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Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/29/feds-deaf-to-eagle-kill-warning/
The beginning:
“Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill them.
These permits are predicated on a supposed mitigation strategy where turbine kills are offset by reducing the number of eagles electrocuted by power poles. Electrocution is estimated to kill about 500 golden eagles a year. The strategy calls for 12 eagles to be saved for every 10 killed by wind turbines.
My research on this strategy found that the number of golden eagles actually saved from electrocution must be very low, far lower than the number killed by wind turbines. The math is quite simple. The number of power poles being made safe is far too low to be effective.
So I set out to inform the FWS of my findings, which should be of great concern to them. They need to rethink their golden eagle wind-kill mitigation strategy.
Beginning on September 25, I sent the cautionary email shown below to over a dozen FWS people and offices. Most of the people were in the Migratory Birds Office, which oversees the Eagle Protection Act permitting. In addition, each of the eight FWS regional offices which issue the Eagle-kill permits has a specific email address for that purpose, so I sent to them.
I sent every email twice in one week and to date have not received a single reply. So, I am here publishing the email to make it in effect an open letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service.”
Lots more in the article. I will keep fighting for the eagles.
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Net Zero is an anti-environmental movement. They don’t give two craps about preserving natural habitats or biodiversity if it gets in the way of their sweet, sweet greenwashing cash and their monuments towards their green purity. They would gladly strangle every last golden eagle, spear every last right whale, and chop down every last Joshua tree if it got them closer to their utopian goals. They also don’t care one iota about delta smelt, but will happily pretend they do if it helps them shut down one nuclear plant that might compete with their sacred wind and solar farms.
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I wonder if one of the many reasons the Left in the US support wind turbines is because they kill eagles and in particular the Bald Eagle which a symbol of America’s strength, majesty, freedom, determination, faithfulness, boldness, courage and American pride. The Bald Eagle appears on the Great Seal of the United States, Presidential Seal, military symbolism and many other core institutions of American life. The Bald Eagle was chosen in 1782 by a committee appointed by the Confederation Congress as a national symbol of the new Republic, although Benjamin Franklin (also on the committee) wanted a turkey.
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In the US a photo of a smashed up bald eagle should be on every bus stop. Let the people see the carnage for themselves and then let the democrats defend the roll out. I’d love to see them hugging a windmill in support just because Trump side they were bad.
For oz, it should be a photo of the access roads and the massive concrete foundations in the national parks. With of course a little picture of Bowen at the bottom, with a quote that says, “I did that”.
Unless the TV shows this blight on ‘Home and Away’ then it just isn’t a problem. Bowen is a saint for giving them $275 back on their power bills. The ABC said so.
For the overseas readers, Home and Away is a real life documentary on Oz lifestyles and the typical people in a small coastal town. /s
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But they claim to be saving more eagles from electrocution then they are killing with wind. My point is that claim is false. Looking at wind kills is looking in the wrong place. Look at the false claimed offset.
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David your argument is a good one.
But stopping one death to justify another is still a bad outcome. Why not fix both problems, there is no reason that either MUST occur. We don’t insulate household wiring just so we can have bare conductors in the work place.
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Well they did have Biden for a while…
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I don’t get it? Don’t they have to build thousands of miles of new grid power lines? Are they under-grounding them?
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That must assume windturbines reduce the need for power lines..
..How So ??
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The father of Wikipedia shares that Wikipedia has BLACKLISTED conservative news sources such as: Breitbart, Daily Caller, Epoch Times, FOX News, The Federalist, Blaze Media, The NY Post, Counter Punch, Daily Caller, and Daily Mail, Sputnik News, UNZ Review, News Nation, Newsmax, etc.
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I used to donate to Wikipedia but when it became clear it had been infiltrated by Leftists and they no longer allowed conservatives to contribute toward balanced articles, I stopped.
What the Left have done is especially dangerous because Wikipedia is often the top or one of the top search results in any inquiry.
The Left destroy everything that is good.
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Zuckerberg is to pay Trump 25 million for having losex his account
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About the only thing was less credibility may be the IPCC.
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From an Australian viewpoint, our âscientific â organisation CSIRO is very low down in the credibility lists. And not far behind would be our weather organisation, the BOM.
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To be surpassed by AI?
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I only use it to see if some politician or movie star is dead yet.
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Who runs the uniparty? Its the bankers.
All wars are bankers wars:
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/understanding-bankers-wars?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mct2d&triedRedirect=true
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Banker Rockfeller infamously said:
One day the world will belong to the [big] banks.
That time is now.
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âDear Lord Rothschild*â
wrote Arthur Balfour in his 1917 Declaration, on behalf of the British Government, offering Zionists a plot of land in Palestine.
One hundred and eight years on, how did that âdeal of the centuryâ turn out âŚ
* Red Shield.
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It wasn’t a “plot of land”, it was the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people who in any case had maintained a continual presence there since ancient times.
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Continual presence (?) apart from regular bouts of captivity in foreign lands at the hands of far greater civilisations of the time, from which the high priests begged, borrowed and/or stole most of the good ideas, then claimed them as their own: plagiarism, I believe, is the word.
And what of the Canaanites and a host of other Shemitic tribes who called that rocky outpost âhomeâ before the Habiru stragglers wandered in from Ur of the Chaldees, to the east, claiming divine authority.
Lest we remember: they want it all – from river to river – from the Euphrates to the Nile. Their âgodâ is not only an angry god, heâs hungry too.
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Greg in NZ,
History hasn’t crossed a finishing line (despite all the fuss about Fukuyama’s claim). The World’s borders weren’t finalised by WW2 (or whatever) and wrangling over them is situation normal.
Don’t you agree that the Russians appear to serve a “hungry god” too? How about China, as formerly separate nations suddenly learn that they were always part of the Celestial Empire? I’m not all that sure that talk of the USA eyeing Greenland and even Canada was entirely tongue-in-cheek.
Interestingly, none of those countries had been dealing with rockets coming across the border, or even stones. Seems like Israel has a *better* case for their expansionism.
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The Balfour Declaration contradicted an earlier agreement the British Govt made, a promise to the Arabs commonly referred to as the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence (in legal effect, a Treaty).
In return for help to defeat the Ottoman Turks in WW1, a victorious Britain would give independence to the Arabs of the defeated Ottoman Empire. There’s no doubt Palestine was included in that.
But what eventuated was decades of obstruction by Britain to any fulfillment of her promise with regard to the Arabs of Palestine.
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Perfidious Albion also âpromised â the Dardanelles to Russia, giving Russia access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
ANZAC soldiers were sent to their slaughter in a mission impossible, engineered by England, to ensure that Turkey held the Dardanelles.
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Zuckerberg is to pay Trump 25 million for having losex his account
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The tally and where from –
“Yesterday, lawyers for President Trump and Google (YouTubeâs owner) filed a joint notice of settlement in federal court. YouTube will pay President Trump $24.5 million as compensation for suspending his account after January 6th, 2021.
The agreement requires YouTube to pay $22 million to Trumpâs Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit supporting national renewal projects like the planned White House State Ballroom, and another $2.5 million to conservative organizations like the American Conservative Union.
It is just the latest in a string of settlements from media companies. So far this year, Meta/Facebook stroked a check for $25 million, and Twitter/X coughed up $10 million. Thatâs on top of settlements from ABC ($15 million) and 60 Minutes ($16 million). It amounts to nearly $100 million total.
So far.”
From https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/eternal-peace-tuesday-september-30?
And other things there
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Two videos about further recent confirmation of increased incidence of cancer in mRNA and cDNA covid “vaccinated” people. The increase for all cancers is 27% at p=0.001 but certain cancers are much more prevalent. The study is from South Korea and involved millions of individuals, N= 8,407,849
Dr John Campbell discusses:
https://youtu.be/ayfRq-CPF6I
Dr Philip McMillan discusses:
https://www.youtube.com/live/kIpEQUBjAgU
Paper:
https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-025-00831-w
And a timely reminder for those Big Pharma and Big Government advocates of the Left to go out and get your 43rd covid booster shot.
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27% increase in all cancers.
It could be worse.
This is going to be very expensive to undo. Is it even possible?
You couldn’t have dreamed up a better way to cull the population and still keep your government job. Just delay the deaths by a few months and the masses will never see the cause and effect. Just like the hollow promise of $275 back on your bills.
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I believe it relates to the ongoing production of the spike protein and the disturbances to the immune system that causes. It’s not known how long the spike protein is continued to be manufactured in the body in “vaccinated” people (and it probably varies between individuals) or if there is any way to stop it. Perhaps with an anti-spike protein antibody? I really don’t know.
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The spike protein can persist for years, but that’s no longer the problem. The looming tidal wave is much more insidious.
“Nature finds a way”, so do viruses. đ
Probably the most appropriate music video analogy ever:
https://youtu.be/br8AvTqZ0w4?si=nYPEURvLpd6AbtZn
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You can spit it out ; we’re all skeptics here. Nobody is going to believe you.
Is that a problem?
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” 27% increase in all cancers.”
So far, that is. Plenty of upside left in that number, given the number of fools who took the vexxine.
I recommend reading the Ethical Sceptic, either on his website, or his X account, for a comprehensive statistical breakdown on vexxine turbo cancer.
There’s no fix to a deliberately disrupted immune system, it cannot “unlearn” the incorrect responses programmed by the vexxine.
Expensive? Yes, treatment for all these consequences is. Fixable, no.
And then there’s the increasing up tick in deaths of children born to vexxinated women…
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Fools is a bit harsh.
A lot of people were getting told it’s safe, it was needed, it would save lives, and they wouldn’t have a job if they didn’t.
Maybe people who believe the government, believe the media, and think the government always has their best interests at heart are naive. I’d suggest maybe they’re only fools the second time around.
Being fooled doesn’t make someone a fool.
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A case of “shots herd around the world”
/sarc
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The evidence is there for a significant uptick in cancers/cardiac problems and worse – deaths – post vaccine. However, not every mRNA Covid vaccine recipient will be a victim. Far from it.
The very improvised method of development, production and inoculation of the Covid vaccines has resulted in very varied impacts on individual vaccine recipients. Genetic susceptibility, extremely poor production procedures, variable storage temperatures of vaccine – especially in mass outdoor vaccination facilities, poor and ineffective vaccine inoculations etc etc has resulted in fewer adverse reactions than could have been the case. I recollect that Dr Phillip MacmIllan has published recent research.
I think this article may have included the research:
Independent Medical Alliance
Subject: Spike Protein Susceptibility: New IMA Research on COVID Vaccine Risk
Date: 13 July 2025
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Sorry David!!! I hadnât read your more informative post!
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They say ‘go woke, go broke’. Well it’s true but you won’t go broke if you use plain old common sense.
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Video.
Are statins the biggest con in modern medicine?
Dr Suneel Dhand and panel discuss:
https://youtu.be/8KxzS6ft_bM
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So many cons to choose from, so little time. đ
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Video.
How bad is slightly high blood pressure and are the latest recommendations good or do they have the purpose of encouraging the consumption of more pharmaceuticals?
Dr Suneel Dhand discusses:
https://youtu.be/HkpZlu8_1QM
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Sounds like a rhetorical question to me David.
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Video:
Comments by Victor Davis Hanson on Ilhan Omar, AOC and other matters.
Well worth watching.
https://youtu.be/-t00ionaAAo
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There is a comment in there that TRUMP has offered illegal immigrants $1000 and a trip home if they self-deport.
The taxpayer shouldn’t have to pay of course, but it would still be cheaper than the Government having to find them and pay to deport them anyway.
Great idea!
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And given the standard efficiency of the public “service” how many illegal immigrants will return for another handout?
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not many crossing illegally these days
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Many people have alleged that western governments that are encouraging mass immigration from third world nations are hell-bent on replacing the indigenous peoples. Of course this is nonsense, just hyperbole aimed at exaggerating the effects of ‘welcoming refugees’.
But yesterday, the UK’s hapless Prime Minister Starmer (elite socialist) has all but admitted it. In his conference speech, he said this:
“âŚwe must go into that battle armed not just with words and condemnation, but with action⌠if you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin⌠if you now say they should be deported, mark my words weâll fight you with everything we have, because you are the enemy of national renewalâ.
They’re not even bothering to hide it any more.
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Interesting how he plays the race card straight away and never mentions the behaviour card. Grooming gangs? What grooming gangs? the odd mass stabbing? Just business as usual.
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Far from nonsense, it’s been a well know agenda since the 1800’s…
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What puzzles me & no doubt hundreds of thousand of others, is that the millions of voters making up electorates in many western countries canât figure out that the politicians they vote for are the politicians trying to eliminate them.
Are these governments adding something to the drinking water. They actually admit to policies aimed at replacing the indigenous voters!! But the voter is too stupid to understand what going on!!
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While the Oil origin uncertainty persists, the Coal origin is clear (to Wiki…) and it is not synthesis.
It did take millions of years for Gaea to convert billions of trees into coal and XXI century people should live it be until further instructions.
In place of Trump (because no other person in this World is closer to deity) I would re-establish the Synthetic Oil Industry simply because it is the best portable source of energy known to man.
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Honestly, I wrote ” leave” not “live” !
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Remember the cartoon about the three women in jail asking each other what they were jailed for?
“I got charged with gouging because I charged more than everyone else”
“I got charged for dumping because I charged less than everyone else.
“I got charged for monopolising because I charged the same as everyone else”
So, while Elbow is busy subsidising electric trash in Australia, he is also bitching about China subsiding them for export..
“Australia has thrown its weight behind a global crackdown on oversupply of goods such as EVs and steel amid heightened alarm that Chinaâs manufacturing boom will threaten Western competitors and hand Beijing coercive power in key sectors.”
Its just a typical shakedown by thuggish Govts as any tariff makes their people pay more for goods and the extra money goes straight to the politicians. In the good ol’ days the now-extinct free market would solve any supply issues, be they under or over-supply, but now Govt just destroy markets instead.
“Beijing substantially subsidises production of EVs and solar panels in a price war aimed at undercutting other nationsâ manufacturers. ”
This can only happen if Beijing pays that money from somewhere else, so subsidising one product will destroy another. All of it makes the people poorer! On our end the Govt is just rolling in money! Tariffs on Chinese EVs bring in more cash for them, and if they can move the market towards Euro versions-
“Levelling the playing field in the auto sector would in the long run allow more EVs from European firms, which are subject to both a luxury car tax and a 5 per cent tax incurred because Australia does not have a free-trade agreement with the EU.”
Corruption of the market in every direction!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/as-chinese-cars-flood-the-market-australia-backs-global-crackdown-on-price-war-20250929-p5mylo.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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Hang on, what about the massive subsidies paid to wind and solar in Australia and the massive subsidies paid to what little remaining industry we have left plus massive Government “investment” in solar panel manufacturing, quantum computing, etc..
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On Monday the ABS released its report Excess mortality by selected causes of death, 2020-23. Apparently in 2022 Australiaâs excess deaths were 11.7% higher than 2020 (-3.1%) and 2021 (1.6%).
So what happened in 2022? I know there was that covid thing but wasnât that a minor respiratory disease? I say minor because the ABS table shows excess death due to respiratory diseases in 2022 was -8.7% compared to 2020 (-21.6%) and 2021 (-16.9%) or am I reading the table wrong despite the ABS advice that âThe following table provides a summary of excess mortality estimates by cause of death expressed as the percentage above expected mortality for the years 2020-2023â.
The non-respiratory cause big movers in 2022 included Ischaemic heart disease (14.1 up from 2.3 PY (previous year)) Diabetes (14.9 up from 4.7 PY) Kidney (21.0 up from 12.2 PY) Liver (21.3 up from 11.1 PY). It is as if something got into peopleâs bodies and attacked individual organs.
Thoughts anyone.
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It indicates either competence or incompetence.
‘Public Health’ in a society sharply focused on preventing anthropogenic existential threat cannot necessarily be presumed to be positively oriented in regard to anthro health.
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The gathering of the generals looks to have been for Hegseth to berate the fat/lazy/woke ones, not so much to be addressed by the Commander In Chief.
I sat up last night to watch Trump, watched an hour and gave up. His was no different to any rally. Maybe he got serious later. đ
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…and the facial expressions said it all…
A memo would have covered it all at no cost, but this is the military!đ
No more fatties, beardies, weirdies, weakies or wokies. This is the department of WAR!
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This quote from last year may have had an impact on future strategy.
âThe military has experienced increasing difficulty in recruiting soldiers as a result of physical inactivity, obesity, and malnutrition among our nationâs youth. Not addressing these issues now will impact our future national security.â (Mark Hertling, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired)
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Thanks for pointing out the release of the report
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supposed to be under #13
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FWIW
“Dr. Michael Mann finally gets his comeuppance”
“But now, at long last, reality has tapped him on the shoulder. After less than a year as the University of Pennsylvaniaâs first Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action, Mann has been forced to resign. The reason? His own mouth.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/30/dr-michael-mann-finally-gets-his-comeuppance/
Seems like you could say that he talked his way out of it?
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I was just reading a fear and loathing climate prediction for the coming summer in Australia, complete with red maps.l(news.com.au)
It was written in the usual breathless style , with lots of drama and hyperbolic statements. Once you strip the BS away, the coming summer will include:
Temperatures over 40C in some places
Monsoon rain in some places
Risk of tropical cyclones in some places
Increased risk bushfire
Lots of warmer days on most places
Also known as normal
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/soaring-40c-temps-80mm-deluges-to-pound-multiple-regions-of-australia-as-rare-weather-event-unleashes-chaos/news-story/a62f0bc7e07abcc9d55f1e8275bdf448
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It seems that every spring the same message is trotted out, The coming summer will be an horrendous one for bushfires. Two years ago the reason that bushfires would be catastrophic was because the previous couple of wet years caused to much scrub to grow, this year the reason is the dry winter will cause all the fuel to be dry and therefore burn.
Never mentioned is the governments absolute failure to complete mitigation works as recommended in every Bushfire Royal commission since 1939. Ignore reality ignore bushfire experts that don’t go with the green agenda, just tell everyone it’s beyond control. If big fires do occur the government agencies can simply claim “we told you this would happen” without anyone ever being held to account.
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One thing I took out of the story, Sudden Stratospheric Warming causes the Southern Annular Mode to go negative.
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Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells
Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise difficult ethical, social and legal issues.
Mitalipov’s team instead used the technique that was used to clone Dolly the sheep: The scientists removed most of the DNA from a healthy donor egg and replaced it with most of the DNA from another woman’s skin cell.
Next, the researchers essentially tricked the reconstituted egg to skip normal forms of cell division known as mitosis and meiosis. Instead, they coaxed the eggs to go through a different process they dubbed “mitomeiosis.” That produced 82 functional eggs, the researchers reported.
The scientists then fertilized the eggs with sperm to see if they could develop into embryos. And it appears to have worked, at least in a small number of tries, the researchers report. Nine percent of the resulting embryos developed to the blastocyst stage, which is when embryos would be transferred into a woman’s womb, the researchers reported.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5553322/ivg-human-eggs-cells-fertility
What could possibly go wrong (that big pharma couldn’t profit from)?
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Oh My (unacceptable)!!
They are trying to breed Democrats.
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Wednesday funny: how to tell when your chosen sport isn’t for you
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t3eofz5q151z23obp.mp4
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Real-time fuel consumption of a Boeing 747-8
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t3ej90HqaL1z23obp.mp4
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Pfizer strikes $70 billion deal with U.S. to expand its mRNA empire
Today, Pfizer announced a âlandmark agreementâ with the Trump Administration. The press release promised lower drug costs and a revival of U.S. manufacturing. President Donald Trump touted that Pfizer would cut Medicaid drug prices for low-income Americans and sell new medicines at a âmost-favored-nationâ price â but only in exchange for tariff relief.
In reality, it appears to be a multi-billion dollar effort to entrench Pfizerâs failed gene-transfer platforms for decades to come.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/pfizer-strikes-70-billion-deal-with
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Gullible idiots: why signing an e-petition plays right into the governmentâs hands
A new e-petition does the rounds on social media almost on a weekly basis these days. Spurred on by the latest government outrage or other, the same old gullible idiots spring into action, sharing it, demanding others sign it, and, of course, giving endless updates on how many other gullible idiots have signed it.
All this begs the question: how can these people fall for the same old trick, time and time again?
A two minute net search would show them that e-petitions really are an exercise in futility. There have now been over 100,000 e-petitions raised since their launch some ten years ago yet not a single one has changed a single thing. They have a 100% Failure rate. The stats don’t lie, but they do tell a grim tale.
In truth, no government, least of all this one, gives a toss about your voice. If you think that any petition is going to change their minds on anything then youâre deluded. Itâs a trick straight from the totalitarian playbook: let the masses vent, harvest their data, pay lip-service to whatever theyâre moaning about this week before ploughing on with it regardless.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/gullible-idiots-why-signing-an-e-petition-plays-right-into-the-government-s-hands
The cycle of collapse will not be denied its inevitability.
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FWIW
“You’ll Totally Believe Who’s Secretly in Charge of the Gaza ‘Relief’ Flotilla”
“Surprise! That Sumud “relief” flotilla crossing the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip is actually a Hamas operation, according to secret documents just uncovered by Israeli forces operating in Gaza.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/09/30/youll-totally-believe-whos-secretly-in-charge-of-the-gaza-relief-flotilla-n4944291
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Researchers just found something extremely alarming about AIâs power usage
As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles â indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesnât scale linearly.
For instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip.
âUltimately, we found that the common understanding of AIâs energy consumption is full of holes,â MIT Technology Review wrote in a recent analysis.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-power-usage-text-to-video-generator
Would everyone please cut back on your AI generated lolcat videos.
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Retro internet humour
How many blog members does it take to change a lightbulb?
One (poor internet access) to change the light bulb and a second to post that the light bulb has been changed.
Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
Seven more to point out spelling or grammar errors in the posts about changing light bulbs. Five to flame the spell checkers.
Three to correct spelling/grammar flames.
Six to argue over whether it’s “lightbulb” or “light bulb”
… another six to condemn those six as stupid.
Fifteen to claim experience in the lighting industry and give correct spelling.
One to post the old joke about “Hams don’t change light bulbs, they redesign the ciruit to use LED’s”.
Two to post that “LED’s” is incorrect grammar, and that the plural form of LED is LEDs.
Three to post that the “LED’s” / LEDs postings are Off Topic as the current discussion is about light bulbs.
Nineteen to post that this group is not about light bulbs or LEDs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb (or light bulb or LED) forum/mailing list/chatroom/ whatever.
Eleven to defend the posting to the group saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this group.
Two to say “I’m having to change lightbulbs tomorrow at work therefore it is relevant to ME”.
Thirty-six to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty.
Seven to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs.
Four to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL (bracketed so that word wrap does not break the URLs).
Three to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.
Thirteen to link all postings to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers, trailers and signatures, and add “Me too”. Another four that again quote the above “all postings”and add “Me three”.
Five to post to the group that they are quiting the list because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.
Four to ask “didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”.
Thirteen to say “Google is your friend”, or “Do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs”
Three to tell a funny story about their spouse/cat/dog/parrot/whatever and a light bulb.
Neil WA6KLA posts and says “I have 20 file cabinets of light bulb manuals here, let me pull the correct one out for you and give you the Motorola part number.”
AND One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
Been there many times! đ
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Ley issues KPI letters to all shadow ministers, ostensibly to gag Hastie.
‘The opposition leader sent so-called âcharter lettersâ to her entire shadow ministry on Tuesday, laying out her expectations for them in their respective roles.
‘Senior Liberal sources confirmed the letters, first reported by the Nine newspapers, also contained a more general call for discipline and ârespect for colleaguesâ portfoliosâ, which frontbenchers interpreted as an appeal to avoid policy freelancing after the disruption of Andrew Hastieâs interventions on net zero, local car-marking and immigration.â (Guardian)
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FWIW
Re that Roma Qld temp minimum of -48.8C on 25/09/2025
Looks like the Roma Met temp gauge threw a wobbly on the 24th. No temperatures on line since.
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Don’t worry, the missing readings will soon be made up (by BOM)
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No probs. A bit of homogenisation will fix that. They could use Port Hedland and Alice Springs, a bit to the west and about the same latitude.
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Screen shots saved in case
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