Apologies for the server troubles over Easter. We are working on it. (I would have left a note last night here but I was forbidden, like you.)
The problem seems to be so much traffic that the system was pushed beyond its limits over Easter. We will be increasing server power asap. I’ll keep you posted, but there may be more dropouts. Apologies for all the disruptions. I hope to be back to normal as soon as possible.
I’ll post more updates here. Thanks for your patience!
— Jo
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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At least, you still have similar colours to your old avatar Yarpos!
My new one looks pickled…
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I like my new avatar, better than a pointy headed green with a stupid grin.
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I had the ‘forbidden’ message again a couple of times but ok atm, obviously.
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Likewise forbidden again, also Tip Jar.
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And new face.
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I couldnt tell you what I had before. The importance of the avatars to the group is interesting.
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My thought exactly!
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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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Auf Wiedersehen Herr Schwab, good riddance.
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I thought his absolute lack of charm or wit and resemblance to a Bond villain was in our favour.
Scary is who is next….?
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https://x.com/HerbsandDirt/status/1914517646042956140
Better the devil you know?
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Well, we won’t be disappointed.
At least he too, looks like a Bond villain.
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I was thinking Bond villain meets Alfred Hitchcock. The latter was the master of suspense, Klaus was the master of the grift.
No doubt his successor will provide pies for him to stick his fingers into.
Hopefully Jo’s blog is firing on all pistons now.
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Did word get out that Charles had given Bond another commission?
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The WEF is being left in capable and more well positioned hands.
They new leader will soon be busy the next few years expanding American hemispheric operations as he is about take control of the Ottawa branch.
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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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Pedants live among us, and they vote.
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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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Yes, but I don’t want to sign up for yet another “service” needlessly, especially for such a trivial item.
Most all forums and blogs let you upload your own avatar.
’bout time here too, or move to a proper forum so we can embed pics too.😎
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If the server is creaking, it won’t cope with images.
I am even anti-emoji. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
My private protest is to refuse to use them.
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Hotcopper allows you to embed pics, you wouldn’t like it. They have sold their soul to the advertisers to pay for the bandwidth. A once orderly chat site is now no holds barred, say what you like as long as it generates traffic.
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Thought I would see if I can post and what my avatar looks like.
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That’s odd?
In theory anyone can set their own Gravatar on gravatar.com — it’s attached to your email.
I don’t know why the generated avatars would change today — they are supposed to be generated from your email address? If people wanted to get back an old avatar, you can find yours in an old comment you made on the Webarchive, and then save the image at gravatar. You can also save any other image/cartoon/photo as your gravatar.
In theory…
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My avatar was randomly generated, I don’t have a profile shot or image linked with my email account. I had a situation similar to that with my YouTube account, an image from a video l posted became my profile pic by default (it was Bargearse from The Late Show so l wore the badge proudly).
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Right now, I can’t even get Gravatar to show my stored image. It used to be so simple. Seems that they have complexified it up.
Suggestions welcome…
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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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David,
Bishop Tutu : her courageous defiance was deeply inspirational to my generation….South Africa is still on rolling blackouts and has a 63% poverty rate . Very inspirational . It will be interesting if membership of BRICS changes that.
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” It will be interesting if membership of BRICS changes that.”
No, why would it? The thoroughly corrupt politicians in the ANC will get much richer, the whites will be stripped of any wealth to help the blacks (and those taking it on the way through..) and the poor will still be poor unless they join the ANC and become a slave. Nothing will change.
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Please don’t avoid this question: What can/will BRICS change?
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I heard there was also a dirty protest where they whipped it out from under their skirts and peed on Parliament Square.
Don’t even want to dignify it by searching to confirm if it did happen…
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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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“another Woke Pope?”
A black trans lesbian ‘identifies-as-woman’ I expect..
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KP,
He/Him/Her won’t be getting defrocked…
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The non-lawyer Jonathan Turley showed the leanings of the Cardinals in the form of a left/right parliament. The conservatives have a clear majority and many of these had been appointed [or however Gods appoint generals] by Francis.
So the communist Pope didn’t try to start a dynasty. OK!
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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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We’ve had more rain this year than either Cairns or Tully.
Global warming is starting, one small district at a time.
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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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Thanks.
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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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Biden gave a lot of very extensive pardons, days before he left office. Pursuit even of Fauci would resolve nothing as he is pardoned for everything so getting him on the stand would be to get nothing but the bird. I dare say there will be a lot of others covered equally. Trump may not be interested either because he was the POTUS that got the supposed anti COVID-19 ‘vaccines into production in record
time and gave a government indemnity to the pharmaceutical companies. Remember, the data is locked away for 50years and in Australia for 75years if I recall correctly. There would be few politicians in the world today who have been in politics over the last decade that would ever want to have this matter looked into because they all carry baggage one way or another – Federal or State!
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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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A Systematic Review Of Autopsy Findings In Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccination
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/a-systematic-review-of-autopsy-findings-in-deaths-after-covid-19-vaccination/
“In summary, among the universe of published autopsies performed after COVID-19 vaccination available to date, with a contemporary and independent review, we found that in 73.9% of cases, COVID-19 vaccination was the direct cause or significantly contributed to death.”
“… the number of days from vaccination until death was 11.3″
” If we apply this underreporting factor to the May 5th, 2023, VAERS COVID-19 vaccine death report number of 35,324 [15], the number of deaths becomes an estimated 706,480 in the United States and other countries that utilize VAERS.”
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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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“Bloombergthinks not”. that is the reference
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ALso your reference to that noted Climate Scientist Tony Heller’s claims of “fr@udulently altered” data is not supported by Sceptical Science, TFTC, Science Feedback, DeSmog, Logically Facts Mallen Baker, Tom Nelson and KNKX, he is about as believable as is Steven Goddard
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Never understood the need to destroy data. Climate data, Covid data, investigation data, meeting recods etc.
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What a dumb question. No data should be destroyed, even if just used as an bad example.
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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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Yes, David, it’s like the libs want AnAl to be “elected” again.
Two wings of the same bird and I’ve a feeling the AEC will be
helping.
Remember [Anthony Albanese] only got 32% of the votes last time and NEVER won
a seat outside of the capital cities.
But there’s nothing wrong with our electoral system.
ha ha
[Foreign readers won’t understand alternate names for our PM — Jo]
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Our system works, it gives us the government we deserve.
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Have to agree. Politics is a dirty word to most Australians, never to be discussed in company (unless you agree with me). They leave the media to be filled by activists whom they seem to prefer to the mundane politics of Parliament in which all their futures are decided. Hence we end up with ‘Climate change’ or ‘ban the gun’ (at a time our nation is under more direct threat than it has ever been). They don’t see how the government is behind all their financial problems. They blame the Reserve Bank, or Coles and Woolies or energy companies and fuel companies and Banks instead. All at government insistence of course. Rents are high due to avaricious investors.
On and on it goes, but this government stays immune. The media does the job on the Coalition politicians, just as they slaughtered Morrison and Abbott.
As Richo says ‘Whatever it takes!’
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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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Gold is up 51.03% in 12 mths. That doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
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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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Apparently this was the method used to produce a power bill saving of $280.00 on 2022 prices. The incumbent didn’t mention this when telling everyone it was a sure thing.
As soon as it wasn’t out comes the excuse “oh the accounting consultants got it wrong” don’t hold the government responsible
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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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I was one of three raised on a single wage. You could do it today with all the middle class welfare available if you wanted to live an austere lifestyle as I did.
You are anti everything I think of as normal. Care to elaborate what you DO approve of?
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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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There are some tools to analyse the Arctc sea ice extent. No idea on how to use them: https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/sea-ice-analysis-tool
I prefer to loook at how the Arctic temperature is progresssing: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
This subject was discussed at WUWT in August 2024: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/05/another-summer-with-nearly-normal-temps-in-the-arctic-region-arctic-sea-ice-showing-resiliency/
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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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I recall reading that Australia was considering the B-58 Hustler for the RAFF at some point. Given that it was pretty much a dedicated nuclear bomber and it’s range, the only mission it would have had, would be dropping nuclear bombs on Jakarta.
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That link took me nowhere useful so I searched and came up with https://www.mup.com.au/books/australias-bid-for-the-atomic-bomb-paperback-softback a book the existence of which I was unaware back in 1997 when it was launched.
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I don’t know why my link doesn’t work now, I tested it at the time I posted it.
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Being nuclear is like being pregnant, you can’t be half-hearted ’bout either.
“You can’t attack me, I’ve got an atomic bomb I’ll through your way” is a rather hollow threat. If you can’t guarantee MAD you sound like a spoilt child.
Israel is different, while they don’t have many warheads, they DO have more than their enemies. They do not need to dissuade any of the major powers not to attack. We occasionally have diplomatic spats with Indonesia but they aren’t going to start shooting and we could handle that conventionally if necessary.
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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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For the Ozzie Rules football followers:
The (mandatory?) commercial following a goal mean that the mute button is always within reach when watching a game. Just over 30 seconds?
Which leads to two 15 second advertisements most of the time.
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Foxtel, no ads during play and that includes a near 2 hr F1 race.
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One of the Trumpet adds I watched last week was just a woman speaking for what seemed ages. It was boring and would not got any attention.
I believe the feedback on advertising is that negative adds are the most effective. No need to offer a coherent plan towards an improved economy; rather hurl carp at the other sides.
The morphing of Peter Dutton images toward Voldemort have been an effective negative for Labor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYefnqJs4U
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They are ways to avoid seeing any ads on you tube on your smart TV or your computer and it doesn’t require paying for YT premium. I forget how intrusive the ads are when I watch YT without my little “hacks”. I don’t think I can share how to do it on this forum. But if I’m allowed to, please ask.
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I shake my head when people complain that YT ads are intrusive. Blocking them has been discussed here many times.
Even on this site Brave has blocked 6 ads.
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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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14 buck beers?
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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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My take on Dutton is that he doesn’t want to be PM, why else would they lead with their chin on building 7 Nuke power stations, and announce the sacking of 36,000 Canberra public servants.
Seems obvious to me.
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“Is Dutton capable of doing a Trump ?”
Absolutely not!! He will do another Albanese, you won’t notice the difference except he’s shorter..
He’s terrified of saying anything except “Labor has it wrong”, understanding that the average voter votes people out of Parliament, not in, and the plebs cannot understand big words like ‘policies’.. As noted, the shorter election advertisements, goldfish level of concentration.
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” goldfish level of concentration.”
Absolutely, so much ammunition supplied by labour and yet none of it fired back at them. The most bleedingly obvious is the power price failure. This should be hammered endlessly, but no. The next obvious lie is “we have given power price relief” such an easy target to mock this arrangement, but no.
The reduction of fuel excise would have an immediate effect on the cost of living and CAN be measured, is this being flogged relentlessly, no. The Libs don’t want to win!
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FWIW
“Canada’s media aristocracy remains puzzled by the refusal of the great unwashed to accept its majesty
“Courtier class journalism is kaput” ”
An interesting snippet –
“The reasons for that reality matter far less than the simple fact it is reality, but here’s one illustration of probable cause. Recently on a flight across the Atlantic I read on my iPad mini a startling article by British academic Paul Taylor. He reported a fact about the Chinese AI model DeepSeek that, to my mind, should feed into a key concern in the federal election we will decide in mere days. It is that in developing the latest version of DeepSeekcalled R1 “all of the two hundred or so engineers named in the paper announcing (it) were trained at Chinese universities.” ”
https://petermenzies.substack.com/p/canadas-media-aristocracy-remains
Via SDA
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FWIW
“China Has Drought & Crop Issues”
Concludes
“China will want (need?) to buy a bunch of corn,wheat, rice & soybeans from the rest of world (ROW). Shutting off purchases from the USA, especially when Ukrainian supply is going to be very low, pretty much limits them to Brazil, Argentina (south America), Russia, and a little bit from Africa maybe (depending on how much of Africa is starving). India is roughly in balance with their own demand. Then they were already boycotting Australian wine, lamb and grains; but I don’t know the current status of that, or if they have / will change their mind… I wonder how much of Canada and Canadian Politicians China has bought, and how much grain that will get them. /snark;
So my best guess is that China will be buying on the global market and prices ought to rise a little. I’d not worry about US soybean, corn, and wheat farmers. Ought to be a healthy demand.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/china-has-drought-crop-issues/
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My goldfish scream for more food, so I automatically clicked online item I bought for last few years …
To my surprise today it is just $1 more than 9 month ago!
Checked again – the same staff but only 3/4 of weight: 25% inflation in under a year.
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Has the poultrygeist gone? Had to log in from Phoenix yesterday. Got 40 likes to my post. Most I’ve ever had. Must be the Trump Effect.
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California
dreamingdruggingA Southern California mayor has sparked mass condemnation after revealing he’d give homeless residents ‘all the fentanyl they want’ in an effort to wipe them out.
R. Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster, made the remarks in front of stunned residents and councilmembers at a city council meeting earlier in the year but footage of his speech has just emerged.
Huge swathes of California have been gripped by a fentanyl crisis as the highly addictive and deadly drug becomes more accessible and affordable on the streets.
Just a tiny, two milligrams dose of the drug is enough to kill a human.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14630891/california-mayor-rex-parris-fentanyl-purge-homeless.html
Humans rate lower than lesser animals in Commiefornia.
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Before well-meaning people of this blog condemn me, I apologise.
I agree with His Worship, he does the job he was elected to do – cleaning the streets.
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Surely any freedom-thinking person would abhor any Govt banning any drug at all!! Who the hell are they to tell you how to live your life, or what you do with your own body?
Anyone who thought that being able to buy Ivermectin freely was a good idea must support the freedom to buy any substance you want. …and take the consequences of your decision. Let them go for it, the survivors won’t be so addictive-orientated.
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Would you support freedom to buy a harmful drug for use other than in your own body?
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The pineal gland is destroyed in all of the vaxxed
A leading Italian pathologist has gone public with the results of his multi-year investigation into the brains of Covid vaccinated individuals, revealing that they all have one thing in common: the pineal gland has been totally destroyed.
https://x.com/Humanspective/status/1914157049065398522
Just amazing isn’t it how this vaxx does so many devious things that the brightest researchers out there are only now uncovering…
/😎
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https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23334-pineal-gland
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Would have to find my backups of old computers but Italy is very interesting case. Back around 2017 they were among, if not, the first country to mandate the annual flu shot to be the one cultured in dog kidney cell line when it was decided to move away from egg use – cheaper and faster to produce (mantra of a certain group).
They had a bad batch with some 10 people dying within a couple of days of their shot but continued on. Northern Italy also experienced a strange influenza outbreak of an unknown strain but put it down to the air pollution of the region. Oh and Italy has/had very big community of Chinese working in their Italy based factories so their knock off product labels could legally say “Made in Italy”. And yes every year these workers went “home” to celebrate Chinese New Year maybe bringing back more than chop sticks in their luggage. When the big one hit Italy was decimated.
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A deflating video on Greece, and how it is about to disappear demographically. They have been on the merry-go-round of declining population, and attempted solutions, a bit longer than the rest of us, but it is almost a death spiral – declining popn (also from violence) leads to declining economy, leads young people leaving, leading to declining popn, leading to declining economy ………They have to support a million immigrants, who they cant afford to help integrate. I think stagflation is going to become a widespread thing. Eastern Europe is depopulating rapidly too. Actually most of the world is! Anywhere where the family has declined?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FU1Ntu5gQ&t=92s
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Maybe demographics is the natural enemy of left wing politics? Replacing the family with bureaucracy, automatically leads to their annihilation? That’s not the right word. Maybe they just fade away? The smoke clears.
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FWIW
“Someone Forgot to Lock the Gates of Vienna Behind Them”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/21/someone-forgot-to-lock-the-gates-of-vienna-behind-them-n3801995
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OK, back in now, just testing…
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Apple caves to Starmer
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_suvhvlOS5P1tw1yvr.mp4
Apple is a joke from a freedom perspective.
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…as if all Govts can’t see everything you put on the net every day…
Of course they all do it, that’s what 5-Eyes was for. NZ spies on Australia, Australia spies on America, America spies on Canada and Canada spies on the UK, who spy on NZ. Everyone says ‘we don’t spy on our citizens’, while passing all the traffic to the Govts concerned.
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Maybe Jo can publish traffic stats so we can see the distribution and where the surge is coming from?
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A positive out of this – I’ve learned a new technical term
“403 – Forbidden”
Could be adapted to a boat name – like
“404 – No Fish”
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Jo I will send you a small amount of money. I hope it helps.
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Mmmm more chocolate supports more capacity
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Just had an interaction on X with a climate believer.
I kept sending back rational arguments.
Eventually they ran out of anything sensible to say and they blocked me.
Wahoo!
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I have an acquaintance that just keeps saying “no, I can’t have that” when faced with non conforming reality. And he calls other people “deniers”
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Serfs think we should avoid the Romantic, however engaging, for the Romantic deals with
what *ought* to be and the realist with what Nature ( physical reality) allows.The bridge over the
River Kwai obeys physical necessity, uncovering Nature’s genuine possibility.
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Serfs think we should avoid the Romantic, however engaging, for the Romantic deals with
what *ought* to be and the realist with what Nature ( physical reality) allows. The bridge over the
River Kwai obeys physical necessity, uncovering Nature’s genuine possibilities or ultimately it must
collapse..
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tSK!
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A small chocolate purchase.
:}
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Thank you!
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Thinking about how the old ‘can’t experiment on humans’ problem means that medicine is closer to gambling than science….
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/shooting-the-breeze-tte-episode-6
Pick your study / place your bets…
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By the same gentlemen: https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-bias-at-the-bmj/
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https://brownstone.org/articles/ethical-collapse-in-the-peer-review-of-a-leading-vaccine-journal/
The study, conducted by Zur and colleagues (2023), examined soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during the Covid-19 pandemic and concluded that “higher intelligence was the strongest predictor for vaccine adherence.”1
We read the study with growing unease. The conceptual leap was striking, the methodological choices questionable, and the ethical implications deeply troubling—especially given the context. These were not civilians making autonomous medical decisions in ordinary times. These were young conscripts operating within a rigid military hierarchy, subjected to intense social and institutional pressure to vaccinate during a historical moment when a strict Covid-19 vaccine passport policy was in force (i.e., the Israeli ‘green pass’).
We drafted a brief Letter to the Editor—just 500 words, in accordance with the journal’s submission guidelines. In this letter, we raised both scientific concerns and ethical red flags, questioning whether what the authors labeled “adherence” could truly be considered voluntary under the circumstances. We also argued that if the authors genuinely sought to measure medical adherence—rather than institutional compliance—they should have focused on the fourth dose of the vaccine.
By the time it was offered, the fourth dose was no longer mandated, though it remained recommended by medical professionals. Strikingly, according to the study’s own data, only about 0.5% of participants chose to take that dose—undermining the authors’ central claim.
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FWIW
“Paleo, Low Carb, Keto, Carnivore – Varieties Of Food Pyramids
Posted on 21 April 2025 by E.M.Smith
More Pyramids Than The Giza Plateau”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/paleo-low-carb-keto-carnivore-varieties-of-food-pyramids/
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Last year I researched ancient diets (ancient here ~1million+ years). And, then I tried to recreate the experience of what food would have been like. I started by looking for wild plants, here in the UK, but I soon realised that you simply couldn’t get the calories from wild plants. I then looked at fruits, which are easy to get in shops, but they are nothing at all like the wild varieties. So, I figured “bugs”. But then I looked at people who went to collect bugs, and they are lucky after a day’s search to get about 100calories. At the end of the day, I had to conclude, there is no way anyone could survive in the UK without getting most of their calories from eating meat.
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Ancient diets include the use of bacteria to do the nutritional heavy lifting. Bacillus Subtilis is ultra ancient and so before the industrial revolution spontaneously transformed legume substrates, fish substrates, and other substrates into nutritional powerhouses. Largely forgotten now or the like diminishing rapidly now, however, fermentation is increasing again in farming practices so that in the past decade for instance, fermenting seed substrates for feeding salmon on salmon farms and other farming industries requiring the requirement of obtaining more nutrition per sack of wheat for example sre becomeing the norm and best nutrition farming practise…quite sweepingly… The seeds for chicken stock is fermented in order to reduce the cost of feeding the stock with unfermented seed stock.
Histological alterations of intestinal villi in chickens fed dried Bacillus subtilis var. natto
Diminishingly nutritious in the extreme is what has become of legumes and seeds, etc, etc without bacteria and even certain mycelium to transform the substrate be it meat, fish, legume of protein substrate into a super food..
On a bacterian diet, the substrate is transformed into a super food. The umami/taste of the fermented food is increased exponentially as is the nutritional value
The industrial revolution slowly but inexorably replaced fermentation as a way of preserving and enhancing the nutritional potential in almost any primary subtrate. And fermentation was a way of ensuring the fermented substrate would keep for a much longer time than refrigeration alone at any rate.,….IN MY OPINION
How To Make Ogiri Fermented Sesame Seeds| My Thirty-Eighth Video | Dada’s FoodCrave Kitchen
Hawaijar Lonba | Hawaijar Mana Yaodana Hawaijar Lomba | Soyabean Fermentation
Norwegian Rakfisk (fermented fish)
Notes and errata: K2 powerhouse to up-regulate mitochondria.
Bacillus subtilis makes a lot of vitamin K2 for the animal kingdom…..K2 mitochondrial respiration in Seahorse XF-96 platform/assay by Agilent video with Kiran krishnan
Interesting note. Sherpas in Nepal get a lot of K2 from butter tea and Kinema for high altitude cardiac work 🙂
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I like your comment re fermentation. Fermentation is often used to remove poisons in roots making them edible.
I personally blame the Neolithic farming revolution which focused the diet on grains. It’s been all down hill for the gut since then!
One of the problems in Britain, is that very few good calorie foods are indigenous. The best food I found was Cow Parsley … which is extremely easily confused with hemlock. There are other plants, but most of them look to be plants that were brought in and then they escaped into the wild.
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Cleft stick. No farming meant a nomadic lifestyle chasing seasons or animal movements. This possibly limited social and technological developments. Enter farming, more sedentary lifestyles and more time time to observe the world. Hence progress.
An example may be the Australian aborigines, forever on the move and in conflict with neighbours competing for resources. These people from all over Australia only had a very small number of cultural items and had not even developed footwear or permanent dwellings. The nearest neighbours in the Torres Strait had gardens, the Maori had gardens and both these peoples had developed skills that allowed “society” to advance.
Another point is people do not realise that ancient peoples ate a large range of things that would not be considered “food” in conventional thinking. Carrion, probably in all states of decomposition, your neighbours, if inclined, plant materials that taste foul but are not overly toxic etc. The conclusion would be farming certainly had its up side, along with any down sides.
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Interesting
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“there is no way anyone could survive in the UK without getting most of their calories from eating meat.”
Is that now, or in the past?? Monoculture of food has lead to a shrinking of wildlife, and plenty of things that people would eat hundreds of years ago are not available unless you do it yourself. Same with meat, not many people would have eaten what we get in a supermarket.
On top of that, mass-produced food is not nutritional, we eat a lot more of something from a factory than we would if we grew it ourselves, and you can see the results in the sicknesses of modern society. I grow my own veges and have fruit/nut trees, and what I eat could never be sold in a supermarket, they don’t keep, they don’t travel, they aren’t big enough, or glossy enough, or regular enough… but they taste amazing and are never watery, be it carrots or apricots.
If we’re at the top of the pyramid, we need all the meat we eat to be in vastly greater numbers than us, so it would be eating starlings and sparrows and four & twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
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…but before the industrial revolution, the nutritional increase bought about from the fermentation of food could not be avoided, and so refrigeration was not stopping fermentation in its tracks as it did during the industrial revolution.
The products of bacteria and the symbiosis with them are at the top of the food pyramid in my view.
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And on…another example of salt free fish fermentation from the region called. Bangladesh.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025003524
From the paper…
“Abstract
Chepa shutki is a sticky, solid, fermented, salt-free [my bolding] product from Bangladesh prepared from small-sized fish by local producers. It can be consumed as a chutney or sauce-like recipe or shutki curry with vegetables as a side dish for rice or bread. Chepa shutki is manufactured according to a small-scale traditional technique relying on spontaneous fermentation. Although chepa shutki is an important part of the human diet in Bangladesh, providing flavour as well as essential nutrients (especially protein and bone minerals), research on variations in production of chepa shutki has been limited. The aim of this study was to determine the variations in processing methods of chepa shutki and identify production process parameters. A survey was carried out with respondents using structured questionnaires and observations on current processing practices and the equipment used. In Bangladesh, chepa shutki is produced from different small fish (Puntius, Setipinna and Otolithoides) referred to as punti, phaisha and puma type, respectively. Among these, the punti type is produced the most and puma type the least. After washing, sun drying, soaking and overnight storage, fermentation takes place in airtight earthen pots (locally called motka) whose micropores are blocked with fish oil to ensure anaerobic conditions. The fermentation duration varies from three to twelve months. Types of fish, types of fermentation container (old/new) and fermentation time were identified as vital process parameters. This information is crucial for further studies to understand how processing variations affect product properties and to develop a standard processing method to produce consistently high quality chepa shutki with good preservation properties.
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I looked at plants that appear to be indigenous and then tried to work out how I could survive. In theory that should have been a process: 1) identify possible plants 2) work out how quickly they could be gathered and processed 3) work out if there was enough calories to live. But, I really never got beyond stage (1). Because although there was plenty of food in the autumn, there was not a lot of calories to eat in the winter, spring and summer. Basically, the only starch is from the roots of “bullrush” type plants. But, since the harvesting is quite destructive, and you need a lot of plants, it doesn’t seem very sustainable if it were the sole source of calories.
So, to survive you have to store autumn foods. That technology was widespread in the Neolithic, but I’m not aware of evidence for it in the Mesolithic.
A similar situation happens on the program “Naked and Afraid”. They go to places that e.g. baboons are living, but they cannot get enough calories from the plants. Only when they start getting meat do they start getting enough calories to survive long term.
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FWIW
“How the IPCC Buried the Medieval Warm Period”
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/how-the-ipcc-buried-the-medieval
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/21/how-the-ipcc-buried-the-medieval-warm-period-n3801984
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https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/p/legal-notice-served-on-those-who
I find I have little faith in Law these days, but good to see that some involved are still going through the motions
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FWIW
“Is Europe Still Fighting Lost Energy Wars?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-still-fighting-lost-energy-wars
As John Prine put it –
“It don’t make no sense that common sense don’t make no sense no more”
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FWIW – looking from outside
“Election despair Down Under – a trip to the abyss”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/who-to-vote-for-nonentity-or-nobody/
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A great article, it covers the whole election perfectly! In a nutshell-
“The May 3 2025 election is a shameless auction, even worse than most. It has the usual ingredients. Non-problems consuming attention and dollars. Real problems – such as the deep household recession, the ghastly fruits of mass immigration, the crashing of our energy economy, fiscal incontinence on a grand scale, rampant and largely unchecked anti-Semitism, ongoing attacks on free speech, endless wokism and Aboriginal ‘welcomes-to-country’ – being parked. Promises that will be broken at will ‘as circumstances change’. Inevitable, unmandated actions forthcoming. More rule by the unelected bureaucrats of the managerial class.’
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Good summary KP. Problem! If the reporting is true it seems the voters want more of the same. If things are as bad as they seem all it should take for a change of government would be for Dutton to turn up. Remember, Labor was elected last election when its main ‘policy’ was ‘We will govern just like the coalition only better!’
Either the reporting is wrong or the people are content to get more of the same, only worse. Much worse if one looks at the big spending policy revelations and budgetary deficit for the next decade at least. The voters don’t appear to realise they are the mugs that have to pay and repay for all this – and still end up without a defence policy and expenditure for the nation.
Even the IMF has come out with an expenditure warning in the face of an expected global economic downturn
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A bit rough a Pom chipping in about quality of politicians. They elected Tony Blair, an evil bar steward of a wolf in a Saville Row sheep’s cloth.
He and Obama are evil to the core, and for similar reasons.
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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/highest-catholic-population
Catholicism mapped
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was a bit scary I must admit. I almost thought I’D become teetotal. Imagine losing one’s main source of learning about things I had little or no expertise about in these days of destructive, lying, enforcing governance.
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Yes!
There did seem to be a lot more time to work on “uncompleted nothings from yesterday”.
But in there I have rehabilitated the mast from an older generation Hills Hoist for its next duty cycle.
(I originally typed “for recycling” but that didn’t have the right first read flavour)
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“There did seem to be a lot more time to work on “uncompleted nothings from yesterday”.”
Plus one here…
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Saw this: “My avatar is changed too.”
So just checking. Nope. I’m good. 😉
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