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Statistics
The SOI is at neutral level for the 90 day average, are other factors the reason for the dire predictions of a dry summer?
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SOI → Statistics Of Income
No! Wait! Let’s try …
SOI → Southern Oscillation Index, related to El Niño Southern Oscillation
A year ago:
https://media.bom.gov.au/releases/1205/the-bureau-forecasts-an-unusually-warm-summer/
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Don’t forget the Tsunami forecast. Obviously caused by a surge of CO2 & lagging EV sales!
Forecast an El Niño & La Niña arrives & visa versa. Both La Niña & El Niño seem to be figments of overactive & probably overpaid imagination.
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BoM doesn’t look much further than Spring, models are hopeless.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/summary
I’ll take a punt, this summer should be warm and wet.
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government this post disagrees with the consensus science
and is therefore not reasonable
please delete.
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The federal floating wind lease sale off Oregon has been cancelled due to hostility.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/27/oregon-offshore-wind-auction-cancellation/
Great news!
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From the link:
“Offshore wind continues to be a critical opportunity for Oregon to meet its 100% clean energy goals by 2040, address climate change, and provide economic opportunities for Oregon workers and businesses,” …
By 2040 it should be obvious that this was an opportunity best missed.
Oregon has relatively low electrical rates. Floating towers in the nearby ocean will only cause the rates to float higher and higher.
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I think they might be terrified that Trump will win and dirty, expensive, unreliable, environmentally destructive wind and solar subsidy plantations are a huge political risk.
And that decision made by a woke blue state as well.
Also, with plenty of coal, gas, oil and nuclear energy, and Trump promising to liberate more of all of them, why would anyone want to revert to wind technology which was abandoned centuries ago as soon as a viable steam engine was invented?
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“why would anyone want to revert to wind technology which was abandoned centuries ago”
Money, Money, etc.
But there are signs that Trump may win regardless of the Establishment wishes. Kamala hasn’t really enthused the masses, and several (former) Democrats have swung to The Republican side. I saw yesterday that Westchester suburb NY now has some Trump signs whereas 4 (& 8) years ago there were none.
The Economy is the major worry among the working classes and The Democrats have been about as incompetent on that as Albo & Mob have done in Australia.
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Trump signs have been trumped by Trump statues:
43 foot tall statue of Trump in his birthday suit erected in Las Vegas
The 2024 presidential election just gets weirder and weirder … ’cause a statue of Donald Trump is towering over Las Vegas — depicting the former prez in his birthday suit.
The art piece depicting the former POTUS was erected — no pun intended — just outside Las Vegas … towering over Interstate 15 on the way to Utah. We’ve had to blur the pics a bit here, but you get the basic idea — the prez wears no clothes
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2024/09/43-foot-tall-statue-of-trump-in-his-birthday-suit-erected-in-las-vegas/
Bye bye USA…
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Can you imagine if conservatives made a nude statue of Harris?
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Startling what ‘consensus’ means now.
The Approved Ones manufacture it and those that do not concede are to be silenced.
Of course, the New Censors are only censoring because they realize they are alienating the public and can only prevail by force.
More COVID booster advertising might help.
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“More COVID booster advertising might help.”
Just heard one on 4BC 5 mins ago.
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The NZ branch of [World] Govt-Sponsored Radio Programming airs half-a-dozen of those every day – except Sundays: they have morals donchaknow. Pffftz!
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A reminder to non-Leftists who oppose censorship, today is the deadline to put yoor submission in to the Australiam Government opposing the latest proposed censorship laws.
You can either upload it or email it. I chose to email mine to ec.sen@aph.gov.au
If a Leftist, I guess you’d be making a submission demanding even more censorship…you wouldn’t want to be exposed to alternative opinions…and as you know, Government knows best….
SEE Jo’s post:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/only-a-government-pushing-lies-has-to-censor-the-people-the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-bill/
My submission from August 2023, one of 23,000 which were apparently ignored last time is at:
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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This is an extract from my latest submissiom:
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Yep. and they try to claim it is compatible with human rights obligations on free speech.
it’s not:
The Explanatory Memorandum (p19) indicates that for restriction of freedom of speech three conditions must be satisfied.
One of these (“first limb”) is that the restriction must be “provided by law” and “formulated with sufficient precision to enable an individual to regulate his or her conduct accordingly” (p19)
The explanatory memorandum then states that “the first limb of the test (requiring that restrictions be provided by law) is satisfied because “the measures set out in Schedule 9 are either prescribed in the Schedule itself, or will be prescribed in digital platform rules…” (p19).
This, however, does not address whether the law has been “formulated with sufficient precision to enable an individual to regulate his or her conduct accordingly”.
The standard of “reasonably verifiable” (s13) means that what is misinformation or disinformation may be open to alternate and equally reasonable or plausible interpretations.
It follows that even if an individual makes a reasonable or plausible inference that something is the case it may still be classified as misinformation because it is open to an alternate interpretation.
The law thus provides no sufficient guide “to enable an individual to regulate his or her conduct”.
That means it is not consistent with human rights obligations as is claimed.
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as to the apparent omission from the Explanatory Memorandum of whether the Bill is “formulated with sufficient precision”
one may query whether said omission is
1. inadvertent (misinformation)
2. deliberate (disinformation).
3. reasonably likely to cause serious harm to the operation or integrity of a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government
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I can’t say much because of severe moderation, the rules that apply to the MSM will be applied to us.
https://www.acma.gov.au/industry-codes-practice
[“I can’t say much” says the man who has 7,137 approved comments. Funnily enough, complaints about moderation will somehow get caught by the filter, so moderators can see them? Who would have thought? – Jo]
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Define “severe moderation”? Is that where we publish your bizarre pro-China, pro-censorship comments, because you know we do?
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This particular issue has put me in moderation quite a lot, so I’ll leave it there.
China today is Orwellian in the extreme, Australia is not going in that direction.
I’m not pro censorship anymore than the average citizen, but the people are indifferent so the Bill should pass. No mass demonstrations outside parliament house.
Strategy is required, I’m sure if we adopt the journalism code of ethics, verifiability from a good source, then it’ll be alright.
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Thank you for confirming you think the globalist-WEF-UN-approved censor rules should pass. At least we know where you stand.
You are pro-censorship, obviously, in your own words. Are you paid or do you benefit financially from Big Government (domestic or foreign?)
Given the mass failures of the media in Australia in the last four years, obviously the Journalism Code is an abject failure for free speech. It’s good for totalitarians though.
Just point me to the “journalists” who were close to the truth on the Hunter Biden Laptop in October 2020 when it mattered. Or how about the media that reported on the dangers of vaccination in 2021 when it mattered. Case closed.
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‘You are pro-censorship …’
No.
This is a Bill before the Australian Parliament and has nothing to do with American politics and their journalistic practice. Our journalists are always in court fighting defamation cases. Verifiable sources are important to maintain integrity.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” – George Orwell
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1. the TV code includes a requirement to “present news fairly and impartially”.
that’s one example of a rule honored in the breach, not the observance (e.g. orange man bad).
2. media licensing is a totally different argument (individuals have no obligation to be impartial, for example)
3. will we all be getting $32.9m from the government like channel 10?
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Rowan Atkinson on free speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUezfuy8Qpc
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Porsche have patented a six stroke engine.
I doubt it’s commercially viable though as it’s too mechanically complex.
https://youtu.be/uMEegb-IrRQ
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Does anyone have a set of rules that show WHEN a comment will be sent for moderation?
Now back to the comment.
Four stroke wastes two strokes that do not produce power. Why would you go to six?
A spinning turbine engine has a limited number of moving parts, it can achieve very high compression levels and a large temperature difference and hence power output, (refer heat engine studies for further reading) .
Why aren’t we all driving cars that have a 5 minute battery and a turbine to keep it charged up? We’d be maximising the energy value of the fuel and would still have the benefit of being able to start and stop in traffic, (regenerative breaking), without too much penalty.
I know, somebody would complain about the high temperature making nitrous oxides but even they can be controlled by carefully trimming the maximum temperature at the flame front.
As a bonus, you could choose the fuel that is cheapest on the day. If it burns and can be pumped, it can go to a turbine, just have a set of nozzles, (and a fuel tank), for as many fuels as you would like to use.
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It has two power strokes in a 6-stroke cycle, so in-between the 2- and 4- stroke on your “waste” scale.
But I agree with the turbine idea. It is odd that Toyota had two hybrid experiments going in the ’70s: a turbine-based one, and what became the Prius. Unfortunately they went the path of unnecessary complexity. My guess is that they were worried about refuelling infrastructure for turbines.
And here we are 50 years later grappling with the ridiculous “refuelling” of BEVs.
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The video shows that the second bang is on a mix of pre burnt exhaust and anything that comes in from the bottom inlet/outlet before going back up for a low compression ignition.
I’d like to know what pressure the bottom inlet will be maintained at. Surely the hot exhaust, (from immediately before the inlet is ported to the cylinder), would be under high pressure and would be looking for a way out of the block. To push air into the cylinder, that bottom port would have to be well pressurised.
Also, is the engine fuel injected? I don’t recall seeing that in the video. If not, then what stops the exhaust igniting the air/fuel mix at the bottom of the cycle? If fuel injected, then I’d like to see the exhaust gas mix control loop for that engine. It certainly wouldn’t be consistent even from the same piston. The fist bang is a classical, fresh air fresh fuel burn, the second is part exhaust, part fresh air par fuel burn. This would suggest that the fuel injected MUST be less for this one, else some will remain unused.
More troubling for me was the significant lack of compression on the second bang. As a rule, the higher the compression the higher the energy recovered from the fuel, this second bang looks like it misses on that score.
As David noted, it looks like a lot of extra complexity for little little reward.
I’d say, not much bang for the bucks. And stick with the concept that two stroke is half efficient, four stroke even less and six, with a partial second bang…. Maybe even worse.
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Not my intention to champion it — Porsche can do that if they like — I was just nitpicking. I did agree with you about the turbine.
I’m not keen on the 6-stroke due to the complexity, but it’s still interesting to think about. Both compression strokes have the same TDC, so I think you’re a bit off on worrying about the different compression pressures. Likewise, the concern about exposing fresh fuel-air to hot exhaust gas hasn’t posed much of a problem in 2-stroke engines, so that doesn’t seem too worrying.
The asymmetry of the cycle is quite fun to think about. You could have a supercharger/scavenge pump only feeding the bottom inlet ports, and naturally aspirated feeding the intake valves, and yes, tuning the mixture would likely be an interesting exercise.
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IIRC Rover – before it became part of the ill-fated BLMC – had at least a demonstrator gas turbine car, based [loosely] on the Rover 90 or 95, I think.
Turns out, a series, from ‘JET 1’ on [about 1950 onwards].
You live and learn
Auto
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I saw that yesterday and wondered what they were thinking too!
But then Porsche aren’t known for reliability or cheap repairs.
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Yesterday, Honk R Smith posted this disturbing video featuring John Kerry essentially complaining about free speech and the US First Amendment which guarantees that.
The Left are marching in lockstep just about everywhere, including in Australia where the Government is urgently trying to push through its censorship legislation.
Make no mistake.
The Left are waging a war against the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment and Western Civilisation itself and promoting a return to some form of feudalism.
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Dear Annie,
Of course, HRH Mohammed Bit Salmon !
Original idea of Linear City was wrong but it can run from Gaza to Eilat and start making money very quickly – in terms of the project of such size.
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Honest appology – the automatic spelling check rules over the World.
I wanted to say – HRH Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud.
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You mean this guy?
Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Saud
And that’s why people call him MBS. I guess everything else just goes in the bin.
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Yes, him.
Seriously though, a marxist theme Role Of Personality In History makes some sense, repeat – some.
MBS is not ideal ruler but who is? Or was ?
W. Churchill, IMHO the greatest person of XX Century, in his life made grave errors and immoral compromises. At the pinnacle of his greatest achievement he was thrown out of office.
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That is democracy, the people wanted change.
The paraphrase Winston, democracy isn’t too good but its better than the others.
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…never believe the person telling you their system is the best when they’re making a fortune from it and you’re not!
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Another Port Arthur narrowly averted by our betters.
They really have nothing better to do.
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You can’t have those paintball guns let loose, someone might use them instead of a real firearm!
” have been seized from a storage facility in Tasmania’s north-west.”
So, do they routinely go around opening every storage unit and looking inside? Who’s ‘castle’ is a storage unit anyway? The business owner’s to give permission for a 3rd-party to raid?
I love the way the image in the article shows military-style assault rifles, but has absolutely nothing to do with the story, its a stock image. Govt gas-lighting again..
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Gel blasters are kids toys on par with water pistols, but guns are bad and scary.
Anything look like a gun is bad.
Ban guns and replicas!
Along with crossbows, slingshots, knives, pointed sticks.
Note to CCP – we’re ripe for invasion now.
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Why bother invading?
They’ve got the administration they want here and our miners are delivering the raw materials they need anyway.
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Gummint (taxpayer) funded bureaucracy of the day. It sounds awfully expensive, 100 dips in 100 days, all that travel around the country.
The only sponsor I could find was the City of Fremantle. Cos that’s why you pay exorbitant rates.
If you go to their FB page you can see the vibe
Sounds like a taxpayer funded holiday to me. I mean, it’s only millionaires who get taxpayer funded holidays
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What they gonna do when they hit the top end and crocs?
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FWIW – another go
“Gergis Accuses Aussie Government of Emissions “Trickery” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/29/gergis-accuses-aussie-government-of-climate-trickery/
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Richard Wolff on How Russia Destroyed NATO’s Economic War, U.S. Dollar Collapses as BRICS Surges (video)
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The imminent 3G shutdown disaster
https://youtu.be/RPlTz-3estM?si=oxGpKw7DgSUNuxll
Even some new 4G and 5G phones may be VoLTE capable but won’t be able to call 000.
You can see if your phone supports VoLTE with your IMEI:
https://amta.org.au/3g-closure/
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Careful JC, you will get admonished for acronym violations.
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I don’t cater to those who can’t type 5 letters into a search engine and get the answer in 10 seconds, or those years behind the times with common knowledge.
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Dear Kevvie, there’s a clue in your title, Ambassador to the US
Crook.
How did Therese get to be worth $250,000,000? That’s right, lots of lovely gummint contracts signed off by Kevvie.
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ChatGPT vs pocket calculator
https://youtu.be/vB9dJt9j-5M?si=gTms_FJP-fnHVmpj
Calculator:1, Fake AI chatbot:0
A quarter pounder burger is bigger than a 1/3rd pounder…
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FWIW – the US hurricane
More “hotrodding the weather”
“The “climate screaming” garbage is once-again screwing people — specifically, hurricane Helene.
That was not a Cat 4 at landfall. There were chasers on the air live that went through the eyewall at Perry, which is a bit more than 10 miles from the coast. I know exactly where they were as I’ve been there. I watched them live while at the same time having a live radar view up as the eyewall went over them.
They were standing unassisted in the alleged “130mph winds” a few minutes before the eye got to them.
Further both before and after the trees were all still up and so were business signs. Yes, there was a very-dramatic video of a shed that blew across a road. It appeared to be one that was for sale at a hardware store or similar that was unanchored and of course has nothing in it for ballast; it got blown around as would be expected in winds of 70mph or so.”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252105
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Gave you a green thumb but the Censorship Bull [sic] disallowed it. Wonder if ex-Helene dropped any SNOW on the Appalachians or hills further north – climate weirding ‘n’ all that stuff y’know.
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A long-winded article about the closure of Britain’s last coal power station. They say roughly 1 per cent from coal, with 35 from gas, 33 per cent from wind and solar, 12 per cent from bioenergy, and 14 per cent from its five nuclear sites. 5% is imported via interconnectors from mainland Europe.
Does that mean they have 33% overcapacity, as gas just replaces wind and solar at night? I assume they are importing the gas, the fake wood for biomass, the uranium and the last 5%, so really the UK is beholden to other countries just to exist.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/britain-flicks-the-off-switch-on-coal-fired-power-after-140-years-20240927-p5kdx9.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Vaccines and boosters are good (for the wallet)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e289a793bad6a1a9b121577d3258f9a5/218d67647ed05166-6b/s1280x1920/8e8c5dd6760ff7235dc1274b30d53ee8e26cc30d.jpg
Safe & effective money makers.
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Monday wisdom
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man”
– Diogenes
“Meh, good enough!”
– Mediocrates
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Have you seen the extremely well thought out “Letter to the Editor” of TCW, entitled “Time for the truth about climate change” from John Beswick, Leicestershire? I think this is something that should be widely read.
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letters-to-the-editor-140/
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Doesn’t seem to have come through.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letters-to-the-editor-140/
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Opinion editorial
The IDF is exposing all the delusions that drive Biden-Harris Mideast policy
By Post Editorial Board
Let’s all give thanks to the Israeli Defense Forces for the operations have that not only gutted Hezbollah, but at long last took out the thugs most responsible for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that slaughtered 220 Marines and 21 other US service members.
Seven US presidents had failed to bring that basic justice.
Bigger picture: Israel’s steady flow of deftly targeted attacks have eviscerated Hezbollah’s leadership and its rocket stocks — and back-footed the civilized world’s ultimate enemy in this conflict, the cabal that controls Iran.
It’s also exposed the fatuousness of all the Western “friends” of Israel who still keep mewling that the only path to Mideast peace starts with the creation of a Palestinian state.
No: The barriers to Mideast peace are now: 1) The Tehran regime and its imperialist ambitions, and 2) the refusal to recognize that Israel can and will continue to exist, in roughly its current borders, as the world’s only J@wish state.
From the Comments
– How embarrassing is it that when the Houthis target our ships and all we do is shoot down their missiles while the IAF flies 1800 km bombs the cr@p out of their ports in retaliation for launching ballistic missiles at Ben Guion Airport.
We and the UK have massive naval and air assets in easy striking distance and can easily turn Yemen into a parking lot; yet the gutless Biden administrative still afraid to directly confront Iran, continues to try to restrain Israel from doing what should have been done 11 minhs ago.
Israel can’t share their plans with Washington for fear of them being leaked by the Israel haters and Iranian sympathizers in the Buden Administration.
– The celebrations in the Middle East are a good sign the Israelis didn’t listen to the big guy in the White House.
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BIDEN COULD HAVE ORDERED THIS ACTION MONTHS AGO BUT FEARED “ESCALATION” EVEN AFTER ONE HOUTHI ATTACK AFTER ANOTHER:
#BREAKING: #Israel Air Force successfully destroyed the entire energy infrastructures of #Houthi terrorists of #Iran’s Isl@mic Regime in Al Hudaydah, #Yemen. This is a response to their recent ballistic missile attacks at #Israel.
The #Houthi’s entire oil and fuel reserves at Al Hudaydah port is burning as a result of #Israeli airstrike and No one can extinguish it. Tt will burn until last drop of oil and fuel there.
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For the First Time in 100 Years, the U.S. Has Become Virtually Irrelevant in World Affairs
“The United States has looked powerless and even irrelevant in recent days as Netanyahu has shrugged off President Joe Biden’s appeals and pressed ahead with attacks,” write NBC News writers Dan De Luce and Abigail Williams.
The article, “Netanyahu, not Biden, is setting the agenda in the Middle East,” paints a damning picture of the decline of American influence in the Middle East and around the world.
Biden is worried about his “legacy”? This is Biden’s legacy, his gift to future generations: a weak, former superpower whose influence beyond our own hemisphere is shrinking.
The most striking evidence we have of America’s waning influence was the lack of notice given to the U.S. about the IDF’s recent bombing campaign in Lebonon. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reportedly furious with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant because he didn’t give the U.S. a heads-up about the targeting of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
“Multiple times, the US has urged Israel to act less aggressively or not to take certain actions against Hezbollah, to avoid” a larger war, writes the J@rusalem Post. The same was true in the decision to withhold information from Austin on the Nasrallah strike. The Israelis knew that Biden would have urged Netanyahu not to kill their deadly enemy for fear of setting off a regional war.
Netanyahu now appears ready to take that risk. And if Iran wants to go toe-to-toe with Israel, they’re welcome to try.
If Biden wants to lobby for the continued existence of Hezbollah, he will be doing it alone. Biden’s position appears to be that because Hezbollah is a player in the Middle East, they need to be treated as equals and afforded all the considerations of a normal, civilized nation.
They aren’t equals, they aren’t civilized, and they certainly aren’t normal.
Yes, Netanyahu is gambling that Iran won’t start a full-scale war and draw in nations like Syria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. But from where I’m sitting, it’s a pretty good gamble with a huge upside. Ridding Israel of the Hamas/Hezbollah threat for a decade would allow for more moderate forces (and moderates are willing to live and work with Israel) to emerge.
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Israel’s Deterrence Lesson for Biden
By killing Hassan Nasrallah, Prime Minister Netanyahu weakens Hezbollah and Iran.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
Israel’s strike Friday against Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is a justified defensive act against an enemy backed by Iran and bent on the Jewish state’s destruction.
It’s also a lesson for the Biden Administration in how to deter an enemy using military force instead of hopeless pleading for restraint and “de-escalation.”
Israel has exhibited remarkable restraint for nearly a year in response to Hezbollah’s thousands of rocket and missile attacks that have made the country’s north uninhabitable. That restraint ended this month, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out it would in the U.S. as well if a terror proxy based in Mexico were firing rockets at El Paso.
Israel has changed its strategy from tit-for-tat responses to a pre-emptive campaign to degrade Hezbollah’s missile stores, launchers and military leadership. These are all justified targets in war. It’s tragic when civilians are also killed, but that is more Hezbollah’s fault. Nasrallah, who knew he was a marked man, located his hideout under residential buildings.
Israel’s campaign has been a remarkable display of intelligence, technological skill, and above all political will. The sabotage of Hezbollah’s pagers and walkie-talkies wounded or killed scores of fighters. Its targeted bombings against Hezbollah’s terror masters showed how much Israeli intelligence has penetrated its communications. It continued to bomb Hezbollah targets on Sunday, including military commanders.
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Tulsi Gabbard: My Urgent Warning To All Americans (video)
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Türkiye’s groundbreaking discovery: 84 square meter mosaic unearthed
What sets this mosaic apart is not only its size but also its artistic detail. Featuring a variety of animal and plant depictions, including lions, mountain goats, ducks, and trees, the mosaic is noted for its unique borders and geometric patterns.
Elazig Governor Numan Hatipoglu described it as one of the largest mosaic pieces discovered in the region, showcasing a vibrant representation of local wildlife and flora.
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COPIED FROM ELSEWHERE.
MORE NANNY STATISM
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Move to the right in Austria.
‘The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues. But its chances of governing were unclear.’ (SCMP)
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‘Austria’s far-right Freedom Party came first in a general election on Sept. 29, according to voter projections. The party is known for its Kremlin-friendly stance and opposition to aid for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.’ (Kyiv Independent)
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“Austria’s far-right Freedom Party.. is known for its Kremlin-friendly stance
So Russia, the epitome of Far Leftness, invaded Ukraine to get rid of the Far Right N*ZIs.. those that supported Germany in WW2 and were crucifying the Russian-speaking Ukrainians.. and now the Far Right Austrian Party is supporting Russia against the Far Right Ukrainians??
I obviously no longer understand what people mean when they say Left and Right in politics.
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Jared Kushner
@jaredkushner
September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.
I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible.
This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent.
President Trump would often say, “Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.” The Islamic Republic’s regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own. Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign reek of desperation and are hardening a large coalition against them.
Iranian leadership is stuck in the old Middle East, while their neighbors in the GCC are sprinting toward the future by investing in their populations and infrastructure. They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind. As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike.
Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity to neutralize Hezbollah in the north. It’s unfortunate how we got here but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end.
Anyone who has been calling for a ceasefire in the North is wrong. There is no going back for Israel. They cannot afford now to not finish the job and completely dismantle the arsenal that has been aimed at them. They will never get another chance.
After the brilliant, rapid-fire tactical successes of the pagers, radios, and targeting of leadership, Hezbollah’s massive weapon cache is unguarded and unmanned. Most of Hezbollah fighters are hiding in their tunnels. Anyone still around was not important enough to carry a pager or be invited to a leadership meeting. Iran is reeling, as well, insecure and unsure how deeply its own intelligence has been penetrated. Failing to take full advantage of this opportunity to neutralize the threat is irresponsible.
I have been hearing some amazing stories about how Israel has been collecting intelligence over the past 10 months with some brilliant technology and crowdsourcing initiatives.
But today, with the confirmed killing of Nasrallah and at least 16 top commanders eliminated in just nine days, was the first day I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel. So many more positive outcomes are possible.
This is a moment to stand behind the peace-seeking nation of Israel and the large portion of the Lebanese who have been plagued by Hezbollah and who want to return to the times when their country was thriving, and Beirut a cosmopolitan city. The main issue between Lebanon and Israel is Iran; otherwise there is a lot of benefit for the people of both countries from working together.
The right move now for America would be to tell Israel to finish the job. It’s long overdue. And it’s not only Israel’s fight.
More than 40 years ago, Hezbollah killed 241 US military personnel, including 220 Marines. That remains the single deadliest day for the U.S. Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima. Later that same day, Hezbollah killed 58 French paratroopers.
And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years. Including Ibrahim Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization who masterminded the 1983 killing of those Marines.
[We usually don’t publish long copied pieces, especially without a link. Here is https://x.com/jaredkushner his twitter X account. I can’t find the original. — Jo]
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https://thenorthernstar.online/2024/09/25/reconstituting-the-nations-britain-and-ireland-after-brexit/ “British citizens were excluded by a duopoly of political parties that ruled Britain, and which had political programmes that barely differed. Everyone accepted Margaret Thatcher’s doctrine that ‘There is no alternative’ to the market. The big questions of political economy were settled and depoliticised. Monetary policy was handed over to the Bank of England; the regulation of the economy, trade, investment, labour markets and much else besides was conducted in the secret diplomatic conclaves of the European Commission and the European Council of Ministers under the watchful eye of the European Court of Justice enforcing the treaties and the four freedoms. Foreign and security policy was similarly conducted in secret in the war councils of NATO.”
‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’.
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“Darwin’s hottest September in more than 100 years
15:15 AEST Temperatures are forecast to reach near 40°C in the western Top End this week as Darwin rounds out its hottest September in reliable records. ”
So… anything hotter than now is unreliable?? No wonder BOM hide their methods!
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Well it’s cold in the southern subtropics.
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Why you should never rely on an EV in a flood, fire or hurricane (video)
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A vision of the disaster which awaits Australia.
Britain’s final coal-fired power station and its penultimate steel plant shut their doors today, a consequence of the government’s hard push for decarbonisation, even at the cost of affordable energy or an indigenous steel making capacity, crucial for the defence industry.
They’re hundreds of miles away from each other but two of the final bastions of the British industrial revolution shut forever today, their respective demises very linked through the slow-burning but very much ongoing British electricity price crisis. Ratcliffe on Soar, once the cutting-edge in coal-fired steam turbine electricity production and the blast furnace at Port Talbot both close on Monday, coincidentally just days after fresh figures show Britain has the most expensive electricity prices in the world by a considerable margin.
Idiocy is not peculiar to Australia. It starts in the UK.
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