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During the solar eclipse (in the USA), a couple of people will look at the sun. Lots of clouds, so this may be a non-event. Don’t look warnings are everywhere. There are at least 2 reports from last time.
There is no treatment for solar retinopathy, the damage inflicted by looking at an eclipse without eye protection. Many people recover after three to six months, but some will suffer from permanent vision loss, in the form of a small blind spot and distortion.
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The chance of two total solar eclipses intersecting at the same location is rare. On average, it’s estimated that two total solar eclipses will intersect at the same location approximately once every 375 years. This makes the intersection of the two Great American total solar eclipses between 2017 and 2024 rare because their intersection will occur over 7 years. This is not just rare for America; it’s unprecedented.
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Caused by “Climate Change”, LoL?
-I’d be willing to bet some warmists think that…
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Two solar ecipses intersecting in the same location apparently occurred in 1806 and 1811 in Cleveland USA.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/x-marks-the-shot-friday-april-5-2024
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Surely its about time that OZ (and many other places) let up on the throttle that is causing huge amounts of immigration with resultant problems in finding accommodation?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13278861/Housing-crisis-tent-city-Musgrave-Park-Brisbane.html
The millions more people also impacts-in the case of the Uk-with more crowded roads and trains and more pressure on GP’s.
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Immigration is just one small part of the UN / WEF great reset plan. You’ll have nothing / as close to nothing as possible & you’ll be happy. You’d better be , “ ve haf vays und means “ to make you comply! You’ll notice that at present it’s only the western democracies that are compliant. The 3rd world can’t wait to be handed all the achievements of the successful
Western world! Then we’ll all be destitute!
The western democracies are so brainwashed they believe Utopia is coming soon!
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See video I posted below.
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Seen these?
Swiss To Hold Referendum That Will Restrict Population To 10 Million Until 2050
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/swiss-hold-referendum-will-restrict-population-10-million-until-2050
What Scotland’s ‘Hate Crime’ Bill is REALLY all About!
https://www.visionnews.online/post/what-scotland-s-hate-crime-bill-is-really-all-about
The great replacement…
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Apparently the government has throttled back on immigration, but the illegals keep coming. This is the first time in more than a decade that Chinese have illegally come by boat.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/boat-carrying-13-asylum-seekers-lands-on-remote-stretch-of-was-kimberley-in-third-confirmed-landing-within-five-months/news-story/cc8360c000d3c61acbd5823aeebdb4a9
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Beta male handsome boy Albanese has given the Green Light to China to sent more immigrants
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They will be sent to Nauru as the authorities try to ascertain whether they were politically persecuted or are simply economic refugees.
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JK Rowling still manages to make complaints against her disappear whilst the Scottish First minister must surely hope he can find an invisibility cloak
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/03/woke-fail-leftist-scottish-leader-receives-more-hate-speech-complaints-than-j-k-rowling/
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I am sure I can rely on all of Jo’s readers to help to pay any fines Greta Thunberg incurs as a result of her valiant fight against catastrophic/apocalyptic/disastrous/ Climate change as she is arrested twice in Holland.
https://nltimes.nl/2024/04/06/greta-thunberg-arrested-highway-blockade-hague
Should I put everyone down for $10?
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The only $10 note I have is from an old Monopoly set. Would that do?
It’s a bit tattered and out-of-date, much like Greta.
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Is that for a police benefit fund?
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Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere
A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geoengineering-test-quietly-launches-salt-crystals-into-atmosphere/
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Tell them to have a yarn with the CSIRO.
Australian governments used to put useful funding into trying to extract more precipitation from clouds. I don’t recall any announcements of significant success.
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Perhaps you didn’t bother to click the link and read the article.
It’s not about providing condensation nuclei, who would want salty rain?
Bill Gates provided $300K funding in 2009 for developing a nozzle to spray sea salt aerosols with the goal of blocking sunlight to cool the planet.
Now 15 years later they’re out spraying particles into the atmosphere and operating from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay, on the quiet, to “avoid public backlash”.
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A few years ago, Hydro Tasmania used to seed suitable clouds to increase rainfall into the dams in the west of the state. I think they used silver iodide. Pretty sure they stopped after residents of the area got up in arms about the excess rainfall they were getting.
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Will pfizer be prosecuted for false claims on safety of covid vaccine
https://nextdoor.co.uk/p/W5hhbzP2QFgm?view=detail
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When is a dangerous El Niño coming?
A new trial, the last in 2019 was a disaster, instead of the announced El Niño La Niña was appearing in 2020 😀
2019:
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Pull the other one,it plays “ Jjngle Bells “!
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Krishna,
I do hope you will formally inform the BOM. 🤣
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Others are developing AI to pick up the subtle SST changes in the western Pacific, which puts them ahead of the pack.
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Here is Gosselin’s viewpoint.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/04/07/german-scientists-claim-to-have-predicted-2023-el-nino-after-it-occurred/
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Whale protection lawsuit explained
Time to save the Right Whale from the Green-Left
By Craig Rucker, CFACT President
https://www.cfact.org/2024/04/03/time-to-save-the-right-whale-from-the-green-left/
The beginning: “Back in the sixties and seventies “Save the Whales” was the exclusive domain of the political left. As Bob Dylan might say, “the times they are a changin.”
Three major “conservative” organizations – the National Legal Policy Center, Heartland Institute, and my organization, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow – recently filed a major lawsuit in a Washington, D.C. federal court to save the Right Whale from facing potential oblivion.
Why aren’t the larger Green groups, unlike the grassroots ones, rallying around the efforts of these organizations to save Right whales? Good question. Perhaps it’s because the threat to the remaining 350 of them doesn’t come from Russian, Norwegian, or Japanese whaling vessels, as it did back in the 70’s. Rather, it is from so-called “Green energy” in the form of offshore wind. Right whales are being threatened by the Biden Administration’s fast-track plans to hurriedly place 30,000 MW of wind power generation off the Eastern coast, and doing so without the proper sort of environmental impact assessment they might otherwise perform for, say, offshore oil.
The collective decision by our outfits to take the issue of whale protection to Court came after two years of futile attempts to get the Biden Administration to listen. Offshore wind development threatens the nearly extinct North Atlantic Right Whale in various ways, and the government refuses to investigate. The two agencies which share responsibility for making sure wind development does not harm whales include the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which oversees building wind facilities, and the Commerce Department’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or NOAA Fisheries), which enforces the various laws to protect whales. Neither seems intent on doing their job.
In issuing its “biological opinion” last September, for instance, NMFS only examined the impact that each of these projects individually and in isolation would have on the North Atlantic right whale. The agency did not, as it should have, issue a comprehensive and cumulative analysis examining the combined harm which all the projects, together, would inflict on the whales during their annual migration path.
If it had done so, it would have uncovered that dangerous noises generated from several projects combine to create much louder and more dangerous circumstances for marine mammals than noises coming from just a single project. In fact, impacts can combine over time as well, such as when migrating Right Whales are repeatedly forced to go around a dozen wind facilities into heavily trafficked shipping lanes. The risk of being struck by a ship then becomes ten times greater than for a single project.
It’s likely for such reasons the Endangered Species Act specifically calls for assessment of cumulative impacts such as these, but the Biden Administration has ignored this requirement.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Precision litigation.
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Meanwhile in Australia – hoplefully there will be lawsuits here in Australia
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/federal-government-proposes-wind-farm-in-the-middle-of-a-whale-migration-route/news-story/81deb048ae6bd4e37be1aec06a4424dd
Climate Change and Energy minister Chris Bowen said the zone was chosen for its “ideal location for offshore electricity generation because of the high speed winds in the Indian Ocean, its proximity to large energy users and could enable up to 20 gigawatts of offshore wind to be developed.”
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/federal-government-proposes-wind-farm-in-the-middle-of-a-whale-migration-route/news-story/81deb048ae6bd4e37be1aec06a4424dd
David, same issues as yours at the other end of the planet. It seems it is true that mistakes and repeating them are what politicians do best.
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Europe survey, lack of widespread support for reducing CO2 emissions if energy prices rise as a consequence.
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1776913880649785772
Of course politicians are still lying that more renewables = cheaper bills.
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Paxlovid, which in Australia taxpayers are being hit for $1000 per dose, DOES NOT WORK AT ALL for treatment of Covid-19
And yet we know the almost cost-free “horse dewormer” (sic) Ivermectin does (or did for previous strains, presumably new bioweapon strains will be engineered to render it ineffective).
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003
This has apparently been known for two years since July 2022 but conveniently just published.
Pfizer claimed 89% efficacy:
Hey Lefties, when are you going to apologise for mocking the Thinking Community over this?
Of course, those of us who follow the real science, not the Official Narrative are not the least bit surprised by this.
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Very interesting video.
Comparing the disaster of the Canadian economy and the disaster of the Australian economy and how poor economic performance in both is being hidden by unrestricted immigration. Also addresses the housing crisis.
https://youtu.be/ggn-aVmiwR4
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It’s the same in the UK, they don’t actually want to stop massive immigration, because it gives the illusion of economic growth even though GDP per head (and living standards) are falling.
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Another useful measure is GDP per hour worked which takes into account whether economic growth has merely come from increased overtime.
As a bare number (unqualified by “per something”), GDP — and its alleged increase — cannot be proof of an economy benefiting each citizen, if:
(1) the growth has been manipulated by importing a flood of immigrants; or
(2) people are working more hours because it’s a struggle to maintain their standard of living.
On the other hand, if ‘GDP per capita’ and ‘GDP per hour worked’ are increasing each year, then “yes” the politicians can brag about a healthy economy.
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Oh the hypocrisy of the Left
Dumb and Dumber take their own separate private jet flight to the Hunter Vally to announce another Green Elephant project – manufacturing solar panels in Australia!
And now this. The Queen of Woke happy to take $495,000 per annum salary for being Governor-General representing King Charles III in Australia.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13280887/sam-mostyn-tweet-republic-Peter-FitzSimmons.html
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Container Ship Reportedly “Lost Power” In NYC Harbor, Right Before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
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Are you a conspiracy theorist?
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Amazingly that notice did not appear in the NY Times. OTOH the ship apparently did quite quickly continue on with its voyage without further incident.
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Well it said in the manual, if it wasnt working properly, to turn it off and on again.
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How many box boats are there?
How many bridges do they go under [generally!] in a day?
In my time at sea, I was never on a ship that had no problems with the main engine – except those I was on in lay-up!
When is likely a problem occurs?
When just sailing – the engine has been stopped for a few hours; it will almost certainly be kept warm, with turning gear in [to avoid flats developing on the shafts].
The ship in this report – APL Qingdao – is 354 metres long, overall, and thus perhaps 15,000 TEU [my estimate]. {TEU = Twenty foot Equivalent Unit]
Currently in Norfolk Virginia, so she left NYC OK.
Per the Wiki-thingy, that even I can edit – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships – there are 80 containers ships over 23,000 TEU; 33 of them are over 24,000 TEU.
Another 48 are over 20,000 TEU [If I’ve counted right].
All 128 ships are about 400 metres long.
Many big ships, carrying the world’s trade.
Auto
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Detailed Newly Released Documents Show Minute-by-Minute Account of Nuclear Apocalypse
I’m not providing excerpts, just a distressing content warning.
https://internewscast.com/news/detailed-newly-released-documents-show-minute-by-minute-account-of-nuclear-apocalypse-those-disintegrated-by-atomic-bombs-would-be-considered-fortunate/
Do not support wars anywhere, as the consequences could be catastrophic.
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No denying the horrors, but this nuclear porn has been staple diet since 1945.
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That is so South Australian, Served with a side of GST.
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Considering the lack of potential urban targets along with prevailing wind patterns, I hope south-western WA residents will be able to survive long enough to document the sorrowful experience for posterity.
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Nuclear War is just so yesterday – biological warefare where governments wage war on their own citizens is much more clever.
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I think the last four years was psychological warfare disguised as a biological threat.
I’m wearing two surgical masks alone in my car as I write this.
In all seriousness, IMHO the foundational operative ‘science’ of both ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Pandemic’, is psychological warfare.
https://archive.org/details/cia-director-william-casey-disinformation-program-quote-soruce
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The ABC morning “news” show today discussed the AFL homophobic name calling slur incident from the weekend. Good to see that the entire panel of 3 females discussing it from the comfort of their couches remained earnestly straight faced and professional. The other item they touched on concerned the unfortunate death of aid workers last week. Interesting that there was no advance warning that the item to be shown contained photos of dead people.
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Corrections.
The your ABC morning “propaganda” show today discussed the hungry bum ballet, homophobic name calling slur incident from the days nobody watched. Good to see that the entire panel of 3 non assigned genders discussing it from the comfort of their couches remained earnestly straight faced and professional. The other item they touched on concerned the fortunate death of aid workers last week. Interesting that there was no advance warning that the item to be shown contained photos of dead people.
Unfortunate deaths?
We aimed at them, hit them, not once, not twice, but three times in three separate vehicles over a 2klm distance, very unfortunate?
Does anyone else have a problem with this vehicle attacked by a missile?
They can salvage most of this car, all the glass is still intact. And the entry wound.
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The Founder of WCK is José Andrés. https://www.weforum.org/people/jose-andres/
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Your corrections gleefully accepted particularly the “ballet” reference which highlights the fact that the surface upon which it is performed has sod om ite, oops correction – fat fingers – sod on it.
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Aside from a hole in the roof, the lack of damage to the vehicle from a missile strike is what stood out when the image was released.
I’m no missile expert. But if I had bought and paid for that one, I’d be asking for my money back.
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Upping the ante –
“lon Musk Says X Will Defy Order From Brazil’s Supreme Court After Twitter Files”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-says-x-will-defy-order-brazils-supreme-court-after-twitter-files
Enhanced “X”
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According to an Australian Financial Review headline, that stands above the pay fence, Kurt Campbell says the new submarines we’re paying to build, are for a tussle with China.
1) I’m shocked – that’s Sir Prise.
2) I’m torn though – having offensive nuclear powered thingamajigs may loosen our hard hearts concerning other nuclear powered thingys.
3) This cements us as one more of Uncle Samuel’s Ukraines.
We probably don’t have to worry though. I gather these damnable things are only at early design stages. Hopefully they can join the failed French nuclear sub’s, with their Otto Cycle powerplants.
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Albanese funds former Liberal Prime Minister
the Albanese government is hopelessly out of its depth in energy and industry policy. It is entranced by the dream that Australia can become a global renewable energy superpower. Yet there is only one dominant player in the renewable sector, and its name is China.
Last week, Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese travelled to the Hunter Valley to announce ARENA’s 642nd grant. It was a whopper: a cool $1bn to help a start-up company backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Malcolm Turnbull to build a solar panel manufacturing plant.
The corruption of the Alabanese government knows no bounds.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/04/07/mercenary-audacity-how-crony-capitalists-drive-the-wind-solar-transition/
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It’s quite symbolic that Albanese and Bowen traveled to that Hunter Valley venue in separate private jets before handing over that eye-watering wad of taxpayers’ cash, completing the picture of a massively cynical poke in the eye to citizens. Albanese is making hay while he’s temporarily in power, emptying the vault before he’s dragged out of the bank.
This outrageously generous favour must have bought him and Bowen something down the track.
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I hope none of the critical R&D involved in making the new copper-based panels was performed in an Australian research organisation because, if it was, then it’s already flown to China.
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CO²,
Can you see my head shake? Oh.
Picture at the bottom of that article, though, could be a front page image for forklift training modules.
Looks 👌 for handling that material.
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The planet just does not care:
It just keeps on “shakin’ all over”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvtygG4n6ew
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Has anyone read this one? Should I buy it? $28.49
The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of {woke} companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of a creative, entrepreneurial internet doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks.
The internet has been defined by three distinct eras that have brought us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the ‘read’ era, in which early networks democratized information. The second was the ‘read-write’ era, in which corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the ‘read-write-own’ era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.
Are blogger here such a community?
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A short amusing video of a solar installation at a “renewables” love in field day event. From hype to reality in one slow pan of the camera.
https://rumble.com/v4o1s0l-green-off-grid-living-festival-powered-by-solar-panels-.-.-.-oh-wait.html
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Javier Vinos forecasts cooler weather is on the way, after the excess water in the stratosphere washes out..
‘Historical data on the warmest years suggests a high probability that 2024 will again break the temperature record, similar to what happened in 1877-78, 1980-81, 1997-98, and 2015-16.
‘However, if we have correctly identified a major cause of the warming as the Hunga Tonga eruption, we can expect that as the excess water vapor exits the stratosphere, it will induce a cooling effect at the surface, potentially lowering temperatures for the next 3-4 years.’ (Climate Etc)
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If US and China Go To War, Who Loses (Hour by Hour)
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FWIW
“New Documentary Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns
“It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how a career bureaucrat seized control of the government and created a disaster. And Birx had help…from Pence.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/new-documentary-asserts-deborah-birx-was-real-culprit-behind-disastrous-covid-lockdowns/
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Global War Update
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Sabine Hossenfelder: “My dream died, and now I’m here”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8
A jaded view of academia which has many similarities to the climate debate. Especially 4:52 and 10:42.
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Nuclear submarines?? Will they help stop the boat people coming?? How come our defence force can’t see these people before they land?? Can’t we police our coast? Maybe we should swap the submarines for a satellite security service from Pixar.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/boat-carrying-13-asylum-seekers-lands-on-remote-stretch-of-was-kimberley-in-third-confirmed-landing-within-five-months/news-story/cc8360c000d3c61acbd5823aeebdb4a9
You can only own what you can protect…
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..and that ‘new’ water that appears with no radioactivity in it, maybe this is where it comes from-
“The quest to pinpoint the origins of Earth’s water has led researchers to a monumental find—a colossal ocean ensconced within the Earth’s mantle, over 700 kilometers below the surface. This hidden ocean, concealed within a blue rock known as ringwoodite, challenges our understanding of where Earth’s water came from. The size of this subterranean sea is so vast that it triples the volume of all the planet’s surface oceans combined.”
https://www.wecb.fm/a-gigantic-ocean-discovered-700km-beneath-the-earths-surface/
It was on April 1st, but still, all those aliens under the oceans themes..
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..and our peer-group is running right beside us in the race for a voluntary biometric identifier..
“The nations of the world are racing each other to see who can tag their respective cattle in the safest and most voluntary and convenient way. Meanwhile, the cattle bicker on the internet about which rancher has the best and most moral cattle tag…..
The Russian government announced at the end of March that citizens would be permitted to register at hotels, spas, campsites, tourist centers, and medical clinics using biometric data stored in the “voluntary” Unified Biometric System. ”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/biometric-identification-its-what
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