JoNova
A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).
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What’s happening. I’ve being trying to log in and have been getting a series of Error 403 saying that I don’t have permission to access the server.
Eventually at the seventh time of trying I have managed to log on.
Is it me or is there a problem somewhere down the line?
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P.S. my avatar has changed, I preferred the previous one!
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I like the new one … the chicken and broomstick is quite startling.
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I was locked out all last night until just now, too. 5 hours ago I kept getting an “You are forbidden to access Jo Nova through this server” page. This happened two days ago but seemed to clear up. Then again the last 24 hours or so.
My avatar is changed too.
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We are under attack, persona non grata.
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Jo said that there had been a bandwidth problem with the server that is now fixed.
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“Forbidden” again.
Do you realise that the only way we in Scotland know that nuclear war has NOT broken out, is that Joannenova.com.au is still active!
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Jo has returned – again!
Not so much that bloke in Italy… who fell asleep on a very auspicious day: the ultimate Climate Action for a believer.
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I found the “forbidden ” message a welcome relief from the Apache “testing 123” screen I was getting. Hopefully we are back on track now.
Just posting to see what I get in the avatar lucky dip.
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Eerily appropriate
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More good news for the freedom-loving Thinking Community.
Klaus Schwab has resigned, effective immediately.
Who will our traitorous globalist politicians take their instructions from now?
I once read he was training his son as his successor.
But at least he’s gone. One of the most evil and destructive people in the world.
For the time being, there’ll be no one to advocate 15 Minute Cities, insect eating, travel restrictions, massively reduced consumption, “stakeholder capitalism” (i.e. fascism), “green” energy, promotion of LGBT+ to children, “owning nothing and being happy,”, reduced or no private car ownership, compulsory experimental “vaccines” etc. (All for non-Elites only,)
Jeff Taylor comments: https://youtu.be/wIoRXgGaaTc
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>there’ll be no one
There’s still his chief advisor and right-hand man Yuval Noah Harari.
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I would just like to reiterate something I said yesterday in relation to Jo’s apparent technical difficulties with this site.
How do we know if any site difficulties for this or any other conservative-thinking site is a technical malfunction or censorship?
It’s a problem when Australia’s e Safety Kommisar does not publish what posts or sites she has censored. Completely unaccountable to we, the people.
She’s even trying to censor our elected representatives like Senator Babet:
People elected Senator Babet. No one elected the e Safety Kommisar. How dare she attempt to silence him.
If the fake conservative Liberal Party appointed office of the e Safety Kommisar is not abolished, at least she must be required to publish a daily publicly-accessible log of all websites or posts she has censored or attempted to censor and the reasons for this.
Then at least all the world can look and laugh and again make Australia the laughing stock of the world. It will also give people in free countries the opportunity to procure and repost the censored materials.
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I’ll tell you how this Racket works.
You start with an EU which was all about Commerce after the Second World War. Then you move on to expand it and make it Political.
Then you pretend to have an EU Parliament which is elected but has NO legislative powers.
At the same time, you invent an EU Commission (Gravy Train) that is UNELECTED and has ALL the Power.
Welcome to 1984.
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Testing, testing. 🙂
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Jo, after the technical difficulties of yesterday, our emojis have changed.
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Mine now has a smile. JR is pleased.
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Same here.
I think they are called avatars.
If anyone can advise how to reset can they give some advice?
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Avatars have been changed on old posts also!
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Yes. Avatars. My bad. Thanks for the correction Peter.
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Create your own avatar, one you like, as I did.
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Can you remind us how to do that?
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How?
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Thought I would see if I can post and what my avatar looks like.
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Not sure what mine looks like.
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Oh! I’m back. Don’t ask me how that happened years ago. Jo’s site picked that from a headline title on a web site I had for my business years ago.
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Just to prove how crazy and uninformed Leftoid trans-rights advocates are, in London they vandalised a statue of Nelson Mandela and suffragette Millicent Fawcett.
They were protesting about the UK Supreme Court protecting biological women from biological men in their spaces.
Biological women have rights too!
Even some UK politicians and police are outraged unlike when they approved of the vandalism of other statues during BLM riots.
Comments:
“Left-wing radicals vandalised Nelson Mandale’s statue in London – how times have changed…”
https://youtu.be/KRn5EKVHaG0
“Labour Suddenly Cares About Statues”.
https://youtu.be/VK-1vGyLedI
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I fully approve of the defacing of the statute of Mandela. The protestors have got it right at last. Mandela was a convicted terrorist responsible for the deaths of many thousands of people in Southern Africa not to mention the destruction of a once thriving African country & the misery of millions of Africans reduced to poverty & starvation.
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Agreed. And he would have been let out of jail years before he was if he had agreed to renounce terrorism which he refused to do, which is why he spent so long in jail.
And his sadistic wife Winnie promoted the use of that horrific murder method, “necklacing”, if not being the inventor of this method.
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Isn’t it wonderful, they got what they wanted, how lucky are they.
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Winnie was evil personified yet never received the opprobrium she deserved in the left dominated media. I agree that Nelson Mandela should never have received the adoration he did because he was still the heart and soul of the ANC, a terrible bunch of thugs and murderers.
PS. I don’t like my new avatar at all. If someone could explain top a technical dummy how to create my own avatar I would be thankful.
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According to the following YouTuber, YouTube is censoring or shadow-banning (reducing visibility) of some discussion of UK Supreme Court decision recognising the biological basis of women.
I thought since TRUMP came to power that censorship on YouTube was a little less.
Or this censorship may only apply in the UK.
The following commentary is from The Jolly Heretic in the UK.
https://youtu.be/8La6khkMFi8
I wonder if Australia’s e Safety Kommisar will be censoring such discussions? We will never know because she isn’t required to publish her censorship activities.
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Given the TRUMP-led movement towards conservatism, gender recognition, pro-science and pro-reason thinking, evidence-based decision making, climate realism and a return to traditional Judeo-Christian morality, I wonder if the Cardinals will follow this trend and elect a conservative Pope or will they continue to fight the trend and elect another Woke Pope?
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These are testing testing testing times.
Two! Two! Earth Day turns fifty-five,
it’s a miracle we’re still alive.
Natural gas
what a gas!
Enough of all that climate jive.
Planet’s looking fine from over here 😃
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Identical twins in Queensland, Australia speak in sync describing an armed car jacking.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1914367264637550649
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Thank you for the reminder. I will leave some more outside lights on tonight, and somehow very appropriate that we are driving our 80s V8 two hours to a car club lunch today.
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Is that real, or real AI.
btw I have just got another contributor’s details in my setup. Gary s. This has happened a few times in the past few months.
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Is a known phenomenon that (extremely rarely) some identical twins speak in synchrony. I think these particular twins are well known for this.
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Copied from a mail list. My comments in brackets.
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More good news /sarc/ for the jabbed
Top Neurosurgeon Sounds Alarm: Covid ‘Vaccines’ Are ‘Bioweapons’ Designed to ‘Kill People’
https://slaynews.com/news/top-neurosurgeon-sounds-alarm-covid-vaccines-bioweapons-designed-kill-people/
Doctor Blows Whistle: ‘Vaccines Are Systematic Poisoning of Children & Adults’
https://slaynews.com/news/doctor-blows-whistle-vaccines-systematic-poisoning-children-adults/
I sometimes wish for a simpler time when the people responsible for this were tried in a court of law then taken out and shot, hung or electrouted for what they have done.
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It seems we have all the evidence for numerous covid-related crimes, including in Australia, and no one is willing or able to prosecute these crimes.
Even in the United States under TRUMP, no prosecutions are (yet) forthcoming. If anyone can take action, it’s TRUMP. Hopefully he and his team will do something.
The Deep State is very deep.
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My gut feeling at the time told me that this was all wrong. I have limited medical knowledge, however, I know my own body and I know that I have a good immune system.
Being retired at the time, I could not be mandated by Guv’ment and Public Circus Goons.
So I said NO to Jabs/Boosters.
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Should the climate data collected by the us government be destroyed? Bloomberg thinks not
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You should reference the origin of that story. It’s the scientific thing to do. I don’t know what you’re referring to.
If it’s real data and hasn’t been fr@udulently altered (as documented by Tony Heller) it should be kept.
Even the fr@udulently altered data should be kept for future prosecutions and analysis. Naturally, it should be clearly labelled as having been altered from the original measurements.
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Never understood the need to destroy data. Climate data, Covid data, investigation data, meeting recods etc.
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Admittedly the Liberal Party is uninspiring, unimaginative, mostly woke and not even conservative BUT they are still less bad than a Green Labor regime.
How can Australians be so stupid as to very likely vote for another three years of misery under Green Labor?
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A lot are still hooked on their drug of choice – Guv’ment handouts – And they watch the MSM and believe the BS without question.
Bread and Circuses comes to mind.
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“BUT they are still less bad than a Green Labor regime.”
No they’re not! They are a smokescreen to fool you, thinking things will be better and you’ve finally got rid of the Left, while you will not notice the policies are absolutely no different!
The Uniparty has a system and they are against YOU, not each other. We need people who have never been elected before, random clowns who are just as hopeless and ignorant, but don’t have this cozy system that has been bleeding us dry for two generations.
Vote ’em in then vote ’em out!
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>No they’re not!
So what would you propose to do at the upcoming election?
>they are against YOU, not each other
True
>Vote ’em in then vote ’em out!
They’ve been voted in, NOW it’s time to vote them OUT.
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Scott Morrison was voted out. Anthony Albanese was the price that had to be paid.
Now we need to vote out Anthony Albanese. Peter Dutton is the price we will have to pay.
Then we can vote out Peter Dutton …..
The one thing we absolutely must not do is vote back into government someone who has stuffed it up.
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More free stuff (they think its free)
And, the excrement hasnt quite hit the fan yet in housing and energy. The people who will be most affected are voting for self harm it seems.
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How can Labor keep getting away with their constantly repeated lie that Liberals’ seven nuclear reactors will cost $600 billion?
That’s and absurd and obvious lie.
Nuclear reactors don’t cost $85 billion each, nothing like it. And if built on the site of closed-down coal power stations, no extra transmission lines, roads or cooling ponds etc. will be required.
Liberals and “journalists” (sic) are silent.
It’s almost as if the fake conservative Liberals don’t actually want to win the election.
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They know a recession is coming … no party wants to be in power to be blamed for the recession.
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At one time election the parties pretended that election promises were costed. By big accounting firms if I remember correctly. Or perhaps it was by treasury.
Is that pretense still in effect?
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Like the Argentinian and El Salvador voters, we will need to hit rock bottom before (or Sydney has have blackouts) before things will change.
No one knows about national and if they did they don’t care because they are trying to save for a deposit on a house or pay off a huge mortgage. Got to drive to and from work and get home early to pick up kids from childcare or after-school care. And on the way home pick up something for dinner. Who has time to think or care about things you can’t see?
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Amazing isn’t it? We have given away a wonderful life after WW2 and now have a frantic meaningless shadow existence ‘like a rat in a cage’…
No-one has any time, it takes two people working to provide for a family, and the family is one child or maybe two, when one person working used to provide for 4 kids. We had far more freedom and choice, and responsibilities of course, and they have all vanished at the State took over more and more of our lives.
We don’t struggle in life, our fears and anxieties are just laughable compared to our forebears, yet no-one is happy. What we really need is more freedom, less Govt!
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Tis a sad thing when people work hard to earn enough money to be sent video snippets of other people raising their children during the day.
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The threat to free speech in Germany
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Whilst most people focus on sea ice area, which is not a comparable amount year on year as the thickness and concentration between 15-100% varies, it looks like it’ll be a stretch for Arctic sea ice volume to even hit 20 this year.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/plots/CICE_curve_49_EN.png
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How does the chart tell you that?
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Well, luckily the Pope died so the SMH can fill their newspaper up with stories about him, rather than any hard topics. I reckon the cardinals appoint the oldest person they can find, so popes only last a few years and they all get a turn.
An expert from a university here reckons Aussie should get its own nuclear weapons, as if that would even be possible unless we begged Russia or Pakistan to show us how. The funny thing is, his rationale is that it would stop China invading, which is crap as China would have no use for a resource-rich radioactive slag-heap when they could take it without using nuclear weapons at all. However, its another chance to blame Trump for everything the Left think is wrong in the world, they are those kids who always b;lame someone else.
Still, he at least recognises what anyone with a brain knows, the time for the Asian Dragon has come, the West is passed.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/is-it-time-for-australia-to-acquire-its-own-nuclear-weapons-20250421-p5lt3g.html
..and there’s a copy of a Washington Post article about how you lose your life when someone steals your iphone. The way it is set up gives the thief a lock-out method to where Apple can do nothing about it, and it seems that linking all your ‘devices’ and using the ‘cloud’ is just a way to lose more information at once-
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/thieves-stole-their-iphones-now-apple-won-t-give-their-digital-lives-back-20250421-p5lt1w.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Australia once contemplated getting nuclear weapons, hence the F-111C’s as a delivery platform and the cancelled Jervis Bay civilian power reactor which would also be a source for weapons grade plutonium.
Also see:
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Have you noticed how incredibly short Australian political ads are now?
I rarely watch TV so only know about ads I see on YouTube.
They are amazingly short, maybe 5 seconds, 10 at most, and almost completely devoid of information.
Traditional ads used to be 30 or 60 seconds.
I guess the average attention span for political ads of the typical Uniparty voter is now judged to be a mere 5 or 10 seconds and that’s probably pushing it.
But Joe and Joanne Sixpack will watch sport for hours.
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That is the time it takes to click the hide button.
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I just got back from the Fashonable Woke Festival in Canberristan.
At one bar they refused to accept cash, so I just went without.
Yuck.
Woke is in the air:
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The Viking 1 lander which landed on Mars in 1976 lasted 6 years, 3 months, 22 days and only failed when “human error during software update caused the lander’s antenna to go down, terminating power and communication”.
Always be careful before you agree to a software update.
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It seems the strategy for main parties is to present a small target, even Greens do not offer anything more outrageous than they did for the last 3 years.
Recognising existence of nuclear power industry is no more a revolutionary step for Liberals than acceptance of AUKUS for Labor.
The question is what the Winner can do practically on 4 May ? In the first few weeks or months of their rule?
Albanese is willing and able of zero.
Is Dutton capable of doing a Trump ?
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