Tuesday

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    Glenn

    Well, tomorrow the ” experts ” start to close down Liddell power station. Hopefully, a large dose of reality is not far off.

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      I read that it was due to close around the end of April 2023. Like, the 28th of April 2023. So there is plenty of time to get down to Bunnings and buy up ALL of the candles………….

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      John B

      I don’t know about local council regulations but this would be a good investment.
      How to connect a backup generator to a house

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        James

        This suggestion is illegal and dangerous but it common in USA. What we do is turn the power off at the main connect to the house. Then unplug either the stove or the clothes dry outlet. Then make prong to prong plug-cord (dangerous). Then backfeed from your generator through the clothes dryer or stove outlet. The clothes dry outlet is normally 20A so will take 4800 Watts, almost as much as my generator puts out. Then start your generator up and feed in through this outlet.

        I think given the likely regularity of power failures in Australia in the future a properly connected change over switch would be a good idea.

        I only have to back feed every 10 years when we get an ice storm. Looks like Australia will be getting power failures about every 10 days when the wind lulls come!

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        Ted1.

        DON’T EVEN TRY!!! A mistake is deadly.

        Run leads direct from generator to essential appliances.

        Believe me, there is no easy way out.

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      David Maddison

      I believe the next phase of Australia’s energy shutdown will be April 28th with the closure of Liddell.

      I believe the issue of mothballing it was raised but this was ruled out by the minister. Their is a sense of urgency to destroy it as soon as possible.

      It’s just like the Nero Decree of the National Socialists at the end of WW2 when they planned to start destroying their own country.

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        Klem

        Canada closed down a bunch of their coal power stations a few years ago, you know, to save the planet and stuff. But even beer guzzling, frost-bitten Canadians weren’t stupid enough to blow them up.

        They’ll open them up again in a few years, once the Leftists are gone. Can’t say the same for the Ozzies.

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          Ted1.

          The purpose for immediate demolition is to guard against changes in government policy which interfere with business models which have been developed around government regulation.

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            Ted1.

            The last thing those business models need is the cheap and reliable power that a written down facility can deliver.

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      David Maddison

      Fancy taking pride in the destruction of essential critical infrastructure badly needed for electricity production with no viable replacement.

      https://www.agl.com.au/about-agl/media-centre/asx-and-media-releases/2023/january/agl-appoints-demolition-contractor-for-liddell-as-energy-hub-tak

      AGL appoints demolition contractor for Liddell as energy hub takes shape
      18 January 2023
      The closure of AGL’s Liddell Power Station has taken another step forward with Delta Group awarded the contract for demolition as the site is prepared for transformation into a low carbon industrial energy hub.

      After first announcing the retirement of Liddell in 2015, the full closure of the Liddell Power Station will take place eight years later in April 2023 with one of four units already retired in April 2022.

      AGL Chief Operating Officer, Markus Brokhof said it will be the first of AGL’s thermal generation sites to be converted into an integrated, low-carbon industrial energy hub, which will support the energy market and regional economic development.

      “After over 50 years of generating electricity for Australia, Liddell Power Station has reached the end of its operational life and will close in April 2023. We’re very pleased to announce that Delta Group has been awarded the contract for the demolition of the station,” he said.

      [..]

      The demolition process is expected to commence in early 2024 and take approximately two years. Work will include removal of all main structures (boilers, chimneys, turbine houses, coal plant) and ancillary buildings, and leveling of the site using recovered crushed concrete.

      SEE LINK FOR REST

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      yarpos

      Well, we have all had plenty of notice. I hope you have made your home generator arrangements where is a realistic option and have some blackout supplies. If we slide through this I doubt the grid will survive Eraring leaving.

      Lets see what winter brings.

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    John Connor II

    Man Takes Dog to Vet for ‘Gender Transition’ in Viral Video, Highlights Insanity of Child Sex Reassignment

    In an amusing, and at the same time troubling, viral video, a man brings his dog into a veterinary clinic for “gender transition.”

    He shares that the dog, festooned in a pink tutu, is male but wants to put the tutu on every time he sees it. He must identify as a female then, right?

    “We want to do a gender transition to make him female….but we don’t want to neuter him,” the owner says.

    When the staff balks, he asks, “You guys don’t offer sex changes here?”

    “No we do not,’ the staff replies. “Go somewhere with a specialist…..we are not a behavioral clinic. We are a general clinic.”

    The owner responds, “I wouldn’t call that behavioral. You’re saying gender identity is behaviouralism?”

    The staff asks the man to leave and as he departs he says, “I’m reporting this to the LGBTQ+ minus 2 Association of America.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/man-takes-dog-to-vet-for-gender-transition-in-viral-video-highlights-insanity-of-child-sex-reassignment/

    Of course we all know that taking your male dog to the vet for the big snip means it’s then female and you have to call it by saying ” here girl!” 🤣

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    Memoryvault

    So, Jo –
    What happened to Tuesday-1?

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    John Connor II

    Watch out, the climate loons are out slashing car tyres, including EV’s

    https://twitter.com/garethicke/status/1647684049031266304/photo/1

    Now, how much oil is used in making rubber tyres?
    About 25 litres a tyre I think, but could be wrong (it does happen and last happened at 3:17pm Thursday 17/2/1994 😁)

    Even the pushbikes these crazies use require lots of oil to make, or do they walk everywhere?

    In other climate loon news, a Just stop oil fwit interrupts a televised world snooker championship.

    https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1648032280651210752/mediaViewer

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      b.nice

      “a Just stop oil fwit interrupts”

      I really hope that one day one of these fwits goes to a biker hangout and gets caught puncturing their tyres !

      Gets their just deserts…

      ps second link.. page not fund

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      yarpos

      I wonder if they will start slashing roads when they work out bitumen?

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      RickWill

      or do they walk everywhere?

      In bare feet.

      Hard to slash a tyre without using something made with steel. Even a wooden stake would require sharpening most likely with steel knife.

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        another ian

        “Even a wooden stake would require sharpening most likely with steel knife”

        And fossil fuel for tempering

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      Geoffrey Williams

      Not slashing, but deflating.
      Still not good . .

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      Damo

      February 1994? Are you married? When’s your 30th anniversary?

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    John Connor II

    Climate Change Blamed For Tax Season Being Too Long

    The Earth’s warming climate is altering everything from animal migration patterns to when plants bloom. It’s also changing when Americans file taxes: As severe storms and natural disasters worsened by climate change afflict broader swaths of the country, the IRS is issuing more extensions for individuals and businesses to cope with the fallout sooner and pay taxes later.

    If you can believe that global warming makes baseball players hit too many home runs, you should have no problem swallowing this story too.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tax-season-is-getting-longer-blame-climate-change/ar-AA19XstI

    Rice is next on the hitlist

    Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.

    https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1647520201850896384

    Meat is a food staple in the west and rice in the east.
    Eliminate them both to save the planet (for the elite) and dish out the insects?

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      Graeme No.3

      Except that John Tisdall actually measured (in 1861) that methane only absorbed 4.5 times the Infra Red as CO2.
      I think they would do better by supplying evidence that methane from rice paddies is more than that emitted by termites.

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    John Connor II

    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is So Big, Invasive Species Are Now Thriving On It

    Coastal critters thought to be strangers to the open ocean have been found amongst the seething mass of plastic waste that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

    “The issues of plastic go beyond just ingestion and entanglement,” Linsey Haram, a marine ecologist formerly at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, explained when in the process of conducting her research. “It’s creating opportunities for coastal species’ biogeography to greatly expand beyond what we previously thought was possible.”

    Haram first drew attention to the emergence of coastal species on buoyant plastic rafts adrift in the open ocean with a paper she co-authored that warned this could be a new route by which coastal critters invade new, unsuspecting habitats.

    “It appears that coastal species persist now in the open ocean as a substantial component of a neopelagic community sustained by the vast and expanding sea of plastic debris,” the researchers write in their new paper.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01997-y

    Adapt. Overcome. Populate that plastic raft!

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      Hanrahan

      A few years ago I spent some time trying to FIND this garbage patch and couldn’t. I even searched Notices To Mariners on the assumption that such a patch would be a hazard to shipping if the plastic choked engine cooling pipes but all to no avail.

      If the solar cells on my roof are visible on GEarth so should this parch. Anyone got the coordinates.

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        Hanrahan

        Sounds to be hyped. Can 4 [microscopic?] particles per cu m support the above thesis? Coconuts, logs etc have floated in the oceans forever. Now, of course, we also have lost containers. 🙂

        Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/cu yd)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area. This is because the patch is a widely dispersed area consisting primarily of suspended “fingernail-sized or smaller”—often microscopic—particles in the upper water column known as microplastics

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          Honk R Smith

          “Despite the common public perception”
          Seems like there’s a whole bunch of that lately.
          MICROparticles makes a ‘patch’.
          Being skeptical of common public perceptions is MICROaggression (funny that’s a real word now, not redlined by spell check).

          The creation of those public perceptions is an industry …
          a government/corporate partnership.
          Currently blaming a particular ethnic group for a myriad of social and economic historical sins
          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
          (Frightening to search the evolving definitions, history is being turned on its’ head.)

          All resulting in a serious unprecedented MACROaggressions against the public.

          (Guess we can put any prefix in front of aggression.)
          Stealthaggression
          Preaggression
          Postaggression
          Bioaggression

          I am a victim Propaggression.
          I demand reparations.

          4 particles/cubic meter “we’re all gonna die”.
          Exposure to a contagion the sickens a fraction of the infected (primarily those with pre-existing morbidities) and “we’re all gonna die”.
          A trace gas, consumed by plant life, increases by 1/100th of a percent in two centuries and “we’re all gonna die”.

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        David Maddison

        Like the alleged former ozone hole which wasn’t a physical hole, the Pacific Garbage Patch is no more than a statistical artefact.

        The alarmists would have you believe that it’s a big patch of floating debris you could walk on.

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        Leo G

        The alarmists would have you believe that it’s a big patch of floating debris you could walk on.

        They’re skating on thin ice- the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre has three times the surface area of Australia.

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          Hanrahan

          Isn’t the Doldrums similar?

          Day after day, day after day,

          We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

          As idle as a painted ship

          Upon a painted ocean.

          A Q for Leaf or other pedants: Is “doldrums” singular or plural?

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            David Maddison

            Doldrums is plural and a surpringly modern word for its nautical usage.

            https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/doldrums-2020-10-14/

            WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF DOLDRUMS?
            Doldrums is the plural of doldrum, which had two very early meanings: the plural doldrums meant “a state or period of inactivity or stagnation” (1811), the singular doldrum “a dullard, a slow, stupid person” (1812). The later, sailing sense of doldrum, “a becalmed ship,” dates to 1823, and “a region in which ships are likely to become becalmed” dates to 1855. The etymology of doldrum(s) is difficult: it seems to have originated as a slang term (and slang terms are notoriously difficult to etymologize), possibly from dold “stupid,” originally a past participle of Middle English dollen, dullen “to dull,” or possibly from the adjective dull. The second syllable, –drum, is probably the same as in tantrum, which, unfortunately, has no satisfactory etymology. Doldrum and doldrums entered English in the first half of the 19th century.

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      KP

      Did she major in Social Sciences?

      ‘Ephemeral anthropogenic materials, such as lumber, glass and metal, are made of naturally occurring materials and may not last at sea6. However, enduring plastic materials may survive much longer, although degradation rates vary across polymer type, habitat and environmental conditions’

      She doesn’t have much of a grasp on glass or metal, even around the rubbish I keep in the backyard here you can see plastic degrading while glass & metal remain untouched over decades.

      Its obvious that all the organisms she found on the plastic raft were there to eat the plastic!

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    Memoryvault

    JP at “Awaken” discusses transgenderism, Bud Lite, curing addictions and WWIII.
    All in four minutes. Funny.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOcJigVOtwk

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    Strop

    Friends of Science Newsletter #386

    https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=2892

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    Topics include:
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    A New Tropospheric Temperature Record Show Little Warming

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    The Antarctic-driven Abyssal Ocean Overturning Is Not Doomed

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    Methane’s Unexpected Cooling Impact Unveiled

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    Plus a couple of topics taken from Jo’s blog.

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    David Maddison

    What could possibly go wrong?

    This is what happens when Australians elect “leaders” who are more loyal to the Chicomms than they are to Australia.

    https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/defence-and-foreign-affairs/concerns-over-use-of-military-technology-from-highrisk-suppliers/video/f2d5d4daec151ada3e8a794f6b83ee46

    Concerns over use of military technology from high-risk suppliers

    April 17, 2023 – 9:53AM

    Concerns are being raised about the use of military technology from high-risk suppliers due to Chinese drones being used by the Australian Defence Force.

    The drones are made by the company DJI which has been blacklisted in the US.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    David Maddison

    Video (13 mins):

    Dr Philip McMillan looks at the “mysterious” dramatic rise in heart failure cases in the UK.

    Coincidental I’m sure, that it strongly correlates with people being forcibly injected with covid “vaccines”…

    Aren’t “true believers” about due for their sixth or seventh “jab”? Well, what are you waiting for? Do it!

    Interesting comments on the video as well. One nurse said her department is overwhelmed with heart failure cases but no one will say aything.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/1UHoiePQPLE?feature=share

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      Vicki

      And, amazingly, many are! I have friend who, in the past 3 years, has suffered a heart attack & has now been diagnosed with lymphoma for which he is currently being treated. He told me yesterday he will soon have his 7th Covid Pfizer vaccination. He is convinced his medical problems are totally unrelated to the mRNA vaccine.

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    David Maddison

    Great news!

    Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.

    Don’t forget to remind any one you meet who was involved in the covid vaccine assault that they too will be prosecuted if possible.

    That should include “journalists” involved in propagating fake news that the vaccines were safe and fake news that the safe antivirals (taken according to appropriate protocols) were unsafe and ineffective.

    Show no mercy.

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/lisa-shaw-death-covid-vaccine-26665329

    Husband of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw to sue AstraZeneca after her death from Covid vaccine complications

    AstraZeneca said that its vaccines have ‘clear and stringent standards to ensure’ their safety

    By

    Katie Wilson

    11:09, 10 APR 2023 UPDATED11:49, 10 APR 2023

    The husband of a BBC broadcaster said he has “no option” but to sue a Covid vaccine maker after she died from extremely rare complications.

    Lisa Shaw was only 44 when she died in May 2021, just a week after having the jab. In the days leading up to her death, she reported headaches which were actually bleeding in the brain and tragically passed away after being admitted to hospital.

    A coroner ruled that the mum died from complications due to the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Husband Gareth Eve said he plans to take legal action against the makers of the vaccine after failing to get meaningful answers while AstraZeneca clarified that patient safety is its ‘highest priority’, the Mirror reports.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    Geoff Sherrington

    Help, please?
    Who blogged here 2 days ago with a map of 38 BOM stations with overlap data with AWS?
    Darned if I can find it. Geoff S

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    Saighdear

    Germany twisting around Green issues – I get the Denglish phrases and the diagrams. closing the Power stations. ‘the USA and China investing Billions in Green tech…” says the Bundnis90 Greens, gleefully and nodded on by the tv presenters.
    Yes Gleefully in UK at some show today talking about hydrogen powering the national freight fleet. – looking for the gravy train. whilst bbc business / financial waffles reporter giggles encouragement on the subject. Dog! Hit the red button!
    Oh and now they are talking about ALL that rain that falls and tell us how the soil reserves and plants are delighted … but that is all wrong too – the flooding. Can’t have it both ways, eh?

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    John Connor II

    Australian excess deaths from 2020 to March 2023

    https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676

    5,000% increase?
    We all know it’s due to global warming don’t we.

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    Memoryvault

    As an interesting aside, it appears the eSafety Commission started beta testing their internet blocking capacity at 4.00pm this afternoon.

    It’s only blocking obscure international sites at the moment, which is why I thinking they’re testing, but it’s effective against Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

    I can get around it in Firefox Private Window running on a VPN, but it’s not easy.

    You have been warned.

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    robert rosicka

    So Dutton is growing a spine , his choice for the shadow indigenous affairs is finally Jacinta Price !

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    James Murphy

    Despite some problems, The Australian Academy of Science is not completely useless.
    Here’s a lecture by Professor Richard Henley, an applied scientist who has spent his career focussing on economic geology and geothermal energy.
    He’s talking about the physics behind the Hunga Tonga eruption last year.

    It’s live at the time of this post, but I do not know what happens to this link after it finishes…
    https://www.youtube.com/live/QjTkvjwoINM?feature=share

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      Leo G

      Henley makes a number of references to the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand.

      The Taupo volcano within the zone has been causing some concern for about a year, with a peculiar pattern of (low level) volcanic unrest.

      NZ authorities are evidently concerned that even a minor event could lead to downstream flooding of the Waikato River and the town of Taupo (pop 26,000).

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    Argee

    Will this fool receive a significant punishment? Silly question really.

    http://www.gbnews.com/sport/world-snooker-championships-just-stop-oil

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    John Connor II

    Elderly and Vulnerable Were Euthanised with Midazolam to ‘Save the NHS’

    Whitehall suggested that the Health Secretary had the power to authorise medics to prioritise one patient over another, or even stop providing critical care altogether, even in the event of a flu pandemic. The Telegraph disclosed that care homes were asked by NHS managers and GPs to place “Do Not Resuscitate” orders on ALL residents at the height of the pandemic to keep hospital beds free.

    According to retired GP and author Vernon Coleman: Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people were tricked into having DNR added to their medical records in 2019, in preparation for a pandemic. Coleman maintains that DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) on their medical records was added to sacrifice them to “Protect the NHS”.

    Triaged based on Government needs not Patient needs.

    https://www.visionnews.online/post/elderly-and-vulnerable-were-euthanised-with-midazolam-to-save-the-nhs

    My disrespect for the medical profession is now complete.😡

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    paul courtney

    Meanwhile, here in the USA, our senators have rushed out a report finding that lab leak in Wuhan was likely source of covid. Who knows, a couple more reports like this and we might be allowed to talk about it.

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    MrGrimNasty

    BBC2 is sharing some of your Australian ‘comedy’, but the intro includes a message similar to entering their site regarding the original land owners blah blah. Sounds like most of the population will be surrendering all wealth and possessions and looking for a new home soon.

    https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2022/02-14-screen-australia-binge-colin-from-accounts

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      Saighdear

      Thought it was going to be funny, – so much plugging in the past few weeks – watch on i-player …. but I didn’t bite. then last night , was in at neighbours ‘come in and see this’ Huh, thought it was from UK.. ah, .. the accents and then the rest. Poor we dugg. Modern amusement .. not really for me. More real amusement watching Officers Ken and Karen ( ex Scotsquad ) in https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001ks60/highland-cops racing around my doorstep. Right enough! See if you can spot them!

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    Saighdear

    Breaking news in UK, past hour – they say. FOX News brokered a deal in US Courts regarding claims relating to that Dominion voting machines scandal …. WOW who to believe now

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Broken Science Initiative with guest, William Briggs”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/the-broken-science-initiative-with-guest-william-briggs/

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Dueling ITCZs”

    “Inspired by a comment about modeled rainfall by Dr. Richard Betts over in the Twitterverse, I decided today to look at how well the climate models are able to hindcast historical rainfall amounts and patterns.”

    More climate modelling “too much” from Willis E.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/dueling-itczs/

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    el+gordo

    Rupert settles for $1.2 billion to avoid sitting in the witness box.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The links between “queer theory” and pedophilia”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-links-between-queer-theory-and.html

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    KP

    Lobbyists.. what could go wrong?

    “The electric-car lobby group has been caught-out secretly campaigning policymakers in Canberra to introduce some of the most aggressive vehicle emissions reduction targets in the world. The automotive industry says the draconian measures would push up the price of electric vehicles – rather than deliver affordable models – and Australians would be forced to pay more for petrol and diesel cars within five to 10 years.”
    https://www.drive.com.au/news/electric-vehicle-lobby-groups-dirty-tricks-blind-sides-industry/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_3&utm_medium=partner

    ..and yes, here’s the result.

    “Albanese government to impose mandatory pollution caps on cars to drive electric vehicle uptake”
    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-government-to-impose-mandatory-pollution-caps-on-cars-to-drive-electric-vehicle-uptake-20230419-p5d1io.html

    That will be pollution when driving the car of course, not the over-life pollution including the manufacture! A cute but worthless move by an inept Govt as rules set by the big countries overseas determine what manufacturers make, we just take what becomes available. Our vehicle pollution per car would go down with no input from Govt at all.

    Cars make up 10% of our pollution, and they might knock 2% off that-

    ““Fuel-efficient and electric vehicles are cleaner and cheaper to run – today’s announcement is a win-win for motorists,” Bowen said.”

    Except they cost more! Is that also a win?

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    WendyB

    Anyone going up to Exmouth for the eclipse? I’m sure it’s been done before but could someone take temperature readings before, during and after to show the alarmists what happens when you dim the sun?…

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