RANDOMS 2026 #17

 

This year I've started including some writing with my randoms posts from time to time, but not on every post because sometimes I like the minimal simplicity of just chucking out ten random images and not typing anything!

AUSTRALIA

50 NOT SO WELL KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA 

 

Some good ones... those bloody roo shaggers

1. The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps.

2. 90% of Australians live on the coast.

3. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.

4. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space.

5. Australia has over 60 separate wine regions.

6. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world.

7. The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world.

8. The Great Ocean Road is the world's largest war memorial.

9. 80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia.

10. 5 km of Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) is underground.

11. Australia has the world's longest golf course measuring more than 1,350 kms long.

12. Australia is home to 21 of the world's 25 most venomous snakes.

13. Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD.

14. Australia is bigger than we realise, it's almost the same size as mainland USA.

15. The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia, Anna Creek Ranch in South Australia and it's bigger than Israel.

16. The first Police Force in Australia was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.

17. It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day – there are 10,685 of them!

18. AFL invented to keep cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians.

19. The world's largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia and actually twice the size.

20. Australia is the 6th largest country in the world.

21. There are 1 million camels that roam wild in Australia's deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world, they are exported to the Middle East.

22. You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other.

23. There are over 60 different types of kangaroos and a baby kangaroo when born is only about two centimeters long.

24. Aboriginal culture is the oldest on Earth – it is estimated that the continent's original inhabitants, the aboriginal people, have been in Australia for between 40,000-60,000 years.

25. Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites.

26. 91% of the country is covered by native vegetation.

27. 33% of Australians were born in another country.

28. Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. In fact, 21% of Australians don't speak English at home!

29. WA is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth – the Stromatolites.

30. Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.

31. In Australia, sheep out number people 2.5 to 1 (in 2020).

32. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.

33. Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation, with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind.

34. Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital.

35. Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long.

36. The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world – its waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit.

37. Australia is the only continent covered by a single country.

38. The world's oldest fossil was discovered in Australia – 3.4 billion years old.

39. Australia has around 600 varieties of eucalypt trees.

40. Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.

41. Stonemasons in Australia instituted the 8-hour working day back in 1856.

42. In Aboriginal culture women are not allowed to play the didgeridoo.

43. The venom of the elusive platypus can kill a small dog.

44. Australia's most deadly marine animal is the Box Jellyfish and is responsible for more deaths per year than snakes, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.

45. The only two mammals in the world that lay eggs are found in Australia – the echidna and platypus.

46. Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna, three-metre tall kangaroos, seven-metre long goanna's, horse-sized ducks and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard.

47. Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards. This was the reason they were chosen for Australia's coat of arms – to symbolise a country always moving forward.

48. The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on earth.

49. Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders.

50. The Great Victoria Desert is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom.

 

 

PRIMAL WATER

This is an interesting podcast from Tom Cowan, countering the misinformation from books like "Your Body's Many Cries For Water" that led so many fashion followers to constantly drink liters of water. No traditional societies ever did that and there are good reasons why.

https://odysee.com/@Dr.TomCowan:8/waterfeb282024:8

 

 

Although very popular with teenage girls and yoga enthusiasts, the current fashion of guzzling down vast quantities of "water"  doesn't actually stand up well to scrutiny.

 

This best selling book was essentially complete misinformation:

 

 

HOT TUB RELEASE

 

This invitation is really odd. I have no idea where it originally came from, but it sounds like it would have been a life changing inclusive and vegan experience. There are slightly too many rules for my liking, but I guess they were all necessary or it might have gotten out of hand... 

 "Let’s keep this simple. I have a hot tub on Euclid . I am having a group release party on January 28th. Everybody is welcome (last time was all men which was fun but I would really like to get some women this time).

Here’s how it works: Five people get into my 400 gallon redwood hot tub. The temperature is a challenging 125 degrees. After a few minutes, everybody “evacuates” (voids their bowels in the tub). We see what floats to the surface.
 
This “letting go” stage is followed by a “coming together” stage in which each person helps the person to their left reach satisfaction (handsex). Simple and wonderful. 

 

Some ground rules:

 
1) No footwear of any kind in the tub! Leave your flip flops on the deck!

2) Do not go into the house.

3) Scents are okay but please, NO GREASY HAIR PRODUCTS.

4) Please refrain from smoking.

5) Once everybody is in the tub, its silent time. No talking until everybody is out.

6) If you do not like what is “going down” (or coming up) step out of the tub. You do not need to make it everybody else’s problem.

7) Please commit before showing up. Don’t come out to the backyard, check out the “scene” and then decide to leave. This disrupts the experience for everybody.

8) Please no laughing or frivolity. Its not that it has to be “dead serious” but we don’t want it to turn into a joke. For many people a group release party is a vulnerable psychosexual experience and your laughter can be shaming.

9) PLEASE NO LOUD TALKING AFTER THE SESSION. MY NEIGHBORS HAVE COMPLAINED SEVERAL TIMES AND HAVE THREATENED TO CALL THE POLICE.

10) If you are over two hundred pounds it is fine, but please let me know in advance.

11) PLEASE NO DIABETICS, PREGNANT WOMEN OR PEOPLE WITH HEALTH CONDITIONS WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY A LONG AND UNUSUALLY HIGH TEMPERATURE HOT TUB SITUATION.

12) NO DRUGS OF ANY KIND!!!!

13) Please make sure that you have eaten well and NOT EXCRETED FOR AT LEAST TWELVE HOURS before coming.

14) No food in the hot tub or on the deck. If you must eat, finish your food in your car.

15) You can park directly out front or along the street. PLEASE DO NOT PARK IN THE DRIVEWAY. If parking is limited park on POPLAR st.

16) Do not turn on the airration jets under any circumstances. This makes the party impossible to clean up afterwards and also disrupts the atmosphere in the tub.

17) Please show up on time for the session. The orientation period is extremely important and helps to insure that the party will be a success for all participants.

18) NO CAMERAS OF ANY KIND INCLUDING CAMERA PHONES. For many, the session is a “discreet” experience and respect for individual privacy concerns is of utmost importance.

19) If you have a health concern which you believe may be transmittable through personal waste material please wait for at least two weeks after the matter has cleared up before attending a session.

20) You are welcome to bring a friend PROVIDED I KNOW IN ADVANCE. Please do not show up with an extra participant. Thank you for your interest and contact me if you wish to participate"

 

 

VACCINATIONS & COT DEATHS

Although vaccination is undoubtedly the single biggest and most preventable cause of cot-death, it is not the only one.  If we write too much about vaccination, we would inevitably create an impression that we think vaccines are the only cause of cot death. The key words in cot death are Non-Specific Stress Syndrome. Related: Vaccine Court Is a Big Pharma Fraud This is the underlying mechanism of all cot deaths and it explains all pathological and clinical observations. [Note: This article was written in 1991. To say that given this information, that there remains nefarious intent behind the pro-vaccine propaganda that continues to exist - would be an abhorrent understatement.] Cot Death is the single biggest cause of death in infants from about four weeks to six months of age, with another peak at about 9 months in industrially developed countries. It gets a lot of media exposure and people are successfully asked to dip into their pockets and contribute to cot death research. This has been going on for some fiftty years now and yet cot death remains a "mystery which may never be resolved". Perhaps the time has come for the doctors and the public to start asking some relevant questions, such as why, with so much money poured into research, cot death is still officially presented as that famous 'mystery' and more and more money is 'needed' to resolve it in 'years to come'. Some 30 years ago, my husband Leif Karlsson, a biomedical engineer specialising in patient monitoring Systems, and myself, a retired Principal Research Scientist, were looking for a paediatrician willing to undertake proper research with our Cotwatch Breathing Monitor. The emphasis with this equipment is on 'breathing' because most, if not all of the machines used to monitor babies' breathing in their homes are not breathing monitors - they are "motion monitors" where any movement is taken as breathing. After one particular meeting, where our demonstration of marked differences between the level of alarms in near miss and new born babies fell on the deaf ears of cot death 'researchers', we looked at each other and said with one breath: "Let's do a damn good job of this research ourselves". Related: Vaccine Authoritarians Try To Censor Billboard That Dares Ask, “Do You Know What’s In A Vaccine?” & Australia Will Now Fine Parents Twice A Month If They Don’t Vaccinate Their Kids Leif spent one and a half years developing a microprocessor-based Cotwatch. With this equipment you don't have to rely on records of alarms; you get computer printouts of the longitudinal record of a baby's breathing. You can't have more objective information than that. Our records confirmed the existence of a Stress-Induced Breathing Pattern, which is a low-volume breathing (5-10% of the volume of normal unstressed breathing), occurring in clusters (3-6 shorter episodes within 10-15 minutes) when a child is incubating illness or teething or following "insults", such as exposure to cigarette smoke, fatigue, over handling by visitors, or vaccination needles. Numerous causes, but the same reaction. Many years ago, a Canadian medical doctor, Dr Hans Selye, became particularly interested in the well-known fact that for a number of days before patients develop symptoms of specific illness, which can be diagnosed, they always show signs of a non-specific nature which are common to many or possibly all diseases. Related: Dr. Brian Hooker debunks the myth that vaccines are “safe” for pregnant women When he in-injected extracts of tissues, or a great variety of noxious substances into rats, he observed the following signs of organ damage: spot-like bleeding into lungs and thymus, shrunken thymus and all lymphatic structures, enlarged adrenal cortex, ulceration of the gastro-intestinal tract, derangements in body creased or control, viscosity of the blood, disappearance of eosinophils (white blood cells) from blood, etc. He concluded that he was looking at a universal reaction of organisms to any noxious substance. He also connected the results of his experiments with his earlier observations of patients with non-specific symptoms of the initial stages of any illness. Seyle also concluded that the Non-Specific Stress (or General Adaptation) Syndrome has three stages: the alarm stage when the body is under acute attack and mobilises all its defences; the stage of adaptation or resistance, when it seems to relax and seemingly accepts the intruding noxious substance; and the stage of exhaustion, when the body again tries to rid itself of the intruder. Death may occur in any of the three stages. Related: Killing Babies - Vaccinations: Part 1: Medical Research on SIDS and Epidemics     The definition of Cot Death is:    "The sudden death of any infant or a young child, which is unexpected by history, and in which a thorough port-mortem examination fails to demonstrate an adequate cause of death".   - Byard, 1991 What does all this have to do with cot death and breathing? Similarly to what Dr Selye found with noxious substances, there are many interesting and consistent tell-tale signs that forewarn of impending cot death. Cot death is a very well-defined pathological entity and all babies who succumb to it have the same post mortem findings. These are: petechiated lungs, thymus and sometimes also pericardium (spot like haemorrhaging on surface); shrunken thymus and lymphatic structures; signs of increased adreno-cortical activity; signs of ulceration of the gastro-intestinal tract (reflux); many babies have low viscosity blood; up to 90% of babies who succumb to cot death have a number of non-specific symptoms for up to three weeks before death, such as runny nose, coated tongue, sticky eyes, otitis media, enlarged tonsils, spleen and liver, rash, a variety of upper respiratory tract infections, and loss of body weight to mention just a few. Related: Harvard Immunologist: Unvaccinated Children Pose Zero Risk To Anyone And Here’s Why + New York Times Confirms Natural News Investigation: Mumps Now Spread Mostly By Vaccinated Children These are all symptoms of the Non-Specific Stress Syndrome as defined by Dr Selye.. Those people involved in Cot Death management all over the world know about these symptoms, but they usually play them down as unimportant and insufficient to cause death in an infant. None of them has connected these well-known symptoms associated with cot death, with the Non-Specific Stress syndrome. Perhaps for their sake this is just as well, because they would have been unable to prove the validity of this connection in the absence of adequate means to demonstrate it in the infant's breathing pattern. So where does vaccination come into the problem of Cot Death? Initially we did not know about the controversy surrounding vaccination. We merely observed that vaccination was the single greatest cause of stress in small babies, as indicated by the standard Cotwatch equipment, and also the single greatest factor preceding cot death in a large number of cases. We concluded that the timing of 80% of the cot deaths occurring between the second and sixth months is due to the cumulative effect of infections, timing of immunisations and some inherent specifics in the baby's early development. Related: It IS the vaccines – Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines linked to autism We started yet another search for more information. Soon we discovered a wealth of it in medical journals like The Lancet concerning not only the ineffectiveness of vaccines in preventing children from contracting infectious diseases, but also on adverse effects of various vaccines, including death. Regarding the former aspect, we found numerous reports that vaccinated and non-vaccinated children contract the relevant infectious disease at approximately the same rate, or that vaccinated children are even more susceptible to the infectious diseases. Inevitably, we began recording breathing patterns of babies after vaccination. The results of these recordings were presented to the 2nd Immunisation Conference, held in Canberra, 27~29th May 1991. We demonstrated that microprocessor records of babies' breathing after DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) injections reveal a pattern of flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing closely following the dynamics of adreno-cortical activity in an individual under stress and as observed by Dr Selye. We also demonstrated that flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing in babies after administration of the DPT vaccine occur characteristically on certain days even though the amplitude of the flare-ups varies from child to child. Related: Renowned Doctor Slams Medical Education & Says We Have “An Epidemic Of Misinformed Doctors” For seventy babies who succumbed to cot death, although babies could die on any day after DPT injection, there were significantly more deaths on the days which closely correlated with flare-ups of Stress-Induced Breathing after DPT injections. The data on the time interval between the DPT injection and cot death in most of the seventy babies was taken from the published reports which concluded that there was no connection between DPT and cot death. The authors of these papers had little idea what they were looking at or what to look for. Most researchers arbitrarily accept that only deaths within 24 hours of administration of the vaccine can be attributed to the effect of the vaccine. Yet, babies may and do die for up to 25 or more days after vaccination, and still as a direct consequence of the toxic effects of the vaccines. How do we know this? Because of the observed repetition of the pattern of flare-ups of Stress-Induced breathing in a number of babies over a long period of time. What are the vaccines composed of? Vaccines contain live or 'attenuated' (weakened) viruses and bacteria or parts of them (representing foreign genetic material), animal tissue, formaldehyde and/or aluminium phosphate or hydroxide. Related: American Academy of Pediatrics Concerned About Unregulated Food Additives, but Not Vaccine Additives The toxicity of vaccines varies widely and unpredictably, a DPT vaccine containing from 1 to 26.9 micrograms of endotoxin per millilitre. Geraghty and others in California tried unsuccessfully to make sure that the toxicity and composition of the vaccines is properly disclosed on the ampules. Injecting any of these substances into the blood stream of another animal species, including humans, is absolutely biologically unacceptable. H.L. Coulter in his book, Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: the Medical Assault on the American Brain, mentions that repeated injections of sterile extracts of rabbit brain tissue into monkeys cause an 'experimental allergic encephalomyclitis' in the monkeys. Regardless of the validity or otherwise of animal experiments for humans, Coulter points out that it is an observed fact that vaccine injections often cause the same syndrome in human babies. It has been confirmed that a great number of babies, if not all, suffer a clinical or subclinical encephalitis shortly after being injected with a variety of vaccines. Coulter talks about a postencephalitic syndrome. The great increase in a large array of brain-related conditions in the United States closely followed chronologically mandatory administration of vaccines en masse in that country. Related: The Chilling Image Behind Every Vaccine These conditions include autism, learning difficulties, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, hyperactivity, deafness and blindness, left-handedness (according to latest statistics, left-handed people live 9 years less than right-handed people) and permanent brain damage with serious and often life-long consequences. Vaccines by virtue of their composition act as noxious substances and elicit a response equivalent to the Non-Specific Stress Syndrome. Recently, we recorded the breathing of an infant injected with only DT (the P component was omitted because the baby had experienced a violent reaction to the two previous DPT injection). The reaction, as reflected in its breathing, closely resembled the record of its breathing after DPT vaccination. This is not meant to justify the inclusion of the Pertussis (Whooping Cough) component, but to emonstrate that all vaccines are potentially harmful. It should worry all of us that a large number of medical doctors are forcefully (by psychological pressure and publicity campaigns) without producing any evidence whatsoever of the benefits of vaccination and against all the evidence of the ineffectiveness and dangers of vaccines, injecting vaccines into our children. Related: What Do Smart Meters And Vaccinations Have In Common? + Another Vaccine Dump There are even noises indicating that soon the same forceful and unreasonable attitudes will be adopted towards adults. This is especially bad since it is a public secret that many medical doctors do not vaccinate their own children. This extraordinary fact is reported in DPT-A Shot in The Dark, by H.C. Coulter & B.L. Fisher. These authors also report that most gynaecologists in the USA refused to be injected with Rubella vaccine. Were they afraid of the side-effects, whilst routinely recommending the procedure for women of childbearing age? Our conclusion is that if vaccination were to be suspended, the cot death rate would be halved! What are the remainder of cot deaths attributed to? The Non-Specific Stress Syndrome is the key to cot deaths. It is the consistent, general reaction of mammals, including humans, to any damage or injury or to substances perceived as noxious by the recipient's body. There are a great many injuries or substances perceived as noxious which affect babies and produce the same response. Related: Doctor Robert Scott Bell Explains The History Of Modern Medicine + Why Medical Researcher Calls Doctors 'The Most Brainwashed People On The Planet' The indiscriminate and routine administration of pain killers during birth, and the substances used for inductions expose our babies to potent allopathic chemicals shortly before they are born. To say that these substances do not affect the babies is not only highly unscientific, it is against commonsense. Before babies have a chance to fully recover from these potent chemicals, they may be given nasal drops and cough mixtures and, and worse still, antibiotics for those first common colds. Most of these substances are immuno-suppressive and are not helping the child's immune system to be primed and challenged in a natural and beneficial way by the common cold. Again, before a baby has a chance to fully recover from the effects of these potent chemicals, there is the first DPT injection. So the immature immune system of a baby is further suppressed, allowing micro-organisms to become especially virulent and life-threatening. This leads to further drug administration, a vicious circle, unfortunately too often resulting in cot death. Related: The Eradication Of Natural Alternatives: Big Pharma Wants To Eliminate The Competition The official figure of 2 cot deaths per 1,000 babies is fifty years old, and obsolete. The rate is more like 7-10 per 1,000, otherwise we would not even hear about cot death. Our records demonstrate that there is a direct causal relationship between injections of DPT and cot deaths. The time has come to call for suspension of all vaccination programs.   This post was copied from:  Dr.VieraScheibner / TheVaccineReaction