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Well, it seems that the murderer in Sydney yesterday had mental problems. Whether he took drugs as well I don’t know but that has been a major factor in similar cases.
At one time those with severe mental problems and those with violent tendencies would be locked up, or put in a secure mental asylum or in some more casual place but with supervision, to ensure behaviour was acceptable and that medication was taken
In the UK ,”Care in the community” replaced much of that regime and there is little compulsion and if the patient doesn’t want it, no supervision, unless sentenced for an actual crime.
Seems to me that we would do well to move at least part of the way back to the former regime and away from care in the community. the added complication is the easy availability of strong drugs
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Here in Novocastria there were two very large, well placed blocks of land dedicated to the institutions you describe.
The occupants are now out in the community and the old facilities no longer in use.
I’m sure that this land, in superb locations, will be purchased by a helpful politician’s friend and “redeveloped”.
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Mental patients were deinstitutionalised after the development of anti-psychotic and other drugs.
However, to be effective, patient compliance is required and that clearly doesn’t happen in many cases.
Society would be far better off if non-compliant people were returned to institutions to live permanently as they used to.
It would be better for the patient and better for society.
It would likely also be a more economical proposition for society because it would stop a lot of crime these people cause, and stop the consumption of a lot of police resources.
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Forunately the Bondi Junction terrorist was shot by the only person with a gun – the lone policewoman.
If not, he would have pleaded “mental health issues” and after a short stay for medical treatment be would be back in the community in no time.
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Ahhh…the old “institutions”…
‘Twas but a few decades ago when “doctors” would ask patients to lie back, the grab a hammer and bash a steel spike through an eye socket into the brain, to cure them.
Nowadays, men in dresses with mental health issues, chasing kids, are no longer sent to such places, but are let loose in society to wreak havoc with full approval of the government and media, and the sane objectors are the ones “with problems” and threatened with incarceration…
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the issue we have with ramping at hospital emergency is due to all the mental health patients presenting at emergency and saying they are going to kill themselves which results in them needing supervision at all time, this takes up beds and Dr’s and nurses who could be treating say a heart attack.
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Time to reconsider Nanny State gun laws
A relative in Texas emailed concerning the terrorist attack in Sydney (being portrayed as a “mental health issue”).
He takes advantage of the “open carry” laws in Texas and carries a hand gun.
His view is that if such a terrorist attack occurred in Texas the knifeman would have been gunned down by members of the public after the first knife attack with no further victims
I see no reason to disagree. Another example of corrupt politicians attempting to control our lives with disasterous consequences.
https://www.austintexas.gov/department/open-carry
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Agree with the sentiment but that wont happen here.
This is a glowing example of the saying “when seconds matter, the police are 20 minutes away” Doesnt matter how good they are, they cant be everywhere.
As a society thats what we agree is acceptable. The anti gunner argument would be something like, but it would have been worse, blithely unaware of the sieve you have to pass through to have a licence.
Seems either way there is a cost. The real focus should be on how we are dealing with mental health issues. None of the people that perpetrate these crimes, in any country, are of sound mind.
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The flip side is that the attacker would have had a much more deadly weapon.
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I would say stabbing wounds are much more lethal than gunshot wounds. And the gun laws only stop non-criminals from obtaining firearms.
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That wouldn’t worry me, one armed person will never survive in a shopping centre of thirty or forty armed people. What would be worse would be collateral damage from people missing the attacker and hitting the public behind him.
Maybe as we get more mass shootings like this people will think more about ‘less-lethal’ defence systems, like a small one-shot taser that anyone could carry.
Statistics out of the USA show shooters prefer gun-free zones, banning guns never works.
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That may not be as important as it seems, remember the Greenwood Park Mall shooting in Texas…
“Fifteen seconds after the shooting began, Elisjsha Dicken, a legally-armed 22-year-old man from Seymour, engaged the shooter in a gunfight… From a distance of forty yards, Dicken fired ten rounds from a Glock 19 handgun, hitting the shooter eight times. The shooter fired once, and attempted to retreat into the restroom, but instead fell to the ground and died soon afterwards.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Park_Mall_shooting
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This is good shooting if the range is real. Glocks are not the most accurate pistols, but plenty accurate enough for practical purposes. 40 yards, 8 hits out of ten, under pressure, chock full of adenalin. Good work, I guess he must practice quite a bit.
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Yes, i’ve seen a few articles on that, but it’ll never happen, at least not until the new era arrives.
By then gunpowder based weapons will be old hat.
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tonyb,
I’m just trying to think about what they are trying to take our minds away from?
Going through what else has been happening in the last few weeks that appears to
be going against the direction they want to take us.
Any ideas?
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Just,
‘Zactly my line of thought.
How many stateless criminals have been released through the High Court activism, so far, that Canberra has chosen(?) not to stop?
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Yes J+T,
The answer is evident: there are too many lemmings on this Earth.
The Management are trying at least to slow down its population explosion or the Earth is.
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There are “drugs” and “DRUGS”.
IF this person was in “official care”, it is entirely likely that there were “prescription pharmaceuticals” in use.
Psychotropic drugs have an interesting reputation for triggering incomprehensible outbursts of sustained violence.
Psychotropics are described as: “Any drug that affects behavior, mood, thoughts, or perception. This can include medications for anxiety and depression as well as antipsychotics, among others.”
More here:
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-is-a-psychotropic-drug.
Of course”medical confidentiality” will come into play here.
Any serious pharmacologists out there?
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“Psychotropic drugs have an interesting reputation for triggering incomprehensible outbursts of sustained violence”
Exactly.
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You should read Peter Hitchens’ views on marijuana, especially when used by young people. The data is quite confronting and shows that weed really messes with young brains, often resulting in schizophrenia and/or anger management issues. I expect this guy was a user from an early age.
As usual lately, because this data conflicts with government plans to legalise weed – or indeed have already decriminalised it – you rarely see it acknowledged unless the BBC/ABC trot out a compliant ‘expert’ to deny there is any link.
The growing acceptance and legalisation of drugs is another one of those issues that simply makes no sense to me, unless of course they truly do want to destroy society.
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Young brains achieve development at about 25 years.
MaryJane is especially dangerous to the developing brain.
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It was Peter Hitchins I was thinking of when I wrote my piece. The stuff has got very much stronger since the 60’s and there seems to be very clear links for some to disturbed behaviour and criminality
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Jo broadly covered this topic a few days ago, that plastic bags are better for the environment than paper bags.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/14/shock-findings-plastic-shopping-bags-cause-around-four-times-less-carbon-emissions-than-paper-substitutes/
An added factor that plastic is very much lighter and it would take 10 trucks to transport the same number of paper bags as would go into a single truck carrying plastic bags
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Bring back the bags!
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The ‘environment’ is much more than just carbon emissions. Degradation can take up to 300 years during which time the plastic breaks down to tiny particles that can enter the food chain.
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How long do windmill blades and their concrete foundations take to degrade, Simon?
In any case, plastic supermarket bags were designed to degrade quickly in the unlikely event they were irresponsibly disposed of after they had served their multiple uses.
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How to make rope from plastic bags
https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/blog/turn-plastic-bags-usable-rope-super-easy-diy/
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You are correct on this one Simon. Look at all the environmental devastation required to decarbonise society. To Quote Jo in her post today “Trap sprung”.
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You haven’t seen some of the plastic bags I’ve had that literally fall apart
after a couple of years.
And, aren’t plastic bags made from oils etc?
Which is part of nature.
Just sayin’.
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I bought a packet of doggy poo bags, the biodegradable type, but after opening the packet they crumbled in my hand. Needless to say I’m now buying plastic bags.
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Agreed. The worst is the number of ‘escaped’ plastic bags that kill wildlife. Same as the plastic six pack holders for cans.
I miss my plastic bags but I think that for the actual environment that paper bags are better. I also use them to start my wood heater after they begin to wear.
On paper straws. I’m sure when I was a kid, the straws were not the flimsy paper things we have now, as they used to make it through a whole drink before going soft. Was the paper wax coated? You fellow posters that are older than me (around 60 but a lady should keep some things to herself) should know the answer.
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No Simon, they break down to dust in a decade, and don’t forget the 30plus species of bacteria they found in the sea that eat plastic. I’m sure Nature has a system to dispose of oil once its on the surface. All the giant oil spills have cleaned themselves up much faster than expected.
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Then surely Australia should be doing what many smart countries are already doing – burn all plastics in high-temperature furnaces, which also generate a bit of electricity on the side. The same furnaces can also be used to substantially reduce sewerage to a very small amount of non-toxic waste, suitable for landfill. Why we are spending fortunes sorting plastics, only to have it end up in another nation’s rivers and oceans, doesn’t make any sense to me.
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That won’t happen because, now that the social engineers have decided we can’t have plastic bags, any technology or process that would make their use feasible again will be studiously ignored or falsely discredited. We’ve seen the same happen with coal, which can be burned in a more environmentally-friendly way. These people simply do NOT bend and can’t be reasoned with.
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Simon, PEOPLE are the primary pollutant.
Please suggest solutions without evoking Pol Pot or Stalin.
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It is not just plastic bags – Paper Straws which fall apart half way during a drink have been found to contain toxic chemicals
Study highlights concerning toxins found in paper straws
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/they-re-not-looking-at-the-unintended-consequences-study-highlights-concerning-toxins-found-in-paper-straws-1.6564083#:
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I remember getting lukewarm milk at morning recess in primary school. The big treat was being able to pick a choc or strawberry straw to drink it through. God knows what awful chemicals lived in those straws.
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Dick Smith suggests Aussies will live in Chinese type high rises in future, due to population increase
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13295455/Dick-Smith-immigration.html
He also makes the point that immigration is unlikely to fall by much, as young people generally welcome migrants and believe it is racist to restrict their numbers.
Its similar here in the UK, we would need to build unprecedented numbers of houses each year just to keep up with incomers but the young don’t seem to see the connection between extremely large numbers of incomers with the inevitable huge demand for houses and subsequent high rents and high house prices.
In the case of the UK we are a small country but Australia has lots of land. It might mean the suburbs being pushed ever further out from the main city centres in order to allow houses on a decent plot of land, but surely that is preferable to high rises?
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Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world.
It’s strange and disturbing that Australia’s social engineers look to Hong Kong or Japanese style housing, regions with the highest population densities, as Australia’s future.
Free people need space to move. And these developments are not consistent with traditional Australian lifestyles. But the Left love them, at least as warehousing complexes for non-Elites.
However, high density housing is now official policy, along with “15 Minute Cities”, rebranded in Australia as “20 Minute Neighbourhoods”.
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Not to be confused with the density of the population.😁
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It is Australia’s destiny as a former British colony to become Hong Kong MkII and so Chinese type housing will become the norm.
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The People’s Republic of Victoriastan is preparing Victorians for Chinese rule
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Huh! I heard this a couple of weeks back on a TV news artcle from one of the ‘talking heads’.
It was mentioned, just in passing really, that Australia has the largest (average) home sizes on the Planet.
You might have missed it if you were not listening closely, because the natural thinking is that something like this would be far and away, the province of the U.S.
So, I went and had a look.
It’s actually quite true i fact.
We do have the largest average home size.
Here’s a link, and scroll down the ‘blurb’ for the chart, and it’s in alphabetical order.
Tony.
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Not surprised. Around me the original small duplexes are being replaced with multi-storey mansions taking three years or longer to build. My next door neighbour built one nearby to house only a family of four and it’s massive. Instead of splitting the older 800sqm blocks, they are now using them to build these oversized mansions that consume the entire block.
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Very true and of course it would be preferable……
…..unless you are a poltician or Local Authority !
Building outside current city/urban areas, would require much more public expenditure, State and Federal,…for essential infrastructure such as roads, trains, water, sewerage, electricity, schools, Hospitals, etc etc.
Generally that is expenditure they can avoid if they build “up” or within existing infrastructure boundaries.
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We could envisage 15 minute cities, connected by very fast train.
They are more like big country towns with a population that makes the place habitable. They would grow from a village to a town, depending on their sustainability.
There won’t be any high rise monstrosities, with everyone either working from home or a niche downtown.
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The high rise thingy maybe coming to an end, commercial office space is sitting empty, not only in Australia but around the world.
Its not easy converting these towers to residential, so ultimately they’ll be pulled down. Its all because of Covid, the quiet revolution.
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Trump’s presidency viewed much more positively than Biden’s.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13306865/Donald-Trump-Joe-Biden-president-poll-good-America.html
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112 years ago, 15 Apr 1912, at 02:20 hrs, HMS Titanic slipped beneath the waves.
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“Always look on the bright side of life”
https://www.cuttingedgecreations.com/titanic-adventure-33-commercial-inflatable-slide.html
You can also purchase “Titanic Swim Team” T-Shirts to wear on the slide.
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I’m appalled and really can’t believe all the tasteless jokes about the Titanic submarine.
Seriously, how can people sink so low?
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“Black” / melanin-enhanced? humour is actually a thing.
Remember back to the Space-Shuttle re-entry disaster.
Within 24 hours, NASA had a new meaning.
Need Another Seven Astronauts.
It is a “sort-of” coping mechanism.
A bit like: “There, but for the Grace of God, go I”.
Will the people dancing on your grave be simply tamping down the soil or celebrating your departure?
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And to acknowledge the multi-cultural make up of the unfortunate crew – did you know the Chin.ese astronauts eyes were blue? One blew that way and the other blew that way.
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I’ll dance on your grave. The wife’s mother said: ‘When you’re dead, I’ll dance on your grave.’
I said: ‘Good. I’m being buried at sea.”.
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CO²,
I’m taking your comment as facetious.
Just sorry others sunk in that fast acting hydraulic press, along with its narcissistic owner.
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Clive Palmer having another go at Titanic MkII
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13288299/Titanic-Incredible-video-cross-section-doomed-liner.html
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Like many medical treatments, are appendectomies based on the best available science?
Are appendectomies necessary?
Video:
https://youtu.be/yrWSylKy50w
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As Australia systematically shuts down its energy supply and deindustrialises, Australia will be left with few sources of foreign income apart from the export of rocks.
Most of these rock exports go to China.
But China is increasingly obtaining its rocks from its African colonies.
So where does that leave Australia?
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Between a rock and a hard place!
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Being set up to become a Province of China after our economy collapses
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CO²,
We can blame the reflection in the mirror for that.
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Our economy is not going to collapse, but China’s economy is in free fall.
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Leaves Australia as non major supplier of a commodity that we choose to not add value to anymore. It is the way we operate.
Its in China’s self interest to have diversity of supply. We on the other hand rarely seem to operate in our own self interest and just do what’s easiest or become dependant both as buyers and sellers.
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This was covered y’day.
Both African iron ore mines are on the wrong side of Africa so freight will be a killer. China doesn’t buy our stuff because they like us but in spite of disliking us. These mines won’t change anything.
One has a proposed 6,000 km railway. Australia is 4,000 kms E to W. Iron ore is currently $106 FOB so how can a long rail trip compete?
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Not a matter of pure cost, they want strategic diversity and an entree to the resource buffet in Africa. Railways can be built and operated very cost effectively when the CFMEU is not involved and when staffed by Chinese
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It leaves Australia unable to earn overseas funds to buy toys.. So we have to make more ourselves, which will be considerably more expensive than importing from China and India.. However that won’t matter as our wages would have fallen to low enough levels by then, we will be in our 15minute cities and living a bad 2nd-world lifestyle. You can expect to have water, sewerage, some electricity and a bicycle.
Say, end of 1800s/beginning of 1900s standard of living, you could work it out in KwHrs per person. Most of Asia/SE Asia is like that now, you can imagine more guys catching buses/trains to their jobs on shovels and standing in factories making parts for something, meanwhile Canberra has official cars whisking the elites around their business meetings… Watch a video on making stuff in Pakistan..
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‘ … our wages would have fallen to low enough levels by then …’
The Chinese deflationary model.
Do you think Australia will slip into economic depression this year?
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The Biden/Obama proxy war in the Ukraine will soon be forgotten if Israel and Iran are slugging it out.
Penny Wong will be sending aid to Iran.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13307411/Israel-vows-offensive-defensive-action-Iran-launched-350-missile-attack.html
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War with the USA:
https://cdn.acidcow.com/uploads/posts/2024-04/1712925548_da_14.jpg
Loads of Max Clinger’s on standby too!
Iran doesn’t have a chance.
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WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been A Scam
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Dr. Vernon Coleman: They Want to Kill You (Here’s How They’ll Do It)
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Not everyone loves Electric Vehicles [EVs], although some Governments appear to be keen on them. Many EVs are carried by sea, normally on ‘Pure Car and Truck Carriers’ [PCTCs]– specialised ships designed and built to carry [usually] brand new cars or trucks. Plus ferries.
There have been incidents involving these ships – including some fires, such as on the ‘Felicity Ace’ – see here – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/02/ship-carrying-luxury-cars-sinks-near-azores-islands. Because that ship sank, no in-depth investigation has been possible.
More recently, in July 2023, another PCTC – carrying some EVs – caught fire off the Northern Dutch coast. See here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/cargo-ship-fire-off-dutch-coast
She was salvaged, although, sadly, one crew member died, apparently in evacuating the ship. – see here https://maritime-executive.com/article/report-details-confused-and-chaotic-rescue-for-north-sea-car-carrier-fire – note that some reports had him dying from burns. Towed to Rotterdam, the ship has now been gradually unloaded.
The Nautical Institute [NI] [spoiler – I am a member] is to hold a Casualty Investigation Workshop on this ship, carrying cars, including some EVs. The speaker is Captain Adrian Scales, CMMar, FNI, and a Director of Brookes Bell – he will give a presentation and that will be followed by a workshop discussion and a Q&A Session.
Hybrid Presentation begins at 1930 BST [ie 1830z] next Monday, 22nd April 2024.
The link is http://I.ead.me/ni2024
[Note … it might be http://l.ead.me/ni2024 [this one has a lowercase ‘L’] – I got this from a hard copy flier!
Here is the email I received form the organising part of the NI: –
“I’ve communicated amongst our group and who is hosting and we are keen to spread the message regarding this evolving topic. Teams can host up to 1000 so we are happy to make the presentation available to people beyond our Branch.
“As I understand things, we are likely to be using Presenter? mode within Teams to achieve the 1000 participants. Accordingly, it may be without interaction with remote participants cameras and microphones. However, we are keen to get to the widest possible audience on the subject therefore we are happy for you to share the link to this Workshop.”
I pass this on [all bold above is mine] , as this may be of interest to some – many? – of those who read Jo’s excellent blog, and are concerned about EVs – and especially extinguishing fires that involve them.
The link will be open from 1900 BST [1800Z], Monday, 22nd April 2024.
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The link will be open from 1900 BST [1800Z], Monday, 22nd April 2024.
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“The world is in the very best of hands”
“The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies
Shame on all the federal employees who covered up these facts about COVID-19”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/great-covid-cover-up-shocking-truth-about-wuhan-15-federal-agencies
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FWIW – on trusting the MSM
“HOW IT STARTED: In 2015, Ashe Schow, then with the Washington Examiner wrote, “With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?”
How it’s going: “NPR, New York Times are in immense turmoil with the world on the verge of global conflict,” Michael Goodwin wrote in the New York Post last night:”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/opinion/npr-new-york-times-are-in-immense-turmoil-with-the-world-on-the-verge-of-global-conflict/
And more at
https://instapundit.com/641912/#disqus_thread
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Looking at the generation figures for our grid wind has been limping along well under 10% [barely 900 MW] of capacity and has been like that for days. Is this seasonal?
By contrast Loy Yang B1 is steady at 110% capacity or 583 MW [more than 50% of total wind] and Callide C is quietly ramping up through 85% after its repairs.
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In the winter of 2017 Germany experienced 5 weeks of very low winds – dunkelflaute – as well as very low solar energy production.
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And from Anton’s (Tony’s) data, the Australian eastern grid regularly experiences significant dunkelflautes, on average almost one every three days, sometimes lasting up to 48 hours. You simply cannot achieve a reliable energy system with this level of unreliability.
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The truth about both wind and solar is that their eROI is actually well below that required for modern living. I firmly believe that without subsidies, neither energy source is commercially viable.
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Yes – May-June is usually lowest then jumps up in July-August as the winter storms come through.
These days, wind natural capacity factor is often masked by rooftops because the wind backs off for economic reasons when rooftops are high. Price in all but Tasmania have been negative today but only briefly. Yesterday Queensland and NSW wind and solar were curtailing output.
The coal will ride through negative price excursions at reduced output because they will be able to make money in the evening peaks when rooftops are off and wind is often low.
Rooftops are gradually destroying the economics of other WDGs and it seems a growing number of investors now see that. The growing market is for cashed up households to be self-sufficient for electricity generation. It is rapidly becoming the lower cost option for Australian households.
Although wind can operate over night, it can have 2 weeks or more with very low output so the storage has to be large enough to ride through. Solar produces something most days and cloud rarely persists more than 4 days in a row. I have seen tropical depression maintain cloud up to 6 days over the east coast.
Solar panels aligned to maximise winter input along with battery storage would likely be the lowest cost 100% WDG solution for Australia. At wholesale level = only 10 times the cost of using black coal for electricity and 20X using Victoria’s lignite for electricity. The one advantage of solar/battery is that any house with space for panels can make their own and avoid all the political interference in the power supply system.
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At around $30,000 for a large array of solar panels and sufficient battery storege for several days this is out of the reach of most Australians who own their own homes with or withoot a mortagage
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Plus you assume all responsibility for maintenance and end of life replacement. But I guess that is someone elses problem as most people dont stay long enough to have an issue.
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‘Is this seasonal?’
The movement of the subtropical ridge (high pressure belt) is seasonal, moves north in winter.
Keep a weather eye on these blocking highs in the Bight, see if they trend north over the coming months. By mid winter the STR should be sitting over Byron Bay, allowing south westerlies to get the wind farms operating.
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Since most EVs are charged from coal, and the whole supply chain of EV electricity and rare earth mining likely produces more CO2 than ICE vehicles, why aren’t “carbon” (sic) taxes applied to EVs?
(Obviously, CO2 is beneficial as the thinking community understands, but the Official Narrative wants it eliminated from the atmosphere.)
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If the stuff being imported from China had carbon taxes applied, the whole NutZero scam would fall apart.
Wind turbines, solar panels and batteries are fossil fuel energy reservoirs. In most applications they will not save more fossil fuel than it took to make them.
So even if Australia managed to achieve NutZero on the electricity grid, the accounting only works if it is limited to Australian shores. Throw in China and it becomes quite obvious that NutZero is fantasy. Just like CO2 Global Warming™ is a fantasy.
Europe are trying to imposes taxes on Chinese imports to keep people employed but that would accelerate their economic demise.
If wind and solar were useful, China would not be exporting them. They would keep them all for themselves and keep their limited resources of fossil fuels in the ground.
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Carbon tax is applied in the country where the emmissions are generated.
As we dont manufacture any of the batteries for EVs, we cannot impose the tax.
FYI.. Average ICE CO2 emmissions ..170gm per pkm
……..EV CO2 emmissions …47 gm per pkm
( assumes Ev charging from a mostly coal generator)
Even 100% coal generation would only result in <100gm per pkm.
https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
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And, reported in the USA:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/sidney-mass-murderer-who-killed-7-sydney-mall/
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No mention that the knifeman comes from a very religious family and recently had converted to the Religion of Peace!
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A link would be appreciated.
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https://www.rebelnews.com/police_finally_declare_sydney_church_stabbing_a_terror_incident confirms association of knifer with islam.
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Oops, wrong knifer; forgive my irrelevance.
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so many knife attacks these days,
one gets confused.
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“$100 Billion per Year Needed for US Carbon Removal”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/14/100-billion-per-year-needed-for-us-carbon-removal/
“The demand for $100 billion per year, to fix a problem which only exists in the fevered imagination of broken computer models, is beyond parody.”
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WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been A Scam
Vauhkala’s lawsuit continued today in Helsinki district court where British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra will testify that, during the COVID pandemic, some authorities and medical professionals supported unethical, coercive, and misinformed policies such as vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, which undermined informed patient consent and evidence-based medical practice.
Statement COVID-19 Vaccines Safety and Efficacy by Dr Aseem Malhotra MD for Mika Vauhkala
Summary
In response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), several new pharmaceutical agents have been administered to billions of people worldwide, including the young and healthy at little risk from the virus. Considerable leeway has been afforded in terms of the pre-clinical and clinical testing of these agents, despite an entirely novel mechanism of action and concerning biodistribution characteristics.
Re-analysis of randomised controlled trials using the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology suggests a greater risk of serious adverse events from the vaccines than being hospitalised from COVID-19. Pharmacovigilance systems and real-world safety data, coupled with plausible mechanisms of harm, are deeply concerning, especially in relation to cardiovascular safety. Mirroring a potential signal from the Pfizer Phase 3 trial, a significant rise in cardiac arrest calls to ambulances in England was seen in 2021, with similar data emerging from Israel in the 16– 39-year-old age group.
In parallel, authorities and sections of the medical profession have supported unethical, coercive, and misinformed policies such as vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, undermining the principles of ethical evidence-based medical practice and informed consent. These regrettable actions are a symptom of the ‘medical information mess’: The tip of a mortality iceberg where prescribed medications are estimated to be the third most common cause of death globally after heart disease and cancer. Underlying causes for this failure include regulatory capture – guardians that are supposed to protect the public are in fact funded by the corporations that stand to gain from the sale of those medications.
To gain a better understanding of the true benefits and potential harms of the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) coronavirus disease (COVID) vaccines, I conducted a narrative review of the evidence from randomised trials and real world data of the COVID mRNA products with special emphasis on BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine1.
In a second published review, I identified the major root causes of these public health failures, it was found that the public health messaging has also resulted in wanton waste of resources and a missed opportunity to help individuals lead healthier lives with relatively simple – and low cost – lifestyle changes2.
Key aspects of these reviews for 2020-2021 will be developed here for the case of Mr Vauhkala.
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For the leftists too engaged in willful ignorance to get the picture…
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This is a slightly revised version on my assessment of climate trends and their driver:
https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNiAXyF_MhdWetER5L?e=r8tLcz
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When the first COP meeting was held in Berlin in 1995 global CO2 emmission from energy were 21,988 million tonnes per annum.
By 2022 they had increased by 56% TO 34,347 million tonnes per annum despite all the elites flying in on their private jets every year to the lastest COP.
In 2005 when Australia signed up to the Paris Agreement global CO2 emissions stood at 28,203 million tonnes per annum and have increase by 22% to 34,347 million tonnes per annum – an increase of 6,170 million tonnes per annum.
Australia has reduced its annual CO2 emission by 6.6 million tonnes per annum from 376.3 to 282.4 million tonnes per annum
Therefore global CO2 emissions have increased by 932 times Australia’s reduction since 2005.
Meanwhile the cost of electricity has DOUBLED in Australia rising by 20% in most regions last year alone.
More increases are on there way.
So where is the benefit for all of this financial pain for people who are now struggling to pay their mortgages and to put food on the table with rising food prices?
Speak up Mr Minister for Energy.
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.?..Errr? .. some kind of fancy maths there ?..
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At Paris in 2015, Australia – like the rest of the world – signed up to toughening our emissions reduction targets every five years. We’ve now reached that point (factoring in a one-year COVID delay).
https://theconversation.com/australia-is-undermining-the-paris-agreement-no-matter-what-morrison-says-we-need-new-laws-to-stop-this-170198
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Will Bruce win his defamation trial? Judgement now being handed down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs7Ql7kql0
One thing we know for sure both he and Brittany are consummate liars
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What a Travesty of Justice
Rape is a criminal offence and should be tried as such before a criminal Court of Law.
Defamation is a civil offense and even a rapist is entitled to a fair trail and not trial by media scum bags like Lisa Wilkinson acting as a social justice warrior
His award of compensatory damages will be modest.
Mr Lehrmann was awarded $20,000 to be paid by Network 10.
Brittany gets $2.4 million from taxpayers
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Legal costs would be interesting
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Looks like he’s going down at this stage.
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Is Brittany there?
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..No !..
Both he , and her, are oxygen thieves !
I hope we have now heard the last of them !
Unfortunately, i fear we will now have to endure some tedious crowing from Wilkinson and co .
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FWIW – more “Pfizzer Cares”
“Pfizer accused of ‘bringing discredit’ on pharmaceutical industry after Covid social media posts
Watchdog rules company breached regulatory code five times including promoting unlicensed medicines”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/06/pfizer-breached-regulatory-code-five-times-watchdog-finds/
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And around the subject of “Cares”
IIRC many years ago the Australian branch of Wang Computer lobbied very hard to change the corporate decision when they heard that the company theme for the year was to be –
“Wang Cares”
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Klaus Schwab in hospital, may be dead
Klaus Schwab, the 86-year old founder of the WEF is in the hospital, and may already be dead, according to multiple sources.
The German-born economic influencer is reportedly in the hospital and is seriously ill, as was reported by conservative blog the Pacific Pundit.
“Rumors are circulating that Klaus Schwab has fallen very ill,” wrote American X (Twitter) influencer Matthew Wallace to his 1.7 million followers on Sunday morning.
“Klaus Schwab was apparently admitted to the hospital seriously ill. Anyway, that doesn’t bug me,” wrote Brazilian doctor Simon Goddek.
https://www.toronto99.com/2024/04/14/reports-klaus-schwab-in-hospital-may-be-dead/
Well, if it’s true I hope he…errr…gets better really fast! 😉
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There is a God after all!
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How Scotland’s solar speed cameras have failed… due to a lack of SUN!
They were envisaged as a simple, yet effective way of letting drivers know when they were speeding.
However, radar speed signs – famous for their alternating happy or angry faces – are being rendered useless in Scotland due to budgetary constraints and the country’s cloudy skies.
A Mail on Sunday investigation shows some cash-strapped councils have abandoned the network of signs, with many left broken and others unchecked for as long as five years.
In the Borders, the local council admits it has been forced to replace solar-powered units which have failed due to a lack of sunlight and the gloomy conditions in Scotland.
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/how-scotlands-solar-speed-cameras-have-failed-due-to-a-lack-of-sun/ar-BB1lzJTA
Scotland the gloomy indeed. 😉
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Karma Baby
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Guess that is one black mark against First Nations which will badly dent their environmental credentials.
“…Protemnodon viator, Protemnodon mamkurra and Protemnodon dawsonae, which lived from 5m to 40,000 years ago.“
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So if an EVangilists tell’s you it’s more efficient to charge an EV from a diesel generator than it is to drive a diesel car, point them to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BCHiKvVITM&t=1178s
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“Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move”
https://www.beefcentral.com/carbon/trillions-of-tonnes-of-carbon-locked-in-soil-has-been-left-out-of-environmental-models-and-its-on-the-move/
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From a string of wisdoms in an email –
“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it. “
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Jacob Nordangård on the origins of carbon dioxide hysteria
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I’ll believe AI is coming of age when generated voices sound real. They still grate on the ears.
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Heh..you’re years behind the times in rhat regard.
A recent study by Ringover, a cloud communications company, has highlighted AI’s ability to mimic human voices with alarming accuracy. The study, which involved over 1,000 participants, tested their ability to distinguish between authentic and AI-generated voices of well-known celebrities.
This investigation reveals the hidden dangers of AI voice technologies and raises significant questions about security, authenticity, and the future of human-AI interactions.
78.3% of respondents believed they could easily differentiate between AI-generated and human voices. However, the reality was starkly different, with only 2% accurately identifying all AI voice tests.
This gap between confidence and actual ability underscores a critical blind spot in our understanding of AI’s evolving capabilities. The study’s findings are a timely wake-up call to those who overestimate the human ability to discern AI from reality.
https://www.techopedia.com/can-you-spot-the-difference-between-human-and-ai-voices
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I am clearly not the only one years behind the times, “content creators” are too.
You don’t need AI to be able to coach a puter to speak a passage flawlessly. When it can voice ANY passage in ANY accent in ANY language, get back to me.
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Dear red thumber: Why is that hard for a puter that can solve all our problems in nano seconds?
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Another knife attack in Oz
A knife attack just happened in Sydney, Australia at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church, on a livestream.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1779815300567044484
*** graphic content warning ***
Endless MSM reporting is just an incentive for copycats…
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AAarrgh! – it’s worse than we think.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68814016
Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway – US scientists
NOAA is the fount of this crock of – er – wisdom.
It’s written by Georgina Rannard, who has been a ‘Climate and Science journalist’ since October 2021.
She is, I am sure, kind to animals, but presumably writes what her editor deems shall be written.
FWIW – her Linked-In profile also shows –
Education
University of St Andrews;
MA (hons), Modern history MA (hons), Modern history
2005 – 2009
The University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), History
But the ‘diagrams’ have lots of scary-looking deep-red. Some of which, in one diagram, is up to three degrees warmer than some – stated, and possibly selected – average.
The other diagram just has Levels of Alert.
They only go to 5 – I would have thought that an existential crisis mandated Alert Level 11 (at least), but I’m just a bum boatie, not a PhD History buff.
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