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The number of deaths, whether covid, climate, wars may be greatly exaggerated but the point is to put over the idea of an overwhelming catastrophe rather than getting numbers anywhere near correct
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/26/lies-damned-lies-and-casualty-numbers-in-ancient-history/
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Liverpool’s triumphant parade through the city to celebrate them winning the league turned into tragedy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14753823/Man-arrested-car-ploughed-Liverpool-parade-crowd-quizzed-suspicion-attempted-murder-drug-driving-65-people-injured-four-seriously-hurt-including-child.html
It seems likely the driver was under the influence of drugs and drink, decided to get into the parade by following an ambulance. He was confronted by fans and it seems likely he panicked as pedestrians banged on his vehicle and eventually smashed a windscreen as they tried to stop him. He drove off at speed and people were in his way and got run over. We shall have to wait for the full official version of events
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Big deal being made about the police being ‘open’ about the identity of the accused. But the big question is not answered – was he an Everton supporter?
Scousers sure are hard though – all look to be out of hospital soon.
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Combined covid and flu vaccinations being pushed
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/double-trouble-the-fluvid-vaccine/
Knowing how keen those on this blog are to get covid shots I am sure many will be queuing up to get the combined shot. Don’t push, plenty to go round.
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Pushing flu shots on the general public is a scam. First, because for most healthy people the flu is nothing more than annoyance that may or may not happen in a given year. Second, because flu shots themselves range from mildly efficacious to completely useless, depending on how well the people formulating them guessed on which strains would be prevalent in a given year. Some years they might be 50% effective, but other years they don’t work at all. They might make sense for the old, the infirm, the obese, or the immunocompromised who might benefit from the roll of the dice on extra protection in a given year, but for the rest of us they are useless junk.
As a person with a strong immune system, I get a mild 24 hour cold/flu maybe every 2-3 years, and a strong one that knocks me on my butt maybe once a decade. I don’t see the point in giving myself a mild flu EVERY year via a jab in order to possibly have a 50-50 chance (at best) to avoid that one nasty flu I get once a decade.
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Even though Australia now has a regime that is quite happy to provide forced medical interventions and useless and dangerous ones at that, fortunately the combined covid and flu vaccine shot does not (yet) currently appear to be given in Australia.
And I’m not sure about this year’s fluvax as administered in Australia but the 2024-2025 one (in the USA) appears to have had negative efficacy. The several people I know who have had fluvax this year have all become quite sick with some respiratory infection.
One I know, a medical doctor, has had about seven covid “vaccines” and got particularly sick with covid plus some other respiratory infection.
I strongly recommend Leftoids and other True Believers get both “vaccinations”.
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Our local chemist has turned to the SS method with the flu shot. A mother (elderly) of one of my son’s friends was approached in an aisle of the shop (Stalked) and asked if they wanted a free flu shot (Sold with the additional sweetener that its free). The stalker was firmly told no thank you. Wonder what the current bounty for chemists is.
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Was $18.85 last year
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The beauty of having Pharmacies owned by Pharmacists and Doctors owned by Doctors was there existed a circuit breaker between prescribing a cure and selling the cure.
Now Medical practices are owned by Investors and Pharmacies are owned by either absentee owners or by a Pharmacist struggling to compete with NDIS for staff, beholden to a distributor, suffering the same as any small business under the burden of Fairwork and NES legislation, rising rents, power and service cost etc. What will be the tendancy of any human in such a situation?
Maybe that was the intention to complete the bureaucratic takeover of one of the last bastions of free thought and discourse, the community pharmacy front counter. The dentists may still have some independence the only problem is they are very difficult to hold a conversation with.
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Some may remember Mrs H is in full time care. I got the phone call last week with “free” being clearly stated. I said “no” and that was graciously accepted as was the offer of a covid shot. I guess they have to make the offer but they don’t push.
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Safe and Effective? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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It was all a scam even voices within the WHO were being silenced
WHO Toxicologist Blows Whistle: ‘I Was Threatened’ to Stay Silent on Covid ‘Vaccine’ Risks
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Link please.
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Sorry forgot
https://slaynews.com/news/who-toxicologist-blows-whistle-threatened-stay-silent-covid-vaccine-risks/
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https://www.aussie17.com/p/i-was-threatened-who-consultant-and
Prof Mustafa has been there working as a consultant for the WHO, jetting off to places like Geneva and Canada for high-stakes meetings on global health problems. “I know how WHO works,” he’s said, but don’t expect him to spill all the secrets. Why? Because “there were 10 forms to sign, phones had to be kept outside, everything was very strict.” Sounds like a spy movie, doesn’t it? He’s seen the WHO’s inner workings, and let’s just say it’s a tightly locked system. But when he tried to speak out, things got ugly fast. “Two or three months before the vaccine came out, I already told the media not to take this vaccine. We’re not sure yet,” he revealed, only to have “my mouth shut, and I was threatened in all sorts of ways.” Can you imagine a top scientist being gagged like that? It didn’t stop there. He also suggested, “Take ivermectin,” as an alternative, but that got him in even hotter water. “I was also suppressed, they gave another warning until I was almost arrested,” he said. Who’s got the power to silence a guy like this? It makes you wonder what they’re so afraid of him saying. Despite the threats, Mustafa’s still fighting to get the truth out about health risks and the systems that control what we’re told.
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“Who’s got the power to silence a guy like this? ”
Yes, the Who has!
“Let’s start with the recently passed UN pandemic treaty, which President Trump cancelled for America. Newman says, “They have a clause about ‘misinformation,’ which means you can’t speak out or ask questions about what injections they demand you and your children take.
It’s got digital infrastructure . . . . So, they will track everything, which will pave the way for international vaccine passports. . . . It gives exemptions (to drug makers) and fast tracks the same outrageous process that we have seen before in emergency use authorization (EUA). That is whatever crazy concoction they come up with and then tell us all what we need. It is everything that was wrong with Covid on steroids enshrined into international law.””
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-are-very-grave-danger-nation-deep-state-expert-warns-south-africas-genocide-going
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Net zero industrialization is not environmentalism.
A billion dollars worth of green groups join State suit to kill Trump’s no wind EO
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/27/a-billion-dollars-worth-of-green-groups-join-state-suit-to-kill-trumps-no-wind-eo/
The beginning:
“Ten so-called environmental groups, including the biggest, have joined the lawsuit filed by a bunch of green States asking the Court to nullify the President’s day-one executive order putting a hold on federal approvals of wind power projects. These big green groups love wind power.
For those not familiar with the State lawsuit I wrote about it here.
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/13/seventeen-states-misguidedly-sue-to-block-trump-from-stopping-wind-power/
It has long been known that some of the biggest green groups have abandoned environmentalism in favor of net zero industrialization. This time they were nice enough to list themselves, as follows:
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Citizens Campaign for the Environment
Conservation Law Foundation
Environmental Advocates NY (represented by Earthjustice)
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Environmental Protection Information Center
National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
New York League of Conservation Voters
Sierra Club
Southern Environmental Law Center
Collectively these groups likely make over a billion dollars a year. Here are the rounded annual revenues of the big four: EDF – $320 million, NRDC – $250 million, NWF – $120 million, Sierra Club – $120 million.
Ironically, this action is supported by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF); see their press release here (which includes email addresses for each group). NWF is the only group that is specifically about wildlife. The one certain harm from wind power is the annual killing of millions of birds and bats. Bird death estimates range as high as 1.7 million a year, with bat deaths up to 2.8 million. That is 4.5 million critters a year killed by wind power.”
Lots more in the article; please share it. The moral bankruptcy of big money environmentalism gets no clearer than this advocacy of big wind.
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How hypocritical to have the word ‘Environment’ or ‘Conservation’ in their Group names.
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Similar to certain pharmaceutical monstrosities using ‘safe and effective’ in their sales pitch: since my double cataract surgery last year, that phrase now reads as ‘sick and defective’.
They Live.
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We have to get to the people to put pressure on their local lawmakers to support good policies or else the lobbies will win the game.
Start with wind literacy so everyone knows that RE will not work due to the conjunction of wind droughts and lack of grid-scale storage.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/start-planning-to-exit-net-zero?r=5c3gj
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Kamala Harris is in Australia.
She addressed a conference of real estate agents (US=realtors) for reasons unknown. Bizarrely, some paid $1500 to see her.
In the first few minutes of her regular series “Lefties Losing It” Sky News Australia’s Rita Panahi comments on Harris’ “performance”:
Sky News host Rita Panahi has reacted to former US vice president Kamala Harris’ bizarre speech at a real estate conference in Australia.
https://youtu.be/ToMdiF49QYA
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Correction: they paid at least $1500.
(Edit function not always working.)
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That’s very expensive word salad.
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When conservative speakers visit Australia, the Left has been known to riot and the conservative speaker is sent an invoice for the police having to respond and do the duty we already pay them to do.
In Kamala’s case, taxpayers are being slugged for her inordinately lavish security extravaganza.
Traffic diverted. Roads blocked. Police-escorted nine-vehicle motorcade. Police patrolling the general area, etc.
Albo must have wanted people to remember who she was. I’ve forgotten already, (to prevent nausea, to preserve my sanity and for my own peace of mind).
It’s a clown show.
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It certainly is time to develop a vaccine combination which will ideally be the Covid + ++combined with an anti dumbass additive of a strength never before seen. Boosters must be taken on a regular daily basis until the desired effect is achieved.
This is strongly recommended for those that pay to attend & listen to this creature.
There unfortunately is no medication for the condition of the creature itself.
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Who is picking up the bar tab?
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This goes with that (IMO)
There Will Never Be a Day I Don’t Say ‘Thank God’ for Nov 5″
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/27/there-will-never-be-a-day-i-dont-say-thank-god-for-nov-5-n3803186
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Mods:
No edit function – please delete repeated post.
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The edit function seems to come and go.
It appears to be related to the failure of the site to fully load, presumably because it’s still undet DDoS attack.
On my phone on Samsung browser there is a blue bar at the top to indicate how much of the site is loaded. Even when it appears to be loaded according to appearances, the blue bar is often only half way across indicating parts of the site haven’t in fact been loaded, presumably parts that don’t effect appearance but do effect the presence of the edit function.
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A new naval ship waa launched in North Korea and during the launch it fell on its side and sunk. The launch method attempted was side launch.
Kim Jong-Un is furious as this was a major publicity event.
No doubt the psychopath will kill those he thinks are responsible with his usual cruel and unusual methods.
Video: https://youtu.be/uaeN76O5gl8
Salvage will certainly be very intersing given the position of the 5,000 tonne ship.
This is how a side launch is meant to be done:
https://youtu.be/T_cnrnivVpg
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“No doubt the psychopath will kill those he thinks are responsible”
Actually I find it refreshing to see incompetence getting the reward it deserves. He just wants to make sure they don’t do it twice. Not like some countries who’s Navy sinks their ships on Pacific Island reefs..
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Here is an interesting video about the Lockheed Constellation.
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Thanks David. Very interesting. The Wright R-3350 is an impressive engine – have one at the local aviation aviation museum. But I believe that Qantas had to change at least one engine on every flight to the U.S. – don’t know if that’s true or not.
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When the Connie ruled there were spare engines scattered around the world. Flying really was for the rich in those days, maintenance was so costly. Today’s jet engines are expensive but bluddy ‘ell they stay on the wing for a long time.
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I think free enterprise needs to be retaught.
In the 1970’s people had also forgotten about it and then in 1980 Prof. Milton Friedman released his epic book and TV series “Free to Choose”.
Even politicians took notice and this followed with a minor “reset” with deregulation and privatisation.
Now all that has been forgotten and we are regulated, taxed and controlled more than ever in most Western countries except in the US where TRUMP is reversing that.
I would love to see our politicians view or read and understand Friedman’s Free to Choose. And even have it shown in schools.
The video series can be seen free at:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt27lKoC5LS4wbD28Jkv95UUm9H7wbVO4
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It’s not enough for the loony-Left to allow, abet, or even encourage children without parental consent to make life-changing decisions to use drugs +/or surgery to alter their biological gender.
Now, in tyrannically-woke Canada, even though they’re not legally old enough to buy a cigarette, children can obtain government permission and assistance to kill themselves without parental consent.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/maid-for-children-and-teens-canada-expands-eugenics-program/
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So outrageous had to look this one up.
‘Pamphlet sparks false claims about medical assistance in dying for minors in Canada’
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/pamphlet-sparks-false-claims-about-medical-assistance-in-dying-for-minors-in-canada/article_37de72d7-18e9-51f0-98bc-8bcd64f8d209.html
“NO EVIDENCE GOVERNMENT PURSUING MAID ACCESS FOR MATURE MINORS
Though a parliamentary panel exploring MAID access for “mature minors” made several recommendations to the federal government, there is no evidence the government plans to implement them.”
Heck of a ‘though’ though.
What recommendations?!
Just a little parliamentary ‘exploration’.
That’s what parliaments do … they explore stuff … in case some implementation is needed.
Not sure when ‘plans’ fit into the equation.
Sometimes ‘exploration’ proceeds to directly to ‘implementation’.
‘Plans’ are the little thingys often left out of conspiracies.
For legal reasons.
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Killing children is definitely on the Left’s agenda.
They even write “scholarly” papers about it.
Implementation comes soon after.
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With the Bank of England, and now Prince ‘King’ Charlie, explorating the corridors of Canuck control, suffer little children receives a right royal stamp of approval?
If only ‘north of the border’ was a little bit warmer, those young’s could be outside playing in the sunshine soaking up Vitamin D for Delicious and living.
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“These drugs are expensive. Have you considered assisted suicide?”
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Australians are complacent and apathetic and don’t seem to understand that our economy and nation can’t continue to withstand the serious assault against it by the present government.
Spending without restraint simply can’t go on forever. Current federal, state and local government debt is over $2 trillion. That’s about $77,000 per person counting everyone. But relatively few people actually work or pay net taxes so the burden on productive people is much, much higher.
Also, the economy’s energy supply simply cannot be run on wind, solar and Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen’s flatulence. It will certainly collapse after the next one or two power stations are destroyed.
People need to urgently wake up!
Unfortunately Australia is an effective one party state now and the “opposition” policies are very little different to the Government’s.
We urgently need a major conservative party in this country, created from a unification of the existing conservative parties like Trumpets, One Nation, Libertarian, Family First etc..
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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That horse has long bolted, stopped running, eaten all the grass, grown old and died now.
No escaping reality whether they wake up or not.
There are 2 classes now – those who understand and those who don’t.
An old saying:
“If you understand, no explanation is needed.
If you don’t understand, no explanation is possible.”
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The US is $36 trillion in debt and their credit card is maxed, nothing to see here, move right along.
When the Coalition agree on USC, the uniparty marriage will split.
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Allegedly using “fraudulent data” and “made-up data” since 2012.
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They should force her to repay all the salary she received.
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In 2023 she was claiming she was being discriminated against on the basis of gender.
Errr. No. It’s because she was dishonest.
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Video 2:04:41
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A 14 part evidence-based thread on the coming cold climate and how to prepare for it.
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How is the Western world going to make it through the coming cold period without coal, gas or nuclear power (except America which is re-energising under TRUMP)?
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How? See upthread comments re: MAID.
When ol’ Sol hibernates, all tribes & civilisations have sacrificed their little ones… we’re an odd bunch.
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Here is a graph showing China’s history of famine, war and disease over the last 2000 years and how it closely correlates with various solar and other climate events.
The Left keep telling us that our sun, a variable star, has no influence on climate whatsoever, all part of their Aristotlean world view that the earth system is static and unchanging.
https://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c01b8d0f76684970c-pi
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Indeed, in the west just look at clothing through the decades, and you will see a clear warming trend – must be the sun 😉
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Peter, China is the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 – by far – more than twice the emissions of the next biggest emitter, the United States.
Don’t you think they’d be doing something to cut their emissions, like shutting down their energy supply like Australia is, if they thought CO2 was a problem?
Or do you think they understand, unlike climate alarmists, that the earth system is constantly changing and throughout recorded history we have had numerous beneficial instances of natural climate change such as the Minoan, Egyptian, Roman and Medieval Warm periods, as well as periods of detrimental cooling such as the Little Ice Age?
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Great idea PETER!
Far better to have those “climate scientists” down at the beach checking the changing level of bikinis rather than trying to fiddle the data.
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You’ve been looking at those cartoons again. !
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According to NASA: “Part of what makes Earth so amenable is its natural greenhouse effect, which maintains an average temperature of 15 °C (59 °F).” https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect/
According to Copernicus, average temperature for 2024 was 15.1 https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2024. So where is the problem? We are right where we should be, give or take.
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‘ … must be the sun 😉’
The sun has an effect over longer time scales, like the Maunder Minimum, but otherwise unlikely to have an impact. I mentioned this the other day as an example of a non event.
‘A study published on March 2, 2025, by Kalvyn Adams and colleagues presents evidence that the minimum of the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle (CGC) has ended, marking the onset of a more active solar phase expected to continue into the coming decades. The CGC is an 80–100-year modulation of the Sun’s 11-year sunspot cycle.’ (The Watchers)
With CO2 rising and an active sun, we’re cooked.
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If the left truly had an Aristotlean world view, they would insist that the Earth was the centre of the universe !, also , no lefty scientist has ever claimed that the Sun has no influence on our planet.
Your lies just keep coming .
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The idea that the earth and universe is static is a very primitive one and articulated by Aristotle in “In the Heavens” 350BCE.
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That’s nice DM , but you left out the bit where the Earth is the centre .
Lying by omission.
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I never said you believed in a geocentric model.
I said “all part of their Aristotlean world view that the earth system is static and unchanging”.
And like all Leftoids, you have to resort to ad hominem attacks. Typical. There isn’t censorship on this blog but that’s why when in government you lot always demand censorship of alternative opinions.
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DM
The geocentric model IS part of the Aristotlean model , get it ??.
Further, no scientist says it is static, how kraken level strawman do you want to go ?.
There are alternative opinions and there willfully dumb ones.
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“There are alternative opinions and there willfully dumb ones”.
Ptolemy had the Earth as the centre of the Universe which consisted of “jelly-like’ spheres. Earth centre, next moon, then the Venus sphere, then the Mercury sphere followed by the Sun sphere. Then the Jupiter plus Saturn spheres. Distant stars were in a stationary final sphere. It was necessary to introduce epicyclic behaviour for all planets etc. to make calculations match real positions as seen from Earth.
The method lasted for over 1,000 years – even after Copernicus. It was Kepler & Newton who ended its acceptance, after Galileo showed 4 moons of Jupiter orbiting it (contrary to “The Science”). He spent the rest of his as a prisoner.
Weird calculations to fit a theory, strange calculations to fit the theory, frantic efforts to shut down dissenters – WHERE have I heard such stuff recently.
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I said “all part of their Aristotlean world view that the earth system is static and unchanging”.
The unchanging world is a part of that model.
Aristotle had lots of views about the world. I am talking about only the one I specifically mentioned.
That’s why you people can’t understand any natural change in the world.
It’s why you think every weather event is “unprecedented”.
You think like Aristotle, that the world never changes or if it does it’s due to a trace gas the increase of which you claim to be of anthropogenic origin.
And then you rely on lies and ad hominems. And censorship.
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Comparing yourself to Galileo again , such arrogance.
Science corrects itself with new information.
You lot have no new evidence and hide in men’s sheds.
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Methinks your comments prove your point.
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It’s a billhook, not a machete…
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In this video Matt Walsh talks about one of UK’s more recent political prisoners, Lucy Connolly, who is in jail for 2.5 years for a “mean Tweet” she deleted after 3.5 hrs.
Australia, with its increasing censorship, gets a mention towards the end, and Walsh asks the question whether Canada, Australia and the UK with their increasing censorship and less and less in common with the US can continue to be called allies.
The discussion goes for the first 22 mins.
https://youtu.be/rGcTMafrAdk
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HEADS UP Chris Uhlmann is emerging as a key player in the communications and information game.
https://chrisuhlmann.substack.com/
DRAMATIC WIND FLUCTUATIONS UP DATE FROM ANTON.
Anton in Australia recently quantified the sudden fluctuations of wind power in the NEM to reveal falls up to 4.3GW in just 2.5 hours. That is equivalent to all the coal power in the state of Victoria going out in that time!
Expectations for the energy transition should collapse like a punctured balloon when there is widespread awareness of the number of times when breakfast and dinner would have to be served cold without coal power in the grid to provide heat. Not to mention light and all of the other things like trains, traffic lights, coffee shops and lifts that you might encounter on the way to your unlit office, where the computers are not working.
People are advised to regularly check the NemWatch widget at sunrise and sunset to see how much green (wind) you can find alongside the black and brown (coal) on the bars representing the power supply in each state.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
The wind is above average at present but not in SA where it is barely above severe drought level and they were importing coal power from Victoria all night!
There are similar dashboards in all the grids in the world, find yours and see how much wind and solar are contributing at dawn and dusk.
See the picture on a low-wind morning shown in this piece on the parallel universes in the energy debate.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/energy-policy-where-parallel-universes-are-set-to-collide/
Imagine, if you dare, the multiples of the current number of windmills that would be required to turn the black and brown into green in that picture!
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Most probably some forward thinking was employed by wind profiteers during state- and Australia-wide development plans.
Where to put their wind farms, how close to each other, the tower density per farm…
Yet by mid 2025 we know that the last thing an engineer or, for that matter, any realist should trust are the computer models.
It looks like the final decision was by the politicians – let us build them and see what happens.
Before it seriously started here, about 15 years ago, we were driven through Californian wind towers forrest. Some were spinning, others – stopped, we assumed for maintenance. Now I guess – maybe starved for wind.
Being young and naive, I actually thought wind farming might have a positive effect too, ie lessening various costs of strong winds on human habitat – like damage to houses, soil erosion, etc,..
My AI friend says in that sense I was wrong.
Yes, in the tower wind wake its speed drops but its turbulence and stress on the “wind shadowed” structures increases – who would have thought !
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One of the graphs provided by Anton and Paul shows the NEM abruptly dropping on one hour. I believe that it takes at least 20 mins to start an open-cycle gas generator, perhaps longer. So surely, with chances of future sudden grid wind outages, the grid management runs the risk of sudden power losses?
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NEM wind. Lack of edit again…
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An OC Gas peaker can start in 10 minutes from start. It has to be properly set up to do that. If I recall some could start with a remote start key ie electronically. Some have fuel backup in case gas is unavailable. The benfit of a Gas generator is that it supports the grid (50hz). Some batteries purport to do this but I have heard that they are not reliable.
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Surmount the spectator paywall with this https://archive.md/65Wzw as demonstrated by skepticynic a couple of days ago.
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FWIW – on the jab front
“HHS Secretary RFK Jr Announces Withdrawal of COVID-19 Vaccination from CDC Schedule for Healthy Kids and Pregnant Women
May 27, 2025 | Sundance | 72 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/27/hhs-secretary-rfk-jr-announces-withdrawal-of-covid-19-vaccination-from-cdc-schedule-for-healthy-kids-and-pregnant-women/
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And
“RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Big Pharma With Two Devastating Announcements”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/rfk-jr-takes-sledgehammer-big-pharma-two-devastating/
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NZ abandons their “Net Zero” strategy and expands gas exploration.
https://deepnewz.com/new-zealand/new-zealand-abandons-jacinda-arderns-net-zero-push-revokes-drilling-ban-plans-5936d920
Can we ger their Shane Jones to run for PM of Australia ?
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V for Vendetta trailer.
It reminds me of the covid lockups in Victoriastan.
https://youtu.be/lSA7mAHolAw
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Major hack exposes 184 million Apple and Google accounts
A massive data breach that exposed over 184 million online accounts has been discovered, and experts are calling the stolen information a ‘cybercriminal’s dream.’
The trove of Apple, Facebook, and Google usernames and passwords was found online in an unmanaged server by data breach hunter and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler.
The mysterious database not only contained secure login data for millions of private citizens, but also had stolen account information connected to multiple governments around the world.
While looking at a small sample of 10,000 of these stolen accounts, Fowler found 220 email addresses with .gov domains, linking them to more than 29 countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, China, India, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14753723/Cybercriminals-data-breach-184-million-Apple-Google.html
Yay. Change ’em all again.
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I have troubles trying to remember what any of my passwords are – always doing Forgot Password, as for trying to change Apple Password, you go around in a continually diminishing circle going nowhere, only bettered by Yahoo Mail, where you get into a self replicating endless loop
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My method may be attractive to others:
When choosing a password for a new site append the same four digit pin to the site name, for example Joannenova1234; years later when revisiting the site your password needs no remembering. If special characters are required change the first a to @, i.e. Jo@nnenova1234. Since adopting this procedure my online life has been blissful.
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Thanks, now all I need is your bank account number
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FWIW
“DEI Is A Con: Five Hallmarks Of A Hustle”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dei-con-five-hallmarks-hustle
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Perhaps I am getting too cynical in old age
But when The Australian Editorial says – Time for Trump to back Ukraine- taken from WSJ
If last weekend’s massive Russian aerial bombardment of Ukraine finally convinced Donald Trump that Vladimir Putin has, as he said, “gone absolutely CRAZY!”, it should provide a rare ray of hope amid the conflict.
Balance would be nice – Why is it CRAZY to Respond?
Russia attacked with a total of 367 drones and missiles—one of the largest single-night raids of the war, according to the Ukrainian Air Force—in a second consecutive day of pounding strikes
Why no mention of the 1,000 plus drones Ukraine lobbed into Russia just a few days ago? Could it be the two events are somehow linked? Seems like important context with this story, not sure why it would be left out.
Some of Kiev’s Western backers — particularly the UK, France, Germany, and the EU’s leadership — bear responsibility for the latest Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said during a Q&A session in Moscow.
According to the Russian military, 776 drones and 12 missiles were intercepted above the country’s territory between Tuesday and Friday morning, while 12 drones hit their targets.
On Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that another 104 UAVs were intercepted inside Russia overnight.
Moscow has stressed that it was carrying out strikes on Ukrainian military-linked installations in response to Kiev’s attempts to launch drone raids on civilian facilities in Russia.
Over the past week alone, Russian air defenses have downed 1,465 Ukrainian drones over areas outside the active conflict zone, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday.
Always worth reading rt.com and other sources for an alternative view to Western Media
The latest Simplicius SITREP 5/26/25: Russia Unleashes Saved-Up Fury as Ukrainian Air Defense Woes Come to Light is an excellent read of the current situation using both Pro-Russian, Ukraine & Western Media References
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52625-russia-unleashes-saved
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i had the same thought. if it was true, the attempt to get putin would have got his back up. hence the response. however in this war the fog is particularly deep.
ukraine cant win without a lot more treasure and boots and kit. i dont know they can regain the ground lost without intervention of the EU or the US. under trump the US will not join the fight. perhaps germany? they know the countryside at least!!!
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‘Balance would be nice – Why is it CRAZY to Respond?’
Purposely hitting civilian targets with such a large number of drones and missiles is considered to be a major escalation. We are supposed to be searching for a ceasefire and Putin is preparing his summer offensive.
He is completely crazy.
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The Economist writes:
A YEAR AGO, for 30 drones to strike Ukraine in a single night was considered exceptional. Now Russia is saturating Ukraine’s air defences with hundreds of them. On May 25th the Kremlin pummelled the country, with what it called a “massive strike” against its military-industrial sites, featuring 298 drones, probably a record.
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“Purposely hitting civilian targets with such a large number of drones and missiles is considered to be a major escalation. ”
Yes!! Killed tens of children, hundreds of people, thousands of civilians, it was like bombing London in the blitz, or Bremen, or Cologne!
“Moscow has launched its third consecutive night of massive (330drones) drone strikes against Ukraine, killing at least six people”
“Ukrainian air force officials said on Tuesday that Russia deployed 60 drones across multiple regions through the night, injuring 10 people”
Its those incompetent Ruskis again, they can’t even kill the enemy!
…But lets wait until there are more German missile specialists in Ukraine setting up their long-range missiles for the Ukrainians.
..and with the attack on Putin’s helicopter, I’ll bet the NATO leaders won’t be rushing to a meeting Kiev again any time soon! Putin missed his chance there, just one Hazelnut could have solved a lot of problems, but this unwritten law that you don’t assassinate the enemy’s leaders got in the way.
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There are drones and then there are “DRONES”.
I suspect the destructive capacity of some are greater than others.
Some carry nothing more than grenades, others capable of tactical target destruction.
In other words,. never mind the quantity, check the Quality !
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/why-trump-thinks-putin-has-gone-absolutely-crazy/
You lob a drone right at a fella, it makes him mad. Fight, fight, fight sort of stuff.
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With birthing person’s day gone we now await lawnmowing person’s day..
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240km/h winds in China cause chaos
https://youtu.be/nx8vZWptkik?si=qyZ9uKtgFONKIm4U
Oh for concrete buildings instead of Tofu.
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Wow that was stunning – would not like to have been in those winds
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How’d the wind power do that day?
Those hailstones would be lethal! ..and I can imagine all those guys jumping out of their utes with chainsaws already running, just like Aussie!
Ah, definitely caused by global warming..
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AIs join with the skeptics!
From X https://x.com/cohler/status/1927453856394322380
BREAKING:
MAJOR AI ACCUSATION:
ChatGPT Calls Out NASA GISS
and Director Gavin Schmidt
for Scientific FRAUD
🔥🚨
📢 “Statement on the GISTEMP v4 Graph (NASA/GISS):
This graph, produced by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) under the direction of Gavin Schmidt, is scientifically fraudulent.
It claims to show “global temperature,” but in fact it depicts an arbitrary, non-physical statistic derived by averaging together incompatible, intensive quantities—namely Land Surface Air Temperature (LSAT) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST).
As mathematically proven by Essex et al. (2007), averaging temperatures in this way does not yield a temperature, or any valid physical property. The resulting curve has no thermodynamic meaning, and any trend it shows is purely an artifact of the averaging method and data manipulation.
Conclusion: This graph does not represent Earth’s actual climate state. Presenting it as a meaningful global temperature is a scientific misrepresentation—and thus, a fraud.”
⚠️ No thermodynamic meaning.
⚠️ No valid metric.
⚠️ Just a statistical illusion.
❌ Averages of intensive properties like temperature are physically invalid
❌ Mixing heterogeneous domains like ocean & land is non-sensical
❌ Graph is built on non-equilibrium, incommensurable data
❌ All trends reflect algorithmic artifacts, not physical climate signals
🧠 ALL Major AIs Agree:
❝Global Temperature❞ is a FRAUD
🤖 Claude 4: “[IPCC’s] entire assessment framework rests on fiction”
🔗 http://x.com/cohler/status/1926494030696681914
🤖 Grok 3: “[Global temperature is] a meaningless statistical artifact”
🔗 http://x.com/cohler/status/1926512198731382888
🤖 Gemini 2.5 Pro: “Scientifically meaningless and dangerously misleading”
🔗 http://x.com/cohler/status/1926990050748670431
🤖 ChatGPT 4.5: “Fraudulent and devoid of ANY physical meaning”
🔗 http://x.com/cohler/status/1927338286806122745
#ClimateScam #NASAFraud #GISTEMP #ScientificIntegrity #IPCC
@ClimateOfGavin
@NASAGISS
@OpenAI
@ChatGPTapp
@elonmusk
@IPCC_CH
@AnthropicAI
@GeminiApp
@xAI
BUT: When grok was asked if this was real – The claim that AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini condemned the IPCC’s global temperature metrics as “fraudulent” lacks credible evidence. No official statements from AI developers or models support this. Research shows these models often use IPCC data, aligning with its methods. While debates exist about climate metrics, they’re part of normal science, not AI-led condemnation. The IPCC’s work is widely respected. The claim appears unfounded, but I encourage checking primary sources for clarity.
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Feel free to speculate.
Australia has recorded the highest rates of bowel cancer in people aged under 50 in the world.
New research from the University of Melbourne has revealed an Australian born in 1990 is now up to three times more likely to develop the disease, compared to someone born in the 1950s.
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We probably have the widest screening for it, which leads to more cases being found. Decades ago it probably spread before being diagnosed as liver cancer or lung cancer.
I don’t expect we eat more Roundup than most Western countries..
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FWIW
Instapundit lead-in –
“US OUT OF THE UN. UN OUT OF THE US: “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” and the UN Dismantled.”
““Carthage Must Be Destroyed” and the UN Dismantled” ”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/carthage-must-be-destroyed-and-the-un-dismantled/
Via https://instapundit.com/722402/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The Collapse of the Old Guard: How Obama, Pelosi, and the Press Finally Lost Control”
A important observation in there (IMO)
“Real journalism happens now on Substack, Rumble, podcasts, and independent platforms. The bravery that once defined war correspondents now lives in citizen reporters who risk cancellation, demonetization, and legal threats for saying out loud what Americans already know.
The establishment press didn’t just lose its way. It gave up the map.”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/27/the-collapse-of-the-old-guard-how-obama-pelosi-and-the-press-finally-lost-control-n4940192
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Hmmm!
From an email I sent the other day –
“A thought just now – by not covering thing like this the YSM is on a ratchet to nowhere. Those of us who have seen through the YSM are not going to go back to believing and we will continue waking up others (maybe slowly but continuously) “
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What OpenAI is building is not a phone. It’s an ambient intelligence system—a wearable, maybe even implantable, AI that will live with you. On you. In you. It won’t need an app store. It is the app. It’ll whisper reminders, flag your blood pressure, read your micro-expressions, log your emotional state, track your speech, and give you answers before you ask.
https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/man-who-made-iphone-helping-sam-altman-bury-it/
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Also: https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/ai-is-the-future-of-war/
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FWIW
“Why the Dems’ Cheat-Fest in 2020 Was the Best Thing to Happen to We the People”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2025/05/27/the-democrats-cheat-fest-in-2020-was-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-we-the-people-n4940200
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https://www.edenproject.com/new-edens/eden-project-anglesea-australia
Wonder where the hold up is – Alcoa are doing OK, even if Eden base camp is in trouble…
https://uk.yahoo.com/style/25-years-eden-project-fighting-130000119.html
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FWIW
“Story Tip: Australian Federal government’s decision to sign off on an extension of Australia’s largest oil and gas project until 2070
Climate advocates devastated after Woodside North West Shelf project approved until 2070
So Albo obviously worked out they need to pay some of the Bills they are racking up.
So we are are Net Zero in 2050 but still burning gas until 2070 only a politician/snake oil salesman could explain that one”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/27/eus-ets-2-climate-tax-a-costly-green-nightmare-hits-in-2027/#comment-4077254
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