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https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/24/maternity-hospital-evacuated-after-solar-panel-fire/
Keep them off your roof.
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Denmark 🇩🇰
World’s first carbon tax on livestock will cost farmers $145 per cow.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/worlds-first-carbon-tax-on-livestock-will-cost-farmers-100-dollars-per-cow/48a94ca0-c946-4d8a-afe3-430fc2f089a6
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Let them eat insects!
No doubt we’ll follow in Australia.
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At least 1000 Australian “schools” (as of 2022) are already feeding children insects.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
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This is a new attack on life on earth, a punitive tax on tiny methane, not CO2. The real problem is with arrogant, ignorant politicians who pass laws without any proof of fact. No one has ever proven methane causes Global Warming or even that Global Warming is a problem anywhere, let alone in Denmark.
Methane is what is produced when in digesting cellulose. Humans cannot. So we leave it to cows, sheep, goats to turn inedible stalks into milk and then in to cheese. And Denmark, the world’s greatest cheese country is taxing the production of cheese. Talk about an own goal!
But then it’s really the EU/UN monoliths driving this, not the Danes. And besides, cheese is not popular in China. So why not wipe it out? Like the steel industry. And Christianity.
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CO2 represents the Leftist war against the energy supply.
CH4 represents the Leftist war against the food supply.
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From the link:
“Dairy farmers in Denmark face having to pay an annual tax of 672 krone ($145) per cow for the planet-heating emissions they generate. The country’s coalition government agreed this week to introduce the world’s first carbon emissions tax on agriculture. It will mean new levies on livestock starting in 2030.”
I think it is a reasonable bet that in the UK, the Mad-about-a Trace-Gas Mr. Miliband will seek to get our Government to follow suit. After all, they’re trying to tax farmers on a hypothetical value of their land when they die; and looking at unrealised pension growth as a source of tax revenue from every one . . .
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I wonder who is worse and more clueless?
UK’s Ed Milliband? (Net worth US$17.2 million.*)
Australia’s Chrissy “blackout” Bowen? (Net worth ??? **)
* https://trendara.uk/ed-milibands-net-worth/
** https://openpolitics.au/47/chris-bowen
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Well, they can forget their milk, butter, cheese, beef etc can’t they? But maybe that is want. Let them eat insects.
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Incredible. Can’t see that it won’t destroy the production of milk, butter, cheese, beef in Denmark. Total insanity has gripped the West.
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This was announced almost one year ago now, June 2024. Has it been implemented, and if so what effect has it had?
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NPR really hit publish on this headline
https://notthebee.com/article/npr-really-hit-publish-on-this-headline
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Ignoring the obvious threats.
NERC’s latest reliability assessment is unreliable
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/05/22/nercs-latest-reliability-assessment-is-unreliable/
The beginning:
“The North American Energy Reliability Corporation (NERC, rhymes with jerk) has just released its 2025 Summer Reliability Assessment (SRA). NERC is a quasi-federal agency under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, also rhymes with jerk).
NERC’s mission is to keep America’s grid reliable, which it has clearly failed to do. The nonsensical language in the SRA helps explain this failure. There is a deep fallacy that lets NERC systematically avoid saying how bad things really are.
This fallacy is the dangerously misleading use of the word “normal.” Here is a good example (out of many). Their basic finding is that “all areas are assessed as having adequate anticipated resources for normal summer peak load conditions.”
This sounds very reassuring, as does the whole report. The fallacy is that there is no such thing as “normal” summer conditions for a given day, week, month, or season. They really mean average conditions, and these are rare, not normal.
Here is an analogy to make the point. Suppose I work downtown and eat lunch at a lot of different places. Maybe twice a month I eat at Arby’s. It would be wildly false to say I normally eat at Arby’s since I eat there less than 10% of the time. “Normally” implies most of the time.
In the same way, average weather occurs less than 10% of the time, so it is wildly false to refer to it as normal. Moreover, the weather will often be worse than average as far as stressing the grid goes, sometimes far worse.
So NERC should truthfully say something like this: “All areas are projected to have adequate resources for normal summer conditions, but it is highly likely that conditions will be worse, including far worse.”
This is not reassuring at all, as it clearly calls for caution, which is how bad things really are.”
Lots more in the article, including NERC’s ridiculous depending on wind and solar to meet peak need.
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Why isn’t DOGE shutting them down?
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They are not Federally funded: “NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, is funded through assessments charged to “load-serving entities” within the bulk power system. These entities, which are owners, operators, and users of the bulk power system responsible for delivering electricity to retail customers, are assessed based on their net energy requirements. This funding mechanism is overseen by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which approves NERC’s annual business plan and budget.”
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FERC’n NERC. Sounds about right.
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The endless promotion of a far Left agenda by Their ABC (Australian state-funded broadcaster like BBC, CBC etc.) is both a breach of their charter and enormously damaging to Australia. It’s a $1 billion per year taxpayer-funded propaganda operation.
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Once Australia shuts down the last of its coal and gas power stations (we have no nuclear as John Howard, fake conservative, banned them by law) Snowy Hydro 2 is being promoted as the solution to Australia’s intermittent solar and wind energy problems because it will be a big hydro battery.
However, SH2 is only a battery and will thus itself be a net energy consumer. In addition it is enormously expensive and may not ever be finished. It is even questioned if there will be enough water to fill it (see link below, it is not a closed system). Plus it is tremendously environmentally damaging, it being built in a formerly protected fragile alpine wilderness area which is being sacrificed for “the cause”.
How is it possible that this will make intrinsically expensive (and useless) intermittent solar and wind energy cheaper because it’s taking an already expensive supply and stores it an an expensive and energy-consuming storage facility, which also has a limited capacity so it will not be nearly enough storage to supply all that Australia needs to fulfil the green fantasy?
Again this proves why politicians, in this case Malcom Turnbull, shouldn’t be allowed to make engineering decisions.
Also see:
https://npansw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Snowy-2.0-claims-dont-stack-up.pdf
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With 2 hours reserve (assuming the top reservoir is full) to power who ever is connected, the question is who gets priority?
Sydney? Or Melbourne? Or Canberra?
And what has the 1000% increase in cost done to the supposed charges?
And that means it cannot be used in the case of emergency, like a Black Start.
A typical bureaucratic stuff-up. Any benefits have long since gone missing in the “we must keep going regardless”
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Yes.
The “sunk cost fallacy”.
Goolag AI definition:
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Downloaded – NPA and the bleeding obvious
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At best, SH2 could only supply 10% of the grid requirements.
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Australia is so fanatically obsessed with expensive and intermittent energy and Net Zero, even while the biggest CO2 emitter China doesn’t have a Net Zero policy and the second biggest emitter, the United States dropped it and others are dropping it, that with another 6 to 9 years of Labor, Australia will be the sole remaining country with such policies.
And a destroyed economy to go with it, we will just supply raw materials to the world, much like Third World countries do.
What is the exit strategy, if any? The fanaticism of belief in wind and solar and Net Zero is extreme and deeply embedded in all government agencies (public “service”, CSIRO etc.) and government-funded institutions (schools, luniversities etc. usually as a prerequisite of their funding) and the sadly indoctrinated students they produce.
Anyone in the above institutions who questions the Official Narrative is censured or more like sacked (fired) as the Left who dominate it all are intolerant of alternative opinions.
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It looks like the Germans want to remilitarise.
Presumably Ukraine will the excuse to start another world war.
Mmmm…
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The last time Germany won a war was in 1870.
The last 2 turned out very badly.
Is this the case that Germany WILL WIN this time?
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I refer you to Norm McDonald. They may have lost the world wars, but it was actually close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM
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As Spike Milligan used to point out – they came second
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They did win the war in 1918 against Russia and redrew the map of Eastern Europe, recreating major states like Poland. Before suddenly being beaten by the UK, France and America and their secret weapon, the Spanish Flu. Known today as H1N1. It attacked only fit young men and emptied the trenches. But no one would admit it existed, which is why the deaths in Spain gave rise to the name. And the sudden inexplicable collapse of the front gave rise to WWII, a revenge war. That was eighty years ago, three generations. This is likely an attempt to create a EU world power, based on two countries only, France and Germany.
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Another NATO failure
https://newcoldwar.org/history-nato-keep-russians-americans-germans/
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Why Ukraine War’s Deadly Drones Are Now Flying By 12-Mile-Long ‘Wires’ | Frontline | Daily Mail
Again on Drones – 29 Mins 18 Secs
Simplicius has good coverage of how the War has changed Tactics
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/analysis-russian-triple-chokehold
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52125-trump-distances-us-from
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Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S. Tech – 54 mins 35 secs
5 days ago
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…as demanded by President Trump….
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I thought this was a joke at first but a book has already been written about Rachel Levine.
Note the emphasis (my bold) on promoting the transgender message to children.
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… follow in [the thing’s] footsteps? Have you seen the way ‘the thing’ stands – especially when dressed in high-heels and lippy?
Talking of going over the edge and falling into the abyss:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562020/sunken-manawanui-listed-as-77m-write-off-in-budget
Some here may remember last year’s mishap when a reef-surveying naval ship hit a reef, burst into flames, then sunk just off the coast of Samoa’s Upolu Island. ‘Inclusiveness’ has now cost New Zealanders $77,000,000 (that’s 77 million dollars, for climate activists unable to read, write nor add numbers).
In some shituations, moving forward is not a good move, and reversing is sometimes needed to stay afloat and keep on the [cough] straight and narrow.
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Did the DEI “commander” get a promotion for their efforts?
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Author Chelsea Clinton. Her hero is a cross dressing four star Admiral.
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I’ve got a dollar which says Chelsea Hubbell had no input into this work of fiction.
And while we are at it, I would welcome chromosomal analysis of “Michelle” Obama and “Brigitte” Macron.
That’ll do for starters.
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I was hoping that when TRUMP first moved into the White House after Obama, he would have a forensic team find samples of “Big Mike’s” DNA and do just that.
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She persisted? He is a man in a dress!
Inspiring women? He is a man. Inadvertently it says that the world is running low on inspiring women!
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Here is a documentary about Cecot, the super maximum security prison in El Salvador for the most dangerous, most violent, most psychopathic people in the world, MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members.
When watching and considering the shocking conditions, just consider their victims first and what they did to them.
This prison is also responsible for turning El Salvador from one of the most dangerous places in the world to a much safer one.
It has a capacity of 40,000 criminals. Most will never be released.
https://youtu.be/UU18sxIKZ40
Goolag AI says:
That’s less than Canada which has a rate of 2.2 per 100,000.
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A simpler jail is available, it has 1000 beds. Everyone of them comfortable but not elaborate.
Rule 1. Every prisoner is ranked when they enter. The worst offences incur the highest scores. Multiple offences result in a summation of individual scores. Offences that occur in the jail also incur points.
Once ranked, the prisoners get to lead a normal life, serving out their time.
However. If the jail gets to capacity, then the one with the highest score is removed from the jail and euthanised. This continues until the balance of 1000 inmates is achieved.
Now which political party is going to put that on the table and then let the public vote on it?
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It just occurred to me that the inmates would not want a soccer hooligan event, where 100+ people could be sentenced for minor affray, all with very low points and only inside for a week or two.
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Mass capital punishment requires a whole lot of faith in government and the legal system.
Even in the best run countries, governments and the legal system have plenty of incompetent/crooked boobs in positions of power who will corrupt the system, and corrupt systems make mistakes. And the more corrupt the system, the more mistakes get made.
Think back to 2020 and the massive incompetence and power grabs by government officials, both elected and unelected during the Covid pandemic. Do you really want to hand those same governments the power of life and death over their constituents? What would happen when they start putting political prisoners in your 1000 inmate jail?
Count me out.
I’m firmly in the corner of Sir William Blackstone, particularly as it pertains to capital punishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio
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“However. If the jail gets to capacity, then the one with the highest score is removed from the jail and euthanised.”
That sounds like the perfect model prison.
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Thanks for that series of comments David.
All important to note but the ABCCC is in need of urgent attention.
Shut.
It.
Down.
As for “kids of all genders” the whole LGBTIQPH totally misrepresents the reality.
There are only two genders, male and female ,but the fact is that nature is not perfect and interruptions to development during pregnancy can lead to aberrations that are either so small as to be unnoticeable or tragically evident.
Dressing up supporters in rainbows just adds to the distress: if only the truth could be told, everybody would be better off.
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Knowing what I pay for normal supermarket groceries and other items and watching prices increase almost in real time, it’s impossible to believe the official inflation rate of 2.4%.
We are being lied to.
I don’t know anyone else who believes the official inflation rate either.
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Absolutely. My belief is that prices for many grocery items have more or less doubled over the past three years.
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If something doubles in price in three years that corresponds to an inflation rate of 26%.
That corresponds with my empirical estimate of the true rate of inflation being about 25% to 30%.
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Or Shrunk
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Shrinkflation.
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No one can replace the original Humphrey, Jim and Bernard, but this was a noteworthy effort. ‘Humphrey’ tries to sell ‘Jim’ on a solution to global warming:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1925126435577999791
https://x.com/RickArmstrong11/status/1925230552342204742
(both videos are <3 mins in length)
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FWIW
“Operation: Pretend It Didn’t Happen
*A special Senate hearing edition”
“The title of Senator Johnson’s latest hearing was The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with Covid-19 Vaccines, which sounds compellingly, scandalously newsworthy to me. Unfortunately, the proceedings occurred only in a parallel dimension where journalism hasn’t been replaced by pharmaceutical press releases.”
More at
https://jennasside.rocks/p/operation-pretend-it-didnt-happen
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FWIW
“How to achieve a one-world tyranny (aka the New World Order)”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-to-achieve-a-one-world-tyranny-aka-the-new-world-order/
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FWIW
“Biden Admin Anti-Christian Fine $37.7 Million, removed- Grand Canyon University”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/biden-admin-anti-christian-fine-37-7-million-removed-grand-canyon-university/
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Is Russia preparing for WW3?
Who is responsible for the recent 5th column attacks in western Europe?
Should Finland and the Baltic States be concerned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAdJBW6p_do
It appears these days that a nation adopting a defensive posture in response to provocation is now viewed as an aggressor.
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FWIW – worth reading IMO
“When the Ice Cracks: Michael Mann’s Legal Defeat and the Climate of Accountability”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/when-the-ice-cracks-michael-manns-legal-defeat-and-the-climate-of-accountability-n4940123
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