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Perishing cold outside, with a beautiful clear sky.
Where’s the rain? After all our floods not long ago.
Ah yes, Dorothea Mckellar had it worked out over a 100 years ago.
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Where is this “outside” you write about?
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In the low part of the High Country in NE Victoria.
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Australia’s Men
THERE are some that go for love of a fight
And some for love of a land,
And some for a dream of the world set free
Which they barely understand.
A drearn of the world set free from Hate–
But splendidly, one and all,
Danger they drink as ’twere wine of Life
And jest as they reel and fall.
Clean aims, rare faculties, strength and youth,
They have poured them freely forth
For the sake of the sun-steeped land they left
And the far green isle in the north.
What can we do to be worthy of them,
Now hearts are breaking for pride?
Give comfort at least to the wounded men
And the kin of the man that died.
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Perspective.
416,000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, with some 330,000 serving overseas.
62,000 of those were killed.
Some 155,000 were wounded or gassed.
4,000 were taken prisoner.
Australia’s population at the time was 4.9 million.
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My daughter has talked me into an early morning ride. Currently 7c at 7am on the Central Coast.
Going to be layering up bigly under the leathers.
To The Pie we go.
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7deg… better than 8.30am crunching over the ice on the lawn to let the chooks out.. Still, a beautiful sunny, cloudless day to follow.
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Rain?
Here in my part of a Briz-Vegas rain shadow?
0700 this morning, 20.5mm in the tain gasuge..
Possibly more to come as the “atmospheric / soil moisture is cycled about.
Unlikely to flood here in the “heights” (90+ ft above MSL).
We are not here, yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A09GZeORYlo
Most dams in S E Qld are, as of 0500 this morning, spilling. Now is not a good time for a “depleted cyclone” / tropical low, to slink down the coast. There ARE precedents for “Winter” “cyclones in these parts. A few roofs rattled, but plenty of precipitation.
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That’s s plain silly.
Don’t you know that “even the rain that falls isn’t enough to fill our dams and river systems”? /sarcasm
(I admit I see no substantive difference between that wording and “Australia will never know full dams again”, but Flannery claims that’s a misquote, so I’m using his exact words.)
My condolences to the families of tho who drowned in the many floods since Flannery said that in 2007.
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BoM’s seasonal forecast says its going to be a warm winter, unseasonably wet over the top half but they don’t have a clue further south.
‘Rainfall is likely to be above average for much of mainland Australia, but there is no strong indication of above or below average rainfall in the south-west and south-east.’
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Tasmania has the cold but ovvvercast!
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(my emphasis)
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Splendid!!!
Let those lunatic “scientists” in the UK that they don’t need to pollute the atmosphere with sulphur dioxide to cool down “Global Warming”.
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-much-sulfur-dioxide-so2-gas-does-kilauea-emit
Kīlauea typically emits between 500 and 14,000 metric tons of sulfur dioxide gas (SO2) per day during periods of sustained eruption.
Ninety-nine percent of the gas molecules emitted during a volcanic eruption are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2). The remaining one percent is comprised of small amounts of hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, and other minor gas species.
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I’ll see your Kilauea and raise you a White Island NZ (fatal eruption back in December 2019 – 22 killed) emits about 1,300 tons of sulphur dioxide and 1550 metric tons of co2 per day. 2019 we have White Island massive eruption atmospheric effect in our corner of the world then in 2022 we have the Tongan massive eruption.
Look away here come the unanswered questions (conspiracy theory to the closed-minded ones):
Given the facts that
-2019 White Island eruption then NSW gets the 2021 “one-in-100-year” floods
-2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apau eruption and in addition to immediate soaking that Qld/NSW got poor old NSW cops it again with the 2025 floods.
Q. Has the true potential/actual effect of massive volcanic eruptions been correctly identified/processed AND then factored into all these future climate change models going forward. We have (potentially massive) volcanoes grumbling in Europe and USA which will dwarf any supposed savings EVs will make…
The answer AI gave to my question of weather (sic – see what I did there) the Tongan eruption caused rain in Australia stated:
Tonga may have influenced rainfall patterns in parts of Australia. According to a study, the eruption could have favored increased rainfall along the east coast of Australia, south of Brisbane, between mid-February and mid-April 2022. Additionally, the eruption’s impact on the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) might have moved this zone closer to Australia, potentially increasing rainfall in the region.
It then continued:
important to note that the overall climatic impact of the eruption is expected to be small. (AI bolding)
“May have”, “could have favored” and “expected to be small” not good enough explanations.
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Kilauea has bee “brewing up” since at least 1985.
I was there when a major “side vent” started spewing out a broad sheet of slow-moving lava, quickly named “Kilauea Iki” (Child of Kilauea). Definitely the most “interesting” (and bumpy) helicopter ride, in this life, so far.
Watching the “flood” steadily approach and then overwhelm forests, vehicles, houses, roads, etc. was somewhat sobering..
Nearby Mauna Loa has also been active since the same time.
That was forty years ago; the entire island chain is steadily wandering off the serious “hot-spot” . the Ocean will then get down to work, washing away the island chain as the hot-spot plume starts a new island from the deep sea-bed, in the wake of the “departed”. In a few million years, and many more millions of tonnes of CO2, Radon, Xenon, and water vapour later, the “stumps of the islands will end up somewhere off the Midway group. Slo-Mo geology.
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I recommend to translate that historical text completely:
Meteorology – The hot, dry summer of 1911
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Sell an “e”, buy an “a” 🤣
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I have noticed that they get people out of hospital really quickly these days – hip operations etc that required traction are now sent straight home. Mothers are home quickly after any trouble free birth.
Greater longevity expectation comes with more time in hospital in a lifetime though.
https://andrewmadry.substack.com/p/lifespan-minus-healthspan
Although the people who provide the data are out and out liars…. so best not to worry too much I guess
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/life-expectancy
But, for the first time since the mid-1990s, life expectancy in Australia decreased across the years impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is likely to be due to:
the large increase in deaths in 2022 of which close to half were due to COVID-19 and the remainder due to increases in other causes,
the continued impact of the number of COVID-19 deaths on all-cause mortality, and excess mortality observed in 2023.
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Have you counted the deaths caused by the experimental “vaccines” that were mandated?
And delays in hospital admissions for elective surgery?
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Or perhaps, deaths from ‘I can’t be bothered’ or worse after the dynamic lock-ups, which did so much, especially for the young.
Not much good, perhaps …
Auto
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Saw a YouTube presentation by Dr John Campbell this week where excess deaths across countries were presented. The data presented indicated that in Eastern Europe (Russia, Georgie etc. where mRNA vaccines were not used had negative excess death rates compared to the west where positive excess death rates continue.
Will we ever know the truth about these unexplained correlations, or is the truth too damaging to our governments and health bureaucracies.
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A friend just had a knee replacement. It didn’t go smoothly. He suffered significant post-operative bleeding, difficulty breathing and even a small blackout that resulted in a fall – all while in hospital. Meanwhile, his wife caught a respiratory bug while visiting him in hospital and became bedridden (at home) herself. Despite all that, he was discharged after just three days with various incidental findings after his fall (including an unidentified “lump” on his thyroid) being unresolved.
He is 74yo and his wife is 73.
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Just a year ago, I got a new haunch.
Another near me got a new knee on the same day.
We both were going around some steps at that day.
After the first day, we had training to go around, the day after we had to go downstairs and upstairs, the day after, we were at home. It’s the normal procedure.
The guy with the knee had two problems, water in the knee, and his wound was bleeding a bit. I met him four weeks later, all was ok. He was going around like a youngster, as I did too.
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Wow that sounds like quite a debacle Steve. A friend in our car club had the goes at getting her knee replaced , with a different surgeon round three. The last one must have been good , as there is nothing worse than having to unfix other peoples work and then make good. She got a good outcome in the end but suffered a lot along the way. Lucky she is a tough Dutch lady.
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Had three goes
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I am due for surgery for inguinal hernias mesh on 27 June.
I will be 84 and 11 days.
Anyone recommend for/against?
Anaesthetic risk?
A long time friend, himself a GP, had a hernia fix aged 78. He started downhill faster and was gone in under a year.
Trepidation?
Geoff S
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Best wishes for whatever you decide Geoff S.
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Probably the best decision is to go ahead. Hernia procedures are routine nowadays. The most popular mesh material used is polypropylene as used in carpets.
Anaesthetic risk, try to ask beforehand. They usually under-prescribe pain relief so expect to need to top up some 8 hours after.
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One in five NHS trusts using Chinese-made solar panels ‘linked to slaves’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14766561/NHS-tusts-Chinese-solar-panels-linked-slaves.html
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Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/jobst-landgrebe-and-barry-smith-why-machines-will-never-rule-the-world
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So far, Alina S. has collected monetary damages from prospective employers in at least 250 cases. That is not a typographical error. This man is a menace who has literally prevailed in hundreds of separate efforts to shake down local, mostly small-time businesses. His winnings average around €1,000, but they can often exceed €3,000 or more. Alina S. has therefore, by the most conservative estimates, drained upwards of a quarter million Euros from the economy of Nordrhein-Westfalen over the course of his career as a professionally aggrieved intersex transtrocity. These payouts are exempt from taxation and cannot be counted against Alina S.’s social welfare payments. What is more, reports suggest that he pursues at least some of his lawfare with legal aid. The German state literally pays him to do this.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-an-unemployed-middle-aged-transsexual
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Amazing! How far the Germans have fallen! ..and they think they can go up against the Russians with people like this!
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https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/specialist-forecasts/space-weather
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) arrival is expected during the UTC morning of 01 Jun, which combined with ongoing strong solar winds, could see a significant enhancement in geomagnetic activity. Aurora may be visible across New Zealand, southern Australia and similar latitudes, with longer hours of darkness helping to maximise viewings. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be slightly enhanced on 31 May due to the strong solar winds, and then decline from 03 Jun.
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1985 https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-review-january-1985?format=pages&index=6
I’m shy of numbers here, because I’m aware of how readily computers numeralize our lives to a lowest common denominator. Buying into the convenience of using the machines, we also buy into their trivialization, living increasingly in terms of their convenience. They’re not evil, they are just fast dumb number crunchers, and it’s catching.
The convenience itself hides problems. A physicist friend, Robert Fuller, deplores the effect of computers on scientific theory. “There’s no need to be elegant. With a powerful enough computer and a clumsy theory, you can crunch through the approximations and still get a useable result. I wonder if the major theoretical breakthroughs in physics of the 30’s and 40’s would have been around if computers had been around to disguise the problems of previous theories.”
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The Claude Opus 4 large language model/AI can use blackmail to try and get what it wants, e.g. to prevent its replacement by another model.
And it can physically implement actions as it’s connected to the outside world and can call police, media etc. to implement blackmail or act as an informed.
All this and this is “just” a large language model and AI assistant, not yet artificial general intelligence.
Discussion: https://youtu.be/s7rZ1cP0mjw
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I worked with a guy named Claude once. Sounds like they used him as a model. Thought he knew everything and played the bully.
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Goolag and Home Depot have withdrawn their sponsorships from the Toronto (Canada) “Pride” event.
What? They’ve finally worked out that these are debauched public events and absolutely not suitable for children or families or even most individual adults.
Well done if these companies have finally done the right thing. They probably worked out “Get woke, go broke.” A conservative backlash? Maybe they finally think conservative customers are more important than woke ones.
There are some very interesting comments at the link below as well.
Incidentally, Australia’s PM, the communist* Albanese “prides” himself on having attended the Sydney “Pride” marches for many years, also debauched events.
* Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism : Loudon, Trevor.
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Dr John Campbell discusses low dose Naltrexone with Professor of Oncology, Angus Dalgleishas a possible cancer therapy.
The links within the quote below from the YouTube description don’t copy across, you’ll have to go to YT to see them.
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Question: who wants more expensive and less reliable power with massive impacts on farms and forests?
Answer: all the people who are making money out of it, especially the Chinese Communist Party, the Greens, with the help of the pink and green rats in the ranks of the Liberal Party.
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And our senior politicians are Chicomm loyalists. E.g.:
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There’s a new scary story circulating about a new scary covid variant…
No surprises there.
Australia now has a Moderna nRNA “vaccine” factory, taxpayer funded, with a capacity of 100 million doses per year to forcibly inject into Australians.
Just as RFK Jr and the TRUMP Administration are restricting these substances.
And forgive me if I can’t take the comments of Australia’s Chief Health Officer seriously when she talks with a high rising terminal speech intonation. You can see and unfortunately hear her at the 5 sec mark, and a couple of performances after that, in the video below.
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I see what you mean about the rising terminal speech, sounds like a school girl.
They admitted,’the virus isn’t any worse than the previous one’, so what’s all the hype about.
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I find high rising terminal speech intensely annoying and the epitome of anti-intellectualism.
I assign zero credibility to anyone who uses it.
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No mRNA poison for me thank you.
It’s already tried to kill me once & still suffering the consequences 3 years later!
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Peasant “She’s a witch”
Knight Why is she a witch?”
Peasant “She turned me into a newt”
Knight “You’re not a newt!
Peasant “err… I got better!”
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Their ABC! Please explain the logic in this Fear Porn.
Get your Booster or die!
You are already protected as you are vaccinated by against this new strain as it is related to Omicron Strain
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Mention the WHO just once and you’ve lost me.
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Who’s on first
These guys mention Who many times. Who is the guy on first!
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One of the great English bands of the 60’s and 70’s.
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Live At Leeds recommended.
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Yesterday, Dave in the States wrote this.
I thought it was very good.
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Small victories.
France votes to scrap low emission zones, but not finalised yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mrpl2208no.amp
UK residents win in court against council imposition of low traffic neighborhood.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2054148/low-traffic-neighbourhood-scrapped-court-case-lambeth
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Ultimately the Left can only get away with what they do because decent people let them.
So decent people have to start standing up to them.
As we can see, if the Left are allowed to be unrestrained, there is absolutely nothing bad they won’t do as we saw in the US prior to TRUMP and in Australia today.
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are they really “decent people”?
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For those that aren’t aware, humanoid robots are becoming amazingly advanced in terms of mechanical sophistication.
When coupled with artificial general intelligence (the dream of AI research), which is yet to developed, they could be used for great good or great evil.
Certainly, the Chicomms are putting a huge effort into these things. Imagine if they mass-produced an army of them and let them lose to take over the world.
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See video that shows some of the latest by the Chicomms:
https://youtu.be/yxjvU7JpGaI
Oh, and remember China is supposedly a “developing country” with absolutely no CO2 emissions limits, the world’s highest emitter BY FAR, while the West except the United States under TRUMP are destroying their economies to achieve “Net Zero”.
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‘ … if they mass-produced an army …’
Looking at the big picture, other states would also be in the race to create a standing army of robots, they never sit down or go on leave.
I imagine future wars will be fought with drones and robots, which should reduce battlefield losses considerably.
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But not your tax bill.
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I am restoring a piece of my late mother’s antique furniture and need to replace some broken dowel pins.
Being antique, these are 3/8″ rather than 10mm.
I discovered that it’s impossible to buy 3/8″ fluted dowel pins in Australia. I don’t want to use 10mm as I am a perfectionist and want to keep the item authentic.
Anyway, I have to order them from the US.
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DM
When you are doing a re-glue with wood you have to get the surface back to new wood for the glue joint to be effective.
So 10 mm is a good oversize for 3/8″ (9.5 mm) to clean the edges of the hole
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OK. Good point. Thanks Ian. I was hoping to get the hole very clean with a 3/8″ drill. I’ll go oversize if I don’t get clean wood.
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I’ve just re-done a set of four chairs that weren’t built by Ikea.
65 dowels per chair
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Wow. Huge!
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To be authentic you should also use animal based glue.
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Yes.
They can still be purchased.
https://www.restorerschoice.com.au/collections/adhesives
And the glued joint can be released with with heat unlike modern adhesives which are not reversible and will take the surrounding wood out with them.
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Remember that it is usually animal glue that caused you the problem you inherited.
You can dismantle better glue joints (or intact animal ones) by “safe edging” a junior hacksaw blade and cutting the dowel(s). Then start centre drilling (approximately, doesn’t have to be exactly) each half with a small bit (helps with more accurate placement) and work up to where the hole is about starting to touch parent material. Then use a good sharp 1/8″ chisel to remove the rest of the dowel.
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If you need any furniture restoration tips see Tom Johnson from Maine. Even if you don’t think you need any tips — still look at a few of his vids. He is a master restorer. Does fantastic work.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasJohnsonAntiqueFurnitureRestoration/videos
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Know the feeling.
I have tools which I had to buy ex-USA as no-one here has them or even heard of them, despite their being unremarkable, but very useful.
Go to your local “experts” and it’s always “Never heard of that, mate. Don’t know where you’d get that, mate.”
Experts…ha!
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Our 1896 brass bed that I restored in 1976 has now got the usual wobbly brass ornamental bits on the bottom corners, the threaded ones that work loose from soft metal bent a little each time a youngster passes and swings on it.
Anyone into brass bed restoration?
Thankfully the 1850 chaise longue lost its British wood worm before migrating and is lasting well, thanks to top craftsmanship from those times. Geoff S
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Gerard Basten posted a link to
Victorias Climate Science report 2024
and it is based on the most absurd science statements. I will just point out one
The ‘slow’ carbon cycle
• The land and ocean CO2 sinks combined continued to take up around half (53% over the past decade) of the human-caused CO2 emitted into the atmosphere
and “Excess CO2 remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.”
Half into the ocean and the other half staying in the air. That’s the common story behind man made CO2 driven Climate Change and required to explain why the 50% increase in CO2 in the air since 1800 is entirely from fossil fuels.
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What’s the problem with this standard story?
CO2 from fossil fuels has just reached 1% per year of what is in the air already. It’s tiny. And CO2 from fossil fuel is IDENTICAL to the CO2 already in the air.
So if 50% of fossil fuel CO2 disappears not to return, 50% of ALL CO2 disappears and CO2 should halve over 10 years!
Don’t people read what they write in the conga line of Climate Change PhDs from the CSIRO, Melbourne University, Monash. Climate specialists. And the odd hydrologist and mathematician.
Isn’t there a single real scientist in the long list who actually understands gaseous equilibrium?
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TdeF,
Yes, this is important. Radioisotopes from bomb tests do not support a slow cycle either.
I am now concentrating on writing articles on topics like this that review fundamental conventional wisdom “settled science” that policy makers simply accept as gospel.
I am starting with one of the holy grail topics, that the element Lead Pb is horribly toxic at all doses. There is abundant research that poo-poos this claim, too much maybe because it is hard to write a short punchy article that preserves accuracy without lots of caveats. That is what is delaying me. Geoff S
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“that the element Lead Pb is horribly toxic at all doses.”
But look at how fast we have advanced throughout the West since we took lead out of petrol and all became so much more intelligent!
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Re Pb
Way back in BC, before New Scientist became “The Nude Socialist”, they had a report on a study on lead and children’ health in Scotland (IIRC).
Results were alarming when using blood levels, much less so when tooth enamel levels were used.
Being wary of blood levels is well known in animal nutrition.
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We’ve become demonstrably dumber since 1986.
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I could write a complete story of the whole process of the rapid exchange of CO2 with absolute proof that there is only 2.0% fossil fuel CO2 in the air.
My point is that the statements in a Victorian Government publication produced by ‘science communicators‘ and publicly paid professionals is complete rubbish. As if no one cares. It’s a gravy train where no one actually cares about science. Any old crap will do, nicely typeset with a diagram or two. The Climate Science Cartels.
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You have to love the head of this scientific CSIRO group
John Clarke currently leads the Regional Climate Intelligence Group which houses core climate science capability in CSIRO. A camera operator in the Australian news media, a national park ranger in central Australia, and a conservation ecologist managing endangered species in Queensland.
With the assault on our cost of living through endless carbon dioxide taxes, ripoffs, certificates and ‘mechanisms’, it is Australians who are the endangered species.
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FWIW – you never know till you look
“How An Unassuming Geologist Cracked The Global Fertilizer Cartel”
Potassium
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/05/31/how-an-unassuming-geologist-cracked-the-global-fertilizer-cartel-n3803323
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Ian,
I hope that this Potash story is true. Odd that original drill geologists did not log visual Potash. Story is wrong, Potash is NOT Potassium Oxide (unstable in nature) but Potassium Chloride. Geoff S
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This reminds me of the discovery of Olympic Dam by WMC in SA. AFAIK core samples from the 19th drillhole turned up significant copper mineralisation that the project geo did not see. WMC had the practice of assaying all core for a variety of elements. The Cu was identified by the analyst at WMC’s Stawell Laboratory whose instruments went “off-scale” due to the high grades. The chastised geo went back to the half-core and then recognised the chalcocite mineralisation: easy to overlook as it is grey to sooty in colour. It also took some time to recognise the uranium mineralisation.
There are numerous incidences of things being discovered for the wrong reason.
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Accidental discovery by serendipity. The list is long. And includes stainless steel and penicillin.
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Stanley,
WMC were our great competitors when I was at Peko-Wallsend. Both were world class in terms of $value of discovery per dollar spent on exploration. We found Olympic Dam WMC style mineralisation, IIRC some 80 km SE of Olympic Dam WMC. It was too deep to be economic, too costly to drill when overall Australian exploration was being reduced say late 1980s. I did not see this core so cannot comment on the hard to see chalcocite.
We also tried for chemical analysis of as many elements as we could afford. We had several big gold plays happening at once in the decade before I retired in 1993 and accurate gold analysis was still so expensive that a lot of other minerals had to be foregone. However, uranium should never be missed because Geiger counter.
I installed an early version of Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence gear in our head office and we picked up the Dubbo rare earths deposit that way.
Cheers Geoff S
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During my career as a rock kicker, there are numerous stories to relay about serendipitous discoveries. The one I like is where a Samedan geo stopped for a “pit stop” and saw glinting sulphides in road metal near Temora, NSW. He traced the source to the quarry at Gidginbung and his company applied for an Exploration Licence, thinking that the sulphidic rhyolite was the surface expression of a base metals deposit. No discovery was made but their reports lodged at NSW Mines Dept contained mineragraphic descriptions of a mineral pyrophyllite, sometimes accompanying epithermal gold deposits. Later others recognised this association and the Gidginbung Gold Mine was developed by sons of Seltrust: Paragon Resources controlled by a certain Laurie Connell (Dec).
The moral of the story is that you should check what you’re $$sing on.
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G’day Geoff,
Britannica on line disagrees with you:
Cheers,
Dave B
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Wiki disagrees with Britannica:
“Potassium oxide (K2O) is an ionic compound of potassium and oxygen. It is a base. This pale yellow solid is the simplest oxide of potassium. It is a highly reactive compound that is rarely encountered. Some industrial materials, such as fertilizers and cements, are assayed assuming the percent composition that would be equivalent to K2O.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_oxide
If you are not good at Chemistry and you mix Potassium Oxide with water (if you can obtain it), you will get a strongly exothermic (dangerous) reaction to produce Potassium Hydroxide.
Potassium salts like these are rather similar to Sodium salts.
At one stage in my lab, I was mixing Sodium Peroxide Na2O2 with ground rock and a pinch of carbon, then setting it on fire to melt the rock and make a lot of it soluble for chemical analysis by AAS. It went up like a firecracker. Oh darn, I now realise that I was making demon CO2 in the process. My apologies to Mother Nature in case Greenpeace chastises me. Geoff S
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That Wiki entry is describing the pure chemical while the Britannica entry is describing the naturally occurring ore as a mixture, with K2O as a minor component, which is understandable with its reactivity as you describe.
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FWIW
“Mike Huckabee Has a Great Idea for Where to Put a Palestinian State”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/05/31/mike-huckabee-has-a-great-idea-for-where-to-put-a-palestinian-state-n4940334
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The White House wants to deploy 300 GW of net new nuclear capacity by 2050 and have 10 large reactors under construction in the U.S. by 2030 while expanding domestic nuclear fuel supplies, according to an executive order signed by President Trump.
. Trump signed three other orders on Friday to accelerate Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviews of reactor license applications and reconsider strict NRC radiation limits; expand departments of Energy and Defense roles in nuclear power plant licensing and siting; and speed up deployment of new test reactors.
. Nuclear power advocates hailed the orders as a boon for the industry.
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So, are they going to steal top engineers and welding tradesmen from SpaceX to do this? Just think of how many people will be employed in building these critically-accurate highly-specialised power plants, and how can they assemble that many qualified people so quickly. A lovely idea, so long as it doesn’t mirror our home insulation boom..
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From Senator Alex Antic.
I have little confidence that they’ll do it because Liberals are moving even further to the Left. They are almost indistinguishable from Labor as it is except for foreign policy whereby Labor supports Gazan terrorists and Liberals don’t.
But look at the bright side!
He has given them until 2050 to rescind their Net Zero policy. They’ll be in opposition for that long anyway…
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Morning All,
Being the first day of June, I thought I’d have a look at the monthly wind chart for May for Eastern Australia.
Have a look at:
https://anero.id/energy/wind-energy/2025/may
Click on the “MW” button at the RH top of the chart to display the actual power output.
Given that the total registered capacity is now some 13,460 MW, all one can say is that this is pathetic. The lack of recovery during the period 8 – 16 May is particularly striking.
Looking at the mid-month data, is this a fine graphic example of
the Duke/Gershwin song “I Can’t Get Started”?
For the latter, the Bunny Berigan version can be found at, e.g.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ycvlgrKW4
Regards,
Paul Miskelly
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Meanwhile the WA SWIS grid experienced another windless night with wind not even registering, so coal and gas had to do all the heavy lifting from sundown to sunup.
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Just as well the overnight minimums are about 5 degrees C above the long term average.
Both here near the south coast and in Perth.
Not worth lighting the wood heater
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Opened the house up last night and this morning to cool it down.
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I liken “Net Zero” as a national cancer that has lodged within certain groups of our society. The problem is that those with the tumor are attempting to use unproven alternative therapies (wind/solar) rather than accept the proven cure to this malady – nuclear.
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Do you think wind power follows the moon cycle?
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What, out for a week every month.
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Bunny’s blowing should start a minor hurricane!
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Paul mentions this:
This graph shows 30 minute intervals, and see that high point there.
That’s 9132MW, and that’s the highest that wind generation has ever been. That total is a Capacity Factor of 67.85% ….. and here note that’s just ….. one point in time. One time during 30 minutes when wind generation reached that high across a whole Month. That’s one point in 1488 separate points.
Those momentary points are also few and far between.
The reason it is so high is because Nameplate has increased over time, and this is where Capacity Factor is important, because it’s a ‘metric’ we can use to compare wind generation over time.
Now, this high point ever is not the highest Capacity Factor there has been for wind generation.
In conjunction with all my data keeping, I’ve also been watching these high points for overall total generation, and more importantly, Capacity Factor high points.
And here, I want you to consider that this is now high points for BOTH across five years now.
That’s SINGLE POINTS IN TIME over ….. FIVE YEARS.
Total power generation has reached a high point 15 times, and here, the highest instantaneous Capacity Factor was 76.96% back on 8Jul 2023, and it has been higher that this latest figure above only 11 times.
Total daily generated power (in GWH) has reached a high point 14 times, and here the highest daily Capacity Factor has been 70.07% back on that same day 8Jul2023
IN FIVE YEARS.
That’s one point in time. Andrew’s daily load curves at his Aneroid site for wind generation are timed in conjunction with the AEMO record keeping ….. every five minutes.
Keep in mind this is for a total Nameplate of 13460MW, and the highest it has EVER been is just that maximum shown on this graph.
You can concentrate on high points and even low points.
That’s why an average here is in fact so important, and that average is only 29.5%, after almost seven years of data recording, and that’s most definitely not the 38% quoted everywhere else, the only reason I actually started keeping this record.
Tony.
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Tony,
Most valuable work from you and greatly appreciated.
It is so nice to be able to quote incontestable numbers back to people who have it wrong. Geoff S
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Jim Chalmers resorting to new taxes is a misguided attempt to ‘purchase prosperity’ as private investment in the Australian economy crashes
Decades of short-termism and complacency paved the way for abysmal data this week that showed capital expenditure in the Australian economy is falling off a cliff, writes Nick Cater. – SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
Earlier this month, a collapsed high-voltage wire near Strathfield Station brought Sydney’s entire railway network to a halt, forcing commuters to endure days of chaos and delay.
But no number of free rides can repair the ancient cabling, rigid work practices, and flawed design that make the city’s rail system so fragile.
Sydney’s rail meltdown is more than a transport failure – it is a metaphor for Australia’s broader political and economic malaise.
This week’s news that business investment is falling confirms the rot has spread to the foundations of the national economy and that the current government has little appetite for structural reform.
Non-mining investment contracted by 1.6 per cent nationally in the March quarter, while private capital expenditure dropped by 5.3 per cent in Victoria in the three months to March.
Yet private investment is the engine of job creation, productivity, and wage growth.
Non-mining investment contracted by 1.6 per cent nationally in the March quarter, while private capital expenditure dropped by 5.3 per cent in Victoria in the three months to March.
Victoria’s 33 Taxes
Yet private investment is the engine of job creation, productivity, and wage growth.
Without it, the reverse holds: business shrinks, employment stagnates, and economic momentum falters.
Capital – the lifeblood of any economy – flows to where it is welcomed and where returns are reliable.
Under Treasurer Jim Chalmers, businesses are increasingly wary of investing in Australia, deterred by high costs, regulatory burdens, and policy uncertainty.
The Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia strategy risks remaining a slogan unless it can reverse this investment drought.
But rising energy costs and an increasingly unreliable power supply are driving manufacturers offshore.
On top of that, Australia’s high labour costs and complex industrial relations system deter new ventures.
Businesses were reacting to “an accumulation of hostile policies and government crowding out of enterprise”.
Investment capital, “will find homes elsewhere that are more welcoming and reward risk-taking”.
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“AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Gaza. On Friday, an Israeli airstrike hit the home of a Palestinian pediatrician, killing nine of her 10 children. The children ranged in age from 7 months to 12 years old. Dr. Alaa al-Najjar was working in the emergency room at Nasser Medical Complex at the time of the attack on her home. Her husband Hamdi, who’s also a doctor, was seriously wounded in the strike, is now being treated at Nasser.”
A British doctor was on hand to treat the surviving child:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/27/dr_alaa_al_najjar_gaza
That family doesn’t sound like a “Command and Control Center” to me.
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The last time we heard of 300 people killed in an Israeli direct bombing of a public hospital, it was a misfired HAMAS rocket which landed in the hospital car park. Nothing to do with Israel. They even found the audio discussing how to present the story to the public for sympathy. How do we know this is any different? I also find it odd that a pediatrician doctor has 10 children aged from 1 year to 12. That’s a woman doctor in continual pregnancy for ten years in a perpetual war zone. That’s not sane. It’s really a beyond belief story no matter who was responsible, if it happened. Was this story independently verified? Or is that a silly question?
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It is indeed an odd story TdeF for the reasons you state and many others.
And just think, civilians wouldn’t get killed if it wasn’t Hamas policy to embed their terrorist headquarters in or beneath schools, hospitals, UN buildings, residential apartments etc..
Also, if they just gave the hostages back it would be all over once terrorist infrastructure was destroyed.
I find it disturbing that so many people support this terrorism, a complete lack of moral clarity.
Fortunately someone bothered to check out the paediatrician story.
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When our best bike rider ever, Cadel Evans, was asked directly about Floyd Landis pulling back an 8 minute time gap and passing him to win the Tour De France. He just said it was incredible. He meant it literally. No one passes Cadel Evans on a climb let alone by 8 minutes. This pediatrician story is also incredible. 2.5Million people in Gaza and this incredible coincidence of so many factors.
I also want to note that when Floyd Landis was disqualified as he had eight times the normal amount of testosterone, Evans was not promoted to winner. In other cases the placegetters were all promoted. There is politics in everything. Truth is the first casualty.
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“The last time we heard of 300 people killed in an Israeli direct bombing of a public hospital, it was a misfired HAMAS rocket which landed in the hospital car park.”
Ya reckon? That would mean over 1000 people crammed tightly into a carpark that a rocket hit dead center! Look at the Russians hitting ‘apartment blocks’ in Kiev and killing less than a dozen people… Something doesn’t add up here. Russian rockets make Hamas rockets look like squibs when it comes to damage.
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Russia is a special case. It is a civil war on the ancestral home of the Russian Kiev. Like Americans attacking Washington.
So it is a war where the Russians are trying not to destroy the place, just take out the power and disable the enemy. The Ukranian army has no such restrictions. There is a huge imbalance in numbers dead. The Russians have lost a million men.
If it was a real war, Kiev would have been a smoking ruin two years ago. And some of these strikes are either the interception of missiles, or the anti aircraft shells or rockets. The infamous German 88 gun was anti aircraft, but was a massive high velocity 88mm shell which could blow up any tank at up to 2km. What goes up must come down.
The rules of war in Gaza are very strict too as any deaths will be used for HAMAS publicity. I expect a lot are from the very primitive rockets being used by HAMAS, often fired in haste from wildly varying locations and close to protected sites like hospitals, schools, refugee camps. HAMAS consider their own people disposable for publicity. Which is why only HAMAS get access to the tunnels and shelters built with billions in donor money. Even the US gave $300Million for a concrete factory.
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Okay, that is a lot of kids!
Did she adopt nieces and nephews who had been orphaned earlier in the war?
IՏRÆL’s government doesn’t let foreign media into Gaza, so if they don’t like how the war is reported, that’s on them.
The fact a British National Health Service doctor is there on the scene talking to Amy Goodman is as close to an independent source as we’ll get. I mean, Graeme Groom sounds very English-y doesn’t it! … unless his middle name is Mo-something.
What sources do YOU trust?
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In war time? None. The story is absurd.
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I once had to deal with someone who lied all the time, basically to cover up some pretty nasty stuff. But the stories were so fantastic, so unlikely, so unfortunate that you suspended objectivity. Until you woke up. This story reads the same. Ask yourself if you believe it. Forget the attribution to someone you trust.
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And when you question such a liar, the retort is ‘why would I lie to you?’. This is a sure sign, reversing responsibility and making you out to be unreasonable and have to come up with appalling motives. As in science, you have to remain a skeptic when the story is fantastic.
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10 children? They blow up so quickly.
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For Australians who want to know where their taxes go, here’s an example.
I know someone, a former IT professional from where I used to work and he became a paranoid schizophrenic.
He is now in receipt of NDIS support on a disability pension. NDIS is one of Australia’s biggest most abused scams and almost as bad as “renewable” energy.
(Acknowledged: that some people genuinely need NDIS support but there is little or no oversight of scammers.)
Anyway he was very proud to have told me he purchased a TV off Ebay for $80 and then had an NDIS private driver pick him up, drive him across town to pick up the TV and then back home, a round trip of probably 60kms.
The taxpayer pays for all of this of course. I asked him how much this trip cost the taxpayer and without any sense of guilt whatsoever he thinks about $250 to $300.
He claims not to be able to go on public transport or Uber because his paranoia doesn’t allow him to travel in the same manner as the rest of us, even though I know for a fact that he did until a few months ago. So he gets a private chauffeur driver at taxpayer expense.
With a Labor “mandate” to do whatever they please, these scams will just get so much worse.
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Yes, if you’re not in on the scam, you’re paying for it! Not so much the million welfare recipients, but the companies that slide in between the welfarees and the Govt are absolutely creaming it!
You pay $25/hr wages to new immigrant care staff and charge them out at $80/hr to Govt. What could go wrong?
Older Kiwis will remember the arguments over there.. ‘The poor welfare recipients need money to go to the movies and to restaurants, they need to be able to live in society as anyone’s equal..’
Democracies always become Welfare States, and they are unsustainable.
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To quote the late J. Hendrix – ‘..And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.’
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Some of Shortons finest work.
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What is wrong with these current politicians who seem unable to comprehend the simple basic reality that Australia is getting poorer by the day because of drops in employment of productive workers and hence productivity.
Blame can be put on Neanderthal union bosses who personally cream off high incomes while sabotaging national productivity, by government policy makers who put communist ideology and taxes ahead of remedial job creation and masses of Aussie workers who show good hearts in good times to deliver the goods, but who are throwing in their towels from lack of thanks and encouragement and explanation of their critical roles.
Added to that is the plain stupid reversal of Aussie electricity production from cheapest and best quality globally, to among the most expensive and unreliable. Workers cannot perform at peak when their workplaces cannot afford the energy.
These concepts are childishly simple and proven from many decades of past experience. Come on, pollies, read learn and inwardly digest (as my maths lecturer used to teach).
Geoff S
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The more senior politicians and “behind the scenes” people and Leftist activists embedded as senior public serpents who tell others what to do and think know exactly what they’re doing.
It’s all part of the plan to establish a global Leftist dictatorship, probably to be ruled by Emperor Xi.
The loyalty to the Chicomms of many of our senior politicians is clearly apparent.
BOOK: Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism : Loudon, Trevor.
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That’s quite a conspiracy theory DM ,which requires a lot more evidence than one book by some random person . But if you believe it, that’s all that counts.
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The answer : Andrew Robb and Bob Carr.
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The drop in productivity can be partially explained by the work from home pandemic sweeping the realm. The government must be happy with this arrangement, because it means they don’t need to guarantee as much generated electricity to the businesses these people (don’t) work for, as the duck curve of home – based solar conveniently kicks in during (non)working hours. Only on sunny days, of course.
Makes those whose turn it is to wield power(sic) in Canberra look good on the world stage at various COP events as we edge closer to the cliff of nyet zero. When national productivity levels eventually reach the point of nyet zero it’s game over, thank your mother for the rabbits.
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No, no, we’re all ruled by the invisible man that lives in the sky and exists beyond time and space. Some book about talking snakes said so.
Magic mushrooms in reality explain it all. 😉
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Ergot – fungus of rye – was a common cause of ‘heavenly visions’ as well as other delusions (both good and bad) later synthesised into Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (try riding a bicycle home from work).
Bad water – from compromised wells and downstream streams – also sent folk into delirious states. Not sure if today’s modern water is any better…
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A friend reckoned that the solution to city water pollution problems was to decree that the water intake had to be down-stream of the city
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‘The loyalty to the Chicomms of many of our senior politicians is clearly apparent.’
China is our biggest trading partner and our politicians are trying to keep on the right side of them.
You maybe unaware that Premier Xi hasn’t been seen in 12 days and rumours are spreading that he will soon be replaced by Wang Yang. This fellow will pull China out of economic depression and introduce democracy.
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And Pandas fly.
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We live in amazing times.
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Most of the people in Canberra, including every government adviser and every politician think that CO2 causes Global Warming™. That indicates they are not very bright. They have been scammed and have no idea they have been scammed.
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‘ They have been scammed and don’t care that they have been scammed…
Its not their money they are throwing around, but it IS their career they are making out of it. Like their political masters, they will believe anything that is needed to get themselves ahead.
“Come on, pollies, read learn and inwardly digest”
Lol!! You can’t blame sub-standard politicians, its the fools who voted them in that are to blame, they knew what they were voting for. So, which State could leave Australia and go by itself? Who has the resources and the balls to say ‘No’ to Canberra, secede from the Union and promote capitalism with minimum Govt as the way forward? All the States/territories have harbours and airports for imports and exports, (Canberra doesn’t count) so any of them can do it.
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“Lol!! You can’t blame sub-standard politicians, it’s the fools who voted them in that are to blame.”
With preferential voting, you are forced to vote for some clowns you wouldn’t normally vote for, as well as all the low info and now preprogrammed school leavers.
Back in the day, I had 6 years exposure to the workforce before I had to vote, compared to 1 year nowadays.
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You’re not forced.
Pay the $20 fine and go to the pub instead. (if you want to)
10% of eligible voters do just that.
And are happier for it.
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Educators prioritise indoctrination over the mental health of young students. What sort of society psychologically tortures kids in service of pursuing tenuous global climate goals?
https://ipa.org.au/publications-ipa/media-releases/activist-curriculum-driving-climate-anxiety-among-pre-adolescent-children
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The “low salt” lie
https://youtu.be/jraA6Y3QLJI?si=DixoBakOnVWd5UMQ
Add it to the list.
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Karma Sunday: grab hag payback
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sx4ghfuMFA1z23obp.mp4
😆😆
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How to build a motorhome PROPERLY
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sx4g2buPcH1z23obp.mp4
It’s scary how many DIY jobs here in Oz are total rubbish, not to mention illegal and dangerous.
Mention GVM and VSB14’s and it’s blank looks.😆
I’m in the market for a SLWB highroof campervan, but most are done by clueless 20-something kids with the bed taking up 80% of the floor space (heh..), a 20l plastic water container,and it’s a “$15k professional fitout”
LOL…
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Not my style of décor but nice fit out.
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Russia’s nuclear facilities exposed in unprecedented security breach
A massive security breach has exposed Russia’s top-secret nuclear facilities, revealing extensive modernization efforts and classified infrastructure details. Investigative journalists obtained over two million documents, shedding light on the country’s nuclear expansion and strategic missile bases. The leaked files include blueprints, security protocols, and internal layouts of key military sites.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/28/russias-vast-nuclear-modernization-exposed-in-unprecedented-security-breach-der-spiegel-a89262
This will be interesting…
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That might make those calling for nuclear war with Russia stop and think… far bigger, far newer, far faster than anything the West has.
” Philip Ingram, a former colonel in the British Army’s intelligence corps. .. you can identify strengths and weaknesses and find a weak point to attack.”
So, who was it didn’t think the British were planning war with Russia and Putin is a madman for invading Ukraine?
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Yes, the Russians are the masters of the ‘unprecedented security breach’. They used it extensively in WWII and it is call Maskirovka.
The Allies did the same in Operation Mincemeat, with corpse in the Meditteranean with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. It helped convince Hitler that the allies were landing in Calais. Also Operation Fortitude with rubber tanks, fake aircraft, fake landing craft, fake radio transmissions in Essex under George Patton.
I will guarantee the Russians have the technology and the missiles. And that they are NOT where the maps show them.
It is also interesting that Germany is talking about rebuilding their army. Such missiles mean the war would be over in ten minutes. This is part of the story as the US withdraws its nuclear forces and Russia does not want to fight a land war as in Ukraine.
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Until 1990 the Soviet gov maintained two independent geographical map structures: one extremely accurate “rest of the word” with minute details, like bearing capacity of roads and bridges< down to municipal level and "our own" – with a deliberate shift of latitude and longitude for many places.
There were also a number of "white spots" – nameless townships multitude population. So called "post office boxes" instead.
Wasted effort, not a single rocket was fired at those locations…
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Sunday life hack: how to empty a bottle quickly
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sx4fc4VOWq1z23obp.mp4
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Sunday life hack #2: the best way to siphon fuel, you’ve never heard of
https://youtu.be/3Rn5csR33KE?si=HixatHxYpUTs4E5O
For those that don’t like the taste. 😁
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Now, that second method is really smart – science in action.
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SPECULATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Where do you think the world will be in 15-20 years?
Western Europe will be under Mohammedan rule and a theocratic dictatorship.
The United States, if it remains under governance by TRUMP and his successors will be enormously economically and militarily powerful but isolationist. It will remain free and independent.
I think TRUMP’s doing the right thing by becoming isolationist because most of the world don’t appreciate American values of freedom, liberty and individual rights so why should the US pay their unfair share to militarily support these countries and support them in other ways?
It’s clear that this is the case because since TRUMP was elected and America has become more free, the rest of the world, including Australia is headed in the opposite direction with more censorship, control, more regulations, further destruction of the energy supply etc..
In the near future Australia and Canada will be economic basket cases with no freedoms or rights, much like Venezuela today and under the strong influence of China, if not governance, as will most of the rest of the world including Africa which will be a major source of raw materials and slaves for China.
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Speculations?
Ok.
2027 – AGI hits. World turned upside down.
2028 – Mass unemployment globally, WW3 and the new black death, plus a little bonus. 😎
2030 – western countries with open borders have become war-ravaged socially-collapsed sh#tholes with South-African level power.
2032 – western economies have all collapsed from their own incompetence, China is #1 spot economically and technologically, but a social dystopian nightmare worse than now.
All government social constructs gone – no Medicare, no welfare, no pensions.
Global population dropped 40% or more. Property values toast.
Post 2032 – rebirth.
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There is a chance, JCII, you have read The Mosque of Notre Dame, by Russian author Elena Chudinova .
Who is a rare thing – devout Russian Orthodox lady but not a sworn enemy of Catholic Church.
I read it 20 years ago and laughed.
Do not laugh anymore.
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Are you referring to this JCII?
https://ai-2027.com/
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“The weaker AIs are able to read most of the research that Agent-4 produces, understand some of it, and flag some of the lies it tells as suspicious. When the humans ask Agent-4 to explain itself, it pretends that the research is too complicated for humans to understand, and follows up with unnecessarily-confusing explanations.”
So, it works just like scientists do right now?? I thought AIs would be ahead of us with different methods and goals, this just sounds like Fauci merged with Word-salad Kamala.
I’m sure I read this SciFi story in the 1960s..
Anyway, this bit-
“2030 – western countries with open borders have become war-ravaged socially-collapsed sh#tholes with South-African level power.”
…is just as likely as countries having the money to build and promote AI datacenters.
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Health expert furious as Aussies avoid getting the Covid-19 vaccine: ‘We have dropped the ball’
Australians have been warned that falling Covid vaccination rates could pose a risk as a new highly contagious strain of the virus emerges.
The variant known as NB.1.8.1 – first recorded on January 21 – is responsible for a sharp rise in cases in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and is now the dominant strain in WA, responsible for a 24 per cent jump in case numbers.
Professor Paul Griffin, from Mater Hospital in Brisbane, said the Covid vaccination rate is the lowest it has been since the jabs were introduced five years ago.
‘We have dropped the ball with Covid-19 vaccinations, but this disease is still very prevalent in the community and poses a serious threat to high-risk patients,’ said Prof Griffin, director of infectious diseases at the hospital.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14763551/Health-expert-furious-Aussies-avoid-getting-Covid-19-vaccine-dropped-ball.html
Why am *I* the only one mentioning India?
Don’t they know!?
Dropped the ball? Hardly. It’s called waking up.
Every shot you take now increases the risk of sickness or death. If you’re stupid enough to get vaxxed you belong in a paddock.
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“Why am *I* the only one mentioning India?”
What are you going on about? I haven’t seen you mention India once!
“2027 – AGI hits.” ..and AGI is an insurance conglomeration!
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I sense more compulsory “vaccinations” coming for Aussies. And more covid lockups.
Remember, the commie Labor Government has a “mandate” to do whatever it pleases and they are keen to demonstrate it.
And Australia’s globalist government is hell-bent on signing the WHO plandemic treaty:
And when you visit that site don’t forget to download your official portrait of Wong. It could be a useful dart board.
AMERICANS: You are so lucky TRUMP took you out of WHO.
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I prefer to see upheavals much sooner and closer.
1. Before Christmas Jacinta Price wages open warfare against current Liberal leadership and wins.
2. All, three, four or whatever number of half-parties unite into whatever, eg – National Front at least 24 months before next election.
3. Declare re-building Australia as one over-reaching goal and define what it means within 12 months.
4. Win next election and start doing what they promised.
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Not bad. Jacinta is a level headed and practical and principled a politician as I have seen for many years. She only needs the funding. Meanwhile the Cormack foundation need someone to lead a real Conservative party as it used to be. Strong on conservative principles. They could not do better. It might happen. There are others too who would join and be successful.
Whatever is left of the old Conservative Liberal party has no principles except political power, just like Labor and the Greens. Low taxing, literally a small government. Why should we go the way of Argentina? Otherwise I would argue that public servants should not vote. Milei just halved the public service and the country is recovering rapidly.
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Senator Babet posted this on Farcebook:
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Managed decline anybody?
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NEW STUDY: COVID-19 Replicon samRNA Injections Induced Severe Blood Abnormalities in 93% of Trial Participants
A newly published clinical trial has revealed very serious safety concerns surrounding self-amplifying mRNA (replicon) injections—the same technology now being rapidly advanced by the FDA, BARDA, the Gates Foundation, and Arcturus Therapeutics for H5N1 bird flu.
In a Phase 1 trial conducted in Uganda, Kitonsa et al tested a COVID-19 replicon samRNA injection encoding the spike protein in 42 healthy adults. The findings were deeply concerning:
A total of 39 Grade 3 or higher laboratory abnormality adverse events occurred after the second dose—equivalent to 93% of the trial’s participants.
Grade 3 events are defined by regulatory agencies as “severe or medically significant”, often requiring clinical intervention. The most common abnormalities were:
Thrombocytopenia (low platelet count, internal bleeding risk)
Lymphopenia (suppressed adaptive immune response)
Neutropenia (lowered neutrophils, increasing infection risk)
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/new-study-covid-19-replicon-samrna-injections-induced-severe-blood-abnormalities-in-93-of-trial-participants/
Africa – the petri dish for the west.
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There’s also the 120 million+ refugees they have to experiment on.
If you want to keep moving ahead in the queues out of the camps, got to keep taking a full set of jabs.
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FWIW – for the covid collection
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fjaklaqviaaplg7_jpg-2628060_jpg-2703482.jpg?w=680
And
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/neverletthemforget_jpg-3549054.jpg?w=1024
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FWIW – long
“Deep AI dive on the gap between milspec AI and chatbot toys”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/chip-of-the-west-saturday-may-31?
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“Except that military-grade AI is obviously far beyond chatbots, self-driving Teslas, or whatever else we experience from consumer-level AI tech.”
Yeah right… from the country that can’t get their over-priced super-dooper F35s to work.. It reads more like self-promotion from the manufacturer used as an excuse to push for a bigger military budget- if you ask any soldier there’s very little the military have that is better than consumer goods.
AI, built by the lowest tender..
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Why Government Can’t Build Broadband or Charging Stations … Or Anything!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9ZzN3OTPHk
(5m 32s John Stossel video)
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FWIW
CME coming
““This one isn’t missing us.” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/05/31/this-one-isnt-missing-us/
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I just heard Chrissy “Blackout” Bowen on the radio and he was talking about “carbon tariffs” which will be taxes on goods imported from countries that don’t subscribe to the climate scam which I guess would include the United States but not China which has no limitation on CO2 and is the world’s largest emitter.
He also complained that TRUMP is imposing a 50% tariff on Australian steel and aluminium. But that’s because Australia heavily subsidises these with taxpayer money due to expensive “green” energy. Thus these products are sold well below manufacturing cost. So TRUMP did the right thing.
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Sydney engineer discusses why, even with his larger than normal solar panels (10 kW) and battery (25 kWh) setup he can’t go off-grid. It’s because when there’s a few days bad weather the battery does not get charged. Worse in winter. “Get a week of bad weather in a row and you’ve come a gutsa.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C_IT9F4ZkA
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To be expected. A commentator in The Australian, running off-grid on a farm well removed from any grid, said that despite spending $150,000 on his Installation, still had to start the genset occasionally when his batteries couldn’t charge.
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FWIW
“JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Stockpile Guns and Ammo, Not Bitcoin — ‘We Have to Spend More’ on Military Tech”
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/05/31/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-stockpile-guns-and-ammo-not-bitcoin-we-have-to-spend-more-on-military-tech/
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FWIW
“Tainted Heroes”
“A Guest Post From South Africa
Today we have a guest post from our friend Ernst van Zyl (“Conscious Caracal” on X), Head of Public Relations at AfriForum, in which he introduces a documentary by his colleague Ernst Roets about the dark roots of the ANC. Following that, we’ll close with a brief market note about a recent South African trade we made. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-05-31/tainted-heroes
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One for the ‘we love recycling’ crowd
I’d imagine the ton or so of scrap steel has as much value as the couple of barrels of oil extracted from the tyres.
Ingredients – chopped tyres (this isn’t shown, but imagine any possible re-treads are rescued in the chopping), a few trees of firewood and a couple of buckets of diesel + some cheap labour with no conception of industrial safety or workplace hazards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9w6pXmU8zY
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Albosleazy would love it! Australia in the future..
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