A rather wonderfully frank piece on global temperatures from the Norwegian statistics office.
I smiled reading it!
Well worth bookmarking.
Best wishes
Mike

https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2023/10/04/no-way-norway/

Seems that the car which started the Luton airport fire was a Range Rover Sport Diesel Hybrid with a Lithium-ion battery.

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1712111023111487703

LUTON AIRPORT FIRE
-Combustion type looks like a Lithium-ion battery fire.
-Range Rover Hybrid Evoque uses a 48 V Lithium-ion battery
-This means it can be a Diesel car but the Lithium-ion battery in the hybrid model still started the fire
-Most likely to be a petrol-hybrid

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1712120727636177031

LUTON AIRPORT FIRE

The 48V Lithium-ion battery pack in the Range Rover Evoque hybrid sits on the left below the vehicle which is exactly where the fire is visible in the video too:

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1712125759819575778?s=20

Scott Ritter: Israeli Assault on Gaza is Doomed to Fail

"Urban combat is extraordinarily difficult. It is made even more so when a defender can settle in amongst the rubble of a destroyed city. Ask the Germans at Stalingrad. Ask the French, British, Indians, and Poles who fought at Monte Cassino. Ask either the Ukrainians or Russians about Mariupol and Artemovsk (Bakhmut).

Digging a competent enemy out of the rubble of a destroyed city, especially when they have prepared and organized for such a battle, is deadly work. The Israeli troops who have been assembled outside of Gaza are not ready for this fight. They are not trained or equipped for this fight. They are not psychologically prepared for this fight."

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231011/scott-ritter-israeli-assault-on-gaza-is-doomed-to-fail-1114109205.html

Major new package of support for Ukraine's counter-offensive announced by Grant Shapps
The Defence Secretary will today announce a new package of support for Ukraine and the signing of further air defence contracts, procured through the International Fund for Ukraine.

A new package of military support for Ukraine, worth more than £100m, will be announced by the Defence Secretary today

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-new-package-of-support-for-ukraines-counter-offensive-announced-by-grant-shapps

Israel-Hamas “war” – another excuse to shut down free speech

Kit Knightly

As a brand new war-narrative unfolds, there’s already efforts underway to parlay the conflict into tighter controls on free speech and freedom of expression, both in person and on the internet.

The headlines have been filled with nothing but Israel and Hamas since the “surprise attack” on Saturday, with the predictable back and forth of historical grievances and accusations of racism, punctuated by unsubstantiated claims of atrocities.

“Atrocity Propaganda” is nothing new. It is the opening salvo of every war as state combatants try to win the public to their side.

For example, the totally…...

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https://off-guardian.org/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-war-another-excuse-to-shut-down-free-speech/

"Palestinian-American literary historian Edward Said showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while simultaneously leaving them silent." [2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QYrAqrpshw

"To take one of innumerable examples, the torrent of synthetic chemicals poisoning air, water, soil, oceans, and the bodies of every higher organism is certainly one of the most enduring “accomplishments” of capitalist technoscience. Scientists themselves, not just corporate executives, bear direct responsibility for the terminal wounding of living systems by plastics, herbicides, pesticides, and petrochemical fertilizers, as well as for the toxic impact of the 120,000 compounds (increasing every month) that saturate ourselves and the environment. These compounds have been produced for no other purpose than the facilitating of manufacturing and technical processes, including military applications, and for enhancing, in thousands of ways, the unnecessary “conveniences” of daily life and commerce. The global industrial complex is dependent on a continual stream of new products and is structurally incapable of limiting or regulating itself in any meaningful way. The actuality of a world made into a terminal waste dump by technoscience is not an anomaly that could have been, or might yet be, put right; it is intrinsic to the operations of scorched earth capitalism. When one considers the harmful innovations of synthetic biology, nanotechnology, social robotics, and autonomous weapons systems, to name just a few other areas, the kneejerk veneration of “science” can only be understood as a capitulation to the ongoing assault on the life-world. For philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy, 'anyone who believes that science and technology will manage to provide a solution to problems created by science and technology, does not believe in the reality of the future.'"

https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2023/10/11/the-disastrous-inseparability-of-western-science-and-capitalism/

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation."

George Orwell, 1984

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1712308653334671599

Benjamin Netanhyahu. PM of Israel:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Haaretz: "His life’s work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas."

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1712401382240575616

https://www.truthforhealth.org/2023/10/covid-shot-turbo-cancer/

You may be aware that there’s a story doing the rounds that “mRNA vaccines may be administered via the air we breathe, after dropping the material from aircraft”.
While I do not dismiss ANYTHING on grounds such as “Nobody could be as evil as that”, I assess that it’s unlikely to feasible from a technical perspective.
This alarming story came up a couple of weeks ago and Dr Vliet, founder and chair of the Truth For Health Foundation, asked me to evaluate it.
This short piece in the TFHF newsletter is my thinking as of early October 2023.
Many thanks
Mike

Ps: you may find interesting material in the TFHF website, so please roam around briefly to learn what kind of thinks are there.