the market and there was no viable alternative… there are no BEV or PHEV options available that can perform the role required”.
So, government staff purchase luxury gas-guzzlers on our dime while telling us to ride bicycles or catch a bus because we’re all in this together and we must take action to blah blah blah. When travelling through Ch!na in the mid-80s, most peasants rode bicycles, caught a bus/train or walked, while Party Members luxuriated in limousines: forty years on and a world away, that whiff of déjà vu is eerily pungent.
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I guess the Suzuki Jimny didn’t meet the Occupational Safety and Health requirements.
Yeah right.
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Pigs and apples, Animal Farm…
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Australian 1st nation land grab
I happened across this yesterday:
Toobeah in Qld and “1st nation” land grab.
https://youtu.be/ChjOC8JAxcE?si=-F-6MB51CMKOx-Hm
Watch the video. The endlessly entitled meager 3.8% of the Australian population control around 2/3rds of the land in the country, and don’t forget the waters.
How did they get so much land, what will they do with it (and being seduced by white fella lifestyles, won’t be going back to traditional roles that’s for sure) and what does it mean for other 96% of us?
Herded into mega cities no doubt, with the 1st nation guarding the precious planet for the WEF, all part of the control plan with the 3.8% being played, and useful idiots.
Probably belongs in the other post today by Jo. Better check to see if your “renewable” project has 1st nation approval first!
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That is not correct. 2/3rds of the land is controlled by “Land Councils” who claim to represent the “Traditional Owners” but who in many cases are just opportunitic “white” people who in many cases have no aboriginal ancestory or unprovable ancestory and who are not required to produce evidence in any event.
They run around with kangaroo skins on their backs and put ocre on their faces to hide their “Whiteness”
This is a massive fraud and need to be fully investigated.
The local “Land Council” where I live in Victoriastan only admits members who are directly related to a numger of people with English names!
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Randall Carlson: Serpents Dragons Symbolism / Garden Eden Deception Satan Diabolos – Kosmographia Compilation – around 12:40 he gets into all the CO2 scam.
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Politician speak with forked tongue – Khan does a Biden
https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1758106861964857481
😆
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NYC starts banning laundry detergent to save the planet
New York City could soon ban Tide PODS and other laundry-detergent packs under the latest “green” push from lawmakers.
The “Pods are Plastic Bill,” introduced by City Councilman James Gennaro last week, would make it illegal to sell any pods and laundry sheets if they’re made with polyvinyl alcohol.
Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law. The bill would also require education and outreach to businesses on the ban for the first year.
The law wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2026, if passed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nyc-may-ban-detergent-packs-including-tide-pods-in-latest-green-crackdown-with-fines-up-to-1200-for-selling-them/ar-BB1iaTmT
Who wants clean illegal immigrants eh…
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In Victoriastan gas will not be connected to homes so that hot showers may become a fond memory.
All part of the return to the Garden of Eden in Australia before “Invasion Day” and the colonisation by the evil white man.
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Does that mean all new houses will have 3 phase electricity connections?
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Amazingly Preserved Roman-Era Egg Is Still Full of Liquid 1,700 Years Later
An ancient egg laid by a bird roughly 1,700 years ago was discovered in England so well-preserved, its contents are still sloshing around inside of it.
Archaeologists analyzing the Roman-era specimen say they were downright “blown away” by its contents.
The incredible ovum may be the only discovery of its kind in the world. It’s certainly the oldest whole egg ever found from Roman times.
While older eggs with intact contents have been excavated in other parts of the world, including ones that were mummified in Egypt, those specimens were intentionally preserved for the future.
This Roman-era egg survived the centuries purely on natural luck. Its shell is now so fragile, it can’t be touched or even exposed to air. Scientists must handle it with extreme care.
https://www.sciencealert.com/amazingly-preserved-roman-era-egg-is-still-full-of-liquid-1700-years-later
Amazing, considering a steel can of carrots will have all the liquid leach out in around 20 years.
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How about SPAM?
What does 35 years old SPAM in a can taste like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3fJ4tNs8wk
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A rather unusual cloud I spotted the other day.
https://imgbox.com/RuhVekqo
Don’t see them like that very often.
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Lenticular cloud I think.
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I know, but it was the colouration and banding that I liked.
No mountains under them either. Unusual…
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Sorry, wrote on impulse; ought to have known you’d know what it was.
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Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: “The Plan of the Great Reset Is That You Will Die With Nothing”
Schwab’s ‘life by subscription’ is really serfdom.
Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts dropped serious truth bombs about the WEF and its dystopian Great Reset agenda in the Australian parliament.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/australian-senator-malcolm-roberts-6f6
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No mention of whether you will die of natural causes!
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No matter how good the message, Malcolm Roberts is not a great orator. Even his audience in the Senate cannot be bothered to hang around.
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When death duties are instituted, you will have given everything away before your death?
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Bye-bye cold beer? Tennessee bill aims to ban sale of refrigerated alcoholic beverages.
The future of selling cold, refrigerated beer in Tennessee could be threatened thanks to a recently introduced bill in the Tennessee Senate.
HB 2845/SB 2636 or, “The Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act,” aims to prohibit a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated alcoholic beverages or cold beer in an attempt to discourage consumers from drunken driving.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/02/15/tennessee-bills-aims-to-ban-the-sale-of-cold-beer-what-to-know/72595749007/
Where to start…
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The good old boys who drive around in Ford F150s are one step ahead of the Nanny State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultzP9dfwlU
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Interesting comment from Bob Carter that adds more weight to the idea that we really need to assess the role of CO2 in the atmosphere.
https://joannenova.com.au/2011/08/blockbuster-planetary-temperature-controls-co2-levels-not-humans/#comment-416591
If we scientists on this blog put our combined skills on the table and were able to get past the misdirection that exists, who knows.
And, Bob’s comment seems to completely reverse the accept “science”.
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Did the blockbuster paper ever come out? Was it a blockbuster?
We?
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Sorry,
I should have used the correct plural term in 2024: us.
“Blockbuster paper “?
What we want, sorry us wants, is a declaration of the true science which casts off the tendency of the many to build new ideas on unstable concepts detailed in modern pier reviewed papers.
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Salby was sacked even though simple chemistry shows that the temperature change couldn’t add enough CO2 to raise the levels as much as happened.
The elephant in the room is that the correlation is too good even if warming seas did raise CO2 levels. It’s a big no-go for sceptics because the sceptic community is dominated by the people who helped Callendar reboot his theory. The correlation of the difference between measurement 12 months apart and NH SST anomaly nine months by pi. is a big worry.
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Over the decades, I have seen a reasonable inverse correlation between the number of wine offers and economic activity. Going on recent offers, I am forming the opinion that the Victorian and probably WA economies are not doing too well.
I have a friend who moved to Queensland two years ago. He bought a spec built house on a small block then a nearby larger block came up for sale so he bought that and decided to build a larger house on that block then rent the one he is in now. I visited him in September last year and he had about of month of work left on the inside of the new house. By Christmas his builder had got two weeks of work done. The builder has not been able to get a trandeman on site since Christmas – tiling and painting is all that is left but no tradesmen to do it. They are probably getting big bucks installing wind turbines in the bush. Queensland has coal royalties to pay for all the NutZero stuff from China. Victoria has run out of money; credit rating is shot and Federal Labor are not willing to help their buddies in Victorua.
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The tradies are very busy – they are the supply side of the housing crisis. Painting and tiling are DIY jobs – tell him to put on his work clobber, get the gear and do it himself.
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And yet more building companies go belly-up each week.
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Just a general ‘Conspiracy Theory’: Suppose an alien race wants to take over Earth. They make a deal with the elites that in turn for them destroying 95% of the population that they will protect the elites. So the elites destroy 95% of the population, and then some more, and then the aliens destroy the elites (well they would do wouldn’t they).
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Does living in Adelaide qualify me as an alien?
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[Snip]AD
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A long ago comment at the Birdsville races –
“Well it is all the way, all the way downhill from Qld”
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But of course any race advanced enough for interplanetary, FTL or wormhole travel wouldn’t need some dumb humans to help them.
Just seed the atmosphere or oceans with a genetic weapon that only targets people, so the air and water become toxic to them. A DNA decompiler maybe – unravels your DNA and turns you to dust. Quick trip to Betelgeuse and back and Earth’ll be ready.
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The aliens see us as an experiment and the Federation has no intention of taking over, they have been here for eons.
It has been suggested they came in larger numbers when we started detonating thermonuclear weapons. The intention is to keep a lid on proceedings and avoid conflagration, but most importantly to preserve our rare blue planet.
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Try John carpenter’s ‘They Live’.
Alien race exploits planet in league with elites, rest of population seen as cattle.
https://youtu.be/JPhJo_BuVJc
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WA man Tony Maddox faces jail for ‘disrupting rainbow serpent’ after building bridge over creek on his property…
He was charged by the state’s Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage last year for breaching WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act of 1972. In August the WA government ditched the new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws after just 39 days in operation following widespread community backlash.
Maddox was charged for building a creek crossing on his property, which the prosecution claimed had disrupted Waugul — a rainbow serpent central to mythology for Noongar people — as he removed a large amount of silt from the creek.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/wa-man-faces-jail-for-disrupting-rainbow-serpent-after-building-bridge-over-creek-on-his-property/news-story/8853b77040b11a9e9e3729d64a8a5174
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He was on Bolt last evening. A good man brought to his knees by know-nothing ideological cretins. And the ubiquitous rainbow serpent.
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I thought courts dealt with facts and evidence.
Apart from ” I reckon …..” quantifying what harm has been done would be impossible.
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“quantifying what harm has been done would be impossible.”
Not much chance of getting the rainbow serpent in Court as a prime witness either. That alone should have the whole case fall over, either the serpent appears as the aggrieved who launched the case, or the case was launched by some 3rd party and they have no rights over over the defendant.
This is what happens when science goes bad, the whole of society goes rotten at the core.
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New law passed in France. Opposition of the MRNA injections as a sectarian aberration: upto 3 yrs prison + €45,000 fine.
“It will not tolerate any criticism of the therapeutic treatments which will be recommended or made obligatory by the state. Any person who dares to openly criticize these therapies will be liable to fines and imprisonment.”
Any person who dares to openly criticize these therapies will be liable to fines and imprisonment. Already, renowned doctors are being targeted, whom this article will silence.
France is taking a totalitarian turn, Macron and his henchmen are followers of the WEF and globalist policies.
It is a catastrophe for the country where a majority of citizens no longer obey vaccine propaganda. Social unrest ahead.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/new-law-passed-in-france-opposition-of-the-mrna-injections-as-a-sectarian-aberration-upto-3-yrs-prison-e45000-fine/
Macron cancelled his trip to Ukraine.
Pity. 😎😎
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“Macron cancelled his trip to Ukraine.
Pity. 😎😎”
Yes, he was up for assassination by Z’s mob so they could blame Russia, but Macron heard about it first and didn’t want the flag draped over his coffin to be false.
You’d think the French Govt would be tired of manure by now… Do they think this is going to help?
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I think we can stick a fork in it.
Europe is cooked.
The farmers can eat cake.
Canada long gone.
UK too, they’re just too emotionally detached to notice.
NZ, forget it.
Here in the US, everyone will see the the new flag after the POTUS selection.
I can’t really tell about OZ, but surely soon to follow.
But most of us can’t complain.
We lived in good times.
But we knew it was coming so maybe we lived a little faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
I will now click Post for Mod.
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Oh, and congrats to Gee Aye.
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thanks!
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Daily sarcasm
And in breaking news, it is unclear how bad the latest mass shooting in the USA is until the shooter’s skin colour is released.
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More covid mysteries –
“The mystery of the phantom covid jabs on my NHS record”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-crime-has-been-committed/
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Russia apparently launches a nuclear-something into orbit and the Americans panic..
The most interesting speculation is that they needed a power source big enough to fry most of the West’s GPS/spy satellites that are used for Ukrainian targeting of Russia’s military. Losing satellite communications would drive the West back 70years or more, taking a decade to replace.
A lovely comment about how the Russians are losing the war, fighting with shovels, stealing washing machines for electronic parts.. yet are liable to invade all of Europe and have all-powerful space weapons.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/planetary-scare-russian-doomsday
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