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Binferno! Electric rubbish truck, London.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14010797/Electric-bin-lorry-bursts-flames-central-London.html
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Looks like the fire was from the collected rubish and not the battery. if it was the battery it probably would have taken 12hrs for the fire brigade to comtain the fire with the size of battery to move that thing.
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$1,142,000 for a rubbish truck, you’re joking.
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Perhaps now you can see why taxes MUST go up to ‘avoid austerity’ – per Sir Starmer.
It’ll avoid austerity in Westminster and Whitehall . . .
The rest of us will have to lump it.
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“$1,142,000 for a rubbish truck, you’re joking.
No joking just the fall of the Australian dollar against the British pound.
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Perth has had 95 rubbish truck fires this year, due to folks putting lithium batteries into their general rubbish bins. If the fire is spotted early, the truck just dumps all its burning trash onto the road somewhere.
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I see on the news that an EV dustcart costing £500,000 has caught fire in Central London. (Diesel ones cost about £250,000)
So much for the ULEZ (ultra low emission zone), especially IIRC the fumes given off are of a particularly nasty nature.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/28/bin-lorry-on-fire-central-london/
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The news link talks about cutting ‘windows’ in the side of the rubbish truck to access the smouldering trash. In OZ we just dump the burning trash on the deck and douse it there, simples.
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ULEZ was never about emmissions. 224,000,000 GBP was taken last year!
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Five or Ten New Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
Written by two 17 years old teenies!
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Even though I regularly use trig in my work and when developing new training courses such as lighting design, the maths quickly went beyond my level of understanding. But the back stories at the end were fascinating. Well done to the two students.
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The best idea would be to trace the right angle from a set square on paper.
Extend the lines out a bit with a straight edge, draw in the longer side of the triangle with everyone picking their own angle.
Then measure the three sides created and do the maths to check if really the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
No devices allowed, do it on paper.
In 2024 this should take an hour.
The main point is that writing about stuff doesn’t help, you have to “do it”.
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Satirical article on Britain being asked to pay reparations for slavery.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/our-bill-for-ending-the-slave-trade-please-pay-asap/
I am, still debating whether to press my own claim against the Romans, Vikings or Normans.
Must dash as working on a spreadsheet as to how much developing Nations need to pay us for the benefits of the industrial revolution
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I assume you mean the Italians, the Norwegians and the French. I would add the Germans and the Dutch.
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How many have heard of the British West Africa Squadron whose purpose was to stop the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
And why do so few know that in 1833 the British Government paid out £20 million to purchase freedom for slaves which was 40% of its budget at the time?
Who sold the African slaves? It was mostly other Africans who sold their captives.
What about one million European slaves captured by Barbary Arabs? Including Americans who were captured which led Thomas Jefferson to establish the United States Marine Corps when he refused to pay ransom for them. Hence the line in the USMC hymn, “To the shores of Tripoli”.
And what of African American slave owners in the United States? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners?wprov=sfla1
So many lies and BS from the Left about slavery.
The point is that all cultures and peoples have practiced slavery.
It was Europeans that abolished it first.
It is still practiced today in Africa, Arabia, India and other places. The Left are of course silent about that.
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“And why do so few know that in 1833 the British Government paid out £20 million to purchase freedom for slaves which was 40% of its budget at the time?
So many lies and BS from the Left about slavery.
The Whigs, who were in government at the time, were Centre-Left
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Australian link -Julie Bishop (ex foreign minister in the LNP) was featured in an episode of “Who do you think you are” a couple of years ago (SBS Australia). One of her ancestors served in that Royal Navy blockade off the west coast of Africa in the early 1800′s. At the same time Prince Harry and Markle were apologising on Britains behalf for “colonialism” or something. The inference being that slavery was part of that colonialism because it was at the same time when all the BLM stuff started. The bloke didn’t even know his country’s proud history in preventing slavery. Some 20000 Royal Naval personnel over a century are thought to have died suppressing the trade of black slavery, mostly due to illness.
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The bizarre element of the Oz/Thorpe slavery approach is that the slaves were ,in many cases , sold by agreement on price, by their chieftains to the Western marauders. Perhaps some of the elite chieftains let elitism overrule racism?
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And the chiefs of some highland clans sold their ‘clann’, or ‘children’ into indentured slavery during the Scottish highland clearances to make way for cheviot sheep – the four footed clansman.
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I see the Oz Government has banned a prominent Trump supporter from Entering OZ for a lecture tour.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14007287/Albanese-Candace-Owens-Trump-Australia.html
Unfortunately I don’t have the time at present to find the link about a prominent Kamala Harris supporter also being prevented from entering. It must exist. If someone could oblige by putting up a link so we can all see our governments are even handed about these things.
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What is so ironic is that Australians and Non-Australians here promoting hate speech and making speeches supporting Terrorist Groups do not get prosecuted or deported.
Also, Magistrates in the State of Victoria (which is in a right state) have been advised to give Non-Australians on visas a lesser sentence even when having committed vile crimes (sex offences, drug dealing, etc.) and not deporting them. This was discussed on Sky News last night.
The Australian authorities are weak and hypocritical.
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“Two tier policing” has also come to the UK. This an example of what is happenning.
http://Www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/27/watch-anti-israel-protest-two-tier-policing-jewish-centre/
It has got to the point where the PM is getting called TTS, (two tier Starmer).
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‘Two Tier Keir’ rhymes nicely.
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Goes with ‘Free Gear Kier’
Although he has, since being rumbled, paid for a bit of it.
Not the freebie £1000 plus spectacles – ‘See Clear Kier’
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Did I hear these details right? Twenty thousand+ pounds for upmarket clothes? 2k+ on designer glasses? Free access to a penthouse?
All courtesy of ‘his new friend’ Lord Alli who just took pity on “the tool maker’s son”.
Not as though he should be expected to pay out of his own pocket after a high-flying career in the law for decades! But I’m sure nothing was promised in return (at least not written down) so that makes it alright.
Does Lord Alli offer the same deal to all his new ‘friends’ in politics? Free gear but with the proviso you give nothing in return?
What is Starmer’s nickname for taking away the winter fuel allowance for old people, but sending more ‘military aid’ to Z in Kiev?
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Donald Trump is the greatest threat to Western Civilization since Rock n’ Roll and the bikini.
Besides, I don’t she’s up to date on her boosters.
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As the foundation concept of modern democracies after all men are created equal under the law, free speech is being cancelled in every country by laws about hate speech. In short, I will defend to the death your right to say something if I agree with it. And of course that God doesn’t exist, unless you are muslim.
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>even handed
She ostensibly wasn’t banned for being a Trump supporter.
See comment #8 yesterday taken from The Jerusalem Post
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/monday-77/#comment-2809521
Australia bans Candace Owens from entering country due to antisemitism and her “capacity to incite discord” according to the Immigration Minister Tony Burke
However, although the (Jewish) Anti Defamation Commission supported Burke’s ban, commendably the Australian Jewish Association (AJC) criticized the decision, saying … they saw the (ban) as a “flawed proposal” and one that went against Jewish values of free speech.
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Even handed?
Surety you understand that Donald Trump is a threat to the entire galaxy.
We can’t let discussions and opinions just go unchecked when the actual fabric of the Spacetime Continuum could be ripped apart.
Do you realize the Climate Change that could happen?
He is already dissuading American women from reproducing, or making any attempt whatsoever to attract a reproductive partner capable or interested in reproduction.
He alone is responsible for the recent outbreak of Toxic Masculinity disrupting the non-binary harmony of elite Universities and their heroic struggles against the legacy of Colonialism.
None other that the great Democratic political mind James Carville, has recently observed that “stopping Trump is no different than stopping the Japanese and the Germans in WWII”.
I say kudos to the Ozzian government for protecting innocent Ozzians from toxic opinions.
Besides, I don’t think she’s up to date on her boosters.
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I have followed Candace Owens who is a beautiful, intelligent , articulate, Mother of three, married, devout Catholic. She has been crowdsourcing the geneology of Kamala. In short, Kamala has lied about her genealogy in her book, using dodgy photos to create a false narrative of blackness. Denying her a visa is the post modern policing of “now we won’t have to police protesters”. Thats it, if you aren’t with “The Narrative” and prefer facts to fantasy, you are “Dangerous” (just like AHPRA’s assessment of moi). It is amusing Honkr to see the very rich people donating to DNC presidency melting down as they realise this particular pig loses lipstick rapidly.
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Interestingly Candace Owens has been banned from entering Australia due largely to her anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism not the genealogy of Kamala Harris
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What makes it doubly ironic is that Candice found Kamalas relatives (all who disavow Kamala!) are proud Syrian sephardic )ews. Obviously we are behind the times and Kamalas religion is the true religion!
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You are confusing about ten different theories and people.
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Well, after all, ours is a leftard govt.
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And like Biden-Harris, fundamentally anti democratic. Harris herself was not elected democratically, the first in the history of the Democratic party. No God, no democracy, no freedom of speech and racism as the foundation belief. Sounds exactly like communism. At least as applauded by fanboy Tim Walz where Hindu Harris has no idea about democracy. She did not even register to vote until she was 30 when she was told to do so.
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“ours is a leftard govt.”
Yes, but they don’t know that.
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Washington is just an example of a global issue.
Big battery fire regulation confusion in Washington State
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/10/28/big-battery-fire-regulation-confusion-in-washington-state/
The beginning: “Washington State’s environmental agency, the Department of Ecology, recently took comments on dual draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Analyses (PEIS) for wind and solar developments. Unfortunately while each had a section on grid battery fires there was significant confusion as each cited a regulation that as I read it does not apply to grid scale battery complexes.
So I posted the comments below to help them develop the desperately needed regulations.”
The meat is in the Comments. Huge dangerous lithium battery complexes appear to be unregulated.
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And just where do they send said lithium batteries to when they are past their use by date?THE TIP……..
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Elon Musk just posted a list of the top corporate contributors to Trump and Harris.
The contributions to Trump are much less plus the top contributors to Harris are Goolag and Microsloth who control nearly 100% of the web search market.
What could possibly go wrong?
Harris represents the rich Elites, Trump represents the poor and middle class and is the underdog.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850729089448956253
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Really those are the contributions!? Mostly in the tens of thousands! Didn’t the Zuck give $400 million last time? Looking at the ones to Trump, it looks like a lot of strategic positioning from the military industrials, to have a foot in the door!
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Agreed, but these are just the tip of an iceberg.
These are the official contributions to the Official Campaign Committees for the Presidential Campaign. The internal costs for operators like Facebook would be vastly higher to perform the filtering, censoring, promoting of Democrats and not the hundreds of Gubernatorial, Senate and Congress campaigns. There are hundreds of simultaneous elections.
We in Australia tend to focus on the Presidential race, a race we do not have at home, and not the race for the representatives of 50 separate State Governments in the Congress and the Senate. A House of representatives and a Senate, just as in Australia. This was looking like a close race for the Senate and the Congress and the Governors but is now starting to look like a landslide for the Republicans at all three races.
America is looking again at Republican control of all four levels of government. Presidency, Senate, Congress and many Governors. Governors are our equivalent of Premier. And with the RINOs of Paul Ryan and especially Mitch McConnell out of the way, it could be an end to racist, woke, DEI, BLM, mass migration and men in women’s sports.
I also am appalled that the issue of abortion is a lie. Medical issues are not part of the Federal government, which is why Federal Roe Vs Wade was rejected. The Congress does not have the right to legislate on health, as in Australia. It was and remains a state by state issue, like many issues in a Federation. It is after all the United States, not the country of America.
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And then you get third players, illegally. Iran, China even the UK!
Keir Starmer has been caught sending 100 professional electioneers to the US to work with the Democrats and make sure Trump is not elected. The official story is that they are volunteers, but they had fixed funded places. So even the airfares, accommodation, costs for say three weeks would be a minimum of $10,000 and it means the British Labor Government is spending more than $1Million of UK taxpayer money directly on interfering with the US election.
This is likely criminally illegal in both countries!
And how much are active players like Soros or the WEF spending to get anti Republican judges, journalists, prosecutors, pundits on the job of destroying Donald Trump personally, financially and even threatening his life.
As the world’s most heavily armed, richest and biggest economy, everyone has a stake in this election. But this is the Donald’s third shot at beating them. The election interference will be massive!
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Bumped! –
A 2016 reminder
“Australian Labor fined $14,500 over campaign push to stop Trump”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jan/31/australian-labor-fined-14500-over-campaign-push-to-stop-trump
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More important – and material – than the cash is the in-kind support that Harris & co enjoy. this ranges from the very same Google and Microsoft, plus YouTube etc, carefully and deviously manipulating information we’re allowed or encouraged to see. Then there are the numerous old-style media outlets essentially running her PR campaign. The courts are complicit too, insofar as they are diligently persecuting Harris’s opponents wherever and however they can – and making sure we hear about it in every leaked detail.
All of this provides more of a boost to Harris (and other leftists) than mere cash, but it is IMO election interference and perhaps the most important issue that a Trump presidency should deal with.
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The alignment of big business and totalitarianism described as socialism is unprecedented since Hitler’s Reich. It is class fascism. So of course they call their opposition Fascists without blinking. Hitler accused the Poles of attacking Germany, his excuse for Barbarossa even though he organized the fake attack with German troops. And he was funded personally by the world’s biggest company at the time, Krupp. Who of course as steel manufacturers stood to gain untold fortunes and slave labour and power from the success of WWII. So did the car manufacturers like Porsche and Mercedes, the clothing people like Hugo Boss and the chemical giants like I.G. Farben.
Everyone stood to gain from WWII, except the German people who were equally enslaved with the hope of vengeance and better times. Like all socialist systems it worked until they ran out of money, slaves , oil and food. The alignment of the new industrial giants with socialism is a recurring pattern. All want absolute power, not democracy.
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‘Hitler accused the Poles of attacking Germany …’
Putin accused the West of starting the Ukraine war.
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And when did that start?
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‘The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014. Following Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare.’ (wiki)
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Tell us about Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland, and the US role in the coup.
Tell us about the Maidan Massacre and the snipers in the Hotel Ukraina.
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Leaving out US involvement for the moment, this recent paper clarifies things a little.
‘The mass killing of 74 Maidan protesters and 17 police and Internal Troops members in Ukraine during the mass “Euromaidan” protests on February 18–20, 2014, and wounding of respectively over 300 activists and about 200 police and Internal Troops members is a crucial case of political violence.
‘This mass killing of the protesters and the police led to the overthrow of the democratically elected and pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave the start of a civil war in Donbas, Russia’s military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and an interstate conflict between the West and Russia and between Ukraine and Russia.
‘Russia drastically escalated these conflicts by launching its illegal invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Russia-Ukraine war also escalated into a proxy war between the West and Russia.’ (Ivan Katchanovski 2024)
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The allegations against the Bidens was a Kremlin scheme.
‘Since the Independence of Ukraine following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has had a history of running direct and active measures to undermine the sovereignty of Ukraine. This included placing operatives in the government, influencing elections, and encouraging corruption.
‘After the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, when Russia invaded Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, Russia began to take active measures to influence Presidential Elections in the United States. Beginning in 2014, this included efforts to discredit Joe Biden.
‘The series of false allegations about Joe Biden and Burisma emerged at a convergence of interest between Russian efforts to help Trump’s candidacy, operatives and supporters of the Trump campaign, and media in the United States.’ (wiki)
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US adventurism has cost a million lives, have they no shame.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nuland-ukraine-peace-deal/
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‘The series of false allegations about Joe Biden and Burisma emerged at a convergence of interest between Russian efforts to help Trump’s candidacy, operatives and supporters of the Trump campaign, and media in the United States.’
Here is Biden talking about withholding aid to Ukraine unless the Chief Prosecutor was sacked. The CP was about to investigate the Ukrainian power company, Burismo, where Hunter Biden was sitting on the board.
You can make up your own mind.
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Interesting perspective here: https://rumble.com/v5k5loj-kit-knightly-the-endgame-is-a-world-state-popular-resistance-has-set-them-b.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp It was not in Russia’s interest for the Donbass to leave Ukraine – that meant there would be no pro-Russian people left in Ukrainian society.
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‘You can make up your own mind.’
There was bipartisan agreement to get the Prosecutor sacked because he was slow walking against corruption.
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‘The victory of the Revolution of Dignity proved unacceptable to the Kremlin which unleashed first a covert and then an overt armed aggression against Ukraine.’ (Wilson Centre)
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‘There was bipartisan agreement to get the Prosecutor sacked because he was slow walking against corruption.’
And Biden’s son being on the board of Burismo had nothing to do with it?
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And the West has accused Putin of starting the Ukraine war. Kind of a circular argument.
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Possibly Gates has been busted for a $50 mill black donation, to Kamala?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_O3BDgv4Y
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That’s a huge amount of money. And the argument that he is trading cash for future political power is hard to refute.
Mrs Krupp did the same for her Adolph in the 1930s.
This will be subject to a Congressional inquiry if the Republicans win the house. It’s just too much money in the last week not to be questioned. You could buy 100,000 votes for $500 each.
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FWIW – more on the covid scene
Try the section that starts at
“The Great Reckoning continued last week, with the latest development being an article by the BBC’s medical editor headlined, “Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?” While the article never explicitly answered the question (they never do), the clear answer was, yes, the system is letting down people harmed by covid vaccines. Of course.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/enthusiastic-monday-october-28-2024?
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In most Western countries the standard of living for non-Elites is dropping significantly after many decades of continual growth.
Where is the wealth going?
A lot of it was drained by the economic destruction caused by bad management of the Plandemic. Plus Big Pharma received a lot due to compulsory administration of their defective and useless covid “vaccine” products.
Other wealth is being drained into the pockets of Big Green Subsidy Harvesters for their expensive solar, wind and Big Battery plantation electricity plus the economic destruction caused by such expensive electricity.
Further wealth is being drained for welfare and other support services due to the mass importation into Western countries of some of the world’s most uneducated, violent and anti-western people.
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Well there is a little bit of the wealth being drained into the coffers of the banks. Just a little. Mortgages on high house prices are a big chunk on most people’s funds. Could it be we were sucked in to a fake real estate bonanza, designed to suck money out of the lower classes. Poor sods being exhorted to buy houses for more and more money, where the only way you end up with some cash, is if you downsize, or you apply some lipstick, and more and more of the hard earned is transferred into the bank’s coffers? A good little earner. The Chinese govt have lifted it to an art form.
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Unrestrained printing of ‘new money’ and the consequent inflation is the biggest factor, and hitherto the most sneaky. People mistakenly believed that, because their salary, house value and bank accounts still had good-looking numbers attached, they were doing OK. The reality though is that everybody’s purchasing power has been falling for some time, and THAT is the most telling indicator. The wealthy meanwhile have more than kept pace with inflation. The gap between the rich and middle class, not to mention the ‘poor’ has widened outrageously as the likes of Soros, Gates and Bezos milked us all and their mountains of money reached the sky.
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A lot of it is going to enrich China. With 1.4Billion people they have a near infinite capacity for other people’s money.
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Excellent article from WUWT this morning:
Leftist Academics Flee as Musk’s X Ends Their Censorship Reign: How Free Speech Sent the Ivory Tower Packing
by Charles Rotter
Musk’s opening up X to free and open debate has sent Leftist academics scuttling away with their tail between their legs after “the loss of their curated, censorship-fueled dominance of online discourse.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/garbage-truck-catches-fire-in-suburban-sydney-after-picking-up-lithium-battery/ar-AA1t38md?ocid
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Happens in Australia too.
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People shouldn’t put batteries in the general waste stream. Is that your point? Or are you anti-battery? No phones or power tools for you?
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You sure can extraploate the hell out of a simple link posting.
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It is a pretty mundane story to be highlighting. Battery catches fire in bin! What next?
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I’ve still got a “mixmaster drill” as insurance
Plus it has a chuck that will hold very small bits and is gentle enough to use them without breakage
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I’m wondering if the general population doesn’t understand how dangerous even old lithium batteries can be when damaged.
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I agree. If we are to battrify everything we need to do better to keep each other safe.
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I would like to see batteries use less dangerous chemical compositions. A very good graph from Jeff Dahn in his battery presentation shows how close to the wind some battery makers are sailing with their chemical compositions, bordering on dangerous, in their efforts to reduce weight and cost.
Surely they can revert back to sacrificing some weight penalty to produce safer batteries.
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Local hero admiral Thomas pellew, was directly responsible for his helping to end the slave trade.
In 1816 after millions of Europeans had been taken as slaves by the Arabs over three centuries , many snatched off the beaches when fishing, Pellew attacked the state of algiers.
The Arabs and africans had been carrying on slavery for thousands of years and to lay the blame at european powers is absurd.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Bombardment-Of-Tangiers/
It is a thrilling story and the character Hornblower was modelled on Pellew.
There are many paintings of the time that until recently historians thought depicted the cruel British dealing with slave traders but in fact it is now known they show the compete opposite. They are African and Arab slave traders buying up white slaves. Our local church shows how money was collected to buy some of those local residents snatched by the Barbary pirates.
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David. The above 14 is a direct reply to your 4 .2 .i don’t know why it ended up down here.
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Old news yet again.
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/dogger-bank-wind-farm-project/8053/
Failure of large turbines.
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Reads as if there is a resonance issue likely related to the proximity of the respective turbines.
Could have similarity with this famous failure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggxeuFDaDU
If the theft from electricity consumers was stopped then the wind farm construction would stop.
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The Maine offshore wind project has stalled because the local authorities want more assurances about turbine blade design.
Also there was an associated article on the Moroccan Noor concentrated solar project (CSP) project, which may not go ahead, as the authorities want them to ditch CSP and use solar panels instead. Another US$2bn wasted…
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“The strange effect caused by one of its turbines” ..that we’re not going to tell you anything about!
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Naturally the truth will be somewhat different to the clickbait headline
And teachers look nothing like the one in the pic.
From the Oz definition –
How about that!
Sounds like every class in my schooling.
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sorry to hear that. The next generation is better.
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Volkswagen closing 3 plants in Germany, laying off thousands, 10% pay cuts, no bonus’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-gP2ychcY4
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I am totally amazed at how badly the traditional auto manufacturers have handled the push for a change to electric drive cars.
They have tried both ignoring the change and also used rash “knee jerk” responses resulting in poor engineering, expensive pricing, and uncompetitive designs.
Whilst the same can be said for many of the new dedicated EV makers , I would have expected established auto manufacturers to have a much better base to work from, especially in manufacturing cost control, design, market research etc.
Companies like VW, Jaguar, Ford, GM, Honda, etc have all been handed their ass by newcomers to the auto industry.
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Used EV prices Australia: Why China cars are driving down value
The growing price war in the Australian EV market is being fuelled by Chinese imports and current owners are hurting.
Resale values for electric cars are 15 to 20 per cent behind equivalent petrol models, according to data from wholesale auction house Manheim.
Electric car customers typically save money while owning the car, due to reduced running and servicing costs, and cheap leases under the Federal Government’s EV Discount.
But they could be in for a shock when trading in for a new model, particularly when thousands of vehicles bought under the discounted lease scheme start hitting the second-hand market from July.
Mazda introduced the MX-30 electric car in 2021.
Priced from about $70,000 drive-away, it now costs about $29,000 on the second-hand market, and is no longer available to order.
Similarly priced Mazda CX-9 petrol SUVs now cost about $50,000 second-hand.
Vinesh Bhindi, Mazda Australia’s managing director said sales of electric models have “sort of stagnated”.
“EV sales have pretty much plateaued this year and that’s before new Chinese companies bombarded the industry,” he said.
“You’re going to have a massive oversupply of EVs in the new market that are going to push down prices in the used market.”
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Its not really a price war if nobody cares.
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Donald Trump now has a 94.5% chance of winning the 2024 election under the latest national polling
https://citizenwatchreport.com/70000-people-could-not-get-into-the-sold-out-garden-americans-arent-buying-it-msnbc-donald-trump-now-has-a-94-5-chance-of-winning-the-2024-election-under-the-latest-national-polling/
Where will all the TDS loons go, when they threaten to leave the USA if Trump wins? Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine?
They’ll get a dose of real world Kamalanomics there.
Oh, the tears, the tears…
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South Korea’s AI Boom on the Verge of Collapse: A Cautionary Signal to the World
Monash University’s Professor Neil Selwyn cautions that South Korea’s AI hype could set off a global “hype bubble” if careful planning and realistic expectations aren’t embraced. South Korea’s experiences could urge a more measured approach to avoid widespread market and tech repercussions.
South Korea’s AI boom underscores the dangers of unchecked optimism, highlighting the necessity for balanced investment strategies and pragmatic technological integration.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/south-koreas-ai-boom-on-the-verge-of-collapse-a-cautionary-signal-to-the-world/
Chatbots aren’t AI,LLM’s aren’t AI.
Another fad, another craze, embraced by the masses then suddenly dumped as the next great thing comes along.
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AI is only as good as the people writing the programs.It is NOT the”Be all to end all”these people think it is.
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The Hype Cycle is pretty well known the IT world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
We seem to be cresting the peak of inflated expectation currently. I cant recall something that has caught the industry and the media and the publics attention all at once and to such an extent, at least in recent times. Its been interesting watching it ripple out into the energy world with SMR talk and colocating data centres with generation.
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Dental techniques explained simply
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sm2g02d4Kv1z23obp.mp4
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Rare weather photo of the day.
https://imgbox.com/39krMhCy
Fire halo, from Alaska.
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The LORD™️ hath return-ed and His name is … Cyclops?
Run!!!
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Ain’t nature wonderful.
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DNA contamination of the covid jabs.
Presentation by Kevin McKernan who previously worked for the Human Genome project.
His video is the 4th post in this thread
https://nitter.poast.org/Kevin_McKernan/status/1849575497547538641#m
He mentions the Australian TGA too.
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Any thoughts on this? The url title gives a good precis
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/we-dont-really-consider-it-low-probability-anymore-collapse-of-key-atlantic-current-could-have-catastrophic-impacts-says-oceanographer-stefan-rahmstorf
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Haven’t read the content of the link but saw this reported a year ago, and that the IPCC didnt think it would happen this century. Now, I’m not saying I suddenly take the IPCC’s opinion seriously. But if they’re not screaming about it then it’s clearly not much of an issue.
It’s switched off before and switched on again. So maybe it’s just something it does over very long periods. Climate’s gotta change somehow.
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This is since the last IPCC report. It is all newer than a year ago when you read about it. That is what the article is about. There are links to recent papers in the article.
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So the IPCC is wrong again?
What a shock.
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Sorry, but I equate the name with a certain Mann – they seem to have similar beliefs.
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Gee Aye,
Why not offer your own opinions on it? Did you feel he was acting scientifically when he became “chief organizer” of this open letter?
Sounds political to me.
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How does one ever draw attention to something without the political accusation?
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Indeed, it would be catastrophic.
The Egyptian empire collapsed due to the Nile drying up, and that was due to the AMOC stopping (and there was a whole archeological doco a few years back on that topic proving it).
Of course claims of it stopping have been made for years now, but none true.
It could stop tomorrow or 100 years from now.
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Wow. A whole documentary.
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FWIW
“Gulf Stream Collapsing Again!”
Re one graph there
“Kip Hansen
Editor
October 25, 2024 9:11 am
How many readers thought that maybe they should check and see exactly what the “moc_mar_hc10_mon” graph is a graph of?
Boy, it sure looks like something, doesn’t it? Is that The AMOC? What does the jig-jogging red line represent?
If you go to the Read Me explanation for that marvelous looking “data” and read it carefully (way down at the bottom) you still won’t really know what the heck it is, and I’ll bet my last dollar that it is only a sort of short-cut method of telling AMOC specialists one tiny thing about what the AMOC might or might not be doing, and only between 2004 and 2022 (during which the climate has not changed in nay significant way).
Hint, it is a kind of an index — not a measurement — and is the combination of many factors concerning the AMOC munged together.
Please note that the graph is essentially unit-less — That is unless you happen to already now what an “Sv” is. It should be, according to the ReadMe “Sv (106 m3s-1)” — but it is not a actually a measurement that can be enumerated in cubic meters per second (to any power of ten). It is a MUNGE.
Like far too many CliSci metrics, MUNGES are used in place of real world measurements with the pretense that they can be used to tell us something.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/25/gulf-stream-collapsing-again/
And re “says oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf” somewhere recently I saw a comment about him being “a person who had never seen a climate crisis that he couldn’t endorse”
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20 kitchen & cooking tips
https://youtu.be/S1sKfWeQY8I?si=rBKQ7xxchqrHBRS2
A lot of good tricks there.
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Am I racist? – full documentary
https://old.bitchute.com/video/2cVv6YlmEKcY/
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Download link:
https://seed167.bitchute.com/xeaUIspEij4H/2cVv6YlmEKcY.mp4
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Broken Hill is our own little Cuba in the desert.
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Just when you thought ‘At least heat pumps are safe’ –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9xgp331e3o
“Fatal explosion: MP wants drilling rules ‘looked at'”
“An MP has said regulations on drilling boreholes to install heat pumps need to be “looked at” after a fatal explosion at house.
“Paul Swales, 85, died and a woman remains in a critical condition after a house exploded in Cleat Hill, Bedford on 19 October. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said natural gas had escaped from the site of a nearby borehole. It happened in an area where, on 2 July, contractors struck a pocket of natural gas while drilling a borehole to install a heat pump.
“Now the area’s MP, Richard Fuller, has said he will be raising questions with ministers about safety regulations.”
Richard Fuller is a ‘Tory’ – he has a first degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics – and was a management consultant immediately after finishing university . . . all per the well-known Wiki.
However he may be on to something.
“Meanwhile, dozens of residents whose properties were within a 100m cordon around the explosion have still not returned home.
“The HSE said it was working on a permanent solution to seal off the borehole and get the escaping gas “under control”.”
So it looks as if it wasn’t even the unfortunate deceased Mr Swales who wanted a [ground source] heat pump.
One for the lawyers, unhappily.
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