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Greetinga All.
Today it became hot early. I’m wondering if we might reach 40C for the first time since 2020?
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36C here at 3:20
Was only supposed to get to 32.
Tax me moar! 🤣
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26C Mid North Coast NSW this afternoon.
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Thank you for the location information.
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Nth Central Vic.
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We got up to 39C for quite a while, with a brief spike to 40C when I was out of the room! Thunder and almost non-existent rain now. After all the rain and floods not long ago, we could do with a good soak.
What was that bit about ‘drought and flooding rains’?
It’s the bushfire risk I worry about, especially the appallingly badly maintained roadsides around here. They are disgracefully neglected. The usual excuse is a wildlife corridor; humans don’t matter of course, silly me.
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Actually made it to just over 34 yesterday afternoon here in southern Tasmania. That qualifies as a heatwave here.
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Reached 35 here after a 36 forecast. Mudgee airport numbers from Weatherzone.
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Upper Hunter.. reached 34C forecast 35C.
Tomorrow ‘s forecast is for a summery 39C !
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Hit 41.5 for the first time in 3 years in northeastern Victoriastan and maybe for an hour or so then the same storm you had Annie came along a few drops of rain a bit of wind and temps went to low 30’s .
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42 in north western Victoria. It was hot hot hot.
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Meanwhile were I’m at in N. America it is negative 26 degrees C right now.
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Las Vegas reporting snowfall for the first time since records began in 1936 .
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Only going to get get to 30C here in the Sydney CBD. Measured in the shade at Observatory Hill of course without that solar panel to assist……………lol
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Just over 35°C in Parramatta. And all this talk about a heatwave. Huh!
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No wind during yesterdays evening peak usage so SA had the diesel gensets on full throttle.
Gas and hydro contributed an impressive 9 GW to keep us S-Easteners cool for the evening meal.
Roll on Liddel closure – better get the big batteries in place to replace the 950 MW it was producing.
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The Big Batteries should already be in place ready for the switch over. Fully tested and ready to go. However, what will charge the Big Batteries and how long will the batteries last before more recharging? All fully tested and ready to go? Yeah, right. This is going to be very interesting to say the least. Those QLD and VIC Interconnectors will be humming like crazy very soon.
Tennis Elbow, Dr. Blunder, I mean Chalmers and Blackout Bowen will be running for cover just like they are disassociating themselves from the RBA cash rate increases. Along with all of those other Cost of Living issues.
The May 2023 Federal Guv’ment Budget looks to be very interesting indeed.
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No wind nationally at midday today. Not much point in Blackout Bowen building more, I fear.
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My house in the city of Solo (Central Java) flooded yesterday.
Waiting on a status report today. Flooding is quite extensive and many displaced. By-product of the monsoon season.
Solo Flooding
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Catturd: Good grief. Weird stuff is happening everywhere.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1625991248430374912
You don’t say!! 🤣🤣
Strange how all these environmentalists wanting to ban gas stoves are so quiet over the Ohio clusterf#ck…
What’s next?
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“Railroaded” – Ohio rail crash
“A very good essay at Doomberg,”
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/railroaded
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/02/16/railroaded/
Gives the list of what was on the train, including
“Two tank cars of petroleum lube oil were spilled. As the name suggests, this product is derived from the refining of oil. As far as oil spills go in the US, two tank cars worth is relatively inconsequential.”
Which could be producing that sheen on the water
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Re the train crash in Ohio and a different sheen on the water
“Norfolk Southern Says they “Accidentally” Asked East Palestine Residents to Sign Legal Waivers as Condition of Contamination Tests
February 16, 2023 | Sundance | 119 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/16/norfolk-southern-says-they-accidentally-asked-east-palestine-residents-to-sign-legal-waivers-as-condition-of-contamination-tests/
Seems the testing company is known railway company friendly too
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Tesla admits Full Self-Driving beta may cause crashes, recalls 363,000 vehicles
Apparently those Super Bowl ads finally did the trick. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Thursday that Tesla is recalling nearly 363,000 of its vehicles because the Full Self-Driving software may cause a crash. Specifically, the NHTSA cites a risk to “exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner increases the risk of a crash.”
In all, the recall impacts 362,758 vehicles. They include, according to the announcement, “certain 2016-2023 Model S, Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta (FSD Beta) software or pending installation.”
https://www.engadget.com/tesla-recalls-over-360000-vehicles-for-full-self-driving-crash-risk-180110819.html
Always the way – “It can’t possibly be our fault. It must be user error.”
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It will be interesting to see how Tesla resolves this issue.
Those owners would have paid a exta premium for the full “self drive” option (and not cheap) ,..so Tesla will have to either perfect the systems quickly (unlikely ?), refund the 363,000 owners their premium , or possibly face a class action from owners who were sold a dangerous vehicle !
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Ministry of Truth: the secretive government units spying on your speech
Secretive Whitehall units have been monitoring government critics’ speech online – including MPs, academics, journalists, human rights campaigners and the public – under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation’.
We also expose the government’s use of the British Army to scan their own citizens’ speech online, with exclusive testimony from a whistleblower who worked in the “secretive information warfare machine”, 77th Brigade.
Full 106 page report:
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Ministry-of-Truth-Big-Brother-Watch-290123.pdf
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CAPITALISM’S DEMOCRACY
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
-Karl Marx
Dump ALL political parties and re-engineer the whole system.
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How?
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STEP 1
Next election, state or federal, and all subsequent elections until sanity returns, number the sitting member LAST if they are Liberal, Labor, National or Greens.
STEP 2
When sanity returns limit ALL representatives to TWO terms, and ALL senators to ONE term.
STEP 3
REDUCE all parliamentary salaries to average weekly wage.
None of the above requires a referendum.
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Chances of any of those happening – Zero.
(more’s the pity)
Tony.
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Then what’s your suggestion, Tony?
We all go lie down in a ditch and die quietly?
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Democracy is an unstable system, compared to a one party state, Beijing is amused.
American democracy is crap and the Westminster system may have passed its used by date, nevertheless we should retain it.
The MSM is the problem, they have to become a watchdog on the big issues and then the electorate get a clearer choice.
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“nevertheless we should retain it.”
Why? it doesn’t work!
The floggings will continue until morale improves?
Insanity is doing the same thing time and time again and expecting a different result?
A failed experiment, it attracts the worst people to power and allows them a dictatorship over the rest of us. Get rid of it and appoint people randomly, like a jury.
More importantly, get rid of one layer of Govt in Aussie, a complete waste of money, and cut Govt size, cost and power to a third of what it is!
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‘ … appoint people randomly, like a jury.’
That is a novel idea, all those who want a seat in parliament should put their names into a ballot. A lottery, where any clown can get in. Then they start haggling and forming coalitions.
Did you know they have democracy in China, lower echelons, but we could take a closer look.
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One of the worst developments in modern times is the rise of the career politician.
This sinister model has enabled the parasites to persist and develop unimaginably complex webs of influence which they then use to further extend and protect their tenure. The concept of university courses in political ‘science’ should, of course, be regarded as a bad joke by thinking people, but this further indoctrinates and embeds left-leaning individuals in our parliaments. Anybody who would want to study such a subject is obviously the type who believe only they are fit to rule and to make rules to govern us.
They quickly dismiss the notion that they are actually given their privileged position to represent the wishes of the electorate, not their own idealogical fantasies.
MV above is correct regarding limiting the number of terms they can ‘serve.’
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Bob Hope as a “trans” in the 50’s.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/68f3a4dc388b33cbdfffbd9b0c8d8416/3b95ef7acc83cb1e-21/s640x960/28e15e25e79a0571a2da0476016a488adaa2fddf.jpg
It’s so hard to tell he’s not female isn’t it.
Just like today. 🤣
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You know the old song.”Friday I’ve got Monday on my mind”.
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You’ve Made your Bed. – Lie in it.
Pretty girl.
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Remember Sam
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I posted this toward the end of the previous Open Thread so few people may have seen it but would like more people to see it and comment. Graeme No.3 and KP did comment in the previous thread, however.
I am interested in hearing a critique of this paper. Thoughts?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348077950_The_misleading_Greenhouse_Effect_Theory_is_falsified_by_experiment
The misleading Greenhouse Effect Theory is falsified by experiment
January 2021
Project: The Greenhouse Effect Theory is falsified by experiment
Authors: Brendan Godwin Retired
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It is only a “paper” because the author formatted with some (unorthodox) headings and made it into a pdf. It warrants no more consideration than if it had been pasted into a comment here.
his definition of a GHG is telling of the quality of the totally unreferenced content
I saw not one thing that he wrote that substantiates the title. And besides, his own definition of a GHG means he has no reason to go on any further.
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Poor GA.. [snip]
The quoted part is exactly what some AGW biddy wrote in a paper or talk recently.
And it is manifestly untrue. It is all WRONG !! Just as the pdf says.
A greenhouse blocks energy transfer by blocking CONVECTION..
The ONLY gas in the atmosphere that affects CONVECTION is H2O
The atmosphere DOES NOT ACT LIKE A GREENHOUSE… Period !
There is NO EVIDENCE that human released CO2 has any warming effect on the atmosphere.. period !
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“I saw not one thing”
Blinkered , tunnel vision, and cataracts… oh dear… poor GA. !
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You cannot falsify one part of this statement, can you GA.
You have NOTHING !
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“It is only a “paper”… blah, blah….”
What GA is saying, is that they/them is totally unable to counter a single point made in the paper.
The paper’s definition of CO2, H2O etc is absolutely correct.
The gravity based ATE is also totally correct.
It is GA’s understanding of physics and the atmosphere that is woefully inadequate.
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Interesting but I cannot agree that radiation plays such a big part in heat transfer. Conduction and Evaporation (leading to Convection as water vapour is less dense than air) play a part. After all the Earth’s surface is over 70% water.
I don’t agree that Water Vapour is at 4% of the atmosphere, it may be so in the Tropics but is a good deal less elsewhere. Anyone who has been in the tropics knows about the heat and clouds building up until the late afternoon when there is heavy rain. The heat energy in the water vapour can radiate upwards from high up in the troposphere, so water vapour acts as a heat transfer outwards.
His observation that “no body of matter can be warmed in any way by absorbing its own radiation. This is not physically possible. If that were possible, bodies of matter could spontaneously heat up” cancels out the whole AGW nonsense.
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A couple of clarifiations –
Atmospheric water vapour varies between 0.2% and 4% depending on location.
Clouds are not water vapour. Water vapour is gaseous water. Clouds are liquid water.
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Actually, the main balancing acts for energy in the atmosphere are by BULK AIR MOVEMENT !
They are controlled by the gravity based thermal gradient on which atmospheric CO2 has absolutely no measurable effect.
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Chiefio around that area
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/02/12/so-close-missing-convection-homeostasis/
And comments
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I’m right with EM Smith- the guy is too verbose and he misses some gigantic vital points like the Southern Ocean CO2 absorption.
However, I’m keen on his idea that our surface warming can easily come from inside the Earth, it’s never been explored and counted.
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as strange as it may seem, photons have momentum. it is a momentum that can only affect molecules at the correct lengths (wavelength/frequency) like a ring that goes completely around it or is conversely too small to knock the structure of the molecule out of whack. that is just to picture it, it is really an electrical field generated by a wave. water vapour is a dielectric molecule, so it is affected by the field much more than the co2 molecule, but co2 still has many freedoms in its structure that bend etc in the field created by the IR wave/photon. to say that the energy cannot be absorbed is to say that there is some magical source of energy that pops out of thin air.
i am guessing it is accepted that sw radiation warms the surface, and that there is not much absorption in those bands on the way to the surface. so a warmed surface that cools by radiating and convecting away heat right?
if i look at my computer as an example, I see that there are heatsinks on temperature critical semiconductors on there. fans on the ones that need constant cooling. the heatsink is there to increase the surface area to allow more cooling. the heat in the semiconductor is generated by current flowing through the chip, lets presume that this heat is the same as sw heating for the purpose of this. those chips can get very warm (60degc or so) and have thermal sensors on them which can be read very easily. on a cool day where the ambient temperature in my room is say 20degc the chip may run at around 40degc, but under the same workload, that chip will run close 50degc on a 30degc day with similar humidity. does the atmosphere warm the chip? well maybe, but it really is the wrong question to ask.
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I found it odd that nobody had tried an experiment to calibrate carbon dioxide warming in an atmospheric chamber. I assumed it was because there was nothing to put in a scientific paper, because the warming is the same as with pure air (80% Nitrogen + 20% Oxygen). An answer seems to come from “The Theory of Heat Radiation” by Max Planck. To simplify, there is evidence that radiative heating does not occur for a gas. The reason being that the random nature of the movement or vibration of molecules means that half of the molecules moving towards the radiation are slowed down or cooled. So then radiative forcing is real, but only positive for half of the molecules. So in reality no heat is created in this process. Particles for Gas but a Microwave oven proves its waves for liquids. Evidence of what causes warming comes from a debate on the old Mensa Debating Forum and the findings of Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller, who debate the issue on the tallbloke website. The inability to differentiate the calibration of carbon dioxide warming in an atmospheric chamber with pure Air, points to the fake science of carbon dioxide warming by radiative forcing. Venus has a 96.5 percent carbon dioxide atmosphere, so Venus has helped to prove that the “Unified Theory of Climate” is correct, as have other planets. Even before the Unified Theory of Climate, it was known that the temperature on Venus at the altitude that has identical pressure to that on the Earth’s surface is 1.176 times the Earth’s average surface temperature. The radiating temperature of Venus is 1.176 times that of the Earth, proving that input from the Sun and a change to thermal inertia due to pressure as a precise function of altitude are all that is needed to calculate the atmospheric greenhouse effect on Venus. The observations from the Magellan mission show that the atmosphere of Venus is at one bar pressure at an altitude of 30.75 miles. The only significant change to the temperature of the atmosphere of Venus is with altitude, the atmospheric temperature drops by an average of 100 Kelvin for every 11 miles, up to an altitude of 60 miles. From Venus the Sun appears 38 percent bigger than it does from the Earth, an atmosphere that is 96.5 percent CO2 and 93 times both the mass and the surface pressure of the Earth’s atmosphere, as well as having a quarter of a million times more CO2 than the Earth. But the simplest way of proving that Carbon Dioxide does not cause warming by radiative forcing, but by molar mass, is that we have seven replications of proof using the Scientific method, which are that the average temperature at the one bar pressure points on each of the planets, is the same, adjusted for distance from the Sun, despite the different main gases, Nitrogen for the Earth & Titan, Hydrogen for Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn & Uranus and Carbon Dioxide for Venus. The Poisson formula for the Greenhouse Effect based on Atmospheric mass, gravity and air pressure was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in “Theory of Heat (1871)”
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Hi Paul,
I did see an experiment that had a heating element in a tall gas cylinder under vacuum. the element temp was measured consistently for about 20 minutes until a stable temp was reached (long boring videos but interesting results).
The cylinder then had CO2 added to it and the same experiment run.
The temp reached by the element was lower with the CO2 added than without. the conclusion that convection rules not radiation.
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The reason for that would be that the average molar mass of dry air is 28.97 atomic mass units, which is lighter than the average molar mass of carbon dioxide at 44.01amu. The lighter air would travel faster making the element cooler than with carbon dioxide. An atmospheric chamber with artificial sunlight shone from all directions would eventually prevent convection at the point that the temperature stabilised. I presume such an experiment has been done but has not got into a scientific paper, because of the lack of any differentiation between temperatures using different gases. Proving that radiative forcing is a HOAX.
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the fake science in global warming tm is not the radiative forcing/absorption etc. that part is fairly clear and testable, just not with short pathways. this describes the interaction with gas molecules a little better –
https://www.irdg.org/ijvs/ijvs-volume-5-edition-3/infrared-spectroscopy-on-gases
it is also clear that the atmosphere does absorb radiation in the co2 bands, and more than just the water vapour in thos bands. the widening of the band is also true and expected. the problem starts when they claim that this little widening of the band from extra heat in the atmosphere will be amplified by extra water vapour entering the system. while it is true that there will be more water vapour there, it has been shown that what was expected was wrong (the missing hot spot). the feedback figures are just wrong. the 1.5degc increase per co2 doubling is about the most that should be expected, not ridiculous 4,5 or even 8 that is claimed. these computer driven models were bad when they were first produced and were never corrected because of too many vested interests. they know these models are wrong, yet they stay on this anti-science roundabout quoting each others works ad nauseam. not only do they ignore the problems with their bunk theory, they act like children and double down by pushing others, that they have control over, to reinforce their big lie.
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Friday woke silliness: redefining female
Use “egg producing” not “female” say (crackpot) scientists.
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1625907355878666244
Can’t wait for the trans men to address this one! Hilarity coming…
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What happens when a woman turns from being a ‘chick’ to being an ‘old chook’? There’s too much scope for unseemly ribaldry to say any more.
Annie (I identify as woman, thankyou).
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A chick becomes an old chook when she loses interest in blokes.
Blokes become old geezers when they lose interest in chicks.
Both can happen anytime – actual age has little to do with it.
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A bloke becomes an old geezer when the only women old enough to be attracted to him are too old to attract him.
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Egg producing? Chook farmer?
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My latest: Whale hell looms in Massachusetts
https://www.cfact.org/2023/02/16/whale-hell-looms-in-massachusetts/
The Feds predict a huge impact then deny causing any deaths.
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G’day David,
I thought it best to delay this reply until you posted again.
You’ve got a directional error in your fifth paragraph in “The math of chaos: Why weather and climate are unpredictable “.
The error is ” In between we get wind as air also is forced to flow horizontally from low to high pressure.”
Cheers
Dave B
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Thanks Dave. Silly of me.
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Wind is air in a hurry 😀
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Morbidly fascinating stuff David. How do they drive a pile 30 feet in diameter and hundreds of feet long? Is it driven as a hollow tube with new sections welded on then filled with concrete or some other way. Such engineering ingenuity is amazing, if the engineers can do this why oh why can’t they see that the whole charade is futile.
P.S Whales and dolphins are also proteced here in Australia even dead marine mammals washed ashore cannot be touched and anyone taking souvineers such as bones is subject to substantial fines. Guess what, largest wind farm in Australia proposed offshore near Portland in Victoria.
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How they drive these monsters is my question too. The biggest to date is 400′ long. But much bigger turbines are in process. Maybe this is why floating wind towers is all the rage, but they are still basically experimental prototypes. Over 50 designs have been proposed. I do not see how it can work in high wind and heavy seas.
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In NZ there is a rare species of dolphin called Hectors. It has a subspecies called Maui dolphin. Three are only about 50 left in the world. They live on the west coast of the NZ’s north island.
Guess where a large offshore wind farm is going to be built?
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Floating wind to replace coal in NSW
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/16/edf-renewables-acquires-multi-gigawatt-floating-wind-project-offshore-australia/?%3Futm_source=offshorewind&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_2023-02-17
“The 10 GW floating offshore wind project is planned to be installed near the Port of Newcastle which is located within Australia’s Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone (REZ). NOW will be situated near the port and energy transmission infrastructure.
It will be developed in stages to support the Government’s renewable targets and align with the planned retirement of the coal-fired power stations in the region.”
My guess is $40 billion USD.
Mindless madness.
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Only one question.
Who’s making money from this insanity?
Follow the money trail.
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And who is paying for it?
I remember reading of all the new windmills in South Australia and asking this question. So I looked at the SA State budget. Not a sausage.
It took a while to realise who was paying. We are.
It’s all government obligated and enforced ripoff from your electricity bills in the compulsory purchase of LGCs by energy retailers when they buy electricity from ‘non approved’ sources. Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2001. A whole act written without a single mention of the words ‘tax’ or ‘carbon’. Massive carbon
taxtheft since 2001. And the billions do not go into general revenue like a tax, so they do not appear in the budget. The government never touches the money but punishes electricity retailers if they do not pay up. And the LGCs are traded in a ‘market’, another fraud because it is not a market if the purchase is compulsory and you don’t need it. Not since before Magna Carta has there been such a flagrant breaking of Westminster tradition that you are not forced to hand cash to friends of the King for nothing at all.So we have the farce of State and Federal governments promising to lower the cost of electricity when it is the very same governments forcing it up to benefit their Green friends who build subsidized windmills and install subsidized solar panels. All subdized by electricity consumers. And it hits the poorest hardest. So much for the Labor party. They are crippling the poor in Australia and the UK who copied the legislation. These are people who are otherwise exempt from tax but not from government enforced, government administered theft.
Plus politicians and economists keep talking about introducing a real Carbon Tax. As if they did not have the world’s largest ripoff carbon scheme in place for 24 years. The City of Canberra owns its windmills and does not know how to account for the tens of millions a year in profits on our money.
So who owns all those windmills? They do, the ‘investors’, not the public who paid for them. And even better, they do not pay tax on literal windfall profits as they depreciate our windmills to offset their profits.
More windmills? Great! Free money and guaranteed profits. Even though it does not make sense for the people of Australia and cripples the poorest people. And remember, wind and solar are the cheapest forms of electricity. What an outrageous self evident lie!
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Revenge for the cancelled submarine contract….
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Criminal..
Right in the path of the whales moving up and down the coast.
They are only just recovered from Japanese whaling… Now this !
Where are the Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace when they should be fighting this.
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I mentioned it on the Greenpeace page attacking woodside petroleum, asked them when they were going to protest about the wind farms, they attacked me of course (not the facts just personal insults) and when I did the same at sea shepherd they at least admitted there was an issue but said it was being monitored and offshore wind was a positive (so poor luck whales)
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Right in the whale migration path?
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Yes.
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Leftist “journalists”, that’s nearly all of them, are incredibly lazy.
I fear they will become even lazier and will soon, if not already, get ChatGPT to write their stories for them.
ChatGPT has already been programmed with a Leftist bias so the journalist won’t have to do any editing.
If you do a Goolag search using the term “chatgpt to replace journalist” without quotes, you will see much discussion about this topic.
I fear we’ll be now bombarded with even more Leftist BS than ever before.
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Nordstream explosion was ‘act of international terrorism’.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/17/WS63eeb4f2a31057c47ebaf41e.html
Should the US government pay reparations?
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Maybe the US found something real interesting slung beneath the balloons, and this is round 1 in the media wars.
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The Climate Cultists Are Coming For Electric Cars, Too
Replacing all gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles won’t be enough to prevent the world from overheating.
So people will have to give up their cars.
That’s the alarming conclusion of a new report from the University of California, Davis, and “a network of academics and policy experts” called the Climate and Community Project.
The report offers an honest look at the vast personal, environmental, and economic sacrifices needed to meet the left’s net-zero climate goals.
Progressives’ dirty little secret is that everyone will have to make do with much less—fewer cars, smaller houses and yards, and a significantly lower standard of living.
Eliminating cars—not only gasoline-powered ones—is the left’s ultimate goal. This is why progressives have mobilized against nearly every mineral mining project in the U.S.
Report pdf:
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/eenews/?id=00000185-e562-de44-a7bf-ed7751a00000
“It’s a trap!”😉
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Umm, with 15Km Cities/towns/villages, why would you need any type of car? (says the government apparatchik)
Tony.
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“The Climate Cultists Are Coming For …”
‘Decarbonization’
They telling us right up front what they’re coming for.
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Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) adds over $500 billion to the economy out of thin air since 2019
It funded the lock downs/job keeper.
Any guesses on how much this added to inflation?
The deaths predicted never happened but the printing presses rolled on regardless.
Do the taxpayers have to pay this back or does it magically disappear in thin air the same way it got here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRblw5xmK0&t=406s
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Well who’d have thought?
From the ABC this afternoon:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/covid-infection-gives-similar-immunity-to-vaccination-study/101989472
But I would like to see the paper which supports their ” vaccines are still the safer option “.
Cheers
Dave B
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How does a person who has never contracted COVID have any risk of re-infection?
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I’m curious to know, what the fix point of “effective” shots could be.
Where are the numbers proving that opinion ?
How many people have been saved from COV-19 by the shots ?
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This is from Quora Digest.
It refers to the most infamous photo of the Vietnam war of General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting at close range Nguyễn Văn Lém but all is not what it seems in this shocking photograph.
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What historical photos are generally misunderstood?
This photo is one of the most famous photographs of the Vietnam War, and it seems to have a clear message.
It’s hard not to feel shock and disgust and guilt when you watch a soldier (General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan) shoot a defenseless civilian (Nguyễn Văn Lém) and when you know you are looking at the exact moment of death. Ballistics experts say the picture shows the microsecond the bullet entered the man’s head. Considered one of the most influential images of the Vietnam War, the photo was reprinted around the world because it symbolized for many the brutality and anarchy and futility of the war. It also sparked the growing anti-war sentiment in the US.
In reality, however, nothing on the photo is as it seems. The civilian wasn’t a civilian. Lém was a captain in the Viet Cong Army and he was caught red-handed leading a Viet Cong hit team tasked with killing National Police members or, if they couldn’t find any, their families instead.
On the morning of that day, Lém’s death squad had just killed 34 people – and they may have been looking for Loan himself.
General Loan shot and killed Lém for having caused the massacre. Apart from several police officers, the Viet Cong had cut the throats of a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel, his wife, their six children and his 80-year-old mother; after that, he had taken off his uniform and wanted to run away in civilian clothes. It was day 10 of the Tet Offensive when the Viet Cong had overrun many South Vietnamese towns.
Legally, Lém was in a bad position. He wasn’t wearing a uniform, he wasn’t fighting a battle, and he had evidently committed a major war crime. As a war criminal and terrorist, Lém had effectively no protection under the Geneva Conventions and was eligible for summary execution when caught.
General Loan was the Godfather of the murdered children, by the way.
The photographer Eddie Adams later regretted having released the photo because it had caused big trouble for General Loan. In his opinion, the photo had been misinterpreted. In an interview he said: “Everyone would have pulled the trigger at that point.”
Adams and Loan stayed in touch and even became friends after the general, who had had a leg amputated from an injury, fled South Vietnam for the United States at the end of the war. But after his arrival, the Americans wanted to deport him again because of the photo. They turned to Adams to testify against Loan, but Adams testified in his favor instead. Adams even appeared on TV to explain the circumstances of the photo. Congress eventually overturned the deportation and allowed Loan to stay and opened a burger restaurant in suburban Washington, DC. He died of cancer in 1998.
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Thanks.
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The corrupt and pernicious pharma industry are at it again. I have a very good friend working in cancer research in the US. We both graduated university together and whilst I went on to a career in sales, Brian went into cancer research. He has now given it up. He is thoroughly disgusted with whole scam. Rather than looking to cure cancer, the push from big pharma now is hold the cancer in stasis. The whole idea is that the patient has to take medication every day for the rest of their lives, the aim being that they die with the cancer not from it. But the benefit for big pharma is that they have a customer for life, a guaranteed revenue stream. I have also had this confirmed by a lab technician who wanted to move in to cancer research, but is so disillusioned by this approach that he is off to work as a lab tech in a school. Not so well paid, but at least he sees this as honest work.
Bunch of scumbags.
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wow. But it is the logical end product of the system we have. 🙁
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It’s a tragic area, soul destroying for doctors.
Is it really that researchers have a simple choice between planning to hold a cancer in check and curing it?
Just holding a cancer in check is a wonderful achievement for any victim. Destroying it completely is a quite different thing and extremely rare. I have lost too many friends to cancer to think the pharmaceutical companies have any solution they are holding back. It’s not a question of money.
I expect holding a cancer in check is a lot simpler with many more general options than finding a cure, so while this priority looks quite terrible at face value, the first aim and not simple aim must be to stop the person from dying. This could easily be misinterpreted.
It’s not as if cures for cancer have been so commonplace in the last hundred years. Many oncologists and researchers dedicated their lives to this and it has been a very profoundly disappointing area of work for people who started careers with high hopes decades ago that they could make a difference. One oncologist friend says he poisons people within an inch of their lives and clearly this is done in the hope of stimulating a response. This is a very high risk strategy with predictable consequences.
And for doctors it is really devastating as the people are otherwise healthy well people, often in the prime of life. Not being able to do anything is awful.
The idea that the companies can find a cure but choose not to do so and direct their researchers not to do so is damning but most unlikely. The first priority is always to keep the person alive and hope you can come up with something better.
There have been some notable successes and more recently like leukemia and Aids, but I can understand that the first priority is to halt the cancer. This is could easily be understood as a deliberate act to maximize profits but that may be at least very unfair.
I remember Raisa Gorbachev, the former Russian President’s wife, who for many years fought to establish clinics for Russian children with Leukemia. She succeeded and the death rate dropped from 90% to 10%. A lot of this was of course that most did not get treatment at all quite apart from improvements in the treatment itself. Unfortunately and so ironically she herself later died from leukemia. Her grave in Moscow is always covered in flowers.
Yes there are rapacious people in business management but anyone who actually held back a cure for cancer so they could profit from someone’s suffering has a place in hell.
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Hi Ted,
I think you have a wonderful optimistic nature when it comes to big pharma. The next couple of years will be a telling time for these guys. Some years ago, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Kode division, developed AGI-134. This is a derivative of Galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose, or alpha gal. This substance is present in the cell walls of just about every mammal with the exception of old world monkeys and man. As such, we have a very strong immune response to the presence of alpha gal. AGI-134 is designed to be injected into a solid tumour and will bind to these tumour cells. It will mimic alpha gal and, as such, illicit a very strong immune response. This is in clinical trials with BioLineRX. To quote the web site, “Binding of anti-Gal antibodies to the treated tumours results in activation of the complement cascade, which destroys the tumour cells and creates a pro-inflammatory tumour microenvironment that also induces a systemic, specific anti-tumour (vaccine) response to the patient’s own tumour neo-antigens.” In other words, the bodies own immune system takes out the tumour and produces an immunity to that type of cancer coming back. This also deals with the problem of metastasis. Now the chances are you haven’t heard of this, just as the vast majority of the world hasn’t.
https://www.biolinerx.com/pipeline/agi-134/solid-tumors.
Keep an eye on this. To be very cynical, this approach is a huge threat to the cancer chemotherapy industry and much bigger companies such as Roche, Pfizer (and we all know about them), Johnson and Johnson, Astra Zeneca and Merck and they won’t take this sitting down. Imagine the hit to their bottom lines. I just hope it doesn’t go the same way as some other promising cancer treatments, or indeed, some of the other cheap and effective pharmaceutical alternatives. Just look up Aeronabs. Whilst this was being touted as a new approach and possibly an effective “block” for Covid – 19, it had actually been developed as a response to SARS back in 2002. Covid-19 is SARS COV 2, a similar virus. It was just about ready to go when COVID-19 broke out (or escaped depending on your view), but, if I was a betting man, I would put money on you never having heard of it. Pfizer et al effectively managed to overwhelm the lame stream media and governments with their approach. This article from the British Medical Journal speaks volumes.
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
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Ted, I would have thought the Covid debacle would have shown you all you need to know about the humanity of the pharma industry..
We are sheep to be kept alive and shorn of every bit of wealth we create!
I have no problem believing they would buy up a cancer cure and make it disappear! The automotive industry is another one.
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Getting rid of a cancer is so much better. As long as the cancer lives, it can still mutate, then spread again. And then there are the side effects of the drug. Lifelong? And the costs.
So much better to get rid of it. Ideally if we can uncloak the cancer from the immune system our white blood cells will destroy every last cell, and then any stragglers that revert too.
There is also the psychological freedom of not having to do the constant monitoring, and the stress of yet another test that “might” be bad.
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The CSIRO says the electricity system will need up to $1 Trillion of investment by 2050.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-03/electricity-networks-need-up-to-$1-trillion-of-investment-ena/6996200
Will it be funded by the same magical Reserve Bank of Australia “electronic journal entry” (commonly called printing money) that recently made over $500 Billion dollars appear out of thin air?
The same R.B.A. says in the video link below it added to inflation. (see video at 3mins 40 secs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRblw5xmK0&t=406s
By the year 2050 most of the “renewable electrical system” (that will make no measurable difference to global temperatures) being 20 to 25 years old, will need to be renewed. We then may need another $1 Trillion dollars or more for the next two to three decades to keep the lights on. The cost of safely disposing the old “renewables” in 2050 may also cost the earth.
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” $1 Trillion of investment by 2050.”
4 or 5 new modern coal fired power stations don’t cost anywhere near that amount.
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Nor would a few nuclear SMRs spread around the countryside.
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And the reason for this expense beyond belief is to save the world from Global Warming? With more than half the CO2 from China and growing by more than our entire output every year? Why bother?
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15 minute cities are open prisons
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Let’s hope the implement them firstly in areas that are predominately leftist.
And then close them.
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True.
Update your vax pass.
Print out your social media good behavior certification.
Pick up the ball attached to your leg with a chain, and you can go anywhere you want.
Except Davos and Martha’s Vineyard.
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Surprised to hear you say that Peter. Are you the same person as the regular PF?
Aren’t 15 min cities the ultimate Orwellian socialist utopia?
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As far as I can tell, he appears to be the same PF.
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Not always open,and if, only under conditions / limitations…
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You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave . . .
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You can easily do that with today’s Canadian euthanasia laws. You can “check out” for just about any reason.
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Possibly the first time I have agreed with you.
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Very occasionally Peter does come up with some surprisingly good comments .
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The idea will never become universally popular.
‘The TikTok-style takedowns of the 15-minute city focus more on prison walls. Of course, it doesn’t help credibility of a concept when the World Economic Forum starts promoting it, leading even some of the most non-conspiracy theorists to start thinking a conspiracy is at play.’ (Popular Mechanics)
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“EU Puts Continent on Fast Track to Zero… New Fossil Fuel Cars to Be Banned By 2035!”
Opening image
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/image-81.png?resize=720%2C643&ssl=1
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/16/eu-puts-continent-on-fast-track-to-zero-new-fossil-fuel-cars-to-be-banned-by-2035/
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Human ingenuity will prevail to keep the “fossil fuel” cars running just like the classic cars in Cuba. Or maybe the cars in Mad Max.
It’s never a good idea until the right person has had it. It’s never a bad idea until the wrong person has had it.
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All very well Forrest, but while the totalitarians are in control, they will send the stormtroopers door to door to confiscate fossil fuel cars.
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My crystal ball is not that good but so far not even the boldest planet savers have gone further than stopping manufacture. And to mix metaphors a lot of water has to flow under the bridge before that particular excretum hits the ventilator.
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Origin may be considering delaying the closure of Eraring, ustralia’s largest coal power station, originally to be closed in 2025. The extension may be a few more years, with the NSW govt providing support. Brookfield has said that it also would consider extending Eraring’s life if it wins its takeover bid.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/origin-coal-plant-exit-may-be-delayed-macquarie/news-story/d71bc726d9678db02876f650b5386fd4
The article claims that this is because storage systems such as Snowy 2 and large-scale batteries are behind schedule, but entirely misses the point that backup systems can never replace baseload power plants.
And the AEMO will release its annual energy outlook next week.
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No.
They should close it.
The sooner Australia experiences major grid failure the sooner people will wake up and see the mess we’re in.
Only then will there be a (slim) chance of escaping the present unreliables insanity.
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Monsoon still active here on the Atherton Tablelands at Yungaburra, 400mm for Jan. & 200mm so far this month, still raining. Other places have more. Temps generally in the mid 20 s during the day and under 20 at night. Tinnaroo dam is spilling over. All the crops are looking magnificent.
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Karumba and Normanton getting the best wet for a long time. Great for the Mud Crab, Prawns and fishing in general.
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If you can’t catch a good size Barra during the wet at Karumba take up knitting .
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Bye Bye
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As in Ja mata ne, or, sayo-nara deska?
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Free thought too much for you?
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?? Didn’t even know you were here !
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See you later.
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I just heard on the radio thst supposedly 892 people have died “from covid” so far this year in Australia.
Do you believe it?
And why are they still letting people die when we know simple measures like prior correction of Vitamin D deficiency and safe antivirals like IVM and zinc with an ionophore (according to published protocols) will likely save them?
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When I heard that news I wondered fleetingly how many of the cause-of-death had been verified by autopsy.
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Excellent short video clip of Donald Trump saying that if re-elected he will, on his first day, reverse the Biden Maladministration order of mutilating and sterlising “gender affirming care” (sic) of children.
For Leftists who think this is a terrible proposition, research on non-censored sites, the huge amount of regret from these obscene, irreversible procedures that are now being heavily promoted by the Left to children in all Western countries.
https://youtu.be/6xGOZwZo1S8
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Notice how the Left are heavily pushing the replacement of all gas and liquid fueled appliances with electric ones?
Electric appliances are far more amenable to remote control than non-electric ones.
The long term reason is that they will get control over all your appliances and be able to control them. E.g. turn off your EV if it goes beyond the “15 min city” limits, or decide the inside of your home is too cool in summer or too warm in winter, or that your showers are too hot.
Australia, being a fanatical follower of UN and WEF decrees already has the basics of this technology in place.
Most domestic air conditioners are sold with DRED (Demand Response Enable Device) technology already fitted which allows a grid operator to remotely change the temperature to lower electricity demand. Currently it’s optional and as a reward for using it with some electricity suppliers you get a discount. But they will likely become compulsory in future Australia continues to dismantle its energy supply.
I wrote an article about the technology of DRED in 2017.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2017/April/DRED%3A+they+can+turn+your+aircon+off%21
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Ha!
I just heard someone on ABC (Australia) radio refer to “pregnant people”, not “pregnant women”.
Because we all know “men can have babies too”….
Idiots!
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It has of course been trendy for some time for the father to say “we” are pregnant rather than “she” is pregnant.
And bravo for listening to their ABC so I don’t have to.
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Nord Stream bubbles
” Right after I said yesterday that the Russians were being a bit too quiet about Nord-Gate, Reuters ran a sobering story headlined, “Russia to Call U.N. Security Council Meeting Over Nord Stream Blasts.” ”
“Some analysts think that Russia wants the security council meeting to create a public record of its justification for some planned retaliatory act. Whatever it is, it’s probably going to be something we won’t like. ”
From today’s Covid and Coffee
Plus other waves – some of Florida’s making
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/revived-friday-february-17-2023-c?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Subscribe at no cost is worth the reading so far (IMO)
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One Florida wave
“BOOM. Florida has done it again! And it escalated. Florida Surgeon General Ladapo sent a letter to the CDC and FDA demanding they admit that the vaccines are causing unacceptably-high levels of injury:”
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I wish Australia had politicians (in major parties) or public serpents that were capable of thinking rationally and didn’t just “follow the narrative”.
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Perhaps the Security Council record anticipates a possible outcome of the Ukraine conflict in Russia’s favour, leading to a political settlement and reparations. A signal to the US that a restoration of Russia’s position as a major energy supplier to Europe should be part of the settlement and that US cooperation will be expected.
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FWIW
“HUGE: FOX News Filing Shows DOMINION Voting Systems Executives Including Eric Coomer Knew Its Voting Systems Had Major Security Issues, Was Hacked, and Was “Riddled with Bugs” ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/breaking-sht-just-riddled-bugs-fox-news-filing-shows-dominion-knew-voting-systems-major-security-issues/
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FWIW – Looks at the US medical system – long
“The Medical Mafia MUST Be Destroyed”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248116
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How to commercialise what you learn at Uni:-( how to hitch a ride on the ESG Gravy train…)
https://youtu.be/E7bgWIdENQc
https://www.netnada.com.au/
[ keep bucket handy ]
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In Woolies yesterday, I was searching for my favourite caramel, macadamia, honey ice cream (CMHI).
An Indian guy was ahead of me, furtively searching for some mix.
When he found it, I asked with some interest “What was that?” He said XYZ which was not CMHI. He then asked, “What did you want?” I said “CMHI”. He located it very quickly.
I said: “You realize, I would have killed you for that?”
He answered “Well, it’s lucky we didn’t kill each other today!”
God bless the Indians!
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Aren’t coincidences amazing?
“Just Moments After Trump Announces Trip to East Palestine, FEMA Reverses Decision on Ohio Disaster Aid”
https://beckernews.com/moments-after-trump-49369/
Via a comment at Conservative Tree House
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An intense and thunderstorm developed over Sydney’s Warragamba catchment at 2pm this afternoon and may reach the western Sydney urban area by 5pm.
Suddenly appeared on the BOM’s rain radar, though the growing cumulus and anvil cloud were visible to observers since 1pm.
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Sat 18th Feb, 36-37 deg all afternoon here in Castle Hill (Sydney NW)
Have some air conditioning last couple of years and its a saviour . .
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