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Plastic and other rubbish in oceans comes from Third World countries dumping rubbish into rivers, either by trucks or recklessly discarding it wherever they feel like it.
E.g. look at this short video: https://youtu.be/wVnMBGXVVUI
Remind me how the Left banning convenience products in Western countries such as the free multi-use plastic bags we used to get in supermarkets (what the Left falsely called “single use”) and other plastics, which are properly disposed of in nearly all cases, will stop the Third World littering everywhere?
Also, I found it remarkable on my recent trekking in Nepal, the vast amount of rubbish the locals dump everywhere, including in wilderness areas in the Himalayas. It’s a cultural and behavioural problem, not a plastics problem.
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Go to the Philippines and look at any beach. There is rubbish galore on the shore. Let alone on the streets and the storm water drains/sewers.
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Yes, I have seen videos of that.
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It’s a serious behavioural problem in the Philippines. And most Third World countries.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4FSvH7kClPA
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Yep, Africa and South America too… mind you, my first visit to Aussie was in the 1970s and I was amazed at the endless strip of rubbish beside all the main roads. That has certainly changed in 50years, so there’s hope for the 3rd world.
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And what separates the first world from the 3rd and second worlds?
Answer: Access to affordable and plentiful FF and the means to use them, for the most part.
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That’s one of my abiding memories from South Africa (Jo’burg) back in 2002 or thereabouts. White plastic shopping bags were literally everywhere, blowing around until they found a more permanent home in a hedge, stuck on a fence or, as in one case, high up on a mobile phone tower that was ‘disguised’ as a mutant Palm Tree. My driver explained that they were a hazard to motorists, as they frequently got sucked into engine bays to clog the radiator. They were a good indicator of local demographics too. The nearer one got to a township, the more bags and litter would be blowing around.
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Similarly, in remote outback settlements of a certain demographic in Australia. Rubbish everywhere.
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Then the single use plastics gets replaced with useless bamboo spoons – ugh, along with useless paper straws and then those crappy paper plates and paper bags. I watched a shopper lugging her groceries around in a paper bag only to have the **** fall out of it and all her shopping fall to the ground. They say that the paper and bamboo is more environmentally sustainable. How much actually gets composted, how much energy actually goes into making these sustainable single use products, and at what cost?
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1 year in prison for possession of a single use plastic bag? https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-plastic-bags-illegal-rwanda-punishment-includes-jail
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Here is a monkey playing the game “pong” using its thoughts alone, via an Elon Musk Neuralink brain-computer interface. (Note, this is from 3 years ago.)
https://youtu.be/2rXrGH52aoM
There is also now Neuralink installed in a human who can move chess pieces on a computer by thought alone.
Very impressive!
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I’m not gonna be at the front of the queue for these: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/16/22937198/bionic-eye-company-defunct-ieee-spectrum-go-read-this
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The UN’s DARK Agenda: What You’re Not Being Told About Agenda 2030
GB News
12 minutes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2K2CbC7ppA
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Very good.
Worth watching.
In Australia, don’t forget all factions of the Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty are on board with this globalist Agenda 2030.
Among several of the things mentioned it was the fake conservative Liberal faction of the Uniparty that signed us up to ruinables, made covid “vaccinations” effectively compulsory and introduced the censorship bill and created the position of the e Safety Kommissar. Liberals are not your friends, they are nearly as bad as Labor and Greens.
It looks like another one of those “far right conspiracy theories” have come true.
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It’s a toss up who is having more influence? The WEF or UN? I’m beginning to believe the more powerful organisation is now the WEF. These are the guys and gals who have initiated most of the more annoying policies over recent years. DEI, ESG are prime examples. They also believe passionately in the Climate Crisis, because via this scam, they can further exert their control. I’ve always wondered why the WEF appeared to have recruited so many willing world politicians including a significant number of Australian MP’s and bureaucrats. It’s because they get to attend those DAVOS meeting for free! All those private jets are also Climate guilt free- because it’s the world’s elite and cashed up, they just purchase carbon credits. Even Keir Starmer recently answered he’d prefer to attend Davos over Westminster.
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I understand that the WEF gained official “advisory” status to the UN in about 2016 or 2018.
Hence all the UN “treaties” and “pacts” aligning so well with WEF demands, and governments, especially western governments, going along with it all regardless of public opposition.
I had wondered why that was so, until last year I came across a reference to the fact of WEF gaining official advisory status. I don’t have time today to go dig it up, but there was a link to the reference to corroborate the claim.
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Bushkid- if you’re a fan of podcasts, have a listen to Doc Malik interviewing Richard Jeffs. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/doc-malik/id1687952188?i=1000679772662
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The WEF refer to as a strategic alliance
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THE NOLAN PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC LIFE
These were formulated by Lord Nolan of Once Great Britain in 1994 and are meant to be the ethical principles which govern public officials in that country.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all our public officials including politicians and senior public serpents actually followed them?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Standards_in_Public_Life#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_principles_were_Selflessness%2C_Integrity%2C%2C_Openness%2C_Honesty_and_Leadership
Also, Dr John Campbell just discussed them. See https://youtu.be/wt0jDlcnC-w
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David,
No politician would vote for it . It would require accountability and penalties for non compliance . They make the rules and they apply to everyone else, and if they get caught they change the rules.
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FWIW, 300,000 rubles is currently USD$2,896.
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There is almost no information on this.
I find it implausible that a single vaccine would prevent all cancers.
We already do have two cancer vaccines in the West for particular types of cancer.
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Dead can’t get cancer.
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I find it implausible that a single vaccine would prevent all cancers.
BCG may be a vaccine for TB but my understanding that for bladder cancer it mainly kills off the cancer cells on the surface of the bladder when infused. There are other inhibition actions reported cytokine etc but the total mechanism is still not understood after 30+ years of use.
More at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332220305862
But vaccines are not the only way disease spread can be limited / controlled.
The prophylactic anti-cancer properties of ivermectin and fenbendazole (separately and together) are being reported. Main stream pharma sites take a dim view of this reporting even though the safety profile of both in humans is well proven
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The use of fenbendazole for cancer is still experimental and unproven, more studies are needed to determine its safety for humans.
https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_experiences/ask_the_expert-forum/ask_a_nurse/f/ask_a_nurse/280067/can-fenbendazole-cure-cancer
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Fenbendazole (FENBEN) to treat cancer with Dr. John Campbell
The comments make very interesting reading.
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Don’t forget the HPV vaccine we are so proud of
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I spent my early life working in an underground coal mine. It was owned and operated by BHP/AIS.
Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh. NSW Australia. (500m underground. 3 Mining panels, 2-3 km from pit egress.)
What makes this underground mine viable, is the high quality of the coal. It can be blended with an easier attained, lower grade.. giving a resultant increase in gross ton efficiency & gross ton sale price.
Over the last decade, the mine has been subject to activism, environmental red tape and EPA investigations.
So it may or may not be why the former owner sold.
So who owns this coal mine now?… It surely couldn’t be anyone anti “fossil fuels” could it?
Well you may be surprised….
Peabody energy owns it…. and.. Blackrock and Vanguard are the 2 largest institutional shareholders of Peabody (via stock listings Dec 2024).
https://www.peabodyenergy.com/Operations/Australia-Mining/New-South-Wales-Mining/Metropolitan-Mine
Make of that what you will…..
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Only the naïve think that these woke corporations are working for the good of society and the environment, even if the false assumption of CO2 being bad were true.
Communism, socialism and its disguise of the fake “environmentalism” the Left promote is about the transfer of wealth and power from the working and middle classes to the Elites.
That these woke corporations make money from both coal and wind and solar plantations is no surprise whatsoever.
Similarly, one of the most fanatically woke countries, Australia is shutting down its energy supply for Australians at the same time as being a major exporter of coal, gas and uranium. We are restricted or prohibited from using the first two and prohibited from using the last one.
It’s all a classic case of Orwellian Doublethink.
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“Make of that what you will…..”
Well, large energy companies make money, and their bonds and stocks are in mutual fund holdings. The companies you mention, and many others, are expected to increase the wealth of those buying shares of their funds. Advisors claim the best option for most people is to buy well-diversified baskets of funds and hold them long-term. That I do. Whether or not Peabody Energy (BTU)is making money for me, I do not know. I suspect it is.
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As I said in the previous Norway thread
China is not going to do something stupid like Australia and destroy all these coal plants.
They, and many, many more, will be working and producing life-giving CO2 for at least half a century and up to nearly another century from now.
Australia and the (woke) world shutting down its coal power stations is utterly pointless, even if CO2 was actually a problem.
Wind and solar plantations are gone in 10 to 15 years, rhey are essentially temporary structures requiring constant replacement, coal plant is long lived and the Chicomms are absolutely not going to remove them.
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The oxygen in the CO2 came from the air and is returned to the air bonded to carbon. That is the nature of combustion. The coal plants are adding net carbon to the atmosphere.
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I really dont believe this 10-15 year replacement for solar. I get that degradation occurs over time, which you could cover in the initial design. For me the bigger risk for solar is a weather event like wind or hail, and in Oz maybe grassfires out on the plains where they put those things.
We have 12 year old panels that were recently cleaned. Looking at the output recently , they have dropped 5-10% in peak output compared with new.
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The German built panels I installed 14 years back still look the same as new and produce rated output. A roof mounted plastic junction box cracked and needed replacing but that was made in China.
I bought Chinese made panels in three separate purchases 12 years ago and the plastic surround in one set has darkened in the sun. So far these panels are still producing at rating but will short out if the plastic fails.
I had some Chinese made semi flexible panels on a boat and they failed inside a year. The plastic insulating layer was not up to the temperature. Good flexible panels will have insulation rated to 90C. And it is smart to mount them on a surface that can breathe. I mount them on a Twinwall roofing as a spacer.
Panels mounted at an angle to maximise winter input would be immune to hail damage. They may need to be steeper in Brisbane with the cricket ball hail that can occur there. But a glaring impact is nothing like a direct impact.
Panels tilted at angle greater than the roofline will have higher wind load so the roof structure needs to be capable of taking the higher loads. I doubt any solar system installer is able to assess the adequacy of the roof structure.
Panels installed in Europe 30 years ago are still producing:
https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/old-solar-panels-tested-mb2938/
The technology is still evolving meaning 30 year old panels will be approaching obsolescence. A feature of more recent designs is their ability to convert diffuse light rather than direct sunlight. One flexible panel I have produces 10% above rating in diffuse light from cirrus cloud.
The existing grid developed to take advantage of scale and to locate generators at the fuel source. Solar/battery provides an economic alternative to the grid for properties that currently do not have grid connection. And if socialist governments insist on turning the grid into a collection of intermittent distributed generators then many more properties will find that solar/battery is the economic option for them.
My existing LFP batteries have been partially cycled every day for 12 years. So now over 4,000 cycles. They have lost some capacity but still do the job and no physical changes. LFP have a full discharge cycle life of 2.000. The new LTO technology is good for 10,000 full discharge cycles so they should get at least double that for conservati=ve cycling in a household application. So 20,000 cycles give better than 50 years.
If I was building a new home today, I would not be constrained by availability of the electric and gas grid. There are some neat options for making your own electricity and the options are expanding. It is still a free market; unlike the current electricity and gas grids that has become a domain of global socialism.
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RickWill,
No doubt you’ve done your sums for your own case, though you might want to check the reception on your crystal ball. Today’s free ride can be made quite expensive at the stroke of a legislative pen. E.g., in Sydney, you’re under no obligation to connect your block of land with the Sydney Water mains supply and/or sewer, but even without a connection, you’ll receive a quarterly bill for an “availability charge”. If too many people paddle their own canoes off the grid, I think it’s quite probable the government will concoct something similar for electricity. After all, the “private” grid is a phony privatisation.
I’d describe your main conclusion as Renewables plus storage (perhaps with an emergency generator), make it feasible for domestic electricity users to go off-grid. That sounds reasonable enough. A typical house’s largest item would be aircon, which gets you by with under 5kW when it’s running. This washes up a bit though, when you want to charge an EV, since adding an EV charger turns a domestic load into a modest industrial load. You’ll need a battery large enough to charge the car and run the aircon and enough solar panels to keep that charged. Ah — but maybe you get on with your neighbours and, when you’re short, they’ll let you run a lead from their battery. Pretty soon you reinvent the grid.
The other missed item in your analysis is what happens real industrial loads. That’s not just aluminium smelters. Let’s imagine we *can* somehow run the country taking in each other’s washing: what’s going to power a hospital, for example? Or even a supermarket?
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I checked with Ausnet and they will continue to charge the retailer for the metering until the meter is removed. The retailer has no mechanism of charging for the connection once you close the account. Their only recourse is to disconnect you, which you have already arranged.
The issue of permanent disconnections has become common with gas connections as it is being encouraged by the State government in Victoria,. You could make a solid argiumant with the State of woke that you do not want to use grid power because it is still reliant on coal and gas and you are so worried about your carbon footprint that you only want to use pure solar power./.
The battery car makes a lot of sense with off-grid solar because it enables increased utilisation of the solar panels. The minimum cost system will have a solar panel CF of around 4%. The unconstrained CF is around 16% so lots of opportunity to charge a car battery when sunlight is good. The car is also mobile so can be taken to a charger anywhere.
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Rick Will,
Both those points are pretty weak. It’s easy for the government to create the billing mechanism, and the car only makes sense if your use of the car is *optional*.
You missed the tougher questions. How *are* you going to power hospitals? For that matter, that “charger anywhere” that you take your depleted EV to: where does it get its power?
Your comments frequently tout the merits of everyone going off grid. Without disputing whether it works for you, I’m suggesting you think a little more deeply about what would happen if everyone *were* to follow your advice. As I see it, it’d be quite a big step towards a hunter-gatherer existence for all of us.
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A typical house’s largest item would be aircon, which gets you by with under 5kW when it’s running.
Not near the southern coastline of Australia. Split system heat pumps for winter heating (even with superb insulation) will use far more energy and have less available on site from the “renewables install”.
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Agreed. My panels are guaranteed for 25 years. Doubt that I will be around by then. It’s the inverter that has a shorter guarantee.
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China is not going to do something stupid like Australia and destroy all these coal plants.
The Paris Agreement has foundered on fundamentals.
Despite years of effort, global greenhouse-gas emissions continue to increase.
Developed countries are falling short of their aggressive emission-reduction goals, and their economies can’t handle the costs and disruptions of rapid decarbonization. Developing countries are focused on securing a “green climate fund” of $1.3 trillion a year from the rich countries, as discussed at last month’s United Nations climate summit. Never mind that developed countries can’t even afford their own green efforts.
Mr. Trump should highlight these failings and the absent evidence of a “climate emergency” as part of an explanation for the country’s exit from the agreement.
Providing this rationale would create a moment for European countries to admit that the climate emperor has no clothes, giving them license to confront the awkward and obvious truths they’ve been avoiding for years.
Renewed commitment to developing this technology could be the final element of Mr. Trump’s productive withdrawal. Creating affordable, reliable, emissions-lite energy technology is essential. Small modular fission reactors and better batteries are particularly promising.
But we shouldn’t subsidize or mandate the deployment of immature or ineffective technologies—such as offshore wind farms, residential heat pumps and electric cars that nobody wants.
Rather, Europe and the U.S. should follow Xi Jinping’s energy-transition plan for China: “Build the new before discarding the old.”
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More Jab news
Top Expert Sounds Alarm: ‘Parents Poisoned Their Children’ with ‘Vaccines’
https://slaynews.com/#:~:text=NEWS-,Top%20Expert%20Sounds%20Alarm%3A%20%E2%80%98Parents%20Poisoned%20Their%20Children%E2%80%99%20With%20%E2%80%98Vaccines,-%E2%80%99
Worm-Like Self-Assembling Entities’ Found in Bodies of Covid-Vaccinated, Study Warns
https://slaynews.com/news/worm-like-self-assembling-entities-found-bodies-covid-vaccinated-study-warns/
Bring back the deat penalty and prosecute those reponsible.
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Death penalty.
Doh.
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there is an edit button these days
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Senator Gerard Rennick (Qld, originally LNP now People First Party) recently posted a video of an Australian Senate Estimates meeting where he was able to interview staff from the TGA. For those not in Australia, the TGA is our version of FDA, basically a rubber stamp for anything the FDA approve. Rennick loves these estimates meetings, because he revels in making a range of bureaucrats and public servants squirm and sweat. One of Australia’s most effective senators. A TGA offical was asked why they dont investigate every COVID vaccine adverse event. She replied they couldn’t because as there was 140 k reports it was an impossible task. 140 k adverse events reported and not only could they not investigate, this number of reports didn’t appear to be significant to them. Yikes!!
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“A TGA official was asked why they don’t investigate every COVID vaccine adverse event.”
I’ll bet he asked that question hoping they would reveal the numbers…. and they did.
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There is a major deception with the term “renewables”. Although wind and sunlight are renewable, the technology we use to harmess them most certainly is not. This is an extremely important fact that’s never ever discussed.
And all those greenies who wanted plastic bags and straws banned don’t seem to mind huge areas of environment being covered in these grotesque solar panels which plastic is a large component. Doublethink.
And if we were to hypothetically create a grid fully wind, solar and li ion battery for every country on earth,, there probably wouldn’t be enough resources to even do that. So much tor “sustainability”.
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Humans have a good handle on the availability of sunlight. The resource is unaffected by the energy extracted although extraction using solar panels can cause changes in micrioclimate.
Wind energy is quite a different matter. No one knows how much there is and how long it takes to develop. Upwind turbines certainly have an adverse effect on downwind turbines. But what do all the turbines do to the total energy iin the wind.
We had thunderstorms in Melbourne this morning. That requires a combination of atmospheric water and heat. The atmospheric water comes from the ocean. Placing wind turbines around the coast inevitably reduces the converging of moist air from ocean to land. No moisture, no convective instability.
Before the world gets anywhere near NetZero using wind extraction, there is a reasonable risk of desertifying much of the land. Meaning the wind resource is not unlimited and possibly not renewable. Desertified land will look like the Sahara in winter. Northern Sahara and Europe is currently dominated by high pressure up to 1038hPa so not much onshore wind. So is the wind extraction across Europe already altering the weather patterns.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/12/16/2100Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-352.29,34.87,640/loc=3.213,35.193
I expect that the misguided government adoption of wind energy extraction will be able to alter local climate where levels of extraction are high in contrast to CO2 which has no impact on climate – unintended consequence; the inevitable outcome of socialist doctrine.
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Jack, in what way are wind and sunlight renewable? Do you take the container full of yesterday’s sunlight back to the depot for the photons to be repaired?
This is just one more example of why the word intermittent most aptly describes these energy sources.
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Forrest Gardener,
I suppose the renewable aspect is that you use wind and solar today and there can be just as much available again tomorrow. Both will run out when the sun runs out, but that’s a while away.
Whatever they’re called, it’s not worth worrying about IMO. Sooner or later people will realise they’re garbage. When we’ve had a few lengthy blackouts and the novelty of Let’s pretend we’re camping tonight has worn off, the name “renewables” will be poison.
Better to put your effort into convincing people(*) sooner that renewables are a dead end.
(*) Not at Jo Nova’s; I think most of us get it.
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As the Beatles once sang, you say you want a revolution? We’re all doing what we can.
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Intermittants a more appropriate term
for these short term power providers,
on agin off agin…
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FWIW
Want to see how bad the current heat wave is?
Check the map colours at
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
Select “Australia and New Zealand” and “Temperature”
Channel 9 is only pussy footing
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/elon-musks-community-notes-calling-out-the-channel-nine-work-experience-kids.html#comment-6a0177444b0c2e970d02e860dd2a11200b
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So if you live near the coast, as 97% do, there’s nothing to worry about, same as it ever was or maybe even a little cooler (that powder blue is hard to distinguish amongst the blank white), ie. no change, no crisis, no worries.
Anything above 38 is now the dead zone, pale brown lifeless? So THIS is why Pantone No.??? was ‘chosen’ as the #1 colour for 2025 – it’s a pale boring brown. Coordination or coincidence?
Note NZ has no change whatsoever: or maybe that blank / blanc / white is SNOW covering everything: yesterday saw the 4th snowfall of December cover mountain peaks in the South Island with #5 lining up for this weekend – #6 for Christmas? – thankfully I’ll be just north of Newcastle burning red on 24 degrees, same as here: no fear.
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In muffle furnace terms
Char starts at 30 degrees
By 38 ashing is almost complete
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Pantone 17-1230 Mocha Mousse
The ‘colour’ for 2025 matches ‘heatwave brown’
38-plus degrees Celsius is next year’s brainwashing tint: who controls hues controls yous.
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Peace in our time.. ..just threaten to put Trump in power and the whole world moves!
Aussie to send troops to Ukraine, apparently because Europe and the Indo-Pacific are connected by China and North Korea supporting Russia. However we won’t send them until the war is over, they might get hurt, but at least the main-stream media is all about peace deals these days. It means we can take a break and spend the 15years needed to re-build the weapons supplies we have used, then tackle Russia once again. It seems we’re not the poor country we thought, we are throwing another $650million in there to see no return at all.
Macron wants someone else to send a 40,000man army of peace-keepers, so I expect that is where the Aussies will go.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/richard-marles-open-to-australian-role-in-post-war-ukraine-peacekeeping-20241217-p5kyus.html
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As peacekeepers go, North and South Korean troops could easily tackle the job of keeping the Donbas neutral until Putin falls. Keep them apart for awhile and then slowly integrate them, working as a team on very good money, eliminating mines.
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“As peacekeepers go, North and South Korean troops could easily tackle the job of keeping the Donbas neutral until Putin falls.”
Lol! They may not go far EG, you could end up with North Koreans fighting with the Russian troops and South Koreans fighting with the Ukies. Maybe America will come up with that plan before Trump gets power..
Its funny that Korea stays frozen in time while there is no North Vietnam and South Vietnam any more, and the Vietnamese seem quite happy about that.
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Can’t get behind the paywall, but it sounds like the tone is that we should be so excited by this exciting chance we might have to send our troops to Ukraine…. Getting the old crew back together again, just like all the fun we had together in Southern Afghanistan.
If they want their war with China, isn’t it best to keep our troops well rested nearby?
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KP,
They need Aussie troops as they don’t have anywhere near enough themselves . If you think that Russia will allow a ceasefire until they have reached their stated objectives your dreaming . Its cost too much blood and resources and they will want a permanent peace arrangement with security guarantees , and won’t trust the deep state again .
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As some may recall I have on occasion wondered at the potential for certain car accidents/incidents to be contributed to not by the usual influences of fatigue, alcohol/drugs, speeding etc but by something else that all driving age people had exposure to recently.
The latest monthly report from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economic unit covering the years 2020-2024 has noted:
-Australia’s 129 road deaths during November 2024 was the deadliest month since December 2017 (130 died that November)
-Last month’s figure was 30% higher than the November average since 2019….
-In the 12months to November 2024 NT rate doubled from 29 in 2023 to 59, NSW increased by 15 to 350 while QLD increased by 24 to 303.
The report stats (concise 6-page easy read) make very interesting reading given they cover the period 2020-2024. Stuff like since 2020 single vehicle accidents have increased from 578 to 729 or +6% average per year. The speed limit factor is also interesting with 100/110 zones showing flat average change per annum while the 60-70km and the 80-90km posted zones show 7% and 4% average trend change per year respectively.
Weekday accidents have shown a 6% per annum trend change with weekends at 2% and more of those weekday accidents are occurring during daylight hours (6% average per annum trend). Comment: may explain ambulance ramping issues across the states.
So, on the face of it more people are dying in single vehicle accidents in lower speed zones on weekdays during daylight hours.
Last word goes to Australian Automobile Association MD Michael Bradley who the article quotes as commenting that ‘road safety interventions are failing because of a lack of data-sharing and analysis’.
Now where have I heard sentiments re lack of data and (suppression?) of analysis before in the last 4 years?
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It’s weird Earl, In the US they’re having a daylight saving debate. One of the assertions is that during the changeover period for daylight saving ( Spring forward, fall back etc) the number of fatal car accidents increases. We change to DS on most of the East coast during November- could the same be happening here?
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Queensland doesn’t have daylight saving and their figures continue to be bad 21 in Nov23 31 in Nov24. South Australia does have daylight saving and their figures were good 10 Nov23 8 Nov24. Cheers
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Industrial accidents and falls have a similar pattern. People are just strobing out everywhere. It is frightening
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-adviser-alex-bruesewitz-collapses-stage-during-speech-new-york-young-republican-club-gala –
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The Daily Chart: Pardon Me?
Scott notes below the astounding pardon spree Joe Biden has indulged, speculating that perhaps he is trying to set a record. Looks like he has:
A large chunk of this number comes from 2022, when Biden pardoned 6500 people for being imprisoned for “smoking marijuana.” (I suspect if we delve into these individuals, we will find that a majority of them were convicted for being major dealers, not mere smokers of pot.
I doubt the federal government jailed many people just for smoking weed. But such is the need of the Biden Administration to lie about the facts.)
But we can guess that he’s not done yet, and even excluding the pot pardons, he may still break all previous records—certainly for a one-term president.
P.S. It is hard not to wonder whether Biden and his family are receiving bribes and kickbacks for some of these pardons, and trying to hide it within a huge number of pardons and commutations.
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Mr. Ozzie: Here in the States, word is that the Biden team is trying to pardon each person who voted for Kamala. The holdup is, they can’t seem to find 12 million “persons” to pardon.
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Russia is going to cut off gas transit through Ukraine to Moldova by the end of the year, but Romania will help Moldova overcome its energy crisis throughout the winter.
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Russia trying to avoid upsetting its customers by giving them notice.
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Starting wars upsets the customers.
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Blowing up undersea pipelines didn’t do much for them either..
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“I wish I knew why, but I don’t”.
The above is my nomination for 2024’s Stupidest Sentence Spoken (SSS) by someone other than the Resident of the White House. In an article titled: ‘Scientists struggle to explain record surge in global heat’ via RNZ via AFP (who are they?) a leading proponent of the SSS, or Settled Science Syndicate, announced he and his colleagues’ hypothesis cum theory no longer worked because the planet was now even hotter than their worst-case scenarios: The End Is Nigh?
Along with his cronies from the WMO, the IPCC, NOAA and Goddard/NASA, Gavin Schmidt intimated we’d finally opened the doors to Hades and even hazmat suits wouldn’t save us [my artistic license]. Apart from torturing and homogenising (and disappearing) temperature records resulting in a paltry 1 degree, give-or-take, fluctuation, methinks they’re all barking at shadows… as well as barking-mad.
A last-chance grasp at imagined relevancy before Inauguration Day on January 20 maybe?
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Has Trump been bought by crypto? We will know fairly soon. Is Trump a trickle down sort of guy? Is there actually anything he can do to relieve the present squeeze his voters are in? Hosing funds at the big end of town ain’t going to do it. We’re going to see – voters or backers?
Will anything be done for small business, because it will be big business that will probably benefit from taking the long handle to big government? Without a vibrant small business community there is no middle class, and without a middle class, there is an exceedingly divided society. AI wont help either. Well it will help the big guys. We continue living in interesting times. Here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw3NTxWXvKg
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Crypto is rubbish. It is unregulated and depends on electricity to operate.
Money can be sea shells, cows, salt or gold/silver. But not electricity. Certainly not here in Sunny Australia as it is unreliable.. And who controls the issue of more and more Bitcoins? Can I do that and get some of a cut in this Game? Fat chance. The Game is already rigged.
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sure. But I’ve made quite a bit of money out of it.
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And well done to you and everyone.
But, it is a trading vehicle. I have made money with trading as well. And still do.
. But not with Crypto, Someone can always pull the plug. How physical is your Crypto?
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You will own nothing and be happy….
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” How physical is your Crypto?”
Does it matter? There are always Govts that can take everything from you, be it cash, bank accounts, metals, land or crypto. I think the only safe things reside between your ears, knowledge and skills, but hard to build up capital there.
Crypto is too ethereal for me, but any money just relies on the faith of the people using it. I’m with Rockefeller, if the peasants knew how money is created there would be a civil war.
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WTF x10 – that old geezer is fading fast!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sojotwB4cp1smv61l.mp4
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Uncle Joe, ?
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I uspect some clever use of AI.
The response from the judges is similar to my response watching Joe trying to string a sentence together during his debate with Trump.
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Was about to say the same. Plenty of these fake videos doing the rounds. All seem to have similar music tracks.
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A very clever illusion.
I can’t work out how it’s done.
I thought it might be a version of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion but a pane of glass and a projection system is needed which seems unlikely to have been used.
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It’s not real, just AI-driven fakery. The bloody internet is being submerged in it. Though this example is obvious, we really have got to the point where we can’t rely on our own eyes, at least on a screen.
I have no doubt that leftists will use this cr4p to stage plenty of Trump hoaxes over the coming presidential term.
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Lol, yep!
AI was obvious from the first few seconds.
AI always look shiny and artificial and never gets hands right.
The giveaway was the 3 fingers on each hand, 3 seconds in.
The impossible transitions another.
The timing jumps another.
But soon you won’t be able to tell what’s real or not…
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AI means ‘Already Idiots’ and I will take your money.
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Biden Orders Scientific Agency To Expand Use of ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ in Final Days
The White House ordered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal regulatory agency, to expand its use of “Indigenous Knowledge” on Monday, as part of a last-minute push in the federal government to embrace what scientists call pseudoscience.
President Joe Biden issued a memo in November 2022 that directed more than two dozen federal agencies to apply “Indigenous Knowledge” to “decision making, research, and policies.” The memo called on agencies to speak with “spiritual leaders” and reject “methodological dogma.”
https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/biden-orders-scientific-agency-to-expand-use-of-indigenous-knowledge-in-final-days/
Maybe the rainbow serpent or such will outdo the BOM and equivalents.
/couldn’t do much worse.
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Western countries have fought enemies before. Difference is now, the enemy is about 30-40% of the internal population, who loathe the society they live in and its people.
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” …30-40% of the internal population, who loathe the society they live in and its people.”
They will change their minds if the west really does go down the gurgler. In the words of the immortal Joni Mitchell:
“Don’t it always seem to go,
That you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone?…”
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‘ … the enemy is about 30-40% of the internal population …’
In an Australian context that is disinformation.
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Australia’s CSIRO, once a scientific agency but now a purveyor of Government and woke propaganda, does the same thing.
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/indigenous-science
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The Flu Jab – “The assumption that an intramuscular injection of anything can augment human immunity – especially for illnesses for which the relevant immune mechanisms reside primarily in the respiratory mucosa – is, in any case, totally flawed.
Even if there was some beneficial effect versus one of a few pathogens for one season, there are almost certainly adverse effects on the longer-term development of flexible immunity.”
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/flu-vaccine-efficacy-estimates-are
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I think medical research appears fundamentally untrustworthy. https://www.arkmedic.info/p/pharma-hell-on-earth-the-odyssey
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“I think medical research appears fundamentally untrustworthy. ”
I think your philosophy should involve the question “Is Govt involved in this research?” ..and the answer of untrustworthy will follow.
Global warming, health, bush fires, cause of road accidents..whatever!
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“Victorian Premier announces new protest laws following synagogue attack…” Well, that certainly makes it look like a false flag firebombing!
…and the ultimate irony, in the State where masks were so compulsory-
“Some of the laws include prohibiting face coverings ”
Sky News
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrDB1UAutA – perhaps you could say ‘sorry’ mate? A good start….
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Here, Here: https://gerardrennick.com.au/intelligence-agencies-need-more-oversight-and-transparency/
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Hmmm … some New Jersey residents have vivid imaginations.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14198585/new-jersey-drones-resident-mystery-health-symptoms.html
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So someone who owns a production company already producing for the ABC is appointed to run the ABC. Conflicted somewhat yeah? https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/news/the-role-of-a-lifetime-starts-production-for-abc-2647420/
I am less worried by the ‘toxic culture’ at 9 than by the obvious financial conflicts: https://theconversation.com/hugh-marks-is-the-new-managing-director-of-the-abc-is-he-the-right-person-for-the-job-246124
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