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Extremely severe weather in the US. Freezing temperatures in the west, icy rain in the north, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the southeast.
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Totally impossible!!
The UN told me the sea is boiling and the world is overheating as we speak!! 🔥🔥
And our socialist government fully agrees. Non of this would be happening if you’d all just get out there & buy an EV. 💩💩💩💩💩
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“Totally impossible!!”
Absolutely!
Why only last week weather underground (wunderground) was predicting abnormally warm temperatures for the U.S.
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Yes Graham but remember it’s only so cold because it’s so hot.
And I’ve had words with the cows over our back fence. I said they have to stop farting. They just mooed but I’m sure they were saying me first.
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I concur.
Martin Clark here. Looks like I’m back with contact at the one place I need to be 🙂
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I find the boiling seas the most outrageous lie by UN head Antonia Gutteres.
He had studied physics and electrical engineering and taught telecommunications before he became a Socialist politician. And made this extraordinary claim after shallow water around Florida set a record of 100 degrees! Boiling! But being America it was only 100F, blood temperature, not 100C! And the oceans average 3.4km in depth.
It was not some extreme metaphor. It was likely an utterly ridiculous mistake. But
he now persists because he was not laughed out of his job. It shows how utterly uncritical the press are of the ‘The’ Science from the UN. And now he really wants Trillions to ‘save’ the planet from the boiling oceans. His very own invention. Anyone can be a Climate Scientist.
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>severe..freezing
Obviously haven’t been burning enough coal and liquid hydrocarbons during the reign of the woke Dems.
Drill baby drill!
Burn more fuel!
We need more Global Warming(TM)!
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How can it be?
2024 was the hottest year eeevvaaahhh!
The planet is in meltdown!
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It’s all Trumps fault !!!
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Who killed JFK? : It looks like Lee Harvey Oswald Didn’t Kill JFK: https://resistthemainstream.com/jfk-assassination-shocking-claim-erupts/
It was James Earl Files who fired the fatal shot at his brain. Charles Nicoletti shot from behind into Kennedy’s back. Although a serious wound, it likely would have been survivable. However, James Earl Files fired the fatal shot from the front, at Kennedy’s brain: https://drtruth.fortunecity.ws/confession2.htm
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NBC has a tape proving Oswald could not have been the shooter.
Just look at the video in the weblink below –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/nbc-has-the-tape-proving-oswald-was-not-the-killer-of-jfk/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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The Parkland Hospital doctors confirmed that the fatal shot came from the front: https://www.facebook.com/channel5uk/videos/644965191130087/
James Earl Files (83) is still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Files
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And then there were the eye-witness reports of the shooter on the grassy knoll.
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If there is a secret video it has not been released yet.
Waiting and hoping.
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Mate, I was pretty convinced after watching the JFK movie over 30 years ago. I think Olive Stone got most of the story correct. Just as he did with the “Snowden” movie. No sane person could believe LHO shot JFK from that window position with that crappy rifle and acted alone.
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I heard that there eight shooters involved. A kid from a manhole in the street was the prime suspect. He was in front of the car
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Now, you’re being silly.
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Ok. The question then becomes why this information has not officially been made public before.
Something tells me that the cover up will need bigger and bigger actions to make it go away.
They may have to destroy the USA to save their bureaucracy.
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Plato’s Noble Lie denotes truth never comes out officially.
The US uses Hollywood to tell truths instead – why none of this is a revelation now, everyone already knew we were looking at a Noble Lie.
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These will be strong thunderstorms overnight in the eastern US.
Threat to life.
https://i.ibb.co/WWR158wc/ventusky-temperature-2m-20250330t1900.jpg
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The meandering jet stream appears to be the cause of severe weather.
‘The setup supporting this multiday severe weather threat is familiar for March and the rest of spring, with a sharp southward plunge of the jet stream swinging out of the West toward the central and eastern states.
‘A strong low-pressure system with embedded strong wind shear will sweep from Kansas to New York over the weekend, helping pull a moisture surge northward from the Gulf. These will lead as potential drivers of severe weather, including supercells.’ (AccuWeather)
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A little light reading.
‘In the Little Ice Age there were probably times when the jetstream, in its southern position, was exceptionally strong owing to the enhanced thermal gradient between the subtropical Atlantic and the southward penetrating cold air.
‘It might be supposed that another consequence of extreme sharpening of this frontal zone in similar situations would be enhanced tornado activity in Europe and on the Great Plains of the United States (though it is hardly possible to verify this point).’ (Humbert Lamb)
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JFK killed by a process that is not as previously reported, who knew?
Unsurprising and from this distance little can come of it.
So now Epstein and do we now suspect the attempt on Trump was a lone shooter or a part of a Democrat supported assassination plan.
It does not lend trust to any discussion given that every President was privy to this report and nobody thought it in the public interest to release.
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>not as previously reported, who knew?
Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is today’s history fact.
>from this distance little can come of it
And yet murderers of Jews in the more distant WW2 are hunted down for punishment.
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Until President Donald John Trump.
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Why do I detest politicians?
The same applies to the way our governments handled Covid.
What are they so afraid of?
Why don’t they want the public to know what they did wrong?
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“JFK killed by a process that is not as previously reported, who knew?”
Classified doc found in the back garage at Biden’s place?
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Desflurane
I have previously mentioned the anaesthetic drug desflurane.
There is a war against this beneficial anaesthetic agent and it has been banned in many places including various hospitals in Australia because it is supposedly an extremely potent “greenhouse” gas.
The following is from Goolag AI which is certain to provide the Leftist perspective on this:
Also according to Goolag AI desflurane has an atmospheric concentration of 0.30 parts per trillion (in 2014).
If it is 3700 times more potent than CO2 that would make it equivalent to 1110 parts per trillion or 0.00111 parts per million compared to CO2 at around 420 parts per million.
Even assuming there waa an actual correlation between global temperatures and CO2 or other so-called greenhouse gas, what is the point of banning this agent with such a low concentration compared to the culprit, CO2, that is blamed the most?
I have a friend who is an anaesthetist and this is one of his most favoured anaesthetic agents which is safe and predictable in a wide variety of patients but its use is now banned in many Melbournistan hospitals in which he works and he has to substitute lesser agents.
I would appreciate your views and comments on this matter. Also please comment about how something with such a vanishingly small concentration in the atmosphere can supposedly effect global warming.
Note that there are a number of woke anaesthetists and hospital administrators in Melbournistan pushing the anti-desflurane agenda and one has even been given a substantial taxpayer grant in relation to this matter when that money should have been spent on actual science or medicine. They don’t care about favourable patient outcomes. Wokeness rules!
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What we all need to know is how many millionths of a degree Celsius reduction will this ban cause.
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I think it would be safe to say, within a useful order of accuracy, zero. However, the virtue aspects are through the roof, and really who cares about the patients?
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I find that difficult to believe, like so much of the Climate Change nonsense.
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Likely it’s now off-patent, you know just like R12 refrigerant was, then some clown found a hole in the ozone layer, over the Antarctic, and voila, DuPont just happened to have a brand new fully patented ozone proof refrigerant.
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Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of Burying Conflicting Climate Change Report
There is a major story developing on Capitol Hill after House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky, revealed that a long-withheld report from the Biden Administration directly contradicted the claims of climate change used to limit increased U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
The suggestion is that this was an knowing effort to cap carbon admissions rather than carbon emissions.
The impact that new U.S. LNG exports have on the environment and the economy was reviewed by U.S. Energy Department scientists and completed by September 2023. It appears that neither President Biden nor Secretary Jennifer Granholm liked the science or the conclusions.
Rather than “follow the science,” they buried the report while allegedly making claims directly refuted by their own experts.
The report was finished while Biden was still running for reelection and would have likely enraged environmentalists.
The draft study, “Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports,” found that, under all modeled scenarios, an increase in U.S. LNG exports and natural gas production would not change global or U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
It further found that it would not increase energy prices for consumers.
Biden and Granholm reportedly buried the report and then announced a pause on all new U.S. LNG export terminals in January 2024, citing the danger to environmental and economic impacts.
Comer’s office told Fox News Digital that DOE repeatedly declined to provide this study to the House Oversight Committee or comply with other requests for information.
What is most concerning is that our LNG exports help reduce the dependence on Russia and would have decreased the revenues to that country to support its war in Ukraine. However, critics charge that Biden ignored the national security and economic benefits. Supporters note that we still exported a massive amount of LNG.
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Clean energy group admits going green may mean chaos for New York’s power grid as industry scrambles to meet new goals : report
A bombshell report from a clean energy group admitted that shifting to solar and wind may mean chaos for New York’s power grid as the state’s green energy law creates hurdles for cost and reliability.
The report from the New York Affordable Clean Power Alliance, which represents solar and wind energy firms, noted that the state’s timetable to phase out energy generated by fossil fuel is unrealistic — and even dangerous.
“The New York City area is forecasted to experience a generation shortfall starting in 2033, driven by an increase in peak demand and the planned retirement of existing dispatchable generation,” the report said.
“New York faces hurdles in maintaining reliability due to ambitious renewables targets, the projected retirement of much of its flexible fossil generation fleet, growing load, and extreme weather,” the report said.
The “intermittent nature” of wind and solar could create “challenges,” the report said.
“Unlike fossil fuel plants, which provide dispatchable generation around the clock, renewables depend on weather conditions, making real-time supply and demand balancing more complex,” the report said.
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Desflurane obviously must have some extremely beneficial properties which may be able to replace some or other preparation which is 10 times more expensive & 50 time’s less effective!
Pharmaceutical industries cannot tolerate such interference in their product rip off bag of tricks.
Stinks of Ivermectin situation!!!
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The generic equivalent (cheap and no longer patented) was approved in 2018.
https://www.drugs.com/availability/generic-suprane.html
I guess that is probably around the time they suddenly discovered it caused Global Warming. It was fine right up until that point!
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Good find, Tel.
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How much total mass of anaesthetic would they use in a year? Maybe a couple of kilos at most I would think.
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David, I can only assume desflurane is cheap. Are there any credible replacements for the product? Follow the money and there’s possibly some new whizz bang dentistry anaesthetic in the works which costs way more and provides more profit.
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ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN
Huge deficit is one of six crisis points to know before you vote in 2025 election
Voters in the 2025 election are not being warned by either major party of the grave dangers facing the nation of Australia.
I don’t believe Anthony Albanese understands the potential crisis Australia is facing, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton believes he would be mutilated in the polls if he based a campaign on a looming crisis. Accordingly, the campaign is already disintegrating into a ‘spendathon’ battle.
What is best? The Albanese “cup of coffee” tax cut or Dutton’s lower petrol prices for a year.
As Australians, we have to hope the potential scenarios I will describe below do not happen.
But I fear the campaign is a mirror image of the 2022 Victorian election, where the consequences of the past bad decisions by the Daniel Andrews government were set to explode in the state in the next 24 months. But voters were not warned in strong terms by the Opposition, so they gave Andrews a disastrous third term. He bailed out, but his replacement was unable to manage the crisis she inherited. She made it worse.
When I saw the budget I warned readers that there were dangers of grim times ahead because the budget projected a cash deficit of some $80bn in 2025-26, then $70bn in each of the next four years. This was unsustainable. In addition, we will need to spend another $25bn annually on defence to maintain ANZUS.
I now realise the situation is much worse than it seemed on budget night. And the vast majority of voters have no inkling of what looks to be ahead.
Here are six crisis points:
1. In the vicinity of a third of Australia’s GDP comprises exports, and those exports are dominated by iron ore, gas and coal.
2. We are deliberately trashing our reliability of supply reputation. In iron ore, both BHP and Rio Tinto are now facing almost endless industrial action as the unions seek to regain much greater control of the operations.
3. In the past that would not have mattered because the world was desperate for product. But now demand is softening on the back of the repercussions of reduced consumption in China and the Trump tariffs.
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Nuclear Growth Helps South Korea Cut Back On Coal And LNG Imports
Record nuclear power production is helping South Korea to cut imports of thermal coal and LNG to multi-year lows so far in 2025, offering a potential blueprint for other power-hungry nations looking to curb reliance on fossil fuel imports.
Nuclear reactors have generated more electricity than South Korea’s coal and natural gas-fired plants since September of last year, and have helped the country’s utilities make steep cuts to fossil fuel purchases and use so far in 2025.
Historically, South Korea has been a top-four importer of both coal and LNG, but over the first quarter of 2025 it has cut the combined imports of both fuels by 20% from 2024, thanks to greater home-grown nuclear output.
Continued high nuclear generation could allow for further drops to South Korea’s fossil fuel imports going forward and showcase the effectiveness of a nuclear fleet in displacing costly and high-polluting fuels from power production.
NUCLEAR GROWTH
South Korea’s nuclear power fleet churned out a record 17.9 terawatt hours of electricity in January, according to data from Ember, which is 20% more than in the same month in 2024 and accounted for nearly 35% of the country’s electricity.
A sustained drive to raise efficiency levels of the country’s nuclear reactors, alongside the start-up of the Shin Hanul-2 reactor in early 2024, has resulted in a steady climb in South Korea’s nuclear-powered electricity supplies.
South Korea electricity generation by source & power sector emissions
Between 2019 and 2024, total electricity generation from South Korea’s nuclear plants expanded by 29%, from 146 terawatt hours (TWh) to 189 TWh, Ember data shows.
That rapid swell in clean electricity supplies allowed for utilities to reduce coal-fired power output by 26% and still elevate overall electricity supplies by 6% during that same period.
Natural gas-fired electricity supplies grew by 17% from 2019 to 2024, and overtook coal-fired supplies for the first time last year.
But 2024 also saw output from nuclear plants exceed that from South Korea’s coal and gas-fired plants for the first time, cementing its place as the country’s primary power source.
And nuclear power’s stature within South Korea looks set to keep growing, with an additional four reactors under construction.
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Elon Musk said that the entirety of the US can be powered by solar panels
https://youtube.com/shorts/nwA4HFXOzRs?si=uqYEpFHiO_IHbexC
Readers of this website, I think we need to re-evaluate our worldview. The world’s smartest and most accomplished man said that solar panels are the way of the future. I will never accept that Elon Musk is wrong about anything. Close down the coal plants once and for all. We have Musk’s blessing!
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I think we should proceed as soon as the US has ironed out any wrinkles in Elon’s cunning plan. It would be nice, just for once , to see a full working model of what our “renewable” evangelists tell will work and be our future. For all the trillions spent and decades past that element always seems to be missing.
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Yarpos,
Elon has a lot of skin in that game . Tesla has taken a massive hit and he is in damage limitation . Theoretically is a long way from practicality….
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Elon Musk is a visionary thinker but like all such people, not everything he says is necessarily correct or economically feasible. He was imagining what could be or might be. I would hate to see him stop imagining.
The difference between the US under TRUMP and Australia, is that this fantasy idea would not be forcibly imposed on anyone in the US. If any entrepreneur including Musk thinks they can do this economically and make money from it without taxpayer subsidies, good luck to them.
Unfortunately, in Australia our brain-dead politicians, bureaucrats and CSIRO “scientists” hear such flights of fancy and then forcibly impose them on we, the people, for the benefit of their favoured subsidy harvesters.
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Like you said, Elon Musk is a visionary thinker. So how can he be wrong? How can a man who invented EVs and lithium-ion batteries be wrong about this? It’s time we at joannenova.com.au re-evaluate our position on this. Elon Musk has literally been right about everything he’s ever said. I’m not convinced that he’s wrong about this. We can power the whole world with a small area of solar panels because the sun is so bright. You can’t argue against his science.
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I doubt anyone here truly disagrees with what Musk said when you include the part that he added, “Well, you need batteries”.
The problem is, to cover off on the reliability you need a lot of batteries. A lot. And if the batteries are used in an event to the extent that they are greatly depleted, you need enough solar panel area to power both demand and re-charge simultaneously, reasonably quickly. It’s not clear whether Musk is covering off on that or any contingency/practicality. Or if his panel stipulation is simply 24 hr demand capability in a daylight period of maximum solar activity.
In truth, it is possible. Like anything it’s a matter of cost. But we know moving from fossil fuels or nuclear is not a matter of necessity.
And while we have alternative reliable sources, and no urgency or need to adopt solar, we can wait for technology to improve. Or never.
My house is not connected to the grid. I rely on solar with battery storage. My battery storage is typically 1.5 days demand. We do use a generator to supplement. Last July we had a bad run of days that meant we would need to quadruple our battery storage to cover an equivalent bad period and to be reasonably confident we could ditch the generator. But realistically all that extra storage cost for contingency is a waste of money when we can on the odd occasion use a far cheaper fossil fuel option. Given that would be the same scenario trying to power a whole country with solar, lets just build the back-up generator as the primary source (fossil fuel or nuclear). Because in the solar situation you end up needing to build both anyway. So skip the solar just run the one reliable system full time instead of two systems each part time.
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Musk did NOT do either of those …….as you well know !
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I was thinking, he does own big lithium battery factories, so he probably is looking to profit from them.
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Years ago he was discussing the robot’s speed that he could get Tesla batteries assembled, and the contracting Panasonic engineer was talking about speeding up their current operation. Musk said he was worried about air friction being an engineering problem at the speeds he was thinking of, and the engineer nearly died of fright.
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..More likely nearly died of laughter !
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I recall both were discussing not the speed of an actuator but its position second derivative – acceleration,.. specifically when it changes polarity.
All three of us agreed it was real limiting factor.
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Musk is not wrong. This map shows how much of Australia’s Pilbara region would need to be covered in solar panels to power Australia and the world:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarchoice.net.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FSolar-resources-in-Australia.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bbc51fdd889a297dd771da66584d2b38199bdd518fa0b30f413b593b0b4a74e0&ipo=images
However there are a few realities that get glossed over.
1. The area ia only relevant if there is infinite storage capacity. If there was only this spot in Australia then all the energy storage would need to be able to carry the seasonal fluctuations and there would need to be very expensive cables crossing the globe.
2. The challenges of storage and transmission could be reduced by selecting other tropical regions with high sunlight and overbuilding to reduce the daily and seasonal fluctuation and the transmission distances.
3. The world energy supply would become completely reliant on China continuing to burn coal to provide the initial hardware and the ongoing replacement hardware. Current solar panels and batteries return little more energy than the coal and other fuels used to make and transport them.
So Musk is correct but current technology makes it unviable.
By remaining connected to the grid, an Australian household can become almost self-sufficient for their own energy if they have rooftop solar panels and a battery for daily load shifting that is economically viable at an energy cost around 40c/kWh. Off-grid would currently be competitive at around 60c/kWh. Germany, UK and maybe Denmark have electricity prices that high but they have less sunlight so not an economic option there.
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Then when will you present a formal apology for being wrong about the renewables transition? You can’t have it both ways. Pick one:
1) Elon Musk is omniscient and is never wrong about anything (provide an apology)
2) Elon Musk is wrong about something which would mean we have to question everything else he’s ever stated.
I’ll wait for your reply.
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Pick 1:
a. twiggy is not a hero, because he limits your choice to two when there are other options
b. twiggy is a hero, because he is just joshing with you
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I had a look at that map, and I tried to reproduce the calculation. Starting with a 72 cell panel you get approx 400W out of two square metres. That means you need 5 square metres to deliver a kilowatt which translates to approx 4.5 kWh per day.
Going back and forth with Bing’s free version of Copilot we came up with an area the size of Fraser Island to supply all of Australia’s electricity needs, as per the 2022-2023 Australian government energy flows report … and presuming perfect storage and transport with no loss.
Once you factor in losses, I’m fairly sure you are going to need double that … but this is only for the electric component of Australia’s energy supply. We need to multiply by five if you want to replace all the carbon based fuels such as nat gas, LPG, diesel, petrol, etc.
Now we are up to 10 Fraser Islands, just for Australia. Not impossible if you don’t mind building large canopy covers and put your city underneath to live in. Cost might be on the high side.
Battery technology has a long way to catch up in terms of affordability and reliability … but I mean, ignoring costs it could be done. Mind you, the population is growing around 2% to 3% each year so the requirements double every 30 years.
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Once you called it Fraser’s Island I had to clutch my pearls and stop reading.
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Oh look, a model of something that works. That will need to be ignored with some vigor.
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Key Takeaways From NYT’s Secret History Detailing US ‘Shocking’ Involvement In Ukraine War
It is years too late and alternative and independent media had already done so much work on exposing the reality, including 600+ page books which have been published, but the New York Times on Sunday is out with a lengthy report on The Partnership: The Secret History of America’s Role in the Ukraine War.
Up until very recently, mainstream media gatekeepers wouldn’t so much as admit that a proxy war has been unfolding from the very start of the conflict in Ukraine.
This even after the so-called paper of record had earlier in Feb. 2024 acknowledged that the CIA had built 12 “secret spy bases” in Ukraine to wage a shadow war against Russia going back to 2014.
Again, it comes much too belatedly, but now with Ukrainian forces clearly losing the fight, the Times admits that the prior Biden administration was far more involved in being embedded on a military and intelligence level with Ukraine than was previously made public by official sources.
The report is a deep dive into the “extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology” that became Zelensky’s “secret weapon” in countering Russia. It begins by describing that within two months of Putin sending his army across the border, Ukrainian generals in civilians clothes were being secretly whisked away for high-level war planning sessions at US bases in Germany.
“The passengers were top Ukrainian generals,” NY Times describes of men taken by a convoy of unmarked cars from the Ukrainian capital to Western Europe. “Their destination was Clay Kaserne, the headquarters of U.S. Army Europe and Africa in Wiesbaden, Germany. Their mission was to help forge what would become one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war in Ukraine.”
The report makes clear that US commanders were much more inter-woven into Ukrainian operations than known, to the point of ‘shocking’ some NATO allies. In essence many counter-Russia operations happening on Ukraine’s battlefields were simply run from the base in Germany.
“But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood,” the report continues. “At critical moments, the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden’s mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv’s counteroffensives. A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field.”
Notably, this is essentially US officials and the NY Times also admitting that the Kremlin has all along been right when it insisted this was never really simply about Moscow vs. Kiev – but that NATO countries have militarized Ukraine and weaponized it against Russia.
President Putin and Kremlin officials have been fiercely complaining about US intervention all along, but this was dismissed in the West as merely ‘propaganda’.
Below are some key excerpts from the very lengthy NY Times report, with subheadings and emphasis by ZeroHedge…
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Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees
March 30, 2025 – Sundance
The dynamic is obvious to any intellectually honest observer, which is to say U.S. and Western media disqualify themselves and continue pushing preferred EU narratives.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected the latest U.S. proposal for a minerals deal that would create a partnership to repay the United States for ongoing financial support. According to Zelenskyy, the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.
However, it is important for U.S. readers to remember the U.S. aid package already underway pays for the entire operation of the Ukraine federal spending liabilities, including pensions, government worker paychecks and everything normally within a govt budget. U.S. taxpayers are not only subsidizing the war with munitions, but we are also subsidizing the government operation and citizens of Ukraine. Within that spending there is MASSIVE corruption ongoing.
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SITREP 3/28/25: Putin Vows to ‘Finish Off’ Ukraine?
Simplicius – Mar 29, 2025
Putin made some very interesting statements in his meeting with the sailors of the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine in Murmansk, ones bound to reignite hope in the doomsayer quarters who’ve long believed Putin is looking for any opportunity to ‘concede to the West’.
The first was that Russia will no longer make mistakes of being ‘led by the nose’ by Western partners, and that any conflict settlements will have to come by virtue of meeting Russian conditions.
The more decisive statement came by way of Putin’s reassurance that Russia has the strategic initiative on every front, and by all reasonable probabilities will “finish off” Ukraine:
In fact, some are predicting a new phase of the conflict, given that the US-Ukraine rupture appears to be entering a final point of disconnection now that Zelensky has again reneged on his minerals offer, rejecting that US aid should be treated as “debt” for Ukraine to “pay back”.
Putin has now declared that what the US does with Greenland is their business, with many viewing this as a ‘winking’ quid-pro-quo nudge implying Russia will turn a blind eye to the acquisition if US allows Russia to do what it must in Ukraine for its own security reasons.
It’s likely not a ‘thought-out’ plan of this sort, but rather Putin’s long-held adherence to basic principles, which include not interfering in the affairs of other sovereign nations.
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Some last items of interest:
In the recent premium article we discussed how drones are climbing closer and closer toward overtaking artillery.
An interesting new report gives us some of the first official corroborating figures. A Russian medical journal found that a whopping 75% of all wounds to Russian troops now come by way of drones, with only 20% of wounds attributed to artillery:
More than 75% of all injuries to Russian soldiers received during trench warfare were caused by attacks by Ukrainian UAVs.
These statistics were cited by Russian military doctors, whose article was published in the March issue of the Military Medical Journal of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Another 20% of the soldiers surveyed were injured as a result of artillery shelling, only 4% from small arms.
According to the military doctors’ report, the main Ukrainian means of destruction during trench warfare are small attack UAVs.
Drones have also affected the time it takes to evacuate the wounded for surgical care. It has increased threefold to 14.5 hours.
It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian military also says that most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces losses are now being suffered from Russian UAV strikes.
Although because the Russians have more artillery ammunition and more varied systems (such as FABs) it is likely that the % will not be as high.
Again we’ve had an exchange of bodies, or cargo 200, between the two sides.
If you thought the last numbers were jaw-droppingly unbelievable, this time is even worse:
I’ve been covering every exchange since last year, and last time we had the ratio as follows:
Russian losses: 429
Ukrainian losses: 4,304
Ratio: 10.03 to 1
Now we add to it today’s numbers, and get:
Russian losses: 464
Ukrainian losses: 5,213
Ratio: 11.24 to 1
Note the Russians actually got 35 military bodies, the remaining 8 were civilian.
As jarring as the disparity might seem, I obviously do not realistically think the KIA ratio is quite that lopsided in reality, but I’m simply reporting the facts as they are. The exchange of bodies shows an incredibly lopsided record—justify it however you’d like for yourself.
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“Drones have also affected the time it takes to evacuate the wounded for surgical care. It has increased threefold to 14.5 hours”.
Would therefore appear to support the idea that drones are the new hand grenade in front line warfare. As I understand it the hand grenade originally was not meant to be a lethal weapon but an injury inflicting weapon which meant that the wounded “had” to be evacuated from the front line thereby disrupting the flow of reinforcements to the frontline. The next evolution of drones will probably come quick enough to avoid the protocol of choosing to euthanize wounded soldiers – stop the demoralizing screams of pain. Having joined “for the good of their country” wounded soldiers might accept the idea of being dispatched with dignity “for the good of their uninjured soldier community”.
Now where have I heard the concept of doing something personally detrimental for the good of your family/community promoted in the past few years?
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“—justify it however you’d like for yourself. ”
The Russians are moving forward, so they get their own dead plus the Ukie dead. The fact that the NYT can publish an article like that means USA involvement is coming to an end.
Like all their wars, they go in, make a mess, and get out, without ever winning. The MIC gets richer, the new weapons get tested, and the rest of the world pays for it through the reserve currency dollar.
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Ozzie,
Drones have also increased the accuracy of artillery – the aim can be corrected in “realtime” and drones are also watching the opposition 24×7 and troop rotations/movements are getting consistently hit . The Russians are getting way more drone casualties because the Ukrainian artillery is short of ammo. Its been well known for a while now that the Russians have air superiority and that allows them to hit strong points with massive bombs with pinpoint accuracy . If you believed the MSM you would expect the Ukrainians to be at the gates of Moscow by now…
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Putin’s long-held adherence to basic principles, which include not interfering in the affairs of other sovereign nations.
Really. You could have fooled me and Millions of others.
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The trouble is that the current Russian regime does NOT consider the following 14 as “sovereign nations” and in time will act accordingly, as he has done in Belarus, sections of Georgia and now Ukraine. Those who follow after Putin are of the same opinion.
It does appear that the US is unlikely to protect these nations any longer, NATO or not, and is preparing its own future defenses by sequestering Greenland.
Sad days ahead for the free world.
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There is a spot between Armenians and Azeris, where Aussies would neatly fit in.
Fort Nepean is still there, waiting for the upgrade.
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Jonny,
The USA make the Russians look like choir boys . How many countries have been invaded in the name of “democracy” or “weapons of mass destruction” (that didn’t exist)? This is in addition to the “colour revolutions” .
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‘ … any conflict settlements will have to come by virtue of meeting Russian conditions.’
Not a chance, social unrest in Russia will unseat the demagogue at some point and bring hostilities to a close.
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“social unrest in Russia ”
Talking to your CIA contacts again EG? THIS is their next target for a Maidan Revolution-
” “We do not think military force is ever going to be necessary…What we think is going to happen is that the Greenlanders are going to choose, through self determination, to become independent of Denmark, and then we’re going to have conversations with the people of Greenland from there”.” said JD Vance.
Looks like Victoria Newland’s replacements in the Colour Revolution Team will have their hands full, Russia AND Greenland!
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Women are marching in large numbers down the streets of St Petersburg and Moscow urging Putin to stop the war. I hear he’s going to die soon, its only speculation but good propaganda.
The dictator has ordered another round of call ups, that won’t be popular.
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Just wondering what the reaction would be if Trump said the USA was now washing its hands of the Ukraine situation & told Europe & the rest of the world to get on with it.
No more arms, support, moral or financial!! The tariffs however would apply!
Can you even begin to imagine the outrage??
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‘ … the deal to share in oil, gas and mineral revenue would amount to debt that would disqualify them from EU membership due to unstable financials.’
That makes sense, after hostilities Ukraine wants to join the EU and the Union also has a desire to mine rare earth.
Vlad Putin is winking in the dark.
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Amazing how they dont acknowledge the 2014 coup that put most of the players in place. I guess its a start.
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Sounds like a problem between Yanukovych and the Ukraine Parliament supported by the Ukrainian people who wanted EU membership, not closer ties with Russia.
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Sounds like you pulled that from an official Western Govt propaganda site, maybe good ol’ Wiki…
No mention of the Americans going over to ‘support (ie cause) the protests, their usual rent-a-mob, the CIA involvement, the support of the Ukrainian followers of Bandera and the small man with the mustache from 1939, all still wedded to the idea of killing Russians? Not even a hint of the Azov followers who herded the pro-Russian people into the Trades Hall and then set fire to it? ..or the snipers who fired on the crowd and the Police using ammunition that the Police don’t have, then blamed the chaos on the Pro-Russians??
I’m sure the Western Ukies, those Poles and Romanians who occupy that part of the country, would be pro-EU and anti-Russian, just listen to Poland right now and look at Romania banning elections. However the main economic power in Ukraine is the Eastern half, where people speak Russian and would have very little time for European ‘values’.
Putin will sort it out.
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Happy to read your sources and educate myself.
The timing of these events would be handy to know. Post some links please.
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The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
By Robert Parry , ConsortiumNews
PublishedJuly 15, 2015
Timeline: The War in Ukraine – February 9th, 1990 to May 23, 2022
Summary and overview of an article from Racket News.
Senior US diplomat at centre of pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories to step down
‘Lawyer up’, advises Steve Bannon after Victoria Nuland announces departure
Washington DC. – Thursday 07 March 2024
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>Happy to…educate myself
Easy to say but you have to actually try putting in some effort.
These things are widely known for a long long time now, except for low-information types who lazily consume what’s on TV and in the newspapers, (in my arrogant opinion).
>The timing of these events would be handy to know. Post some links please.
And why do we always have to do their homework for them?
The information is all out there in the public sphere in articles, lectures, in videos of interviews with ambassadors and advisers, intelligence operatives, jailed Ukrainian politicians, recordings of phone conversations with Victoria Nuland etc, sheesh!!!
If you give a man a fish he never learns how to fish.
You could teach a man to fish but you have to wonder why he was never taught to fish by parents, teachers, friends, the world at large, or maybe he has been taught to fish but he’s too lazy.
If he really honestly wanted to know he would find out… like everyone else does.
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The Odesa Tragedy of May 2, 2014: Independent Investigation
https://youtu.be/-NIh4hhECl0
11 min video.
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https://youtu.be/-NIh4hhECl0
Naturally they all Ukrainians in this video.
You are not biased against Ukrainians, are you?
The 2 May Group, composed of local journalists and experts, conducted a comprehensive investigation into the tragic events that occurred in Odessa on May 2, 2014. Their findings are documented in a report titled “An Eyewitness Account of Events in Odessa on 2 May 2014,” which is available in English.
This report offers a detailed analysis of the day’s events, including firsthand accounts and a minute-by-minute timeline. You can access the full document through the link provided above.
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Websearch- ‘who were the snipers at the Maidan protests in Ukraine’
Websearch- ‘who set fire to the people in the Odessa Trades Hall?’
Pick your propaganda…
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Happy reading:
1605-An-Eyewitness-Account-of-Events-in-Odessa-on-2-May-2014.pdf
Not sure if this .pdf will open from here
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No,
it did not.
https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1605-An-Eyewitness-Account-of-Events-in-Odessa-on-2-May-2014.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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This Fox News meeting with the DOGE team may have been put up before but, in case it hasn’t, here it is:
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370654580112
This is an impressive group, including Musk, being asked questions on what DOGE is doing and some of the answers might surprise many. I have worked in benchmarking and system upgrade teams in large multi-site organisations and some of the things they are finding out do not surprise me but the scale of the inefficiencies are staggering.
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The rest of the story
Following up on his interview with Elon Musk and the senior leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency, Bret Baier has posted what I understand to be his full one-on-one interview with Elon Musk on X (below).
As always, it conveys a far different impression of Elon than the one might pick up from the media. The Democrat/media alliance has a genius for turning opponents into villains. If they did it to Mitt Romney, who wanted nothing more than to be their friend, they can do it with Elon, who is a genuine and brilliant opponent. In any event, this is worth your time.
Bret Baier@BretBaier – My full interview with @elonmusk#SpecialReport @FoxNews – 14 Mins 56 Secs
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An official website of the United States government
DOGE Department of Government Efficiency
The people voted for major reform.
Savings
Payments
Spend
Workforce
Regulations
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I wonder how much Musk would charge Australia to do a clean sweep of the Federal and State bureaucracies.
None of the big accounting firms have the capacity to do this sort of work. They are in a cosy relationship with business and government and rely on the ongoing inefficiency as their business model.
What Musk is doing would normally only occur in wartime.
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Nor would I trust them to.
I have seen what the “Big Four” accounting firms charge on Government (taxpayer funded) projects and its outrageous. Furthermore many of the projects are padded out to make them last years. There are certainly a lot of snouts in the trough but as long as the Minister in charge is happy with whatever results are produced that’s all that senior management seem to care about. Staggering amounts of taxpayer money are wasted and especially on so-called “Ministerials” when a clueless Government minister has a thought bubble and their inquiry, sensible or not, has to be answered at any and all costs.
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And the results provided from these overpriced “consultancies” is usually always what the Minister or senior public serpents want to hear. If they don’t provide the desired answer, then no more consultancy fees.
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If Australia introduced DOGE the first thing the bureaucrats would ask for would be $20 billion funding and 10,000 staff and new buildings to accommodate them…and the costs would far exceed any savings…and not only that the department head would demand to be put on the highest level of government pay $900,000 plus benefits or whatever it’s up to now. We wouldn’t have someone like Elon Musk (or Trump) working for free.
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It’s just a jump to the Left,
<-
and the unconstrained vision
sindrome.
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Musk’s answer to the question of his greatest concern was a surprise – the low birth rate.
He specifically mentioned Korea that encouraged me to take a look:
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/KOR/south-korea/fertility-rate
Less than half of what is needed to maintain population. This is incredible. Either they are having too much fun or have bought the ClimateCatastrophe™ story. They must be facing serious demographic challenges.
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North Asia in general seems to be in a downward spiral.
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“North Asia in general seems to be in a downward spiral.”
An increase in the standard of living up to Western levels seems to do that. Maybe its taking up Western processed foods that causes it, Western medicine & vaccines… Some change from 2nd-world culture to 1st-world levels. If we ever manage to civilise Africa & the Middle-East we might see the same.
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FWIW – the covid scene
“Top FDA Official, Who Played Key Role In COVID Vax, Reportedly Forced Out”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fda-official-who-played-key-role-in-covid-vax-reportedly-forced-out?topStoryPosition=undefined
Via Instapundit
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Go after Dr. Fauci for goodness sake.
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FWIW
“Key Takeaways From NYT’s Secret History Detailing US ‘Shocking’ Involvement In Ukraine War”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/key-takeaways-nyts-secret-history-us-shocking-level-involvement-ukraine-war
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And
“If Everything Is Going To Be Okay, Why Are The US & The EU Feverishly Preparing For World War III?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/if-everything-going-be-okay-why-are-us-eu-feverishly-preparing-world-war-iii
But Chiefio has a look at the “prepping”
“EU Subjects Admonished To Become Preppers!”
“Then they suggested it to the upper ranks. Who thought it a grand idea to get everyone on board with being part of their New War Project – and then they roll out this lady showing how you, too, can survive for days with a couple of granola bars, a bottle of mineral water, a Swiss Army Knife (even if you have no idea how to use one, simply possessing it is clearly enough per the video) and, of course, the radio.
Clearly novices at this whole prepping thing.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/eu-subjects-admonished-to-become-preppers/
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I got one of these and I’m fairly happy with it as a standby radio. It uses a mobile phone battery, which you can easily pop out the back and swap for another when it runs out. Also charges off any USB output.
https://www.jaycar.com.au/digitech-am-fm-sw-rechargeable-radio-with-mp3/p/AR1721
The shortwave receiver works, but the antenna they give you is small. I managed to pick up VMC (Australia Weather East) on 12365 kHz by using a long wire draped through tree branches and clipped to the antenna. Just barely intelligible using a headset.
Many mobile phones also provide an FM radio receiver. Probably the easiest option.
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She’ll be right! When the sh1t hits the fan the Govt will block uploading to the net/cell towers except for their chosen few. ie- cops etc.
Everyone else will be assailed by thousands of Govt texts telling us what to do and the absolute lies on why we should. Radio and TV instantly under Govt control, repeating the same mantra ‘We are at war with Eastasia, we have always been at war with Eastasia…’
I’m sure they are salivating at the thought!
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Meanwhile in Paris:
https://x.com/f_philippot/status/1906013622674858419
Send the neocon pollies and their kids off to war first.
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There are workshops going on in my area focussed on “community resilience” One of the topics for public meeting is being able to survive 72hrs after a disaster. They have give away gear bags and everything.
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Why isn’t Dutton pushing DOGE for Australia?
Admittedly, he did appoint Jacinta Price as a government waste spokesman but he and she should be publicising some of the more outrageous examples of government waste of taxpayer money and saying how he’ll stop the waste and save money.
Back in the day,the fake conservative Liberals used to express concerns about government debt, high taxes and over-regulation and government waste. These days, nothing.
Perhaps it’s because some of the most outrageous examples of waste come from Liberal ideas such as Howard starting the ball rolling with “green” energy and one of the present most wasteful projects, Snowy Hydro 2.
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Softly, softly catchee monkey ! Don’t scare the children!
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Dutton is extremely frustrating. He reminds me a bit of Ted Baillieu (ex Victorian premier), which I know you know. Loved the bloke as premier, but there were times, particularly in public forums where I felt like giving him a shake to be more combative. Just wasn’t in his nature. Same as PD, he keeps making these comments that are tepid. Even yesterday I think he or one of the LNP people were asked to comment on that citizen journalist who asked AnAl a question in that presser. The LNP person called him a “ratbag”. Whereas, they should have said something along the lines of ” … that question could have been asked by many millions of struggling Aussies” or equivalent. Goes along with his other comments on :-
– Trump/ Paris accords
– Kevin Rudd as US ambassador
– Medicare financing.
Which is why in yesterday’s Gallup poll the LNP are still trailing the ALP. Yes, he could talk a lot more about government efficiency and I think if he announced the scrapping of Snowy Hydro 2 it wouldn’t affect him. He could quite simply hang that over the head of Malcolm Turnbull.
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Sadly I agree completely. He has had 6 weeks or more to anticipate the Federal election campaign. The ABC gave him 20 seconds to respond the Albanese’s opening statements and what did Dutton come out with? Nothing memorable. Some platitude about cost of living. A wasted opportunity!
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Just to show off my education – Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.
This morning Tom Elliott had short and specifically focused on nuclear power interview the ETU secretary.
I thought that at least mild conservative point can be presented. So couple of hours earlier I emailed him just few lines:
Tom, may I suggest that you offer your listeners a 5 minutes AI check to verify anti-nuclear statements. If I, in my 80ies did it anyone can.
Commonly known that France has built 50 nuclear power plants in 10 years and that was 1/2 century ago, before a pc on every engineer, manager and accountant desk.
So, ask AI, eg – ChatGPT if it can done cheaper and faster today. A critical hint – ask it to consider inflation.
During the interview the trade unionist talked about desperate need for employment of his membership. Good on him, even if it is not true. However, he also said that nuclear power might only come about 2040.
You would expect that a most conservative (?) Melbourne radio host will question that?
No hope in hell.
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You guys think Dutton has to please you to get elected. In reality he has to balance what he says and promises to appeal to the whole population , especially younger people. He is never going to say what you want him to say in an election campaign, you are just a sliver of the target audience.
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Dutton has no charisma ( energy and humour.)- I would as soon vote for Basil Fawlty.
Basil had the energy, he could throw a tantrum with the best of them.
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Since the coup by Turnbull, the Libs are exeriencing a great lack of support from older people in handing out how to vote cards at polling centres.
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While the question is fair and reasonable, why only ask it of Dutton? There are a lot of unaparty bad posts here so why not be even handed and ask the question of the unaparty?
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It goes without saying that Green Labor Uniparty faction have no interest whatsoever in preventing government waste. It’s not even worth asking them the question. At least the Liberal Party faction may have some interest and Dutton has appointed Jacinta Price for the job but I don’t see any big questions being asked by her or Dutton yet.
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That’s illogical. Either there IS a unaparty or there isn’t.
The moment you speak of Green Labor Uniparty faction you destroy your own argument that the Liberal Uniparty faction™ cannot have different policies so a vote for “the lesser of two evils” can be ethical and an advance towards common sense, a principle decried here.
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There are of course slight factional differences between elements of the Uniparty. They wouldnt run separate campaigns otherwise. Overall however, they are much the same.
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Weasel words. They are different. Not as much as we would like, but they are different.
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On a different scale (of revulsion)
I did not take them seriously when last year people I respect were saying – Hold Your Nose And Vote For Trump.
PS. Today, 31 March 2025, they still prefer Trump but it is getting harder and harder.
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So you are going to vote for democrat lite: labor.
Please don’t whinge later in the year if they retain power with greens and teals dictating national policy.
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“Australian governments spend around $64 billion per year on community services such as disability, aged care, social supports and child-protection services (excluding welfare payments).
Based on our finding that 95 per cent of programs over the past decade had not been properly evaluated, at least $61 billion of community services spending a year is unlikely to be properly evaluated.”
https://www.ceda.com.au/newsandresources/mediareleases/economy/boost-evaluation-to-end-budget-waste
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Phew! they managed to carefully not notice $40B+ per year on indigenous funding. Thank goodness, that could have been awkward.
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“one of the present most wasteful projects, Snowy Hydro 2.”
That was more a Melvin Trumble idea, the best labor PM not to be elected.
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From Saturdays comments – Horse dewormer is freely available on line from stock agents. The price has risen a bit. ‘Mecworma & bot’. Ingredients listed as abamect…, which is the original bacteria(?), that Merck modified so they could get a patent. When I had covid it cleared up the symptoms in a few hours. I have taken about 3-4 random courses, as the use by date gets closer, and I just order some more. 200….(?) with yogurt after eating. A tube gives 4 doses.
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Horse doses or human doses?
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The purely ivermectin tubes contain 6 doses. That’s enough for a 600kg beast or 6 X 100 kg beasties.
My info states that the g/kg dose is the same for horses and humans but please do your own research on that.
I am not a doctor or a pharmacist.
I don’t want to be responsible for any recommendations
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DO NOT take drugs designed for other animals. eg horses.
The mg/kg body weight equivalence ratio is simplistic, dangerous and totally wrong due to different metabolic rates, surface area, and physiology.
A horse dose of Ivermectin may be around 1,000mg but a human dose just 3mg.
There is a dosing formula but if you don’t have high level understanding of what your doing then don’t do it.
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That’s good, I’m glad you’ve done your own research and rejected hearsay.
>A horse dose of Ivermectin may be around 1,000mg
That sounds about right for the 400Kg horse John depending on method of administration, but it might not be enough for some of the larger horses we have, with warmbloods up to 750Kg and some of the draught breeds can get up to 1000Kg.
AFAIK, which relates only to horses, if you’re administering it in the feed, the dose rate is 300μg ivermectin per kg body weight.
If administering directly into the mouth the recommended dosage is 200 microgram ivermectin per kg body weight
So for a 400Kg horse it’s 0.12 grams in the feed or 0.8 grams in the mouth.
That’s 4 segments of the syringe plunger into the back of the mouth or the whole tube mixed in with the feed.
The 6.42g syringe makes it easy with the 100Kg bodyweight divisions for a paste that’s 18.7 grams ivermectin/Kg paste.
So for a 500Kg horse it’s 0.15 grams in the feed or 0.1 grams in the mouth, which is 5 divisions on the syringe plunger.
For the larger horses you’ll need up to 2 syringes each.
>but a human dose just 3mg
I know nothing of human dosages.
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“but a human dose just 3mg ”
For scabies or lice, that is what they recommend. However for Covid its 12mg.
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In the ones I have, have the intended use for a horse of 1,250 pounds with the smallest “stop” set for 250 pounds. A person would have to “cut” that by some amount to get a dose for a smaller person. That’s doable.
Apparently back in Covid-Days a few folks took the entire tube and had to get emergency room care. Others used it externally with no problems. A historic use was to get rid of head lice.
Having had horses, I know of the intended use with horses. Beyond that, I know nothing.
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For those wondering about bots in relation to horses:
From Wiki:
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Best to buy one that’s only ivermectin or abamectin.
Try to avoid the ones that contain boticides and other wormers like pyrantel pamoate etc.
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If you can accept horse paste then check the Ivermectin sheep drenches. Same ml per kg liveweight dose for humans.
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FWIW
On CO2 and
“Impending EPA ‘Finding’ Reversal”
“Many will consider this announcement to be a “death knell” for the planet.
“After 16 years, EPA will formally reconsider the Endangerment Finding,” said Administrator Zeldin. “The Trump Administration will not sacrifice national prosperity, energy security, and the freedom of our people for an agenda that throttles our industries, our mobility, and our consumer choice while benefiting adversaries overseas. We will follow the science, the law, and common sense wherever it leads, and we will do so while advancing our commitment towards helping to deliver cleaner, healthier, and safer air, land, and water.”
It is actually the exact opposite for both the planet and the United States.”
Much more at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253066
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Great news!
Is there any likelihood of it not being reversed?
It was originally brought in under George W. Bush in 2007.
Could there be some remnant Deep State operatives left in the EPA that haven’t been purged yet who will fight to keep the finding?
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George Junior?
Isn’t he a mediocre landscape painter these days? The one-and-the-same who blighted your pal, John Howard, as the Sheriff of Downunder? Such a PATRIOT ACT™️. Where is Little Johnny these days, on the board of a bank or summit?
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An article in the SMH about “Immigration numbers are likely to plummet as people on short-term visas start to leave the country en masse, pre-eminent demographers have predicted, amid signs birth rates will continue to ebb and expected lifespans falter.”…
..does admit our life expectancy is dropping-
“The budget also downgraded life expectancy forecasts, which have been hit by increased deaths associated with COVID. Last year, Jim Chalmers’ budget forecast a male born in 2025-26 would enjoy a lifespan of 82.3 years. This year, that is now 82.1 years. For women, expected lifespan has fallen from 86.1 years to 85.9 years. In the 12 months to the end of September, 187,000 Australians died, an increase of almost 14 per cent compared to the year before the pandemic.”
But doesn’t go into it in any depth. Their main concern is that any drop in immigration will slow the false economy down to where it is real.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/migration-tipped-to-plummet-as-post-covid-visas-set-to-expire-20250330-p5lnkv.html
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7.0 Tongan-Kermadec Trench 1am.
https://ds.iris.edu/seismon/index.phtml
Just another day in paradise…
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Elon Musk is the everywhere man at the moment. Would seem he needs to have an opinion on everything. The most disturbing thing I learned about the Space X rescue of the ISS astronauts was that the whole exercise could have happened much earlier. That the Biden Admin decided not to complete the rescue earlier because it would have given Trump/ Musk too much good publicity. It had to occur post inauguration. So , they endangered the lives of 2 astronauts for politics. The Dems are really a deceiptful mob, aren’t they? I thought the Australian ALP were bad, they’ve got nothing on the Democrats.
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Re ” I thought the Australian ALP were bad, they’ve got nothing on the Democrats.”
Remember that is where they send trainees to learn
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And the press really buried the Trump/Musk rescue. They gave the entire credit to NASA. The only comment I read was that Musk congratulated NASA. Trump was never mentioned. No one blamed Biden/Harris/NASA for abandoning them.
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Evidently Elon Musk offered a rescue mission as soon as it became apparent that the DEI designed and built Boeing Starliner wasn’t up to the job.
The Biden Maladministration refused the offer. I would believe Musk’s claim over Biden.
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Really, a space craft designed and built by DEI hires wow that’s amazing how did it even get off the ground?
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I heard the story that he also balked at the very modest cost. [$25 mil?]
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Weather Watch TV –
“Autumn changes will be much more noticable in the south-eastern side of Australia this week, from Adelaide to Sydney down to Hobart and everyone in between. The main burst of Autumn weather (windier, wetter weather with a temperature drop) will be at the end of this week and going into Saturday, especially for Tas, Vic, the A.C.T and southern parts of NSW. SA is on the edge of this from a rain point of view – and will remain drier than usual, along with the western and northern sides of Vic.
Best chances for rain will be in Qld and NT this week.
We have your Australia foercast out to Sunday.
Programming Note: Our APRIL ClimateWatch update will be out on Tuesday afternoon, April 1st (tomorrow). While this is mainly a NZ based video we cover much of Australia in it too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0SJoxhf0bY
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And just like that, freezing!
Is the whole planet catching a cold? Is there an mRNA ‘shot in the arm’ for that?
The BoM Gang are prophesying ZERO / FREEZING tomorrow, April Fool’s Day, 1/4/25, for Thredbo Ski Area in the Snowy Mountains of NSW, followed by SNOW – what’s that? – by the weekend down to 1,900 metres, possibly maybe might.
Isn’t Earth a giant glasshouse with out-of-control temperatures and waves lapping over the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Run, Chicken, RUN!!!
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She/he/it NZ Green MP Benji Doyle, who wasn’t voted in, *they* were shuffled in after another woman (who suddenly claimed theyhood) was shuffled out, has been hastily deleting his/her so-silly media posts, uploaded before *they* began sucking on the taxpayers’ teat, concerning “BibleBeltBussy” –
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/556706/call-for-prime-minister-to-step-in-over-winston-peters-comments-about-green-mp
Co-leader of the Green Grime, Chloe Swarbrick (who bats for her own team) brushes aside the nasty vengeful homophilic rants (poor rainbow victims) and demands the messenger be reprimanded for pointing out the obscenities of her own member.
OK, even I’m confused at this point…
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I got the “Tin of cocoa car tour” bit, but nothing else (select pronoun) or (select pronoun) said made any sense?!!
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Tina teh Kaitaia Car-Tower?
Or her alter-ego Tina Quay in a Tiara?
If only they’d learned Moriori instead of eating them. And don’t start me on ‘indigenous’ my bro or else –
/s
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Congratulations to all of you who can claim to be “spreaders of missed information”.
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Is that dis or dat information, miss?
Axeing for a pal named Mal.
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Is Mal a Nude Zealander?
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Monday magic: that’d fool Penn & Teller
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_stxo0x1Hsj1z23obp.mp4
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Re the earlier disunion of Elon Musk’s proposition re solar + battery:
1. I wasn’t aware that Musk had done development work of Ion battery storage
2. In my area of the NSW Central West Tablelands we are soon to find out how efficient his batteries are. When (and if) a Pumped Hydro system is completed at Lake Lyall, we understand that the energy will be stored by a huge BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) adjacent to the (still working) coal fired plant -Mt Piper near Portland.
We wait with bated breath. How long? How long is a piece of spring?
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Now occasionally have a battery as part of the WA SWIS grid power. Most I’ve seen is 4% of total power, around 160 MW, but usually no sign of any battery contribution.
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Sorry Vicki, but what has a BESS got to do with a Pumped Hydro system ?
They are two completely different , unrelated, methods of storing energy !
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Chad, I know only what the authorities are telling us. My assumption is that the battery will store the energy created by the Lake Lyell application.
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I once told a way out green that if batteries actually provide a market for “excess ruinable generation” then they put a floor in the market for coal generators as well. He couldn’t accept it.
Think about it: What kills the coal generators is the deep duck curve that sends market prices on windy, sunny days into negative territory. By definition “stabilising the market” must help coal.
OK I know I am talking “in principle” not hard $s. A few batteries here and there mean nothing with industry wide economics but telling them this makes their heads explode.
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I was diagnosed with this and have had my pacemaker for six months and all is well.
It should be obvious on an ECG if you have this condition because it interrupts the heart beat by definition, but a guy my age has ECGs every now and then and this has been so from BEFORE 2021 when I had my one and only jab. It was never mentioned.
I had a crazy hypertension episode a month after the shot but of all the rare side effects™ mentioned for the jab I have never seen this one mentioned. Has anyone heard of a link?
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After the second vaccination my home heart monitor detected for the first time irregular heartbeat (Atrial Fibrillation) and my GP arranged for an overnight heart monitor and then later an ECG followed by an Ultrasound.
The heart specialist who later examined me told me to go and enjoy my life and made no new appointment
My GP had prescribed blood thinning Eliquis tablets earlier.
My heartbeat has long been around 40 resting but is now hovering just above 30 however no AF being detected on my heart monitor for a few months to date, I am about to ask my GP for advice. BP now 120-125 / 50-60 and down from much higher last year based on adjustment of prescribed drugs last October 2024.
I feel good and go for a walk most days.
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I was diagnose with AF 30+ years ago, an almost continuous condition.
No treatment was considered necessary.
I have been advised that AF can increase the possibility of a stroke, and blood thinners (Eliquis) is advisable to prevent that.
I also have HOCOM (Hyper Tropic Cardio Myopathy), but again no treatment advised.
But Hypertension, which does require meds to control
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Large doses of coenzyme Q10 above 100 mg per day have a protective effect on heart cells. They slightly lower blood pressure. It’s a good idea to start with 100 mg a day and monitor your blood pressure. A pulse of 50 to 60 is typical for part of the population. If the pressure is normal, it is better than a pulse above 80.
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The Heart Foundation of Australia funded research into Co-Enzyme Q-10 during the 1980-1990 period and I began using it during the 1990s after being given a copy of the Foundation research media release by a company director who was a member.
And I have taken it ever since and regularly check and record my blood pressure.
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Read about PQQ, which is an even stronger antioxidant and seems to regenerate the mitochondria of cells, including brain cells. Its effects are enhanced by Q10, so it’s worth taking together.
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I drink green tea most days with my evening meal and PQQ is a benefit, also dark chocolate is good and best unsweetened
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For any with a little interest in gold, today it is 1% short of the magical A$5,000. 1% a day is easy, BOTH ways.
iirc it was around A$700 when I bought my first coin.
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Well waddyano, a day is a long time in the gold market.
BID 5,001.80
ASK 5,003.40
+/- 95.43
% 1.95
This is for amusement only. Not financial advice.
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Ah, the good ol’ days! The Govt will only admit to a 100% inflation 1995-2025, so it should be $1400, but I’d believe that like I’d believe anything they say!
It certainly took a decade or two before it started to move, that paper gold market held it down for a long time, but I’d say we’re doubling our money with it now. If you divide the world’s economy by the amount of gold stored it should be about $50,000USA an ounce apparently.
So, seeing you’re never going to spend it H, is it part of the inheritance you’re leaving?
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Who said I’m not going to spend it? I have two sons not the least bit embarrassed about never lifting a finger to help so expat living beckons.
Malaysia or Bali?
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Inflation is not the whole story, it is the exchange rate. It’s easy to get an answer if you search on comparative purchasing power of the USD over any period. That is a pretty grim tale of inflation but since the war the USD has been the standard against which all other currencies are measured.
The year I was born [maybe the next] Australia was overrun with GIs spending their green, living like kings. At the time any taxi driver or bar would exchange their green for 5 bob. This slang of “a dollar” being 5 bob [HALF an A$] existed ’til 1966 although it did fall into disuse as it became absurd.
So in my lifetime our currency exchange has fallen from USD 200c to AD 63c so multiply US inflation X3 for ours and you can see why I have a small stack og Au, Ag.
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Another low with heavy rainfall is developing in northwestern Australia. It will move eastward pulling moist air from the north. It may cause local flooding.
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Must be “The Climate Change”: TEN Nurses Diagnosed with BRAIN TUMORS on Same Ward
Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital are terrified after 10 of their colleagues were diagnosed with brain tumors, primarily from the same maternity ward.
One nurse, whose diagnosis led to surgery, said, “This can’t just be a coincidence.”
Another nurse shared similar worries, saying, “It’s been so many people, and it’s not just one type of tumor, it’s several different types.”
The affected nurses have urged the hospital to investigate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/newton-wellesley-hospital-nurses-brain-cancer-cases/
If you need a hospital procedure done, you’d be very wise to get it done asap, because where goes the public goes the medical system and healthy doctors will be rare before long.
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How many boosters were they required to take to keep their jobs?
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COVID-19-Like Mystery Virus Outbreak in Russia Leave Victims with High Fever, Bloody Cough; Cause Not Known
Russian authorities are concerned about the spread of a mysterious virus, which has symptoms like high fever and a bloody cough. According to news reports, the infected are experiencing identical symptoms, as the illness starts like flu with body aches before rapidly worsening.
Russian media reported first-hand accounts of those affected having intense coughs so severe that it brought them to tears. Many are also coughing up blood, adding to concerns about the virus’s severity. However, all the patients have tested negative for COVID-19 and the flu, ruling out common respiratory infections.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/health-news/covid-19-like-mystery-virus-outbreak-in-russia-leave-victims-with-high-fever-bloody-cough-cause-not-known/ar-AA1BY6ti
One to watch closely.
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“One to watch closely.”
No need to worry.. unless you’re a Slav! Those American biolabs weren’t in Ukraine for nothing!
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I wonder what vaccines were tested on Russians?
Over-vaccination leads to a significant decrease in resistance to bacteria.
I suppose these are bacterial bronchiolitis and pneumonia.
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“I wonder what vaccines were tested on Russians?”
Didn’t they have their own local ‘traditional’ vaccines developed, that in the end proved no better than the Pfizer ones?
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Where only business and imperialist inclinations come into play in international politics there will never be peace. Consider what Ukrainians are dying for on the front lines. For the West? Nosnes.
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This is not the end of severe weather in the US. Arctic fronts will continue to push westward on the US, bringing thunderstorms to the central and eastern US.
https://i.ibb.co/x8rttDb4/gfs-z100-nh-f72.png
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https://i.ibb.co/S4dRQ3g4/archive-3-image.png
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https://brownstone.org/articles/the-swirling-vortex-of-weaponised-lawfare/
National injunctions from district courts are rare when Trump isn’t involved. According to an article in the Harvard Law Review last year, there were a total of 127 from 1963 to the start of 2020. More than half (64) were against the first Trump administration. In the period covering the Bush Sr. and Obama presidencies, plus Biden’s first three years, there were 32. In February alone this year there were 15 against Trump II, according to a Justice department filing in the Supreme Court.
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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/jacob-rees-mogg-completely-stupid-10064074
“The politicians — of which I was one – delegated our division making to experts rather than thinking through what was in the best interests of voters. Because the experts always had an incentive to protect their own reputations and if the whole world was locking down then you weren’t taking any risk by locking down but you were taking a huge risk by not locking down.”
“The rule of six, I can tell you, is a complete nightmare when you have got six children because if any visitor came we had to make sure a certain number of people left. […] We would have a priest come to say mass in my chapel in Somerset and my wife and the two youngest children would go to the playground in West Harptree while he was in the grounds because you weren’t allowed to have more than six people.”
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” “Rosatom is in the process of constructing four floating power units and is targeting the export market for floating nuclear power plants with capacity of at least 100 MWe and an assigned service life of up to 60 years”
Get in the queue Australia!! Just moor them off the coast near any major city. Like any Russian thing, cheap, basic and over-engineered..
https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=252936
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Very strong thunderstorms in Louisiana and Alabama.
https://i.ibb.co/84DzwZGz/Screenshot-2025-03-31-15-21-25.png
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Or
https://www.karadenizholding.com/group-companies-powership
Turkish, but already operating in several countries.
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