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Except Asinine Albanese and Brainless Bowen
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“few politicians” would care about what happens to anyone but themselves.
Occasionally I go to look at one of the feats of genuinely beneficial government action that represents what true government should be.
Chichester Dam. It was built between 1915 and 1925 and stands in stark contrast to the the present times.
Currently, here in Novocastria, we are “blessed” with a reminder of political malevolence in the shape of a half finished ablutions block in a harbourside park. It’s a total shambles, organised by our local “government” and looks a bit like a scaled down version of the Roman Coliseum. After cutting down the trees and clearing all vegetation the whole half finished thing is now wrapped up in temporary fencing and keep out signs.
It’s 2025, and we’ve gone backwards in the last hundred years since Chichester.
This stalled project reminds us what happens when accountability is taken out of society.
Just think about it.
The prime example is the “allocation” of $444,000,000 to save da coral up north.
In a sane society these things should never happen.
How do we stop this destruction of our nation and secure a sane, common sense approach to our future.
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“How do we stop this destruction of our nation and secure a sane, common sense approach to our future.”
It’s commonly known as voting but the WIIFM brigade just don’t get it. They have lost sight of the fact that Governments only take our money and make not a cent
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The best event would result from keeping quiet about it until the whole thing comes crashing down and nationally we end up with a month long blackout……no energy for anything, from electric toothbrushes to sophisticated medical equipment, no fuel deliveries no trains & God forbid no electricity to charge any batteries for phones & computers, EVs…..let the entire system collapse. Maybe the public will learn something ( more likely they’ll blame Trump ).
Just maybe the bubble in Canberra will burst with some catastrophic results!
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Some years ago our local council spent an astronomical amount of money on new public toilets. Everything inside was visible from the street. So then it cost another astronomical amount to fix it. They say you should try to ascribe to incompetence rather than corruption, but sometimes that’s difficult.
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Victoria acknowledges ‘renewable energy drought’ risk
Victoria has admitted its ambitious plan to power the state with 95 per cent renewable energy by 2035 will leave the grid vulnerable to “renewable energy droughts” – extended periods when both wind and solar generation fall short – but insists a new network of transmission lines will help mitigate the risk.
The state Labor government on Friday released its detailed renewable energy zone road map, outlining an unprecedented transformation of the state’s energy system.
The plan includes seven dedicated renewable energy zones across Victoria, comprising nearly 5.2 million solar panels, close to 1000 onshore wind turbines, and four new transmission projects – spanning 7 per cent of the state’s landmass.
Victoria’s target is the most aggressive in Australia and among the most expansive globally. Unlike many international counterparts that include nuclear, gas or hydro in their energy mix, Victoria is relying almost exclusively on wind, solar and batteries. That choice has sparked concern about the reliability of supply, particularly during low-generation events.
The government’s own policy documents warn of the growing threat posed by renewable energy droughts.
“Wind and solar generation are inherently variable, and it is not uncommon to experience periods when there is little wind and sunshine. This is most likely in winter, when energy demand is also high to provide heating during cold weather,” the road map states.
Such events are not hypothetical. In April 2024, the eastern seaboard experienced a prolonged period of weak wind and overcast skies, sending wholesale electricity prices soaring. The shortage contributed to financial pressures at green energy retailers Zen Energy and Iberdrola Australia, which struggled to meet commitments without sufficient generation.
Victoria’s response hinges on a rapid build-out of transmission infrastructure. The government says the new high-capacity power lines are “urgent” and essential to ensure energy generated in one region of the state can be dispatched elsewhere when weather conditions limit supply.
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Worth A read (emails undeliverable)
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/240228-Letter-to-Google-re_-the-New-Denial.pdf
Cook, Lewandowsky and a co-author from Exeter University have signed this.
The New Denial (utterly dehumanising)
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CCDH-The-New-Climate-Denial_FINAL.pdf
YouTube Climate Denial Dollars
https://counterhate.com/research/google-climate-change-disinformation-youtube-videos/
Tortoise – The Danger of Climate Misinformation
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/04/08/hot-air-long-read
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Three degrees C (37F) in Melbournistan now.
I wonder how the natural gas and electricity supply will hold up and if they will or have load shed any aluminium smelters to keep the lights on?
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Now my weather App says 2C (35.6F) although my weather station at home says 3.9C in inner SE Melbournistan.
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Nett Zero degrees (0*C) in Queenstown, NZ with fresh snow on the tops and ALL snow guns firing on all ski fields… meanwhile up north here it’s 15 degrees, calm clear & sunny: wonder what NIWA’s super computer would ‘average’ that out to be, apart from a crisis.
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https://www.perisher.com.au/reports-cams/cams
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There is one really good thing about Simon’s post on May 17th. “When someone tells you that climate models are rubbish at predicting the future, don’t believe them.” In his infinite wisdom, he has given us permission to ignore climate science from NASA. Why would I say that? https://notrickszone.com/2025/02/11/new-study-todays-climate-models-do-not-agree-with-reality-and-thus-their-usefulness-is-doubtful/. This provides a precis of the most important points and a link to the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
In the paper, NASA openly states: “Thus today’s models must be improved by about a hundredfold in accuracy, a very challenging task”. Clearly, NASA states that current climate models are way off the mark. A hundredfold improvement is an absolute canyon between models and reality, not just a gap. It’s easy to say that climate models are accurate when you manipulate the data to suit the desired outcomes. In one fell swoop, your resident climate guru has managed to discredit NASA and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project. Well done Simon. I always thought NASA’s climate science was BS and now you have confirmed it.
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In the 1930’s a single blade aircraft propeller was developed and sold. It was commercially unsuccessful as it cost too much but was claimed to be more efficient as the blade would be cutting into cleaner air. Later day tests in the video below question that claim.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/propeller-variable-pitch-one-blade-sensenich-and-everel/nasm_A19370029000
https://youtu.be/zhINpDoFQLw
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If a single blade would be better by cutting into cleaner air, then surely having no blades would be better for the wings behind the propeller.
Didn’t anyone realise that the propeller, with any number of blades, is moving forward and will ALWAYS be in clean air? The turbulence is ALWAYS downstream of the propeller.
I watched a video the other day, it looks like a good solution to tip vortices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_wj_8MVkg
Maybe a ducted fan would be better. https://foil.zone/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a03b81ca067a666152f4f211c21637c274c8dab5.jpeg
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Video: Why do Japanese cities have so many above-ground electrical wires (on poles), and they have been buried?
https://youtu.be/UUArT40okkQ
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** that’s meant to read “haven’t been buried”…
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Now Leftoids claim that women in the Paleolithic were the superior hunters.
A critical look at this claim:
https://youtu.be/ziV75hYbO2U
And in primitive societies women tend to be fully occupied looking after children or gathering and preparing food while men do the hunting and defending against hostile neighbours.
You know it must be BS because the headline has the phrase “scientists say” in it:
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Thanks for that junk.
>Researchers found the female body was better suited for endurance activity “which would have been critical in early hunting because they would have had to run the animals down…
There’s a few levels of “would have” in their assumptions and suppositions.
Anyway it’s nonsense. The reason why women were better suited for endurance activity is evolved from generations of having to escape unwelcome cavemen and their clubs. The evidence is right there in the cartoons we grew up with.
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How Gene Roddenberry portrayed artificial intelligence in Star Trek in 1966.
Incidentally the actor is Ted Cassidy, Lurch from the Addams Family.
https://youtu.be/IQJz1txxNSc
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NSW National Parks want to increase camping fees by 900%.
I think this is all part of the national strategy restricting non-native Australians having access to their national parks, forests, places etc. e.g. Lake Eyre, Mt Warning, Ayers Rock, Arapiles etc..
https://youtu.be/THYJUnwoI7Y
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School board member in USA threatened to call police over a “misgendering”.
Irene BritUSA discusses:
https://youtu.be/XqNDQ3oFf-A
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Dr Suneel Dhand refuses a flu vaccination for the first time and discovers he doesn’t get a respiratory infection in that year, for the first time.
Not a controlled study, but many others anecdotally observe the same thing.
https://youtu.be/8yOaIO3v2UM
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Margaret Atwood highlighted what some (not her) have called “tiptoe totalitarianism”, the gradual subtle creep of totalitarianism as we are seeing in most Western countries except the USA.
Some quotes from her:
We already have witnessed and continue to do so, the first one and the second last one in Australia.
The second one hasn’t been fulfilled, we just elected another socialist Government.
Aa for the last one, we had a taste of that when during the covid lockups Dan Andrews had his black-uniformed paramilitary police political enforcers fire rubber bullets into anti-lockup protesters and patrol the streets in armoured personnel carriers.
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Top HHS Medical Advisor Blows Whistle: mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Cause Cancer
https://slaynews.com/news/top-hhs-medical-advisor-blows-whistle-mrna-vaccines-cause-cancer/
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FWIW – the covid scene
“The FDA Just Approved Another COVID Vaccine — But RFK Jr. Has Already Intervened”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fda-just-approved-another-covid-vaccine-rfk-jr/
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Novavax is not an mRNA vaccine, a good thing.
During the plandemic I wrote to the Australian “Health” Minister asking why they were delaying its approval. They eventually approved it but not before many people had been harmed by the mRNA “vaccines”. And then it had limited availability, it seemed.
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More the covid scene
“Worldwide Embalmer Survey Reveals Striking Rise in White Fibrous Clots Following COVID-19 Vaccination”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/17/worldwide-embalmer-survey-reveals-striking-rise-in-white-fibrous-clots-following-covid-19-vaccination/
Via SDA
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And
“All-Asset Price Collapse?
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Not tomorrow, but if this is true it is certain.
Why?
The Covid mRNA shots.
There is apparently a rat study (remember, we didn’t do biodistribution studies before jabbing people in the US, and when they did one in Japan that the government required they found that the material concentrated in the ovaries) found that 60% of the primordial follicles were destroyed.”
Much more at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253295
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FWIW – you’ve been “classified”
“What’s Your Generation (and Stereotype)?”
https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/05/whats-your-generation-and-stereotype/
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“Asylum hotel fires are blamed on migrant couriers’ e-bike batteries exploding after firefighters were called to the same location six times.”
Failure to stop illegal immigration, paying millions to house them in nice hotels, failure to stop them working illegally, failure to stop use of illegal e-bikes….
Why is the UK just so flippin weak?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724243/Asylum-hotel-fires-blamed-migrant-couriers-e-bike.html
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FWIW
“Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army
“Our friends and partners also expect this from us, and what’s more, they are actually demanding it,” said the new chancellor.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/
Maybe time to read the last chapter of Sefton Delmer’s “Trail Sinister” written about 1961. Title –
“The new German menace”
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They call it a pendulum, well known since Egyptian pyramids.
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FWIW – you might believe
“KEIR STARMER TRANSITIONS”
https://richardsonpost.com/daniel-jupp/39645/keir-starmer-transitions/
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When even one of New Zealand’s most wealthiest families / businesses say without subsidies, carbon capture isn’t worth it, ya gots to wonders:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/561410/carbon-capture-pivotal-project-for-cutting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-looks-shaky
Todd Energy’s Kapuni Gas Field planned to pump CO2 into the ground – which happens to be the ring-plain of ‘dormant’ volcano Taranaki (named Mt Egmont by Lt. Cook in 1769) – but with carbon (sic) priced at $50 a tonne, it’s just not worth it…
Shirley ‘saving the planet’ is more important than profits? Or is Utopia [no place] just an expensive pipe dream paid for by the serfs?
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I am still amazed (or not!) about the silence and lack of outrage about this event:
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