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The Sunday Times- The app that promised an NHS ‘revolution’ then went down in flames
At the time, the “AI” Parsa was selling was a symptom-checker that would suggest possible treatments based on answers to prompts. Behind it, though, was not a complex algorithm but “decision trees written by doctors, put into an Excel spreadsheet”, Harvey said. It was, in short, a zippier way to look up answers in a medical textbook. Harvey was dismayed.
The arc of the renewable universe is long, but it bends toward bankruptcy.
Wind companies losing billions, prompting fears a federal bailout could be coming […]
Mounting financial losses in the wind industry over the last few months are taking a toll on the Biden administration’s clean energy drive. Despite the billions in subsidies that came down the pipeline in 2022 before the Inflation Reduction gave away even more money, energy experts don’t expect that the need for more money will deter the nationwide momentum to build more wind and solar farms.
Writing in his “Energy Absurdity” Substack, David Blackmon, an energy analyst with over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, said that the lobbying for more renewable energy dollars is likely near.
“Everyone should prepare themselves to see an effort in Washington, DC to allocate billions more dollars to bail out Big Offshore Wind developers soon,” Blackmon wrote.
Since the Obama administration, the federal government has been pouring billions into projects to meet environmental goals, only to have the companies go bankrupt.
In 2009, the Obama administration co-signed $535 million in loans to solar panel manufacturing startup Solyndra. Two years later, the company went bankrupt, laying off 1,100 workers.
University of Regina professor Jim Warren writes about a wave of backlash against unaffordable climate change initiatives around the world. And he wrote this before Prime Minister Trudeau decided some are more equal than others when it comes to carbon taxes on home heating (previously posted).
The Energy Transition Podcast discusses big oil mergers today.
If the city of Montreal gets its way, you may be unable to use a natural gas fired barbeque. But not to worry; propane barbeques will still be legal.
Examples of soon-to-be prohibited systems include residential gas-powered stoves, indoor gas fireplaces, hot water heaters and furnaces that emit greenhouse gases and barbecues and pool or spa heaters that draw from gas lines.
The city says exceptions include emergency generators, commercial stoves in restaurants, gas-powered barbecues with removable tanks…
A therapeutic Middle East versus a tragic one. – Victor Davis Hanson
Global Warming Scam News: Record cold temperatures this year. Your morning meme.
Woke Britain: Pervert libraries. The diversity outbreak in London (JW). Demonstrators vow new genocide of Jews (JW).
Dementia Joe’s America: Soros and Hamas. Mike Johnson eats dogs. The mask is off the pro-Palestinian movement. Another Biden scandal? The corrupt DoJ.
Blackie’s Canada: Child welfare settlement is good for the lawyers (CBC). Justin hates the military. Veterans Affairs doesn’t hire vets.
Religion Of Peace News: An educated Muslim. The Hamas horrors. A cartoon.
On what happens when, in the name of sensitivity, the police start hiring the sexually dysmorphic:
Apparently, these be-wigged individuals are bringing tolerance and understanding by harassing people manically, and repeatedly lying, and stalking women and sending them headless birds, and strangling people, and attacking a woman with a hammer. Oh, and hoarding explosives, obviously.
We knew the why, now we know the who.
Martyupnorth: Watch this short documentary, and you’ll quickly understand why the Trudeau Liberals want to get a million Newfoundlanders and Maritimers hooked on power by giving them “free” heat pumps.
This evening we learn about the Bizarre History of O’Canada.
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“There is no glass of water, there is no food, every store you can imagine was looted, it’s desperation.”
A thread here, for those without full access. Continue reading
No matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough.
More on the lynch mob that descended on a flight from Tel Aviv looking for Jews.
The Lynch mob has reached Hotel Flamingo in Khasavyurt in Dagestan where a jewish man has checked into. They are threatening him to come out and surrender himself or the mob promises to enter the hotel premises and drag him out.The mob is clearly yearning for the blood of the Jew.
It’s those dirty Russians again: Currently on a @Cornell discussion forum, the kosher dining hall (104 west) is now on lockdown and Jewish students are scared to leave their rooms.
After nearly 80 years denouncing antisemitism and proclaiming it extinct, whole herds are found where the media least expected them.https://t.co/YY7l7CHuKM
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
If anyone wants to know why so many people are vaccine hesitant these days, they only need to examine the ways in which the “experts” cannot get their own stories straight.
Federal, provincial and territorial governments’ public awareness campaigns continued over the next few years, actively promoting booster shots to protect against waning immunity — but the uptake was considerably lower.
And then, in the very same article:
Calling the XBB.1.5 vaccine a “booster” is not scientifically accurate and may lead people to underestimate its significance, he said.
“It is not a booster dose. It is a new vaccine reformulation,” Muhajarine said.
“We are not trying to boost previous vaccine doses,” he said. “We are trying to elicit an immune response to this current circulating variant.”
One must not stand silent in the face of a second Holocaust, the Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová said as she called on her country to withdraw from the United Nations to protest its failure to condemn Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
She spoke of her outrage one day after the UN General Assembly voted 120-14 for a ceasefire for the Gaza War, which focused primarily on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The UNGA resolution which also had 45 abstentions, did not mention or clearly call for the release of the 230 hostages the terror group took captive on that day.
The staff Christmas party is going to be a bit awkward this year.
BBC- Boris Johnson: Former prime minister to host GB News show
It’s unlikely that anything good will come out of having to bail out the very agency responsible for all bailouts.
In a press release/speech by Riksbank governor Erik Thedeen before the Swedish parliament’s committee on finance Tuesday, he said that the now insolvent central bank needs a capital injection of at least SEK80 billion, or just over $7 billion, representing a little over 1% of Sweden’s GDP.
What would we do without expert urging?
Older adults who received last year’s COVID booster and a high-dose version of the flu vaccine in the same visit may have a potential increased risk of stroke, according to a new FDA-funded study.
Experts urged that the results were preliminary and may be explained by other factors such as the fact that older adults are already at a higher risk for stroke due to their age.
“There is no need for panic, and emphatically no need to stop giving COVID and flu shots at the same time to older adults,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, while he reiterated that more research is needed.
If you haven’t been paying attention, South Africa is falling apart. The reasons are many and various. But a principal factor is an increasingly unreliable power grid leading to up to a third of the grid being in the dark at any one time.
This is why Pipeline Online has been covering the reliability of the Canadian electrical grid with such intensity. Politicians talk about “reliability, sustainability and affordability of the electrical grid.” As these videos outline in great detail, when reliability collapses, nothing else matters. South Africa has at times one third of its grid in rolling blackout. Everything from food preservation to industrial factories to medical operations ends up in peril.
The minute any grid operator, power generator, or government starts talking about “load shedding,” things are going to hell in a handbasket in a hurry.
And as a reminder, the Alberta grid had eight “grid alerts” in the last year, each time when wind and or solar power generation failed. Alberta is a jurisdiction that has more coal, oil, and gas than God, because God gave all of his to Alberta. The only way this could happen is sheer and utter incompetence. You might consider that getting rid of reliable and cheap coal-fired power generation in favour of more and more wind and solar power might be indicative of this. And in the last few days, Alberta brought on another 297 megawatt wind farm, bringing their total wind generation to 4,150 megawatts. Two years ago, it was closer to 2700 megawatts.
Here’s a couple recent videos on YouTube discussing the ever-worsening plight of South Africa.
Thread here.
Religion Of Peace News: Never Again. Apparently Hitler is popular among Muslims in Germany (JW). He’s also popular in NYC (JW). Iran’s morality police kill a girl.
Woke Britain: Don’t upset the alphabet people. Your morning meme.
China Virus News: So where are the safety studies? A Holocaust survivor and the pandemic.
Dementia Joe’s America: Toward a police state. There are monsters in our midst. Would you like a female genital mutilation with your Covid shot? Get ready to eat bugs.
Blackie’s Canada: Diversity outbreaks at Canadian universities. Communist Manitoba goes green (CBC). Trudeau’s Muslims attend rallies for Hamas.