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Cold and wet in southern SA and all of Victoria right now – contrary to BoM models. Has been the case for 10 weeks or more.
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Our politicians in Canada says this is an impossibly due to global warming…
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/18/y2kyoto-planetary-fever-warning/
Canadian Summers making a come back.
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Three days from the official start of summer, unprecedented.
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Don’t know if it’s happening everywhere, but here in the United States of Bitanica, the updated mantra is …
“the Science changed”.
“Excuse me Mr. Scientist, my children see snow.”
“Silence your anti-revolutionary hate speech peasant, and follow the Science.”
They should update Star Trek, and make the Science Officer the Political Officer, like on the Soviet submarine in ‘The Hunt for Red October’.
“Captain, we can restore Warp capability if we don’t tell Spock.”
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My bom app said the weather would be cold and wet when I looked a few days ago. What did the models get wrong get wrong?
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The Bom outlooks have generally been for warmer than average and drier than average. (Outlooks looking at coming months rather than coming days) I’m guessing it’s those models that Adellad is referring to.
As opposed to the weekly forecast you’re referring to.
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Yes of course, not the daily forecasts, it was the 3-monthly outlooks I was referring to. Ever since summer, they have been consistently telling me that Adelaide (and much if not all of the nation) would be dry, dry and dry. Also warm. It has been neither since the end of Feb,
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Revised a few days out when it’s obvious to all including the blind.
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mmmmmm this warmer and dryer winter seems to be neither. I am once again draining the top 20% of my tanks to stormwater to make room for this dryer winter and better managed my overflow.
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BoM hasn’t factored SAM into their models, intense low pressure bringis chilly winds from Antarctica.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/aao.png
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6es, that’s the short term period. Still in a SAM WARM Trend tho. That should reverse in 5 to 8 years Cooling ahead.
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Definitely has a positive trend.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/aao-index-monthly.png
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Paleo scientists believe humans are to blame for a positive SAM.
‘Historical reconstructions demonstrate that these recent positive SAM index values are unprecedented in the last millennia, and fall outside the range of natural climate variability.’ (Fogt et al)
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A repeat from yesterday of the insanity of retrospectively addressing slavery from centuries ago and religion and fossil fuels ended slavery, not BLM and fake history and science.
De facto slavery was absolutely necessary in an agricultural society where 90% of people worked on producing and preparing and packing and delivering food. There was little real gold and jewel as treasure. Soldiers were paid in salt and beer. That’s where we get salary from sal for salt even in today’s French. No one had any money and there was nothing to buy anyway as there was no manufacturing. The real treasure and world wide trade was in slaves.
I would like to state somewhere that Christianity abhorred slavery, no other religion. Suddenly every human being could be king with an intrinsic worth. All people had a soul and they were equal under God and in British countries equal under the law. There were no untouchables from birth. And this does NOT mean people are identical. Equity is nonsense. Equality of opportunity no more.
But what really ended slavery for the first time in human history was coal and the industrial revolution.
And today only about 2% of people are farmers. But now it seems they are the problem and the cause of terrible Global Warming? I would have thought no one would believe such arrant nonsense. I would be wrong.
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And in Dikensian London there were no slaves, but what difference did it make. You were not paid as a clerk. You worked ten hours a day six days a week and if you finished early you could sharpen your quills or read the bible. However you had free board and food, such as it was. No one had holidays, but sometimes you were given two bob (20c) on a Sunday and you could go out on the Christian day of rest and with the new trains make it to the beach. Was that slavery? Of course. Then the dark satanic mills of which there were too few to employ everyone as they came of the land, made redundant by efficient harvesting machinery and powered machinery generally like tractors.
The irony of the 1865 American Civil War is that Lincoln, the Republicans emancipated the slaves and then they had no job because the farmers used machines, so the now unemployed black people moved north to the factories to get work. And again there were not enough factories. And the Irish and Italians were even poorer and would take all the laboring jobs for less. Like the Koreans and Mexicans in California.
We are told a different story today of history, but the two things which lifted people out of absolute poverty were coal and war.
And after the war we had weekends, as the machines gave us Saturday. And sports people were not paid. And women could get work.
My father had Christmas each year. He and the other workers would all be fired for the new holidays. And hopefully rehired after Christmas.
The war changed all that. And as the new factories started producing cars and washing machines and dryers and hot water services and radios and gas and electric heaters and vacuum cleaners and new materials and plastics and electric power plants lifted everyone out of what was slavery.
But to listen to the social reformers today, we should stop it all and impoverish the planet. Because that is what Progressives do now, go backwards. And as for stopping Global Warming. Why?
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And how many Leftists have ever heard of the British West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy whose sole job 1806-1867 was to stop the trans-Atlantic slave trade and free slaves from captured ships.
White Europeans, that ethnic and racial minority so hated by the Left, were first to stop slavery, a practice that all cultures and races have practiced, often against their own race, there was generally no “racism” involved.
And who in Africa was it that collected and delivered the slaves to the slave traders? It was usually other Africans.
And let’s not forget the Arab slavers who took 12-15 million African slaves:
This compares to 600,000 slaves taken from Africa to the United States.
But we never hear a word about the Arabs.
They also abducted slaves from Europe, they even took slaves from Iceland in 1627. At least 1 million, maybe 2 million slaves were taken by Barbary slavers to the Ottoman Empire.
And on the subject of white slavery, where does the word “Slav” come from, Mmmm..?
All we hear about is how “evil white European people” were responsible for slavery, but far more slaves were taken from Europe to the Ottomans than were taken from Africa to the United States and vastly more Africans were taken by Arabs than were taken to the US. But we never hear a word about it.
If it were not for the double standards of the Left they would have no standards whatsoever.
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Nor would those very leftists know that some of their ancestors may be amongst those who were evicted and left their burning homes during the highland clearances in Scotland from 1750 – 1860.
Sold into virtual slavery by their clan chieftans. The word ‘clann’ means ‘children’, and they looked to their chief for paternal protection. Seventy thousand people displaced and forced to emigrate or were sold as ‘indentured servants’ for seven years in the Massachusetts colony, to work on the plantations alongside the negro slaves.
John Prebble wrote a great book – The Highland Clearances – on this subject. Very sad, but strongly recommended reading. Not all slaves were black. All lives matter, or should.
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The Irish as well. There was no shortage of ‘corn’ which they grew for their English landlords just the potatoes they grew for themselves. So more than a million died unnecessarily. The English Corn laws meant they could not afford to eat. It was inhuman. Like the Holomador in Ukraine.
So we came to Australia. And the Scots. It was that or starve. At least slaves were fed, which is not nothing.
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Corn refers to Wheat, Oats and Barley in England. The Americans refer to Maize as Corn.
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TdeF:
The ‘corn’ was grown in the east of Ireland by those who had switched to English methods. Those who kept to Irish customs were to the West.
When Sir Robert Peel repealed the Corn laws after he learnt of the Irish famine it was in the hope that wheat etc. being sent to England (higher price due to the imports from overseas countries) it was thought that the Irish would eat these. This didn’t take place because the people were so poor that they had no grain mills, no ovens (for bread) nor anything to make this foreign food palatable.
Also the transport in Ireland was abysmal, it took 10 weeks for news (of famine) from Cork to reach Dublin.
Also there was much enthusiasm then for Malthus’s theory among the upper class – Darwin was ‘converted’ to this in 1838 and he was a Liberal who hated slavery and oppression.
Sir Robert Peel when Secretary to Ireland in 1819 was quite pessimistic about the population and felt starvation would come again (as it had several times before) if the Irish didn’t change. There was a strong religious case against change in Ireland.
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“no grain mills, no ovens (for bread) nor anything to make this foreign food palatable.”
I have read that but it seems completely nonsense that the Irish did not know how to make grain edible. Almost like a justification of mass starvation through ignorance.
If your children are starving, this is nothing. All agricultural cultures were built on grain and they knew all about it. Two rocks, a pestel and mortar are enough to crush grain. A hammer. And you need to cook potatoes much more than you need to cook grain. Boil it. After all, it’s not ‘foreign food’. They grew it for their British landlords but could not afford it.
Porridge and the thinner gruel were standard fare in every country. It’s what you stuff in a Haggis in Scotland when you don’t have meat. Through history people lived on porridge. A three course meal was porridge for entree, porridge with salt for main and porridge with sugar for dessert.
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I think you are referring to this “Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister, purchased £100,000 of Indian corn (sweetcorn) in the United States and arranged for its transport to Cork.” This is what the Americans call maize.
And you are right. The Irish had no previous experience in cooking maize but again like all ‘corn’ all it takes is boiling, so that is also a very strange story. You don’t need ovens.
Plus “Public works projects achieved little, while Sir Charles Trevelyan, who was in charge of the relief effort, limited government aid on the basis of laissez-faire principles and an evangelical belief that “the judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson”.”
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Interesting discussion. New research is revealing more information on white slavery. Read more at https://truthbits.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/salvation-army-sins.mp3“
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John Deere ended slavery for cotton chippers and pickers.
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Long term, slavery discourages technical advancement, as IP theft by China holds back their advancement.
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Looks like Boris Johnson in the UK is getting the full treatment, a la Trump, Tony Abbott, etc. In other words, spiteful and fearful enemies are desperate to ensure that he has no chance whatsoever of making a comeback, because he’s being strangled, shot, burned at the stake, beheaded, then shot again.
I think this sort of treatment is reserved for the Leftist Globalists’ more effective opponents (i.e. threats) and/or as blatant and over-the-top revenge.
It’s quite extraordinary and quite chilling, mafia-style.
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I don’t have much sympathy for Boris, he did the modern version for the trojan horse promising heaps delivering the opposite.
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This seems hugely significant and while I can’t verify it, it is certainly believable and we should be worried. ToM
https://nationfirst.substack.com/p/the-voice-is-a-trojan-horse?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Of course it is. Whatever ‘The Voice’ is supposed to do could be legislated tomorrow. But once in place you have a politically appointed committee which is above the courts and the parliament. That is the end of democracy. Utter deceit and nothing to do with aboriginal welfare.
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I would also challenge anyone to say what actual benefit there was for aborigines. Not some waffle about a voice, but an actual benefit. And who exactly is an ‘aborigine’ as defined in this change to the Constitution which is not a law but above the law.
Rather I see it as an attempt by a Trotskyist PM with wall to wall Labour to change the system forever given all power to the PM and his friends. Nothing else makes sense as he refuses to say what exactly is the power of this committee. It sounds for all the world like Lenin’s Bolshevik takeover after the first elections in Russia.
Which would suit Adam Bandt, another avowed communist whose hidden PhD was on communism and for whom Lenin is a hero. “We them what they want to hear and when we get power we do what we like”. That was his direct statement to me.
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For example, I have for years been convinced that aborigines like 20% of Japanese lack the enzyme to metabolise alcohol. It is a poison to them. All alcohol would go into the blood stream and alcohol is the source of at least half of all known domestic violence. In aborginal communities I would suggest it is the entire cause. We just went through that as Progressives once again allowed alcohol freely into aboriginal communities in Alice Springs. I believe that is genocide painted as freedom.
And this is critical because if they were diabetics, we would not give them free and unlimited chocolate. Everything the progressives call freedom has been killing aborigines. It would be easy to check the time for alcohol to leave the blood stream. A breathalyser would do it.
So this Voice is going to end the scourge of alcohol for aborigines? No, it’s going to be about controlling the 97% of people who are not aborigines, a Politburo run by Albanese and friends.
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When I heard about this, some twenty years ago I recall that type A blood was the connecting link.
As for diabetes type 11, the days are gone when first nations people could come in from their frugal food intake to work in the towns and eat and drink lots of calories.
They got D11 but when they went back to the Bush it went.
Diabetes type 1 , I don’t have any idea about, but suspect it’s to do with people reproducing when they have type 11D. That’s maybe what living in civilization does.
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Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease, in that if you get a particular set of viruses the immune system response also ends up targeting the Beta cells in the Pancreas, destroying them. Which is why Pancreas transplants only work for a few months in T1D patients, before the immune response takes out the new Beta cells.
Further fun fact: Every degree further from the equator you get, the chance of T1D increases 1%.
Foot Note: the above information is from papers I read 9 years ago, hopefully research has moved on since.
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Thanks for that.
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Same with PIs in NZ. When Samoans came down they were fit, strong young men, but a couple of decades of living in Auckland and they were diabetics. There are special health services for them, freely available education on diets, but when a bloke was setting up a butchers shop he was told to stock everything the Health Dept told Pacific Islanders not to eat.. He made a lot of money.
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You should read “The Queen of Fats” which describes what happened when Eskimo peoples came down to live in Canada and began eating European food.
Big trouble. hdl which was plentiful in seafood back home was absent in Canada.
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KK, please do not take this as a criticism, but I have a personal campaign re the term “First Nations”. In order for a nation to exist there has to be a strong community, with some form of government and a leader of the nation.
Aboriginal people were hunter gatherers and in the main nomadic. They formed hundreds of disparate tribes and had no form of government or national leadership.
So the term First Nation is incorrect and should not be allowed to be used as it creates a false sense of nationhood that never existed and is the falsehood that the Yes campaign wish to promote.
First peoples I can live with.
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And a language.
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Hi Peter, no dramas, we are exactly on the same page.
To be honest I am sick to the stomach when I go somewhere and before the event starts there’s an acknowledgement of country.
Sorry if there was a bit of sarc there.
The idea that they have been here for forty thousand years may be defensible, but every week the occupancy increases by 10,000 years.
The last I heard it was 60,000.
Maybe 12,000, still a long time, but definitely not over mungo man.
As for putting in effort, my great grandfather went down the mine to work in Wales at the age of ten.
The family came to Australia in 1863 and he went straight into the local mine at Glenrock at the age of thirteen with his father and elder brother.
Dont get me started.
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“And a language.
And a common language, all the clans spoke different dialects and hated each other.
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No, this is different. I have never heard of it in connection with aborigines. What you are talking about is Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity where the insulin output is insufficient for the increased weight.
My proposition, which is not written anywhere as it is my idea alone, is that regardless of weight, aborigines cannot digest alcohol, something most Europeans take for granted. The genetic isolation, the lack of fruit to rot, the lack of grain to rot and the lack of sugar in say sugar cane means that aborigines had no naturally occurring alcohol. And likely no ability to digest it.
In contrast in countries with monkeys and fruit, there is no shortage of rotting sweet fruit. Or even in the Pacific islands with Kava. Vodka in Russia is made from potatoes, a new cold climate root vegetable from the Americas and vodka a Dutch invention.
I have seen videos of drunk elephants. Even in South America it was common but if you were drunk in public, you were executed in the Aztec ritual. The closest aborigines came to sugar was with honey ants.
But in 50,000 years of isolation on the gigantic island which is Australia, these paleolithic people never experienced alcohol.
And have no resistance to it.
And I really believe that this could be the start of saving them by recognizing it. But ‘The Voice’ is not about saving aboriginals. It is about political power and not for the aboriginals. Like ATSIC a trough for the lawyers but one which can never be removed.
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And there are great parallels with the Japanese. An inbred island fortress. And if you have ever tried Japanese desserts, an almost complete lack of sugar. In total contrast with say the French or Germans. Plus in a cold climate the alcohol came from rice based sake which was possibly very weak until the European idea of distillation.
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Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned the alcohol issue in the same discussion as the diabetes.
They are separate issues.
As I understood it, a number of Asian peoples along with Australian Aborigines have that significant alcohol intolerance.
At the time I came across this over twenty years ago I think that a common factor in the problem was type A blood but it wasn’t just the blood type.
A few months ago I looked it up again and didn’t see type A mentioned.
I have an aboriginal acquaintance who is fighting a difficult battle in this area.
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Hi TdeF,
When you say;
“My proposition, which is not written anywhere as it is my idea alone, is that regardless of weight, aborigines cannot digest alcohol”.
As mentioned, I heard that both aborigines and Asians have this alcohol intolerance and that was over twenty years ago.
The alcohol thing is totally separate from the diabetes problem.
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Alcohol intolerance is different again. It is about varying degrees of intolerance related to mutations and changes in the ability of the enzymes in the liver to process alcohol. Especially in Asian people. I am talking about a complete lack of the enzymes because they were a development of exposure to alcohol which never happened to Aboriginal people, certainly not in the last 50,000 years.
We know about the lack of exposure to colds, flus, smallpox and many more and the devastating effect it had on local populations. And we know about the change in diet from largely carnivore. And the weight gain from and type 2 diabetes, all common enough. But I am proposing that they have zero ability to process alcohol in the liver. The consequences of the arrival of alcohol have been devastating but we treat it as if they were just Irishmen to name one group.
If I am right, there is a medical basis for totally restricting alcohol from fully native aboriginal communities which is beyond sensible and compassion. The so called freedoms are killing aborigines and against the wishes of aborigines. What Labor and the Greens have been trying to do is close to genocide not freedom.
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Hi TdeF,
Not sure what the first couple of paragraphs are about, but we both agree with that last paragraph.
Alcohol is extremely damaging to aboriginal people and this needs to be recognised.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/monday-10/#comment-2679534
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That’s extremely interesting, TdeF, and well within the realms of possibility. It has long been claimed that aboriginal people have a low tolerance to alcohol, and your theory on this could be relevant.
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There have been many periods when famine and starvation have occurred in a great number of nations.
Post world war 2 in Asia for example.
This will mess with new born’s insulin settings provided by the mother during pregnancy and lead to diabetes 2, as seen after the Dutch Winter Hunger episode.
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“Alcohol is extremely damaging to aboriginal people and this needs to be recognised.”
The leftist muppets seem to think that restricting their access to alcohol is denying them their basic rights.
Surely there are some medicos who are not totally captured by the left and their cries of racism, to step up and speak out that restrictions need to be applied to save their lives.
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The queen of fats.
https://joannenova.com.au/2017/09/low-fat-consensus-was-wrong-high-carb-diets-increase-death-rates/#comment-1943568
hdl can be thought of as a solvent that helps clean the arteries.
Some fats are essential.
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A voluntary communist dictatorship cloaked in vague compassion.
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Don’t think I’d categorise it as being “above the courts and the parliament” from the little we currently know (which is very little and subject to change through the whims of Albo and final legistlation) but it has the ability to disrupt government function via court action if making “representation” and consultation is deemed insufficient.
There’s an old joke about someone being asked “what’s that race that stops the nation” and the reply wasn’t “The Melbourne Cup”. That could become reality.
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“The Melbourne Cup”.
And the New Zealand equivalent years ago was the comment “Next time around the Maori horse wins”.
NZ has always had some of the world’s longest horse races like the Great Northern Steeplechase that covered 6,400 metres and took some 8 minutes to run. Just like human races, which use a bell, back in the day these long horse races had the final lap signalled by a flag off to the side of the track to avoid spooking the horses.
The story goes that at a particular country meeting one of the long distance races continued for an extra lap because no flag was evident at the end of what should have been the penultimate lap and the field was instead waved round to complete another extra lap. The ensuing inquiry discovered that the flag person had placed a rather large bet on one of the horses and that at the commencement of what should have been the last lap his horse was a fair way back in the field.
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The next race that stops a nation will be the Aboriginal Race.
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Pharlap was a New Zealand horse incorrectly named by an Australian.The horse’s name was Philip
The Aussie asked the Kiwi what was the horse’s name was. The Kiwi replied “Pharlap” as in Prince Philip
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Dont you mean Fulup?
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Thanks TOM, very useful.
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The linked article comes across as somewhat racist.
I’d be more interested in why criminal big pharma is pushing it so much.
If, and I don’t mean this in any derogatory way, the aboriginal community values its culture and heritage so much, why do they insist on blaming white people for historical events while simultaneously taking money in reparations and living white man’s lifestyle?
Why not go back to your cultural lifestyle instead of living that of your historical oppressors?
If the article’s claim that they’d take back their land is true, then what would they do with it and what the King say and do, given that no-one really owns land in Australia?
Would an aboriginal “takeover” constitute the equivalent of the (illegal) “immigrant” invasions around the world, the objective being to displace and minimise western populations? Is The Voice is just another WEF plan to trick the trickable into being useful idiots, just like BLM, ANTIFA, the LGBTQ+×÷- movement etc etc.
Time will tell, but MUCH bigger events are way closer.
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Whatever the Voice might be, or what it may or may not do,….fundamentally it is undemocratic to give one section of society a preferential input to the parliamentary process , and should not be allowed.
Indigenous citizens already have a disproportunate number of MPs to represent them in government, as well as a huge media sympathy and social influence above many other community groups.
And personally, i do not understand the “recognition” aspect as they are already recognised as Australian citizens in the Constitution.
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On Outsiders Sky News Sunday it was reported that Labor Indigenous ancestry Senator Dodson (father from UK) visited Broome WA to sell Voice to the locals, an Indigenous person asked what was in it for the people and the Senator replied Voice is a hook to catch compensation monies and other objectives.
Another way of describing what was called a “Trojan Horse” from the beginning of the sales campaign by well qualified observers.
If the separate matter of Recognition was being considered it should not be used to sell Voice. It could be out in the Preamble to the Constitution as an historical note regarding the people here in 1788 when the British Empire established the first colony.
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Good find, a link within the link took me here
The history of the voice goes back many decades, read, listen and understand.
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“…the Voice is a Trojan Horse?”
As they say in the classics:
“Always was; always will be.”
As for the “an existing Aboriginal “Constitution”?
No written texts.
NO common language (About seven hundred different languages / dialects recorded nationally last century.
NO “industrial” base. Rock-pool fish traps and hollowing out termite stricken logs to make a basic musical instrument hardly count as “industry”.
Almost total absence of protective clothing; those red fabric outfits that feature at every smoking / welcome ceremony are a VERY recent innovation. As for the neatly-stitched “traditional” possum cloaks in Victoria. It is enlightening to see the range of chemicals, tools and other equipment it takes to preserve ONE hide, let alone enough to run up a fancy cloak. In south-east Queensland, the coastal Jaggera and other groups from all points of the compass made their way into the ranges to feast on the nuts from the Bunya tree, which were only available every few years. A good opportunity for trading stories and genetic material, it seems.It was not a five-minute stroll. I was MOT an idyllic life, but better than a LOT of others at the time. Side note: The Bunya folk were deeply into rotational “firestick” hunting as a way of obtaining protein and altering the environment to encourage the growth of grasses and remove undergrowth, for the benefit of the game species and the nomadic humans
Furthermore, WHICH “first nations”? The The “Mungo” people? The late “Tasmanian” folk? The “little people” of north Queensland? The entire “first nations” caper is a direct import of US political science. Speaking of which: Clovis people? How many ‘waves” of humans tap-danced through the mega-fauna and Ice-Ages to end up with the REALLY tough cookies stuck down in Tierra del Fuego?
The Kalkdoon people, in what is now the Mt. Isa district appear to be about the ONLY tribal group to have an “organized” military AND tactical procedures. Their raiding of the “easy meat’ provided by the newcomers livestock eventuality led to their downfall; a task joined with relish by native troopers from other tribes who may have copped a serve from a Kalkadoon raiding part, or coastal adventurers who had taken the Queen’s Shilling. They only barely survived that “punitive expedition’, but survive it they did.
They tell their own story here: https://www.kalkadoonpbc.com.au/about-us/who-we-are .
All was NOT “sweetness and light” in the “good old days” And can we put an end to this tendentious “Noble Savage” nonsense.
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Keep voting “NO”
Remember that the ALP sends trainees to be indoctrinated by the Democrats in US. This is likely their go at Nancy Pelosi’s action on the Obamacare vote, where late in the night before the vote they dumped 1200 more pages of the legislation and her comment that “To find out what is in the legislation you’ll have to vote for the legislation”.
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Embarrassing panic over desert: German Green politician “proves” climate change with picture of military training area
Barren wasteland, empty fields, hostile desert – and in the middle of Germany! With an embarrassing panic tweet, the Green Party’s Katrin Göring-Eckhart, who is, after all, Vice President of the German Parliament, has caused astonishment – and incredulous head-shaking.
Alarm! Due to man-made climate change, desertification is already beginning in the middle of Germany. The drought catastrophe already has our latitudes firmly under control. This is what Gatrin Göring-Eckhart (Greens) wanted to suggest on Twitter. To do so, she posted a link with a picture showing such a desert right on our doorstep – the “Lieberos Desert”.
Anyone familiar with the history of this sandy area, 95 kilometers from Berlin, will have immediately recognized the Green politician’s gaffe – because it has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change. Created by a large forest fire in 1942, the area was used for many years as a Soviet military training area. Because heavy tanks constantly rolled through the area, the “tank desert” remained just that: a desert. Environmentalists are even fighting to preserve this area.
https://medforth.biz/embarrassing-panic-over-desert-german-green-politician-proves-climate-change-with-picture-of-military-training-area/
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Last Friday mainstream free-to-air mainstream television were stating that the Australian Capital Territory (A.C.T.) power prices were amongst the highest in the world. The Power price comparison slide read;
Super Charged Power Bills;
N.S.W. 26.5c/KWH
A.C.T. 34.5c/KWH
U.S. 22.6c/KWH
U.K. 30.8c/KWH
Following that revelation someone must have reminded them that the A.C.T. was already 100% renewable since 2020. Power prices in the A.C.T. were supposed to come down after becoming 100% renewable according to statements by their Energy Minister in 2016.
Today we get the Woke push-back, with the announcement that “some places” in Europe have power prices three times that of Australian power prices. The exact location was not stated. It was all caused by the war in Ukraine and the fact that 25% of coal fired power stations were closed due to maintenance issues. Well they shot themselves in the foot again as less coal power means higher prices. The tens of $ billions spent on the transition to renewables, never got a mention.
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Assuming those prices are in aussie c/kWh ?….
…..then thay are already out of date.
My new flat rate in NSW is 40.5 c/kWh !
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Would now be interesting to see a full list of each State and Territory’s average cost. In Perth it’s still reasonable at 27.33 c/kWh.
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Yes G4, ..but Perth is not part of the national grid !
A recent tour of WA revealed to me how many of those fine communities are actually fully self supporting in electricity generation.
Town and communities with prominent wind turbines and/ or solar systems, some with small batteries, but all with diesel generation backup/ baseload tucked away out of sight !
Also a high proportion of properties with roof top solar.
I was particularly impressed with the 3 wind turbines in Coral Bay which can be lowered flat to the ground if a cyclone is predicted !
Not as impressed by the wind turbine on Dirk Hartog island which had been stripped bare of its sails(blades ?) by a previous cyclone !
How are prices set for those self generating communities ?
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Agreed, but the bulk of WA’s population resides in the South-West corner, with very little population outside of this area. I believe WA is unique in this. And this corner is well-served by the SWIS grid, mostly powered by coal and cheap gas.
There is an industrial “grid” in the Pilbara area, mostly powered by cheap local gas.
While we have a lot of home solar, I believe around 25%, during winter this doesn’t help. For example, my home solar has struggled to achieve one third of its max output during the last fortnight, on one day dropping to less than 10%. And you can see this on the WA AEMO site, where home solar went missing in action for many days.
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Mmmmm unique? most of the population of VIC lives in Melbourne/Geelong and most of the population of NSW lives in the Newsastle/Sydney/Wollongong corridor. WA is unique in lots of ways but urban clustering isnt really one of them
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My new electricity rate via agl in Victoria from 1 July 2023 is $A 31.74/kWh up from $A 23.27kWh. Which is a massive 36% increase. The reasons given by agl for this massive increase are major global energy challengers and over the last year we’ve seen significant rises in wholesale energy costs in Australia.
Of course there is NO mention of Bowen’s 60 million new solar panels 8,000 new windmills and thousands of km of new transmission lines by 2030 which must be provided free.
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Could you provide a link because my rate is around 22.6c with “direct saver” plan ACTEW AGL.
This also contradicts
https://www.finder.com.au/average-cost-of-electricity
playing around with this https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/ I find that origin is offering 19-20c so I should think about moving provider.
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GA,..
That “energy made easy”. Site is very tricky and easily missread !
You have to enter specific details for your adress and “distribution” provider as well as the energy supplier.
When i do that it comes back with my current rate (30 c/ kWh) , which is one of the lowest available ..according to them.
So, the rates on that site do not reflect any of the actual rates applicable after July 1st .
Further, talking to my supplier (Alinta) i now realise that the rate they have quoted is likely NOT to be the one i will be charged after July as they will be able to offer lower “Retention rates”. to existing customers who may consider ending their contracts. !!
Almost like buying dinner plates at a sunday market…if you know what that is like !
Also, the Average electricity price varies greatly across states (28.5 in NSW) and that site does not allow for the July increases either .
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Correct Current prices. I obtained estimates doing as you wrote. NSW, SE QLD and SA are the places getting slugged in July.
I still have not found anything that puts ACT in the 34cents ballpark and plenty to the contrary so I’m calling BS on Mayday.
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Think you’ll have to apologise for your “calling BS on Mayday”. See my comment #6.3.1.1
The figures might be wrong or contingent on certain offer or default offer. You can argue that with the publisher. But Mayday is correct that is what was reported.
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Prepare yourself for a price rise professor.
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As stated. The possible rise is capped at about 4% in the ACT
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Mayday- your statement
appears to be false. I’ve search and found no such reference- rather I am seeing this type of article about the regulator. Basically prices are off a low base (see my other comment) and are increasing in line with inflation.
https://citynews.com.au/2023/act-electricity-prices-to-rise-by-maximum-4-15/
Articles like this one appeared recently, explaining that big increases are in specified areas
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-27/why-are-electricity-prices-rising-australia-energy-costs/102374028
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Appears to be true that that it was reported in a mainstream media outlet in print at least. Herald Sun 16 June 2023
There’s a graph in the article showing the following state prices as: (don’t know if these are default prices)
NSW 26c
Tas 27c
QLD 27c
Vic 28c
ACT 34c
SA 40c
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/australian-power-prices-how-your-state-compares-to-the-world/news-story/4848e38e7a5891a3d27bc85870ab23da
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I’ll reserve my apology. First it contradicts actual information from suppliers that I’ve provided and can easily be checked. Second it is paywalled and I have not seen the data source.
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Schumann resonance weirdness
This is very strange. I’ve never seen that sort of pattern.
No explanations so far. Anyone?
http://sosrff.tsu.ru/?page_id=7
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I assume it’s an ionogram chart of electric field spectral density normal to the magnetic field.
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It’s all due to a glitch in the Proton Nebulizer.
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An interesting read on the “renewable” energy and EV poster child Norway. Looks at Norway’s oil usage from the 70 till today, and the reality of the impact on oil usage in a close to ideal case in a country blessed with Hydro.
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/stuck-in-the-middle-with-you
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A minor point of interest is the fact that all of these “renewables” projects have been built on the back of hydrocarbons. Cant build a dam, hydro electric scheme or wind turbines without good old hydrocarbons. So, have all of these “clean” electricity producers paid off their carbon debt or is this just something we dont talk about in polite company?
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Norway is blessed with both hydro and massive oil and gas reserves (well managed, unlike ours) They can afford to play any game they wish. They are the real “lucky country” in the literal sense.
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BoM: Thredbo 3am, -4.8 C
Wind chill (feels like) -21.5 C
Mountainwatch VIC & NSW forecast:
“Snowstorm alert… heavy… cold… blizzard… frigid”.
Lots of ©©© den!ers riding chairlifts, fully rugged-up against the elements and no doubt enjoying all that powder on the way back down… hoot!
In other news, NZ’s Cl!mate Munster, Jam-jam ‘the Green’ Shaw, is annoyed the ETS is not only not popular, it’s failed, ie. forestry is killing ‘the environment’ and ‘carbon credits’ are practically worthless. So it’s time to reform, re$et if you will, the whole scam. Only 4 months till the election…
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“Only 4 months till the election…”
So whats the “feeling” about the future. Is it going to be a cliff hanger with the outcome decided by Winston changing canoes mid stream or do you think the people may just happen to vote in a conservative party in their own right?
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hi Jo, perhaps you could consider to review Judith Curry’s new book “Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response”, here on Amazon.
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Very cold overnight last night Mid Coast NSW, today a chilly start but like yesterday sunshine and no wind, so by midday nice to sit in the sunshine for a while but only just comfortable with shirt only and shorts.
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Parliamentary trigger.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-19/housing-future-fund-labor-greens-early-election/102495932
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What an absolute load of crap.
The govt can call an election of the HoR any time it likes, and a standard half senate election of the Senate after two years. As it has been two years since the last general election the govt can now call a “standard” election (full HoR plus half Senate) any time now that suits them. They don’t need a “trigger”.
I strongly suspect this talk o a double dissolution is to deflect attention away from “something else”, but I’m unsure just what that may be.
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Sorry Gordo,
My “crap” comment was directed at the ABC, not you.
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Labor doesn’t care, it has already started handing out the money.
‘The prime minister at the weekend announced a one-off $2 billion investment in social housing around the country, with funding to be distributed among the states and territories over the next two weeks.’
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Just how many houses can $ 2.0 billion provide ?
Not very many around Sydney or Melbourne etc, ….compared to the number of homeless.
Aand not very long if it is just used to pay for motel/hotel rooms as has been done for immigrants
They should put that money into the Rental Subsidy scheem that has been supporting housing the homeless, but is being ended soon.
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It’ll be interesting to watch if they can manage to build ONE house.
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Unlikely, as they are just as competent as NZ’s political parties. Jacinda’s 10,000 homes per year.. Lol, they never got half that in all the time she was in power!
The solution is there, but no-one wants to do it. You just knock up the cheapest dormitories possible on vacant land, or replace old houses owned by Govt, and rent rooms out dirt cheap. Shared kitchens and bathrooms, but hey, its a roof over your head.
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Last election was May 2022.
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Have just watched the first 30 mins of the round-table EV discussion on WUWT. A very interesting point made by Simon Michaux, where he believes conversion to all-EV vehicles will require an extra 20% of power. I know others here have stated that they believe not much extra energy would be required, but the reason behind Simon’s calculations is that he believes large transport will run off hydrogen, not batteries, and he has calculated that hydrogen requires 2.5 times more energy to produce than EV battery charging.
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G4,..
But if they do run on hydrogen ( Green, from Electrolysers) , the suggestion is they will be powered from their own Solar/ Wind generators, which will have no connection to the current grid.
But dont worry,…it wont happen !😂👍
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It was interesting to hear why Simon suggested that hydrogen be used for heavy transport – apparently its transport weight would be one third that of batteries. But as you say, it’s not going to happen.
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Most of the weight to carry hydrogen as a fuel will be the tank.
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Simon mentioned a pressure of 700 bar. I presume that’s much more than a car’s gas tank.
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Just a smudge. Close enough to 700 bar more I reckon. Not something I would chose to be near for extended periods really.
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Any idea how heavy a 500-700 kW fuel cell system might weigh ??
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Also the tank for liquid hydrogen would have to be larger and more robust. I calculated that the same size as existing semis would hold only a quarter of the range (yes, I know H2 is supposedly 2.8 times the energy of petrol but its volume holds fare less weight).
And if you want compressed hydrogen you need an every bigger (and heavier) tank.
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Pardon.
What is the most efficient way to transport Hydrogen?
Rocket Engineers are moving away from liquid Hydrogen for containment reasons – you just can not successfully contain the stuff for any useful length of time. It always finds a way to escape.
It occurs to me that you need to bind Hydrogen to some other element, weakly enough for easy removal and with multiple hydrogen atoms per binding atom.
Well, it just so happens that the universe has just such an element. It’s called carbon. Carbon chains of Hydrogen or Hydrocarbons are the most dense method of transporting Hydrogen for the smallest cost. Usefully, if you burn Hydrocarbons, you get just about as much energy from the Carbon Oxidation as from the Hydrogen Oxidation. Win/Win.
Even if you want to move away from combustion to fuel cells, a methane or ethane or propane cell will be able to travel further due to the density of the fuel source.
Pure Hydrogen is a non-starter as the rocket industry has shown. It’s only useful as single use ultra short term combustion fuel.
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Could get interesting in a crash.
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Some of you guys dont exactly embrace technical developments,.do you ?
Whilst i do not believe Hydrogen , especially the “Green” version proposed, will ever be a practical mass trasport fuel option, it is good to track the progress.
All practical hydrogen powered vehicles use compressed H2… most at 700 bar.(10,000 psi) in compact composite tanks. A typical car tank is 120 – 140 litres capacity but holds only 5 kg of H2, that can provide over 1000km of range ( a record of 1360 km has ben recorded)
Toyota have been making commercial H2 fuel cell cars for over 20 yrs, with 20,000+ currently on the roads.
Toyota are also developing a H2 fueled conventional ICE (piston) engined car for commercial sale .
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We cannot track everything Chad. That’s why blogs like this are very useful, when info such as you have provided is very interesting.
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Jennifer Marohasy takes a stand.
‘The Twitter Files’ confirm what many have suspected for years: that governments and much of the mainstream media actively work with social media giants to censor and de-platform those they disagree with and push particular agendas.
‘Many of our once trusted institutions are now engaged in little more than keeping us, the public, in a state of unnecessary and constant fear.
‘Managers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have for years misled the public on the state of the climate. It is not getting drier, nor are rainfall events more extreme, and the extent to which some coastal locations may have warmed over the last hundreds years is unclear because of all the changes to the measurement methods.’
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Climate Alarmism Is Nothing New
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Victoria experiencing some cool weather now and NSW also in line for this cooler dose.
Electricity prices in NSW are currently doing some gymnastics but it does not appear to be related to real availability; rather just a settlement issue:
https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
Price spike to $14k/MWh with demand now above 12GW. No current lack of reserve.
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Tomorrow will be a test for power. Vic will be cold, cloudy and still with a big high over NSW.
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Maybe dirt cheap energy will be Tassie’s saving grace. People and businesses who can’t afford NSW power will move interstate.
I assume no-one is allowed to operate a ferry in competition to the Tassie Govt, the only thing stopping cheap transport over the water.
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It’s the MUA that makes Australian coastal shipping so expensive.
If Melbourne built an LPG receiving terminal it would be cheaper to buy gas out of Singapore than Gladstone or Dampier. Is this why no one signed take-off contracts when the gas companies were shopping for finance, the best time to sign long term contracts?
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The move foreshadowed in the Australian this morning is to eliminate all domestic gas uses. Cooking, heating, drying. And five million home appliances across Australia. And make all Australians totally dependent on electricity and only electricity. Then there will be one big switch. And it will be in Canberra.
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Solved!
“Climate Change Turns Out To Be a 71-Year-Old Guy Named Ed
Climate change has been caught and is behind bars.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/climate-change-turns-out-to-be-a-71-year-old-guy-named-ed/
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208cm snow on Zugspitze, luging in near summer 😀
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SE Australia is suffering from an “ARCTIC BLAST”….Lol!
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The journos get so used to cut and pasting articles and using the words of others they never stop to tbink. I dont think many of them can think critically really.
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At least it’s warm in Texas – high today of 37 C, and 39 C projected by the weekend.
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It is amazing that we are past questioning whether Global Warming exists. It doesn’t, man made or not. But we are now in a world where you are not allowed question what is an official Government fact.
Endless government ‘Clean Energy’ departments and thousands of salaried public servants now work to help us get to Nett zero and eliminate fossil fuels, replacing them with nothing but windmills and lunchtime solar and a 2,500 tonne drill stuck in the side of a mountain, barely in by its own length. And Australia’s chief scientist avoids saying such a thing but quietly warns of the undesirable consequences of thousands of windmills including offshore. Meanwhile the cost of endless new transmission lines just keeps mounting.
And this despite the fact that there is no evidence or proof of any sort. Every prediction has failed including at the very least, rising temperatures.
So why are the politicians continuing to destroy the place? Who is paying them? China? There is no other conclusion possible except mass insanity.
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So we are being asked to change our constitution to ‘save’ the aborigines without any explanation as to how it will work to do so. And to fund more thousands of windmills and solar panels to ‘save’ the planet.
Do you ever get the feeling that we are not being told the truth? About anything?
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I do, and I have had that concern for many years, probably from 2007 when Rudd Labor formed Federal Government.
But with reservations based from joining the United Nations after WW2 and Australian Communist Faction of Labor Attorney General Evatt providing his UN comrades who had infiltrated the UN with his plan for treaties and agreements to be signed with member nations to enable politicians to get around constitutional laws.
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Add to the insanity the Albanese Labor referendum now being referred to as “Recognition” because “Voice” has become a liability.
Far left agenda started by Aboriginal Activists and they found Albo the Trotskyite and comrades, joined by too many opposite who used to be Liberals.
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Why Voice+Treaty+Truth is not recognition, look at the link and be disgusted like I am;
https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/the_divisive_voice_in_the_words_of_thomas_mayo
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+1 disgusted !
That guy is one of the main movers for the “Voice” and as such his comments should be on the front page of every advertisement, news paper, TV debate, etc etc …such that the voters know exactly what lies behind this scheeme. !
However, i bet we will not hear from him again as he will be kept from public comments in future !
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The White House resident’s new CDC director thinks the covid lockups she was involved in were funny.
https://youtube.com/shorts/KZuFevHuYSo?feature=share
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Following ‘the science’!
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FWIW
“Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof?”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/do-wuhan-institute-of-virology-scientists-often-fall-from-the-buildings-roof/
And
“The Ongoing Debate on Vaccines”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/19/the-ongoing-debate-on-vaccines/
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Renewable energy rollout too slow, warns AEMO
Australia is not building renewable energy developments quickly enough to compensate for the loss of coal-fired power generation, the head of the country’s energy market operator warns.
Energy executives have said the lack of transmission – high voltage wires and poles – is discouraging new developments.
About 10,000km of new lines must be built before 2030, but their development has been hampered by funding constraints and community opposition.
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So much for free. 10,000km of transmission lines we never needed before. More tens of billions or its ‘our fault’ for not ‘funding’ renewables.
So thousands more short lived windmills and millions more solar panels are needed as never before. For what? To replace the reliable, cheap, simple, commandable, almost zero environmental impact coal and gas power plants which gave us safe and adequate power from winter to summer and in a manufacturing society.
During WWI and WWII we realised collectively as a country that we could not make a frigate or an aircraft or electronics or metals so we determined to change all that. Manufacturing is essential using electrical power to convert raw materials into consumer and military goods. So we invited world companies like ICI, Alcoa, Caterpillar,GM, Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Boeing and many more to setup in Australia and make manufactured goods cheaply and locally with our cheap plentiful and even limitless electricity.
Now since 2000 all manufacturing is being rapidly shut down and the factories are closing or closed and the big companies have left or are leaving. Those that remain are government subsidized because of the ridiculous price of electricity. Aluminium is 90% electricity and has been used to push votes as in Portland, far from where electricity was generated. Tomago aluminum. All these are ridiculous now, loss making.
And our vast reserves of brown coal, black coal, gas and fracking and shale are being ignored while we put up short life Chinese windmills and transmission lines. Everything imported. And we make no cars, no aircraft, few metals and those are all to be closed with Alabanese’s Safeguard Mechanism. Even sewage (MMBW) and V-line trains and the Tasmanian ferry are being threatened with closure. Daniel Andrews just closed the timber industry by edict without warning. All metal making, concrete making, glass making is under direct threat of imminent closure. Even transport. Farmer’s tractors.
So now we are not building renewables and trasmission fast enough? But we never needed them. The energy collectives are warning that when the blackouts come like South Africa, it’s all our fault. ‘Funding constraints’ and ‘community opposition’.
But there was a time when politicians represented the ‘community’ and not the UN/IPCC and the CCP. Farmers are next while the people are kept distracted with allegations of aboriginal injustice and oppression. A decade ago we were even told that Australia slavery was common and that the seas would soon drown our cities and the drought was permanent.
Why are we being told these lies?
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And as for ‘saving the world’ and ‘setting an example’, really? Is that the job of government? And now they want to rewrite the constitution to allow the government to fix the problem? The problem is with the government, not the Constitution.
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“and community opposition”
Why would anybody want to put up with the health problems and visual disturbance and intrusion of power towers and cables.
This wouldn’t be necessary except that Renewables require huge amounts of farmland and can’t be built near cities that will use the product.
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10,000klm of transmission line by 2030 and they think its a funding problem. Shows how in touch with reality they are.
About 100klm completed per month , every month from now till 2030, inc all substation equipment.
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Not surprisingly, ..a new high power distribution line is being constructed just outside Canberra.
For some reason (convenience ?), it is being routed right beside the main highway between Canberra and Quenbean, but due to the massive nature of the structures (tubular pilons) heavy cranes are needed to place components, and they operate on/over the road which has to be closed whilst lifts are done.
Needless to say, the result is traffic chaos on that major link road.
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I note that the farmers have worked out that the NSW compensation offered for transmission lines across their property only amounts to around 20cents an acre a year, so it’s not really worth giving up the land.
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Willis E questioning again –
“Sun, Temperatures, and Models”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/19/sun-temperatures-and-models/
In comments
“doonman
Reply to
Willis Eschenbach
June 19, 2023 11:03 am
Thanks. I remember that article. But I was talking about local governments, I should have made that clear.
Under 2006 California law AB32, all 58 counties must have a plan to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2030. Here in Santa Cruz County, Cemex closed all cement manufacturing in 2010 which immediately reduced the County’s CO2 emissions by 59%. I suggested then that all other county efforts were meaningless as we were already State compliant and 20 years earlier than required. So we did not need another plan, mission accomplished. The county disagreed. So I asked for the degree per dollar amount that additional, voluntary action would have. All I ever received were blank stares and crickets.”
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More “belief from models” –
“Is the Arctic September Sea Ice Doomed to Disappear in the 2030’s?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/19/is-the-arctic-september-sea-ice-doomed-to-disappear-in-the-2030s/
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Weatherzone’s Temperature Guesser is a bit off this morning –
Their estimate currently 12.7 C
Our verandah thermometer 2 C
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“So Much For ‘Generally Recognized As Safe’ ”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249080
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Well well.. Electricity price rises have NOTHING to do with ruinables at all-
“The increases – typically between 20 and 25 per cent depending on the state – reflect steep rises in wholesale power costs over the past year, caused by a spate of problems across ageing coal-fired power stations and coal mines curtailing supply, while the war in Ukraine was driving up the cost of additional coal and gas needed to plug shortfalls.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/power-grid-s-shift-from-coal-at-risk-as-green-spending-falters-20230619-p5dhnl.html
The message from AEMO is that not enough money is being wasted on ruinables and we must increase spending.
The message from the Australian Energy Regulator is that re-writing the electricity bills we get will make us all feel better-
Australian Energy Regulator chair Clare Savage… “That’s why we’ll be keeping a close eye on energy retailers to make sure they’re complying with the mandatory Better Bills Guideline and producing bills that are easier to understand and include a ‘better offer’ statement on the first page,”
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..and if you want to know what your Teflon frypan is worth- From the PFAS Court action.
“The Commonwealth has so far agreed to pay $366 million to settle the actions, which have only covered damage to property and not harm to health.”
“Wreck Bay is one of 11 communities across Australia to launch class actions against the Department of Defence for polluting their land and water with per- and poly-fluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) used in firefighting foams.”
“Shayna Williams told the court the settlement amount needed to be life-changing, comparing their plight to the stolen generations.
“I feel we are going to be the lost generation, because we are losing our culture because of what has happened,” she said.”
“Residents took to their feet one by one in the courtroom to detail the thousands of years of culture they had lost and persuade the judge $22 million was not enough. About $5 million will be deducted in legal costs.”
You can see where the Voice will lead in a decade. Luckily its only taxpayer’s money and no-one objects to that being thrown away.
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“Look on the bright side of life”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/idea-wars-monday-june-19-2023-c-and?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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And as a final comment, in the Australian this mornning.
AEMO .. “Slow progress in building wind farms and other renewable projects could drive up prices”
Duh. Windfarms are driving up prices, not our slowness in being robbed.
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Human Life at Risk by Climate Ideologues
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Melanie Phillips: Reflections on the Revolution in the West
Klaus Schwab announces NEW plan to rule the world – You will own nothing, don’t worry, be happy.
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Thx Kim,
The Melanie Phillips speech is as good as it gets, defending genuine human right for all,
not the Brussel’s variety, which in fact is the opposite.
Melanie Phillips: Reflections on the Revolution in the West
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“If a conservative government doesn’t defend education,
population capacity, scientific reason or freedom against coercion
and bullying, what is the point of a conservative party?”
– Melanie Phillips.
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The “Con” part is up front?
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FWIW – More “Voice”
“In their own words – the simple truth behind Albanese’s Vanity Voice”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/in-their-own-words-the-simple-truth-behind-albaneses-vanity-voice.html
“Professional, hard-hitting & unforgettable video on The Architect Behind The Voice”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/professional-hard-hitting-unforgettable-video-on-the-architect-behind-the-voice.html
“Great research from Seeker of Truth on The Voice architect Thomas Mayo & his communist roots.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/great-research-from-seeker-of-truth-on-the-voice-architect-thomas-mayo-his-communist-roots.html
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Ominous with a large “Om”?
“Strange Days”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*&-nation/strange-days/
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“A Democrat Civil War is Before Us”
https://youtu.be/1PZeT2rsNnY
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/19/a-democrat-civil-war-is-before-us/
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