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Models predict a warm winter in Europe.
‘So to simplify everything, here is what the first Winter season 2022/2023 forecast has to offer: Europe is expected to have warmer than average temperatures over most of the northern and north-central parts of the continent. A warmer signal is present over the central area but is not particularly strong.’ (Severe Weather)
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You were saying you thought it would be a very cold winter on a orevious thread. Time will tell, won’t it?
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Look, it’s either going to be colder or warmer than the average (probably), okay.
We expect alternating predictions until we are ready to submit our final guess, on or about 1 March 2023.
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Quite likely; I await family reports with interest cum March.
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Oh dear, Annie!
Going outside the system! They won’t like that!
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A final guess on 1 April 2023 might be more fitting.
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Or April the 1st.
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All guesses will have to be submitted to the Govt for adjustment to fit the prevailing narrative, and appropriate explanatory spin text will be provided when returned.
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Och stop the bickering! the devil is in the detail: what is the average, and thensome. Forecasts? we get ‘less weather’ coming in from the Atlantic from time to time…. what does that mean ? and then the rest! THese weather presenters? Motor racing on Sunday F1 @ Spa : Tarmac Temps well over 30C, air temp in the low 20’s, Heathrow ? Autumnal low sun on the hillsides gives a lot of heat to help dry or ripen crops. but nothing to do with forecasts. Time already to take Coffee plants indoors as the night temps getting too cold for them. nearly end of morning bRambles 🙂
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Funny how every one has a different view of whats “ideal” . So its getting too cold for your early morning rambles and here in very wet, cold Victoria my early morning rambles with the dog off lead and gamboling through the scrub will also end. The temperature last Saturday was a beautiful 18C, sunshine beaming and the dog located the first copperhead snake for the season. All walks for the next 6 months or so are now restricted to on lead and open areas. The dog thinks he is in trouble, he doesn’t understand that I’m keeping him out of it.
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In the 64mla of lovely Qld rain we got overnight, my dog insists on being let out of the front door, as it is raining outside his dog door. Continually disappointed 🙂
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And there is a little optimism about gas supplies. They are storing more than expected.
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‘ Models predict a warm winter in Europe.”
Let’s hope the models are right for the poor buggers.
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Huh, ‘poor buggers’ eh? I’ll have you know that I’m from Nigg ( in Er Ross where the oil rigs were built and the decommisioning of them is now being sent to TURKEY) -but I’m not allowed by the Moderator to tell you what we’re called. ( and I wasn’r poor until the woke politicians took over the asylum )
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Uh oh, best start stockpiling…
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All the models predict that Autumn temperatures will be above average in Europe and UK.
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Going on past predictions, it will probably
turn out to be the opposite.
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The one accurate (Professor Weiss, two sine curves at 15:32) model which fits so well the variations of the last three hundred years predicts that we are in free fall in world temperature. What other models say mean nothing because if they cannot explain the past, they cannot predict the future. And modelling air temperature on air temperature is nuts.
The two cycles which are the real drivers of heat on the planet surface, the oceans which contain 99.9% of all heat on the surface and the sun which controls incident radiation. What else is there on that scale?
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WeatherBell’s U.S. winter prediction should be released to the public in a week. It is usually more accurate than the official NOAA forecast.
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Maybe they should give Flannery a call for a more accurate forecast!
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Whatever Flannery says, go with the opposite.
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Zali Steggall in your shopping cart & kitchen.
From the Comments
– If it’s not meat, don’t call it effing meat.
– If Zali stopped talking out of her backside CO2 emissions would drop significantly more.
– Cattle eat grass so when l eat a steak I’m eating plant based meat.
Problem solved.
– The only thing the planet needs saving from is idiots like this.
– This woman is a moron.
Converting plant into pretend meat is an industrial process that uses energy, water and a range of chemical processes, none of this is carbon free.
Cows on the other hand eat grass that gets all it’s carbon from the air and ground, cows are carbon neutral as whatever carbon they contain goes back into producing the next cow and herbivores have existed for almost 500 million years and the earth has had a decreasing CO2 level.
I guess skiing down a hill doesn’t convey intelligence or wisdom.
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PS Also Liked
– If my wife looked like her I’d force feed her on raw mince every day.
– Hey Zali, check out the details of the “plant-based” meat. Look at all the chemicals and additives added in to improve the taste. It’s horrifying. The dietary quality of the substitutes is very low.
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Remind her it went over a treat at Macca’s – and cost more
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That’s right, the cows do it for free, naturally.
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Hi Ozzie, here are some fun facts about grasses.
-There are over 12,000 species and on every continent except Antartica, grasses are the predominate plants.
-Grasslands store one/third of the world’s terrestrial carbon stock.
-50% of calories come from grasses predominantly, wheat, rice, corn and sugar cane.
-Meat, eggs and dairy come from animals that eat grasses.
-Grasses hold the soil and provide food and shelter for a multitude of species.
I always enjoy your posts.
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–” If it’s not meat, don’t call it effing meat.”
Just like milk sustitutes. Look at the ingredients listing on a bottle of milk, Oh wait, there isn’t one. Look at the ingredients listing on milk substitutes, first ingredient is always water followed by a phlethora of other ingredients. Flavours, colours, emulisfiers, homogenisers and way down the near the bottom of the list may be mentioned what the substitute is called i.e. Almond. People pay handsomely for what are poor copies of the original and while all these false “milks” claim to be saving the planet I have yet to see a total “carbon ” comparison between milk and the others.
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This artificial meat and milk should become the rock that their whole scam perishes on.
The original proposal for an Emissions Trading Scheme refused point blank to admit credits for the sequestration side of Agriculture’s carbon cycle. They intended to tax Ag’s recycled carbon “emissions” on the same basis as fossil carbon.
This was grossly inequitable, but because Ag and Forestry were the only sectors that sequestered carbon a lot of people never understood the inequity.
It was the arrival of Barnaby Joyce that saved us from that ETS. He was at the time the only working business accountant in the parliament. Others had his letters, none his expertise. He succeeded in getting that ETS shunted with all of Ag into the too hard basket, but they never acknowledged the inequity.
So I am expecting that with all hubris the Albanese government will reintroduce that ETS in their October budget.
It will be up to us to discredit the inequity, and with it as much as we can of the AGW scam.
And don’t lose sight of the fact that Tonyb can’t yet see the promised recession in Devon. Else hubris might beat us.
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Australia has about 340 million hectares of pasture (mostly grasses but also commonly legumes etc) in our grazing land for our lovely cattle and sheep etc. If you only assign a very conservative CO2 sequester rate of 2 tonne/ha (mostly its much higher)via photosynthesis that is more than our annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions – now around 500 million tonnes. So, eating more meat actually is saving the planet.
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Might have had a collision with a snow gum at some stage. It’s possible. Anyways,she none too smart.
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Not smart in ways useful to society, but smart and selfish enough to know how to get a very well paid job that doesn’t need any experience, is essentially unaccountable, and free from responsibilities.
She should have stuck to skiing, at least she was a genuine champion at that.
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You are Soooooh right about that meat. The ( eg.) SQBLA/Scottish_Quality_Beef_and_Lamb_Association could be doing MORE to promote your point. WIthout all those other energy inputs we couldn’t have that real junk food,
Turn your skyscrapers on their sides and you get a huge AREA ( on the walls) for growing crops ( as in Singapore (?) ) but the fields and hillsides are already there. Should be ebcouraging people to STAY in the countryside no great accumulation of 1/2 drunk / eaten meals filling the garbage Bins of Edinburgh this now, etc …. see where all these veggies lead to ?
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“I guess skiing down a hill doesn’t convey intelligence or wisdom.”
Could you call that “rut vision”?
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OldOZzie, I have been saying for years now, but can get no one of any importance to listen, that ruminants (cattle and sheep) are actually carbon sinks. All the carbon in every cell in their bodies comes from CO2 fixed by the grass and other vegetable matter they eat. Most of that carbon is fixed in their bodies, their bones their skin and their wool. The excrete some in faeces and urine (most of which end up back in the soil) and they do expire CO2 and CH4 in relatively small amounts. The rest stays in their bodies until we eat them (all part of the carbon cycle) or they are turned into blood and bone meal. They DO NOT ADD CO2 to the atmosphere.
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The point that the green veggies espouse is, of course , ridiculous. Eat more meat.
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“They DO NOT ADD CO2 to the atmosphere.”
Exactly!
They are part of a long standing, stable cycle.
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OldOzziesays:
August 30, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles, Sparking Pentagon Concern
The level of one type of combat rounds in storage is ‘uncomfortably low,’ says a defense official
WASHINGTON—The war in Ukraine has depleted American stocks of some types of ammunition and the Pentagon has been slow to replenish its arsenal, sparking concerns among U.S. officials that American military readiness could be jeopardized by the shortage.
The U.S. has during the past six months supplied Ukraine with 16 U.S. rocket launchers, known as Himars, thousands of guns, drones, missiles and other equipment. Much of that, including ammunition, has come directly from U.S. inventory, depleting stockpiles intended for unexpected threats, defense officials say.
One of the most lethal weapons the Pentagon has sent are howitzers that fire high-explosive 155mm ammunition weighing about 100 pounds each and able to accurately hit targets dozens of miles away. As of Aug. 24, the U.S. military said it had provided Ukraine with up to 806,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition. The U.S. military has declined to say how many rounds it had at the start of the year.
In recent weeks, the level of 155mm combat rounds in U.S. military storage have become “uncomfortably low,” one defense official said. The levels aren’t yet critical because the U.S. isn’t engaged in any major military conflict, the official added. “It is not at the level we would like to go into combat,” the defense official said.
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No problem – Sleepy Joe also left $billions of arms and ammunition to his good mates the Talibans. Man’s a certifiable imbecile.
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Former FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault was reportedly escorted out of the bureau on Friday, amid whistleblower allegations that he showed political bias in his handling of politically sensitive investigations.
The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that “Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.'” The article appears to have been updated and now states that Thibault “abruptly resigned” but that he was “forced to leave his post” and cites two unnamed former FBI officials.
Just the News was unable to independently confirm the Times’ report.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-special-agent-who-opened-trump-investigation-reportedly-escorted
Just The News seems a reliable news source.
I think the FBI is desperate, being forced into ever-crazier stunts to cover up previous crazy stunts.
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Let’s see now.
“…was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator”. Going up? Or going down?
“…escorted out…two or three…headquarters-looking types???”
Was it two? Or was it three? Shouldn’t be hard to tell.
“…headquarters-looking types”. I wonder what hindquarters-looking types look like?
“…unable to confirm…”
How much was paid for this report?
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HQ looking types are what you are surrounded by, and what you become if you arent careful, when you work in HQ
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FACING THE TRUTH ABOUT LOCKDOWNS
In my opinion, the responses of governments to the covid epidemic represent the worst failure of public policy since, at least, the Vietnam War.
In fact, the covid responses were probably more destructive than Vietnam. You would likely have to go back to the perverse reactions of the Hoover/Roosevelt administrations to the Great Depression to find their equal.
The centerpiece of governments’ efforts to “fight” the covid virus was lockdowns of businesses, schools, churches, and social life generally. No one ever doubted that these lockdowns entailed terrible costs, and it pretty quickly became clear that they conferred few if any benefits. But many governments around the world, including our own with the collaboration of tech magnates, ruthlessly suppressed debate over their advisability.
That is finally changing, as more and more observers are willing to say what pretty much everyone knows: the shutdown emperors weren’t wearing any clothes. See, for example, former British Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption in the hyper-establishment London Times: “Little by little the truth of lockdown is being admitted: it was a disaster.” The whole thing is worth reading. Here are some excerpts:
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Spookily, yesterday I was reading the acknowledgements in a Bernard Cornwell Book about the Hundred years war whilst I had the News paper open at an article ready to read it.
Cornwell acknowledged the help that a book about The Hundred years war had given him written by Sumption and as I finished that And read the article you reference that was ALSO by Sumption. The items were 22 years apart and on different topics. The guy is very smart
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Yeah, except there is a lot of not so smart people, like myself, that saw the lockdowns for what they really were about from the get go.
Hardly a ‘disaster’ for the elites that done it.
Klaus and his buddy Bono are feeling pretty good.
Maybe it’s a ‘Hundred Years’ war we’re living through now.
At least if you were a lowly English bowmen in October of 1415, you might look over your shoulder and see your King in the same predicament as you.
Don’t see no Kings from where I’m standing.
No Nobles to share my scar stories with.
Pretty sure Joe Biden has already ransomed the future of his subjects.
Hunter will ransom his joints.
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Europe, on the other hand, is expected to have cooler than average winter temperatures over most of the indoor Western Alliance parts.
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Three Signs We’re in a Banana Republic
Satirist Sol Luckman defines “banana republic” in his irreverent glossary, The Angel’s Dictionary, as a “lawless society where the monkeys rule.”
Looking around the United States today, it’s hard to say we don’t fit his meaning. Nearly 80% of Americans believe we live under a two-tiered system of justice. Likewise, in Gallup’s recent survey of Americans’ confidence in U.S. institutions, it notes, “This year’s poll marks new lows in confidence for all three branches of the federal government — the Supreme Court (25%), the presidency (23%) and Congress.” Of sixteen institutions tested, confidence in the U.S. Congress sits at the very bottom with a scant 7%! Even though there is now “record-low confidence across all institutions,” confidence in the Office of the Presidency suffered the largest year-over-year drop in 2022 — cratering 15%! In other words, not only do Americans believe the country is lawless, they’re also convinced that it is being run by a barrel of monkeys! Clearly, Americans “get” that we’re living in a “banana republic” today.
Just consider these three telltale signs:
(1) Manipulation of language and mandatory leftist religion:
2) Selective prosecution and political persecution:
(3) Forced citizen compliance and increased government dependence:
Obedience + financial dependence = enslavement to the State.
So, remember this: when the feds give you a banana republic, make banana daiquiris. Never miss an opportunity to point out how corrupt, vindictive, and illegitimate Washington, D.C.’s monkey class has become.
Republicans, Democrats — I say a Monkeypox on both their houses! I think Lord Fauci and his medical mandators might even have a vaccine for that!
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From the Comments
– We would be better off if monkeys ruled. They have a higher code of honor than what currently sits atop this once great republic.
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“Is there a greater tosser than Chris Bowen?”
The 1st 100 days boast
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/is-there-a-greater-tosser-than-chris-bowen.html
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Running with an empty tank for 100 days.
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Chris Bowen quote “I have visited the Torres Strait islands and have seen first hand the DEVASTATING impact of climate change on their homes”
Tell us what these devastating things are Mr Bowen. Anyone can make a statement. Making a statement doesn’t mean what you say is true.
JUST SHOW US THE ABSOLUTE DEVASTATING IMPACT!
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And in 3 years time, someone else will be able to say,
“I have visited Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Perth/Adelaide/Darwin/Hobart/Canberra and have seen first hand the DEVASTATING impact of a failed Climate Change/Net Zero Policy and the lack of a reliable Electricity Grid in providing cheap reliable power to their homes.”
With Bowen exiting stage left along with the rest of the “Pollies” who will have contributed to such folly.
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Clutching their luxury-level Parliamentary superannuation and gold travel passes.
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Hey!!.. It takes a lot of effort to keep up with a sea level rise of less than 2mm/year ! 😉
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They have to build their houses on stilts!
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Yes, that quote alone proves it was all a pack of lies. In fact, evidently there was so much BS flowing from his mouth that he periodically had to support his lower jaw.
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Breaking news: “A huge cyclone went through the Torres Islands yesterday, leaving millions of dollars’ worth of improvements in its wake.”
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I wonder if the moron can demonstrate how much it has changed compared to the last time he was there.
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In comments there
“Yes, Peter Fitzsimons….but only just”
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Australia’s Pandemic Fascism
Another good read from the Spectator Magazine –
“This story might equally be called Covid’s Original Sin. Or, perhaps, Australia – Barnaby’s Part in Its Downfall (with apologies to Spike Milligan).
For it was Barnaby Joyce who introduced and oversaw the 2014-15 legislation that later formed the basis of Australia’s worst-in-breed policy response to the alleged Covid pandemic which hit these shores in early 2020.
He did so with Tony Abbott as his Prime Minister and Peter Dutton his Health Minister colleague (Sussan Ley was the Health Minister by the time the legislation became law).
A Spectator Australia colleague has noted the Coalition’s rampant inability to perceive unintended consequences when implementing policies with narrowly conceived objectives. Indeed. Perhaps it is simple naivete or unthinking optimism that political actors will behave well. Whatever the cause of this legislative lapse, Barnaby’s Law, in effect, has ushered in public health totalitarianism. There can be few clearer examples than this of innocent-looking law delivering heinous unintended consequences for the nation.
The Biosecurity Act 2015, has been in the news lately thanks to Scott Morrison, Simon Benson, and the latter’s co-authored book, Plagued. On 18 March 2020, the Governor-General declared a human biosecurity emergency across Australia. The rest, as they say, is history.
Paul Kelly summarises:
As the Simon Benson-Geoff Chambers book Plagued makes clear, the problem facing the Morrison government in early 2020 arose from the drastic consequences of invoking the emergency powers of the Biosecurity Act. When Health Minister Hunt and Attorney-General Christian Porter examined the act they were gobsmacked.
‘How did the Parliament ever pass this?’ was their reaction. The act gave the health minister virtually unlimited powers, non-reviewable by courts or parliament, powers probably greater than a war minister, with the Benson-Chambers book saying Hunt saw it as ‘up there with the divine rights of kings’. The 2015 law should never have been passed in this form. Porter devised written protocols to govern Hunt’s use of the powers.”
https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/australias-pandemic-fascism/
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SHAQ Meets Albo –
Cartoon link below –
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbR64T_UUAAP2I6?format=jpg&name=small
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The plague of Green Elephants
Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep.
So a “White Elephant” came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain and difficult to dispose of — like a Sacred Cow, but much bigger.
Today the deluded rulers of the Western world are gifting us and future generations with plagues of Green Elephants — useless, expensive, protected green rubbish.
The biggest green elephants in Australia are the five desalination plants built hurriedly when climate catastrophist Tim Flannery forecast that burning hydrocarbons would create perpetual drought. He forgot La Nina with its cycles of rain and floods for Australia. Flannery’s complex expensive desal plants have largely sat idle.
The sun powers the greatest desalination plant on earth, all for free. If we had spent all that desalination money on dams we could have moderated La Nina flood damage, insulated against El Nino droughts and provided naturally desalinated water for many towns and industries.
Australia was also conned into a war on hydrocarbons by American climate catastrophist, Al Gore, and his animated cartoon. This generated another epidemic of Green Elephants — solar panels, wind turbines, and spider-webs of power lines that squander capital, uglify our landscapes and destroy grasslands, forests, and bird life, as well as destroying our once-cheap and reliable electricity supply. Future generations will be faced with removal and disposal of these Green Monuments to Stupidity.
Another Green Elephant is being suckled in the Snowy Mountains — Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro.
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“A TSUNAMI OF SHUTOFFS”
Tens of millions of Americans face the prospect of having their electricity shut off, as they are unable to pay the skyrocketing cost of power. The New York Post reports:
More than 20 million households face a “tsunami of shutoffs” after falling behind on their utility bills as the price for electricity skyrockets because of decades-high inflation, experts predict.
Of course prices of just about everything are rising, but electricity is going up at an especially rapid rate:
The most recent consumer price index report shows that electricity inflation rose by 15.2% in July compared to the same period a year ago.
The cost of electricity rose month-over-month by 1.9% in July.
This price increase is not just due to a generalized inflation, nor is it explained by the rising cost of natural gas.
Rather, it is driven by the many billions of dollars we are spending on wind turbines, solar panels, transmission lines and backup natural gas generation.
These massive investments have done nothing to increase our already-adequate power generating capacity. Rather, they represent a dead loss that is reflected in skyrocketing electricity prices.
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Pah !, Call that a price hike ?
……THIS. Is a price hike….
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/uk-energy-bills-to-rise-by-80percent-in-october-as-regulator-announces-hike.html
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…and yet STILL the chattering class chant “renewables are cheaper” and it is uncritically accepted and repeated by the sheeple, despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
Nothing will stop this psychosis short of brownouts, blackouts, disconnections, and bankruptcies.
So many are so determined to drink the Kool-Aid, despite repeated warnings of the inevitable consequences.
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The “Great Reset”: A Blueprint for Destroying Freedom, Innovation, and Prosperity
. Notice that no nation has managed merely to print money and tax its citizens on the path to prosperity. Real wealth cannot simply be conjured from thin air. There must be recognized value in what a nation and its citizens possess.
. More than any other source for national wealth, however, one towers above the rest: innovation. The ability of the human mind to create something new and valuable provides society with endless wealth creation…. Innovation is the magic sauce for generating wealth.
. Humans struggling merely to survive in the world do not waste time, labor, or resources on projects that offer no prospect for future reward. Humans working as servants to the state under centrally controlled economies have no incentive to innovate. Only when private ownership and personal liberty combine can human innovation flourish. Freedom is the secret ingredient to innovation’s magic sauce for increasing wealth.
A country whose institutions do not respect property rights or whose customs do not value freedom will remain a barren desert for human innovation
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A Mar-a-Lago Transgression
Found in Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, vol. I
By Sir Edward Coke and Walter Lippman
In 1604, the English the English judge and jurist Sir Edward Coke announced in a “ruling known as Semayne’s Case that there were strict limits on how Sheriffs may enter a person’s house in order to issue writs”: “That the house of every one is to him as his Castle and Fortress as well for defence against injury and violence, as for his repose…”. If the Sheriffs did not follow the correct procedure in issuing writs, then the home owner had the right “to shut the door of his own house” in their faces.
In 1934, the American political commentator Waler Lippman added: “[T]he Englishman’s belief that his house is his castle and that the king cannot enter it, like the American’s conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell, are the very essence of the free man’s way of life.”
The Method Of Freedom, 1934, pp100-2
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Doomed Planet
Shut Them Up, Argues the Academy of Science
30th August 2022
In a move unprecedented in the democratic world, the Australian Academy of Science is lobbying the tech giants Meta (Facebook), Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and TikTok to censor and harass any Australians who circulate what the Academy insultingly labels “climate denialism misinformation”.
The Academy represents 589 leading scientists and operates as funding/political lobby and trade union for the largely university-based science community. When not disrespecting freedom of speech and crying wolf about climate perils, it does good work promoting Australian science in education and the community.
It wants the Big Tech giants to “inoculate” Australians against critics of alarmism by “actively promoting reliable, peer-reviewed and appropriately labelled material from trusted sources,” presumably the Academy and its followers. “These positive measures should be in addition to measures to reduce the spread of disinformation.”
The Orwellian agenda is in the Academy’s public submission to the tech giants’ 2022 review of the Australian Code of Practice on Misinformation and Disinformation. The Academy made its submission on August 3 in conjunction with the junior group, the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering.
The Academies wants the tech giants’ power brought to bear against news organisations – it specifically names Rupert Murdoch’s “Sky News Australia and its media personalities”.
It’s curious that Rita Panahi is the only ornery Australian individual actually named in the Academies’ submission and citations. The major damage to the Academies’ catastrophism is being done by Andrew Bolt on Sky, Chris Kenny in The Australian, the Spectator (Australia), Joanne Nova’s world-ranked sceptic blog, the Institute of Public Affairs’ bulletins and speakers, Tim Blair’s blog for the Daily Telegraph (sadly, paywalled), Senators Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson, the Nationals’ ex-Minister Matt Canavan and ex-PM Tony Abbott, famed for calling climate science “absolute crap” and likening climate scientists – presciently – as “thought police”.
All this sceptic output is re-cited and re-published on social media. Clearly the Academies would be delighted to see the media giants slapping “Misinformation!” and “Code Violation!” labels on it, cancelling accounts, as LinkedIn has being doing to US sceptics, and down-ranking the material to oblivion on search engines.
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Posted thanks!
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Pentagon admits ‘likelihood’ of Ukrainian shelling near nuclear plant
US officials responded to questions about Kiev’s forces targeting Zaporozhye
A senior US military official admitted on Monday that Ukrainian forces may have struck the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, but insisted that this was only in response to Russian fire allegedly coming from the area. Earlier in the day, Russian authorities said a Ukrainian artillery shell damaged the roof of the building storing reactor fuel.
“What I know for sure is that the Russians are firing from around the plant,” the unnamed official told reporters during a background briefing at the Pentagon. “I also know that there are rounds that have impacted near the plant.”
The official said it was “hard to explain, I guess” how the US was monitoring the situation around the nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest.
“And I don’t want to say that the Ukrainians haven’t fired in that vicinity either because I think there’s probably a likelihood that they have, but in good – in a number of cases, it’s returning fire of the Russians
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“In the vicinity” is a very vague measure.
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Yeah, the Russians published a photo of a shell hole and an impact mark from a drone in the roof of the fuel storage building.
Like the Ukies use schools and hospitals to set up their artillery, its quite obvious the Russians are using the nuclear plant as a military base.
Th really laughable situation was Zelensky saying the UN would not be allowed to visit and investigate unless the plant was returned to Ukrainian control… Its too valuable for powering Crimea for the Russians to ever give it back now.
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Windows malware delays coinminer install by a month to evade detection
A new malware campaign disguised as Google Translate or MP3 downloader programs was found distributing cryptocurrency mining malware across 11 countries.
The fake applications are being distributed through legitimate free software sites, providing broad exposure to the malicious applications to both regular visitors of the sites and search engines.
Independently of which program is downloaded from the Nitrokod website, the user receives a password-protected RAR that evades AV detection and contains an executable named after the selected app.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-malware-delays-coinminer-install-by-a-month-to-evade-detection/
Posted as there’s a lot of people using translaters and downloaders.
Delayed module installation – a novel approach!
There of course tell-tale signs like password protected files and high CPU activity.
Any quality internet security package like Kaspersky should detect abnormal activity and at least warn you.
If in doubt I manually extract the installation archive, scan it and check for anomalies.
Disable archaic Windows defender if your security software covers traffic too.
There are other tricks for power users but they no doubt know them…
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War, fatalism, even some heavy drinking:
Here are the modern movies you should watch to understand the mysterious ‘Russian soul’
As Russia celebrates its Cinema Day – RT tells you which flicks deserve your attention
even some heavy drinking: – was invited to the wedding of a Lovely Russian Girl working for me to an Italian (who I also knew)
1. No seating in Russian Orthodox Wedding
2. We were seated on the Russian side at the Reception in Beverly Hills (Sydney) and on every table including the Italian Side were bottles of Gin, Vodka, Rum, Whiskey plus Beer and Wine
Bride’s Father went round every table drinking a Toast, then as we lined up to give wedding presents to Bride and Groom (a Russian Tradition). he had a Toast with every presenter
When she returned from her Honeymoon, I asked how was her Father able to stand after so many Toasts
Practice, She said, to drowning the misery of winters
to Quote
“The greatest pleasure of this people is drunkenness, in other words, oblivion. Poor folk! they must dream to be happy…”
Words that might have been written yesterday, they in fact belong to Astolphe Louis Leonor, the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French aristocrat and traveller whose observations on matters Russian, including their love of the bottle, remain trenchant almost 200 years on.
And as we all know, that relationship with alcohol is indeed epic; existential, metaphysical, even. Russia can take your average, half-hearted office party bender and pump it up to Olympian feats of endurance and stupefaction.
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The Russia’s have a reputation for heavy drinking and their love of Vodka but the south Koreans beat them in the alcohol stakes.
Some south Korean beers are 55% alcohol.
I know..
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From a US helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era
“The toughest lot I ever flew were ROK Marines. They were so tough that when they moved in even the animals moved out”
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The Vietnamese call the war, the American War. Different perspective.
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Up until now I’ve never had any desire to watch a Russian movie.
Seeing that list, I still don’t.
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‘Russian Ark’ (2001?) filmed in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, spanning 300 years of intrigue, art, music, plots and scheming, all shot in one take (90 min with no edits/cuts, yuge cast of actors) by a Russian director & crew: brilliant.
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Must-Read Book Asks: Why, After 7 Decades, Don’t We Have Proof Vaccines Provide More Benefit Than Risk?
In 2019, a remarkable book, “Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth,” was published in Israel. The book, originally written in Hebrew, is a comprehensive examination of the evidence behind the assertion that vaccines are safe and effective.
“Their appraisal of the book still stands today, unscathed: in the three years since its (Hebrew) publication, no medical or medical science professional has succeeded in refuting the book’s claims.”
The reason the information offered in the book has yet to be refuted is simple. The book’s 1,200+ citations reference only mainstream scientific journals and health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization.
Had “Turtles All The Way Down” received its deserved attention from the international medical community when it was written one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world may very well have avoided the predicament that we are in today.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/turtles-all-the-way-down-vaccine-science-myth/
First chapter link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16qHPe0odDOweuCDlwIEjarF4Aiu7oyM9/view
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What a journey:
– Statnews, September 2016: ‘Ego, ambition, and turmoil: Inside one of biotech’s most secretive startups’
Moderna’s most advanced competitors, CureVac and BioNTech, have acknowledged the same challenge with mRNA. Each is principally focused on vaccines for infectious disease and cancer, which the companies believe can be attacked with just a few doses of mRNA. And each has already tested its technology on hundreds of patients.
“I would say that mRNA is better suited for diseases where treatment for short duration is sufficiently curative, so the toxicities caused by delivery materials are less likely to occur,” said Katalin Karikó, a pioneer in the field who serves as a vice president at BioNTech.
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On Dec. 18,2020 the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna, a biotech company based in Massachusetts.
The decision followed an overwhelming 20 to zero vote, with one abstention, in favor or authorizing the vaccine by an FDA vaccine advisory committee on Dec. 17.
(EUA: Under an EUA, FDA may allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.)
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– ‘CDC approves Moderna and J&J Covid vaccine boosters, allowing people to mix-and-match shots’ October 2021
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– The Moderna vaccine for adolescents ages 12-17 is the same dose as for adults — two doses of 100 micrograms each. Children ages 6-11 years would get two 50-µg doses. While the standard time between doses is four weeks, the CDC recommends an interval of four to eight weeks between the doses for both age groups.
“Extending the interval between dose one and dose two of these mRNA COVID vaccines to eight weeks may further lower the myocarditis risk,” said Sara Oliver, M.D., M.S.P.H., who leads ACIP’s COVID-19 vaccines work group.
(“may further”…..)
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– MM+M, August 2022: ‘Moderna sponsors U.S. Open to raise mRNA awareness’
Moderna is sponsoring the U.S. Open tennis tournament to show fans its work doesn’t stop at vaccinating people against COVID-19.
The company will set up a booth throughout the duration of the tournament, between August 29 and September 11, to provide information about its mRNA technology. The sponsorship is part of a larger company effort to move beyond its reputation as a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer.
September 9 will be Moderna night, meaning the company will display digital advertisements through the stadium in Queens, NY during the men’s second semifinals match. It will also encourage spectators to visit Moderna’s website to learn more about mRNA science.
Those watching on ESPN from home will see an ad featuring tennis legend Billie Jean King as she promotes mRNA and Moderna.
Cronin said Moderna decided to sponsor the tournament around the end of June.
She said associating with the sports event aligned with Moderna’s efforts to reach people where they are, and the time of year coincided with the start of booster shot season and the approach of omicron-specific COVID-19 booster shots.
“We sponsored the shot of the game with some NBA teams and some hockey,” she said. “Going where people are enjoying themselves, where they’re engaged, and being a part of their day-to-day life — we like sporting events because of that.”
Over 630,000 fans attended the U.S. Open in 2021.’
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The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, one of the world’s largest public tennis facilities, is home to the US Open and its centerpiece arena, Arthur Ashe Stadium. It is active throughout the year hosting players, programs and events on the grounds and at its Indoor Training Center.
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Djokovic is not allowed to enter in the US and play in the US open.
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-The Biden administration’s present immigration policy makes exemptions for foreigners who enter illegally south of the U.S. border. Where does “the science,” say that someone unvaccinated who enters illegally is not a health threat, and a foreigner who attempts to enter legally is?
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Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over COVID-19 MRNA technology patents
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c&en:
‘Lipids, the unsung COVID-19 vaccine component, get investment’ Februrary 2021
Several specialty chemical companies are adding capacity to supply Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech
mRNA vaccine producers use a package of 4 lipids to formulate their LNPs: An ionizable cationic lipid that encapsulates the negatively charged mRNA; a PEGylated lipid that helps control particle life and size; distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DSPC), a phospholipid that helps form the structure of the LNP; and cholesterol, which also contributes to structure.
(2016: “I would say that mRNA is better suited for diseases where treatment for short duration is sufficiently curative, so the toxicities caused by delivery materials are less likely to occur,” said Katalin Karikó. …
2021: Are these LNP’s used in the Covid mRNA vaccines now safe?…. Are they safe if one gets injected multiple times with it? I’m not sure if I understand it correctly.)
Although Evonik is new to lipid production, it has been formulating LNPs since 2016 when it acquired the Canadian firm Transferra Nanosciences. It can produce encapsulated mRNA there for the early phases of clinical testing and make commercial quantities at its site in Birmingham, Alabama. Last year the company entered the cholesterol business with the purchase of Wilshire Technologies.
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Cholesterol business…. hmmm… A healthy lifestyle probably doesn’t help everyone with high cholesterol, but it could help a lot of people.
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‘CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021’
FDA says it needs 75 years to fully release Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data to the public.
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“Creative Biolabs is a leading service provider that focuses on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) therapeutics development. Currently, various platforms have been established for analyzing the function and mechanism of action of mRNA. By combining cutting edge technologies with proprietary innovations, scientists at Creative Biolabs provide a full range of services on mRNA-based gene therapy. With our extensive experience and advanced platform, we are always dedicated to assisting our clients with the most satisfactory data.”
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mRNA technology is/will be a great help for cancer and other diseases… But it seems that these approvements for the Covid mRNA vaccines were rushed…..ok, there was a pandemic, but there were other options available….
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“mRNA technology is/will be a great help for cancer and other diseases…”
Uh-huh.. the resurgence of people’s cancers once they’re vaccinated is explained
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Greenpeace to ditch Greta
Reports are circulating that Greenpeace may soon ditch their poster child for climate change, Greta Thunberg. The Swedish activist was pushed to fame as a child and became notorious for passionate speeches that she was likely forced to read and believe. Klaus Schwab even featured the young girl in his film, “The Forum,” to promote Agenda 2030.
Greta is now 19 years old and no longer the perfect child-like puppet with braids and innocence. I warned that her parents manipulated this girl for their own benefit. She suffers from autism and depression, and her parents publicly stated that parading her around the globe was “medicine” for her ailments.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/greenpeace-to-ditch-greta/
Now all we need to do is to dump that bunch of fake science climate alarmists called Greenpeace…
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Have no fear there,second coming. The shire that I live in is advertising for 11 to 17 year olds to form a group to advise council on climate change.
Any kiddies in the age range can apply.
Council, generally made up of middle to old age people apparently cannot understand why youngsters cant drive cars on the road, buy alcohol, vote in elections and a miriad other things that require “experience” to be able to make informed decisions
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FWIW – for the covid files
“Lies and More Lies”
“Did public health officials and politicians have the Shame & Conscience portions of their brains surgically removed prior to March 2020?”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/08/30/lies-and-more-lies/
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UK Police Are Told To Treat Reporters As ‘Criminals & Extremists’
It has been discovered that secret police guidance urges officers to treat journalists as criminals and ‘extremist groups’.
The College of Policing, the umbrella group providing guidance for the forces of England and Wales, advises that officers must declare whether they have friendships or associations with people such as criminals.
While this advice is public, it has emerged that a secret annex listing the types of associations that must be declared includes journalists.
Earlier this year, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary recommended police officers disclose associations with ‘journalists and extremist groups’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11155355/Police-forces-told-treat-reporters-extremists-potential-corrupting-influence.html
…and fair enough too as these presstitutes are complicit in the climate and Covid/vax scams.
They deserve the classification.
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British begin moving war planes to civilian airports
Britain is preparing to station combat aircraft in civilian airports for the first time since World War II in response to the Ukraine conflict.
The dispersing of planes across the country will allegedly help the Royal Air Force’s rapid-response units survive attacks on their bases.
The Agile Combat Employment (ACE) scheme was initially intended for potential hotspots overseas, such as the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
A trial next month will have Eurofighter Typhoon and F-35 jet fighters based in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Scotland “scattered in small groups and based discreetly” in several regional airports with suitable runways.
Other jets and larger aircraft will be based in different areas in times of “imminent crisis.”
https://ussanews.com/2022/08/29/uk-to-move-warplanes-to-civilian-airports-daily-express/
Hardly surprising considering Britain’s willingness to start a nuclear war…
Given it would take just 20 minutes for a Russian ICBM to hit the UK, they’d better not poke the bear too hard…
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Nonsense! The UK has not the slightest desire to start a nuclear war. Where on earth did you get that from? The Bear is rampaging across Ukraine and has said it intends to rampage across much of Europe in order to regain territory it held in the days of the Tsar. Do we just smile at the bear and let it do what it wants?
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Argh, Russia and the west. From an aquaintence who was a teenager during the second world war.
When Russia was allied with Germany the posters in England depicted Stalin as a ferocious bear with blood dripping from his fangs and an English child clenched in his fist, then, Russia is suddenly an allie the posters all changed to a portly smiling Stalin bouncing a little English child on his knee. The captions on the posters had changed from “the Russian Bear is coming for every child in England” to something along the lines of “uncle Joe is every Childs happy friend”
The power of advertising apparently. My aquaintance was unimpressed, his dad said “we’ve been fighting them for 100’s of years, never trust the B–tards”
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Tonyb:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/26/jfvn-a26.html
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The article does not say what you believe. A British Prime Minister has a obligation to use nuclear missiles if their chef of Staffs demand it. Her comments were misreported and it had nothing to do with Russia but were hypothetical if Britain were attacked first.
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Joh
“Can I point out your link came from “The world socialist web site” hardly any sort o0f endorsement as they are mostly a stranger to fact
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I have a distinct feeling of unease being part of this community today. What I thought was a group of scientific sceptics, asking questions, seeking answers, actually has a significant subset of America hating malcontent socialists.
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Are you suggesting that Britain should tell Putin “Don’t worry, our bombs and planes are just for domestic show. We would never actually USE them, so don’t lose any sleep over it”.
A message like that from Chamberlin caused H to believe England would not respond to his aggression. Imagine how many lives would not have been lost if H had KNOWN that Britain and the Commonwealth would react. Peace through strength makes sense.
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rampaging across Ukraine? what has happened since the took the ethnic Russian regions that Zelensky was torturing?
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We pretended that appeasing a militaristic dictator by letting him gobble up neighbouring countries would keep the peace, in the late 1930s. It didn’t work then, so it requires an irrational level of blind optimism to think it will work now.
The similarities are marked.
In both cases, you have a Dictator leading his nation in a series of birder-wars, with the avowed intention of creating empires fit for their national destiny.
In both cases, we have fear-mongers bleating about another World War and demonising anyone who is not in favour of appeasement as “war-mongers”.
In both cases, those Dictators see the reluctance of the West to fight, as proof that what the aggressor is doing, works .
In both cases, the aggressor could be stopped early and at a cost far below that required if/when they have acquired the resources to build themselves a competitive military.
Simple truth – there is no zero-risk strategy, but far less risk in putting Putin back in his box, now.
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Peter
Some commentators seem quite approving of Russia judging by the red thumbs we each get. There are clear similarities with WW2 and many seem unaware that until July 1941-before the US even entered the war- Russia was an ally to Germany, supplying arms and fuel after gobbling up Poland. We then used many of our scarce own resources ferrying materials to Russia in Arctic conditions when they switched sides after being attacked, losing us many soldiers and ships.
Putin has clearly said he wants to reattach the republics and regain imperial territory that constituted Russia at the time of the Tsar. Russia is not a friendly bear but with Putin as its leader red in Tooth and claw.
Clearly America scuttling from Afghanistan has lost the West much credibility, encouraging Putin to make his move, For Iran and North Korea to be emboldened whilst China is looking on to see the result. If Putin succeeds then Taiwan is next which not only snuffs out a democratic country but will completely change the world due to that Islands involvement in Hi tech, especially chips.
Such a move will destabilise the region, including Australia
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Hmm.. the American propaganda is thick.. How come no-one mentions the Maiden coup that America organised to overthrow the elected Government of Ukraine and install their puppets, who promptly went pro-European and demonised Russia, followed by the massacre of the Russian-speaking minority.
That led to the shelling of the civilians in the Pro-Russian regions for the last 8years, and on the eve of Ukraine being pushed into invading those regions Putin acted.
This is just America trying to weaken and destroy Russia to continue their world domination. Anyone who tries to be independent of the Yanks ends up a target, the rest get American military bases dotted over their countries to make sure they do as their told.
The American empire is collapsing, the American dollar has been weakened to the point where it will no longer be the world’s reserve or trading currency, and America will lash out into more and more to try and prop up its biggest export, weapons and wars.
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Amazing how it is not mentioned that the third most powerful Nuclear armed nation on earth was given a cast iron guarantee by Russia to respect its sovereignty and independence in return for getting rid of its nuclear weapons which was then reneged on.
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Amazing that you equate the 30s with the litany of provocations and deceit from NATO/EU and the persecution of an ethnic Russian minority in Ukraine. How the scenarios are in any way similar defies logic. I guess you have one model them every thing fits it, as often discussed on these pages.
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Shhhhh, dont ever let the facts stand in the way. The endless squeezing of any thing, any one, always ends the same way with the squeezee bursting and the squeezer wondering why they are covered in whatever. How does it ever end, well I dont know but without doubt there were many other scenarios that could have played out between Russia, Ukraine and the west that may not have resulted in warfare. An ongoing Mexican stand off could possibly have been the best result for all concerned.
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This is your fallacy
Truss did NOT that she was willing to start a nuclear war, only that she was prepared to give the launch order if necessary. I’m being polite in calling it a fallacy, instead of a deliberate untruth.
What only the foolish ignore, is that when a Hitler or a Putin know that you won’t fight back, they feel at liberty to do anything that they damned well want.
Again, it is fools who talking about “provocation” instead of conditions. Nations get “poked” all the time. It’s a normal part of being a nation in this world. Not every decision made my every nation is agreeable to every other nation. Those “pokes” only start wars when one nation believes that going to war will get them what they want, at an acceptable price. Some of us can remember the Cold War and living with the threat of MAD. The reason that we didn’t have WW3 was because both sides understood that war on that basis would cost them far more than they would gain. It was not a comfortable period, but as a strategy, it worked. It is necessary .
If you aren’t prepared to fight back, you may as well put a chain around your own neck and go grovel at the feet of Putin, Xi or whatever other tinpot dictator has a few rockets.
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“The dispersing of planes across the country will allegedly help civilians get killed in the eventuality of war”
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The FBI: A Campaign Arm of the Democrat Party
“Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity” is the FBI motto. According to the FBI website, this motto, “Succinctly describes the motivating force behind the men and women of the FBI.”
Perhaps a new motto of “Funny Business Incorporated” or “Friendly to Biden Interests” would be more appropriate to their apparent new mission. When did the FBI, the largest and most heavily armed law enforcement agency in America, now inserting itself unconstitutionally into American politics, pivot from fidelity and integrity to partisanship and dishonesty?
Start with the 2016 presidential election. Many are already familiar with Spygate
And influence an election they did. Media Research Center conducted a poll of 1,750 voters in seven swing states and learned that, “One of every six Biden voters (17%) said they would not have voted for him had they known the facts about several of the news stories the national media refused to investigate thoroughly because they might have hurt his candidacy.”
The FBI had the laptop for almost a year and right before the election conveniently declared it Russian propaganda, a falsehood parroted by “51 former intelligence officials.” The FBI, and Big Tech under FBI encouragement, fabricated and spread Russian propaganda in 2016 when it could hurt the Republican candidate and suppressed and censored a real story in 2020 when it could hurt the Democrat candidate. That certainly sounds like election interference.
The Mar-a-Lago raid is a shot across the bow for any GOP presidential candidates for 2024, Trump being the presumptive nominee at this point. Will the FBI ask the DoJ to indict Trump on nonsensical declassification accusations? While they gave candidate Hillary Clinton a pass despite her using an unsecured server and personal email account to traffic highly classified emails?
The FBI is delivering a warning to Trump. Will Governor Ron DeSantis be the next one to have his home raided by the FBI?
We expect this type of behavior from the corporate media, academia, Hollywood, big finance, big pharma, big tech, and other Democrat party constituent groups, but not the FBI and other government agencies.
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Once he lifts his head above the parapet Federally he will cop the same.
The logic in me says that Trump will have a big problem with TDS, it lives still, [I’ve seen no one on this side of the Pacific waver in their hatred] so a cleanskin like DeSantis may be the better nominee. But I’m sure the dems have their dirt file at the ready so best stick with the guy known to have the ticker to defy them.
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Should add: Do not waste DeSantis’s talents as VP nominee. Florida loves him where he is, a beacon to the other states.,
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Meaningless Things in Life – Melbourne’s coffee order vs Sydney’s, and what we ordered in winter
On cold winter nights Australians turned to Indian food and burgers to warm their bellies, but for coffee deliveries there was a sharp difference between what Melbourne and Sydney picked for their caffeine fix.
Data from food delivery company DoorDash showed 43 per cent of coffees ordered over the app in Melbourne were lattes, but in Sydney it was the cappuccino that took the prize, with 44 per cent of coffees delivered.
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age collected winter delivery order data from DoorDash, UberEats, and Deliveroo to get a picture of what Australians had brought to their door in the coldest months of the year.
– Melbourne vs. Sydney coffee orders
– Top Milk Choices in Coffee Orders
– Winter 2022 Top Dishes
– Winter 2022 Top Cuisines
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Delivered coffee, heaven help us.
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Yeah, when the cost of delivery probably costs more than the produce. Why aren’t the greenies outraged at the enormous carbon cost for a home delivered coffee.
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Tucker Carlson: Things are falling apart every quickly , SHTF In Realtime – Europe’s Fate Is Sealed
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“EV chargers to be deployed on power poles”
https://www.couriermail.com.au/motoring/motoring-news/ev-chargers-to-be-deployed-on-power-poles/news-story/082af9e3ad7a88797a094a99f44652a4
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I just watched Tucker
https://youtu.be/Zn6c-UkqlHo
Reminds me of the comment that if the collective brains of government were dynamite and exploded at the same time it wouldn’t raise one hat.
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And Rex says it again-
“Rex Murphy: Environmentalists biggest triumph was to aid Vladimir Putin”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-environmentalists-biggest-triumph-was-to-aid-vladimir-putin
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Safe and reliable!
“Oregon wind farm sees blades, bolts fly off as failures mount: report”
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-wind-farm-sees-blades-bolts-fly-off-as-failures-mount-report
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I always have a windy.com window open. Often surprised at the actual generation on AEMO and the apparent wind speed in the areas.
I now go to the wind at 300m which is also given. It is clear why they want skyscraper towers, is is quite a bit stronger up there. I suspect that the pressure difference between the high blades and the low blades is a major engineering problem, one they haven’t quite solved yet.
A similar problem to this held back helicopter development for ages. That bit the rotors connect to is high tech, not just a gear assy.
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We were right
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Along the lines of the German delegation’s response to Trump’s warning on becoming reliant on Russian gas –
If someone went searching it might be possible to do a line-up of the jeerers in action who have now learned that the covid tinfoil hats they laughed at is now the headlines too
Beyond my paygrade though
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I have not heard an “I told you so” from anyone, or an opposition party say “You should have listened”. Maybe they have, I get little from Europe since I dumped The Duran.
Internationally TDS is real.
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Black Lines Matter
and
MeRRiCK GaRBaGe
as seen by Uncle Sam
Cry My Country
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Single Point of Failure
Ashley Rindsberg convincingly traces Anthony Fauci’s response to the Covid 19 pandemic to the biodefense institutions created by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney following the 9/11 attacks. “To understand the rise of Fauci, and his legacy as he retires this year, we must return to the first months of the 2000s … Bush’s interest in biodefence and pandemic preparedness is frequently traced back to a 2004 book, The Great Influenza.
The reality, however, is that the administration came to power with biological weapons and infectious disease very much top of mind … But if biodefence wasn’t already a priority for the Bush White House, that swiftly changed a week to the day after the 9/11 attacks, a mere eight months into Bush’s first term, when the United States suffered the most serious biological weapons attack in its history,” the 2001 anthrax attacks.
As the WSJ put it. “In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to ‘follow the science.’ In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research. The tale unfolded in October 2020 after the launch of the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns. They favored a policy of what they called ‘focused protection’ of high-risk populations such as the elderly or those with medical conditions. Thousands of scientists signed the declaration—if they were able to learn about it.”
But was too late. Fauci’s overwhelming response was en route.
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Katie Hopkins talks about the introduction of “heat banks” in Once Great Britain.
These are public places where people who can’t keep warm in their own homes due to Energy Starvation can go to get warm temporarily.
It is also about making people more dependent upon the Government.
She does end on an optimistic note, however.
https://youtu.be/fZvi8HAhT6U
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These are public places where people who can’t keep warm in their own homes due to Energy Starvation can go to get warm temporarily.
Inner City Public Servant Greenies move from “Work From Home to Living at the Office”
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In the USA, a driver was given a speeding ticket for doing 152 mph in a 55 mph zone.
https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/offbeat/152-mph-in-a-55-mph-zone-driver-clocked-with-major-speeding-ticket-norfolk-virginia-state-police-vsp-traffic-fatalities-dangerous-risky-driving-behaviors-governors-highway-association-police-officers
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This article is paywalled but there goes another one!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/29/pant-y-wal-wind-turbine-wales-toppled-much-wind/
Wind turbine toppled by too much wind
Gusts of 50mph brought 300ft structure crashing to the ground
By
Telegraph Reporters
29 August 2022
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At 300 ft, it was obsolete any way. Prolly 20 yr old and rusty. 🙂
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The most prolific elements
Ten most common elements in the Milky Way Galaxy estimated spectroscopically
Z Element Mass fraction
(ppm)
1 Hydrogen 739,000
2 Helium 240,000
8 Oxygen 10,400
6 Carbon 4,600
10 Neon 1,340
26 Iron 1,090
7 Nitrogen 960
14 Silicon 650
12 Magnesium 580
16 Sulfur 440
What a surprise then that all life is made almost entirely from Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon. Not all intelligent life though.
Some humans want to bury all the carbon, which as the third most prolific element in the universe is quite an ambition.
Note that 2 of the top six are inert Noble gases. And humans have about as much iron as a six inch nail. So we are almost entirely carbon and water creatures living on a carbon and water and oxygen planet. Self haters, I guess. Or utterly ignorant of chemistry.
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I really cannot believe there is any alleged science which vilifies carbon dioxide on a completely crazy idea that there is an ideal level of carbon dioxide above or below which life ceases. It’s like having an idea amount of water on the planet or an ideal amount of sunshine. Where? Most gaseous carbon dioxide, 98% is freely dissolved in the world’s oceans. It’s not as if that is a secret.
If carbon dioxide is pollution, then all life on earth is pollution and needs to be wiped out, to save the planet? What sort of crazy religion is this? It makes the Rapture or Thetans seem logical. The only ones who benefit are the high priests, but as in any cult, no one inside can see it.
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Here is a bizarre item.
Despite the numerous benefits of Vitamin D, including improving resistance to, and outcomes of covid infection, there is a war against Vitamin D.
See Jo’s links on the benefits of Vitamin D and also Dr John Campbell https://youtu.be/0mtg5eukmP0 .
The war against Vitamin D includes:
E.g. 1) claims of “overdoses” (when stupid people take massive quantities.
E.g. 2) claims of excessive testing of Vitamin D levels.
Gosh, I wonder who might be against Vitamin D?
Anyway, now there is a bizarre association of the “carbon (sic) cost” and Vitamin D testing.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/08/24/cutting-down-vitamin-d-tests-could-help-lower-carbon-footprint-of-healthcare.html
SEE LINK FOR REST
Is that what passes for science today?
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What guys are researching about such a bullshit ?
look for the funding of such a research, pharma lobby and pharma industry, noone else is interested.
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Quote by Thomas Sowell.
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This is so true DM. Another definition of professor is a person that knows more and more about less and less. As the focus tightens on the chosen subject it appears that the broader knowledge of many things just disappears
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But the other extreme is the generalist who knows less and less about more and more untill knows nothing about everything
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“Leave aside all the points made in the Fox article (all valid, by the way; the grid can’t support this, at the same time they’re doing it they’re also damaging base load capacity severely by shutting down reliable generation currently in use, cost issues for even the most-modest EV and more) is this: It has been upheld by the courts that one of the most-important personal rights is the right to travel in and between states for personal purpose using the common means of the day without unreasonable interference.
EVs basically destroy that because of their range limitations and charge times.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246789
And seems NASA was fiddling on that launch that didn’t
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246790
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Nah !…Never mind EVs,.. that “right to travel between states” ..was thouroughly blown out of the water during Covid lockdowns.
When challenged in the courts , ( Palmer vs WA) it was thrown out. !
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If designing a constitution it is hard to imagine one where Freedom of Movement would not be explicitly stated.
Agreed, not so for the Australian Constitution, that case is another peculiarity of recent High Court judgements.
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That NASA article is fascinating! Such cynicism and exposures from people involved in the space industry, no wonder Musk can outperform the Govt Dept.
“The rot was apparent even in the 80’s. Challenger blew up because of flawed design of the SRB’s and the engineers in charge of the launch tried to stop it, but were overruled by management. Morton Thiokol is one of the more corrupt NASA contractors. They designed and built the SRB’s for the shuttle. The flaw was they used a segmented design which any engineer worth their weight in salt would know was not appropriate for a solid fueled rocket.
Columbia was even more egregious. They knew that chunks of ice were coming off of the main tank and hitting the underside of the shuttle, knocking off tiles, and did nothing to fix the problem. They did not abort Columbia after launch even though they knew some of the tiles fell off during the launch. Greg Cochran wrote a piece some years ago that they could have provisioned a conventional rocket within a week or two to send a “care package” to the shuttle to keep them in supplies until the next shuttle could be prepped for a rescue mission. They did none of these things despite knowing full well Columbia was likely to burn up on reentry (which it did). Columbia was in the wrong orbit to get to ISS.”
..astronauts are just expendable people, like the rest of the hoi polloi..
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FWIWs
“If you use cooking oils, it’s time to stock up”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/08/if-you-use-cooking-oils-its-time-to.html
And
“Michael Yon and Tucker Carlson issue blunt warnings”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/08/michael-yon-and-tucker-carlson-issue.html
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Re the cooking oil
Some of us will quite happily use butter as a fall back
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Chevy Dealer Quoted Volt Hybrid Owner Nearly $30,000 To Replace Battery
A print-out from Roger Dean Chevrolet in Florida listed the price of a new battery on the 70,000-mile 2012 Volt as $26,853.99, to which the dealer wanted to add $1,200 for labor and $33.98 to cover coolant. By the time the Florida taxman had added his fee the total had ballooned to $30,842.15, and this is for a 10-year-old obsolete hybrid that Carmax would buy from you for $9,000 if it was in good condition with no problems.
But the Back the Truck Up blog and fact-checking website Snopes contacted the dealer, confirming that the estimate was indeed genuine, and was for a battery that came from a third-party supplier.
Countering any accusations that it might have inflated the price of the battery place to line its own pockets, an employee at Roger Dean Chevrolet wrote on Facebook that it didn’t set the price of the battery.
“This is an estimate for a 12-year-old vehicle out of warranty and for a battery that is extremely hard to get, due to the older technology of the 12-year-old vehicle,” the spokesperson wrote.
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Surprised there isnt a recycling charge, unless they expected the customer to deal with it.
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A ten year old car that is junk, an equivalent ice car would have over ten years life left in it.
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Gaines: A reality check on electric school buses
Running the numbers
Analyses of bus costs (electric vs. internal combustion) abound, making it tough to decide whose numbers to rely on, but I chose to analyze those of California’s electric utility (PGE). Their estimator compares diesel to electric school buses, and should also remove any doubt that I’m trying to shade things; PGE is a big proponent of electric.
From the PGE site, we learn that diesel buses are about $90K to buy and cost about $1.11 per mile to run, including maintenance and fuel. Electric buses cost $350K (the Post article has them at $375K) and cost about $0.20 per mile, including maintenance and fuel. Clearly it’s cheaper to buy diesel and to run electric. The $260K cost differential between the two, however, effectively means that any district wanting to take advantage of lower operating costs is going to need help. Enter both the federal and Colorado state government to buy down the cost of the electric buses with big subsidies. Colorado and the feds pay 80% of the bus cost, and the district makes up the other 20%.
All the same, there are some things missing from PGE’s estimates. There is more capital investment to electrics than just their higher purchase price. Diesel is a known quantity. Shops have mechanics, tools, and knowledge about how to maintain them. Electric? Not so much. So add in the costs to train your mechanics and buy specialized tools. Oh, you’ll also need to install chargers. I couldn’t find numbers on the increase in costs for tools and training, but PGE was helpful enough to give estimates on the chargers and maintenance: $13,750 per and $1,100 per year respectively.
I’m tempted to continue (increased sales tax costs and hidden costs like out of service time), but I think you get the point.
Continuing with the finances, the last thing to consider is the time it will take us taxpayers to realize the savings on electric school buses. If you figure an average of 16,000 miles per year (the high end estimate on yearly mileage for a bus), and include only the costs laid out here, the payback on electric is about 20 years. That number was startling to me because 20 years was the top end, best-case-scenario I could find for the life of the bus batteries. In other words, right as we’d start to realize the savings, the bus would stop working.
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10 Facts Electric Vehicle Advocates Don’t Want You to Know
For example, as the experts at powerthefuture.com point out, here are 10 facts about EVs the Left doesn’t want Americans to know:
1. EVs are powered by fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), fossil fuel-based power plants — coal, oil, or natural gas — create about 60% of the nation’s electrical grid, while nuclear power accounts for nearly 20%.
2. The batteries of EVs rely on cobalt. An estimated 70% of the global supply of cobalt emanates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country with deplorable working conditions, especially for children.
3. A study released earlier this year by an environmental group showed that nearly one-third of San Francisco’s electric charging stations were non-functioning. The population of San Francisco represents roughly two percent of California.
4. Supporters of the California law admit there will be a 40% increase in demand for electricity, adding further strain to the grid and requiring increased costs for power and infrastructure.
5. According to one researcher, the strain of adding an EV is similar to adding “1 or 2 air conditioners” to your home, except an EV requires power year-round.
6. Today, 20 million American families, or one in six, have fallen behind on their electric bills, the highest amount ever.
7. Utility companies will need to add $5,800 in upgrades for every new EV for the next eight years in order to compensate for the demand for power. All customers will shoulder this cost.
8. The average price for an electric vehicle is currently $66,000, up more than 13% in just the last year, costing an average of $18,000 more than the average combustible engine. Meanwhile, the median household income is $67,521. For African American families, the average is $45,870, and for Hispanic households, $55,321.
9. A 2022 study found that the majority of EV charging occurs at home, leaving those who live in multi-family dwellings (apartments) at a real disadvantage for charging.
10. The same study also noted that many drivers charge their EVs overnight when solar power is less available on the grid.
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California’s electric vehicle gamble
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Tuesday, August 30, 2022
That’s because President Joe Biden is pushing a tandem goal nationwide, aiming for half the 17 million new U.S. vehicles currently sold to be electric-powered by 2030. That will take more juice – as much as 23% more by 2050, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Ominously, the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook 2022 assumes only a 7% electric U.S. fleet by 2050, and it forecasts a national average electricity growth rate of less than 1% a year until then. With EVs siphoning off most of the expected boost in energy output, and the nation’s population projected by the U.S. Census Bureau to grow by as much as 39% by mid-century, the odds of a coming energy shortfall loom large.
Bewilderingly, just as California goes all-electric, it is undertaking a $445 million joint project with Oregon to tear down four hydroelectric dams generating 169 megawatts of power along the shared Klamath River in order to restore the natural environment for fish.
Memories of blackouts affecting millions of citizens during the scorching summer of 2020 have unnerved California legislators. Unsurprisingly, they are hedging their “green” bets by budgeting hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase electricity from hated fossil fuel plants ahead of their scheduled shutdown next year.
Eyeing the power prognosis, Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vowed to reverse Democrat-backed legislation he inherited that is designed to mirror California’s EV policies. “I am already at work to prevent this ridiculous edict from being forced on Virginians. California’s out-of-touch laws have no place in our Commonwealth,” he wrote in a recent statement.
Other states would be wise to wait and watch whether the electric grid can power the current “clean car” craze or Californians end up walking.
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Today’s Priorities
dover0beachsays:
August 31, 2022 at 8:03 am
William Wheelwright
@ploughmansfolly
Sorry about your mother’s café but it’s absolutely crucial that gay marriage be legalized in Ukraine.
Callum ??
@CallumMckeefery
· Aug 29
My mum owns a small café in Leicester. Her electricity bill has just jumped from £10k ($12k) a year to £55k ($64k) a year.
She is working out her options but more than likely she will be forced to close.
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Rising energy prices could force British pubs to shut, businesses urge government to take action
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I’m not sure where all the pubs power use is coming from, their pubs aren’t airconditioned and they don’t chill the beer, like Aussie pubs.
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UK manufacturing sector insolvencies rise by 63% since last year
Support groups say energy bills, higher interest rates and falling order books putting thousands of firms on the edge
Insolvencies across the manufacturing sector have soared by 63% since last year ahead of a wave of business failures expected this winter in response to rising energy prices, higher interest rates and falling order books.
The number of firms going bankrupt increased from 893 in 2020-21 to 1,454 in 2021-22, according to Insolvency Service figures analysed by the accountancy firm Mazars.
Many more companies are likely to have voluntarily wound up their companies before running out of credit and becoming insolvent.
Manufacturing groups have warned that thousands of firms stand on a financial cliff edge after negotiating the pandemic, Brexit trade restrictions and more recently skills shortages and rising wage bills.
Energy bills for some businesses are expected to increase by 300%-400% in October, when many fixed-price agreements are renegotiated.
Annette Dolan, managing director of Bath Aqua Glass, said the bill to keep her glass-making furnaces running was scheduled to increase in October from £14,000 to £131,000 a year.
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“TGA approves Moderna vaccine”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/tga-approves-moderna-vaccine.html
With the well known sales clause “As is, where is, with all faults”?
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Cause & Effect
New Jersey banned plastic bags. So, people
are stealing grocery store shopping baskets
Meanwhile here in OZ
Coles’ BYO deli container trial met with criticism after supermarket giant bans shoppers from bringing glass Tupperware
The supermarket giant has asked shoppers at eight stores to bring in clean reusable containers with a resealable lid for deli items – but glass and ceramic tupperware has been banned.
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The Infamous Trump Raid Affidavit Forced Out by Judicial Watch is Evidence of Biden Admin Corruption
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Enviro-Fraud: Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Can’t Reduce Carbon Dioxide Gas Emissions
The greatest fraud in history started with the idea that you can run an economy on sunshine and breezes.
Sequentially, inevitably, every myth and lie put forward by renewable energy rent seekers and their shrinking band of acolytes gets busted and exposed.
Lines like: wind power is cheaper than coal (it isn’t); the wind is always blowing somewhere (it isn’t); this wind farm will power 30,000 homes (it doesn’t and never will); and that the ‘transition’ to an all renewable energy future is simply inevitable (sure, provided it’s a transition to the Dark Ages that you’re looking for?) – sound even more nonsensical, by the day.
There there’s the central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to ‘justify’ the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours’ health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector. We’ll leave the question of whether there’s any need to reduce carbon oxide gas in the atmosphere to one side.
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Young doctors in Canada are dying at a rate 23X normal after the second booster
We now have all the CMA Canadian doctor death data in a spreadsheet. It shows that doctors 50 and younger are being killed after the second booster a rate that is 23X normal.
The results are stunning if we look at young doctor deaths: it makes the impact of the vaccines much easier to see because there is more signal and less noise since doctors under 50 rarely die.
We find a 23X increase in the rate of all-cause mortality post-vaccine for Canadian doctors aged 50 and under (compared to the young doctor death rates in 2020).
How can they explain that one?
Well, they can’t.
Those Canadian doctors died after the 2nd booster decades earlier than they should have.
I wanted to talk to the CMA about this, but my request to interview the President of the CMA was ignored. They just don’t want to talk about it. I’m sure they hope nobody sees this article.
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China Is Aggressively Reselling Russian Gas To Europe
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Biden Crime Family* – Alleged Leaders, Bosses and Associates
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culling character to elevate cowardice
cancel culture as the destroyer of worlds
consider the possibility that the inevitable output of a couple decades of cancel culture is the culling of all those of character and courage of conviction from positions of power as they are inevitably wrongfooted in gotcha games and sacrificed upon the altar of the ever intensifying purity spiral of identity war.
now consider that this must also reciprocally induce the elevation of tepid, simpering cravens to positions of dominance and authority precisely because they lack the fortitude or principle to ever take a stand for that which is right as opposed to that which is popular.
then, when crisis comes this cowardly cohort will lead from behind without bravery or comprehension for what else do they know save desperate desire to predict and serve the ends for which the mob shall soon bray?
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Biden has not been seen for years. We are shown a lokalike that sounds close. Compare photographs. Check the right ear. The fake has the lobe attached to his skull. The genuine article: right matches left!
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Does Biden know this?
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A reminder
“Climate Change Forecasts”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/climate-change-forecasts-larry-elder/
Well past time to sack the tipsters
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Don’t look before bed!
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FWIW – There is obviously more to this than I’m getting ATM
“Revenge is a dish”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/31/revenge-is-a-dish/
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AhA! More here
https://www.rebelnews.com/slug_gate_boss_to_run_against_dan_andrews_in_cook_vs_crook_campaign
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And the cartoon
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/a37418233b6988822c5c0e23d5bcb870
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Now now Ian…settle down and GET REAL
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