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I know the selfless readers of this blog will take the soaring petrol prices as the signal to walk, cycle, get a bus or buy an electric car
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13356225/Aussie-petrol-prices-hit-time-high-capital-cities-reasons-why.html
Or, unless it is different to here in the UK, they might wonder why EV owners are freeloading off ICE drivers by not paying any equivalent of fuel tax, yet expect to use the road infrastructure
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All EVs in NZ have just been made liable for road user charges.
Those vehicles with regenerative braking already paid through a petrol tax.
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About time! The Hybrids have had this benefit for 25 years. For EV’s the 7.6c a km will add to the costs of running it enormously.
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You sound like a crazy green saying that miners are subsidised by taxpayers because they don’t pay road tax on their mine vehicles. Your logic, or lack thereof, is the same.
A standard Corolla would get the same “milage” as my hybrid Camry. Is he/she being subsidised?
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That’s good. I dont understand the connection between regen braking and petrol tax.
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If only we were buying petrol from Russia, so much cheaper with the capped price sanctions..
Still, pay the extra on every article you buy and feel warm and fuzzy about helping America’s war effort.
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I haven’t felt warm and fuzzy about the US of A for quite a while now!
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Warm and fuzzy might not apply generally if the US degenerates further. Still we are working towards self sufficiency. (Sarc)
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I take it as a signal to look after my little lpg truck and enjoy the saving while they last.
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I don’t think it should be Free Speech Monday.
Governments like to put out info that they don’t want noticed on Friday.
That means if we have Free Speech Monday, people might talk about things that got noticed that they shouldn’t talk about, that were supposed to be pigeon holed by the weekend.
I say Free Speech Tuesday is best.
That way government has Wednesday and Thursday to construct li … I mean, properly sourced information, that counters any malinformation that inconveniently bubbles to the surface on Free Speech Tuesday.
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How about having a “Free Speech 29 February”? The next one is due in 2028?
I am sure Albo and his e-Safety Commissar would be on board with this proposal.
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Leap Day 2028 will be observed on Tuesday, Feb. 29
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On the subject of Free Speech
How many Australians would be horrified to see the map on this link?
Note the small areas in orange where “Native Title does not exist”
Soon 80% of Australia will be owned by a privileged race who are less than 1% of the popluation
If you are not a member of this privileged race you soon will have to pay money to this privileged race. In former times you often had to provide your labour free to a privileged race – this will be a modern incarnation of this long standing historical principle.
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/connection-to-country-review-of-the-native-title-act-1993-cth-alrc-report-126/3-context-for-reform/outcomes-to-date/
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Most of it under “native title” or claims.
Most land is or will be removed from economic activity.
Might as well shut down the place.
When the Chicomms invade I’m sure they’ll respect native title claims…
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How/why would the Chicomms invade us? They pay the market price for their imports in whatever quantity they want, they get market price for their exports. How could going to war make that better?
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What has happened since 2014?
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The basis for the Federal Labor Native Title legislation (also see later state title legislation) is known as the Mabo decision based on that family of Torres Strait Island residence continuous occupation of land on one island. The Native Title was then extended to Aboriginal lands or countries of mobs, but how was continuous occupation proven? The control is with Aboriginal Land Councils and they have tax-free status and revenue from various sources, many from mining royalties and pastoral leases.
Today over 55 per cent of Australia is under Native Title Aboriginal Land Council control. Add former state public lands handed over to applicants based on land claimed to be unused, one of many examples was a former bowling club site in the North Sydney Council District.
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The extension of Mabo decision was one of the most appalling and destructive decisions in Australian legal history.
The original Mabo case was based upon a family having defined areas of land ownership and using a system of stone markers to delineate plots of land.
That idea was quite compatible with Western concepts of property rights. They submitted as evidence a map.
https://i0.wp.com/nacchocommunique.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/img_9809-copy.png?ssl=1
It was quite absurd to extend that idea to the mainland, to an entirely different people, who had no concept of land ownership, maps or marking of property boundaries.
It actually represents the end of Australia as a viable country.
And even if it was acceptable to hand over vast swaths of land to Aborigines, why not give them normal land titles so the land can be sold to anyone including non-Aborigines or borrowed against? Native title land cannot be transferred or sold.
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That “map” looks like it should be stuck with a magnet to the fridge door next to other kindergarten projects
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There was never a need for race based leglislation in the Mabo decision
The Mabo people could have easily been granted land ownership under “Adverse Possession”
Adversion possession applies to anyone no mattter what race they are.
If was lefty activist judges on the High Court who sold out the majority of Australians
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In a 3 – 4 decision
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‘ … privileged race …’
They cannot use the land for economic activity, so its back to the dream time.
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So mining is not economic activity?
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This was a victory for commonsense.
‘Justice Charlesworth ultimately dismissed the application and lifted the injunction previously imposed on Santos, clearing the way for construction of the Barossa Project pipeline to proceed.’ (Gilbert + Tobin)
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Well, it’s nice to know that we are paying for it:
Commonwealth funding through the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups that wish to pursue a claim.
https://www.qld.gov.au/firstnations/environment-land-use-native-title/what-it-means-for-queensland
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Map makes no sense to me vis-a-vis the NW of SA, the lands given to the Pij-you spell the rest – peoples by the egregious Don Dunstan 50+ years ago. These lands are fenced, I cannot go there and nor can you. They represent about 13% of SA from memory and SA is very big place. So whether or not it’s “native title” I don’t care, but it sure ain’t available for whitey – unless you are a white nurse of course and get murdered there as one poor woman was a decade or so back.
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These days traveling in the outback requires so many permits that they end up overloading the vehicle. It’s a national disgrace that only aboriginal people and politicians (yes they exempted themselves from needing permits) can visit most of this vast nation.
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The push back against wokeism continues with the phasing out of words that seem to suggest that women don’t exist in the NHS
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/28/chestfeeding-to-be-banned-in-nhs-crackdown/
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Birthing people…..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13168139/NHS-birthing-people-term-gender-rights-campaigners.html
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No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/28/no-gas-and-air-in-the-eco-future
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The reality of pain during childbirth hits hard and all the coerced plans for a “natural” childbirth go flying out the window.
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Biden least popular President in 70 years
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/biden-least-popular-president-in-70-years-below-nixon-carter-gallup-poll/
Under him the US has taken a distinct turn to the left
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Anyone who thinks Biden is running anything would be mistaken. If he wasn’t such a nasty bully and lifelong crook, you would feel sorry for him. He has no idea where he is or what he is saying. Pause. End of Message. Talk about Weekend at Bidens.
As Rep. Keith Self warns, the U.S. Constitutional Republic Can’t Survive a ‘Fourth Obama Term’.
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Obama is not running it either; he is well and truly compromised.
The whole point of the mission is to destroy the U.S. Constitutional Republic because it stands in the way of the globalist tyranny.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-owners-of-debt?publication_id=769245&post_id=143969525&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=7icd&triedRedirect=true
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I doubt that Obama ever ran it but at least he could get behind a microphone and make coherent sentences.
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Obama was as big a puppet as Biden, but he could read an oration screen. Did you ever see him struggle when the teleprompter failed?
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Speaking of “Weekend and Biden’s” . . . a couple of oldies but goodies. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6PH9E5jiA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXs_fCkWZ28
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So others have made the connection.
It must be galling for Obama to watch as his idiot VP gets credit and fame for running the country. What credit there is.
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It will be horrifying if Biden “wins” the “election”.
If a fair election is allowed (unlikely) and they haven’t jailed* Trump on “trumped-up” charges, Trump will easily win but if there isn’t a fair or free election (likely), that is the end of the United States and the West in general.
*Theoretically, a jailed candidate could still win but it would present some difficulties running the country from a jail cell. Eugene V. Debs contested the 1920 Presidential election from jail and got over 3% of votes.
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Jeffrey Epstein ran into a few difficulties running his business from a jail cell.
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How Canada’s energy experiment backfired – and why smart meter Britain is next
https://archive.ph/GfAcA
Years after Ontario’s flawed reforms, the province has little to show for its efforts
As residents of Ontario, Canada, look forward to the arrival of summer after months of sub-zero temperatures, they are advised to think carefully about when to fire up the barbeque.
Between the hours of 11am and 5pm on any given weekday, energy prices are more than double what they are overnight and considerably higher than in the early morning or late afternoon, according to guidance from the Ontario Energy Board, the province’s energy regulator.
When the nation’s most populous province switched over millions of households to dynamic pricing for energy in 2010 – underpinned by a rapidly completed smart meter rollout – officials believed consumers would alter their behaviour accordingly and benefit from cheaper bills.
Every ratepayer was forced to subscribe to one of three time of use (TOU) tariffs which use dynamic prices that are linked to how busy the energy grid is. Smart meters are mandatory so suppliers will always know how much energy a household is using and when…
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A few batteries should fix this problem
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We can laugh now but I wonder that this is also planned for us.
Aren’t we lucky that all those highly edumacated, smart people are in charge! /sarc
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How do you “fire up” an electric barbeque? Most folks I know have a gas or wood BBQ.
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Probably the “ON” switch
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They have the reverse problem to Australia. We have a glut of lunch time power. If Sally McManus builds on her brilliant flood mitigation logic of people turning on taps, she will probably pop up with a scheme to turn on electric BBQs and ovens to help soak up the excess.
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Rita Pabahi talks about ANU’s implementation of “indigenous mathematics” because as we all know, “Western” mathematics is “racist” and “colonialist”, especially such discriminatory concepts as getting the correct answer. What’s wrong with 2+2=5?
Video: https://youtu.be/ZiS3iSEshc0
I look forward to indigenous insights into the following mathematical problems that racist Western mathematics has had difficulty solving:
Riemann hypothesis, P versus NP problem, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier-Stokes equation, Yang-Mills theory, and Poincaré conjecture.
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“Indigenous nathematics” is based on Base 24 since this is the number of cans or bottles in a carton of VB. 24 has more divisors than Base 10 making it easier to share a slab equally amoung your mates.
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There were at least 300 aboriginal dialects. So I looked up their numerals . Most could not count to ten. There was no need.
The projection of European development onto aborigines is absurd. Mathematics did not, could not exist.
Even the very sophisticated and modern Pacific Islanders who could navigate across open water with precision only had about 700 words in their language, which the universities are fixing in faux Maori, now that Maori is compulsory. They are inventing a new Maori language, for places like airports and things like cars. We will get to the point where people speak a language which never existed.
A lot of this modern aboriginal folklore is simply invented by projection. They were not even stone age. And the very few unique objects like fish spears, boomerangs, didgeridoos, dugout canoes, swimming were unique to small regions.
It was brutal short existence like the lions of the Serengeti, small family hunting groups. Now we are told they had agriculture, manufacturing,buildings, cities, farms, sophistication, even Nations and sovereignty without a sovereign or royalty or a map. They didn’t know where they lived.
It’s all made up nonsense. It was not a noble life and without nobility. And they lacked alcohol, metal, glass and clothes. As top predator, there was no need to invent anything.
The very idea of aboriginal weather forecasting is silly. What was the point of knowing the weather tomorrow? They were not going anywhere and did not have to change clothes. And what possible use did they have for mathematics?
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Blake’s Australian Aboriginal Languages points out Aborigines felt no need to count, and while they all had words for “one” and “two” only some made it to “three” and “four”.
I would say that many of the claimed “number words” are in fact recent fabrications along the line of Dark Emu.
The Walpiri, for example, only has words for “one”, “two”, and “many”, as shown in this excerpt from The Story of 1:
https://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/
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Do they have a word for when they stepped on a sharp rock, the equivalent of a Lego block?
“That was as sharp as a chemistry teacher’s cardigan, the #$%@&”
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As Andrew Bolt has reported on Sky and other media, as researched and the person is unwilling to debate the rejection of his claim to indigenous ancestry, the author of Dark Emu Black Seeds has Anglo Saxon family tree.
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TdeF, a genuine question:
I have noticed that on old maps the Melbourne river is named Yarra-Yarra. Does it mean “2 Yarras” or “many Yarras” ?
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The Aboriginal name of the river is Yarro-yarro. I guess it’s translated to Yarra Yarra and shortened to Yarra. Today there is the Yarra Yarra Golf Club.
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What are ‘bluppies’?—Blackfella yuppies!
How do you call a blackfella with dandruff? – A Lamington.
(Aboriginal sourced jokes btw)
Ironically, there’s an indigenous drink called SOBAH, made from native bush products, along with Boab beer.
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I do not know, but there was a lot of repetition. Primitive counting in a world without numbers
As with many names like the city of Wagga or Wagga Wagga. And logically it is a simple way to express two of anything. “It is widely accepted that ‘Wagga’ means ‘crow’ and to create the plural, the Wiradjuri people repeat the word. Thus Wagga Wagga translates as ‘the place of many crows’. And no one knows why Ballarrat with so many letters, but the current myth is “The City of Ballarat is thought to be named from two Aboriginal words, “balla” meaning elbow or reclining on the elbow, and “arat” meaning place, signifying a camping or resting place.
The Yarra itself split into two rivers just upstream from Port Phillip Bay, the largely estuarial Maribyrnong or “Salt Water Creek” and the stream into the soggy marsh around West Footscray where it joined with the Moonee Ponds Creek. So you may be right. The attraction of Melbourne was fresh water not far upstream where there was a rocky ford, since demolished. The next ford at Dight’s Falls which is hard for visitors to find.
So Yarra Yarra makes sense as the place of two rivers. Or many rivers, as it was a large marshy area with at least three inputs. Counting one, two, many.
The Yarra was very hard to navigate for sailing ships so the Coode Canal was build in the 1880s, a one mile dead straight connection to create deep harbours for what became the biggest port South of Singapore.
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I have great admiration for any race of people that could count to sixty five thousand.
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The Arabs were credited with numbers, but it was not true. All mathematics came from India, like most of the people of Europe.
What drove the need for arithmetic was the new Muslim religion which required assets of the deceased to be distributed equally among heirs. From there mathematics went to Europe with their conquests in Spain and Eastern Europe. Before that time Arabs could not count past 1,000 and 1,001 was the equivalent of infinity. Thus the endless stories of the 1,001 Arabian nights.
As for mathematics in Roman times, they had very big numbers but have you seen Roman numerals? An infinite system but try multiplication.
The huge advances from India also included the concept of zero, the decimal point and negative numbers, subtraction as well as addition. The lack of subtraction led to double entry bookkeeping with credits in one column and debits in another because that was all they could do. And multiplication was right out, so the Abacus and more. A mechanical form of Roman numbers.
Now we are expected to believe a pre stone age people had mathematics when no one else did? There was no need for mathematics.
The same with Pythagoras’ invention in 500BC. There is no point inventing the Pythagorean solution without being able to square or square root and have a decimal point. But it was a way to reliable create angles other than 45. And fifty cattle were slaughtered for the feast to celebrate the invention.
They had vertical from a plumb bob. And they used a ditch with water for horizontal. It was all done in wood, not numerals. It could not even be expressed mathematically until Rene Descartes and his algebra.
So much of European discovery happened in the last two thousand years and most in the last 500. And yet we are told Aborigines had it all covered.
This is because the Aboriginal industry is chewing up $42 Billion a year, just like the Climate Change industry. And the cash just vanishes and no one is better off except those who handle the money. And no one measures the benefit because there is none.
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Robert Kaplan, author of The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero and former professor of mathematics at Harvard University, provides this answer:
The first evidence we have of zero is from the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia, some 5,000 years ago.
The Mayans invented it independently circa 4 A.D. It was later devised in India in the mid-fifth century, spread to Cambodia near the end of the seventh century, and into China and the Islamic countries at the end of the eighth. Zero reached western Europe in the 12th century.
The Babylonians displayed zero with two angled wedges.
The Mayans used an eyelike character to denote zero.
The Chinese started writing the open circle we now use for zero.
The Hindus depicted zero as a dot.
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There is a vast difference between zero as nothing and zero as a numeral. Everyone had the idea that you started with nothing. Zero, Zilch, nada. It was a statement of fact. You had to express it as a symbol, a character.
But it has a very different meaning in the number 10 and 100. This was a new idea. Without the zero as a numeral you cannot express numbers of any base. That was the zero I meant.
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Thanks,
It is such a pity that Australian science, wasted not unique but rare opportunity to take face to face with “pre-historic” people. Even if to better understand ourselves.
Racial superiority is not my cup of tea. Yet, exposed a bit to people who saw first white man after my birth date (PNG Highlands) I was surprised how close we were.
BTW, you can add “Nichegoh” to Zilch and Nada. It also means OK, eg – when asked “how are you?” a Russians often says “nichegoh”. Very indicative – we have nothing and we are OK.
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Yes, I recognized the word phoenetically before I read the last bit. нечего or NYECHEVA does mean ‘nothing’ in Russian. Interesting. There must be a linguistic connection. NYE or Not is often a prefix to reverse meaning. KAGDA is when? and NYE KAGDA is never.
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Fascinating detail that illustrates the importance of historical perspective.
I didn’t like history at school but it’s an essential part of education.
But —
“What drove the need for arithmetic was”
Is there some irony, or something in that?
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Do you mean 65,536? Easy, but it becomes a little harder after that.
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2^16
Also a Duffinian number.
And a nialpdrome in base 2, 4, 8 and 16.
It is also a popular number for the supposed time aborigines have been in Australia even though the oldest dingo remains are only 6000 years and presumably they would have brought that wild dog with them.
Remains of Mungo Man and Kow Swamp Man appear to be not aboriginal, possibly H. erectus or other species, but we are not allowed to say that or study the remains. The knowledge is lost from science forever due to political correctness because the Official Narrative is that there was only ever one human migration to Australia. Unusual for any human migration…
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Mungo Man’s remains have been returned to the care of his current survivors, or something.
Now hidden?
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Why not just round it out to 70,000.
Then they can push for another ten percent from those hard working white pellas.
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“Turbine tall tales” looks at the folly of floating wind.
https://thejoulethief.substack.com/p/turbine-tall-tales?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
If the water is half mile deep and it takes 8 mooring lines for a single floating tower that is well over 4 miles of lines since they do not go straight down. Plus the power line has to dangle down to the sea floor. So 50 towers means 400 huge mooring lines plus 50 power lines. Lots of stuff for critters to hit. Plus I just read that mooring lines “thrum” in currents. Nasty and noisy.
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What happens when the mooring lines fail in a hurricane/cyclone?
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“Fail safe design you know” (/S)
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With corrosion and the constant varying stress on the mooring lines, I wonder how long before fatigue failure occurs?
The sight of one of these monstrosities face slapping the water and destructing would be impressive.
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“Save the Lobsters”
It is more than whales that need saving
https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2022/underwater-power-cables-make-lobsters-bad.htm
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I watched a documentary recently about the UK offshore wind turbine installation covering a huge area of ocean, installed capacity much less than a Rolls Royce SMR generator plant of 470MW that covers the area of an oval sports ground.
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Yes the five CA floating wind leases are each over 60,000 acres. Choking the ocean.
In proportion nuclear takes no space, just round off.
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In the UK the Rampion wind farm is in sight of Shoreham gas power station, the latter the size of a big barn, both have a similar nameplate capacity, the latter generates (capable of) about 2.5 times as much electricity and not at the whim of the weather.
https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/28/46/2284655_47766571_1024x1024.jpg
https://rampionoffshorewindfarm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/map-533×800.png
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This is an interesting fact sheet on turbine mooring systems and the potential market in Scotland:
https://www.offshorewindscotland.org.uk/media/hfadu1xx/02-anchors-moorings.pdf
A 450MW floating wind farme will spend GBP50M on mooring hardware in yesterdays money. Not sure what it would cost in CNY where most of the materials will be sourced.
I was thinking that a big feature of floating turbines in deep water is the ease of scuttling them. Or in the case of Span’s latest experimental turbine capsizing before it commences operation:
https://www.windtech-international.com/product-news/bluesath-floating-wind-platform-capsizes-during-storm
Does not say that climate chang caused it to capsize but hints at it as waves were bigger than usual. Who could have predicted that big waves would capsize something that is top heavy with big wind blades mounted high above the water!
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Thanks for posting my article, David. Offshore wind, especially in the deep waters off the U.S. West Coast, will be very costly, both economically and environmentally.
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Rita Panahi interviews Douglas Murray about its war against free speech advocate Elin Musk and the lack of free speech in Australia.
https://youtu.be/67DmnzuG-AY
I am really rather tired of politicians and overpaid senior public serpents deciding what I can read and watch.
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Going back to the bad old days
D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover has courted controversy ever since it was first published in Paris in 1928. Banned from the outset in Australia, its ultimate release proved to be a seminal moment in the country’s secretive censorship regime.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover must be considered within the context of the puritanical Australia of the 1920s-1960s. At this time, Australia had the strictest censorship of any democratic nation. Publications of all kinds were kept under surveillance, and thousands of works were banned as seditious, blasphemous or obscene.
In fact, all that was needed was a single complaint for authors to find themselves on trail for obscenity (Lee, 2011b: 108). Yet the concept of obscenity is arguably entirely subjective and as a result difficult to define. According to the censoring authorities of the time, an obscene work was one that had the apparent power to corrupt readers’ morals and supposedly lead them astray (Lee, 2011b: 108)
https://www.grin.com/document/205358?lang=en#:
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Sir Arthur Rylah featured in the song ‘Melborn and Sideny’, by The Idlers Five. He was Public Censor then. Interestingly, he also approved the execution of Ronald Ryan in 1967, Australia’s last.
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Errata: I was referring to the Australian Government’s war against Elon Musk.
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“Numbers Game: Mankind’s CO2 Release Isn’t Going to Cause Any More Warming”
“Herein, I would like to review a series of recent scientific articles and older information that prove definitively that mankind’s paltry release of CO2 to our atmosphere will NOT cause more planetary warming. In other words, we need to understand the misconceptions and lies told by our government and the climate frauds at the IPCC, NOAA, and NASA (and this list goes on and on), that we humans are causing our climate to warm dangerously, and our CO2 emissions are at fault.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/28/numbers-game-mankinds-co2-release-isnt-going-to-cause-any-more-warming-n3787372
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As soon as an article on CO2 warming gets into radiation absorption bands you know it is unscientific nonsense.
CO2 has only two ways to contribute to changs in surface temperature. One is added mass to the atmosphere, which is near negligible. There has been no measured upward trend in average surface pressure. The other is increase in biomass and the way the biomass tempers the range in temperature. The added moisture limits temperature rise as well as limiting temperature fall but on average there is asmall increase.
Since 2001 when CERES started producing radiation data, OLR has increased across most latitudes except near the South Pole and just north of the equator. The increase in cloud north of the equator shows how cloud regulates the solar input. Notice how the reflected solar has increased where the OLR has reduced. When ocean warm pools regulate at the 30C limit, the reduction in OLR is only half the increase in reflected solar so it is very powerful negative feedback regulating the amount of sunlight reaching the surface due to cloud formation.
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Aq1iAj8Yo7jNiBBWSICn-g7iCMmB?e=vQ9xbR
If climate models to replicate clouds, the notion that CO2 causes warming would be dead. But the climate models cannot replicate the process of cloud formation so are garbage. They serve the political science and incompetent nutters being paid to make stuff up.
If more people understood the precession cycle then all this nonsense would just die:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/25/temporal-spatial-thermal-response-to-heat-input-transfer-retention-in-the-climate-system/
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Good effort by Richard Willoughby.
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As I offered to Bob Weber in the comments, I am currently looking to see how estimated TSI from sunspot data can improve my correlation to measured temperature.
I have started that and it is interesting how much the TSI shifts when it is accumulated. No results for temperature yet but am working on it.
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FWIW
“Component of keto diet plus immunotherapy may reduce prostate cancer”
Not sure the photo is confidence inspiring though.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-component-keto-diet-immunotherapy-prostate.html
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‘She’ may identify as having a prostate, but certainly isn’t very convincing.
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An intake of 50g or less of carbohydrates per day would be a challenge.
Is anyone here getting below 50g per day?
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Carbs are necessary and shouldn’t be demonised.
Meanwhile:
NYC rule will slap sugar warning labels on food, drinks including Starbucks, Dunkin’ specialties
Fast-food chains and coffee shops in New York City would have to slap a warning on menu boards and packaging under a new rule from the Adams administration.
The city Health Department’s first-in-the-nation edict will mean labels warning on food and drinks with more than 50 grams of added sugar, including frozen coffee drinks from places like Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, fountain sodas and even hot chocolate.
Food outlets with 15 or more stores in the US are ordered to use a warning icon — a spoon loaded with heaps of sugar — to alert and maybe shame sweet-toothed customers.
The proposed warning will say, “Eating too many added sugars can contribute to type 2 diabetes and weight gain.”
US Dietary guidelines recommend that added sugar should be less than 50 grams or 10% of the recommended 2,000-calorie-a-day intake.
A medium Coca-Cola drink at McDonald’s contains 56 grams of sugar and would require a warning label, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Numerous frozen coffee and other drinks at Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks contain more than 50 grams of added sugar — such as Dunkin’s Butter Pecan and Caramel Swirl frozen coffee, which are pumped up with more than 100 grams of sugar.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/us-news/nyc-rule-will-slap-sugar-warning-labels-on-food-drinks-including-starbucks-dunkin-specialties/
The very very least of NYC’s worries…
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Yes consistently below 50g for about a year now. Followed the CSIRO Low Carb diabetes diet at the start as it was recommended. Then moved to incorporate keto/paleo type dietary exchanges for wheat products etc. Do a heck of a lot of zucchini and parsnip ‘noodles’. Have to watch the fats but it was a real eye opener about just how many carbs are in stuff and what to be aware of. Have never felt better to be honest and the dietary change has significantly reduced hubby’s auto immune and digestive issues.
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Not me, but my son in law is a committed Keto dieter and limits his daily carbs to 20 gms with much dilligence. .. So it can be done…Meat, Meat, and more meat !
He is a keen distance runner and is monitoring his performances to see if Keto can improve his times as is claimed by many professional athletes.
Professional Tour cyclists are known to have used Keto with some success, though Carbs are still “loaded” prior to, and during , competition.
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I have been mostly low carb for thirty years on and off. Fastest way to lose weight. Improve concentration. Easy to live on zero carbs, but less than 30g a day for long periods has a price — cortisol levels tend to rise too much if we eat no carbs for long periods. In order to make blood sugar, our cortisol levels rise to signal a need for glucose production, but that means breaking down some muscle to do that if there is no food source. I think men are better adapted than women to longer keto. Severe keto is hard on my sleep after a while, even though keto is known to be good for deep-sleep in shorter trials.
Keto is a great way to build metabolic flexibility — forcing your body to be good at burning fat. Possibly the best arrangement is something like a month or two on keto to adapt to it, and lose weight, then maintain that with cycling keto perhaps 1-2 weeks every couple of months. I’ve heard some long distance top athletes discussing this.
Keto is also useful against dementia.
But at the moment a lot of dedicated keto people are cycling or alternating periods of keto with other diets. Health zealots are evolving…
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The pinacle of “Nut-Zero”
https://img.patriotpost.us/01HWDKV67EJGTX0BKE8CE7K7Y6.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
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I wonder if the UK has enough caves for those still there when they achieve NutZero.
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Given the ballooning national debt: s/is/will eventually be/.
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Excerpt from College Fix, July 5th, 2016 by Peter van Voorhis at UC Irvine.
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Why provide taxpayer subsidised university education, Higher Education Contribution Scheme to student activists and professional students who obviously have too much time on their hands to push political agendas? Why subsidise the universities that employ lecturers who believe they are political left educators?
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Back-up might actually be needed
“The Electric Bus Debacle in Antelope Valley: A Case Study in Premature Policy Implementation”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/28/the-electric-bus-debacle-in-antelope-valley-a-case-study-in-premature-policy-implementation/
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Buy a new BEB fleet but maintain the old ICE fleet as back-up for when time comes to junk the BEBs.
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Just like that wind and solar salvation
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Just a General Comment:
Our Anglo centric Enlightenment \ Common Law \ Democratic Capitalism is based on low level evolution – bottom up – Nothing’s Perfect, Always Getting Better.
Where you have a top down totalitarian style system the evolutionary mechanism gets massively attacked and curtailed. As such people keep their heads down below the parapet. Companies have fundamental problems – websites have bugs – systems don’t work – people say nothing or if they do no one passes it up – it does not get dealt with. The customers \ users either use workarounds (and there are some doozeys) or they ignore the problems (skim over them).
Senior management are made isolated from the real world by the insulating layer of middle management. They are ignorant (and Artificial Ignorance will make it even worse). They double down on their ignorance and entrench their problems. I’m seeing that, for example, with the local TV stations who use Google as the location source and who are convinced that I am in SA when I am in WA. So by trying to geo restrict me they are restricting me to the wrong location – then they double down and ignore – go figure. We’re getting into a very dysfunctional world – welcome to the new dark age.
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All so true.
I have been employed by two companies that went into administration. One the banks got for free and made billions on its eventual sale. The other was deemed too big to fail so was bailed out by US government debt, which was eventually paid back.
The common thread was that they had senior executives and boards who did not want to hear bad news. People with bad news were fired or demoted.
Developed countries have effectively created political bubbles in geographic centres where woke prevails. You only have to look at voting outcomes in locations like London, Washington DC and Canberra to see how isolated and protected these centres have become. They do not want to hear bad news. They are prepared to rig elections to get the “right” person voted in.
Look at the Canberran disconnect on the Voice vote. They blame “liars” like Peter Dutton and Jacinta Price for influencing public opinion outside their woke bubble. And the gullible plebs accepted their lies.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/mainstream-media-helping-to-spread-voice-no-campaign-lies,17869
I wonder how Vladimir Putin responds to bad news.?
The pivoting on BEVs is happening quickly and grid scale solar and wind started its pivot to nuclear at the last COP. I sense that there are more people realising that CO2 induced warming is a scam but I have not oberved any pivot in the popular press yet. In fact there are still a lot of luke warmers wth some understanding of atmospheric processes sitting on the fence.
What are the odds of Peter Dutton killing the CO2 induced madness and going full tilt on new coal. Victoria has 66Gt of proven lignite that would power Australia for about 1000 years.
When Australia starts construction of the next coal fired power station people will know that reality has prevailed. I doubt I will be around to see that.
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RickWill,
If Dutton really wants to do the best for Australia’s electricity supply he’ll get the federal government right out of it. Abolish the NEM and tell the states to go back to making one-to-one arrangements like they used to. The states will be obliged to return to providing reliable power to their citizens rather than playing finger-pointing games as they do now.
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State power monopolies were not good for Australia. That was proven over the first 10 years of the “national” grid in the days of NEMMCO when power prices dropped throughout the 1990s. Joh did a good job in sorting out SEAQ in the early 1980s but Elcom was bad news still in the late 1980s and SECV only a tad better. SECV had the lowest cost power despite poor trade practices so they looked for market opportunities.
It was Howard’s dabble into the RET in 2001 that started the rot. The mandated theft became entrenched and was turbocharged by Rudd.
Dutton needs to do two things (1) Eliminate the MRET mandated theft and no one will build more wind and solar. (2) Sell off or simply disband the BoM, CSIRO and ABC. If they cannot work out how to generate cashflow then they need to go. Without these woke organisations cheering the climate nonsense it will all fall in a heap and they may actually start to produce something of value like weather forecasts that farmers can use.
In fact it is already difficult to make a case for new grid scale wind and solar because they cannot compete with rooftops.
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RickWill,
I like your other suggestions, but as far as electricity supply goes, the best the feds can do is to go away.
You misunderstood me if you thought I wanted a return to state electricity monopolies. What I want is a return to unambiguous responsibility: the buck stops with your state government. Let each state work out how best to provide power to its citizens and businesses.
Since you bring up privatisation, I’d contend that what was done was a sham. The complicated result allowed the privatising of profits, the socialising of losses, and the disappearance of accountability. I wonder if NSW, for example, has any fewer electricity-associated bureaucrats today than they had before “privatisation”.
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Freedom of Speech and “P*** off”
A five-day hate-speech trial is scheduled to begin in the Federal Court on Monday when Greens federal deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi will allege Senator Hanson engaged in racial discrimination through a September 2022 tweet.
At the time, Senator Hanson wrote that Senator Faruqi should ‘pack (her) bags and p*** off back to Pakistan’.
The tweet came in response to the Greens senator’s comments following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Senator Faruqi wrote she could not mourn the passing of the leader of a ‘racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13360141/Pauline-Hanson-hate-speech-trial-set-open-told-Greens-MP-p-ss-Pakistan.html
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Pauline Hanson deserves the inaugural Australian Free Speech Award.
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But the ‘honourable’ senator does not regret her own decision to not only occupy a land of colonised peoples, but to aspire to be part of the very political system which continues to ‘oppress’ them. Hypocrites all.
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(Referring to Faruqi)
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Here is one I had not heard before!
Could Democrats find a back door to putting Obama on their presidential ticket?
Consequently, I worry that desperate young Americans will drive Democrats to knit together a Biden-Obama ticket allowing Obama to become president for a third term because there are no constraints on Obama serving as vice president and then becoming president by way of the office of the vice president, should Biden win and then resign or succumb to the 25th Amendment.
Wild? Yes. But Democrats will stop at nothing, and with Obama on the ticket, he could change the election results by beating Trump.
Basically, Obama is already running the White House through his staff surrogates.
Today’s youth believe “the American Dream” is dead. Their chance of becoming middle class, owning a home, being able to retire, is not within their grasp. They have given up on capitalism and are naive enough to embrace socialism.
Consequently, they will demand the government provide them a tax-free income, which places them in the middle class, and what they earn above this income source will then be subject to a tax.
Obama will campaign on a series of attractive “government giveaways” that will appeal to young voters who have already been spoiled by “COVID munificence.” Obama became president, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and had a political record of achievements thinner than a paper napkin.
The man is a charlatan, but he is “cool,” and young voters have proven they are easily swayed because they are educationally shallow.
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From the Comments
“Democrats to knit together a Biden-Obama ticket allowing Obama to become president for a third term”
I’m not sure about it, but I think anyone who is ineligible to run for president, is also ineligible tp run for vice-president.
“While the concept of President Obama becoming a vice-presidential candidate is interesting, it may run afoul of the 12th Amendment: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible that of Vice-President of the United States.”
How this interacts with the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two elected terms, is uncertain, but on the face of it, Mr. Obama wouldn’t be permitted now to become vice president.”
and
My first thought as well but then, Obama couldn’t pass natural born citizen muster and was elected twice anyway so no one really cares about the rules most especially democrats. Twenty or thirty years ago, it would have mattered.
Today, anything is possible by popular acclaim.
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As the Democrats are finding, the role of the Supreme Court is to hold Congress to the rules of the Constitution and the 22nd Amendment. And with a fair Supreme Court this would be challenged.
The Democrats managed to get 50 years out of the Roe V Wade intervention of the Democrat biased Supreme Court.
This was just overturned and the massive abortion industry has suffered, particularly the pharmaceutical companies championed by none other than Christine Blaisey Ford who made a career in abortion medication authoring about 26 papers and challenged the appointment of Judge Kavanagh. One hell of a coincidence.
I doubt they will get a challenge to the 22nd amendment through this Supreme Court because the intent of the 22nd amendment is clear, even if it remains unclear about this backdoor through the Vice Presidency. An attempt to make Obama Vice President would be challenged immediately.
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As the Democrats are finding, the Supreme Court doesn’t seem to restrain Presidents. Biden continues with student loan payout executive orders with no consequences for overstepping his authority.
From SCOTUSblog ….”By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the Biden administration overstepped its authority last year when it announced that it would cancel up to $400 billion in student loans.”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-down-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-program/#:~:text=By%20a%20vote%20of%206,%24400%20billion%20in%20student%20loans.
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I expect the real need is for people to have a case which hinges on this point. The case is deferred while the legal point is assessed by the Supreme Court but you have to go through the process.
We have the same in Australia.
Most of the Climate Change laws enacted by both Liberals and Labor are illegal. But you need to have a case like Eddie Mabo’s case.
What puzzles me is that the 250 Big Polluters, the steel and aluminum and transport giants are not challenging the government. Nor the Energy companies. They could bring a case overnight to the High Court.
The three villains are the Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act 2001, the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 and the Safeguard Mechanism 2023. All are fundamentally illegal because they do not mention tax but force every to pay third parties for carbon dioxide emissions. This safeguards no one. Protects no one. It just means a lot of cash for nothing. And it means the people who receive the cash get protected additional eternal income because they own the windmills and they own the solar panels. It is just legalized extortion.
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Or more bluntly, someone has to sue their electricity supplier for overcharging to collect money for other people for which you get no benefit at all. They have no right to do this. Their response is that the Government forces them to pay for Green certificates. The essential question of whether that law is valid is of interest to all parties. This must be settled by the High Court based on the Constitution and precedent.
This is the only brake on Government passing illegal laws. What has always puzzled me is that no one mentions them. It’s as if the massive Safeguard Mechanism 2023 and the Carbon Credits 2011 laws did not exist for the Australian press corps. 250 Australian companies have to pay 5%, then 10%,.. 35% over 7 years on their CO2 output, even if they cannot operate without producing CO2. So the aim is either to close them down completely or rip them off which means no reduction in CO2 anyway. Unless you believe growing trees makes a difference. NASA has proven otherwise.
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Miracles do happen: A look at the biblical spitting of the Red Sea
The splitting of the Red Sea is central to Jewish identity, but as the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks asked, “In what sense was it a miracle?”
The account, appearing in Hebrew in the Torah, is quite specific. The Israelites were chased by the Egyptians in their horse-drawn chariots to the shore of the “Yam Suf.” The translation of “Yam Suf” is “Sea of Reeds.” Learned minds have pondered for some 2,500 years, reaching no real conclusion, whether the 72 Jewish scholars who translated the Old Testament into Greek, did indeed render “Sea of Reeds” into “Red Sea.”
It was Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, who commissioned the iconic translation. The 72 Jewish scholars – all of whom agreed on the final text – certainly reached a consensus when resolving some knotty translation problems. Seventeen are recorded in the Talmud. This is not one of them.
IN SEPTEMBER 2010, the BBC, Reuters, and other news agencies reported on a sensational discovery.
Scientists working at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado, were able to show, by way of computer simulation, how the parting of the Red Sea might have taken place.
Using sophisticated modeling, they demonstrated how a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon.
The water would have been guided into the two waterways and a land bridge would have opened at the bend, allowing people to walk across the exposed mudflats. As soon as the wind died down, the waters would have rushed back in. As the leader of the project said, when the report was published, “The simulations match fairly closely with the account in Exodus.”
In his book, The Miracles of Exodus, Cambridge University physicist Colin Humphreys writes: “Wind tides are well known to oceanographers. For example, a strong wind blowing along Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, has produced water elevation differences of as much as sixteen feet between Toledo, Ohio, on the west, and Buffalo, New York, on the east…”
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So it’s possible the splitting of the Red Sea could occur it seems due to wind and landform conditions. There’s no miracle there.
This unusual occurrence of the splitting of the Red Sea happened just when when a mass of people, escaping from Egypt and slavery, arrived at the exactly the right spot (and right time) on the banks of the Red Sea to cross. Then the wind conditions changed after they got across and drowned the enemy chasing them.
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Even as a rare natural phenomenon, the miracle was in the timing. Like Irish jokes.
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The Red Sea is around 500m deep, a tad different to a shallow river with sediment buildup at the bends coupled with a land gale creating a mudflat.
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The specifics included a general description of the route taken by the Israelites.
The first leg of the route was southeast from Raamses in Goshen to Etham at the edge of the Wilderness (ie the Wilderness of Sur, about 100km north of the Gulf of Suez- the northernmost part of what we now refer to as the Red Sea).
The next leg was through the “Wilderness of the Red Sea”, so as to avoid the coastal route to the Sinai where they would be opposed by the Philistines.
The Israelites had two choices when pursued by the 600 choice chariots of the Egyptian military, each route skirting the wetlands, one to the north and the other to the south.
Neither involved continuing south to follow the western side of the Gulf of Suez.
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AstraZeneca admits for first time in court documents its Covid vaccine can cause rare side effect
Pharmaceutical giant being sued in class action over claims its vaccine caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases
The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that its vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases.
Lawyers argue the vaccine produced a side effect which has had a devastating effect on a small number of families.
The first case was lodged last year by Jamie Scott, a father of two, who was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and a bleed on the brain that has prevented him from working after he received the vaccine in April 2021. The hospital called his wife three times to tell her that her husband was going to die.
AstraZeneca is contesting the claims but has accepted, in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February, that its Covid vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”.
TTS – which stands for Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – causes people to have blood clots and a low blood platelet count.
Fifty-one cases have been lodged in the High Court, with victims and grieving relatives seeking damages estimated to be worth up to £100 million.
AstraZeneca’s admission – made in a legal defence to Mr Scott’s High Court claim – follows intense legal wrangling. It could lead to payouts if the drug firm accepts that the vaccine was the cause of serious illness and death in specific legal cases.
The Government has pledged to underwrite AstraZeneca’s legal bills.
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That sentence should be…
The Government has pledged the taxpayer to underwrite AstraZeneca’s legal bills.
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Col. Larry Wilkerson: They’re Destroying the United States
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Passage of harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law in Iraq draws diplomatic backlash
April 28, 2024 5:30 PM By Associated Press
Baghdad —
Human rights groups and diplomats criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people.
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The Left, who pretend to support such causes, will remain silent. Just as they do with women’s rights in such countries.
They also support and promote transgenderism, LGBTQA× and Islamism.
Heads will explode.
Best way to make a Leftist head explode with an overload of cognitive dissonance:
Say to them “I think muslims who require women to cover their faces, have a male relative escort them outside the home and prohibit female education are doing the right thing.” LoL.
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Ozzie,
I wonder if Penny Wong will be visiting there ? Interesting times….
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By the Numbers
China’s Global Development Spending
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China’s New FULLY AUTONOMOUS AGI Level Robot SHOCKS The Entire Industry! (Astribot S1)
https://citizenwatchreport.com/chinas-new-fully-autonomous-agi-level-robot-shocks-the-entire-industry-astribot-s1/
Impressive for truly autonomous, but not AGI. Yet.
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General-purpose humanoid is faster on the uptake, works for longer
The rapid progress of humanoid robot development is nothing short of astounding. Less than 12 months after introducing its 6th-gen general-purpose humanoid, Canada’s Sanctuary AI has pulled back the curtains on the next iteration of Phoenix.
A couple of months later, Sanctuary introduced a bipedal version called Phoenix, together with an AI control system called Carbon designed to give the humanoid “human-like intelligence and enable it to do a wide range of work tasks.” Some 11 months later, the seventh generation is ready for its time in the spotlight.
The dev team has managed to reduce the time it takes for Phoenix to learn new tasks and perform them autonomously – down from a few weeks to under 24 hours – “marking a major inflection point in task automation speed and autonomous system capability.”
https://sanctuary.ai/resources/news/sanctuary-ai-unveils-the-next-generation-of-ai-robotics/
https://youtu.be/-HizP4UQvug?si=IlHnENo7YPHwq20e
Weeks down to hours. What have I said about evolution?😆
Everyone should watch this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aJ8ZjNbf1j3C/
/heh
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Albanese failed to ‘read the room’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been accused of failing to “read the room” after he was heckled at this weekend’s anti-domestic violence rally in Canberra.
Opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume said Albanese’s actions on the weekend demonstrated he had “not so much a tin ear as a wall of concrete”.
Sarah Williams, the founder of the advocacy group behind the rally, had earlier accused the prime minister of lying when he started his speech by saying the organisers did not want him to speak.
“The women out there are hurting, and they want actions, not words. They want actions, not platitudes,” Hume told Sky News.
“Quite frankly, the fact that the prime minister couldn’t read that room speaks volumes in itself.”
Nationals leader David Littleproud said Albanese had “got what he deserved” in the backlash to speaking at the rally.
“He was tone deaf, regardless of whether he was asked to speak or not,” Littleproud said.
“That’s not the point to make at a rally when it was about a young lady, Sarah Williams, who had the courage of her own convictions to come forward and organise that rally.
“If he had issues about whether he was invited to speak or not, it’s not to make it public in front of the public that were there – and when Sarah became emotionally distraught, for the prime minister to continue on … he was tone deaf.”
Littleproud said the prime minister should have listened to others at the rally rather than speaking.
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Nat Barr has grilled Anthony Albanese after he was branded a liar over comments he made at a rally protesting violence against women where he reportedly told the organiser: ‘I run this country’.
The Prime Minister was booed while delivering a speech at the march in Canberra on Sunday.
Organiser and advocate for domestic violence, Sarah Williams, said Mr Albanese demanded to speak at the rally, despite his office telling her he would only be walking in the march.
Footage then surfaced of Mr Albanese saying he had asked to speak but was told it was ‘not possible’.
Ms Williams claimed she was left in tears at the rally after the PM demanded to speak and told her ‘I’m the Prime Minister of this country, I run this country’.
Mr Albanese appeared on Sunrise this morning and refused to answer whether or not the words came out of his mouth.
‘So, she said, you’re on the stage with her and there was confusion about, you know, who was going to speak. And then you said behind her on the stage, words to the effect of ”I’m the Prime Minister and I run the country”. Did you just say that?’ Barr asked.
Mr Albanese refused to answer and said he wouldn’t get into ‘that sort of debate’.
‘She’s saying that on TV, radio around today, that unfortunately is the message being spouted. We know it’s unfortunate but you could put it to bed now?’ Barr asked again.
The Prime Minister repeatedly dodged the question and suggested the media could verify the comment themselves.
‘Well, Nat, people, including Channel 7, were there for the recording of everything that went on. So you were all there,’ he said.
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Idiot from the government calls for the “government to do better”.
Monday, 29 April 2024
“We are here today to demand that governments of all levels must do better” the Prime Minister told the crowd.
The gutter activist in front of a crowd forgot who he actually was.
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Lying slime.
Monday, 29 April 2024
What communist country is this in? pic.twitter.com/bjcwRjzQ6L
— Clown Down Under 🤡 (@clowndownunder) April 29, 2024
UPDATE – thank you Underminder for reminding us of this classic Albanese.
Anthony Albanese – Albo Says “Smash Her!”
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And it shows….
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‘I’m the Prime Minister and I run the country’….into the ground.
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Under instructions from China.
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SMH – Albanese’s big test as leader is responding to women’s anger. So far, it’s a bad look
Meanwhile More contribution to Violence against Women by Labor PM Albanese and His Mean Girl Ministers
Detainee released in High Court ruling stands accused of violent home invasion
One of the men arrested at the weekend over the violent home robbery of an elderly Perth couple had been released from immigration detention last November as part of a controversial High Court ruling.
This masthead can reveal Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, 43, is one of three men accused of an attack on Ninette and Philip Simons at their home in Girrawheen, in Perth’s northern suburbs, on April 16.
WA Police allege the men posed as police officers and said they had a warrant to search the home for stolen gold.
Philip, 76, said they tied him up, while 73-year-old Ninette, a recent cancer survivor, was allegedly assaulted, telling media she had thought she was going to die.
Ninette and Philip Simons spoke publicly last week about their ordeal in the hope it would flush out the perpetrators.
“I said, ‘She’s a cancer patient, she’s just come out of hospital,’” Philip said.
“But I could still hear the screaming and punching.”
Ninette said she had thought she would die.
“I just felt defenceless. I felt like an idiot,” she said.
“I handed over all of my life’s savings on a platter, only to be bashed for it. They could have just taken it. I wasn’t even screaming. I couldn’t because he was hitting me. I was submissive. It was so easy for them to take it all, why did he have to bash me?
“I felt like I should have been dead. I don’t know how I survived this horrific thing.”
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FWIW – more covid happenings
“BREAKING: Arizona Republican Party Declares Covid-19 Injections Biological and Technological Weapons, Passes Ban the Jab Resolution!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/breaking-arizona-republican-party-declares-covid-19-injections/
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Copied from elsewhere. This will probably soon be censored on Farcebook but you should be able to find it on X/Twitter. There is an attached video at the Farcebook link.
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Thanks David
Brave woman! Here is the New York City Nurse at the time
I wonder what happened to the Kiwi bloke who supplied the statistics of what happened in New Zealand?
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It’s the Demography, Stupid
The real reason the West is in danger of extinction.
By MARK STEYN Updated Jan. 4, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET
Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There’ll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands–probably–just as in Istanbul there’s still a building called St. Sophia’s Cathedral. But it’s not a cathedral; it’s merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West.
One obstacle to doing that is that, in the typical election campaign in your advanced industrial democracy, the political platforms of at least one party in the United States and pretty much all parties in the rest of the West are largely about what one would call the secondary impulses of society–government health care, government day care (which Canada’s thinking of introducing), government paternity leave (which Britain’s just introduced). We’ve prioritized the secondary impulse over the primary ones: national defense, family, faith and, most basic of all, reproductive activity–“Go forth and multiply,” because if you don’t you won’t be able to afford all those secondary-impulse issues, like cradle-to-grave welfare.
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The prospects outlined by writers such as Mark Steyn and Douglas Murray and others is so disturbing that most people dismiss it. But it is increasingly obvious that western civilisation is under an existential threat – not merely from its enemies , but – more disturbingly – from within.
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A critical view of the posts of a few here show the white ants are everywhere.
Over a few days count the number of anti US/NATO/liberal posts and how often there is push back. I don’t even try any more, I did once.
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“Over a few days count the number of anti US/NATO/liberal posts ”
That’s those of us trying to save Western values… Too late I know, but someone has to do something. If only America had stuck to the founding fathers ideas and kept their nose out of other people’s business..
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He’s put that very well.
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Pro-Hamas Protesters Seek Amnesty, Pardons to Protect Careers
Some of the students who were arrested are now waking up to a harsh bit of reality, however.
Their actions have consequences that can follow them long after they finish their time on campus.
With that in mind, some of them have a new set of demands. They are calling for amnesty and the erasure of their arrest records and student records revealing that they have been suspended. Will the congregation join me in a spirited cry of “Boo Hoo?” (Associated Press)
As noted above, the students are fearful that their arrest records and suspensions will “follow them into their adult lives.” Based on their recent actions, I realize that we’re not dealing with the fastest set of tractors on the farm here, but I have a news flash for these rioters. Nearly every one of you is at least 18 years old and some of the juniors and seniors are in their twenties. You are already in your “adult life,” despite the fact that you’re not acting in a very mature fashion.
For what it’s worth, you may not be learning very much at college because you’re missing so many classes, but this could turn out to be one of the more educational moments of your young lives. Everyone’s actions have consequences for better or worse. If you decide to tip back a few drinks and get behind the wheel of your vehicle, you may wind up with a DUI on your record or potentially something far worse. If you knowingly decide to violate the law in any fashion, the consequences of your actions can and likely will follow you around for a long time to come.
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Hey Hey, Ho Ho –
Bill Maher on youth activism, ha ha…
https://steadfastandloyal.com/news-for-you/bill-maher-critique-modern-activism/
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Rent-a-mob. No sympathy.
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Scientist Peter Stallinga 2020 calculates climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations of 0.0014°C per 1ppmv, calling it barely measurable.
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/acs_2020011611163731.pdf
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There’s a lot of ifs, buts and maybes involved in that sort of statement.
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The most obvious one being that atmospheric CO2 concentration is Irrelevant because CO2 doesn’t produce any change in atmospheric temperature.
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Thanks. I will have to read this carefully. He is certainly attacking every level of man made CO2 driven Global Warming.
My view is that you only have to show that CO2 is not man made. Then whether more CO2 produces warming is a moot point. And that is not true either.
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Humza Yousaf to Resign as Scotland’s First Minister
He is set to resign amid political turmoil, facing a no-confidence vote and internal party divisions. T
Yousaf’s controversial statements and policies, including remarks on “white people and support for woke trans policies, have exacerbated the situation.”
The resignation is expected as early as tomorrow, marking the end of his brief tenure.
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1784759554158293013
…and another WEF puppet bites the dust…
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Yes. He was the #1 victim of his own hate laws. Everyone reported him.
But this is more about the insanity of banning CO2 in a country whose main source of income is gas. And a government dependent utterly on Green preferences. Just like Australia.
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Full measure: Millions suffering from long term illness from vax spike protein
https://www.bitchute.com/video/weUetudNcqdX/
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‘Admin’ and ‘12345’ banned from being used as passwords in UK crackdown on cyber attacks
From today, new laws in the UK aim to make it tougher for cyber attacks to succeed and increase consumer confidence in the security of the products they use and buy.
As well as default passwords, if a user suggests a common password they will be prompted to change it on creation of a new account.
It comes as a home filled with smart devices could be exposed to more than 12,000 hacking attacks from across the world in a single week, with 2,684 attempts to guess weak passwords on five devices, according to an investigation by Which?
Password managing website NordPass found the most commonly used passwords in the UK last year were 123456 and, believe it or not, password.
https://news.sky.com/story/admin-and-12345-banned-from-being-used-as-passwords-in-uk-crackdown-on-cyber-attacks-13125565
Even fake AI shakes its head at such stupid people.😉
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Here is an outstanding talk about the decline of Once Great Britain by Peter Whittle, The New Culture Forum.
What he says is more or less applicable to other Anglo Western countries such as Australia, NZ, USA and Canada as well.
https://youtu.be/3PPDUaGrE9w
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As we suspected, extremist accounts online was the motivation to stab the bishop.
‘The parents of the 16-year-old who stabbed a Sydney bishop have spoken publicly for the first time, detailing their son’s serious anger management issues and history of violence.
‘ABC Investigations has discovered that in the months leading up to the attack, the boy was interacting with extremists in Australia and following violent extremist accounts online.’ (ABC)
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I guess what’s missing and they are too woke to say is exactly what type of “extremists” he was interacting with.
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“I guess what’s missing and they are too woke to say is exactly what type of “extremists” he was interacting with.”
His parents mostly, obviously, and they are either successful or a disaster depending on your outlook.
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Climate U-turn has broken the Scottish government
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China has sold more than $74 billion in US Treasuries in the last year, according to new numbers from the Treasury Department.
China has decreased its Treasuries holdings from $849 billion to $775 billion between the beginning of Q2 2023 and Q2 2024, reaching its lowest holdings since 2009. Other countries let go of small amounts of Treasuries holdings over the last quarter, with India selling $1.4 billion, Brazil unloading $1.2 billion, and Saudi Arabia shedding $0.3 billion. The new data come as Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia and China have almost completely stopped using the dollar in their mutual trade. According to Lavrov, more than 90% of settlements between the countries are now carried out in their own national currencies, with their economic cooperation accelerating “despite persistent attempts by Western countries to prevent this,”
https://dailyhodl.com/2024/04/26/china-dumps-74000000000-in-us-treasuries-in-one-year-as-two-brics-nations-say-theyve-abandoned-dollar-in-mutual-trade/
Empires crash slowly, then quickly..
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Interesting paper on modeling actual LCOE costs of solar/wind compared to nuclear/gas/
“A more realistic view of the cost of solar wind and nuclear energy”
https://schlanj.substack.com/p/a-more-realistic-view-of-the-cost
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