A 13.5kW battery can keep the fridge running overnight.

Even a big one. 😀

Sad to hear about Abe. I met him briefly five years ago at the unveiling of a plaque to the crew of the submarine I-124, and we had a conversation about its history – I wrote the book on it.

He seemed a pleasant fellow, and worked his best for Japan as far as I could see.

he Duke of Sussex claims his offer to pay for his own security was not passed on to decision-makers by the Royal Household, the High Court has heard.

Why should the Royal Household care? This pair have ditched being Royal.

Private security is available. You just call them and arrange it.
Your security company can liaise with Palace funkeys if necessary.

Former adviser to Boris Johnson Thomas Corbett-Dillon breaks through the noise and details exactly why U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson left office on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews

The Duke of Sussex

is a pathetic emasculated dope. Sad

New Zealanders could be given voting rights in Australia
Anthony Albanese will ask federal parliament’s elections committee to consider what changes could be made to extend voting rights to some New Zealanders.

Cool, when do we take over and disestablish the illegitimate Ardenist Wellington junta?

Don’t cry for me New Zeeland!

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian rejected the heads of the FBI and MI5 warning of the growing long-term threat posed by China and urged U.S. and UK to ‘stop spreading rumors.’

Colonel I reckon this is testing the waters at party level. The fact no media organisation has allowed comments is telling, IMO this is kryptonite and they know it. Hell it got my back up just reading it.

The real game however is to see what is going on under the shell. Apparently a path to easier citizenship. Could be an opening of the back door from NZ for who don’t meet our standards but do in NZ. Another way to keep chipping at that strong border protection in ways that aren’t obvious perhaps?

Quote of the week for me.

I voted no because “hell no was not an option”.

The vote went 19-2 and he was one of the two.

What were they voting on ? Will give answer a bit later this evening.

callisays:
July 8, 2022 at 7:40 pm
A 13.5kW battery can keep the fridge running overnight.

Good for you but it is not going to keep the refrigerators going for our local greengrocer, or the traffic lights operating, or the heating running here in Victoria where it is brutally cold. Batteries are stop gaps on a small scale. And why should we be pushed into purchasing home batteries when we have abundant available resources to fire up generators. Oh it’s to save the planet chant the Greens and the energy subsidy scammers. After the millions of dollars spent on reducing global temperature I would like to know has it worked? Even a fraction? Garbage in garbage out!

If a woman had nine children by three fathers, could she be a CEO like Elon Musk?

C

arpe, are you at home in Japan? Our media have reported Abe’s death for quite a few hours now.

Yes i’m at home, i was working and was following the news on the radio, got a bit caught up in the moment.

People are genuinely sad here in sunny Arima, Abe was very anti-communist/socialist (which still has a presence here), very hawkish over the Senkaku Islands, not a great friend of the Norks or China.

Not loved but respected, the latter has more cache here.

Watch out for signs that say ‘Hidden driveway’…

Meanwhile, I’m livin’ in my own private Victoria. 🙁

This interview popped up on my Youtube.
Omicron Boosters, Kids’ Vaccine & More (w/Dr. Paul Offit) – Youtuber – ZdoggMD

It has a full 14 page transcript below the clip. I have just cut and paste a few bits but lot of technical stuff, plus a lot more discussion. My extract is mainly covering his thoughts on the meeting.

There are a lot of previous interviews from previous 2 years with this Dr. Had Covid himself and last dose was a year ago.

Part of the FDA vaccine advisory committee. One of two dissenting votes about an Omicron specific updated vaccine.

– [Paul] So let’s look at the data. So Moderna and Pfizer both presented at our meeting last Tuesday, June 28th, and the data were not compelling. And I guess the thing that is most upsetting to me is normally when you get something from the FDA, when we have these meetings, so you usually get it a few days before you meet, you usually get a couple hundred pages. And actually before the June 14th meeting about pediatric vaccines, we got 440 pages to read about three days before the meeting. They assume that you don’t have a life, which is true, but I don’t think that they should assume that. So in any case here on the other hand, normally you get the EUA submission from the company, which is 85 to 100 pages long, and then you get the FDA’s review of all those data. It really, really is heartening. I mean, it is a very thorough review. Not here, here it was 22 pages from the FDA, which included 1/2 a page on Pfizer’s data and 1/2 a page on Moderna’s data. You could get that from the press release. In fact, it was no more detailed frankly than the press release. So I just thought the question we’re being asked is in the end always, is do the benefits outweigh the risks, even though the risks are generally small and sometimes unknown, that’s always the question. Do the benefits of this vaccine outweigh the risk? I didn’t see the benefits. I was surprised actually, frankly, that of the 21 voting members, 19 voted yes, ’cause I just didn’t see the evidence for that. And we’ll see how this plays out. I mean, this was something that I think they, that was desired by this administration. I could be wrong, but the way that this, the other thing that was odd about this meeting was that we’re an advisory committee. We’re being asked for our advice. So normally what happens is they just present the data. Here’s the data, what’s your advice? And people can ignore our advice. I mean I’m in academic medicine, people ignore my advice all the time, but to make the best advice. So here on the other hand, however, they had somebody from the WHO, Kanta Subbarao, who presented their opinion about this. And their opinion was they thought this was a good idea. And then you had the FDA presenting where they also had an opinion. That’s unusual. And then the next day, you know, you read a public health announcement from the, a press release from HHS Health and Human Services that says that the government has decided to purchase at least 105 million doses from Pfizer with up to 300 million doses. It was a little unclear from that press release, but they mentioned that we had just made this decision the day before. So you just sort of felt like the fix was in a little bit here. Maybe that’s not the right phrase, but it was something that they wanted. And I felt like we were being led here with a critical lack of information. So we’ll see how this turns out. But I didn’t like this.
– [Paul] if we’ve been taught anything over the last 2 1/2 years, it’s the humility of introducing a new product. I mean, no one would’ve predicted myocarditis associated with mRNA vaccines. I don’t think anybody would’ve predicted this clotting problem, so-called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. So be humble. And if you, if you’re gonna, you know, if you clearly have evidence of benefit, great. But if you clearly don’t have evidence of benefit then say no. And it just surprised me that we were willing to go forward with this with such scant evidence of benefit. I think that the phrase that I used was uncomfortably scant was what I said during the meeting.

[Paul] I am curious to see how this plays out regarding the bivalent vaccine, because we really need much better data, I think before we move forward on this and I can only hope that it’s coming. Because I feel very strongly about my no vote there. In fact, the only reason I voted no was because hell no was not a choice. That’s how I felt about this. It’s just we need more data.

this blog is full of spastic dumb shits.

Despair … like watching the the Wimbledon women’s doubles court

if there is a better descriptor of the personages

Over qualified for any Australia-style cabinet, Coalition or Labor

News bulletin just mentioned flooding and potential evacuations ’round that way. Family friends live there, with a nice outlook from their driveway. Once it was over the plains near the river – green pastures. On a later visit the outlook was over many many new roofs on said plains. Wouldn’t want to be buying in there, I thought at the time.

That was Maitland…

Wokdoctor:

Another way to keep chipping at that strong border protection in ways that aren’t obvious perhaps?

Of course. If we aren’t allowed to discriminate against a Kiwi with multiple convictions for violent assault, how can we not refuse citizenship to a boatload of Nigerian males, all from the same gang?
That would be racist!