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Summer is on it’s way!
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We were all going on a summer holiday, but the cost of living and cancellation of the fuel tax cut is a stumbling block for many.
Recently Treasurer-Commentator Chalmers announced a windfall of $50 billion from former Treasurer Frydenberg’s good management has been realised, financial journalist Terry McCrann has pointed out that extension of the fuel excise cut for another six months would cost a small part of the $50 billion.
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…except the Government (may peace be upon them), particularly the eminently qualified and capable Treasurer, know far better than you how to spend (and spend and spend) their* money.
* it’s all theirs. They just haven’t transferred all of it from your account yet, but they will.
Anyways, why would a compliant pleb want a holiday? Too busy owning nothing and being happy!
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Bolt Report tonight Andrew reported that the 2022/23 Frydenberg created Budget figures now to hand make the new Treasurer-Commentator’s rubbishing of the Coalition Budget position look rather silly, much lower than forecast budget deficit already and other good news, strong economy and lowest unemployment since 1970s for example.
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According to the Klimatastrophists it will be an Endless Summer. https://youtu.be/lmHQ9v2ijsQ
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Jo Biden is having a really bad Autumn – Oh in the US it is actually called FALL hey? Hmmm ….. that’s actually much more suitable!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/january-biden-said-stock-market-hit-record-record-record-watch-today-stocks-lost-7-6-trillion-value-since-biden-took-office/
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New for the summer
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“Summer is on its way!”
Yep ! Time to put the blowfly traps out. (Sheep really appreciate it.)
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I hate summer these days. The heat drains me. I have a wood fire and wood, so much prefer winter. I used to love summer because I lived right by the beach, but that changed.
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Yes, but will be a nice Summer or another wet one? According to the BOM it’s a definite maybe…………………
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The BoM now offering totally accurate forecasts (for real) available within 48 business hours* after the observable date**
* not including weekends and public holidays
** subject to change without notice (in fact, it’s better if you don’t notice).
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The tropics was pretty dry last summer. We eventually got some rain late in the season but no floods as I remember.
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According to Sky news meteorologist it will be a wet year and Indigo Jones Facebook page who correctly predicted the floods in NSW it will also be a wet year . Indigo predicted the floods in NSW last year so very good guess .
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Australia’s Bureau of Meterology, a government funded weather propaganda unit, that back in the day used to actually record accurate, unadjusted weather data by hard-working, honest weather station olerators, has now had time to construct new data for August and finds the following for August 2022:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtml
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So how do we explain this?
‘Both mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures were above average for all states and the Northern Territory.
‘Compared with all Augusts since 1900, the mean maximum temperature for Tasmania was amongst the ten highest on record, as was the mean minimum temperature for New South Wales and Victoria.’
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I don’t understand what they mean. Does a whole state have a mean maximum temperature? How would they decide what it is?
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Magic, and they don’t want you to know.. In the NSW tablelands we’re just short of one degree below the long term mean high temp for Sept, so unless it gets really hot for the next two days we will be colder than usual.
The minimum is a tad up, 0.3deg, and both are just what you would expect for a wet period in a dry Australia. Basically no snow this year and hardly any frosts, just endless drizzly days of ‘English weather’.
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I posted last week end that Australian winters and summers should both be moderating. The opposite of the increasing extremes in the NH.
The July sunlight will be the dominant factor for land surface temperature during August. This is for 30S:
-3.100 219.079809
-3.000 218.990117
-2.900 218.906522
-2.800 218.830178
-2.700 218.761144
-2.600 218.699485
-2.500 218.645277
-2.400 218.598604
-2.300 218.559550
-2.200 218.528207
-2.100 218.504667
-2.000 218.489023
-1.900 218.481044
-1.800 218.481142
-1.700 218.489441
-1.600 218.506063
-1.500 218.531122
-1.400 218.564725
-1.300 218.606961
-1.200 218.657904
-1.100 218.717602
-1.000 218.786083
-0.900 218.864396
-0.800 218.951353
-0.700 219.046807
-0.600 219.150595
-0.500 219.262541
-0.400 219.382458
-0.300 219.510157
-0.200 219.645451
-0.100 219.788152
0.000 219.938083
0.100 220.094556
0.200 220.258037
0.300 220.428405
0.400 220.605534
0.500 220.789293
0.600 220.979544
0.700 221.176147
It bottomed at 218.41W/m^2 1900 years ago. It has been rising slowly since then so, on average, August temperature should be trending up.
In shorter term, the amount of moisture on land increases cloud and that reduces the rate of surface heat loss because evaporation rate is reduced due to higher relative humidity.
I considered the shorter term aspects to be dominant in 2022 but there is a moderating trend in centennial scale.
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It is probably worth pointing out that this is a 23kyr cycle. So it is only in the early stage of the winter warming cycle, which peaks in 9kyr from now in July for 30S.
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What is your problem with this? Were they wrong? What new data?
Local Canberra experience is that days were pretty typical – though it is hard to notice an average of 13 vs 14 (for instance) but definitely few cold nights and some close to 10 which is unusual. Linked to the rain I reckon.
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Cloud made the nights warmer and it was a good snow season, but why were the days warmer?
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Were they? Are we asking why the Leprchauns hide their gold beyond the rainbow? What numbers do you still believe in and why?
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The Royal Commission will no doubt ask BoM about the adjustments, cooling the past to warm the present, but putting all that aside there must be a rational explanation as to why winter days are warmer.
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You cannot extrapolate on dirty data no matter what. Everyone does it. Everyone does it I know. Everyone becomes statistics boy 101 and wants to apply his technical skills to whatever data set the criminals put in front of them, no matter how bad the data or the reasoning about its use.
But most of the problem with statistics comes from applying the techniques when the data and the reasoning isn’t up to the task.
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It may have been statistically “warmer” by some fraction, but it felt colder as my heating bill will show. Had the thermostat down to 19°C 7am-9am and 5pm to 9:30pm and outside these times set at 15°C in our modest size double glazed well insulated abode. Cool feeling mostly due to lack of sunshine which as others have commented may be the reason for “warmest ever”.
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Why are you saying that things might be statistically warmer?
Do you still believe the figures? Is that what you are telling us? Why would you believe the figures? We were dealing with people rigging the figures 15 years ago. Has this passed you by? I know you are one of the good guys but its not funny any more. We just have to stop this bullshit.
[Snip crass and not appropriate.]
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UAH says temps are flat in Australia.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/australia-sees-no-warming-for-10-years-uah-satellites-show/
And I agree its been a typical cold winter, still wearing my WW2 flight jacket to keep warm.
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‘Were they wrong? What new data?’
Clearly if they don’t incorporate UAH into their thinking, we’ll assume BoM data is dodgy.
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I always look at Roy Spencer for that stuff and August 22 was -0.01 from his satellite.
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Minimums are usually warmer when nights are cloudy and the ground is wet. There is a poor correlation with minimum temperatures and rainfall in Australia because while cold fronts bring rain, there is a moderating effect on minimum temperatures. Cloud cover and humidity reduce maximum temperatures, so there is a correlation with rainfall.
So what do we mean by the average temperature? It gets treated like a concentration – the quotient of quantity of a component and the total quantity – as if it’s a measure of heat energy gained by the system. We can assume that it’s a good proxy, because it definitely ain’t a measure, of the total heat energy increase when divided by the estimated heat capacity of the atmosphere (depends on composition, especially water). If it’s assumed to be a proxy, the qualitative trends are useful. Quantitatively, you take it with a pinch of salt.
The issue is the manipulation of the data as if it’s an intensive property like a concentration.
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“Which part of “economic” does the World Economic Forum not understand?”
“By the logic of the World Economic Forum, it is a “good thing” that it takes more people to produce and deliver 7% of the world’s primary energy needs, than it takes to produce and deliver 55% (oil & gas).”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/27/which-part-of-economic-does-the-world-economic-forum-not-understand/
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Jobs jobs, I guess would be the bonus?
Cheap available energy drives the economy way more than an expensive less available and less capable energy does.
They follow ideology, not economics.
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Is a “job” that doesn’t need doing really a job?
Asking for some people in the “public service”.
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A YouTuber with 1.4 million followers attempted to tow a 1930 Ford Model A truck with his brand new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, but it ended in “a complete and total disaster.” “If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles — that is ridiculously stupid,” Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover says in his video. “This truck can’t do normal truck things. You would be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.”
“This is my new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck,” YouTuber Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover said in a video in which he tests the electric truck’s towing capabilities, which resulted in “a complete and total disaster.”
“I had this thing charged to just over 200 miles when I started my day, so ample margin for error when it comes to range and towing and also considering the fact that the trailer was going up empty two times,” Hoover added.
After attaching the empty aluminum trailer to his truck and “pulling out my neighborhood,” which was just about a quarter of a mile away, the EV had already lost three miles of range. By the time Hoover got to his location 32 miles away, the vehicle had lost a staggering 68 miles of range.
Once he loaded up the Model A truck and drove it back to his neighborhood, Hoover “got the driving range low warning,” and saw that he only had 50 miles of range left, despite charging the EV for 200 miles at the start of his 64-mile round trip.
“Are you kidding me? That’s almost 90 miles of range in 30 miles. Are you serious? That’s nuts. What a joke,” Hoover reacted.
“So, yeah, that was abysmally bad, and if the future is electric, there has to be some kind of solution for this,” he said. “I have no idea why EVs tow so bad. My guess would be it doesn’t have a normal transmission where there’s gears and a car’s in a lower rev range.”
“If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles — that is ridiculously stupid,”
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it’s not the engineering it’s in the physics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4W-P5aCWJs&t=61s
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That done another way
https://autoexpert.com.au/posts/electric-utes-the-big-problem-with-ev-pick-up-trucks
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When will these people realise that decreased mobility is not a side-effect, but entirely intentional?
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Even when they do, most will be willing to offer themselves for sacrifice.
After first applauding the sacrifice of the unwilling.
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Our head Energy clown, the honourable Chris Bowen, contradicted Susan Ley (LNP) when she proclaimed there would be no electric utes ( pick ups for our US friends ) for Australia. He did so by offering a picture on social media standing next to that Ford 150 Lightning. “Look” he said , “… here’s is the future”, or something equally as moronic. Trouble is, Ford don’t plan to produce anything in right hand drive and even if you wanted a LHD version the waitlist is already at least 1 year in the US. Plus as Tyler demonstrated, it might have a 500k range when fully charged but when loaded and towing anything that range gets very quickly reduced to about 160 km. Then, if your are lucky and can hook up to a charger it will probably take at least 30 mins to charge, but only to 80% charge. It’s basically a golf cart on steroids.
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About Charles –
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/13/charles-the-terrible/?utm_source=The+week+on+spiked&utm_campaign=4855226b77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_16_03_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e9712ba33-4855226b77-99451422
Possibly old news.
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The ramifications of The New Green King,being an ardent supporter of Klaus Schwab of the WEF, are that The Green King & student/ friend of the WEF is privy to daily reports of Legislation, Security matters, energy &migration plans etc. His obsession with WEF policies & most likely planning poses a question of security & integrity of the UK government.
Much food for thought!!
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The property tax debacle unfolding in Canberra
During a huge property price boom fuelled by low interest rates and constrained land release, the ACT government has become addicted to collecting stamp duty to fund its ever-increasing spending.
John Kehoe – Economics editor
Amid the furore over Queensland’s double taxation of interstate investment property owners, a property tax debacle is unfolding in Canberra.
A decade ago, the ACT Labor government pledged to phase out stamp duty and gradually phase in a broad-based land tax on property owners over 20 years.
In theory, it was the gold standard of tax reform, even if it was going to take longer than ideal to make it politically feasible.
Most economists approved shifting from a bad tax on property transactions to a less economically damaging annual tax on the value of unimproved land.
Commendably as part of the package, the ACT in 2016 eliminated stamp duty on insurance policies worth about $50 million a year.
Conveyance duty on commercial properties worth $1.5 million or less was
abolished in 2018, while concessions for first home buyers were increased.
But halfway through the 20-year journey, the ACT is raising significantly more nominal revenue from conveyancing duty on residential and commercial property transactions.
The $433 million collected in 2021-22 is approaching double the $253 million in the pre-COVID 2018-19 year.
A difficult path
As a share of the ACT’s own-source tax revenue, total conveyance duty and insurance duty revenue has only declined from 26 per cent in 2012-13 to about 18 per cent in 2021-22.
But that decline overstates the transition because the ACT is relying more on other inefficient revenue such as inflated land sales and higher land taxes on investors.
Stamp duty is not on a path to ever being abolished.
During a huge property price boom fuelled by low interest rates and constrained land release, the Labor-Greens ACT government has become addicted to collecting stamp duty to fund its ever-increasing spending.
At the same time, property tax bills on landowners (imposed via rates on principal places of residence and an additional land tax on investors) have significantly escalated.
Annual rates now cost many homeowners more than $4000 year, and are closer to $10,000 for investment properties paying the extra land tax.
Rates now account for about $674 million or 30 per cent of the ACT’s own-source revenue, up from 17 per cent in 2012-13.
Land tax on investment properties delivered a further $158 million or 6.6 per cent of own-source revenue in 2021-22, about double the nominal $70 million in 2012-13.
This is not the vision the government sold ACT voters when the promising reform was outlined in 2011, when Jon Stanhope was chief minister and Katy Gallagher was treasurer and later chief minister. Gallagher is now federal finance minister.
– The now Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his Greens colleagues in the ACT Labor-Greens government have botched the reform.
– “The greedier they get, the more people detest a reform and the harder it becomes to implement.”
The ACT experience is a cautionary learning tale for other states.
Former ACT senior Treasury official, Khalid Ahmed, who was the public servant heading the territory’s tax review taskforce, says the ACT reform is “stuck”.
“After 10 years at the halfway mark, we should be on a path to abolishing it,” Ahmed says.
– ‘Bracket creep’ through the roof
– Creating its own problems
“In a supply-constrained market, if you increase the land tax, it will be passed on to renters and that’s exactly what has happened in the ACT,” Ahmed says.
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Anyone with half a brain would realise that governments like land taxes because they generate more revenue than stamp duty… oh, it’s Canberra, I see the problem now…
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Land tax is devastating in the medium term since it reduces incumbent cash flow and capital value at the same time. But it’s good in the long run since it cuts out banker overhead.
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should economics have a code of ethics, like the one binding doctors?
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Why? It’s not like the Hippocratic Oath meant much for doctors compared to fear, APHRA and Pfizer profits, did it?
Economists have already been subject to ostracism and derison if they strayed far from Keynesian theory. The oath they needed might have meant something in 1930.
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So to understand your position:
Big pharma (not owned or run by doctors) does harm.
The union for Australian doctors (APHRA and unlike normal unions – APHRA has a policy of no ticket no work) somehow makes a profit out of fear, rather than a union requirement to all sing from the same songsheet (something that also applies in the legal profession).
Economists who are not Keynesian are ostracised like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Paul Krugman, etc must feel sad then.
Do you feel that not doing harm has had its day “the oath they needed might have meant something in 1930.”?
What would you propose then
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You’ve never heard of Mises and the Austrians? Think about that. You think Freidman was the alternative to Keynes?
Your training as a tool for the Keynesians is complete….
And you are kidding about Krugman right? His predictions are good for people to use as long as they do the opposite.
As for APHRA, if you read my posts, your comments would be useful. I’m wondering why I bother again. “Not even wrong”.
You are writing as though APHRA was an ASX listed company rather than a regulatory agency. I think we are at the end of the road Peter. I can’t even be bothered explaining why you wrong anymore. The standard is so unworthy.
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Their definition gets them off the hook. They define their field of study as being about “the allocation of scarce resources” By that definition they are given license to steal our resources and invest them in investments in public sector ego.
But the real definition of economics is the science of wealth creation. So if their advice doesn’t create wealth …. then we can hold them to account.
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Very good. To put it briefly-
The purpose of economics is to get more.
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Economists are a lot like “climate” scientists – a pat on the back if you follow current theory but cancelled if you don’t. As a past practising resource geologist, I had to be registered with our professional association and abide by a code of practice (the JORC Code) when reporting publicly, detailing all our calculation methods and assumptions in a prescriptive format. There is no equivalent code for economists , “climate “scientists and the BOM, the latter whose adopted methods of temperature homogenisation would never be accepted in a mineral resource report without an indication of confidence levels.
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Yes good point on the homogenisaton. When I looked at it I came to the conclusion that homogenisation was the ethnic cleansing of anything that was interesting about the weather.
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REALITY BITES WIND
It is an article of faith among many governments that we are in the midst of a transition from fossil fuel energy to “renewable” wind and solar. (Notably absent from this consensus are China, India and Russia.) In fact, no such transition is underway; wind and solar account for only a derisory portion of the world’s energy consumption, despite countless billions in subsidies. Nor will any such transition happen at any time in the future.
One of the fundamental problems with wind and solar is that they are ridiculously low-intensity. As a result, it requires a vast quantity of raw materials to produce a modest, and unreliable, amount of energy. Did you know that a single wind turbine requires 8,000 pounds or more of copper? Like me, you probably have no concept of what it takes to produce that quantity of copper, or of the vast amounts of fossil fuels that are needed to create just this one component of a wind turbine. Wind and solar installations are parasitic: they cannot be produced without using enormous quantities of fossil fuels.
This thread is one of the best explanations I have seen of the absurdity of wind turbines, as it relates to a single raw material: copper.
Please read the whole thing,
and bear in mind that copper is just one of a number of minerals that wind turbines and their mythical “batteries” require in enormous quantities. Cobalt and lithium are among the others.
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Wow! 4 Tons of copper in every windmill? That’s $US28,000 or $A40,000 cash per tonne in every windmill. Copper is double price at the moment. Those things are coming down fast. An oxy torch would do it. Especially if its not working, disabled.
People sneak out and pull miles of copper from electric train lines in Melbourne. It’s a popular sport. A Melbourne man was arrested in July for pulling 1.5Km of copper from train lines. Of course it has to not be live. No one steals coal power stations but windmills are fair game.
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Thats okay. Copper is a “green metal”. The new term used by that mining ad on TV.
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According to Twitter, none of his links in that article exist anymore…
The comments however..
“Not enough metal ores will be Discovered/mined/processed to meet the 36,000 TWh of [part] demand for wind/solar/batteries to displace FFs. The fantasy ends here”
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>”or of the vast amounts of fossil fuels that are needed to create just this one component [actual turbine] of a wind turbine”
Also to construct foundations and as lubricant:
Dirty Secret Behind Wind Turbines, They Need Lots Of Oil
https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/03/dirty-secret-behind-wind-turbines-they-need-lots-of-oil/
And,
Might be a bit premature to sell your Exxon shares …
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-wind-farms-patricia-pitsel-ph-d-
Wind power depends on fossil fuel – period.
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A little digging not only confirms the approx 1 tonne/MW of copper in a typical wind turbine, but some (direct drive) are four times that amount !
And when you look at the offshore wind installations, by the time the power is available on shore, the copper required for turbines ,cables, transformers, etc etc ,..can be over 10 tons per MW !
Compare that to a typical high speed turbine driven generator unit of 660 MW which contains less than 20 tons of copper, it becomes obvious there will be a problem.
Now add in the CF of each system (30% for wind, 80% for stationary turbine), and the bottom line looks like this
Conventional thermal driven turbine …230 GWh annually per ton of copper
Onshore wind turbine ……3.0 GWh annually per ton
Offshore wind turbine……0.3 GWh annually per ton !
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And ..for Solar PV generation, Wiki says this..
…so not much better there after you consider the 15-20% CF….
Which would put solar at about 1.5 GWh annually per ton Cu .
I think i will buy into copper futures !
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Once again we see evidence of the double standards of the Labor/Greens and the left leaning press.
Yahoo News had a piece about Pauline Hanson’s alleged racism.
https://au.yahoo.com/news/pauline-hanson-labelled-absolute-scumbag-heated-parliament-debate-235043129.html
I haven’t seen anything in the same press about the abuse by a Greens Senator of a couple of indigineous rperesentatives, (except on Sky News).
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Once again, this was first revealed, following a leaked email, in the channel 9 papers (Age, SMH) – here is a recent article which refers back to earlier ones https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/no-response-to-elder-s-complaint-as-bandt-professes-full-confidence-in-thorpe-20220927-p5bld7.html
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The weirdest and creepiest thing Biden has said so far.
Reported by Sky News Australia but the rest of the Leftist Enemedia are protecting Biden and not reporting it.
Imagine if President Trump had said this? There would be an immediate police investigation.
Furthermore, it was said in front of an audience of no-doubt Leftist “teachers”. They laughed rather than expressing horror.
https://youtu.be/OdmIiYzKKy4
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He also said in front of Elton John, “This man here is the reason we’re spending 6 billion on AIDS this year”.
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edit, much worse, he said it’s Elton’s “fault”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzfeyrdJBg
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Seen on Twitter:
Let’s Get Biden To Go Away Quick
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Trudeau drops COVID Vaccine Mandate because 9 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths have been among the Triple/Quadruple Vaccinated in the past 3 months
The most recent figures show that there were 143,732 Covid-19 cases between 13th June and 28th August 2022, and the vaccinated population accounted for 119,974 of them, with 88,427 cases among the triple vaccinated and 24,767 cases among the quadruple vaccinated population.
This means the unvaccinated population accounted for 17% of Covid-19 cases, whilst the vaccinated population accounted for 83%, 94% of which were among the triple and quadruple jabbed.
The graphs say it all.
I wonder what will happen next?
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New Zealand Prime Minister calls for a global censorship system
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech regulation has become an article of faith on the left. Ardern used her speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-zealand-prime-minister-calls-global-censorship-system
Censor everything except WEF propaganda that is.
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Because Ardern is the single source of truth as she explains:
https://youtu.be/MJjq_K9M4EQ
And is a loyal and faithful student of Herr Schwabb (like Australia’s former “Health” Minister Greg Hunt):
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=jacinda&
And a communist:
https://youtu.be/5RM9Q7XW72U
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Confirmed by Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jacinda-ardern-truth/
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She doesn’t want anyone to know that she is a terrorist, and really a man with a huge shaving bill.
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I thought she was a horse with a huge shaving bill
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The trans agenda trauma from a 17 yo
This is tragic and infuriating on a hellish level that makes me weep for these kids.
—> Distressing content warning<—
https://notthebee.com/article/if-youre-staying-silent-because-you-dont-want-to-be-vilified-or-suspended-for-opposing-this-then-youre-a-coward
It is just disgusting how innocent & vulnerable kids are being psychologically exploited by these twisted trans crazies.
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Leftists have extremely rigid views of gender roles and stereotypes so any time a boy, girl, man or woman does something, no matter how minor (e.g. a girl climbing a tree, a boy playing with a doll), that is a stereotypical behaviour of the opposite gender, they are immediately designated transgender and sterilising and mutilating procedures are hastily initiated.
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“All Ages” drag show in Tennessee cancelled after protesters arrive.
The sexualization and ideological indoctrination of children has become a major point of political conflict in the US in the past year as progressives ramp up a flurry of “family friendly” and “all ages” drag show performances across the country. In the majority of documented cases the performances include sexual elements common to most drag shows, but in this case in the presence of young children. The shows have specifically targeted predominantly conservative states and venues in what appears to be an attempt to incite a reaction from residents.
An all ages drag show scheduled this past week at the Memphis Museum of Science and History was suddenly cancelled as groups of conservative protesters including the Proud Boys arrived to show opposition. Mainstream media affiliates and progressives were quick to admonish the decision to shut down the event as “censorship,” and accused protest groups of “intimidation” (Yes, it’s rather hypocritical). Many in the media fail to mention the “all ages” aspect of the shows, which is the main reason why protesters show up in the first place.
The question is not IF leftists are grooming children with trans propaganda and sexualized imagery, but WHY are they doing it? They deny the practice exists, and when they get caught they defend the practice as normal. An argument could be made that it is the parent’s decision what their children should and should not see, but if we reverse the roles and consider parents taking their kids to a straight oriented strip joint, it’s obvious that law enforcement would immediately be involved and the parents would be punished. The very notion that we have to explain why it is wrong to expose children to sex propaganda sets a tone of extreme social instability and moral relativism for 2022.
While leftists might describe these events as a family friendly exercise in “tolerance,” many others would describe the shows as the glorification and normalization of mental illness. In any case, opposition to the trend is growing now that the American public is being made aware of it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/all-ages-drag-show-tennessee-canceled-after-protesters-arrive
“Glorification of mental illness”…
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What is unfolding with the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines is nothing other than an unmitigated disaster for Germany.
It isnt just the gas that they lose, it is probably all their wind as well – as the gas is needed to to balance changes in wind production with weather changes. There goes over 30% of their electricity supply….
They better keep their nuclear plants running…
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There were plans afoot to destroy and deindustrialise Germany a long time ago. But since the Germans could be tapped for funds, then these plans seem to have been delayed, rather than sidelined. Unforgiven is a great movie. But it isn’t JUST a great movie.
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Germans might be the world’s first genuine climate change refugees.
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No the destruction of Germany was a long-term racist undertaking, and has nothing to do with CO2-warming fantasies.
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They haven’t been destroyed, only put out of possible use for a short while.
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Well we don’t need to worry then right? I mean the last time we abused them we carpet-bombed their cities, burnt them alive. Accepted no peace feelers, destroyed all their buildings, defamed them, shamed them, and had all their women raped.
But thanks Mr Grim Nasty. You reckon this time around it will be fine. Because this time we aren’t following through on this abuse. Just putting them out of use for a little while. I find your understanding comforting ……. NOT.
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I stated a simply fact that is undeniable, nothing more nothing less.
Yes we get it, you’re here to post twisted Putin sock puppet propaganda and stir things up. Stop wasting your time.
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“we carpet-bombed their cities, burnt them alive. Accepted no peace feelers, destroyed all their buildings, defamed them, shamed them, and had all their women raped. ”
How did Putin get in there, that was the British and the Yanks!
“They haven’t been destroyed, only put out of possible use for a short while.”
They may never get back up to the level they were, the same as using all our minerals for the ruinables means we may never afford to cost of the harder-to-extract remnants to rebuild what we had 50years ago.
All the top countries end up as third-raters, look at Holland, Spain, Portugal, Italy.. even the Once Great Britain. The only ‘fact’ I can see is that we are entering The Asian Age, our civilisation will collapse into small wars between variants of whites and a bigger war between them and the Muslims.
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Are you forgetting that the Russians occupied East Germany for 45 years ?
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And the yanks used a weapon of mass destruction against the Japanese, but that is history.
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On the subject of transgenders and following on from John Connor II above:
US conservative Matt Walsh has the Left and also the Vanderbilt child transgender mutilation clinic in meltdown after he exposed their activities, including finding videos about how profitable transgender mutilations were for them.
Also, this had led to the Tennessee governor vowing to outlaw these mutilating procedures on children who are not even old enough to decide their own bed time (but supposedly can decide what gender they want to be).
This is one of the most incredibly cruel forms of child abuse there is.
Unfortunately Leftist media hides or censors the numerous reports of transgender regret out there.
I hope institutions and individuals are heavily sued for these mutilations although they are, of course, irreversible.
See Matt Walsh’s latest video on this but there are several preceding ones as well.
https://youtu.be/55xYeQ-wPRA
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It’s also a clear demonstration of the usual and totally predictable hypocrisy of the “modern world” where in most countries you have to be at least 16 years old to get a tattoo because of the necessity to possess the maturity to understand the lifelong ramifications of such permanent markings.
Yet somehow, younger children are actively encouraged by the demented in our world to make decisions, that as per my post above, totally destroy their lives.
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You can only be puzzled by the expert commentary on the three separate explosions on the two Nordstream pipelines.
It seems they are either Russian attacks on their own pipeline or Anti Russian attacks. You should not have to pay for expert insights like these.
And The Telegraph, the one which calls Giorgia Meloni the new Fascist dictator Mussolini, has an article “This is how Putin could have done it”. Isn’t it wonderful when journalists explain everything with such certainty.
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I don’t think there have been any new real journalists produced since the late 1970’s. That’s when the Marxists took over the journalism “schools” and it also changed from a profession learned “on the job” to something learned at what now identify themselves as “universities”, places which were once institutions of scholarship.
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‘ … when the Marxists took over the journalism “schools”…’
I witnessed it first hand and the lecturers didn’t hide their leanings.
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David, regarding “real journalists”:-
I am reading a book my father brought to me on a recent trip to Townsville by Les Carlyon: A Life in Words.
Les (deceased) was editor at the Age newspaper (Melbourne) at a relatively young age (33) and prospered from there, including authoring some books.
This book is basically a collection of articles etc. he wrote throughout his career covering many different topics (politics, war, etc.)
While I don’t agree with his view on everything he writes, it is refreshing to read writings where the journalist has clearly done his homework and presents both sides of an argument. It’s also a good refresher as far as Australian political history and war history is concerned.
I think I can pick which “side” he leaned to in some articles, but at least he presented both sides – more than I can say for the MSM nowadays, and in particular “our” abc.
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This is a very good explanation and tutorial for the NanoVNA vector network analyser.
Only about 15 years ago I was using something like this in the lab, a top-of-the-line HP unit which cost about $100,000.
Now something that “does the job” for the electronics enthusiast is about $100 or less although not up to the same engineering standards and calibration traceability as the HP.
https://youtu.be/_pjcEKQY_Tk
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I think you are right David. Think of Richard Carleton. Hard as nails. You could go into any journalists Christmas party and shoot your luger in all main directions and never trouble your guilty heart that you could bring down another Richard Carleton.
Even Andrew (The Streetfighter) Bolt is not up to that standard. Excellent defence of the Cardinal notwithstanding.
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For your reading pleasure.
The Australian Govt has released today (28/09,2022):
The “National Electric Vehicle Strategy: consultation paper”
It outlines Minister Bowen’s end goal to drive the uptake of EV’s in Australia.
https://consult.industry.gov.au/national-electric-vehicle-strategy
The direct link to the pdf is:
https://storage.googleapis.com/converlens-au-industry/industry/p/prj21fdd5bb6514260f47fcd/public_assets/National-Electric-Vehicle-Strategy-Consultation-Paper.pdf
He kindly asks:
“We are seeking views on proposed goals, objectives and actions for the National Electric Vehicle Strategy.”
Consultation closes 31 October 2022.
So you have the opportunity, to kindly reply with your view.
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Can’t be bothered to comment on their consultation BS. Just let the ‘Crash and Burn’ happen and then build back much better afterwards. Back to more than normal then methinks.
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I looked at it, thought about how long I would spend putting up the arguments refuting their lies, and made the same decision as you… There are enough other brick walls to bang my head against, let them all crash down.
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How a council’s $7million ‘green dream’ net zero solar project has actually seen emissions GO UP
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Well done them, excellent results.
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The Leopard (apologies Tomasi) did not change its spots, but can she? Scepticism in politics is healthy but faith is just hope in disguise. Nothing wrong with hope, that is until it becomes unearned faith. I personally so hope that she turns out to be her own woman, but we have seen numerous similar political false dawns over the last 3 decades. Remember the Bush jnr election?
For those, who still see her as the new Messiah, but are yet to see her provide any fish & bread for anyone:
https://unherd.com/2022/08/is-giorgia-meloni-an-eu-puppet/?=refinnar
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Has anyone heard Plukkachuks rave about no coal by 2035, wow, whatever they’re on, I’d SURE love some.
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There may not be if she keeps upping the royalties. Didn’t Dan destroy Vic’s coal generation via royalties?
What a thief is Plukka, levying land tax on interstate property.
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Nothing but a ‘Look Over There’ to distract from the Forensics Lab debacle, and all the other negative publicity from failed policies.
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G’day R,
Here’s an ABC story about it. It even includes some sceptical comment, but rather less than required IMHO:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-29/will-qld-really-become-a-renewable-energy-superpower/101483050
An extract:
” The plan is largely contingent on the Queensland “SuperGrid” – a network of renewable energy generators, energy storage devices and transmission lines that will be built across the state. ”
Then there’s this plan from VicDanistan:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-29/agl-to-close-loy-yang-a-power-station-in-2035/101484748
I’m sure that’ll help – something.
Cheers
Dave B
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Not one word in the ABC article about where 2GW of reliable 24×7 power is going to come from. Just the usual platitudes and memes. Hopefully with some incentives and generous termination packages it can be closed earlier. I want to be around to see that.
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Biden strikes again! A vital part of hurricane preparedness is to get vaccinated
https://twitter.com/USA_Anne711/status/1574851242291040262
Someone PLEASE lock up the old pedo.
It’s for his own good.
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This is not my post by any means, but it deserves wider exposure as it resonates:
JJ Barnett
21 hours ago
It’s really sad to see how the technocrats, in their supreme and unerring arrogance, have spent decades advancing their agenda in secret — stripping free nations of any vestiges of the principles and ideas that brought about the greatest prosperity and advancement humankind has ever known.
And they now confidently show their hand, knowing that all real power has been funnelled up out of the reach of voters; the ‘direction of travel’ cannot be altered by any pushback, it has been systematically insulated from democratic feedback.
And so the people give up, and many stop voting, because why bother. The west is dying, and the technocrats have done this to us. They’ve destroyed the pinnacle of human culture on the altar of their own God complexes. It breaks my heart, and makes me angry.
We have seen this kind of arrogance — which drives totalitarianism and all of history’s dystopic fits of oppression and mass murder — allowed to run freely in individual nations. We’ve even seen it done to a few nations at once, as in the Soviet Union. We have never seen it done to the entire world at once, which is what is being attempted now.
I think the instinct has always been there, but the twin pillars of globalism & technology have now made it possible to subdue and conquer the rich, free world. Globalism allowed every arrogant, narcissistic technocrat and sociopath to connect up, and to unite in their desire to overthrow free peoples, pillage all resources, and run the world by their decree alone. In the 1950s a government wishing to subdue free western societies would require the military to turn against their own citizens, an unlikely scenario in one place, let alone to engineer across the globe at once. Technology has removed that necessity, it’s now possible to subdue a free people simply by controlling banking and tech. So sad to reflect on the fact that our civilisation is being brought down by the traitors in our own house.
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Well, I see this in Agriculture: Machines getting bigger and bigger. How doess a wee guy get started on a realistic scale? Crofting and homesteaders is simply playing about. THe sheer scale of farming in W Europe does not help local emplyment and economic development. Enviro Regs on vehicles & business activities, etc more than stifles progress through innovation. ( thinking too of the Ozone Hole nonsense ) We see electrically powered Robo machines rolling or flying over the land – all at some expense whilst the populace stand by in awe. and then you find this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQLA_JSKqY8 and think that a squad of these small scale machines can still employ people yet remove the drudgery and provide Hope & inspiration to look after the planet / themselves in the process.
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NDIS costs more than health and defence combined, at least this is what I heard while doing other things.
You didn’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to see from it’s conception that this was unaffordable: Everyone is a victim of something.
My daughter was brain damaged at birth [maybe attending doctor cut her umbilical too soon]. The existing social net helped me out, she is still dependent on us 50+ yrs later but I have not needed NDIS.
Apart from my bloody independent streak, she doesn’t need a “case officer” destroying her confidence to go out and volunteer and do what she can.
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Food shortages in the world: Factories on fire, fertiliser production closing down; Conspiracy theories. well how about this from last night: Pictures say it all: Drink & food. I understood that in Germany this now, EITHER you cannot buy, OR not allowed to SELL CO2 , hence: https://www.mdr.de/video/mdr-videos/c/video-659226.html and when you need CO2 for Welding and other processes, what then. Ever been stuck on a hill in the snow with several vehicles, each with flat batteries or punctured tyres? try and extricate yourself from that in a hurry.
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So, how do you price value a used fossil fuels vehicle when our politicians are trying to make them illegal to manufacture and own?
The Unintended Consequences are piling up in whatever our politicians touch, turns to crap!
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/09/vehicle-sales-as-bellwether-for-economy.html
The other interesting read is individual countries are breaking and tanking the globalization infrastructure.
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So there’s a strong hurricane about to hit Florida.
You know, one of those things that never happened until we started using ‘fossils’ for evil purpose.
Once we stop climate change and MAGA, it will never happen again.
I was just in my car for two hours and it is what the smart people are saying on the news.
(We have have become hopelessly stupid.)
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There’s a lot of talk on here about whether or not it’s been a warmer winter or not; whether Billy Goat Creek’s mean winter temperature was the highest on record evah, and we’re doomed. All the talk of temperature highs, ice cover, ocean acidification, etc., ad nauseum is just smoke and mirrors to hide the scam.
I want to know what affect on climate taxing me 19.7505 cents per litre + GST = 22.71 cents per litre for 91 octane petrol has, here in New Zealand in the name of the Emissions Trading Scheme. The tax is based on the prevailing carbon price from the New Zealand Carbon Market. The tax is higher for Premium petrol and diesel. Your electricity bill is also taxed in the name of climate but I’ve not found the amount yet – I think it’s around 10% of your bill.
A new petrol station opened near here a few months ago and I note that just one bowser has already sold more than 500,000 litres of petrol and diesel raking in something like $230,000 in carbon taxes just for one pump at one petrol station!
Where does this money go? Who audits it?
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There! You’ve just seen the man behind the curtain! Money flowing from the poor (used to be the middle-class) up via the Govt to the rich, the way the whole scam was designed to be…
Local petrol went up 9c on Tuesday, just getting their new profit margin established before the Govt put 22c on it later today. Then as a distraction they’ll wag their finger at petrol stations saying they mustn’t put it up by any more than that and ‘look at that free-market capitalist pig who added another 1c..’
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CNN and Ivermectin
“CNN SLAMMED INTO A BRICK WALL NAMED JOE ROGAN AND PROMPTLY IMPLODED:”
https://instapundit.com/544708/
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Loy Yang aye?
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Let it be on your head, professor.
Only fossil fuels can carry baseload power.
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The POTUS has lost his marbles.
‘Where’s Jackie?’: Biden calls out for dead congresswoman.
‘White House in damage control after Joe Biden appeared to believe that a congresswoman, who died in August, was in the audience of a Washington event.’ (Oz)
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The end is nigh.
‘AGL says it will close the Loy Yang A Power Station by 2035, up to a decade earlier than previously announced.’ (SMH)
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The Left’s View of the Political Spectrum
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Leftists_VIew_of_Political_Spectrum-600×581.jpg
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