Open Thread – Saturday, 27 August 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    Old bloke says:
    August 29, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    This?

    Biblical Tree Remains, 1 of 9


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    Check out hangman1128 on sussietube, Old bloke.

    His house burnt down recently….I am not suggesting anything.


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  3. Steve trickler says:

    Suggesting, speculating.


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  4. mh says:

    You will own nothing

    CNBC headline

    Climate change could bring back wind as the future power source for ocean cargo ships


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  5. mh says:

    Courier Paywall

    A Brisbane mother accused of running down her husband and his alleged mistress then got out of her BMW SUV and repeatedly punched the other woman in the head as she lay injured in the street, a court has heard.


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  6. Cardimona says:

    Old bloke says:
    August 29, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    I’m here, OB – no extreme weather, just drizzle adding up to about 8mm over the last three days.


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  7. mh says:

    And just like that, winters in Europe are freezing cold again

    Belgian Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten warned that the next 5 to 10 winters in Europe will be “terrible” unless the European Union moves to swiftly impose a price cap on runaway gas prices.

    “The next 5 to 10 winters will be terrible if nothing is done,” Van der Straeten said via Twitter on Sunday. “We must act at the source, at [the] European level, and work on freezing gas prices.”


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  8. mh says:

    just drizzle adding up to about 8mm over the last three days.

    Extreme drizzle?


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    It is time to cook a magical pasta sauce. Red wine galore.


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  10. Delta A says:

    Thanks to the Cats who put a smile on our faces with their regular comic posts, especially kaysee,(not so) Shy Ted, cohenite and PerryJ.

    Good fun.


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  11. Steve trickler says:

    In goes the red wine with a huge amount of garlic, beef and pork.


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  12. mh says:

    Thanks to the Cats who put a smile on our faces with their regular comic posts, especially kaysee,(not so) Shy Ted, cohenite and PerryJ.

    This isn’t quality?


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  13. Steve trickler says:

    Whilst my pasta sauce reduces.

    A bloke walking his dog.

    ***********

    wolf bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Laguna Beach 4


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  14. Steve trickler says:

    First world problems.

    Our family friends pasta sauce tastes like sh*t. Italians would revolt over it.

    No amount of red wine could save it.


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    Good stuff. These blokes are on a mission from God.

    *************

    Josh Cantu:

    We have a new videographer on the team that is helping take on some of the team responsibilities, this means that Carson and I can focus more on filming and camera stuff (especially when not on the road). Some viewers thought this meant that Carson would no longer be on the team but really it just means you get to see more of him! We may possibly be on separate teams coming soon but for the time being he is back on the BTS vids!!!

    Carson’s Back! | Behind The Scenes w/ Adventures With Purpose (Summer Trip Update 2022)


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  16. mh says:

    Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈
    @MrAndyNgo
    Today a group of armed #Antifa members came to Roanoke, TX to support a drag queen event. The local chapter of the John Brown Gun Club, an #Antifa militia linked to domestic terrorism, led the call to direct action. It is headed by Christopher Guillott & Garrett Lee.
    7:45 AM · Aug 29, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1564006402846343169?s=20&t=1DsTEmSDxCJue7tImPrXew


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  17. Steve trickler says:

    Big screen and loud…or with good headphones.

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    Halo // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Eimear Noone (LIVE)


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  18. Steve trickler says:

    Repeat.

    Thanks so much for the many great reactions, comments and likes on our videos.
    Meet Tuva Semmingsen AKA the Wa Wa Lady and Christine Nonbo Andersen both soloists of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

    Music by Ennio Morricone
    Performed by Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – Reactions and the singers


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  19. Steve trickler says:

    True.

    *********

    Anthony Cumia & Gavin McInnes discuss the seemingly unnecessary yet constant appearances of sign language interpreters, especially in political media. But if they’re not needed, why are they there? The word starts with a P.

    Anthony Cumia & Gavin McInnes: Epic Sign Language Rant


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  20. Eyrie says:

    Climate change could bring back wind as the future power source for ocean cargo ships

    The utter uselessness of wind power is shown by the maritime industry’s enthusiastic adoption of steam nearly as soon as it was available even though the early steam engines were primitive and inefficient. Anything to get rid of the damn sails and ropes.
    Sailboats are now used for leisure. Just like you don’t see transport gliders for air and passenger air travel.


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  21. mh says:

    Fed rate hikes won’t bring down inflation as long as government spending stays high, paper says

    Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell proclaimed Friday that the central bank has an “unconditional” responsibility to ease inflation and expressed confidence that it will “get the job done.”

    But a paper released at the same Jackson Hole, Wyoming, summit where Powell spoke suggests policymakers can’t do the job by themselves and actually could make matters worse with aggressive interest rate increases.

    In the current case, inflation is being driven largely by fiscal spending in response to the Covid crisis, and simply raising interest rates won’t be enough to bring it back down, researchers Francesco Bianchi of Johns Hopkins University and Leonardo Melosi of the Chicago Fed wrote in a white paper released Saturday morning.

    “The recent fiscal interventions in response to the Covid pandemic have altered the private sector’s beliefs about the fiscal framework, accelerating the recovery but also determining an increase in fiscal inflation,” the authors said. “This increase in inflation could not have been averted by simply tightening monetary policy.”

    The Fed, then, can bring down inflation “only when public debt can be successfully stabilized by credible future fiscal plans,” they added. The paper suggests that without constraints in fiscal spending, rate hikes will make the cost of debt more expensive and drive inflation expectations higher.…

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/fed-rate-hikes-wont-curb-inflation-if-spending-stays-high-paper-says.html


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  22. Rohan says:

    Eyrie, that goes for windmills being abandoned en mass in the industrial revolution. Stoke a boiler with coal, fill the water reservoir and you had power on tap. A lot of motive power.

    This is a case in point. A wind powered timber mill. Note when the wind picks up at the 5 minute mark, they have to feather the blades so it won’t self destruct.


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  23. johanna johanna says:

    Steve, thanks for your clip at 12.24 about the Danish Symphony’s amazing singers. As well as being mega talented, they both seem like nice people – not always the case with great artists.


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  24. Old bloke says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 29, 2022 at 7:27 pm

    This?

    Thanks Steve. Gold is usually found in quartz so there’s probably a connection if quartz is petrified tree sap.


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  25. Old bloke says:

    Cardimona says:
    August 29, 2022 at 8:17 pm

    I’m here, OB – no extreme weather, just drizzle adding up to about 8mm over the last three days.

    Good to hear Cardi, just keep your boat handy.


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  26. Old bloke says:

    mh says:
    August 29, 2022 at 8:20 pm

    And just like that, winters in Europe are freezing cold again

    Those people are really crazy. Frau Merkel shut down Germany’s coal power generators because of the evil carbon dioxide, then she shut down their nuclear power stations because of Fukushima so Germany became reliant on Russian gas.

    They will have to go back to the pre-Merkel power generation days otherwise they will all freeze and all manufacturing will cease.


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  27. Old bloke says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 29, 2022 at 9:08 pm

    It is time to cook a magical pasta sauce. Red wine galore.

    Bugger the sauce, just drink the wine.


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  28. Shy Ted says:

    Fat watch.
    Is it better to be plus sized or overweight?
    On the plus size…
    (That’s Lizzo forewarning fabric shortages.)


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    That cheered me up…not. 🤦‍♂️ A potential glimpse of the future?

    **********

    Dust:

    More About “The Recycling Man”:
    In a poor and overpopulated, yet lonely suburban neighborhood, Jacob, a boy immobilized in a wheelchair, fights boredom by spying on his neighbors across the courtyard, while his mother, Valery, aggressively tries to convince Maria, her pregnant best friend, to have an abortion. Sarah, a girl of Jacob’s age, spots the spying boy out and says hello with a piece of paper. The new friendship is, however, suddenly interrupted when a menacing garbage man approaches Sarah and attacks her from behind with a screwdriver. Jacob, even though he is stuck in his chair, will try everything to alert his mother. Valery, through Jacob’s binoculars, sees the garbage man killing the little girl, but she tells Jacob that nothing important is happening. It really seems as if Valery doesn’t really care about it and she’s far more interested in Maria, and her baby’s fate. Why does she care so much about whether her friend will abort the pregnancy or not? And has Jacob really witnessed murder with his binoculars, or is he just incapable of seeing the whole picture?

    Sci-Fi Short Film “The Recycling Man” | DUST | Online Premiere


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    Tony Heller:

    Academics and the press have been failing at their predictions for as long as they have been making them. But instead of retraction and mea culpa, they simply double down with their misinformation and propaganda.

    More Than Twice As Fake


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  31. Steve trickler says:

    Stew Peters:

    Weeks after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, we are left still questioning the logic behind such an aggressive attack. Everyone has been stuck speculating. George Webb joins the Stew Peters show to hopefully put our questions to rest and reveal what the FBI was really after.

    Mar-A-Lago Raid and Trump’s 9/11; Was Trump Holding Evidence about the Release of SARs 2?


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  32. Steve trickler says:

    If you haven’t seen this, enjoy.

    Warning: What you see can not be unseen.

    Biblical Tree Remains, Garden of the gods and Assyrian


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Cost of Folly

    The aftermath of lockdown may be deadlier than Covid.

    I’m under no illusions. The same mental gymnastics will pretzel the memories of those who supported in full, and often with maniacal, curtain-twitching relish, the Covid-19 lockdowns.

    During the first two-week lockdown, I suggested the ‘insane’ Swedish approach would likely prove right. The Swedes, a grown-up people, tend to get things on the money. Many usually well-adjusted types accused me of a desire to kill my grandparents—a strange contention—I don’t have any grandparents.


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  34. kaysee kaysee says:

    Serbia:
    What happens when sane people unite and protest. In this case, thousands of Orthodox Christians.

    1/
    Banner

    Banner in front of the Pride Info Center in Belgrade:
    “Not in the land of Saint Sava”.

    2/
    Procession

    Thousands of people at the Orthodox procession today in Belgrade

    3/
    Parade Postponed/cancelled

    President Aleksandar Vucic on Saturday announced that he had decided, in consultation with the government, that the pride parade would be “postponed or cancelled”.


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    More plans from the dictators.

    You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.

    You’ll stink and get ill and you’ll be unhappy.

    Your clothes

    WEF posted a new video and launched a campaign, now they are asking people to wash their clothes less,

    Your food

    WEF optimizing your food supply chains…


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  36. Steve trickler says:

    The Pinnacles north of Perth are ancient trees.

    Now you know.


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  37. Delta A says:

    Dawson guilty.


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  38. kaysee kaysee says:

    Don’t have bread? Eat cake instead.

    Details here

    Scientists are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter…..

    Cheese Puffs
    Checks the labels on the food packs you buy.

    Safety issues

    Breads made of powdered crickets


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  39. Cardimona says:

    Last Saturday, the Gold Coast Bulletin became the first daily paper to publish my first principles explanation of the impossibility of CO2-warming.

    Jim Taylor (GCB, 20/8) has recited alarmist greenhouse dogma verbatim, but it’s wrong – which is why alarmist predictions never eventuate.

    We can be sure it’s wrong because in the absence of a testable hypothesis alarmists need accurate predictions. They can’t predict Queensland’s August average temperature in July, much less a global average temperature in several decades’ time.

    Therefore, it’s time we all learned some CO2 physics from first principles. There are five immutable laws of physics that allow people to see the political CO2 scam for what it is.

    Water vapour is the major “greenhouse” gas, and it leaves few gaps in the infrared spectrum for other gases to have any effect at all.

    CO2 mainly absorbs outgoing longwave infrared radiation (heat) as photons at the 14.8 microns wavelength. (Planck’s Law)

    The temperature of absorption at 14.8 microns is -80 degrees Celsius. (Wien’s Displacement Law and Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation)

    Minus 80 degrees Celsius is 95 degrees lower than average surface temperature and is found in the lower stratosphere, well above the troposphere where we live.

    Heat doesn’t flow from cold zones to hotter zones. (Second Law of Thermodynamics)

    CO2 cannot “trap heat.” It merely delays outgoing infrared photons for a billionth of a second so high up in the atmosphere it’s irrelevant. It releases them at a less energetic frequency, and they continue on to outer space.

    Atmospheric CO2 is contingent upon seawater temperature. The hotter equatorial water is, the more CO2 it releases. Cold Arctic and Antarctic waters reabsorb it. (Henry’s Law)

    Repeatedly asserting something to be true does not make it true. If it did, all our low-lying coastal towns would have been flooding at each high tide for twelve years now.

    Today I submitted a follow-up piece, so fingers crossed…

    In my letter published on Saturday, August 27, I briefly outlined the immutable laws of physics that make global warming from CO2 impossible.

    With the forbearance of the editor, I would now like to outline the gob-smacking error that lies at the core of the CO2-warming narrative.

    The Earth, as we all know, is a globe that rotates as it orbits the sun. Half of the globe is facing the sun at any time and the other half is facing away. That rotation gives us day and night.

    The sun, as we all know, emits a broad spectrum of radiation, which we mostly experience as heat and light. Summer sunlight can be so hot it feels like it has physical weight.

    So, as we all know, half the globe is heating in the sun during daylight hours while the other half is cooling during the night.

    But that physical reality is absent from the energy balance equations of the alarmists of academia, which includes all the Western world’s universities.

    What they perceive as reality will shock you, particularly when you consider the wealth our politicians have squandered and are continuing to squander on this nonsense.

    The model Earth the alarmists build their energy balance equations on is a flat disc that receives continual sunlight that yields a surface temperature of minus 40 Celsius.

    That’s right, a flat Earth with cold sunlight. The CO2 alarmists are quite literally flat-earthers who appear to have never been outside.

    The LNP, ALP, Greens, and Teals recklessly rushing to “decarbonise” Australia are so inexcusably ignorant that they are following cold-sun flat-earth pseudo-science.

    The consequences for the people of Australia of the established political parties’ policies are catastrophic and are infinitely worse than the mild warming they claim they want to prevent.


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  40. Delta A says:

    Excellent letters, Cardi.

    My only concern is that the average reader, faced with ‘too many big words’, will at best skim the information or ignore it. To paraphrase Mozart: Too many facts!

    But I suspect there will also be readers for whom these facts will be a revelation, contradictory to everything Their ABC et al have been telling them. In any event, it’s great that an Ozzie newspaper is allowing a view opposed to the mainstream.

    A small triumph indeed. Well done.


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  41. Cardimona says:

    Thanks, Delta A.
    In between prepping for what’s coming from the globalists but also for what’s coming from the galactic electromagnetic sheet reversal I’ve been scatter-gunning three regional dailies, three capital city dailies and the Oz.
    Here’s today’s Oz submission…

    The uber-wealthy globalists who meet in Davos share a satanic belief system which requires them to broadcast their plans for us.

    That is why we’re being told we must “Get ready for two pandemics a year”, (30/08).

    They have a depopulation agenda, which is why they had to destroy the Georgia Guidestones on which they had engraved “1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”

    Wake up, Australia – you are the carbon they want to reduce

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  42. mh says:

    #AnthonyPompliano #Pomp #Bitcoin
    The REAL Reason Interest Rates Can’t Go Up Forever

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuF_LVhbK4Q


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  43. mh says:

    A 21-year-old man has died after being stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival.

    Police had to pull the victim out of a huge crowd and provide emergency first aid until paramedics arrived.

    The Metropolitan Police has begun a murder investigation and said hundreds of