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FBI raiding Trump’s Home
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Meanwhile, “what laptop?”
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And “what classified 30,000 emails destroyed?”
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Biden
Laptop
Matters
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Yes and here is what Martin Armstrong has to say about it all –
“The Democrats are desperate to win in November and they are taking the United States down the drain in order to forcefully impose their will, or should I say the Great Reset. On the approaching 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, The Democrats are toying with what will most likely end in a civil war and the destruction of the United States. Never in the entire history of the United States has a former president been indicted for any criminal conduct. This has not been because there was never such an incident. Most importantly, the historic precedent is that post-term indictment is NOT legally allowed.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/fbi-raids-trumps-home-doj-planning-indictment-end-of-the-usa-as-we-have-known-it/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Perhaps there is even a pretext being prepared to postpone the midterm election. I suppose anything is possible but the Democrats are making two mistakes here. The first is that they have passed a bill on straight party lines to beef-up the IRS and the rational is to go after small business and middle/lower income folks who are expected to supply more than 90% of the resulting taxes and fines. The trouble is no one likes the IRS and no will will view the Democrats favorably over this. Second problem is that of terrible legal over-reach here which is common to Democrats and only Democrats appear happy with. They are only about 35% of the electorate. If they try to postpone an election that will be mistake #3 and will be bigger than the other two.
The mouthier Democrats would like all Republicans harassed similarly and the party outlawed. The D party has drifted toward fascism for decades but lately went over a precipice. Glenn Greenwald drew attention to this sudden burst of authoritarianism revealed in polls months ago. Like other English speaking nations we are very divided in something like thirds, but the independent third is now not keen on Biden.
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Can’t see any link with the election. No one on the ballot is affected.
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Exactly.
Erections are yesterday’s news.
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Ah … there is none on the ballot yet.
There is no ballot.
We’ll have to go through an excruciating, cringe, retch inducing, Burning Man festival at the Asylum for Ungifted Clowns primary season first.
Maybe you are unfamiliar with American election structure.
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Except this primary season gives me an opportunity to figuratively slap Liz Cheney by voting for Hageman. Rarely does a voter get a chance to really make a difference in such a way.
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This is aimed at Trump Republicans as much as Trump. Harrassing opponents. It’s a Democratic party franchise.
There is very little newsworthy from here to Nov 8 that hasn’t to do with this election.
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Ever see one of those Western movies that take place right after the Civil War(I)?
All the cowboys are in the saloon, and one are two are discovered to be former Confederates or vice versa.
The tension is thick and fists or more could fly at any moment.
In my little piece of America, it’s like that now.
That’s the scary part to me.
I’m in a Blue area and have to be very careful (not my natural MO 🙂 ) about what I say, even to people I’ve been friends with for decades.
Beats anything I’ve ever seen.
TDS is real (and seems worse after the man is out of office)!
And closely associated with Virus Derangement.
Long TDS/V Derangement Syndrome.
Usually preceded by and concurring with Climate Derangement Syndrome.
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Honk R.Smith.
Try The Chief Apologises | Scot Squad | BBC Scotland Comedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBGOryiqZZIClaim it loses something when translated.
Not sure they will laugh. You might.
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3,
actually showed to a progressive, usually cool friend.
Stone face, indifference, dismissal.
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A Nation In Decline” by Donald Trump
81 views 9 Aug 2022
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The DemocRATs are trying to start a civil war.
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By making the former president withhold documents that don’t belong to him?
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Hearsay, un-backed by any evidence.. ie a normal GA post.
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Are you seriously suggesting that this has never happened before? It is the keeping of public documents to which I refer, not the raid, THAT is unprecedented.
The Clintons even took some crockery, art and furniture and were politely asked to return it.
Viral image
stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook:
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton “was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen.”
PolitiFact disputes this of course but notably doesn’t deny the basics.
There is a grain of truth to this claim, but we found multiple problems — the amount is off, and “stolen” is an inaccurate word to describe Clinton’s actions. Also, despite the graphic’s use of the word “force,” it’s important to note that law enforcement did not come into play in this episode.
The fact that there was no legal action is in stark contrast with this episode.
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Didn’t anyone notice that the person who ended being secretary of state in 2013 was wandering out of the white house with large items in 2015? Did she have a vehicle waiting outside with a trailer or did she drive some sort of van?
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GA, the story is in the public domain. I didn’t invent it.
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The Clintons tried to steal some of the WH furniture, i wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t return it.
Everyone knows this story, where have you been, Gee Aye?
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Year 2001 GA. Look it up. They tried to maintain that items donated to the White House were actually gifts to them.
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My I understanding is that ex Presidents are allowed to keep confidential documents on issues that they had direct input to. In addition a President is capable of unilaterally removing the “confidential” statues of any document with which he is/was involved. He had an official safe for such material and still has. One must wonder how much material Obama had that no one seems to worry about. But don’t worry about Joe. By the time he leaves office he will not remember anything he reads five minutes ago.
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It will be locked away. He would not know the combination if asked and who could contest that?
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Allegedly!!!!!
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Uh huh. It is actually fun to have you on this site, GA. You are our foil. You are Costello’s Abbott for us. This explains a meme under construction in the New York Times over the past couple of days — photographs allegedly of documents in Trump’s toilet being flushed away.
Yes sireee. Photographs from who-knows-whom, taken when-we-don’t-know, without any chain of custody, of what could be any one of 100 million toilets, with documents with some unclear scribbling on them. Why not documents themselves? Well, that question answers itself.
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Yesiree. You are beginning to understand chain of custody. Well done.
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Next will be the Clinton home, of course.
sarc.
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Mark Finchem, an Arizonan politician, on twitter – ‘The FBI just united the entire world behind President Trump”
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Wow… an understated sober view of the incident.
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Some people get passionate about things, some just snark from the sidelines, not sure which is worse really.
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More like a desperate attempt to unite Democrats behind…, well, behind Democrats.
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Exactly. The new “deplorables” declaration.
Why would they do that? The fact is is Trump is gaining, not waning. People love him and want him back. There’s no stopping him. The show trial has only increased his political capital. Trump backed canadates are going to win big in the primaries and probably also in the general midterms. They are desperate to stop his return, even if it’s on a technicality. The Democrats and Never Trumpers realize they have lost the country and the Biden Illegitamcy is a complete disaster proving in practice, once again, that Democrat policies, BBB, GND, statism, doesn’t work. But they still think they can keep the pot from boiling over.
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via Martin A – part 1.
For months, Trump and his lawyers have worked collaboratively with them the National Archives. That is typically the way such things are handled. In fact, Trump’s lawyer has said he is totally shocked: “I have such an amazing relationship with these people, and all of a sudden, on no notice, they send 20 cars and 30 agents?”
The Democrats are desperate to win in November. Right now, the polls for the Senate are just about tied. Biden may not last his term and cyclically he can be in trouble by July 3rd, 2023. The Democrats are really in a panic mode. They know 2022 will be a tough race. They actually think that by targeting Trump they can paint all Republicans with the same brush and they hope to win in November with a stronger majority.
However, we can see that we had a Panic Cycle in politics in 2021 which indeed followed the 2020 events and we have another in 2023 which will follow the 2022 election. This does not look good for the future, I warned that this would be a Panic Cycle in politics on a global scale in 2022 and this is unfolding far worse than even I ever could speculate on. I reported that my sources in Washington relayed that they were definitely looking to criminally charge Trump with “insurrection” to prevent him from running in 2024.
The Democrats are looking to alter America and remain in power by sheer force. Even the Spanish Civil War was very similar. The nation was evenly divided and Spain became very polarized. The resolution was that the military step in. Goya’s famous painting showing how the military began just executing people is by no means out of the question because humanity never changes – obedience to authority (Stanley Milgram).
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via Martin A – part 2.
As we are approaching the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Democrats are toying with what will most likely end in a civil war and the destruction of the United States. I have been warning that the United States will divide. Our model on the separatist movement in the United States is 19 intervals of 8.6 or 163.4 years. That means the civil war began in 1861.279 bringing us to 2024.679. In all honesty, 2024 does not look very good.
As for the antics of the Democrats sending in the FBI to raid Trump’s home and busting into his safe, there has never been any such incident in the entire history of the United States. No former president has ever been indicted for any criminal conduct. This has not been because there was never such an incident. Most importantly, the historic precedent is that post-term indictment is NOT legally allowed.
I have been warning that we would have a geopolitical event in August/September which will be a Panic Cycle. The computer does not always explain in detail such events as we have just witnessed. Nevertheless, for whatever reason, they seem to unfold according to the targets provided even if we do not understand what they are in advance.
We have a Panic Cycle in two weeks and a turning point in the last week of August to the first week of September. Keep in mind that the Democrats are doing this just ahead of the election to desperately try to influence the election in November. All they will do is polarize the nation even more and with the computer targeting 2023 for civil unrest, it looks like we better stock up on food.
Those that aren’t aware of the big picture are in big trouble..
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This is a very good report from Sky News Australia.
This raid against a political opponent might backfire very badly against the DemocRATs.
Lots of people are surrounding the Trump household in solidarity with President Trump.
https://youtu.be/yoYJr7egSEQ
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This “raid” will result in Trump being re-elected in 2024.
Not sure about anyone else, but I would recommend & we’ll probably see many, many democrats retiring & resigning over the next 2.5 years.
It’ll be a brave Democrat or CIA/FBI agent that hangs around for the Republican Administration. They will not be very friendly & will certainly be looking for justice!
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I really look forward to that.
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What Epstein list?
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Inspired by Beavis and Butthead: Iron Stone Fireplaces “Doing Our Bit for Global Warming!”, Polar Airconditioning “Doing Out Bit for Global Cooling”.
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Based on what we are seeing, the rates right now, excess mortality is at 84%, and excess every kind of disease at 1100%. 2022 we are expecting upwards of 5000%
https://twitter.com/davejbirtwistle/status/1555166723766099972
But wait, you also get:
Germany’s Largest Health Insurer Reveals 1 in 25 Clients Underwent Medical Treatment in 2021 for Covid ‘Vaccine’ Side Effects
The cesspool of vaccine side effects in Germany is finally completely open. According to the Dutch news site, Blckbx, five months after a Wob request, it appears that 437,593 of the 11 million insured persons of the country’s largest Health Insurance fund, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), had to undergo medical treatment in 2021 for Covid vaccine side effects. That is 1 in 25 and an increase of 3000 percent.
https://rairfoundation.com/germanys-largest-health-insurer-reveals-1-in-25-clients-underwent-medical-treatment-in-2021-for-covid-vaccine-side-effects/
Not bad enough? There’s more…
The new German health minister has announced vaccines now only last 90 days.
Then you have to get another shot OR pay to be tested every day.
via http://www.mdr.de
These Germans really have forgotten the darkest phase of their history haven’t they.
Medical fraud & lies:1, real science:0
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weird way of talking about numbers, “excess mortality is at 84%” 84% of what? normal? does that mean its down? clearly not he seems to be expressing alarm
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1.84 times normal mortality. 🤪
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I would have thought the word “excess” has a clear meaning.
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It does and excess mortality is usually expressed as a number which has ranges so you can see variation over time from historical values. When you graph it you see a line with variance on either side. So to me saying its at 84% means a reduction from the norm. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
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The German federation of hospitals, one hour after the German health ministry admitted that the first release RNA covid vaccines are not safe, removed the mandatory RNA vaccine requirement for German hospital workers.
https://rairfoundation.com/german-hospital-federation-demands-withdrawal-of-vaccination-mandate-after-massive-side-effects-revealed/
The German Federation of Hospitals does not say anything about the Ministry of Health’s confession regarding the Covid shots’ harmfulness in its statement. However, it is striking that the German Federation of Hospitals changed its position on the vaccination obligation for healthcare employees less than a week later.
The German health ministry officially admitted on Wednesday that 1 in 5,000 corona shots leads to hospitalization, permanent disability or death. The admission by German authorities that the vaccines are ‘not’ safe has far-reaching – legal – consequences.
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See my comment #41
Population expectation with double mortality and birth rate of 1/woman.
https://shadowrunners.substack.com/p/population-collapse-can-be-both-quick
[Released. – LVA]
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Something lighthearted for a Tuesday
. Two old guys sitting on a bench at the retirement home. The one asks the other:”How old are you?”
He answers: “How soon do you need to know?”
. Senior guy goes to the doctor who says: “Mr Finkelstein, I’m afraid you have Alzheimer’s.”
Finkelstein replies:”That’s nonsense! I don’t believe it. I want a second opinion!”
The doctor says:”OK. Come back tomorrow.”
. Doctor says to his patient: “I’ve got bad news, and worse news. What do you want first?”
Patient: “Give me the worst news first.”
Doctor: “You’ve got Alzheimer’s “
Patient: “And what’s the bad news?”
Doctor: “You’ve got herpes.”
Patient thinks for a minute or two and says:
“That’s OK. It could have been worse. You could have said I have Alzheimer’s!”
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Good news for my mate from the hospital. He had a bang on the head and thought he was a Shetland Pony and lost his voice and could only say “Neigh, neigh”. The doctors say his voice is coming back but he’s still a little hoarse.
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Old codger jokes eh…
“Poor old fool,” thought the well-dressed gentleman as he watched an old man fish in a puddle outside a pub. So he invited the old man inside for a drink. As they sipped their whiskeys, the gentleman thought he’d humor the old man and asked, “So how many have you caught today?” The old man replied, “You’re the eighth.”
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My uncle has been taken into hospital with abdominal pain. When they x-rayed him, they could see six toy horses in his stomach. The doctors describe his condition as stable.
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Old farmer lived alone on 40 acres just out of town , a few years back he had a natural spring dug deeper , wider and longer so it made a good swimming pool . He was so happy with the end result he planted some fruit trees around the edge and he loved nothing more than to go down stare at the water and collect a bucket of fruit when the season was right . One afternoon he grabbed his bucket and headed for the spring , as he got closer he could hear laughing and splashing and soon found out there were three young women skinny dipping in his pond . The 3 women started yelling at him for coming down to perv on them and said they were not getting out till after he was gone and there was nothing he could do about it . The old farmer just smiled and said he didn’t come down to look at them and held up the bucket and said I came down to feed the gator .
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I have bad news and I have worse news.
So what’s the bad news?
You have 24 hours to live.
And the worse news?
I should have told you yesterday.
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My friends told me they could not afford their water bill.
I sent them a get well soon card.
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OO – mental note for next time seems you can share a joke that involves Alzheimers and herpes but can’t share one that involves Alzheimers and ai ds.
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But today – today, I think I’m finally broken. Today my body, heart, spirit, and strength are gone.
I have watched my great grandparents, grandparents and my parents die young. Their bodies run down and weak, their minds overwhelmed with stress, and their bank accounts empty. They gave everything they had for our way of life.
I have survived drought, floods, excessive heat, -4 degree winters, broncs, bulls that want to kill you, and death of beloved livestock.
Today my pride means nothing to me anymore! Today I want to live to see my grandchildren grow older! Today I am tired of the heat, the wind, the drought! Today I know that it is only me, and no one will probably take over! Today I wonder what I’m fighting for! Today I am weak. Today I think I am through.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/one-of-the-most-tragic-things-that-i-have-read-in-a-long-time/
Truly sad what they are going through and the laughable prices they get paid vs retail.
Remember years ago when a current affair show here revealed that chicken farmers get paid 30c a chook and RRP is around $10, with middlemen allegedly taking most of the middle?
What will happen in the next few years when farm input costs destroy industries?
I’m with Trump 100% when he wants to destroy those that would destroy us for their personal gain.
The former President told a crowd at CPAC that the new POTUS must “remove rogue bureaucrats and root out the deep state”.
Trump’s comments come after recent reports asserted Trump would use his Schedule F executive order to fire nearly 50,000 government bureaucrats if he returns to the White House in 2024.(JC2 – and sack 90% of the FBI, arrest the Clintons (finally!), end the child grooming, arrest Fauci et al etc. There’s a LOT to do !)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/06/donald-trump-next-president-must-remove-rogue-bureaucrats-and-root-out-the-deep-state/
If everyone just said “NO!” this could all end.
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Bamse the world’s strongest bear .. after eating thunder honey for breakfast
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Chris Kenny Sky News
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has done “sweet bugger all” in his first 100 days apart from take a holiday, says Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“We’ve got a country facing an energy crisis, an inflation crisis, a looming mortgage squeeze crisis, labour shortages, ongoing Indigenous disadvantage being exacerbated by the axing of alcohol bans and cashless welfare cards,” Mr Kenny said.
“And we’ve got a prime minister taking a holiday within his first hundred days.
“I’m surprised he’d want a holiday this early, let alone be prepared to send out this message about his government.”
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Plus most of NSW rail network on strike.
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Albo doesnt drive a train …or something like that
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Safety concerns over the new intercity fleet. The strike action is commendable.
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“Passengers would allegedly be at risk from crucial blind spots in surveillance, meaning they could have undetected accidents or fall into the gap between the train and platform and staff would be unable to hear them.”- according to the union that claims CTV surveillance on the new trains designed for driver only operation, and no guard on board is not good enough despite being the present day normal overseas.
The union complained earlier of the new trains being too wide “to fit through tunnels” which is not true, they fit through comfortably but being slightly wider than the train carriages they replace the are wider by a fraction than the present standard requires, so the NSW Government has arranged modification to the few tunnels too narrow and platforms to comply with the standard.
Unions have many complaints in NSW, another being new catamaran ferries that the unions and Labor complain will not fit under “bridges” … actually they fit under all the bridges from Circular Quay to Parramatta but one only near Parramatta on the river is at high tide considered to be a safety risk for passengers remaining on the observation platform above the passenger cabin (the previous catamaran ferries did not have a deck). So passengers are requested to move below as the ferry approaches that one bridge.
These are part of a list of NSW Labor Opposition and unions attacks on the NSW Coalition Government with the next state election in mind.
The record of the Coalition after sixteen years of Labor NSW Government and run down infrastructure, financial problems, shortage of housing after Labor severely restricted government land releases for development of new suburbs and estates, sale of public school properties handing over a growing population and increasing demand for schools, and much more, is excellent, they have also built many new roads and tunnels, public transport extensions and repairs to neglected infrastructure, and with competent management of budget and finances.
But the fact remains that the good work has been over shadowed by the Liberals In Name Only leftist faction behaviour and including climate change agendas.
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Its quite amazing that someone who has aspired to national leadership, having achieved it , immediately thinks of going on holidays rather than getting stuck into that which wanted so much. To me its totally bizarre and makes me wonder where his head is at. That the MSM is not totally incredulous shows how on side and under control they are.
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He is away for one week. A non sitting week. That’s not the usual definition of immediate.
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Gee I ddnt realise the PM only worked in sitting weeks, thats quite a gig
Not sure what leave duration has to do with immediacy in any way at all.
I’m sure it all seems perfectly reasonable in public service land
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A non-sitting week sounds like a good time to quiz your ministers to see if they are up to their jobs.
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RIP Olivia Newton John.
Taken from us at a youthful 73.
I always liked her and her music.
She’ll be sadly missed. 😭😭
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And so soon after the lovely Judith Durham.
At least we live in a modern world, although they are gone we can enjoy their music for the rest of our days.
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Yesterday I said:
Some may think I was joking. I wasn’t. They really are using the term “climate breakdown” now. You can Google it to confirm.
If nothing else, the Left are master propagandists and excellent at using and misusing the power of words.
They are following Nineteen Eighty Four to the letter.
Someone commented about Orwell thus:
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Humans do not understand the workings of the Climate or of Mother Nature. The breakdown is in the so called Models that cannot model either. Just adapt and get on with Life.
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The central control of the climate lexicon is no secret, we’ve repeatedly remarked on it. For example this was widely discussed on the ‘denier’ forum’s at the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/guardian-language-changes-climate-environment
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It’s winter, I’m cold and the ground is muddy. What broke down?
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I’m sure Orwell never meant 1984 to be an operators’ manual.
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Breakdown?
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The war against domestic energy (electricity and gas) is almost complete. The next war is against our food supply (“nitrogen” as they call it in agriculture and meat). And insects are definitelyon the agenda for non-Elites.
Video: The WEF’s War on Farmers
https://youtu.be/Ww4yXnIaITE
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They’re eventually going to come at me, my job is spreading Nitrogen. Doesn’t really effect me though, because the rate will go down but it still has to be put on the field. Farming can NOT exist without nitrogen fertilizer. IT will just mean less or unprofitable farms.
But we have seen examples of leaders who will starve people so who is to say that won’t happen again. It is actually looking extremely likely at some stage.
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PM Morrison was warned of financial consequences of not going along with Glasgow “2050 net zero” hoax.
The WEF will threaten again over the “nitrogen” hoax.. time to remove all WEF supporters from our Federal & State governments as well as from regional & city councils.
Dutton is weaker than Morrison & Albo is weaker but also more than willing to accomodate the likes of WEF!
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It seems like only yesterday that we agreed our star was a climate driver, but then CO2 created a virtual scientific paradigm shift. The solar hypothesis makes a comeback.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/08/the-sun-climate-effect-the-winter-gatekeeper-hypothesis-ii-solar-activity-unexplained-ignored-effects-on-climate/
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It never went away – just wasn’t flavour of the month.
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No grants being handed out for the solar cycle hypothesis.
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Problem is that the main planetary/solar cycle takes about 178 years to do its thing, then you have to wait another 178 years to see if it is repeatable, and then another 178 years for statistical relevance. The IPCC is not that patient. It wants everything fixed – now.
For our planet that is ~4.5 billion years young, the current definition of climate as the last 30 years of weather is laughable.
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Nahh,
A 30 year average used to be taken as one data point in a graph representing climate, not as a definition of the climate in the area of measurement.
Cheers
Dave B i
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What is the name of this 178 year cycle?
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It’s called the José Cycle – not that much in favour these days but tantalisingly close to answering some centennial semi-repeatable observations such as recurring solar minima and cooler earth periods.
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Okay, I did some reading but not convinced.
If you could show a connection with Length of Day (LOD) it might give us a starting point.
The earth’s rotation is speeding up and the Jose’ cycle might be involved.
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Also, the jet stream is strengthening in the Northern Hemisphere winter.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/08/09/models-climate-scientists-wrong-again-new-study-finds-jet-stream-strengthening-not-weakening/
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I’m a tradesman, the closest I got to uni was operating a drink vender there but it seems to me that the stupidity of research is that students must write papers. They can’t explore the edges of knowledge because that takes millions of $s so they are forced to study “Global warming and its effect on hedgehogs”.
Don’t get me wrong: If the research is done in the correct fashion with rigorous application of the scientific method the paper deserves full credit, but it should not be given to a fawning press. It should be filed, electronically, and forgotten.
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In the old days academia was combative, critiquing the work of others to reinforce your own hypothesis. This worked well, grants went to where they were deserved.
There are no climate change courses in Australia, which is an indication that the system has failed. Just a small bunch of academic cowboys running riot and more than capable of destroying reputations of anyone who disagrees with their hypothesis that CO2 is harmful.
It should turn around eventually, when the planet cools for no apparent reason the press will want to know why.
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The sun is a variable star.
This used to be common knowledge, back in the day.
Why do people think climate is meant to be constant and unchanging?
It has changed many times in recorded and ore-history.
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ore-history was meant to read pre-history.
The descender fell off the p.
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climate is meant to be constant and unchanging because …? The environment is fragile. David Attenborough’s favourite go to phrase.
But this is complete nonsense. The environment is actually extremely resilient.
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Today’s weather is fragile. Did that butterfly in Siberia flap its wings or not? Did one in Argentina negate that?
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The only people who seem to be denying that are the warmies.
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Oh dear – here we go again. The wind over Eastern Australia followed Albo on holidays, starting at about midday on the 7th. It’s now two whole days with dispatchable wind barely providing 1 GW of the 27-28 GW needed to run this side of the country. Solar was going ok, but not at the peaks. So there was a shortfall of about 25 GW x 24 hrs x 2 days = 1,200 GWh of energy when all fossil-fuelled generation is discounted. That’s a REALLY BIG BATTERY needed to cover these common winter wind stagnation events.
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Blocking high pressure will do it every time.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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The wind has finally stirred, cracking the 1 GW dispatchable mark at 18:30 this evening. The BIG BATTERY would then have needed to carry the grid for 54.5 hours while pumping out a steady 25 GW capacity for a total of 1,362.5 GWh output, or the equivalent of 10 Bayswater Power Stations running at 95% capacity factor – that’s some battery!
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Lismore Flood Inquiry
‘The report found that information from the State Emergency Service (SES) and Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) was “incorrect and out of date”, leaving the community with “no other option but to ignore government advice and save lives”. (ABC)
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Lismore is built on a flood prone area and needs to be moved to higher ground. Problem solved in one go and for a “one off” cost.
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When I was little tacker in the late 50s early 60s Lismore and Ballina routinely flooded. It was the reason why my Aunt and Uncle moved to Brisbane and bought a house on the top of a hill.
People build in flood zones , get flooded and complain
People build on the beach , get eroded and complain
People build in the forest, get burnt out and complain
People build in the city and complain its crowded
People build in the country and complain it not the city
Its how we roll
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People live in the tropics and complain about cyclones.
Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya chances.
But not everyone can live in Bundaberg. lol
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🙂
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People complain! Requires little effort.
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True but the bit that gets me is they externalize everything when the SHTF and become instant victims. Its never I made a choice that has inevitable consequences and now they are here, to often its the governments fault, its the insurance company’s fault, its climate changes fault, its the community’s fault (excluding me of course)
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yes, the only solution is to move Lismore, cut your losses, and make a decent town from scratch. If not, please stop complaining.
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A new buy back program would be popular, meanwhile BoM gets whacked over outdated processes. They of course refute the allegation.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-10/bom-defends-handling-of-lismore-nsw-flood-warnings/101315820
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The BOM is never wrong, no matter how many times they are wrong.
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Matt Kean Deputy Premier of NSW! Yeessssss!! now we will see some “renewables” progress. What a boon for the great State of NSW!
Add to the growing list of highly unimpressive people reaching political leadership positions.
As one of my more diplomatic car club friends says “some of the people in that group leave a lot to be desired”
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Obviously Matt Green is keen to become Leader of the Opposition.
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Illawarra for the first Australian offshore wind farm. I hope it does better than the wave machine pilot plant.
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Have they dragged the wreckage out of the harbour yet?
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Based on known dimensions and costs of Big Batteries does anyone want to guess at the size and cost of Big Batteries to achieve a “fully renewable” Australia.
First thing to work out how many days of capacity do you want to store for episodes of no wind and no sun. I would think ten days is the absolute minimum.
And then you need a huge number of wind and solar subsidy farms just to recharge the batteries in the possibly brief periods of wind and solar generation that follow a lull.
This is the calculation the government needs to do but everyone is either totally clueless, or those few that are not totally clueless, just don’t want to know.
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The amount of fairy dust to make this “solution” work is a far more important parameter.
They have made the commitment, set the timetable and now I look forward to the annual progress reports and news of key milestones achieved.
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I just wrote to my MP (a classic Teal) asking that she provide the electorate with this kind of reporting. If any of the readers have time ask yours for the same, here is a copy if you want to cut and paste (you may need to change to opening to suit your MP):
Hi ……..
As a supporter of the recent commitments to renewable energy made in parliament, will you please undertake to keep us informed on the progress of these plans?
The Government has set the level and the timeline. I think the electorate needs to get regular updates on progress against plans and achievements of key milestones and adherence to budgets.
Time is extremely short for this type of infrastructure and the projects need to be run at a high level of competence and co-ordination to avoid becoming a shambolic mess. I trust your oversight and reporting will keep all this in the publics mind as we progress.
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Inner city wealthy electorate elite Teal pale green Independent Party?
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No a regional independent candidate who, in my opinion is a Green posing as an independent.
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I think so too.
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They responded with a “please note the local MPs newsletter or Bowens newsletter.”
I responded that those thing are are just PR “re-elect me” pieces. I ask that they actually do the work or make reporting part of the package.
They responded “what was the question again?”
Someone gets paid for this
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The sums are easy. If you tell me the following. I’ll give you the answer.
Do you want 100% renewable for 100% of the time, with a certainty EXCEPT for one day per year. One week per year, One day per decade. Tell me the days / period you require.
Do you want to use wind and solar or just wind or just solar. If both, do you have a preferred share for each?
Do you want to have an excess number of generators, (in favourable conditions), or would you prefer to have a massive battery to cover the longer periods of no generation, (hint…. more generators will be a cheaper solution BUT those in excess of demand will not be paid for supply if the battery is already full).
Would you like the numbers based on current demand or based on the future with some guess as to the demand for electric vehicles, no gas cooking, no gas heating, etc.
The answer will be a good rough estimate, you could expect the price to double or even triple if the government get involved in directing the project().
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My father (an Engineer) always claimed that “an elephant was a mouse built by the government”.
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Not all engineers are perfect.
A local shire councillor reckoned that a road engineer was the result of a very expensive education in running water up hill.
I can counter that with one who made a hell of an improvement to the local road system here.
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Q. how many days of capacity do you want to store for episodes of no wind and no sun?
A. Shut up and eat your bugs.
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There is a lowest cost mix of wind/solar/hydro/batteries and fossil fuel for any given target penetration and pricing of each element. There is a reasonable running model using actual NEM grid information to arrive at an economic solution at 95% non-fossil generation. The current wind and solar is scaled up three-fold from present and the battery has a capacity of 6 hours at 23GW – say 140GWh. It included Snowy 2 and all existing hydro. It required fossil fuelled dispatchable capacity of 5GW but only produced 5% of the energy.
I did a calculation for the Finkel Enquiry that arrived at 750GW of solar panels in the vicinity of Broken Hill and Alice Springs combined with 250GWh of batteries. That met the worst case for one year without any existing generation or storage.
Ultimately electricity just becomes too expensive because only fairy-fluff economies can run on W&S. The simple fact is that none of the present gear will last long enough to recover the energy that goes into it.
However, on the proviso that China continues to have access to abundant coal reserves to make the solar panels and batteries and you own you own roof with an expectation of being there for 7 to 10 years then it is more economic to go off grid with your own solar/battery system in most locations in Australia. You need to be smart about panel orientation to get the best winter input and having access to a small generator will give confidence to go off grid. That alone, at present service charge, will deliver over $5,000 in saving over a 10 year life.
There is currently a strong push to dump the ESB capacity mechanism because the Greens cannot abide paying for coal plants to sit idle. The alternative is a storage target and I can households getting a slice of that.
I was in Tasmania last week and a Launceston firm, CNW, is advertising solar/battery systems that would suit a small house for $17,000. The North Coast of Tassie is well suited to solar because there is a lot of reflection off the water.
Give it a couple of months and Albo will cover the cost of installing batteries at home. Just make certain the batteries are installed away from anything that burns. And there is no obligation to stay on the grid.
Wealthy property owners will simply go off grid in Australia. The ones who are buying Teslas now.
If you are cashed up and contemplating retirement then solar/battery should figure highly in your investment options. It will give better returns than term deposits. Hang of till the end of the year to see what unfolds with a storage target.
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Your calculation seems to omit the community level requirements, eg hospitals, water, sewage, transport, internet…
Too much self interest??
Cheers
Dave B
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I’m pretty sure that if power lines pass your house you will be billed for the infrastructure regardless.
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The other day Victoria had a battery going and I think I did a rough calculation that if they had 70 of those batteries supplying, total demand would be covered. So from the SA example I recall that would last for 3 minutes but let’s give it an hour. So we have 24 x 70, but it’s only 3 minutes so 24 x 70 x 20 = 33,600 of those batteries to last a day.
So to last ten days we need 336,000 units of the existing battery in Victoria. Just for Victoria.
A very very rough calculation. Again I only think it was 70 roughly.
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Hi David,
I have already done it, and posted my result, showing my working, in these pages some weeks ago.
On the basis of a need to cover a 5-day lull, which I admitted then is inadequate,
and a 35,000 MW peak summer demand driving the averages, I came up with a figure
of 8000-plus Geelong “Big Batteries”.
I posit this figure as a starting point, ballpark, by no means a hard upper limit.
But I suggest that it is conservative, that is, the figure cannot be any lower.
No doubt others will find very good reasons to raise it substantially.
Clearly, Albo and his little mate Chris have no time for vacations if they want to get all these batteries in place before next summer. /Sarc
Cheers,
Paul Miskelly
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and like painting the Harbour Bridge , by the time you get near the end of installs you will have started the replacements of the initial ones you installed and so on forever. China will love us.
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How many Olympic-sized swimming pools is that?
/∞Sarc
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You also need to consider enough generation to recharge the batteries and also maintain supply after whatever the event was that required the batteries. Some calculation/estimate of the maximum time to recharge before being available again would be needed to avoid a death spiral that would lead to a situation where billions of $ worth of batteries are completely useless as back up.
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New bug burger!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZq9FvtWYAAZMXt?format=jpg&name=small
Well not anytime soon…
Would probably taste better than their standard fare, not that I’ve been there for probably 15 years.
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Don’t you are frightening me.
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A People’s History of COVID-19
Here is what The Science said:
Stay inside for two weeks and we’ll flatten the curve. Lock down for a month or two, and the whole thing will blow over.
Install two-foot by two-foot Science Shields between cashiers and customers. Viruses won’t be able to figure how to go around them. Go to the store to buy groceries but don’t touch non-essential items. The virus will get you if you have over 12 items.
Follow the arrows on the floor, because the virus knows which direction you go.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/08/a-peoples-history-of-covid-19/
It really is ludicrous and the pharm animals just lap it up…
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Another snippet from the “Weather Watchers” book just to remind us all how good the pre-industrial weather was in Australia:
Cyclones will happen again – just maybe on solar/planetary cycles and not the annual fear-mongering that is pushed on us now. Will they be more destructive? We will have to wait and see – the ones a century ago were pretty bad. It’s been pretty quiet on the cyclone count lately.
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I can’t wait for all those Cyclones to smash those Windmill ‘Farms’ both on land and in the sea off the coast of Australia that Albo and Bowen would like to have built. Then the Cyclones and Storms can drop hail stones on those solar panels in those ‘Solar Farms’ with devastating effect.
Whoops, Mother Nature again.
Have you ever heard of a Cyclone/Storm knocking out a Coal/Gas Fired Power Station for very long?
Oh well, I can dream I suppose.
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There is a version of a saying from ancient Greece that goes
“Those that the Gods wish to destroy they first make confident”
So there’ll probably be even more money spent so bigger confidence before that shows up
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There can’t possibly be offshore wind farms in NQ, the the GBRMP starts at the shoreline and you need to have a law degree and a master navigator’s certificate just to fish there, confident you are legal.
But seriously, it would be the ultimate hypocrisy to allow offshore wind while holding up Abbot Point dredging for years.
Note: The prevailing wind is a sou easter, parallel to the coast. On shore wind in the tropics will never fly, regardless of subsidies.
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Doug Casey on How COVID Lockdowns Will Become Climate Lockdowns.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued what they call a “dire warning.” They say there will be a 5% increase in carbon emissions as global economies reopen after the COVID shutdowns and that it will be “anything but sustainable” for the environment. This implies that the shutdowns have been good for the environment and that returning to normal is bad.
There has also been a flood of articles in the mainstream media advocating for the use of lockdowns to address so-called climate change.
Do you think that the COVID lockdowns could become climate change lockdowns?
Doug Casey: Without exception, almost everything they say in these articles is either an overt and intentional lie or just factually incorrect. Things that are controversial at best are presented as incontrovertible facts.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/07/doug-casey-on-how-covid-lockdowns-will-become-climate-lockdowns-2/
I like Doug Casey. He’s always cuts through the BS, calls a spade a spade, and is a voice of fact and reason in a sea of rotting mainstream media lies.
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The Liberals, pretend conservative party, obviously don’t want to win the next election in NSW. They have elected an extreme Green, Matt Kean, as their deputy.
And in Vicdanistan they don’t want to win either. They have adopted more extreme Green targets than Federal Labor.
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The Liberal Party of Australia was infiltrated around early 1990s by a determined and wealthy lawyer who had first sought selection for a Labor Party seat in Parliament. One of his objectives was to wreck the Liberal Party and Coalition, according to published reports and including in the website stopturnbull.com. He managed to organise a bunch stacking of Wentworth electorate and replaced the sitting Liberal MP Peter King as candidate, and at the election almost lost the seat.
The centre of the problems appears to be the NSW Liberal Executive but there are supporters in other state executives and in the parliaments, known as LINO left or Liberals In Name Only, aka black hand faction.
Just before the 2022 federal election PM Morrison who is not from that faction but had been an associate many years ago when it started was forced to use the Federal Executive to intervene because the NSW Executive had delayed appointment of candidates for various electorates, and had ignored a years earlier conference vote for preselection to be returned to branch members electorate by electorate. But as we now know it was by then too late, on the other hand Labor only received support from one-third of voters and based on preferences succeeded in forming government.
Isn’t it clear that one-third of voters have no interest in Coalition or Labor now? And that the swing to pale green Independent Party of Teals is a sign of the rejection?
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In Taiwan, the number of those dying after “vaccination” now exceeds the number of those dying of “the virus”
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-taiwan-the-number-of-those-dying
Wow! On TV no less. The tide really is turning…
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People who pushed the covid vaccines without adequate testing and who prohibited alternative treatments and prophylaxis need to be regularly reminded that one day they will be held accountable for what they’ve done.
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There is safety in numbers. They will have better paying jobs next year.
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Influit moves to commercialize its ultra-high density liquid batteries
Illinois Tech spinoff Influit Energy says it’s coming out of stealth mode to commercialize a rechargeable electrofuel – a non-flammable, fast-refuelling liquid flow battery that already carries 23% more energy than lithium batteries, at half the cost.
Very much targeted at vehicles and aircraft, Influit’s “nanoelectrofuels” offer an alternative to current battery tech with what appears to be a pretty compelling list of pros and cons.
And there are other advantages, too; Influit says its fuels are non-flammable and non-explosive – indeed, poured on a fire, they’ll actually put it out. In a catastrophic containment failure that allows the anolyte and catholyte liquids to mingle, there’s a slight increase in temperature for a little while and that’s about it. They work happily across a wide range of operating temperatures between -40 to 80 °C (-40 – 176 °F). They use no lithium, no heavy metals or rare Earth minerals, making them much cheaper – but also making sure source materials are abundant, and supply lines don’t have to run through geopolitical leverage points like China.
Then there’s energy density. Influit says its Gen1 system will offer 23% higher energy density by volume than lithium-ion – that’s somewhere between 350-550 Wh/l at the system level, not just the electrolytes – and will cost half as much, although it’s unclear by what metric.
And it doesn’t stop there; the Gen2 system under development promises a massive 4-5X higher energy density than lithium-ion, at a third the cost. In terms of specific energy by weight, we’re talking a whopping 550-750 Wh/kg – again at the entire system level – for the next-gen system, which, once proven, would make these electrofuels very interesting to clean aviation types as well as automotive and marine concerns.
https://www.iit.edu/news/illinois-tech-spinout-startup-influit-energy-has-created-worlds-first-rechargeable-safe-electric
Today’s EV’s will be the equivalent of CRT tv’s in 10 years time but at least you got one up on the neighbours now eh..
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Have the chinks got the specs yet.
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Couldn’t quite work out what stage they’re at with development but it sounds good. Battery stories have been coming out for years now yet they never seem to materialize.
But yes, never buy the Betamax.
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Battery technology is developing incrementally – every few years there is a 10% improvement but that X10 advance is a pipe dream.
‘Tis strange for such a mature technology but ICEs are also advancing incrementally. The cost of owning and running a Toyota Corolla is a fraction of that of a Falcodore thirty years ago and the car so much safer.
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Yes cars are more reliable. But then again, I had a Datsun Stanza in the 90s and that thing was extremely reliable and cheap to run, as good as my Isuzu diesel today. Fuel economy on the diesel is slightly better in everyday use, better on a long run. That era commodore and falcons weren’t very good cars. But the 4 cylinder Japanese cars were very good.
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Diminishing returns with reliability I think. The problem now becomes when they do play up the complexity of the systems requires high levels of diagnostic skills and expensive tools. But this is what we want apparently.
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Any word on how it functions as a dessert topping or a floor wax?
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Have to love these “all ok, now all we have to do is commercialise it” statements. Anybody who has been involved in taking technologies right through into commercial production knows that very few “bright ideas” ever become commercial successes. I once worked for a technology company for seven years who tried to commercialise a very bright idea developed by university folks through to a commercial system, and got out before it crashed. Have also had to design and develop technologies and see them all the way through into commercial use. It’s a tough task.
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Here’s an idea.
Just to give politicians and public serpents a feel for what it’s like to live under their energy starvation policies, all parliament buildings and offices and all other government offices should operate without heating and cooling.
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I don’t think that would affect them at all. At least here in Viccostan, 90% of Pubic Serpents are working from home.
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Ned Nikolov: Does a Surface Solar Radiation Dataset Expose a Major Manipulation of Global Temperature Records?
A new data set of measured Surface Solar Radiation (SSR) covering six continents (Yuan et al. 2021) reveals that the Earth surface received annually 6.6 W m-2 less shortwave energy in 2019 than it did in the early 1960s, and that the average solar flux incident on land decreased by 8.2 W m-2 between 1962 and 1985. Since the Sun is the primary source of energy to the climate system, this pattern of SSR change over the past 60 years (oftentimes referred to as global dimming) suggests that the early 1960s were much warmer than the present. However, all modern records of global surface air temperature show a net warming of about 1.0 K between 1962 and 2019. We investigate this conundrum with the help of an independently derived model (previously verified against CERES observations) that accurately converts observed SSR anomalies into changes of global surface temperature.
However, between 1962 and 1983, the SSR-based temperature reconstruction depicts a steep global cooling reaching a rate of -1.3 K/decade during the 1970s. This is drastically different from the mild warming claimed by HadCRUT5 over this time period. The cooling episode indicated by the SSR data is corroborated by more than 115 magazine and newspaper articles published throughout the 1970s as well as a classified CIA Report from 1974 all quoting eminent climatologists of the day, who warned the public that the observed worldwide drop of temperatures threatened the global food supply and economic security. Based on this, we conclude that researchers in charge of the HadCRUT dataset have likely removed the 1962 – 1983 cooling episode from the records before the publication of HadCRUT1 in 1994 in an effort to hide evidence contradicting the UN Resolution 43/53 from 1988, which proclaimed a global warming caused by greenhouse gases as a major societal concern, and urged Governments to treat it as a priority issue in climate research and environmental protection initiatives.
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/07/11/ned-nikolov-does-a-surface-solar-radiation-dataset-expose-a-major-manipulation-of-global-temperature-records/
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The data has been fiddled. This is not news, rather a well-known fact.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2014/09/bureau-caught-in-own-tangled-web-of-homogenisation/
The Southern Ocean is still cooling. The Nino34 region is static and the northern hemisphere is warming in spring and summer months but cooling slightly in the autumn months. All this is related to orbital changes.
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I figure the left will try to bring in about 300,000 new immigrants a year. Most of these will come from China, India, the middle east, and so on. After 10 years they will have 3 million new voters who mostly live in outer suburban areas and 90% will vote Labor. Mission accomplished. The leftists win every federal election. The greenies, uni students, and rabid SJWs will reliably deliver the inner city vote and the Teals may well stick around.
NSW will probably eject the Parrothead at the next election. Then the leftists will control every state in Australia except Tas.
That’s the bad news. The good news? There isn’t any.
The only derailment of the renewables agenda that I can envisage is an unexpectedly deep recession and accompanying budgetary crisis, leading to a rollback in energy subsidies and a lack of available finance for new wind and solar installations.
Too many people have swallowed the Koolaid. They believe in Climate Action NOW!
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Chinese and Indians tend to be educated and industrious. Instead of them, I think they will focus on groups who are uneducated, not culturally compatible and who are likely to be life-long welfare recipients. These would make ideal Labor voters.
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Labor has the migrant vote sewn up.
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Given the present condition of Australia’s interconnected east coast grid, what is a possible scenario for the whole, or a major part of the grid to go dark and for how long?
E.g. say five days with no wind or solar so relying on hydro which will rapidly empty its reservoirs and the remaining coal and gas power stations.
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Unanswerable question really but I suspect it will be like many aviation accidents. Enough holes will line up in the cheese for an incident chain to occur. Human error, plant failure, weather, failed automation. Any one of these normally no problem but if all of them line up one time then BANG!
Interconnects should disconnect but the above applies of course. For the countries sake I am hoping its NSW or VIC that gets impacted as that will get peoples attention. Not a race anyone wants to win but it seems inevitable at this stage.
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Your 10-day energy backup requirement seems a bit above requirements. I would have though 4-5 days would be sufficient. Trouble is we don’t have sufficient data to precisely determine the number of days, nor have I seen anywhere an stated energy reliability percentage figure. Aviation works to stated reliability percentages, but nobody seems willing to state an energy reliability figure for Australia.
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Biden can’t put on his coat!
This, to me is the most alarming of all the Bidenisms.
https://youtu.be/d7jHYXlXFyk?t=12
The reason I say that is because we learn how to put our legs in our pants and arms in our shirts as tots. Doing this for 70 more years this becomes muscle memory, not brain memory. You can do this task while contemplating Life, God and Everything.
Four Years At Bernies is a terrifying thought.
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I heard a funny line at a car club lunch the other day. A guy about 70 years old was talking “you know I see all these old guys doing amazing things, running marathons, skydiving, climbing mountains. Then there is me, punching the air if I get my underpants on without falling over”
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What Is a Woman?
Definitions don’t help. And this makes gender ideology even more dangerous.
Matt Walsh’s documentary What Is a Woman? is in many ways highly disturbing and important. To any sane person, the complete fall of Western culture into evil madness should be as clear as a bell after watching it.
And yet, while playing with definitions of the word “woman” and confronting gender ideologues with their inconsistencies is useful to generate awareness of the insanity going on, I think there is more to be said about all that.
The problem is, definitions just don’t make much sense in this context.
I found it interesting that the African tribesmen Walsh interviewed for the documentary — who are arguably as far removed from gender ideology as it gets — at first struggled to come up with a straight answer to the question, what is a woman?, as well.
This is completely understandable, and I suspect that some of the random people Walsh asked that question on the street struggled with the question not so much because of gender ideology (although some undoubtedly did), but because a question like this puts you off. Jordan Peterson, who featured in the documentary, wisely refused to give a straight answer as well and said instead: “What is a woman? Marry one and find out!”
Why can’t we immediately come up with an answer, a straight definition? Clearly, because the very fact of asking this question strikes us as completely crazy. Because we all know what a woman is. It’s just that we cannot pin it down, define it, and put it in a box.1 And yet we know it, perhaps as surely as we know anything.
It’s like asking someone: “What is the sky?” Of course we know. But how to define it? After some thinking, we might come up with an answer like “well, it’s space as seen from the earth.” But that in no way captures the richness, the depth, of what we mean when we say “sky.”
Questions like this leave us baffled, and at some point all we can do is helplessly point up and say: “this is the sky.” Or point to our friend and say, “this is a woman.”
“Female adult,” for example, doesn’t even begin to express what we mean by “woman.” The word ‘woman’ has behind it literally the history of the entire cosmos; it runs infinitely deep; it is connected to All and Everything: to our very existence, to every experience we have from cradle to grave; to our entire past, society, dreams, drives, feelings, aspirations.
The word “woman,” just as the word “man” and other words that have a long and somewhat consistent past and are connected to the very core of life, are not mere symbols that stand for an object, as the impoverished and naive modern understanding of language would have it. They express not only a whole world, but a whole universe. They can’t be defined — a dictionary doesn’t help. And yet their meaning, to any sane person with a soul, couldn’t be clearer.
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Fourteen young Canadian docs die after getting the shot. Normally would be ~0 over 30 years
This is a list of just the docs my doctor friend in Canada heard about passively. In the past 30 years, he’s never heard of a single death like this. Not one. Now there are 14.
Executive summary
A doctor friend in Canada heard about 14 deaths of Canadian doctors over the last 9 months. He’s been in practice for 30 years. He’s never heard of any such deaths before. Zero. Why is he now all of a sudden hearing of so many deaths, and these deaths are all happening very soon after vaccination.
The fact checkers assure us all that this is simply coincidence. The Canadian doctors continue to believe what they are told to believe. I predict the next shots will be even worse.
Sadly, I don’t think the Canadian doctors are ever going to figure this out.
Introduction
Canadian doctors keep lining up to get the shots to be protected from a disease which is easily treatable with a combination of drugs with little to no side effects.
A doctor friend in Canada has been passively noticing the untimely death of doctors in Canada shortly after they were forced to get the third and fourth doses of the vaccine. He sent me these images below which have been sent to him. He’s not proactively researching these. There are likely a lot more he doesn’t know about.
What’s astounding is that this is a vaccine, which according to this CDC study, makes it nearly impossible for you to die after the shot. Yet, these doctors all died shortly after the shot.
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‘Is America Becoming a Banana Republic?’ Farage Expresses ‘Shock’ at ‘Appalling’ Raid on Trump’s Home
Brexit architect and political commentator Nigel Farage has expressed his “shock” at last night’s FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago on Monday morning, an action the veteran populist firebrand described as “appalling”.
This is a sentiment that Farage has expressed emphatic agreement with, with the GB News commentator saying that the raid shows that the American establishment is “very, very scared of Donald Trump”.
“No former president has ever been treated like this,” Farage said during a Tuesday morning interview with GB News, with the former Brexit Party leader emphasising that even former disgraced President Richard Nixon, who was caught spying on his Democrat colleagues, was never this harshly treated.
“They’re scared he’s going to come back, his party will storm the midterms, and he’s coming back to the White House in ’24,” he continued.
Farage also ridiculed the very justification for the FBI raid, with the long-time ally of President Trump claiming that — while there was no conspiracy surrounding the events of January 6 and, by extension, no documents in existence detailing such a conspiracy — the idea that any sensitive documents that would be stored at Trump’s home is laughable.
“Do you honestly think that, if he had taken documents, that they’d be stored at Mar-a-Lago?” he laughed. “I mean, it’s so ridiculous to be totally absurd!”
“To any fair-minded person, they’re going to say ‘how on earth can this be happening in 21st century America? What have we become? A banana republic?” he said.
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Becoming one? It has been one since the 2020 “election.”
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U.S. Labor Productivity Suffers Biggest Crash Ever Recorded, Labor Costs Soar Most Since 1982
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Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) is warning Americans that President Joe Biden “can weaponize 87,000 IRS agents against conservatives everywhere” if he “can weaponize the DOJ against his political opponents.”
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Exclusive — Ambassador Ken Blackwell: Biden is Turning America ‘into a Police State’
In the wake of the FBI’s raid of former President Trump’s home, Ambassador Ken Blackwell told Breitbart News that President Biden is turning America “into a police state.”
Following the FBI’s raid of former President Trump’s house, Ambassador Blackwell told Breitbart News exclusively, “For the first time in American history, a president’s administration has sent armed federal agents to raid the personal home of his predecessor, who is also a leader of the opposition party.”
Amb. Blackwell also pointed out that “Attorney General Garland is doing this against former President Trump, but never gets around to dealing with videotaped proof of criminal conduct by President Biden’s son, Hunter.”
Amb. Blackwell, who is currently the chairman of the Conservative Action Project and chairman of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute, went on to charge that President Biden is turning America “into a police state.”
He told Breitbart News “This is the clearest evidence that Biden is comfortable with turning this constitutional republic into a police state.”
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Biden does what he’s told. He’s a political grifter and always has been. A tool, nothing more.
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Democrats Advance Plan to Subsidize Electric Cars Made in Mexico, Canada
That victory for Mexico’s and Canada’s auto industries is slipped into electric vehicle tax credits for consumers. Rather than including “Buy American” rules that require electric vehicles to be fully produced in the United States to be eligible for the tax credits, the legislation allows the credits to be used on electric vehicles made in Mexico and Canada.
Some Senate Democrats and United States auto companies wanted to loosen those production rules even more — allowing electric vehicles with batteries produced and sourced in China to be eligible for the tax credits. That provision was ultimately left out of the final deal.
The final provision is a win specifically for United States auto companies looking to cut labor costs as they have increasingly outsourced American auto jobs to Mexico thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
From the Comments
– There has never been a Nation on Earth that the Democrats have hated more than the United States of America.
– Their hearts belong to China, Iran and Cuba.
– Their hearts only belong to their self interest and feathering the nest of themselves and their families.
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Criminalizing Opposition in a Pseudo-Republic
by Mark Steyn
For almost a decade and a half now, the American “republic” has been decaying to the defining condition of a one-party state – that is, the total merger of the ruling party and the state. Last night, the dirty stinking rotten corrupt US Department of Justice signed off on a raid on Mar-a-Lago, so we’ve now moved into hardcore banana-republic territory: the regime’s cops are busting into the home of the opposition leader. We’re told this is because Trump took some “classified” documents with him when he left Washington. Yeah, that’s always a pretext for an armed raid: You could ask Hillary Clinton or Sandy Berger.
The FBI has been getting more brazen about its political thuggery this last year, increasingly relaxed about putting its thumb on the democratic scale. As my old pal from Hillsdale days, Joy Pullman, notes in a column written pre-Mar-a-Lago:
In Michigan, the FBI openly meddled in the upcoming election by affecting the selection of candidates, arresting and charging the formerly leading Republican candidate for governor for misdemeanors. The FBI raided Ryan Kelley’s home while polls showed him leading the primaries. In the primary election last week, he came in fourth.
Mission accomplished – and all while too many stars of the rube right were still insisting that there are just a few bad apples at the top, I know the rank-and-file, they’re salt of the earth, straight-shooting G-men, they gave me this cute lapel pin, etc, etc. There are no straight-shooting G-men: Who do you think are manning the raids, you chumps? Where are the whistle-blowers? Or even the guys who say, “No thanks, I didn’t sign up for this”? It’s a wholly corrupted institution and has been for the best part of a decade. The default position for what’s left of the opposition party ought to be that the FBI is beyond reform, and will be replaced by a new agency with vastly circumscribed powers.
Instead, I see Kevin McCarthy is now threatening Merrick Garland with an “investigation” and ordering him to preserve all documents. Ooooooh! Maybe, after the coming Republican landslide, they can appoint an independent counsel; maybe John Durham or Robert Mueller is available. Why would anyone take McCarthy’s threat seriously? If you don’t grasp that in today’s America there is no equality before the law, there is no point even discussing public affairs.
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A dispassionate look at 100 years of the FBI will reveal quite a lot of bungling, perfidy, incompetence, and anxious partisan effort to please some powerful politicians.
American exceptionalism…
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Masks Still Don’t Work
More than two years on, the best scientific evidence says that masks don’t stop Covid—and public health officials continue to ignore it.
Masks are back in San Diego, California, where the school board has just decreed that students must cover their faces or be barred from setting foot inside a classroom. Never mind that, per CDC statistics and Census Bureau population figures, more than 99.99 percent of children in California (where governor Gavin Newsom has regularly imposed mask mandates) and more than 99.99 percent of children in Florida (where Governor Ron DeSantis has let kids live mask-free) have not died of Covid—either because they haven’t gotten it, or because they’ve gotten it and survived it.
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Nor are schools alone in returning to mask mandates. The military has been one of the most mask-happy of all institutions. Right on cue, the Navy announced that everyone, whether uniformed or not, must wear masks indoors on its bases in the San Diego area. Up the coast, Bay Area Rapid Transit has reimposed a mask mandate. Meantime, many colleges across the country have announced that they will be requiring masks this fall.
The nature of the public-health establishment’s embrace of masks is nicely captured in an article published last spring and currently posted on the website of the National Institutes of Health. The article, by Seán M. Muller, speaks of “the failure of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to provide supportive evidence” that masks work to reduce viral transmission—a matter I discussed at length last summer.
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Chris Kenny (Sky News Aus) looks at the cost of nuclear power and talks to Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation former CEO Dr Adi Paterson.
Chris refers to the “Projected Costs Of Generating Electricity” report by the International Energy Agency which appears to say that nuclear power generation is the cheapest low CO2 emission source of energy across its lifetime.
9 min video
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/expertise-development-essential-to-create-nuclear-power-industry-in-australia/video/7511f046ceb134620d6fe65d78aaeb3a
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The figures produced in Australia show SMR nuclear being the cheapest, BUT they added CCS to coal and gas to obtain this figure. Take away CCS and USC coal and CCGT gas are marginally cheaper. However, due to the recent gas cost increases, perhaps gas isn’t the cheapest now.
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No probs. But I was mentioning that it was mentioned as the “cheapest low CO2 emission source of energy across its lifetime” which excludes coal/gas as a comparison.
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Even with CCS, coal and gas still came out cheaper than solar or wind, over the long timeframe of nuclear.
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The carbon dioxide circus continues with Clive Palmer’s proposed power station
Queensland Conservation Council director Dave Copeman said the government should take the environment department’s concerns seriously and “pull the plug on this damaging, wasteful project”.
“Waratah Coal’s power station proposal does not stack up environmentally or economically and there has been no appetite for it from the grid or the community,” Mr Copeman said.
“At a time when Queensland is moving towards net-zero emissions, Waratah is proposing a brand new project that would burn 4 million tonnes of coal a year for the next 30 to 50 years.”
Mr Copeman said Waratah Coal’s emission reduction claims were “illogical” and relied on “expensive and unproven” carbon capture technology, as well as “hugely problematic” offset credits.
and at the same time Albanese is stating that Australia can be an energy superpower with Green hydrogen, which depends utterly on the same ‘expensive and unproven’ carbon capture technology.
It’s a fun thing to watch hypocrisy in action, declaring a huge drop in ’emissions’ while fully supporting coal exports while refusing to burn the same coal in Australia or even open a new mine.
And now it is ‘First Nations’ vs coal. ” witnesses in North Queensland will deliver evidence that the mining lease and environmental approval for the Galilee Basin project should be refused due to its severe impacts on the environment, its contribution to runaway climate change, and the profound effects this would have on the human rights of First Nations and young people.”
And no one questions ‘runaway climate change’ or asks for any evidence. However the whole court is off to the Torres Strait to consider the impact of a coal power station.
It’s high farce as judges seek to find a path through the contradictions of being woke.
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Another virus, this one is green and yellow like a round snot ball with mushrooms. It’s got to be bad. Jumped from shrews to humans.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11095995/Langya-virus-Warning-brand-new-virus-detected-China.html
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The WHO will soon declare a pandemic and a global health emergency of international concern. But there’s a vaccine conveniently being trialled right now…
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Power bill in NSW rise as state plots path to dodge blackouts
Known as the Peak Demand Reduction Scheme, it aims to cut the threat of blackouts and limit price surges during summer by providing households and businesses with discounts if they buy or install equipment that uses less energy during peak times. The scheme “is intended to assist NSW achieve its net zero emissions target whilst providing a safe and reliable electricity system for customers, minimising the risk of blackouts and price surges during the summer period,” Origin said. NSW faces an increased risk of blackouts by 2025 due to uncertainty whether enough generation will be online once Origin’s Eraring plant – Australia’s largest coal station – shuts down.
Given how Governments discovered that under emergency powers they could lockdown citizens, how soon before they decide to make it illegal to cook dinner, requiring people to have their main meal at noon?
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Just came across this: If death rate doubles and birth rate goes down to 1/woman, population will halve in 30 years. Consider the effects of the clot shot in this light, and you get a slower decrease, but a serious decrease nonetheless.
https://shadowrunners.substack.com/p/population-collapse-can-be-both-quick
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“Here is the most comprehensive analysis you’ll see all day on the Raid on Trump’s House”
Link at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/09/things-youll-never-see-on-legacy-media/
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That’s a 2.5 hour video…
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A major flaw in models has been the troposphere hotspot.
Any rebuttals from this article, with link to Washington paper indicating they foubd it?
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/climate-meme-debunked-%E2%80%98tropospheric-hot-spot%E2%80%99-found
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Well, there ya go! The complete lack of warming and total failure of the predictions are just a temporary bump on the road to the Earth catching fire. The Conversation is a great source of science!
“articles on The Conversation (such as here and here). These studies collectively show that the warming slowdown has been the temporary result of a regularly recurring change in ocean circulation – essentially, a bump in the road towards a warmer planet.”
The next looong paragraph is the list of scientists who had a hypothesis to prove and just kept on looking and looking until they re-analysed enough data to support it.
Its a bit like “You vill keep voting until we get the result we want”
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TODAY’S ENERGY TUTORIAL
I’ve discovered a wonderful energy data tool, ElectricityMaps.com, that offers interactive real-time and historical maps of electricity production and consumption around the world (insofar as data exist, which it doesn’t for China and other key places). Check it out for yourself.
I want to draw a contrast between “green energy” Germany and France as of this morning (though use the time-slide in the lower left hand corner of the site and you’ll see that today’s contrast goes back years). As you will see, France has a much lower carbon-intensity (the amount of energy per unit of economic activity) than Germany, which boasts more “renewable” power than France. Gee—I wonder why that is? Nuclear power you say? A thing to remember as we emulate Germany rather than France in our “net-zero” mania.
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The Suppression of Useful COVID-19 Treatments – 8th August 2022
Robert Clancy
The author is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of Newcastle Medical School. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s COVID-19 Expert Database
Eighteen months ago, the first in a series of articles on the management of COVID-19 was published in Quadrant. The constant in these articles was that optimal management combined spaced vaccine administration with effective early drug treatment to cover breakthrough infections. This article compares two groups of drugs promoted as effective in the early treatment of COVID-19: recycled anti-viral drugs that target specific replication and re-purposed drugs of biological origin that render target cells hostile to viral infection.
Background:
Those who have followed this series and perhaps others, will recognise how a “vaccine narrative” and its ideology, promoted by the pharmaceutical industry, led to the cancellation of non-patented drugs. These re-purposed drugs had an extensive data base supporting prevention and early treatment of COVID-19. Opposition to their use was unprecedented, denying both science and the established practise of the doctor-patient relationship. This opposition threatened use of “off-label” drugs regularly prescribed with benefit by most doctors. Governments also banned the use of these drugs for treatment of COVID-19, threatening and enacting the deregistration of doctors who opposed the narrative and prescribed ivermectin (IVM) or hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for early treatment of COVID-19 infection. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the Australian licensing body, succumbed to pressure by banning use of IVM for treatment of COVID-19, not because it was ineffective but because “it may interfere with vaccine uptake; it may deprive indigenous patients use for scabies; and there may be confusion re appropriate dosage regimen”. This win for Big Pharma was a loss for thousands of Australians who would benefit, including many at risk of developing serious disease.
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Heavy rains in Seoul. This will be spun as climate change.
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The president of South Korea says its because of climate change.
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Another calm, warm, sunny day in the (north of the) North Island – climate change.
The South Island is digging itself out of a 3-day snow blizzard – climate change.
West Australia’s Bluff Knoll had a touch of snow overnight with a -7 C windchill – climate change.
Darwin had another perfect day again – climate change.
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Been a glorious summer in Britain too. 1.5 days of hot weather and they lose their minds. They look at the negatives, but never look at the positives.
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Hottest Summer Evah! Phew! What a Scorcher!
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FWIW
“VACCINE – THE MOVIE”
https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/28070/vaccine-the-movie/
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FWIW
“Has Paracetamol (Tylenol) made this pandemic much worse than it should have been?”
“Ancients used to consider fever as an indispensable ally in the fight against illness. “Fever is a mighty engine which Nature brings into the world for the conquest of her enemies.”said 17th century physician, Thomas Sydenham, also known as “The English Hippocrates”. Modern-day medicine focused on comfort – over therapeutic reason – has been systematically quashing fever for some time now, particularly during this pandemic.”
More at
https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/p/has-paracetamol-made-this-pandemic?utm_source=email
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Definitely FWIW
“Claim: Reserve Banks Should Hire Climate Scientists”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/10/claim-reserve-banks-must-hire-climate-scientists/
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Reserve banks should be shut down.
Return the power back to the people.
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Beetaloo Basin gas company confronts government over emission reduction.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/10/australia-should-abandon-goal-to-limit-global-heating-to-15c-says-gas-company-eyeing-beetaloo-basin
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A small dose of covid humour.
Watch this video for one minute starting at 4:44.
Spreading covid was a bigger threat than nuclear proliferation??
It’s a kind of covid derangement archaeology, where we are slowly uncovering all of the crazy decisions that were made all around the world, layer by layer.
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This probably isn’t news to many people, but I hadn’t heard it. Apparently Lend Lease (Australia?) got out of their solar farm business completely, 2 years ago. Sold it off to someone. “Saw the writing on the wall”, I was told. Should be a warning for every other business.
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Neither had I but found this paywalled article https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/lendlease-exits-us-solar-farms-business-20201117-p56fbo which may be it.
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busy times at LL https://www.constructiondive.com/news/lendlease-construction-2022-reset-year-lose-264-million-six-months/619187/
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The Reserve Bank, unfortunately, is a necessary evil in a Capitalist society like Australia. Can you imagine what would happen if the major (and minor) banks had Carte Blanche to do what they want, without any sort of regulation? Hello 10% plus interest rates and 15% mortgage rates. Greed is good.
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There are already a wide range of interest rates for any kind of lending. You really think the reserve Bank controls them? they source funds from other places than the Reserve Bank. I guess we should all thank the Reserve for 22% plus credit card rates, go them! APRA and ASIC would have a far more direct role in bank regulation.
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AIMS survey of GBR is flawed, according to Jennifer Marohasy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/10/latest-survey-of-coral-cover-fundamentally-unscientific/
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