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From German language RTV
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Does it take a lot more Energy to launch a rocket in a polar orbit compared to an equatorial orbit?
Yesterday I attempted to answer Eng Ian’s challenge to calculate the benefit of launching a satellite into an easterly equatorial orbit compared to a polar orbit.
My provisional answer was that the Rotation of the Earth is 1000mph and low orbital velocity is 17000mph and hence the benefit of launching East is about 7%, compared to a polar orbit.
At the time I neglected to consider that kinetic energy=mv^2. Hence the energy saving by launching East is only about 0.3%, which is a negligible amount.
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I think you should be looking at the kinetic energy of the WHOLE rocket that is sitting on the launch pad.
Think about the rocket, ready for launch in a standard orbit. Now accelerate that whole rocket to 1000km/hr. Then start it’s engine and allow it to do a polar orbit.
Or, take that WHOLE rocket, accelerate it to 2000 km/hr, and face it in the opposite direction. At 2000 km/hr it would be ready to start it’s engines and launch for a counter orbit.
The mass in mv^2/2 is going to be the big multiplier here.
Let’s just say that the rocket weighs 100,000 kg. Ready for a polar orbit. So Vinitial = 277m/s. My sums show that E = a huge number.
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I thought of another way to work out the fuel burn/consumption.
The higher velocity of the finished craft, (relative to its starting velocity), for the different orbiting directions is effectively adding more energy to the system, eg kinetic.
Orbital height is another way of varying the final energy requirements of the rocket, (this time considering potential E), I wonder if the additional velocity required for the varying directions of orbit could be simply analysed on the basis of having the same orbital direction BUT achieving a different final orbital height. eg the standard orbit may be say 200km, the polar orbit equivalent would be, (say), 205km, and the reverse orbit being 210km high.
This might be a much easier sum to do. Anyone got a link to the full potential energy equations for varying orbital heights?
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I think you need to check your maths on that energy result.
If you need 7% more velocity, then the energy requirement is going to increase to 1.07^2 or an added 14%. How did you get to 0.3%, you didn’t roughly multiply 0.07 by 0.07 did you? That would have given a result of 0.49%, (but isn’t the correct result, akin to 11 squared is NOT= 10 squared plus 1 squared).
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What I did was this;
Earth rotational velocity (ERV)1000mph.
Low orbital velocity (LOV)17,000mph. So LOV is 17times ERV, ERV is about 7% of LOV, actually closer to 6%.
But kinetic energy is mv^2 so KE at LOV is 17×17 times greater than KE at ERV=289 times greater.
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I’m still not seeing the 0.3%.
Using simple sums, (17-1) x (17-1) compared to 17 x 17, (eg assisted orbit compared to polar orbit, where assistance is not provided), gives a ratio of 1 to 1.13, or an extra 13%.
And for a reverse direction, 16 x 16 compared to 18 x 18, a ratio of 1.27, or an extra 27%.
And that doesn’t count for the WHOLE energy of the rocket and the burn rate of fuel, (implying less fuel to accelerate, etc).
Maybe it is rocket science.
I am really starting to think that this is a simple concept but will turn out to be a massive brain ache once the real data is placed on the table. One thing for sure, it won’t be anywhere near 5%.
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Ian,
Rockets have had “stages” and shed mass on the way up . Also gravity and drag decreases as height increases so that’s a factor too . Rocket science indeed.
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A lot of to-ing and fro-ing here with the calculations.
Obviously more energy required for a polar orbit, otherwise they would have done it more often b
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I remember my Dad telling me that the Great Barrier Reef has always been the go to for environmental scares. Back in the 1970’s he was studying biology at university in the UK. The GBR was about to be destroyed by a population explosion of coral munching crown of thorns starfish. This population increase was due to human influence, mainly over fishing of triton snails, the main predator of the starfish. The reef only had about 10 years left, so would be gone by the mid 1980s. Well just like Al Gore’s ice free Arctic by 2014, that happened – not. Now that so called coral bleaching has been pretty much debunked, the focus is again on the starfish. This time, with little or no real evidence, the blame for the population growth is being put fairly and squarely on farmers and fertilizers. So it’s bye bye GBR again. Well, until next time someone needs a crusade or distraction.
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Back in the day I think the claim was that the crown of thorns starfish was an introduced species but it is native and common in other reefs as well. Fishing for the triton seal is illegal in the GBR but there are still outbreaks of crown of thorns destruction. It’s a natural and healthy cycle.
There is even an autonomous robot to kill the starfish, thus interfering with the cycle of nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTSBot?wprov=sfla1
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As before, on a trip to Tahiti it was explained that the Tahitians celebrate the arrival of the Crown of Thorns starfish. The great improvement from the severe pruning of the reef is much appreciated by the natives, as any gardener knows. And the sand improves as the output of the process. Tahitian sand is otherwise awful black sticky rutile. So the Crown of Thorns starfish has been celebrated in images, song and legend for hundreds of years. It takes a short term scientist on tropical holiday to see all natural things as existential threats.
Ecologists should start with the assumption that there is very little new on the planet in the space of a few generations of humans and also that evolution is natural and eternal, not evil. And in a feedback system there are simply cycles, not existential threats.
And yet we have to suffer for thoughtless unscientific conclusions drawn from all over a planet from tiny variations in deduced temperatures, data which could not possibly have been measured before the invention of the thermometer and most recently satellite recordings.
We are even drawing conclusions about the weather when the main driver of weather is the ocean and the sun, not the air. We need to understand causes, before we can predict effects. But there’s great funding in proclaiming Armageddon and none in business as usual.
Plus beautiful tiny Bora Bora has lots of bikini clad researchers on the beach, checking CO2 levels in tanks with crabs and lobsters. Man made CO2 driven Global Warming is a real threat to the crabs and lobsters. Both of which are delicious. And Bloody Mary’s is a great bar. For research.
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There is a small crab that eats the juvenile Crown of Thorns.
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One of the most famous discoveries in ecology was the connection between predator and prey. Without predators, prey populations explode exponentially. Then the predators explode until there are too many predators for a rapidly shrinking prey population. So the predators die off en masse. And the cycle repeats. Forever.
I expect this is true of the crown of Thorns starfish where numbers explode and then they all die off and the polyps rebuild. Better than ever. It’s the cycle of life. Not a constant but predictable.
Humans the same. Except in Australia where there were, uniquely, no natural predators. No lions, tigers or bears. So the aborigines controlled the population themselves as they have to do to survive. It was a brutal life.
The mongols mastered it by having the first ‘standing army’ and did nothing but prey, slaughtering millions as they went. And never ran out. But then they settled or the leader lost interests or died. And the structure fell apart. But it did create the heavily armoured soldier who could survive the swarms of arrows, as in the Polish knights. Perhaps the great legacy of the mass murder was the move to cavalry and trousers which were needed to live in the saddle. Except of course for the Scots who had no horses. Or the American Indians who ate all theirs and were amazed when the conquistadors turned up with two lethal advantages. Steel and horses.
And so we wear trousers, not togas or kilts or skirts.
But I digress. As usual. It started with crabs and survival.
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The Roman Empire had a standing army, long before anyone had heard of Mongolia. They did OK but never really adapted to cavalry … other than as auxiliaries.
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TdeF,
When you introduce new species into an environment they usually explode in numbers until another species or disease curtails their numbers or they exhaust their environment and die back . Eventually a balance is achieved . The north pacific sea star in victoria is an example – I am seeing a lot less of them recently and I suspect something is now preying on them .
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But the Great Barrier Reef is dead – it died in 1971. The Sydney Morning Herald** reported it.
**then one of Australia’s leading newspapers, these days people won’t use it to cover anything except rubbish.
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Your Dad was studying in the UK so I assume that he never ACTUALLY saw the GBR so is an unreliable witness.
The original COT infestation was indeed almost fatal and no reef was spared even those way north of Cooktown and thus almost pristine. When I swam on one of the Ribbon Reefs up there, years later, I did not see one stick of hard coral. The estimates of 90% devastation were probably understated.
The theory that the conch shell predation was responsible was postulated by Dr. Robert Endean who also included a “painted shrimp” as a predator but sadly the man’s heart gave up and his work died with him. Part of his reasoning re the conch shell was because reefs world wide were being affected and of course the natives everywhere could sell the attractive shells.
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There is an even worse scenario than Labor winning Australia’s next Federal election.
That’s Labor with a Green/Teal balance of power which would likely make Adam Bandt the Deputy PM.
That would be even more of a nightmare than an outright Labor win.
Also, Teals vote with Greens most of the time.
Australia will be rapidly finished off by Labor. It would be a much more rapid process under Green/Labor. It would be slightly less bad under the fake conservative Liberals.
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Agreed. There used to be differences between our 2 major political parties. The differences were enough to enable me to “hold my nose” and vote for the Liberals.
Not so anymore.
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I have been looking forward to seeing the publicity photos of all the red team and blue team getting their boosters in preparation for the upcoming campaign running into Winter. You know, showing leadership by setting the example in the face of falling vaccination rates.
I can only find this:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/labor-fights-key-state-premier-163000053.html
Anyone got any pics they can share?
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Labor has removed a large number of contractors from within the Government and they have been replaced by Australian public service (APS) staff saving the government millions of dollars a year.
See link
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/why-should-we-cut-thousands-of-public-service-jobs/105084480
Dutton is now quoted as saying he will slash the APS staffing levels to save money, but we wont save money because he will simply re employ contractors at 3 to 4 times the wages of the APS.
Typical politicians they never learn do they.
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“he will simply re employ contractors at 3 to 4 times the wages of the APS”
I wonder why people are so sure about so many things they are not in control of.
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Hi Gerry,
All the information you require to draw your own conclusions is in the link i provided. We know the liberal government cut the public service significantly when last in office, this forced departments to hire contractors, they could get around the Liberal employment freeze because this contractor money came from a different bucket. They needed to increase the amount of workers to maintain the service they provide for example NDIS, TAX office, dept of defiance etc, etc, etc.
When Labor came to office they got rid of a lot of the contractors (some of these were being paid 250K plus, in addition to the standard defiance rip off factor so all up that one position could cost over 350K) and increased the manning levels of the public service
Dutton has stated he will cut the public service again so when they cut the public service the departments will simply re hire the contractors.
As i said Governments will never learn, you dont need to be in control of the future to see the future.
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“contractors,” and “Australian public service (APS) staff ” are not interchangeable in value. One has an incentive to perform as efficiently as possible to make sure they get the next contract, the other has no such incentive. So a million dollar contract might cost two million in 4times the number of APSs.
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KP,
You can get rid of contractors – just don’t renew contracts . Staff have unions and are a different story entirely . Sacking public servants is a lengthy and difficult task even when they have broken rules and laws . Bureaucrats and politicians tend to fail upwards…
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A contractors prime objective is to make money, make as much money as possible, you obviously have never met a contractor KP.
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There are alternatives to the APS hiring contractors which in the current climate (in the US) is evident. If there is a need for a service (first, of course, check if it’s a need or a want) why is it automatically assumed government must do it. We can pay a public servant to do it, or a contractor to do it or a private enterprise can fill the need and those that need the service can pay for it.
If the administrative duties of the state are trimmed well, the taxes can go down and people can pay for what they believe they need ….not for grants to Ireland for transgender theatre (or such like)
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Possibly a quick death might be better than a slow boiling.
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Arctic melt could be one to watch this year.
Ice is very thin, volume growth already appears to be tailing off.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/plots/CICE_curve_49_EN.png
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If the Northwest Passage opens again it will be good for shipping.
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It’s very thin. 4 metres average and 90% of that is under the water, so 400mm out of the water. And this is over up to 4km of deep ocean at the North Pole! We are talking less frozen water than across Siberia, Canada and Scandinavia all of which melts every year without any noticeable effect. And under that 99.99% of the ocean is filled with fish and sea creatures. In summer all the animals and sea life head North for the booming phytoplankton enjoying 24 hours of sunlight.
I have always failed to see the problem even if all the ice melted, which would be great. The polar bears have to sit on the brown dirt for months anyway so they stack on the weight in winter. It is hard to feel too sorry for a three metre one tonne killing machine, but the translucent fur does make them look cute and cuddly. Except you would be lunch.
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That’s why icebreakers work. Thin ice. And at about a foot out of the water, seals can jump out but it’s no protection against orcas which can jump too. Of course there are no penguins in the Arctic, so it’s seals or fish for the bears and orcas. And there’s no shortage of Polar Bears which are Brown Grizzly Bears with translucent fur. Most predators are white, like owls, foxes, ermines,bears. Clearly you do not want to be seen. Which is why polar bears starve in summer sitting on the brown dirt, not Global Warming.
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“Polar Bears are, scientifically, “Ursus Marinus”..
Bear of the SEA.
They are world-class swimmers.
Their fur actually seems to help buoyancy and their skin is BLACK, to better absorb sunlight piped in by the fibre-optic fur coat.
Definitely an apex predator, best observed from a serious distance. BTW, they can also SPRINT very quickly if the situation arises. (You are too close to bear cubs, you smell like food and are within 50 metres).
This is why SERIOUS polar workers do not go out on the ice alone or unarmed.
Then, there is this mob:
https://www.candomusos.com/profile-bipolar-bears.php
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We need to come up with some answers soon or the scaremongers will have us for dinner.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154112/antarctic-sea-ice-plunged-in-summer-2025
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It always ‘plunges’ in summer as opposed to vanishing. But on land the snow and ice all melts, as across Siberia and Alaska and Canada and Scandinavia. And the rivers run!
Many metres of snow (6″ of snow = 1″ of rain)
But it’s still not a lot of water compared to oceans on average 3.5km deep covering 72% of the planet.
So what do the scaremongers allege? Or do they allege anything? Or do they imply this annual event is somehow dangerous. Are we all going to drown?
I don’t read reports of people drowning in the ports like Murmansk with 350,000 people on the Arctic circle. Summer is great, even if very short as in Scotland and Shetland and Iceland. If you believed this rubbish you would expect no one could live in Norway or Sweden, two of the places in the world rated for top quality of life. Again drowning in your bed is not a common cause of death in the Arctic unless your boat sinks.
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You get the same with sea ice in Antarctica. As for Antarctica, it is 3.4Km high on average, much taller and colder than any mountain in Australia. Summer is -25C average, so a nice day. Entirely due to the altitude. That ice is going nowhere. Most of what melts is outside the Arctic circle anyway and not on top of an 3.5km (2mile) high ice block the size of two Australias, Americas, Brazils. Again no one drowns in summer from melting ice, unless in a river.
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Antarctic sea ice is variable.
‘Our analysis shows that the wind anomalies related to the negative SAM during the 2016/2017 austral summer contributed to
the record minimum Antarctic sea ice extent observed in March 2017.’ (Doddridge et al 2017)
Also there was a strong El Nino 2015 – 16 which probably had a part to play
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NASA scientists say:
“ever recorded” = “47-year satellite record”.
Hey, I’m convinced!
“It’s not yet clear whether the Southern Hemisphere has entered a new norm [or] is in a passing phase that will revert to prior levels”.
Shocking!
NASA : Not Actually Science Anymore.
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Try looking at the Artic temperature compared to the mean value: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php. You will see that so far, Artic temperatures are above the mean.
Also suggest a re-read of this article, which points out that in 2024, the Artic temperatuere in the northern 2024 summer was average: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/05/another-summer-with-nearly-normal-temps-in-the-arctic-region-arctic-sea-ice-showing-resiliency/
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If you look at the latest Arctic ice cover, you will note that it’s slightly above average: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php.
And last year’s summer peak was average: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/05/another-summer-with-nearly-normal-temps-in-the-arctic-region-arctic-sea-ice-showing-resiliency/
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I just saw someone representing the UK government say that they have considered a tariff on Teslas.
Escape from Net Zero: scapegoat edition.
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If every country introduced a Tariff On Tossers, would all politricksters simply vanish, as in disappear in a puff of smoke (although the stench would remain)?
I’ve noticed when government closes down for their 2 months summer holidays, or when there’s no government while coalition parties haggle amongst themselves, the rest of us manage quite well thank you very much and life carries on regardless, if not somewhat better.
Just Say Go!
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But not on Chinese made electric cars which are piling up on the docks in Europe? Why Teslas?
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The UK and Australia have no option but to have a reciprocal 10% base tariff. Any existing tariff to be added. Our beef exporters have ALWAYS operated under threat of quotas being applied “as of midnight tonight”.
Australian Imports + Tariffs
The United States and Australia have a free trade agreement (FTA) that has significantly reduced tariffs on goods traded between the two countries. Under the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), 99% of U.S.-origin goods enter Australia duty-free, and the importer is responsible for applicable GST payments.
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“The UK and Australia have no option but to have a reciprocal 10% base tariff. Any existing tariff to be added. ”
Now you’re just like Albosleazy and picking winners… The beef farmers go down the drain when their exports stop going to America, the people get screwed whenever we buy something made in America as it suddenly costs more, and the winners are the Govt, who gets a 10% windfall from the tariff. Better not to trade with America at all.
I’d say just ignore it and get the Govt out of trade completely, THAT would be free trade. Just buy the best goods from the cheapest suppliers, something that will soon be sorted out on the floor at BigW. All Govts have ever done is add to the cost of living, tariffs are no exception.
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Still more on desflurane.
Following on from my discussion of the last few days, here is a paper written by people who obviously believe in anthropogenic global warming but who nevertheless are sensible enough to recognise that this valuable anaesthetic agent should not be banned because the reality is that its atmospheric concentration and ability to alter the climate is negligible
Yes, even “true believers” occasionally display (un)common sense.
https://medcomms.project.mimsit.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/02/1.-Slingo-ME-2021_22-Feb-clean-1.pdf
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Leftist: “All cultures are equal and good”.
Also Leftist: “Destroy Western Civilisation”.
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This describes Australia today and most Western countries except TRUMP’s America.
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In Australia, the “Renewable Energy Theft”. (RET) has embedded theft from mostly the younger generation to the older generation who could afford a house. It is an immoral burden from one generation to the next that has now been operating for 25 years. It is dressed up as saving the planet.
Most people aim to minimise the government tax take from them. I have only met one person who was happy to pay more tax because he knew his income was going up and he benefitted as well. Few people take that view and do all they can to minimise the amount government take from them. The RET is different. It is government sanctioned and organised theft.
We can only hope that Trump and successors can lead the world out of the misery and economic distortions of the Climate Scam™ and the western world turns the corner from declining productivity to rising productivity.
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It is worth noting that China gets a year older every two years now. They are not going to be in a position to keep supplying the world with manufactured goods.
South Korea already has a median age of 46 years and it is rising faster than 1 year every two years.
Japan’s mediaan age is now over 50. Their young do not have much capacity to make stuff for the rest of the world.
The Asian countries at the heart of global manufacturing will all have a median age in mid 50s by 2050. Their young people will be mostly looking after their old people. They will not be making stuff for Australians. So Australia needs to be increasing productivity to have the capacity to support its ageing population.
Australia is educating the next generation of engineers to erect and operate wind and solar farms. It is a dead end because China will not have the capacity to supply the replacements as the hardware ages and fail.
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It was also the discovery that you could steal from everyone without raising a tax. Tax by definition goes into General Revenue, but Australia invented a non tax in make believe worthless electronic credits STCs and LGC’s for which retailers had to pay cash. The UK copied it immediately. It’s really a punitive tax on poor people who otherwise pay no tax. But the caring upper middle class socialists could not give a damn.
This illegal theft (governments are not allowed to force you to pay third parties) has been enshired now in Gillard’s Carbon Credits and Alabanese’s Safeguard Mechanism for 35% theft on all goods and services, mining, transport, sewage, gas, oil. Basically on all use of energy except solar and wind. And 83% of all electrical energy is coal and the rest is oil, so a 35% CO2 tax on everything which moves.
The UK will copy that too. And the caring socialists will blame big business and the supermarkets for gouging when it is all legislated theft, in the hundreds of billions.
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The other booming scam is to keep the big cash projects ‘off budget’. So another $18Billion for Clean Energy Finance. More for the Snowy II. And the NBN. Plus Albanese throwing a billion here and there like his pure speculation of a billion in cash for a share in a Californian Quantum Computer company of no benefit to Australia whatsoever. Or Green Hydrogen. Or manufacturing solar panels for the Chinese.
After three years of booming mining receipts, Albanese and Plibersek and Bowen are doing their best to cripple Australia. Plibersek even banned a gold mine. Literally. A made up story about a blue banded bee which even the local aborigines say is nonsense.
And their friend President Xi is accusing Dutton of ‘beating the drums of war’ while he sends armed warships on cruises around Australia to test their weapons. Albanese says he has it in hand. And that we do the same in the South China Sea, which is not China’s sea but below China and Vietnam and the Phillipines. I would ask whose side Albanese is on, but all Australians know.
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I detest the “off budget” spends.
We all know (most of us anyway) that the “off budget” spends come from government borrowing or government revenue. In plain speak it comes from the taxpayer.
This accounting term should be discarded in the waste bin of deceit.
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I believe about half of the taxpayer expenditure of the disastrous NBN is “off budget”, about $50 billion off budget and $50 billion in budget.
Off budget expenditure is a deceitful government trick to hide their additional outrageous expenditure and should be illegal.
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Snowy II should be illegal. Parliament did not decide. It was never costed or justified. And the story about being finished in 2 years and $2Billion is now 10 years and $12Billion and it keeps going, destroying great swathes of the national Park.
And I predict like 3 desalination plants on borrowed money, it will NEVER be used commercially. How can you pay for the water to go up hill when 40%, nearly half of the power stored is wasted in the pumping. That alone would double the cost of electricity. Plus even in today’s money, it was cheaper to build the Panama Canal which is actually critically useful today except that the Chinese have taken ownership of the two ends of the Canal and refuse to give it back to the Americans. Obviously.
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The project construction would have been fine if they used a shielded boring machine instead of choosing the “cheaper” unshielded version. Big mistake.
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My point was that it should never have started. Only Turnbull thought it was a great idea, his idea. And is waiting for his statue to commemorate the greatest total waste of taxpayer money in Australian history. That’s not Democracy. It’s theft.
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” embedded theft from mostly the younger generation to the older generation “.
Really?
Sadly I never had a gap year, so didn’t borrow to have a good time.
Rode a push bike to work and after work across to night lectures at Uni.
Second year could afford a motor scooter and third year a well used car.
My first house was very cheap and not in Sydney’s north shore.
Life’s tough, but not because of us boomers; it’s always been the politicians who duck and weave while skimming our taxes.
Creating generational envy is not very ethical in this situation.
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Very pertinent 😀
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Alice O’Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, …
I suppose she was writing about the Biden Administration!🤠
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It is important to realise that politician’s promises used to have limited shelf live, usually expiring about the day after the election.
Unfortunately we now have politicians with very limited intellect who are strongly influence by the bureaucratic classes who cannot see that there is no such thing as spending, spending and more spending. Eventually the economy crashes and the normal people try to turn things around, usually violently. Versailles has been abandoned as the seat of French government completely since one of the French Revolutions.
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I think some of the spending can be blamed on the innumeracy of many if not most politicians.
Numbers are meaningless to them, at least in relation to spending taxpayer dollars. And/or they don’t care.
How many, for example, would be able to write in numerals:-
One million.
One billion.
One trillion.
????
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But to be fair (pre-1974) would you want them to write the American billion figure or the British?
AI answer:
The difference between an American billion and a British billion lies in the numerical value they represent. Historically, in the UK, a billion was defined as a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10/12), but this has changed. In 1974, the UK officially adopted the short scale definition, where a billion is a thousand million (1,000,000,000 or 10/9), aligning with the American definition. This change was made to avoid confusion and to conform to international usage. Prior to 1974, the UK used the long scale definition, while the US had adopted the short scale definition earlier.
Cheers
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Numerals are sooo old-school David: there’s only one answer when a suit stands in front of a microphone:
Net Zero.
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Even more frustrating is that so few understand the enormous difference between a few kW on a good day from cells and a few gW required 24/365.
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Even less would understand that the long term average for renewable supply is around 23% of the grid demand.
Most of the elected members would think that you could get to zero coal use by just having 4x more renewables. And on average, you could probably see how they got there, 23% x 4 is very close to the 100.
It’s only those pesky days when the sun and wind isn’t playing that you hit the fan. And also the fact that 4 x more renewables without storage just means that around 70% of them will not be able to connect to the grid, (the supply exceeds demand).
Politicians…. they are the problem. And they won’t let us live without them.
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My home solar has already dropped from its summer peak of 23% efficiency to 19.7% for March. The system is only around 9% efficient in winter.
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What billing cycle do you have? Last month we got taken off quarterly billing by our provider and now monthly billing (Feb was the first). Clearly for them the winter months are going to have more cashflow in positive each month rather than have to wait for payment at end of quarter while some summer monthly rebates will be smaller and with rain spells like what we still going through could be talking about cup of coffee rebates even with the generous QLD government rebate which expires 1 July 2028.
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My home solar generates its own set of accumulated data. I just look at the total accumulated output for each month, and compare that to 5.2kW outputting 24/7 for the whole month. Easy.
To work out my savings, I compare units imported each two-month power bill to a matching period before solar, then add the exported savings. Currently I’m saving around $950 each year, so should pay off the system in around 8.5 years.My Opportunity Cost, over a defined 10-year period, added around one third cost. Why 10 years? Wanted to use a period that was both less than expected system lifetime, plus my age. Could have picked 15 years.
In winter, solar cannot generate sufficient power to match my average 12kWh daily usage – only three days in June and July did its output exceed this figure. So a battery would be useless.
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Now ask the pollies for the imperial and metric answers. Lol.
How to vote:
Turn up and be checked off.
Draw a square on the ballot paper and write “Party with the slightest clue how the world works” next to it.
Tick the box and drop in ballot box.
/send a message
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Net zero wouldn’t apply then?
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UK or American billions and trillions? It makes quite a difference which you choose.
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It certainly did make a difference when I was a boy but the British use of the word “billion” for “a million million” but that meaning is becoming obsolete in Britain nowadays. In official UK statistics “billion” is used for a thousand million. The UK Parliament has a web page explaining this.
Statistical literacy guide1
What is a billion? And other units
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04440/SN04440.pdf
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I agree Graeme. So I apologize for going off on a tangent …
These pages often make me wonder. I think that’s a good thing. The other day I wondered whether I remembered about the ideological underpinnings of Marxism. Turns out I remembered more than I thought.
Graeme here mentions that ever increasing spending will cause an economic crash. So I wondered how much I remembered about economic theories. Google helpfully guided me to https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economic-collapse.asp It brought to mind Bruce Petty’s cartoons about a big box with large numbers of levers which the learned economists moved back and forth in inexplicable ways.
So it turned out I remembered more than I thought about economic theories. They make global warming theory look coherent.
Beam me up Scotty!
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I raised the issue of the fuel saving for the direction of the orbital flight yesterday and a few here summed up, (correctly), that the headstart speed was in the order of 5% and therefore the fuel saving was trivial.
Maybe a few here missed the obvious part. That 5% velocity is NOT just for the minimal mass orbiting craft it’s for the WHOLE rocket including propulsion systems AND all the fuel that would have been used to launch the craft into the normal direction of orbit. If you look at back in history, that Saturn V rocket, at launch, weighed around 400 elephants, (that piece of trivia came from NASA, for grade 5-8 students). Imagine the extra fuel required to launch those 400 elephants to 1000 km/hr and of course the fuel burned in doing that task, the extra fuel tanks, maybe another stage?
The answer certainly isn’t just add 5% more fuel. If it was, then you could launch a 1 tonne satellite for exactly twice the fuel of a half tonne satellite. Rockets don’t scale like that, you need more stages, more fuel tanks, so you can dump the excess weight, etc.
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/what-was-the-saturn-v-grades-5-8/
I think you could have a stab at the answer by looking at the fuel burn rate in those first few minutes and adding that mass to the rocket, (by reducing the payload), or increasing the rocket size.
Anyone want to do the sums now? It’s not going to be a simple linear equation.
I’m still wondering if they were African or Indian.
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Crisis Emergency Breakdown now repackaged as “mini heatwave-style weather” – you’ve been warned ⚠️ or warmed:
https://realclimatescience.com/2025/04/global-warming-emergency-in-the-uk
Is it safe to take off yer cardigan & slippers yet? Stay calm and make another cuppa tea love, the gub’mint will sort it all out – just add a pinch of salt.
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Talking of anarchy in the U.K.,
Johnny Rotten where were you?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/the-sex-pistols-at-auckland-town-hall-prove-punk-is-not-dead
God Save The King! Out of retirement and into the bling! Three out of four Pistols reunite to yell and shout like it’s 1977 again – yet no one told me about it. John Lydon’s obviously having too much fun as a real estate agent in Palm Springs (?) and supporting Donald Trump… whooduh thunk!
Hey hey, my my,
rock ‘n’ roll will never die…
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And don’t forget
“Its better to burn out than it is to rust”
The grand kids keep telling me, hey grandpa you will wind up killing yourself, my reply is the sentence above.
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Thanks Sambar for the reminder of the best ever Canadian rock’n’roller ever.
Its better to burn out than fade away.. – about 3 mins in.
Personal favorite with a climate theme – Like a Hurricane 11:40 in, closely followed by Harvest Moon.
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Nice to see everybody paying attention to the action on the stage, rather than viewing through their recording and tracking devices cunningly disguised as telephones. Too much tech has destroyed enjoyment of the simple things.
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I always liked this one – might be a bit hippy ;-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSiSRWkluU
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Those north-of-the-border-eh axemen knew a bit about climate: if a Hurricane didn’t get ya then, as Bachman Turner Overdrive knew, a Blue Moanin’ 🥶 would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqXFCoMhAs
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Also a fan Rowjay, just spent 19 minutes driving the cook mad.
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And there I was thinking that the Harvest Moon video was sited in Canada, eh? Because of the folksy folk and a wood fire raging in summer. On closer inspection there are USA flags in the background! Damn, it’s set in Woodside California!
BTW the trade war with Canada has resulted in many Arizona properties being put on the market by the Snow Geese I.e. those Canadians that fly south in the winter to play golf in warmer Arizona. Expect the Snow Geese will look into Mexican real estate: Cuba?
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Here is Neil Young as an 72 year old, moving just a touch slower.
I would swap out Cortez and put in Putin though..
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FWIW
“Brilliant.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GnfVUAvaQAAZZ9V?format=jpg&name=small
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/04/brilliant.html
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Trump : all’s fair in love and war !!
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If you are not cheating at war you aren’t serious.
Trump is at war with the world and cheating. All FTAs entered into are cancelled with callous disregard of “notice” periods stipulated.
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A bull in a china shop, there goes our super.
‘The Australian sharemarket took a dive, Asian markets were in the red and Wall Street is set for more turbulence, after US President Donald Trump revealed the full scale and scope of his long-touted tariffs.’ (ABC)
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FWIW
“There’s More Than One Way to Shape a Narrative™”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/02/theres-more-than-one-way-to-shape-a-narrative-n3801396
Seems to fit “Their ABC” too
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FWIW
“Trump Unleashes 10% Baseline Tariff on All U.S. Trading Partners Starting April 5 — Hits ‘Worst Offenders’ with Even Tougher Measures April 9 — Here is the List of Countries and Their Corresponding Tariffs”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-unleashes-10-baseline-tariff-all-u-s/
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I read the tariff is 10% on OZ, but varies a lot across otherers.
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U.S.goods coming in to NZ attract a tariff of less than 2% overall.
So Trump imposes 10% in retaliation.
$NZ falls against the $ U.S, so I get a better price for manufacturing beef heading to the States, and the U.S consumer pays ~ 10% more for their ground beef as the tariff is passed to the end user.
Works for me.
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They may have included Gst at 15% as part of NZs tariff to them?
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I think that they did, but GST applies to imports from every country , not just the U.S.
And NZ is not the only country with VAT.
So the argument that NZ discriminates against the U.S. is not valid.
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Essentially a domestic tax as opposed to an international tax on specific country.
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I don’t think that The Donald understands that.
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Trump’s simple phrasing is likeable.
“The Europeans; – we think they’re friendly but they rip us off! – so pathetic”
He is thoughtful. Apologising for the small size of the chart and explaining why it has to be small due to the wind.
These tariffs will hit Europe hard. I can see EU countries being in recession for years ahead. The US based manufacturers must be excited by the prospect of these tariffs. USA will be beating off offshore investors wanting a slice of the action. The US economy delayed its economic demise by 4 years in Trump’s first term. Biden’s IRA has very little impact on sending the US economy into recession.
It appears NZ does well compared to Australia and UK in its tariff position with USA.
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Preparing the ground for Putin?
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“Preparing the ground for Putin?”
Yes, the Europeans will welcome cashed-up Russians as tourists and investors as their ruinable economies crash while Russia runs on oil and nuclear. We might see West Germany begging to join Russia this time!
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I suspect that drill baby drill will be much better for the US economy than the tariffs.
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As I understand it, Trump’s tariffs have been imposed reciprocal to other countries’ tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers but also as levers of diplomacy.
As an Australian example of the first, our heavily taxpayer-subsidized aluminium industry. We are supporting US’ rival China by importing their expensive toxic grid-destroying unreliable taxpayer-subsidized energy generation contraptions. We need to return to cheap reliable electricity and an aluminium industry that can stand competitively on its own. We need to drill baby drill!
As an Australian example of the second, no free speech – no free trade.
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FWIW
“DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: At an average university, the average student is ‘functionally illiterate.’
The average college student is “functionally illiterate,” writes “Hilarius Bookbinder,” who teaches philosophy at a public university that attracts students with mid-range academic records.
Most students “could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read,” nor do they have “the desire to try, the vocabulary to grasp what they read and most certainly not the attention span to finish,” writes Bookbinder. They don’t read textbooks or primary texts, “even in upper-divisions courses that students supposedly take out of genuine interest.” ”
More and links at
https://instapundit.com/712144/#disqus_thread
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My experience from 20 years ago is that 1st year college students are a mixed bunch so the below “average” one likely fits the description. However, the distribution isn’t normal, and will be right-skewed. See this chart:
https://calcworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/normal-vs-skewed-distribution.png
Note the three types of “average”.
Unfortunately, instructors (facilitators of learning was my wife’s description) spend more time with the Skewed Right “mode” students until upper-level classes change this.
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Makes me wonder how they would assess Climate Science students?
The local University were taking those who failed to make the higher grade courses (such as Arts?). Certainly not Science or Engineering.
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I wonder who is profiling the so called educators
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IF YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY
LETS DO A WIND LITERACY PROGRAM
1. To tell people about wind droughts so they will know why wind power won’t work.
2. To show people how to check the wind power supply at breakfast and dinnertime to see almost daily that wind power won’t work.
Hint. Use the NemWatch widget, our most powerful weapon! But don’t tell RenewEconomy or they might take it down😊
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
3. To encourage people to ask why nobody was told about wind droughts until it was almost too late to avert disastrous power failures during nights with little or no wind.
Not to mention spending trillions of dollars worldwide to get more expensive power that is less reliable and less stable while inflicting unspeakable damage on the planet. Whoops!
THE WONDERFUL WORK OF OUR PIONEER WIND-WATCHERS
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
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Living in Washington State, my go to chart is here:
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx
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I love the flat line for nuclear.
And I guess VER (Variable Energy Resources) is the woke name for wind and solar.
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For Australia, i find the nemlog.com graphical charts a good interface to show the variation and shortfalls over time for wind and solar..
http://nemlog.com.au/gen/region/#SA1
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A doctor friend had a beautiful Jaguar v12 coupe. New. It was his dream car.
He also had a basic reliable Mercedes because the Jaguar was always being fixed. He marvelled at the many different ways it could stop as it was towed away. Once on a freeway under a bridge it decided to pump the petrol out of the petrol cap.
It’s a bit like wind power. Some people love it. And if the windmill and powerlines were all free, it would be something for nothing.
But it is reliably unreliable and you end up needing all the same amount of coal power anyway.
And then you get solar which is very reliable. You can guarantee it doesn’t work at night with total predictability. And often not very well during the day, especially at low latitudes with snow and ice or desert with dust.
When you add in the lifetime of the alternatives to coal, gas and oil, there is absolutely no saving in renewables which would be better termed very short term replaceables. Plus you actually need the chemistry of fossil fuels to make many things, notably all metals. A world without CO2 output is the stone age.
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THE ALARMING IMPLICATIONS OF PROLIFERATING ELECTRIC VEHICLES
A briefing note from The Energy Realists of Australia.
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/renewables/21-11-the-downside-of-electric-vehicles
Including a significant paper estimating the cost of electrifying the cars in Britain, Germany and the United States. The main cost calculated was the additional electricity which would be astronomical and they didn’t include the equally astronomical cost of building charging stations.
There is also a link to a major paper from the International Energy Agency estimating the needs for “energy transition minerals” such as lithium, graphite, nickel and rare-earth metals, which would rise by 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900% and 700%, respectively, by 2040.
CHECK OUT ALL THE BRIEFING NOTES
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
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Channel 7 Spotlight had a report covering Indonesian nickel mining focused on EVs. This is the introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkyGyhJ_rig&t=40s
While Europe continues to embrace the Climate Scam™ it will remain in economic recession. Europe is in rapid decline as an economic power. What it does is irrelevant to the rest of the world. Car ownership is being strangled and it will get a lot worse. Cars are for the aristocrats. Public transport, scooters, bikes and walking are for the workers.
USA can now afford to be very selective with its new investors – it is open for business. And Trump is not overly concerned who is bringing their money in. USA is open for business:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/expect-huge-sucking-sound-foreign-201148980.html
I expect it would be a good time to hold USDs.
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The $US has continued its fall against gold ; some other fiat currencies have fallen further.
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USD lost 30% of its value against gold last year. I expect that was the impact of the inflation reduction act that didn’t. Any effort toward NetZero is highly inflationary because it kills productivity. AUD is down 4-fold against gold in the past 12 years – worse than USD. Back in 2011, USD1 would buy AUD0.93. Today USD1 buys AUD1.59. So Australia is a basket case like UK and Europe. Trump’s first term arrested the productivity slide in the USA. We will see if his second term can get it back on trend.
The increasing demand for USD investment will arrest the slide of the USD against gold. And interest rates will go back up as employment constrains the US economy.
USD did not deflate much against the USD in Trump’s first term. I would not be surprised if the gold price falls back after the impact of the tariffs ripple through the global economy. No doubt time will reveal all.
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All these movements on a daily basis are nothing. People who think the $US will go up eventually take a position if they think it will go down because it will, not because there is anything fundamentally wrong. You sell and buy back in on the turn.
Commentators think it means there is long term disagreement with Trump’s actions and it can mean the exact opposite as the media will attack Trump and call for a protest and it will happen, supported in the short term even if no one agrees with their judgment. And people who have no idea buy gold or the people hedging their bets because gold will go up. It’s a game.
Plus everyone wants their currency to go down! It makes imports more expensive and exports more profitable. Trump would love to see the US dollar fall.
But it does expose countries like Australia where thanks to the 10-35% tax on CO2, we have lost our biggest chemical manufacturer and our biggest glass manufacturer and our biggest windmill manufacturer as Albanese sets us up to be a vassal state of China. And he retires to his place on the beach on a Prime Minister’s pension, office, travel perks. Job done.
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FWIW
“Dem Rep. Gomez: Biden Took ‘Big Steps’ on Border”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/02/dem-rep-gomez-biden-took-big-steps-on-border/
Quoting Spike Milligan – “That would be in the general direction of away”
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Artificial Neural Networks prove that natural variables rule.
‘Forecasting through projection of pre-industrial temperature oscillatory patterns beyond 1880 AD by applying spectral analysis to generate input to train ANNs show that current atmospheric temperatures can be largely explained on basis of continuation of natural oscillations.
‘This is the case irrespective of whether the hockey stick or MWP_LIA* cycles are operative. This process could give rise to temperatures higher that past 1000 years without major contribution from anthropogenic influences.’ (John Abbot 2021)
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In other words the null hypothesis – that everything we experience is natural variation – has yet to be falsified.
Gosh!
Who knew?
Well actually anyone who knew anything about science.
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Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation platform with almost two million users
1,393 suspects identified
79 suspects arrested
Over 3,000 electronic devices seized
39 children protected
Over 91,000 CSAM videos
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-crackdown-kidflix-major-child-sexual-exploitation-platform-almost-two-million-users
How many caught in the global pedo ring of the elite though, that’s been operating for decades?
/none
/Jean Claude Van Damme facing charges?
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..and how many were arrested for watching 3D cartoons of children having sex, where no human was involved at all. That one always destroy their whole argument!
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I watched the latest John Campbell you tube video last night, it went for 50 odd minutes but i turned it off after about 30 it was very depressing listening to peoples comments about vaccine deaths and injuries.
Did you know we now have 10 year olds being diagnosed with brain, or colon or pancreatic cancers!
I am not a religious person but i hope their is a God so the perpetrators of these crimes wont go unpunished because I am sure they will get away with these crimes in this life.
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I put this thought above in the voting section, but fits here as well:
I have been looking forward to seeing the publicity photos of all the red team and blue team getting their boosters in preparation for the upcoming campaign running into Winter. You know, showing leadership by setting the example in the face of falling vaccination rates.
I can only find this:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/labor-fights-key-state-premier-163000053.html
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The ‘Pandemic’ was not exactly a ‘crime’.
It was an operation of conquest.
Marauders of an identity that we hardly have language for.
Marauders able to convince the most educated among us that they were saviors, not conquerors.
We now use the word ‘Blob’.
An amorphous entity we can sense, but can hardly identify.
Like the European sailing sailing ships off the coast, that indigenous eyes had no neuro/visual context to see.
The evidence that the Pandemic was preplanned and centrally coordinated was, and evermore is, obvious and abundant.
Yet still not acceptable to see in polite circles.
It is left to us deplorables to articulate.
The polite and educated perform circus contortions to blame what John Campbell reports on anything else.
Was the Pandemic of Conquest successful?
Where is the booty?
How much money was drained from the Australian tax base, and that of all of the once proud and free Western ‘Democracies’, and surrendered, through corrupted government agents, to the Pharma/Medical/Rock of Black Mongols?
An economic and cultural neutron bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb.
Robbed, injected, perhaps suffering slow and unidentifiable termination … but the buildings are left standiing.
Like most of modern ‘government’ spending, no accounting will ever be seriously calculated.
Historical note: The Blob marauders coalesced their alliance, trained up their tactics, and infiltrated the minds and fortresses of the public in their Trojan horse built with ‘Climate Change’.
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I apologize for the immoderate comparative recognition of our esteemed Pharma/Medical/Rock of Black Pandemic saviors to 13th century population exterminating marauders.
It is true.
I am sorry.
Those alleged historical population exterminating marauders (according to culturally insensitive colonialist history), were just acting out their life experience based on their unique lived truth, and like our Pharma/Medical/Rock of Black friends, self identified as science believing and following enlightened inclusive heroic saviors.
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TRUMP Tariffs
There is a hidden benefit of US tariffs on Australian goods.
Australia’s imports will attract 10%.
The cost of Australian goods exported to the US could be easily dropped by at least 10% if Australia dropped mandated “green” energy.
And stop selling steel and aluminium below manufacturing cost due to taxpayer subsidies required by the use of mandated green energy.
And allow US beef imports to Australia. Three billion dollars of Australian beef sent to the US but zero in reverse.
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Does American beef taste different? Why do the reciprocal thing – just send them less.
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Why not just allow a free market? If Australian industry wasn’t protected by subsidies or banning imports, there mightn’t be an issue.
And I for one would like to taste some USA beef.
Why should it be banned?
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There are a lot of biosecurity rules. You would need to read up on the topic before becoming an expert.
Australia exports cheaper grass fed beef, mainly ground into burgers. Big Macs are up again.
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Unreasonable biosecurity rules are used as a trade barrier by Australia. Remember China used the same excuse to once ban food imports from Australia and was upset with that.
Why should it be impossible to import any meat from anywhere (except NZ) into Australia if it meets appropriate standards? It seems implausible that it’s impossible to meet these standards and to test and inspect these products, just as exported Australian products are also tested and inspected by authorities elsewhere.
You can’t expect favoured treatment in one direction without offering it in the other direction.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-08/china-suspends-australian-beef-imports-latest-trade-hit/12958950
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NZ offered tariff -free entry for everything from the U.S. (less than 2% ).
That didn’t stop Trump from imposing 10% on NZ on the basis that the NZ tax system imposes GST of 15% on everything from everywhere. He called that a tariff.
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‘Nowhere on earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica.’ (Guardian)
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Certain of those islands might be uninhabited but they are territorial possessions of Australia.
Presumably tariffs were applied to them to prevent loopholes being exploited by shipping goods from those places, tariff free.
Australia could easily compensate for the 10% tariff impost by dumping “green” energy. It would likely be much more than that that we would save.
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” I for one would like to taste some USA beef.”
You want man-boobs , you go for it.
https://www.beefresearch.org/resources/beef-sustainability/fact-sheets/hormones
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American beef turns to slush when ground. NZ sends manufacturing beef which is neededto firm up the hamburger patty. Basically cull dairy cows, and bull beef, neither of which is produced in U.S.
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Totally agree David. We could easily compensate for the 10% tariff by reducing costs at our end. Even for beef which is typically efficient already, in the usual Australian agricultural way. No farm subsidies or support funds in Australia, it’s already as lean as an operation as possible. Not sure where the state origin of all our US bound beef is? Could be Qld, maybe the southern states? The smart thing would be analyse that and then go about further reducing costs for the beef producers in those states/ regions. For starters, completely abolish any costs associated with preventing cow burps/ farts. One of the major costs for these beef producers could be transport. If so, cut any diesel taxes by government severely. Farmers already receive diesel fuel rebates because machinery are all off road. Apply the same to livestock transport, so similar to Duttons plan to reduce fuel excise. Except do it forever, not for one paltry year. But, we have idiots in either state or federal government who also have no knowledge of agricultural practices. No votes ( well, hardly any), so no political interest.
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You are right.
Apply jerrymander technique to export planning.
We can win that war.
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Aren’t American cattle treated with growth hormones? That is the reason for opposition to imports of US beef in the UK and Europe. Some defenders of the use of growth hormones in cattle claim that they have no implications for human health but if people are going to eat beef fairly regularly from childhood right through to their old age then I would think it preferable to eat beef that does not have any unnecessary drug residues in it.
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Absolutely! I would want any beef from overseas to be marked with the country of origin in big red letters! Not only the hormones, but the mRNA vaccines used and the crappy feed they get from Roundup-saturated grains over there. I’d rate it with Chinese shellfish..
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My mail today:
A letter etc. from The Electoral Commission about Absentee/Postal voting.
A letter from Peter Dutton about his government plans plus Absentee/Postal voting.
A letter from the local (Independent) member about Absentee/Postal voting.
A letter from Senator Wong (Senator for S.A.) about Absentee/Postal voting and how Labor were working with Malinaukus to make S.A. great (curiously her letter didn’t mention Albo or that prize moron Bowen).
I was going to go to the polling booth (on the day) so I could tell the various party ‘helpers’ that I was going to vote for Clive (watch’s his name – you know the one will the utterly ridiculous Trumped UP party name) not because he was as untrustworthy as any of their candidates but at least he told the truth about the Global Warming scam, but I’m thinking it would just waste my time. I think I will have a postal vote (and, if standing, Wong won’t be high on my vote).
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https://uk.yahoo.com/news/council-hires-stewards-stop-disgusting-121213799.html
Meanwhile in Ireland….
Stewards have been brought in to protect a famous statue of Molly Malone in Dublin after complaints people were groping the sculpture’s breasts.
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Doesn’t say much for the statue of David…
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Apologies if I’ve posted this before – brain a bit scrambled ATM. My wife’s ovarian cancer has recurred, just 13 months after treatment. Her oncologist has strongly suggested more chemo, which will commence next Friday. That’s good and bad news of course. Good that she’s getting treatment that will hopefully prolong her life, bad that she now has to endure another five months of miserable, awful side effects.
But now we face a dilemma. We have not told the oncologist that she is taking Ivermectin, out of fear that they might demand she stop, or refuse to treat her. Keeping them in the dark is a concern of course, because there is little concrete information about how Ivermectin might interact with chemo. Some online sources say that Ivermectin actually enhances the effects of Chemo, while others say the same while saying that chemo dosage should be reduced as a consequence. Others say Ivermectin could increase side effects or even stop the chemo working. Irrespective, we still have no expert advice regarding dosage of Ivermectin, alongside or independent of chemo.
I have never felt so helpless or useless. I will never unquestioningly respect – or trust – the medical profession ever again.
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Dr John Cambell has Prof Angus Dalgleish on, Cancer, Ivermectin, Thalidomide and Vit D, 5 months ago.
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The Law of Unintended Consequences seems to apply to Donald Trump’s tariff war too. I believe they will result in the re-election of Trudeau’s party in Canada, give the UK’s Labour party an excuse for devastating inflation that will arise from their policies AND get Albanese elected again, for the same reason. All three leftist-governed nations will now pin the blame for their self-inflicted economic woes on Trump’s tariffs, and their mates in the MSM will amplify this disingenuous nonsense sufficiently to save them from what would otherwise be electoral devastation.
I can’t believe Trump foresaw this, but perhaps he doesn’t care anyway. His job is to look after America’s interests, not ours. Long term it might even benefit us all, because incompetent governments in Canada, Europe and elsewhere can no longer hide their mistakes using American largesse.
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If something the President of the U.S.A. does affects Australia, apart from War, just shows that we are too connected to the U.S.A.
This same argument goes for all other countries as well.
International trade should be country to country barter and should only involve a countries surplus goods AFTER the local citizens have taken all they want. Countries should become self sufficient in as many goods as is possible.
In this way a country is insulated from externals.
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“International trade should be country to country barter ”
International trade should be COMPANY to COMPANY barter”… there is no reason for a Govt to be involved in commerce at all! Our woes are generally from Govt interference, saying if they weren’t there we would all be murdered in our beds..
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No the resources of a country belong to the people of that country.
If a company is involved, the company should only be allowed to access a fraction of the worth of the resources. The country should take the lion share – not less than 90% of the value.
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“The country should take the lion share – not less than 90% of the value.”
The problem with that is, for all practical purposes these days, “the country” means a bunch of self-serving, corrupt politicians. You know the type I mean, the ones earning $200k per year but somehow become multi millionaires within just a few years.
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For a previous thread question on what a social security number gets you as an illegal in USA
“Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Can Scam America”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/02/five-ways-non-citizens-with-social-security-numbers-can-scam-america/
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https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/yes-it-is-wrong-to-assume-that-residential
A recent economic report commissioned by the Housing Industry Association (HIA) assumed that in the absence of planning regulations, a block of land to build a detached home in Sydney would have a market price of $65,000 in 2025.
This is strange. There are many things one could do with a greenfield lot.
What economic theory says that the opportunity cost of a choice is an arbitrarily-chosen alternative and not the next best alternative?
There is none.
This is simply a mistake. But an extremely common one, with growing influence on policy.
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Assuming that land where housing can be built ought to be valued by the market as if housing cannot be built is bizarre.
This misuse of the concept of opportunity cost has crept into the analysis of housing markets, leading to poorly justified claims of inefficiency and misleading many as to what pricing outcomes are possible.
It has also obscured another and more intriguing land cost concept—not the opportunity cost of any particular land use, but that the input cost for land use per se is zero. In a classical economic sense, a price above the input costs of production indicates a surplus.
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https://www.aussie17.com/p/scientists-shocked-worlds-first-peer
How did this happen? Here’s the rundown again for the uninitiated. When Pfizer got emergency approval, they used a PCR process to craft the mRNA for their clinical trials—the ones that scored that “95% efficacy” gold star. But once the green light hit and they had to churn out billions of doses, they switched methods. Enter bacterial plasmid DNA: circular genetic bits stuffed into bacteria to mass-produce mRNA. These plasmids carried spike protein genes, antibiotic resistance markers, and—surprise—extras like SV40 enhancers/promoters.
The bacteria pumped out the DNA, they broke it down, turned it into mRNA, and packed it into lipid nanoparticles. Trouble is, they didn’t clean up properly. Both the mRNA and the leftover plasmid DNA ended up in the shots. Sloppy doesn’t even cover it.
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This article answered a few questions I had about beef:
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/aussie-beef-hit-with-10pc-trump-tariff-tariff/
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The problem here is they used SV40 as part of the process to manufacture the vaccine payload. They were unable to remove the SV40 so they chopped it up into little pieces and injected it into the arms if billions of people.
The level of SV40 is approximately 140 times that of the legal limit but this measurement is of course free floating in your blood stream the vaccine carries SV40 at 140 times the legal limit directly into your cells.
This is why cancers are rising at a rapid rate.
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Sorry this was in response to me again @31
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