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Free Speech Union of Australia have a tool now live that helps you contact a Senator to oppose the Mis/Dis/Info Bill.
It takes less than a minute and will help persuade the Crossbench to do the right thing.
https://freespeechunion.au/stopmisinfo/
Don’t let ACMA decide what you can know.
Write to your senator now to challenge the Misinformation/Disinformation Bill
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Australia’s three conservative parties will oppose it:
United Australia Party (Senator Babet, VIC)
Libertarian Party (but currently no sitting member in Canberra)
One Nation
Don’t forget, it was the fake conservative Liberal Party which originally wanted this legislation and continue to support it, including the e Safety Kommissar (created 2015 by the Turnbull regime). (They might pretend to oppose it now, but they really do want it as it serves their interests, they wouldn’t have previously introduced it otherwise.)
Never believe a fake conservative Liberal.
https://www.paulfletcher.com.au/media-releases/new-disinformation-laws
https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan-protecting-australians-online
The Uniparty are in it together:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/21/peter-dutton-now-backs-laws-to-crack-down-on-above-the-law-social-media-companies-over-misinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/19/anthony-albanese-disinformation-crackdown-liberal-coalition-opposed
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/06/duttons-praise-of-the-e-safety-commissioner-spells-disaster-for-the-liberals/
https://nswliberal.org.au/news/keeping-australians-safe-online
Here is my submission against the legislation. I and 23,000 other submissions were ignored by the current regime.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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The duplicity of the Liberal Party is on show. Unfortunately this is the thin edge of the wedge and people can’t see what is coming for them bless their poor ignorant souls. Trust the government and the mass media – no way!
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I think the legislation might affect supposed “disinformation”, i.e. truth published on this blog as well.
The legislation is actually designed to protect government disinformation while eliminating the propagation of truth from non-government sources like this blog.
I gave numerous examples of government disinformation in my submission.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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Exactly
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‘… i.e. truth published on this blog as well.’
If push comes to shove we could morph into an academic exercise, students in a tutorial environment. They can’t touch us.
Reading through the Bill it seems reasonable and apparently 80% of the electorate are supportive.
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F28033%2F0020%22
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Congratulations David for your thorough submission especially your reminders of how Government is often the author of mis and dis information. If the bill does pass it behooves ACMA to ensure their censors are unbiased and totally independent of government. Members should state their associations on the home page if they want people to take notice of their rulings. We know that they will obey government directions so it will be just another bunch of bureaucrats being well paid to tell lies and stifle truth.
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I think better we just all spread misinformation – ain’t enough prison for everyone! I’ll start: https://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerkaustralia/comments/1fi65cq/i_saw_albo_at_a_colesworths_in_canberra_yesterday/
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Why is it that ANY legislation that is passed or even debated is only there to protect a government from it’s people?That is what THIS legislation is for.We ALL must fight it because if the government can pass this type of legislation in Australia,you can bet that other “Left Wing”governments will try passing this type of legislation to control THEIR PEOPLES.BEWARE the Trojan horse.
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We are now one people, except for
EAT – Equity Adjustment Tool ®️
The previous government introduced EAT* via NZ Health to cater for the large amount of unhealthy Maori & Pacific Islanders not seeking medical care, ie. preferential treatment to a small minority. The present govt has since rolled it back.
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) however still operates a similar scheme [scam] whereby Maori and/or Pacific Island (P.I.) ‘clients’ receive a leg-up: those of P.I. ancestry get a 20% mark-up while Maori score a 30% bonus, y’know, to keep things ‘equal’.
*also called HEAT: Health Equity Adjustment Tool
Forward Stumble Into The Bright Future (FSITBF)!
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If you need a 20 or 30% lift in your academic scores to gain entry to the university, then what chance have you got of completing the course? Maybe the course scores get bumped up too, so then the question flows to the employers, what chance have you got of receiving a competent graduate from that cohort? Should they ask for the grades and reject anyone from the group with less than a 70 or 80% pass mark?
Or, AUT have raised the prospect that there are different IQ scores to be found across different subsets of the human species. I wonder if the 20 and 30% values are indicative of actual tests the university has undertaken or just observations of the entrance values presented. I wonder if they’ll publish the supporting information that lead to the 20 and 30% lift.
Surely someone who wants to cease and desist work at AUT could do a study/presentation on this.
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Of course the ‘subsidy’ of your marks goes all the way through the course, and you graduate with a degree while being 30% stupider than the white guy standing beside you.. Its just one of the factors in picking your dentist or doctor or employee, expect them to be dumber than you’d hope for if they’re a ‘minority’.
Its called a DEI hire and you can see the effects all over society these days. I’ve watched my niece grind her 25% Fijian-ness hard, all the way to a PhD in Pacifica Studies, then into a sinecure in the university education system.
She will live her live comfortably on her race and add nothing to the sum of human knowledge.
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I’m very conscious of using DEI hires for my professional services.
Back in the day it wasn’t an issue. I would assume a person of any race or gender was competent and there on merit.
Now I just assume they are there to fulfill a quota and won’t use them.
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Without prior experience I did an IQ test at the start of high school. Even then I doubted the possibility of making a fair comparison, because not everybody had the same prior experience. I remember that I thought I would have a one point advantage over most of the others because one question involved a chain of gears. Coming from a farm I was familiar with chains of gears.
I found it very interesting when Channel 9 ran an IQ test, with groups selected. The teachers won, but I would have given them a handicap of one point, because there were three questions on sequential numbers. I would expect that more teachers would be familiar with sequential numbers than the average.
One thing I remember about that test is that Paul (“Fatty”) Vautin, one of the hard men in our national Rugby League team, scored 138. That could make him professor of whatever he chose.
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How is it established if you are Pacific Islander or Maori?
DNA or self-identification?
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An Australian court will do it for you or somebody.
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I was driving in country Victoria yesterday in relatively remote location near a State forest. There was a small school located near no residences but had lots of cars and I figure lots of students in their classrooms.
What struck me was the aboriginal flag being flown alongside the white Australian flag. This is not woke faux green infested Melbourne but country Australia. It appears Australia now has two flags. One for the black fella and those claiming to be black and one for the white man. Obviously this this breeds racism from an early stage.
If some Australians are offended by the union jack then lest get rid of it. But if we want a country not engendering racism, surely we need a single flag.
Given the significance of symbols like a country flag, it is truly sad that Australia needs two of them – one for each skin colour or claimed skin colour. Why not a third for those not quite white and not black or claiming black.
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The Victorian Education Department is located in various parts of the world’s most unliveable city. The rural acolytes receive their instructions from commie central. And ask no questions, just as they teach their students.
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Our local Council has four flags. Australian, Torres Straight Islands, indigenous (but not Torres Strait) and the alphabet people flag. The TAFE in Seymour also has four flags although I dont know what they hoist.
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Q. What is a flag?
A. A flag is a rag that some people like to fight over or under.
If you took the Aboriginal flag and stitched on a narrow dark green band right around it you would have a fair map of Australia.
As for the Union Jack, it makes our Australian flag one of the very few flags around the world that actually serves a useful purpose. It tells those who recognise it that here in Australia we speak the English language.
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>What struck me was the aboriginal flag being flown alongside the white Australian flag
Not too many years ago the Eureka Flag used to be commonly visible in country Victoria, and sometimes alongside our national flag, but since it was co-opted by the union movement and more particularly by the CFMEU, it’s been banned from federally funded worksites as an anti-government rebel flag.
My question is, why is the Aboriginal flag not banned from federal sites for exactly the same reason?
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2.5 Minutes of Democrats Explicitly Calling for Using Political Violence
https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1835559913348845988
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That is the premier democracy in the world at work. Then they have the hide to challenge the democratic process in other countries. The US is in free fall decline.
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It looks like Israel has somehow hacked Hezbollah pagers and overheated the lithium batteries, turning them into mini explosive devices. Thousands injured, several killed. As I and others have pointed out before, the same applies to battery cars.
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Maybe they can do it to mobile/cell phones as well. Ouch.
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Thousands of people are wounded when Hezbollah’s new pagers simultaneously explode across Lebanon, killing eight and sparking mass panic, with sources blaming Israel (article)
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It’s more likely that the pagers were rigged with explosives and the firmware was altered.
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Yes, possible, I posted so immediately after below. (This site behaves so bad on my phone it’s impossible to edit or comment threads in a sensible timeframe).
Still getting speculation on both scenarios currently.
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I agree. Perhaps a hack could have caused the batteries to overheat and catch fire but I don’t think they could be made to explode with high energy.
And an excellent job by (allegedly) Israel to reach out an eliminate terrorists, wherever they may be.
Remember what the terrorists say, “first the Saturday people then the Sunday people”. They are coming for all Westerners, not just Israelis. And the slave army of useful idiots of the Left are aiding and abetting them. And they will eventually come for the Left as well after they have outlived their usefulness as the terrorists have zero tolerance for LGBT or “feminist” BS (even though the Left support the use of those instruments of female oppression, hijabs, burkhas etc..
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possible.
Several decadesago when this sort os sctivity was first getting out of hand( pre mobile phones) the sand-pitares were using things like 2-way radios with “sel-call” muting and such toys. The iDF figured that the bombers would probaly do “test-runs odf the initiator system before attaching the explosove,
So they set up banks of svanners and recorders and “filed a lot of such transmission tests.
Then,they amused themselves playing back the tone sequences on continuous loop on multiple frequencies. Every so often a loud “bang” would emanate from a building or car, with the bomb detonating as soon as the power was switched on.
Sometimes, premature detonations were directly linked to the terrorist organizations, themselves .
There are recorded cases, complete with “interesting” photographs of “own goals”.
The caper was to recruit some inbred sucker to go to a crowded place with a couple of hand grenades to do mayhem.
To avoid “problems” the puppet-masters swapped-out the 5-7 second fuze in the soviet-made grenades and inserted (it is a threaded connection) an instantaneous fuze, normally used for demolition or booby=traps. As soon as the “lever” (‘spoon”) was released; BOOM. VERY messy, especially in a crowded theatre, cafe or bus.
Dead bunnies, especially those reduced to pulp from the waist up, tell no tales. Nor do most of the people within 5-10 metres. of the “martyr”.
The usual “sweetness and light” from the usual suspects.
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So it’s Israel’s fault when Chinese manufactured pagers explode.
Just wait until their camels start doing the same thing!! 😂😂😂😂😂
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I am not surprised knowing who owns the Motorola company.
A small reed relay to short the lithium battery would create the pyrotechnics.
Like Huawei, Pokemon and Tiktok.
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It appears the Apollo Pagers web sites have been shut down.
Almost certain that Israel had knowledge of the order and intercepted them to fit explosive.
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These tactics are below the belt. But no doubt they got the message.
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Don’t put a pager in your pocket. There’s not much less nuts than that.
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Think I now know why they call an electronics manufacturer a Dick Smith.
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If you aren’t cheating in war you aren’t serious.
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There is some irony to rules of engagement.
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In case there was any doubt. My lines are jokes given the bodily area affected on most of the targets.
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Unbelievable hack of Hezbollah pagers causes them to explode simultaneously!
Now that’s a hack. I would not have thought it possible! Devastating.
Hezbollah changed from mobile phones to prevent Israeli tracking. Thousands of Hezbollah members have been seriously injured as these devices worn at the waist exploded simultaneously. Video shows one exploding while the wearer is buying fruit in a marketplace.
No need to report a design fault with these devices. That’s cyber warfare. Dial a bomb.
I find this very difficult to believe. But even if it is one tenth true, you can imagine all Hezbollah fighters will ditch the things, leaving them without communications. I suppose exploding underpants will be next, not that it would affect Hezbollah.
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Imagine if some foreign power could do that to Smart phones! Having said that, the day when Advanced Society falls down around our ears when a malignant hack destroys the internet functionality of Banks, Water, travel and Comms, can’t be far away.
As TS Eliot (not George Orwell) nearly said “The world will end not with a bang but a cyber attack.”
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Now 8 killed, 2,800 injured! I have no idea how this is possible without a small charge in the pager at production. And why would anyone detonate it now?
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Why not now?
They are not going to stay hidden for ever.
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There is nothing in a pager to explode. Except a little C4 in assembly with a detonator connected to an output of the CPU. If it’s true, Hezbollah must have ordered 3,000 pagers from Murder Inc. on Hezbollah letterhead. Except one went in for repair. Or they didn’t pay the bill. Debt collection in the Middle East is a tough game.
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The amount required was quoted at only 50 grams.
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As for the current idea that software made the Lithium batteries explode, that’s silly. A fire yes, explode no. And these batteries would be much smaller than in a typical phone. AA, AAA, 9V. But plenty of room for 50gm of C4. in these old devices. Probably from Ibn Bin Bombing Inc.
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“According to reports in Israeli and US media, the pagers, manufactured in Taiwan by Gold Apollo, were intercepted before they were delivered to Lebanon. Explosives were placed inside, along with a switch to set them off remotely.” I expect a CPU I/O output to a detonator and firmware change. A coded signal would have done it.
It would certainly cripple Hezbollah prior to an attack by IDF. And make it clear that it is very dangerous to be a member of Hezbollah.
“According to the New York Times, the blasts were triggered at 3.30pm by a message sent to 3,000 pagers that appeared to be from Hezbollah leaders. The pagers sounded for several seconds before they were detonated.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD24VY0YWdQ
a bit skew wiff I know.
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So Hezbollah accepted these pagers without examination and apparently they were blown up before anybody had to replace the battery. I could understand Albo and Bowen being so naive. But Hezbollah? These were supposed to replace cell phones which were too easy to use against them, but they couldn’t have even looked inside before use, nor examined what they were receiving.
How little C4 would one need to be painted over or pasted inside to do this damage if that’s how it worked? Bowen needs to do a quick rethink of all these solar panels and wind turbines he is planting everywhere in Australia, from China. Even the EU must be trembling a little right now. Eventually, when this incident is gone and forgotten, we see just how easy it could be to implant such stuff in any main renewables power structure or EV.
As for those huge batteries Bowen wants to pay billions for to simply keep anywhere running for a couple of hours! Last year learned people were warning they can explode with force almost of mini nuke proportions. The trick used by the Israelis (presumably)? One little computer switch could theoretically completely paralyse a nation with huge death numbers, immobility and real estate destruction. That’s a cheap version for modern warfare.
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Tomorrow it will be claimed that the pagers were those used by women and children.
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There is now a claim that a 2 year old died.
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Hardly an outlandish claim. It is highly likely that innocent people were proximal to a device attached to not so innocent people
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All very true Professor, but can you shed any light on how pagers explode simultaneously !
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5.2.1.1.1 A page sent to them all with a coded message which the firmware interpreted to turn on a voltage output to the detonator.
And only one 2 year old, but 2800 Active Hezbollah terrorists. Hezbollah are actively launching rockets every day into Israel.
Claimed to have 100,000 members, Hezbollah is bigger than the Lebanese army. And “Either the entire organization or only its military wing has been designated a terrorist organization by several countries, as well as by the European Union.”
Terrorism works both ways.
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you know this? Actually you don’t. It is a false statement.
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No, I don’t. It’s what Hezbollah said. And I agree. They exaggerate.
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Media reports on this are easy to find.
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Why would Hezbollah give “strangers” access to their communication network? Outsiders would still be using their cell phones.
Two daughters of terrorists have died, it seems, but since when have Jewish children been off limits?
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“Two daughters of terrorists have died, ”
Do we know that? ..or is it just cover for a couple of young girls who were killed standing in the supermarket queue and sitting on a bus beside people they didn’t know.
If someone had done this to Israel or America the world would be on fire from TERRORISTS! Yet Israel gets a free pass from the official bodies as usual.
It might change Taiwan’s terms of trade in the future, never to be trusted again.
“According to The New York Times, unnamed officials from the US and elsewhere are saying that Israel planted the explosive materials in the pagers before they reached Lebanon after Hezbollah ordered them from a Taiwanese manufacturer. …Israel is so creepy. Everyone already sees them as rapey genocidal baby killers, and then they have to go and commit this weird terror attack in the creepiest way possible and freak everyone out, to no clear and meaningful strategic gain. ”
-Caitlin Johnstone
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Unfortunately there will always be collateral damage when terrorists deliberately embed themselves among civilians in schools, hospitals, UN offices etc..
The collateral civilian deaths are engineered by the terrorists for propaganda purposes. Had the terrorists been observing the laws of war, they would not be among civilians.
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Its the collateral damage that causes the fear. Hence, if bikies kill bikies the constabulary says don’t worry, it was just some internecine problem between warring bikies. Terrorism can’t be dismissed and fear is used to incite the civilians to react against the helplessness of the governments to control when and where they strike. Eventually a truce has to be called and peace is restored only by paying off the terrorists to their advantage.Then it begins again.
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“peace is restored only by paying off the terrorists to their advantage.Then it begins again.”
That’s how Israel has expanded since 1949.
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I don’t understand all the red thumbs. Is it a Hezbollah, Hamas or other pro-terrorist Leftist bot?
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There is a lot of anti-West groupthink here. I’ve improved my average today.
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The more flak the closer you are to the target. And there’s nothing the flakkers can do to hide their flak.
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Iranian Ambassador outed:
Faytuks News
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BREAKING – Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani injured by pager explosion, Iran’s Mehr news agency reports – Reuters
12:19 AM · Sep 18, 2024
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“all Hezbollah fighters will ditch the things, leaving them without communications. ”
Maybe its ‘Wag the Dog’ for exactly the reason you mention? Would Israel film some rubbish then release a whole lot of ‘news’ via their patsy media friends. Sowing discord and confusion in the enemy is easier than trying to kill them.
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Frankly, I thought pagers were obsolete and had been for about two decades or more.
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Of course they are, but unlike cell phones they are passive and can’t be tracked. Hezbollah see this as good reason to use them. Conversely, non-terrorists would see them as useless and stick to their cell phones.
It would be safe to say that only terrorists and their immediate family were at risk.
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The pagers were a strategy to go lower tech and less prone to listening over phone networks. I expect all countries have the technology to intercept mobile phone messages and conversation. Also examine who is being called by whom and so on. Much easier to limit access to pager traffic.
I expect this will be highly disruptive for Hezbollah. I doubt they have ability to make their own pagers so there is the risk of interception for anything that is imported.
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Still quite popular in the medical field. Long battery life and can be used where mobile phone coverage not allowed in hospitals. I think a lot of surgeons etc, use them.
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Didn’t the Russian airforce years ago revert to using old fashioned valves in their aircraft because they weren’t exposed to radio wave interference like aircraft based on modern electronics? Seems to be the same principle but fortunately for them, it appears no experts could have checked out the pagers; they might have lost some hands at least in the doing.
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Vacuum tubes have always been known to be electronic shock resistant. Conversely they are prone to physical shock and have finite, rather short lives. There is an awful lot of vibration on aircraft.
The Cerano RADAR at the pointy end of the Mirage had vacuum tubes but I assume that was because silicone had not been well developed at the time.
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The use of “bottles” in soviet electronics was not abut “reversion” nor capability, but the simple fact that semi-conductors, especially the zillions of them in high-density integrated circuits, are susceptible to the “Electro-Magnetic Pulses as generated by tactical and “Strategic” nuclear weapons.
The old glass technology is potentially subject to damage from shock-waves or impacts, and are WAY more bulky,but the thinking was thet the “winner” of a nuclear exchange would be the one whose battlefield electronics were still working as the dust was settling.
Just for giggles: Virtually ALL of the vacuum tubes still used for rebuilding old radios, guitar amplifiers, etc. are made in a couple pf plants in Russia and, apparently, China.
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Philips once made them, and most bits for TVs, in Adelaide.
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No exploding underpants! They don’t wear any. That goes for the female of the specie too!
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This is an amusing short satirical piece about Ed Miliband The UK’s climate Minister and former head of the Labour Party
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rayners-lane-comprehensive-mr-miliband-goes-off-pop/
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“The Schwab Klinik, based in the sleepy Swiss hamlet of Davos, has long offered controversial miracle remedies for gullible people, many with more money than sense. “
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Ha, ha, ha. This satirical piece could also apply to Blackout/Bonehead Bowen.
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A different source is saying the pagers were recently supplied in quantity to Hezbollah, and may have somehow been sabotaged with explosives, triggered by a coded message.
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Wondering if the coded message was Alahu Ahkba.
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I heard it was “pull my finger”.
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Apparently it was more religiously motivating.
With the real irony being since the pager is generally worn on the belt their junk would have been junked so no 72 for them.
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Such a lot of sympathy this morning! 😇😇😇😇
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The climate Armageddon/catastrophe/crisis has spawned alarm with many disasters-which aren’t actually happening
https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/opinion/shrinking-island-vanishing-polar-bears-the-climate-scare-stories-that-turn-out-to-be-false/
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A climate crisis is happening in the low part of the Victorian high country. Yet another frost this morning! Its spring don’t ya know, and while the odd light frost is not unusual the somewhat continuous freezing mornings is quite unusual.
My Brazilian Grape tree that I have nurtured for the last fifteen years may not survive this endless cold.
This tree really does originate from the Amazon and should never have had much of a chance in the high country but was planted “just for fun” and has actually produced a couple of good crops of fruit that grow directly from the branches and truck. The round, black fruits about 2 cm in diameter strangely reminiscent of grapes and good to eat. Even though the tree is covered it looks very badly damaged, curse this climate change!
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Yesterday (Sept 17) was the “coldest minimum” temperature EVER recorded in Adelaide – 1.5℃.
Made on one of the TV stations that usually talk about Global Warming but strangely NO MENTION. Possibly even the believers could see the irony there.
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At last we have our own CC catastrophic weapon.
Report them to the minister for truth. Let’s see what she does!!
We all know of course!
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The Left want Trump dead because they don’t want an anti-war, pro-energy or anti-Big Pharma President as it will hurt their means of power and control and financial interests in the Military Industrial Complex, Big Green and Big Pharma.
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>The Left want Trump dead because…
The oligarchy don’t want their treason exposed. In the US the penalty is death or minimum 5 years jail.
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The Dems have no reason to fear jail, even if Trump was, by some miracle, allowed to win. America’s ‘justice’ system is more or less fully under the control of the Swamp and so will ensure the perps walk free.
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‘ … even if Trump was, by some miracle, allowed to win …’
The odds are against him winning, which might be a blessing in disguise, Donald is showing signs of cognitive illness.
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It is more personal than that: Thousands have committed crimes, some very serious, so serious they are willing to murder to prevent being brought to justice.
Policy differences would cause the (D)s to aim to bring down Donald but the intent is to bring down the whole family and the empire.
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Gulf of Maine floating lease sale Oct 29
https://renews.biz/95749/date-set-for-13gw-maine-auction/
Squeezing it in just before the election.
My research on this floating fiasco is now in report form:
“Maine’s Massive Floating Wind Folly”
http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Maines-massive-floating-wind-folly.pdf
Half on Maine’s plan and half on the Gulf leases.
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Surely there is a likely prosecution (of ‘diverting road funds”) if The Republicans win the election?
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A comment on Australian politics; many of us want to know why the PM is so desperate for Muslim vote but seemly uninterested in the rest of us. His so called reforms, his lies and incompetence is alienating him from the average Aussie.
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The problem is that the safe Liberal seats are too expensive, so they end up in the cheap Labour seats.
Very unlike the US immigration plan to stack the Republican states in the South and flip the red states blue.
Except the Southern Governors like Abbott in Texas are flying them North to Martha’s Vinyard or the blue ‘Sanctuary’ cities or even the small towns which cannot handle the volume.
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As the Left continue their assault on our civilisation, I am concerned about the future of museums.
They are being remade by the Left from traditional presenters of objective fact and artefacts, to being of an “interpretive” nature where specific Leftist agendas are spoken of and promoted and histories are being rewritten. As well, artefacts not in accord with the Official Narrative are being removed.
In addition, artefacts, allegedly stolen, are being “returned” to their places of origin. Firstly, in many or most cases they were legally acquired or their was no functional Government in the place they came from and secondly, had they not been brought to Western museums, the artefacts would likely not now exist. The West saved them!
YouTube channel History Debunked discusses some cases in Once Great Britain:
https://youtu.be/PRXQ5oSeaOM
https://youtu.be/nsOUsMVrbcM
https://youtu.be/KZUHYB8PmKI
https://youtu.be/vW1zSiQtRis
https://youtu.be/O_P786SBAo4
https://youtu.be/_pF9WJ2c8F8
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I haven’t visited a museum for decades but when I was a frequent visitor the one thing that stood out about Australian aborigines was the absolute lack of clothing on display. Today, when you see people of mixed race present to parliament, they are invariably draped in “traditional” finely crafted possum or kangaroo skin capes and coats.. No where have I read or seen aborigines being skilled workers of skins or hide. There is the odd reference to kangaroo skins being fastened over shoulders but finely crafted “clothing” , to my knowledge, never existed.
Like a manufactured “welcome to country” the fine fur work is an attempt to prove aboriginal culture was far more sophisticated than it actually was.
Even now it appears that these fine furs are in fact possum skins from New Zealand and processed in China, I have no idea where the tailoring is done, but probably not in a bush camp beside a stream.
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Annabelle Boswell wrote an account of her childhood in the NSW Capertee Valley. She recalled a very small familial group of aborigines there in the mid 19th century.
She describes the possum cloaks worn by the older men and particularly notes the skilled work done to secure the cloaks. The skins were pierced by finely honed bones & dried sinews, as I recall, were used for ties. It sounds primitive – when it was compared to fine English needlework., but it wasn’t without skill.
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Canberra temperature fell to -6.9 a few nights ago.
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I bet they weren’t keeping warm with their supposed, “100% Renewable Energy”, another lie based on a fraudulent accounting trick from the Kanberra Klowns.
In this 7 sec video clip Obi-Wan warns Luke Skywalker about the dangers of entering Canberra:
https://youtu.be/Xcb4_QwP6fE
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No kidding?
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This is the dry season in the top end, Darwin just picked up its heaviest September rain in 43 years.
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FWIW
“This Detail Makes the Second Trump Assassination Attempt So Much Worse Than We Thought”
A tale of two golf courses
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/09/17/this-detail-makes-the-second-trump-assassination-attempt-so-much-worse-n4932599
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“The best of hands, the best of hands!”
“Trump Golf Course Gunman Exploited Security Gap That’s Been Known for Years: Report”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/trump-golf-course-gunman-exploited-security-gap-known/
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I’d say it’s been a pretty bad week for the ABC with all the war allegations, on top of all the pile ons in recent years. In complete denial of course, for your viewing –
Why, they could be talking about themselves but self-reflection and the ABC don’t go together. Also recommended is this week’ Planet America Fireside Chat where tortuous language to make black seem white, up seem down and left seem right fills 55 minutes. If only they’d do a little fact check on a search engine other than Google.
PS Ita’s doing TV ads to give your kids more vaccines. Nice little earner for someone with no credibility.
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The ABC has been doing a lot of online ads – losing watchers \ listeners \ readers are we? I wonder why.😎️
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Unlike the last fraudulent and manipulated US Election, there is (apart from this blog) a major free speech outlet for this election, X.
Conservatives and Leftists will be on an even footing with no shadow banning, lies or censorship of either party and no instructions on who or what to censor by treasonous King George III loyalist elements within the US Government.
Thank you Elon Musk.
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“Unlike the last fraudulent and manipulated US Election, there is (apart from this blog) a major free speech outlet for this election.”
I wonder why there has been no substantiation of manipulation or fraud of the 2020 election. In fact Trump was repeatedly advised by members of his own administration that there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Nine days after the 2020 election, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement saying, “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” The statement was co-written by the groups representing the top elections officials in every state.
At various times, Trump and his legal team falsely alleged that voting machines were built in Venezuela at the direction of President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013; that machines were designed to delete or flip votes cast for Trump; and that the U.S. Army had seized a computer server in Germany that held secrets to U.S. voting irregularities.
None of those claims was ever substantiated or corroborated. CISA’s joint statement released after the election said, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised.”
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It was the lack of voter ID and electoral roll integrity that flipped the election.
The exact methods were documented in “2000 Mules”.
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Do you mean this 2000 Mules?
https://meidasnews.com/news/fake-documentary-2000-mules-yanked-from-streaming-site
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Meidas Touch News (MTN)
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We can be assured that this election will be free and fair.
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By whom?
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Don’t worry, scrutineers will be out in force, nobody is going to call this election a farce.
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“By whom?”
The same people that said that the last time?
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Anyone who actually believes that Biden gained more votes than any other US Presidential election in history…….needs to seriously rethink their judgement.
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Over on the American websites it seems the naughty Mr Routh was 345m away from GEOTUS. And one of the security chaps saw a rifle amongst the bushes. Pretty remarkable eyesight for 345m or amazing technology.
Meanwhile, here in Straya, the gummint and institutional brainwashing continues apace.
Choose wisely, Elbow.
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He had a scope! Probably uncovered while he watched. That’s the famous weakness of all sniper rifles, the chance of a point of light in the darkness from reflecting sunlight. A single sparkle against a dark background. And the agents were walking around looking at every place someone could hide, like bushes or rooftops or trees. Even a beer can on the ground would be investigated. Bushes attract attention. And if he used the scope to look at the agents, the chance of a momentary reflection being seen is very high. The agent did not shoot because he saw the black rifle. He could not have seen it. He shot at the scope. Every agent lives in fear of a sniper.
He had also hung two black bags on the fence to create a slit for shooting and protection against return fire. Which is why he was not hit. This sniper wanted to live, sell the movie, escape.
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And as I wrote before, he had a GoPro on the fence. It is probably the only reason Trump is still alive. He wanted a movie and the GoPro would not be useful at that distance. That movie would be worth a fortune. A petty crook, he wanted the money too.
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Was that the distance from Trump?
Maybe the agent was nearer the person; that is, not with
Trump.
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Last I heard it was about 1/4 mile, So ~400 meters, ~440 yards.
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I had the impression the shooter was around 350m from Trump but the spotting agent was checking the grounds the golfers would be coming along ie closer to the sniper position.
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The agent was on the next hole, so close enough to try with his hand gun.
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The Secret Service was sweeping one or two holes ahead of the playing group according to the early reports.
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“WeightWatchers Australia has confirmed it will slash staff as the global group struggles for financial survival against a new generation of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. The group’s Australian arm, which has about 150 staff under payroll, plus contractors, confirmed the cuts had resulted from a move to cease in-person and online meetings, which have formed a core part of the program’s success.”
Weird.. I haven’t noticed a drop in the number of over-weight people walking around the city streets.. No fall in the number of Australian heart attacks, or a reduction in ambulance waiting times..
Maybe Weightwatchers is just too old to be relevant, new diet-food delivery companies, a new gym culture, or people just don’t worry about being fat now. ..or maybe calorie-counting and low-fat is NOT the way to lose weight!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/weightwatchers-australia-forced-to-shed-staff-as-ozempic-effect-takes-toll-20240917-p5kb48.html
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So, another win for Big Pharma.
The alternative for losing weight is to eat more meat and animal fats, eliminate seed oils and sugar(s) and massively reduce or eliminate other carbs. Ideally, the best diet is full carnivore.
And it would also help meat farmers who are struggling due to the Left’s war against meat and agriculture in general.
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No its not. The best way to lose weight is to eat LESS and exercise MORE. The simple proof for the results of eating less is to look at any video of an African refugee camp.
Eating less junk food is R Kennedy Jr’s message. Albeit my son disagrees that the problem can be fixed in a 4 year term. He gave the example of two women he came across on a recent stint locuming in a Queensland hospital. Both in their 30s and both too large in girth to fit through the aperture of their scanner. Even if they had a larger scanner the results would be inconclusive because of the layers of fat the beam has to penetrate.
You cannot fix a lifetime of indulgence in 4 years. Learning discipline requires time and effort.
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Re “You cannot fix a lifetime of indulgence in 4 years. Learning discipline requires time and effort.”
Probably a better chance if applied in the first four years though
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All part of the joys of a Welfare State..
You can get paid for your indulgences and then get paid again to fix any side-effects.
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We’re going to hear so much more about these GLP-1 drugs (Ozempic etc). Already 15m users in the US, so expect Australia to follow suit. We just follow the lead of the US when its comes to pharmaceutical use and health. Sheeplike. Plus, we know the medical fraternity will just fall in line and be prescribing them in great volume. This is Statins Mark 2. Now the makers are also claiming reduced heart disease effects with these drugs. So, take Ozempic and improve your health, but don’t worry about good diet, quality sleep, exercise, sunlight, hydration, stress etc. No profit in any of those.
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And don’t forget your latest booster: what are they up to now, 18, 19, 1984?
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FWIW
Karl Denninger (Market Ticker) a while back had a look at the downside of these which I don’t have to hand.
Didn’t sound inviting.
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‘Attack on our democracy’: Andrew Bolt blasts Labor’s ‘dangerous’ attitude towards free speech (video)
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Re University teaching/are standards dropping, is there any comment from more recent graduates about the content of this physics second year exam from the mid-1960s?
Can anyone flash up a page from a more recent exam so I can compare?
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/exam_paper_1960s.jpg
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Government control of information/misinformation is a laugh with recent exposure of the govt propaganda organisation, All Bullsh*t Channel, presenting fake doctored video as evidence of Heston Russell’s guilt of shooting prisoners.
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At least Albo et al have some insight. How handicapped would they be if they couldn’t use mis/disinformation in everything THEY say and do, and to support themselves at every election. Hence they exclude politicians and academics from the legislation. Couldn’t Jo be regarded as an ‘academic’ when it comes to this blog? Be an interesting High Court challenge and would put a definition to the word ‘academic’. Does one have to be a teacher or attached to a University to be classed as an ‘academic’? How is it defined for this legislation?
The hypocrisy is remarkable. It legitimises the heaviest users of mis/disinformation, the politicians and their mates in academia and anyone ‘collegiate’ no doubt. It aims to penalise free speech used as counter-argument against what they try to sell. This legislation imo uses mis/disinformation to legitimise itself. It claims its to be protective of the naive against the internet hordes.
It’s not surprising the Coalition first came up with the idea; it had elected so many wets that it looked like the centre left of the Labor Party. Nobody knows what it stands for anymore. It shows many of the non wets in general are weak, naive, or keen to say nothing to prevent the appearance of being split just before the election. Dutton has to think this through very quickly or he is condemning himself and the coalition to another lost election. They’re disconnected from their traditional voters. They have too many wets still. The aphrodisiac of power dominates over good policy to be fought for.
Labor is confronted by the power and funds of the Big Business leaders abandoning their incautious partnering with labor and confronting it on policies. But the coalition stays mute on this one matter that will cut the ground from under its feet when it assists in sacrificing our freedoms of speech it needs in the Australian electorate to survive.
The coalition is wilfully dumb. It can’t read decade old tea leaves telling it many of its supporters have abandoned it because it cannot stick to its raison d’etre. That’s what the wets do. Supporters have moved on, voting for any other Party with policies that resemble support for liberalism. The Liberal Party is just one more victim of the leftist march through the institutions and it is weakened due to it.
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Hezbollah Fall Apart As Fighters Drop At Once!!! (video)
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A girl goes to UCI Medical in California for treatment of her blood condition (that she has had her whole life).
She was completely unvaccinated (did not have any vaccines ever). Doctors at UCI Medical refused to treat her unless she got up-to-date on the missed childhood vaccines.
They gave her the Tetanus vaccines (TdaP), the Meningitis vaccines (MenABCWY) and the pneumonia vaccine (PNEU-C-15) as a start and this is what happened
https://x.com/DrBenTapper1/status/1835890399124050163
CONTENT WARNING
Thank big pharma, again…
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Woke Canberra. 6 mins. ToM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TQTCJwAdzs8&list=WL&index=6
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I wonder if this white Australian could self declare as aboriginal and have the barramundi for lunch?
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I wonder if this white Australian could self declare as aboriginal and hunt turtles traditionally in a tinnie and with a rifle. I believe they are delicious but will never know.
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Israeli spies were behind pager bomb attack that wounded thousands, humiliated Iran and left Middle East on brink: Mossad and IDF put explosives in Hezbollah gadgets imported from Taiwan, sources confirm – as terror group vows revenge (article)
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FWIW
Fringe benefits
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_2428-600×587.png
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My seasonal forecast weatherman-
“You also need to be aware that this NOAA dataset of ‘SST anomaly graphs’ was corrupted in May 2022 to emphasis the appearance the rapid global warming was still occurring. Thus major cool anomalies only show up as slightly cool regions, whereas slightly warm regions as now shown as extremely hot.
This means it only takes a small amount of ‘cool’ SST to produce the worst drought for 50years (as is the present condition for SW Victoria) and it also means the present La Nina is much more advanced and stronger than being depicted. What appears as a weak La Nina these days is likely to produce some major rain events.”
I remember him producing two images a week apart showing how NOAA had re-shaded the oceans.
He reckons a ‘very rare’ planetary alignment gave us anomalous hot weather, with some more to come, then it will rapidly cool.
Best rains in New Moon periods Oct and Nov, average rain over Dec/Jan then drying out.
I read his subscription forecast, it has some fascinating background information each season.
https://thelongview.com.au/
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US companies are “friendshoring” from China to India. We are strengthening the BRICS bloc instead. (video)
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‘Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has expressed his astoundment for Donald Trump’s “resilient” mentality following the second assassination attempt on the former US president.
“I couldn’t personally fathom what it would be like to have one assassination attempt but to know it happened again… I can’t imagine what that does to your mental health,” Mr Spicer told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.’ (Sky News)
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FWIW
“Folks & Comms Companies Finally Noticing Privacy?”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/folks-comms-companies-finally-noticing-privacy/
Chiefio is exploring
Starts at
“2 Tech 4 Liberty- Meshtastic, I2P”
“The What & Why
This is just a kind of a “Marker Posting” that will also point to some prior work / art.
The purpose? There is now a “War on freedom of speech”. It is accelerating. So what had been a “someday hypothetical” is, right now, real and present danger.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/2-tech-4-liberty-meshtastic-i2p/
and works up to that current thread
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LoRa Meshtastic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DumgHz56IjI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdN1iy4MKOI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knyg6EEiGOo , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-pcRP8yp3I
is a low bit rate peer to peer mesh network text communication system.
I2P – there are many places where personal data is intercepted including email servers and browsers. I2P does not address those from what I can see.
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RAF Waddington, 17th September 2024. Afternoon sorties 4x Finnish F-18s & 4x Canadian F-18s. (video)
boy’s toys moment 😀️
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Negotiate with Moscow to end the Ukraine war and prevent nuclear devastation
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump Jr.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4882868-negotiate-with-moscow-to-end-the-ukraine-war-and-prevent-nuclear-devastation/
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“We need to demand, right now, that Harris and President Biden reverse their insane war agenda and open direct negotiations with Moscow.”
Biden?? Who?? Is he still President? Anyone seen him in a month? Still alive even? What the hell sort of country is that?
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Putin will have one of the cleanest Govt around by the time he’s finished-
“The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case against the head of the armored service of the Central Military District, Major General Denis Putilov, who is suspected of receiving a bribe. According to the investigation, Putilov received 10 million rubles from a representative of an individual entrepreneur for receiving preferences in the execution of a state defense order. The value of the contracts exceeded 140 million rubles”
14% for the Big Guy…
There have been over a dozen senior military personnel prosecuted since 2022.
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How Israeli spies ‘stashed explosives in 5,000 European-made pagers at production level (article)
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There is a new innovation in toilet paper.
The perforations are wavy rather than straight.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/toilet-paper-no-tear-charmin-wavy-edges-ultra-soft.html
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Elon Musk: The Dems explicitly called for Trump to be shot and now two people have answered that call
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836086079994122539?t=TWqRp3rbdCHyomPiPnPVhQ&s=19
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Video 1minute25sec
https://x.com/BelannF/status/1836118997189660945?t=iTw8eLiBKkYc7dJlv9JoIQ&s=19
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Mark Mills points out the harsh reality about the enormous scale of materials (and horrendous environmental impact) required for net zero.
Video (5 minutes)
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1836304166349586730?t=s4jXREyrnFcU9XvLifZb8Q&s=19
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