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More Censorship – GB News Under Attack – Nigel Farage –
Video – 4 mins 41 secs –
https://youtu.be/dT5qeH161Rc
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MEDIA MALFEASANCE
Media Bloodbath: Elon Musk Is Now More Trustworthy Than Every Major News Outlet
I & I Editorial Board – March 18, 2024
So, what did Trump actually say? Well, if you read the transcript, you see that Musk was right and the press is being deliberately misleading. Here’s the relevant context:
If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you’re building in Mexico right now… you’re going to not hire Americans and you’re going to sell the cars to us, no. We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building massive factories.
So, clearly, Trump means that it will be a bloodbath for auto workers and the nation’s economy if China can avoid tariffs by building auto factories in Mexico so it can dump its EVs into the U.S. market.
As a matter of fact, that’s exactly what U.S. manufacturers are saying.
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Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
SUPERCUT!
Trump critics would never use a term like “bloodbath”
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This story has been playing a lot in the UK
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/17/the-insane-plan-to-save-the-arctics-sea-ice/
I heard one of the proposers on the radio. To be fair he said he had no idea if it would work or how much it would cost. Safe to say he hasn’t given a thought as to the energy requirements either.
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But they will be able to make a profit by selling ice to the Eskimos
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I’ve got a battery to sell them!, any further inquiries on technology for the project will be readily available from our hero Blackout Bob, ( aka Chrissie Bowen. )
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An analytic view of CO2 and its real place in warming
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-great-greenhouse-gas-numbers-game/
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A claim that the erosion of material from wind turbine blades is a powerful pollutant
https://gatesofvienna.net/2024/03/windmills-tilting-at-us/
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This can’t be true. Bankers, economists, accountants, politicians, lawyers, journalists, and activists with arts degrees have all told me that the science is legitimate and the engineering is sound.
(Sarcasm intended… as sad as it makes me to have to point this out)
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This works for Boeing
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Absolutely correct. The blades often use BPA, banned in Europe, in the manufacture of their blades, and the leading edges shed microfibres. I would want to be eating anything grown under a wind turbine.
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A coda to the Hertz EV debacle:
Go Green: Hertz Replacing CEO After Bet on Electric Vehicles Falls Apart
AMY FURR 18 Mar 2024
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/03/18/go-green-hertz-replacing-ceo-after-bet-on-electric-vehicles-falls-apart/
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Go Woke – Go Broke
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Hertz CEO gambled it all on EVs, now he’s resigning in disgrace
As an online commenter noted:
What happens when you hire a former Goldman Sachs elitist eco-nut-case with a global-communist agenda and degrees from Princeton and Harvard? Presto! Your stock goes from $20 to $8 dollars a share in less than a year.
Meanwhile, in that same period mr scherr took home a cool 182 MILLION, almost exactly 75% of what Hertz’s 245 Million dollar loss on his stooopid EV gamble was, over the same period.
Genius!
With news of Scherr’s departure, Hertz has decided to hire Gil West, the guy “who previously worked as the chief operating officer for General Motors’ Co.’s Cruise robotaxi section[.]”
For context, the Cruise robotaxi division collapsed in scandal when a self-driving car “dragged a pedestrian” through the streets of San Francisco; Bloomberg reported this a little over a month ago:
General Motors Co. blamed poor leadership for mishandling its Cruise robotaxi crisis, an admission the company is hoping will help get its cars back on the roads.
Within weeks, Chief Executive Officer Kyle Vogt resigned, and Cruise fired nine executives and cut almost a quarter of its workforce.
One of those “nine executives” fired was… yep, you guessed it, Gil West.
So, they’re replacing an idiot… with another idiot—if all else fails, both have a bright future in the politics of D.C., as well as its bureaucracy.
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Just watch and learn … a major tertiary educational institution will offer him a plumb position teaching management science.
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It seems April Fools’ day has come early at the ABC.
Outback Australia enters green hydrogen race with billion-dollar project given government backing
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-19/kimberley-clean-energy-project/103600156
I wonder if there will be Native Title disputes around the use of the Port?
Has anything ever made a profit from around the Ord River scheme, apart from pink diamonds?
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Newspeak for “provided with massive taxpayer subsidies”
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Ticks all the woke boxes – 100% approval guaranteed.
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It seems April Fools’ day has come early at the ABC.
Or perhaps similar to the US’ ABC, Australia’s ABC is adept at celebrating Fool’s day most days of the year.
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“It seems April Fools’ day has come early at the ABC.”
They have to start early, it’s also Easter Monday, a public holiday, for which they get paid
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There is also a State Government scheme in South Australia which comes with advertisements on the commercial TV stations (I don’t bother watching the ABC) just about News time. (the most expensive time?)
A huge desalination plant to generate fresh water for use in the largest hydrogen plant “in the solar system, I guess” to convert Whyalla steel works to “green hydrogen”. Also apparently the fresh water will be sent to a new mineral deposit in remote desert up north. The ‘whole scheme’ will be powered by a huge solar PV plant, spread over miles (& miles) of unoccupied land (assuming that the incumbent traditional owners won’t see a chance of a bonanza of cash from mining the State Treasurery).
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A few years ago I read about an agricultural business in the US, located in a low rainfall area on the coast somewhere. They used the sun’s heat to create steam from the salt water. The steam was used to produce electricity for the business needs then condensed into water for crop growing.
Not long after there was a story about a similar business in South Australia, that used a desal plant powered by solar enerrgy. I think the SA version went broke fairly quickly.
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The Hoochery
“Australian Rum & Spirits | Hoochery Distillery | The Heart of the …
The oldest operating legal stillin WA. Built on the Dessert family farm just outside of Kununurra, the small pot distillery was created entirely by hand. Everything, from the still to the building itself, was crafted from materials found around the farm.”
https://www.hoochery.com.au/
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And, becaue of the Ord’s isolation, farms there are into seed increase for plant varietal lines
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“I wonder if there will be Native Title disputes around the use of the Port?”
Of course there will. Money is behind most native title applications and the billions of dollars allegedly going into this scheme will attract all the usual culprits, looking to stick their snouts into the trough. One way to grab a billion or so will be through native title claims. The environmentalists will also need to be bought off.
Feeding frenzy!
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What to do with an “Old” Coal Fired Power Station
The 2640 MW Bayswater Power Station in NSW is due to be “retired” in 2030 as part of the “Transition to Renewables”.
But what to do with this Power Station? Should it be blown up to appease the Climate Gods like the Plaford B Power Station in South Australia? Or should it be retained in operational order to act as a back-up for unreliable wind and solar power?
The Climate Cultists would say replace Bayswater with a “Big Battery” to cover periods when the Sun does not shine and the wind does not blow.
As our esteemed Energy Minister tells us: “If we can store water, then we can store electricty” – clever fellow.
Now assume Bayswater can still produce up to 90% of its rated power output and assume a “Big Battery” would operate with a maximum Depth of Discharge (DOD) of 80%.
The current FOB price of Tesla Megapacks for orders of 100+ modules is US$475 per kWh.
To provide 24 hours of back-up battery capacity would cost approximately AUD$50 Billion before delivery and installation costs.
To provide a whole week of back-up capacity would cost AUD$ 0.35 Trillion!
Perhaps blowing up Bayswater would not be such a good idea! Convert to natural gas maybe?
Note: This power station has some sentimental value to me as I was on the design team back in the early 1980s.
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How much space would all those batteries take up compared to the space currently taken up by Bayswater? And what would you do if they all catch fire? Have a simultaneous state-wide barbecue?
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Tesla’s annual production capacity for Megapacks last year equalled 14.7 GWh.
To provide a week’s back-up storage equivalent to 90% of the power output rate of Bayswater would require 27 years of Tesla’s current production rate of Megapacks!
Elon better start cracking the whip to increase the production rate.
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I would challenge the assumption that a week’s backup is required, and would like to see a good technical discussion to see what everybody here believes.
I do believe however that to meet the stated network reliability, a minimum of 48 hours’ backup would be required.
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But a battery does not “generate” new energy, and as such cannot be a replacement for a power station.
For wind to substute Bayswater, it would require all that battery,,AND..an additional equivalent 2900MW of wind generation (9000 MW nameplate), … or 3 times the current total NSW installed wind capacity. !
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Of course the GenCost idiots refute this claim, saying that this amount of backup isn’t required. No wonder Bowen has it so wrong when he is being fed faulty information.
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Down in Tas, Coles will be solely powered by renewables by 2025 so they claim.
I wonder what they think Hydro is, all these decades?😎
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So all we need to do is dig a big hole and then pour all the electricity into it. Simples.
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Australia finds it difficult to even store water … which is why they ended up building desalination plants … requiring more electricity.
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I thought Tas Hydro has already told at least one major industry that they can’t have any more grid energy.
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It’s interesting that when you look into GenCost and its comments, they completely screw it up, claiming that for every kW of renewables, you only need a small fraction of backup.
What the clowns don’t realise that the amount of backup required has NOTHING to do with how much renewable energy is in use – even if the entire NEM area was carpeted with solar and wind facilities, you can still have a NEM-blackout for up to 48 hours. So for reliability, surely you would need backup for the entire NEM for a minimum of 48 hours, in reality more. And simply put, Australia can neither afford or build that amount of storage.
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“Decarb army” targets self driving electric utes, heat pumps and saving energy
Self-driving electric utes, high-tech operating systems and heat pumps are some of the weapons of a one-million-strong “decarbonisation army” that is mustering around the world.
Irishman Norman Crowley, founder and chair of the global emissions-busting CoolPlanet Group, is visiting Australia to recruit like-minded partners to his mission.
The World Economic Forum estimates investment in decarbonisation technologies and equipment will need to rise to $US3 trillion a year within a decade to fight the ongoing climate crisis.
Industries can overhaul and electrify processes to stop wasting energy, with some measuring themselves factory by factory as the first step towards “true efficiency,” he said.
France’s largest meat producer slashed energy use by 83 per cent in six months using software alone, while a global pharmaceutical company cut carbon emissions by almost three-quarters by installing giant heat pumps and solar.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/decarb-army-targets-self-driving-electric-utes-heat-pumps-and-saving-energy/
Amazing how inefficient industry is and the savings that can be made by simple changes, like software above.
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DEI killed the CHIPS Act
DEI — the identity-obsessed dogma that goes by “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — has now trained Google’s new AI to refuse to draw white people. What’s even more alarming is that it’s also infected the supply chain that makes the chips powering everything from AI to missiles, endangering national security.
The Biden administration recently promised it will finally loosen the purse strings on $39 billion of CHIPS Act grants to encourage semiconductor fabrication in the U.S. But less than a week later, Intel announced that it’s putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab.
This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakers’ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act.
Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven’t noticed is that it’s because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can’t move.
https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
You can’t hamstring the world’s top manufacturers with this woke/DEI crap without turning them into the next Boeing.
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“diversity, equity, and inclusion”
Actually, you have the words out of order, it should be “diversity, inclusion, and equity”, or DIE
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DEI and other conflicting federal and other regulations have also helped the US Feds promotion of mass EV chargers get two done in two years
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STUDY: ‘Woke’ People More Likely To Be Miserable, Suffer From Mental Health Problems
A study out of Finland has found that people who believe in “woke” ideas of social justice are more likely to be anxious, miserable, and depressed.
The study, entitled “Construction and validation of a scale for assessing critical social justice attitudes,” was carried out by Oskari Lahtinen, a senior researcher at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku. It sought to establish the prevalence of the “woke” worldview and the kinds of people who hold it.
Agreement with the statement “If white people have on average a higher income than black people, it is because of racism” exhibited the largest positive correlation with anxiety and depression, and the largest negative correlation with happiness.
However, these associations were more strongly correlated with participants’ political orientation than with critical social justice attitudes per se. Specifically, being on the political left was more predictive of lower mental well-being than high critical social justice scores alone. This suggests that the link between critical social justice attitudes and mental health is complex and may be mediated by broader political and ideological beliefs.
https://www.womensystems.com/2024/03/study-woke-people-more-likely-to-be.html
No surprises there! I’ve said it before – all this Trans/woke/DEI/climate loon nonsense is just the outward manifestation of their own inner mental health issues and self loathing. They can’t confront their own problems so they blame something or someone else.
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Heh like the Fact that the Image of a typical ‘Woke’ Person More Likely To Be Miserable, Suffer From Mental Health Problems
Was an Image of a Depressed Female surrounded by Cats, but more importantly the Image was Generated by AI
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If the woke generations are even triggered by ‘guinea pig’, it’s no wonder they’re so unhappy
Lloyds’ new bible of ‘inclusive language’ invites us to imagine a cowardly new world without pain, hardship or loss
CELIA WALDEN
Spare a thought for guinea pigs. On Sunday it emerged that the domesticated rodent originating from the Andes region of South America was to be made extinct, eradicated, surgically excised from our lives – or at least our lexicons.
Who would do such a thing to these seismically cute fluff balls? Lloyds, curiously. In a new “inclusive language” guide issued to its 57,000 employees, the banking group has zeroed in on these tiny mammals, insisting they are recognised as the patent threat to our mental health that they are. Apparently just using the words “guinea pig” in an office setting could be triggering for some, invoking, as they do, images of cruel laboratory experiments. Certainly, it would “not be inclusive of vegan colleagues”. So you can see why the only reasonable course of action is to do away with the words entirely.
As a woman – also deemed “offensive” by my very existence – I feel the guinea pigs’ pain.
But they can seek some comfort from the knowledge that they are not the only living creature to be cancelled by Lloyds.
“Widows” too must go.
Apparently the term is “unnecessarily vivid” and may “trigger unwarranted personal memories of trauma and upsetting situations”. I’ll say. Arguably it’s pretty upsetting for the widows themselves, what with them having lost their husbands and all, but let’s not make this about them.
How should staff now refer to this unlucky breed of women, you may well ask? While the banking group’s guide suggests using the word “separated” instead (what possible misunderstandings could arise there?), it is adamant that “you don’t have to adopt alternatives”. You can just banish the likes of “widows”, with all the unpleasantness they carry around with them.
Boom. Gone. See how easy that is?
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Tuesday funny: when the grid goes down
The city has gone dark, so you crank up the generator and turn the lights on.
Meanwhile outside:
https://imgbox.com/fVoAroar
The havenots know.😆
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Time for the saga of “The ant and the grasshopper” again
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When the Grid Goes Down in South Australia
“The lengths the Adelaide Crows will go to in order to shut down the Power is crazy… #poweroutage #Adelaide #blackout’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3299125/Wait-Adelaide-power-start-South-Australian-capital-plunged-darkness-major-electricity-outage-locals-poke-fun-online.html
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Thats from 2015, its all smooth sailing now because “renewables” n stuff. Abundant cheap power for all!
They only keep the interconnector to prop up those schmucks in VIC and get a bit of export income to further lower already low low SA energy prices.
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China: 20,000 Workers Revolt in Anger, 80% of Well-Known Factories in This Major City Halt Hiring
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Funny, I was just watching that video.
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In a society where information is highly controlled and dissent is heavily punished anyone saying that things are being done wrong and that changes need to be made the problems grow massively until they bring down the economy and society, then you get a revolution.
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Yeah, nah. Xi has the means – and the will – to crush even a major uprising before it really gets started. He only needs to televise a thousand or so executions and the people will settle down smartish.
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Extinction Rebellion target GB News as offices covered in paint
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1878742/extinction-rebellion-gb-news-offices-paint
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GB News Attacks Disturbing Decision
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That’s a bit rich considering that GBN regularly gives a voice to these ER loons on their programmes. I listen in quite frequently and it’s amazing listening to the lefties venting. They talk people down at high speed and the ignorance about so many things is astonishing.
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We sue to save the whales.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/18/coalition-sues-to-block-virginia-offshore-wind-project-to-protect-the-right-whale
Issue is Feds failure to consider cumulative impacts of all projects together so could block all projects for quite some time.
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Whale oil was used as a cheap illuminant, though it gave off a strong odor when burnt It was replaced in the late 19th century by cheaper, more efficient, and longer-lasting kerosene derived from the fossil fuel crude oil.
So fossil fuels “saved the whale” – and now the race to replace fossil fuels may again endanger the whales.
And the Climate Cultists claim that this is progress?
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Reminds me of tbe old joke. How to speak Irish in just 4 words:
Whale
Oil
Beef
Hooked
😆
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Chinese Earth Krahang hackers breach 70 orgs in 23 countries
A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as ‘Earth Krahang’ has breached 70 organizations and targeted at least 116 across 45 countries.
According to Trend Micro researchers monitoring the activity, the campaign has been underway since early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations.
Specifically, the hackers have compromised 48 government organizations, 10 of which are Foreign Affairs ministries, and targeted another 49 government agencies.
The attackers exploit vulnerable internet-facing servers and use spear-phishing emails to deploy custom backdoors for cyberespionage.
Earth Krahang abuses its presence on breached government infrastructure to attack other governments, builds VPN servers on compromised systems, and performs brute-forcing to crack passwords for valuable email accounts.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-earth-krahang-hackers-breach-70-orgs-in-23-countries/
Not targetting Oz thankfully. Yet…
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But the Americans are. 99% of the cyber attacks on the websites that I manage are from the USSA. The attacks via my devices – laptop, mobile phone etc – are also massive and are from the USSA. The Americans perform massive surveillance and information control. They go into devices and websites everywhere. They censor emails. They don’t abide by the rules. If you install WireShark on your devices you can see the traffic. Likewise a simple logging system on websites. I regularly block them but it’s been getting very bad recently.
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Australian Energy Regulator announces majority of households to see power prices drop from July amid cost of living crisis
The Australian Energy Regular has announced millions of Aussies will see electricity prices drop in July in a bid to ease financial pressure on households amid the cost of living crisis.
Many Aussies will see reductions in their electricity bills in the middle of this year after two years of soaring power prices.
The Australian Energy Regular announced on Tuesday the majority of households could see electricity price reductions of between 0.4 to 7.1 per cent from July 1.
Other residential customers however, may experience increases between 0.9 and 2.7 per cent depending on where they live.
The majority of small business could also see power bills fall between 0.3 and 9.7 per cent, but others could face a small rise of roughly 0.7 per cent depending on their region.
“Poles and wires costs are a large component of retail prices, comprising around 40 per cent of the price.”
The AER said it is estimated that price changes for all residential and small business customers on standard retail plans will be less than the rate of inflation.
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The next Australian federal election will be held on or before 27 September 2025
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Still time to form the Jo Nova “save Australia” party then.
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I suspect all our politicians are Irish.
They seem to love Dublin.
Dublin our taxes, dublin our energy costs, dublin our food bills…
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Electricity bill rise under Labor revealed
Energy regulator vows of lower bills from July are set against analysis that shows electricity prices jumped by as much as $830 since the federal election in 2022
$275 Energy Price Promise – Officially Broken
The Albanese Labor Government has run out of excuses after officially breaking its election promise to reduce household energy bills by $275 following the release of draft regulated electricity prices today.
The draft Default Market Offer has confirmed that Labor has fallen short by up to $1,027 of its promised price reduction for everyday households, equivalent to a 37% increase since Labor came to power.
Small businesses have also been hit hard by Labor’s spiralling energy crisis with bills soaring by up to $2,047 since Labor made its fatal promise.
As a sign of the suffering faced by everyday Australian households, startling new numbers from the AER have also revealed 116,753 people have been placed into hardship due to their skyrocketing energy bills and 192,459 people are now in energy debt.
Federal Member for Flynn, Colin Boyce said the skyrocketing price of energy was consigning local people to energy poverty under Labor.
“Labor was elected on a promise that it would reduce household electricity bills by $275 but instead Australians are now paying among the most expensive bills in the world,” Mr Boyce said.
“This is simply unaffordable for residents in my community who are already suffering under Labor’s out of control cost-of-living-crisis.”
The Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O’Brien said Labor’s broken promise on energy prices was “unforgiveable”.
“The Australian people deserve nothing less than a complete and unreserved apology from Prime Minister Albanese for making households and businesses pay for his failures.”
“Labor has lost all credibility on energy prices and has completely shattered its trust with the Australian people.”
Despite the power price pain felt by millions of Australian households and businesses, Labor has refused to admit its $275 promise was a lie.
Labor repeated this claim on 97 separate occasions ahead of the last Federal election and reiterated it after the invasion of Ukraine.
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Bowen dodges questions over broken power bill promise
Albo ‘must apologise’ over power mess
The Prime Minister went to the 2022 election promising a cut in power bills by $275, but since then Australian households and small businesses have been slugged with successive price hikes.
Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said the DMO showed Labor had fallen short of up to $1027 of its promised price reduction, equivalent to a 37 per cent increase since May 2022 and an “unforgivable” broken promise.
“Labor was elected on a promise that it would reduce household electricity bills by $275 but instead Australians are now paying among the most expensive bills in the world,” Mr O’Brien said.
“The Australian people deserve nothing less than a complete and unreserved apology from Prime Minister Albanese for making households and businesses pay for his failures.”
Asked if the $275 power price promise could still be met, Mr Bowen said he was not giving up and took a swipe at the Coalition’s push to adopt nuclear power.
“Others might, by suggesting nuclear. We’re focusing on the task at hand – getting renewables into the system to reduce prices,” he said.
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Labor Blackout Energy Minister Bowen – Believe him?
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Meanwhile – Bowen splashes another $230M for a pet climate change project
The Federal Government has committed a total of $230 million towards the Kathleen Valley Lithium Project in WA.
$110 million has been provided by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), while Export Finance Australia (EFA) has committed $120 million towards the project.
The funding will help battery minerals producer Liontown Resources secure the final stages of construction of the company’s Kathleen Valley Lithium Project.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Blackout Chris Bowen said the investment would strengthen Australia’s position in the global supply chain.
“Nine out of the ten critical minerals necessary for lithium batteries can be found here in Australia, which gives us a massive jobs and economic opportunity in the net zero transformation,” Minister Bowen said.
“Few countries have as much to gain from the world’s shift to electric vehicles and the huge lift in battery storage as Australia. Making lithium a major export earner puts Australia in the value chain of the world’s automotive and renewable energy industries.
“Kathleen Valley’s low-carbon approach will be a premium product around the globe, as the world increasingly wants critical minerals with a low-carbon footprint.”
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New disaster for our future’ amid Nature Positive Plan: Andrew Bolt
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the “worst” of the Labor government destroying our business and wealth “may yet be to come”.
He said there is a new “disaster for our future” with 1,000 pages of green laws and explanations in the Nature Positive Plan.
“And that means three ministers now – all of them wanting to replace Anthony Albanese as prime minister – are all going flat out to smash business.
“Two you’ve already heard from – one is Climate Change and Energy minister Chris Bowen whose net zero crusade on global warming is destroying our electricity system.
“The second minister smashing business is Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke, who has rammed through one pro-union law after another, crippling the ability of businesses to manage, to use private contractors for instance.”
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The Nature Positive Plan delivers on the government’s commitment to strengthen and streamline Australia’s environmental laws in response to the Independent Review of the EPBC Act, undertaken by Professor Graeme Samuel AC (the Samuel Review).
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform
On this page
Our reform priorities
. National Environmental Standards
. Environment Protection Australia: the national environment protection agency
. Environment Information Australia: Improving environmental data and information
. Regional planning
. Restoration actions and restoration contributions (formerly known as offsets) reform
. Improving conservation planning arrangements
. Working with First Nations partners
Next steps
. Public webinars
. Have Your Say
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/protecting-repairing-and-better-managing-the-environment-fs.pdf
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Meanwhile – “The second minister smashing business is Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke, who has rammed through one pro-union law after another, crippling the ability of businesses to manage, to use private contractors for instance.”
Builder operating in two Australian states collapses after 50 years in business
The majority of staff have been sacked and $120 million worth of projects are up in the air following the collapse of a major building company spanning across two states.
Project Coordination (Australia) Pty Ltd, which had been in business for 50 years, went into voluntary administration on Tuesday afternoon.
The business had offices in Canberra and Wollongong and did construction work in the ACT and NSW.
At the time of its demise, Project Coordination had $120 million worth of projects on its books and a further $90 million in the pipeline, ready to start.
The building company had been in business since 1975, and its directors, Paul Murphy and Gavin Murphy, said they had made the “soul destroying” decision to put the company into external administration.
Project Coordination’s 67 staff – 38 of whom are based in the ACT and 29 in NSW – have mostly been made redundant.
Only 12 have been kept on to help the administrators with their work.
Project Coordination’s collapse puts 14 building projects in jeopardy, with 10 of those based in the ACT and the other four in NSW.
“A quarter of our staff have been with us for 15 years or more, with many over 20 years.”
They said they had injected their own money into Project Coordination to keep it afloat but ultimately they had to shut down because they could not source any further outside investment.
Co-director Paul Murphy, who is 72 years old and has been with the business from the beginning, said he was “devastated”.
“The economic and regulatory environment that building companies are working in now is more challenging than any other I’ve experienced in the past 50 years – worse than the recessions in the 1980s and 1990s and the Global Financial Crisis in 2007/2008,” he said.
“Nothing has been as bad as this.’’
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As Electric-Vehicle Shoppers Hesitate, Hybrid Sales Surge
Automakers have been working for years to transcend the image of hybrid cars as stodgy fuel sippers, remaking them with sportier designs and extra pep. Now, the once-niche hybrid is the hottest car on the lot.
But car brands have been methodically expanding their hybrid offerings—partly to help meet tougher tailpipe-emissions rules—and for some, they have become a competitive edge. Hybrid leader Toyota Motor, for example, offers a hybrid version of nearly every gas-powered model in its U.S. showrooms. In some cases, such as Toyota’s new Camry sedan or Sienna minivan, a hybrid is the only option.
The number of hybrid models on sale in the U.S. grew 40% over five years, to about 70 for the 2024 model year, Cox Automotive estimates. Hybrids now are available across more vehicle sizes and body styles than in past years: larger SUVs, pickups, jeeps and even sports cars.
U.S. sales of hybrids jumped 50% in the first two months of the year. That surge outpaced EV sales, which grew 13%, in both growth and volume. Hybrids flew off dealer lots in 25 days on average, nearly three times faster than EVs and twice as fast as gas-powered cars, according to research site Edmunds.
The snapback in hybrid demand is a boon for Toyota, which has been criticized by environmental groups for sticking with the gas-electric technology. The Japanese carmaker has said EVs aren’t practical for many customers, and hybrids help reduce carbon emissions.
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Analysis: U.S. automakers race to build more hybrids as EV sales slow
Hybrids could be 20% of sales by next year, with full electric vehicles at 12%
DETROIT — As U.S. sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles surge and electric-vehicle sales cool, automakers and suppliers are betting consumer demand for a compromise between all-combustion and all-electric is a durable trend.
Automakers and suppliers are adding capacity to build gasoline-electric hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles for the U.S. market, responding to increased consumer demand for technology that General Motors and other automakers once planned to phase out in favor of all-electric fleets, industry executives and analysts said.
U.S. sales of hybrids grew five times faster than EV sales in February, Morgan Stanley said. A plug-in hybrid version of the Jeep Wrangler SUV accounted for half of total U.S. Wrangler sales in the second half of 2023, up from 37% in the first half of the year, Stellantis said.
Sales of Ford hybrids rose nearly 37% during the first two months of the year, driven by demand for the hybrid Maverick compact truck that starts at $25,315.
“The hottest car on our lot right now is the Maverick hybrid,” said Scott Simmers, general manager at Palm Springs Motors in Cathedral City, California.
The hybrid Maverick now accounts for about half the model’s sales and dealers said they could sell more if Ford could build them.
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Harvard doctor says animal products are essential for mental health – in blow to veganism: ‘The brain needs meat’
Meat is essential for warding off depression and anxiety, a top nutrition expert has revealed, sending a blow to veganism.
Dr Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist and author of Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, studies the relationship between what we eat and our mental and physical health.
And despite the health halo that vegan diets have been given over the last few years, she claims that giving up meat could be detrimental for mental health.
‘The brain needs meat,’ she told KIRO News Radio.
‘We’re used to hearing that meat is dangerous for our total health, including our brain health, and plants are really the best way to nourish and protect our brains.’
‘But the truth of the matter is that it’s actually — that’s upside down and backward.’
While animal products like eggs, meat, cheese, and Greek yogurt are high in protein, it can also be found in vegan options like lentils and broccoli.
‘But many of the other essential nutrients are much more difficult if not in some cases impossible to obtain from plants,’ Dr Ede said.
She noted that meat is ‘the only food that contains every nutrient we need in its proper form and is also the safest food for our blood sugar and insulin levels.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13197267/americans-mental-health-eat-meat-veganism.html
Just like the sugar industry demonised fat for decades resulting in skyrocketing obesity, diabetes and sickness.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoogWkly1t4
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Is Australia becoming a Bunch of Whingeing Wimps?
Renters sweltered this summer in ‘barely habitable’ homes: report
Rental properties across Australia were rendered “barely habitable” over the summer, according to new data.
A scathing new report into the rental market has found tenants sweltered through peak temperatures of more than 30C for hours a day, leaving homes “barely habitable”.
The report by tenant advocacy group Better Renting tracked the temperature and humidity in 109 rental homes over the summer, including in NSW and Queensland.
Dubbed “Cruel Summer”, the report found the average median indoor temperature exceeded 25C.
Worse still, researchers found temperatures peaked at more than 30C for two hours a day, with indoor temperatures exceeding those outdoors almost half the time in NSW.
Better Renting deputy director Bernie Barrett said the report, which was published on Tuesday, pointed to the need for action to lift the standard of rental homes.
“Everyone needs a healthy home. Governments should require landlords to make changes so that rental homes are fit and healthy to live in,” she said.
“Simple changes like ceiling insulation, fly screens or cooling appliances can help reduce the danger from extreme indoor heat.
“But we also see this common fear of retaliation, which is no surprise: in many jurisdictions, a renter can be kicked out without the landlord needing to provide justification.”
NSW renters were some of the worst affected according to the report, with tenants reporting temperatures exceeding 25C for more than 12 hours a day on average.
We live in an old triple fronted double brick house with Terracotta Tiled roof with no Air Conditioning – when hot days occur, bricks retain heat and inside house is 28-29C – leave front door open with front locked screen door – similarly kitchen door open with locked screen door – Sydney afternoon seabreeze cools, but house still stays at 28C inside overnight due to bricks as heat sink – just sleep with lightweight sheet or none!
I think back to 1950s in Full Brick Old Schools with no Air Conditioning – we survived.
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Better Renting deputy director Bernie Barrett said the report, which was published on Tuesday, pointed to the need for action to lift the standard of rental homes.
“Everyone needs a healthy home. Governments should require landlords to make changes so that rental homes are fit and healthy to live in,” she said.
“Simple changes like ceiling insulation, fly screens or cooling appliances can help reduce the danger from extreme indoor heat.
Question to Bernie Barrett – Why would a Landlord bother with cooling appliances when:
ACT renter Jessica Buckland was one renter who took part in the project. She said her home was poorly built and she avoided using the airconditioning due to costs.
“The house is unbearable without AC or fans in the peak of summer; it will be hotter inside than out,” she said.
“I often push my comfort a lot further when I’m home alone than I would if my son was home.
“I don’t think twice about turning the AC on when he’s home, but I’ll go without when it’s just me. I’m nervous about the power bill.”
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Hybrid Toyota Highlander owner in good old America. 29-30 miles per gallon whether cruising at 75 mph or in the city. About 450 miles of realistic range. Zero (knock on wood) maintenance or performance issues. Front and rear electric motors provide plenty of smooth acceleration when needed. I haven’t run out of gas, but supposedly I could go about 6 miles on the medium sized battery at very low speeds to get to a gas station if I did. If power goes out I can run my refrigerator with the 120V plug in my car. Extra cost for the hybrid was been paid for the first year with gas savings compared to my smaller Volvo SUV.
Bottom line – everything positive and nothing negative compared to my previous vehicle. Unless they outlaw gas stations I see no reason to ever buy a car or truck without an on-board ICE, and every reason to buy one with hybrid feature. If buyers are smart in 10 years the hybrid feature will be in almost every vehicle sold just like fuel injection replaced the old carburetor technology, and cost will end up being lower for a hybrid than for either ICE-only vehicles or supersized golf carts. Smart people run Toyota, methinks….
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Glad its going well. Hybrid operation makes the vehicle overall much more complex. When issues arise they can be complex and expensive to resolve. Like a lot of things, everything is wonderful till it isnt. Tpyota have been doing it for a while now and should be able to deliver better than the pack. I hope they dont go down the Boeing path.
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Dr. Robert Malone: “The Pandemic Destroyed The Scientific Community!”
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This is a table of the effectiveness of various treatments for Covid 19
https://c19science.info/FDA_Drug_Approvals2.htm
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C19Science.info Webpage:
Science and It’s Importance – 3 page PDF
Before explaining why they happened, let’s be clear about some of the disastrous —
and entirely preventable — US consequences of the mishandling of COVID-19:
— Hundreds of thousands of Americans are needlessly dying,
— Our economy is being undermined, with Trillions of dollars being wasted, and
— We are lurching towards Communism, as dozens of hard fought for liberties
and civil rights are being extracted.
But haven’t we been dealing with a disease of unprecedented historical proportions?
<a href="“>NO! See this visual comparison of prior pandemics — and be aware that this graphic
is based on an inflated death toll for COVID-19.
(For example, the reported COVID-19 deaths don’t distinguish between those who died from COVID-19 from those who
died with COVID-19 — a VERY big deal!)
The question now is: have we learned our lesson here, or does it have to get even
worse before we woke up?
The lesson to be learned comes from understanding how this tragedy came about… (Then peruse the numerous reports, etc. listed here.)
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NO! See this visual comparison of prior pandemics — and be aware that this graphic
is based on an inflated death toll for COVID-19.
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Four years on, COVID damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price
Glenn H. Reynolds
We just passed the fourth anniversary of “15 Days To Slow the Spread,” the start of the COVID lockdowns that did damage from which we still haven’t recovered.
I’m embarrassed to admit I fell for it.
I was a COVID hawk in the early days. It seemed right at the time.
The Chinese called it a “grave” threat, and they almost always downplayed bad things in China.
There were reports of death rates ranging from 4% to 10%.
Sure, Anthony Fauci, Nancy Pelosi and Bill de Blasio were telling us not to worry, to take cruises and go visit Chinatown, but I lacked confidence in them. (Hey, I was right about that.)
They reversed course like a week later.
It turned out, of course, COVID’s mortality rate was significantly less than one-tenth of those early reports, and those deaths were mostly concentrated among the obese, the elderly and those with heart failure and diabetes.
(And the deaths often resulted from too-aggressive use of ventilators, which are themselves quite dangerous.)
Neither the lockdowns nor the masking requirements did any good, though they caused a lot of trauma, inconvenience and colossal economic destruction.
(Even “long COVID,” which we heard a lot about, turns out to be no different from the flu’s long-term consequences, scientists just confirmed.)
Then there were the deaths caused by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s program of moving still-contagious COVID patients into old-folks’ homes, exposing the most vulnerable people to infection.
In short, the government response to COVID was probably more destructive than the virus itself.
In retrospect, I should have been more skeptical.
It’s hard to believe I, of all people, trusted the government too much, but there you are.
Public-health officials admitted later they didn’t consider the collateral damage from lockdowns, quarantines and the like in making their plans: They focused solely on preventing COVID’s spread.
Not only were they ineffective at that — COVID spread widely and just about as fast as everywhere else — it’s the opposite of what public-health officials should focus on, since their job is, you know, public health, not the prevention of a single disease at all costs.
The economy still hasn’t recovered from the distortions COVID measures introduced
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New CTUP Study – Almost Every Government Intervention in Response to COVID Was Wrong
Four years ago this week, the government initiated unprecedented federal lockdowns of the economy to combat Covid.
A just-released comprehensive CTUP study (COVID Lessons Learned. A Retrospective After Four Years – 40 Page PDF) of the academic evidence and dozens of peer-reviewed studies conclude that the ordered shutdown of our schools, churches, and businesses brought little health benefits while imposing multi-trillions of dollars of long-term societal costs.
These costs include a $6 trillion increase in government debt, hundreds of thousands of business bankruptcies, one to two years of lost schooling for young children, tens of millions of Americans out of work, and hundreds of thousands of excess deaths from loneliness, depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, delayed hospital care in part due to the forced social isolation.
The lower wages to workers in the future from the educational losses could be in the trillions of dollars over the decades to come.
These costs exceeded by multiple times any health benefits from mandates and lockdowns.
States that didn’t shut down at all or quickly reopened had no different death rates on average than states that did. But the non-lockdown states had much swifter recoveries than states that shut down for a year or more.
This chart from the study shows that the one country, Sweden, that did not surrender to panic and lockdowns had one of the lowest rates of all-cause excess deaths:
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On the radio a few minutes ago there was a discussion that there should be a human right that tenants have air conditioning. Not mentioned of course was the implied right that tenants should have access to reliable electricity since without reliable electricity the right to air conditioning is worthless.
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Yes ,.. that would be ideal.. But,..
Remembering that every installed appliance adds to the capital cost and hence rental cost !
Maybe they should also all have an onsuit toilet,bath and shower for each bedroom ?
.. you get what you can afford !
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the implied right that tenants should have access to reliable electricity
Why am I certain the electricity supply would be reliable if the supplier could price 1 kwH at $100 when creating it at current cost levels?
access to reliable reasonably priced electricity
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Sounds good to me, I’ll support that as soon as temperatures go past the 2deg hotter that they talk about.. Other than that, tenants will have to live as they have for the last 300years, Australia hasn’t changed
Millenials….
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The heat pump fantasy is dead – only our blinkered elites haven’t noticed
Expensive and unreliable, heat pumps are a nightmare for consumers. It’s little wonder the government has resorted to bribes
Has there ever been a more pernicious lie spread by government and lobbyists than the claim that net zero will save us money?
Heat pumps, for example, weren’t just supposed to decarbonise home heating and thereby save the planet; they were all going to slash our bills as we switched from expensive gas to cheap-as-chips renewable energy from wind and solar farms.
The narrative was always flawed: if heat pumps really did promise to save us money the government would hardly need to push them at us, offering grants of £7500 through its Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
As today’s National Audit Office report all but confirms, people are not falling for the bait. The Boiler Upgrade scheme has been an expensive failure, with consumers seeing through the guff and working out that dumping their gas boiler for a heat pump is not going to save them a bean; on the contrary, it will cost them more to install and more to run.
Electricity prices are so much higher than gas prices that you can’t count on saving money when it comes to running costs – even if your heat pump works as intended, and pumps at least three times as much heat energy into your home than it consumes in electrical energy.
Bizarrely, given this tale of serial under-performance in both cost and effectiveness, the green lobby wants the government to double down in pushing heat pumps on consumers.
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit preposterously blames low take up of heat pumps on government ‘dithering’ over hydrogen boilers.
The government has said that it will make a decision by 2026 as to whether the existing gas network might be repurposed for hydrogen in future.
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https://thegreattaking.com/
Question to Microsoft Bing Co-Pilot – What is the book “The Great Taking” and Video Documentary on “The Great Taking” all about
Answer:
“The Great Taking” is both a book and a video documentary that delve into the world of finance, central banks, and the potential impact on individual assets. Let’s explore each of them:
The Book “The Great Taking”:
. Written by David Rogers Webb, a former hedge fund manager, this book sheds light on the secretive workings of central banks and their influence on global financial systems.
. It reveals how central bankers have orchestrated a system that can potentially take away everything from everyone.
. You can download the free PDF version of the book from here1.
The Video Documentary “The Great Taking”:
. In this documentary, David Webb further explores the concepts discussed in his book.
. He exposes the mechanisms that central bankers have put in place to exert control over financial transactions and wealth.
The documentary aims to raise awareness about the implications of these actions on individual assets and financial freedom.
. You can watch the documentary on YouTube2 or on Rumble1.
Both the book and the documentary serve as eye-opening resources for those interested in understanding the hidden dynamics of the global financial landscape.
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Interesting Microsoft Bing Co-Pilot based on
In addition to using these two OpenAI models, Copilot also relies on the large web-scraping database from the Bing search engine, Microsoft Natural Language Processing, Text to Speech (TTS) for generating lifelike speech responses, Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) to ground and add context, and Azure cloud services.
gives a much better response that Gemini:
Same Question to Gemini: – What is the book “The Great Taking” and Video Documentary on “The Great Taking” all about
Gemini Answer:
The book “The Great Taking” and a potential video documentary on the same topic likely focus on a theory about a coming financial crisis and the potential redistribution of wealth. Here’s a breakdown of what we can glean:
Possible Themes:
. Financial Crisis: The book seems to center around a large-scale financial collapse, possibly driven by excessive debt accumulation.
. Wealth Redistribution: The title “The Great Taking” suggests a significant transfer of wealth, potentially from individuals to a powerful elite or the government.
. Government Intervention: The mention of a historical precedent (referencing the 1933 banking holiday in the US) suggests the book explores the possibility of government intervention during the crisis.
Source of the Theory:
David Rogers Webb: Several references point to David Rogers Webb as the potential author of the book.
Criticism of the Theory:
. Debt as Collateral: The book argues that changes in how securities are held might disadvantage investors.
. Central Banks and Power: The book might propose that a small group controls central banks, granting them immense power during the crisis.
Uncertainties:
. Legitimacy of Claims: It’s unclear how well-supported Webb’s claims are with evidence.
. Documentary Existence: There’s no confirmation of a video documentary based on the book.
Overall, “The Great Taking” appears to be a critical take on the financial system, suggesting a potential crisis and a power grab by a select few. If you’re interested in learning more, you could search for reviews of David Rogers Webb’s book or look for interviews where he discusses his ideas. However, it’s wise to approach such theories with a critical eye and consult established financial sources for a broader perspective.
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I asked AusNet services what would happen when I go off grid with their network supply fee.
After some back and forth it was stated that the last retailer with my NMI (National Meteri Identifier) would continue to be billed for the service charge until the meter is removed. The cost to remove the meter is zero to me.
Based on the number of exchanges to get the idea of going off-grid on the table, it is evident that AusNet has not thought through the situation of large number of current grid users leaving the grid. Their cost recovery will fall onto a diminishing user base.
Any current capital investment in the grid should be at least looking at the situation where grid prices are so high that the lowest cost, by a long margin, is to make your own electricity.
The only month now that my consumption exceeds generation is June. But that is based on averages so I would need more panels set up to maximise May and June input and a bigger battery to cope with the higher load if entirely off-grid.
My initial phase is to use the government incentives to shift to electrical appliance. I already have the wood burner for winter heating and it has vey low electrical demand. That means I can at least eliminate the gas supply fee.
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Solar will not work well for me so I have to remain on the grid.
I will be interested in your experience if you do decide to go off grid and have your meterr removed.
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Peter
If you have gas as well as electricity, you should be looking to get off gas using the State subsidies. If you have direct electric heating for hotwater you could consider converting to heat pump but probably not the best value in your circumstances. Heat pump hot water systems in Australia appear to be much better than than the early ones:
https://www.productreview.com.au/c/hot-water-systems
If you can get a tariff with free lunchtime energy then just time control the hotwater heater. Basically you are using the hotwater storage as a thermal battery. This link gives some details on zero cost energy:
https://wattever.com.au/free-electricity-plans-how-to-make-the-most-of-zero-cent-power/
My existing gas hotwater uses half the gas just staying warm. I would use around 4kWh per day in actual water heating. Heat loss with a direct electric it around 2kWh per day so say 6kWh per day. Direct electric would be incompatible with going of grid but heat pump with a COP of up to 4 does not use any more power than a big fridge.
My son is on a tariff that offers zero cost lunchtime power. He has no plans for a battery but it already using the thermal inertia of his house to minimise summer cooling cost and will do similar in winter to minimise heating costs.
If you can get lunchtime energy for no cost then a battery could have a reasonable payback. Charge it the battery: heat or cool the house as required as much as possible by 2pm and start the water heater at 11am. Lunchtime grid demand helps keep the grid stable so I expect these tariffs will remain.
There is currently a project in SA to bring their hotwater management into the 21st century with provision to control it for day time demand management rather than the midnight bump in demand.
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Small scale subsidy harvesting is still subsidy harvesting. You are no better than those you complain about.
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Surely that is ‘-only-‘ right if the ‘small-scale’ subsidy harvesters helped create the legislative ecology that allows them to harvest the subsidies.
If it’s ‘their rules’, surely it is everyone’s option [even their duty …?] to do the best they can for themselves and their family/community – within the law as it stands.
If it’s ‘OUR rules’ that we/I helped craft [so, for example – those born on a particular date – that just happens to be my birthday – pay 10% only of the tax due] then indeed they/we/I go to make up part of the problem.
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That is hard to interpret.
It’s the nudge principle, you are being nudged to take up these options by increasing energy costs, which in turn increases energy costs.
As the cost of electricity increases to pay for your harvesting, the cost of liquid fuels will increase to prevent home generation becoming an option.
You are a big part of the problem you complain about, but that’s how it works for your crowd, it is always someone else’s cost, which someone else has to pay for your virtue signaling, and it is always those who can least afford it.
You are a subsidy harvester, no better than the industrial generators, yet you are on this site continuously complaining about your big brothers doing what you yourselves do.
You believe it is everybody’s duty to milk the system, in time, all commies leach out when there is no system to milk.
None of this is necessary as we have been powered for your entire life by reliable coal, you don’t believe CO2 is a problem yet you jump on board for every solution sold to you at my expense, by proxy you are admitting CO2 is a killer.
I see you pensioners are getting a $16 a fortnight increase and now biannual, the working class get a $15 a year tax cut to help them pay for your virtue signaling.
You are a leach on the leg of society.
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Forgive me if I am wrong, but I see your view close to mine: the system needs – urgently – to be source-neutral for energy.
Then Rickwill, and everyone, will choose and pay for the energy that suits them.
The need to do one’s best for one’s family – even at the expense of others – is what sets capitalism or entrepreneurialism apart from Communism.
As you say [in effect, at least] – pretty soon you run out of other peoples’ money.
And the sooner Government is – made to? – realise that all these preferential access, subsidies etc. are just a form of giving their buddies lucre – and spreading the huge costs across the tax-payers, so that it ends – the better.
If I can help bring that to an end – whilst netting my family a few bob [so gaining improved security in future] – a win all-round, in my opinion.
But you are absolutely right – the whole demonization of CO2 [a plant food … THE plant food] must stop.
Otherwise we will lose our civilisation to those who are not even paying lip-service to the Green Gods of our time.
Auto [still unsure which ‘crowd’ I am a purported part of].
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There are poor peoples of the earth that regularly get about circa 800 micrograms of the endogenous metabolite K2 Menaquinone. In Nepal, bright eyed healthy children with amazing teeth where they eat Kinema, or Japan, Natto, Korea, Chung Guk Cheong in Korea, Ogiri in south africa etc…etc… etc. On youtube, there are videos of very young children eating like four tablespoons of natto with rice.. Like these little kids are getting like 800 micrograms…How harmless is that???
It is said by the wisest of the wise that one tablespoon of natto/similar contains roughly 200 micrograms of K2.
On the television and google searches the recommended dose is 90 micrograms. This is like way lower than baby food level….of Japanese children etc who eat natto for breakfast etc…..where am i going with this?
In my case, the sweet spot is around 360 as a bare minimum, so i eat about 5 tablespoons of the ancient food (before fridges were invented) that is wild fermented Korean style.
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Amid calls for former Goldman Sachs and WEF puppet Rishi Sunak to be replaced by Penny Mordaunt, comes the sinister report of a ‘courtesy visit’ to number ten by the equally globalist compromised Barack Obama. I wonder how the conversation went?
Although Sunak is a total tool and a political non-entity, replacing him at this stage is just deck chair shuffling.
Aussie readers may recall the ‘courtesy visit’ by Al Gore to Clive Palmer, which changed the political landscape drastically.
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I do remember that.
Clive Palmer has so far failed to answer questions about his relationship with Al Gore.
He has done some good things since then so I would like to hear from him whether he has changed his mind about Al Gore or not? And if he has changed his mind what caused that?
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The punters are saying the government will change at the next election and Keir Starmer could be running the show.
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The Beige Knight, Sir Charisma Bypass.
Whilst the Tories – TIMOs – have managed – or been guided into – a veritable Fust3r Cluck with the UK – society, economy, health, civil obedience, crime, planning, infrastructure, migration, child protection, justice … – I do fear that the Soundbite Knight will not be an improvement.
‘Net Zero by 2030’ for electricity generation as almost the only enunciated policy …
I hope Labour doesn’t make things worse – but I am certainly not convinced.
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Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: “Fear-Based Net Zero Climate Policies Have No Environmental or Scientific Justification…”
“All of this is based on faulty science and selective misuse of natural events. Fraud.”
“Fear-based Net Zero climate policies have no environmental or scientific justification… The public is starting to wake up that climate change is the greatest display of mass formation psychosis since the Salem witch hunts.”
“All of this is based on faulty science and selective misuse of natural events. Fraud.”
“People are waking up that the public is being bullied into continued support for policies that achieve nothing except hurt human beings and harm our natural environment.”
https://rumble.com/v4jxqa6-australia-senator-malcolm-roberts-net-zero-climate-policies-have-no-scienti.html
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2030 Food Pyramid
Interestingly, the Food Pyramid that we were all taught about as children in public schools was introduced to the western world in 1972. The pyramid was actually first used by the Swedish government in direct response to inflation and was designed to encourage the populace to eat cheaper food-stuffs (primarily cereals, dairy products, pastas and carbs). Governments have been using subsidies to promote the consumption of low cost and low quality foods ever since.
Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use “Skimpflation” To Control Our Eating Habits
Skimpflation And The Food Pyramid Agenda
Another aspect of life that takes a hit is the quality of diet and the ability of families to feed themselves. Most people are familiar with the concept of “shrinkflation” – The habit of companies to shrink portion sizes while keeping their packaging and prices the same in order to offset inflation in production costs without consumers noticing. However, skimpflation is another way in which companies will attempt to avoid raising prices on the shelf, and that’s by lowering the quality of ingredients, along with encouraging the public to eat less nutritious (and less expensive to produce) foods.
The 1970s was the decade that gave birth to the processed food market and the microwave cuisine, at least on a wider scale. This was the decade when American food truly took a nose dive. The ease of processed foods was offset by the poor nutritional content. They were cheaper, but the quality sucked and we are still living with the repercussions of that trend today.
There were, of course, counter-culture movements working against the adoption of processed foods, including “know your farmer” type organizations and organic movements. But as we are all well aware, the cheap processed foods eventually won. Society embraced the market because they had to. Prices were so high that it was the only way they could feed their families everyday.
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And don’t forget the fridge.
The fridge is responsible hugely for the demise of fermentation of foods. For example, in the wild wild west, the cowboy on horseback would stop and cook a billy of beans. The remainder of the beans that were not not eaten would of course ferment while the cowboy was ridin along or just rolling, roiling roiling… herding cattle….so in a way the old cowboys and their legendary ‘baked beans’ were more digestible, high in K2, and incredibly nutritious due to the absence of the said fridges…..what more can i say??
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HMMM…”What more can i say??”
Naturally of course, the ruling class in the UK for example got to eat “fresh food” that was typically un-fermented, and got a bit fat due to their microbiome not being adequately replenished with fermented day old, or one and a half day old etc lentil soup for instance. Only the freshest unfermented soups were taken by the ruling class and fermented foods were for the workers and such after a fashion. …IN MY OPINION..Darn it, the ‘caps lock’ got stuck…
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You could start by instructing us how to go about achieving the same effect with our own leftover beans.
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Appoligies.
My notes here are for how to make wild fermented natto or the like.
Search youtube “extra strong soy bean paste” or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpHLt3Z05U
Or even Amazing skills of making Dead body soup (Cheonggukjang) / 청국장 / Korean street food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1wA2SeiJo
My own method is to soak the beans nicely for a day or more and then steam the beans/pressure cook until soft and mushy. Easily squashed between fingers.
At this point, while the beans are soft and hot, the spores from B Subtilis are in the air and land on the hot beans. The spores are very tolerant of high temperatures and will readily land on the hot beans and start the fermentation process. …My own method is to go the vege garden and cut some dry vegetation, put it in a pot, boil it for a few minutes to get rid of bacteria so that only the temperature resistant B subtilis survive. Then, the B subtilis spores are in the tea and is pored over the soft, hot, freshly cooked beans to give them a head start and get a more even fermentation a lot faster than by pressure cooked beans and spores out of the air and environment alone.
The damp cloth over the beans in the tray and a tight lid helps keep the beans moist and readily accesible to the fermentation without water droplets forming and dripping onto the beans which is not that good for the fermentation to proceed nicely IN MY OPINION SO FAR AND FROM EXPERIENCE HOWEVER RUDIMENTARY….LOVE MY BEANS….ASK QUESTIONS….
hmm…my account on Joanne nova dot com is not instant and so it may take some time for my comment to be moderated and published.
I will be attentative for any further questions
My now preferred method is to add a soft damp cloth over the glass tray before closing it with a lid over the hot beans about 30mm thick. This prevent water drops falling onto the beans at high humidity while they are fermenting at about body temperature for two days. There is a good amount of variation in temperature up to forty degrees celsius which is also has worked for me. High humidty is imprtant for the bacteria B Subtilis to form a bio film which eventually becomes very stringy and sticky forming long strands when touched. A good sign the fermentation is proceeding nicely.
In some countries, the fermentation occurs wrapped up between leaves and can continue anaerobically without oxygen too. B subtilis can ferment in oxygen or without oxygen which is interesting.
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FWIW –
“Cereal For The Peasants? How The Elites Use “Skimpflation” To Control Our Eating Habits”
I reckon you’ll be really taken with the 2030Food Pyramid (/s in case)
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/WEFFood1.jpg?itok=hFnpAgzH
amomg other things there
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/cereal-peasants-how-elites-use-skimpflation-control-our-eating-habits
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FWIW
“ANOTHER TURN OF THE WHEEL”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/03/18/another-turn-of-the-wheel-2/
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“Ministers Overestimated UK Public Enthusiasm For Heat Pumps–NAO”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/19/ministers-overestimated-uk-public-enthusiasm-for-heat-pumps-nao/
And in comments there – another grand plan
“It’s OK we’ll have cheap US electricity in the UK any day now (along with that from North Africa)
UK eyes US electricity with transatlantic power cableBritain is reportedly considering importing electricity from the US through a proposed transatlantic power cable
Energylivenews”
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XI Jinping Looks Extremely Pained: Two Sessions Reveal Shifts in China’s National Destiny
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