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    Skepticynic

    Few politicians will want to risk allowing something like that to happen again, anywhere.

    Except Asinine Albanese and Brainless Bowen

    Reliability used to be the core feature of electric grid designs, before the rush to push an energy transition in service of climate goals.

    Preliminary forensics make clear that over-enthusiastic deployment of unreliable solar and wind power was the fulcrum that put 55 million people in the dark for days.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/18/a-new-iea-report-and-the-iberian-blackout-end-dreams-of-an-energy-transition/

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      Kalm Keith

      “few politicians” would care about what happens to anyone but themselves.

      Occasionally I go to look at one of the feats of genuinely beneficial government action that represents what true government should be.

      Chichester Dam. It was built between 1915 and 1925 and stands in stark contrast to the the present times.

      Currently, here in Novocastria, we are “blessed” with a reminder of political malevolence in the shape of a half finished ablutions block in a harbourside park. It’s a total shambles, organised by our local “government” and looks a bit like a scaled down version of the Roman Coliseum. After cutting down the trees and clearing all vegetation the whole half finished thing is now wrapped up in temporary fencing and keep out signs.
      It’s 2025, and we’ve gone backwards in the last hundred years since Chichester.

      This stalled project reminds us what happens when accountability is taken out of society.
      Just think about it.
      The prime example is the “allocation” of $444,000,000 to save da coral up north.

      In a sane society these things should never happen.

      How do we stop this destruction of our nation and secure a sane, common sense approach to our future.

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    David Maddison

    Three degrees C (37F) in Melbournistan now.

    I wonder how the natural gas and electricity supply will hold up and if they will or have load shed any aluminium smelters to keep the lights on?

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    Esra Taf

    There is one really good thing about Simon’s post on May 17th. “When someone tells you that climate models are rubbish at predicting the future, don’t believe them.” In his infinite wisdom, he has given us permission to ignore climate science from NASA. Why would I say that? https://notrickszone.com/2025/02/11/new-study-todays-climate-models-do-not-agree-with-reality-and-thus-their-usefulness-is-doubtful/. This provides a precis of the most important points and a link to the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project

    In the paper, NASA openly states: “Thus today’s models must be improved by about a hundredfold in accuracy, a very challenging task”. Clearly, NASA states that current climate models are way off the mark. A hundredfold improvement is an absolute canyon between models and reality, not just a gap. It’s easy to say that climate models are accurate when you manipulate the data to suit the desired outcomes. In one fell swoop, your resident climate guru has managed to discredit NASA and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project. Well done Simon. I always thought NASA’s climate science was BS and now you have confirmed it.

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    David Maddison

    In the 1930’s a single blade aircraft propeller was developed and sold. It was commercially unsuccessful as it cost too much but was claimed to be more efficient as the blade would be cutting into cleaner air. Later day tests in the video below question that claim.

    https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/propeller-variable-pitch-one-blade-sensenich-and-everel/nasm_A19370029000

    https://youtu.be/zhINpDoFQLw

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    David Maddison

    Video: Why do Japanese cities have so many above-ground electrical wires (on poles), and they have been buried?

    https://youtu.be/UUArT40okkQ

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    David Maddison

    Now Leftoids claim that women in the Paleolithic were the superior hunters.

    A critical look at this claim:

    https://youtu.be/ziV75hYbO2U

    And in primitive societies women tend to be fully occupied looking after children or gathering and preparing food while men do the hunting and defending against hostile neighbours.

    You know it must be BS because the headline has the phrase “scientists say” in it:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/women-hunted-often-prehistory-men-b2451528.html

    Prehistoric women hunted as often as men and were better suited for it, scientists say

    Researchers say there was no indication that ‘strict sexual division of labour existed’

    Prehistoric women frequently engaged in hunting as much as men and their anatomy also made them better suited for it, suggests a new review of studies.

    For decades, historians and anthropologists have held the popular view that prehistoric men were hunters while women from these times played their roles in groups as gatherers.

    Popular culture has also spread portrayals of men as hunters with spears in hand, accompanied by women with babies strapped to their backs and carrying baskets.

    But a growing body of evidence has suggested many of these conceptions about early women and men are not accurate.

    Prehistoric women not only engaged in the practice of hunting, but their female anatomy and biology likely made them intrinsically better suited for it, revealed two new studies.

    One study assessing the physiology of prehistoric women from fossil remains suggested they were capable of performing the arduous physical task of hunting prey and could likely hunt successfully “over prolonged periods of time”.

    Researchers found the female body was better suited for endurance activity “which would have been critical in early hunting because they would have had to run the animals down into exhaustion before actually going in for the kill”.

    Scientists said the hormones oestrogen and adiponectin – typically present in higher quantities in female bodies – play a key role in enabling women to modulate glucose and fat, which is critical for athletic performance.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    David Maddison

    How Gene Roddenberry portrayed artificial intelligence in Star Trek in 1966.

    Incidentally the actor is Ted Cassidy, Lurch from the Addams Family.

    https://youtu.be/IQJz1txxNSc

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    David Maddison

    NSW National Parks want to increase camping fees by 900%.

    I think this is all part of the national strategy restricting non-native Australians having access to their national parks, forests, places etc. e.g. Lake Eyre, Mt Warning, Ayers Rock, Arapiles etc..

    https://youtu.be/THYJUnwoI7Y

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    David Maddison

    School board member in USA threatened to call police over a “misgendering”.

    Irene BritUSA discusses:

    https://youtu.be/XqNDQ3oFf-A

    A parent has filed a lawsuit against a school district in New Hampshire after the Board Chair threatened to call the police on her. While discussing the participation of a male athlete in women’s competitions, the parent referred to the athlete as a “tall boy.” The parent was prevented from finishing her speech, in which she mentioned that the “Protect Women and Girls in Sports Act” prevents boys from competing in girls’ sports. She was asked to leave or have the police called on her. In the lawsuit, the parent argues that the school board infringed upon her First Amendment rights.

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    David Maddison

    Dr Suneel Dhand refuses a flu vaccination for the first time and discovers he doesn’t get a respiratory infection in that year, for the first time.

    Not a controlled study, but many others anecdotally observe the same thing.

    https://youtu.be/8yOaIO3v2UM

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    David Maddison

    Margaret Atwood highlighted what some (not her) have called “tiptoe totalitarianism”, the gradual subtle creep of totalitarianism as we are seeing in most Western countries except the USA.

    Some quotes from her:

    “To institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return for those you remove.”

    “Totalitarianisms may crumble from within, as they fail to keep the promises that brought them to power; or they may be attacked from without; or both.”

    “The idea of a totalitarian regime is to intimidate people so much that they don’t speak up.”

    “The moment at which a totalitarianism gets serious is the moment at which the army fires into the crowd.”

    We already have witnessed and continue to do so, the first one and the second last one in Australia.

    The second one hasn’t been fulfilled, we just elected another socialist Government.

    Aa for the last one, we had a taste of that when during the covid lockups Dan Andrews had his black-uniformed paramilitary police political enforcers fire rubber bullets into anti-lockup protesters and patrol the streets in armoured personnel carriers.

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    another ian

    FWIW – the covid scene

    “The FDA Just Approved Another COVID Vaccine — But RFK Jr. Has Already Intervened”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fda-just-approved-another-covid-vaccine-rfk-jr/

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      David Maddison

      Novavax is not an mRNA vaccine, a good thing.

      During the plandemic I wrote to the Australian “Health” Minister asking why they were delaying its approval. They eventually approved it but not before many people had been harmed by the mRNA “vaccines”. And then it had limited availability, it seemed.

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    another ian

    FWIW – you’ve been “classified”

    “What’s Your Generation (and Stereotype)?”

    https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/05/whats-your-generation-and-stereotype/

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