Winning my LOL’s today.
The Libertarian Party are filing for Conservatorship over Biden & McConnell.
It will be thrown out at the first opportunity but still.
Many…many LOLs.

Oh dear, Channel Nine again (at least this time it wasn’t Tara Brown reporting) — Saw this little snippet in the Oz’s Margin Call – my comments in bold.

Nine newspapers sensationally revealed last week (after complete humiliation on the opening day of what was supposed to be a 12-week trial in defamation whose barristers had arrogantly rebuffed any previous attempt at mediation) that it was ready to lay down its arms and move to mediation over that case brought by Dr Munjed Al Muderis, an osseointegration specialist who’s suing the papers and 60 Minutes for defamation. Nine’s was an unexpected retreat, but what was truly stunning was that their lawyers lost heart only days after the trial started. Sad!

But even as we brace for mediation to commence, Nine’s case is still eroding before its eyes in the Federal Court, where witnesses are either contradicting the fundamentals of what was reported about Al Muderis or rejecting entirely the quotes attributed to them.

Nine’s reporting made a mighty big deal about the supposed level of sales-pressure Al Muderis applied to his patients, including Sydney barrister Donald Grieve KC, who happens to be the father of the journalist being sued. Grieve’s account, published by Nine, was that Al Muderis told him he would be in a wheelchair without immediate surgery, a claim the surgeon’s barrister, Sue Chrysanthou SC, swatted as an untruth.
Grieve has since withdrawn his affidavit, so make of that what you will. As to the alleged pressure, refuting evidence was heard on Tuesday from Dr Tim O’Carrigan, an orthopaedic surgeon who routinely consults with Al Muderis whenever this type of procedure is being considered by a patient (it allows amputees to have a prosthetic limb fitted to their body so they can attain greater function and mobility).
On O’Carrigan’s telling, he and Al Muderis expressly told Grieve that he didn’t need osseointegration surgery, with at least two other specialists involved providing that advice.

“The main advantage of osseointegration is increased mobility, and Mr Grieve already had good mobility and function with his socket prosthesis,” O’Carrigan’s affidavit said. “For this reason, we did not recommend osseointegration for Mr Grieve. This was the unanimous view of the group.”

By the afternoon it was Dr Qutaiba Al-Maawi, a resident orthopaedic surgeon in Baghdad, Iraq, who expressed great displeasure with how he’d been quoted in an article. Giving evidence via video-link, Al-Maawi said he was “shocked at what was said on my behalf” and “very unhappy with what was published”, resulting in the piece being amended online.

Not only were statements published “that I never made”, Al-Maawi told the court “words were selectively taken out of context to create a negative impression” of Al Muderis.

The witness pointed to reporting in one article that said a patient had died from a heart attack following surgery; Al-Maawai contended the individual had died “more than a year after his osseointegration and that it was not in any way related to the surgery”.

Is it true, too, what Margin Call hears, that Nine’s series of reports on Al Muderis have been entered for a Walkley Award? Odd timing when the matter’s backlit by the glare of a defamation action, allegations of severe factual shortfalls, and Nine is scrambling to make it all stop with a back-channel deal.

Surely no one wants another Laming situation (where the Walkley Foundation withdrew its award to Channel Nine reporters Peter Fagan and Rebeka Powell)

warning !!!! warning – Word Wall coming up Janet Albrechtsen is certainly on fire when it comes to the importance of the rule of law and its proper administration:

Bruce Lehrmann and Zachary Rolfe: Lifting the lid on authority’s failures to disclose
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
9:30PM SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The parallels between the investigations and the prosecutions of former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann and former police officer Zach­ary Rolfe are unmistakable and disturbing.

In both cases, a hasty investi­gation and charging of a young man for a serious crime was accompanied by diarised police concerns about lack of evidence.

In both cases, the politicisation of events by politicians and other senior figures occurred against a backdrop of social movements fuelling a febrile environment.

In both cases, a pattern of non-disclosure of material to defence lawyers put at risk their ability to properly defend their clients.

The difference is that the public has now had the benefit of a ­thorough public inquiry into the exercise of state power in the Lehrmann matter.

If we are to trust in all aspects of the criminal justice system, from policing to prosecutors, the issues raised by Rolfe’s lawyers and reported by The Australian’s Kristin Shorten today must be investi­gated. An internal police investigation is not enough.

There should be a transparent and meticulous public inquiry by a skilled and fearless senior judge into the circumstances surrounding the investigation and prosecution of Rolfe.

That the former constable was unanimously found not guilty by 12 jurors within a few hours is not a reason for institutions that wield tremendous power against a citizen to avoid a public inquiry into their behaviour.

The Northern Territory’s new Police Commissioner, Michael Murphy, has an opportunity to start his term in office by encouraging proper and overdue public scrutiny of the most controversial police investigation in the Territory’s history.

In his letter to Murphy on June 16 this year, Rolfe’s lawyer, Luke Officer, laid out serious concerns about the conduct of Detective Senior Sergeant Wayne Newell. They included claims that Newell amended and edited an expert report, that he obtained opinions from a purported expert denying the lethality of the scissors that Walker used to stab Rolfe and threaten his partner, even though that expert said it would be inappropriate for her to give evidence, and that Newell withheld supplementary opinions given by two other experts to him about the leth­ality of the scissors that would have assisted defence but were revealed only during the trial.

The Darwin-based lawyer in his letter says it was only down to “sheer luck” that he became aware of the undisclosed material.

Again, by sheer chance, Rolfe’s lawyers became aware of a series of draft police coronial reports – known as the “Pollock reports” – that police had not given to the DPP, and could therefore not share with Rolfe’s defence team.

When making his order for disclosure of those reports, Supreme Court judge Dean Mildren said: “If the documents are never revealed, it may be that an innocent person has been wrongly convicted. It is to be hoped that this situation will not occur in the future.”

In his final report into the investigation and prosecution of Lehrmann, Walter Sofronoff explained why full disclosure was central to our trust in the criminal justice system by ensuring a fair trial, and addressing the imbalance of power and resources between the state and a citizen. “Criminal litigation is not a poker game in which a prosecutor can hide the cards,” he wrote.

In the Lehrmann case, the former DPP was exposed as failing to disclose material.

In the Rolfe matter, disclosure failures concern police.

Disclosure duties are the same for police and prosecutors because both are instruments of enormous state power, just as the damage to a defendant, and our trust in the criminal justice system, is the same whether non-disclosure is by a prosecutor or by police.

Many other parts of the Rolfe saga echo the Lehrmann case. For example, police diary entries reveal senior police officers expressed concerns at charging Rolfe before sufficient evidence had been amassed.

Just as the Lehrmann saga unfolded against the background of the #metoo movement and nat­ionwide March 4 Justice protests, the arrest, prosecution and trial of Rolfe occurred as the Black Lives Matters movement grew in prominence, alongside “Justice for Walker” protests nationwide.

More concerning than the wild west of social media, which became hunting grounds for Lehrmann and Rolfe, leaders behaved badly. On November 12, three days after the fatal shooting, then-commissioner Jamie Chalker and chief minister Michael Gunner travelled to Yuendumu, where the latter told the community there would be an independent investigation into the shooting and “consequences will flow as a result.”

Recall that former prime minister Scott Morrison delivered an apology in parliament to Brittany Higgins, saying “I’m sorry to Ms Higgins for the terrible things that took place here”.

On the morning after Gunner’s comments – hours before Rolfe was charged – the NT’s then Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Ken Fleming attended a rally at Alice Springs, where thousands gathered to protest after Walker’s death, and said “one of the most important mess­ages today is ‘Black Lives Matter’.

“Anybody who says contrary to that is guilty of corrupt behaviour,” he said.

A promised ICAC investi­gation into the shooting was to be headed by Fleming but after his rally speech, he was forced to remove himself from the probe and soon after retired. The probe never eventuated.

In 2022, after Rolfe was acquitted, ICAC investigated whether his murder charge had been politically influenced by Gunner or anyone else and found the claims were baseless.

If those leading our most powerful institutions do not show respect for this fundamental value, why would other politicians, let alone citizens who serve on a jury?

There are other matters of concern in Operation Charwell – the criminal investigation of the shooting. The police’s mission statement included this: “To provide a brief of evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions in support of the offence as alleged against Constable Zachary Rolfe.”

The mission for police should have been to conduct a complete, accurate and reliable investigation of all evidence: that which supported the charge against Rolfe and that which did not.

According to police notes, a report was commissioned from a US criminologist about Rolfe’s use of force after NSW police advised NT police that “They were not keen to put themselves into the firing line if their SME [subject matter expert] offered an opinion that may be adverse.”

Did this mean NSW police didn’t want to express opinions that did not fit charging Rolfe?

The US criminologist, paid almost $100,000 for his 12-page report, was not provided with all the information on the incident but senior police told him via email that “it is important we make sure we have a good fit otherwise I will struggle to be able to convince my bosses of the value in utilising your extensive expertise”.

Given that Rolfe was arrested, did a “good fit” mean a report that fitted the mission statement of “in support of the offence” of murder?

If there is an ICAC investigation underway into these serious issues, the corruption watchdog won’t tell us.

The NT Police Professional Standards Command advised Rolfe’s lawyer that the Office of Ombudsman NT refused to investigate, stating it was “not in the public interest”. In response to Rolfe’s June complaint, the head of the PSC said he did not consider any further action was required.

It is passing strange that when The Australian sent questions to NT police on Monday, they said they were investigating Rolfe’s complaints. What is going on?

Had there not been a full public inquiry in the ACT, we would never have learned about serious wrongdoing by then DPP Shane Drumgold. The Rolfe fiasco raises similarly concerning questions about the conduct of police.

Only a thorough and public inquiry can settle concerns that Rolfe was the victim of brute politics, misguided social movements, a deeply flawed police investigation and serious failures to disclose material his lawyers should have had to properly defend him.

I could give you an example of someone who changed her style of commenting now gets only upticks.

Oh please do.

There are not many female commenters here, Gabor. Each one comments well and most have their own particular style. As you say, the downticking has settled down.

Like Calli, I often get a downtick or two. I’ll just keep quacking and waddle on.
Might occasionally fluff my feathers up a bit to shake off the raindrops. 🙂

Try again Bruce.

European courts have upheld British subjects’ rights better than British Courts.

The EU never imposed policing of speech on Twitter of comedians & old nannas or mawkish deification of masked up NHS workers, Airstrip One heartily voted for this surrealist nightmare.

COVID and the authoritarian folly that accompanied it gainsaid any of the benefits of Brexit.

Stephen Fry defended free speech with Matt Taibbi in a debate against Malcolm Gladwell & some chump.

Success, Building 7 is back on the open thread.

Scurries away again.

There is a State House candidate in VA with a Chaturbate profile, she’s a nurse who is a member of a PAC called “Moms Demand Action”.

They sure do.

The GOP should be amplifying the Sec Energy non stop.

The Secretary Of Energy’s Messy EV Road Trip Included A Family Calling The Cops About A Blocked Charger
The Secretary of Energy went on a four-day EV road trip this summer and not all of it went as planned.

https://jalopnik.com/jennifer-granholm-went-on-an-ev-road-trip-and-it-was-ki-1850826932

Russian President Vladimir Putin says prosecution of Donald Trump shows US political system is ‘rotten’

Paging a Mr Navalny! Is there a Mr Navalny in this gulag?

Incidentally Vlad has just caught and arrested his personal doctor who was trying to flee the country.

Putin still a more admirable figure than the poisonous trash in Washington DC

which can only happen with controlled demolitions.

Assuming the consequent.
First and most obvious sign of conspiracist writing.

Too cheap to meter news.

A 10 GW Time Bomb (11 Sep)

It has long been known some “AAA” backsheet films – made of triple-layer polyamide and widely deployed from 2010 to 2013 – can become brittle and tear. “By now, you would have to see the signs in all modules affected by this, whether they are installed in ground-mounted systems or on roofs,” says Bernhard Weinreich, managing director of HaWe Engineering. Now, younger modules and other foil types are exhibiting similar behavior.

Some 15% of Germany’s solar capacity – 10 GW – could be affected. That equates to up to €2 billion ($2.18 billion) in replacement costs, with only a fraction of the affected panels likely detected thus far.

There are safety risks, too. Affected modules could electrocute if handled in wet weather and are more susceptible to fires. With some severely damaged panels showing only minor performance loss, how can damage be assessed? How long can such modules operate safely after initial premature aging signs?

Sounds like someone was trying to save money using inadequate backing materials. The linked article doesn’t say whose panels are the faulty ones, whether Chinese or German manufactured. You can probably bet though that this is going to hit us here in Oz too. Won’t that be fun?

The first casualty of the lost Brexit referendum was David Cameron resigning as the presumptive head of state, PM- he migh have had honour nudging him with the idea that the proles would have no faith in him delivering, as a Remainer, but what if that’s just the suspicious scrutiny which the effective head of state- the British Bureaucracy- needed to actually Brexit, instead of knobbling the extraxtion at every turn, ever since?

New stone age.

You Will Build Nothing & Be Happy: UN report urges ‘massive emission cuts in construction sector’ by using ‘gov’t regs & enforcement’ to achieve ‘Net Zero’ – Replace ‘concrete & steel’ with ‘stone, timber, & bamboo’ (12 Sep)

“Until recently, most buildings were constructed using locally sourced earth, stone, timber, and bamboo. Yet modern materials such as concrete and steel often give only the illusion of durability, usually ending up in landfills and contributing to the growing climate crisis,” said Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Director of UNEP’s Industry and Economy Division. “Net zero in the building and construction sector is achievable by 2050, as long as governments put in place the right policy, incentives and regulation to bring a shift the industry action,” UNEP’s Aggarwal-Khan added.

Fortunately we don’t have many earthquakes here in Australia. We have plenty of stone though, which will be good for when we collapse into feudalism and need to build some castles with nice thick walls.

I find that irritated black woman hard to believe.

Getting raped by a relative on a Saturday night and then gang-raped the following Monday at the age of 14 isn’t the “worst thing that happened to her”?

I mean, what else could be worse?

Death (she’s alive).
Sexual slavery?

I’m almost inclined to think she’s posting to make NO less credible.

she sees injustice everywhere.

She’ll barely be able to snorf her way through brunch this morning, so great is her responsibility to further the reach of the sisterhood.

Who was the mastermind genius who said, years ago, that fire could not melt steel?

Steel is grown on steel vines, everyone knows that. Steelmaking is a western patriarchal myth, of course.

The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse.

For some unaccountable reason the actual report doesn’t download from UAF, but nevertheless I‘m here to tell you that the authors conclude that WTC7 was [dramatic pause] brought down by controlled demolition.

People familiar with the complexity and careful preparation required to cut complicated steel structures with explosives might roll their eyes at the implication that the months of exposing the steelwork and drilling and sawing and charge placement and connecting went unnoticed in a busy 24/7 occupied building.

Or that the demolition charges all fired perfectly and in sequence after the ground floors were scalloped out by debris from WTC1 and a 7-hour fire.

Or that the building collapsed without any of the external telltales of explosive demolition.

But, then, those doubtful people are not University Experts who were paid US$316,000 by Troofers for their opinions.

in cases of a lithium-ion battery fire firefighters will cool down the battery and place it in a container with water to stop re-ignitions.

My EV battery fire training said ‘order 10 tons of water and quarantine for 3 days’ …. I note that one of the toasted EVs from the recent car ship fire self ignited a month later, as it was being removed…

Who was the mastermind genius who said, years ago, that fire could not melt steel?

The devil is in the details…. steel is melted or softened regularly, we know what temps are required – said temperatures are higher than are generated by office fires… and WTC7 was just an office fire, no jetfuel (jetfuel, btw, also doesnt burn hot enough to soften structural steel – and they considered this in the designs of WTC 1&2 – both were designed to survive a fully laden 707 impact).. this is why *no* similar steelframed highrise has collapsed from fire before or since, and there have been dozens of them.

If something smells bad, it smells bad, however much it offends your sensibilities.

The Bungonia Bee:
Sky News Annaliese Neilsen crosses to Democrat Senator Fetterman for an opinion on Biden impeachment move.
(Oh, wait a minute; that was real, not satire)

This is the last time I come to an IPA event. They seem to feel free to waste my time. I should bill them. Less the nibbles and plonk

The IPA magazine was the first ray of hope for me in Australia in 1999, when I watched the ABC and read newspapers.
People challenging the narrative that I, my sex, my industry, my family, my values, my history, my heterosexuality were somehow bad? WOW!

Steel letting go makes a big bang.

Sure, my point is if the conspiracy theories are right as far as the observations are concerned, there are fairly conventional explanations as to what happened, some of which were suppressed for national security reasons.

50,000 people worked in the towers normally, why only 3,600 deaths?

Because it was early morning, they didn’t hit the bottom, they didn’t hit simultaneously and thousands got out or were “merely” injured and you are also forgetting that there was a shift schedule for the custodial staff.

Those who died, died on impact or were trapped.

Old article (April 2023).

Block’s under fire Cash App will still come to Australia

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/block-s-under-fire-cash-app-will-still-come-to-australia-20230327-p5cvm9

So you may have a banking alternative soon.

The lower floors got out by the stairwells.

Yep. How is this a mystery unless everyone recording it, amateur and professional, had paid thousands and thousands of “crisis actors”?

Like someone else mentioned before, the execution of a conspiracy theory makes it fall flat on the face of it. The sheer number of conspirators makes them (typically) impossible.

Spotted just now in the mall next to (western Sydney’s) Fairfield Forum (shopping complex) a.bunch of wapipo (obviously not locals, lol) handing out “Vote Yes on 14 October” pamphlets, which are written in English. Said wapipo are also attempting to engage passers-by (and some of the homeless sitting around) in conversation. Fairfield is full of “employment services” shops and most locals speak “community languages”. Australia, you’re standing in it.

I’ve never come across an adequate explanation as to how everything was turning into a fine dust as the towers collapsed. This is footage I’ve never seen before. Those remaining steel columns just turning into dust? Those cars in the parking lot also is a curiosity?

There is a film of an F-4 Phantom being driven on a rocket sled into a very thick concrete wall.

It disintegrates, and the wall also partially as well.

Total Destruction Redux: F4 Phantom vs. Concrete Wall – Additional Camera Angles

The people who jumped off the buildings is also a mystery.

Are you actually serious?

They didn’t want to be burnt alive!

Because it was early morning,

Yes. I knew someone who was in the foyer when the second plane hit. Waiting for the lift up to an early meeting. Decided, like many others, that it might not be a good idea to hop in. Went outside, saw…things…and kept walking for blocks. Took him a while to process what he’d seen. A very down to earth, rational finance guy, not much imagination so to my mind completely trustworthy.

Thing is, the site is so huge he didn’t register that the first plane had hit, simply because he was on the other side and didn’t look up.

I don’t know whether the entire thing being built on reclaimed land with that massive slurry wall holding it all “up” had an impact on sites further afield. The design was to keep the buildings upright and stable, not to withstand the crushing weight of them pancaking.

One thing people miss with the tower collapses is a thing known in geology as a base surge.

They are mainly known from the collapse of lava domes in active volcanoes, where the result is a pyroclastic surge. However they also occur in big explosions as stuff blown into the air collapses down and outwards. The Hunga Tonga volcanic explosion caused underwater base surges that took out fibre optic cables many km from the eruption site.

Tonga volcano unleashed fastest ever undersea flows: study (Phys.org, 7 Sep)

The tower collapse very likely caused such a surge too, which can lift large boulders and hurl them horizontally at 100 mph or more. I haven’t looked up the data about Building 7 but going on what Duk said earlier it sounded like a base surge took out the supporting pillars at ground level, whereupon down she’d come like a Queenslander with the stilts knocked out from under it.

As the tower fell the material would form a cone shaped mound at the core of the collapse and that would deflect large pieces of concrete out sideways like a gigantic circular shot gun. Which is pretty much what a base surge is.

Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy

When Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm set out on a four-day electric-vehicle road trip this summer, she knew charging might be a challenge. But she probably didn’t expect anyone to call the cops.

Granholm’s trip through the southeast, from Charlotte, N.C., to Memphis, Tenn., was intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars. The administration’s ambitious energy agenda, if successful, could significantly cut U.S. emissions and reshape Americans’ lives in fundamental ways, including by putting many more people in electric vehicles.

Here’s What The House GOP Should Do Right Now To Fight Democrats’ Republic-Crushing Lawfare

If House Republicans don’t jump into the deep end, the Democrat lawfare campaign may succeed in taking out Trump. That will be the beginning of the end of our republic.

House Republicans are bringing a butter knife to a gunfight as Democrats, including their media and government lapdogs, conduct an unprecedented lawfare campaign to destroy President Trump.

It’s a playbook straight out of any third-world Marxist hellhole.

House Republicans must step up and go on offense.

Democrats only respect power.

This lawfare campaign is so extensive that those names should only be the start — there will surely be more to uncover.

The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for ‘Net Zero’

By James Varney, RealClearInvestigations
September 12, 2023

The Department of Energy’s official line – echoed by many environmental activists and academics – is that the vast array of solar panels and wind turbines required to meet Biden’s goal of “100% clean electricity” by 2035 will require “less than one-half of one percent of the contiguous U.S. land area.” This topline number translates into 15,000 of the lower 48’s roughly 3 million square miles.

And these vast plots, along with the chains of transmission towers, do not include other aspects that would take up even more land: nationwide vehicle charging stations, mines for rare-earth minerals, maintenance space for huge propeller blades and panels, and so forth.

Elon’s Superheavy caused something similar to a base surge – the rocket was so powerful it shredded the reinforced concrete launch pad and threw large lumps of concrete up to km away – enough to cause serious damage to this guy’s van.

Powerful Blast from SpaceX’s Starship Damages Launch Pad and Wrecks Nearby Minivan (21 Apr)

Fun video.

It doesn’t explain dustification at free fall speed.

Metallurgists use autogenous mills to grind rock up. The mill media is the rock being ground up, unlike say a ball mill where steel balls are added. The falling concrete was its own grinding media in a gigantic autogenous mill.

Some people heard explosions at Tower 7?

Steel letting go makes a big bang.

Certainly does.
This is another of the rich crop of urban myths we get to enjoy this time each year.

The ‘sound of explosions’ was reported by a first responder within the building. If this actually was the opening salvo of demolition charges cracking off, the report would have been delivered by ouija board.

In any event, Those Who Know know the whole thing was brought down by a nuke fired off 400m below ground level.
I read it here.

Qantas loses High Court appeal

Qantas board ‘has to go’: transport union

The Transport Workers’ Union is calling for the Qantas board to resign following today’s decision, claiming the board and its chairman, Richard Goyder, were “complicit in the illegal sacking of 1700 workers” and, on numerous occasions, “backed in Alan Joyce in relation to this very decision”.

“The bonuses have to go, the board has to go, and a message for the new CEO Vanessa Hudson is ‘you owe these workers and their families a deep and sincere apology’.”

Dot
Sep 13, 2023 10:45 AM

How TF does a “directed energy weapon” make for a simpler yet more adequate explanation of pancaking building floors?

This is some real crap, Trickler.

What Does Putin Mean by Weapons Based on ‘New Physical Principles’?

“If one looks into the security sphere, weapons based on new physical principles will ensure the security of any country in the near historical perspective. We understand this very well and are working on it,” Putin said in a wide-ranging speech at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday.

Putin did not elaborate, leaving media and military observers scrambling in a search for more information.

The Russian Defense Ministry’s official online encyclopedia defines “weapons based on new physical principles” as “new types of arms whose destructive effect is based on processes and phenomena which have not previously been used for military purposes.”

As of the early 21st century, these weapons are said to include:

. Directed energy weapons (laser, accelerator, microwave and infrasonic-based arms designed to destroy or disable enemy manpower, equipment, or hardened facilities and infrastructure).

“All types of directed energy weapons are practically inertia-free, and with the exception of infrasonic weapons, are instantaneous […] The greatest successes” in this direction “have been achieved in improving laser weapons,” according to the MoD.

. Electromagnetic weapons (ultra-high frequency and laser-based), whose destructive properties are achieved through the use of a “powerful, usually pulsed stream of electromagnetic coherent optical radiation [featured in some types of lasers, ed.], or incoherent optical radiation.”

. Non-lethal weapons, designed to disable weapons, equipment, materiel, and personnel without inflicting irreparable losses on the latter. The Russian military divides these into anti-personnel, anti-equipment/materiel, and combined anti-personnel/anti-equipment/anti-materiel systems. These include various weapons designed to replace existing tools used by domestic security services, such as teargas, rubber bullets, psychotropic devices, infrasonic weapons, and electronic suppression, as well as military-grade biological and chemical agents which can decompose or otherwise render useless fuels, insulation and rubber products, and ultra-high frequency systems meant to disable radio-electronic components of enemy weapons and equipment.

. Geophysical weapons (seismic, climate, ozone, environmental), collectively defined by the MoD as “means to deliberately influence the environment to use the forces of nature for military purposes.” These hypothetical weapons are designed to act against the solid, liquid, and gaseous properties of the planet and its atmosphere, and can include using powerful explosives to cause earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and other catastrophes, as well as altering the weather or climate in certain parts of the planet, resulting in droughts, floods, storms, etc. Ozone weapons are designed to create holes in the ozone layer, causing widespread damage using ultraviolet radiation from space across vast geographic areas. Finally, environmental weapons are categorized as those designed to target forests, crops, water, air, or soil resources, possibly through the use of chemical or biological agents.

. Radiological weapons include arms whose destructive effect “is based on the use of radioactive substances capable of poisoning manpower with ionizing radiation without a nuclear explosion,” with radiation-spewing materials obtained from the leftovers of nuclear fuel, or by exposing chemical elements to neutron fluxes to produce radioactive isotopes. These arms can be fitted inside shells, air-droppable bombs, missile warheads, and other conventional munitions, and are designed to contaminate the environment for tens if not hundreds of years.

. Finally, genetic weapons are defined as “a type of weapon capable of damaging the genetic (hereditary) apparatus of human beings,” including through the use of viruses with mutagenic properties, as well as “mutations derived from natural sources by chemical synthesis or biotechnological methods, to cause damage or changes to DNA. This type of prospective weaponry is considered particularly dangerous in light of “the unpredictability of the consequences” of their use, in the Russian military’s estimation.

I KNOW WHAT A *&^%ING LASER IS. HOW DO YOU METHODICALLY DESTROY A VERY BUILDING WITH AN X-RAY LASER YOU IMBECILES!?

The idea that a DEW is a simpler explanation is bonkers.

Stew Peters is a controlled opposition. No one can possibly be as dumb as this stupid ^%$#.

VERY LARGE

Photo here.

James Natchwey.

ZK2A:

The former Labor politician and activist, who supports the referendum, said he is concerned about the way the debate has been progressing.

“We probably want to play some ads on Triple M-type FM rock radio stations to appeal to males over 50, who don’t want to vote for the voice,” he said at the Property Council’s annual conference in Adelaide.

Good. Another clot of multimillionaires telling us we are racist pigs.
That’ll help the “Yes” vote.

“The TV told me”

Which is now “I watched some goofball on BitChute”.

Stew Peters is controlled opposition.

I’m sure there are some ‘truthers’ that are involved in a grift. But I’m also sure there are some genuine people interested in exploring what happened.

I don’t think any of them made bank. The payoff is the excitement of pulling in a crowd all running in circles with hair on fire.