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When I first heard of CO2 building up in the atmosphere, I checked. It isn’t. C14 answered that question in 1958.
However the shape shifting promoters came up with things like CO2 sequestration and Australian Agricultural Carbon Credits. In England hundreds of ‘tree farms’ as investments. Not chopping things down or harvesting earns cash because it is sequestration.
But NASA proved that wrong with satellite measurements. From 1988 to 2014 tree coverage world wide showed forestation, not deforestation. A 14% increase in tree coverage and a 14% increase in CO2. So more CO2 means more trees, not the reverse. Of course in typical fashion NASA called it ‘fertilization’, which is ridiculous. Trees are made from CO2, like all living things.
The CSIRO pulled the same stunt when they had to comment on the rapid ocean absorption of bushfire CO2 and a phytoplankton bloom. These geniuses blamed it on Iron ‘fertilization’ from the ash. Anything but admit plants are hungry for CO2.
But one of the ideas was that a mythical shallow ‘surface’ ocean was ‘full’ of CO2. Now 98% of CO2 is in the ocean as it is extremely soluble, 30x more than O2 and all things breathe O2. And there are 36 papers which agree that CO2 changes completely roughly every ten years. (Table 1 here)
So what limits are there to dissolving CO2? Firstly CO2 gas we see as a solid, dry ice. But with over 5 atmospheres/276K/3C it is a liquid, like water. And that’s only 50 metres in an ocean on average 3500 metres deep. So there’s no real limit to CO2 because largely it’s not a gas in water. Even more dramatic is that unlike oxygen, CO2 dissociates H2O+CO2 becomes HCO3 and H+. Carbonic acid, a very weak acid. But it is also not easily predicted by Henry’s Law of dissolved gases. Henry’s Law works at the surface of course, but not with the values developed in laboratories as CO2 exchange goes as the fourth power of wind speed and you don’t get that in a laboratory. No waves and droplets.
This is relevant because the people who argue that fossil fuel CO2 is stuck in the atmosphere are forced to claim that the water is full of CO2, saturated. But that’s not possible. You can release the gas in Coke Cola or Lemonade with a rough surface as with menthos. So here is a fun experiment which shows just how much CO2 gas is in water even at air pressure. This is NOT a chemical reaction, just the rough surface providing a catalytic surface to form the gas instantly.
The whole fantasy of fossil fuel CO2 building up in the atmosphere is as busted as it can be. But still sequestration is fundamental to Australia’s CO2 laws as we legislate the amount of CO2 we are allowed to release and fining our biggest ‘polluters’. Fantasy science and fantasy laws, crippling the country. Why? Is it just the cash? Or the centralization of (electric) power in Canberra? Or a scare to enable crazy science laws to enslave and rob everyone? Or just a United Nations which does nothing to resolve the Ukraine war but now demands $40Bn a year from international shipping?
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That’s before you even get to Prof Will Happer’s certainty that even doubling CO2 would have a tiny 1% effect on CO2 infrared retention.
It’s all busted. So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated? Why are there thousands upon thousands of Australian public servants collecting cash for CO2?
We Australians should be rich. But we are becoming Argentina. And the PM has bought his retirement house on the beach to go with his perpetual salary. That’s the thing with communists. How to get to the top without knowing anything except how to get to the top. Or caring.
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When I was 15 my best friend’s father, a wonderfully cynical engineer told us, “You’ve heard of the Age of Dinosaurs, The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age, The Age of Steam? Well now we’re in The Age of Bullsh!t.
>So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated?
You know why. Because it’s an enormous money-spinner for the wealthy and a marvellous way to destroy the Western Democracies. And better still, it’s entirely built on bullsh!t!
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So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated?
“I have often wondered how all this climate nonsense keeps going until I came across this online. I saved it as “Something for Everyone” and I would like to thank whoever put this together as it hits the nail on the head.
The idea behind the climate change scare succeeds because it offers something to everybody.
For the Left it offers their salvation – capitalism really is evil after all.
For the Messiah Complex politicians (more of those than there used to be) it allows them to Save the World.
For the opportunists and rentiers it allows them to become rich whilst appearing virtuous.
For the scientists it allows them to bask in glory and prizes.
For the upper classes it allows them to ban all the stuff they don’t like, plebs on cheap flights to places that should only be for the right sort of people for example.
For the Waitrose middle classes it allows them to feel they are doing their bit.
For the mad Greens, they can finally destroy the hated oil companies.
For the neoRomantic fantasists they can believe they are going back to nature and we will all live in beauty and harmony.
And who dares oppose “science”? Who wants to be a Denier? So most other people simply keep their heads down and go along with it”.
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Why ladies love diamonds which are as expensive as they are useless ?
Why men pay enormous money for mechanical watches which are only as good as $50 ones?
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Just like graphite, diamond is a form of carbon. You know, one step away from that awful gas that’s causing gerbil warming.
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And why do men give them diamonds?
But I love the joke. What is a successful man? A man who can earn more than his wife can spend. And what is a successful woman? A woman who can find such a man.
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I was allowed to enter the high rollers gambling room at the Sands Hotel Las Vegas with a security guard escort, the men in dinner suits and their very young women glittering with jewellery and fur coats etc.
They all arrived in long black limousines and were escorted to the private lift.
I asked what the many gambling chips value was and the answer was lowest value US $25,000
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Wait until this dream becomes a nightmare for all. It’s going to get ugly!
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I wanted to add a single observation that we can put millions of times as much CO2 in sea water than is already there because of the extraordinary properties of CO2.
The menthos video really shocks with the amount of gas in slightly bubbly water. And given CO2’s transition to a liquid at most depths, it’s likely unlimited. So the idea that fossil fuel CO2 stays in the air because the surface ocean microsystem is saturated is a lie. As is the idea the CO2 stays only in a surface ocean.
For the CO2 to reach the atmosphere, CO2 must go upwards and the surface layer CO2 must go up. This is called acidification, which is another lie as no ocean is acid. But it is actually expected proof that CO2 is rising from the depths into the atmosphere. And by Henry’s Law of kinetic transfer, evaporation and condensation, slight ocean warming increases atmopsheric CO2. CO2 does not increase warming. Warming increases CO2 in the ocean surface layer. Like everything else in “The Science”, it is flipped around to allege the opposite, that fossil fuel increases the CO2 in the air. Real science disagrees with every part of that bizarro logic.
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“As is the idea the CO2 stays only in a surface ocean.”
Here radio carbon dating shows CO2 age for most ocean depths at about 600 years. Which is predictable. The CO2 in the ocean is 98% of CO2 shared very rapidly between ocean and atmosphere. Partly because of the wind on the surface of the water. And as quoted previously the time CO2 spends in air is about ten years. So you expect the age to be 10 x 50 or 500 years. This also proves CO2 in the ocean over time is evenly mixed, where various authors in the IPCC reports talk of thousands of years in deep currents or in the atmosphere. That is not true. In fact atmospheric CO2 has been changed about 25 times in the 250 years of slow 50% growth. There is no way fossil fuel CO2 can accumulate.
The whole system of rapid CO2 exchange is well known. We know the 1% of atmospheric fossil fuel CO2 added each year vanishes quickly into the ocean to add a tiny 1% of 2% or 0.02% to total CO2. That humans are increasing atmospheric CO2 in the air is Al Gore’s continuing fantasy. But without this lie, the whole story of rapid man made CO2 global warming collapses. Which is why we have Nett Zero laws now, to extract the cash. And ZERO science debate at any time, anywhere.
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Ivan Kennedy and Jennifer Marohasy are working on a Thermal Acid-Calcification Hypothesis ‘that holds the key to one of the more perplexing questions which is why the Keeling curve of C02 as measured at Mauna Loa keeps increasing steadily year on year, irrespective of volcanic eruptions and covid lock downs.’
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Warmer ocean currents which contain more CO2. The mathematicians led by Prof Carl Otto Weiss were able to beautifully fit European thermometer data for the last 250 years with just ocean cycles and solar cycles. A perfect fit with just two sine waves at 12 points of inflexion. Without CO2. The 250 year solar De Vries cycle and the 65 year AMO/PDO ocean cycle. No CO2 at all. My view is that CO2 variation is an effect not a cause and the assumption that ocean currents carry constant CO2 levels is untenable.
To the so called Moana Keeling curve with its characteristic thermal oscillations you have to add the straight line from NZ.. A linear gain in CO2 over 55 years indicates a massive CO2 equilibrium feedback system whose mean is slowly varying. Humans cannot change CO2, but the planetary equilibrium point can change. And the ice core hockey stick cannot show such relatively rapid changes.
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I was asked why is there no global warming on Mars, you know with an atmosphere comprising of mostly of CO2 (~95%) I didn’t really have an answer other than to say CO2 in the atmosphere doesn’t cause global warming. Later on I thought that the Mars atmosphere lacks something we have a lot of in our atmosphere, water vapor. I’ll happily get some advise from those more knowledgeable here. I’ll do web search as well.
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liberator,
I don’t think Mars has enough of an atmosphere to do much of anything.
Atmospheric pressure on Mars: around 7 mbar.
On Earth at sea level: over 1000 mbar.
At top of Everest: around 250 mbar.
Google’s AI suggests you need to be 28 miles above Earth’s surface to get to Martian levels of air pressure.
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“Lest We Forget”
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For our overseas friends that is a reference to ANZAC Day in Australia, 25 April. It’s an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and is a remberance for all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”.
“Lest we forget” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 poem “Recessional”.
And that itself may come from the Bible which warns against not remembering past events.
And the deliberate destruction of the education system in the West means historical events are no longer correctly taught or not taught at all.
Lest we forget.
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Lest we forget it was 110 years ago, to the day, British high command sent forth young Australian & New Zealand lads, amongst many others, on a futile scramble up cliffs at the wrong beach…
Remember the Dardanelles, Gelibolu, the Bosphorus & Constantinople, the Black Sea, Crimea, Russia… 110 years on and what have we got? Drones, more drones.
Thank the luck of his Irish ancestors my grandfather survived Gallipoli, albeit shaken and stirred, to return to Christchurch where he set-up a market garden, not only to help feed food-deprived NZers but also because he’d seen enough destruction and wanted only to grow things, healthy green living wonderful things (he’d been a shepherd on horseback in his youth). He and his wife also had my mum.
From little things, big things grow.
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Would this be a good moment for a WeightWatchers testimonial?
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” 110 years on and what have we got? ”
Politicians using ordinary people to kill each other for the politician’s sake… Nothing has changed, the politicians are the problem, not the people.
Its within a lifetime that the people you were screaming insults at and trying to kill will be your friends, and those allies you were fighting beside will be the hellish enemy. People on here were probably amongst those who refused to buy Japanese cars in the 1970s because they were our enemy, and now Vietnam is a hot tourist spot for the Westerners who’s fathers were there burning the locals to death. Turkey too, now a NATO member and great ally in fighting ISIS…
Politicians get famous, arms manufacturers get rich, the rest of us get killed.. You’d think people would have more discrimination about Russia and Ukraine after all this time , but no, “Putin is a madman” “Russia wants to rule all of Europe” “The poor brave Ukrainians are the great heroes” etc. Don’t ever tell me propaganda doesn’t work, there’s a reason those 50% of people on the ‘below average’ part of the IQ curve are allowed to vote!
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“Don’t ever tell me propaganda doesn’t work, ”
A long gone friend of mine used to tell the story about Stalin. At the beginning of the war all the posters had Stalin as the “Russian Bear” eating little children, then Hitler invaded and Russia was suddenly allied with England. The Russian bear posters disappeared overnight and replaced with a “Benevolent” Uncle Joe bouncing a little kiddie on his Knee. My friend was old enough to appreciate the irony and the bullish_t.
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And the highest of the British High Command, was (drum roll) ……. Winston Churchill, head of admiralty.
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Yes, Russia aligned with England and fought Germany in WW2, but all along Churchill despised Lenin and saw Russia’s strength and viewed it as a potential threat to Europe.
Churchill in 1944 and 1945, formulated “Operation Unthinkable”, a war against Russia.
ie WW3.
Of course all countries were financially and militarily exhausted by the end of WW2 and Churchill knew they’d need US help, which wouldn’t happen as the US was focussed elsewhere, notably Japan.
So, Churchill could have started WW3, and just like today it’s France and England driving that possibility…
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Thanks, I didn’t want to mention his name. He had to pull his boys off the beach, again, at Dunkirk during Part 2 of the Never Ending War (NEW).
Was not his mother an American?
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I believe Churchill was in charge of the Navy and the initial naval involvement in the Dardanelles in the months before the Gallipoli landing. But due to the failure of these naval deployments, Churchill was relieved of his position prior to the landings and had no operational involvement.
Not sure of his input into the planning.
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The ANZAC legacy reminds us of the true cost of war and the precious value of freedom. It is a day not only to remember the fallen, but to reflect on the importance of standing up for liberty, individual rights, and the responsibility we all share to protect them.
Let us never take for granted the peace we enjoy today, nor forget the brave Australians and New Zealanders who gave so much in its name.
Lest we forget.
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My grandfather’s two brothers fought at Gallipoli and then in France over four years. Sergeant James McPhee kept what was thought to be the only daily diary from the trenches for the entire period, in copperplate. It is in the war museum in Canberra. The other, Sergeant Victor McPhee died near the Somme four months before the end of the war. He was struck by a shell fragment and died instantly and silently. He and was buried in the village grave on his own. Shells killed many more than bullets. Other Australians in the big battles were buried in a big Commonwealth grave out of the town. I found the single grave attached to the Chateau and with the large Mausoleums of the Chateau owners. It had been restored by the Australian government around the 1990s.
The old Chateau was used as the field hospital in 1918 and now runs as private B&B. I found it in 2008 in Coin, a village south of Arras. There was a sign at the cemetery. “Commonwealth Grave”. Note the singular. There must be more to this story as it was not a war cemetery, but the Chateau and village cemetery. These great uncles were likely pacifists who joined the 4th Field Ambulance. And in particular nominated Simpson and his donkey when people were looking for a real hero. But they were all heroes, walking through the bullets to rescue people and collect bodies. Young men all fighting for king and country. For millennia every generation went through the same thing, until 1945 and Pax America and the atom bomb. War and peace. Then 80 years of peace. Peace only exists today as world war is unthinkable, over in 20 minutes. But the proxy wars continue. It’s a huge business. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.
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80 years of peace?
There’s a long list, right after 1945, the Americans got to work in China.
Then there was the Korean War, then the Vietnam War, then Laos, then Indonesia, eventually Cambodia too.
There was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
In the Middle East the USA supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War, then we had the Gulf War, then the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, plus all sorts of “moderate terrorists” who got US support.
There was the invasion of Grenada, bombing of Libya, invasion of Panama, US operations in Somalia, the war in Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo.
I doubt I’ve covered them all … but you must have noticed at least a few of those at some stage?
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That’s a great summation of the “ocean – CO2 interaction TdeF.
It’s great to wake up to read the truth and nothing but the truth, the absolute truth, on this special day.
The C14 presence in the atmosphere is one of the keys to helping to De-Gore this new form of slavery to which “civilisation” is now subjected.
That science is real and undeniable.
Similarly, the concept of atmospheric CO2 being a dangerous “heat trapping” gas when in the atmosphere must also be crushed by the real science.
Even if atmospheric CO2 did pick up a bit of extra energy there are scientific truths that preclude it from causing runaway heating and “global warming “.
Let’s open the door and let the truth in.
It is absolutely amazing that all life on earth can exist with such low levels of CO2: but here we are, going for it.
In terms of the atmospheric thermodynamics the quantity of CO2 is quantitatively irrelevant, even if the “heat trapping” was a major issue.
Remember: PV = nRT rulz from now and forever.
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TdeF has some powerful arguments about CO2 in the oceans. The thing that we lack so far is a convincing argument about why atmospheric CO2 is increasing. Does warming cause increased atmospheric CO2 or conversely is it due to upwelling of deep ocean water bringing CO2 to the surface? In the second case the association of temperature to CO2 might be coincidental!
Btw, I must try to get my old avatar back.
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America’s electric car crash is over. Europe has finally noticed
Trump’s reversal of Biden-era EV mandates is putting huge pressure on the UK and the EU to follow suit
During the campaign, candidate Trump was consistent in his determination to restore to Americans the right to buy whatever car they want
He hasn’t wasted any time in putting in place a five-pronged approach to make his policy a reality.
First, on Jan 20, in an executive order entitled “Unleashing America Energy”, the president removed the requirement, put in place by Biden-era Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency regulations, for car companies to sell a certain share of vehicles that are battery-powered electric, effectively cancelling the mandate.
Second, Trump pledged in the same executive order to consider cancelling the $7,500 tax credit to buy EVs. The credit, signed into law by Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, would have cost $105.7 billion over the next 10 years.
Third, Trump paused producer tax credits for clean energy, including advanced battery technology, estimated to cost between $30 billion and $200 billion over the next decade.
The effects of Trump’s policies are being felt domestically, as car companies quietly drop their Biden-era plans to go all-electric. Assaults against Toyota for insisting that it would sell any car that its customers wanted to buy have stopped.
But the consequences of the president’s agenda are set to be wider than that – The European Union can surely no longer ignore the costs of banning new gas-powered car sales by 2035.
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Australia’s Chief Chimpanzees Albo just blew another $1.2 billion of Aussie taxpayer dollars.
This is insane.
Firstly, we process very few minerals and certainly don’t turn them into any significant amounts of manufactured products.
Secondly, this stockpile of unused and unspecified minerals will represent a huge liability due to constant maintenance costs and price fluctuations.
It would have been better to establish a strategic reserve of petroleum products for military and critical civilian needs in the event of disruption of supply of refined petroleum products. But we are already meant to have that, although who knows if it is actually maintained.
Money is meaningless to our head Chimpanzee and his troop.
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That’s a bit tough on chimpanzees.
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I wonder if it’s Albo’s speech defect or his innumeracy that leads him to get “million” and “billion” mixed up or not know how much money one billion dollars really is?
And he can’t pronounce “nuclear” either, nor can Blackout Bowen.
Or is he just stupid?
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And you guys reckon we speak strange: he’s not a chimpanzee, he’s a buffoon!
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‘My preferences don’t count’: no retreat from PM on votes deal with radical Green
The Prime Minister has dismissed suggestions Labor should have put the Greens’ last on how-to-vote cards because of the party’s involvement in anti-Israel and anti-S@mitic protests.
Anthony Albanese has steadfastly refused to retreat or apologise over a decision to put a Greens candidate number two on his how-to-vote card, declaring “my preferences don’t count”.
The Prime Minister has dismissed suggestions Labor should have put the Greens’ last on how-to-vote cards because of the party’s involvement in anti-Israel and anti-S@mitic protest, and his criticism of them in parliament.
The Labor leader’s office was closed and electorate staff moved after concerns for their safety.
Although several Labor MPs have put the Greens low on their how-to-vote cards or are running open tickets – including J@wish Labor MP, Josh Burns in the inner Melbourne seat of Macnamara – Mr Albanese put the Greens at number two on his ticket.
Mr Albanese’s inner-Sydney electorate office was blockaded by pro-Palestinian protesters, including by the Greens’ candidate in Grayndler, Hannah Thomas, for six months last year as MPs’ offices were attacked and firebombed.
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Sorry OO, poor driving again, meant green.
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He can’t pronounce Australia either. Shtraya. ToM
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He’s got a bigger house than you, with a view, something’s obviously paying-off. Does his fiancé know what she’s getting herself into or is she part of the problem?
Shtraya = Ushtrailer over here, go figure 🤔
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The “squeeze” is just part of the illusion of Elbo being your average good guy. The other “squeeze” was divorced for whatever reason but everyone knows that a countries leader needs another half, so the new lady appears. Like our lady PM needed a squeeze to look like your average person at the top. Abandoned as soon as the illusion was busted. Maybe there is a lesson, or a warning, for others in that!
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I recall an old saying about “doing things right, but also doing the right things ” Albo, in most areas of public life, seems to do neither.
Government by thought bubble throws up anomalies like Bowen and hand wringing about rare earths when you have little fuel and the grid is teetering.
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I don’t know how many elections I have voted in over the last sixty years, I do know that regardless of what was promised by politicians of all colours over those elections I cannot tell you a single thing that has positively effected me.
Not a single thing, not one.
On the other hand the political decisions that HAVE affected me negatively is quite a long list. Starting with the destruction of personal freedoms, the lack of accountability of decision makers, cultural destruction of this once magnificent country into a Muti cultural mess etc etc etc. The list is endless. The lies peddled as though something will happen over a 3 year cycle that will be positive for all Australians is disappointing.
The real classic used to be state politics where every election it was promised by both sides that:- Education would improve, law and order would prevail, we would have the best medical system in the world, nicely stated yesterday where in Victoriastan an old lady, dropping off her sick husband at a hospital emergency room, was run over by her own car as it was being hijacked by some low life sucking on the system.
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the lack of accountability of decision makers
Dan Andrews faces a deeply embarrassing golf course rejection – as he is increasingly locked out of the very state he once locked down
Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is running out of places to tee off, after being barred from yet another golf club this week due to backlash from members over his harsh rules during the Covid period.
Melbourne golfers were outraged by the Victorian government’s ban on the sport during lockdown, despite it being in the open air with large distances between players and providing a rare outlet for exercise.
Last week, it seemed he’d finally found a club when The Herald Sun reported that his property developer friend, Max Beck, had secured him a spot at Moonah Links on the Mornington Peninsula.
Beck had reportedly removed his wife’s name from his membership and replaced it with Mr Andrews’.
But on Thursday, Moonah Links took to Facebook to ‘address recent public speculation’ about Mr Andrews’ membership – confirming in a terse post that Mr Andrews is ‘not a member of Moonah Links Golf Resort’.
The club’s announcement was met with dozens of thumbs up, smiling faces and heart emoticons, and, perhaps most tellingly, the club switched off comments in an apparent effort to prevent feedback.
Mr Andrews resigned in September 2023 after leading Victoria through the Covid pandemic, but sparked massive backlash for his harsh stance that made Melbourne the world’s most locked down city and earned him the nickname ‘Dictator Dan’.
It’s not just golf clubs banning Mr Andrews.
Daily Mail Australia revealed in December that ex-AFL star Paul Dimattina, who runs popular South Melbourne venue Lamaro’s Hotel, had banned Mr Andrews from his venue.
Mr Dimattina said the former premier was ‘easily the most hated person’ in Victoria as it is revealed multiple restaurant owners had refused service to Mr Andrews and his wife Cath.
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I think he was trying to steal the thunder from Andrew Hastie who suggested that our rare earth/ essential minerals could be used as a negotiating tool with the Americans in return for their greater financial burden in the AUKUS program.
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Its not leverage really, many places have so called rare earth minerals but guess where most of the refining happens. Take Neodymium, last time I checked the USA had zero magnet manufacturing and its pretty sure we dont.
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“, to hold baseline stocks of petrol; 24 days, increasing to 27 days in 2024 for importers”
Didn’t they empty our reserves and then buy some reserves in America, which Biden then emptied to drop the price of fuel before the election he lost?
All I know is that you should never rely on a Govt to save your ass when things go wrong!
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He is a very sad and disturbing video about the destruction of scientific specimens and materials of early pre-modern human remains in Australia and the prohibition of studying anything that doesn’t fit the Official Narrative of one human migration to Australia and no pre-modern species or races.
It’s not vandalism but Government policy.
It’s Soviet-style “science” where “the science” is closely tied to Leftist politics and ideology, just like “climate science”.
I urge you to watch the following video. Even I was shocked to discover the extent of destruction and restriction of access to earlier archaeological and anthropological materials and reports.
Video, 14.5 mins. https://youtu.be/_tNDivDf9XI
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Ch!na Syndrome explodes above Auckland’s skies last night: a recycling centre in Glenfield (where I grew up when it was semi-rural) on the North Shore burst into flames spewing a toxic cloud over surrounding suburbs and north/west parts of the city after stored L.ion batteries (self)ignited… BOOM!
We had to destroy the planet to save it.
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The Won Sauce Off Tooth [sic].
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559021/fire-crews-work-overnight-to-contain-major-fire-at-recycling-plant
Govt Radio™️ states “lithium iron batteries” most likely behind last night’s toxic fireball in suburban Auckland. Now beaches downstream are CLOSED due to “hazardous substances” flowing into Wairau Creek which flows into the Hauraki Gulf / Pacific Ocean.
The old diggers fought and died for THIS?
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Unintended faux pas at 1:23mark. Good luck Steven, all the best.
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Here’s an extreme anti-energy propaganda site for your perusal.
https://energyfactcheck.com.au/
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Absolute lies from top to bottom- A page for those on the bottom half of the IQ curve.
“The main driver of higher electricity prices in recent years has been higher gas and coal prices, exacerbated by generation and network outages as well as insufficient supply of low-cost renewable energy. Accelerated rollout of new clean energy capacity will increase supply and place downward pressure on bills.”
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Affordable, Reliable, Clean Scorecard: Natural Gas Is Tops, Wind and Solar Are the Worst
Policymakers on both sides of the political aisle increasingly advocate for affordable, reliable, and clean energy.
This is for good reason – modern society requires energy that is affordable and available on demand.
Environmental concerns are also very important. Together, affordability, reliability, and cleanliness form the three pillars of ideal energy policy.
Two new analyses evaluate competing electrical power sources and produce an affordable, reliable, and clean scorecard.
The two analyses – one published by Northwood University and the Mackinac Center, and the other published by my public policy organization, The Heartland Institute – independently reach near-identical findings.
Both analyses find natural gas is the most affordable, reliable, and clean electrical power source. Not far behind natural gas are nuclear, hydro, and coal. Lagging at the bottom of the affordability scorecard are wind and solar power.
Natural gas is easily the lowest-cost electrical power source, with coal the second-most affordable. Natural gas also scores very high for reliable high-volume power production, as do nuclear and coal.
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Most here are likely to remember how the Japanese motorcycles dominated the market in Australia from the 1960s onward.
I can see huge advance in technology for motorcycles in China using electric motors and batteries. There is an explosion of electric bicycles and scooters in Australia already (Aldi sell them) but electric motorbikes have not yet made much of an impact.
Here is a somewhat dated US report:
https://electrek.co/2020/01/08/chinese-electric-motorcycles-sur-ron-niu-evoke-voge-er10/
The Honda 90CC are still ubiquitous on Asian roads. I expect the new wave will be electric.
Some of the performance electric bikes coming out have a range to around 600km.
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How can a rider burst eardrums with electric motor cycle?
sarc
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Worse still was that at the time his nose was running and his feet smelled – the burning rubber maybe?.
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Not sure what they are – sort of half motorbike / half bicycle doing about 30+ km/h on the bike path along Beach Road though not on the road itself.
But their number I indeed growing.
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Welcome to Manly shared Bicyle/Pedestrian Beachfront path – School Girls 3 up on of those, passing cars nearby restricted to 30 Km/hr
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A few dozen more catching fire and burning down the apartment blocks will cool the enthusiasm. Besides, someone has to replace our dense-energy petrol imports with low-density electric power if we’re not using Gold Wings and Hayabusa Suzukis…
Have you seen the 4L twin-turbo V8 the Chinese company is making for their top-end 4WDs?? It comes as a hybrid, with an electric engine between the V8 and the gearbox, so you tootle around town on the electric motor and when you want to go somewhere fast you get V8 plus electric.
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According to the bookies Albanese Labor is certain to win.
How?
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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn Rand
Ask not how. Ask why.
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Have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy? If not you may find it instructive in you quest for possible answers.
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‘How?’
The Trump Effect .
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I’m a lady, you know!
https://x.com/patcondell/status/1776227711943356833
“Painted gorilla in a party frock” 😆
Pat was suddenly jumped by 2 dozen pommy cops…
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A ‘pig in a wig / tampon man’,
unlike Thai lady boys who are more feminine than females – or so I noticed in Bangkok long ago when my German girlfriend and I went out on the town watching young, drunk, foreign males being led down that slippery slope to who knows where…
Besides, pigs are tasty: fried some streaky & eggs today on my gas burner to help ‘heal’ the planet and, man, do I feel better for it 😃
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“The Terminator did it,”
From my most trusted space weather web site spaceweather.com
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=04&year=2025
“Something about “The Starlink Incident” was not adding up.” ….
“Space scientists Scott McIntosh and Robert Leamon of Lynker Space, Inc., have a new and different idea: “The Terminator did it,” says McIntosh.”…..
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So the sun’s ultraviolet radiation heated the atmosphere making it more dense by 2 or 3x and the ensuing ‘pea soup’ dropped man’s shiny little space toys back down to the ground? So it wasn’t carbon dioxide after all – phew, I can relax, it’s only the sun.
Apparently aurora were doing their thing earlier this week but the dregs of ex-cyclone-for-a-day Tam (which lingered for nigh on a week) clouded any chance of enjoying the hypnotic night light show: then again, it’s only the sun.
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The smallest handmade sculptures in the world
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sv81bolmgX1z23obp.mp4
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Meanwhile in the UK, they now have “scratch and sniff” billboards for women’s armpits
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1915509779746709670
Just turn the lights out already…
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Paul Homewood has gremlins in his system and I wonder the cause.
In other news the BBC is still spewing out disinformation.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/bbc-prefer-propaganda-to-facts-2/#more-86569
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Nuclear For Australia Media Release
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There is also the “claim” that nuclear would use too much (cooling) water leading to pastoral scarcities. Nonsense, because future sites for nuclear are near the ocean.
Hazelwood in Gippsland had a large ‘pond’ (man-made lake). Hot water flowed in at one end and warmish water out at the other end for use for cooling. Yes, there was evaporation, and the pond water was warm, even tropical in places with tropical fish e.g. barramundi who perished when the power station was shutdown (for ideological reasons).
Even if sea water wasn’t suitable for cooling the main reactors it could be used to cool a recycled lot of cooling water.
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Weird, isn’t it, how thoroughly Labor’s costing of nuclear installation seems to be, including every possible eventuality, holdup, mistake, disaster and extended tea break, yet their own forecasts of transitioning to ‘renewables’ doesn’t even cover the cost of the roads into their wind plantations, nor the powerlines to distribute their paltry energy contribution.
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..and its all rubbish anyway, the Russians are building nuclear power stations around the world for a fraction of those costs.
You get Chernobyl at a fraction of the cost of Three Mile Island or Fukushima, and it comes without the propaganda!
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How Useless is BOM – Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Sydney Now 22.5° E 19km/h Max 25° Shower or two.
0.0mm rain since 9am in Sydney.
Forecast Friday 25th April 25, Chance of any rain: 50%
Sydney area
Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers, becoming less likely in the late afternoon and evening. The chance of a thunderstorm. Light winds becoming east to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the early afternoon then becoming light in the evening.
‘Wet holiday’: Heavy rainfall forecast to tumble down across much of the nation, dampening Anzac Day parades and long weekend plans for millions
Looking at Ventusky on hourly basis for Saturday 26th April 25, Sydney will probably get away with no rain
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-33.77;152.02;6&l=rain-1h&t=20250425/2300
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Where I live rain was predicted for mid morning, just in time to “rain on the Parade”. Still dry as a wooden god. The odd dark cloud and not much else.
Great ANZAC gathering at a little town a few k’s from where I live, at a guess at least 200 people, extremely respectful as always and very patient when there were a few issues with the sound system. We did not have a welcome to country ceremony.
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The local police reckoned we had nearer to 300 people at our ANZAC parade. More than last year and the atmosphere was good. Also no wtc.
The rain wasn’t much but we are getting more this evening and the moths are noisy on the fly wire.
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That’s the thing with BOM’s ‘probability’ forecasting – unless they say either 0% or 100% probability, they can never be wrong. Even if they said there was a 0.001% chance of rain, and it did indeed rain, they can still claim to have got it right.
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I read the paper published in “Science of Climate Change” journal – lead author Grok3.
I then asked Grok3 “how prestigious is Science of Climate Change journal?”
Answer:
So GROK gets published as a lead author of a paper in a “niche journal exploring non-mainstream hypotheses”?
What should I think?
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You should ask Grok3 to do a survey of papers within ” the IPCC’s rigorous, multi-stakeholder review processes, which involve hundreds of scientists and transparent revision protocols” and come up with a suggestion of what percentage are also written by AI computers!
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A petition to: IMMEDIATELY HALT THE DESTRUCTION OF DATA, BIOSPECIMENS, AND PRELIMINARY REPORTS AS PART OF THE QOVAX RESEARCH PROGRAM
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/Petition-Details?id=4234
Perhaps other Queensland residents would also like to sign this petition.
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Thank you for the tip. Petition signed. Cheers.
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Who knew that chemtrails were really a thing?
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Who says they were?
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Some good news! Trump stops paying the bludgers at WHO and ..
“Tedros insisted that the most significant impact would likely be felt at the organisation’s headquarters in Geneva. “We are starting with reductions in senior management,” he said. “We are reducing the senior leadership team at headquarters from 12 to seven, and the number of departments will be reduced by (more than) half, from 76 to 34,” Tedros said.
WHO’s regional offices would meanwhile be affected “to varying degrees”, he said, adding that some country offices in wealthier countries would likely be closed. “These are very painful decisions for all of us,” Tedros said.
The WHO chief insisted the situation could have been worse. WHO member states agreed in 2022 to significantly increase membership fees and reduce the portion of WHO’s budget covered by less reliable and often earmarked voluntary contributions. The WHO employs more than 8,000 people worldwide.”
Now, can we do the same for the UN as a whole please!
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/five-years-after-covid-coverup-who-announces-significant-layoffs-after-us-funding-cuts
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I’m a Mac user but the bluetooth keyboard uses up batteries and are not optimised for NiMH batteries, they only draw down half the charge at most. An added annoyance is that my eneloop batteries which are good for hundreds of cycles tarnish at the -ve end and I get low battery warnings pretty quickly. Simply changing their order gets charge levels back up.
My memory from being on a bench is that low current across contacts promotes tarnishing, thus contact resistance. So you scrape the end of the battery damaging the original surface and things get worse. This time I coloured the -ve contact with a lead pencil and it has been a few days and the battery charge is still high. Hopefully I have solved an annoyance. 🙂
You’ve got to be kiddin!!!
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The last comment was because I tripped over the naughty word filter. maybe I should swear more and give the system something to complain about.
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…and its taken 15months, a long time, but-
” Ukraine admits death of its prisoners of war as a result of Il-76 shot down by MIM-104 Patriot air defense system in Belgorod Oblast. ”
They were being flown to a POW exchange on the border.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milinfolive?q=%23%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
..and..
“China is conducting export controls for the first time , it has banned the export of Korean goods containing Chinese rare earth metals to the United States. Two Korean transformer manufacturers received corresponding notifications and are now forced to stop selling their products to US military contractors or the American military.”
https://voenhronika-ru.translate.goog/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/24_04_2025_v_nizhegorodskoj_oblasti_skhvacheny_ukrainskie_terroristy_zhestokie_kadry_boev_iz_zony_svo_i_ukrainy_vsu_atakovali_krym_17_video/60-1-0-16364?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
..and the changes to warfare from cheap FPV drones- Better than artillery or mortars.
“The enemy shelled for Russian positions for 1,404 times from artillery pieces, MLRS, and mortars, plus 3,316 strikes by quadrocopters.”
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/war-field-reports-2025-04-22
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