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Newly Uncovered Documents – Relating to the 737 MAX Disasters
https://www.foundationforaviationsafety.org/max-documents-august-2024
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New Boeing Whistleblower Docs Reveal Confusion And Chaos At Factory That Built Two Doomed 737 MAX Planes
New documents released Thursday reveal that ‘confusion and chaos’ reigned in the company’s Renton factory that built two 737 MAX planes that later crashed, killing 346 people in 2018 and 2019, the Seattle Times reports.
According to a prominent whistleblower Ed Pierson, production issues from back then still affect MAX planes flying today. The new documents reveal multiple electrical issues that were discovered as Boeing assembled the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed in 2019.
The Times notes that in 2018, the FAA found that employees in another Boeing facility in Everett, WA – where electrical components for integration – had been pushed to move to fast, and produced defective pieces.
Communications between Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines show the plane that later crashed experienced an in-flight safety incident months before the fatal accident. Boeing told the airline that the December 2018 incident was likely the result of an electrical error, the records show.
The whistleblower, Pierson, said the records and the earlier safety incident bolster his view that the deadly crash of the Ethiopian jet may have been initiated by an electrical problem. That problem traces back to production issues with electrical wire bundles that Pierson has highlighted.
Pierson, who worked at Boeing for more than a decade and served as a senior manager coordinating fixes for assembly problems on the 737 program, released the new documents through an advocacy group he formed after the crashes, the Foundation for Aviation Safety – and said that Boeing withheld the documents from regulatory investigators looking into the two deadly crashes.
Following the deadly incidents, he repeatedly alleged that manufacturing defects played a role.
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“Did nobody stop to think what might happen in an emergency in space?”
“Two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station after their Boeing spacecraft malfunctioned could be there much longer than anticipated because of an incompatibility with their spacesuits.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/08/did-nobody-stop-to-think-what-might.html
There is an older generation usage of “struck” as in animals that have become addicted to Darling pea being referred to as “pea-struck”.
Maybe Boeing is “woke-struck”?
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Simple problems!
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/us/jet-s-fuel-ran-out-after-metric-conversion-errors.html
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Reading that I thought “But that happened before to the Gimli Glider” but then noted the date.
Where’s the relevance?
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But back in 1983 people could think and do basic maths and had calculators, so how could they miss by 50%???
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Not about missing its about assumptions and mindsets and sloppiness during a major change.
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Also on ‘our’ BBC [well, we have to pay a TV licence fee] …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy3lxqlwl1o
“Ex-Boeing staff claims electrical faults ‘concealed'”
Interesting snippet –
“The documents, which are highly technical, set out problems encountered during the construction process.”
Talking about documents published by the Foundation for Aviation Safety.
BBC may have seen them – but they may as well have been written in Linear-B for all the Beeb understands, I conclude.
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Explanation of Documents
1st Group of Documents – Shipside Action Tracker Records Line #7243 (ET302 Airplane) – 5 Pages
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July 29, 2024
Ms. Jennifer .L Homendy – Chair, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) 490 L’Enfant Plaza, SW Washington, DC 20594
Re: Boeing 737 MAX Crash Investigations &Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Accident Investigation
Ms. Homendy,
Enclosed are airplane records that Boeing and the FAA should have shared over five years ago with the NTSB and other government agencies listed in the cc line below.
Sincerely,
Ed Pierson
Enclosures:
1. SAT records for Boeing Line #7243 (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 airplane)
2. FAA Whistleblower Investigation Report ref: Boeing ESRC in Everett Washington 3. Record of communications between Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines ni Dec 2018
cc: DOJ, FBI, SEC, DOT, FAA, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Michael Stumo, Nadia Milleron, Ike Riffel, Chris Moore, Naoise Connolly, Javier de Luis, Catherine Berthet, Joe Jacobsen, Paul Cassell
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No, you don’t. They’re illegal.
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Forward – Vote Wisely
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Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels
We are often told that wind and solar, if not cheaper, are at least cost competitive with fossil fuels. Dead wrong! Wind or solar costs around five times more per megawatt hour compared to, for example, natural gas.
We are told that wind and solar will save us from a climate catastrophe. If there is a looming climate catastrophe, the only thing that will save us is nuclear power. Wind and solar are incredibly expensive methods of reducing CO2 emissions. The more wind and solar you build, the cost of removing CO2 increases disproportionately.
The U.S. has wasted $1.5 trillion on wind and solar and for that money only a little more than 10% of our electricity comes from wind and solar.
Fossil fuels are not dirty. Modern natural gas or coal plants are environmentally pristine. CO2 is not a pollutant, but an aerial plant food that is greening the Earth. CO2 makes plants grow faster with less water.
Wind or solar electricity is not worth what it costs to create it. It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. That is a generally accepted economic principle.
If the government requires a utility to purchase some amount of electricity at some price, that is not a free market. That is central planning. Central planning has a role, but it rarely works as well as the voluntary exchange of goods and services. Central planning creates unexpected twists and turns and often results in low productivity.
I will first discuss the value of wind and solar electricity in a free market and then discuss the effect of extensive government interventions via subsidies and mandates.
– LCOE, the levelized cost of electricity
– The Departure From a Free Market
– Justifications for Massive Subsidies
Finally, the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere has greened the Earth and substantially increased agricultural production. CO2 is aerial plant food.
When will the nation wake up and stop the bleeding?
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Flameout Of Renewable Delusions = FORD
Because, boy, oh, boy – has that company’s valiant effort to ride the government green grift to filthy corporate lucre heaven exploded in spectacular fashion.
So much so that the flaming fall-out is going to be harder to extinguish than a semi-truckload of lithium-ion batteries in thermal runaway on the side of the interstate.
For starters, Ford is still in the process of building out its West Tennessee “Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center”, aka BlueOval City. When announced in 2021, the TN campus Ford envisioned would contain not only a new electric vehicle manufacturing plant but also an adjacent battery manufacturing facility that would keep most of the EV production in-house.
Ford talked a big game about job creation and TN legislators, both local and state, bit on the deal, offering significant incentives for the company to locate its next-gen operations there.
Wednesday’s news from Ford also contained program plans that impacted the TN plant, as the debut date for a super-secret electric truck (code-named: Project T3) scheduled to be built at the BlueOval City plant was delayed to the latter part of 2027, instead of the expected 2025 roll-out. Ford has been reassuring local officials and unions alike that they have every intention of building the vehicle there as agreed to…eventually.
No doubt, the thought of being on the hook defaulting on the substantial TN tax incentives they received is something Ford would like to avoid if they could.
The incentives Ford received and accepted to begin construction are all based on the big initial numbers.
Production of Ford Motor Company’s electric next-generation pickup truck at its new West Tennessee plant will be delayed until 2027, the company announced Wednesday.
Construction on the new campus continues, and the Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center where the truck will be manufactured still plans to employ 3,000 workers, a Ford spokesperson confirmed. The campus’ battery plant — a joint venture between Ford and SK — will make up the remaining jobs needed to fulfill Ford’s promise that the campus would create 5,800 jobs.
Tennessee lawmakers approved nearly $1 billion for the $5.6 billion project three years ago.
BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, based in Calhoun County’s Marshall, is under construction now. It is among the most expensive EV-related projects announced for the state.
The original price tag was $3.5 billion before Ford said in late 2023 it would downshift its plans. The move was expected to trim at least $1 billion from the investment.
At the same time, Michigan’s stake in the Marshall deal totals $2.2 billion in incentives.
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A big problem for those type of zaibatsu’s are that they recruit the top of their classes from the universities. These are starry eyed kids who got to the top of their class by doing what they were told to do. They don’t question what the professors tell them. They believed the BS. They never failed at anything, because they learned to game the system, so they don’t know what it takes to really succeed. They also have always been insulated from the consequences of failure.
They are not the worst of the pool though. Worse are the ones who become the next generation of professors.
The old school engineers and managers are gone now.
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Dave,
Please do not give in and write about defeat.
This social engineering has to be opposed strongly and persistently.
The reason is that the older system worked well and should not be replaced.
Geoff S
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Another “Edsel” moment for Ford.
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Always worried when I see folks attempting to compare different energy source costs using LCOE. LCOE is only calculated over the fuel source’s expected lifetime, so CANNOT be used to compare energy sources that have different lifetimes. The correct method is to compare all costs over the longest energy source lifetime.
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UK winter coming up, so energy prices up 10%.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qgy11w5dyo.amp
Heads in sand, BBC and most of the politicians are still saying we need more windmills/solar to lower bills.
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1826923128645128430
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Britain is famously sunny, even in mid winter and at night. Thankfully then, a variety of groups have failed in their bid to overturn plans for what would be Europe’s largest solar farm covering some 2500 acres of farmland.
Obviously food just magically appears in supermarkets, so difficult to know why farmland is considered so important and why anyone would want to overturn a multi billion pound project that would provide power for around a huge 10% of the 24 hour day
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1939631/Tories-Labour-Solar-Farm-Net-Zero-UK
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Via their BBC radio yesterday, a young African woman (from Kenya maybe?) was attempting to sell the benefits of a recently commissioned ‘carbon capture’ money pit built directly above the Rift Zone.
Fancy, and expensive, tubes would ‘extract carbon directly from the air’, then after some majick tricks, pump the ‘pollution’ deep into the Earth’s active fracture zone to ‘clean the air’ above it. I’m no chemist yet I recognise voodoo profiteering when I smell it.
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I won’t pretend to know the background to this but surely offering a menu to one group is racist?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13759565/Canberra-Hospital-Aboriginal-lounge-menu-mob.html
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But Sky News host Andrew Bolt accused the hospital of offering an ‘ap@rtheid menu’.
‘Why are we separating people by race like this? In a public hospital for all Australians of all races, paid for by Australians of all races,’ he fumed.
‘How on earth does the ACT Labor government and the Albanese Labor government justify funding this ap@rtheid, this kind of state racism, to divide us by race, to care for us by race, even to feed us by race?’
Mr Bolt added: ‘If you’re concerned about racism, be concerned about this.’
Poll
Do you think Canberra Hospital’s Aboriginal lounge is the ‘right thing to do?’
Yes, it makes Indigenous patients feel more safe and supported 9% 162 votes
No, it’s ‘separating people by race’ 91% 1,742 votes
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I can not begin to see the attraction of fast food restaurants, horrible unimaginative food presented in overcrowded corporate surroundings and not that cheap. Why people think getting a MacDonalds is a treat is equally beyond me. However it seems that what with inflation the business model is starting to fray
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fast-food-restaurants-fight-keep-customers-food-and-wage-costs-spike
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I expect this has played more in the UK than in OZ but the sheer irony of this blows the mind
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13772913/tributes-paid-hannah-lynch.html
2 weeks ago Mike Lynch was giving interviews following his acquittal of fraud regarding a co he sold for tens of billions. . To escape from US prosecutors clutches is very unusual and took an 6 year struggle using his own money. Then not only does he die in a terrible tragedy but his co defendant was killed in a car accident at the same time. In the old days this would have been seen as divine intervention and retribution.
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Lynch, his lawyer, co-defendant and his daughter.
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Retribution for what ?
..and i certainly cant imagin his daughter deserved such a tragic death .
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The first morning, when I saw pics of the vessel, I thought it was overpowered for cruising.
Someone said it has the second highest mast in some group I didn’t pick up on. Reading further it has a movable keel and a flat bottom. This is a high performance yacht so should not have had waterline hatches for launching jet skis etc. There is always conflict between stability/safety and performance. esysman is knowledgeable and has done a few blogs about it.
The Italian police are investigating the Master, as they should.
A tragedy. Condolences to the survivors and families.
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https://www.ft.com/content/551b0b6d-2121-4d63-9563-dcd67722c1e0
An experienced boat captain whose ship was anchored close to Mike Lynch’s superyacht when it sank in a violent storm off the coast of Sicily on Monday has said the stricken vessel appeared to capsize because of its extremely high mast.
“In my opinion there is something wrong with the stability,” Dutch skipper Karsten Börner told the FT about the sinking of the 540-tonne Bayesian, which caused the deaths of the UK technology entrepreneur and six others, including Lynch’s daughter.
“The centre of gravity is too high with this extreme mast,” said Börner, referring to the tallest aluminium boat mast in the world.
He rejected an initial assessment by the Italian coastguard that Bayesian was “in the wrong spot at the wrong time”. He said: “I was on the same spot. I have two masts and they are 28 and 29 metres above deck, she has one, 73 metres above deck.”
https://www.ft.com/content/551b0b6d-2121-4d63-9563-dcd67722c1e0
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It’s not only the British government that hates it’s citizens, the US government hates US citizens too:
Oregon is offering $30,000 for illegal aliens to buy homes. This program is not open to American citizens. Only illegals.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1826687050499953058?t=IQSDBv2JitlbMy8INTf3Ew&s=19
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A grand experiment in globalising identity politics.
Just as Neocons showed US elites how corrupting democracy can maintain profits from foreign wars and catastrophism, the globalist Neo-Jacobins are learning how identity politics accelerates the corruption and the profits.
It won’t end well.
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BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has just CONFIRMED that noncitizens are getting registered to vote across the state. His undercover investigators caught various Democrat-linked NGOs giving voter registration forms to people at DMV locations
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Colour me shocked, shocked to the core.
Auto
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That should be jail time for the registrars and the registrees.
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It would be a stupid brave person to back against a Trump win in Nov by interfering with the election, so he should stress that when elected he will investigate electoral malpractice with real jail time for the guilty citizens and expulsion for aliens.
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Climate Hoaxers Baffled over Record Atlantic Ocean Cooling
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/5956/climate-hoaxers-baffled-atlantic-cooling
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Interesting that there are no actual temperatures given in the article.
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Australia is again the laughing stock of the world (check out numerous online commentaries) since it has been decided in court that biological males who identify as females can join biological women’s-only spaces.
Therefore, legally, there can be no exclusive space for biological females.
This means biological males who identify as females can join any group of biological women who wanted to keep their space especially for biological females, e.g. sports, social media Apps, change rooms and rest rooms, and I’m guessing prisons and many other institutions or social groups.
The relevant case is Tickle vs Giggle.
After over a century of progress in women’s rights, all of a sudden women have no rights of self-identification or freedom of association.
As expected, the Lamestream media are ignoring the implications of this case but Sky News Australia comments.
The implications of this case are profound for biological females and society more generally:
Sky News video:
https://youtu.be/7tJn6WeBrFE
Ultimately the legal reasoning appears to come down to Julia Gillard’s alteration in 2013 of the Sex Discrimination Act to redefine sex/gender away from biology and define it in terms of self-identification, not biology.
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David, we need to keep up with the Latest & get with the Times!
‘Abrosexual’ identity takes hold as more people embrace the term: ‘Finally, I feel seen’
More people are identifying as “abrosexual” as they discover the term on social media.
An abrosexual is a person whose sexuality changes over time. A person may be attracted to different genders at different times of their life or have varying levels of sexual attraction.
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There’s an older word for the same thing: oversexed.
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The judgement:
Para 55: “On the proper construction of s 5, the Commissioner submits, and I accept, the following propositions grounded in logic and long-standing authority. First, sex is not confined to being a biological concept referring to whether a person at birth had male or female physical traits, nor confined to being a binary concept, limited to the male or female sex, but rather takes a broader ordinary meaning, informed by its use, including in State and Territory legislation.”
56: “Secondly, and accordingly, sex can refer to a person being male, female, or another non-binary status and also encompasses the idea that a person’s sex can be changed, …”
62: “I need go no further than accept, as I do, that it is legally sufficient that Ms Tickle is recorded as female on her updated Queensland birth certificate for her to be, at law, of the female sex.” … “…in its contemporary ordinary meaning, sex is changeable.”
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Surely this ruling is transportable (once the case is made) to the argument that age therefore is also “changeable” particularly given that science already supports the concept of a physical age and an actual age.
The purpose of the pension (and super) is to support people who, due to their age, are in a state whereby they would find work more and more demanding on their physical abilities. We have (or had) disability considerations for working people who had a disability where they were given a % of the fully able bodied persons wage (guess this has well and truly gone now days) so again the case for accepting limitations on working ability are fully established.
Sooooo people in late 50s who have a physical age of a 68-70+ year old should have the right to get the pension and access to their super.
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Earl, I am amazed they haven’t already tried to make that case. Since some minority groups have shorter life expectancy, there would be some fairness in suggesting they be allowed to retire earlier and get the pension earlier. It’s discrimination!
And “fair”, I mean, except for that there are a hundred other variables people have control over, and race is now a blended continuum with infinite divisions, and even within a pure race, there are genes that affect longevity too. Where do we stop?
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Actually a claim has already been lodged but federal court rejected it.
I reckon all 57+ at least should band together and give it a go just to keep the stupidity going and help the mission to bankrupt the west. Cheers
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Yes I saw that too and groaned “here we go…”
An open invitation for sick men to pretend to be women and perv on females anywhere and everywhere.
1 step forward, 2 steps back. Welcome to the USA.
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The 2024 presidential election race is about to take its next unexpected turn…
“Democrats have become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money wanting to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.
I left the party to run as an independent…
The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for VP Harris based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates. Only smoke and mirrors.”
“A Chicago circus that is based on NOTHING. Who needs a policy if you hate Donald Trump?”
“How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?” Kennedy asked.
“We know the answer: They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters. What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies.”
I throw my support behind Donald Trump.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-addresses-nation
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We just had a very nice endorsement from RFK JR!”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvO3s8kFdiU
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Incredibly powerful speech. Thanks for the link.
The notion of having two leaders openly disagreeing on issues is the essence of democracy. I can only hope RFK Jr and Trump form a powerful and winning alliance.
Covid was Trump’s undoing. He was being rat-holed by Fauci. Imagine if RFK had been Trump’s adviser on health rather than Fauci.
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Novo Nordisk is now the biggest company in Europe. All based on the potential USD3tr per year to fix the USA’s obesity problem. Gates and Novo Nordisk have linked up on research.
Hard to know how much Novo Nordisk has contributed to the Harris campaign but there are current negations on nationalising the cost of Ozempic.
You could imagine the corporate angst against RFK Jr parting ways with the Democrat machine.
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TRANSCRIPT: Every Word of RFK Jr’s Epic Anti-Establishment Speech
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Kennedy has described the cynical and anti- democratic ploy on the part of the Democrats perfectly. Increasingly we see – throughout the West – the union of left wing pollies with big corporations at the expense of the ordinary citizen and the the free play of democracy.
I really believe we have the fight of our lives to preserve our liberty and principles such as freedom of speech. The internet may be critical in this struggle.
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Be careful what you say – the Big Brother e-Safety Commissar may be watching!
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A suitable shirt that goes with Chiefio’s “far extreme centralist” designation –
” a man walked past and said, “I absolutely love your shirt!”
It reads, “Proud member of a small fringe minority with unacceptable views”. ”
Via a comment at SDA
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Chris Cuomo rips ‘pay to play’ as DNC luxury suites go for $5M: ‘Same people they say they are going to regulate’
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Chris Cuomo Snaps Over Corporate Luxury Suites ‘Looking Down’ at DNC Floor: ‘We Are Strangled by Money’ | Video
“A big theme here is that they’re going to go after corporate entities,” the NewsNation host says, pointing up. “They are literally looking down on the faithful”
Chris Cuomo had a moment of clarity at the Democratic National Convention, where the NewsNation anchor went on a sizzling rant about the rise of corporate millions that fuel national elections, with their ring of luxury suites “literally looking down on the faithful” as a backdrop.
“A big theme here at the DNC is that they’re going to go after corporate entities,” Cuomo said. “We heard the same thing from the RNC — going after elites and the two sets of rules. But let me reveal a reality to you that needs to be spoken here, OK?”
The former CNN anchor then had his producer point the camera up at the lofty levels of the United Center, where he said luxury boxes went for upwards of $1 million.
“There’s another reality literally looking down on us,” Cuomo said. “Look at the suites. This is not unique to the Democrats — this is about money. When people talk about the party, we are strangled by money.”
Cuomo noted that in 2000, corporations spent $300 million on presidential campaigns. Just forward 24 years and that number is expected to be $10 billion.
“Do you think there’s a teacher group up in there? Do you think it’s the Cub Scouts of Columbia County, South Carolina, up in those boxes? No,” a fiery Cuomo said. “Those boxes are filled with the same people they say they’re going to regulate. They are literally looking down on the faithful.”
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Democrat billionaires at the DNC want you to know: Billionaires are eeeeeevil
By Post Editorial Board
If there’s one thing Democrats hate hate hate, it’s those evil, greedy billionaires ruining the country for everybody else!
Just witness socialist screecher Bernie Sanders railing against them at the DNC, with a heavy-breathing speech about how we need an economy that works for everyone, something that Donald Trump — himself an evil billionaire — can’t deliver.
Except that, right after Bernie, hard-left Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker came out to brag about how rich he was — flashing his inherited wealth (about $3.5 billion worth, specifically) with a claim he’s richer than Trump.
Huh?
And it’s not like billionaires were absent on other nights, either.
Michelle Obama took a similar line to Comrade Bernie, claiming nominee Kamala Harris understands people who will “never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.”
This from a woman worth in combination with her husband an estimated $70 million.
Mighty odd, considering she also said in her speech how “suspicious” her parents were of “folks who took more than they needed.”
Is owning four luxury homes, including a nearly $12 million Martha’s Vineyard mansion, taking more than you need?
And of course the Obama daughters are set up with $10 million or so each in “generational wealth.”
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Democrats’ new way forward, one lie at a time
Who cares about truth when you’re spreading so much joy?
The lies were thick and fast all week at the Democratic National Convention, but never so blatantly as they were in Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech.
The Democratic presidential nominee accused her opponent, former President Donald Trump, of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare (he has not); being weak on border enforcement (he had it under control before President Biden and Ms. Harris took office) and sending an “armed mob” to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (they weren’t armed).
She also promised in true Marxist fashion a “new way forward,” as if she were not part of the current regime, which has pushed collectivism, caused economic misery, stoked racial animus and signaled weakness to our enemies.
She apparently thought it was cute to cite her mother’s admonition not to go about things “half-assed.”
How about full-bore, scorched-earth Marxism? This includes blowing pixie dust at “the middle class,” the hapless taxpayers that Democrats profess to love while looting them.
Speaking of Marxists, former first lady Michelle Obama, whose net worth is somewhere north of $70 million, employed class envy and other divisive memes. She accused Mr. Trump of pushing “ugly, misogynistic, racist lies” and of “demonizing” children. She was talking about the sexually confused minors that progressive Democrats are drugging and sterilizing. Mr. Trump has said he will put an end to this evil quackery.
The biggest lie we’ve been told for the past 3½ years was that Mr. Biden was sharp as a tack, that his age was irrelevant.
Before the coup toppled him as the presumed nominee, Democratic elites and their media were all in.
In February, the cat was out of the bag. Special counsel Robert Hur said Mr. Biden misappropriated classified documents, but that he would not prosecute him because a jury would see him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
Ouch. So the Democrats sprang into action, swearing to Mr. Biden’s sharpness. This one is my favorite:
Mitch Landrieu, a former senior adviser to Mr. Biden who co-chaired his reelection campaign, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that “this kind of sense that he’s not ready for this job is just a bucket of BS. It’s so deep [that] your boots will get stuck under.”
With what we know now, Mr. Landrieu must be walking around barefoot, his boots still under that bucket. He and everybody around Mr. Biden had covered up his condition for years, including Ms. Harris.
So it was rich to see Democrats at the convention ridicule Mr. Trump for his age, as if he were as frail and mentally compromised as Mr. Biden.
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Vicki,
“Union of left wing pollies with large corporations”…
This paints large corporations with the same bad brush when today there are different types of big corporations.
A big corporation is the final, desired outcome in the free enterprise system. That is good.
But there are big corporations like social media that are built on nothing more tangible than the efficient transfer of money from person to corporation.
The latter do not have the property of generation of a product or original new wealth. Somehow, their controlling interests imagine that success in taking money from people is a licence to meddle – and meddle they do.
Please do not confuse them with the good corporate entities like say Ford or IBM who produce tangible goods without meddling (much). Geoff S
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That’s been big news here in the UK. The person was interviewed and didn’t sound very feminine. As you say, big implications for biological females and society in general
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/secret-service-headquarters-ordered-agents-not-request-additional/
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The testimony would therefore appear to be truthful in a lying by omission sort of way.
Resources were not denied because they were never requested.
Just omit the bit about commanding underlings not to make requests.
Who would ever ask a question about such an omission.
And if such a question was asked the witness would respond that they had no recollection.
And of course there would be no evidence that such an order was ever issued.
Unless somebody blabbed.
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Shocking propaganda rag shows it’s true colours again:
Royal Society facing calls to expel Elon Musk amid concerns about conduct
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/23/royal-society-facing-calls-to-expel-elon-musk-amid-concerns-about-conduct
According to this rag even the bleeding obvious is a conspiracy theory.
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Lol! Go for it! It will show more about the completely irrelevant Royal Society than about Musk, they need him more than he needs them.
They are part of the censorship regime problems we have, I don’t remember them calling for real science to be used over the covid internments.
““When speaking or publicising statements in a personal capacity, Fellows and Foreign Members must still strive to uphold the reputation of the Society and those who work in it, and be mindful that what is said or stated in a personal capacity could still impact the Society.””
They knew what they were getting then they asked him to join, and without these celebrities being pulled in for their 5minutes of fame, no-one would know who the Royal Society was.
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The Guardian would loved to have said ‘far right thugs’, but cooler heads prevailed and we end up with far right protestors.
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John Carney@carney
This is far more damning that people understand.
It means that the Commerce Secretary was unaware of an enormously important piece of economic data that everyone in financial markets was anticipating.
But she is aware of Trump’s Truth Social posts.
That’s very bad.
New York Post@nypost
Commerce Sec doesn’t ‘believe’ news of grim job revisions because Trump said it: ‘I’m not familiar with that’ https://trib.al/KDYqMJS
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It was a plot to fool people into thinking Beyoncé was going to show up, so the audience wouldn’t leave early and empty out the stadium leaving Kamala Harris with an empty stadium. That’s what the Democrats is all about, lies. 👅
Nolte: The DNC Beyoncé Hoax Tells Us Kamala’s Campaign Is Desperate
If the Kamala Harris campaign will lie about a Beyoncé appearance, what won’t they lie about?
John LeFevre@JohnLeFevre
This is shameful.
Kamala’s senior political director and strategist, @emmyruiz, was behind the rumors that Beyoncé was going to show up at the DNC.
They tricked people into watching for a ratings boost, and then joked about it.
Someone told TMZ that Beyoncé would be a surprise guest at Thursday night’s Democrat National Convention just prior to Kamala Harris’ big speech, the one where she accepted a nomination where she didn’t earn a single vote.
Only a fool would believe a coordinated Beyoncé lie was birthed anywhere but by a mercenary Kamala Harris campaign; the same one that booted Joe Biden out of the nomination and has been hiding from the media for some 30 days.
To paraphrase Donald Sutherland’s character in JFK (1991)… Why? Why was the Beyoncé lie told? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who…?
The answers are obvious. Why was the Beyoncé lie told? To juice the lackluster convention viewership numbers. Who benefits? Only the Democrats and Kamala Harris benefitted from the legions of people who would not watch otherwise and were then suckered into tuning in to watch something they normally wouldn’t: the Democrat party’s propaganda and Kamala’s speech. Who has the power to cover it up? Only the Democrat party.
Democrats know the corporate media will do anything to cover up their sins. A Republican could never get away with this.
It’s not just me. Here is a story that dropped last night as the hoax unfurled:
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Democrats Lean on Aging Obama-Era Hollywood Celebrities on Final Night of DNC
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Eat Your Heart Out Heels Up Kamala – Boy What a Crowd!
President Trump Introduces RFK Jr to a Rockstar Welcome in Arizona
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How AI is improving our lives
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RcCOxMozlqc
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FWIW –
“FDA Approves Fresh Round of COVID Vaccines… But Americans Simply Aren’t Interested”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/fda-approves-fresh-round-covid-vaccines-americans-simply/
Awaiting TGA “approval”?
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Pot, Kettle, Black by Democraps after what their LawFare has thrown at President Fonald Trump & His Supporters
Feds trying to ‘slime’ Hunter Biden with evidence of strippers, porn at upcoming tax trial: lawyer
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Kamala’s brother-in-law fleeced taxpayers for billions to give to left-wing groups and lawyers
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may be the current world-class champ of presidential-family shady dealings, but not for long.
If Kamala Harris wins the White House, her brother-in-law, Tony West, who is married to her sister Maya, is poised to claim the crooked crown.
Like Hunter, West learned his craft in the Obama years.
Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19th-early 20th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.”
It was simple.
Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000.
This preserved the Constitutional requirement that Congress control the government’s purse.
But in that year, seeking relief from the burgeoning volume of suits to review, Congress removed the cap, handing the Justice Department a permanent blank check to pay settlements unilaterally, in any amount, out of an account known as the Judgment Fund.
Run by the Treasury Department, the Judgment Fund’s secrecy is so complete that our often-penetrated CIA might study it for lessons.
The limited data released omits recipients, the facts underlying the case, and often the lawyers involved.
By statute, attorneys’ fees awarded need not be disclosed.
A Government Accountability Office study concluded that “no one knows the number of claims processed by the federal government each year.”
Still, for three decades, the integrity of Justice’s officials sufficed to prevent abuse.
Then, in 2009, Tony West took over the department’s Civil Division, the division that litigates and settles lawsuits.
Once West arrived, his deputy emailed colleagues asking “can you explain to Tony the best way to allocate some money toward an organization of our choosing?”
Settlements became the vehicle for paying off political allies.
For example, in late 2010, after a Supreme Court victory, DOJ lawyers were on the cusp of winning a decade-long fight against discrimination claims by 91 Hispanic and female farmers.
That’s when West intervened and, as The New York Times put it, “engineered a stunning turnabout.”
DOJ agreed to a $1.33 billion settlement which included thousands of farmers who had never claimed bias.
The deal was made over the “vehement objections” of the department’s career lawyers.
The Times’s investigative report described West’s settlement as a “runaway train, driven by racial politics . . . and law firms that stand to gain more than $130 million in fees.”
The projected settlement size ballooned to over $4.4 billion as additional plaintiffs were added, including Native American farmers.
The government’s statistical expert was appalled: “‘If they had gone to trial, the government would have prevailed . . . It was just a joke. . . . I was so disgusted. It was simply buying the support of the Native American
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But West did not just bilk taxpayers. He shook down corporations, too.
In a series of bank settlements, his team added increasingly aggressive provisions requiring the institutions to make nearly a billion dollars in mandatory donations to Democrat-supporting activist groups.
Donations were given double credit against required targets, incentivizing these payments over direct relief to victims of the housing crises.
West’s team specifically structured the terms to ensure that they would benefit only their political allies while leaving conservative groups ineligible.
An internal email shows West deputies rewording a settlement’s donation provisions to ensure the bank could not select a “conservative” property rights organization as a recipient.
Over time, West grew even more brazen.
A 2016 Volkswagen settlement required the company to fund a $2 billion White House electric car initiative that Congress had specifically rejected.
In this legal shakedown, California’s attorney general at the time, Kamala Harris, was an active participant, cosigning the agreements for her state.
The Biden-Harris Administration has continued West’s “Honest Graft” tactics to reward political allies on the taxpayers’ dime.
In 2021, a billion-dollar settlement with illegal immigrants claiming emotional distress was scotched only after public outcry.
Even then, DOJ quietly agreed to pay attorneys’ fees to the ACLU lawyers in the long-running case.
Recently, the Department agreed to pay $2 million to FBI Agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for releasing their anti-Trump texts to Congressional investigators worried about political bias.
The pair claimed a violation of the Privacy Act, but the messages were sent on their government-issue phones which contain clear banner warnings that users lack any reasonable expectation of privacy.
DOJ had ample basis to litigate this case to completion before surrendering hard earned tax dollars to the disgraced FBI agents.
This form of civic corruption is not bipartisan.
At the start of his administration, President Trump’s Attorney General banned settlement slush funds, while one of the early acts of the Biden-Harris DOJ was to rescind that ban.
Democrats have used this year’s convention to cry that Donald Trump is in this race only for himself, though not one of their many court cases against him charges misdirected government funds.
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“At the start of his administration, President Trump’s Attorney General banned settlement slush funds, while one of the early acts of the Biden-Harris DOJ was to rescind that ban.”
So there were billions of reasons to get Trump out of the Whitehouse and to keep him out.
The climate slush funds world wide are probably far more lucrative yet. No wonder we have an ongoing climate emergency.
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Remarkably similar to some millions in compensation settlement paid by the Australian Commonwealth right after a recent change of government … paid to the person who might have had some influence in that change of government.
Makes you wonder.
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The evil seems to be especially concentrated in a remarkably small cabal.
At some stage the schemes will collapse having done enormous damage to government integrity and finances.
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“The evil seems to be especially concentrated in a remarkably small cabal.”
Tip of the iceberg I’ll bet!
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Redflow flow battery company has just gone under, calling in the administrators. Sone time ago their flow batteries were quickly removed from the Bass Strait islands, without any full explanation as to why they were suddenly taken out of service.
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Announcement 23 August 2024:
This strategic plan requires significant capital.
Over the past nine months Redflow has engaged with a number of state and federal governments
and agencies that confirmed that significant Government support was available to fund the Redfow
plan.
In order to access these funds, however, Redflow required significant “matching funding” from the
Australian capital markets.
Based on encouraging external financial advice, Redflow considered and pursued the equity funding sources available to it, but in the current market, has been unable to attract the required equity support.
In the absence of such support, the Directors believe that Redflow is unable to continue as a going concern and have no option but to place the Redflow Group into voluntary administration.
The Administrators will now undertake a review and assessment of Redflow’s business and
financial position before making recommendations as to the future of Redflow. Redflow will work
with the Administrators to engage with parties to build on what Redflow has developed to date.
While Redflow is in administration, trading of shares in Redflow will be suspended. Shareholders
will be unable to transfer their shares during this time.
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Are they also in the home storage battery market ?….”Redox” ?
Not good for customers.
https://www.solarchoice.net.au/products/batteries/redflow-review/
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I’m.not aware of any large battery installation that uses Redflow batteries. It was mentioned that they were trying to setup a deal with the Qld govt to supply they battery system.
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When it comes to energy intensive manufacturing, China will always win. There are no CO2 demons in China.
China burns coal as fast as it can dig it up and ship it in. They now have 7m high long wall roof chocks. These monster must do wonders to long wall coal mining productivity.
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FWIW
“Improving YOUR Online Security”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251894
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Ron Paul’s epic speech “What if…” from 2009
https://x.com/AnarchoXP/status/1826032154830348548
Once upon a time the business of America was business.
Now the business of America is war.
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You’ve got to be good at that to corner the market.
Otherwise you’re advertising for those who are good
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FWIW
“This Slam Poetry Performance at The DNC Is An EMBARRASSMENT To Art”
https://youtu.be/1IpMEVEDwEY
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Maybe Raygun could have backed it up with some interpretive dance? you know, to add cred and impact.
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Daily wisdom
The left says corrupt billionaires are the problem.
The right says corrupt government is the problem.
And I’m just here like:
You do realize corrupt billionaires are running the corrupt government, right?
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Justice still exists in some parts of the world.
Meanwhile in the Woke West
‘Minor attracted persons’ want acceptance from LGBTQ
MAP stands for “Minor-Attracted People”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13772045/Kazakhstan-announces-mass-chemical-castration-paedophiles.html
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What’s wrong with rusty bread knives?
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It’s unbelievable how the Left rebranded pedophiles as MAPs as though it was just some kind of harmless fetish.
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Airplane tanker called in to help extinguish the fire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-al_gJoxPzQ
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FWIW – more evaporation
“Statins Are Pharma Trash, Research Mounts”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-08-23/statins-are-pharma-trash-research-mounts
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Which is what I said ages ago…
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FWIW – a cheeky B with initiative!
“Legend: Fox News Cuts Off Trump Phone Interview on Kamala Convention Speech for Gutfeld! Show–So Trump Calls Greg Gutfeld Live on Air (Video)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/legend-fox-news-cuts-trump-phone-interview-kamala/
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Here is an excellent 10 min video about why a man and his family left Australia for good.
Very interesting comments as well.
https://youtu.be/CeOM3FCgkY8
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There’s a few similar vids on uselesstube.
Realistically, where can you go?
Most of the west are WEF driven population-replacement hellholes now.
Maybe Argentina, Mongolia, Russia?
Buy a remote farm, go off-grid and enjoy life…
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David Maddison, #29,
____Damn, that one got me choked.
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Research: 60% Of Baby Foods At Supermarkets Are Unhealthy
Almost two-thirds of baby foods sold in supermarkets in the United States are unhealthy, according to new research.
Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health analyzed 651 infant and toddler food products from 10 different grocery chains in the U.S. in 2023. The analyzers then compared the nutritional information in these foods measured against nutritional guidelines set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
They found almost 60% of the foods failed to meet the nutritional standards set by the WHO.
For all products, 70% failed to meet protein requirements and 44% went above total sugar recommendations. Additionally, 1 in 4 products didn’t meet calorie requirements and 1 in 5 exceeded recommended sodium limits.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/research-60-of-baby-foods-at-supermarkets-are-unhealthy/
And for lovers of links:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/most-baby-and-toddler-foods-sold-in-australia-fail-to-meet-health-standards-study-finds/7jstzjtg4
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/wa-afternoons/baby-foods-fail-nutritional-requirements/104228662
https://www.unicef.org/wca/media/6916/file/Fed%20to%20Fail%20-%20BRIEF%20-%20ENGLISH.pdf
https://www.choice.com.au/babies-and-kids/feeding-children/making-healthy-choices/articles/sugar-in-packaged-toddler-foods
https://thatsugarmovement.com/sugar-in-baby-foods/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/17/sweet-excess-how-baby-food-industry-hooks-toddlers-sugar-salt-fat/
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/news/paediatricians-call-out-unregulated-high-sugar-salt-baby-foods
https://www.thehealthsite.com/parenting/why-sugar-is-very-bad-for-babies-and-how-to-avoid-sugar-in-baby-food-f0516-397048/
You want links, I have links. ALWAYS.
Easier than using a search engine.
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Saturday on a balmy and somewhat breezy late winter day and all mainland regions had negative price from mid morning to mid afternoon.
Lunchtime curtailment was significant across all mainland states. About 80% in SA, 60% in Vic and 40% in both Qld and NSW. Rooftops were supplying 43% of the NEM demand at 12Noon; close to double the supply from black coal at 23%.
Batteries were paid an average of $9.50/MWh to take charge.
These are the days that make investment in grid scale “renewables” look plain stupid. Negative prices hovered around the values of LGCs as the the grid scale WDGs tried to make money in an oversupplied market.
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The cost of medical interventions for new diseases would be sky-high too!
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Do you just need to identify as gay to get a month’s holiday in Victoria?
Askin’ for a friend.
Auto
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FWIW
“COVID-19: The Preventable Pandemic”
“When the Heritage Foundation released its comprehensive report on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines tended to focus on the cost to the U.S. That’s not surprising: At an eye-popping $18 trillion, it’s almost 10 times the projected 2024 budget deficit.”
“Arguably, however, the Commission’s most infuriating conclusion was this: The global pandemic was “totally preventable,” in the words of Commissioner Dr. Robert Redfield, an experienced virologist who headed the CDC during the outbreak.”
Links and more at
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-19-preventable-pandemic
“Holding China Accountable for Its Role in the Most Catastrophic Pandemic of Our Time: COVID-19”
https://www.heritage.org/china/report/holding-china-accountable-its-role-the-most-catastrophic-pandemic-our-time-covid-19
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FWIW
“Curcumin Is Effective In Reducing Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors: Study”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/study-curcumin-effective-reducing-cardio-metabolic-risk-factors
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I drink coffee with a teaspoon of turmeric every day because of its anti-inflammatory properties. In fact, curcumin doses should be 1 gram per 10 kg of body weight. That’s a lot of turmeric.
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For chronic diseases, you need to use curcumin in consultation with your doctor.
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Due to the SSW and the weakening of the polar vortex, there is more ozone over the southern polar circle.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/polar/gif_files/ozone_hole_plot_N20.png
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A weak polar vortex inhibits the ENSO cycle.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/oceanography/wrap_ocean_analysis.pl?id=IDYOC007&year=2024&month=08
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More storm fronts in southern Australia.
https://www.blitzortung.org/Tmp/archive_7_image.png
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https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php?map=0
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