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Charles Alban,
Many years ago, I was in the airline business – installing IT systems at airports. We all knew that at the Narita Prince hotel (an airport hotel) there was a special bar for airline tucked away on the ground floor behind reception. I would go there and watch pilots getting pissed with their “flight attendants” almost every night of the week. I could only do my work after flights had stopped – the night curfew.
I am in Cairns, where James Cook University’s research on the Great Barrier Reef is based. These are the people who have been crying wolf about the GBR – and every time they did so, they received more funding.
The latest dollop of funding is no less than A$500m from the corrupt government of Australia.
“James Cook University dragged into global research scandal”
This article is behind a pay wall. However, a search on Google News for the title will let you read it.
Essentially, a young pretty Swedish lady studied at JCU and got a PhD. The only problem is that the research she has done is based on false data. They are pretending to be trying to find out where she learnt to do that sort of thing. She also claims to have “lost” a laptop with all her data.
The fact of the matter is that the GBR has been there for over one million years – and has survived massive changes in sea-level, water temperature and salinity. It is alive and well and anyone saying something to the contrary is a person who is trying to climb on to the gravy train.
The negative publicity has been devastating to a lot of local businesses as people have stopped coming as they assume that their media back home is telling them the truth.
This is absolutely amazing. Someone leaked a video of a large number of Israeli military intelligence people singing a famous Iranian song. Here is their version:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/video-of-idf-soldiers-singing-persian-love-song-goes-viral-in-iran/
And this is the country they want to destroy – with the help of big brother.
This is just so funny:
Got Those Climate Change Blues
A meteorologist and journalist struggles with climate change depressionThis article appeared in February 2018 – and was probably written in the depths of the American winter.
People who live in a cold climate are far more worried about the fake “Global Warming” narrative – because that is what a cold climate does to your brain.
Here in Cairns, I am living in an Airbnb house while looking for a proper abode. There is a constant stream of northerners who arrive totally wooden and after a few days, they start to become almost human. The landlady and I joke about it.
Two days ago, a Danish student couple (age 20) arrived and were very difficult to communicate with as they were so shy and withdrawn. Yesterday, the girl told me that she is planning to wear her bikini tomorrow. Amazing. Such progress in only 2 days. She is even smiling sometimes. 🙂
“Did You Know the Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place?”
” Australia Pledges Millions To Help Save The Koala (AFP) ”
An excellent example of what happens when governments meddle with nature is to be found in Ilargi’s native land. 🙂
Nature’s way? Thousands of starving horses & deer killed in Dutch ‘wild reserve’
Must protect horses and deer from wicked predators
“Easy credit no more: how shocks from Australian banks’ inquiry may squeeze a nation”
For a more realistic opinion about the “Banking Royal Commission”, try this:
The great Australian screw job.
They will never criticize – let alone sack – the regulators.
“Changes to climate have reduced their numbers, with warming waters having a knock-on effect on their growth and ability to swim long distances, according to scientists from the University of Adelaide. Although the shark may not be seen much in these waters anymore, it is still spoken of with respect, as the giver of life and creator of this land.”
“Australia’s Ancient Language Shaped by Sharks”
That is absolute BS. Chinese fishermen are very active in the neighbourhood and they love eating shark fin soup – as do the Japanese and Koreans.
The Red Sea – which is a lot warmer than the Pacific – is absolutely full of Tiger sharks. I guess that when the Chinese fishermen have to venture that far, we will be told that the Red Sea is “warming up.”
The BBC seems to be incapable of broadcasting any story on the environment without dragging in “Global Warming” in one form or another.
In precisely the same way that magicians use their skills to divert attention from where the real action is taking place, the MSM is ignoring what is undoubtedly the greatest ongoing event – the quiescence of the sun and the consequent effects on our tiny planet.
“Solar Activity Flat Lines. Cycle 24 Weakest In 200 Years Link To Recent Northern Hemisphere Ice Rebound?”
A tiny drop in worldwide temperature will lead to failed crops and massive increases in the price of food.
These days, I am based in Cairns – the nearest city to the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I take exception to all the nonsense, politicking and pork-barrelling going around this circus. The GBR has been there for millions of years and when the climate changes – in either direction – it will simply shift elsewhere and adapt.
Most people have absolutely no idea what coral is and how is survives. Until relatively recently, the GBR was considered a danger to navigation and it was exploited as a resource of calcium for farmland. As a result, there is very little historical data about this immense structure. Since I have no intention going head on against the lying MSM, I will simply show a typical “scientific paper” produced by an ignoramus. The interesting bit is the fact that many of the critical comments after this article are by people far better informed on the subject. They tear apart the “scientific” argument with ease.
“Good news from NOAA: coral reefs can adapt to warming”
Good news from NOAA: coral reefs can adapt to warming
This story is yet another distraction to the public in the lead up to a war against Russia. The economic war started decades ago and now, in desperation, they are trying to start a conventional war. Incidentally, a lot of those who push these stories do very well out of the fake RE investments and get lots of “virtue signalling” in the process.
Claiming that because there was “coral bleaching” – because of an exceptional localised drop in sea levels which has happened a great many times in the past – in the northern end of the GBR then the whole thing is doomed can be compared to someone claiming that when an oak tree loses a branch, it also loses its ability to reproduce. We have really been reduced to arguing at that level of stupidity. The dumbing down of education has produced a generation or two of idiots.
Here in Cairns, they are building massive apartment blocks. There are cranes all over the place. The locals tell me that none of them can afford the putative prices of these apartments. They are being built for people in Sydney and Melbourne who have done well out of their property boom – and who will only use these apartments occasionally.
I am trying to rent a place with a number of bedrooms that I will sublet – either long-term or on Airbnb. I don’t like to live alone and it would work out cheaper than me getting a place with one bedroom. I was about to sign a contract for a 3-bedroom place and when I asked them for 3 sets of keys they refused to give me three sets only one. They wanted me to ask their permission before sharing with anyone. I walked out.
If interest rates were at all connected to the real world, there would not be all these empty houses and apartments about. There would be no construction frenzy.
It looks like I will be forced to borrow to buy a place in order to live the way I want. Ridiculous.
“Western media is now so full of propaganda that it is not worth reading. They need to realise that the stakes are far higher than they seem to think.”
I gave up on Western media many years ago. For 10 weeks in from January to March, I was staying with a friend in England. He loved sport and watched lots of TV – the weather was dreadful. I could not help sometimes watching what the BBC was spewing out about Russia, Syria and Salisbury. Absolute crap designed for people who are mentally-deficient. Sadly, my good friend – a retired GP – fell into that category. It is amazing how well propaganda works – when it is incessant and all the organs of it are coordinated. I mean, the contents of the articles of a great many newspapers are almost exactly the same – only the headlines change. In Australia, the newspapers don’t bother doing even the headlines, they transcribe nonsense from the NYT, Washington Post etc.
Here is a sample of the drivel being promoted today on Melbourne’s leading newspaper:
Just look at where Australia is and where the political centre of Russia is. The newspapers never mention that in the event of a WW3, Russian ICBM’s will fly over the Southern Hemisphere and get to the USA via its southern border.
zerosum,
I must break this to you gently. The Black/Brown Africans who move to Europe are still beholden to their families/tribes. They cannot build up capital because all their savings have to be sent back to support their kith and kin. It is a totally different model from that of people in the West. They flee to Europe in order to be able to better support their families back home. Their parents encourage them to leave as that way they have a better chance of a slightly more comfortable old age. If some of them perish while crossing the Saharah, so be it. With luck, another one might make it
The value of a human life is very different in different places. Just look at how the Israelis treat the Palestinians – like rats.
In Black Africa proper, it is almost impossible for an ordinary Black person to own a shop or anything of the sort – because any “relative” can drop in and help himself to the stock. The idea of private property is alien to a lot of these people. That is why Indians runs stores across whole swathes of Africa.
“Can I have a different opinion”
Sorry mate. You are certainly entitled to your opinion – but spending a few years in Africa might help you change your mind IMHO.
I have a Britsh GP friend who was very sure of what it was like over there. He now has a (White) South African lady friend and has been there a few times. His opinion has changed by 180 degrees. Seeing is believing.
zerosum,
I lived my formative years in the 3rd world. They understand perfectly well the contraception/abortion options – and have done so for millenia. They have kids for insurance in old age. The whole religious establishment in all these places is there to support the concept of “family” – something that has been long-forgotten in the West.
“Europe’s Depopulation Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Baltics”
That is what happens when people are lead to believe that big government will take care of them in old age. As soon as the state pension system collapses, anyone who can afford it will want to have more kids.
Why do you think people in the Third World have so many kids?
DS,
The big difference is that in South Africa, when Nelson Mandela danced with the multitudes of Blacks while they were chanting “Death to the Whites”, he got a Nobel Peace Prize.
Personally, I think that White Europeans are so mentally fucked up that they are unable to struggle for cultural survival – except for countries in Eastern Europe of course.
“It’s Pure Math – We’re Headed for a Train Wreck (USAW) ”
link is:
It’s Pure Math – We’re Headed for a Train Wreck – Bill Holter
“Earth a scaled up Easter Island”
I fully agree with what you said, however Easter Island is a case of fake history.
The idea that the inhabitants of these islands were totally reckless and that they did not try to protect their environment is pure nonsense – derived from Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse”
“Easter Island’s “ecological suicide” – myths and realities”
The ’68 student uprisings in France were portrayed as spontaneous. In reality, they were organised by the Trotskyists (i.e. the Jews) and were supported by the CIA. Both the Jews and the Americans had had enough of General de Gaule. He had moved France out of NATo and had had the audacity to say publicly that the Jews were very clever people. Tut tut.
It goes without saying that the OAS terrorist group composed of ex-military who had been kicked out of Algeria were also run by the CIA. They tried to assassinate de Gaule on numerous occasions. The other thing worth remembering is that a large portion of the “Colons” – who later on became “Pieds Noirs” were also Jews. In fact, Algeria was a model for Israel in many ways. The end result will also be just the same – millions of Arab dead and evacuation.
I develop websites for myself and others and am always amazed at the resources these “tech” companies need to use – programmers, managers, servers etc. – in order to produce something that can be done in a few months by a small team of good programmers with complementary skills.
Here is a website that took me around 12 months part-time work to develop:
It can handle millions of commutes per day in a city – I use Melbourne as a base – where people share rides. If you press the “Simulator” link, you will be able to pretend to be a commuter and either offering or accepting lifts with your neighbours to your work place.
Obviously, my weakness is in marketing such a concept. Frankly, politicians are only interested in building more roads / tunnels / bridges / intersections because these things are physical and they lead to more jobs and GDP. In Melbourne, only one car in 10 has a passenger during the rush-hours. It takes no Einstein to work out that increasing that to just two cars in every 10 is equivalent to a massive public works effort that costs many billions and takes years of work.
“Someone should set this up as an international effort that makes it easy for a community, a city etc., to provide this kind of service and make the profits benefit their own cities. ”
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that all these “services” should be handled locally. My website above can be readily reproduced for any English-speaking city at minimal cost. I think that cities should start trying to keep the money local.
Dr D,
This whole story is so full of ridiculous claims. The fact that whatever it was, it was not military-grade nerve gas is only a minor quibble. Just think how often they changed the location of the contamination – Russian “kasha”, door-knob, car ventilation system, restaurant and so on. They never mention the two dogs in the house.
The most amazing thing of all is that an English judge has decided that Yulia Skripal should not be allowed to phone her grandmother. The court-appointed lawyer who is supposed to represent Yulia did not object. English justice is being shown to be just another scam. The judge is shown in this article to be either ignorant or pretending to be ignorant of the law and international agreements between the UK and Russia – and the fake lawyer goes along with it.
YULIA SKRIPAL IS NOT ALLOWED TO TELEPHONE HER GRANDMOTHER
From what I have read, real nerve gas in a sub-lethal dose results in the victim collapsing – and then getting up again in a few minutes with no apparent long-term effects. It either kills you or it does not.
“Underwater Melting Of Antarctic Ice Far Greater Than Thought (G.)”
Surprise: Defying Models, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent 100 Years Ago Similar To Today
Funnily enough, this evening in Cairns – it is 11:00 PM here – I was chatting in a bar with an American lady who works on one of the boats that takes tourists to the see the Great Barrier Reef. She was convinced that reefs around the world are vanishing. She has a degree in oceanography or similar. I asked her for her email address so that I could give her some links – and she refused. In order to get a reaction, I told her that Global Warming is BS and she got mad with me and walked away. 🙂
I guess that is what “science” has descended to in the US – and I am a heretic. It is a belief system.
Study: some coral reefs are adapting to ‘climate change’ just fine
I bet their funding is now in jeopardy
4 New Papers Suggest Falling Sea Levels More Harmful To Corals Than Rapidly Rising Sea Levels
Funny how Martin Luther King is the only one of America’s “heros” who seems to be still considered OK. All the white ones are being trashed.
Have the Blacks really benefited from all the laws supposed to help them?
Did Obama do anything that actually helped his constituency? Is Chicago a better place than it was 20 years ago?
Is the USA going to benefit by giving important jobs to people based on something other than their competence?
A Politically Incorrect Question About Our Fender-Bender Navy
Give me a break!
“Nice to see you back…”
Do you mean me? If so, thank you. It is a long way from Warwickshire via Colombo and Melbourne to Cairns (by car).
I hope Zerosum comes back too.
National Park Service. At a press conference on March 1, the National Park Service issued their first peak bloom prediction for the 2018 season. They predicted that peak bloom would fall sometime between March 17 to 20. On March 12, they revised that prediction to March 27 to 31. On March 23, they pushed it back again to April 8-12.
2018 Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom Forecasts
I guess they will eventually work out that the AGW story is past its sell-by date.
“However, in general I don’t want to have people retreat into ‘invisible roles’ around here. By all means, do not.”
I think that is very reasonable. I am back in Australia and sometimes I post a comment and seemingly within minutes a new Debt Rattle comes out so I know that no one will read it so I post it on the more recent edition. I know it is not well-mannered, but it is not an executable offence IMHO.
Four days to declare a Cold War – by Thierry Meyssan
The Salisbury incident has all the characteristics of a charade.
In view of the recent scare about the Arctic warming up, here is some data:
Sea Ice Thickness (19 March 2018)
It looks like the ice is rapidly building – after 2 years with (recent) record lows.
OTOH, the ice build in Greenland is above average, but not as great as it was in 2016/17
Current Surface Mass Budget of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Contrast this data with recent headlines.
We’re witnessing the fastest decline in Arctic sea ice in at least 1,500 years
Personally, I trust the Danish Meteorological Institude over NASA any day. Take your choice!
zerosum,
Prison in Japan is no picnic. I am not suggesting that prison in the US is either. However, in some parts of Europe, prison is actually quite civilised. In the UK, many prisons are actually run by the inmates and the guards are almost decorative.
In Japan, prisoners are not allowed to speak to one another for prolonged periods and may even have to sit in a special way. Here are some rules
Brutal Realities about Prison in Japan
Some of the rules include:
- Where and how to place each item inside the cell.
- Where to write anything; only in specified notebooks which are inspected. Not on scarp of paper or inside a magazine, or face punishment.
- How to sit or stand during cell inspection, and during “leisure” time: No leaning, laying down or random walking around the cell.
- How to sleep. On your back or side, never the stomach. Do not cover your face while sleeping. Do not read, talk or move around during sleep time.
- How to march. Moving around the prison will be done by marching. Infractions result in punishments.
- When and how to speak. Strict silence is observed the majority of the time. During leisure times, talking should be done in a low voice so as not to disturb others. Utmost respect must be used when addressing guards or punishments will follow.
- Where to look. Looking at a guard can result in a punishment. Looking up during meal time is punishable. Opening eyes during “reflection time” when eyes should be closed is punishable.
This was too much for the Russian Ministry of Defense. General Igor Konashenkov replied:
“The rhetoric of an uncouth shrew demonstrated by the Head of the British Ministry of Defense makes his utter intellectual impotence perfectly evident. All this confirms not only the nullity of all accusations towards Russia we have been hearing from London for the last several years but also that the ‘accusers’ themselves are nonentities.
“The ‘Great’ Britain has long turned not only into a cozy nest for defectors from all over the world but also into a hub for all sorts of fake news-producing agencies: from the British ‘Syrian Observatory for Human Rights’ to the created by a British intelligence officer pseudo-Syrian ‘White Helmets’.
“As to boorish words of the British Defense Minister regarding Russia, it seems that in the absence of the real results of professional activity, rudeness is the only weapon remaining in the arsenal of the Her Majesty’s Military.”
War Is on the Horizon, Does Russia Have the Stomach for It? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Not just steel and aluminium. 🙂
A read of this article will confirm that we are not as smart as we like to think we are.
The Coming Ice Age
A true scientific detective story (Harpers 1958)It seems that the Arctic was ice-free during the last ice-age – some 11,000 years ago. Well worth thinking about.
Reuters, the BBC and all the rest of them have undermined their own value by presenting a very one-sided picture of what has been going on in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, Myanmar and many other places.
UK defence secretary tells Russia ‘go away and shut up’
This is really unbelievable. He all but said “Fuck off.”
The reason he – and his prime minister – are losing their cool Britannia is because the Syrian army with Russian help is killing British soldiers in Syria. They tried to have a 30-day truce to allow for the evacuation of these people. The Russians – for once – would not go along with it at the UN. Too many Russians have been killed by the activities of these special forces – last week a plane with many pilots on board was shot down while trying to land at the Russian base. The Russians want to get even. I doubt if they will take any of these people prisoner.
Finally, the Russians are saying the obvious:
‘Not proxy’: Lavrov says US, British, French special forces ‘directly involved’ in Syria war
The most interesting thing is how the Russian Ministry of Defence replied to this British outburst:
‘Fishwife’s rhetoric’ reveals ‘intellectual impotence’ of UK Defense Secretary – Russian MoD
Here is some of what they said:
A “cozy home” of “fake sensations,” that’s how the ministry called the UK, referring to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the White Helmets. “Therefore we’ve developed a strong immunity to London’s fake accusations of Russia.”“As for the boorish expressions by the UK Defense Secretary regarding Russia, in the absence of actual results of his official activities, apparently, they alone remain in the arsenal of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces,”
The subtext of that is that the are killing British soldiers – that is what “absence of actual results of his official activities” means
Lots of these chemists and weapons developers left the FSU after the collapse and were offered similar jobs – at much higher salaries – in the West.
Anyway, the British government has repeatedly tried out nerve gases on the public and their army.
The British government is frustrated – because its special forces in East Ghouta are being eliminated by the Syrian army. That is how empires end – in the ditch. Also, it is nice for Theresa May not to have discuss Brexit and the fact that the UK is getting more dependent on imported Russian gas.
It is mid-March here in England’s Midlands – and we have flurries of snow. Despite all the evidence the young generation is totally sold on the idea that England will become like southern Spain in their lifetimes. The BBC is like their mamma’s teat. Indispensible.
This nerve gas – assuming that it is what the British government claims it to be – is only very slightly different to some common insecticides. A small quantity can be made in any decent lab. The claim that because the Soviets – not the Russians – made it 50 years ago warrants the exclamation “so what!”
It is pretty obvious that it is all a distraction from what is happening in Syria – where the West’s terrorists are being trounced. I suspect that lots of British special forces are trapped in East Ghouta and the Russians refused to let them escape by going along with the UN trace nonsense. He let them get away far too many times in other sieges. This time is different – too many Russians have died.
Syrian War Report – March 14, 2018: Government Forces Liberate Key Area In Southern Damascus
There are rumours that the US moved a large number of F-22 stealth fighter-bombers to an airbase in Jordan that is close to the Syrian border. The Russians have rushed in more S400 batteries. They have also warned the Americans that they will attack any vessel, aircraft or base that launches cruise missiles against the Syrian government. Russian personnel are being placed in all Syrian government buildings and army bases.
Things are certainly warming up. I would be very pleased if the Russians were to shoot down lots of these planes so that the American public begins to understand that they are being lied to.
