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So Assange should shortly be back in Oz. What is likely to happen to him? Has he got lots of supporters who will help him to transition to freedom?
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How long has he been in the dungeon?
You’d think he was a Trump attorney, or at January 6th or something.
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He will undoubtedly be keen to spend time with family and enjoy the fresh air of freedom. Will he be gagged? Will he be outspoken? Will he be locked up again? Who can know? The media will be hounding him and his story will be worth a lot of money. The question is how much will he be willing and able to reveal.
Yes.
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Well, Assange really hopes that is the case, as his debts now come in at $800,000.
And I wonder if all his innocent backers (including Imran Khan’s first wife Jemima) got back their huge bail sureties (rumoured to be around 300,000 Pounds) when he skipped bail.
Assange thinks to self ….. Hmm! First task upon getting off the plane in Oz. Declare bankruptcy! Then, make deal that any income is protected from repayment of debt.
Tony.
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He’ll be interviewed endlessly by msm journalists with 1% of his integrity and who’ll NEVER cover any real story, like the plandemic, vaxxes, climate change, renewables, TGA/BOM/ABS lies and coverups…
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JC II >He’ll be interviewed endlessly by msm journalists with 1% of his integrity
Remember the Glenn Greenwald interview of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong?
Assange crosses the Left/Right divide as did Snowden.
There’s common ground for sure. Yesterday I posted a news.com.au article in respect to the Michael Hastings car explosion/crash:
WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ dump reignites conspiracy theories surrounding death of Michael Hastings
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/wikileaks-vault-7-dump-reignites-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-death-of-michael-hastings/news-story/0df1d06403d0223ce1cfc286a1e75325
Referenced are several X posts:
Mike Cernovich
Evan Wright
Cate Long
Cassandra Fairbanks
zerohedge
Kim Dotcom
Edward Snowden
Zero Hedge at least is on Left wing censorship “lists” that they’re prone to compiling.
Not sure of any political leanings at news.com.au but all of those posts are in respect to, with implied or overt criticism: the establishment; Obama survellience state; and, the CIA.
Same with the actual news.com reporting.
I don’t think people at large appreciate the turmoil stirred up by the Michael Hastings death, even if they have even heard of him. And the implications surrounding it arising from the Wikileaks Vault 7 release.
Didn’t resonate downunder but certainly did elsewhere.
Yesterdays Michael Hastings thread begins here.
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They say the pen is mightier than the sword but here are the last words from the pen of Michael Hastings:
Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans
Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed Staff
Posted on June 8, 2013 at 4:10 am
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans
10 days later, on June 18, 2013, Michael Hastings died in a car explosion-crash.
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Hastings:
12 years later, Obama’s pulling Biden’s strings.
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>John Kirakou,…also in prison for leaking “harmful” (read: embarrassing) classified info [2013]
From yesterdays Assange thread here:
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Was the “Russian Hack” an Inside Job?
FOR THE STEERING GROUP [July 24, 2017]
William Binney
Skip Folden
Larry C Johnson [Author @ The Gateway Pundit]
Michael S. Kearns
John Kiriakou [imprisoned 2013]
Linda Lewis
Edward Loomis, Jr.
David MacMichael
Ray McGovern
Elizabeth Murray
Kirk Wiebe
Sarah G. Wilton
Ann Wright
# # #
Think about this. John Kiriakou, in prison 2013, now putting his name to the above MEMORANDUM 2017.
His incarceration didn’t silence him.
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I wonder what happened to David Hicks, for a while there was also an attempt to make him a “victim”….
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I saw that egregious Peta Credlin frothing at Assange for being a traitor. She claims that she is privy to “intelligence” that is damning of him -namely an alleged rape in Sweden and compromising the safety of our military personnel. He just published material for heavens sake and if our so-called ally is offended by the release of damning information, so it be.
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He is in Saipan as we speak, attending court, making a plea bargain.
The upshot is that he cannot talk, officially gagged or face the consequences. Its the price of freedom.
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She worked for (and remains close to) the best PM we’ve had in generations. She might be opinionated – it’s her job – but “egregious” is a step too far.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmJoaXqJlQ
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On the Stella Assange X thread:
🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸@Pismo_B
The prosecution is the punishment.
Same with the J6 prisoners in the US.
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The general public still seem reluctant to buy EV’s in the UK
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/25/electric-vehicle-owners-ditch-battery-power-as-majority-selling-an-ev-return-to-petrol/
Obviously what is needed, according to dealers are more incentives.
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And one manufacturer seems to have noticed …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn44v3e7nggo
“Vauxhall-owner may halt UK production over EV rules”
“”Stellantis UK does not stop, but Stellantis production in the UK could stop,” she told reporters at an industry conference. Stellantis’s brands also include other well-known names such as Chrysler, Dodge, Maserati and Opel. The UK government initially set a goal of 2030 to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars, but delayed the plan by five years to give consumers more time to make the transition to electric vehicles.”
– ‘she’ is “Maria Grazia Davino, the boss of Stellantis”.
I note that Labour’s Climate chap, the bacon-butty-botherer Milliband, is threatening to bring it forward to 2030 again if the Socialists get in in the UK [which looks overwhelmingly likely].
In a sense of fairness [@ the Beeb …!]
“Meanwhile, the EU has said Chinese EVs were unfairly subsidised by its government, and threatened to impose punitively high taxes on Chinese imports.”
China doesn’t force its manufacturers to use unreliable power.
Their goods are cheaper.
And some of their goods might be made by Uyghurs without the option of looking for another job, too.
And, it is rumoured that at least one Chinese organisation stole the recipe for a chocolate profiterole, instead of researching profiterole making itself! Terrible if true!
Auto
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There was an interesting US survey. 46% of people who own EVs said they would not buy one next time.
Presumably the novelty and prestige have worn off. And the insurance and tyre and maintenance costs are biting. But they still have to face the fact that there is no resale value, unlike any other car they have owned. So there is a huge cost, either way.
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If we strip away the market distortions caused by government bribes, companies who force their staff choose an EV as their company vehicle, purchases by governments themselves and large-scale purchases by hire companies etc, I believe the ‘underlying’ demand for EVs from ordinary motorists spending their own money is extraordinarily low – and falling.
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Even the Norwegians are reducing the EV subsidies. They were spending more on subsidies than in fixing their roads, so have started to reduce the subsidies.
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Unfortunately some articles in the excellent Daily Sceptic are only for donors. There is an intriguing reference to Australia’s attempts to censor the entire internet. Anyone any idea what this means
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/20/in-episode-3-of-the-sceptic-labours-net-zero-delusions-the-met-office-blows-hot-air-and-online-censorship-and-the-pyramid-of-hate/
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That’s fine with Australians. Our council has banned nuclear missiles. It’s a silly place.
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That will be about our lovely esafety commissioner, trying to get twitter to ban something that offends her – not just in Australia but globally. She lost.
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Tonyb, young man (religion of peace) stabbed a Bishop in Sydney at the pulpit in front of churchgoers, and the video of it went viral. Our “eSafety” commissioner wanted X to block that video not just in Australia but all over the world. The ridiculousness and hypocrisy of it went global because Elon, bless him, told her to go jump, despite her $800,000 a day threats. Though he did black the video in Australia after a while, but never globally.
The Bishop survived, but lost the use of his right eye, forgave the assailant, but wanted the video of his attack to be seen.
So much other violence is fine apparently, but not that one. What truth are they trying to hide?
And why didn’t they have to order Facebook etc to censor it? Obviously…
https://apnews.com/article/australia-church-stabbing-bishop-emannuel-126a140f1a38aeb9d63b2c7b744f588f
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This is fun:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/25/climate-communicators-discover-the-best-way-to-persuade-voters-is-to-lie-to-them/
Says pushing EV’s loses votes.
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My comment: All politics is local and the cost, burden and loss of freedom implicit in the green dream are becoming apparent at the household level. Need to turn that into votes.
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Russia blocks 81 EU-based media
Not that Russia will suffer any loss…..
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Facts of history they no longer teach.
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And 3,000 lives stopping slave ships.
But the other reason slavery ended was the Industrial Revolution which started in England. It was ironic that when slavery ended in the US after the civil war, the jobs in the field ended too with mechanical harvesting.
And in most countries prior to 1900, almost everyone worked in manual labour in food production. Which was not slavery but the difference is debatable, as with the Serfs in Russia. Now it is only 5%. The transformation of society and explosive growth of cities has been due to fossil fuels. Which the city elites want to ban, even in agriculture and transport.
They have no idea of the past. The cities in which they live are not viable without fossil fuel.
“Australia must install 16 times its current capacity of batteries and pumped hydro by 2050, while large-scale wind and solar generation will have to jump six fold, AEMO says.”
But we would also have to stop making steel from iron ore, stop using concrete, stop making fertilizer and explosives for mining and stop making plastics. And just buy everything from China?
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And what I find odd about their arithmetic for 2050 is that if the lifetime of wind and solar and batteries is only 20 years, they should not be counting what we have already installed up to 2030. It will all be gone.
Windmills and solar power are not power stations which can be maintained endlessly.
AEMO says we need a rocket?
So from now and forever we have to build 6x the rate we have built in the last 20 years just to maintain our Green energy.
Without any provision for the extra million people a year and double the requirement for power.
I thought wind was the cheapest form of energy? It gives new meaning to renewables. Eternally replaceables.
You would not spend your life savings building a house which fell every 20 years.
Wind and solar power are not fit for purpose. Coal, oil and gas are free too.
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We built the
Sydney Harbour bridge. 1932. 92 years old
26 locks and weirs on the Murray river. 85 years old.
Sydney Opera House. 1973 Unbelievably expensive. World famous. 50 Years old.
Snowy Mountain hydro scheme, 70 years old.
West Gate Bridge. 1978. 40 year life expectancy. 46 years old.
Imagine if they all had to be built again?
We also built many power stations to burn free coal and gas.
Hazelwood power station 1971. 53 years old. Running at 98% of design when destroyed.
Liddell power station. 1972. 53 years old when turned off.
Many more destroyed. All blown up or planned to be switched off.
To be replaced with windmills and solar panels which we know will be worn out in 20 years.
How can this be cheaper?
Why is Green never about solving problems and just about endless spending. And what do we, the paying public, get for our money?
Short term Renewables solve no problem. And when they stop, we have nothing.
Why are we doing it? Cui Bono?
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And in COP28 when 130,000 people descended on Dubai to discuss shutting down coal, oil and gas, I did not read one criticism of the host or the indoor ski slope and ice skating rinks in 50C heat. And Dubai now also have nuclear.
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And cheap electricity, at around A$0.26/kWh. That large 5.6GW nuclear plant, at around A$30bn, was a good buy.
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The US have licensed nuclear power plants for 80 years operation and provision to consider extension to 100 years.
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Batteries won’t last that long, especially if they over-use them, as per the SA battery. 10-15 years is more likely.And it turns out that the grid storage cost will be the highest renewable cost, if they have to install a minimum of 48 hours.
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Australia’s current capacity of grid scale batteries has an energy storage capacity of approx 2 GWh
So 16 times this equals 32 GWH
Even with current wind and solar generation it would require 1250 Gwh of battery storage peaking in January to eliminate daily and seasonal variablity in wind energy production (5% of annual wind production). It would take 4410 GWh of battery storage peaking in March to eliminate daily and seasonal variablity in solar power (11% of annual solar production).
This would place wind and solar on an equal footing with nuclear.
The costs of such energy storage capacity using batteries would be around $4 Trillion.
So how does AEMO come up with just 32 GWh when their own production data easily confirms otherwise?
They seem to rely on massive overproduction of wind and solar power to cover up daily and seasonal variablity which would not be required for stable nuclear power.
Time to start comparing Oranges with Oranges instead of comparing Oranges with Lemons!
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Slavery stifles innovation. Why innovate when you have slaves?
Are you referring to the Royal Navy? They lost many good men and ships fighting slavery.
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Likely, in the future those products will be made here, but by China-owned corporations.
Not for us though. If we want the benefit from those products, then we still will need to buy them from China.
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Yes, the brits wanted to end slavery, the democrats to a man didn’t (check their KKK ties) and the republicans were born out of a need to fight the democrats stance.
Whites have had black slaves, blacks had white slaves, blacks had black slaves. All races were slaves and were slave owners. There’s no single victim class here.
As the saying goes:
I never owned slaves and you never picked cotton.
Entitlements:0
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SpaceX had a successful launch with Falcon Heavy, both boosters returned to Cape Canaveral to land side by side. So Goes-U satellite is on its way to its geostationary high orbit, watching weather factors on Earth and the sun. I’m sure global warming factors have already been built into the instruments for NOAA.
..or maybe a busy day in the studio faking space travel for the FlatEarth people..
One man having a giant effect on mankind!
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Kenya Protesters Storm Parliament, Police Fire Live Rounds, After Lawmakers Unleash Eco-Austerity (article)
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Sunshine Coast next?
At their website it says –
Such as the two townships built by the debbil debbil?
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“Do not take or touch anything that does not belong to you”
Easier to say when the people around you have nothing to take. Fraser Island in the 1500s wouldn’t have a lot to steal.
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Trump Preps For Debate Against Biden By Going to Nursing Home And Arguing With Dementia Patients
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-preps-for-debate-against-biden-by-going-to-nursing-home-and-arguing-with-dementia-patients
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Very funny. Also the send up of Boeing’s Diversity priority.
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Well I hope Trump asks Biden why he made a deal to release that crook Assange and why is Biden letting a Labor government bully him.
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Assange is a crook?
Thanks GA. Tells me all I need to know, but knew already.😁
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Lol- Neither Biden nor Trump would know who Assange is, never mind care either way! Seeing he was never tried for publishing the leaks he was given and the women charging him with being a man withdrew the charges, he’s not guilty of anything except annoying the crap out of the Deep State.
..and Biden wouldn’t know who was bullying him!
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I saw that egregious Peta Credlin frothing at Assange for being a traitor. She claims that she is privy to “intelligence” that is damning of him -namely an alleged rape in Sweden and compromising the safety of our military personnel. He just published material for heavens sake and if our so-called ally is offended by the release of damning information, so it be.
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Shooting the messenger
It was “Chelsea” Manning that provided US goverment documents to Wikileaks
In August 2013, after pleading guilty to ten charges and being found guilty of 20, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The day after the sentencing, Manning came out publicly as trans.
She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. A trans woman, Manning said in 2013 that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.
This traitor is now being lauded as a hero!
https://www.vogue.com/article/chelsea-manning-vogue-interview-september-issue-2017
Assange was incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh in London from April 2019 to June 2024, as the United States government’s extradition effort was contested in the British courts after spending seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
So the foreign publisher received a greater sentence than the US Citizen who stole the confidential information in the first place!
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I seem to remember an interview or article that Assange stated he contacted the US Gov informing them what he had and if they wanted anything redacted or removed regarding current deployed or in danger personnel prior to publishing.
I could be wrong but I do vaguely remembering something along those lines
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G’day Philc,
I didn’t follow it at all closely, especially at the start, so there’s nothing in my memory, let alone records, to challenge or support you.
Any chance of finding a pointer?
Cheers
Dave B
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Labor MPs and Senators who “cross the floor” are usually expelled from the party – EXCEPT if you are a Muslim Senator promoting terrorism in the Middle East.
Not only is the Albanese goverment eager to divide Australians on racial lines but on religious lines as well.
Why should the Australian Senate recognise a terrorist oganisation? Surely that would just confirm that teorrism works and would promote more terrorism.
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Best line from the SBS ad for the show The Hospital, In at the Deep End –
Where does one begin?
Clearly Samuel Johnson has never see Yes Minister.
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AEMO has released its 2024 ISP.
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/2024/2024-integrated-system-plan-isp.pdf?la=en
It is fantasy for a whole lot of reasons. This, taken from the executive summary, gives the flavour:
and
If you own a roof, then AEMO expects you to have solar panels on it. They also anticipate lots of consumer batteries.
This report offers Dutton a gatling gun to spray down anyone who thinks nuclear generation on existing power station sites is expensive.
Where will they find investors for wind farms when Dutton is offering nuclear as an alternative.
Hands up if you think that electricity prices are going to come down!
One interesting detail is that there is no offshore wind till after 2032. That is a realistic time frame if it does eventuate. But I think investors will be watching Dutton closely.
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Nuclear out in cold in $122b power grid plan
The energy market operator has dismissed Peter Dutton’s argument that nuclear is the best replacement for coal-fired power, instead calling for another $3.4 billion for transmission lines to support the shift to renewables.
The Australian Energy Market Operator added five more projects to its growing list of high voltage transmission projects, which are already running behind the pace needed to meet 2030 climate targets.
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The nuclear plan ends up way lower cost. It also has funding certainty because the funds will come out of federal general revenue.
AEMO’s ISP requires a massive acceleration in investment in rooftop solar panels and household batteries. Then astronomic increase in grid scale wind, solar and storage as well as massive investment in new transmission lines. And because none of that investment is coming fast enough, there needs to be a massive increase in gas fired plant.
The nuclear plan kills the ISP because no investor is going to put money into wind and solar unless there are guarantees on subsidies beyond 2030 when the RET runs out. That would be embarrassing for the Labor government to push through. The alternative is for Labor to directly fund all the grid scale weather dependent generators and storage. That would then highlight the real cost of the transition and require a massive organisation to keep maintaining all the wind and solar farms.
Gas will need to replace any coal plants that are retired simi;lar to what has happened in the USA because wind and solar are too labour intensive to be built at the rate needed.
The ISP recognises the significance of distributed solar and batteries but does not draw the obvious conclusion that grid defection is the major threat to their plan. Why would anyone use something that is more expensive than they can easily make themselves.
The AFR article is paywalled so cannot see how well it looks at the detail of the ISP. None of the distributed solar is priced into their cost. Also I believe the operating life of the WDGs is higher than what is being experienced so I don’t know what allowance has been made for replacement.
Dutton’s nuclear plan is already impacting the investment decisions for wind and solar projects.
I expect Dutton will use the ISP to highlight how expensive wind, solar and storage really are. And the system still remains dependent on gas.
Nuclear plant owned by the government would just bid all power at the floor price, currently minus $1200, so they are always scheduled. They would then achieve a capacity factor up around 97%.
No one will build wind and solar projects without guarantees on subsidies and guaranteed market access or payment without delivery.
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“That would be embarrassing for the Labor government to push through. The alternative is for Labor to directly fund all the grid scale weather dependent generators and storage. That would then highlight the real cost of the transition and require a massive organisation to keep maintaining all the wind and solar farms.”
The would LOVE it, take over all electricity generation and distribution and tuck it into a giant Govt Dept to soak up tens of thousands of unemployables and brag about lowering unemployment! Like the railways used to be!
Of course they could easily break the economy by signing up to all this hopeless mess and then making sure to lose the following election and retire rich while poking jabs at the Coalition for failing to get the country back on an even keel.
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The AEMO still refuses to talk about storage for renewables, and this is the major cost.
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The AEMO is proposing gas-powered generation to save the day when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining.
However, there is already a natural gas shortage on the East Coast with Victoria banning new home connections to Gas.
Time to fess up that battery backup costs will run into the A$ Trillions with ZERO Fossil Fuels and ZERO nuclear
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So when/if renewables ever reach 82% of the grid, how much gas would be left to backup the renewables? The answer has to be almost none.
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They forecast a need to rapidly increase gas generation but its utilisation will be lower. There is essentially an unlimited supply of gas for Australia’s needs but it is locked up by environmental vandals.
There is presently 11.5GW of gas. 9.3GW will be retired by 2050 so there will need to be 13GW of new gas plant built between now and 2035.
If the retirement of coal plants occurs to their forecast then there will be power rationing. Retirement of Erraring has already been deferred.
The only way to avoid rationng is to replace retiring coal with dispatchable gas or long storage hydro.
The ISP has Snowy 2 fully operational by 29/30. I expect that is hopeful rather than realistic. There is no point investing in new intermittent sources unless they have more storage.
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Carrying on from the Ned Nikolov revelation yesterday re the IPCC’s inverted ASR graph.
The graph appears here:
Figures: Chapter 7 [See 7.3 (top)]
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/figures/chapter-7
And within Chapter 7:
Chapter 7: The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-7/
7.2.2 Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget
7.2.2.1 Changes in Earth’s Top-of-atmosphere Energy Budget
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-7/
Says this in respect to reflected solar (a) Global mean solar flux anomaly in Fig 7.3(top):
The other inverted graph is 7.3(b)(middle) Global mean thermal flux anomaly.
The caption for Figure 3 is this:
“All flux anomalies are defined as positive downwards” – this explains the inversion of the graph from the original CERES data.
See next.
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The problem with the IPCC’s narrative re ASR vs CO2 this century is this:
There’s no problem having a convention that requires inversion of a metric(s) to conform to the convention.
But there is a MASSIVE problem when the inverted metric is then used to describe actual critical physical phenomena when it is the inappropriate metric to use.
From previous, the IPCC says this in respect to ASR:
This is actually true in the CERES data here via Ned Nikolov on X:
TOA SW Flux – CERES
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQnqbX5XwAAVk3B?format=jpg&name=900×900
TOA LW Flux – CERES
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQnqcRBW4AAS0M1?format=jpg&name=900×900
The SW flux in particular exhibits an easily discernible downward trend. Ned Nikolov says 2.7 W.m2 but I see 1.7. Theoretical CO2 forcing over the same period is 0.7 for comparison – and not to mention aerosols and volcanic.
There’s an increase in OLR but not nearly as pronounced.
Here’s where it gets nasty. The IPCC says this in 7.2.2 Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget:
This is a critical passage. The IPCC claim, using the word “implies”, “an increasing clear-sky greenhouse effect”.
Except they neglect to mention that although incoming TOA solar is almost “constant”, there’s been a radical INCREASE in ASR this century. Put simply:
Reflected Solar Radiation DECREASE
Absorbed Solar Radiation INCREASE
1.7 W.m2 observed absorbed solar radiation INCREASE
0.7 W.m2 theoretical CO2 forcing INCREASE
The IPCC cannot spin this CERES data as an “implied” “increasing clear-sky greenhouse effect” – that is scientific malfeasance. The dominant driver is observed ASR this century.
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>that is scientific malfeasance
Either – an act to deceive [implicit deceipt]
Or – intentional misrepresentation of results
I don’t think there’s intent to deceive on the IPCC’s part. I think the problem arises from the IPCC’s convention which requires them to invert the RSR and OLR graphs.
However, RSR is only an indicator for what was absorbed (energy left in the system – not reflected out of it) i.e. it is the ineffective solar metric, ASR is the effective solar metric and forcing.
The appropriate solar metric, in terms of solar forcing, is ASR – not RSR.
Reading the IPCC’s narrative however, gives a distinct impression of author bias. There is a focus not on the effective solar flux (ASR) but on the ineffective solar flux (RSR). And their central point is in respect to their AGW theory – “implies an increasing clear-sky greenhouse effect”.
What I’m getting at is there is a critical omission on the IPCC’s part i.e. it is not necessarily what you say that matters, it is what you don’t say.
This last point arises from the IPCC’s assessment premise in the first place – GHGs are the dominant climate driver. All assessment is then subservient to that premise. That’s the “author bias” I mention.
In other words, if there was intent it can be traced back to the IPCC’s assessment premise.
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>Either – an act to deceive [implicit deceipt]
Should be:
Either – an act to deceive [implicit intent]
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>Reading the IPCC’s narrative however, gives a distinct impression of author bias.
There is a multitude of Chapter 7 Authors. Piers Forster is the Laead Author. The citation is this:
Forster, P., T. Storelvmo, K. Armour, W. Collins, J.-L. Dufresne, D. Frame, D.J. Lunt, T. Mauritsen, M.D. Palmer, M. Watanabe, M. Wild, and H. Zhang, 2021: The Earth’s Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity. In Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 923–1054, doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.009.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-7/
See – HOW TO CITE
Dave Frame is from NZ and specializes in climate sensitivity (ECS, TCS). Martin Wild specializes in:
Global Energy and Water Cycle
Radiation and surface energy budget of the Earth
Global Dimming, Global Brightening
Global climate change
Global climate modelling and projections
Except the actual chapter has a whole different set of authors but Piers Forster is a Co-Cordinating Lead and some of the names above crop up too – see next.
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Ok, Chapter 7 citation previous but what does the actual chapter say?
At the link previous, instead of clicking HOW TO CITE click AUTHORS.
Too numerous to list here but I count 54.
Some other notables:
Seiji Kato (United States of America) [CERES]
Mike Lockwood (United Kingdom) [Solar]
Norman Loeb (United States of America) [CERES+]
Karina von Schuckmann (France/Germany) [Ocean]
Important part is near the bottom:
Review Editors: Robert Colman (Australia), H. Damon Matthews (Canada), Venkatachalam Ramaswamy (United States of America)
Those last guys are the gatekeepers as I see it.
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I posted that linked chart in one of my WUWT articles:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-105.png?ssl=1
The chart shows the variation in short wave reflected and outgoing long wave across latitudes. The actual values are SWR down by 2,4W/m^2 and OLR up by 1.3W/m^2.
An important point here is that CERES is calibrated to the ocean heat content derived from ARGO data during the decade 2005 to 2015. The temperature difference for 2005 to 2023 was 0.0897C. So all the retained heat is based on this tiny temperature difference.
The interesting quandary for AR6 is that the ocean heat content is not rising as fast as the retained radiation so CERES will need to be recalibrated or some other explanation for where the heat is going. The actual radiation instruments used for the CERES estimation have about 3W/m^2 error. So the CERES data should be viewed as an estimation rather than an absolute. They should also be OK for small relative changes.
Another interesting feature in the chart I linked is the reversal to the trends just north of the equator. This actually highlights the temperature regulating process of tropical oceans. As the peak solar intensity gradually shifts northward, more of the ocean surface north of the equator is hitting the 30C limit where the monsoon sets in. So the ITCZ is gradually moving northward. These are all things that are predicted by observing the precession cycle of Earth’s axis. Absolutely nothing to do with CO2.
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RickWill >I posted that linked chart in one of my WUWT articles
Different charts, time series vs total change at 2023 by latitude but I see that it is the same metric – just presented differently.
>The actual values are SWR down by 2,4W/m^2
This is what I’m not getting. Your value comes from a much wider Y axis than CERES (solar only) – +1 to -6 (you), +2 to -2 (CERES, Ned).
Your value (-2.4) agrees with Ned Nikolov (-2.7) but I can only see -1.7 in Ned’s CERES graph here:
TOA SW Flux – CERES [Reflected]
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQnqbX5XwAAVk3B?format=jpg&name=900×900
By eye the data goes from about +1.0 to about -0.7 = 1.7.
Why the 0.7 (you) and 1.0 (Ned) discrepancy?
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My word “that” should have been “the”. I was referring to my chart. It covers 23 years from 2001 to 2023 inclusive. Nikolov’s data is for a shorter period and only globally. You get a lot more information when there is a spacial component as well as time.
The most significant aspect with this comparison is why is the region just north of the equator different to all other regions in terms of what SWR and OLR are doing.
I do not see anything that Nikolov has posted as being significant. The easiest way to dismiss climate modelling is to show that they have ocean surface temperature sustaining more than 30C. That is physically impossible with the present atmospheric mass and minor additions of carbon are unmeasurable in terms of total mass. When the surface pressure increases, you can expect the limit temperature to increase beyond 30C but less than 1ppm of carbon each year is not going to cause a discernible increase in surface pressure.
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Rick >I do not see anything that Nikolov has posted as being significant.
Seriously?
Maybe go back up to #15.1 and read that, or read again if you already have:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/wednesday-62/#comment-2776922
For starters:
Plenty follows but here’s the conclusion:
Surely you can see the VERY “significant” problem from that?
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Rick, you didn’t answer my question:
The discrepancy I’m referring to is this:
1.7 m-2 – CERES Reflected graph from source
2.7 m-2 – Ned Nikolov X quote
2.4 m-2 – Yourself @ #15.2
The CERES graph is this:
TOA SW Flux – CERES [Reflected]
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQnqbX5XwAAVk3B?format=jpg&name=900×900
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“Talking about electric cars especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular frightened of battery running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought about before).”
I read an account by a woman driving an EV , she outlined her experiences as a woman trying to charge her car in an unfamiliar town in a dodgy area devoid of lighting, finding a few chargers that were either broken on or didn’t work, other areas with no mobile reception.
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Infectious disease that kills 1 in 10 ‘within 24 hours’ found in UK as Foreign Office issues urgent warning
The Foreign Office-supported website Travel Health Pro revealed that as of 21 June 2024, a total of 14 instances of the potentially disease have been identified in people returning from an Umrah pilgrimage, three cases of which have been detected in the UK.
The United States has recorded five cases, France four, and Norway and the Netherlands each with one case.
Meningococcal disease is serious and can be deadly “in hours”, warns the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is a major cause of septicaemia and meningitis, which kills one in 10 infected individuals.
https://www.gbnews.com/health/meningococcal-disease-symptoms-uk-outbreak
Well now…y’all remember 2 weeks ago when I said I was tracking a little puppy (emerging outbreak) in the middle east?
It started in Africa then spread to Saudi Arabia, then it all dropped of the radar a week ago…until now.
Probably bothing to worry about (if you’re unvaxxed).
Sepsis and Septicemia are increasingly serious growing global problems.
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Always has been here and always will be.
Abstract
In Australia, both probable and laboratory-confirmed cases of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) are reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Compared to 2021, the number of IMD notifications in 2022 increased by 81% to 127, alongside the easing of COVID-19 containment measures.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37817314/
There were 381 notifications of IMD in Australia in 2017.
After commencement of the vaccine program in 2003, notification rates of IMD declined from 28 per
million population in 2003 to 6 per million in 2013. Since 2014, notification rates have increased as the number of infections caused by serogroups B, W and Y have increased.
1% of cases result in death, I have lost count of the misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose deaths that made it to MSM.
Look at the graphs, IMD was in rapid decline when the vax was introduced, the rate of decline did not change.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/17aa17bf-d061-41e2-9655-16a1cdcc8512/aihw-phe-236_meningococcal.pdf.aspx
Someone somewhere will have something at sometime, it is predicted.
Even better when you say it was predicted by a convicted felon using the only working model on the planet
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Meningococcal Disease – I see you and I raise you mpox!
[Formerly monkeypox, but that is not a sufficiently Diverse, Inclusive or Equalizing name, per the Head Honchos at the DIE WHO – who all seem to be bioweapons experts from China]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2vv0pgggqzo
“New mpox strain in DR Congo ‘most dangerous yet'”
Obviously … “incredibly worrying”
“The current outbreak has been driven by sexual transmission but there is evidence this strain can also be passed on through close skin-to-skin contact.”
“Cases of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, have been on the rise in the African country for decades.”
“African researchers have called for urgent action, external to improve research into the mpox virus and speed up the distribution of vaccines.
“Earlier this month, the WHO said the continuing development of the mpox outbreak in DR Congo was “concerning”.”
More money, of course, and ‘concerning’ as against ‘incredibly worrying’.
I’m sure it’s an unpleasant disease.
I wouldn’t like to catch it.
But the BBC could usefully revisit the story of the boy who cried ‘Wolf’.
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““Cases of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, have been on the rise in the African country for decades.””
I wonder how they know that? PCR tests again, wound up to 35cycles? I suppose the decades are just refining the virus by repeated transmission through humans, just like in a lab but slower.
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Guys, just bear in mind, if the only thing you know about PCR is “CT cycles” there is about 3 decades of research across 4 or 5 fields of science and law and 100 other points that matter…
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We need farmers to be well and protected.
“Trudeau’s Canadian Capital Gains”
Quick Dick McDick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNP4n1K_3qc
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Redacted: Alex Epstein EXPOSES How Fossil Fuels Can Save Humanity (if we allow it) (video)
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All this seems to be following the hype curve pretty well. The virtue signallers and banwagon leapers are learning the realities of their decisions. Just needs the rabid govt mandators to back off as they have been doing in Europe.
Another example is the “electrify” everything movement with the govt and MSM “everything is awesome!” support. Now we find ourselves with what is reported to be thousands of fires a year in residences , businesses and waste facilities.
I guess there will be a period of discomfort as we adjust to the reality of whats been done.
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“I guess there will be a period of discomfort as we adjust to the reality of whats been done.”
Discomfort … but no accountability.
At least not in the UK.
We don’t do accountability any more.
I offer the following as evidence: –
# Contaminated Bloods scandal;
# Metropolitan Police becoming a shadow of the Force they once were;
# the Rochdale and Rotherham child abuse scandal, which ran for decades;
# decision making around our HS2 railway – cutting train times to Birmingham by 22 minutes, at a cost of about £97,000 million pounds;
# incredible laxness over migration – legal and other – with almost 750,000 people, net, entering the UK last year;
# Government scheme to insulate cavity walls, run by cowboys – causing misery;
# water privatisation, where consumers are ripped off for fat dividends from huge borrowing, and sewage spills worsen, and only one reservoir is now being built in almost forty years [despite all the whinging about climate change, our ‘kids not knowing what rain is’, etc.;
# Northern Rock ‘mortgage prisoners’;
# the continuing Post Office Horizon scandal with literally hundreds of perjured convictions;
# local government gambling with huge sums – trying to out speculate professional speculators – my [London] borough, Croydon, alone, owes north of £1,500 million;
# the Grenfell Tower fire, seven years ago and over seventy direct deaths;
Might there be other? There might.
But nobody seems to be held directly responsible- politicians, Civil Serpents, regulators, councillors, intermediaries.
And, of course, this only encourages further damage to the social fabric – as folk know that nobody will be stripped of titles, pensions, or freedom.
So the freebooters get more rapacious.
And, no, I very strongly doubt that Sir Starmer and the Ginger Angel of Ashley will seriously try to reduce, let alone stop, such continuing abuses if they are indeed elected next Thursday.
It’s the system, and they are part of the system – despite occasional protestations.
But – I might be surprised, maybe.
Serious accountability may come back into fashion.
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You, your nation, your culture, your people, you are being destroyed. It is a gradual process. It has been going on for more than a hundred years. The enemy is not only within the gates, the enemy is within your establishments, within your systems, and has now colonised your subconscious. You cannot rise up against it because you have lost touch with who you are.
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Today I met a couple of young fellows training to become US Customs and Border Protection officers.
I told them I was in training to become a bikini model.
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Hungary Launches Foreign Influence Investigation – U.S. State Dept, CIA and EU Influence Institutions Immediately Complain
June 25, 2024 – Sundance
The elected government of Hungary is NOT permitted to block, slow, stall, impede or otherwise interfere in the operations of the U.S. State Dept and CIA to control the nation of Hungary.
The efforts of Hungary to maintain its sovereign status are NOT acceptable. So sayeth the institutions that ultimately seek control over other nations.
Given the years of protestations and claims about Russia interfering in USA politics, if those expressed positions against the Hungarian government sound like massive hypocrisy from the United States, you would be correct. But hey, that’s how the USA operates now.
Hungary is investigating the subversive activity of foreign interest groups inside the sovereign nation. The State Dept and CIA are furious.
The law, which has been criticised by the European Union, the United States and several international organisations, bans foreign financing for parties or groups running for election and carries punishments of up to three years in prison.
The law was criticised by the U.S. State Department, as well as by a panel of constitutional law experts from the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog, which said it can have “a chilling effect” on free and democratic debate in the country.
The European Commission launched an infringement procedure over the law in February this year, citing its potential to undermine the union’s democratic values and fundamental rights. (read more)
Who knew?
The new global “democracy” is apparently defined as the ability of approved western nations to interfere in the election outcomes of other nations. If you do not permit the State Dept., CIA and USAID to control the political outcomes in your country, well, you are not really a democracy.
Nice country you have there Viktor, it’d be a shame if something happened to it!
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Sounds like Georgia- Pass a law making foreign NGOs register and open their books, and suddenly there are riots and giant protests with ready-made mass-produced signs… Never mind that a lot of European countries have those laws already, this was important as it would have shown who was behind pushing Georgia to break from Russia and donate arms to Ukraine.
Orban is definitely living on borrowed time, he has upset the Yanks, NATO and the European Union all at once. Why can’t he just settle down and behave, just supply money and cannon-fodder like Poland.
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Google Doesn’t Want You To Know The Truth About Heat Waves And ‘Climate Change’
I & I Editorial Board – June 25, 2024
Last week, we published an editorial arguing that government data didn’t support various claims about climate change. And we predicted Google would demonetize it.
We were right. (See: Heat Wave Sets Off New Round Of ‘Climate Crisis’ Lies.)
Shortly after that article was published, Google’s AdSense informed us that it had “disabled ad serving” on that page because the article contained “unreliable and harmful claims.” (We have one spot on our pages for AdSense ads, mostly to track Google’s efforts to demonetize content. See the list of related editorials below.)
So what was “unreliable” or “harmful” about that editorial? Google doesn’t say. It just says we have to “fix” it if we want their ads to run on that page.
What we can say is that Google has effectively labeled official government data as “unreliable and harmful,” since all the evidence we provided was from official sources.
The editorial pointed out that claims about more frequent heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, and wildfires – claims that get repeated ad nauseam by the mainstream press and by climate activists – are not supported by the official data.
We included charts and cited the sources of the data – sources such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Interagency Fire Center, the government-run GlobalChange.gov, etc.
Here’s how Google defines “unreliable and harmful.”
It’s the last line that Google uses to censor any content that doesn’t toe the climate “crisis” line.
Anything that “contradicts authoritative scientific consensus” just means whatever the climate change fanatics say it means, since there is in truth no “consensus” about many of the claims made about global warming.
In truth, the very notion of an “authoritative scientific consensus” violates the basic principle of science.
Imagine if Google had been around when Einstein contradicted the “authoritative scientific consensus” about Newtonian physics.
Or when Copernicus contradicted the “authoritative scientific consensus” that the Sun revolved around Earth.
Or when, in 1543, Andreas Vesalius challenged the “authoritative scientific consensus” about human anatomy that had been in place for 1,300 years.
What Google is doing here (supposedly on behalf of advertisers who use its ad network) isn’t protecting the public against false information – it is attacking true information that undermines climate change dogma.
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It is, in other words, just a thinly veiled attempt to enforce a pseudo-religious orthodoxy.
Google is nothing more than a 21st-century version of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Stand up. Don’t be nice!
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1804986502226886701
Men do not belong in female sports.
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How SpaceX could end up rescuing stranded astronauts if Boeing’s Starliner can’t be fixed
SpaceX may be forced to come to the rescue of two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station after their Boeing Starliner suffered troubling helium leaks.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams soared into space on the Starliner on June 5 and were only supposed to remain at the ISS for nine days — but issues with their ship have left their return date still up in the air, and NASA is now furiously trying to help solve the problem.
Boeing-rival SpaceX could potentially end up being tapped to ultimately bring them home aboard its Crew Dragon spaceship.
The SpaceX ship, which recently ferried four astronauts to the ISS in March, is capable of carrying two to four passengers at a time, but it can fit additional occupants in an emergency.
SpaceX had served as the sole commercial company approved to transport astronauts and cargo to the space station since 2020.
The last time a NASA astronaut needed help returning to Earth was in 2022, when Russia’s Soyuz capsule sprang a leak with American Frank Rubio on board.
While NASA had considered tapping SpaceX for help, Rubio eventually returned aboard an empty Soyuz capsule that Russia launched.
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Meanwhile – Russia takes tons of supplies to international space station 2024
In 2024, Russia has continued to play a significant role in supplying the International Space Station (ISS) with essential goods. According to recent reports, Russia’s robotic Progress 87 cargo ship arrived at the ISS on February 17, 2024, carrying approximately 3 tons of food, fuel, and other supplies.
This delivery is part of Russia’s ongoing efforts to support the ISS, which has been continuously occupied by astronauts and cosmonauts since 2000.
Recent Supply Deliveries
In addition to Progress 87, Russia has made several other supply deliveries to the ISS in 2024. For example, on July 26, 2022, Russia’s state space agency, Roscosmos, announced plans to leave the ISS after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost. However, this decision has not affected Russia’s commitment to supplying the ISS with essential goods.
Notable Supply Deliveries in 2024
Progress 87: Carried approximately 3 tons of food, fuel, and other supplies to the ISS on February 17, 2024.
Russia has made several other supply deliveries to the ISS in 2024, although the exact details of these deliveries are not publicly available.
Conclusion
Russia’s supply deliveries to the International Space Station in 2024 demonstrate the country’s continued commitment to supporting the ISS and its crew. Despite plans to leave the ISS after 2024, Russia remains an important partner in the ISS program, and its supply deliveries will continue to play a critical role in ensuring the station’s operations.
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How about just sending robots up to the ISS instead. This would speed up techical advancement for robots.
I am sure Robbie the Robot is still operational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fw7PcJcufM
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A Robot with real living skin tissue would be a useful experimental visitor to the ISS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13567409/humanoid-robot-living-skin-tissue-face-Japan.html
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https://youtu.be/vKV3vHHkRzY?si=8vsZXbuOUlTielBi
Living tissue over metal endoskeleton…
That technology won’t exist until around 2024..
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How about the first Child in space?
Meet the ‘world’s first AI child’: Chinese scientists develop a creepy entity dubbed Tong Tong that looks and acts just like a three-year-old kid
The AI entity has the intelligence and behaviour of a three-year-old child
The scientists even say that Tong Tong can experience joy, anger, and sorrow
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13060507/AI-child-Chinese-scientists-creepy-Tong-Tong.html
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Perfect Chinese unhappy citizen then.😁
Apparently the prototype named Sum Ting Wong didn’t work too well. 😆
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Don’t Ride Your Bike!
Israel Air Force eliminated the terrorist Fadi Jihad Muh@mmad Al-Wadiya, Doctors Without Borders colleague and an operative of the Palestinian Isl@mic Jihad terror organization, according to an IDF Spokesperson’s unit announcement on Tuesday evening.
According to the report, Israeli aircraft directed by the Southern Command and the Intelligence Directorate targeted an area in Gaza City where the terrorist Al-Wadiya was located at the time.
Al-Wadiya was involved in the development and advancement of the terror group’s missile array and was a unique knowledge center within the organization in the fields of electronics and chemistry.
Following the elimination of Al-Wadiya, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International expressed their “outrage” in a posted on X, formerly twitter, and “strongly” condemned the killing of their “colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya.”
Israel Defense Forces@IDF
Always check to see who you’re hiring…
Your colleague, Fadi Al-Wadiya, was a significant terrorist in Isl@mic Jihad. He advanced the terrorist organization’s rocket array, also known as a way to endanger the lives of civilians.
He is just another case of terrorists in Gaza exploiting the civilian population as human shields.
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Quite a guy – trained in electronics, chemistry AND medicine. And kept two full-time jobs.
But the IDF would never lie…
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Yesterday, from around 2pm to 9pm, the WA SWIS grid experienced a significant wind dunkelflaute, with all grid wind power dropping to 1.7% of the grid power or less. For around seven hours, right through the 6:30pm peak. I regularly walk along the river in the mornings, and usually the water is like glass, no wind. And Labor still believes that renewables can reliably deliver power.
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They do, its just a question of when and for how long.
sarc.
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SOLAR – Senile Old Lefties Abstaining from Reality?
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FWIW
The Babylon Bee looks at the fine print –
“Assange Plea Deal Includes Free Flight Home On A Boeing”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/06/25/assange-plea-deal-includes-free-flight-home-on-a-boeing-n3790943
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How will Labor’s new man Matt Keen explain his save Koala mission and promoting environmental vandalism of forests of wind turbine towers?
Sky recently broadcast a map of Queensland showing all existing wind installations and under construction, many more planned, and the areas covered was mind boggling.
A similar map of the complete electricity transmission grid areas is needed for public education.
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Conservatives are beginning to tire of the LGBTQ+ radicals’ moral acceptability
By Andrea Widburg
Beginning in the 1970s, gays argued that they’re just like us, only gay. In the ensuing decades, as the alphabet soup of non-standard s@xualities grew from lesbian and gay to add bis@xual, we were encouraged to accept same-s@x marriage because they’re just like us. Once that goal was achieved, though, we got the T(ransgender) and the Q(uestioning), and then the “plus” stuff (inters@x, as@xual, two-spirit, pansexual, etc.), when we realized that they’re not just like us.
No wonder a recent Gallup poll shows that conservatives are beginning to have enough of this nonsense.
I recognize the distinction between same-s@x attraction, which is as old as human history, and the modern madness we’re seeing. There’s a big difference between people who happen to be gay but who define themselves by other values and those who are defined solely by their s@xuality.
The former have tended to become conservative as they realize that a stable society, good economic policies, national security, etc., are more important than s@xual orientation.
The latter, by contrast, have become ever more extreme as they do anything they can to force society to accommodate their increasingly bizarre s@xual behaviors.
(Warning: I cannot keep the upcoming content entirely G-rated.)
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Grim irony: curbing air pollution is warming the earth faster
World governments have rightly fought to curb pollutants. But as a growing body evidence is beginning to show, these airborne particles, or aerosols, have likely mitigated rising temperatures by reflecting sunlight and boosting the reflectivity of clouds — and as a result, concealed just how bad global warming actually is.
The extent of the cooling they’ve caused is more contentious. Nonetheless, it’s a grim irony that exemplifies the complexities of understanding — nevermind protecting — our climate.
“We’re starting from an area of deep, deep uncertainty,” Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist from the University of California, Berkeley, told The Washington Post. “It could be a full degree of cooling being masked.”
One of the biggest drop-offs in pollutants may come from the shipping industry, whose regulatory body in 2020 started limiting the use of the dirty, sulfur-spewing fuels its massive vessels once relied on, in favor of cleaner alternatives.
But with the resulting decrease in aerosols, recent research has shown that these cuts in shipping pollution has directly led to more solar radiation being trapped in our atmosphere, which could explain why 2023 was the hottest year on record by a margin that alarmed even scientists.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/curbing-air-pollution-making-earth-warmer
So we’re offsetting the natural cooling?
How long before these idiot scientists create a irreversible tipping point?
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I read that as the global warming was being offset by pollutants.Actually forget me, that is how everyone but you reads it.
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My thought processes are different to most people, both a blessing and a curse.😎
“I read that as the global warming was being offset by pollutants”
I don’t know how you thought that – my statement was clear enough (to me). 😁
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Wednesday wilderness survival tip: rocket fires
https://streamable.com/4bnt2k
Peace and quiet, a good fire, good food and a big floof!
That’s living!
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Jurassic Park in Real Life: MIT Creates Synthetic Amber for DNA Storage
With their “T-REX” method, DNA embedded in the polymer could be used for long-term storage of genomes or digital data such as photos and music.
A new polymer developed by MIT researchers offers a significant advancement in DNA storage, providing room-temperature preservation without the energy costs associated with traditional freezing methods. This technology not only stores large amounts of data effectively but also ensures easy retrieval and undamaged DNA, making it a promising solution for both genetic and digital archival.
DNA offers a way to store this digital information at a very high density: In theory, a coffee mug full of DNA could store all of the world’s data. DNA is also very stable and relatively easy to synthesize and sequence.
https://scitechdaily.com/jurassic-park-in-real-life-mit-creates-synthetic-amber-for-dna-storage/
Absolutely the way to go!
All current data storage media have serious longevity issues.
Archival grade M-Disc was touted as a multi-decade capable medium, but it seems to have gone the way of VHS…
Imagine all those government data centers the size of a city block and pulling megawatts shrunk to a coffee cup.
Or a true AI entity with a brain the size of a coffee cup, possessing all known knowledge, powered by a 9v battery. 😎
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Quite a guy – trained in electronics, chemistry AND medicine. And kept two full-time jobs.
But the IDF would never lie…
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Starmer’s first test will be on net zero.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/06/25/vauxhall-owner-threatens-to-close-uk-car-factories/
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FWIW
“Army Admits Link Between COVID Vaccine and Soldier’s Heart Condition”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/army-admits-link-between-covid-vaccine-and-soldiers-heart-condition/
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Aussie taxpayers paid $500,000 for the private jet charter to bring Assange home.
https://simpleflying.com/vistajet-flies-julian-assange-bombardier-global-6000/
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Well, they wouldn’t want him talking to any ordinary people on a public flight would they..
Simplicious is talking about George Orwell & how Govts reduce our thinking by banning words. Hate speech and deniers and skeptics…
“journalism is printing something that someone else doesn’t want printed, everything else is public relations”
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/language-and-bewitchment-part-three
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Umm, no they didn’t. The jet charter was paid for by public donations. Details covered in The Australian this morning. Same jet was used by Taylor Swift.
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Wrong.
It was paid for by the taxpayer.
His wife has launched an appeal to repay the debt to the taxpayer. It remains to be seen whether the debt will ever be repaid or will be conveniently forgotten about.
Incidentally the full amount was US$520,000.
https://x.com/Stella_Assange/status/1805573781303308326?t=3pCYoa0xT9UsxKJGdomwjg&s=19
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‘Would Set Back Civilization About 250 Years’: Scientist Issues Warning About Current Wuhan Lab Work (video)
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More machines to make war on us-
“AML ( (Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher) is a project to develop and demonstrate an autonomous, unmanned, highly mobile launcher that can be transported by air. The prototype installation will be capable of performing escort operations, autonomous movement along waypoints, telecontrol, remote guidance and fire control. In addition, it will use the latest ammunition while remaining compatible with existing types of ammunition. One of the main tasks of AML is to increase the strike potential of the US Army, in addition to the fleet of existing launchers such as MLRS and HIMARS.”
In other words a big truck with missile launchers on the back driving around with no-one inside. A derivative of the Himars system, for land-land missiles or land-sea. The main question is, how big will the first big autonomous mistake have to be before we decide that putting computers in charge of our wars is not a good idea.
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Obedience training –
https://img.patriotpost.us/01J17GMZBTKKV18XNY2W098QCT.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
Via SDA
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Australian Medical Professionals Testify (video)
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