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https://www.vaccinechoiceaustralia.com.au/
It should be all choice.
The last couple years were not all bad! Its has given us the opportunity to question the status quo.
And some good news:
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/covid-dissenter-doctor-william-bay
In a blistering repudiation, the Supreme Court Justice said that the conduct of AHPRA and the Medical Board had been “less than profoundly unsatisfactory”
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100%. It has also given us great insight/reinforcement into the workings of the status quo. I’m no lawyer so have to rely on common sense and on first read of the judgement there seem to be some wonderful (early-Christmas) presents on offer.
Dr Bell stated from the steps of the court immediately after the decision that not only is he re-instated and can return to being a practicing doctor but also, thanks to the judgement, he can talk with (authority/strength/right?) on established/developing medical matters such as (the next) covid type incident and challenge whatever that status quo is “enforced” on us at that time – and “they” won’t be able to shut him down.
He foresees the judgement also removing the shackles that have kept other medical practitioners silent up until now so expect the flood gates to open. One could make a case for this being the Australian equivalent to the Trump affect in USA – suddenly everyone wants to talk about the past “nasty” stuff. While certainly a massive win for Dr Bay on page 10 of the judgement we have an insight into the mindset of the parties that were working so hard to censor the questions/concerns of (not anti-vaxers) anti-THIS vax people with their quoted comments:
“There is the potential for wide spread harm due to the irremovable nature of information on the Internet and the capacity for misinformation on social media to be spread virally.”
And:
“Potential serious harm to individuals who receive the information at the public meetings or view the video contents on-line. Potential for broader community harm.”
As I’m reading it the judge identified the suspension of Dr Bay was flawed because they (AHPRA et al) punished him not for any actual medical “crime” or disservice to his patients but for his comments on a medical matter.
The commentary on the notifications that were used to suspend Dr Bay and how they were presented (starts from page 10 [36]) seems to further highlight just what a poorly and hastily put together case the whole affair was and that it was driven by the fact that this (lowly) doctor dared to not only hold a view contrary to what “had” to be the norm but also dared to openly and publicly express it. All IMHO of course.
The relevant links (announcement on the court steps, copy of judgement etc) are contained in (as to be expected these days) the excellent NON-MSM article by Rebekah Barnett – same one given by still interested and repeated here to save scrolling back.
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Can anybody tell me what the difference between Australia and a totalitarian state was during the COVID “emergency”.
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The actual nazis had Hugo Boss as a costume designer?
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A ‘royal’ commission here came up with same conclusion, ie. bad (mis)management, which severely affected a ‘substantial minority’. Apart from that, carry on ol’ chaps and tallyho! There’s LOTS more crockdemics waiting in the wings: birds, horses, cows.
Forget Anthropocene [sic], it’s Vaccine-o-scene™️ – roll up, roll up!
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That is wonderful news.
I am so happy for Dr Bay.
And for everyone. The wall of resistance is crumbling.
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Congratulations and thank you Dr Bay.
We so badly needed this, and you and your supporters have brought it to us.
Now for the next round of questions!
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Battery back up.
That is the solution hypothetically.
There is no battery technology currently available to do this. As there is none, wind and solar are utterly flawed. If you want to learn more about this then I recommend reading “Manhattan Contrarian.”
Mr. Menton, the blog’s owner, has gone into detail pointing out there is no existing battery back up technology to store the amount necessary in America to remotely make a dent in back up. It is such a crazy high number that it is almost impossible to contemplate a solution. We have very cold winters. We have periodic low sunshine and low wind conditions everywhere. You know, “Dunkelflaute” the Germans call it. Batteries (or other storage devices) need to store weeks of electricity demand – not minutes or hours.
Start below and then look for the dozens of other battery articles he has published. His articles on climate are great as well. They are very enlightening so you know Leftist politicians and decision makers won’t read them.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-1-the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived
Then realize the Greens and Leftist politicians worldwide are totally clueless and technologically challenged when they keep pushing the wind/solar nonsense.
…and that’s where we are today. Maybe Trump can help.
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No-one ever explains how the batteries are to be recharged once they have gone flat without having a large number of extra fossil-fuel-free generators to kick in once the dunkelflaute has ended.
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Yes a tremendous amount of “overbuilding” is required. Consider a stand alone solar setup. Assuming full solar power 8 hours on a sunny day it takes 300 MW to produce steady 100 MW. A single rainy day bumps that way up. New England ISO says they have had 12 cloudy days in a row.
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I live at 37S. I have operated an off-grid solar/battery system for 12 years. I worked out during the initial assessment that I needed 1kW of solar panels for every 1kWh/d of consumption and a 50 hour battery; meaning battery able to supply the load for two days before running low on charge.
Accordingly, the CF of the panels is 1/24 or 4.2%.
If more favourable places are selected for the solar collectors then the CF can be almost doubled to 8%. If they are tracking then even higher CF. Maybe into 2 digits.
My scoping study to supply the NEM 23GW average arrived at 250GW of solar and 750GW of batteries. The current ISP forecasts from AEMO are getting very close to these numbers now.
It should be apparent to anyone owning a roof that they can convert solar energy to electricity more efficiently to meet their needs than using the same technology spread out across the country that all has to transmit over large distances while remaining synchronised to the AC grid.
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So what are we looking at? About $50K for a real set up that doesn’t mean you can’t use the stove or oven or vacuum cleaner? And run a real fridge, not a little toy one. And air con on a hot day.
I’m thinking of doing it. Governments in this country are beyond repair. I don’t want to get old and have the air con cut off when it gets hot.
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His costs are the subsidised costs including the 66 cents FIT, he has never been off grid as he is still connected to the pole.
It’s been like rewatching (the birthplace of free energy) South Australia form. Flywheel and capacitor and we have “King RickWill Island.
He is a subsidy harvester like all the other “free energy” collection corporations, he is in it for the money, your money.
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The off-grid system was a test of the battery technology. I was one of the first to use lithium batteries in an off0grid systemm.
It made economic sense to use off-grid to maximise my income from the 66c/kWh FIT.
The FIT runs out this month and I have had 12 years so far out on the lithium battery. I am currently getting firm prices to go entirely off-grid.
I have already taken a number of steps to go of-grid apart from the battery experiment. I installed a wood burner about 7 years ago to climate space heating costs. I installed a heat pump hot water earlier this year to replace gas. I have an induction cooktop that is planned to be installed with a kitchen upgrade in February.
It makes sense to reduce your demand before going for solar/battery. The fridge is 30 years old so not as efficient as current models. The freezer is 12 years old and does not have the latest technology. All lights are low wattage LEDS apart from a couple of movement activated outside spotlights – they are LED but 40W.
If you already have or invest in appliances that reduce demand or tie high demand appliances to sunlight then you ahould get solar and battery for under $50k.
The costs for new transmission and distribution are mounting up so these costs will need to be recovered through service fee. You could be paying alt least $3/day for just connection fee within 10 years. Look who is in charge of Australian energy and tell me with a straight face that electricity prices will come down.
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Rick, I believe that large-scale power systems will (or should be) cheaper than small-scale home systems. And not everybody has the roof space, or even has a roof available, or simply cannot afford home solar. That’s why I’m not sure that we will see much further growth in home solar. Looking around me, in “sunny” Perth, I haven’t noticed any new solar systems being put in for years.
So while home solar does reduce one’s power bills, we will always need large-scale reliable energy sources.
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300,000 rooftops added solar so far in 2024. You only need to look at rooftop penetration into the grid to appreciate its growth. November market share for rooftops was 15.6% up from 14.1% last year. It was zero 10 years ago.
Battery installations have only started up the installation curve but they will accelerate.
Wind is truly fickle. It can go missing for two weeks in Australian. Solar is less fickle so better suited to expensive storage. The solar panels on any roof are the same as being installed on farm land. These panels then have to feed inverters clocked and stabilised to the grid then the AC power transmitted hundreds of kilometres to load centres. It is inevitably more expensive than making your own because someone has to pay for all the transmission and stabilising infrastructure and those that remain connected are burdened with the increasing costs.
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When you start conceptualising how 100% ruinables generation with enough storage for a “bad week” would work you quickly come to the conclusion that if there is enough generation capacity to recharge BIG batteries from near flat in a week there is at least X2 over-capacity in “comfortable” times so at least 50% of wind/solar farms will be forced to switch off or ACTUAL generation will be at a CF of 15%. You can’t pay off your loan that way.
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And a lot of the pro-solar argument conveniently concentrates on individual households, ignoring broad community requirements, such as water supply, sewerage, hospitals, police, streetlights, traffic lights, super markets, NBN… “Baseload” rarely gets a mention. And is required, reliably, at night.
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It’s not so much that “the Greens and Leftist politicians worldwide are totally clueless” because they are not! It’s the people that keep voting them in! Albeit with ineffective numbers until Labor/Greens and Teals coalesce into a Marxist majority. If only we could learn to look past the Rainbow Hew to see their “True Colours”.
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https://xyz.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/F588BEB6-AC5F-4822-8714-D7735E8985E0-324×235.jpeg
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Goodness me, do you listen to those freaks?
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No, that’s rubbish … existing battery technology can do the job just fine, but the problem is the cost, which is very high and reliability.
Lithium batteries still have not found a way to mitigate the fire risk, although they are getting there. At a maximum you get 3000 to 4000 full charge cycles, although with care you can do 80% charge cycles and squeeze a few more out of it.
Trying to say, “We can’t store power because of insufficient energy density” is totally wrong, because they are stationary batteries weight is irrelevant and Australia has plenty of empty land. The limitation is the price, so the only thing that matters is getting these things produced cheaply.
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So batteries are go just a matter of cost. That’s fair enough then. I have changed my mind. I’m going to vote Labor. I’d rather batteries than nuclear stations that take forever to build and still have those stupid windmills everywhere.
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Nuclear power station NOT take “forever” to build. Ewan Mearns did a study of all the recent nuclear builds, and the average build time was 8 years. Need to ignore the two outliers, Hinkley C and Vogtle 4, and look at all the other build times.
And it’s definitely worth doing the exercise, as Rick and Francis Menton have done, to calculate how many batteries would be required to meet the National grid’s stated reliability of 99.998%, under Labor’s proposed 82% renewables plan. The cost of these batteries would exceed $1trillion, and need to be replaced every 10-15 years. This would cost each Australian household around $150,000, to be paid again every 10-15 years.
And please don’t say gas will solve the storage problem. If we have over 89% renewables, there would be very little spare gas to help.
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Thank you. And thanks for the red thumbs. I’ve had a rage out today with all this distressing news. I’ve had 2 beers now and feeling a little calmer.
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“… the only thing that matters is getting these things produced cheaply.”
Really? If cost – and the only cost that matters really is the whole-of-life cost – was the only criteria, we would be building a nuclear fleet. Bear in mind that nuclear doesn’t require new transmission lines if the plants are built over the top of decommissioned coal plant (as any sensible government would do) and doesn’t need town-sized battery farms all over the place (with attendant highways of new transmission lines). We even have, as you mention, plenty of space to deal with the small volume of toxic waste. That’s before we even consider the life cycle of batteries which, if employed on the required scale, would produce enormous amounts of toxic waste too.
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I would say that rebuilding Liddell Power Station and staying on coal would be the cheapest option.
As you mentioned, most of the bits are already there and new turbines can be purchased off the shelf from Japan or maybe Germany.
A new boiler and suitable control system would have to be pretty easy … these things are getting built throughout Asia. We have all the in-house knowledge to design and run it.
I’m not opposed to nuclear, but coal has served us well in the past. Nuclear requires a whole new industry to be built from the ground up … fuel cycle, shipping and handling, waste management, security, monitoring all the cities in case nuclear material goes walkabout. It’s all achievable … but won’t be easy.
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Yeah … battery recycling in Australia is rather poor. We do a little bit of collection and shipping to China, but it’s pathetic really. That “whole lifecycle” cost for batteries is high … but there’s Lithium batteries going into so many consumer items these days … we can’t avoid that problem forever.
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It’s both the cost and the short battery lifetimes that are the main issues. If for instance we had batteries that would last say 100 years, they might be a worthwhile investment even when their cost is high. But the combination means that they will never be a practical proposition.
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“No, that’s rubbish … existing battery technology can do the job just fine, but the problem is the cost, which is very high and reliability.”
If you had read the articles I suggested you read, you would realize that what you said is scientifically impossible. There is no battery technology that will store enough electricity if the idea is to go 100% renewable for a national/regional grid. You have to back up solar/wind for days not hours. The Germans coined the term “Dunkelflaute” for that very reason.
Nuclear is the answer but it solves the energy problem. That is why it is hated by the Left. They don’t want the problem solved. They want de-industrialization and economic destruction. That is why Greenpeace founder, Patrick Moore left Greenpeace decades ago.
Takes too long to build nuclear plants? France built 56 nuclear plants in 15 years. I mean if the French can do it, then Australia has hope. Australia produces, I read online, some 30,000 megawatts daily. That’s 30 nuke facilities of 1,000 megawatts each. Start building.
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If a battery technology exists that will store enough energy for one hour … then two of those will store enough for two hours … and it scales linearly from there. Just keep buying more of the same and you can have any storage you like.
There’s no scientific or technological limit to this process … but there is a point at which it becomes uneconomical, and that’s an entirely different argument to saying that it can’t be done.
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The thing about ruinables is that they actually work best in distributed “small-scale” systems in “rural” / far-flung regions.
This, of course, limits, to a great extent, the “spillage” being scooped up by the usual suspects.
It also goes entirely against the totalitarian grain of actual political and Pubic Circus ambitions. and “philosophies”.
See also the “opinion-shapers” of the LSM; the mangy tail that wags the rabid dog of politics.
Also, given the “season”, it is time, once again, to revisit the actual Christmas story and remember that “King” Herod was a genocidal and infanticidal glove-puppet of the Romans. Mary and Joseph were OBLIGED to travel to be “counted”. The Herodian intention to kill all new–born male children in and around Bethlehem, was driven by his awareness of an old prophesy of the eventual birth of a very different kind of king. Considering how many of his own family Herod murdered; going after babies and toddlers under the age of two seems like an “obvious progression” for such a ruler
So, just how far has humanity come in the last two and a bit Millennia?
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“going after babies and toddlers under the age of two seems like an “obvious progression” for such a ruler”
Humanity has come along way!! These days we use vaccines to do what Herod did!
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Trump says we must “defeat the climate hysteria hoax.”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/12/13/watch-president-trump-explains-reality-we-have-to-defeat-the-climate-hoaxsters-once-and-for-all-the-radical-lefts-fear-mongering-about-climate-is-destroying-americas-economy/
Politico says American Geophysical Union annual meeting demoralized.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/12/12/cheers-politico-climate-scientists-demoralized-by-trump-2-0-everyones-demoralized-nervous-rattled-fear-funding-cuts-layoffs/
Good for them. Bring it on!
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I wonder how Trump has arrived at his insight into the hoax. Has he made the observations for himself or is he being advised by someone who really understands that it is all a globalist scam?
This comes from the AGU conference:
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-climate-threats-rattle-worlds-biggest-science-meeting/
Why would the government sponsor phone scientists to produce propaganda that is destroying the US economy? Climate ?scienmce” is the most destriuctive force in the world at the moment.
Musk is obviously a smart man. If he spent 10 minutes looking at climate science, he would see it is based on BS. Ice in the sky, on water and on land prevents 30% of the energy available from the sun being thermalised. Climate “science” just waves that 30% away as being fixed with no sensitivity to the surface temperature.
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Musk is a grifter … but he’s highly intelligent and highly skilled … he will make the transition from true believer to staunch skeptic right at the most opportune moment.
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Musk is just in the waking up process. He’s like me about 15 years ago. He’ll get there. I don’t think he’s a classic grifter.
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I was fortunate in my education: I watched the rebuttal of Gore’s “movie” before I watched it so was well prepared. That was when Bob Carter was still with us. He was super-convincing.
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It’s interesting that Prof. Happer was given the job of running the EPA, but trod on too many toes when he kept asking the subsidy-seekers to justify why the U.S. Govt should give them money. They complained to the Vice-President Al Gore who sacked Happer. Am hoping this time it will be different, and a proper clean out happens.
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Excellent, when Donald exposes the hoax the world will listen, some people might get angry but a majority will laugh.
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No equivocation there. WE can expect to see it happen.
Starting now!
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Re that extension of immunity to the “covid fraternity” –
“The statute requires a state of emergency for the PREP Act’s effectiveness. The dumbest thing about extending liability immunity through 2029 is that Becerra also had to extend the state of emergency through 2029 as well. That’s your government at work.
As news of this radical extension through 2029 emerged over the last couple days, people posted lots of questions. Rather than get into the weeds, the bottom line is that Robert Kennedy, Jr. can end this nonsense in five minutes, with a new declaration, after he is confirmed as the new Secretary of HHS. Mercifully, at the same time Kennedy can also end the endless state of covid emergency.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/man-up-friday-december-13-2024-c?
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Also on the “covid scene”
“COVID-19 Seroprevalence Study: For Official Department of Defense Use Only…Until Now”
“Herd immunity was being achieved between infected (unvaccinated), infected (vaccinated), and vaccinated groups. Despite the soaring trajectory of these data points, in August 2021, Austin unlawfully mandated the COVID-19 shot for service members. Apparently, science did not matter.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/covid-19-seroprevalence-study-official-department-defense-use/
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FWIW
“Sharri Markson magnificent on Albanese the Hamas puppet”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/sharri-markson-magnificent-on-albanese-the-hamas-puppet.html
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FWIW
“Cattle, methane and the disturbing questions over Bovaer”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/drugging-cows-to-reduce-methane-emissions-scientists-question-safety-need/
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Cows (and bulls) ere RUMINANTS; they regurgitate and “regrind” previously-eaten grass to more efficiently extract any useful nutrients.
Hence the almost continuous flatulence.
See also “vegans” who have to “process a LOT of plant matter just to remain upright and breathing.
They also “smell funny” ; like a mix of “Methane” ans Ammonia.
The digestive system needs “roughage” to assist the “transport’ function of the gut.
As the Royal Navy eventually worked out low-fibre diets lead to serious constipation. This is not an ailment you want on a massive scale on a warship, at sea.
Interestingly, the ill-fated HMS Hood was one of the “test-platforms” for dietary experiments by the R. N..
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Virtually every day a new “scary story’ is released to keep Joe and Joanne Sixpack in a permanent state of terror.
How about this one from earlier this yeae?
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Articles like this have made society so scared of the sun that people will completely avoid the sun, or have sunscreen 24/7.
People need an amount of sun their skin can handle, even if it’s just a few mins in the early morning or late affernoon with low UV for fair skin. But fear prevents people from thinkiing like this.
Unfortunately the fear has made huge parts of society vitamin D deficient, which then leads to more sickness, sale of medication, vitamin D tablets etc. all major profits for big pharma.
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Bad news for those of us who have worked outdoors for decades. You can’t fix stupid.
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Even though I have lived in Australia for nigh on sixty years, I still manage to get some degree of sunburn every time I am back in England, which is normally in the NH summer, after losing my Aussie summer tan. Happened this year as well – probably something to do with sitting in beer gardens, I suspect.
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The risk of dying is vastly higher in the living. Be warned.
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So we can expect such illnesses to correlate with distance from the Equator?
Why is such an obvious test about temperature affecting proteins not discussed? Geoff S
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Imagine what a sauna does.
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I have lived most of my 80+ yrs at Lat 19. The Big C has killed far more of my friends here than heart attack.
The town has had fluoridated water must of that time and I have never heard of a GP asking anyone how long they had lived here. If there were a proven health risk why don’t they ask?
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“If there were a proven health risk why don’t they ask?”
GPs don’t really concern themselves about your health beyond whatever you are there for that day. Even when they do appear to take a proactive approach, it us usually because that morning’s staff meeting suggested that push blood tests, or bowel screening. They are mostly completely captured by ‘the system’ and do whatever the computer tells them to do.
I had exactly this experience just yesterday, when I popped in to renew a couple of scripts. My GP, who essentially just does what I ask him to do and no more, spontaneously suggested I get my bloods done. Of course I said yes, knowing I have an appointment with my cardiologist in January and he needs such things, but when I exited the surgery with referral in hand I met an abnormally full waiting room for the adjacent pathology service …
Money. That’s all you are.
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My discussion with two Solicitors at a children’s sport event appeared to be entirely focused on the costs of running surgeries and potential returns. My suspicion is the aim of having Pharmacies administering ‘Clot Shots’ while the original ‘Jabbers’ the Doctor’s surgeries distance themselves is for the investor class to knee-cap and then fully take over this industry.
Pharmacists beware, this is going to get ugly! As ugly as the blue spindly legs you see on our elderly as the slowly and carefully place one foot before the other in their daily attempt to stay upright.
What is it with these veins like a movie graphically depiction of an alien incursion into your body? That, and the blue lips?
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Life on this plane emerged in a constant bath of cosmic / solar radiation.
One example is tied in with the skin and radiation. Check out the term; “Hormesis”.
“Moderate” exposure to solar UV not only maintains your “tan”, it activates Vitamin D production.
Vitamin D is essential for bone growth and maintenance.”Healthy bones have a a generous amount of “marrow, in which BLOOD is basically “manufactured. Vitamin D also plays a major part in the layng down of Calcium in bones; thus enhancing their strength. Vitamin D also seems to be linked to the body’s processing of ZINC. This issue was tap-danced around during the Kovid Kaper. Australian soils are well-known to have extremely low levels of Zinc. This shows up as poor growth in leafy vegetables, and “yellowing” of their leaves.
Note how older folk seem to be prone to Osteoporosis; fragile bones. Bed-ridden “wrinklies” who are not wheeled outside into regular sunlight end up with Osteoporosis. Falls involving hip fracturescan be and often are FATAL, because of this lack of maintenance; see also “hospital food”.
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FWIW
“From the article:
It would be a nightmare lab leak: Synthetic bacteria escape the petri dish and unleash a global plague that life on Earth is incapable of defending itself against. That’s the concern raised by a group of eminent researchers in a Policy Forum published online today in Science. The commentary’s 38 authors, from a broad range of disciplines, argue that governments worldwide should prohibit research and funding aimed at creating so-called mirror-image bacteria whose chemical makeup differs in a fundamental way from that of naturally existing organisms.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/12/13/0014232/leading-scientists-urge-ban-on-developing-mirror-image-bacteria ‘
Via
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/w-o-o-d-29-november-2024-post-thanksgiving-hope-rises/#comment-174312
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Another brilliant comment by Johannes Leak.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
It seems that our politicians all assume that we need a “wonderful new thing” that needs lots of (our) money.
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Brilliant! And true.
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In the US the DemonRATs are trying to sabotage TRUMP and the American people as much as possible, even in the last few weeks before TRUMP enters office.
Here is a report about how they are selling the remaining components of TRUMP’s border wall very cheaply online so the American taxpayer will have to buy them again at great expense.
The DemonRATs want the southern border invasion to continue, even now. If that isn’t treason, what is?
https://youtu.be/DhcuxhS13Ps
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Keeping the border open is obviously one of their objectives, but in this case it’s mainly about placing banana skins in Trump’s path. Bringing him down is a personal thing, but also absolutely vital to their prospects in 2028. The very last thing they can allow is a successful second term for Trump, because that would increase the chances (though not guarantee) of a Trumpian candidate representing the Republicans next time, such as J.D. Vance.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WAR ON SYRIA
The Corbett Report
https://old.bitchute.com/video/o14NQHUMFwf5/
58 mins
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Bumped from late “Friday”
FWIW
“Provoked: The Long Train Of Abuses That Culminated In The Ukraine War”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/provoked-long-train-abuses-culminated-ukraine-war
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That is blatant disinformation.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm
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The Alliance will continue to respond to Russian threats and actions in a united and responsible way. “Continue to respond” Russia has made no threats other than draw the line.
We are strengthening our deterrence and defence, supporting our partners. But Ukraine is not in the EU or NATO. “supporting our partners”?
If I supply weapons to a terrorist organisation, I am a terrorist.
If I fund a terrorist organisation, I am a terrorist.
If I train terrorists, I am a terrorist. (SCMP)
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NATO is a defence organisation, unlike the Russian aggressor. Helping Ukraine to defend itself is good EU defence strategy against the ferocious bear.
Putin is a complete dill, NATO is attracting more countries wishing to join, why is that?
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I am waiting on a return call from Libya and Serbia for a reply to this, asking them how the defense league worked out for them.
NATO has been expanding since the day they promised not to expand and they continue to expand. Which is Putin’s point. (China Daily)
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The selective blinkers are firmly on when it comes to the “agressor” label. Apparently shelling your own ethic Russian people isnt noticeable agression, but Russia doing something about is definitely agression.
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Lol! The lies are thick in that propaganda!
‘NATO does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia.’
‘NATO is not at war with Russia and is not party to the war Russia is waging on Ukraine. ‘
‘NATO is a defensive Alliance.’
‘And NATO has the right to support Ukraine as it seeks to uphold its right to self-defence ‘
Only the wilfully blind…
“NATO is attracting more countries wishing to join, why is that?”
..because if you are a leader and you don’t want to join NATO, you WILL be deposed. Lets see how Hungary goes in the next couple of years..
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Agreed and it is not even well written propaganda. That would require some grain of truth.
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Sadly just yelling misinformation does not change reality.
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Escobar: Syria’s Post-Mortem – Terror, Occupation, And Palestine
Fascinating Analysis of all the Players Involved.
Now, the whole Syrian tragedy – including a possible Caliphate of all-Sham led by reformed, minority-hugging jihadist Abu M@hammad al-Julani – falls into the full managing responsibility of the NATO/Tel Aviv/Ankara combo.
They are simply not prepared to navigate the ultra-complex tribal, clannish, embedded in corruption Syrian matrix – not to mention the magma of 37 terror outfits only kept together, so far, by the tiny glue of ousting Assad. This volcano will certainly explode in their collective faces, potentially in the form of horrendous internal battles that may last at least a few years.
Syria’s northeast and east are already, instantly, mired in total anarchy, with a multitude of local tribes bent on keeping their mafioso schemes at all costs, refusing to be controlled by a US–Kurd Rojava composite that is largely communist and secular. Some of these tribes are already getting cozy with the Turk-supported Salafi-jihadis. Other Arab tribes had this year joined forces with Damascus against both the extremists and Kurdish secessionists.
Western Syria may also be anarchy territory, as in Idlib: bloody rivalry between terror and bandit networks, between clans, tribes, ethnic groups, and religious groups regimented by Assad, the panorama even more complex than in Libya under former President Muammar al-Gaddafi.
As for the Head-Choppers’ supply lines, they will inevitably be stretched – and then it will be easy to cut them off, not only by Iran, for instance, but also by the NATO wing via Turkiye/Israel when they turn against the Caliphate, as they invariably may if the latter’s abuses become too media-apparent.
No one is able to foresee what will happen to the carcass of Assad-dynasty Syria.
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Question how Pepe knew what the thoughts of Assad were and all the characters in this script, I will wait for the comic book.
https://thecradle.co/articles/syrias-post-mortem-terror-occupation-and-palestine
Some more of Pepe’s work.
https://thecradle.co/articles/from-11-september-to-7-october-the-fake-war-on-terror-collapses
Cui Bono? (who stands to gain) remains the paramount question related to all matters related to 11 September 2001. A tight network of fervently Israel-first neocons strategically positioned across the defense and national security establishments by Vice President Dick Cheney – who had served as secretary of defense in the administration of George W Bush’s father – sprang into action to impose the long-planned agenda of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). That far-reaching agenda had waited in the wings for the right trigger – a “new Pearl Harbor” – to justify a slew of regime-change operations and wars across much of West Asia and other Muslim states, reshaping global geopolitics for the benefit of Israel.
US General Wesley Clark’s notorious revelation of a secret Cheney regime plot to destroy seven major Islamic countries over five years, from Iraq, Syria, and Libya all the way to Iran, showed us that the planning had already been done in advance. These targeted nations had one thing in common: they were resolute enemies of the occupation state and firm supporters of Palestinian rights.
The sweet deal, from Tel Aviv’s perspective, was that the War on Terror would have the US and its western allies fighting all these serial Israeli-profiting wars on behalf of “civilization” and against the “barbarians.” The Israelis couldn’t have been more happy or smug about the direction this was going.
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I was thinking about the profound scientific and engineering ignorance behind Australia’s and the Western world’s “green” energy disaster.
Part of the reason is that those in power who are making the decisions such as politicians and senior public serpents, are Leftists who, apart from having an ideological commitment to destroying Western Civilisation, tend to have no background, training or interest in science or technology or general knowledge. They tend to go to “university” and do Leftist-oriented liberal arts non-scholarly courses like “gender studies”, “critical race theory”, Marxism, “queer theory” etc.. Thus they learn nothing worthy or useful to apply to their later “careers”, just how to destroy.
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Everything must change: change this, change that, change everything EXCEPT ‘the climate’ cannot change! They’re odd people.
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David,
some good news despite your gloom that youngsters were being ‘brain washed’ by Teachers.
Yesterday I took some books etc, about 3 bags, to the local Kiwanis secondhand bookshop from my eclectic collection. There was a young girl helping her mother sort them out – she ignored The Great Warming by Brian Fagan and grabbed a pamphlet Problem Solving with Nuclear Activation which I thought wouldn’t even make it into their Free Tray**. This, and another about Adaptive Plant Evolution were (after asking permission) put in her bag.
She explained that they would help her in year 5 in High School. She ignored various books about Global Warming (Including Fagan’s best The Little Ice Age).
It seems that there is some hope after all.
**At the door where I dumped 3 Scientific American with Dinosaurs on the cover.
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That’s good news Graeme. There are rare examples of children who have been raised well by their parents and not brainwashed by “teachers” in “school”.
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Australia has become a can’t do society. Most of the private wealth in Australia stems from owning and developing property. The income industries are based on moving dirt. None of the equipment to do that is designed or manufactured in Australia.
Government advice is now dominated by academics. Academia is now entirely dependent on government largesse so there is this dangerously corrupt reinforcing cycle of people doing stuff that is not grounded in reality. The truth that those who can do; those who can’t teach and those who can’t teach teach teachers.
CSIRO have no idea about climate. Ask them why their models show the Nino34 region warming when is has been static or slightly cooling. Absolutely no idea. These are the people responsible for the economic mess Australia finds itself. They adopted the globalist carp. Incompetent lunies like Flim Flam and Karoly got influence far beyond they competence.
Governments reside in echo chambers that breed incompetence.
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Can anybody tell me what the difference between Australia and a totalitarian state was during the COVID “emergency”.
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None really.
It was frightening how Australians just rolled over and submitted to the totalitarianism of the Government and it was also frightening to see how a supposedly civilian police force “of the people” waa prepared to behave in such a brutal fashion, “just following orders”.
It also revealed how Australians have no real rights, despite allusions otherwise.
It comes down to Australia’s origin as a prison colony run by prison warders. We haven’t really moved on from that, despite pretending to be a free and democratic country.
At the core of all this is how Once Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries look to Jeremy Bentham as their political philosopher whereas the United States look to John Locke et al.
The reason the former British colonies Australia, Canada and NZ and Once Great Britain itself reject notions of “natural rights” is because they were influenced by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham who did not believe in natural rights as derived from God or nature (depending upon your belief). He thought rights only came from man, i.e. government.
The founding fathers of the US on the other hand were influenced by philosophers like John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu who did recognise God-given natural rights and this is reflected in the US Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.
Video about “Jeremy Bentham’s Attack on Natural Rights” at: https://youtu.be/Ecp-PR_K1JI (16 mins)
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My God doesn’t need people to speak for him or interpret His will.
And as another fictional Forrest once said, that’s all I have to say about that.
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The only thing fictional character #3 Satan did was to convince 2 people to eat some fruit, everything else is down to the sky dude.
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Funny thing is, it does not matter what you or I believe, it only matters what they believe, and they believe they are fulfilling the prophecies of their holy book to welcome the coming of their G-O-D, which is the opposite of my G-O-D.
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Extreme fear will do that.
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FWIW – “Elbow” hits the lead!
“Australia’s Homelessness Crisis Outpaces California by 12-to-1: 10,000 Australians Become Homeless Each Month Amid Housing Shortages and Rising Immigration”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/australias-homelessness-crisis-outpaces-california-12-1-10000/
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Dr Andy Pitman has made another move on his more alarmist lefty loonies and he has only just recovered from his previous beating a few years ago.
Andy covers so much of the CC BS and fra-d and I agree with his basic arguments, so why are we about to waste trillions of $ for ZERO change and SFA return on our money?
Thanks again to Tony Thomas for his efforts.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/13/climate-science-you-can-believe/
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Pitman’s approach is wrong. He is just after funding.
History will prove Trump was the man for the times. A single individual with enough ambition, confidence and clout to call out the scam. He has proven unsackable despite a mammoth effort. It is difficult to deny there is a higher power considering Trump literally dodged a bullet.
I believe Abbott could make a powerful comeback in Australia. A lot more people now know he was right about the climate hoax.
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FWIW – recycling re-examined
“Plastic recycling is a “dead-end street.”
That quote…unbelievably…is from @Greenpeace.
In my new video, we debunk the recycling religion.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1867243766605828401
Via https://instapundit.com/690205/#disqus_thread
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John Stossel’s video is excellent. Even though I knew full well that so much recycling was rubbish (!), some of his visuals have real punch-through. Hope it goes further.
Little old composting me.
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A worthwhile read is the GWPF Briefing 32, “Save the Oceans Stop Recycling Plastic” by Mikko Paunio. Available online. Lists all the countries now burning all their rubbish in high-temperature incinerators. When you look at photos of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, that large building across the river is their incinerator.
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It’s good to wake up to discover Dutton has taken up permanent residence in Bowen’s head. Judging by his relentless barrage of tweets, Blackout is completely spooked by Dutton. (And BB has seen the polling.)
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Dutton needs to abandon his belief in renewables and anthropogenic global warming. He is still a True Believer.
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Dutton is being pragmatic. He is not Trump. Abbot is the only Liberal who has a clean slate on the climate scam.
There is nothing wrong starting Australia down a path to a nuclear future.
Coal may or may not re-emerge in Australian electricity supply but it will remain a major export earner. It will help fund the nuclear dabble.
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Agreed. I believe that he realises he needs to take the majority of Australians with him on the journey. And it will take time to alter many ingrained views and prejudices.
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“He is still a True Believer.”
No such thing in a politician! Any of them will do a 180deg turn at the drop of a hat-full of money, they all stripped themselves of morality and honesty to get elected in the first place!
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Can someone please explain why Australia gave $600 million of taxpayer to Papua New Guinea to fund a football team?
And how on earth is that much money even needed for a football team?
People organise football and other sporting teams on shoestring budgets.
If it’s about buying their “friendship” to keep the Chicomms out, then Australia should just set up a military base there. In fact, Australia shouldn’t have stopped administering the place as its territory in 1975. They wren’t ready for self-government and still aren’t. Thanks to Whitlam.
And PNG is hardly a good money manager. Remember how they brought all those Maseratis to taxi Commonwealth officials for the CHOGM conference rather than more utilitarian and practical vehicles?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/png-admits-maserati-purchase-was-terrible-mistake-as-they-go-on-sale-at-discounted-price
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…and the USA gave $18 Million to fund an Arabic version of Sesame Street for the middle east…
Can’t wait for the Babylon Bee take on that one. 😆
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It’s to build cultural connection to stop them bonding with China. Actually not a bad idea. They should do it to those other islands that flirt with China money.
Shame about the detail. PNG is not a safe place. What NRL player would want to live there? Could you imagine the security required? The lack of freedom you would have? Would the WAG want to live in a compound? What quality could a team realistically be? More brain fart politician ideas.
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PNG Pollies all have bank accounts in Townsville for ill-gotten gains.
For some, Cairns is more convenient.
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FWIW
Reports of Biden selling border wall materials cheap to prevent use.
Reaction –
“‘We Have the Money’: TX Lt. Gov. Patrick Vows to Bid on Border Wall Materials in Biden Fire Sale”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/13/we-have-the-money-tx-lt-gov-patrick-vows-to-bid-on-border-wall-materials-in-biden-fire-sale/
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This goes with # 10 above
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Can someone explain how Dutton’s nuclear plan is going to lower electricity prices?
And when will it happen given the huge impediments and time delays on any large project in Australia (excessive regulations, feral unions, lawfare, Greens, the Left etc.). The only large scale projects that can be built in reasonable time in Australia are wind, solar and Big Battery subsidy farms
All the nuclear power stations will do is replace coal for baseload. Existing coal plant also produces cheap electricity, like nuclear.
I can’t see nuclear taking less than 15-20 years even if a decision were made today. Australia won’t exist as a viable country by that time.
He still wants “renewables” and this will still require subsidies added on directly to consumer electricity bills.
So how will it work?
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Unlikely I know but perhaps Dutton himself might be the one to explain.
I am mildly supportive of the implementation of nuclear energy as a power source. The more options available the more likely the invisible hand of economic theory is to play its role.
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Has he made any promises about lower electricity prices? I believe he is just pointing out it is a lower cost path to Net Zero than the alternative.
No, the RET theft end in 2030. All the new grid “renewables” are subject to Federal/State auction and all commercial in confidence. The funding guarantees (subsidies) will come from general revenue not consumer bills. Taxes and inflation go up but electricity bills a little insulated from all the money being spent.
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He has said electricity will be cheaper. Not sure if you call it a “promise” or not. All statements from politicians should be assumed to be lies unless they can be proven otherwise.
https://youtu.be/DZu5Iop82Wo
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He is stating they are cheaper than Labor, which is true.
He is stating prices will come down. That is only possible by paying for electricity from general revenue. Blackout has already taken the costs into general revenue:
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/11/23/bowen-targets-32-gw-of-renewables-with-super-charged-investment-scheme/
The only way to get lower cost electricity is to go back to the grid that existed in 2000 and ban all intermittent generation from being grid connected so the coal fired stations can operate with a reasonable steady demand. That would also require upgrading some of the existing coal generators and replace thiose blown up..
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But the masses keep voting ’em in!
Which is why…
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It’s not going to reduce any bills. If it does it will be a long time in the future when the things start pumping out really cheap electricity once capital is reduced.
I don’t care if he promises anything. It won’t work. My days are numbered anyway and I certainly won’t be seeing any benefit within that timeframe. I’m remembering my grand parents who would sit with feet in a bowl of water on the hot days. I won’t be wealthy enough to afford the air con.
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Dutton has forced the power debate out into the open, where it needs to be. Labor will have to start presenting their own costs, which will not be pretty. And businesses might have to start re-thinking their plans to grab more subsidies from the govt, particularly if The Liberals win the next federal election.
Added to this is how the rest of the world, including Australia, sees what Trump is going to do.
The power debate is now mainstream and receiving a lot of coverage – it can’t now be hidden away or ignored.
We are in for interesting times.
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FWIW –
“Maybe more testing required”?
“New Study Links Ozempic To Vision Loss, Confirms Harvard Research”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-study-links-ozempic-vision-loss-confirms-harvard-research
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It’s a “far right conspiracy theory” today.
Give it six months and it will be established fact.
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Isn’t it crazy how we are all just becoming more aware of the importance of the gut biome in physical and mental health, and here the pharmaceutical industry and many doctors prescribe stuff that can cause intestinal slowing (urgh) and sometimes paralysis. All in the name of making people healthier!
Same thing for the Bovaer and Rumin8 cattle feed supplements – they affect the animals gut (and much else apparently) to reduce farts. That must affect their health badly.
How do the academics and scientific community justify this?
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The agronomist / animal nutritionist who consults for our farm says if they want to reduce methane from cows its about providing grasses with better quality proteins, which he aims to do via better soil biology. Seems to be working for us so far according to his tissue analysis of grass since we have been using his stuff.
But of course, people are stupid and only want simple “magic pill” solutions.
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“Autopsy: ‘Miracle’ Weight Loss Drug Kills Fat Nurse”
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/12/14/autopsy-miracle-weight-loss-drug-kills-fat-nurse-n4935119
And re the vision problem – I guess it is a selling point for the product if you can’t see that you have an obesity problem
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Greens are mostly pretend conservationists. They do nothing genuine to help the environment like volunteering to clean up rubbish, remove weeds from national parks, help care for injured native animals, help fight fires, donate money or labour to conservation charities etc.. Like all other Leftists, they just destroy.
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I was green in my youth, went and got green degrees. From that I realised most other greens are blood thirsty psychopaths who love killing things they deem illegal (non native).
But greens do like taking out weeds from the environment. I ran a business in it for a while, getting tax payer money grants. It’s all a waste of time and money too. Plants are plants, and only ever invade the edges of parks etc.
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IIRC – a friend on a tour of Ayers Rock encountered one of those supervising a team “eradicating buffel grass around the base”.
Seems that the team supervisor fizzed mightily when Bill wished him the best of luck with the project
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“Allan govt outlines how it will phase out gas in Victorian homes”
So while the world’s biggest economies by far, the US and China cannot get enough gas/oil/coal plus of course Europe/Russia/Japan, Victorians are being saved by their woke government.
It’s destructive beyond stupid.
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The long term implications of phasing out grid delivered natural gas are quite severe.
Apart from the fact that people interested in cooking either personally or professionally prefer gas; with continued destruction of the power stations, where is all the electricity going to come from to replace what gas used to supply for space heating, hot water and cooking?
Apart from that, gas lines will not be laid in new housing developments. In the event that a conservative pro-energy government is ever elected (not the fake conservative energyphobic Liberals) the cost of retrofitting gas lines in the street and into houses will be horrific.
I think people might start supplying their own gas via LPG (US = propane) cylinders for cooking and possibly other purposes. Of course, that will come with increased risk of fire or explosion due to many DIY installations.
Looking into the medium term future, as Australia continues to self-destruct in a fanatical race to the bottom, we will see many Australian homes with off-grid solar, battery and diesel or petrol generator installations along with LPG/propane cylinders for cooking. Or they might even revert to polluting wood fires for cooking and heating although they have made fire wood collection in Victoriastan illegal in many places (the Government prefers forest floor fuel to build up to create horrific bushfires).
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I grew up with the LPG tanker truck coming quarterly to fill the household propane tank. Memory fades but likely perhaps twice the size of the transportable tanks (45kg?)used locally here in regional WA.
And eventually the largish kerosene heater was replaced by a central air driven electric unit, though the small two burner coal fired stove was still used to bring the house up to temperature on winter mornings. As well as prepare breakfast.
Locally, the rural houses will universally have that LPG tank for cooking and most will have a wood heater. In my case a bit over a ton of bricks behind that heater provides stability that no electric system can match. And the residue of a war veteran building the original cottage from self harvested timber in the late 1940s will keep me and future owners in fire wood for many more years.
But for those in the urban high rise apartments, and those in wall to wall (perhaps 2 meters separation?) suburban developments the options are more severely limited.
When I can no longer prepare that wood for winter use nor feel comfortable bringing it into the house, it will be time to consider relocation.
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I was in Brasil way back in BC.
Gas delivery was a Mercedes 1418 body truck with a cage frame about 5 or 6 tiers high loaded with 20 kg cylinders.
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There is a UAP flap over Jersey, individually they are the size of an Iranian drone except there is no sound and they have the ability to dart around at a phenomenal speed.
The crew of a navy frigate saw 50 coming off the sea and in a terrified state they hastily returned to port.
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Probably Iranian or Chinese drones, maybe Russian.
Certainly not of extraterrestrial origin.
High apparent speed (if true) due to parallax error, forced perspective and poor range estimation, not to mention Mass Delusion Psychosis.
I find it difficult to believe that the crew of a navy frigate got scared and ran home.
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‘Certainly not of extraterrestrial origin.’
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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will you settle for “alien”?
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A lot of primitive people would believe…
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_soa2jb9saQ1z23obp.mp4
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DM
Re “I find it difficult to believe that the crew of a navy frigate got scared and ran home.’
You are not allowing for the depth of penetration of “woke”?
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Apologies, they said it was 47 feet long, much smaller than a frigate.
‘These ships were retired from the US Navy at the end of the Cold War due to their relatively high running costs, a declining defense budget, and the need for ships with a more advanced antisubmarine capability.’ (wiki)
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, yet they know they are drones, appears identified to me?
So each country has a size for the drones they are allowed to fly?
Lights all over them, hardly a stealth operation, more like “here I am”.
They are not investigating, which means they know who they are and what benefit would a foreign country gain from doing this openly?
Problem, reaction, solution. Who gains?
Made in the USA.
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‘Who gains?’
Here is a little more to ponder, its a universal phenomenon.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/mystery-drones-where-they-have-been-spotted/
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>its a universal phenomenon
Not entirely universal.
I’m feeling a bit left out, there’s been none anywhere near my place.
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https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/mysterious-car-sized-drones-temecula/509-7f3ae385-951a-4e6c-a133-18f61f7556de
With reports of drone/UAP/UFO “loitering” (hovering) for 6 hours. Definitely not your 30 min runtime DJI drone…
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If Aliens are invading, good. Surely they are more advanced than the idiots we have here.
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Mkre likely they’re dropping their own Golgafrinchams off here! 😆
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I’m not sure they are all that smart, they seem to crash often if what we are told about Area 51 is true. 😀
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Earth is a dangerous place, accidents happen all the time, even humans have trouble avoiding collisions in a random environment.
The other bit of news is that they also travel underwater, emerging from the sea to put on an aerial display. Methinks its a very sophisticated drone.
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Back in the summer of 2019/20 (apart from western democracies enacting Operation C-19) the snow-clad Southern Alps began turning a reddish shade of pink – odd because all that SNOW was supposed to have melted long ago, but anyway:
https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/it-wasnt-ash-on-nzs-snow-it-was-australias-famous-red-desert-dust
Scientists Say! “These storms are likely to occur more often as the climate warms” yeah whatever. “Climate change is expected to result in increased desertification and dry conditions” unless it floods and rains and floods some more. This Outback Express nor’wester was “at least the ninth such event… since 1902”. So nothing new.
In another RNZ article promoting MS’s data-centre opening here (100% *pure* on geothermal energy) the young doe-eyed churnalist had searched ‘data centre emissions’ and the 1st result (cough!) was Gulag’s Gemini chatbot:
“Data centres contribute to ©️©️©️ by releasing greenhouse gases that cause rising temperatures, more severe weather events, and sea level rise”.
Apart from being wong on all 3 accounts, the PR (Programmed Robot) sounded like a priest on Sunday morning chiding his flock for flirting with the Devil the night before. It’s the New World Religion and we’re guilty of committing Original Sin… again.
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Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/twirling-body-horror-in-gymnastics-video-exposes-ais-flaws/
LOL…
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Plastic recycling is a dead-end street. Greenpeace.
https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1867243766605828401/
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See 16 above.
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Fantastic technology plastic. I would rather an energy efficient material that replaces many compounds than a return to turtles, whales and seals for street lighting, bodices, combs etc.
Simple raw material to produce, store and transport. Small footprint in landfill or recycled. How beautifully and efficiently engineered are our plastics?
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I came across a recording of Rodney Rude’s performance about McDonalds this morning https://youtu.be/U705EAx70Cw
Talk about f*n McFunny. The way he deals with hecklers is an example to others. You’ve got to pay attention to realise that is even what he is doing.
Even funnier in my mind are his recollections of his performance where he knew there were detectives in the audience who were there to arrest him for public indecency. In response he filled his performance with barbs about detectives. They did arrest him and the transcript of his performance was read verbatum in court. https://youtu.be/n2UnhAfHE3M
And youtube being youtube my feed was then filled with comedy gems including Billy Conolly and George Carlin.
The bad guys cannot possibly win if the good guys maintain their sense of humour!
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Pre-Sunday funny
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/06cd070e954caf60ec691e0b9b7024652837ad0ea90825446cc1581f2960d2d8.jpg
We need to do this here!
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GREAT one John! Definitely worth a laugh and re-circulation.
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FWIW – the pot stirs
“The Deafening Silence Over the J6 Pipe Bombs”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/12/13/the-deafening-silence-over-the-j6-pipe-bombs-n4935107
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I think there is a variation on “If you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all” at play here. They can’t say anything sensible.
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Good-bye Daylight savings!
’12 noon’ when the sun is directly overhead. If you wish to get up earlier, get up earlier. If you wish to enjoy twilight evenings then an extra hour is not going to change anything in those latitudes. It is light till late anyway.
While he is at it rid us of regulation.
Those pieces of styro-foam (called bike helmets) that you strap on your head to stop a truck crushing your brain should be next. Being towed down the road by your chin strap was never an improve over more people actually riding a flying pigeon complete with streamers and basket rather than cars to go to work without having to worry about hat-head. Full face helmet so you can be the best looking head in the spinal ward or nothing in my opinion.
If helmets do work, wear them and allow the rest of us to decide whether we want our necks snapped rather than a graze on our skull from a passing piece of metal.
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Evidence from Australia and New Zealand, where helmets are mandatory, suggests that large numbers of people are deterred from cycling by helmet legislation. https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/the-big-bike-helmet-debate-readers-reject-change-in-law/
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