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First and I don’t know what to say except for. Happy Weekend everyone…………………..
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Ha ha! It’s happened to me so it’s G’day All when brain not in gear! đ
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Saturday funny: Covidian edition
https://twitter.com/ForgiatoBlow47/status/1616220509166878720/
The brainwashing is complete with this guy.
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Saturday funny: if only this worked with liberals
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ror06p8z7K1w5pr9j.mp4
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LOL.
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Wouldn’t he be better off just avoiding flying ?
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I’ll second that!
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Was supposed to be comment on #1
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Saturday entertainment: African big game hunting, revenge edition
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_o8w15g7itg1tuyi5j.mp4
Applause for the lion.đ
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Saturday entertainment: I’ll take the bus instead
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_roiv8tSHE61w5pr9j.mp4
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I agree. Flying high with a high pilot is not for me……………..
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Forget high pilots.
Pretty soon we’re gunna need SKY PILOTS.
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Saturday entertainment: flying high, winged suit edition.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_roivarbNLM1w5pr9j.mp4
One for Jo.đ
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Why do they wear crash helmets, Will they help if things go wrong?
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They help when things don’t go as planned. Bit like a motorcycle ride, when everything goes perfectly you don’t need a helmet.
– freefall collision with another jumper and a clash of heads (remember you normally see only the best on video) also some forms of competition have people rotating formation fast in close proximity so a clash is possible especially in training and finding your limits.
– protection when you land off the DZ (or if BASE jumping) in poor terrain. Risk of rocks, trees, fences. structures etc
– when you are in the aircraft its not a rolled gold certainty that take off will be successful. You are normally packed in with quite few others to the aircrafts capacity. If you have a helmet you increase your chances of survival and being conscious to get out.
– parachutes can get accidentally deployed in the door (rare but happens). This results in rapid extraction with potential head strike
I did this stuff for 10 years as a 20 something and have experienced or seen all of the above
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I forgot that in the modern era, your helmet also houses your altitude alert which beeps at you when you pass separation height , when you reach opening height and really yells at you when you pass “do something now or you are going to die height” (examples only, you can set them up to do what you want depending on what you are doing)
and of course somewhere to mount your Go Pro, because if there is no video, it didnt happen.
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Paul Joseph Watson runs through some of the schemes coming out of the WEF – 4m 39s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShrAQWjW8I
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Elementary, my dear Watson.
They’re ‘touched’ – padded cells & heavy medication required… poor sods, delusional, completely – well, at least 97%. Jabcinda will feel right at home with these certifiables. Welcome [back] to the future.
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Saturday transgender ejukashun: womens periods
https://twitter.com/TransMindful/status/1616533514358325265
Well, if you stick it where it shouldn’t be, yes there will be blood.
But then it may all be in your mind.đ¤Ł
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WEF Chauffeur Admits VIP Elites Refuse To Ride In Electric Cars, Demand Gas
World Economic Forum elites are refusing to use electric cars and demanding to be chauffeur-driven in ânormal carsâ fueled by gas.
In Davos, Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha spoke to a chauffeur who drives the World Economic Forum VIPs around. Despite the WEFâs told her he could not use a plug-in car to transport VIPs.
The chauffeur went on to explain that the elites believe electric vehicles are very âdangerousâ and the elites believe they should only be used by common people.
The WEF has made some changes this year. Davos has a heliport so that VIPs can fly around in helicopters again. In addition, there is no longer a CO2 limit for cars.
In other words: it is plug-in cars for the commoners and normal cars using fossil fuels for the elites.
https://rairfoundation.com/davos-electric-cars-for-commoners-fuel-cars-for-wef-elites/
Ah yes…the “common people”…
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Well, the Common People have common ways of dealing with the so called elites. These so called elites need to study history and find out how to keep their heads – on that is……………………………..
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After reading and viewing about the Christmas period heavy highway traffic on Australia’s East Coast, and in NSW at various EV recharging stations, the angry and frustrated EV drivers and passengers were not happy.
I cannot imagine driving from Sydney for example heading to Queensland and having to find a recharging station every at best 300 kilometres in a high end price range that offer the best battery capacity, because of passenger and luggage load aboard an EV, air conditioning, highway speeds and hills.
My 4WD diesel comfortably achieves 850 kilometres and the latest five years newer model exceeds 1,000 kilometres with more fuel capacity. And refuelling is a few minutes and even if there is a short wait to get onto a bowser nowhere near the hour or two EV travellers were experiencing according to those reports.
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These Greenies are NUTS and so are the Pollies. Will the Pollies ever fly in a battery powered Aeroplane?……………Not on their lives…………………..
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Will a practical, genuinely useful, battery powered aeroplane ever fly?
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They managed to power bombers with nuclear engines during the cold war so maybe.
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At one time they even managed to power an aircraft using a steam engine. Now that would be something to see, puffing away merrily while flying.
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No. There is something in physics called power to weight ratio. And as an MIT article pointed out, aircraft need reserve requirements, and these cannot be met with electric aircraft. One example is an A320 NEO that carries 266 MWh of fuel on takeoff. If this was converted to use batteries, the battery pack would weigh 1488 tonnes, 19 times its maximum takeoff weight. At a 1 MW charge rate (Car superchargers run at 250 kW), it would take 11 days to recharge.
If you look at the revised Airport air taxi concept, itâs now sprouted STOL wings, as it appears that it wasnât going to work using rotors alone.
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Similar situation with heavy transport vehicles, the weight of batteries as compared to liquid diesel fuel replaces a considerable amount of cargo payload and therefore profitability.
There is an Australian firm now converting diesel trucks to electric motors and the claimed range is 300 kilometres, unladen. Even for a single or semi-trailer fully loaded plus batteries I believe the usable range would be no more than 150 kilometres which might be acceptable for city and/or suburban deliveries but not country area deliveries and definitely not interstate. The conversion company claim they will arrange battery swap and go stations on major coastal routes and it would take only several minutes to changeover. Theoretically? Because there are several factors to consider including trucks waiting in line for replacements.
So regardless of the EV future is now people I believe electric heavy transport on highways is a long way off in the future before diesel engines can be replaced.
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Just fine for milk carts…
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@KP are there any milk routes left in Australia?
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Will a practical battery powered aircraft ever fly?
Yes. Lots of already do.
Drones that can be bought at your local electronics shop for a few hundred dollars enabled the Ukrainians to fight off the Russians last year. The technology is quite marvellous.
More complicated and expensive models are widely used in industry.
But they could only be competitive for transporting loads in exceptional circumstances.
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âWill a practical battery powered aircraft ever fly?â
Depends on what you mean by practical..
Very unlikely that a trans atlantic airliner will ever be possible on the current battery tech,..
..but there are already battery electric single seat pilot trainer aircraft, multi passenger (8-12) short haul (500km) domestic aircraft, and numerous VTOL âTaxiâ type aircraft in developmentâŚ( mostly waiting on approvals etc)
I am not convince any of these are currently ..or likely to be..financially competitive with conventional powered aircraft, ..but technically they do exist.
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Have you noticed that the press releases for short-haul electric aircraft are long on rhetoric but short on details? Like range, max passengers with luggage, turnaround time, etc.
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Could never replace a jet plane. A jet engine develops massive thrust, thrust needed to get the heavily loaded plane airborne. I am unaware of any way to convert battery power to thrust except via a propeller.
Second problem is that the take off weight equals landing weight which, if you think about it, introduces massive limitations. Apart from heavy batteries you need heavier undercarriage and breaks, just for starters.
So, the only possible use is in prop aircraft, but only those not carrying a payload. Flying clubs are the only customers I can think of. If they could do a helicopter it could be used as a taxi from the airport to the city. Not sure if that is doable.
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Indeed. Large commercial aircraft rely on the fact that they land a huge amount lighter than when they take off.
Using the B777-200 as an example.
Maximum take off weight: 545,000 lb / 247,200 kg
Maximum landing weight: 445,000 lb / 201,840 kg
A maximum weight landing is possible in an emergency, but may result in aircraft damage and is generally not advisable. Hence fuel is dumped if possible.
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If they could develop a little turbine thruster it would be good for a self-launching glider. Does away with the need to tuck away the prop.
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like this H? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raQjnvg5i44
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One method being proposed is to use electricity to produce hydrogen..then Use hydrogen to fuel turbojets.!
Problems howeverâŚ
low efficiency,
high cost,
Difficulty of hydrogen storage
Turbines dont like burning hydrogen
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Pity.
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I hope they do.
Will solve a lot of problems.
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Dennis, what you say is true.
City numnuts that drive an average daily 60km, trying their own personal long range experiment over the summer break.
I see it first hand.
Upon readng your post, I am now thinking of starting up a business.
As more and more EV’s take to the road for long trips, I can see a green opportunity.
This would be my advertisement for an Australian EV owner:
EXTEND the driving range of your EV!!!
If an EV owner is considering to drive greater than 500 klms in a day.
Consider this:
I will use my petrol powered Toyota Landcruiser to trailer or tow an EV, both one stranded on the road or one stuck in an a lengthy EV charging queue.
I will guarantee the EV owner can now reach their intended destination within a reasonable time.
I can save an EV owner at a minimum, 4 hrs on a 600km trip.
I guarantee you will get there. We don’t need to stop!
As an extra, I supply unlimited airconditioning, heating, refrigerated drinks, non insect food, music of my choice, climate chats, Biden & Trump talk, and links on the vehicle computer screen similar to blogs like these.
These extras are free for any future EV client to use.
Note that if the client wants to listen to the ABC there will be a surcharge of 10 dollars.
(It is only fair that I have to recover some of my compulsory income taxed ABC mandatory subscription.)
Get to your holiday or business destination on time!
……
Disclaimer: some sarc/ may have been used in this post. My intent tho is clear.
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It will be a heavy trailer!
EVs are not light, and towing them will be another wrinkle in the whole industry out there. Not to mention the chance of them catching fire while you tow them!
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A company Gajitz manufactures generato trailers that you can tow behiond your EV for long journeys.
https://gajitz.com/little-generator-trailer-lets-electric-cars-go-the-distance/
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one small suggestion. If the want the ABC option they should BYO headphones/earbuds, so you dont have to hear it.
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This would surely be one of the few times that diesel railways come into their own. I did a quick search to see what’s available.
https://railmaps.com.au/motorail.htm
There you go, the system has already been figured out, but as modern cars gradually got better in every way, interest in this service has diminished. Now that EV’s are making reduced range more common, we will see the rail service pick up again. Problem is that rail is usually rather expensive, although I don’t know why.
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I imagine that whilst waiting in the Que to charge your EV, that would be time for reflection on why your bought the thing and just how useless they are once you leave the big City.
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Everyone in the world should watch this video **NOW** before it is censored. Especially if you are in the UK!
UK doctors are speaking out. It’s so damaging to the narrative that even Twitter won’t let [anyone] post it.
UK doctors speaking out about what is really happening in their practices. These physicians risk being fired and having their license to practice medicine taken away. Their crime? Telling the truth about the dangers of the COVID vaccine.
The link to the video is disallowed on Twitter and other platforms. World governments do not want ANYONE to view this video. They donât want anyone to learn the truth.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/everyone-in-the-world-should-watch
Saved!đ
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I think the UK NHS is technically referred to as SNAFU.
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Local radio this afternoon reported that more people have died from heart attacks in the last two years than the long term average. This was explained as people simply NOT SEEKING MEDICAL ASSISTENCE during the pandemic and that COVID 19 could also damage peoples hearts. No mention of the “V” word or the “V” status of all the extra heart attack victims
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Was something on vice news saying the increase was due to climate change !
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Lack of pulse very definitely causes a change in your climate.
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ChatGPT passes US medical licensing exams
Two artificial intelligence (AI) programs — including ChatGPT — have passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), according to two recent papers.
The papers highlighted different approaches to using large language models to take the USMLE, which is comprised of three exams: Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3.
ChatGPTopens in a new tab or window is an artificial intelligence (AI) search tool that mimics long-form writing based on prompts from human users. It was developed by OpenAI, and became popular after several social media posts showed potential uses for the tool in clinical practice, often with mixed resultsopens in a new tab or window.
The first paper, published on medRxivopens in a new tab or window in December, investigated ChatGPT’s performance on the USMLE without any special training or reinforcement prior to the exams. According to Victor Tseng, MD, of Ansible Health in Mountain View, California, and colleagues, the results showed “new and surprising evidence” that this AI tool was up to the challenge.
Tseng and team noted that ChatGPT was able to perform at >50% accuracy across all of the exams, and even achieved 60% in most of their analyses. While the USMLE passing threshold does vary between years, the authors said that passing is approximately 60% most years.
“ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for all three exams without any specialized training or reinforcement,” they wrote, noting that the tool was able to demonstrate “a high level of concordance and insight in its explanations.”
“These results suggest that large language models may have the potential to assist with medical education, and potentially, clinical decision-making,” they concluded.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/102705
Given the woke bs scourge driving lower standards across the world and especially the USA, probably no surprise.
Doctors will be useless in a few years, replaced by pseudo-AI and advanced robotics.
When REAL AI hits, game over.
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Yes but can it pass a driving test? And reverse park?
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WEF partners with Chinese government to launch the Universal Digital Payments Network or “UDPN” Beijing-based Red Date Technologies together with US law firm DLA Piper and German IT provider GFT will launch “stablecoins”
The Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) was launched today at the World Economic Forum to provide interoperability between regulated stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
UDPN is an âadvanced digital currency payments projectâ that âhas the potential to drive down the cost of digital payments and accelerate adoption by banks and businesses of all sizes.â
The payment network was developed in the last two years by decentralized cloud infrastructure company Red Date Technology, IT solutions provider GFT, TOKO and DLA Piper.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/universal-digital-payments-network-stablecoins-110432011.html
Stablecoins developed by unstable sociopaths…
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ANthony ALbanese meeting Bill Gates at Kirrabilli House,can Australia afford a meeting like this.Did Bowen carry Bill’s bags?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n7ITbBVlbQ
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Is that the PM of Australia? Really? What a ****. How embarrassing. Cinders was a **** but that **** is a total ****. You guys are ****ed. Do something – or as Cinders would say – sumpfink. Crikey you’re ****ed. Good luck.
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Which headline would best suit this meeting?
1. ” WEF gives Gates leave to recruit Albo”, or
2. “Albo give Australia to Gates” ?
Cheers
Dave B
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Appalling, Scandalous, Deeply Offensive that this meeting happened.
The really frightening thing is that they had no concerns about publicising it.
The only good thing was seeing the size of Billy’s Belli.
That will Shorten his time here.
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“The only good thing was seeing the size of Billyâs Belli.”
Maybe he’s pregnant !
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Maybe there’s a trans situation with unknowable consequences.
A mini billi?
Please No!
Think of the Planet.
When will this madness stop.
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Bones. Read only the following and then consider the company ALBO KEEPS and that he seems not to see what she sees…….Melinda Gates: “The philanthropist addressed their divorce publicly for the first time in a new interview with Gayle King that aired on CBS This Morning on Thursday, explaining that it was ânot one thing but many thingsâ that led to the demise of their marriage. âI did not like that Bill had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,â she explained, adding that she met with the convicted sex trafficker âexactly one timeâ because she âwanted to see who this man was.â She continued, âI regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified.”
Gates and Epstein thick as thieves, while Albanese invites Gates to Kirribilli. The Italian Rub and Tug fan has taken it several steps beyond rat-infested Ashfield massage parlours, has he not?
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Its only a matter of time before the facade collapses.
‘Official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) show that over the first 20 years of this century, the upward trend in temperatures in England and Wales resulted in just over half a million â 555,103 to be precise â fewer temperature-related deaths.
‘The headlines ought to read âClimate change saves half a million livesâ, yet this real-word data seemed to tease out some rare scepticism from news outlets more used to presenting doom-laden forecasts and scenarios as established fact.’ (Ross Clark/UK Mail)
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It’s meant to collapse, Gordi. It’s designed to collapse.
In his 2018 book, Klaus Schwab described the period 2020 to 2030 as the necessary “ten years of turmoil” that will make it possible for his (aka the WEF’s) plans for total control of the masses to come to fruition.
As I keep pointing out, everything is going almost according to plan. The only possible fly in the ointment for them is the emergence of a united BRICS with a gold backed currency. That was not foreseen or planned for. Hence the western response to the Ukraine war.
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I heard today (Kim Iverson podcast) that the elites have chosen Tony Bloody Blair as the preferred replacement for Klaus Schwab at the WEF. That would be the right amount of evil obviously.
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Didn’t the now-ex-NZ PM work for Blair, as well as being a loyal WEF minion?
No doubt she’s off to a new job with the UN, or WEF, or probably both…
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wouldnt they be terribly stressful?
would she have enough in the tank?
wimper…
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On another blog it seems more like standard Blair – that he has chosen himself
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Ha! Yes.
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‘Itâs meant to collapse,’
I doubt that.
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So basically we are in agreement –
We both believe this facade is going to collapse. Our only difference of opinion is that you believe we arrived at this point as the result of a long string of unfortunate events and coincidences, I believe it was planned that way.
That about cover it?
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I was referring to MSM failing in their responsibility to inform the masses correctly, eventually the flood gates will open.
All this conspiracy theory stuff is nonsense, the WEF is powerless.
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“, the WEF is powerless.”
Would you agree that Jacinda’s purchase of all of the MSM in Godzone enhanced her ability to promote the WEF agenda to an unsuspecting and subsequently hoodwinked populace?
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During the Covid pandemic the MSM came to the government for financial help.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/new-zealand-to-give-50m-to-help-ailing-media-groups-during-covid-19-crisis
Imagine the uproar if she had let them sink.
Advertorial is nothing new, but if the people are hoodwinked then they are not very bright.
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Well, NSW Mid North Coast and two nights ago I had to unpack a woollen blanket to add to the sheets and one cotton blanket.
BoM, please explain.
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Climate is cyclical – 150 years of warming then 150 years cooling (roughly).
We’re now in the cooling phase and we have over a hundred years of progressive cooling in front of us. So get used to it.
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Your cycles don’t work, better to focus on something more constructive.
Which hemisphere do you mean?
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1400 to 1550 – cooling
1550 to 1700 – warming (just)
1700 to 1850 – cooling
1850 to 2000 – warming
2000 to 2150? – cooling
Dates are approximates only – it doesn’t happen all at once everywhere.
The temperature shift appears to start with the shift in the northwards flow of the Atlantic current eastwards, from America to Europe, then the effect gradually extends eastwards across Eurasia. It arrives at the western coast of Australia about five years after it starts. Yes, it is global – both hemispheres.
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‘the shift in the northwards flow of the Atlantic current eastwards …’
Its feasible, icebergs venture further south and increasing fresh water turns off the conveyor, but there is no indication that this is happening.
Hubert Lamb saw a 50 year cycle in Europe and from 1700 to 1750 it was warm.
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Here is a graph to illustrate the point.
https://clivebest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/CET-annual.png
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“Weâre now in the cooling phase and we have over a hundred years of progressive cooling in front of us. So get used to it.”
But but but, I’m bearing down on the big eight 0, Does that mean I wont have time to “get used to it”
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No.
You and I are fortunate in that respect.
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Haven’t had my air con on all summer yet. Same zone.
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You might have to explain to them what a woollen blanket is first
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The BOM is not in the blanket and sheet business. Please visit your local Lowes outlet with your dosh. The Bunch of Muppets (BOM) have no comment to make at this time.
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Memoryvault – please don’t use that word ‘progressive’… it sounds too much like ‘regressive’ to me. 1984 ‘n’ all that jazz eh đ
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Yes indeed. I was thinking the other night that at half way through summer in SE Queensland, there has not been a single night that I have not had to put on a jacket.
Usually by this time if year there have been many nights that the air conditioning has stayed on until bed time. The same with bed. There would have been many nights where even a sheet was too hot. This year I have needed at least one blanket every night.
Now waiting for the hottest EVER garbage to be announced.
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NASA are confused or lying. I think the latter. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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Channel 10 news tonight had an item about the increase in heart attack deaths – up 17% apparently. Apparently this was entirely expected (by the experts) due to the effects of covid on âall organsâ, delayed access to care, peopleâs diet and exercise being impacted by lockdowns.
The BS spin machine is ramping up.
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Channel 10 news tonight had an item about the increase in heart attack deaths â up 17% apparently. Apparently this was entirely expected (by the experts) due to the effects of covid on âall organsâ, delayed access to care, peopleâs diet and exercise being impacted by lockdowns.
The BS spin machine is ramping up.
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Channel 10 news tonight had an item about the increase in heart attack deaths â up 17% apparently. Apparently this was entirely expected (by the experts) due to the effects of covid on âall organsâ, delayed access to care, peopleâs diet and exercise being impacted by lockdowns.
The BS spin machine is ramping up.
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I have been puzzled by the idea of tree based carbon offsets.
Recently the UK claimed 0% coal use.
But 14% of the grid is powered by American trees as wood pellets. How does that work? Why are trees better than coal? How does sequestration work if ultimately you burn the trees anyway?
It seems wood pellets are GREEN and carbon neutral where coal is BLACK and killing the planet. But then you have to chop down forests which will take a long time to grow and there is no guarantee anyone regrows the forests. And how long does that take? And who living today makes sure it happens?
And how old do trees have to be to count as carbon neutral? And if you grow trees, it takes many years to get a tree and the question is at what point are they reducing carbon and by how much as the tree keeps growing? If you burn them, you have had been carbon neutral but you have not reduced total CO2 in the atmosphere. So are you allowed burn them or not? If you don’t burn them, can you keep the cash. Or can you keep the cash and sell them for fuel, doubling your money? And who is policing the difference between carbon credits and nett zero?
Carbon credits is a massive government controlled pseudo science industry verifying that carbon credits are valid. And you have to buy in advance, decades before these credits exist.
A huge amount of government administered documentation is required as trees must be one of the world’s slowest crops, at 5-50 years growing time. But they are presold to companies to provide cover for future carbon offset promises.
Each new ‘woodland’ proposing to sell carbon credits to be used in the future has to be fully documented in the environmental registry and you have to wait for the crop. There is a woodland carbon code. And it’s all very confusing.
“Can tree planting schemes be used as part of carbon offsetting?
Effective carbon offsetting projects all share some key characteristics:
Real â the carbon emissions a project avoids must be evidenced.
Measurable â those avoided carbon emissions must be accurately measured.
Permanent â the emissions avoided must be permanently avoided, and not released sometime in the future instead.
No leakage â carbon emissions released by a project (such as through operations or by disturbing soil causing carbon to be released) must be accounted for.
Whilst most donât yet, some tree planting projects do have all these characteristics and have been certified by a reputable carbon standard (such as the Woodland Carbon Code) which can then issue the project with carbon credits. However very few of these projects exist yet, and those that do are small-scale.”
Reading the detailed advice it seems that the trees should NEVER be chopped down.
But it is all very confusing. The scheme seems based on the idea that even if a tree is 50 years old, it will reduce carbon while growing but when you chop it down and burn it will not actually reduce CO2 in the long term. So you have to argue about nett zero over 50 years. All of this is based on the idea that CO2 released today is trapped in the atmosphere for much longer than 50 years, which is why the IPCC claims as its gold standard that the half life of CO2 in the atmosphere is 80 years.
This is so much like a very slow futures/ponzi indulgences scheme. You pay today to grow trees for tomorrow which may or may not be burned to provide energy for tomorrow and and contribute to total CO2 while you wait for old CO2 to be absorbed very slowly by the ocean?
And who checks 30 years from now that you have not double dipped? Getting paid for carbon sequestration and then burning the tree for fuel and being paid again?
This is carbon indulgences on steroids as carbon indulgence futures.
But who cares? And at the same time the trees are growing themselves with the new higher CO2, an area the size of Brazil or Australia in the last 35 years since 1988.
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How many actual scientists are being employed in creating and monitoring these schemes?
And all this is being administered by people who will have retired by the time the projects come to maturity and credits are claimed. It seems sequestration is in the eye of the true believer as to whether it is just recycling and does nothing to actually reduce CO2 and in the worst case is clearing of old growth forests while claiming carbon neutrality for nett zero but at least it is better than using gas, oil, coal which is even older?
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And if the half life for absorption of CO2 into the oceans is a mere 5 years not the IPCC 80 years, this huge administrative effort growing forests and charging people for doing so and creating future sequestration credits is a fairy story with no basis in science. It’s like a huge crop over a human lifetime never to be harvested until people forget why they grew them in the first place in which case they can be burned for firewood anyway.
But in a world where men can be redefined as women so they can win every race, you can believe whatever science you want to believe. Who needs facts?
Being Woke means being in a dream world of eyes wide shut where reality just vanishes.
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You have to understand carbon is like negative vibes.
Negative vibes are a buzz kill unless they remain sequestered.
Similar to lust and hate, it must remain sequestered for a healthy buzz.
Orcas and wolves are beautiful majestic creatures that never hunt in packs and mercilessly kill and eat things.
Therefore wonderful to encounter while kayaking or hiking.
Criminals and homeless people would also be kayaking with orcas if not for colonialism.
I suggest a tachyon chamber.
https://www.tachyonchamber.com/
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I apologize for the use of the word ‘hunt’ …
which is a trigger microaggression evocative of weapons and meat consumption.
I should have written …
‘(Orcas and wolves) never actively search in organized hierarchical social groups and act out emotional aggression on evolutionarily disadvantaged creatures’
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I’m sorry, we do not serve faster than light particles here. A Tachyon walks into a bar.
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TdeF,
hope you’re not taking me wrong.
I think your comments are very interesting … and right.
I think climate alarmism is absurd and feel compelled to respond to it absurdly.
I also think it is an anti-human proto religion that is putting human culture into a very weird and increasingly frightening place.
I very seriously believe that folk like John Kerry and Al Gore have lost their minds … unless they are simply evil manipulators.
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John Kerry and Al Gore are each interesting characters and I have my views. Whether they believe what they say will always be debatable.
But Global Warming is so intimately tied with their careers that even if they were lying or changed their minds, they would not admit it. Both are what we used to call career politicians. Not good for much else. Like Joe Biden who never had any other job and achieved nothing, a leaf in the wind, which is why he was chosen as Vice President for Obama.
A British comedian Bob Monkhouse had a joke about this, whether John or Al or Joe. People would come up to him and say, “Bob. You’re a comedian. Tell us a joke”. And his response was a question “If I was a politician, would you ask me to tell you a lie?”
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Sorry. Meant to be green.
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I’d be willing to be that a lot of those trees are sold to multiple people, multiple times. E.g. the same trees might be sold to people in the US, Canada, Australia and UK to fulfil their “carbon offset” programs.
Who would know? Who audits it?
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My point exactly. It is all so nebulous and often administered in near third world countries by military dictatorships.
That’s why I chose the UK example with hundreds of carbon plantations and all the paperwork. The feel good stuff is growing trees. The reality of the administration is that you are likely paying for an enormous pile of paper work, for trees which have not been planted yet, for trees which are growing and trees which may be chopped down later without you being told or as you say, twice or more for the same trees. Who is really responsible for all this?
We have the same nonsense in Australia with the Clean Energy Corporation, but I shouldn’t start on that. It all ends up paperwork tied to laws tied to administration in an organization whose job is to bury the detail, hiding it even from the politicians but especially from the public.
And all based on the idea that if trees are made from CO2 and you grow trees, CO2 must go down. Which isn’t true. Rather if CO2 goes up more trees grow, so it is not only not true, it is the exact reverse of the truth!
Consider the hot house where farmers pump CO2 in to grow tomatoes faster. You get more tomatoes but does CO2 go down? No. Because the farmer set the CO2 level, not the tomatoes. The politicans on the Inter Governmental Panel for Climate Change have invented a fantasy CO2 world.
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” (… by disturbing soil causing carbon to be released)”
Ah, this is where they start on farming.. No more ploughing unless you buy carbon credits.
I know its all true because my compost warms the planet around it while its working, I can see the steam in winter.
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Saturday hope: vaxx spike detox
In another study, bromelain at a concentration of 100 Îźg/ml was found to be effective in dissolving SARS-COV-2 spikes and envelope proteins. When combined with 20 mg/ml of acetylcysteine, the SARS-COV-2 spike and envelope proteins are fully disintegrated.
So, clearly this is VERY good news. If we can literally DISSOLVE the Spike Protein before it interacts with our ACE2 (and clearly many other) receptors, then the Spike, in essence, becomes as the nonillions of other viruses on the planet that cannot enter our cells.
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-bromelain-nac-and-spike
Let all those who’ve used detox treatments and found them to work speak up!
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FWIW
https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-recover/
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Just a quick word of warning for those contemplating this protocol or similar, who are also on Warfarin (like me) –
Ratsak (aka Warfarin) and vitamin K2 do not play well together, unfortunately.
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Only the vaxxed spikes or these part to the virus too ?
Spike is spike.
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Thought for the day:
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”
Philip K. Dick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA-jOLF2T4c
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“A Cornucopia of Spare Parts”
“CTV- Canada performing more organ transplants from MAID donors than any country in the world”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/20/a-cornucopia-of-spare-parts/
Is that what is overloading their health system then?
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I thought the civilised world was condemning China. Seems we are joining them.
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I thought the Ukraine war was keeping the whole industry going at full speed. Both sides accuse the other of harvesting organs from wounded soldiers.
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FWIW
“Real world leaders avoid Davos WEF”
https://rumble.com/v26f9y8-real-world-leaders-avoid-davos-wef.html
The old grey Schwab ain’t what he used to be?
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Developing that theme from one version of the song
“The old grey Schwab said “Lets have anothery”
And the rest of the world said “You go to buggery”
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I feel like posting something here but …
1) I have nothing.
2) Pinot Gris.
So I’d best not.
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Helps creativity.
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If you can get it I recommend the Deviation Road Pinot Gris.
On the other hand it seems the cunning Crow Eaters are drinking it all. It’s probably the summer heat Sarc! The temperature was up to 27â yesterday (Muppet forecast 31 â but not to worry the next few days of this ‘Heat Wave’ are also going to be 31 â).
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Cellarbrations may be the place to look.
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Chris Hipkins is the next NZ PM.
Unlike Ardern, he does not appear to be a graduate and puppet of the WEF like Ardern was.
That’s not to say he won’t be a globalist puppet, however.
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The so called “Covid-19 response minister” … whatever that means.
The guy who told people to go out and spread their legs.
He sure as heck looks like a placeholder … he has useless written all over him … they will find someone else when push comes to shove.
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He meant to say “Stretch your legs” but flubbed it.
Seems he has a sense of humour because he had a coffee cup made and inscribed.
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“he has a sense of humour”
I’m not sure that grinning through your teeth is an indication of the possession of a sense of humour.
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That little anecdote is the grand total of all I know of him.
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I wonder if Jacinda’s wedding with Clarke Gayford is still on…
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I know “things are different” today, but back in the day, it would have been scandalous that a national leader was living with someone with whom she wasn’t married, let alone had a child with.
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He may not be a WEF graduate, David but he is a politician who went straight from student politics into the real political world without stopping to do a real job and gain some life experience.
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‘The minister leaned into the gaffe, embracing the catchphrase âspread your legs, not the virusâ as a pandemic health message.’ (Guardian)
His primary asset is a sense of humour, but it may not save him at the next election.
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A good resource page.
Tom Nelson, “Notes for climate skeptics” https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics
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Interview with Dr Naomi Wolf. Well worth seeing, there is a lot of good material condensed into 10.5 min. References Blair’s comments at WEF.
https://rumble.com/v26jy94-covid-was-a-pretext-for-the-medical-matrix-that-globalists-hope-to-force-up.html
COVID Was A Pretext For The Medical Matrix That Globalists Hope To Force Upon The World
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I think that the Covid vaccine disaster has taught thinking people that Big Pharma can’t be trusted. Most thinking people already didn’t trust them but this event increased distrust even more.
Of particular note, was either banning or non-promotion of known effective but non-patented treatments or prophylaxis for covid or correction of deficiencies such as HCQ, IVM, vitamin D, zinc etc. in favour of an ineffective and dangerous “vaccine”.
We also have Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s book about Fauci and the Big Pharma establishment.
I think all of the above suggests a review of all existing Big Pharma patented medications which like the covid vaccine are possibly ineffective and dangerous. Also, there should be a campaign by health authorities or doctors to correct known nutritional deficiencies such as Vitamin D and K2, which have very many health benefits and deficiencies of which are quite common.
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Perhaps like you I woke up this morning to see a report of an article in the Melbourne Age newspaper requesting better anti-virals for COVID treatment. I literally laughed out loud, the irony was too much. As has been discussed on this forum, there are any number of possible early anti – viral candidates we could have been using for the last 3 years. In fact , even prior to that for flu treatment. Maybe the MSM are finally waking up?
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It’s interesting that two of the world’s most evil people resemble evil doers from fiction.
Klaus Schwabb = Ernst Stavro Blofeld (James Bond) and Dr Evil (Austin Powers).
Soros = Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars).
Do you have any other comparisons you’d like to add?
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Soros = Davros in old Dr Who – “Genesis of the Daleks”
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Is there anyone in Australia’s TGA (equivalent to US FDA) who is actually medically or biologically competent?
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We’d better all change our printing fonts so we don’t get mis-identified!
“Biden State Department Bans Times New Roman Font. Really.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/01/19/biden-state-department-bans-times-new-roman-font-really-n1663121
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Like all such nonsense from the Left its impossible to tell if it’s a joke, parody or real, but this is real.
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Fact check:
It is true.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-state-department-calibri-times-new-roman-fonts/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/state-department-times-new-roman-calibri.html
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562472/us-state-department-times-new-roman-calibri-accessibility
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/18/state-department-times-new-roman-calibri/
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-state-dept-bars-use-of-times-new-roman-citing-disability-inclusion/
Etc..
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That may be a slightly delayed reaction to the Dan Rather attempt on Bush via a slightly crumpled “type-written” document.
The once useful “Little Green Footballs” blog made it abundantly obvious that the document was totally bogus, because the “Times New Roman” font was NEVER on typewriters, (even the very clever IBM compositors, which had some very interesting capabilities). TNR was invented for computer use WELL AFTER the alleged timeframe of the Bush “transgressions”.
The “info-wars” have moved on a bit in both sophistication and outright statist malice since then.
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Never liked Times New Roman anyway. Mainly an Arial fan.
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So you’re a Trans Serif user?
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You mean he’s sans his serif??
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No to both queries . As I write a lot of tech docs, not keen on Calibri either. Lucinda Sans isnât bad, but often drop back to Arial for everyday stuff – itâs a nice compact typeface and still readable at 10pt.
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Aerial is one of the best.
Courier 10 (IBM golf ball) still favoured by legal fraternity.
Gates wanted to own his own font.
Our ABC invented their own- final cost well over a million oz dollars.
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Surely Trebuchet MS beats Arial.
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Maybe a history lesson?
“Times New Roman. It might not be a big exaggeration to say that every regular computer user is familiar with those three words. Times New Roman was the default font for many years in Microsoft Word and still is part of every font library. But the typeface Times New Roman started some decades prior to the computer age. The journey back to its source leads us to the name Stanley Morison, who was the creator of the typeface. With his person, this essay about the story of Times New Roman shall begin.”
“The Times considers the introduction of Times New Roman in 1932 as their âgreatest change in presentationâ (Driver, 2009).”
https://beatwicki.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/times-new-roman/
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Another corporatist scam, I expect.
The intent appears to be to create a new typeface standard and regulate font design to ensure a licensing monopoly for print and digital publishing.
Market the scam as protection of a victimised minority.
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Interesting post by Craig Kelly on his Telegram channel
https://t.me/craigkelly/3998
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SPRUNG !!!!!
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It makes you wonder just how clueless, or fraudulent, the BoM are. Probably a combination of both.
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What idiot would put a solar panel that close to a major official temp measuring site?
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The installer probably thought it was part of the retric system.
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Good catch by Craig Kelly.
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If the ‘shiny glass’ thing is a solar panel
most of the received radiant heat will be absorbed
rather than reflected.
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After March, when the NSW Libs lose the next state election, all mainland states will be Labor and Australia and it’s globalist, puppet Federal and State Governments will engage Australia in a perfect storm of self-destruction.
There is nothing stopping them then, (not that the NSW Libs are much different to Labor anyway)…
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Whatever is going to happen after the NSW election is going to happen, regardless of who wins. The script has already been written – all that might change is the actors playing the various roles. The fact that we don’t know the script is irrelevant.
We aren’t in The Big Club.
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David:
I have been trying to work out how long your Beloved Leader can last, but financial figures make the BOM look accurate.
I consider that Do Pi Dan will spend, spend, and (for a change) spend.
Also that Public servants will get wages at least as high as the inflation rate.
“It means Victoria spent $17.6 billion more than it made in revenue in the last year, and is expected to keep spending more than it makes for at least four more years. Net debt (Victoria) to be more than a quarter of state’s economy by 2026
As the forecast is for a deficit of 6.7 billion but a rise in State debt of 22 billion by next year, the figures might well come from the BOM.
Economist David Hayward said some of the assumptions were “a bit bold”, including the projected inflation rate, which is already out of date.
If inflation isn’t as low as forecast that means higher wages, higher deficits The state’s credit rating, which has already been downgraded to AA could very likely be lowered which would raise the costs of borrowing.
So, IF all goes well the State will be paying out an extra $5 billion in interest or $758 per person p.a.
Thatâs despite over 60,000 people leaving Melbourne last yearâ the biggest population drop of any capital city.
So I reckon Dan will have a sudden health problem next year that requires him resting overseas on his superannuation. (And not pressure from the Federals with an election coming up).
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Yep, the only way we (Victoria) get rid of that idiot is if he resigns or has some health problem. No-one in the Victorian Labor Party would dare challenge him and the Vic LNP are essentially useless. They cant lay a glove on him and he has protection from the media, both legacy and social. He is immune from any corruption allegation because the police and judiciary are all left leaning. The Chairman will get overconfident though and might over step the mark. Bullying a female fellow politician might get him, but that already happened prior to the state election- and look what happened there. Mind you, if I’m the LNP why would I bother and try to regain government? All the public service , unions and most of the media are against you from day 1. Plus, you would most likely inherit a financial train wreck.
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That’s what I was trying to say. As he comes close to a financial train smash there will be 2 sides against him.
The first is his own side as they come towards an election (like Jacinda).
The second would be the Federals who will make their own mess, so they won’t bail him out (as then PalaceChook and what’s his name in NSW will be wanting “their share”) and his odour in Victoria could swing the whole Federal set-up.
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How dodgy was the PennBidenCenter?
Supposedly dedicated to “Diplomacy and Global Engagement”, it’s where Joe Biden ‘inadvertently’ stored some of the USA’s Top Secret documents.
Did foreign nationals ‘inadvertently stumble’ on said documents while they were visiting the site for ‘outwardly’ legitimate business?
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I too used to think that if we grew more trees CO2 would go down. It made sense. Tony Abbott had a tree planting program which was stopped by the warmists in Rudd and Gillard.
However I wondered how much fossil fuel CO2 was in the air because it should be easily determined. Modern air has radioactive C14 and fossil fuel has none. Use the tool used by all archeologists and Radio Carbon date the air itself! . It should come up 33% old CO2.
Then I found the 1958 Fergusson paper, a Royal Society paper using Radio Carbon Dating, the technology which won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960. This paper accurately determined fossil fuel CO2 was a tiny 2.03+/-0.15%, far less than expected. Since then it has increased to just under 3%. We even now know the deep ocean is in full operation in maintaining CO2 levels, something denied by the IPCC. The age of the water at the bottom of the ocean is only 350 years, not thousands.
The next discovery was that 98% of CO2 was stored as compressed liquid gas in the ocean under immense pressure as it is so soluble and so compressible, a gigantic soda fountain! So the tiny amount we get in the atmosphere is just the amount released from solution under Henry’s Law and there the only variable is surface temperature. We can plant as many trees as we like, CO2 will just be replaced like a hot house.
That should have been the end of it. This is all very old proven science. An infinite resource of CO2. Warming increases CO2. Everything explained simply. No problem, or at least nothing we can do anything about. CO2 was low anyway, so the world of plants is blooming as confirmed by NASA in exact proportion to the increased CO2.
But the story of man made CO2 warming still continues as fact. And now it’s claimed to be Proven Science, no debate allowed. Except none of it is true.
It’s Aritotles voice of authority fallacy. And the authority is every political party, all slaves to the UN, the ultimate job for retired politicians. Watch for Jacinda Ardern to pop up in New York like Helen Clarke. And you do not even have to be elected! As for carbon credits, they are as useful as medieval indulgences in preventing hell fire and brimstone. It’s the original medieval scare. And even the Pope agrees it is true. Again.
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And also in passing, I am fascinated at how the profiteers of doom in the Middle Ages and today recognize that people have a fear of fire. So the fires of Hell still motivate. It was a concept which possibly came from Egypt, not Christianity. And Global Warming Carbon Credits are perfect. Just pay up and you will save yourself, your children and grand children. Pope Francis says so. The Popes have always been champions of science.
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And as predicted there has really been a mass migration Climate Change. Older people with lots of money are fleeing in their millions to warmer places with air conditioning Climate Control. If you want to adjust the temperature by 1.5C, just drive 100K. Or move to a higher elevation, 150 metres higher or lower.
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“The Debaters is a comedy show on CBC radio. Itâs OK sometimes.
Todayâs debate was âInsects are the future of foodâ.
Nikki Payne argued against this position. She made good points:
âThereâs not enough parsley in the world to make these things look edibleâ.
âSo weâre gonna starve out the bird population to save the planet? Good job David Suzukiâ.
âNow we are supposed to eat things that live under our sinks? Landlords will raise the rent because itâs now a bed and breakfastâ.
The host asked: âWhy do experts say we should not eat slugs and snails?â
She responds âBecause theyâre slugs and snailsâ.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thedebaters/jan-20-2023-eating-insects-quit-your-day-job-1.6720063/insects-are-the-future-of-food-1.6720072
(My spacing of the original paragraph)
Via SDA
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The first of many to follow.
https://www.carscoops.com/2023/01/norwegian-shipping-company-bans-electrified-vehicles-over-fire-fears/
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