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November 05, 2024

No Toss Ups 2024

With the US Presidential election final results looming, here's the RealClearPolitics 'No Toss Ups' Electoral College map. I wonder if this will be accurate? The map is drawn from the cumulative polling for each candidate.

The map shows Trump/Vance in red with 287 votes, and Harris/Walz in blue with 251 votes. 270 Votes are needed to win the White House:

No Toss Ups 2024 RealClearPolitics


November 04, 2024

Sport: NZ Cricket Sweep India

MSM TV seem to be spending very little time talking about New Zealand Cricket's biggest ever win, they've just swept India at home 3-0. No other team has ever achieved this feat. Why is this not being shouted from the rooftops?

Oh, and I also support Yokohama's professional baseball team, the DeNA Baystars who have come from 0-2 down to clinch the Japan Series against the SoftBank Hawks, 4-2. It has been 26 years since they've won a Japan Series. 

Has Kamala Harris Conceded?

 At a recent campaign rally in Michigan, Kamala Harris promised to do everything in her power to end the war in Gaza. This is a rather strange promise to make, seeing as she's the sitting Vice President right now, so she could do something right now! But she won't, now or in the future as her statement isn't about Gaza, it's about optics and her own future, outside of the White House.

November 02, 2024

Right Now Internet Being Scrubbed

With the US Presidential election due on November 5th, the only way of checking what has been said on the internet has stopped functioning:

https://brownstone.org/articles/they-are-scrubbing-the-internet-right-now/

In other words, the only source on the entire World Wide Web that mirrors content in real time has been disabled. For the first time since the invention of the web browser itself, researchers have been robbed of the ability to compare past with future content, an action that is a staple of researchers looking into government and corporate actions. 

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What this means is the following: Any website can post anything today and take it down tomorrow and leave no record of what they posted unless some user somewhere happened to take a screenshot. Even then there is no way to verify its authenticity. The standard approach to know who said what and when is now gone. That is to say that the whole Internet is already being censored in real time so that during these crucial weeks, when vast swaths of the public fully expect foul play, anyone in the information industry can get away with anything and not get caught. 

November 01, 2024

Book Promotion November 2024

For a limited time I'm giving away free Kindle editions of my books, grab a copy of anything you fancy:

Clink the title and the link will take you to the book's page on Amazon:

Basketball Obsession

The Crushing Son

Dana Point

Snob's Guide to New Zealand

Where Are The Kids?

Finally, the obvious is being openly discussed. Prince Harry and his wife have no children together.

But, that begs the obvious question: what are Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet doing being placed in the Line of Succession?