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the lies and rules of tyrannical authority.


Wednesday 29th January 2020


G’day,

Hope this finds you fit and well.

Here is a sampling of what crossed my digital desk over the last week.

I Just Bought A Book From Ikea

All Along The Watchtower | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Man Outdoes His Wife’s Expectations When Asked to Take More Photos of the Kids

Faulty Airbag Check

How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory

Outrage over Chinese water mine plan in Southern Downs

15 apps parents should look out for on their kids’ phones

Must read- New Zealand Climate Scientist Dr David Kear Debunks Climate Crisis

Tiger Reflection

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–1956), The Gulag Archipelago

Australian astronomer wins major US science award

Researchers assumed CRISPR-mediated disruption of genes was turning them off – but they were wrong

Professor uses ’feminist buzzwords’ to get entire passage from Hitler’s ’Mein Kampf’ published in academic journal

Precious Metals Commentary

I hope you get something from it!

Cheers!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I Just Bought A Book From Ikea
 
I Just Bought A  Book From Ikea
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
All Along The Watchtower | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
 
Lakota In Tribal Attire
 
 
 

Worth a listen.

 
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Man Outdoes His Wife’s Expectations When Asked to Take More Photos of the Kids
 
Cow Bunny Boy
 
 
 

In early 2015, Phillip Haumesser’s wife Natasha gave him a simple request. She wanted him to take more pictures of their children. After all, the two kids were growing up fast—before you know it, they’d be graduating high school. Like many parents, Haumesser and his wife captured special moments on their phones, but she wanted more artistic family photos. So for his birthday, Natasha bought him a camera that could do just that.

 
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Faulty Airbag Check
 
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Easy rego number check to see if your airbag is faulty.

 
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How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
 
Allan Savory
 
 
 

This man has started a movement that has increased yield and reduced desertification on 15 million hectares on 5 continents.

 
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Outrage over Chinese water mine plan in Southern Downs
 
Farmer Andrew O'Dea
 
 
 

Farmers and landholders in the drought-hit Southern Downs ­region of Queensland are furious over the lack of government and council opposition to a Chinese-owned company’s plan to mine nearly 100 million ­litres of local groundwater a year and sell it off, at a time when local towns are so dry they are ­relying on trucked-in water to keep their taps running.

 
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15 apps parents should look out for on their kids' phones
 
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During his press conference last week, the sheriff listed 15 apps as ones that parents need to know about. (Six of them were used by suspected predators who were recently arrested.)

The first is ’MeetMe,’ an app where teens can easily be in contact with users much older than them, with an emphasis on dating.
’WhatsApp’ and ’SnapChat’ are for messaging, but what you should know is teens can send unlimited messages, have video chats and even share their live location with other users, people they may not even know.
’Skout’ is a flirting app that’s used to meet and chat with new people. Teens and adults are in different groups, but ages aren’t verified.
’TikTok’ is used for sharing user created videos that can contain bad words, even adult content.
’Badoo’ and ’Bumble’ are dating apps for adults, but teens can still find ways to join.
’Grindr’ is geared towards the LGBTQ community. It allows users to share photos and meet up based on phone’s GPS location.
’Kik’ is specifically for kids, but anyone can join and anyone can contact or direct message your child.
’LiveMe’ is a live streaming app, but you don’t know who’s watching and your kids location is revealed.
’Holla’ is all about connecting strangers around the world through video chat. Enough said.
’Whisper’ is a social confessional where kids can remain anonymous, but still share their feelings. And it can reveal your child’s location for a meet up.
’ASKfm’ encourages people to allow anonymous users to ask them questions, which opens the door for online bullying.
’Hot or Not’ rates users on attractiveness.. There’s no age verification and users can send each other messages.
And lastly, ’Calculator%’ apps are several secret apps that allows kids to hide their photos, videos, even browser history.

 
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Must read- New Zealand Climate Scientist Dr David Kear Debunks Climate Crisis
 
David Kear
 
 
 

This article is a must read! Biographical Note: Dr David Kear has a background in geology and engineering, becoming the Director General of the DSIR (New Zealand’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) in 1980. He is a Fellow and Past Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Past President of the New Zealand Geological Society. Dr Kear has over 100 publications on New Zealand and Pacific geology, vulcanology and mineral resources. He has been publishing on sea-levels since the 1950s.

 
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Tiger Reflection
 
Tiger Reflection
 
 
 

Go you tigers, take on the world!

 
 
 
 
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1918–1956), The Gulag Archipelago
 
Soviet Sled
 
 
 

A great reminder of what government is capable of and the appropriate response if it comes to that.

But of course, if it comes to that, not enough action was taken early enough to prevent it.

Best we get buy spreading truth and hope to those who would otherwise follow this insanity.

Never again, a quote from a Book called Gulag Archipelago

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

 
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Australian astronomer wins major US science award
 
Lisa Kewley
 
 
 

Quietly tucked away in Canberra, Australia, is one of the world’s most influential astronomers right now.

Lisa Kewley has been awarded the James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Science in recognition of her work’s impact on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved over the past 12 billion years.

Her pioneering research in theoretical modelling sheds light on power sources for galaxies, what happens when they collide, the history of stars forming, and how oxygen is distributed throughout the Universe.

 
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Researchers assumed CRISPR-mediated disruption of genes was turning them off – but they were wrong
 
CRISPR protein EColi
 
 
 

A new study reveals yet another major unintended effect from the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool – with potentially serious implications for the food safety of gene-edited plants. The study found that CRISPR-Cas9 edits intended to knockout the function of a gene fail to do so. Instead, proteins are still produced from the damaged genes, many of which are still functional. The result could be the production of gene-edited plants that are toxic or allergenic.

This suggests existing CRISPR-edited plants with gene knockouts, such as the non-browning mushroom that has been de-regulated in the US, should be subjected to extensive safety checks, as they could contain new proteins or compounds that pose a food safety risk.

 
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Professor uses ’feminist buzzwords’ to get entire passage from Hitler’s ’Mein Kampf’ published in academic journal
 
Peter Boghossian
 
 
 

A PROFESSOR is facing the sack after using “feminist buzzwords” to get an entire passage from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf“ published in an academic journal.

Peter Boghossian helped create a series of spoof academic papers to satirise a number of fields including what he describes as the “grievance studies” - including fields on gender, obesity and homosexuality.

The assistant philosophy professor at Portland State University in Oregon penned a total of 20 “intentionally broken” and “nonsense” papers with the help of two collaborators.

Each of one was deliberately ridiculous - but astonishingly seven were accepted by peer-reviewed journals, The Times reports.

Tom: I must save this link for those brain dead individuals who reject direct observation and ask for peer reviewed studies!

 
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Precious Metals Commentary
 
Civil Unrest 2019
 
 
 

Worth a read.

 
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Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2019 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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