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In the WSJ:
Cory Jarrell left his teaching job because of frustrations with school policies. Kansas City Public Schools, rolled out a new policy last year. Teachers couldn’t give students a zero for an assignment, even if they didn’t turn it in.
Shain Bergan, a spokesperson for the Kansas City school district, said the district’s no-zeroes policy—which had frustrated Jarrell—is designed to ensure that a single zero doesn’t have an undue effect on students’ grades. Instead, students receive a minimum of 40% for each assignment.
“We wish we had been able to address this teacher’s concerns before they chose to leave the profession,” he said.
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Note that 1:38 am is 8:38 am for me.
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Are you saying that if a pupil turned in an assignment and merely wrote their name on it, then they would get 40%?
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40% for not handing it in.
With an added name – 42%+, I imagine!
Does thus apply to State dentistry classes?
Auto
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No. But it applies to politicians particularly those who want to set energy policies.
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Forty percent will therefore become the new zero, at least as interpreted by the thinking community.
New scale / Old scale (adjust according to your liking).
40% / 0% FAIL
60% / 30% FAIL
80% / 70% PASS
100% / 100% PASS
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This is a version of DEI. I shudder to think airlines going DEI for pilots employment. I wouldn’t want to be a passenger on such a plane.
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Welcome to Southwest. Standards are slipping.
Diversity | Southwest Careers
The Southwest Airlines Diversity Council is an inclusive group of over 100 Employees from different backgrounds, roles, and locations. across the Company. Founded over 10 years ago, this council promotes a People-first work environment that celebrates differences, fosters inclusion, and leverages
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‘Idiocracy’… So prescient.
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DR John Constable is always worth reading on the subject of Renewables. This article features the enormous amounts of materials needed to get a not very good return for the energy expended
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-terrifying-scale-of-the-green-revolution/
[Apologies, a belated hat tip to you! – Jo]
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This topic has been touched on many times here
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/26/the-end-of-australias-renewables-romance/
I don’t think those promoting renewables realise the huge uptick in energy needed to power EV’s, Heat Pumps or AI.
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Not to mention Data Centres!
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Power will be made available for cloud and AI data centres as they are needed by governments to control, monitor and propagandise to us.
Data centres can’t be run on wind, solar or unicorn flatulence.
Advanced data centres are running on nuclear power, e.g. Amazon just purchased a 960MW nuclear powered data centre. Not a typo, 960 megawatts.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
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Oh, they do.
They don’t expect or want we non-Elites to drive.
They are expecting us to remain in the free-range prisons known as “15 Minute Cities”, rebranded in Australia as “20 Minute Neighbourhoods”.
Australia is at the forefront of longer term commitment to banning car ownership, being fanatically compliant with UN and WEF decrees.
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The Battle to destroy Free Speech-Part 2
https://reclaimthenet.org/telegram-founders-arrest-signals-dangerous-times-for-online-free-speech
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité
oui, oui
we have saved them from le boche but we cannot save them from themselves.
The problem with the French is that, at the end of the day, they are French
– attributed to Charles DeGaulle
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The united arab emirates has completely frozen the implementation of a contract to purchase 80 fighter jets from france following the arrest of pavel durov!
Contract Freeze: UAE Halts Purchase of 80 French Rafale Fighter Jets
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended the implementation of a contract to acquire 80 Rafale fighter jets from France, citing the arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, as the reason.
This decision is based on the UAE’s priority to care for its citizens and preserve their interests, as stated by the Emirati Foreign Ministry.
Although the UAE had previously signed a contract with France for the purchase of 80 Rafale F4s in December 2021, valued at 17 billion euros ($19.2 billion), the arrest of Durov, an Emirati citizen, has led to a freeze on the deal. Durov’s detention by French authorities on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking, and other offenses has sparked concerns among the UAE government.
This development may have implications for the future of military cooperation between France and the UAE, as well as the offset agreements surrounding the Rafale contract. The UAE had been expected to receive the fighter jets, which were intended to bolster its air force capabilities. However, the freeze on the contract suggests that the UAE is reassessing its priorities and may be reevaluating its military partnerships.
Key Points
. The UAE has frozen the implementation of a contract to purchase 80 Rafale fighter jets from France.
. The decision is linked to the arrest of Pavel Durov, an Emirati citizen and founder of Telegram, by French authorities.
. The UAE prioritizes caring for its citizens and preserving their interests, as stated by the Emirati Foreign Ministry.
. The contract, signed in December 2021, was valued at 17 billion euros ($19.2 billion).
. The freeze may impact future military cooperation between France and the UAE, as well as offset agreements surrounding the Rafale contract.
Follow up
. What specific allegations led to Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, and how are they connected to money laundering and drug trafficking?
. How has the UAE-Telegram relationship been affected by Durov’s arrest, and what implications might this have for encrypted communication in the region?
. Has the UAE explored alternative military aircraft options or partnerships in light of the contract freeze, and what might this mean for regional military dynamics?
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Due to Durov’s arrest, the UAE froze the contract for the purchase of fighter jets from France – mass media: EADaily
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UAE weighs in on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s detention by France | Technology News | Al Jazeera
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Cementing ties with France, UAE places $19 bln order for warplanes, helicopters | Reuters
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“Durov’s detention has been extended by 96 hours. ”
That’s while they ask for help from their Australian compatriots on how to organise a kangaroo court!
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IIRC we exported the best kangaroo court technology to the US democrats?
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Putin is terrified that this might compromise his war effort.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3276208/weapon-war-telegram-under-increased-scrutiny-after-ceo-pavel-durovs-arrest?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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According to António Guterres the surging seas are coming for us all! I think he’s having one of those nightmares where some incredibly slow terror is going to get you, but only because your feet are rooted to the spot. Fear those feeble millimetres of water!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ej0xx2jpxo.amp
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Does that mean that the 1981 prediction about Buckingham Castle getting flooded soon is happening?
So, with the King being a fervent believer in AGW, that explains why the Royals wave to the public from the balcony.
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Buckingham Palace.
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They’ll soon run out of descriptors.
It is a principle of marketing to keep changing the campaign to keep it “fresh” because otherwise people get bored.
“Surging” indeed.
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The planet is cooking? Wrong.
Oceans are becoming acidic? Wrong.
The seas are rising? Twice a day.
Yet no one calls out the hypocrisy of this NWO intellectual midget – especially after he flies halfway round the planet in his planet-cooking plane to tell the rest of us not to fly around in planes?
The Earth showed its disapproval by unleashing a mag. 6.9 shake deep underground Tonga as the Chief Conman spoke his forked-tongue diatribe.
Yesterday’s temperatures:
-1 Celsius North Pole
-17 Greenland Summit
-46 South Pole Antarctica.
Problem with the one world (dis)order is it only has one eye, located where the sun don’t shine.
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A relevant blog post from Jo Nova.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/1000-pacific-and-indian-islands-are-not-shrinking-due-to-climate-change/
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https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/aukus-submarine-deal-exposed-as-monumental-folly/
“It beggars belief that a country with unparalleled geographical advantages and no obvious enemies thinks it is a good idea to spend A$368 billion on offensive military capabilities, which may or may not work or be delivered.” some other spending follies spring to mind – COVID Response, Net Zero. As the title of the blog says, a perfectly good civilisation
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Australia certainty needs nuclear submarines but it is incomprehensible the ridiculous and obscene amounts of money for projects that politicians and public serpents sign up for. Not only defence projects but all Government projects appear to be an excuse in getting the poorest possible value for money.
Americans pay US$4.3 billion per unit for Virginia class nuclear subs with the Tomahawk payload module (VPM).
Australia is spending A$368 billion (US$249.4 billion) on eight subs or A$46 billion or US$31.1 billion each. Even if that includes lifetime costs and/or infrastructure it is still a ridiculous amount of money for what is bring delivered.
Even the previous canceled submarine deal was also a ridiculous and similarly obscene amount.
Where do they get these ridiculous cost figures from and more importantly, who gets the money?
No one is looking after the taxes of hard working Australians.
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Why? What use are manned submarines that are already obsolete like battleships?
Unmanned submsible drones are the future. The war in the Ukraine with Russia is a drone war. Generals (and admirals) are always preparing for the last war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86a7AJvFtdQ
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Totally agree. A submarine is primarily an attack craft – U2 wolf packs – it is not a defensive craft. Who is Australia going to attack? Conversely, we supposedly know who our biggest enemy is and we know where they are.
It is not just Ukraine but also Iran and Israel (recently received supplies of their Spark UAV a 5th generation drone) not to mention US that are heavily into drones.
Alternative – Australia is already a target, totally under manned (forces wise) under equipped and under funded not to mention too big (from a submarine defensive p-o-v) and with too many nutters running it.
We should be establishing widespread drone bases to our northwest border together with iron dome type capability for a couple of places to ensure a centralised “power base” to act as the political point to manage/co-ordinate the rebuild of the country if anything is left after the event let alone if “we” survive.
We should also have a few intercontinental missile bases dotted around with some aimed at a certain very long river as our best deterrent factor.
Confucius said “As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.” Break the container(s) and let us see what happens.
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You misuse the word “attack”. They are designed to “attack” shipping, for example a Chinese attack force rounding PNG as was the Japanese force in the Coral Sea, 1942.
If a few troop carriers or aircraft carriers were sunk any attack would be thwarted. Is this “defensive” enough for you?
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As the old saying goes best form of defence is attack and I would suggest as soon as you take the fight to the enemy (Coral Sea outside Australia’s EEZ in ‘42) you are prosecuting an attack.
That aside it’s a toss of a coin depending on your viewpoint, but I would argue ranked by the features/capability of the equipment. I don’t think the navy has the intention of parking one of the new submarines next to the Sydney Opera house to capitalize on its defensive design and features (the submarine not the Opera house lol).
In the same conundrical realm as the refugee question. If you have to leave your home (A) and travel through bordering country W (with same/similar weather conditions and regional lifestyle/values/religion/history connections) and continue to travel through countries X and Y to ultimately arrive at country Z (having paid a smuggler and shunned the system that is designed to help you AND your fellow displaced countrymen who are following it) are you really a refugee? Cheers.
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Whilst that may be true for conventional subs, a Nuclear ( armed as well as powered) submarine is primarrily a defence asset , simply by acting as a hidden deterent to any potential aggressor.
Nuke armed subs have been the primary factor in keeping the worlds “Superpowers” ina state of (relative) peace for the last 70+ years
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A hidden deterent is an interesting proposition. I guess a truly smart country could have progressively announced the secret launches of all their nuclear subs as and when they (didn’t) happen rather than announce how many and when their first would be built. Using that smart approach Australia could have also measured just how much it is the “lucky country” by how fast a potential adversary decided to call our bluff.
Is there a nuclear spotting sub culture in the same way as the train spotting culture?
Cheers.
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We (Oz) and most of the Western world are currently benifiting from the deterrent effect of the US and UK, Nuke sub fleets.
. A truely smat country would simply ensure that situation continues rather than attempting to add to it
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The Mantaray is a semi submersible.
I keep asking but you never answer: How do you command a fully submerged vessel in real time?
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A semi-submersible is no more invisible than a shark.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ypc3fifKD_4/maxresdefault.jpg
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And I don’t think unmanned submarines will replace manned ones.
For a decent range they need to be nuclear powered.
No one is going to let a nuclear powered submarine roam free. It would be too easy to capture, such as with nets, and then the reactor core could be deliberately breached by terrorists (usual suspects) to create an environmental disaster or as a source of weapons grade materials.
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Can these new nuclear powered subs be detected, David. My understanding is they can’t be.
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The early ones were quite noisy. Our O-boats were quieter. A lot of money has been spent since and they are now very quiet and cannot be tracked.
BTW I’m talking US Navy, the Chinese boats are noisy and accident prone.
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NEED submarines? Why?
This is the modern world not WW2.
A cyberattack, drone strike or bioweapon is the modern way.
The subs of old used to have steel cables on top running along the length. Sharp steel wires used to cut through nets.
They did tend to “twang” however, giving their position away, so they became radio wires instead.
As for being caught in nets, the Irish sea incident shows fishing trawlers are more at risk than subs, plus that old faithful but vastly superior now thing called sonar.
The latest sub tech is MHD aka Caterpillar drive with no moving parts.
“Subs in the ocean are large, metallic anomalies that move in the upper portion of the water column. They produce more than sound. As they pass through the water, they disturb it and change its physical, chemical and biological signatures. They even disturb Earth’s magnetic field – and nuclear subs unavoidably emit radiation.
Science is learning to detect all these changes, to the point where the oceans of tomorrow may become ‘transparent’. The submarine era could follow the battleship era and fade into history.”
https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/progress-in-detection-tech-could-render-submarines-useless-by-the-2050s-what-does-it-mean-for-the-aukus-pact
Who are we defending Oz against with subs?
What potential enemy could they eliminate?
Waste of money that could be far better spent on fixing the last 4 years, homeless, health systems etc rather than some war Oz could never win without US help anyway.
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We don’t need the subs, I agree.
They could be converted into luxury accommodation for the rich and fatuous, who like the idea of deep sea travel.
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Why ?… because..
Any enemy considering that sort of attack, will know that even with a 100% elimination of the target, there is a Nuclear response hiding in the oceans that will retaliate with unknown capability !
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While I agree with the sentiment comparing unit costs like is very realistic. You arent buying widgets off a shelf, you are buyimg a very complex capsbility that has the be backed with maintenance facilities, spares, training and on going support.
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An added insult is that they wont come.
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Not everyone agrees with you that we don’t have enemies. I certainly don’t and nor does Col. Grant Newsham, once a diplomat to Taiwan and author of When China Attacks: A warning to America.
This is an hour video but watch it before committing to bland opinions. I am not saying his is the only opinion anyone should heed, but it should not be ignored either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTye71FMYXE
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And the old saying about China fearing to invade the USA is still true for now – there’d be a rifle behind every blade of grass, unlike Oz, the UK and the rest of the west. Easy targets, disarmed and helpless…
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It is fanciful in the extreme to suggest that China would/could invade the USA, even Guam or Hawaii but just as fanciful to think of NATO putting boots on the ground of China.
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If you are unarmed and helpless that is a choice you have made, nothing to do with simply being in Australia.
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“The good news, perhaps, is that it is difficult to imagine the nuclear-powered submarines will ever arrive. The bad news is we will still have to pay the Americans and the British to prop up their overburdened and underperforming shipyards in the meantime. With friends like these, who needs to make new enemies?”
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Zuckerblob must be getting nervous:
He announced “an apology” for banning satire & humour on his ‘site’ during the Dark Age of 2020+.
Respect for Jo stops me from typing what I really want to say.
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I never accept apologies from Leftists. I even refuse to associate with them. They are disingenuous and compulsive liars and any association with one can only end badly. The Left knew EXACTLY what they were doing during the plandemic. It was the excuse they always wanted to strip away more individual rights, most never to be returned such as in the more extreme Nanny States like Australia. They should be shunned for the civilisation-destroying pariahs they are.
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Historically and currently true, but what about those that wake up and change sides like Dr J Campbell and many personally affected by Covid/vax?
No, go after the truly power-drunk crazed pollies and all of power who back them, despite all the now known facts, continue to push harm onto people.
No sympathy for them.
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Australia has the worst Govenments, state and federal, by far, EVER, and that’s a bold claim given the extremely bad governance by nearly all previous regimes.
Also, never have I felt so helpless and insecure with regards to Australia’s future, or lack thereof
And we have no Donald Trump style leaders who will fix up the mess. We certainly have a few good conservatives in parliament such as from the United Australia Party, Libertarian Party and One Nation, but they will not be able to form government or provide a PM.
Present Uniparty governments are at best utterly incompetent and at worst maliciously destroying Australia and they also lie about just about everything with the cooperation of the Lamestream media who never aak questions and subsidy-harvesting corporations, a compliant public “service” that does anything but serve, all aided and abetted by a completely dumbed-down “education” system that produces nothing but illiterate, innumerate, ignorant, propaganda-believing servile drones.
Australia is just about, or soon will be, the dystopian nightmare prophesied in Nineteen Eighty Four.
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David,
on today’s The Australian Front Page Web Site
Teals and Greens demand end to new gas projects
Teal MPs and the Greens want an end to new gas projects, complicating Anthony Albanese’s backing of the resource should he find himself needing crossbench support to form minority government.
Greens go ‘Robin Hood’ in $514bn big business tax threat to Labor
The Greens will demand $514bn in new big business taxes in return for supporting Labor in a hung parliament, under ‘Robin Hood’ reforms hitting miners, coal and gas companies and banks. – Geoff Chambers
Captains of industry are under fire from all sides
Big business is in the doghouse and unlikely to find a way out anytime soon, as the Greens, Labor and Coalition whack corporate Australia.
Geoff Chambers – Chief Political Correspondent
Gas supply critical to a future low-cost energy nation
Without new gas supply, Australia’s energy security and renewable energy targets are at risk. We need to accelerate the removal of coal, the introduction of renewables and support these renewables with electricity transmission, energy storage and gas.
Greens MP under fire over CFMEU rally speech
Max Chandler-Mather’s move to share a stage ‘with an organisation that has condoned violence, organised crime and misogyny’ has been blasted by Labor senator Murray Watt.
Green MP’s appearance at CFMEU Rally “Very Disturning”
CFMEU vows ‘absolute destruction’ of ALP
As more than 60,000 workers staged protests, sacked union leaders have threatened to disrupt the waterfront and mount a High Court challenge in days in a bid to reverse a takeover of the union’s militant construction division.
Goldmine conflict pits state ALP against feds
Anthony Albanese says a $1bn gold mine can still go ahead, despite his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek vetoing the proposed location of the project’s tailings dam.
BHP warns of hit from IR reforms as Chinese demand falters
Same job same pay industrial relations laws are all cost and no productivity gains, BHP says, as it flags a challenging year defined by geopolitical tensions and lingering inflation.
All Summed up by Today’s Spooner Cartoon
Where under Editorials
Playing the man and not the ball could be own goal
Peter Dutton should take Labor’s obsession with him as a compliment.
Editorial
Plibersek’s inept secret business
The Environment Minister has ignored the wishes of the local people.
Editorial- This energy folly poses a grave risk for the private sector
As corporate appetite wanes for environmental, social and governance investing internationally, our government is racing to make it part of the legislated architecture for business.
Even the Letters
Letters – Chalmers’ oration an exercise in political hyperbole
Jim Chalmers says Peter Dutton is dangerous, a dog-whistler and divisive. That’s the sort of political language we expect from a government that foresee a possible election loss in the near future.
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Today’s The Australian Front Page
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Here ya go DM:
https://imgbox.com/w7FJceHh
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Bumped from #38 yesterday
“FWIW
The ABC hits you with “another dose of truth serum” – to borrow a friend’s sarcastic description
“The deforestation on farms that ‘people don’t even know’ is happening”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/coles-woolworths-urged-to-dump-beef-linked-to-deforestation/104261314
Hanrahan’s reply there
“Is there a text book that tells how to farm a forest?” ”
Check the replies at
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/uq-deforestation-research-strikes-similar-tone-to-wwf-lobbying/
There is plenty on how not to that is being ignored
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In the drier areas graziers will chop mulga as supplemental feed during drought. Greens object to that too.
Using mulga as a forage supplement for livestock in droughts
Summary. Mulga (usually Acacia aneura) covers large areas of the NSW rangelands. Livestock readily eat mulga, grazing leaves within their reach as well as recent leaf fall. During drought, mulga provides a valuable feed source. Branches and selected trees are commonly lopped or pushed to allow stock
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Googlemaps journalism – from the lovers of lockdown at ABC
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The imminent collapse of Great Britain (article)
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Remember that it was Boris Johnson who sabotage a ceasefire deal in spring 2022.
The UK goverments have become war mongers just like the Democrats in the USA.
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The deep state are getting desperate to stop the 2024 US election hence the constant baiting (the incursion) of Putin who is masterfully playing it cool. A nuclear exchange over Ukraine would be enough of an emergency to put the world on hold.
Plan B may have become the supposedly imminent volcanic chaos in Italy and the perils of an ash created dark age of global famine.
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More provocation just announced (ballistic missile) and enacted (second ‘mini-invasion’):
Ukraine revealed yesterday it has successfully tested its first ballistic missile – as it launched a second ‘mini-invasion’ of southern Russia.
Discussing the landmark project, President Zelensky said: ‘There was a positive test of the first Ukrainian ballistic missile. I congratulate our military production complex on this.’
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‘The UK goverments have become war mongers just like the Democrats in the USA.’
Comrade, Putin started the war and is a war monger, everyone else is playing catch up. In your heart of hearts you hope that western civilisation collapses under the weight of a fascist dictatorship, get a life.
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E+G, bullseye !
Since перезагрузка (Clinton 2009) V. Putin runs the World, the previously civilised countries just react – like white rats in the lab of our Lord.
He does it on behalf of the Chinese master or a grey mouse in his own brain will be disclosed by future historians; it is not critical at the moment.
Critical is the correct reaction of white rats.
For the lovers of Russian idioms – “a grey mouse” is a creature of delirium tremor.
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The rumour I’m getting, if Putin begins another round of mobilisation then the oligarchs will bring on a coup.
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I am in awe of how you can ignore everything flowing from 2014 and blurt out that Putin started a war. Yes Z and co were just innocently sitting carefully looking after their ethnic Russian brothers and sisters in the East and there goes Russia just starting a war for no reason at all. Yep, thats it.
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UK’s net financial position is negative 39% of GDP. To put that in some perspective, Greece is negative 140% of GDP. Greece is a basket case. UK not so much yet.
Inflation is the best indicator of things going south. UK is probably no worse than most other places. Disposable income is declining similar to the rest of the world. UK is above average and similar to Japan. USA has the highest disposable income and the highest income inequality.
UK has persistent negative current account balance with no obvious way to reverse it. Maybe once they have the country running on wind energy they can export that know-how to USA, Australia and Ukraine. (buyer beware)
The upside of becoming a basket case is that immigration slows down. Greece has population decline.
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I wonder whether that situation coming lead to Rishi suddenly called the election, which anyone sane would have thought suicidal?
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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are the greatest threat to the US in history.
Kamala’s father, still alive, is a PhD in economics. Her late mother was a cancer researcher. Kamala grew up in Hindi Chennai and then in a very wealthy part of Toronto.
So very bright parents, wealthy. The best secondary school. A living economics expert for a father. Clearly totally estranged and he is not mentioned or interviewed.
So why did Kamala go to Howard University, a predominately black university ranked 115? Why not an Ivy League university? Caltech? Stanford? America has 36 universities in the top 100. Even JD Vance had a degree in Politics and went on merit to Yale for a second law degree. His Indian wife has a PhD from Cambridge. Why isn’t Kamala a Rishi Sunak or Vivek Ramaswamy. Both brilliant and very rich? My Alma Mater Melbourne University is ranked 13, not 115.
And the answer is that Kamala, despite the heritage and family money is really, really dumb. This is the big secret.
She really believes the internet really in the clouds above. She has no idea of what inflation is, let alone what causes it.
And like all extreme left politicians, she cannot think for herself, which is easy as no leftist politician has to think. They have prescribed positions on everything.
So how was she on even the Brown debating team? How did she work as an actual prosecutor, or was she more like Fani Willis?
And with no children and married at fifty, her new partner has been a frequent visitor to China since he was a teenager, a political system he admires and openly praises.
Which is why Kamala is afraid to talk publicly about anything. She has no idea at all about anything.
Tim Walz would be running America. And America would finally have a Chinese puppet running the place. Or another Obama puppet. Both hate America.
Expect China to throw everything at the coming election, especially the electronic voting machines. If only Kamala can avoid talking in a free form debate or interview.
She is worse than Joe Biden, who is senile. It’s a wonder she knows Ukraine is next to Russia. Someone must have told her.
E pluribus unum. Yeh, right.
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If you think dumb is a bit cruel, consider that Kamala might know as much about geography as these Californian high school students
America already has 50 States with parliaments and governors. The United States is a Federation like Australia and the Federation has reponsibility for Defence, international relations, currency, immigration, Federal taxation. Not police, health, education etc. As such the President of the US is Commander in Chief and primarily has to deal with the world outside America.
Until recently Kamala had never been to Europe. Or the border with Mexico despite years in Los Angeles. Geography is her job as VP and as President. And she has no idea. So why was she the last person in the room on Afghanistan? How much longer can the Biden team hide her ignorance on most things. Is that why she kept switching jobs? Possibly the greatest example of the Peter Principle in the history of the US public service.
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Kamala Harris: “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.”
Do much for Democracy where the Russian speaking people in Eastern Ukraine voted to return to being part of Russia as was the case before a peace settlement with Germany and Austria-Hungary to end Russia’s participation in WW!.
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Kamala probably knows that not one of Japan, Germany, Italy, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Grenada is called Ukraine.
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What “election”, what “settlement” ?
I was born in a “German” village. I know because the old-timers still called it Lustdorf, which had not a single German for hundreds of miles, all killed or deported by Stalin.
The whole Ukrainian south was developed by German migrants (with some exception of Scotts – just google Юзовка where the front line is hot now!)
No, I am wrong – the whole Russian Empire was brought to its pinnacle by ex-Germans.
So, what ?
Does it mean that Olaf Sholtz can decide today how far his borders extend?
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Ex-Germans like Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst?
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She just formaly invited the foreigners who could serve the Empire well.
And they did.
As you know, by the end of their reign (Feb 1917) the Romanovs themselves had hardly any Russian genes left in their bodies, but that is not here or there.
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‘ … the Russian speaking people in Eastern Ukraine voted to return to being part of Russia …’
Russian soldiers, with guns at the ready, asked the people of east Ukraine to cast their votes. If you think that was free and fair, then clearly you live in a fools paradise.
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Mankind trivia
Answer will be posted later today
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I am going to go from memory and not look this up – though also from memory estimates vary depending on assumptions about when the first humans existed and population size and expanse.
My memory says 30 billion so the answer is about 25%
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9 % is the answer.
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Answers vary from 6-10%.
Probably a trick question, if we make a distinction between alive and living.
/subtle sarc
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so much for memory
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They will never arrive.
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FWIW
“Powerful Russian Strikes Usher in Season of Ukrainian Discontent”
Note fibre optic controlled drones and an aircraft “out patrioting Patriot missiles”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/powerful-russian-strikes-usher-in
And cauldrons and colanders
“Ukr Disaster Day: Missiles Hammer Ukr, Novogrodivka Lost, Toretsk Ukr Trap; Rus Counterattacks Kursk”
https://rumble.com/v5clnng-ukr-disaster-day-missiles-hammer-ukr-novogrodivka-lost-toretsk-ukr-trap-rus.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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Note fibre optic controlled drones and an aircraft “out patrioting Patriot missiles”
Russia Launches New Drone Weapons Against Kursk Offensive
Ukraine’s advance into Kursk succeeded with the help of an electronic warfare blitz that blinded Russia’s reconnaissance drones and knocked their FPVs out of the sky.
Now Russia is striking back with new drones guided by fiber optics which are immune to radio jamming. This is the first time such weapons have been used in combat.*
It is another reminder of just how fast small drones are evolving. And a warning to the rest of the world, which relies heavily on jamming to protect itself against drone attacks by terrorists.
Breaking Radios
FPV drones generally require on a radio link to the operator. This transmits a video signal from the drone, and command signals to the drone on another channel. Loss of either signal usually means an instant crash.
This is why we have seen a profusion of trench jammers, suitcase jammers and vehicle -mounted jammers on the front lines, blasting out radio noise on selected frequencies. If effective they create a bubble of protection reaching out fifty or a hundred yards. This will generally keep FPVs away, although skilled FPV operators approach at a steep angle so their drone gets through on sheer momentum.
[SNIP]
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The US Uniparty in Action
It’s A Bipartisan Miracle! Over 200 Bush, McCain, Romney Aides Endorse Harris
“For your daily reminder that the establishment is one big club (and you ain’t in it!)…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-bipartisan-miracle-over-200-bush-mccain-romney-aides-endorse-harris
Not much different in Australia.
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https://notrickszone.com/2024/08/27/german-youth-have-woken-up-green-party-loses-83-of-its-young-voters-in-thuringia/
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A funny commentary on the upcoming US election and the dire threat of Trump/Vance/Kennedy to all that is good
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dear-democrats-things-are-not-looking-good
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Gabbard should be added to the list. She has been more difficult to cancel than Trump the criminal or Kennedy. the anti-vaxer. Gabbard has a host of labels but none has stuck. Maybe Gabbard the surveilled. Democrats trying to fix a label.
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FWIW
“Trump Adds Kennedy, Gabbard to Transition Team”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/08/27/trump-adds-kennedy-gabbard-to-transition-team-n3793726
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No argument from me
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Highlights from Kim’s Gina Rinehart links yesterday:
o Of the 1 million immigrants to Australia over the last two years, 40,000 have jobs. So what are the other 960,000 doing?
o Over that same two years, we have been averaging 50 new bureaucrat positions per day.
Assuming it’s true, how long can this insanity go on?
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Following Anthony Albanese’s recent cabinet shake-up, the new housing and homelessness minister, Clare O’Neil, was quick to express empathy for troubled renters, touting Labor’s $32bn housing investment and describing the ambitious target of constructing 1.2m homes as “genuinely radical”.
Ms O’Neil is proposing to bring in more immigrants with trade skills to build more houses for – immigrants!
This insanity will continue until Labor is booted out in Canberra just like in the NT.
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Sarcastic comments on uselesstube about the UK the other day went along the lines of:
We may have more stabbings, rapes and beheading than we used to but at least we can experience culturally different foods.
If one immigrant brings us new foods and flavours, what do the next thousand or more from their country bring?
The same thing times a thousand or ten thousand?
How many neurosurgeons or plasterers does Tipperary need?
Upcoming events in the UK will be……..shocking……..
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The list of language differences between English speaking Australia and its Kiwi Kuzzies that already includes: Thongs/jandals, Esky/chilly bin, Speed humps/judder bars has been expanded to include:
“Genuinely radical”/“Overly ambitious”.
The first term relates to a recently announced 1.2m home construction target by the Oz Labor government while the second relates to a 2018 announcement of 100,000 home construction target within 10 years by the NZ Labour Party that failed miserably and was scrapped by the NZ Labour government within 3 years.
Fret not readers for when it comes to the personal level of getting a home to live in Dame Jacinda has no probs. Let them eat cake.
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Collecting $19 Billion per annum in jobSeeker payments from us mug taxpayers
Easy money if you can get it!
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Snowy Hydro will have to run the first unit at its new Kurri Kurri power station in NSW on diesel instead of gas for at least two months once it comes online, and has no schedule for introducing green hydrogen into the fuel mix, despite Labor’s initial stipulation.
A commitment to run the fast-start 660-megawatt generator on green hydrogen was central to the Albanese government’s support for the project, which began under the Coalition and was initially opposed by Labor when the party was in opposition.
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Snowy Hydro
A new tunnel boring machine will be deployed to help keep Snowy 2.0 on its delivery timeline, subject to approval by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
New ground testing techniques have provided a better understanding of the full extent of a complex fault zone on the route of the 17 kilometre tunnel that will connect Snowy 2.0’s upper reservoir to its underground power station.
Snowy Hydro CEO Dennis Barnes said activating a fourth tunnel boring machine is the right course of action, given that what is now known about the tunnelling challenges ahead has provided the opportunity to mature the design.
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/news/snowy-2-0-confirms-fourth-tunnel-boring-machine-to-protect-delivery-timeline/
Expect another budget blowout!
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The infeasibility of that potential part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme project was known about 60 years ago (or more). Back in the day, they had real engineers working on the project who knew that.
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And ever it is finished, the most backup it could provide would be 10%. Not much use for the money spent, which could have been used to build proper power generators.
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I wonder if Dutton can have a nuclear plant running before Snowy 2 is completed. A second machine on the 17,000m tunnel could well halve the time so a 2060 completion becomes feasible. There is a some prospect of Australia having nuclear by then. China could have fusion before Snowy 2 is done.
Snowy 2 is a money pit with limited prospect of ever providing an economic return. By the time it is completed, demonising CO2 will be history.
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“Snowy 2 is a money pit with limited prospect of ever providing an economic return.”
As the saying goes, “That’s not a bug but a feature.” In fact, the “money pit” is the entire objective. Lots of oceanfront homes, private jets and huge yachts will be bought on the road to ‘failure’. This is essentially the reason for the whole net zero scam and the people getting filthy rich along the way couldn’t care less whether each project is a success or not. In fact, they probably prefer failure because then they can make a whole new ton of money building the ‘better’ version that is 100% guaranteed to possibly work.
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What are the bookie’s odds on another stuck borer?
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WD40 is available in 200 litre drums! 😆
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Brylcreem?
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FLASHBACK: Top Harris campaign aide was key voice in WH push to remove COVID info from tech platforms
Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty pushed tech companies to crack down on ‘vaccine misinformation’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter on Monday while expressing regret that his company, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris administration to censor Americans, particularly regarding COVID-19 content, bringing to the forefront actions taken by Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty as part of that pressure campaign.
Flaherty, who previously served as the White House director of digital strategy, helped lead the campaign to target alleged “misinformation” relating to the COVID-19 virus and its vaccinations, FOX Business previously reported.
Flaherty emailed Google team members in April 2021 to “connect […] about the work you’re doing to combat vaccine hesitancy, but also crack down on vaccine misinformation,” according to the documents.
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Scott Morrison weighs into visa debate, declares he would not approve visas to Hamas supporters if he was still PM
Former prime minister Scott Morrison has skewered Anthony Albanese over his refusal to rule out issuing visas to Hamas supporters, likening it to allowing N@zi sympathisers into Australia.
Patrick Staveley Sky News Digital Reporter
Former prime minister Scott Morrison has delivered a blistering rebuke to his former sparring partner Anthony Albanese on the visa debate over concerns Hamas supporters are being let into the country from Gaza.
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess told ABC’s Insiders earlier this month that having “rhetorical support” for Hamas should not prevent visa applications from being approved for people coming from Gaza.
The phrase “rhetorical support” has not been clarified by Mr Burgess, and Mr Morrison has declared any form of support for a radical group should be enough to prevent someone from entering Australia.
Mr Morrison questioned the process of allowing people to come to Australia from a terrorist-controlled warzone on visitor visas in general, claiming majority of people in Gaza would be in favour of Hamas if the region was to hold an election.
“Hamas is a terrorist organisation. But more than that, it is a terrorist organisation committed to anti-S@mitism, which involves the destruction, annihilation of the J@wish people,” he said.
“Any view or support for such an organisation… I could not think of something more at odds with passing a character test to live as an Australian in Australia.”
The former Liberal leader also said he found it “inexplicable” Director-General Burgess was willing to overlook Hamas supporters being allowed into the country, suggesting his words may have been misconstrued.
“Mike Burgess is an outstanding public servant, I’ve worked with Mike over a long period of time in many different roles. And, whether he used a different form of words today as opposed to then, only he can say,” he said.
186 Comments so far not kind to Labor!
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Andrew Bolt Sky News Host brands Chris Bowen “The Most Dangerous Man in the Albanese Government”
Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s ‘pathetic’ social media obsession with Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy plan blows up in his face
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has copped backlash online for constantly posting about Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy which has left Aussies accusing the Labor minister of “scaremongering”.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has attracted strong criticism online for his “embarrassing” social media obsession with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Since the start of the month, Mr Bowen has posted constantly about the Opposition Leader’s nuclear energy proposal, with 28 posts directly mentioning the Liberal leader, while his account is riddled with many more posts hitting out at Nationals Leader David Littleproud and attacking the Coalition.
Since August 1, Mr Bowen has made four positive posts regarding the Albanese government’s climate policies or initiatives – one on establishing a Net Zero Economy Authority, another on the Household Energy Upgrade Fund, a third about the doubling of EV charging sites doubling in the past 12 months and another related video spruiking the $20 million government investment into the EV vehicle brand Splend.
In his latest upload, Mr Bowen posted a video of himself shaking his head at Mr Dutton’s nuclear policy.
In response to one of Mr Bowen’s posts, a user shared a video made by 18-year-old founder of Nuclear for Australia Will Shackel who said no nuclear power plant had a “major incident” as a result of an earthquake, with 20 per cent of reactors worldwide operating in areas of “major seismic activity”.
Mr Bowen’s flurry of tweets have garnered a critical response as other social media users have jumped to chastise the energy minister’s “scaremongering” as “pathetic” and “embarrassing
Despite Mr Bowen’s incessant attacks on Mr Dutton, Australian households still grapple with rising energy prices which many social media users said were “through the roof”.
562 Comments so far Brutal against Labor, Blackout Bowen & Albanese!
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Only Relevant to this thread because of the Comments!
‘Largest Russian air attack’: Massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s energy grid, dozens injured and multiple deaths
Russia has carried out one of its largest attacks on Ukraine since the beginning of the war, launching hundreds of missiles predominantly targeting energy infrastructure, which has left parts of the country without power and water.
The Comments!
– Russia doesn’t need missiles they just need to get Bowen elected to the Ukrainian parliament
– Russia called it the Bowen offensive
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The latest Essential Poll also painted a grim picture for Labor, the people are not happy with their energy bills.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/02/guardian-essential-poll-albanese-approval-rating-peter-dutton-nuclear
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Mankind trivia
Of all the humans who have ever lived on plant earth – what percentage are stll alive today?
Answer: 7%
We pay our respects to the fathers of the Industrial Revolution and to the fathers of the Agrarian Revolution (including the introduction of artificial nitrogen fertilsers via the Haber–Bosch process produced using fossil fuels).
The Haber-Bosch process is generally credited with keeping Germany supplied with fertilizers and munitions during World War I, after the British naval blockade cut off supplies of nitrates from Chile.
Interesting graphs here:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/how-many-humans-have-ever-lived/#google_vignette
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Urgent Recall Notice – Page 3 Herald Sun today
Recall by LG Energy Solutions and SOLAX power
So it is not only Teslas that are a fire risk!
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As more than 60,000 workers staged protests, sacked union leaders have threatened to disrupt the waterfront and mount a High Court challenge in days in a bid to reverse a takeover of the union’s militant construction division.
I think the headline should read – “CFMEU vows ‘abolute destruction of Albanese’s ALP”.
The unions have Bill Shorten waiting in the wings to replace Albo, who in 1994, began his union career as a trainee organiser under the ACTU’s Organising Works program at the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), before being elected Victorian state secretary in 1998. His time as secretary was marked by a reform of the union’s structures.
Shorten was elected as the AWU’s national secretary in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005.
The Australian Greens and the new “Muslim Party of Australia” likely to be led by former Labor Senator Fatima Payman are also out to destroy Albo’s ALP!
Dutton just needs to stand on the sidelines!
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Let’s go Krazee
Among other things, Andrew McCarthy is the best analyst of the legal issues in the Democrat lawfare against President Trump.
In the classified Mar-a-Lago documents matter, Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the case under the Constitution’s appointments clause. She held that Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith lacks the legal authority he is wielding as Special Counsel in the case.
It’s a problem that could be easily solved, but the problem exposes something of the charade.
News accounts do not serve an understanding of the issue.
Yesterday Smith filed his brief in the Eleventh Circuit.
The brief is accessible online here.
My friend Mr. McCarthy reviews the bidding at NRO. It’s almost funny:
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The US legal system working. It must be tough when the asylum rules backfire so delightfully. The case is now mired in lawfare of its own making. The election results could well be in before this appeal goes anywhere.
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Smiley selfie from Labor Women Opposed to Stuff…
…but just not the treatment of women in Afghanistan by the throwbacks of the Taliban.
The mean girl Gallagher and her flakey mates are still silent on that issue.
#YouGoGirls.
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In the UK it is too much wind – In Australia it is “wind Droughts”
Where is there “Goldilocks Wind”?
filed: August 27, 2024 • U.K.
Despite a tough financial situation, British bill payers are being forced to hand wind farm operators in Scotland hundreds of millions to stop producing electricity.
Energy bill payers were forced to fork out a huge £205m to wind farm giants in Scotland so that they turned off their turbines amid a windy and wild year for weather. It means that 2024 could mean a record amount of cash being supplied to renewable energy operators to stop producing electricity.
The year so far has been marred by miserable weather spearheaded by named storms such as Isha and Kathleen, with summer leading to a lack of sunny weather. But it has been gold dust for the wind farm industry as it is generating so much energy that millions have been handed to businesses to stop doing so.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2024/08/27/wind-farm-giants-paid-205m-to-switch-off-turbines-amid-year-of-windy-and-wild-weather/
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A tip for the UK pensioners
Did you know you don’t need to freeze and starve this winter?
Would you like free rent?
3 meals a day, free lighting and heating?
Maybe a day reading in the library?
Make new friends, maybe share a room.
Even your teeth taken care of.
Just post a racist meme or tweet today and enjoy the above courtesy of your government!
Visiting hours tba.
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The average household disposable income in UK is USD29k. The cost to maintain a prisoner is USD38k. Sort of makes sense because a prisoner is equivalent to a household plus overheads. The prisoner and the guard as well as the infrastructure..
Australia no longer accepts POMEs but UK citizens can get permanent VISAs for Australia (but not if the have poison record). How times have changed.
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On a sidenote, there’s a small german social-housing town called Fuggerie where the rent is $1 per year, a figure unchanged since 1520.
/JC2 fountain of knowledge
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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/keyboard-warriors-mapped-across-somerset-9513030 – 42 of every 1000 people in Blackpool!
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Redacted on EVs (video)
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Heels Up Harris – We know who is voting for her!
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Strength Through Joy – Joy Is Not a Strategy
NS Gemeinschaft Kraft durch Freude (German for ‘Strength Through Joy’; KdF) was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization in N@zi Germany. It was part of the German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour organization at that time.
Set up in November 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of N@zism to the German people and internationally, it was also used to ease the process of the rearmament of Germany.
Through its structure of organized events and promotion of propaganda, it was also intended to prevent dissident and anti-state behavior.
By 1939, it had become the world’s largest tourism operator.
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House Dems Want to Censor AI Image Generator Before Election
Oh no, there’s more disinformation out there that the public needs the government to protect it from.
Images made by artificial intelligence are one of the highlights of this election. There are so many great memes out there of Comrade Kamala Harris standing in front of a communist flag and pointing the way forward. But it seems some Democrat members of the House think it’s too dangerous to have people generating AI images before the election and want to censor Elon Musk’s Grok-2.
I don’t understand the problem.
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Report: Kamala Harris Claims She ‘Does Not Support’ Electric Car Mandates After Years of Backing Them
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MAGA’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, stem from “unapologetic misogyny” and “toxic masculinity,” as well as a refusal to “admit to themselves that she’s cute,” according to a left-wing Salon piece that accuses Trump’s team of seeking to “win over the worst men in the nation by appealing directly to their controlling, misogynist desires.”
Insisting that the Trump campaign strategy appeals to “ugly, bitter people with a message of resentment” as well as “bitter men who would rather gripe about ‘wokeness’ than take responsibility for their personal failings,” the piece claims that Emhoff “triggers the incel-minded online right by being a Brooklyn hipster who rejects the tiresome conservative rules for how women are allowed to dress or behave.”
The author describes Ella Emhoff as “a fashion icon” whose “creativity, beauty, and easygoing love for her family has sent many on the right into paroxysms of rage.”
From the Comments
– Like she passed out drunk at a frat house party and everybody took turns doodling all over her with Sharpie markers. And she’s still so buzzed she hasn’t even noticed yet.
– She looks like a scratch-pad.
– Seriously?
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Project Veritas@Project_Veritas
🚨BREAKING: DOJ Lawyer ADMITS FDA War Against Ivermect*n was a Mistake, Abuse of Authority, After Doctors Sue Government and Win
“So, what the FDA has done… [is] unquestionably beyond its authority.”
“Making a recommendation of what drugs to take or not to take, that’s the practice of medicine. And FDA can’t practice medicine.”
The FDA’s “horse medicine” tweets caused a deadly chain reaction – meet the Doctors (@MdBreathe, @RobertApter1) who were victorious against @US_FDAHHSGov tyranny. #FDATweets
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/caught-camera-doj-attorney-who-defended-fda-court/
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California is done
Via Wall St Apes:
California Is Relaxing The Punishment For Adults Buying Children For Sex
“SB 1414, new law in California. The punishment for buying a child for sex in California is now punishable by 2 DAYS in county jail. 2 DAYS in county jail. It’s no longer punishable by prison”
“I am blown away”
“I’m talking about children, minors, babies, kids that don’t have good parents that are just out on the street, kids that the system has failed, 2 days in jail to sell them. I wanna put this into perspective for you. I was sentenced to two and a half years for breaking my curfew on felony parole in Ohio at 22 years old. Years. They are getting 2 days for soliciting children.”
“This bill was originally supposed to change this from a misdemeanor to a felony, and yet they instated a 2 day in county jail punishment. That is like a DUI. That is a domestic violence. That’s an assault charge. Misdemeanor assault charge.
That’s physically yelling at somebody you can get 2 days in county jail for. But in California, you can sell a child or buy a child and spend 2 days in county jail.”
Final stages of the US empire…
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‘Menace to our fisheries’: New England flotilla unites to protest wind farm after turbine ‘disaster’
‘The Vineyard Wind project is proof that offshore wind will crush fishermen and maritime communities,’ one fisherman said
A fleet of 25 fishing boats off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, rallied together on Sunday to protest Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind turbine project under scrutiny after a turbine blade broke off, sending shards of sharp fiberglass into the ocean.
“Vineyard Wind is a menace to our fisheries,” Jerry Leeman, CEO of the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA), told Fox News Digital. Leeman joined the flotilla of New England fishermen protesting the wind project.
“Floating fiberglass shards remain a navigation and safety risk for mariners over a month after the blade disaster. We have no idea what effects this industrial litter will have on local food chains. Worse still, we have no idea whether this could happen again,” Leeman said.
“Fishermen understand the volatility of the North Atlantic better than anyone, and we are not confident these turbines and blade components will survive a winter squall or a hurricane in light of July’s catastrophe,” he continued.
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Dan Bongino To Matt Gaetz: This Is How ‘Cover-Up’ Around Trump Assassination Attempt Would Work (video)
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FWIW
Could be useful
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FWIW – blowing in the wind
“The imminent collapse of Great Britain”
“Article originally published on Substack (including a 30-min. video report).
A series of bizarre developments that have unfolded in Great Britain over the last few weeks suggest that its financial system came to the verge of collapse, probably as a consequence of Ukraine’s debt default. The last thing the people in power will tell us is the truth, but if we dig in dark places and connect the dots, I believe the conclusion practically makes itself. The consequences for Britain, and probably for “his majesty’s” other dominions will be extreme. Let’s dive in…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-27/imminent-collapse-great-britain
Gets a mention towards the end of
https://rumble.com/v5clnng-ukr-disaster-day-missiles-hammer-ukr-novogrodivka-lost-toretsk-ukr-trap-rus.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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That UK item from about 1:14:30 on the Rumble link
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An idea of the burdens imposed on companies – and people – who wish to start a mine in the UK.
Anglesey is an island off the North West coast of Wales.
“Developers hoping to restart mining an Anglesey copper works say they’ve reached a “significant milestone” after submitting the first necessary steps for plans that could create 120 jobs. Tests show the area around Parys Mountain to contain deposits rich in copper, zinc, lead, silver and gold “worth around $1bn [£755m]”, according to Anglesey Mining PLC.”
“With evidence of copper mining there dating back to the Bronze and Roman ages, by the 1780’s Mynydd Parys was the world’s biggest copper mine and led to an economic and population boom in nearby Amlwch. But despite opening up significant underground workings at about 1810, by the turn of the 20th Century all significant mining activity had come to an end.”
This from – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5dlrl63go
The BBC doesn’t seem viscerally opposed to this.
But, in the report, there is this: –
“Hopes of further work at the site have resurfaced several times over recent years, but owners Anglesey Mining have now submitted a 220-page Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Report which forms part of the necessary planning process. The company says that any future mining at Parys would be carried out underground, potentially using an existing shaft built in the 1990’s, but could create around 120 direct jobs in an area recently described by Anglesey council as of economic concern.”
So the scope [alone] of the Environmental Impact Report – mostly for underground works – runs over 200 pages.
Reportedly at a cost of £300,000.
“The 220-page scoping report has now been submitted to the North Wales Minerals and Waste Planning Service, which will have the final say, although further planning permission will be required before any work can take place. “The mine life at the moment is 12-15 years, we’re hopeful it will be longer and we discover more deposit there,” Mr Marsden [CEO of Anglesey Mining] added.”
Possibly good news – but there is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
No wonder most companies seek their raw materials abroad; and, nowadays, do most of the processing abroad, too, where energy is more competitively priced. Anglesey had a nuclear power station but that is closed – not coincidentally, so is the nearby aluminium smelter – and whilst there is talk about getting another one there, talk powers no machinery
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Sydney records hottest August day in nine years, with temperatures soaring above average as fire danger warnings issued
Sydney has recorded its hottest August day in almost a decade as the mercury soars above average, with temperatures closer to what might be felt in the summer.
Sydney has beaten its record for the hottest August day in nine years amid higher than usual temperatures.
The mercury reached 28.1C just before 1.30pm on Wednesday at Sydney Observatory Hill, beating last year’s 27.5C on August 30.
In 2015, Sydney recorded an August high of 28.3C, but the city’s record for the month still stands at 31.3C in 1995.
Sydney’s average temperature for August is 17.9C.
Saturday is set to reach 29C, becoming the warmest August day since 2012.
Sydney Observatory – August 1954 – 10 days over 20C – Highest 30.4C – Monthly mean 18.6C
Sydney Observatory – August 1995 – 14 days over 20C – Highest 31.3C – Monthly mean 21.3C
Sydney Observatory – August 2012 – 14 days over 20C – Highest 29.2C – Monthly mean 19.9C
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Where was the reflective solar panel this time?
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I lived in Sydney the first 30 years of my life. For the last 10 years there doing a very weather dependent sport. August was usually not that cold and was usually characterised by strong westerly winds. The 20ish temps much of the time seem about right.
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https://x.com/Altimor/status/1825659507617460439 – kinda funny, til you ponder what rick-rolling might mean in an AI military application….
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FWIW
“It took a while, but the majority of Democrats now support nuclear power”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GV3ioQUWsAAOvOk?format=jpg&name=small
What if Z is on a big bonus if he can blow up a nuke station and restart the panic?
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