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Failed: German offshore wind power auction ends without a single bid
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/german-offshore-wind-power-auction-ends-without-a-single-bid/
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“The EU’s Green Deal looks like Soviet central planning”—Historian Ion Mischevca
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/green-deal-looks-like-soviet-central-planning-ion-mischeva/
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I admire Donald Trump, but this is funny.. (h/t to the Russian bot over at z/hedge.)
https://nitter.space/hkuppy/status/1953257568865751059
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LOL.
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I am speaking from a small sample so could be off the mark but I have not listened to a single ABC news report this year that has not mentioned Trump. He towers over world affairs like no other person before him.
As I pointed out yesterday, his first 6 months in office has been a litany of success. Worth repeating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSgMOUIfFKM
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FWIW
I have not listened to a single ABC news report this year
Thanks for the report
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Me neither so we are not part of Rick’s subset.
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US National Academies launch emergency study to counter DOE report and EPA action saying CO2 not harmful:
https://mailchi.mp/nationalacademies/new-study-announced-on-greenhouse-gas-impacts-47fj2f1f4s?e=c3c03e3b28
Hilarious!
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Actually this could be the start of the great debate because NAS cannot just dismiss DOE and EPA as deniers.
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I wonder why an emergency study is needed, given they must be sitting on a mountain of settled science.
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if the science is settled, petition to remove the funding?
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SpaceX has recently conducted a not insignificant attack on the chemistry of our atmosphere. Between December 2024 and July 2025 more than 525 Starlink satellites were brought out of orbit. This was deliberate. These were first generation satellites “retired” to make room for new ones.
The problem is the atmospheric pollution. The burn up on re-entry of one Starlink satellite produces 30 kg of aluminium oxide, a compound that we know destroys ozone. A new study has shown that the levels of these oxides have increased by 8 times between 2016 and 2022 and the Starlink culling increases this pollution even more. Before Starlink around 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX have just brought down ten years’ worth in only six months. This has added an estimated 15 tonnes of aluminium oxide to the upper atmosphere.
Back in February 2023, before the current Starlink cull, NASA flew a WB-57 aircraft over Alaska at 60,000 feet to collect stratospheric aerosols. It found 10% of samples contained aluminium and other metals from the “burn-up” of satellites. Since then, Starlink have massively added to this. If the current race for mega constellations of satellites continues, there could be up to 60,000 in orbit by 2040. NASA has estimated that multiple re-entry burn ups will heat the stratosphere and mesosphere by as much as 1.5°C, enough to alter global weather patterns. Now that would be the real man made climate change.
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Bronco,
Ah, good old global weather patterns. What a load of baloney.
Two Google queries:
how many tonnes of matter rain down on earth from space: 40,000 – 100,000 tonnes per annum.
how much does a starlink satellite weigh: old ones ~270kg, new ones ~740kg.
So even bringing down 1000 of the new ones, adding up to 740 tonnes, is a small wiggle to the already wiggly estimate of what is falling naturally. Admittedly the satellites aren’t tiny particles so they’ll impart their heat deeper down into the stratosphere than the dust particles, but look at the vague wording: “as much as”, “global weather patterns”.
My working hypothesis for what’s behind this claim is that NASA people don’t like SpaceX.
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Hi Robert. I think the main difference is composition. 40,000 to 100,000 tonnes is composed mainly of silicates and iron. The problem with the satellites appears to be the aluminium oxides effects on the ozone. However, I do not disagree with any comments on NASA’s inability to be impartial on any of this.
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bronco,
I agree that we’d be better without more exotic chemicals raining down on us, so that part was fair enough, but I think NASA were just returning to a popular theme when they got onto atmospheric warming.
AFAICT, any heating in the mesosphere and stratosphere these satellites might cause would be mostly due to friction, and a function of the mass, not the chemicals. I’m no expert on the ozone layer, but Google tells me that ozone absorption of UV is the principal source of heat in the stratosphere, and the stratosphere itself is the main source of heat in the mesosphere. So if this up to 1.5°C warming is an ozone effect, apparently aluminium oxide is going to *enhance* the ozone layer.
Pretty sure the effect of all that on global weather patterns is anyone’s guess.
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Reposting this from Thursday No.1.
Medical science now warns us of a new tick borne disease … that causes an allergic reaction to eating meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome
“A typical allergic reaction to alpha-gal has a delayed onset, occurring 3–8 hours after consuming mammalian meat products. However, there have been instances of the onset of symptoms occurring within 2 hours.[8] After the delayed onset, the allergic response is like most food allergies, and especially an IgE-mediated allergy, including severe whole-body itching, hives, angioedema, gastrointestinal upset, and possible anaphylaxis.[2][16] Anaphylactic reactions are seen in approximately 60% of afflicted individuals.[3]”
I have no theories on this.
Not me.
Other than, the only safe thing we can do is allow only vegetarians to go outside.
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As it’s Friday (Fry day) I will have fish and chips for Lunch. Happy Friday.
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Just as you can easily see who the best man is at a nudist wedding a visit to a monastery 30 minutes before dinner will reveal the head fryer.
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Or the chip monk.
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Lots of options still open to the adventurous eater, reptilian meat, uummm crocodile, snake, lizards etc, what about dickie bird meat, uummm endangered golden eagle or here in Oz, helmeted honey eater, uummm molluscs, love a garlic snail ( not really) as well as the marine stuff. Ha, I thumb my nose at “mammalian meat”!
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I made the mistake of trying to tick green, sorry Honk. It must be these new reading glasses!
That’s an interesting piece you wrote.
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Apparently, the ticks are suddenly dangerous due to Climate Change. Dr Sam Bailey made a video on this a couple of years ago.
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/War-on-Meat-Alpha-gal-Syndrome:c
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Apparently, the ticks are suddenly dangerous
Does than mean Jo needs to find a new method for collecting our opinions on readers’ comments?
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https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/9/4/115
An analysis of 10 cities from across the globe shows airports and industry centres are, on average, 2.5°C to 2.8°C warmer than neighbouring green spaces. “Airports exhibited a mean daytime land surface temperature (LST) that was 2.5 °C higher than surrounding areas, while industrial zones demonstrated an even greater temperature disparity, with an average increase of 2.81 °C.”“Mexico City’s green spaces are up to 12.13 °C cooler than its urban core.” “In contrast, cold spots characterized by dense vegetation showed a notable cooling effect, with LST differences reaching −3.7 °C. Similarly, proximity to water bodies contributed to temperature mitigation, as areas near significant water sources recorded lower daytime LST differences, averaging −4.09 °C.” “For example, from 2001-2021 urban areas warmed +0.04°C/yr, but vegetated, bare land, and water body areas cooled -0.07°C, -0.03°C, -0.04°C/yr, respectively, in the city of Chongqing.”
Given that we are fed notoriously inaccurate and sometimes falsified data by the climate propaganda machine – UK record temperature taken next to a runway at RAF Coningsby, almost a 3rd of UK weather monitoring stations are made up, NOAAs homogenisations tactics given that most US warming happens at night – it’s pretty clear where the temperature data is being manipulated.
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Even without falsifadjustments, our little Shaky Isles had an 18 degree difference this morning at 7am, from 14*C at Waikawau Bay on the Coromandel (North Island) down to -4*C at Omarama in the centre of the South Island (with snow on the way).
From the balmy north to the frigid south, it’s what we colloquially call August – no need for homogenisation nor Mike’s nature trick nor Metmanipulation.
BTW Albo McTrotsky is visiting this weekend for a so-called Leaders’ Debate in Queenstown: he must have touched the hem of The Goracle’s robe as SNOW is forecast for his whole stay. Hopefully he brings a translator weeth heem coz nah-body unnerstans Stryne over here yeah maaate.
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Guess Albo needs to brush up on his “gutterals and grunts” and primitive vowel transpositions before he visits.
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-4C at Omarama caught my eye, since I spent a week there a few years ago and I remember it was bloody cold.
It is quite a small town but it is a Mecca for glider pilots who come to enjoy some of the most spectacular gliding in the world over the Southern Alps. It is also some of the most dangerous flying in the world!
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=e530de37feccd403&hl=en-au&q=Glide+Queenstown+-+Omarama&ludocid=7269187531922965771&lsig=AB86z5UAhktxtsrVEAkRsYheLpZ8&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR1cjr0_mOAxUQa2wGHTEHA4EQgxp6BAhdEAc&biw=390&bih=663&dpr=3#ebo=0
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That wontt be necessary,….as he wont be saying anything sensible or worth listening to.
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He will be fine as long as he has got his sluppers to keep warm
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To make the degrees symbol hold down the Alt keythen press 248 🙂
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…unless you are using an ipad ? 🤔
°C can be found by holding down the “zero” (0) key until ° appears , then adding the C .
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Meeting in Queenstown , in ski season, when everything will be peak cost. How in touch with average citizen they are.
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“How in touch with average citizen they are.”
They make sure they are definitely not!
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Does the ‘so-called’ apply to leaders or debate, or both, perhaps?
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The CET isn’t based in airports etc. It’s running at a record +1.93C for 2025.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/graphs/ts_meantemp_cet.png
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Yup, so it is. But so what. The previous weather stations, used up until 2004 were Squires Gate, Ringway and Malvern. Who ever it was at the UK Met Office who thought it was a good idea to use Squires Gate at Blackpool for a central England weather station needed their bumps feeling. The change over to Stoneyhurst, Pershore and Rothamsted was compensated by homogenisation (i.e. manipulation) of the data, along with every other changes in weather station over the years, deliberately done to try and prove a point. Plenty of other graphs of the CET that don’t agree, and how can you trust an organisation that claims they have over 300 active weather stations that they regularly publish, with just over 100 that don’t actually exist. If they have to lie about it ain’t true.
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Unfortunately the warming is real and substantial, whatever the MO is doing.
The CET is not perfect for a number of reasons, but the warming is far outside any possible errors.
I’ve had the same max/min thermometer in the same unchanged environs since the early 80s.
It is what would constitute a junk site, but it still shows that the warming is real and substantial. Frosts have declined massively, and days 25C+ that used to be rare, none at all some years, are now common from spring to autumn.
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Yup, caused by a reduction in cloud cover and an increase in incoming shortwave radiation as shown by the CERES satellites (even though the IPCC desperately tried to cover this up but got caught out). And trying to claim that one thermometer in your garden is proof of global climate change – really???
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That graph is based on the 1961-1990 average, which looks like quite a cool period.
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It would look cool. The 60 were the start of the global cooling scare. From the 1930 onwards, UK houses were built with no insulation on the water pipes in the roof space. Harsh winters were thing of the past so insulation wasn’t considered necessary anymore. Then the cooling hit in the early 1960s. The water pipes in the roof spaces were freezing and the frozen water was cracking these pipes. When they thawed, the house got flooded. It was so bad that there was an advertising campaign on the TV – “Don’t procrastinate, investigate then insulate.” Picking a 1961 to 1990 average is a bit disingenuous to say the least.
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Yes, I was there then. The sixties were cool in more ways than one.
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Or worse still….
Water pipes were freezing underground also…
My father was employed for months by the local council ( East Anglia) to thaw the pipes to numerous properties using a large DC generator on a truck, directly connecting between the mains water supply in the street and a property stop cock, and pushing a few hundred amps along the pipe !
We also had to serch for cars burried in snowdrifts on the nearby main road, using long canes to probe through the snow.
Ahh, winter ‘63 !
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I remember it all too well…shiver!
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It doesn’t matter what period it’s based on, the overall degree of warming is the same!
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“It doesn’t matter what period it’s based on, the overall degree of warming is the same!”
That’s not right. There is no ‘overall measurement’, we only sample here and there. Even our samples are obviously not fit for purpose when the heat island effect affects them/. Then, the Earth is warming ever since the Little Ice Age, and the southern hemisphere is cooling while the northern one is heating.
A look at the predictions from any of the models used to ‘show’ the Earth is warming will quickly prove all of them are rubbish and we don’t have a clue what is going on!
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TedM, we’ll have none of those transpositions going on around here thanks, though I’ve heard there’s lots of it in Queenstown.
PeterC, Omarama / the Mackenzie Basin has wonderful landscape – now that the last Glaciation has long gone – shouted myself a flight in a glider 20 years ago, bliss. Omarama = place of the moon.
Chad, below is the o-fish-oil press release, toadally substainable 100% gobbledygook:
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/visit-new-zealand-annual-leaders-meeting
Reads like an AI bot regurgitated it.
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“The unfolding crisis enveloping Australia’s metals smelter industry could see the Commonwealth step in with bailout deals to safeguard the sector”.
“Graeme Samuel has urged the Albanese government to stop big-spending industry subsidies and tell companies seeking handouts that ‘enough is enough”
“Labor has been accused of “kneecapping our own industries” by pursuing net zero”
The missing link that connects these three headlines in todays news is as plain as the solar panel and wind turbine infestation being foisted upon us. Subsidies for a failed concept. We could add EVs that for the trifecta
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Case of Net Zero policies doing their job and culling industry, which we need to now subsidise. This on top of already handing out subsidies to domestic consumers vis handouts to energy suppliers. So we are now subsidising energy consumers to keep emitting in defiance of the Governments announced policies to curb emissions.
We are now at peak stupidity, with reality biting and our dear leaders are racing around sticking the band-aids on some self created problems. Hilarious.
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The best example of how Australia is being destroyed can be explained with a chart and two numbers.
Numbers first – AUD141M and AUD755M – the AEMO budgets for 2016 and 2026. This is an organisation that administers the NEM.
Now the chart – Figure 5 extracted from the Q2 2025 AEMO report:
https://1drv.ms/i/c/cdb8a3183f0262ad/EZWvJ45kbr9NjiNEstvbtmkB_ix_qUMH2ZGipK121tBj_A?e=hH3IWL
What it shows is the shrinking wholesale market from 2016 to 2025. So AEMO is administering a smaller market but charging 5 times more for it.
Also of note in the chart is the growth in rooftop generation. This has been an immense drain on the Australian labor force but is delivering value for households Because the grid is in terminal decline.
Over the past decade there has been no reduction in the requirement for dispatchable generation. A few coal plant closure offset by a few gas plants and a myriad of small hydro. But there is a vast labour force involved in the construction of completely useless intermittent generators, batteries, pumped hydro, poorly utilised transmission lines, synchronous condensers, gaming computers all requiring massive increase in complex regulations and rules.
It is a thorough disgrace all based on a scam perpetuated by their CSIRO, their ABC and their BoM.
There is a simple fix – shift electrical bidding to 24 hours with nominated capacity at a single price. Any generator failing to meet their nominated capacity when dispatched gets no payment for the day.
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“There is a simple fix – shift electrical bidding to 24 hours with nominated capacity at a single price. Any generator failing to meet their nominated capacity when dispatched gets no payment for the day.”
There is an even simpler, simple fix. just go back to coal or gas generation and set the price for the next 12 months, just like it used to be in the days of the SEC. All the talk about “competition” making prices cheaper does not appear to be a winning argument when it comes to power generation.
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‘…additional Covid doses provide ‘very limited, if any, protection against infection’ given the ‘high population immunity’ to the virus.’
Well who knew! UK is reducing people who will be routinely offered COVID vaccine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14978715/Covid-jabs-boosters-millions-experts-reckless-decision.html
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Mass vaccination no role as primary countermeasure for highly infectious, viral respiratory disease pandemics
Mainstream media has caught on to the failure of the COVID-19 vaccine development program. No reduction in illness or transmission, and no demonstrable reduction in COVID-19 mortality. Instead the viral outbreak as been prolonged by vaccination promoting resistant strains.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/mass-vaccination-no-role-as-primary
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SHOCKING STUDY: mRNA ‘Vaccines’ unleash genetic chaos, cancer surge, and body-wide breakdown
Dr. John Catanzaro, a veteran in integrative oncology and CEO of Neo7 Bioscience, is exposing what he describes as unprecedented genetic disruptions tied directly to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
He distinguishes the vaccine’s synthetic spike protein as far more destructive than the virus’s, and points to findings that the former accelerates abnormal protein production and dismantles cellular safeguards. Tumour suppressors flip to promoters, immune surveillance fails, and mitochondrial pathways crumble, leaving the body and its systems “totally disoriented.”
Catanzaro reports a staggering increase in transcription errors – from a normal 2.5% to 60-75% in vaccinated individuals – that disrupts cellular function and drives rapid, widespread mutations.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/shocking-study-mrna-vaccines-unleash
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Insight into the Australian situation for an American like me.
This Man Lost His Career For Sharing The Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee talks to Dr. Jereth Kok, the man who lost his medical license in Australia for the thoughtcrime of sharing Babylon Bee headlines on his Facebook profile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl4bsL9Bl-g
Is it really this bad?
Your medical system can afford to lose a decent person like this for expression of religious convictions?
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It’s much bigger and broader and badder with AHPRA. Refuse the vax, you’re out. Only Qld has repealed vax mandates, 5 years later. Try getting re-registered? You have no “recency of practice”. No wonder people buckled. AHPRA have changed a few words about “compliance” and left it to health authorities but looking at nursing jobs recently you still have to be up to date with “vaccine-preventable disease” policies. That means HepB, MMR, whooping cough, chicken pox and shingles.
But who would trust any vaccine these days?
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FWIW
“Oh Look What HHS/Kennedy Did!”
“”Winds down” = a good start.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
mRNA is a dangerous technology because it is impossible to control it and it always carries the risk of permanent modification of the genomic code in the cells it enters.
This is not a new accusation nor one that is unknown; in fact Moderna had been trying to make it work for roughly a decade against cancer and kept running into safety problems for this exact reason; they could not control how much of the “thing” got produced by the body with sufficient accuracy.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253770
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And
“Kennedy’s move against mRNA vaccines is a massive blow to Big Pharma”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/kennedys-move-against-mrna-vaccines-is-a-massive-blow-to-big-pharma/
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WTF: Insane lefty tries to stop ducks making more ducks in public pond.
https://m.facebook.com/reel/1058176963112185/
Rubber room on standby.
Must be close to the end now.😆
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Is she trying to stop them breeding or pooing? Duck poo is voluminous and makes a mess of your pool. There are few ways to deter the sods. And guns are now illegal.
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Spanish Flu genome resurrected from 107-year-old lung, revealing deadly mutations
[B]y July 1918, first wave viruses had already evolved several critical adaptations to their new human niche,” they write. For instance, two of the mutations identified by the researchers helped the virus to evade a key antiviral protein that forms part of the human immune system.
Known as human myxovirus resistance protein 1 (MxA), this compound protects us from zoonotic transmissions of avian-like flu viruses. The pathogen’s resistance to MxA therefore enabled it to overcome our critical immune responses to this type of virus.
https://www.iflscience.com/spanish-flu-genome-resurrected-from-107-year-old-lung-revealing-deadly-mutations-80292
MxA – protects us from avian flu eh…😎
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FWIW
“The Carbon Footprint of Your Heart Surgery: When Climate Zealotry Invades the Operating Room”
“If anyone ever needed a perfect illustration of how climate obsession has infected even the most sacred realms of human life—medicine—look no further than this earnest study from the European Heart Journal proposing to weigh cardiac procedures not in terms of survival, outcomes, or cost-effectiveness, but by their “carbon footprint.” That’s right. Your surgeon’s scalpel is now competing with the internal combustion engine for the title of “climate criminal.” Who knew the Hippocratic Oath was to be amended: “First, do no harm—to the atmosphere.” ”
“Let’s put that “scandalous” emission in perspective. For reference, the average round-trip transatlantic flight emits about a ton of CO2 per passenger. In other words, your life-saving open-heart surgery—an event presumably rarer in a person’s life than, say, a weekend in Majorca—emits less than one seat’s share on a flight to Europe and back. Should we start shaming cardiac patients for not taking the train to their operations?”
And more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/07/the-carbon-footprint-of-your-heart-surgery-when-climate-zealotry-invades-the-operating-room/
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Including
“The paper even presents a structured graphical abstract (page 3), visually summarizing the complex journey from preoperative energy use, manufacturing, and laundry (yes, even the hospital linens are suspect) through to the post-operative diet and nutrition. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a flowchart tallying “diet/nutrition” as a source of planetary peril. Notably, the largest slice of this “footprint” comes from the hospital’s HVAC—heating, ventilation, and air conditioning—because as we all know, nothing destroys the polar ice caps quite like a hospital keeping the recovery ward at a humane temperature for elderly cardiac patients.”
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Maybe patients can bring their own foldout solar panels?
They can reduce room temps to a nice 15C too…
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And in comments
“I nearly got a heart attack from guilt over my triple bypass. But, then I thought about the long chemotherapy for my wife’s breast cancer and felt just half guilty. Then, though, I became pensive about my seven grandchildren, all being born in a hospital with HVAC. Now I am holding my breath for 30 seconds every five minutes to compensate for living guilt……”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/07/the-carbon-footprint-of-your-heart-surgery-when-climate-zealotry-invades-the-operating-room/#comment-4103220
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“Well Mrs Jones, it would be better for your grandchildren’s world if you died instead of having heart surgery, and Surprise! We can help you with that!”
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Hmmmm….look out for unplanned hypnosis… LLM’s
From: https://iceni.substack.com/p/spartacast-21
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Advance Australian is starting a new campaign aimed at our Net Zeto and Climate Chamge policies. They anticipate that changing public opinion on Climate Change will be a long process, at least 2 years.
This is encouraging. Jo’s blog informs a small group who already think CO2 induced climate change change is bollocks but getting the attention of the wider public and the major political parties is very difficult.
I am happy to support the effort.
Advance Australia has had recent successes with The Voice and a campaign targeting the Greens at the last election
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who already think CO2 induced climate change change is bollocks
Not me – I know it is a scam. There may be a few loonies that are not smart enough to know it is a scam. But most scientists know it I a scam.
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Thanks Peter, it was apparently set up to rival Get Up and doing a good job, they are credited with getting a strong No vote.
https://theconversation.com/right-wing-political-group-advance-is-in-the-headlines-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-stand-for-261164
Tackling climate change and Net Zero disinformation is important for a Coalition win at the next election.
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“Tackling climate change and Net Zero disinformation is important for a Coalition win at the next election.”
Dream on EG!! You know as well as I do that they will sit on the fence, criticise Labor for whatever they do, and say its not enough if it looks like winning them Teal votes!
Nationals had the right idea when they realised it was a sinking ship, they don’t deserve any votes at all and there is no reason to vote for them instead of Labor. Wake me up when they come out and say that global warming is a crock of sh1t and ruinables should be torn down and replaced with coal…
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China reinstates Covid style lockdowns for mosquito borne virus
The authorities in China’s southern Guangdong Province have reinstated Covid-style lockdown and containment tactics to curb a major outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, which has already infected thousands of people.
The outbreak is centered in Foshan, a city 170km north of Hong Kong, where more than half of the nearly 8,000 reported cases have occurred.
Photos and videos shared on social media show empty, fog-filled streets, as insecticide is sprayed to control mosquito populations. Drones have been deployed to identify potential breeding sites, and the authorities have introduced elephant mosquitoes – a harmless species whose larvae prey on virus-carrying mosquitoes – into the local ecosystem.
https://www.rt.com/news/622580-chinese-region-covid-era-procedures/
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FWIW – a look at modern travel
“That’s one way to get there…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/thats-one-way-to-get-there.html
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FWIW
“Scientists Discover a Viral Cause of One of The World’s Most Common Cancers”
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-viral-cause-of-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-cancers
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This is the kind of genetic research and manipulation that is worthwhile.
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I came across this tweet
It was a thread with many more posts with graphs making many pro-vaccine points. Very professionally done graphs and the author was very proud of it. Labelled with a copyright notice! https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1953144254382940600
Obviously paid and a superficial scientist, but they did give some sort of citation, a single surname and year. I only looked at one claim in detail based on this paper (I assume, since the citation was incomplete) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39186694/
The tweeter claimed that people who got myocarditis from the mRNA vax recovered better than those who got it from Covid-19. The paper looked at 4635 people who got myocarditis in France. 558 from the vax and 298 from covid infection.
Conclusion
Clearly, under reporting is skewing the results as young men are the section of society that are most likely to exert themselves to extremes and see medical attention. Detection of myocarditis after infection is also going to be more common in those getting medical treatment for covid ie the eldetly. No wonder they find those getting myocarditis from the vax have less complications later. They are healthier.
They worst part is
People are not considered vaccinated for 14 days after the jab as it takes time for the cells to create the proteins, body to react to it and create antibodies. You would expect that the myocarditis to occur between 7 and 14 days. Apparently, no over-counting if its 30 days after a covid infection, despite it only likely that after 10 days, the infection probably only made the person more susceptible rather than caused it. Why the different definitions, especially as it should be the other way around if different at all? (people getting boosters every year?). When clearly under reported ie being a young male means more likely to push hard rather than more susceptible, its poor science.
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SO BORED of this continued claim that ‘the damage from the vaccine isn’t as bad as from the disease’ – you might not ever get the disease. But you definitely get the vaccine, multiple times and then annually after that.
The only neurotic delusion was that there was a need for everyone to go and get jabbed…
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If only myocarditis where the only problem.
Dr. John Campbell
Young cancer increases confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDg_8Jl0418&t=35s
After a stable 15-year trend, local-stage CRC incidence increased steeply in adults aged 45 to 49 years during 2019-2022,
including a 50% relative increase between 2021 and 2022.
Sudden uptick in incidence among adults aged 45 to 49 years in 2021,
the increase accelerated in 2022
Individuals aged 45 to 49 years
Will the pretend world of the managerial intelligentsia continue to resist intrusion?
After more than a 100 years of modern medicine we have arrived at an iatrogenic decrease in life expectancy.
Follow The Science.
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FWIW
“Scholars & Schemers: How The Left Ruined Higher Education”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scholars-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education
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“He told the world we would own nothing and be happy.
Now he has nothing, and you can bet your last dollar he isn’t happy.
Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the smug, self-declared steward of the global elite, has been exposed. Not by some fringe outfit or anonymous conspiracy theorist, but by his own people, his board, his inner circle, his trusted allies.
Let that sink in: the WEF has turned on its founder.”
This is an excerpt from George Christensen’s newsletter. Haven’t heard a word about this, If true, gadzooks. Here’s the link
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/he-said-youd-own-nothing-now-hes?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=tyhmx&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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News of that short on in the YSM but plenty if you search – like
https://www.ft.com/content/64533727-a342-4e35-9eab-4f6010d13cef
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Chalk it up to another Trump win.
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Does anyone think this isn’t the norm in the political ‘advocacy’ grift industry.
We don’t know the half of it.
Probably not even Planck Length of it.
Mostly they’re Time Bandits.
They’ve put real time dollars in their pockets by indebting the future productivity of the tax base.
Money, luxury and power earned the old fashioned way.
By promising to save us from the dragons and witches and tiny tiny things we can’t see, and the divine molecule of our existence … carbon.
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“We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.”
– Omar N. Bradley
And when we have finished killing each other over dirt, invisible sky dudes and money, and there’s no-one left, what will it have all been for?
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I watched On The Beach again earlier in the week. I think it is a remarkable story depicting the opposite end of the world to a Mad Max ending so favoured by movie makers.
The Hollywood version starring Ava Gardner is available on YT. If you watch it remember when it was made before you rubbish the race scene. There is another made for TV version somewhere. Equally good.
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..or you could read the book, if anyone is capable of that art these days..
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Or you could tell the snobs where to go and be entertained by a movie.
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Although Ava Gardner was quoted as saying that “Melbourne is the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world”, apparently the quote was invented by a SMH journalist.
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FWIW
“Carney’s Canada”
“The late 1880s/early 1890s were a difficult time. The Winnipeg Free Press warned Newfoundland to give the Dominion a wide runaround. Nova Scotia was on the verge of repealing its membership in Confederation. It didn’t happen then, but it sure looks now that a bitter divorce may be in the offing as Alberta and Saskatchewan are contemplating striking out on their own as independent nations.
And why not? Under the rule of a pasty-faced, rag-like, gormless dimidiatus like Mark Carney, there is very little reason to engage in the farce that Confederation has increasingly become, in particular for the Western provinces that can anticipate no respect or relief from the Eastern elites who exploit them. Alberta and Saskatchewan have been sedulously extorted as well as hampered by the Laurentian aristocracy in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto for as long as we can remember. ”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/08/07/carneys-canada-n4942485
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I sent that to a friend in Canada. The reply was
“Yup”
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“Battery storage a ‘wild west’ amid net zero drive”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly634lz0y3o
A very reasonable piece [!] by the BBC.
Only criticism, is that it doesn’t actually question the need for the supposed ‘Great Energy Transition’ – but is still a fairly decent layman’s account of Battery Energy Storage Systems [BESS].
One quote –
“Prof Toghill also claimed there was an “energy security risk” in becoming overly-reliant on lithium-ion batteries used at Bess sites as the UK has no supply chain for creating them, relying on countries such as China for the critical raw materials.”
Claimed – there IS an energy security risk … but still, it IS the Beeb.
Auto
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FWIW – News for “Elbow & Co”
BREAKING: A Saudi analyst from Riyadh:
“Saudi Arabia has no problem establishing relations with the State of Israel.Israel is a neighboring state, and no one can erase it. Hamas is a terrorist organization that has occupied the Gaza Strip.” ”
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1953625602075816110
Via https://instapundit.com/737062/#disqus_thread
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Bloody Southerners moving up and ruining the Gold Coast…. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-08/gold-coast-council-stop-mud-slide-at-kirra-north-burleigh-hill/105628024
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FWIW
More darker side of “education”
“Just another kind of communism”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/just-another-kind-of-communism
Via https://instapundit.com/737085/#disqus_thread
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