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Dr John Campbell was censored and censured by YouTube for going against the Official Narrative on covid.
It’s unbelievable that the Official Narrative is STILL being enforced.
https://www.youtube.com/live/d6fugjc6IvY
And in Australia, you can still forget, to this day, about getting an organ transplant if you’re not covid vaxxed. They would rather you die.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13517255/Heartbreaking-update-teen-denied-transplant.html
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/no-jab-no-heart-mother-denied-transplant-due-to-vaccination-status/news-story/5580aca526744d15fe1a25e595ef7d76
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from the books: ‘Canary In a Covid World’: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World
‘Canary In a (post) Covid World’: Money, Fear and Power
Dr. George Fareed
In Chapter 3 of Vol. 1, Dr. Fareed recounts his experiences as a rural physician who treated over 20,000 COVID-19 patients with early intervention protocols. Based in California’s underserved Imperial Valley, he adapted treatment regimens that included hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, anti-inflammatories, and vitamin therapies. His remarkable success demonstrates that COVID-19 was far from a death sentence for those who received timely, proactive care.
Dr. Fareed’s advocacy extended beyond his practice as he fought to educate policymakers and the public on the importance of early treatment. His work is a testament to how frontline physicians can challenge mainstream narratives and prioritize patient care over bureaucratic inertia. His chapter is a stirring reminder that science-driven medicine, even in resource-limited settings, can save lives.
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Dr. Mary Talley Bowden
Featured in Chapter 27 of Vol. 2, Dr. Bowden treated over 6,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston, Texas, achieving an astounding 99.97% survival rate. Using repurposed drugs such as ivermectin, she prioritized early treatment options to prevent hospitalizations. Her fearless advocacy placed her in the crosshairs of the FDA, which targeted ivermectin with misinformation campaigns.
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BOMBSHELL: A new paper confirms presence of DNA in COVID-19 shot vials, settles issues pertaining to DNA quantification methods, shows spike persistence and exosomal shuttling.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/bombshell-a-new-paper-confirms-presence
/for those who didn’t see it
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South African Dr.Shankara Chetty, who successfully treated thousands of Covid patients without hospitalisation, was later prosecuted by medical authorities. His treatment was a fairly simple combination of anti histamine, aspirin and antibiotics. It is interesting to note a large number of reported medical research articles are citing the efficacy of H1 antagonist anti-histamines in treating both Covid and Long Covid. Aspirin has also been shown to prevent the micro clotting seen in many Covid cases.
But they are still pursuing Chetty for not following government rules.
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“physician who treated over 20,000 COVID-19 patients with early intervention protocols”
Is my recollection accurate?
Wasn’t the general official public health recommendation during Pandemic …
1) get your home self test
2) if positive, stay isolated and don’t seek early medical attention, wait ’til you can’t breathe, get taken to hospital to be intubated and receive your Remdesivir.
For the first time in history, early treatment was officially discouraged.
Do I remember wrong?
And helpful early treatment doctors like the above referenced, were attacked as ‘anti-Science.’
Clues.
They’re everywhere.
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For those behind the scam, keeping the truth hidden is still absolutely vital, perhaps more so since Trump was elected. Let’s face it, fifty years after the event, we still don’t know the truth behind the Kennedy assassination, despite overwhelming opinion (public and expert) that there is much more to it than the ‘official truth’ asserts.
We live in the Matrix.
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Rob Braxman talks about how numerous privacy violating attacks can render a VPN useless using device fingerprinting and other techniques.
https://youtu.be/zVZCWQUIgnY
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Welcome back Jo – we missed you 😃
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SNOW BLIZZARD Tuesday Mt Cook, 3 climbers still missing; SNOW BLIZZARD this Sunday with heavy snow, 90 km/h winds, -30 windchill; 3rd snow storm expected next Wed/Thur… Summer in NZ, ya gotta love it and beware.
MetService issue ‘heat alert’ for downwind east coast towns, may hit 30C, ie. too hot to snow.
NZ Climate Change Commission, headed by ex-bankster, claims we’re not “lowering planet-heating pollution [PHP]” enough, and the $4,000,000,000 already fleeced off us may not be enough to slave the panet.
Bl@ckR0ck liquidated SolarZero (NZ) having taken $millions off NZ taxpayers and leaving subcontractors $140,000,000 out of pocket. Fink Inc. strikes again, for their children’s children.
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So you can simultaneously have a snow blizzard with -30C windchill and a “heat wave” at a mere +30C?
Sounds like a case of doublethink.
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If they’re not told, they don’t know: therefore it didn’t happen.
NEWS™️ shouts heat! so therefore it’s hot, simples. Even though west coast towns are 15C and raining, on the dry east it’s sunny and twice as warm, while in between (up on the mountains) it’s the middle of winter 🥶 three distinct climates within 100km.
Safe and effective mind-rinsing works ($).
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“So you can simultaneously have a snow blizzard with -30C windchill and a “heat wave” at a mere +30C? ”
You ignore the wind chill factor and use the actual -11C, then average the thermometers and report the temperature over the whole area as a pleasant 19deg. Seems to be the common way of official weather reporting..
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You know it. Six of the seven authorised stations are at sea level and either within harbour environs or on the east coast. The four semi-alpine stations, eg. Ruapehu and Queenstown, were disappeared so as not to pollute the narrative: cold temperatures are such a downer. Onwards and upwards!
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Australia’s first large-scale mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility is now under construction at Monash University in Melbourne. The facility is being established under a 10-year partnership between the Australian Government, global pharmaceutical company Moderna and the Victorian Government.
‘Australian Defense Magazine’ : Does Australia have a medicine supply problem?
By Ewen Levick | Canberra | 21 February 2020
A new report from the Institute for Integrated Economics Research has highlighted the strategic vulnerability of Australia’s supply of medicines.
Australia imports 90 per cent of its medicines, with around one-third of Australians reliant on daily prescriptions. However, the country is at the tail end of lengthy global supply chains with what the report calls ‘single points of failure’.
An infamous example was the nationwide shortage of EpiPen Jrs, used to treat anaphylactic reactions in children. Manufacturing issues and quality failures in the supply chain caused Australian supplies to run out in December 2019, prompting the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to advise Australians to use out-of-date or contaminated EpiPens. Supplies will only resume ‘before the end of the year’.
“Australia has extremely limited and diminishing manufacturing capacity across all sectors of products apart from vaccine manufacture,” the report argues.
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If they build it, you can be certain that:
1) It will become the only approved form of “vaccination”.
2) Administration of any all profucts produced at the mRNA factory will become compulsory.
3) There will be extensive censorship of any and all opinions critical of the mRNA products, complete with defunding, sacking (firing), ridicule and loss of licence to practice for medical doctors.
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And the owners along with the government will be exempt from taking the products.
Only the plebs are exposed to the experimental concoctions.
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…and exempt from prosecution.
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A disgrace the government can’t establish a facility to produce our own intravenous fluids (IV) after recent shortage of this essential product caused a crisis in our hospitals.
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It looks like all flu “vaccines” will now be mRNA. I will NOT be getting a yearly flu vaccine if it is mRNA.
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Perdue is a good pick for China ambassador.
‘In a post on Truth Social late Thursday, Trump highlighted Perdue’s extensive background working in Asia and noted his service on the Armed Services Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee while in the Senate.
“He will be instrumental in implementing my strategy to maintain Peace in the region, and a productive working relationship with China’s leaders,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, in which he also called Perdue a “loyal supporter” and “friend.” (Politico)
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Not a propitious name:
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Or in French , lost, missing, wasted
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It’s cold up there.
Twenty five years ago my wife and I got out of the train at Klein Scheideger in Switzerland and switched to the smaller train that runs up through the tunnels in the Eiger, Monch Jungfrau complex.
Getting out at the coffee shop on the saddle we were about 3,500 metres above sea level and it was cold. Checking just now it seems that the temperature there moves between minus 5 and minus 10 degrees C.
This simple observation gave credibility to the well known the lapse rate theory of the atmosphere.
I write this because I have just come from looking at the attempt by many scientists to refute the CAGW by banding together in a public statement. All I found online was a smothering of their claim by extreme verbalism. Disturbing.
[It would help if you explained who these scientists were, or linked to the public statement. — Jo]
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Jo, the link you asked for.
https://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/consensus-what-consensus/
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” the well known the lapse rate theory of the atmosphere.”
Except when it isn’t. In the northwest of the USA (Washington State+) there has been, and continues, a very strong inversion. Low temperature and fog below a couple thousand feet and warmer above for the region. This should end on Sat/Sun and the wind facilities – zero production now –should start turning again. [Cliff Mass blog reports on the inversion]
At the tops of the ski runs it has been sunny and warmer than at the base where there are “ff” {freeze & fog} conditions.
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Yes, of course. The lapse rate is simply the base concept that underpins our understanding of the atmosphere.
Every morning and afternoon we experience air movement horizontally which has been recently given the name of Diurnal Bulge.
Energised parcels of air can expand and rise creating a vacuum; cooled parcels will become more dense and fall down to earth and so displace the original air.
The important thing is that for the purposes of understanding the place of “that gas” in atmospheric thermodynamics, we have to understand the lapse rate concept.
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Keith,
You might be interested in this!!
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2024/12/oceans-warm-atmosphere-with-meteorologist-william-kininmonth-audio-and-summaries/
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Thanks for that.
I’ll have to find out what specifically she had in mind writing this paragraph:
“For sure I am tired of the many voices, especially on the right side of politics, that just make stuff-up because they want to be a part of a winning story for their team. Much of what they have written and said will soon become irrelevant.”
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PS:
Great comment from Bud Bromley
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Peter C,
That was interesting. Like Skepticynic, I was triggered by one of Jennifer’s statements, though technical, not political:
Suspect she’s wrong on that one. I responded in comments there.
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Hi Robert, I would agree that there are forces and processes at work which drive the climate and because they are known and measurable it can be said that climate is not chaotic.
Around the edges though some aspects of climate can properly be described as chaotic.
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Kalm Keith,
As I said to Jennifer, chaos, in its mathematical sense, doesn’t mean random. Read my comment in her thread if you want more detail on that.
I’ll go down a different path here. You talk about “driving the climate”. I *loathe* the sloppiness of this word climate. The traditional meaning is the sort of weather you can expect in a place at a time of year: Sydney tending to wet summers, drier winters, windy around October, etc. You see little charts of average temperatures and rainfall for the year plotted on a map, and it lets you know what you might expect if you take a trip to the place. Quite useful. This makes me reasonably comfortable with the “30 year average weather” definition that you often hear.
For the last few decades, we’ve been hearing about “global climate”. For some reason, this doesn’t average each month, nor does it report rainfall or wind. Climate has been distilled down to average temperature over the Earth’s surface, as if that represented *anything*, but the pretense is that it’s measuring energy. Don’t the wind and rain represent *huge* amounts of energy? What about the energy higher in the atmosphere, and in the oceans? This global average (even if it were month-by-month) isn’t going to be much use for travel plans, or for anything else (outside of politics).
Assuming you subscribe to the “average weather over 30 years” view of climate, then there’s only one thing that “drives” the climate: the weather. The only way all the orbital mechanics and solar flares, CO2, blah blah, affect the climate is through their effects on the weather.
Back to the question of chaos… averaging chaotic weather over 30 years will naturally smooth it out at the year to year level. Don’t you think this might do nothing more than extend the timeframe of the chaotic behaviour? Could we find that climate is just as unpredictable in the multi-decade timeframe as weather is year by year?
If, on the other hand, you subscribe to the notion of climate being some global mean surface temperature, I can’t help you.
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Robert, the only reason I used the term climate is because we were looking at and analysing the conference that discussed climate in relation to CO2.
Climate change, caused by the dreaded CO2 gas . Climate is a UNIPCCC word in this context.
Bye and large the macroscopic weather events are not a surprise but on the more local scale things can be very chaotic.
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Kalm Keith,
My point was that it’s foolish to talk about things that “drive the climate” as if they were anything distinct from the things that drive the weather. Climate is derivative. It’s a bit like saying the petrol in a car is one of the things that drives its speedo needle. It’s not really wrong, but it’s a daft way to look at it.
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Thanks Peter, and I read your comment.
Sounds like the discussion covered a lot of ground and emphasised the fact that the atmosphere is an extremely complicated system.
It’s a bit sad that the complexity got in the way and moved focus off the main issue: the role of atmospheric CO2 in the
contentious CAGW story.
In true modelling the first step is to get rid of all factors that are essentially constant or have little impact.
It’s hard to get to the nitty gritty is that’s not done first.
It’s a bit of a worry that the group of experts spent two hours without coming to a final conclusion on the CO2 issue.
Noted that you mentioned that CO2, up high, eventually sends energy to space.
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Corn syrup, Seed oils, Soy and sugar…setting the stage for a lifetime big pharma customer.
An egg:
Calcium, Vitamin A, Thiamin (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Chromium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Phosphorous, Potassium, Selenium, Niacin (B3), Pantothenic Acid (Bs), Vitamin B6, Biotin (B7), Folate, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Zinc, Choline, Omega 3, Omega 6, Vitamin K
Per the USDA, eggs are only missing vitamin C
Wonder why the Amish are so healthy?
Tip: Treat your eggs with Lime water (or mineral oil) and they’ll keep for YEARS without refrigeration.
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Why all the processed seed oils? Arguably the only decent oil in there is coconut oil.
And none of that appears to have any resemblance to mother’s milk.
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EVOO?
Peanut oil?
Avocado?
Flaxseed?
My choice is Cobram Estates EVOO.
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I was referring to the oils in the product.
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Our girls produce the richest yolks you will see. They free range in a large lawn area and in the barn in fox-free hours of the day, and demolish most kitchen scraps. This is in addition to their favourite – sunflower seeds and some oats.
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Vicki,
They will clean up a lot of weeds and pests (and fertilise) in your veggie garden too…Win/Win
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“They will clean up a lot of weeds and pests (and destroy) your veggie garden too… ”
You had a typo in there…
High fences and clipped wings on the Silver Leghorns so they don’t fly up onto the compost wall, then fly up onto the 2M brick wall, then jump down into the house garden… They love gardening with me, but their idea of ‘gardening’ is somewhat different!
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I miss the eggs from chickens feeding on the weeds in the garden. It’s just brilliant.
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We always had chooks when I was a kid. As the new chickens grew I would chop the head off one of the old hens before going to school. Couldn’t do that today so in spite of having a big back hard I have no chooks.
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Planning Engineer has an article at Judith Curry’s claiming the Broken Hill blackout as a great real-world demonstration of how renewables on their own cannot reliably power a grid, no matter how many surplus kW they’re delivering.
It’s a good read.
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Interesting numbers and comparing the city’s load of 36MW with W&S plus battery of 300 MW, all of which didn’t keep the lights on.
Thanks Robert.
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The figures for energy sources and storages were wrong. The graph was hopeless.
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Sorry, have to disagree. The article didn’t mention that the battery was specifically stopped from functioning as an island by Transgrid. So it didn’t matter if the battery was charged or discharged – even if it had been fully charged, it could not have helped to power the town, and it certainly couldn’t have provided frequency stability. Surely the blame lies squarely with Transgrid, who never foresaw the possibility of what happened in their system design.
After saying that I believe it was mainly Transgrid’s fault, the town of Broken Hill should never have proposed being a poster child for renewables – it’s clear that mayor and city elders didn’t have a clue about how a power system works.
And that chart using nameplate values of generating sources, versus actual energy required, was just ridiculous. The outputs of each energy source should have been adjusted for their real outputs. It’s not a graph comparing apples to apples.
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“So it didn’t matter if the battery was charged or discharged – even if it had been fully charged, it could not have helped to power the town, and it certainly couldn’t have provided frequency stability.”
I’m sure I read that the battery was equipped with a grid-forming inverter.
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Ronin, #8.2.1,
____This quite descriptive story by Nick Cater of ADH TV
may help with this slight discrepancy of understanding
____Begin watching at 02:54 through to the shrug of shoulder at 03:54.
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Graeme4,
Sorry you didn’t find it a good read.
Looking a comments at Judith Curry’s today, there don’t seem to be many (any?) raising points like yours. Perhaps you should raise them there. My comment was mostly to alert JoNovians to the article’s existence.
I will defend that chart though. You’re right, in a way, that it’s ridiculous — unreasonable expectations from the renewables — but it’s the very same foolishness that has people (e.g. the mayor and city elders) believing This new windfarm will power 10,000 homes (or whatever). If it’s sold by nameplate, it should be judged by nameplate. Why exactly is that *not* “apples to apples”?
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On an isolated grid, stabilising an inverter freq. against a quartz clock is “good enough”. It’s what anyone off-grid should do.
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Robert,
If you or any reader has links to the history of why Broken Hill was chosen to demonstrate intermittent energy and what caused mine management to go along with it, links would be much appreciated.
This move from reliable energy to unreliable would not have happened in my 30 years in mining. Something changed. Two main explanations come to mind. Was it pressure from activists or was it a new breed of green mine management people?
I simply cannot comprehend why this very important part of mining, energy reliability to a (usually) remote region, was the subject of experiment instead of continuing with reliable supply that had worked for 100 years.
Geoff S
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Geoff Sherrington,
I’m afraid I have nothing concrete. I would add to your two explanations the “boiled frog” scenario. The council gets excited about being at the forefront, meet with the mine management pointing out that all the new stuff is in *addition* to what is already there. Box gets ticked. Then the backup generators get neglected because “Why bother? We’re backed up with a huge battery. What could possibly go wrong?” Now they’ve found out.
Another possibility is that mine management may have gone with a can-do attitude — don’t worry about the engineers; they just find problems — which can boost profitability for a while, but Boeing’s strategy has been a bit of a dead end (literally, for some).
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This article is paywalled.
Can someone with access post a small excerpt?
I am guessing that the article is referring to compulsory implementation of DRED technology (Demand Response Enable Device).
I wrote an article about it a few years ago.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2017/April/DRED%3A+they+can+turn+your+aircon+off%21
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David,
If you used the subsidy to back up your solar with batteries they will want control of that . My bet is that they will make access to the grid conditional on access to your batteries . You will have to go “off grid” totally or be subject to having your system used as backup power for the grid . The same will be mandated for EV’s . The uniparty is no longer labor or liberal but anarchist…
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The Herald Sun headline is using a bit of license for clicks.
The article doesn’t point to examples of fury or anyone fuming. (although that might be the reality) It refers to a News Poll survey asking, “Should authorities be allowed to take control of power usage in your household?”
94% of 6300 respondents said No.
The article is about Monash University associate professor Roger Dargaville, who specialises in “large-scale energy system transition optimisation”, predicting that electrical authorities may have to intervene in domestic electricity use due to the supply uncertainties with our grid. Such as turning up thermostats on air con units
or putting them on economy mode, or turning down hot water units, etc.
The article mentions that AGL and Ausgrid had run localised “demand-response trials”, with some sort of financial incentive for customers.
The professor suggests it will become “normalised” for it to occur and necessary due to more extreme weather, electricity being generated from “variable sources” like wind and solar, and because our coal generation is less reliable. (article assertions, not mine)
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A Motherhood statement. They would say that wouldn’t they.
What % of them are too thick to understand that if they don’t wake up it will happen?
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Save us from university professors who think they are experts in our nation’s power systems. They seem to be trotted out whenever somebody wants to make a point. Another one, a physics professor no less, was quoted today to support a renewables argument. I would have thought the good professor would have been better off to spend more time in studying atmospheric physics.
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People don’t have to hand over control of their a/c to ‘big brother’, just resist the urge to trouser the $200 by NOT filling in the paperwork to receive same.
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If I see the word “fury” used so hopelessly incorrectly by the MSM just one more effin’ time.
No point reading the article given their misuse of the word “fury”.
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“Aussie fury over big change to home power.”
I would posit that 99% of ‘Aussies’ wouldn’t have a clue about it.
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This Korea thing matters.
One of the first reports on the martial law I heard had a vague reference to there being a situation similar to that which exists in the US – A sort-of conservative President being destroyed by a hostile liberal House. I dismissed that as it appeared a clear cut case of an out of control President.
Why WAS the President out of control? If the house gets their pro-China man installed as President would Trump un-friend them? I see no reason why he wouldn’t.
Lai of Lai’s Real Talk went to some length to explain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htpu6XP6sqs
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Democracy is safe, the crazy man will be impeached.
‘More than seven out of 10 South Koreans were in favour of the impeachment, a survey by local pollster Realmeter showed on Thursday.
‘Yoon has not been seen or spoken publicly since reversing the martial law order early on Wednesday. A survey conducted from Tuesday to Thursday this week showed his approval rating had tumbled to a record low of 13%.
‘Before his attempt to place the country under military rule, the president had already been beset by low popularity ratings, corruption allegations and an opposition-led legislature that reduced him to a lame-duck leader.’ (BBC)
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If 7 out of 10 Koreans are pro China, the US can save billions by bringing their troops home.
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“the US can save billions by bringing their troops home.”
That could collapse the local economy! What would the women do? Same for Japan.. and Germany! Of course Iraq and Syria too, anywhere there is oil to steal you will find American troops, corruption and crime.
I expect 7 out of 10 Koreans are anti-American more than Pro-China, its a Hobsons choice for them. After decades of being the poster child for Asia adopting Western democracy and its finance system, its a shock to see the depth of the infighting in their politics.
A clue is in here, a Korean comic about a Tax Dept civil servant in Korea. They wouldn’t write about corruption in high places if it wasn’t happening.
https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/the-tax-reaper/ep-0-prologue/viewer?title_no=4115&episode_no=1
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If Koreans hate America and want China to guarantee their safety my statement is true, “the US can save billions by bringing their troops home.” Must send note to Elon and Viv.
You hate America, believe they are evil and should not cause wars but here you say they should keep Korea’s economy afloat with an army. Pls explain this hypocrisy.
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Seven out of 10 are not pro China.
‘When asked about general views of China, 81 percent of South Korean respondents expressed negative or very negative sentiments. That is (substantially) more than in any of the 56 countries surveyed worldwide as part of the Sinophone Borderlands project.’ (The Diplomat)
Also a recent Pew poll found 71% of South Koreans have ‘unfavourable’ attitude to China.
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I’d like to think you are right EG but you say 7 out of 10 want to impeach the pro-US President. Sth Korea would then be in the firm grip of the democrats who are pro China.
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The South Koreans want to be independent of super power rivalry.
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In which case my statement is STILL true.
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‘Political uncertainty in South Korea deepened on Friday with the head of the ruling party calling for the immediate suspension of President Yoon Suk-yeol, significantly increasing the likelihood of his impeachment over an alleged coup attempt.’ (SCMP)
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Accidentally came by Dr. Stan Drobyshevsky lecture about Australian archeology and archeologists. Honestly, I do not know if should be taken seriously…
At first I took him as a typical “canceller” because of his negative view on colonial period of our history but then got interested because he said few things I never read about of – not that I knew too much on the subject.
He talked about basically 3 main human “streams” who started to arrive about 50k years until quite recently; in short – Aborigines as a group came to being at roughly same time as human tribes elsewhere – 4k to 6k years ago.
He is very critical of the thermoluminicent dating method which can give 80k to 200k years of permanent habitation in one area. In his opinion those samples might be related to specific fires of Australian flora and not to human activity.
Regretfully, I did not see much of him in English – maybe some people here who periodically write about Australian pre-history already know it all.
Like – he said that some Tasmanian Aborigines had statistically unique feature – fourth molars (I never heard about 3rd ones!) obviously related to the food they consumed and methods of its preparation.
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The Official Narrative is that there was only ever one single human migration to Australia despite what evidence says (and in the case of the extinct “pygmy” Aboriginals of northern Queensland of whom there are people today who remember them, there are photos and they are mentioned on page 1 and 2 of Manning Clarke’s 1962 History of Australia volume 1. You will be cancelled for going against that.
It was an event unique in all human history because everywhere else seems to have had multiple human migrations as sea levels rose and fell multiple times due to …climate change… .
I tried to post a link on Farcebook to the scholarly Quadrant journal of Jun 01 2002, available free online, and I was pounced on by “fact checkers” (sic) and banned for a period of time. The Left take statements of actual history that contradicts the Official Narrative as a very grave issue.
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David, how does the ‘official narrative’ explain the different racial features of the Tasmanians, a more negroid race, preserved from being eaten by the later streams by inundation of Bass Strait.
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Apologies for my quick translation:
“…Another situation was in Tasmania which about 20k years ago became separated from mainland by Bass Straight. Tasmanian Aborigines lost a bit of height but they also became less massive. If on the mainland their height dropped but the body mass was stable, then in Tasmania the size has dropped even more significantly.
Regretfully we know very little about Tasmanian Aborigines. We have one backhead bone, from which nearly nothing can be deduced. There was a single skeleton from King Island which, diggers stupidly destroyed because they decided it was a spirit and they might disturb it, they called an SA Aborigine, with no relation to the story who said “Oh, do not touch my grandfather” so the skeleton was re-intrerred.
Nothing more is known about Tasmanian Aborigines besides that Englishmen wiped them off in 19 Century. Some world museums have few sculls but even those are being meticulously destroyed by Australian Government in order to destroy the memory of genocide. ”
I am not trying to make excuses for Drobyshevsky but it always was, probably still is a trick employed by Soviet authors – to insert a clearly stupid sentence in full accordance with the Party policy, so the article will be published.
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Between 85,000 – 60,000 years ago sea level began to fall and early humans left Africa and beachcombed towards Australia.
There is some dispute over their time of arrival, but 63,000 years has been mooted. Anyway, we know they reached Lake Mungo around 42,000 years ago.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/mungo-lady#:~:text=We%20now%20know%20that%20the,discovered%20anywhere%20in%20the%20world.
Also, Denisovan DNA is not uncommon in New Guinea and Cape York.
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Sea Surface Temperature off north west Australia is very warm, might see some cyclones soon.
http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/forecasts/idyoc300.shtml?region=NEWA&forecast=SST
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Haven’t had many cyclones up that way in the last few years. The original town of Onslow was moved because the original site kept getting hit by cyclones.
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Here is a story about a car catching alight.
It doesn’t mention if it’s an EV or ICE car.
I wonder if that’s a new trend by the Lamestream Media not to highlight what type of car it is?
Am I being too cynical?
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/dramatic-car-blaze-erupts-on-melbournes-punt-road-black-smoke-visible-from-kilometres-away/news-story/41905db7bed06a6da699fbc5e0899de6
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White smoke before fire, typical signature of lithium runaway fire.
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Not sounding like a large battery fire:
Fire Rescue Victoria were notified of the fire at 5.41pm and arrived on scene at 5.49pm. Crews worked at a rapid pace to extinguish the blaze and deemed the incident Under Control at 5.51pm, minutes after arriving on scene.
Further, police in the video were letting traffic flow near the scene. I suppose the 10:53 PM time on the video was when it aired, not when it was filmed.
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“I wonder if that’s a new trend by the Lamestream Media not to highlight what type of car it is?”
That’s because they cropped they photo to take the Toyota badge out of it. Camry Hybrid I expect.
https://www.instagram.com/jacquifelgate/reel/DDOkjBgBCHC/
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/windscreen-detail-on-road-trip-suggests-worrying-natural-trend-in-australia-where-have-they-gone-061309689.html
They mentioned that it’s not backed up by any scientific evidence. It’s possible that we only remember the days when we drove though a swarm and forgot the many days we didn’t bother with the squeegee at the servo. Still, got to blame extreme weather due to climate change. Much more likely to be better aero on cars giving the little buggers a better chance.
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I agree that today’s cars are more aerodynamic and bugs are less likely to get squished, rather they’ll get swept away in the laminar flow stream surrounding the car.
But they will never miss an opportunity to blame “insecticides”, “extreme weather” or “climate change”, even when they admit there’s no scientific evidence.
They just want to keep the terror campaign going.
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I’m not attributing cause but there are less insects by a factor >2, how much is beyond my pay grade.
The most obvious tell is the absolute absence of cane toads having a feast under street lights on rainy nights. We played hockey with them. Has the reduction of insects [may be a city thing] caused a X10 reduction in cane toad populations in town?
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Very few flies so far this summer. Not many mozzies but plenty last year and in Winter! Populations swing wildly, naturally. I suspect traps more than pesticides. I’d fill up half a litre of flies in month last year. Haven’t bothered putting it up so far this year
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Maker of Bovaer methane-reducing cattle feed additive labels product concerns ‘fake news’
Well, he would say that wouldn’t he!
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FWIW
“Methane Madness: The Profit-Driven War on Meat”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/12/06/methane-madness-the-profit-driven-war-on-meat-n3797632
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Chinese Range Rover for a “bargain” price, $4k US
https://youtube.com/watch?v=D2zpm6dPuW8
LOL..
400 chinese ev manufacturers 2 years ago, 40 today, and declining fast…
Only -> THREE <- major manufacturers left.
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Why did flu disappear in 2020 and 2021?
https://youtu.be/qLzmZWl06OA
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I wrote about this in May 2020. It’s no mystery.
Influenza cases are 85% down across 17 countries
Influenza has a 1 -4 day incubation period and a rate of spread (Ro) of 1.4 (meaning one person infects on average 1.4 other people). But covid then was much more infectious (an Ro of 3 – 8 or so) and had a longer incubation period. Hence anything we did that slowed covid infections — like border closures, social restrictions, quarantine etc, would easily wipe out influenza.
Think of exponential decay curves. Influenza will always hit zero before Covid.
Any restrictions that wipe out covid will wipe out influenza first. So the result of influenza disappearing was textbook microbiology. It was amazing, but also predictable.
And one lineage of influenza has completely disappeared, perhaps forever. (Yamagata is extinct now)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-024-01010-y
Look, I will lose friends I know, but quarantine and border closures do reduce infectious disease, and any exponential decay will get to zero if done long enough. The data is obvious and vast. The economic and social cost is huge, obviously, so we don’t want to do it, but the scientific case is strong and simple.
I will, annoyingly, be the stickler for the data. On VirusWatch the WA govt site, you can still download the weekly reports in 2022 when influenza cases were zero. They were testing 500 – 700 people every week for 18 months and finding 0 cases of influenza. I think influenza returned to WA as soon as we opened the borders (predictably) in Feb 2022.
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Thanks for this^
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I commend Jo on her reporting during Covid. She kept me informed which allowed me to make decisions. The rest of the media and public commentary was chaotic and irrational, still is actually.
Australia made some woeful decisions in the end, but at the start, shutting the borders was good, but not early enough. But the managers let it slip through because they’re idiots. But Aus missed the heavy potent period, and I’m glad it did.
I still haven’t had it by the way. Good management, a little bit of luck. And I live in the country. Possibly non symptomatic, but I don’t think so.
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I am struggling to reconcile the data from our Australia Health Authorities with the views of Dr Jonathon Engler, who argues persuasively that there was no Covid Pandemic!
https://pandauncut.substack.com/p/every-single-aspect-of-the-covid?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
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We’re just the suckers at the end of the food chain!
“when governments run deficits, they inject money into the economy, boosting overall demand and, by extension, corporate earnings. Conversely, business profitability can take a hit when households save more or governments cut spending”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/kalecki-profit-equation-and-coming-reversion
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Full Lavrov-Tucker Interview: US & Russia Need To Cooperate ‘For The Sake Of The Universe’
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Lavrov is very impressive – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgDf6QiCps&t=4s
I enjoyed the full interview
Tucker Carlson Interviews Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow
December 5, 2024 – Sundance
First things first, Tucker Carlson deserves enormous credit for gaining reentry into Russia during a time when Russia has essentially locked down their entry visa process. This was not a simple task, and Tucker’s motives for doing so are accepted without immediate reservation. As the only other American I know who has navigated this dynamic, congratulations Tucker.
There have been no diplomatic channels used by the U.S. government toward Russia for over two years. Literally, all talks between government officials and emissaries have been severed for the past two years. As I have said before, this is a very dangerous dynamic.
That said, this conversation does not take place without the intent of Russia, specifically President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov from wanting this conversation to take place. Without any doubt this is a public message, a direct and intentional communication, intended to reach a U.S. audience much deeper than the average American viewer. Perhaps an audience of one. Again, great job. WATCH:
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No Russia-US war, Ukraine ‘a tragedy’, Palestine ‘a catastrophe’: Key points from the Lavrov-Carlson interview
The popular American media figure sat down with the Russian foreign minister ahead of the change of power in Washington next month
Below are the main takeaways from the conversation in Moscow – released in the early hours of Friday morning – focusing on Lavrov’s statements.
Interesting when watching the Interview on – 2014 Maidan coup: The root of Ukraine’s problems
The Famed Wicked Witch of the West, Victoria Nuland was Mentioned
And of course, when the coup took place,
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the Americans did not hide that they were behind it. There is a
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conversation between Victoria Nuland and then the American ambassador in Kyiv when
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they discuss personalities to be included in the new government after the coup.
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The figure of 5 billion bucks spent on Ukraine
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after independence was mentioned as the guarantee that everything would be
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like the Americans want
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‘The Americans did not hide that they were behind it.’
Its par for the course.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epppego
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“The court’s decision comes after intelligence documents were declassified, suggesting Georgescu benefitted from a mass influence operation – conducted from abroad – to interfere with the result of the vote.”
Ah, so the wrong mass influence operation conducted from abroad won the election…
‘You vill keep voting until ve get ze result ve vant!’
..and here I was thinking all politics is just lies and propaganda, and winning is just who is most effective at faking sincerity.
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Georgescu is going to run again from scratch, it will be a litmus test.
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I thought that this was a fascinating interview to be released to the public. Tucker’s interviews are triumphs of independent journalism. We are very lucky that he was fired from Fox!
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Johannes Leak Cartoon in Today’s The Australian perfectly sums up Albosleezey & The Australian Labor Party along with Headlines
– SIMON BENSON – Anthony Albanese is now witnessing the consequences of his failure to protect Australian J@ws
– Chris Kenny – It’s time to examine your conscience, Prime Minister
– A letter to Anthony Albanese: Enough is enough on anti-S@mitism, what will you do? – JOSH FRYDENBERG
– DAVE SHARMA – Labor kicks Israel to the kerb to save its political skin
– Syn@gogue burns on worst day of anti-S@mitic shame – The Australian EDITORIAL
– Netanyahu points finger at Labor over syn@gogue firebombing CAMERON STEWART and M@HAMMAD ALFARES
– CAMERON STEWART – Syn@gogue firebombing: A slippery slope to an ugly Australia
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Anthony Albanese’s response to Melbourne Addas Synagogue firebombing highlights glaring lack of leadership on antis@mitism: Sharri Markson
Anthony Albanese’s disappointing response to the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue has once again highlighted his failure to tackle the serious issue of antis@mitism, with the Prime Minister’s severe lack of control having a detrimental effect amid the “lawlessness that’s unfolding in our country,” writes Sharri Markson.
The fire-bombing of a busy synagogue in Australia in 2024 is heart-wrenching and deeply shocking.
The mere thought that J@wish Australians aren’t safe praying peacefully in our place of worship is unfathomable and unacceptable.
Australia is meant to be the epitome of a successful multicultural society but we have watched that erode before our very eyes as racism against J@ws has been tolerated.
The J@wish community has warned repeatedly that antisemitic incidents are exploding.
We have begged political leaders and police to take this more seriously.
I personally have implored the prime minister on Sky News virtually every night for the past 14 months to take action on this despicable trend before it’s too late.
Yet, as little action is taken, antisemitic terrorist incidents, like these, have only escalated in frequency and severity. Australia’s J@wish community is being terrorised and intimidated.
In response to the firebombing of the Adass Synagogue in Melbourne, the Prime Minister uttered condemnation of the attack on Friday at a press conference, in a voice that lacked emotion and heart.
He also said this:
“Antis@mitism is something that has been around for a long period of time, of course. But antis@mitism has been on the rise, we’ll call it out wherever we see it.”
It’s a statement that infuriates me and should anger every Australian because, for our beautiful country of Australia, it’s simply untrue.
Yes, antis@mitism has been around for thousands of years, but not in Australia it hasn’t. Not in my lifetime, it hasn’t.
We are experiencing an unprecedented rise in Australia in antis@mitism since October 7 2023. It’s on Albanese’s watch.
Comments Not Kind to Albosleezy, Penny Wong & The Australian Labor Party/Greens/TEALs
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“We are experiencing an unprecedented rise in Australia in antis@mitism since October 7 2023. It’s on Albanese’s watch.”
Well, that’s a product of your immigration policy since you dropped the ‘White Australia’ idea. Albanese can’t be blamed for that! If you import people from countries who have been at war with Israel since 1949, you will get that war imported here. You will get the drug wars they bring and the women’s sexual repression their culture has.
The rest of Australia is still the same.
I can’t see why anyone is surprised…
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CHRIS UHLMANN
The German chancellor’s nightmare revisited
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has released a new book called Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021.
It deserves a different title: Serfdom: The Cost of Caution.
It is an abiding mystery how a leader who got energy, the economy, defence, foreign affairs and migration so catastrophically wrong still enjoys any support at all.
Early in her tenure the German press dubbed Merkel the Climate Chancellor for championing the country’s Energiewende (energy transition). Since 2000 the nation has spent $1 trillion shutting fossil fuel and nuclear generation and replacing it with wind and solar energy harvesting.
It is an unmitigated disaster. German electricity costs have soared to be the highest in Europe and German carbon emissions per person are about twice that of nuclear-powered France.
A quarter of a century into Germany’s transition, 78 per cent of its primary energy still comes from coal (18 per cent), oil (34 per cent) and gas (26 per cent).
Behind a green facade, Germany hid a lifeline to Russian fossil fuel. In 2022 Berlin relied on Moscow for a third of its oil and more than half of its gas imports. This was a glaring, and colossal, strategic weakness.
When Russia invaded Ukraine the gas pipeline was cut and the green fraud collapsed.
Germany reopened brown-coal-fired generators, scoured the globe for fuel and moved at warp speed to get liquefied natural gas import terminals to save its grid from collapse.
All of this had been foreseen.
A disturbing number of Australian politicians still cite Germany as the template for their green dream.
And they have put us on the same highway to hell.
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Miliband’s net zero zealotry risks killing Labour’s dream of growth
The Energy Secretary’s ideological mission will make us all poor
Ed Miliband was once the leader of the opposition and is the current Energy Secretary … [SNIP]/strong>
His net zero mission was confirmed as one of Sir Keir Starmer’s six “measurable milestones” (have you ever met a milestone that wasn’t measurable?). Milestone Five, Sir Keir told us, is “clean power by 2030”, making us secure against “a tyrant like Putin” as “a clean-energy superpower” with “home-grown British energy”.
Actually, Mr Miliband is somewhat selective about home-grown British energy.
He is phasing out all North Sea gas and oil and would not dream of fracking British shale. But he is determined to make us home-grow wind farms with their accompanying 5-6,000 more pylons covering the country by 2030. He also wants to triple solar photovoltaic capacity by the same date, which means filling a total agricultural area not much smaller than Berkshire.
I think Mr Miliband may find his home-grownery overtaken by Chris Wright, the energy entrepreneur who is Donald Trump’s choice for US energy secretary …
We shall be able to conduct a controlled experiment to see which is more popular.
Labour’s Milestone Five also declares that the Government committed to “keeping bills down” and “at least 95 per cent low carbon by 2030”.
These are incompatible aims, if bills are allowed to reflect real costs. (If they are not, people and businesses will have to pay in taxes instead.) We can have as many wind farms as we like, but they cannot cure the problem of intermittency…
[SNIP]
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Biden shocks with long, wispy hair at White House Christmas tree lighting: ‘Ghosts of corruption past, present and future’
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Joe must say NO to White House pardon party for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, Adam Schiff
By Post Editorial Board
Not content with one noxious pardon for son Hunter, President Biden is (reportedly) considering many, many others.
And the rumored list of the soon-to-be-legally-blameless is a doozy.
The newest add? Gen. Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chair.
Milley is a woke extremist who pushed DEI within the armed forces. Far worse, he sidled up to high generals in China’s army days before the 2020 election and promised them “everything is going to be OK,” and did so again after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, telling them that if we were going to attack, he’d let them know.
It wasn’t open treason, but sure flirted with it — and absolutely put his own ego above his sworn duty.
Milley’s in some deeply dishonorable company.
Chief among them is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who (1) repeatedly obfuscated before Congress about his role in funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan that may have sparked the pandemic, and (2) ruthlessly used his power behind the scenes to suppress any discussion of the lab-leak theory, now by far the most likely explanation for COVID’s origin.
Gee, we thought Fauci was a saint. Why would he need a pre-emptive pardon that frees him from criminal responsibility for bad actions?
Don’t forget Sen.-elect Adam Schiff, the Russiagate liar who used the utterly fake Steele dossier to power his bogus, endless crusade against President Donald Trump for nonexistent collusion.
How in the world could that American hero have anything to worry about legally?
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“Joe must say NO to White House pardon party for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, Adam Schiff.”
Yeah, right. Of course he must, assuming he gives a sh1t what the voters think. Me? I think he (meaning his puppeteers) will do what the hell they want to.
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Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia are watching to see how our underage media control works.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3289722/asia-debates-australias-ban-brain-rot-social-media-children-safety-or-control?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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I hear that Boris Johnson has left these (N.Z.) shores for the West Islands, ostensibly for “tea and cakes ” and a bit of ribaldry, a few jokes , and what have you.
Nothing else in it.
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Passing the orders around to vassal leaders, those orders too delicate to be delivered in a diplomatic pouch.
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Nah, Boris is no longer ‘in the loop’. He has very little influence these days. Unlike ‘retired’ (a.k.a. voted out) lefties, he didn’t secure a sinecure with the UN, IMF or WHO, nor does he have any kind of semi-official role whereby he maintains status and influence within his own party. This is because he was always seen as an outsider in Westminster, a little like Trump I suppose. He is now reduced to being a journalist again, and trudging around an ever-diminishing speakers’ circuit.
I am not saying this is what he deserves, just what the reality is. Politics is a club and, once blackballed, you’re forever an outsider.
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The Ukraine hostilities coming to an end.
‘Peace talks, it seems, are now on the agenda, with Zelensky’s latest statement suggesting peace can be restored next year. Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, Zelensky admitted that Ukraine could not retake Crimea using military means.
‘This means the Russia-Ukraine conflict will likely come to an end during Trump’s presidency, and will involve diplomatic mediation and multiple rounds of negotiations. When neither side can be defeated, this is the only viable option.
‘The final resolution might resemble what US vice-president-elect J.D. Vance hinted at — allowing Russia to retain the Ukrainian territories it has occupied.’ (China Daily)
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FWIW – more covid
Brush up your speed reading!
“Judicial Bombshell: Federal Judge Forces FDA to Release Over a Million Pages of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Trial Documents They Wanted to Keep Hidden for 75 Years”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/judicial-bombshell-federal-judge-forces-fda-release-million/
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So what happened to Saturday? I’ve been on X recently, and it’s a cesspit of an echo chamber, even on the right. You find some interesting stuff sure, but it’s mostly the cliche. Not very engaging either. And don’t disagree with anyone, they hate it. No one is up for a discussion. They just want their ego stroked. Urgh! The Spaces is okay, but pretty low brow stuff.
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>it’s a cesspit
You’re lurking down the wrong alleyways.
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What do you people think about this Ditloff character standing as rep 1 on the newly branded Libertarian Party?
He is an (ex) criminal, quite recently, 2015, spent two years in the can to 2017, for stealing $277000 from clients, just average people, booking a holiday from his shop front travel agency while he was president of the Vic Young Liberals.
Now he claims to have been reformed and is standing for election to the senate. It was all due to his addictions he claims. He might get in, with the Uniparty situation a bit on the nose, and the freedom movement being pretty strong in Victoria.
He seems to have everyone – on X at least – convinced of his reformation and talents. I personally think it’s pretty poor decision making by that party. He obviously has ambition and an ego that is untamed. The same ego that tempted him to steal lots of money off many people.
The reason I personally have never got involved in politics is because I am a flawed character, but I have dignity to realise it (and nothing close to this guy, not remotely).
I loathe thievery, it is the lowest form of crime in my opinion, and once you are a thief, it is in your soul. You can say you are reformed, sure, but have some dignity and don’t ask the public to trust you, why should they? Go and join a monastery and live a life of servitude if you are truly reformed.
I don’t think I can vote Libertarian for their decision. Which is a shame, I’d kind of like to. I’m clearly the odd one out.
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It’s not against the law, but it’s not a recipe for success.
This seems to be a repeating pattern in the rotten state of Victoria.
It’s a clandestine ALP secret weapon.
The Liberal Party have been doing it for many years, helping engineer an ALP electoral victory by fielding unelectable candidates.
The only way the horrendous Andrews could get across the line was thanks to the Liberals for fielding the only man in Victoria less electable than Dan, the eminently forgettable, shifty-eyed Mat Guy.
He was so successful in destroying the Liberals electoral prospects and delivering a loss in the unloseable election they brought him back to lead them to another resounding loss in the next election!
Since then, they got rid of the only member of the Liberal party capable of winning enough votes to defeat Labor, Moira Deming, and found another preening, insincere-looking nobody, Pesutto, to guarantee them a loss in the next election.
The Libertarians are now following the same recipe for failure in fielding an unelectable candidate.
All Australian political parties except Pauline Hanson’s One Nation are working for the same boss.
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It does demonstrate that politics attracts the worst sort of people!
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FWIW
“Abandoning grazing unlikely to reduce emissions or regenerate forests”
https://www.beefcentral.com/carbon/abandoning-grazing-unlikely-to-reduce-emissions-or-regenerate-forests/
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Why would anyone want to regenerate forests? This notion is just absurd, but automatically thought of as beneficial, wholesome, good. Why?
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Part of it is affluence and success.
Humans that have their needs met are free to imagine.
“I’m behind my desk staring at my computer work diligently to Stop Climate Change, if only I were in a forest.”
Modern people equate ‘forest’ with ‘park’.
A safe place set aside by government for recreation.
Here in America most forest are ‘National Forest’.
Especially after we got rid of the predators like wolves and cougars.
The urban elite want to brink back a fantasy ‘natural’ past.
They want the rest of us to pay and get out of the way.
You are probably Australian, which means you may still retain cultural memory of how nasty ‘nature’ can be.
Keir Starmer is much more highly evolved.
On his little island nature has been made genteel.
Your big island may take at bit more time.
Get out of the way, so that your enlightened politicos can make you and nature compliant.
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The usual mess in the Middle East with NATO and Israel playing both sides- Looks like Assad’s Syria is doomed.
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A truly seismic change in the Middle East appears to be happening very fast. At its heart is a devil’s bargain – Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinian nation and creation of a Greater Israel, in return for the annihilation of the Shia minorities of Syria and Lebanon and the imposition of Salafism across the Eastern Arab world. This also spells the end for Lebanon and Syria’s Christian communities, as witness the tearing down of all Christmas decorations, the smashing of all alcohol and the forced imposition of the veil on women in Aleppo now.
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Yesterday US Warthog air-to-ground jets attacked and severely depleted reinforcements which were, at the invitation of the Syrian government, en route to Syria from Iraq. Constant, daily Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s military infrastructure for months have been a major factor in the demoralisation and reduced capacity of the Syrian government’s Syrian Arab Army
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Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, who is now being boosted throughout western media as a moderate leader. He was the deputy leader of ISIS, and the CIA actually has a $10 million bounty on his head! Yes, that is the same CIA which is funding and equipping him and giving him air support.
Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) is also a proscribed group in the UK. But both British mainstream media and British Muslim outlets have been openly promoting and praising HTS for a week – frankly much more openly than I have ever witnessed anyone in the UK support Hamas and Hezbollah – and not a single person has been arrested or even warned by UK police.
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/craig-murray-the-end-of-pluralism-in-the-middle-east-.html#more
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FWIW
“Methane Madness: The Profit-Driven War on Meat”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/12/06/methane-madness-the-profit-driven-war-on-meat-n3797632
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ICBMs not fit for purpose.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3289504/chinese-rocket-scientists-find-icbms-age-much-faster-they-thought?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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FWIW
“NEXT SEASON OF CLARKSON’S FARM WRITING ITSELF: Calls to Boycott Dairy Products From Cows Given Anti-Methane Supplement Grow in UK.”
“Calls to Boycott Dairy Products From Cows Given Anti-Methane Supplement Grow in UK
Bonus: The FDA approved the use of the supplement Bovaer in lactating cows in May of 2024.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/calls-to-boycott-dairy-products-from-cows-given-anti-methane-supplement-grow-in-uk/
Via https://instapundit.com/688903/#disqus_thread
As I understand it – in USA and
“In Australia, as part of their commitment to wokeness and ESG, Coles suppliers use this drug in cattle. They call it a “supplement” but the (US) FDA call it a drug.
https://www.colesgroup.com.au/media-releases/?page=coles-boosts-sustainability-in-beef-production-with-expanded-use-of-supplement ”
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/monday-82/#comment-2816756”
Which looks like they have done an end run around the testing required of a “new drug”.
And, after the “Covid Revelations”, is likely to raise quite a storm.
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As in
“Poisoned Cows of Clown World”
“But Bovaer is toxic. It requires handling with protective gear and has been linked to cancer, deformities, and fertility issues. It can shrink testicles and cause sterility. The milder side effects include skin and eye irritation and breathing problems. According to tests in Japan, Bovaer’s active ingredient, 3-NOP, causes testicular shrinkage, reduced sperm count, and impaired sperm mobility. It also leads to tumours. In animal tests, it shrank the ovaries of cows too, though we still don’t know how it affects trans cows or rats.
Isn’t it reasonable to ask why anyone would want to put this in our milk? Well, the same people who oversaw a 20% increase in excess deaths after “saving” us from COVID are now deciding what’s safe to put in our food. It even has its very own BBC Verify article.”
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2024/12/06/the-poisoned-cows-of-clown-world/
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FWIW
“CHILLS: Opera Singer Blesses Reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral With Epic Rendition of ‘Amazing Grace'”
“Another plus to the video (below) is that viewers are treated to a visual tour of the church’s restored interior as the chills-inducing soprano’s performance with the orchestra goes on.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1865499228639789130
https://redstate.com/beccalower/2024/12/07/chills-opera-singer-blesses-reopening-of-notre-dame-cathedral-with-epic-rendition-of-amazing-grace-n2182942
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