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The judge who punished Pauline Hanson needs to read this:
Fear of Offence is Eroding Free Speech and Fuelling Modern Blasphemy Laws
fear of offending is dragging us toward …
where protecting feelings trumps the freedom to think and speak clearly.
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All is going as planned.
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The judge correctly found Hanson’s tweet did not fall within the fair comment exemption because it was an “angry, personal attack”.
It was a message that Faruqi as an immigrant was a second-class citizen “and that she should be grateful for what she has and keep quiet”, he said in his federal court ruling.
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Strikes me that first-class citizens are the ones who take a fee to welcome us to their country. That gives Hanson second-class status (though that judge might place her a bit lower than that).
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Correctly?
An “angry personal attack” is attacking the person, not the race, so how is it racism?
And since Hanson and Faruqi are the same race, how can a “personal attack” even be at all misconstrued as racism?
And the Faruqi’s comments about “Whites” were not racist? Its quite fair to ask why they are here if they have such negative feelings about Australia.
And Payman’s venomous public tantrum targeting Hanson in the most vitriolic and nasty manner, dripping with hatred and bordering on hysteria, was that not an, “angry personal attack”?
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“An “angry personal attack” is attacking the person, not the race, so how is it racism?”
Racism is defined is when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity. Hanon’s “angry personaL attack” on Faruqui fits that definition perfectly.
Racist is prejudice against or antagonistic towards people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized
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“An “angry personal attack” is attacking the person, not the race, so how is it racism?”
The definition of racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalised. As is plainHanson’s comment fitted that definition to a T
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@Ian:
You wrote: >Racism is defined is(sic) when a person is treated worse, excluded, disadvantaged, harassed, bullied, humiliated or degraded because of their race or ethnicity. Hanon’s “angry personaL(sic) attack” on Faruqui fits that definition perfectly.
Racist is prejudice against or antagonistic towards people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group
The definition of racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalised. As is plainHanson’s(sic) comment fitted that definition to a T
” because of their race or ethnicity.”
Hanson did not say “piss off back to Pakistan” because or on the basis of the fact that you’re a Pakistani.
She said piss off back to Pakistan because, or on the basis of the fact that you’re insulting our Queen and you called Australia, “a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples”
Hanson’ antagonism toward Faruqi was a reaction to Faruqi’s insults and attacks on her adopted country, OUR country, the country she swore allegiance to, and has now renounced loudly in parliament, so why doesn’t she go home, if she doesn’t approve of our country?
Therefore Pauline Hanson’s criticism DOESN’T fit your definition of racism.
(The emphasis is mine)
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Looks “made up” to me. A fictitious finding.
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Sticks and stones again. For Christ’s sake everybody, harden up!
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Nah, there is money to be made by simply being offended, or better yet being a victim
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Therefore by this logic Rudd is honest?
I could continue and destroy this research paper and put it in the bin with the 97% of similar such studies.
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yeah I call bullsiht on this one too
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@Broadie & Mr Farnham:
To be fair, your posts are entirely devoid of profanities or expletives so your posts must be insincere fabrications. Honestly.
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So this is a Indian religious reference to the male member of the Bovine family?
So let us be a little more skeptical and cynical about this research and start a list.
Senator Pocock
Senator Lydia Thorpe
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It’s another example of academic idiots obtaining research funds to churn out reports with learned findings so dubious they can be discarded out of hand, or so banal that your grandmother could have easily told you that with her simple common sense; like, never trust someone who says “trust me”.
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Swearing is very modern. My father was a sportsman, fought in the mud in the great war and worked among men but never swore.
I suspect that even by WWII soldiers were not routinely profane, less so than school kids today.
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Indiscreet swearing is a very modern phenomena. I don’t have a problem with it in the right context. For instance, l don’t swear in front of children -they have plenty of time to embellish their vocabulary later on in life. I swear at work but only in front of certain people, I sense who won’t and will be offended.
Swearing indiscriminately, like you point out with school kids, has been increasing in recent years.
I see a similar parallel in comedy. Whilst swearing isn’t necessary to good comedy, l think the best modern comedians realise when an expletive has the most impact and curse accordingly whereas others swear so often that they desensitise their audience to such comedic impact.
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Swearing is a cultural thing.
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My grandparents, born in the early 1890s, swore, but their swear words were euphemisms compared to today’s swearing. The intention was there but the vocabulary was far more restrained. My grandmother had a large repertoire of ribald music-hall songs and rude poems which she’d heard and absorbed as a naive youngster. She would recite them at the most inappropriate times because she hadn’t a clue what they meant and nobody had the heart to tell her. She was hilarious!
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My surviving grandfather, also born about then, didn’t swear, that I know of, but used the exclamation “jings” or “by jingo” when he felt the need to relieve his tension.
If still around today he might say: ” by jingo I can’t understand how that Lyd-Pay party could now be getting such high pay to perform like school kids in parliament”.
My other grandfather was killed in a coal mining accident in Hamilton, he was in his thirties.
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I don’t know whether that is true or not but it would not surprise me. Crooks was unknown and, luckily, a poor shot, but the deep state did and does not want Trump to turn over their ant nest. The Secret Service was so incompetent the attempted assassination must have been planned. If I were Trump I’d have my own security just as he is having a private firm do the background checks on his cabinet appointments. He cannot trust the FBI. In fact he cannot trust any of the alphabet agencies.
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The question was whether he was unknown to the FBI. Even the public could see him on the roof with a rile. It was only the width of a football field. And he did not miss. No one could miss at that range. He shot Trump in the ear! Try that from side on, to shoot someone in the ear without killing them.
So the shot was perfect. But Trump turned his head suddenly and exactly what he needed to do so. That’s incredible luck! So Crooks then fired another 7 shots! But Trump not only turned, he dropped. And then three other people were shot, one fatally. There was even time for the Fireman Corey Comperatore to cover his family which he did. So this was not rapid fire.
The telling point is it was a Butler policeman who shot the rifle out of Crook’s hands, not the FBI. The FBI sniper then and only then killed the disarmed Crooks with a head shot. Try to explain why he did not do that before. The same thing happened with Kennedy’s assassin Lee Oswald who was shot Jack Ruby while in police custody. Or even Jeffrey Epstein. Dead men tell no tales. The sniper was going to die, after he gave it his best shot. The FBI claim plausible deniability, even when the killer was in plain sight to hundreds of people long before he took the shot.
And I was also surprised that the media quickly buried the whole incident. A week later it never happeend. And it was not mentioned even as a factor in the election, which is shocking in itself. But the people of Pennsylvania remembered. And Trump went back to Butler, which took real courage.
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Victor Hanson on the unique attempts to destroy and even kill Donald Trump. And the collapse or complicity in Secret Service performance.
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Dead men do not tell tales or for that matter even shoot.
Shots were from different guns and separate shooters This bullet appears to disturb the sniper team on the roof before passing through at least two people and hitting the railing.
Philidelphia Motorcycle cops were hit by bullets. There does not appear to be any bullets available to find who was shot from where by what? The actors from CSI would be horrified.
So we have an official narrative, just does not appear to be supported by evidence.
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What’s odd about Dead Men that is that there are two films. One of Trump with the shooter in the distance. Another of the shooter being shot. Different camera and quite likely a different time. Splicing the two films together as if they are a single camera proves nothing. As for the second film, everything seems wrong as if the bullets are coming from the right, not the left. I can only give credibility to the one which has Trump in the same shot as the shooter.
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Didn’t Trump say to Robert Kennedy I’m going to let you investigate the three lettered agencies that killed you father and uncle.Ohh god I hope it’s true.
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Not sure about that. If true it will keep their heads down.
He did however say he would release all the files on the assassination of JFK.
We will find out if there really was a shooter on the ‘grassy knoll’ and if Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly acted all on his own, or if he was assisted through a Cuban connection with the Soviets.
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>whether that is true or not
Some more evidence for you to consider:
Neil Oliver Interviews Kevork Almassian
https://youtu.be/XUsJ5tQT1ps?si=TSbfE-1LkmC92Ois
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Straight from the ‘Two Ronnies’. Sweden’s Gender Equalities minister is terrified of bananas. Of course.
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That explains a lot.
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Dumb job requires a dumb minister.
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Monty Python at 1:55.
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Cats v Cucumbers is more amusing, but just as perplexing.
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She has complained about her male colleagues mans-plantaining
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At the end of yesterday’s thread I posted about the livestock feed additive Bovaer designed to reduce methane emissions from cows, presumably at the expense of weight gain in the animals.
Even Goolag AI overview, which has a strong Leftist/Big Pharma bias, responds to the search term “3-nitrooxypropanol reduced male fertility” (without quote marks):
It’s an odd response. First of all it agrees it causes make infertility then says it’s “misinformation”.
After the covid “vaccine” disaster, do you trust the safety of this additive?
In regard to Bovaer:
https://informedchoice.substack.com/p/breaking-alert-if-you-buy-meat-at
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Our cows just eat grass in summer and supplemental hay in winter. Occasional “cattle nuts” as treats – but will now have to check any additives to these!
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We know the FDA and pharma cannot be trusted so why trust them with something as important as our continued meat supplies. I believe it has been shown that cow’s methane burps are simply speeding up the decomposition of the grass instead of decomposing naturally or by termites. This was another Furphy gladly adopted by the once great CSIRO to curry favour with the government and ensure a continuing supply of grants. Prostitutes in white coats.
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All information contrary to official narratives are now misinformation, true or not.
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Aa you would be aware, Dave, here in Australia we came dangerously close to outlawing any information not in accordance with the Official Narrative. It was a Uniparty bill, having its origins with the fake conservative Liberal Party but after they lost Government the Labor Party tried to pass it. The Government, being the main purveyor of misinformation that we saw with both covid and continue to see with the world’s most fanatical commitment to the anthropogenic global warming fraud, exempted itself from the provisions of the proposed law. Tragically Australia has no guarantee of free speech (or other rights) except a pathetically weak determination in case law of an implied right of political discourse; and no religious test for public office. But then politicians use lawfare for saying mean things against each other as we just saw in the case of Faruqi vs Hanson https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/faruqi-v-hanson
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trust ze experts and do not ask ze qvestions!
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While are talking about cattle eating stuff
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-01/dairy-cows-in-south-australia-eating-chocolate-and-lollies/102411394
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This very nice article muses on the fact that mobile phone users often seem oblivious to their surroundings and other people when walking across a road or striding along pavements apparently glued to their phones.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/am-i-the-invisible-man/
In the article he compares these people to Mr Bean who, seeing the Mediterranean at last, strides across many lanes of traffic in a charming end to the film as the great Charles Aznavour sings “La Mer” This is linked below.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=mr+bean+aND+le+mer+song&cvid=33ef86c226eb4220973c054b1309fd21&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQkxNjYzMGowajSoAgCwAgA&PC=LCTS&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dmr%2bbean%2baND%2ble%2bmer%2bsong%26cvid%3d33ef86c226eb4220973c054b1309fd21%26gs_lcrp%3dEgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQkxNjYzMGowajSoAgCwAgA%26FORM%3dANAB01%26PC%3dLCTS&mmscn=vwrc&mid=07F0C117FE86A42F6DDB07F0C117FE86A42F6DDB&FORM=WRVORC
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The Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) link I give above then segues smoothly into his performance at the 2012 London Olympics when he played in the orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle then onto James Bond. I forgot how good the opening ceremony was compared to the unpleasant woke nonsense of the Paris games. Only 12 years ago but it seems a much simpler but lost time.
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“Mr Bean’s Holiday” is a very funny film. You could watch it with the sound turned off and there were English subtitles for the spoken French.
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He loved Mr Hulot’s Holiday, nearly a silent French movie with minimal language! Here’s a commentary on it. Mr Bean was clearly an homage to Mr Hulot.
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indeed, the whole string of M.Hullot films by jacques tati are worth tracking down (the prescient theme being the conflict between humanity and de-humanizing technology).
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A well known reporter in Victoria was creamed by a truck when crossing the road. His mother heard the incident because he was talking to her at the time.
How often have you been sitting behind a car at traffic lights waiting for the driver to look up rather than doing something with their phone!
Hopefully RFK Jr will have somer influence over mobile phone use due to the proximity of the radiation causing harm to health:
https://www.rfsafe.com/articles/cell-phone-radiation/the-fcc-lost-a-landmark-case-what-it-means-for-cell-phone-users.html
Ever asked a taxi driver to let you out because they are using their phone or falling asleep!
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There are videos on youtube which show pedestrians with their heads in their phones being hit by cars. Not the drivers fault, the pedestrians are totally engrossed in their phones, oblivious to where they are.
Some are quite graphic.
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I have been watching Maigret (played by a serious Rowan Atkinson) on ABC’s view.
Thank goodness no cell phones.
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Is the Giant car maker Nissan about to collapse into administration due to the threat from cheap Chinese cars?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14145869/nissan-collapse-reason-car-manufacturer-bankrupt-honda.html
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Lucky NetZero is creating all those well paid green jobs (sarcasm!).
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1862773118160248899
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We need to import 1 million people a year to fill all these green jobs
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Somebody MUST clean the slaver panels – no?
Auto
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I mentioned to my wife that we appear to be getting a lot more advertisements for new cars. I remember just a few years back when Toyota stopped advertising new cars so were solely advertising well-maintained second hand cars.
There are some very attractive Chinese cars now al comparatively low prices. I am not sure if I will ever need another car but, if I do, there is a very good chance it will be made in China.
I had a view that French made cars would have a competitive advantage because their grid was predominantly nuclear. However they are connected to other countries that have high power prices so not much difference in the price to consumers across Europe. This highlights the fundamental problem of connecting an intermitteion power region with a dispatchable power region – both regions suffer the high cost of intermittency.
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There have been a few problems with cheap EVs, let alone charging them. If you are urban it helps.
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RickWill, #7.2
“This highlights the fundamental problem of connecting an intermitteion power region with a dispatchable power region – both regions suffer the high cost of intermittency.”
____We, in SA, are glad to help.
____Our fleet of show bag toys are great, apparently, for the National Electricity Market – not so much, for the national grid.
____AEMO, I understand, has to manage, massage and generally intervene with us like no other state … yet.
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They may collapse, quite likely really, but they can’t blame others, Toyota, Mazda and Subaru are in the same market. Honda best be careful. They too made some great cars last century but……..
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The Shift from Public to Private
“We have the largest database of anyone on the planet, covering the globe internationally and with an unlimited scope, from finance to wealth, nature, and disease. When there were the Sovereign Defaults of 1931 in Europe, Asia, and South America, combined with the corporate bankruptcies, the flight to quality was to the US treasuries. Even the City of Detroit suspended its debt. You see, the peak in the premium for corporate over treasuries was in 1932. That coincided with the low in the stock market. When FDR came into power on March 4, 1933, after winning the 1932 election, you can see that the premium in corporate rates began to decline. In Europe, corporate rates dropped below government as people began to smell a rat.
In 1927, the Fed lowered rates in the States, trying to deflect capital back to Europe. However, the smart money realized that the Fed’s action confirmed that a serious debt crisis was on the horizon in Europe. Even Britain, the Financial Capital of the World before World War I, suspended its debt, as reported on September 21st, 1931.
When the confidence in the government declines, the capital will always shift from Public to Private and vice versa.
The movie The Forecaster was played on national TV, even in Canada, Europe, and Scandinavia. They would never show it in the USA. Anything that shows the true nature of those in power will never be shown.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/interest-rates/the-shift-from-public-to-private/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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I was just in my vehicle listening to C-Span.
A ‘public health’ confab with director of CDC.
The disconnect from reality was astonishing.
All their problems are caused by the existence of RFK Jr. and Trump.
The deplorables distrust the WHO because Tedros isn’t white.
They’re not given total power over our lives so that we may saved, because we are uneducated and misled by ‘misinformation’ on social media.
It was like listening to Marie Antoinette express the inability to fathom whatever it is the peasants are going on about.
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Careful, C-Span is known to cause severe drowsiness. You should not be listening to C-Span while operating a vehicle.
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I heard that C-Span causes sudden outbursts of rage.
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That Too.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!
If only we had the people resources and guts to elect a Trump! The rag tag bunch installed in Canberra are just seat warmers and grifters.
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How hard would it be for someone to inadvertently let loose a slither of snakes (tigers if you so wish) in your hallowed halls of Canberra? Or have all the members buggered off for 2 months’ holiday? Who’s running the joint anyway, the cleaners?
/not medical advice, see your ‘health’ professional
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In a surprise development our ABC reports on reality
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/aemo-demands-emergency-backstop-to-switch-off-solar/104670332?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
A full investigation will be launched to identify the culprit who released this story, right after Kim Williams appearance on Joe Rogan which has staff glued to their screens.
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What did they think would happen when you add unregulated, uncontrolled power to the grid in daytime.
The only way I can see them getting on top of this is smart meters for everybody.
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No, ..that wont help. See my comment at 11.4
The problem is RTsolar consumption , not feed in to the grid.
A updated inverter would be required to prevent RT ssolar users consuming their own generation and hence reducing grid demand .
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That’s exactly what they are doing. Received a notification the other day about ‘say hello to your new smart meter’- so convenient, so useful, SO UNASKED FOR!
When I looked up the whys and wherefores, it appears that this is all for an easier life for me. I’d never heard of Power of Choice regulations – have I not been paying attention?
Smart meters are all about making your life easier and giving you more control over your electricity usage. Learn more about the benefits of smart meters for homes and for businesses.
Queensland is targeting 100% penetration of smart meters by 2030. In addition, under Power of Choice regulations, all new and replacement meters in NSW, ACT, SA and QLD must be smart.
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I have a new meter, unasked for, under the pretence that I have a 12 yr old little dog that never wanders the yard but may savage the meter reader. It phones readings home, but I’m sure it will transform into a smart meter when they choose.
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It manages to completely avoid telling us if ‘switch off’ of solar in suburbs means they disconnect those houses that have solar from the grid, or they disconnect the whole suburb at the sub-station and no-one has power.
One of those means I get no power because of my neighbour’s solar.
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Aemo can bump up the line voltage and the inverters have a built-in trip, but there’s a risk to equipment because of the overvoltage.
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Really ?, ..i dont think it works like that !
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Tap Changers can be installed on the large transformers in Sub Stations, originally to step up the voltage at the far end of a feed that dropped due to load. It’s been some time since I had anything to do with that sort of stuff, but Ronin is correct, stepping up the volts will/may trip off solar inverters, but the overvoltage could do damage to other services on that feeder/line.
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Will ? or May ?….. Not exactly definitive !
But , either way, it is obviously not being used, as none of the States already utilising methods to stop RT solar generation have used that method.
SA, WA, have introduced “smart inverters” on all new RT installations, which have new inbuilt functionality toallow remote control.
This does nothing to control RT systems installed befor 2022 !
Even QLD, who used a different option which entailed the installation of a separate sensor to facilitate “ripple” signals to switch off the inverter.
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It WILL switch off your inverter if line voltage is above your inverter setting. If your neighbour’s inverter is set lower than yours you MAY stay on line. If your neighbour is a sparky with a big array, London to a brick you go off line first.
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You are correct Glenn. SA Power Networks call it Enhanced Voltage Magement as explained here:
https://www.sapowernetworks.com.au/future-energy/projects-and-trials/enhanced-voltage-management/
It has also been used in WA for a coupler of years.
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Rick, …from your link…
That is not switching off inverters !…
…quite the opposite, REDUCING line voltage, to allow more RT solar to be fed into the grid if necessary.
As i said , Sa and WA have implimented “smart inverters” to enable remote control to ahut down RT solar generation if necessary.
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The problem here is that the grid just can’t keep dropping the taps in the subs. Eventually the spinning armatures have no frequency control, but nor do the solar inverters.
Then you have the wondrous condition of all the inverters doing their own thing, like herding cats. Then you have an instantaneous grid wide blackout and a black start. It should never happen but with crazies in charge – who knows.
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I have long pointed out that the quickest way to point out the insanity of allowing intermittent generation to connect tio the grid was to cause the grid to collapse.
And I have some confidence with Blackout setting the agenda, collapse and/or significant load shedding is guaranteed.
No one saw this coming!
I was advised last week that my 66c/kWh ends on 31Dec. FIT will drop to 3.3c/kWh. Time for a bigger battery and leave the grid to those who can’t leave!
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We are still getting 20c/kWh BUT constant disputes with our provider regarding our output and their input. I want to go completely off the grid with a battery, but husband reckons he’ll be damned if he will let them “manipulate” the readings.
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In order to “switch off” RT solar, a specific type of domestic inverter is required otherwise all the AEMO can do is to prevent RT solar “Feed in” to the grid….which is not the problem they need to solve.
Their problem is the amount of RT solar generated, and used by households, which reduces the demand on grid generated supply.
My own inverter does not have the feature which allows external control, and i am sure many millions of others are similar. Only very recent installations will have the funcctionality to enable AEMO control.
AEMO would be better focussing on other generation which they can control,..such as solar and wind farms.
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These are not an issue because they are already forced out of the oversupplied market by negative pricing. As soon as they are operating at minus $42/MWh they voluntarily withdraw. Economic offloading happens almost every day.
The grid controllers have already learnt to manage the rooftop input in SA and WA through local voltage control. I expect that required more on-load tap changing transformers. They may even permanently set tap changers higher in some substations so they reach overvoltage at lower feed in. And no doubt they are working through ways to do the same in the other regions but it just gets more complicated with ever increasing risk of instability.
Hands up if you think your retail electricity price is going to come down!
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Rick, RT solar feed in to the grid is NOT the problem they need to fix.
It is the huge amount of domesticly consumed (behind the meter) solar generation that reduces grid demand during sunlight hours.
..(Look ay NSW. Generation yesterday… huge amounts of solar from utility sources that are not curtailed.)
AEMO connot stop that without …
A).. special functions in the inverters,..
B).. authority to use those restrictions.
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Thank you. My thoughts also.
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It has nothing to do with behind the meter generation. It is the rooftop solar that is being exported that is the problem. South Australia has occassionally powered the whole state from just rooftops.
The issue was resolved in both SA and WA at the distribution level a couple of years ago. It is termed “Enhanced Voltage Management” and explained here:
https://www.sapowernetworks.com.au/future-energy/projects-and-trials/enhanced-voltage-management/
SA and WA had the lunchtime problem first and before there were any requirements for direct inverter control.
My solar system is automatically offloading today. The street voltage is at 254V. This is a common occurrence for spring and early summer here.
My household demand is maybe 100W on average at the present time. My solar system output peaked at 2640W before the street voltage reached the 254V limit. So my lunchtime output was say 25 times my consumption. I expect most household with rooftops will be similar. Many will be unoccupied. The actual household load; meaning behind the meter demand, is negligible. It is my 3kW along with the other 4M homes and businesses all trying tio get their 3kW+ into the network that is the problem. Australia has 20GW of rooftop capacity and most of it in the one time zone all singing the same song and very loudly at lunchtime.
Both grid scale solar and wind in NSW were partially curtailed just after lunch today probably for stability reasons because the price was still positive:
https://nemlog.com.au/gen/region/nsw/
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Sorry to dissagree again Rick, but it IS the behind the meter generation that they are concerned about.
SA has < 2.0GW of RTsolar , most of which is consumed domestically behind the meter with any excess being exported.
AEMO want to reduce the domestic consumption of RT solar , and force consumers to use more grid power in order to prevent dangerously low demand on the grid generators.
We know that the excess “grid feed in” can be regulated by smart meters and /or line voltage, but preventing the RTsolar panels from supplying the house is another matter hence why SA and WA have regulated the installation of “Smart inverters since 2020/2022 .
If they could do it with voltage “spikes”…..why didnt they ?
Ref your link to Enhanced Voltage Management….
Tryhitting the “more” button , and you will find the following..
That describes REDUCING line voltages in times of interconnector failure, to enable MORE feed in from RT solar.
A completely different senario to the one being discussed.
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If over-volting the solar inverter does shut it down … then it will be shut down for all internal loads behind the fuse box as well. It’s not like the thing is gonna halfway shut down.
That means the households thinking they were going to get a cheap bill by running the dishwasher and the clothes dryer in the middle of the day will be in for a shock … when they get charged the full price for usage of those appliances.
This might also mean that AEMO might determine some circuit is pushing 20kW back into the grid … then they pull their over-volting stunt and voila the same circuit turns into a 50kW load on the grid as all the internal loads become exposed. Nice lil earna!
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The power output is already controlled by the street voltage. Output is progressively limited to prevent the voltage exceeding 254V – the street voltage allowable limit. If the voltage rises then the solar backs off. It is a linear control system just like the cruise control on a car. The power output is regulated from zero to rated capacity based on not exceeding 254V at the supply.
AEMO control of the inverter would be similarly progressive. They would wind output back until they considered they had control. But if households see grid scale wind and solar still operating when they are being wound back then it will come with significant political risk.
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.. and then there’s a fix for that problem, but wait, we need another fix for the previous fix which didn’t actually fix it. Plus, we have these other fixes likely in the near future. The system is too complicated, it was way better when all electricity generation just came from the minimal number of suppliers.
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Chad,
Assuming the installation has a legally compliant inverter, then there’s no need for a separate control channel; the inverter *must* monitor and respond to its output side. If the grid operator gets a suitable trip condition to occur, *all* compliant inverters that see it will disconnect and stay disconnected until reset.
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One reason for the” smart inverter” technology is to allow full shut down and restart to be controlled remotely…no need for a manual reset.
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Yarpos,
The Herald Sun had a large article stating that lack of gas supply was “trashing” the renewables rollout . To complete this misinformation they had batteries as the source of 2% of S.A. power supply . Complete scientific illiteracy .
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Misinformation. “Book ’em Danno”…………………..
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Very few journos with a STEM background or a willingness to learn……or an enquiring mind for that matter.
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SA Seeks Reboot of Mothballed Plants
The South Australian government is taking urgent action to restart two mothballed diesel-powered electricity plants due to concerns about grid stability and reliability. The decision comes as the new heavy-duty power cable linking SA and NSW is facing delays, with NSW’s Transgrid admitting to a later-than-expected completion date.
Reasons for Restart
The government cites three main reasons for restarting the diesel plants:
1. Lack of demand-side options: South Australia has struggled to develop sufficient demand-side measures, such as energy efficiency and demand response programs, to ensure grid stability.
2. Uncertainty around Project Energy Connect: The new transmission link to NSW, expected to be fully connected in 2027, is facing delays on the NSW side, leaving the state uncertain about its supply options.
3. Summer peak demand: The state is concerned about meeting peak demand during summer, particularly during heatwaves, and sees the diesel plants as a necessary backup to ensure reliability.
Engie’s Involvement
The two mothballed diesel generators, Port Lincoln and Snuggery, were previously operated by Engie, a French-owned utility company. Engie had planned to exit the market by 2028, but the South Australian government is seeking an urgent rule change to allow the generators to be used as a reserve trader mechanism for the next two summers.
Implications
The restart of the diesel plants may be seen as a temporary measure to address immediate grid stability concerns, but it also raises questions about the state’s long-term energy strategy and its commitment to reaching 100% net renewables by 2027.
The decision may be viewed as a step backward by some, particularly in the clean energy industry, which has advocated for greater investment in demand-side options and energy storage.
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Linking to NSW for stability ??
This stability, is it in the room with us now?
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No. It is so NSW can enjoy the free power from solar and wind like South Australian’s enjoy. SA is spreading their joy.
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Interesting. The SA renewables fans keep telling us that their state power is very reliable and fantastic, yet completely ignore the obvious issues such as high electricity prices and dependence on the Heywood interconnector for some of their power – the state is a net electricity importer.
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NSW looks to be a net importer. I don’t look for the data but they always seem to be a laggard. They are 800 MW short as I type. A nice little earner for Qld and Vic.
How would a second feed from NSW to SA help?
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Yes, that’s what I usually see too H, NSW pulls power from Qld most nights and sometimes Vic as well. I don’t think they’ve been independent for a few years now, and I always wonder what happens when Qld runs short and needs that power itself.
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Or as David Maddison suggested, home ( or factory / supermarket roof etc) generated power should only be used for that that address. No home user should be paid to feed back into the grid. Simples.
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I don’t have a problem with that as with only 7c/kWh export value, I’ll still pay off my home solar in less than 10 years without exports. But as Chad has pointed out, the exports are not the main grid stability problem.
In Perth right now, home solar is supplying 52% of the power, and with wind at almost 20%, gas and coal have been wound right back.
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That will leave David and the few others stuck on the grid to pay for Snowy 2, all the new power lines and all the new gas plants, all the wind farm subsidies and all the solar farm subsidies plus the synchronous condenserss and the smart meters.
I agree that the only place for intermittent generation is off grid. But all flavours of government encouraged intermittent generation onto the grid. The difference is that the cost to other consumers for rooftops ends in 2030. That will likely not be the case for grid scale intermittent. They will not get anymore unless they continue to be subsidised.
The end game is coming into clear view for a few now. There will be households and businesses that can afford to make their own electricity and the rest left to pay for a low reliability electricity supply that is very expensive as well.
The distributers control the largest source of power generation in terms of capacity now. It is also the fastest growing. They can take control of what is left of the grid by installing batteries either at substations or in homes. The rest of the grid offers no value unless it reverts to all dispatchable generation.
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But there are millions of contracts still in force at 42c/kWh.
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It must be serious when even the ABC is reporting problems with solar:
There are now more than four million rooftop solar systems installed across the country on households and businesses.
In South Australia, for example, rooftop solar was periodically supplying more than 100 per cent of the state’s demand, with surpluses being exported to other states.
AEMO said the ever growing output from solar was posing an increasing threat to the safety and security of the grid because it was pushing out all other forms of generation that were needed to help keep the system stable.
And it warned that unless it had the power to reduce – or curtail – the amount of rooftop solar times, more drastic and damaging measures would need to be taken.
While conventional plants could turn down their output during the middle of the day when solar generation was greatest – and wholesale power prices were lowest – coal in particular struggled to cut production below a minimum amount.
At 11.30 am this morning, OpenNEM reports solar was delivering 59% of demand, wind 10%, coal just 28%. Yet overnight coal was delivering 76% of demand.
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FWIW – more covid saga
“Doc Drops COVID Truth Bombs: “Everything Was A Lie From The Beginning…” ”
““This is really big news because the contaminants and the impurities in the vaccine are very dangerous and there’s design flaws like I just pointed out. Wide distribution to the brain, the bone marrow, the ovaries, the testes and long term production six months or more in the last study that we did. So there’s a lot to talk about. Do not get the vaccines unless you just want a crummy immune system. ”
“I think the main thing is these vaccines are dangerous. They have process related impurities. They cause cancer, strokes, heart attacks. The data is in 40% more deaths in 2021 between 18 to 64. This is just data we can’t ignore, so please stay away from the vaccines.””
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/doc-drops-covid-truth-bombs-everything-was-lie-beginning
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You can still go to public hospitals in WA and get the lastest Pfizer Covid 19 jab 🙁
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Not long to wait for Soilent Green
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I had not heard of Bovaer® 10 and I do watch for this sort of thing. I do not believe any such product has been approved here and any use without approval would be in breach of multiple regulations. This sounds like a big pharma response to the Asparagopsis furphy. Another pointless exercise pretending that we can have any influence on the climate by messing about with ruminants. Anyone had a look at the CH4 from the tundras?
Tell me I’m wrong
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It’s all over X today – Craig Kelly was first up, apparently Coles in Australia use suppliers that feed their cattle this nasty sounding supplement.
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See my comment #25.1
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and Dutton goes full globalist totalitarian…
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In the same transcript Bill Shorten wonders why Dutton won’t accept AGW science.
‘The problem is that, why don’t the Libs just accept there’s science that the planet is getting hotter and that climate change is happening?’
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glorious leader dutton does accept the science and is fully on board with the globalist net 0 agenda.
shorten just says that to create the illusion there is some sort of difference between the two major branches of the uni-party.
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The excrement is thick both sides of the ditch:
Deposed Police Minister, Jenni Anderson (never a policewoman) now on the Opposition benches, squawked literally “excretement” when complaining about the stench from her local ‘waste-water treatment plant’ – which her team while in govt did nothing about for years.
Think Kath & Kim only more sandpapery or raspy and that’s her voice/squawk, a true-Red Labourite inventing words to sound, I dunno, smart? Absolutely! 🤮
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How are the social media companies going to see my face on my desktop computer which has no camera?
Or is having one installed going to be a requirement?
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presumably you will be forced to buy a webcam if you want to use social media.
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Send a letter to Peter Dutton asking him. He’s just as delusional as Labor / Greens.
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Indeed. I wish most people would realise that.
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Probably have to email them a drawing.
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Dutton has no commitment to free speech. It was also his faction of the Uniparty that first introduced the censorship bill and also created the position of e Safety Kommissar.
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FWIW – More bloody interference
“Chris Barber: Why is the federal government regulating manual transmissions being sold in Canada starting 2025?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/01/he-admires-their-basic-dictatorship-93/
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Australia is looking more like the Amazon each year since the 2020 dry.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/12/01/2100Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=133.87,-22.24,665/loc=129.544,-24.775
Most of the country is covered by a tropical low. Note the amount of atmospheric water:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/11/26/0800Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=135.37,-8.53,380/loc=-64.443,-8.908
Rotate the globe and compare Australia with South America. The Amazon still has more atmospheric water but Australia is catching up. Right now, nearly the whole country is a low pressure zone.
I left some of my precious cherries on the trees to sweeten up but they started bursting skins from the rainfall. We have had some 50mm in just the last week.
I will be again looking for lows spinning up over northern Australia this year. 01U out in the Indian Ocean moved south and has run out of puff.
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We have had some 50mm in just the last week.
My local area set a new November minimum rainfall (25 years of BOM records). My rain water tanks would very much like to experience another 50 mm of rain fail.
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We could certainly do with some of that here in CQ, especially closer to the coast. We sit south of the tropics, and north of the temperate, or even sub-tropics, so tend to miss out on those weather systems unless they’re particularly strong or extensive.
Lately, there has been a huge bulge of high pressure pushing up into the Coral Sea that is holding the troughs to the west of us. The result is western Qld is getting some good rain, for which they are extremely grateful, while we get pitiful showers or small storm cells that look nice but peter out or avoid us entirely. SEQ is copping a bit too, with resulting headlines being startled by spring/summer storms.
I note another large high already heading into the Bight that may well keep us dry here into the next week or so. It gets a bit dispiriting.
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FWIW
“The Madness of King Joe: The Second Anti-Trump Insurrection Is Now Underway”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/01/the-madness-of-king-joe-the-second-anti-trump-insurrection-is-now-underway-n4934748
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FWIW
Trying for a Presidential equal of George the Third?
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I can’t find a list of people pardoned by George III for a comparison!
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He’s just pardoned Hunter.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/why-joe-biden-just-broke-a-vow-to-never-pardon-his-son/104673200
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Five UAP seen hovering over Washington DC in a no fly zone and a blue orb came down close to the ground at Manchester airport, then disappeared.
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I’m sure there are rational physical explanations for both (assuming they are not Fake News).
They are not likely to be beings from other planets as usually claimed.
In fact UAPs are just a rebranding of UFOs from the 1970s. They had to rebranded after the whole UFO thing was thoroughly debunked so now we”re back to 1970’s pseudo-science.
As for the Washington UAPs, it’s probably the Democrats stirring up a crisis. Probably Herr Starmer doing similar in Once Great Britain.
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The five UAP might be drones, testing Whitehouse defences against a drone attack.
The Manchester story is harder to explain, some kind of antigravity device.
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when everyone has a camera and no one takes a photo
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Conspiracy theories abound.
https://theconversation.com/belief-in-alien-visits-to-earth-is-spiralling-out-of-control-heres-why-thats-so-dangerous-237789
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Lol…
“All this is ultimately encouraging conspiracy theories, which could undermine trust in democratic institutions. ”
As if! Democratic Institutions destroyed any trust they had decades ago!
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The Left keep telling us (the Thinking Community) of the supposedly large number of jobs created by projects that generate random energy.
But this is surely an admission of just another aspect of how inefficient such projects are?
Power stations such as coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro (not SH2) are highly efficient in all aspects such as low land use and low environmental impact, efficient use of resources (they need far fewer materials per unit of power produced for both generation and power lines for distribution), are inexpensive to operate and require relatively few staff.
As with all industrial production, the trend is for fewer labour inputs and labour saved is used for other industrial production. Green subsidy harvesting scams reverse that trend requiring huge amounts of labour for both installation and ongoing running and are yet another reason for the high cost of this useless “green” energy.
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Here in Nepal I have twice been challenged with a common cold. In both cases I rapidly reversed the developing colds with self-treatment using ivermectin (12mg or 24mg) and zinc (50mg), thus my trek and travels were not affected. I will definitely be including it in my kit for any future travels or even for use back home. An additional benefit is that it’s use will (or may?) eliminate any intestinal or ecto parasites one might acquire in places like this. (E.g. Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Hookworm, Hymenolepis nana, Giardia lamblia, and Entamoeba histolytica, all present here.)
(Not medical advice. Contraindicated for Leftists. Members of the Thinking Community, make up your own mind.)
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I’m assuming you bought that OTC in Nepal?
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No. I brought it from Australia. I have a pro-science, pro-medicine medical doctor who gave me a prescription which was fulfilled by a compounding pharmacist in Australia.
Here, I have been in mostly remote areas so didn’t get a chance to buy locally, probably manufactured in India. I will get some if I get a chance. No prescriptions are required here for just about any pharmaceutical. You just tell the pharmacist what you want, or he tells you what you need (he also acts as a doctor for the locals).
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Which is what it should be in Australia and western countries. There’s a whole raft of common pharmaceuticals which you should be able to obtain straight from the chemist/pharmacist without prescription from some dopey doctor. Maybe a quick check with the pharmacist or an extra fee to be paid for any contradiction or best use advice. If every Australian household had had the ability to buy one blister pack of 10 x 12 mg Ivermectin tablets, there would have have been no need for COVID lockdowns, school closures and of course semi mandatory vaccines. Hell, the government could have given them for free and we would still have been in front economically. But I know you already know all that, so have a good walk.
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Agreed Ross.
Apart from making ivermectin available, to be taken according to published protocols, correcting widespread vitamin D deficiency, would also have saved probably most of the lives lost, especially in nursing homes.
Instead, Australian Government misinformation said ivermectin and correction of Vitamin D deficiency was useless. That’s a crime for which people such as certain politicians and senior public serpents should be prosecuted and gaoled (jailed).
I documented Australian Government disinformation in my submission against the censorship bill. https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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FWIW with that
“Dr. McCullough: What You Need to Know about Hydroxychloroquine”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/dr-mccullough-what-you-need-know-about-hydroxychloroquine-3/
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FWIW
All most enough to reverse global warming etc!
“Prude Awakening: ‘Journo’ Freaks Over Teenage Kash Patel’s 1990s House Parties – GASP!”
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2024/12/01/journos-freak-that-teenage-kash-patel-had-parties-at-home-n2404493
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FWIW – a “How To Guide”
Instapundit lead in –
“SUPPLY CHAIN: How Wood Goes From a Tree to the Inside of a Bentley. Um, expensively?”
“How Wood Goes From a Tree to the Inside of a Bentley
Bentley’s beautiful wood veneer is the result of a lengthy sourcing and treatment process.”
https://www.motortrend.com/features/bentley-wood-veneer-customization-feature/
A long way up market from the furniture that is coming to “My Shed”!
Though I just got a job on a Ross and Co desk chair that turns out to be “campaign furniture”
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BREAKING
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After he said that he wouldn’t do that…
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Not at all surprising but I hope he doesn’t pardon many others.
I don’t think Trump will be that unhappy as sending Hunter to jail would send the Democrats into a frenzy (or possibly into a reverse frenzy to their current one).
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One less issue for Trump. Easy to imagine that Donald told Joe not to make waves and pardon himself, that he will be afforded normal courtesies, as was Hillary.
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Would most of the FBI and other TLA’s be praying for salvation?
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https://x.com/cnnbrk/status/1863382195756306663
President Jill Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who was convicted earlier this year of federal gun and tax crimes.
Fixed it.
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Just delaying the inevitable. He wont be able to stay out of trouble.
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FWIW – not covid related
“Safe and Effective®”
“Telegraph- Why Bill Gates is under fire over cow flatulence
Bovaer, which reduces the methane emissions from cows by 27 per cent on average, has been authorised for use in a number of countries, including Australia, Brazil and Canada. It was given the green light for use in the UK in April.”
“The Food Professor- The drug was approved for use in Canada earlier this year, but no one knows how many cattle producers and dairy farmers are using it. Canada did not learn from the GMO and Buttergate debates, leaving consumers in the dark once again.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/01/safe-and-effective-184/
Another “Australian blindly”?
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I also mentioned it above.
In Australia, as part of their commitment to wokeness and ESG, Coles suppliers use this drug in cattle. They call it a “supplement” but the (US) FDA call it a drug.
https://www.colesgroup.com.au/media-releases/?page=coles-boosts-sustainability-in-beef-production-with-expanded-use-of-supplement
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FWIW – looks like another win
“Facing Election Defeat – State Dept Terminates Strategic Partnership with Georgia, U.S. Ambassador David Zalkaliani Resigns
December 1, 2024 | Sundance | 79 Comments
The U.S. State Department has decided to punish the country of Georgia for refusing to become a replacement for Ukraine, and for voting to remain free from U.S/EU influence. Georgia says, fine – they prefer Donald Trump anyway!”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/01/facing-election-defeat-state-dept-terminates-strategic-partnership-with-georgia-u-s-ambassador-david-zalkaliani-resigns/
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The Georgian PM looks cool, not sure if the election was rigged.
The present unrest is because they want to join the EU, but the EU reckons the street gatherings are concerning and they won’t consider admittance until the dust settles.
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Read the article linked by another ian above, as well as previous recent articles about the same subject on the same website.
The present unrest is because the USA (CIA and well funded non-government organizations) do not accept plebs (voters) choosing their governments, especially when the chosen candidate and his party are not aligned with the “correct” ideology.
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An interesting twist.
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I was wondering if the pardon would excuse him from appearing in other cases. Apparently not. 😀
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DM
Another interesting twist
“Why Joe Biden’s Pardoning of Hunter Just Led to a Ton of Libs Eating Crow”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/12/01/why-joe-bidens-pardoning-of-hunter-just-led-to-a-ton-of-libs-eating-crow-n2648480
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Mind blowing: https://x.com/riktheozfrog/status/1863374395198324842
They were told.
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I’m sure the Chicomms find it hilarious as we self-destruct.
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Asymptomatic laboratory workers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 for days to months were found to harbor a laboratory plasmid vector containing SARS-CoV-2 DNA, which they had worked with in the past, in their nasal secretions. While prior studies have documented contamination of research personnel with PCR amplicons, our observation is novel, as these individuals shed the laboratory plasmid over days to months, including during isolation in their homes. This suggests that the plasmid was in their nasal tissues or that bacteria containing the plasmid had colonized their noses. While plasmids are generally safe, our detection of plasmid DNA in the nasal secretions of laboratory workers for weeks after they had stopped working with the plasmid shows the potential for these reagents to interfere with clinical tests and emphasizes that occupational exposures in the preceding months should be considered when interpreting diagnostic clinical tests. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36226962/
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Identified from: https://anandamide.substack.com/p/danny-jones-podcast
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A busy program these days… Who would have thought in 2015 that we would see orbital launches day after day in only a decade..?
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December 3/4 Falcon 9 Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
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December 4 Falcon 9 • Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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December 4 PSLV-XL • Proba-3 Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India
A PSLV-XL rocket from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch the Proba-3 spacecraft on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The pair of spacecraft will separate from the upper stage about 18 minutes after liftoff..
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December 4 Vega-C • Sentinel-1C Launch site: Europe’s Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana
A Vega-C rocket will launch the Sentinel-1C into a sun-synchronous Earth orbit at an altitude of about 700 km (435 mi.). The mission will deliver the latest satellite that makes up the European Union’s Copernicus fleet, a flagship Earth observation program.
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December 5 Falcon 9 • SiriusXM-9 Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch the SiriusXM-9 satellite, which will deliver radio services for the SiriusXM service. The satellite, which will eventually be positioned in a geostationary orbit, is based on Maxar’s 1300-class platform. The first-stage booster of the Falcon 9 is scheduled to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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…and you can watch most of them live on the web!
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
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How hate speech laws look in Zambia: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2024/11/26/after-i-criticised-his-abuse-of-state-institutions-hh-wants-me-arrested-sishuwa/ – the smears in Zambia against people speaking out are still about them being gay. In Australia, it is that you are right-wing. What a World eh?
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