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Greetings from lovely Cyprus! It’s great to be back. We love Cyprus and the Cypriots.
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You can have an industrial economy, or Net Zero, but nor both.
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“Net Zero” is certainly achievable. It just requires a dramatic and “unprecedented” lowering of the standard of living of non-Elites to Stone Age levels. People of the Palaeolithic era (Stone Age) did indeed lead a Net Zero lifestyle.
Australia’s Labor Government is leading the world in lowering the standard of living of all non-Elite Australians.
It’s something all Labor-voting Australia’s should be proud of.
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I wonder why they think living standards will recover.
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America’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Of Summer Power Shortages
by Tyler Durden Sunday, May 11, 2025
When America’s largest power grid operator warns of “growing risks” of summer power shortages, people pay attention—especially now, after witnessing Spain’s brief brush with net-zero collapse, when its failing green energy grid triggered the worst blackout in a generation.
PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in the U.S., issued a warning Friday that extreme heat this summer could collide with record electricity demand, potentially triggering disruptions
“PJM continues to voice concerns about the supply and demand imbalance driven by generator retirements and the slow build of new resources in the face of accelerating demand growth.”
PJM’s warning about potential summer shortfalls is a direct consequence of aggressive net-zero and green energy policies, which have destabilized power grids and driven prices higher—particularly in Mid-Atlantic states governed by far-left lawmakers.
It’s now up to the Trump administration to push for the restoration of reliable fossil fuel generation to reestablish grid stability (some good news so far). A fragile power grid isn’t just an infrastructure issue—it’s a national security threat. Those who undermined the nation’s grid with green agendas to force grids to retire stable power production for unreliable power generation with Chinese solar panels must be held accountable.
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Video:
Simon of the History Debunked YouTube channel speculates about how far ordinary Britons can be pushed by the lunacy of their recent Governments. (Under 4 mins.)
https://youtu.be/MwD9iqSsS3o
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Congratulations Australia.
Total Government debt now over $2.088 trillion (federal, state and local) .
And it’s going up faster than ever with absolutely no limit in sight and with a mandate by the Sheeple to keep spending like crazy to pay for all the “free stuff” the Sheeple demanded and voted for.
See pseudo real-time debt clock at:
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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Yes, and that over 3 Trillion South Pacific Peso Superannuation honey pot looks a very tempting a target for any Guv’ment to get their hands on.
All they have to do is to legislate that one third of Super has to be invested in Australian Guv’ment Bonds and there they have a solution to halve the Debt. The poor dud Punters get to take on the crappy Bonds.
Then the Future Fund can be got at.
All along with increasing and inventing other taxes/fees/surcharges, etc.
Easy peasy to be in Guv’ment.
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Don’t forget the ability to tax unrealised gains.
That alone should take money out of the system and place it squarely in the government’s hands, ready to be pi&&ed against the wall. Just like the last lot we gave them.
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The Pentagon has announced a June 6 deadline for the exit of all transgenders from the US military.
Many people who had previously been denied entry to the military for extremely minor medical issues might wonder how they didn’t get in with their issues but how these others got in with theirs.
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I recently saw am amateur radio call sign and it turned out to be from the Prince Edward Islands which are sub-Antarctic islands that are a possession of South Africa about 1769km SE of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Legally they are part of the City of Cape Town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Islands?wprov=sfla1
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I get SPAM emails from all over the world. It’s almost like you’ve gone back to the pre-industrial world, using amateur radio for communications. What next, string and can?
Come on David, get with the 20th century…..
/s if you hadn’t noticed. We’ll be looking for people like you to tell us about WW3 when the internet goes down and the lights flicker and die. Then again, those lights could be Bowen’d.
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Eng_Ian:
You might like https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
I’m a power engineer. The Iberian grid collapse makes me very afraid for Britain
MAY 10, 2025
and some of the comments about personal precautions.
Strangely some people aren’t convinced that the Government (who know nothing about electricity) nor by the pronouncements by the BBC and certain Research establishment (who know nothing about electricity) nor by the Greenies (who know nothing about electricity).
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Thanks for the link. I hadnt realized before that although the UK is well connected to Europe they are HVDC links that dont help on the stability front.
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The site of the 22 Sept 1979 Vela Incident when a US surveillance satellite recorded a ‘double flash of light’ underwater offshore from the islands, supposedly (?) a South African / Israeli nuclear experiment.
With a mean midsummer temp of 7.7*C (46*F) in February, another 1.5 or even 2 mythical degrees of runaway warming would be most welcome on those inhospitable volcanic peaks.
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FWIW
Another day, another mRNA
“Appropos for Mother’s Day, a quiet March jab study made the rounds this week. The study, published in the Journal Vaccines, was blandly titled, “Impact of mRNA and Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccines on Ovarian Reserve.” Scoffers complained it was “only” a rat study, but it was another iron nail in mRNA’s coffin.”
“There is now conclusive evidence of harm, even if not conclusive proof. And the evidence is strong, consistent, biologically credible, and peer-reviewed.
This study suggests the FDA skipped a critical step: before mass deployment, this kind of reproductive impact should have been studied in depth. Instead, it’s only being belatedly noticed by independent researchers after the needled horse is out of the barn. More research in human women is urgently needed— not to create panic, but to finally take the question seriously.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/mrna-mayhem-saturday-may-10-2025?
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The Big Lie
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/09/the-graph-that-lied/
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Given that the HADCRUT temperature record starts at 1855 and is considered by Climate Scientists as the most accurate, yet the first 3 years the Southern Hemisphere record is from One Thermometer in (what is now) Indonesia, there may be some truth in the title.
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FWIW
“Texas Bill Would Require Solar Power Plants to Have Gas and Coal Backup”
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2025/05/10/texas-bill-would-require-solar-power-plants-to-have-gas-and-coal-backup/
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And
Coming into fashion –
“America’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Of Summer Power Shortages”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/americas-largest-grid-operator-warns-summer-power-shortages
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FWIW – how it is done?
“VIDEO: I went to Bermuda to find the money Mark Carney hid from the CRA pic.twitter.com/3k4ZE1AglA
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) May 9, 2025 ”
And
https://x.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1920641445456982056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdXZPD3x4Q
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Charted: What the World’s Paying for Eggs – Published 3 days ago on May 6, 2025
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