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The link below illustrates the stagnation that many western countries have undergone for over a decade. This is most notable within the EU which is an increasingly bureaucratic and regulation heavy organisation (some good, obviously) that has been losing ground to our worldwide competitors for decades as our diminishing share of world trade demonstrates.
The major EU economies have generally become stagnant and I would place that as around 2008, long before the Brexit vote in 2016 or indeed 2020 when we actually became independent. France Germany Italy Spain and the other countries have not left the EU but they have still become stagnant. The figures-note the caveats-can be usefully seen here with, in real terms, major economies not growing since 2008. Other countries can be accessed by scrolling down the page. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/FRA/france/gdp-gross-domestic-product
Nearly All western countries need to become much more dynamic in order to meet increased competition but that will not happen in the strait jacket we found ourselves in and in which many of our European peers also find themselves even though they remain in the EU. I voted to remain in a free trade organisation back in 1975 but in 2016 voted to leave what it has since become. If if were to revert to its original purpose when we joined, then I would be perfectly happy to be part of it. I think the EU has badly taken its eye off the trade ball in attempting to become a sovereign state. BTW Brexit was never just about trade was it, there were far more elements involved.
I think it interesting that the US has grown substantially as has China. Both have far cheaper energy than in Europe. Cheap reliable energy is essential for powerful trading nations. Mind you, when looking at the debt of the US something has to give.
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Yes. You are not an economist if you don’t start at the beginning. And they don’t.
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UK \ EU has been going backwards economically since 08. 01 hit hard but there was a good pick up in 05 & 06. Incomes have been going down. There is now a shortage in certain areas so incomes have been picking up in those.
I worked as a contractor (small businessman) in the UK & Europe from 96 until 17. For a large part of that I had to deal with IR35 style regulation & legislation. Easy to sidestep in the UK. Not on the Continent – I basically stopped working Continent contracts. It was politics of envy – the polies did not understand small business. On top of that rates stagnated and on the Continent went down. With all the costs, paperwork and jiggery pokey it was just not worth doing on the Continent. Big business could trade and work on the Continent no problems. Small business was discriminated against.
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Where do we start?
Fiat currency takes a lot of blame, when Govts can print wealth they never stop, and every dollar makes us poorer.
Banks don’t loan depositors money, they just use invented money so loans and interest rates are a political decision, not economic.
What do all the workers do when automation takes their jobs?? They become baristas, not barristers! Tech has become so complex that there are a lot of people in any population who will never manage a tech job, so they don’t contribute to the economy… and no, paying them welfare to spend is NOT a contribution! They have to get soaked up as bureaucrats, yet another drain on growth.
Medicine is increasingly expansive, so regulations expand to lessen any risk of hurting yourself. So we get undercut by nations that are not welfare states and are happy to grow with more risk to workers. However employing more inspectors and bureaucrats soaks up those unemployed workers.
Economies all grow, bloom, peak then stagnate, look at the world powers- Spain, Portugal.. they were power-houses once. Now the rest of the West is joining them in genteel poverty.
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I fear part of the problem is the value we give to indicators and measures like GDP to take decisions.
The growing culture of consuming ‘experiences’ is supported by indicators like GDP – growth in ‘services’ industry is seen as positive.
Assets were provided us by previous generations that we still use, but the limited asset creation we are doing is junk that won’t even see us out our lives. Built in obsolescence / replaceable / frequency of upgrades…
We grew on assets left for us, and now we are leaving behind useless wind turbines everywhere. Mountains of tech junk.
With improvements in sea-faring we now ship rubbish around the world for recycling, while agricultural surpluses that could be used elsewhere rot…
Thinking has been influenced a lot by reading this book: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Metric+Society%3A+On+the+Quantification+of+the+Social-p-9781509530403
Are we measuring the wrong things and basing too much action on weak measurement…
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Thankfully fossil fuel has raised us to the peak of human civilisation. We are wealthier, healthier and longer lived than at any time in our history. 15 years ago I asked 10 leading climate scientists what impact Man has on temperature bearing in mind the effects of CO2 are logarithmic
This seems to be a useful update from three highly respected scientists.
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Net-Zero-Averted-Temperature-Increase-2024-06-11.pdf
The effect of CO2 on temperature is too small to measure. When I asked all those years ago the best estimate for the UK was 1/200th of a degree. Temperature falls with altitude so that temperature change is the equivalent of walking up 2 steps.
I don’t think it worth jeopardising our way of life in favour of highly flawed and inefficient renewables but certainly believe we need to be much more careful of our environment..
Both Lindzen and Happer are usually happy to answer sensible questions, so if you are concerned of the future or believe renewables will keep your children and grandchildren at the peak of civilisation you might want to address some questions to these named scientists.
If some better, reliable and cheaper method of producing energy 24/7 comes along I am happy to use it, I am no proponent of fossil fuel but the practical alternatives are thin on the ground
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And from that Report is the Conclusion –
6 Conclusion
As shown by (1), (23), (25) and (26), there appears to be no credible scenario where driving
U.S. emissions of CO2 to zero by the year 2050 would avert a temperature increase of more
than a few hundredths of a degree centigrade. The immense costs and sacrifices involved
would lead to a reduction in warming approximately equal to the measurement uncertainty.
It would be hard to find a better example of a policy of all pain and no gain.
References
[1] R. Lindzen, On Climate Sensitivity
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/
On-Climate-Sensitivity.pdf
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“Immense costs.”
And to whom are these immense costs paid?
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That would be to the renewables subsidy farmers, to re-engineer the National grids to accommodate the windmills and Solar farms in their diverse locations.
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Thankfully fossil fuel has raised us to the peak of human civilisation. We are wealthier, healthier and longer lived than at any time in our history. 15 years ago I asked 10 leading climate scientists what impact Man has on temperature bearing in mind the effects of CO2 are logarithmic
Missing in this One’s Brain – Zali Steggall MP TEAL Federal Member for Warraingah
Climate Action, Womenâs Safety and an update on Warringahâs Traffic & Transport
As co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action, I hosted the Australian Marine Conservation Society to discuss the impacts of seismic blasting and the urgent need to protect our marine environment and marine economy from significant harm. In the same week, I also hosted a diverse contingent of Indigenous Fishers to discuss their fight for recognition and enforcement of their cultural fishing rights.
On the legislation front, we saw debate for the Net Zero Authority and climate disclosures get underway and I had the opportunity to quiz government during the appropriation debate following the budget to ensure the AUKUS agreement provides Australian businesses with commercial opportunities and workforce support. I also kept the pressure on the government to finally support the instant asset write offs for small businesses, first promised in the 2023 Budget.
During the week back in Warringah, we had a fantastic turn out for our Traffic and Transport Forum, which looked at whatâs next following the cancellation of the Beaches Link tunnel.
I welcome the recent announcement of the $21 million upgrade to the Brookvale bus depot to support the transition to electric buses and I remain optimistic about a more sustainable future of public transport, which includes better infrastructure for e-vehicles and active transport.
I have also been door knocking with my fantastic volunteers around rising costs of climate impacts and ever increasing insurance premiums. We urgently need a national risk assessment framework and much more adaptation planning.
And finally, it has been disappointing to see the Coalition this week repudiate Australiaâs 2030 emissions reduction commitment under the Paris Agreement and whilst claiming to still be committed to Net Zero by 2050, argue for a delay to the retirement of coal and gas in the Australian energy mix. We are in an important decade of transition where it is vital to reduce emissions as fast as possible with strong targets and stable policy to encourage investment.
Every year, every 0.1 degree of warming matters.
To keep our climate below 1.5-2 degrees of warming, which is the objective of the Paris Agreement, it is essential that we have clear 2030 and 2035 targets in place.
We need to aim for an emissions reduction target of at least 75% by 2035.
Net Zero Economy Authority
One of the major bills debated in the House in recent weeks was the Net Zero Economy Authority.
It aims to set up an authority to help governments, industry and private capital work together in a collaborative framework to transition coal and gas-fired power station workers. Whilst I voted for this bill, I challenged the government over its limited to scope to only supporting these workers and not the huge number of other workers in other industries that were being left out entirely. I offered amendments to fix this, but unfortunately, the government chose not to support them â another opportunity missed in the fight to get to a net zero economy as quickly as possible!
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Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living
BY TYLER DURDEN
International Man: The carbon hysteria extends far beyond oil and gas companies.
One overlooked area is household appliances.
Politicians are implementing increasingly stringent regulations for dishwashers, washing machines, and other appliances. There have even been reports of a desire to phase out gas stoves.
Whatâs your take on all of this?
Doug Casey:
As Der Schwabenklaus of the World Economic Forum boldly said some years ago, âYouâll own nothing and be happy.â
The fact that a prominent figure could actually say that, promote the idea, and not be pilloried gives you an idea of the spirit of the current century. The lack of outrage from the average man is even more sick than the idea itself.
Not owning appliances is a practical application of the meme, but just one tentacle of the global warming octopus. Appliances are constructed from resources that have to be mined and run with electricity; that makes them evil. Itâs much more important in these peopleâs views to âsave the planetââa ridiculous conceptâthan to continue raising the standard of living.
The fact is that the self-righteous authoritarians who want to limit the use of appliances basically just hate peopleâespecially middle-class people. Theyâd really like to revert to pre-capitalist times, when only the upper classes, the feudal aristocrats, could benefit from conveniences.
Ecowarriors, the Greens, are cut from the same cloth as socialists, communists, and fascists. Their totem fruit is the watermelon, green on the outside and red on the inside.
International Man:
Many people have noticed that modern appliances are not the same quality as the ones produced decades ago. For one thing, modern appliances tend to require much more time to do the same thing an older model could do faster.
For example, today, itâs common to see a standard dish-washing cycle to take more than two hours.
Modern appliances also donât perform as well and break down more frequently. Climate regulations are largely to blame for this regression.
What is really going on here?
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Appliances just like most products in that the 20t truck of 1930 could haul 30t but todays version the manufacturers warranty voids out at 21-22t. The quality reflects the tolerance of the % returns/ recalls partly due to the efficiency of the distribution network and the throwaway options becoming real now that the cost of manufacturing is so low.
Lastly the business model is much better if you need a replacement every 5 years not 40.
So is it driven by consumer needs? I think not and further I canât help but buy into the conspirathy theory it is China destroying our economy by stealth.
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Lol! If she got voted in it tells you a lot about the people who live in Warraingah!
If you want to see why a person is a murderer or a rapist, check their parents. If you wonder why some politicians are terminally stupid, look to their voters.
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Now, if it is Woodside/Chevron doing stuff under the water in Northern Australia’s waters with alleged rainbow serpents and all that BS then they are in trouble. Why I don’t know.
However, if it is the Feral and State/Territory Guv’ments doing underwater stuff for Wind Towers in any waters around Australia, then they are given free reign. No Enviromental studies needed whatsoever. No rainbow serpents anywhere where they are hurting whales and many other marine creatures. And BTW, these are existing sea creatures and not made up stuff from a load of dreaming people with an Agenda.
We urgently need a Reform Party here.
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The cost of Bidenâs green madness
War on affordable energy has drained $250 billion from the U.S. economy
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Thursday, June 13, 2024
President Bidenâs war on affordable energy has cost Americans a quarter-trillion dollars. Thatâs according to the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which issued a report last week calculating the cumulative economic loss caused by the administrationâs animus toward fossil fuels.
Since 2021, when Mr. Biden started his crackdown on oil and natural gas production, Americaâs crude oil production nose-dived to the tune of 2.4 billion barrels. The artificially constricted fuel supply drove up prices, creating a squeeze play that vaporized a net $250 billion in U.S. GDP.
It was different under President Donald Trump. As the worldâs top oil producer, we had finally achieved the goal of exporting more oil than we consumed domestically. Abundance kept oil prices at an average of $54 per barrel.
Then Mr. Biden moved into the Oval Office.
His term in office commenced with a barrage of dictates meant to sabotage American energy leadership. He rejoined the Paris climate agreement, which favors energy-production technologies sourced from China. He proposed tax increases on oil and natural gas producers. Heâs trying to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars.
Mr. Bidenâs executive orders placed public land off-limits for new drilling and canceled crucial projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline. He imposed draconian environmental rules designed to curtail oil and gas production. The administrationâs imposition of sanctions on Russia and sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline strangled worldwide supply, driving prices skyward.
Inflation-adjusted oil prices jumped to $82 per barrel, and productivity gains were lost. Had prices remained constant, production levels would have maintained a steady upward trajectory. Economists with the Committee to Unleash Prosperity estimate domestic production would have reached 19 million barrels per day.
Over the course of Mr. Bidenâs 3½ years in office, those missing daily barrels add up to 2.4 billion barrels. To mask the sticker shock at the pump, Mr. Biden has been draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve â particularly as Election Day nears. Mr. Trump left office with 640 million barrels in reserve, but now just 370 million barrels remain.
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Censored by the âOffice For Censorship, Obedience & Manipulationâ (OFCOM) a British government agency designed to protect government propaganda, censorship, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation and lies.
Dr Naomi Wolf at the Royal Courts of Justice in âMark Steyn v Ofcomâ presented scientific reports compiled by 3,250 highly credentialled doctors and scientists for the WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis research team, that convened from 2021 to the present, to read through and issue reports based upon the 450,000 internal documents released under court order due to a successful lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration by US attorney Aaron Siri. These are internal Pfizer documents submitted to the FDA for the purpose of securing the Emergency Use Authorisation that allowed for the rollout in the US of an experimental injection that bypassed normal trials. They are primary internal documents produced by Pfizer-BioNTech, that date from November 2020 to February 2021 and that record the 43,000 plus adverse events and more than 1,220 deaths recorded by Pfizer in those three months. 80 per cent of the pregnant women lost their babies. They have received no lawyerâs letter from Pfizer of any kind, let alone stating that anything in them is incorrect. They have been published on hundreds of news outlets globally for nearly three years, but censored in Britain by OFCOM: https://expose-news.com/2024/06/12/wolfs-statement-to-the-court-in-steyn-v-ofcom/ and https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/dr-naomi-wolf-responds-to-uk-media
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Corruption runs deep, nice that is getting visible these days.
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Whatever Happened to Common Sense in the Age of COVID?
“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.” âThomas Paine, “Common Sense”
“Common sense is the power of forming a good judgment and distinguishing the true from the false.” âRenĂŠ Descartes, “Discourse on Method”
Rarely has the capacity to think independently been in such desperate scarcity as at the present time.
The infamy involving the pandemic policies that national leaders and international authorities put in place and especially the medical denial of vaccine harms together provides convincing evidence of â among other things like widespread venality â a contagion of mental vacancy and traumatic ineptitude. To take the most recent example.
President-elect of the Canadian Medical Association Joss Reimer, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, has claimed that people who suffer from vaccine-related injuries do not exist? Notwithstanding, the Western Standard reports that âOttawa as of January 2024 paid more than $11 million to families who suffered adverse reactions, including death, after taking a COVID-19 jabâŚand has budgeted $75 million more over the next five years.â
No matter. Reimer believes that people have been seduced by media pictures and stories. She claims that the vaccine-injured âwerenât real peopleâ but only âlook like real people,â and that we have been the victims of âMisinformation or disinformation.â One can only assume that she is either brain-dead or a paid prevaricator, gladly peddling fugazi.
An equally absurd canard was the pervasive meme known as the âpandemic of the unvaccinated.â
The idea was nothing less than a propagandistic strategy devised by vested interests â coercive government, a regime media, a subsidized Academy, the WHO, Big Pharma â to enforce compliance among a fearful and easily stupefied population.
After all, if people were vaccinated, they should have been safe from infection presumably owing to the unvaccinated; if they were not safe, then the vaccines were dubious at best and useless at worst.
The proliferation of boosters was clearly an admission of failure.
All one had to do was think.
As Thomas Paine reflected in Common Sense, âA long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.â But that is really a form of not thinking, period.
As the Roman poet Juvenal wrote in Satires, Book I, Rarus enim ferme sensus communis (Common sense is generally rare among those of higher rank).
This is palpably true. The political elite may be justly described as a confederacy of dunces. The problem is that common sense is generally absent on almost every rung of the social ladder and that it is in short supply practically wherever we may look. The obvious dilemma is that common sense may be a native endowment and cannot be taught, though some may hope it can be stirred by continuous insistence on fact and evidence and on undeniable events as they occur. As Paine reflected in Common Sense, âTime makes more converts than reason.â
But the real issue is broached in his Rights of Man: âIndependence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person.â
This is what is meant by common sense â to see clearly, to think for oneself, to know what is required.
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I remain Unjabbed and UnBoosted. BTW if a Vaccine is so good it doesn’t need a Booster. That is Vaccine 101.
And, am I a danger to the World? I hardly think so. 71 years of age and still going strong. And I am a minimal drain on the Health System so where is my bonus for being a healthy person and a good driver?
Please send the bonus payment to my Cayman Islands bank account which is …………………
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I lived through the polio era and gladly took the vaccine provided.
Decades later, stories around the flu vax caught my attention and caused some serious doubts..
After Kovid there’s a completely new perspective on trusting governments with my health.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/faucis-agency-approved-monkeypox-experiments-that-could-create-a-virus-with-a-15-fatality-rate-then-hid-that-from-congress/#comment-2773879
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Agreed.
And it reinforced my mistrust of government in general.
It also revealed to me that Australia was not the free and open society it imagines itself to be. Also, seeing the willingness of Australian police to brutally treat citizens during the covid lockups and their willingness to enthusiastically “just follow orders” was alarming.
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Which Vaccine?
Two different kinds of vaccine are available:
An inactivated (killed) polio vaccine (IPV) developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and first used in 1955, and.
A live attenuated (weakened) oral polio vaccine (OPV) developed by Dr. Albert Sabin and first used in 1961.
OPV was recommended for use in the United States for almost 40 years, from 1963 until 2000. Since 2000, only IPV is recommended to prevent polio in the United States
The weakened OPV viruses can regain their ability to paralyze and start to circulate among susceptible children, sparking new polio outbreaks in areas where vaccination rates are low!
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I was done about 1957 – 58, and I remember needles.
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I remember seeing quite a few adverse reactions from the young school kids. In those days, the kids were just sent out into the school grounds after the needle and not monitored.
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Same Salk Vaccine – 1956
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I’m not seeing that they’re interested in your health.
Your fear maybe.
Trust, forget it.
I have not heard a single medical professional (save for those not already ejected for Pandemic heresy) express the least bit of concern for the loss of the public’s trust.
The whole thing seems to have been about creating an environment of coercive compliance.
Audio of Fauci declaring, once vaccination is required for participating in life, they’ll be forced to drop “their ideological B__s____”.
At time stamp 3:01
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zljp4
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My mother was a nurse. We lived in fear of polio.
Before that diphtheria carved its path. One local family lost four kids in a week.
IN 1954? a girl in my sister’s class died of tetanus.
I did not know until her recent funeral that a cousin had been badly, near fatally affected by the polio vaccine.
WE no longer live in fear of those diseases. But the COVIDVAX does not even offer anywhere near that protection.
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Previous discussion on vaccination
https://joannenova.com.au/2020/11/weekend-unthreaded-335/#comment-2381191
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Lived through the polio era too, and may have had a lite dose, with a hip twisting one leg inwards. 18 months in hospital, in traction, from 4 1/2. Ended up very slightly pigeon toed. Good runner, sporty, no problem. Salk shots a couple of years later.
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Fascinating disease, came out of nowhere, only hit the white middle-class really, and was dying back before the vaccines were started.
Maybe there is something to Arthur Firstenberg’s idea that diseases are caused by new EMF wavelengths, polio was over the time of spreading TV
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Here in suburban Brisbane the police helicopter seems to have finally flown off to bed and the police car sirens have gone quiet. Gotta love the ongoing youth crime epidemic.
But wait here come the calvary our Kiwi bros, bro.
$20,000 relocation incentive and up to $130k annually as a first year constable. Chilly bin and jandal shoplifting figures are about to drop dramatically.
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$130,000 annually as a First Year Constable?
Unbelievable!
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What does the Andrew’s Gestapo pay a First Year Constable in the Peoples Republic of Victoriastan?
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Vic police raw recruit entering academy $55,995
Sworn in as probationary constable (after 12 week course) $76,927
Get Dip of Policing $82,728
There are penalty rates applicable as work can be outside the 9a-5p range and these are apparently called
– Intrusive hours (0100-0700hours)
– Unsociable hours (1800-0100)
If Trump misses out on his second presidency Qld govt should get him over here as our police pay rates will attract a lot of âMexicansâ (NSW VIC south of our border) and we need a wall lol.
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$130,000. That’s the market at work.
A friend of the family is an officer in the Army Reserve. A big bloke, he joined the Queensland police force.
He didn’t stay many years. He said: “It’s too dangerous when they are on ice”.
Our shearer’s sporting interests were Rugby League and boxing. In the pub he chipped a bloke who said something rude to a lady. The bloke glassed him. Cutting his face.
(Locally this has special significance. A few years back a bloke died after being glassed. All the witnesses said he might have tripped. Dead men don’t have many mates who would stand up to a killer.)
Our shearer/boxer proceeded to give the glasser a thorough hiding. But he said: “You can’t knock them out when they are on ice”.
BTW. The “glasser” was a former copper.
The solution to this $130,000 problem is to properly ban illicit drugs.
Which might raise that call.
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Certainly do not begrudge them a high wage for being strong enough to do the thankless job that it is. The added benefit of a generous wage is that those on the fringe may think twice before accepting any sort of back hander which keeps the community honesty levels up – win/win. Thank him for his (two fold) service for me next time you see him please. Cheers.
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“The solution to this $130,000 problem is to properly ban illicit drugs.”
We’ve tried that since 1930, and it has never worked at all. Even countries with the death penalty (just NW of us) still execute drug-runners, so it doesn’t stop them.
I’d rather make drugs freely available to anyone and clean the gene pool of the addiction-prone. Stepping over people dying in the gutter is better than having them breaking into people’s homes and beating up grandmothers.
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Had a neighbour a while ago, nice enough lad but twitchy as hell on weekends.
Had a night job on the line painting truck on the roadworks.
I asked him why he uses cocaine – he said he would prefer to smoke a joint to relax, but this would show up in drug tests whereas the cocaine was out of his system for Monday.
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FWIW
In the last maybe 10 years two of our local policemen have been from NZ. Both did their job well.
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Great news.
Restore fairness to sports.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Due to widespread violations of anti-doping regulations, including an attempt to sabotage ongoing investigations by the manipulation of computer data, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2019 banned the Russian Federation from all major sporting events, including the Olympic Games, for four years.
But doesn’t doping with testoterone give a male competing in women’s sports a competitive advantage?
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I think that should be “dopes with testosterone” like Lia Thomas, now the swimming outcast.đ
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Maybe trans athletes clothing should bear the tag “Warning: may contain nuts” đđđ
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Poor Simon this is his go to source for misinformation – will we hear from him again?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/13/skeptical-science-gets-comeuppance-on-social-media/
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Robert Bradley Jr. at the “a new âmajorityâ has been identified” hotlink:
Tipping point?
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Luv it.
‘ … many folks not on the list are upset and want their non-alarmist views recognized.’
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FWIW
I notice that Simon is gracing his knowledge on WUWT readers these days
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Wind power in the Australian Energy Market almost hit ZERO at 1 pm yesterday!
Around 100 dispatchable MW
https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy
Chaos Rules: Massive Wind Power Output Collapses Threaten Total Grid Failure
A revist here
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/06/13/chaos-rules-massive-wind-power-output-collapses-threaten-total-grid-failure/
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Top takeaways from G7.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/06/13/12/86068901-13525713-image-a-11_1718276686768.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/06/13/12/86069551-13525713-image-a-32_1718277431298.jpg
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The first one: how old are you?
The second one: will you marry me?
And: the answer, in both cases, is that the world would be better off without both of them.
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Stop Climate Change now. It is a political fantasy proven wrong over 36 years.
In 1988 the IPCC was formed and Al Gore and James Hansen told us about rapid man made CO2 driven Global Warming.
There was no problem in 1988. It was a problem for the future.
Now after 36 years of runaway tipping point global warming rapid sea level rise, the future in 1988 is now the past.
So where was the problem? Bowen is now 51 and he was 15 years old at the time, a schoolboy. What was the problem?
We have suffered expensive even ruinous decisions for decades with this prediction and we are told disaster is imminent. A climate emergency! A Highway to climate hell! Boiling oceans! Stop oil now! Really?
In Europe the implicit voter revolt is against the serious costs and deprivations from what are clearly wrong predictions.
In 1988 the children and grandchildren who were going to suffer so terribly from rapid Climate Change have been born and the children are grandparents themselves. So where was the actual problem manifest? Where in Europe, in Australia or the US and Canada. Not in China or India or Zimbabwe or a fire in Maui or a Tsunmai or land slide in PNG?
The imminent crisis didnât happen. Past tense. Why should we believe there is a problem? Why is no one discussing the problem, only the alleged solution.
Then the incredible cost of preventing something that didn’t happen, the 500,000 giant windmills and billions of solar panels and batteries have been a complete waste of money. Past tense. How much have humans reduced CO2 growth, not ’emissions’? Not at all is the answer.
Politicians like Bowen are still 90% from achieving their goals, their ‘transition’, their dreams of fantasy Nett zero. Not ours. At election after election we said no carbon taxes. Now we have had 24 years of Green certificates, blown up working power stations, massive punitive taxes on all major Australian companies and the total destruction of cheap reliable power. And we are not allowed use our own coal, gas, oil, trees, factories. We would ask politicians to stop pretending there is an actual problem. Obviously Gore was wrong in 1988. 36 years later no cities are underwater. Not one. It was all wrong.
Like France and Holland we should be talking about stopping. Stopping 10,000km of new transmission lines. Stopping Snowy II. Stopping the vast carbon penalities on all companies, even on sewage and transport and all manufacturing. We will soon stop making steel from iron ore, like Britain. It is not permitted by our government. We are not even discussing science. We are told what we have to do to stop something which is not happening. We should be talking about what happened when politicians took over all science, including the Wuhan Flu.
There is now a real social problem. How are we going to reeducate the thousands, millions of Climate Scientists and find them real jobs? There are not enough jobs for meteorologists! So windmill service people?
And Climate Change ministers, Clean energy and Clean energy finance departments, Green certificate management and transmission line building employees. The apparatus of punishing every Australian with punitive hidden taxes. Snowy II, the single most unnecessary and expensive and useless major project in the history of Australia, a politicians dream, not ours. In 1988 they were wrong.
It’s over. Go to an election with the truth. It was wrong. “The Science” was wrong. Just stop lying.
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Even now Alabanese and Dutton have decided to wedge rabid communist Dr Bandt on his anti Semitism.
Why not get promise to get rid of all of the apparatus of ‘Nett zero’. The billions in hidden taxes and endless restrictions.
No one even discusses science. Australia has become a carbon police state.
There has been no problem in Australia which has not been created by bad government.
Why are we being punished,taxed, robbed?
Why not take on the obvious failed science which has crippled Australia?
The Coalition would win in a land slide by stating the truth. By all means save energy by using new high efficiency ultra clean power stations for a fraction of the cost of nuclear. Saudis can use their own oil without any international criticism, but we Australians are not allowed use our own coal, gas or oil? Why are we villains? Why should we use windmills. Windmills are a stupid medieval idea abandoned two centuries ago as impractical, unreliable, expensive.
In 36 years there has not been a warming or drowning problem anywhere! Stop talking about the grandkids. They are voters now. The future is now.
Stop punishing Australians in every conceivable way with vast hidden taxes. And stopping us from enjoying the plentiful, free fossil fuels we are exporting. No one voted for this!
If Dutton wants to win big, just take the problem head on and make the Teals justify their position. Wedge them with facts. No one voted for crippling Australia and Australians. We are pawns in a global game. Queers for Palestine says it all. We need to concentrate on our own welfare, not saving China from CO2 or Palestinians from the consequences of their own behaviour. Australian governments should be Australia first. The Middle East is a two thousand year old war they can sort out themselves. And Global Warming is last century’s nothing burger. Stop it now.
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” Australia has become a carbon police state. ”
Dead right there! No main-line politician has the balls to stand against the tide and step away from the WEF, it will always be a fringe idea bubbling along in the background. It will get quietly ignored when it doesn’t work and a new fear is pushed. Buying shares in nuclear power might be a good idea now.
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Love that last line:
“Itâs over. Go to an election with the truth. It was wrong. âThe Scienceâ was wrong. Just stop lying.”
All the unemployed Climate Scientists could be given sledge hammers and put to work removing the concrete bases of those dysfunctional, engineeringly idiotic, wind turbines.
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And what self respecting, disadvantaged group would call itself “queer” let alone “Queers for Palestine”.
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Time to put on the running shoes!!!
As yet I have only glanced at the headlines in today’s Oz (The Australian), but what I see there tells me that the world is changing today. We have reached the “Tipping Point!”
BIG NAMES IN NUMBERS ARE DUMPING THE STATUS QUO!
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It is highly unliklely that what they try to replace it with will be stable.
Indeed, I doubt they would have a clue!
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China Seizes 30,000 E-bikes Overnight, 250K Police Chase in the Streets,Citizens Flee Like in a Race (video)
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One of those headlines I never thought I would read:
Wells Fargo Fires Employees Over “Mouse Jigglers”
“On Amazon, some of the top-ranking mouse jigglers sold have thousands of reviews and range in price between $6 and $25.”
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‘Green’ fuel refinery toxic emissions, almost as much as petro-refineries, for significantly less fuel I’d imagine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13526811/Green-renewable-fuel-toxic-pollutants-air.html
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Like Homer Simpson working from home using the dunking bird toy to press the Enter key.
Vent radioactive waste?
Enter.đ
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An example of “anything that does the job” –
“Israeli Soldiers, Facing Hezbollah, Use Medieval Trebuchet to Fling Balls of Fire”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/06/13/israeli-soldiers-facing-hezbollah-use-medieval-trebuchet-to-fling-balls-of-fire/
Looks like they have room for improving the payload though.  In years past “Science” published some articles on recreating medieval weapons. It included a trebuchet that they tested with a Mini car and a grand piano.
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If you believe that, you will believe anything.
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I’ve got a photocopy of that Science item
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FWIW – a different one but gives the idea
“Centuries before the development of eâşective cannons, huge artillery
pieces were demolishing castle walls with projectiles the weight of an
upright piano.”
In the text
“powerful trebuchets, in contrast, could
launch missiles weighing a ton or more.
Furthermore, their maximum range
could exceed that of ancient artillery.”
More at
https://modphys.hosted.uark.edu/pdfs/Journal_Pdfs/Trebuchet-SciAm_273_66_July_1995_chevedden1.pdf
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Dense brush and impenetrable thorn bushes, looks like barren waste land to me.
Fire a tracer into that grass and get a better result.
More deception from the great decivers.
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2024/06/Israel-Palestinians-Lebanon-640×480.jpeg
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“Fire a tracer into that grass and get a better result.”
Not as much fun though.
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True!
And I’d suspect that, in that area, the experiment with tracers might be under regular observation
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MP
Where you have dense brush and impenetrable thorn bushes it is a wasteland and there isn’t likely to be enough grass to start a fire
That is the problem of getting a fire phase back into the management of Australian rangelands where the woody vegetation has won
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Thanks downloaded PDF
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Another coverage, with a video of the mighty weapon in action
“Watch: IDF Uses Medieval Catapult Weapon To Ignite Concealed Hezbollah Positions”
It looks like there is a lot of green in the vegetation there and the text mentions the use of some other pretty heavy duty fire starters
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-idf-uses-medieval-catapult-weapon-ignite-concealed-hezbollah-positions
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An episode from ‘Northern Exposures’ involved hurling a piano with a trebuchet. It was recreated a Burning Man.
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“Safe and EffectiveÂŽ”
“Daily Sceptic- If Covid Vaccines Saved 20 Million Lives, Why Did so Few Unvaccinated Die in Winter 2021?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/06/13/safe-and-effective-167/
Daily Sceptic link
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/12/if-covid-vaccines-saved-20-million-lives-why-did-so-few-unvaccinated-die-in-winter-2021/
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CDN: Climate Gridlock (video)
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Actions and consequences –
“Russia To Export Coal To India Via Iran. It’s A 4-Alarm-Bells Fire…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-export-coal-india-iran-its-4-alarm-bells-fire
Might put a shiver in the latest Qld debt explosion?
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What do you do with such kids? Free them, both of them.
To continue as before.
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Where it ends up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz99py9rgz5o.amp
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Is Wellness a Gateway to Right-Wing âFascism?â
By Robert Malone
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-wellness-a-gateway-to-right-wing-fascism/
A bit confusing for me – being fit, well, and anti-fascist/anti-Marxist.
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It is the basic question, do you take responsibility for yourself, or demand that other people put in the effort? It is a spectrum – self responsibility ——– victim. That is what is being battled over – who can entice middle people to their side.
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Article of the day even though it’s nothing you don’t already know
You can read here how good Juliar was
The money comes from the usual suspects
And seems to go to dodgy researchers to come up with “the science”
Vaccines – tick.
Climate change – tick.
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FWIW
“The National Rational Energy Network”
https://www.nren.com.au/
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A turnup for the books –
“First Time Ever? 90 Actresses Turn Down Roles in Play Attacking J.K. Rowling”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/06/13/first-time-ever-90-actresses-turn-down-roles-in-play-attacking-jk-rowling-n3790216
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You thought you voted “no” to The Voice, didn’t you?
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Wasn’t there a very low voter turn out for this? Like, very low?
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Turnout was 90% which is ballpark what every election has.
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Ah. As pointed out by MP, this is the SA voice not the national voice which makes YYY’s comment rather strange.
The SA voice representatives are voted for by those being represented: indigenous South Australians.
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That was the Commonwealth “Voice” referendum, not the SA State variant.
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Was there? Tell me the story.
Easy: Registered voters/turnout: 17,671,784 89.95%
More than US and UK general elections.
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You do need to look at his link, it’s about the South Australian voice and the candidates.
I remember there being only one candidate for each of the seats, no choice. They had a very poor turn out as the Aboriginals knew it did not matter. A selection, not election.
“The SA Voice is made up of 12 First Nations people representing six regions across the state â those 12 members have recently been put forward by their respective regions.”
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Meanwhile in Trudeauceania …
‘Canada’s Parliament rocked by allegations of treason’
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/canada-parliament-treason-allegations-00162163
Seems some members might be working for foreign adversaries.
Shocking.
Who knew?
Everything seemed fine.
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Upsetting!
“Challenging Modern Climate Narratives: Forgotten 1937 Aerial Photos Expose Antarctic Anomaly”
https://scitechdaily.com/challenging-modern-climate-narratives-forgotten-1937-aerial-photos-expose-antarctic-anomaly/
Via https://instapundit.com/653061/#disqus_thread
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Maybe you missed this?
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/2000-kilometers-of-east-antarctic-glaciers-dont-look-much-different-after-85-years-and-1-6-trillion-tons-of-carbon-dioxide/
Fact is an incredibly thick glacier sheet that runs into the sea is expected to look much the same after the conditions of the last 100 years.
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Yuan to replace dollar as Russiaâs main foreign currency â Central Bank
The yuan/ruble exchange rate will now set the trajectory for other currency pairs on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), including for the euro and dollar, the Bank of Russia (CBR) announced on Thursday.
The statement comes as the latest round of US sanctions prompted the MOEX on Wednesday to suspend trading in dollars and euros. The UK followed Washingtonâs lead on Thursday, introducing restrictions against the Russian financial system. Transactions in US dollars and euro will continue on the over-the-counter (OTC) market.
âThe yuan/ruble exchange rate ⌠will become a reference point for market participants. The share of the yuan in Moscow Exchange trading in May was 54%,â the Bank of Russia said. âThus, the yuan has already become the main currency in exchange trading,â it added.
According to the regulator, the share of the dollar and euro in the Russian market has consistently declined over the past two years as a result of the redirection of trade flows to the East and a change in the currency of settlements to rubles, yuan and other currencies of friendly countries.
https://www.rt.com/business/599225-yuan-moscow-exchange-trading/
Ducks are all lining up nicely! đ
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This can be confusing
The currency of China is referred to as either the Chinese yuan (CNY) or renminbi (RMB). The two terms are similar and often used interchangeably. The key difference between them is that the RMB is the official currency, while the yuan is its principal unit of measurement.
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There’s also the Kuai, used as more of a local slang for RNY. đ
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Russia overtakes Japan as worldâs fourth largest economy
Top-ranking Russian officials, including the current Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, expected the economic growth to be stable enough for the Eurasian giant to overtake Japan by 2030. However, what was supposed to happen in no less than six years, actually happened in less than six months. According to the latest data, President Putinâs forecast of increased economic growth (over 3.5-4%) not only turned out to be true, but even conservative, although the mainstream propaganda machine attempted to portray it as âtoo overoptimisticâ. However, the only thing that was actually too overoptimistic was the political Westâs expectation that the sanctions would work. Namely, according to new updates of the World Bank, Russia has overtaken Japan as the worldâs fourth largest economy in terms of GDP PPP (purchasing power parity).
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/russia-overtakes-japan-as-worlds-fourth-largest-economy/
So much for western sanctions! đ
Of course the “sanctions” are publicly palatable ones, with shady deals directly and with 3rd parties, and non-sanctioned energy deals untouched (or the EU would be worse than S. Africa).
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The book ‘Dissolving Illusions’, has an interesting take on polio. It seems every human being on the planet has carried at least 1 of the 3 wild polio virus’, in their bowel, with no consequences, for ever. In the 20th century a wide range of paralysing symptoms, in the USA, began to be lumped together as polio, from lead poisoning, to hand foot and mouth disease, and undiagnosed syphilis. After the first vaccine, criteria were tightened, leading to a drop in polio cases (helping to show vac success!) Fecal testing of a Michigan epidemic in 1958, showed 2/3 weren’t polio. The worst outbreak in the USA was around NY in 1916 – 23 000 infected, 5 000 died, very possibly from a lab leak from a research lab in downtown NY, where they were working on combining polio strains coming through rhesus monkeys, and those taken from human patients.
Any way going to the crux of the book’s investigation, there is a very strong correlation between the 1940-50 US polio pandemic, and DDT production. Correlation is not causation, but the combined graphs are exceedingly similar, and they both petered out in the early 60s. The places where there are still outbreaks are the places who still produce, and use DDT. i.e India, Pakistan and China.
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Interesting.
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Mostly eliminated in the world but Pakistan has historically been, and still is, a hotspot for Polio (type 1).
Just as Smallpox was supposedly eradicated 40 years ago, it’s back, and Polio isn’t going away either.
A dysfunctional immune system is ground zero for what’s in the future.
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Searching for the Truth About the Raid at Mar-a-Lago
By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigations – June 13, 2024
Top officials at the Department of Justice are downplaying recently disclosed documents showing FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force during their 2022 raid of Donald Trumpâs Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
Responding to Trumpâs claim that âJoe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger,â FBI Director Christopher Wray said the bureau was following âstandard operating procedureâ as it executed a search warrant on Aug. 8, 2022, regarding classified material that the former president was holding at Mar-a-Lago.
âThere was zero reason to create an unnecessary, even one in a thousand chance, of a blue-on-blue situation with firearms,â former Secret Service agent and political commentator Dan Bongino said on his podcast. âThe FBI, DOJ, and management of the Secret Service effed this up royally.â
Even as the DOJ presents its actions as business as usual, the newly released documents and other public records suggest the departmentâs actions entered uncharted territory.
While the department claims that all citizens must be treated equally, critics note that no former president was ever the subject of an FBI search warrant before Trump.
A recently discovered Department of Defense memo suggests that the federal government may well have had copies of the documents in Trumpâs possession, also raising questions about the need for the raid. The content of those documents has not been disclosed but, critics ask, if Trump was not retaining copies of information that threatened national security, what was the need for an armed raid?
Many on the right see the Mar-a-Lago raid as part of a broader effort by the Department of Justice to intimidate its political enemies. They say it is part of a larger pattern that includes the armed morning raid on the home of Trump associate Roger Stone in 2019, the arrest of anti-abortion activist Mark Houck by dozens of armed agents in 2022 a year after he was accused of pushing someone outside a Philadelphia clinic, and the DOJâs aggressive efforts to find and charge to date more than 1,400 people connected to the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol.
The recent court disclosures also underscore the very different treatments the department has accorded to Trump and the Biden family.
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China Blasts US For Using Ukraine Crisis As Pretext For Sanctions
BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, JUN 14, 2024
Just ahead of the upcoming Ukraine peace summit set to be held in Switzerland on June 15â16, China’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s “extremely hypocritical” stance on the war.
Spokesman Lin Jian said in a daily briefing that the West is feigning that it’s “striving for peace” but all the while fueling and exacerbating the very same conflict.
His comments singled out Washington policy in particular. “The US on the one hand continues to pour weapons and munition into Ukraine, yet on the other shifts the blame of undermining peace and protracting the crisis to other countries. It even sees the crisis as an opportunity to slap sanctions and suppress others,” the spokesman said. “All of it reveals the USâs calculations, hypocrisy and what a bully it is.”
The foreign ministry then emphasized that China did not create the Ukraine crisis, nor is it a party to it. Though it was invited, China has refused to send any representatives to the Swiss peace conference, which has been an initiative of the Zelensky government.
China cited that the conference is essentially pointless without Russia’s participation, given that Moscow has not been invited.
“We will not accept smears, pressuring or blame-shifting,” Lin Jian continued. “We urge the US to immediately stop slapping illegal unilateral sanctions and play a constructive role in ending the conflict and restoring peace.”
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Itâs All Fixable
June 13, 2024 – Sundance
When President Obama famously told incoming President Trump the largest foreign policy concern was the potential for near-term military conflict with North Korea, Trump curiously asked Obama, âWell, have you talked to Kim Jong-un?â
President Trump has never revealed how Obama responded to that question; however, given the nature of the circumstances, what we know about DC and the background involved, we can assume the Obama reply was akin to the lightbringer telling Trump, âThings just are not done that way.â
We know what happened next; President Trump engaged directly with Chairman Kim, met with him several times and even crossed into the demilitarized zone as a physical expression of a new approach.
This was only one example of President Trumpâs policy doctrine, which ran completely counter to the traditions of the professional administrative state. This was/is part of the reason why DC hated Trump.
The bureaucracy of DC exists to sustain the career influence and affluence of a group of people who would never survive in the private sector. Their weak work ethic, selfish worldview, insufferably annoying character traits, flawed logic, silly outlooks and disconnected opinions, created in a bubble that has no relationship to reality, are only useful within their echo-chambered system.
President Trump has a skillset of commonsense accomplishment that runs completely counter to the mindset of the administrative state.
[Via Unseen] â âIf Trump wins, he will be handed a country in basically a depression for a majority of its people, on the brink or actually in ww3, a wide open border and a 5th column of millions of anti-American military aged men within that border, a deteriorating military, a nation so in debt it will struggle to raise capital, a country with fragile supply lines for most of the goods it needs, a divided population with half brainwashed by the media to hate the concepts the country was founded on, and a government staffed with people who will be actively fighting everything he does. Pray for our country because regardless of who wins, itâs going to be a long, hard fight to keep this country together, let alone make it great again.â (link)
My quick âelevatorâ reply â âWhich is exactly why Donald J Trump is the best man for the hardest job of this era. Trump will end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza within a week. Restart U.S. energy independence. Tariff China and EU, pull out of NATO, eliminate Green New Deal and thenâŚ. (2+2) along with the immediate closure of the southern border, Trump will collapse the infrastructure of Chinese EVâs in MexicoâŚ. Then heâll call MbS, have a Big Mac and Diet Coke and plan for day two.â (link)
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PS Perfect Description of ACT/Canberra Bureaucrats & Australian Fedreral Politicians
The Bureaucracy of Canberra exists to sustain the career influence and affluence of a group of people who would never survive in the private sector.
Their weak work ethic, selfish worldview, insufferably annoying character traits, flawed logic, silly outlooks and disconnected opinions, created in a bubble that has no relationship to reality, are only useful within their echo-chambered system.
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You did not mention the “C-word”
Corruption – where money buys you political influence with politicians and curruption in the “Public Service”.
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I think you mean the Australian/federal bureaucrats? Canberra hosts some of the federal ones but there are many outside of Canberra. Also “Canberra/ACT” refers solely to the local government. A Victorian bureaucrat serves Victoria etc.
In 2022 96000 federal public servants were in the ACT and 245000 in other states.
have you been to Canberra?
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The Canberra region used to be a Sheep Paddock. It still is now with even more sheep than before. Bahhhhhhhhhhh Baaaaaaaaaah.
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It’s funny because you wrote out noises
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Gold! Like any Govt bureaucracy… Exists to feed those who make it exist!
America needs Musk in charge, the only guy who can save it. Practical, radical, sharp and accomplished, his solutions would be most interesting.
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But they cannot afford him !âŚ.he is on a $56 BILLION dollar package with Tesla !
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Trump only took $1 a year and the rest went to Charity.
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“But they cannot afford him !”
Politicians should never be paid, it encourages career politicians who have no idea of how the real world works! NZ never paid its MPs until the 20th century, if you weren’t popular enough you couldn’t afford to be there.
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Friday Chinese craziness: Asia’s highest (fake) waterfall
https://youtu.be/M1Ee8QYA1KU?si=wcchCXzY4Xjeta0k
I suspect CCP stands for Clowns Competent with Photoshop. đ
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Do your bit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13528803/card-fees-Australia-cash.html
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Duh, really?
The climate cycles? noooo, say it isn’t true.
Buried in Antarctic ice is a warning that Australia could again face bushfires akin to Black Summer
Black Summer bushfires not a ‘record first’, analysis of 2,000-year Antarctic ice core history finds.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-14/antarctic-ice-core-studies-maps-2000-year-weather-history/103976108
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Toyota adding GPS trackers to cars without customer knowledge!?
Saw this on youtube, and it’s USA reporting, but may be an issue elsewhere as below.
https://youtu.be/7UkBD_BrpRk?si=RkTJoVsHsgMGtNmx
Anything installed on a car without owner’s knowledge or permission AND that causes excess parasitic draw or other issues is a big no-no, regardless of finance status!
Not available outside Australia, if service disabled or terminated, or after 2033/Telstra 4G sunset (whichever comes first). Dependent on sufficient battery power, 3G/4G enabled DCM, GPS signal strength, mobile network coverage, operational related components & other factors outside Toyotaâs control which can limit the ability or functionality of system. Owner/driver required to obtain Police report. Vehicle location information, if available, only provided to Police. Vehicle recovery not guaranteed.
https://www.toyota.com.au/connected/safety-security/stolen-vehicle-tracking
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China-Linked Cyber Campaign Infiltrated Dozens Of Western Governments
A China-linked cyber campaign that infiltrated a Dutch defense network last year is much larger than previously thought and has infiltrated tens of thousands of government and defense systems in Western nations, according to the Dutch government.
The campaign, dubbed COATHANGER, has been linked to communist China and it exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the FortiGate firewall system used by the Netherlands and other nations on many government networks. Zero-day vulnerabilities exist when a software update is first deployed.
Dutch intelligenceâs original report, released in February, said that damage from the breach was limited because of ânetwork segmentation,â which separates an affected system from the nationâs wider defense network.
The Netherlandsâ National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) announced on June 10, however, that the Chinese cyber campaign is far larger than previously thought.
NCSC said that COATHANGER compromised 20,000 systems across dozens of Western governments, international organizations, and a large number of companies within the defense industry.
Moreover, the statement said, the attackers used the intrusion to install malware on some of those compromised targets to guarantee continued access to those systems. The malware still has not been cut off.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-linked-cyber-campaign-infiltrated-dozens-western-governments-dutch-intelligence
Yawn…as I’ve said, infiltrations may not be discovered for months or years after the event.
Fortigate’s woes are a year old now.
The use of pseudo-AI is going massively increase cyberattacks going forward.
The more digital your life is, the less secure you will be.
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Friday picture of the day
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_seq2p4uVId1tw1yvr.mp4
Boiling oceans maybe.
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Well, what is it?
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New Zealand
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One way of looking at it –
https://redpowerphotos.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/monthly_2024_06/9348A6B7-CD17-4198-832A-4FBBFB1457ED.thumb.jpeg.ef3b373bfd58a41a57909f0d7bb43044.jpeg
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The Netherlands is building a neighbourhood where every car must be shared
Merwedekanaalzone is a new, sustainable neighbourhood for 12.000 people in Gemeente Utrecht. No private car ownership, 1 shared car per 3 households. Amenities close by. Walking/cycling as central mobility means.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1801240979862667359
One step forward, 1 step back Netherlands.
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