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UK Government consulting on a Carbon Border ‘adjustment’ …
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-introduction-of-a-uk-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism
Not covered by the BBC in its coverage of today’s Budget, which raises taxes by £40,000 million.
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“Detail of outcome
“On 21 March 2024, the previous government published a consultation entitled ‘Introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism from January 2027’. The consultation ran for 12 weeks and received over 340 responses from a variety of domestic and international stakeholders, including from UK and overseas industry, trade associations, importers, think tanks and academics. The consultation set out proposals for the design and administration of the UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). A full summary of responses and the government response is available here.
“The government response confirms that a UK CBAM will be introduced on 1 January 2027. The UK CBAM will place a carbon price on some of the most emissions intensive industrial goods imported to the UK from the aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen and iron & steel sectors that are at risk of carbon leakage. Products from the glass and ceramics sectors will not be in scope of the UK CBAM from 2027. The sectoral scope of the UK CBAM will be kept under review beyond 2027.”
My bold – I guess prices will, necessarily, rise.
China – possibly – may be unhappy.
Also the US if Trump wins and cuts the green nonsense … and anyway Sir Starmer may be in DJT’s bad books over his folk canvassing for Kamala . . .
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It’s extraordinary that no one has proven a connection between fossil fuel CO2 and atmospheric CO2 beyond mild coincidence and yet the government cash grab never stops. And no one has proven that growing trees reduces CO2, and yet there are hundreds of tree UK farms at public expense to reduce atmospheric CO2.
NASA even announced a 26 years satellite study which showed that tree coverage have expanded massively world wide without reducing CO2, but still the religious belief in controlling CO2 not least by growing trees is enshrined in legislation and the cash grab continues. And there are half a million massive windmills to dwarf the equally inexplicable Easter Island Statues.
Now we have inter government trade based CO2 taxes, levies, charges, certificates. The myth and business of man controlled CO2 and CO2 controlled weather is booming. None of this is science. The parable of Chicken Little is the only explanation. And who is Foxy Loxy? China and the UN?
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The governments of the world don’t care what the problem is, all that matters is that the solution is more taxes.
Have you ever known a government to walk away from an option of raising a new tax, (avoiding the need to cut spending or raise existing taxes).
The public, in general, are too thick to realise that ALL taxes will result in them having less of their own money in their pocket. The public, if asked, would conclude that taxing a large importer would have absolutely no cost to them as consumers. Since the consumer buys only from the ‘local’ shops.
You can’t help thick, and the government play on this.
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The major invention was to not have Carbon taxes at all. So we enter the world of government administered and illegal theft. In the form of carbon credits and certificates which people have to buy and the cash goes to third parties like buyers of windmills, solar panels or tree growers. I expect the big one will be people who get carbon credits for not chopping down trees, so no effort whatsoever and massive cash income for nothing. Russia with its huge forests should be able to cash in big time. China received millions in carbon credits for building hydroelectric which they were building anyway. No shortage of Green cash, your money. And no need to tell you.
The great thing about not having taxes is that the government cannot be questioned. The money does not go into General Revenue like a tax. In fact the public has no idea where it is all going and no one is accountable. It’s not in the budget. The Treasurer has to answer no questions. Fantastic.
In Australia our new 35% CO2 ripoff on all shipping, trucking, manufacturing, sewage, agriculture, flying etc. is paid by the unsuspecting customers and the Australian carbon credits are received and cashed in by anyone who doesn’t chop down trees or till fields or do anything evil like growing food. Public servants invented this scam in 2001 with the Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act and this was copied in the UK. It’s so well hidden most politicians and pundits are still arguing for a carbon tax!
And of course it is all illegal, a betrayal of trust, ripoff and utterly deceitful. Banned since Magna Carta, the government forcing the enrichment of third parties, friends of the King. But that’s how the modern Green government works, making manufacturing, even heating your home unaffordable. And the government is never held to account. Death to evil capitalism by anonymous Green public servants who write the laws no one reads.
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The greening of the planet is because of increasing CO2 and there is a worldwide decline in tropical cyclones on account of global warming. Its looking positive, we only have to communicate the fact that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere is not human induced.
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Exactly.
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“Its looking positive, we only have to communicate the fact that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere is not human induced.”
Communicating that will not be easy for if it not human induced what is the source of the extra CO2? Human use of fossil fuels seems to be the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for over 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions.
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The oceans have almost complete control over the CO2 content in the atmosphere . Changes in earth’s temperature lead changes in atmospheric CO2 by a time that varies in a range from 800 to 1000 years . Refer to ice core data . The ocean’s tendency to absorb CO2 ( near the poles ) and release CO2 ( near the equator ) is dependent on the temperature of the water . Warmer water releases more CO2 or absorbs less CO2 , cooler water releases less CO2 and absorbs more CO2 . An increase in atmospheric CO2 causes an increase in absorption by the oceans . For more detail refer to Henry’s law . The thermal inertia of the oceans and the time taken for water to circulate accounts for the time delay .The CO2 going into the atmosphere each year is made up of 97% from natural sources that we can’t change and 3% from human activity . Australia contributes about 1% of that 3% . If the human emissions of CO2 was reduced by 1% there would be no detectable change in the CO2 content in the atmosphere !
Furthermore changing the CO2 content of the atmosphere will not change the temperature of the atmosphere in any detectable way as the main driver in global temperature is our planet’s relationship with the sun and things that go on inside the sun . The Little ice age was not caused by changes in CO2 but rather solar activity .
The Glowbull warming hoaxers have cause and effect completely reversed !
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As I understand, the original setup for carbon leakage involved existing carbon producing businesses in the UK being allocated ‘free’ carbon credits annually to go against their emissions – this was to stop them just offshoring carbon producing operations to remain competitive. What happened was that clever finance people bought these businesses, took the credits allocation then wound down the business while continuing to trade the credits. A band-aid on an already faulty concept.
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Thanks TdeF. A green tick is all I need to add to that.
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Was COVID just a cover up for the damage of vaping? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8719436/
Then some non-vapers all hopped up on fear found they caught a bad flu, worse than what they had ever had…. but it was just the flu, really.
Myopic COVID responses meant that the health system was not looking for anything else happening at the same time.
Seems every UK high street these days is just charity stores, vape shops and Turkish barbers. What is even in these vapes? – I don’t imagine the nicotine is distilled from tobacco plants / other nightshades. I have seen a place where they were making and bottling vape fluids – certainly not a sterile environment, looked like there were lots of bottles of (poorly stored, outdoors) chemicals involved, seemed to be a lot of linseed oil.
Big pharma happy to seize the opportunity to run cover for big tobacco? (who are, ultimately, behind the whole vaping thing)
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MeAgain, #3,
____We die in many ways, some quite creative.
For a while though, back at the turn of the decade, it seemed there was just one exit.
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So many questions. Ever heard of the internet?
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Nope.
Please explain how to search and obtain demonstrably truthful unbiased information and also advise key equally demonstrably trustworthy information sources.
Thanks! 😁
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By asking here clearly.
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Check the record of what they said and wrote in the past.
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“Check the record of what they said and wrote in the past”
Who is the they to whom you refer?
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Ever heard of common sense?
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Salty. !
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I did link to an article that had me pondering – I was just taking a different perspective on the information. But I tend to read books more than rely on the internet for information. Was re-reading ‘The Metric Society’ which got me onto this pondering – the idea that we actually are able to measure, say, cause of death with any great accuracy. Lies, damned lies etc
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The title link is self explanatory
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/29/my-warning-to-australia-on-the-cancer-risks-of-covid-vaccines-did-not-go-unheeded/
Seems to be lots of action on the covid front at present.
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On that front – “officially I’m not supposed to think it” but a jabbed close relative has suddenly gone from fit and healthy to stage 4 bowel cancer
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Whatever the cause that’s a shock.
Can only hope it responds to treatment. All the best!
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#4 re “action”.
Don’t take your eye off the pea!
There’s a long way to go yet.
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My nephew did the same except not jabbed. Already too late for treatment, died 18 months later.
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This is an interesting one
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/29/other-countries-are-taking-the-health-risks-of-5g-and-wireless-radiation-seriously-why-isnt-the-u-k/
Having done some research on the subject myself in preparation for a possible article-I would not like to say with certainty one way or another as to whether modern day smartphones and 5G towers are safe or unsafe. Which is why I didn’t write the article.
We certainly need to take more care until we know one way or the other but seem to be ploughing on regardless with numerous 5G towers in order to enable the smartphones.
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https://www.wearenotsam.com/evidence – the body of evidence does raise significant concerns. We were told to “trust” epidemiologists during COVID, why not on this one?
“Phones are tested on a plastic dummy that has no reproductive organs. Thousands of studies unequivocally show that current levels of microwave radiation from phones and other wireless devices can cause sterility. Your cell phone can send a microwave radiating handshake to the tower 900 times a minute. Nobody should accept that handshake.” – Dr Devra Davis, Epidemiologist and President of the Environmental Health Trust.
– Vaping and mobile radiation are both on the increase, yet declining health outcomes are all attributed to COVID. Or to the vaccines.
There is a lot happening all at once – none of it seems good though
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The comments above by TdeF and Ted rightly highlight the fact that human origin CO2 does not accumulate in the atmosphere to any significant extent.
This means that Human Origin CO2 does not remain in the air “forever” as is claimed by Global Warming proponents.
Pushing deeper into the real science we can clearly see that the there is no system or mechanism by which any atmospheric CO2 can “heat” the atmosphere.
Even Arrhenius eventually clarified his laboratory work and dismissed the atmospheric “heating” thing.
That the UNIPCCC has been able get away with this for so long is astounding.
The true science of thermodynamics, atmospheric physics and atomic physics is there to be acknowledged.
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Do not forget that it all swung on Al Gore’s capture of the federal election in 2013!
Had Tony Abbott been able to abolish the RET as promised that would have halted further investment in not just Australia. It would have gone around the world.
Just as Gore’s rescue of the RET flowed around the world.
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the comment below is misplaced for some reason?
Your comment on the 5G issue ” none of it seems good though” is very appropriate.
Some time ago I went looking for more information on the 5G thing and radiation in general; the result was worrying as there was almost nothing there.
This sent alarm bells off because of the important potential health issues and more recently there are reports that places like Russia and Poland are concerned about 5G.
Why are western countries silent on this. The situation has all the hallmarks of the suppression of information on the dangers of very low frequency pulsing as experienced by train drivers, heavy transport drivers, jack hammer operators, and more recently VLF pulsing from wind turbines.
It’s interesting that the wind turbine assessments have been disguised as noise, with reports on decibel levels: a complete misdirection worthy of a gaol sentence for someone.
Wind turbine VLF pulsing is real and dangerous to human life and health, why is this hidden.
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I have no concerns at all about 5G but some people seem particularly sensitive to infrasound from wind subsidy harvesting plantations. It’s a nightmare for susceptible people who have the misfortune to live near a plantation, apart from the shadow flicker, visual pollution and watching birds, bats and insects get chopped to pieces by the blades.
See video: https://youtu.be/ywWNx3OJyuo
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It seems that 5G frequency is right on the radar altimeter frequency that is used by all airliners for altitude information on final approach to landing and can cause interference to same if there is a mast close by the airport.
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I believe that problem has been mitigated by upgrading standards for radio altimeters to make them tolerant of 5G signals or requiring the installation of appropriate RF filters on the altimeters
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The wind turbine VLF pulsing causes sea sickness and heart damage but it’s good to hear that 5G is OK.
Given past government disdain for public health and the earlier reports of cancer outbreaks among workers in buildings near transmission towers it would be reassuring to be able to review some proper testing of the 5G.
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I share your beliefs David. I don’t believe 5G is an issue, and I urge anybody that does have radiation concerns to read the international human exposure standards very carefully, and understand what the real radiation concerns are.
Also if folks have any concerns about 5G emissions, then why the heck are they carrying a mobile around with them, and why are they putting it up to the side of their head when using it?
And lastly, field strength meters are cheap, so if you have these concerns, buy one and quantify the actual RF energy levels around your residence or other places where you spend some time.
WRT infrasound, it’s difficult to believe some local councils use standard sound meters in a useless attempt to measure infrasound levels.
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Its one thing to measure RF energy levels but you have to understand what you are looking at and also believe the safety reference levels.
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I do understand the issues. I had to provide written assurances that a $100m project would be able to go ahead, despite radiating devices impacting on humans. It helps to have over 20 year’s experience with RF, and it’s also important to thoroughly understand the nature of EM emissions and how they impact humans.
In other words, it pays to be skeptical and do your research.
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So, here we have 5G, RF, Fluoros lighting up in the (quite normal) magnetic field under transmission lines. Umm, lines in the sky, Glyphosate (Roundup, and hey, remember the TV ads which called them woody weeds!) Paraquat, chlorofluorocarbons and Halocarbons (Freon refrigerants etc) Rofecoxib (Vioxx) and I could go on and and on.
Every one of them latched onto by people who say the Science is settled, whilst having zero understanding of ANY science at all.
Like the latest one eh, forever chemicals they’re now calling it ….. PFAS. (and horror of horrors, it’ll kill us all)
Hmm, wasn’t Teflon supposed to be the big new innovation in cooking, and now all the Teflon coated ‘stuff’ studiously mentions ….. we have no PFAS in our products. (well ….. not any more eh!)
And hey, wasn’t fire fighting foam at airports, and on fire engines the big oxygen excluder in dangerous fuel fires.
What I seem to have seen across all these years is that all of these things have one thing in common.
Money.
And lawyers wanting their cut.
So, they get the ‘talking head’ autocue readers who tell us the news with such serious faces, (and who know less about the science than those I even mentioned above) to tell us how ‘we’ll all be rooned’.
Huh! People call me cynical. I think of it as ….. ‘glass half full’.
ALL of the above, all of them, I have been in contact with across the years, and evidently, I died fifty years ago, so I’m told!
Tony.
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You probably remember cleaning everything with Shellite, no gloves. I’ve forgotten the name of the chemical we used to soften and expand plastic tubing before heat shrink tubing appeared on the scene. Also Beryllium, which I still use but sparingly and with more caution.
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I have worked with beryllium windows as used in energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.
Shellite is a great solvent, relatively harmless, basically purified light naptha. It’s also used in hand warmers.
I have also worked with boron fibres and cut asbestos reinforced boards.
I have had plenty of cooked meals from Teflon cookware.
Still here!
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?..MEK ? (Methyl, Ethyl,Keytone )…a very effective solvent /cleaner used liberally in the ‘60s…..but since banned as a health hazard !
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“I would not like to say with certainty one way or another as to whether modern day smartphones and 5G towers are safe or unsafe. ”
Radio-frequency radiation dangers are well-illustrated in The Invisible Rainbow, by Arthur Firstenberg.
https://archive.org/details/the-invisible-rainbow-a-history-of-electricity-and-life-arthur-firstenberg-z-lib.org
He reckons every new wavelength we discover and use brings new diseases. It affects other animals and insects as well as humans.
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The Guardian….
jeesh…
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Guardian columnists be like: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/wilby
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” admitted having a sexual interest in children ”
Ah, the fascinating dichotomy of ‘having a sexual interest in children” coming up against the widely popular culture of shaving women to make them look as prepubescent as possible…. of clothing girls to make them as sexually titivating as possible while making it illegal to have sex with them until they’re 18…
Western culture is weird indeed.
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>At no point am I claiming that climate change alone leads an individual to, say, join a terrorist group or attack a herding community in an adjacent village. But…climate change leads people to join terrorist groups or attack herding communities in adjacent villages.
Scientific American has gone entirely off the rails and into the realm of fear porn insinuation.
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So… ancient never-ending conflicts in overcrowded desert regions get hotter while down our way the weather is staying colder:
31 Oct, Tasmania “snow to 800m”
New Zealand “snow to 1,300m”
1 November, Cyclone Season begins
Tasmania “snow to 800m”
New Zealand “snow to 1,000m”
and not a cyclone in sight.
In other news, Climate Change™️ causes children to dress in spooky outfits to bludge lollies off old people as they roam the streets at night 👻
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A recent paper said there is a decline in cyclones because of global warming, while across the gap south east Australia remains cool for some inexplicable reason.
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Climate alarmism causes atrocities.
“Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities” – from Voltaire
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FWIW
“Electoral shenanigans in action”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/electoral-shenanigans-in-action.html
It it isn’t happening here could the US borrow from the Australian electoral system again?
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Oops! Keyboard trouble
“If it”
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This goes with that –
“What the Hell Is Going on in Michigan?”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/30/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-michigan-n4933794
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“”114,545 Michigan voters who have cast 279,113 ballots from multiple addresses across the state. This results in 164,568 excess ballots as of 10/29/2024.”
“Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 154,188 votes found largely in Detroit.”
Apparently these clowns lead the world and enforce a rules-based order.. Their elections are on par with any dictatorship in Africa.
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This goes with that
“Voters in the United States have the right to cast their ballots freely, safely and privately through a secret ballot.
The modern conception of a “secret ballot” originated in Australia and was initially adopted in the American electoral system during the 1888 presidential election. By allowing voters to keep their ballots secret, they could make their voices heard without the fear of coercion or intimidation. ”
I once tripped over a book in a library (I don’t recall the title) whose title implied that Oz election practice had been influenced by that Of US. Which was a suprise to me so I read it and found it was the other way. I have a vague recollection that the Oz system had another input around the 1920’s.
https://campaignlegal.org/update/voters-have-right-secret-ballot
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YEP .
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/mi-early-vote-shocker-election-integrity-data-analysts/
The numbers are huge !
What hope does democracy have when that is allowed .
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Paper ballots, same day voting, ID to vote. Count them, and announce the same day in most cases.
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Amazing isnt that for decades off track betting systems have been able accurately record, collate and track customer selections, while voting systems always seem to have “issues”
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Stolen…..
Imitation is the best form of flattery
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News this morning that Spain is experiencing an enormous rain and flooding event in much of the country though they are saying mostly the South and East. Sadly more than 90 lives lost at this time as rivers flood across large areas of open, flat land.
There is an old saying about ‘the rain in Spain’ I wonder if people have been building in the wrong places . .
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Terry Gilliam of Monty Python infamy attempted to make a movie in Spain in the 1990s (?) about Don Quixote & his never-faithful servant Pancho Sanchez: it rained and rained and rained then flooded. The film was never made (it was a washout) yet a ‘Making Of’ documentary was hobbled together from what footage they had, called, Lost In La Mancha, or, How NOT To Make A Movie In Spain’s Driest Region During Its Wettest Year EVAAAH! (I made that last bit up). Ain’t nuffink new under the Spanish sun.
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BBC’s simplified slick new name: BS.
Dr Fried Otto of Imperial College of London (cough!) whose day-job is to “try to understand the role that warming plays” in rainfall, states: “No doubt about it [floods are] intensified by c****** c*****.
“With every fraction of a degree of fossil fuel warming…” oh please, Herr Doktor, do continue: however the recent flood was “a natural weather event”. D’oh!
Dear Dr Fried needs some serious help and/or therapy or a soft-padded cell in gentle shades of pink to ease his confused thunked patterns.
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Excellent video about how SpaceX reinvented the rocket engine.
https://youtu.be/nP9OaYUjvdE
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Johannes Leak FlyAlbo Cartoon today in The Australian – MYTH CONDUCT
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PM flight upgrades raise serious governance issues
EDITORIAL
Flight upgrades allegedly requested by and given to Anthony Albanese by Qantas raise serious governance issues that extend well beyond the perks of high office. Both Qantas and the Prime Minister have questions to answer.
Mr Albanese has admitted accepting upgrades for personal travel with members of his family but in a carefully worded statement on Wednesday a government spokesman said the Prime Minister “did not ever call Alan Joyce seeking an upgrade”.
The exact nature of the communications between Mr Albanese and the former Qantas chief executive has yet to be fully explored or explained. It is understandable, but not sufficient, that the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge access and upgraded flights are sensitive issues in the nation’s capital given that most politicians are in on the act. But this is all the more reason – not less – for greater transparency about what is really going on.
The history of largesse self-reported by Mr Albanese is something different. This is because Mr Albanese was transport minister or opposition transport spokesman at the time that some of the gifts reportedly were sought and received.
As we reported on Tuesday, Mr Albanese’s actions could put him at odds with the ministerial code of conduct introduced by the Rudd government in which he was a minister. The standards of ministerial ethics released by Kevin Rudd in December 2007 state: “Ministers, in their official capacity … must not seek or encourage any form of gift in their personal capacity.”
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Albo, Albo, nappies on fire!
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The modern political scene is filled with people who have never had a job outside politics. Like Kamala and Joe Biden. It’s always about graft and corruption. Kamala’s jobs were fake. And Obama never explained why Joe Biden should be in sole charge of relations with Ukraine. It was a licence to print money. China too. And Hunter accompanied Joe on 21 trips on Air Force 1. Surely you have to ask why?
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Hitler was a crook too. He made millions by passing a law requiring his Mein Kampf book to be part of every ceremony. And when the tax man came calling, he passed a law exempting the Chancellor from paying income tax. It was always about the money. Just like Hamas.
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Beirut is in ruins, Paris of the East. Badghdad. Aleppo. Damascus and the barrel bombs. Cairo. Algiers. Alexandria. Tehran. The only non derelict and attractive booming city in the Middle East is Tel Aviv, perhaps the world’s most expensive city.
As Douglas Murray asked, if you had to live in the Middle East, which city would you choose? So of course it is the target of the envious.
I do not count Qatar, Dubai and the other oil capitals. That is just vast oil money and exploitation of foreign workers, airconditioned train stations and bus stops. Skiing and skating in 50C. You have to wonder how long they will last when all food is flown in.
My point is that there are workers who build and others who live off the hard work. It’s often cultural. And within societies. The new class of political apparatchik is entirely destructive. Perhaps the real attraction of communism, allowing otherwise near useless people to rise to positions of power and influence which they could never achieve in a meritocracy.
And I see Albanese and especially Green leader Adam Bandt as just opportunists. Kamala and Joe as well. I met Adam Bandt when he was just looking to get a start i politics which his PhD in communism. And then Green came along. Does he believe a word of it? Not at all. A means to an end.
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RACHEL BAXENDALE
Covid inquiry overdue vindication, but damage can’t be reversed
The findings of the Covid inquiry, handed down on Tuesday, felt like an overdue vindication for those of us who sought at the time – frequently with little success – to compel authorities to justify the measures they imposed upon us.
As The Australian’s Victorian political reporter throughout the pandemic, it was my job to scrutinise decisions made by premier Daniel Andrews, his ministers and the state’s health officials, which had an unprecedented impact upon the lives of Victorians.
As the 5.5 million of us who lived through it will well remember, Melbourne was locked down for 262 days.
Citizens were fined for leaving their homes between 8pm and 5am, neglecting to wear a face mask even in the open air, travelling more than 5km, or simply allowing their children to use a playground.
Vaccine mandates were not merely imposed upon those working in sensitive healthcare settings, but upon the entire population.
And rather than seeing questions over these policies as impetus to either explain, improve or moderate them, Andrews cast those posing them as enemies of the state who would put Victorian lives at risk.
I’ve had many people of all political persuasions and none tell me in recent months that they were grateful to those of us who sought to give voice to their doubts when they were stuck at home yelling at their televisions as they watched yet another Andrews press conference.
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DAMON JOHNSTON
Labor owns the ‘pig headed’ email whoever wrote it
So who wrote the “pig headed” email?
Premier Jacinta Allan’s office says no “Victorian government employees” were involved.
And, her office says, this blanket denial covers public servants and politicians.
But her office won’t say who wrote and sent it at 10.43am on April 6, 2022.
This is political trickery and treats Victorians with contempt.
We do know that the email was generated as part of a $2m-plus taxpayer-funded political intelligence program run by Labor-linked strategy firm QDOS and co-ordinated in former premier Daniel Andrews private office.
And we also know the Andrews and Allan governments fought for 18 months to keep the offending description — “pig headed know-it-alls” — of Victorians sceptical about Covid-19 lockdowns from being released under FoI.
So regardless of who wrote it, the “pig headed” email is owned by Labor, and the ruthless and cynical political culture that flourished under Andrews.
The black bar was lifted this week, revealing the “pig headed know-it-alls” insult.
That’s how someone — connected enough to either QDOS or the DPC to be captured in the scope of the FoI request — described Victorians sceptical about the Covid lockdown restrictions like curfews, travel limits, school closures and playground bans etc.
This talks to the arrogant and controlling mindset that permeated Labor during 2020-22.
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This is from the United Australia Party, one of Australia’s few conservative-oriented parties along with the Libertarian Party and One Nation.
“Nothing to see here”, as expected in regard to the Government inquiry into Australian Governments’ responses to the Plandemic.
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David, it was weak and did all it could to let Labor State Premiers off the hook and delayed long enough to let them retire without censure and maximum financial benefits. BS and Broomsticks just like Albo’s tawdry and pathetic press release about not asking the flying Gnome for mates concessions.
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House Republicans accuse White House of releasing ‘false transcript’ of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks
Stefanik, Comer warn the White House it may be in violation of federal law
EXCLUSIVE: House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer accuse the White House of releasing a false transcript of President Biden’s remarks in which he apparently referred to supporters of former President Trump as “garbage,” warning that the revision could violate the Presidential Records Act.
Fox News Digital obtained a letter Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Comer, R-Ky., sent to White House counsel Edward Siskel Wednesday afternoon in which they demand records relating to the remarks and the transcript are preserved.
Stefanik and Comer pointed to Biden’s remarks Tuesday night, saying, “Americans were rightfully insulted, then, when President Biden, seeking to boost Ms. Harris’ presidential campaign, referred to an enormous swath of the country as “floating … garbage.”
“President Biden’s vindictive words were unsurprising, given his previous statements regarding people who choose not to vote for his preferred candidate,” they wrote. “Unsurprising too were the White House’s actions after he said them.”
Stefanik and Comer said the White House, “instead of apologizing or clarifying President Biden’s words,” sought to “change them (despite them being recorded on video) by releasing a false transcript of his remarks.”
“The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” they wrote. “White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message.”
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Facebook execs suppressed Hunter Biden laptop scandal to curry favor with Biden-Harris admin: bombshell report
WASHINGTON — The FBI warned major US tech companies ahead of The Post’s first reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020 that Russian agents were preparing a strikingly similar document dump — and once the scoop materialized, Facebook executives discussed calibrating censorship decisions to please what they assumed would be an incoming Biden-Harris administration, a congressional investigation found.
The new details — contained in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the weaponization of government — are emerging as former President Donald Trump leads in polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election and as his allies urge a house-cleaning at the FBI and possible new regulations or antitrust actions to punish and restrain platforms like Facebook.
“FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge,” an unidentified Microsoft employee wrote on Oct. 14, 2020, the day The Post published the first in a series of bombshell stories on the Biden family’s foreign dealings, according to the congressional report.
“Obviously, our calls on this could colour [sic] the way an incoming Biden administration views us more than almost anything else…,” Facebook’s then-vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote on the same day to vice president of global public policy Joel Kaplan.
The Post spent nearly a month verifying the authenticity of laptop files ahead of their publication, though it’s unclear to what extent the FBI was aware of that work as it prepared its prebuttal
The FBI has possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by The Post in its coverage came from a Delaware computer repairman and not the Kremlin — but, after preemptively discrediting the world exclusive to Big Tech, the FBI kept silent publicly as 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that the files came from Russia.
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So, they knew the fix was in.
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It amazes me how these people get to such heights in politics, yet obviously don’t understand the basics. What lifetime skilled politician in their right mind would call half the country garbage? Answer: one not in his right mind?
The reason I never got into politics is because I know I would say stupid things in the moment. Doesn’t seem to deter many.
Though I guess Trump could be put into that category as well. It’s probably one of his appealing features – the non-politician factor who speaks plainly. But for all the wild tings that appear out of his mouth – he disparages his opponents regularly as radical leftists (which they are) – but he never refers to Americans as garbage.
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“What lifetime skilled politician in their right mind would call half the country garbage? ”
Any of them! Don’t forget the famous “Fck the Europeans!”
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How It’s Done: Watch As Trump Puts on Master Class in Trolling Joe and Kamala Amid ‘GarbageGate’
Trump on riding in a garbage truck before his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin:
“250 million people — that’s what I think the real number is for making America great again. 250 million. The real number. They don’t think you’re terms of garbage, okay? They don’t use terms like that and it’s a shame. And Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself if he knows what he’s even doing and she should be ashamed because she shouldn’t let him do it. She’s the vice president, but I assume she’s acting as the president. She should never have let that happen. I hope you enjoyed this garbage truck. Thank you very much, everyone!”
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His speech about how he came to be in the truck and the hi-viz vest is a master-class in how to entertain an audience. Very funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowTnlSylRE
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IF the US has an honest election, or at least Trump’s votes exceed the margin of Democrat fraud, what impact do you think it will have on the whole anthropogenic global warming fraud in Australia and elsewhere?
I think it will have no impact on Australia. Our “leaders” are fanatically committed to the fraud and fanatically committed to the destruction of Australia.
I think some of the smarter, more sensible and less woke countries of the world will follow Trump’s lead as the US economy again booms when Trump casts away the woke energy starvation policies.
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What the Hell Is Going on in Michigan?
“Vote early and often” is one of those election campaign jokes politicians like to indulge in, but one Michigan voter ID reportedly has voted 29 times so far — and one expert just found 164,568 little anomalies.
Michigan constitutional attorney Matthew S. DePerno claims to have reviewed the state’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which is current as of Tuesday, and found one voter ID number attached to 18 different street addresses (that’s by my count) listed 29 times under “VOTE RECORDED.” All the addresses listed are in Detroit, surprising absolutely no one.
But let’s get back to DePerno’s findings.
According to the state’s own QVF records, there are “114,545 Michigan voters who have cast 279,113 ballots from multiple addresses across the state. This results in 164,568 excess ballots as of 10/29/2024.” [Emphasis added for reasons that will become obvious in the very next line of this column.]
Biden won Michigan in 2020 by 154,188 votes found largely in Detroit.
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Cops Seem Oddly Confused About Motive in Ballot Arsons After ‘Free Gaza’ Found Inscribed on IEDs
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An ABC affiliate has sparked wild conspiracy theories after mistakenly airing election results for Pennsylvania.
The results appeared on the ticker along the bottom of the screen during a broadcast of the Formula 1 Mexico Grand Prix by ABC local affiliate WNEP-TV on Sunday.
It showed Kamala Harris taking the state with 52 percent of the votes, while Donald Trump’s share was 47 percent.
It instantly prompted claims of election rigging on social media, with one person tweeting: ‘The cheat is on.’
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“IF the US has an honest election,” …
it won’t be.
The set up is already in the works.
(I see OldOzzie has put up the story link already above.)
It’s going to be a tumultuous few months here the Divided States.
The only chance is that there is so much dissatisfaction with the economy that Trump’s numbers overwhelm the cheating.
The Left is so certain of their moral superiority, that they’ve abandoned adversarial politics for one party monopoly.
I think the Mil/Mandorin AdminState uses the political dysfunction it has been creating for more than a decade or more, and simply takes over.
Odd thing is, it may the end of the Republic, but likely the beginning of the Empire.
A Nato/Five Eyes Consortium, with the CCP threesome.
(Is it still possible to escape from under the government boot in the Outback?)
The MIC lets the geeks play Climate Change and gender, while the geeks let the MIC play War.
The rest of us keep farming, fixing, delivering, and volunteering for the military, because it’s decent chance to get ahead in a rich get richer ‘progressive’ economy.
SSDD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
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>IF the US has an honest election
Election Integrity Data Analysts Claim They Have Proof of 208,075 Ballots Cast By 82,674 Voters… An Excess of 125,428 Votes Cast!
etc…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/mi-early-vote-shocker-election-integrity-data-analysts/
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That is only 2.52 votes per head
No bonus there for “often”
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” (Is it still possible to escape from under the government boot in the Outback?)”
Not really Honk. We are surrounded by solar factories and incipient wind farms, and even threatened with green hydrogen plants to ‘help us’ with our power supply (not bills). The local council have politically correct briefings for their staff and endless, meaningless governance statements in all their documents. Nope, we might FEEL as though we can be under the radar, but not a chance.
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FWIW
“Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Projects Are Foundering In Five-Eye Nations. What Gives?”
“Canada and Australia shelve plans for retail CBDCs while the US could soon become the first country to explicitly ban the central bank from issuing a CBDC. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-projects-are-foundering-five-eye-nations-what
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And yet, on our front doorstep:
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They are playing the sovereign citizen card, they don’t need a license to drive a car in their country. They are big on foreign affairs too.
‘The Yidindji government is hoping to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth of Australia. It is also “reaching out to countries like Russia and Venezuela to establish diplomatic relations”. (wiki)
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What could it mean?
Any CNN or ABC viewers here that can tell us?
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Tweet from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Two points:
1. It’s always amusing that groups of all kinds describe themselves in ways that are the antithesis of what the really are.
2. That people, like Bret, believe in them.
The Demonrats haven’t changed of late – they’ve always been that way, it’s only now that the truth has been exposed to the masses, primarily courtesy of the past 4 years and Trump.
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FWIW
“Dublin Declaration to take next step with meeting in Denver this week”
“AN INFLUENTIAL group of scientists behind a global movement recognising the essential role of meat and livestock will meet again in the United States this week to take the next step in the discussion.”
More at
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/dublin-declaration-to-take-next-step-with-meeting-in-denver-this-week/
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It’s so fantastic that Musk purchased X and kicked out the Leftists (even though he paid a huge financial and other price).
We would also not have known the full extent of US election interference and covid censorship by the Left.
Without X, we would not have a major source of free speech, apart from Jo’s blog.
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FWIW
“Govt announces plans for new carbon methodologies, denies resourcing problems”
https://www.beefcentral.com/carbon/govt-announces-plans-for-new-carbon-methodologies-denies-resourcing-problems/
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Where are the environmentalists?
Hezbollah attacks have burned over 57,000 acres in northern Israel
According to KKL-JNF, it will take some five to seven years for the land to heal.
https://www.jns.org/hezbollah-attacks-have-burned-over-57000-acres-in-northern-israel/
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More Leftist insanity.
Consider:
1) Australia is one of the largest countries with one of the lowest population densities in the world but the Left want us (non-Elites) to live in Honk Kong style apartments.
2) Despite being energy rich, Leftist policies make sure Australia has some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
This raises the question involving both issues as to how people dry their clothes.
It was discussed on radio the other day that apartment dwellers complain that it costs too much to dry clothes in a dryer (due to high energy prices) so they want to hang clothes on their balcony.
Now, many owner’s corporation or body corporate bodies (for those outside Australia, elected bodies to manage and make rules for the apartment complex) prohibit clothes being hung on balconies because it makes the place look like a shanty town.
So there is now a huge problem drying clothes for apartment dwellers.
Back in the day, apartments had communal clothes lines in the yard, nowadays, all available land is built upon.
Enjoying your “green” energy yet?
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And I have a solar and wind powered drying facility. Its called a washing line……………….
Its easy to dry clothes in an Apartment. Just get a clothes horse and hang the clothes on it with a fan blowing the air in front of it.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Speaking of Abortion
“Good rule of thumb: those who frequently use the word “disinformation” are the ones most likely to be pushing it” — Elon Musk”
” What were they thinking after they shoved “Joe Biden” into the abyss, like an old refrigerator over the edge of the landfill, and afterward settled — instantly it appears, with no process at all — on Kamala Harris to lead the party to victory in the fall election? I will tell you: they were not thinking at all. The collective mind of the Democrat elite was a vast vacuum devoid of thought, mass, or light, like a corner of deepest space, lacking even a particle of cosmic debris to evoke the existence of existence.”
More at
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/speaking-of-abortion
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Maybe they had a plan?………….Dont count chickens…….
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“Yesterday, Politico told us who to blame for a Harris election, in a story headlined, “Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote.” The fact they need signs for optimism was telling. But anyway, the Democrats, explained Politico, “see female voters as key to a Kamala Harris victory.” They’re key.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/vote-safely-wednesday-october-30?
Maybe “Assume” is the word that makes an “ass” out of “U” and “me”?
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Is Kamala Harris’ biography, “The Truths We Hold”, the Biden laptop of 2024? Candace Owens can get well off the plantation at times, but there is enough pretty solid genealogical evidence, that Kamala doesn’t have a speck of blackness in the family tree. It looks like the book was created in 2019, with photos of fake black family members. Her mother is 100% East Indian, her father is Irish/Syrian Jewish, some of whom were slave owners! Sshhh…
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My guess is that it is indeed the Biden Laptop of 2024.
The flood of truth has been well and truly sandbagged by fact checkers who don’t of course ever check facts.
A minor difference is that even Komrade Kackles has dropped that particular line of joy. It’s not that she has recanted. It’s just that she has stopped with all the fake anecdotes.
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If you’re familiar with ice hockey, you’ll realise that they do check facts, but they’re using the hockey sense of the word “check”.
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With heavy emphasis on the illegal ones?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_(ice_hockey)
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Nice observation Robert.
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Just another data point. I follow the real clear politics web site. There are some interesting and perhaps even concerning developments.
One is the appearance of some apparently rogue polls which have skewed the RCP averages in Michigan and Wisconsin. Quinnipiac in Michigan has gone from Trump +4 to Harris +4. Susquehanna in Michigan has entered the average with Harris +5. Similarly in Wisconsin CNN has entered the average with Harris +6.
The RCP senate count has gone from GOP 51 to GOP 50 with the Cruz race in Texas going from Leans GOP to Toss Up. I find that passing strange because the RCP average in that race has Cruz at +4.1 which in election terms is close to a landslide.
And the RCP House race has tightened to GOP +9 with 40 Toss Ups.
Possibly the most objective guide has the betting figures at Trump 63.6 Harris 35. Those are real betting markets with real people putting their own money on the line. The spread is growing so I think that is one to watch.
My guess? Almost every dirty trick is being pulled all at once. My crystal ball says all will become clear in a week or so.
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this will prove to be correct
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Abnormal high pressure gets the headlines.
‘The agricultural areas in SA and Vic typically receive most of their annual rainfall during the cooler months of the year between April and October. This rain typically comes from cold fronts and low pressure systems that come barrelling out of the southern Indian Ocean before sweeping across Australia from west to east.
‘These cold fronts and low pressure systems have been lacking in 2024, with abnormally high pressure being a dominant feature across southern Australia and the surrounding region over the past seven months.’ (Weatherzone)
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Yet all my water tanks are full and have been for months. I must be in a sweet spot.
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Some US media giants are sitting on the fence, endorsing neither candidate.
https://www.scmp.com/news/us/us-elections/article/3284533/newspapers-decision-not-endorse-presidential-candidate-roils-us-media-landscape?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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Aaawww…Trump really loves his supporters
https://imgbox.com/BosxSICq
😆
/his demonrat supporters
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Their ABC and the CSIRO + the C Council donkeys etc have been yapping about their terrible state of the climate BS report all morning.
Just thought I should repeat again the big drop in death rates from fires and burns from 1980 to 2021 from OWI Data.
Population in 1980 about 4.45 billion and 7.9 billion in 2021.
Aussies are the lowest and the European region today about 5 times our numbers and the USA are 3 times our rate per 100,000 people in 2021.
But all those billions more people at risk and yet the death rates have dropped all around the world.
So much for their so called hotter and more dangerous world BS over the last 44 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~Low-income+countries~High-income+countries~Upper-middle-income+countries~Lower-middle-income+countries~AUS~African+Region+%28WHO%29~European+Region+%28WHO%29~USA
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Meanwhile Jo Biden is back!
Seems a tad hungry.😎
https://x.com/KylieJaneKremer/status/1851784543528779955
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Maya City of Epic Proportions Discovered Deep in Mexican Jungle
Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple pyramids to rival Chichén Itzá, Río Bec, and Tikal.
Fieldwork on the ground is yet to be conducted by archaeologists, but based on remote sensing data, which maps entire landscapes under dense forests in minute detail, it seems this lush and verdant forest was once home to the Maya.
The newly described city, named Valeriana, features a crowded urban landscape and rural fringes that surpass any known Maya cities found in Belize or Guatemala.
Researchers from the US and Mexico have tallied no less than 6,764 structures hiding beneath the canopy that have never been studied before.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/running-out-of-empty-space-environmental-lidar-and-the-crowded-ancient-landscape-of-campeche-mexico/FFDB435047017853F26CFC5D8804B08D
Recent LIDAR mapping has shown remains of extensive cities reported by early explorers but no trace of which was found by later explorers, and the early reports subsequently deemed to be false. Until now.
Cities primarily built from timber don’t last long in jungle climates.
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As I posted the other day at Post Number 1. I linked it to the BBC report.
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Johnny Rotten
October 30, 2024 at 1:24 am · Reply
PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident
A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.
Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.
They uncovered the hidden complex – which they have called Valeriana – using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried under vegetation.
They believe it is second in density only to Calakmul, thought to be the largest Maya site in ancient Latin America.
The team discovered three sites in total, in a survey area the size of Scotland’s capital Edinburgh, “by accident” when one archaeologist browsed data on the internet.
“I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a laser survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.
It was a Lidar survey, a remote sensing technique which fires thousands of laser pulses from a plane and maps objects below using the time the signal takes to return.
But when Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed – a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.
That is more than the number of people who live in the region today, the researchers say.
Mr Auld-Thomas and his colleagues named the city Valeriana after a nearby lagoon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmznzkly3go
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My son is a builder and has other qualifications, when he travelled to South America and visited ancient structures there he was amazed by the quality of workmanship especially the almost perfect fit of masonry, not even a pocket knife blade would penetrate the joints.
And how the people moved such large blocks so far from known quarry areas and up steep mountains.
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So you did.
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China is taking special care this year to ensure your xmas gifts arrive undamaged
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sm4rpykOir1z23obp.mp4
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That looks a bit like the QANTAS Baggage Handlers at Sydney Airport.
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How about this from a so called vaccine (it is not a vaccine) Mandate idiot – What a nutter – So glad that I never got the Jab/Boosters –
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1851239212198347193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1851239212198347193%7Ctwgr%5E62ff8f130f70e855014d21c8148d24b51a7810ce%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
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Can see the cocaine use in his mad eyes
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Last night on Sky News there was a segment discussing a new documentary with former ABC presenter Stan Grant (Australian with Aboriginal ancestry) that attempts to convince viewers that long before the 1788 British settlement was established at Sydney Cove, Port Jackson (Sydney harbour) there were Muslim settlers from Indonesia a long way back in time. There are images of people wearing Islamic clothing having their faces painted with ochre by Aborigines to reinforce the documentary claims.
The woke left rewriting of history must not be allowed to continue to influence young minds and remove the sense of national pride in Commonwealth of Australia.
To add to the indoctrination I have in recent times been listening to ABC Classic Radio music while travelling in my vehicle, the regular thanks to original owners, reading listener’s messages and stating where they are from with an alleged Aborigine place name is annoying to say the least. So where is “Narm”, I do recognise Vietnam!!!
Today a presenter announced a Melbourne Orchestra recital and then the conductor recording at the start acknowledged the first people and the first musicians, since when has a didgeridoo and sticks become an orchestra?
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OK, the muslim traders were here before Dutch and English.
So what ?! What does it prove? That it has stopped development of First Nations?
Why would not ABC and The Friends ask them for apology and reparations?
PS. Am I going to be banned for this?
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Its this bit that worries me more than who has to pay reparations Vlad-
“remove the sense of national pride in Commonwealth of Australia.”
Looking at the tyranny we are living in, governed by corrupt politicians and an out-of-control snivel service, I can’t see many Australians having any national price past the local football team!
The Covid response, the TGA and banning Doctors, the useless renewables, carbon taxes, Govt borrowing, hate speech bill, misinformation bill.. what is there to be proud of in a country like that? This place is a mess..
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India may see 1 trillion cyberattacks annually by 2033, experts warn
India is projected to face nearly 1 trillion cyberattacks every year by 2033, with this number potentially soaring to 17 trillion by 2047, according to cybersecurity experts.
A report by the non-profit organisation (NGO) Prahar pointed to the urgent need for a large-scale defence system to counter the growing threats in cyberspace. Experts warn that India’s booming digital landscape is a prime target for cybercriminals, who are exploiting weaknesses across various sectors.
In recent years, high-profile cyberattacks have hit institutions such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and major airlines.
How bad is it?
In 2023 alone, India saw more than 79 million cyberattacks, marking a 15 per cent rise compared to the previous year. This placed India third globally in terms of attack frequency. The trend has not slowed in 2024, with over 500 million incidents recorded in just the first quarter. Reports also show a 46 per cent increase in cyberattacks in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the same period the previous year.
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/india-may-see-1-trillion-cyberattacks-annually-by-2033-experts-warn-124103000899_1.html
Oh the irony, given that India is a top source of cyberfraud…
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US dietary guidelines pushing to have meat replaced with beans, peas and lentils for your protein sources.
“On the eve of next week’s Presidential election, the Biden/Harris advisory committee has endorsed plant-based protein substitutes instead of beef in some instances.” “Beans, peas and lentils are among the replacements for beef in the late-arriving proposal by the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Committee””it’s baffling that we are trying to get Americans to cut out red meat when the evidence indicates nutrient deficiencies and chronic disease are increasing as red meat consumption declines”
Yum, lentils – my wife made me a lentil burger once, never happened again, we both hated it!
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/10/as-the-end-nears-the-2025-dietary-guidelines-turn-just-a-bit-political/
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FWIW
“Lab analysis finds plant-based and real meat are not nutritionally equivalent”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/lab-analysis-finds-plant-based-and-real-meat-are-not-nutritionally-equivalent/
“Beef versus plant-based soy pattie? It’s not even close, nutrition research finds”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/beef-versus-plant-based-soy-pattie-its-not-even-close-nutrition-research-finds/
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Seven towers collapsed in a storm out west, causing blackouts in Broken Hill. Not to worry, Transgrid apologised and the government is helping out.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-31/more-funding-far-west-nsw-workers-affected-by-power-outages-sa/104542294
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I recall a link to a report, published here about a week ago, that said the electricity authority bought the old towers from I presume BHP, then overloaded them with extra lines.
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If true that’s gross negligence.
I recall a mini tornado in Nth Adelaide. It did a LOT of damage. There is no place immune from “freak” winds.
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Went back over the comments as far as 19 October but couldn’t find it. Can’t see comments on earlier pages.
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If you click on the blog topic/thread on earlier pages that topic or thread open up and you will see all the comments.
i.e. if you click the “older entries” link at the bottom of the page it will go to topics/threads prior to Oct 19.
Then click on the word “Friday” which is the thread heading for Friday 18th October, or on the heading “It’s an emergency! Green plants spreading at alarming rate in Antarctica” which was Jo’s blog topic on 17th Oct and it opens that thread for that topic or day with all the comments.
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“the federal government has announced up to 13 weeks of income support for impacted locals.”
What, they can buy non-existent electricity with Govt money?? What use is a figure in a bank account when there is no electricity? That’s just the usual Govt crap, rob Peter to make Paul feel better about being shafted.
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“People are drowning in information while starving for wisdom”
– E.O. Wilson
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“Work, the curse of the drinking classes” –
Not, Oscar Wilde
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A related problem is to be afflicted by too much blood in your alcohol system.
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The “affluence of incahol”
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Or with teenage boys: Too little blood in their testosterone stream.
C’mon guys, aren’t you happy to have survived relatively unscathed?
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It gives me chills nowadays to recall what I got up to in my younger days. I must be a cat.
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Latest scary story from CSIRO and BoM, just in time for Halloween…
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/state-of-the-climate-a-frightening-read-for-every-australian/
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Andrew Bolt is just discussing this report right now on Sky News. As he says, nowhere in the report does it talk about the benefits of so called Global Warming (Climate Change).
Its all doom and gloom. Lol.
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Just shows the insignificance of these observations and graphs. Any variation is insignificant and not effective on anything.
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Poms could save the airfares to Spain.
OK, maybe not.
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Nicely timed for the Baku COP.
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‘Australia is projected to see continued warming over the coming decades, with more extremely hot days and fewer extremely cool days.’ (CSIRO)
Hmmm … Hadley Cell expanding and strong blocking high pressure are the mechanisms in the frame. Not a word on the extra water vapour in the stratosphere causing an extraordinary temperature spike.
Convincing people that global warming is good for humanity is very challenging.
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Normally I take the opposite view to the BOM’s predictions. Seems to work ok…
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VIDEO
Vitamin D claimed to be useless.
I don’t believe it but this just shows you what Vitamin D proponents are up against.
https://youtu.be/zI0ptL9-wBE
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Mrs H is now in her eleventh year with AZ with no end in sight.
This is so sad I now regret giving her, a slim woman, 5,000 iu/d. There was no professional advice to do so, I could have been dumb. It would now be over.
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Thanks David,
I might get back to watch the rest, but the comments are interesting. 15 mins of 63 only.
Whether it’s really a “vitamin” or a hormone seemed important to the two guys, but they didn’t bother to explore its importance as regulator of the immune system, regardless of its labelling, in those first 15 mins. Perhaps they don’t know??
No suggestion of knowledge of the Indonesian work on Covid deaths v vitamin D blood levels, cofactors, zinc and vitamin C in particular.
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USDA Now Licensing DNA Vaccines in America’s FOOD SUPPLY
Ohio attorney Tom Renz has dropped another bombshell exposing the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for licensing the use of deadly DNA vaccines in America’s food supply.
While the USDA had previously given the green light for salmon to be vaccinated with the latest mRNA (modRNA) chemicals, this newest scheme is even worse in that it allows even more questionable pharmaceutical chemicals to be administered to animals that people consume as food.
“It’s time to raise our own food,” wrote another about a possible solution to America’s highly polluted food supply. “Either alone or in communities.”
“I’m not eating poison or having it put in my body by a vax. I’ll raise my own thank you. Or support small organic local farms. Anything but swallow whatever the global elites want us to swallow. Don’t go along. Demand testing of our food. Raise your own. Go to small farms or on line small co-ops. Anything but taking the govt poison.”
Another agreed, noting that this is why TPTB are starting to go so aggressively against small farmers “so that we do not have a choice.”
“They are even passing laws for backyard chickens to be vaccinated,” this person added. “Some places are making it illegal to sell local products to people.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/tainted-grub-usda-now-licensing-dna
Support your local farmer, butcher and grocer.
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USDA Now Licensing DNA Vaccines in America’s FOOD SUPPLY
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Queensland Premier has just canned the Pioneer-Burdekin pumped hydro project. An excellent start.
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I have said this before, forgive me if you have read it, but according to GEarth the tunnels would have 1:6 gradient. That alone should kill the project.
Snowy II is only 27 deg which is marginal. The high cycle efficiencies oft quoted are with near vertical tunnels.
The tunnels for the Kareeya power station on the Tully Falls are much better. Decades ago a pumped storage scheme was proposed there but the greens killed the idea of a lower level dam.
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Australia is not exactly blessed with lots of water and mountainous country, the two main criteria for pumped hydro. And pumped hydro hasn’t really been a roaring success in other countries.
Have also heard that Snowy 2 may not achieve its stated aims because of some engineering issues related to the amount of water available, but haven’t seen anything in print about this.
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#WATCH: As a major fire breaks out at a recycling Lithium Battery plant triggering massive explosions leading to mandatory evacuations
https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1851776687714730277
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Actually a recycling facility. Looks like that will be a hazardous industry.
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