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very good report on real cost of renewables in the UK
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/kathryn-porter-the-true-affordability-of-net-zero/
Presumably the results would be better in Oz for solar farms but that doesn’t get away from the overall costs and shortcomings of renewables-lack of wind or sun plus the huge cost on infrastructure and upgrades to connect everything up and provide back up or base power.
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An interesting aspect of the price chart is that the household electricity price dropped from 1997 to 2003.
That drop is likely due to privatisation of asset, which began in the early 1990s similar to what occurred in Australia. The increase starting around 2003 aligns with the operation of the Blyth offshore wind farm in 2003. The 2MW units were the largest installed to that time anywhere and paved the way for thousands of these monstrosities killing bird life and stilling wind around the UK coastline.
UK households had to pay higher electricity prices but millions of birds have paid the ultimate price for this fantasy.
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Tommy Robinson released from prison
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tommy-robinson-to-be-released/
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Unfortunately another UK political prisoner was not released, Lucy Connolly.
She is in jail for 31 months because of an angry Tweet she made against illegal immigrants, she deleted after a few hours, that she made in a state of outrage after Axel Rudakubana (not an illegal) stabbed a bunch of young girls, murdering three, in Southport.
In the following video Jeff Taylor discusses the Tommy release and points out that the Herr Starmer regime can’t be trusted not to find an excuse not to put Tommy back in the Gulag.
https://www.youtube.com/live/XIpKV6Rsmfc
In my opinion Tommy should seek political asylum in the United States.
Not one word of the documentary he is in jail for making has ever been refuted. Elon Musk has vowed to keep it on X. There are numerous copies there. Not yet illegal to watch in Australia or in free countries. Here it is:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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junk temperature readings from the Met office.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/exclusive-almost-all-extreme-temperature-highs-in-uk-now-being-recorded-at-junk-sites-with-massive-possible-errors/
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The Met gaslighting continues.
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Well, they do need an excuse to blot out the sun, after all.
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In Once Great Britain some conservative YouTubers infiltrated and filmed a once-beautiful historic building which had been infested with Leftoids who were squatting there and had vandalised the place and turned it into a cult compound, as they do.
And note the lack of diversity among them, they all look to be Anglos. Not the “diverse” crowd they pretend to celebrate.
Interesting.
https://youtu.be/T4EoWUgqZms
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What a pig sty, inhabited by pigs of course.
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Out of curiosity I’ve been listening to Their ABC Radio National (Australia) on the car radio a bit. I do it so you don’t have to.
It’s a 24/7 lovefest by Leftists for Leftists. At a cost to you, the taxpayer, of about one billion dollars a year.
For them there is no solution they can conceive of for any problem, real or imagined that doesn’t involve ever more taxes, laws, regulations, expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer money, more restrictions of freedom etc.. And never, ever any questioning of the Official Narrative.
Also there is endless hatred of Trump and conservatives in general even though they have a legal obligation to be politically neutral.
And I find the “high rising terminal” speech pattern of typical Leftists that you hear on that station to be especially annoying. (That is, increasing the pitch of the last few words of a statement to make it sound like a question.)
According to Wikipedia a possible purpose of high riding terminal speech is:
We are going to get so much more of these things now that the Australian Sheeple have given the Left a mandate to do whatever they please with no limits on expenditure, regulation and control, removal of personal freedoms and support of every ratbag group you can imagine.
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If in Melbournistan you might want to listen to 3MP 1377AM or DAB+ digital radio or streaming, which has quality contemporary music from the 60’s and 70’s, so-called “easy listening”, no uninitelligable garbage music. Very nice radio station.
You can get your intelligent and informed political discussion and news from this blog, not Their ABC or other Lamestream Media.
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David, Victoria is the “State of Taxes”.
We live on a rural property, never had a rubbish collection EVAH. The government brings in new rules that require every house that a rubbish truck drives past must have a minimum of 3 rubbish bins and 4 if wanted. I protested this new ruling as we simply don’t generate much rubbish. ( we are oldies have an established household and have no need for endless new stuff). Wrote to the local shire, copied the local liberal MP, and finally got an answer from the shire. Essentially, Thanks for your letter, sorry the new bins are of no use to you don’t care if you don’t use them and we will charge you $480.00 per year in any case.
So, the alleged “saving of rubbish from going to land fill” really is just another money grabbing system. Increased fire services levee , increased insurances including GST increases,a rubbish collection fee that does absolutely nothing for the environment, power increase, yeah its easy living in Victoriastan, specially when you are on an ever decreasing income stream as self funded retirees.
P.S. The shire does have a few remaining public rubbish bins in the local small towns. These bin holders have a general rubbish bin side and a recycling side. Funny when the shire empties these they all go into the one truck.
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Yes it’s appalling Sambar.
Sorry that the socialists are trying to drive you and other farmers off your land.
If they are charging you for bin collection anyway, I would use the bins for farm storage such as for seeds or fertiliser. I use one of my unused bins in urban Melbournistan for garden implement storage and when they force a purple bin onto me to supplement the existing three I plan to fill it with water and use it for an emergency water supply, or perhaps non-perishable food in the event of a food shortage when the grid collapses.
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Nation will pay for Victoria’s economic stagnation
The latest state budget, delivered by Treasurer Jaclyn Symes, offers little reassurance. On the contrary, it lays bare the state’s worsening financial trajectory. Rising expenditure, a widening tax burden and soaring debt are steering Victoria towards a fiscal precipice.
At a time when Victoria’s economy is forecast to grow by a modest 2 per cent, the government has budgeted for revenue and expense growth of 8.1 per cent and 7.0 per cent respectively.
Such a misalignment signals a worrying shift, with the state government consuming an ever-larger share of the economy, a trend typically associated with economic stagnation.
Perhaps the most striking concern is Victoria’s ballooning debt. Net debt is set to increase by $22bn next year, hitting $156bn, with a forecast rise to a staggering $194bn by 2029.
This would be alarming under any circumstances, but it is particularly troubling given Victoria’s windfall $3.7bn GST distribution boost – a direct result of Australia’s deeply flawed system of horizontal fiscal equalisation.
In March, the Commonwealth Grants Commission announced it would recommend that Victoria would, for the first time, become a net recipient of GST, receiving $1.067 for every dollar of GST it contributes. Its share of national GST revenue will jump from 24.8 per cent to 27.5 per cent.
In essence, the more Victoria underperforms economically, the greater the financial support it receives.
This is not just inefficient; it’s a perverse incentive structure that rewards fiscal recklessness while penalising states that manage their budgets prudently.
The result is a distorted safety net that has masked the consequences of more than a decade of spendthrift governance.
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Not clear whether your no rubbish collection evah is by choice or because you are not on a regular run, hopefully it’s the later. Since you now apparently qualify for a bin because a truck goes past I’m guessing in the past it has been by choice? Have you checked that there was an existing bona fide route past your place before they made this too good to refuse offer?
Personally, I would welcome the bins and would put them out for collection according to their rotation even if there was no rubbish in them. Indeed, I would take a weekly photo of what the contents are of each as I put them out. Option A then becomes to ring the council toward the end of the day that they are not collected and demand action ie special trip the next day to collect.
Option B if you are on a routine collection route after a couple of months submit your photos (of empty contents) as support for the cost saving of them in not picking up your bins savings that include not having to supply and maintain 3 plastic (environment killer) bins in the first place, operator frustration/time etc which takes you to Option C any sign of wear and tear, splits etc back on to the council for replacements. Being rural you do not want to encourage vermin with easy access to food scrapes such as the couple of apple cores that constitute your weekly food rubbish (wink wink) hence splits for flies etc need to be immediately attended to.
We have periods when new drivers are on our run and the bins are left with lids open or on their sides (mostly) on the grass verge sometimes in the gutter. Neighbour on one side often has their bin placed on our grass verge, The other neighbour often gets theirs placed standing/fallen over in their driveway (which if Im in time I pick up and move back onto grass to enable them to drive straight in after work). Lots of reportable concern material to use.
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Your sacrifice is duly noted.
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As the Americans would say, thank you for your service.
My question though is that leaving aside the irritant and an appalling waste of tax payer’s money, how influential is their ABC?
Do you see it as a keystone in the arch without which the whole house of cards might collapse? Or perhaps the queen termite without which the drones will abandon the nest?
I don’t know because apart from watching re-runs of a limited selection of comedy I have nothing to do with their ABC.
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This story appears to lend credibility that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump
https://thepostmillennial.com/bernie-sanders-says-dems-rigged-the-2016-primary-against-him
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It might seem a good thing that the seemingly-conservative Nationals split from the Labor-Lite Liberals but consider the following.
George Christensen wrote this:
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Just as I thought! Proud of little!
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SAUL KAVONIC
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate
Energy and climate policy has finally ripped the Coalition in two. It appears the Nationals’ stance on support for nuclear and against a 2050 net-zero target has left an unreconcilable schism with the Liberal Party under Sussan Ley’s leadership, at least for now.
Yet it has never been more important for the Liberals and Nationals to present a united stance on energy policy. Australia needs a compelling alternative to the diabolic energy trajectory under Labor: we need policy that focuses on abundance, advancing Australia’s economic advantage, and sets us up for a future in hi-tech manufacturing, artificial intelligence and regional development.
A path forward can make clear that nuclear should never be banned, while acknowledging government-directed investment in nuclear is not aligned with sound market-based roots. Whether the Liberals pay lip service to a 2050 net-zero target (that won’t be met anyway) shouldn’t become an all-consuming issue that leaves the opposition abdicating from the public energy debate on what to do in the next 10 years when it really matters. Without a compelling energy policy alternative from the Liberals and Nationals, Australia will be left with an emboldened Labor to continue down the path of ideological and economically damaging environmental targets under the undue influence of radical activists.
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From the Comments
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate
Saul, Why?
The Climate has always changed – No Dinosaurs in Winton QLD now, the Climate changed and NO Humans were involved
The Lunacy Goalposts have moved from Global Warming, to Climate Change, which it always has – Kids & Grandkids have been indoctrinated during Education, and we have Destroyed Cheap Electricity from Baseload Coal Fired Plants with Idiotic Renewables, which SA, Broken Hill, and now Spain & Portugal have shown don’t work, whilst destroying the countryside with Transmission Lines, which are not costed and Wind Turbines which will only last 20 Years
So Nationals are Correct on Climate and will get my Vote as Liberals have lost it due to Turnbull/Photios/Keans – Snowy Hydro $12 Billion and rising, when you could have built 5 HELE Coal Fired Plants on existing sites without destroying Snow National Park for Transmission Lines, for something that won’t work in a Drought!
Littleproud & Nationals, Great Move
Now Posit
1. Get out of Paris Agreement
2. Put Net Zero to bed in a Zero Grave
3. Push Construction of HELE Coal Fired Plants on existing Coal Fired Plants Sites whilst carrying out Maintenance
4. Dig, Dig, Dig for Gas
5. Put forward path for Nuclear SMRs, whilst relying on HELE & Gas
6. Put Snowy Hydro & Florence out of their Not Needed Misery & stop the waste of money
7. Run in every seat across Australia
To the Liberals, until you get rid of your Turnbull’s & Keans, you do not stand for anything other than Labor/Greens/TEALs Lite – Not Worth Voting For!
8. However, hope the Liberals have enough brains to run both parties in all seats & cross preference each other – Works for Labor/Greens
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Yes, and a little weary of the ‘nuclear as a backup for renewables’ crap.
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Look at it this way. If a complete backup can be built then the intermittent energy infrastructure can be abandoned or better still blown up.
Backup? I’m all for it!
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Video.
The history of Once Great Britain continues to be rewritten by the Left.
For example, children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and other obvious lies. There were no sub-Saharan Africans in Britain at that time.
Or that Nero married a “trans” “woman”.
While actual British history is not taught.
And the teaching union wants to bring the “Palestinian struggle” into the classroom.
https://youtu.be/hHZoSkmt60U
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It’s a worry but kids have excellent BS detectors.
There are always the Gretas of this world but there is a much larger number of natural sceptics.
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FWIW
“The Five Biggest Questions of the Biden Health Cover-Up”
“So be patient, boys and girls. This is a developing story. We’re nowhere near the end of it. To paraphrase Churchill, “This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end — nor have we reached the end of the beginning.” This scandal is still in its infancy.”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/05/20/the-five-biggest-questions-of-the-biden-health-cover-up-n4939967
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Interesting to me is the number of articulate people apparently growing in influence.
And for that matter the number of political appointees who seem to be dominating the legacy media.
Most encouraging.
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(Reply intended to #9.1)
I have to disagree.
Kids are sponges that soak up whatever is tossed at them by way of fact or lie, especially when it is reinforced on a daily basis at school.
Some who have thinking parents at home will question the obvious lies at school. Many won’t. By the time they are young adults the majority will be products of those school lies, reinforced by daily media manipulation. As evidence I give you the recent voting results where a few choice lies repeated ad nauseam trump the obvious evidence voters’ eyes are showing them to the contrary.
Bottom line: most kids will be brainwashed modern-day Komsomol Youth and grow up to be brainwashed adults. Later in life some will learn to use their inbuilt powers of discernment, observation and deduction — their BS alarms — and change their stance, but they will still be in the minority.
Most people avoid thinking and much prefer to have their opinions fed to them, despite their assertions to the contrary. They prefer to watch puerile TV shows where thinking is an aberration.
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The Science now says that we should all be dweebs. https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/20/working-out-is-right-wing-and-thats-a-good-thing/
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FWIW
“Putin-Trump Phone Call Deadend, AFU Brigade Mutinies Surge, & More Updates”
“Today Putin and Trump held a long-awaited phone call, which ended up lasting over two hours, by all accounts. Despite both sides drumming up the call’s significance as a good step forward toward normalizing relations, it achieved nothing. The reason: Putin again repeated to Trump that “root causes” of the conflict must be addressed, and shortly after, Zelensky declared in a press conference that Ukraine will never demilitarize and never give up its territories; the impasse stands as before.”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/putin-trump-phone-call-deadend-afu
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Have to love the “Russian Dude” for a novel summary of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and peace attempts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpaHbARvClc
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FWIW
“Trans kids: the must-have accessory for A-list celebs”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/18/trans-kids-the-must-have-accessory-for-a-list-celebs/
Hmmm! – if that is a measure of “success” – – – –
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I think we need a world war. Wipe the slate clean & let’s start from scratch.
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P is trying his best but there are only 24 hours in a day.
Dear Graham, you are not alone in this world preparing for a minor military event.
As we speak the most unlikely nations working hard on “currently not enemies” to shift them into “nearly sympathisants”.
Who would think that Hungary, historically a bastion against Ottomans Drang Nah Westen will host a budding union of Turkish-speaking nations?
Azerbaijan (!) and Kazakhstan (!) have discovered their common father Abraham, next to Israel and UAE.
At least Ukrainians and Balts already lived in a common state – RzeczPospolita.
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Still no word in our media about NSW’s floods (nor commuter train closures in Sydney) so I had to bite my tongue and check Their ABC. The NEWS™️ here is too busy Trump-bashing and Pope-praising (who knew NZ was so Catholic?) or reporting another meth-addled gang shooting or something called the Cost Of Living – which Princess Ardern denied existed right up to the point of her resignation and fleeing the country.
My brother’s place missed the worst of the weather (apart from wind & rain on Monday) but having spent Christmas there, I was surprised how much of the Hunter / Mid North coastline was swampy river-delta floodplain barely above high-tide mark.
We took a roadie inland up to Armidale then down Waterfall Way to Coffs (to visit nieces) then back south to Port Stephens via a few spots out on the coast: fertile flatlands but as beowulf mentioned the other day, all reclaimed peat/swamp floodplains which are now the epicentre of the runoff… no wonder ‘house-boats’ are a thing around there.
Climate whackos and young people are probably shouting the usual ‘never seen before!’ but as anyone who knows a little history or geography (there’s a few old volcanoes & lava flows & semi-tropical valleys up that way) it ain’t nuffing new, round and round…
Stay high, and dry, if you can.
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Next time you go up that way Greg, check out Burning Mountain.
It’s been producing wonderful CO2 for about 6000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain?wprov=sfla1
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The Liberals lost all but two seats in South Australia.
Here in Mayo, formerly the safest Liberal seat in Australia, they came third (after the Independent and Labor).
They keep saying they will win back seats, and many are trying to get rid of the number one on their Senate selection, because he isn’t WOKE.
A regular lot of comments about “religious takeover of the party”.
Senator Alex Antic on Sky News
Liberals need to ‘shift back to the right’: Antic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3X-l6WoDrY
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FWIW – the covid scene
“No Trial Data, No Vax: FDA Demands Gold Standard Testing For Any New COVID-19 Vaccines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/no-trial-data-no-vax-fda-demands-gold-standard-testing-any-new-covid-19-vaccines
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Also in there, the argument that America cannot afford to look after the Baby Boomers contains a wonderful graph- Two parallel asymptotic curves showing Federal debt from 1990 to now, and right beside it the total net worth of the top 1% of Americans.
The Govt borrows money and gives it to richest.
Meanwhile the Boomers are going to have to give up social welfare and pay for their retirements/medical themselves, there are not enough GenZ etc following them, and they don’t have enough wealth to spare.
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New COVID vax?
I’m a bit confused?
Is there to be a new ‘COVID’ vaxx, adjusted each year, chasing the variants, like the flu?
Now we have two ‘flus’?
Sharing the season?
I think I had ‘COVID’… or at least so my TV told me.
It was the flu.
Not different, and less worse, than my flu before that.
Yesterday I noticed lots of people wearing masks.
I realized … The Pandemic Is Forever.
It struck me that many of these people want it to be forever.
A symbol of piety … because you’re no longer allowed to identify with your ‘antiquated’ country or culture … or your reproductive organs.
Something cultural has occurred.
A new religion birthed in CAGW ideology is emerging.
BC … AD … AC (Anno COVID) … I guess this is year 5.
FDA and ‘Public Health’ seems like some new Church, constantly chasing new incantations to save all from a whole new universe of perpetually lurking demons … ready to grab us if we lust for material comfort … automatic tithing arranged by your government.
FDA and should approve a new line of ‘I Believe in Science’ hair shirts
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FWIW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfNUM2CbbM
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FWIW –
Well darn – Jo and contributors missed the cut!
“Are Scientists who Contest the Climate Emergency “Publicity-seeking Contrarians?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/20/are-scientists-who-contest-the-climate-emergency-insincere-publicity-seeking-contrarians/
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And the comments there – like this one
“Whetten Robert L
May 20, 2025 12:22 pm
Let’s see how this works, by his own words (may they condemn him):
“Some GWPF associates might simply be judged by the friends that they keep.” — Tom Hardy, writing at ‘The Ecologist‘
Could be transcribed as:
“Some of The Ecologist associates might simply be judged by the friends that they keep.”
Tom Hardy is a semi-retired teacher, writer, and activist who has been involved with Extinction Rebellion.”
——— from prominently public sources; plus this (directly from the mothership) ————”
And more
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They assert that 97% of scientists believe humans are causing global warming.. However, Cook’s paper said-
“We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics ‘global climate change’ or ‘global warming’. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
So 12000 abstracts, 33% endorsed AGW. Most of those would have had the same authors more than once, so less than a third of ‘climate scientists’, those writing the papers he read, believe man is heating the Earth. That’s a long way from 97%! The 97% are of the 33% endorsing AGW, those already on the gravy train, not from ‘climate scientists’ generally. Maybe a couple of thousand people or less, swinging the whole world on a string.
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FWIW
Re batteries
“On The Dangers Of Outside CyberHoles”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253296
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Not sure if it’s already been linked here, but John Anderson’s interview with Tony Abbott on the election result was worth listening to (even with Anderson’s rather fumbling questions). The quote they’ve put on the YouTube title page — We didn’t fight on anything — puts it in a nutshell.
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Vic’s wind drought continues. AEMO gives a wind generation total of 23 MW. That is consistent since 4 pm y’day, with even less during last night’s peak.
SA almost the same at 47MW.
Qld is exporting over 1 gW. Pity that is from black coal.
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Australia’s Unrealized Gains Tax Will Be A Lesson In Economic Suicide
Starting in July 2025, the Albanese government is set to debut its latest economic masterstroke: taxing imaginary money. That’s right—if you’ve got more than $3 million sitting in your superannuation, not only will you get slapped with a 30% tax, but it doesn’t even matter if you actually made any money.
The fallout is not rocket science. People will be forced to liquidate assets—probably the wrong ones, at the worst possible time—just to scrape together enough real money to cover taxes on their fake money. Don’t have the cash lying around to pay that bill? Sounds like a you problem. Better start liquidating. And this isn’t just stocks we’re talking about. Real estate? Private businesses? Long-term investments you hold precisely because they’re supposed to be safe and stable? All fair game in a fire sale.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/australias-unrealized-gains-tax-will-be-lesson-economic-suicide
30% of $3M = $1M TAX.
Got that lying around?
You voted ’em back in, now you reap the pain.
All western governments are broke…
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“You voted ’em back in, now you reap the pain.”
Probably not the same people..
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It will be like Biden’s dementia. Everybody knows, but no-one will have the guts to tell Albo and Chalmers that they are idiots.
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Germany’s AI sex doll brothels
https://youtu.be/KQ86TDBIfss?si=RcDDL0jdYyubBdD0
* Snowflake warning.*
Fertility rates collapsing.
Men don’t want relationships with modern women.
Not a NZ’er? 😉
Not many choices left.
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As a 6-week convert to new religion I declare this XXI an Ex Machina Century.
Which capitalist in their sober state invest into human-like AI industry?
The obvious answer – brothel owners, not trade unions or super funds.
Oops ! Stop here – why not ? They already invest into global warming…
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Ziploc bags linked to dementia
Ziploc, the popular brand of food bags and containers used by over 200 million Americans, is now at the center of a troubling health controversy.
A class-action lawsuit filed in California accuses the maker of Ziploc, of misleading consumers about the safety of its microwave-safe bags and containers.
The complaint alleges that the plastic in Ziploc products may release harmful microplastics , potentially exposing millions to toxins over time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14728273/microplastics-Ziploc-bags-dementia.html
There’ll be a vaxx for it..
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“Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments—less than 5 millimeters in size”
Uh-huh… Gives me great faith in the rest of that article!
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Spent a bit of time working round food grade plastics over the years. A personal opinion of mine is plastics, high temperatures and foods do not produce the safest products to eat.
The big scare of a few years ago was the uptake of BPA’s in food, particularly fatty foods. Bisphenol A is used to make all sorts of things “flexible” , drink bottles, that lining on the inside of canned food etc, and was found to be injurious to health so phased out or had a name change or something. You can rest assured that whatever is used to replace BPA to maintain that much desired “flexibility” will probably also go through the same scrutiny and may also be found not desirable to consume. The other safe as houses stuff was teflon.
Non stick cook ware was, well, wow revolutionary except it was always abused, heated to high temps, charred, mixed with cooking oils etc and found to be not so good for consumption. Not sure what the modern non stick stuff is, we use good old fashioned cast-iron fry pans well seasoned with olive oil when new and somehow with a little maintenance, non stick!
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Sambar:
BPA (BisPhenol A the basis of several Epoxy resins) was used from (at least the late 1940’s) co-reacted with Phenolic resins on the inside of steel cans. This protected the can from attack by acid in foods, which would have meant cans disintegrating. Since such cans lasted many years it seems that the coatings worked.
From about 1986? Coca Cola cans were coated (inside) with a very thin coating with some BPA component (reacted into a resin and then further reacted when the can was coated). An Australian invention actually.
When the BPA scare started I remember my Technical Director coming up and telling me (with a straight face) that if the claim was right and the coating was split into BPA that this was SERIOUS. I wondered why? He had worked out that anybody had to drink 1.25 million cans of Coca Cola every week for a bit over a year (if the coating actual degraded) then he might get ill.
I queried the SERIOUS bit and he said previous coatings would have required 3-4 million cans a week per year to get ill.
Another scare worked up by those who know no chemistry nor actual experience.
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Don’t disagree G 3, it’s just that such things were being used in ever increasing areas. So, drink cans, food cans, plastic baby bottles etc. I think from memory (always unreliable) that concerns were raised in one of the Nordic countries where BPA was detected in human breast milk, so not just drink can lining but somehow through out the food chain.
Of course the evolution of things has always presented some problems and solutions to problem 1/ simply became problem 2/ and so on. One that is easy to follow is canned food. Originally heavily tinned steel was lead soldered into canisters that could preserve food for extended periods of time, little problem was lead contamination. Solution, use lead tin solder. Still a problem as health standards tightened so pure tin soldered cans then evolving to welded side seam cans or draw cans in either steel or aluminium. Next problem was tin up take particularly with acidic foods, remember those tomato soup cans that were literally black when opened. Solution, electroplated tin onto steel substrates. Problem was these relatively thin protective layers didn’t give extended shelf life. Solution, epoxy phenolic resins. Problem BPA uptake and so on. An interesting thing with heavily tin coated steel cans was the way Australian tastes adapted to this “tin flavour”. When lined cans of tomato soup or pineapple appeared on the market consumers complained that they didn’t “taste right”. it took quite a long time to educate consumers that the new cans were, in theory at least better for them.
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BPA is still being used in the expoxy coatings of some wind turbine blades, despite being banned in many countries.
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40 English words you may not know exist
1. Agog – Very eager or curious to hear or see something.
2. Bumfuzzle – To confuse or fluster.
3. Cacophony – A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
4. Callipygian – Having well-shaped buttocks.
5. Cattywampus – Askew or awry.
6. Collywobbles – A feeling of anxiety or an upset stomach.
7. Defenestration – The act of throwing someone out of a window.
8. Discombobulate – To confuse or disconcert.
9. Doodle Sack – An old word for a bagpipe.
10. Erf – A plot of land in a town (South African English).
11. Flibbertigibbet – A frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.
12. Gardyloo – A warning shouted before throwing waste from above (historical).
13. Gobbledygook – Language that is meaningless or hard to understand.
14. Hullabaloo – A commotion or fuss.
15. Impignorate – To pawn or mortgage something.
16. Jiggery-pokery – Deceitful or dishonest behavior.
17. Kerfuffle – A commotion or fuss.
18. Limerence – The state of being infatuated with another person.
19. Lollygag – To dawdle or be slow.
20. Malarkey – Nonsense.
21. Mumpsimus – A stubborn person who keeps making a known mistake.
22. Nudiustertian – Relating to the day before yesterday.
23. Oxter – An armpit (chiefly Scottish/Irish English).
24. Pandiculation – The act of stretching and yawning.
25. Pettifogger – A lawyer who handles petty cases, often disreputably.
26. Quire – Two dozen sheets of paper.
27. Ratoon – A small shoot growing from the root of a plant (e.g., sugar cane).
28. Sialoquent – Spitting while speaking.
29. Skedaddle – To run away quickly.
30. Snollygoster – A shrewd, unprincipled person (especially in politics).
31. Susurrus – Whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
32. Tittynope – A small quantity of something left over (like a few grains of rice).
33. Ulotrichous – Having woolly or tightly curled hair.
34. Ultracrepidarian – Someone who speaks on things they don’t understand.
35. Wamble – Stomach rumbling or a feeling of nausea.
36. Widdershins – Counterclockwise or in the wrong direction.
37. Xertz – To gulp down something quickly and greedily.
38. Yclept – Named or called (archaic).
39.Zugzwang – A situation in chess where every possible move is a bad one.
40. Zenzizenzizenzic – The eighth power of a number (obsolete math term).
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So John, should I stop calling Chris Bowen a moron but instead call him 34 An Ultracrepidarian – for he is definitely someone who speaks on things they don’t understand.
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I knew a fair few of them. Quire also means the same as choir when in relation to the place a cathedral choir is situated during a service.
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I had an international phonecall from someone claiming to work in Melbourne for NBN. He said that NBN were upgrading in the area and I could follow progress by downloading an application from kdmcare.help. My system would not download the file so the “NBN” guy suggested I go into the computer privacy settings and allow screen recording. I balked at this point and suggested they send me an email to explain what they were doing, which they refused.
The fellow was not easy to listen too because his hinglish leaned toward Hindu rather than English.
If it is legit, there is a big risk with NBN employing hinglish speaking individuals.
Does anyone know if it is likely to be legitimate. I am not going to allow screen recording for anyone.
I certainly frustrated the guy. I wasted maybe 30 minutes of my time and his but he was peeved when he finally gave up.
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If you can see if his phone number starts with “64” and has 11 digits.
I got one yesterday and a voice like that has been supposedly NBN for quite a while
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” I wasted maybe 30 minutes of my time and his but he was peeved when he finally gave up.”
Ah, the revenge of the retirees.. I love to get door-knockers, especially ones involved with climate or renewables!
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But don’t say “yes” in a conversation like that
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“Important: nbn will never call and ask to access your computer or advise you that youre going to be disconnected. For further information about protecting yourself from scam calls, visit our website here. ”
An exctract from an email I recieved from NBN after registering for an appointment to work on our fixed wireless.
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On Youtube – 1 Day Old
Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S.
Tech Real Reporter
In this exclusive interview, I sit down with a Russian military drone developer inside his secret workshop to talk about the future of drone warfare.
From FPV kamikaze drones and fiber-optic guidance systems to jamming tactics and the rise of interceptor drones — we cover it all.
We also discuss how Russia and Ukraine have become the world’s most advanced drone war laboratories, what makes Chinese tech fall short, and why the West is struggling to catch up.
50 Mins 34 Secs – Excellent overview
From the Comments
I learnt more about drones and drone warfare in this 50 minute interview than I have in the last 3 years.
Every nation in the world will be rethinking their military doctrines… Who would have thought WW1 trench warfare and drone warfare would become “Modern Warfare”.
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Submarine volcanoes are more common than previously thought.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/19/volcanoes-spew-3x-more-co2-than-thought-19000-new-undersea-volcanoes-found-is-human-driven-climate-narrative-crumbling/
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Snowy 2.0 is in more trouble. Workers are demanding Victorian-level wages.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/fight-over-brutal-conditions-sees-a-thousand-tradies-strike-at-remote-camp-in-aussie-national-park-011800924.html
FIFO workers have walked off the job at the Snowy 2.0 renewable energy project site, with their representatives comparing life in the camp to a jail.
The NSW-based crew building Snowy 2.0, say their employer, Italian-owned Webuild, needs to pay them the same as workers at Melbourne projects and improve conditions.
The AWU is calling for a pay increase of up to 12 per cent, in line with what workers are paid at the government’s North East Link Tunnel in Melbourne. Also on its list of demands are a $140 daily camp allowance for FIFOs, a doubling of night shift rates, and increased mental health days.
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Do they also demand EBA traffic controllers with SLOW / STOP signs ?
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A decade of cooling across Eurasia, they reckon its because of extra snow.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/05/21/new-study-documents-significant-cooling-across-eurasia-since-2004/
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I’m having trouble finding Jo’s article or the paper showing how the more covid “vaccinations” you have, the greater your susceptibility to covid.
I think entries have been disappeared from the search engines.
Can someone post some links?
Thanks.
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There’s this article by Jo, about vaccinated children being more likely to get severe illness
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/moderna-halts-rsv-mrna-trail-abruptly-as-vaccinated-children-twice-as-likely-to-get-a-severe-illness/
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Thanks Strop but I thought there was also another that specifically correlated the number of vaccinations with the susceptibility to covid.
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David, this is one of your posts from Jan 20th this year I filed away.
https://www.cureus.com/articles/313843-behavioral-and-health-outcomes-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccination-a-case-control-study-in-japanese-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises
The study observed a higher reported incidence of COVID-19 infection among vaccinated individuals during the pandemic period, which increased with the number of vaccine doses received.
Hope it is what you are looking for.
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FWIW – covid is in the mix
“WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: That was the day public confidence in “experts” was irreparably shattered. And the beginning of the really non-stop farrago of Big Lies.A”
https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1924805761114259840
Via https://instapundit.com/720884/#disqus_thread
When “Trust the Science ™” pulled the wrong rein
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Testing a “found by accident” with that “Trust the Science” above
By that it looks like if you type “Trust the Science, space, bracket, lower case tm, bracket ” you get “tm” as a superscript
“Trust the Science ™”
Edit – you do
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ampersand trade semi-colon (no spaces) also works™
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Been working through a small case study in card scams and overseas charges with some relatives.
They have had fraudulent US based charges put on their mastercard debit card accounts. One account was hit first , then a linked card a month later.
It interested me as these cards are used in a tiny subset of places in a country town. The owners are tech/internet illiterate and make no online purchases with these cards. The cards are used at three shops and one atm. Just shows how nobody, no matter how conservative is immune.
The good news is the CBA has been good with handling the issues and charges reversed.
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FWIW
The Guardian again!
“Two in 10,000: The vital context of animal welfare that the Guardian didn’t include”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/two-in-10000-the-vital-context-of-animal-welfare-that-the-guardian-didnt-include/
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FWIW
“Tulsi On Fauci’s Role In Funding COVID Pandemic: “Is It Any Wonder He Sought A Preemptive Pardon?” ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-faucis-role-funding-covid-pandemic-it-any-wonder-he-sought-preemptive-pardon
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FWIW
“It Looks Like Jack Smith Could Soon Be in Serious Trouble”
Read it all
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/it-looks-like-jack-smith-may-soon-be/
India had “Shaking the pagoda tree”
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/shake+the+pagoda+tree
Then think what a nice little earner the ability to sign pardons with the auto pen could have been!
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Of course this might be “neat, plausible and wrong”
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Yea. Any good leftist would laugh their tits off at something by Jim Hoft and Patrick Byrne.
I find it believable, but I’m that way inclined. 😀
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I assume there are a few Sky News Opinion viewers among the readership on Jo’s blog, that like myself are getting a little bored that with few and minor exceptions, each host from Chris Kenny’s show at 5.00am to the Late Debate at 11.00 and the others between mostly cover the same darn stories of the day and sometimes into the following day. Surely there is enough going on in the world that each program can offer the viewer a bit of variety.
On the subject of the recent Fed election, it was plainly obvious that the mainstream media was heavily biased against the Coalition and offered them little uniterrupted opportunity to explain their policies, which in my opinion cost the Libs at least many votes.
If the Murdock Corp is serious about supporting the Conservative side of politics, then in my opinion it should make at Sky News free to air for both Metropolitan and Regional area during the period leading up to and including each election
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I remember that handle. Hotcopper?
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