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Your DDOCC (daily dose of climate change) is a classic courtesy of Daily Mail. As we know climate change means sea level rise which means ice caps melting which means polar bears are in extreme danger. The Daily Mail has managed to bring polar bears and climate change under the spotlight again with the following headlined story:
“Harrowing moment starving polar bear is found in a ditch barely able to move….”
However before the self righteous get too upset let me complete the Daily Mail headline:
“…with multiple gunshot wounds in remote Russian Arctic”.
Climate change not to blame after all just a bad case of lead poisoning.
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There is a hint that the animal was half starved because of global warming, but in fact it was in this perilous state from gun shot wounds.
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It had bear covid too!
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Mark September 7 down as an extra special day. In addition to our dose of DDOCC we get a dose of LOG (Logic Of God) from non other than a representative of the Biden admin. In case you didn’t realise you have two arms because of LOG’s forward thinking to enable simaltaneous use of one arm for a covid clot shot and the other arm for a flu clot shot with both shots probably going to be annual events.
Reminds me of that other humankind saviour Muhammod who taught that while flies carried disease in one wing they also carried the antidote in the other. Move over crickets it is time to start eating our flies – both wings at a time.
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Surprisingly no comments on the government allowing oil and gas exploration at ten new Australian ocean sites – and approving two new offshore greenhouse gas storage areas off Western Australia and the Northern Territory, to explore the potential of carbon capture and storage. Seems as if the Greens may have less influence than they have been ascribed
Also surprising that there are no comments on the $11.6 billion government subsidy for fossil fuels in the last 12 months or the $55 billion future fossil fuel subsidies already committed in Federal, state and territory budgets.
It seems renewables that are forecast to get subsidies of $22 billion by 2030, actually get less than half the amount of subsidies to be spent on fossil fuels.
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If only you knew what a subsidy was, and used English words correctly. If I earn money and the government does not take it off me, is that a “subsidy”? Is all my money really the governments to give to me?
I guess it is if you are a totalitarian at heart.
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If you take the view that all money belongs to the government and many live a life where they are paid only by the government, then not taking 100% of your earnings is a subsidy, an act of extreme generosity.
As Margaret Thatcher said, the government has no money. It only has your money and on the premise that the government can spend it more wisely than you. And I doubt that.
What is really wrong is the theft from everyone’s electricity bills to hand cash to reward owners of windmills and solar panels. Cash for nothing at all. Governments do not have that right, to mandate that your money is given to third parties by law. Governments can tax but they cannot demand you pay others. That was stopped by Magna Carta. The 2001 Renweable Energy(Electricity) Act is illegal. Government theft so governments could say they didn’t have a carbon tax. And it’s not a tax, it’s robbery.
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Or put another way, it’s the 80% of privately employed people who subsidize ALL government. More than 20% of all working age people work for government at council, state and Federal level. They are 100% subsidized and generate no income. We even pay to be taxed.
So when the government does not take even more money from people and businesses, it’s called a subsidy. Word play. Like Acts of parliament are called Reform when they rarely are.
But the real theft directly from our electricity bills to reward fake Green energy has to stop. This is morally wrong law and illegal by any standard of morality. It would not survive a real challenge in the High Court. And the windmill owners are raking it in. That’s past subsidy.
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I feel the same way about the RBA and the banks stealing my earnings on bank deposits. Interest rate reductions were theft and now banks will not pass on the increase in interest rates in full another act of theft. It appears the thunder clouds are gathering maybe under the bed is safest
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What few seem capable of contemplating, is the scale of the “spillage/ “money-go-round” that is the PURPOSE of all this “creatine sconomic activity”.
Follow the money: If you dare!
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Thanks for that.
The internal acquisition of power, the domination of the masses, the application of lots of small squeezes has been building within all levels of government now for several decades and we have been made into slaves rather than free people.
Our governments have no right to collect more and more of our earnings as taxes while spending less of it on basic infrastructure and public services just so that they can pay themselves more and live in a lifestyle that is Unearned and Undeserved.
We must force change and bring back reality and accountability.
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her is a list for 21-22
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Building the Kurri Kurri Gas-fired power station ($200 million).
Concessional finance for Olive Downs coal mine ($175 million).
Road construction for fracking in the Northern Territory ($173 million).
Capital investment in Hunter Valley coal railway network ($161 million).
Queensland
$50 million to upgrade rail lines given “interest in developing substantial coal deposits in the Northern Galilee Basin”.
$50 million for the Meandu coal mine that feeds state-owned coal-fired power stations.
$72.5 million allocated to upgrading Callide and Kogan Creek coal-fired power stations.
Northern Territory
$2.8 billion committed to gas purchases for loss-making Power and Water Corporation.
$720 million committed to gas transport.
A $400 million ship lift partly to service the oil and gas industry.
Western Australia
$571 million has been allocated to building or upgrading gas and coal-fired power stations, with $59.5 million to be spent in 2021-22.
Another $500,000 to Chevron’s Gorgon CCS project, which has already received $60 million from the Federal Government and has never operated to approval requirements.
State-owned port authorities allocated $31 million in 2021-22 and $179 million in capital works that at least partly benefit the oil and gas sector.
Victoria
Brown coal to hydrogen project received $13 million in state funding in 2021-22, part of $100 million committed from Victorian and Federal Governments.
$66 million for the program that oversees the CarbonNet CCS project, still not operational 12 years after its establishment.
New South Wales
$26 million for abandoned mine rehabilitation including coal mines in the Lower Hunter.
The Coal Innovation Fund spent $9.9 million in 2021-22 and has a balance of $70 million.
South Australia
$19 million in the 2021-22 budget to upgrade an oil jetty largely used by Santos, part of a total estimated cost of $57 million.
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Off the top of my head with zero seconds of prep:
— $10b for snowy hydro 2.0 — entirely for renewables backup
— Synchronous condensers SA 200m.
— All Batteries $ ? $500m plus the rest
— 50% of the cost (at least) on one third of Australian rooftops for solar
— Plus $20b to come for transmission lines.
— Entire FCAS market (which was unneccessary with a coal fired grid).
— Plus carbon tax entire takings $b ?
Alam Moran has estimated the cost and there are billions of $ every year in state and federal subsidies. Not to mention that $1b for CSIRO and $1b for the ABC to be advertising agencies, plus $b’s for Australian universities to make sure they never question the rort.
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Not to mention the billions spent connecting wind and solar to the grid , and all the grid hardening to counter for the erratic variability of that wind and solar.
Cost is HORRENDOUS !
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The illegal RET scheme, $6Billion a year for a decade, about $60Billion handed as pure gifts to windmill and solar owners.
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Why change the point?
I was listing subsidies to a particular market sector, and so by changing the conversation to another sector, you are agreeing with me that there are subsidies for coal, oil and gas.
If that is the case, thanks very much.
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I didn’t change the point, I put it in perspective. Your list is trivial.
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Big difference is, when the government gives grants to coal and gas, they actually get something for the money.
Income from coal, grid stability and reliability from coal and gas fired power
Subsidies to wind and solar just keep taking and costing, and causing more and more grid disruption.
They COST heaps, and give basically NOTHING back.
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“If only you knew what a subsidy was, and used English words correctly.”
I do know what a subsidy is and I definitely do use English words correctly?
You write “If I earn money and the government does not take it off me, is that a “subsidy”?
The answer is “Yes. It is.”
The definition of a subsidy is
“a direct or indirect payment to individuals or firms, usually in the form of a cash payment from the government or a targeted tax cut.”
Clearly in the situation you cite you have received a targeted tax cut which meets the definition of a subsidy
Another definition is
“A subsidy is a benefit given by the government to groups or individuals, usually in the form of a cash payment or a tax reduction
If the government does not take take the tax off you that is a tax reduction so therefore is a subsidy
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You seem to be avoiding the question. You specifically mentioned a FF subsidy at a specific amount. Yet you seem to refuse to further explain this specific subsidy. You obviously have a reference to that subsidy, so surely you can at least provide some details of the reference?
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Graeme, no he proved my point. He used the term subsidy with the assumption that we own nothing and the government lets us keep what it deigns we should earn.
So Ian, do you own what you earn and pay tax out of that, or does the government own what you earn?
Because if you believe the latter then you are a serf.
What will it be, my definition of subsidy (only where the government gives you money you didn’t earn) or your definition of subsidy where the government owns you?
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“I definitely do use English words correctly? “
WRONG,
A tax rebate is NOT a subsidy.
Learn some basic words differences, please.
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““a direct or indirect payment to individuals or firms, usually in the form of a cash payment from the government or a targeted tax cut.” “
So, NOT a tax rebate.. which is tax that was taken and should not have been, under the tax laws.
It is a return of an OVER-PAYMENT OF TAX.
It is NOT A SUBSIDY under your definition.
You have just posted a definition that proves you are wrong.. well done 🙂
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“If the government does not take the tax off you that is a tax reduction so therefore is a subsidy”
WRONG again.
It is the government returning tax that should not have been taken in the first place.
Why don’t you understand the basic tax laws?
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A “tax reduction” is not a subsidy.
A differential tax is not a subsidy.
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People who believe in climate change don’t seem to know the difference between a subsidy and a rebate.
The mining companies, and others such as primary producers, pay the fuel tax for on fuel for vehicles and machinery used off road. Since the fuel tax is a road tax which does not apply to off road use and so the miners get refunded the amount paid as a tax, similar to the tax rebate received by individuals and businesses for expenses incurred in earning income.
On the other hand, payments by Government to encourage people to install solar panels on their roofs, are subsidies.
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they know, its just doesnt suit the narrative and they also know if they just blurt it out a proportion of people will believe it. As Biden is showing the left is in no way embarrassed by its lies.
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Yes, roughly half the cost of installing solar panels is taken from other people’s money. And the pay in rate is a direct tax on everyone’s electricity bills. These are ongoing gifts so that the solar owner can look to paying nothing to their power while everyone else pays more. That is not a subsidy. It is theft and a huge burden on the poor who get no exemption from the subsidy of middle class indulgences which include solar panels and electric cars.
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That’s a neat summary of an extremely ugly situation.
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Ian,
When will you ever understand that the fuel rebate is not a subsidy?
The fuel excise is payable by users of public infrastructure; ie., roads.
If you don’t use the public infrastructure you don’t pay the excise.
It’s just like: if you don’t speed you won’t get a speeding ticket. On your (and all the other silly greens’) view, that would mean that those of use who don’t get speeding tickets are being subsidized.
Idiocy. It’s a green thing.
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us. not use.
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It’s spelled “yous.” Sheesh!
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I always thought youse had an e. Does that make me posh?
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Let’s be clear, a mining company actually pays the excise on delivery [a tidy sum] and only gets refunded if/when they can prove the diesel was used on the lease, not public roads.
There is a niche industry installing fuel management systems to prove compliance.
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Care to define those elusive “subsidies” Ian? Every time this topic is raised in The Australian, turns out that the amounts are not subsidies at all.
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Crickets. Guaranteed. Just a meme regurgitator.
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What is a “greenhouse gas”?
Why does it need to be stored?
What do you mean by “carbon capture” and why does carbon, an essential element of all life and the sixth most common element in the universe and twelfth most common element on earth need to be stored?
We shouldn’t be storing carbon, we need to burn it (such as on the form of coal) to make electricity and keep warm and run our civilisation which needs cheap, reliable energy.
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“What do you mean by “carbon capture” and why does carbon, an essential element of all life and the sixth most common element in the universe and twelfth most common element on earth need to be stored?”
Plants already have the means to capture and store carbon, it’s called photosynthesis.
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The government might be allowing exploration but I am guessing 1) if oil is found its extraction will never be approved and 2) the sites chosen are likely to be non-promising ones.
In other words, it’s just tokenism.
The federal government and all state governments are fully committed to Energy Starvation.
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Very expensive, but “tax-deductable” exploration; there’s that “money-go-round, again.
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RenewEconomy is running the story belatedly, so let’s go back to the source.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australian-fossil-fuel-subsidies-surge-to-11-6-billion-in-2021-22/
Tasmania and the ACT don’t qualify.
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What a surprise – the hard Left AI misdescribes the diesel fuel off-road excise exemption arrangements as an evil subsidy. As shown above, this is nonsense; but then to the Left facts are far less significant than the narrative.
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Morrison organised $200 million for the building of the Kurri Kurri Gas-fired power station, wonder who is chipping in the other $400 million.
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Kurri Kurri is going to cost a billion dollars.
‘There are further costs for the gas storage facilities for Kurri Kurri power plant, which Snowy Hydro management told an Australian Senate estimates committee will be around A$100mn.
‘This means that total costs so far for the plant will be close to A$1bn. Kurri Kurri, also known as the Hunter power plant, will be able to run for around 10 hours before taking a day to fill up the gas storage tank and being ready to use again, according to the EIS.’ (Argus)
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An initial look at the WA “subsidies” seems to indicate that they were loans to govt-run commercial enterprises, and I’m expecting to find that they will have to be paid back as part of that commercial operation. If that is the case, then they are NOT subsidies.
Other “subsidies” appear to be assumptions that part of a govt commercial company’s operational costs is somehow a “subsidy.”
Needs further investigation.
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Fossil fuels get a small amount of their tax back.
Tax , that by definition, they were not due to pay.
IT IS NOT A SUBSIDY !
Then of course is the huge tax slug again at the pump.
Fossil fuel PAY, PAY, and PAY..
Wind and solar TAKE, TAKE, and keep on TAKING……
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The business of calling Fuel Tax Rebate a “subsidy” already been debunked many times over.
https://www.minerals.org.au/news/fuel-tax-credit-not-subsidy
The fuel tax is an ADDITIONAL tax on top of all the normal taxes (corporate tax, GST, etc) that get paid by any industry. The stated purpose is because within the transport industry there should be a “user pay” approach to road construction and maintenance, and similar thing with roads, ports, etc. For political reasons the government wants to keep these assets mostly in public hands (although with toll roads they contract to a private operator, as per PPP conditions).
Therefore we must trust the government to take that ADDITIONAL tax, paid by the road users via their fuel purchase, collected by the petrol stations … and government is expected to spend that on road maintenance, and to some extent on rail and ports as well. The general belief is people using more fuel are also imposing more wear and tear on the roads, and that’s probably often the case. Why is this difficult for some people to comprehend? Mostly because they astutely avoid comprehension.
Regarding commercial use of government rail lines, there’s another user pays fee imposed to pay back the cost of the rail, and there’s also fees for use of commercial ports. It would be good if this accounting was more encapsulated by creating PPP entitles to manage this, but political resistance prevents this.
So who gets the rebate then? Well it’s mostly farmers, only for situations where they use the fuel on their own land (e.g. tractors, etc) and mining companies where they use the fuel off-road (e.g. bulldozers and diggers) … based on the very good argument, why should they pay additional tax for roads they are not using.
In those cases where farmers do use roads (e.g. taking their goods to market) they do pay that fuel tax and cannot claim a rebate. Both the agricultural industry and the mining industry must also pay fees for any government rail or port infrastructure they use. At no stage is anything subsidized.
The fuel rebates are not a tax cut … farming and mining pay all the normal taxes, and between the two of them represent approx half of Australia’s exports, and deliver huge value add to the nation. Government gets vast amounts of tax out of these industries, as well as a broad ecosystem of support industries that depend on mining and agriculture. The Australia Institute has been pushing this barrow, regardless of how obviously it’s been pointed out to them that they are wrong … it’s frankly dishonest propaganda. Why do they want to make life more difficult for farmers anyhow? What did the farmers do to them?
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“Mostly because they astutely avoid comprehension.”
What a great description 🙂
…. aligns with them remaining “willfully ignorant”.
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“it’s frankly dishonest propaganda.”
Which basically describes almost everything that comes from the Australia Institute.
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First we were told that it would be the right thing to do, vote yes for the voice, whatever that means, at a proposed referendum and leave the details, whatever they are, to the politicians to deal with later.
Now with centre-right serving and former MP Indigenous Australians opposed to unnecessary changes to the Constitution, now joined by a far-left Green Senator, Albanese Labor is having a panic attack and talking about more work needing to be done. More work? An admission that they attempted to pull off a political stunt with no regard for the ramifications like their voice once written into the Constitution almost impossible to remove?
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We certainly do not need any race-related clauses in the constitution. Government is elected to help solve problems, not cement them into the system.
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As ” Hercules Gritpype Thynne of the Goon Show was wont to say: “You silly, twisted boy, you”.
The ENTIRE purpose of government is to implement an endless series of “solutions” in search of “problems”
Overly cynical?
Nope! Just observant..
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At least Albo has clarified the question for us. Originally it was: “Do you want apartheid in Australia?”.
The answer to that was clear enough: “No”.
But now he’s changed it to: “Do you trust us pollies to do the right thing – for ever?”
And the new answer is rather more emphatic: “Hell no”.
Cheers
Dave B
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And what about the State EV squandering of taxpayer’s monies (all States are on the same EV crusade) on street parking space power pole mounted recharging points?
Photographs of already installed inner Sydney suburbs show car parking spaces filled with vehicles including the recharge parking space, restricted parking time limits apply, resident parking permits exempted. From my decade of experience living in an inner suburb alongside a CBD parking Monday to Saturday for residents needing a street space was a nightmare of waiting and waiting for a vehicle to move. Even at night with parking restrictions in place until midnight.
EV transition should be up to free enterprise consumer market choice, not driven by governments and taxpayer’s monies.
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To charge a Tesla 95 kWh battery using a normal household socket is extremely slow due to a maximum charging rate of around 2.3kW (230 volts x 10 amps) for 40 hours.
The best option is connection to a 3 phase power supply (415 volts), which delivers 40 amps at a rate of 16.5kW. Now it will only take 5-6 hours.
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And that’s only if the power is available
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Power pole chargers are a joke ! For multiple reasons.
IF Oz ever gets serious about EVs (doubtful on current progress) ,.. then we will have to go the way the UK and Europe etc already has started…with large dedicated EV recharge facilities with multiple (30+) fast chargers 150-350 kW)
Typical average car use is only 30-40 km per day, requireing approx 8kWh of power, so “daily” recharge could be done in only 4 hours on a domestic 10 amp supply ….
..1 hour on a “standard” 7.5 kW domestic charg station..
..or < 5 mins on a commercial fast charger.
…..But i suspect most would choose to just do one bigger ( 30min) charge , once per week .!
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There are reasons why politicians from the capital cities suburbs do not understand rural / regional life styles.
30-40 km is a short drive to town for lots of us. ONE WAY
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Sure , and some of us drive 100sof km per day !
…but at the same time many people only drive 5-10km once or twice per week !
30-40 km is the National average for all passenger vehicles…
Check on the National Statistics site .
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If we aren’t allowed to build more coal or gas power stations and no nuclear, where is the electricity going to come from for all these EV’s?
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Unicorn flatulence and good old bs are excellent methane sources. Chris Bowen believes in the first and is full of the second.
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Simple… we use the solar arrays to power giant LED arrays which produce more light that feeds the solar arrays. Easy.
I start my new job at Climate Alarmists next week. 😆
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Check the graph and the sentiment here on power in California
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/09/06/o-sweet-saint-of-san-andreas-125/#comment-1681510
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David, no disrespect but,..either you do not read these threads, or you have a poor memory !..
This very question has been posted here numerous times, and i have responded with the same answer…
I could walk you through the calcs, but , that has been done multiple times previously…so sifficient to say ….
….There is already sufficient generating CAPACITY in the grid to recharge a fleet of 10 million (50% of current registered vehicles) assuming vehicle use remains as is (30-40 km per day average per vehicle)
The extra demand would be 70-80 GWh per day, compared to the average total daily demand of approx 500-550 GWh, and a total grid generation capacity of 800+ GWh of fossil generation alone ! (Ignoring solar ,wind, hydro, or Roof top !)
As always , peak demands would have to be managed, but that is a given anyway.
Remember ,..these are todays electricity capacity figures,..and 10 million EVs are probably 20+ years away,..so plenty of time to figure out future generation !
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IMHO – There is a no more important question than this for Australia’s electricity future. Albo won’t answer it because it cannot be asked as it would confirm that he has NO PLAN other than Klimate Change and Tory nonsense.
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I regret to inform you that there is one of these EV points/parking in Barcaldine as of last week. 1600 population. Yeh.
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You must be at a strategic distance from town/other charger
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Since I’m now called Wednesday, every day is hump day.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=TYHO0-0W5To
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Oh my. What are you implying?
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You sound like a description of a camel’s life in Yemen.
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Embalmers Are Making Shocking Discoveries in the Blood of the Dead
It sounds like a bad horror movie script from the 1960s, but it isn’t.
The Epoch Times is reporting that embalmers from around the nation are speaking out about strange blood clots they have been finding in the bodies of the deceased since around 2020 or 2021.
The clots are said to be white, fibrous, and rubbery and can be the size of a grain of sand or as long as a human leg. They can be as thick as a pinky finger. One embalmer claimed they can be “nearly the strength of steel.” Embalmers across the nation are contending that these clots are not normal.
FACT-O-RAMA! Embalming is the process of preserving a body with chemicals for viewing at a funeral, including draining the body of blood.
Some bodies have so many clots that the embalmers are forced to drain blood from several points instead of just one. The embalming process takes roughly two hours but can take four hours if the bodies have a lot of clotting.
“Prior to 2020, 2021, we probably would see somewhere between 5 to 10 percent of the bodies that we would embalm having blood clots,” licensed embalmer Richard Hirschman told The Epoch Times.
Today, Hirschman, who embalms in Alabama, claims that 50% to 70% of the bodies have clots.
“For me to embalm a body without any clots, kind of like how it was in the day, prior to all of this stuff, it’s rare,” Hirschman continued.
“The exception is to embalm a body without clots,” he added.
“They’re not even dead from COVID. They’re dying of sudden heart attacks, strokes, cancers,” Hirschman stated. “It doesn’t seem to matter what these people die of nowadays, so many of them have the same anomalies in their blood.”
No one knows yet if the clots are due to COVID-19, the vaccine, or something else, but embalmers from around the country agree that these specific clots were not seen until recently.
Hirschman admitted he doesn’t always know the vaccination status of the bodies he embalms.
Even PolitiFact’s experts agree that “there’s something to the claim about a greater incidence of blood clots.”
“What embalmers are noticing, they say, could well be the effects of COVID-19 infection itself, and those effects are occurring in people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated,” PolitiFact wrote, adding that “they dismiss the idea that it’s linked to the vaccines.”
“If it’s not the vaccine, fine! What is it? Let’s figure it out because something is causing it and it can’t be healthy,” Hirschman continued.
Mike Adams, who runs an accredited lab in Texas, tested one of the clots Hirschman discovered against blood from a living, unvaccinated person and found the clot was almost completely lacking in potassium, iron, magnesium, and zinc.
“Notice that the key elemental markers of human blood such as iron are missing in the clot,” Adams told The Epoch Times, referring to a chart of his findings. “Similar story with magnesium, potassium, and zinc. These are clear markers for human blood. Live human blood will always have high iron, or the person would be dead. These clots have almost no iron, nor magnesium, etc.”
LOTS-O-CLOTS-O-RAMA! The new clots are found in both veins and arteries. They are white compared to regular clots, which are typically dark red or black.
Embalmers from across the U.S. are starting to speak out about clotting, though many are choosing to remain anonymous. A licensed funeral director, who chose not to release her name, told The Epoch Times, “During May of 2021, the embalming process became more difficult. The normal draining of the blood was almost halted by thick, jelly-like blood. Instead of the blood flowing normally down the table, it was very viscous. So thick, that it would not wash down the table without assistance.”
He further states that he “cannot prove it’s the vaccine, but my gut tells me it is.”
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“What embalmers are noticing, they say, could well be the effects of COVID-19 infection itself, and those effects are occurring in people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated,” PolitiFact wrote, adding that “they dismiss the idea that it’s linked to the vaccines.”
That definitely needs to be followed up. It is clearly crucial to know which groups had the blood clots – vaccinated / unvaccinated x had-Covid / not-had-Covid.
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I disagree that it’s like a 60’s (actually it was the 50’s when those kinds of SciFi flicks were big) horror movie; it’s like Alien.
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Two More EU Aluminum Smelters Going Offline Due to Excessive Energy Costs, Aluminum Shortages Predicted
September 6, 2022 – Sundance
On one hand losing the ability to manufacture aluminum is bad news for any economic activity that requires the use of aluminum. However, on the other hand, this politically guided ‘new world’ we are going toward doesn’t need aluminum, because you cannot eat it.
Predictably 2023 is going to be the beginning of several ‘Build Back Better’ decades where the ownership of material things disappears. When your wages are focused on sustaining yourself with housing, food and energy, all of those other purchases become mere indulgences.
Sustainable life in equity with the needs of the planet, means returning to the era when you received an orange or a piece of chocolate as a Christmas gift, and you are thankful. Cars, appliances, phones or other types of luxury durable goods are indulgences which become out of reach for the worker class. Thus, removing smelters, iron works, factories and other heavy industrial machines only makes sense.
As meager wage earnings are focused on purchases to sustain life, there is little room for indulgences. As the World Economic Forum has stated, we will own nothing and we will be happy. Happiness experiences will be provided and the virtual metaverse will fill our needs.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two more European aluminium smelters are powering down as the region’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating.
Slovenia’s Talum will reduce output to just a fifth of capacity and Alcoa (AA.N) will curtail one line at its Lista plant in Norway.
Close to 1 million tonnes of European primary aluminum capacity is now offline and more may follow as a notoriously power-hungry sector struggles to cope with soaring energy costs. (read more)
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Well, lack of aluminium will stall the automotive industry, and the biog one will be no Coke or beer or any drinks in cans…
How to destroy a perfectly good civilisation.
[KP is the email change deliberate? – Jo]
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BREAKING: Another Deep State Leak to WaPo: Document Describing Foreign Government’s Nuclear Capabilities Seized by FBI During Mar-a-Lago Raid
Another day, another Deep State leak.
A document describing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities was seized by the FBI during its raid of Trump’s Florida residence last month.
The document is so highly classified that the FBI leaked it to the Washington Post.
The Washington Post reported:
A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property.
Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Only the president, some members of his Cabinet or a near-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special-access programs, according to people familiar with the search, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive details of an ongoing investigation.
Documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need-to-know basis, not just top-secret clearance. Some special-access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operation’s existence. Records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key, almost always in a secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location.
Judge Aileen Cannon granted President Trump’s request for a Special Master review of the material confiscated by the Biden DOJ during their raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Cannon also ‘temporarily enjoins’ or forbid the Biden regime from ‘reviewing and using the seized materials’ pending the completion of the review.
Judge Cannon in her order also noted there is a risk of Deep State leaks to the media.
And like clockwork, the Deep State leaked so-called ‘highly classified’ information on nuclear weapons to the Washington Post.
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“The document is so highly classified that the FBI leaked it to the Washington Post.”
+1
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Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells
BY: MARGOT CLEVELAND
The federal judge’s 24-page order further calls into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump.
A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, further held that the Department of Justice cannot review or use for criminal investigative purposes any material seized pending the review process.
Besides handing Trump a victory in his battle for some oversight of the Biden administration’s digging into his documents, Cannon highlighted several significant facts over the course of her 24-page order that further call into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump.
Here are the seven top-line takeaways:
1. President Biden Was Directly Involved
2. Timeline of the Trump Targeting Is Suspect
3. Not So Fast Joe — Trump’s Executive Privilege Can’t Be So Quickly Sidestepped
4. Members of the Investigative Team Saw Confidential Attorney-Client Documents
5. DOJ Seized a Lot of Personal Material
6. FBI Suggested Trump Committed a Crime by Returning a Torn-Up Document to the NARA
7. Leaks Look Bad Too
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7. Leaks Look Bad Too
In granting Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master, Cannon stressed that the special master would help maintain institutional trust in a case heavily politicized. She further noted that a special master would serve to ensure “the integrity of an orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias and media leaks.” Here, the court noted that “when asked about the dissemination to the media of information relative to the contents of the seized records, Government’s counsel stated that he had no knowledge of any leaks stemming from his team but candidly acknowledged the unfortunate existence of leaks to the press.”
Those “unfortunate” leaks provide further proof of the politicization of this entire affair: In three weeks’ time, Mar-a-Lago has sprung more leaks than have escaped from Special Counsel John Durham’s team over three years.
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More leaks than a barb wire canoe – or is that “not yet”?
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Anybody paying attention since 2016 is aware that something very rotten is going on in the state of Denmark/US. We don’t need more convincing, but the real question is “what in God’s name can be done about the evil cabal running the Deep State, the DNC and much of the rest of America’s core institutions?” They can kill with impunity (Epstein), they control the narrative and they have power throughout the nation.
I used to think the mess we’re in was a result of stupidity, now I think more of conspiracy.
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Thread Conversation
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
– The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded “disinformation experts,” the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
– A series of “crises” have been cynically and aggressively exploited to inexorably restrict the range of permitted views, and expand pretexts for online silencing and deplatforming. Trump’s election, Russiagate, 1/6, COVID and war in Ukraine all fostered new methods of repression.
– During the failed attempt in January to force Spotify to remove Joe Rogan, the country’s most popular podcaster – remember that? – I wrote that the current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.
– But that Rogan failure only strengthened their repressive campaigns. Dems routinely abuse their majoritarian power in DC to explicitly coerce Big Tech silencing of their opponents and dissent. This is *Govt censorship* disguised as corporate autonomy.
– There’s now an entire new industry, aligned with Dems, to pressure Big Tech to censor. Think tanks and self-proclaimed “disinformation experts” funded by Omidyar, Soros and the US/UK Security State use benign-sounding names to glorify ideological censorship as neutral expertise.
– The worst, most vile arm of this regime are the censorship-mad liberal employees of big media corporations
@BrandyZadrozny
@TaylorLorenz
NYT tech unit). Masquerading as “journalists,” they align with the scummiest Dem groups to silence and deplatform.
– A major myth that must be quickly dismantled: political censorship is not the by-product of autonomous choices of Big Tech companies.
This is happening because DC Dems and the US Security State are threatening reprisals if they refuse. They’re explicit:
– But the worst is watching people whose job title in corporate HR Departments is “journalist” take the lead in agitating for censorship. They exploit the platforms of corporate giants to pioneer increasingly dangerous means of banning dissenters. *These* are the authoritarians.
This is the frog-in-boiling-water problem: the increase in censorship is gradual but continuous, preventing recognition of how severe it’s become. The EU now legally *mandates censorship of Russian news. They’ve made it *illegal* for companies to air it.
So many new tactics of censorship repression have emerged in the West: Trudeau freezing bank accounts of tucker-protesters; Paypal partnering with ADL to ban dissidents from the financial system; Big Tech platforms openly colluding in unison to de-person people from the internet.
The Thread Continues – Worth a Read
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Orange Man Bad.
Must wear N95 mask when alone in car.
Words are violence.
‘Woman’ cannot be defined by Science.
People that vote differently than me threaten Democracy.
Carbon Bad.
Periodic Table must be Decolonized.
Vaccination is Freedom.
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“Periodic Table must be Decolonized”
like that one 🙂
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Solar physicists have made different predictions for Solar Cycle 25, everything from very weak to very strong and everything in between. Still too early to call.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_25#/media/File:Solar_Cycle_25_prediction_and_progression.png
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Extra reading on the subject if you are interested:
https://svalgaard.leif.org/research/How-to-Predict-Solar-Cycle-25.pdf
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Please see Jordan Peterson’s outstanding statement to the Twitter CEO.
Beautiful wordcraft and content.
https://youtu.be/0S5WP4GGliA
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Polar bears are breeding so well they are a problem in many Alaskan and northern Canada settlements.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/13/polar-bear-numbers-canadian-arctic-inuit-controversial-report
And I don’t agree with hunting for fun personally, but not being a control freak or Leftist I wouldn’t ban it either (for non-endangered species) so there was this auction for a chance to kill a polar bear.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/chance-to-shoot-polar-bear-auctioned-90000-disgraceful-043053773.html
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“Chance to shoot polar bear auctioned for $90,000” Excellent idea!! Now we know the value of a polar bear, whereas we didn’t have a clue before.
For $90K a bear people can decide if it is worth breeding them, just as we breed all domesticated animals for money.
Only since South Africa allowed people to ‘sell’ the hunting of an animal have animal numbers increased. Game farmers breed wild animals and sell the rights to harvest them by hunting. The price varies by the cost of production and the demand/supply as usual.
[KP there’s a typo on your email address that’s sending you into moderation.]AD
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By sheer luck the Andrews Regime in Vicdanistan made it through winter without grid failure.
With no effective opposition he is almost certain to be re-elected in November whereupon he will have another four years to complete his mission of destroying the electricity grid.
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Sky News 13 April 2022
“Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his comments claiming he was an economic advisor to the Hawke Government as questions swirl around the Labor leader’s policy credentials. Mr Albanese tried to link himself with the widely popular economic reforms under Bob Hawke in the 1980s on Tuesday as he attempted to move away from his blunder over the cash and unemployment rates. Arguing that he was suitably equipped to handle the budget and Australia’s soaring debt, Mr Albanese pointed to his economics degree from the University of Sydney before becoming an “economic policy advisor” to Mr Hawke. While the current Labor leader did join the Hawke Government 1985, his official parliamentary biography showed he worked as a research officer for Tom Uren until 1989.”
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While Hawke would be a centrist today, Tom Uren iirc was extreme left. Albo’s mentor?
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I think that by todays reckoning, Hawke was right of centre, as it was he in conjunction with the then “world’s greatest treasurer” that allowed full foreign ownership of Australia’s energy companies.
That has progressed to the stage where we are like the lay-by section in a department store holding on to coal/gas/uranium in the ground for the benefit of foreign owners. Australia gets the royalties and employment, but the super-profits are elsewhere and never to be taxed here. That’s why Australia has no need to account for the emissions.
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Are you sure?
2 things:
When Hawke came to power Australia had an 8 Billion Dollar debt.
When Hawke left power the debt was 95 Billion Dollars.
And:
“I gladly acknowledge the debt
of my own government to
Fabianism. The Fabian Society
acknowledges the principal tenet
of Marxism – the abolition of private
property, in this case to own
land. They then align themselves
with the non-violent arm of
Marxism by accepting the nonviolent
road of patient gradualism
to total government.”
“For the right moment you
must wait, as Fabius did, most
patiently, when warring against
Hannibal, though many censured
his delays; but when the
time comes, you must strike
hard, as Fabius did, or all your
waiting will be in vain and fruitless.”
Bob Hawke, Labor Prime Minister of Australia, in
his infamous speech to the Fabian Society, Melbourne, 8th May 1984.
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In Vicdanistan, why do they still require compulsory face masks on public transport?
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Everyone wearing a mask looks broken, obedient, compliant, unquestioning of authority, mindless drones, Labor/Green voters (plus many Liberals).
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The are like the Proles in Nineteen Eighty Four.
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Handy for confusing facial recognition though. I’m waiting for the day when they have to be removed before entering a bank – just like full-face helmets.
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Yes. Or perhaps the government will require individual barcodes printed on the masks, with random checks to make sure you are wearing the right code. In any case, everyone already carries a personal tracking device in the form of a phone, the movements of which are stored for extended periods.
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Nah.
That will be covered with the microchip implant.
The mask is just to demonstrate fealty.
The phone is our personal propaganda minaret.
Mine pings every time USA Today puts out a new Government memo … I mean, important news item.
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So were those spikey things that they injected into me really antennae?
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Don’t need to be removed. The latest cameras can ID the face even if wearing a mask. Also your RFID can be read and gives away your personal information.
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D-O-N-T…V-O-T-E…A-N-D-R-E-W-S…B-A-C-K…I-N…🙄
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John
You’re not shouting at the
rightleft people.Doug
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Good morning Britain. A tip on heating your homes.
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1664761/Martin-Lewis-head-in-hands-Edwina-Currie-money-saving-tips-gmb
The presenter’s reaction says it all.
Edwina should try for a job at the weather bureau or CDC. 😅
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It’s almost as bad as the people that think if you spend £25k+ insulating your house to a high standard, you ‘save’ money!
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Well you will once you last 968 years. Or is that the payback time for solar heating?
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Like the Coles “savers” I get sent on steroids
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Thats a lot if insulation. I would want Swedish triple glazed, Argon filled windows for that sort of money.
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And not those double glazed CO2 filled windows that leak more heat than plain dry air filled ones.
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String of fires prompts Amazon to temporarily shut down solar rooftops at US facilities.
Amazon decided to suspend the use of the massive solar panel arrays installed at its fulfillment centers last year because they kept catching on fire.
Internal documents acquired by CNBC revealed that “critical fire or arc flash events” have occurred at six different North American facilities, accounting for around 12.7 percent of Amazon’s buildings. The documents were never made public.
“Out of an abundance of caution, following a small number of isolated incidents with onsite solar systems owned and operated by third parties, Amazon proactively powered off our onsite solar installations in North America, and took immediate steps to re-inspect each installation by a leading solar technical expert firm,” Amazon spokesperson Erika Howard said in a statement.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/09/05/string-of-fires-prompts-amazon-to-temporarily-shut-down-solar-rooftops-at-us-facilities-1281272/
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Artificial Intelligence: UK’s Supreme Court to rule on letting robots patent inventions.
The UK’s highest court is set to decide whether artificial intelligence (AI) robots should be allowed to patent their own inventions.
Britain’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a computer scientist’s bid to list his AI machine as the sole inventor of two separate products, in an application to the UK’s patent office.
The Supreme Court will hear Dr Stephen Thaler’s bid to overturn an earlier ruling from a lower court, banning him from filing a patent application on behalf of his DABUS robot.
https://www.cityam.com/artificial-intelligence-uks-supreme-court-to-rule-on-letting-robots-patent-inventions/
Closer by the day…😉
They should let “A.I” run the UK government instead of WEF braindead puppet Truss. That’d be the only chance they have.
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Wife of sacked minister calls Liz Truss an ‘imbecile’
PM Truss has been accused of filling her cabinet with her allies and supporters, a move that has not gone down well with many, writes The Telegraph.
She removed a number of Rishi Sunak supporters from her cabinet during the government reshuffle. All the top jobs have gone to her allies, such as MP for Spelthorne Kwasi Kwarteng and Therese Coffey.
Kwarteng has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, while Coffey has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary. Coffey had served as the minister for work and pensions under the Boris Johnson government.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wife-sacked-minister-calls-liz-truss-imbecile-1705227
A “meritocracy”. So long as you’re not male, white or a WEF hater…
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Therese Coffey for those unfamiliar https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/therese-coffey-uk-deputy-prime-minister-minister-for-health.html
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Liz Truss ‘to freeze gas and electricity bills’ for households with £130bn loan package
Liz Truss is getting ready to press the button on £130 billion plans to freeze electricity and gas bills for average UK households this winter.
The new Prime Minister is set to reveal a plan for the government to set a “price guarantee” for bills as early as Wednesday, after being formally appointed by the Queen today.
Under the scheme energy suppliers will be obliged to accept the price set by government in return for guarantees on massive loans to cover the difference between what it costs them to generate and buy power and what it can be sold at.
The government will guarantee financing for the scheme and the costs could be added to domestic bills for years to come.
Along with cuts to the green energy levy it means average bills will be frozen for the next 18 months, according to reports by the Bloomberg business news agency.
The SNP’s Ian Blackford called on Truss to “think again” on forcing households to pay back the loans as a surcharge on their bills in years to come.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-to-freeze-gas-27917244
…and she’s off and running…
Couldn’t pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
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Sort of assumes things will get better in years to come
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And they scream: Australian fossil fuel subsidies surge to $11.6 billion in 2021-22
1st Attack the mining industry (Get rid of the fuel subsidy)
2nd Start on the farmers next.
3rd Then the Transport Industry
All to get the ball rolling in getting $ dollars to spend on Roads for EV’s to drive for free.
Chris Bowen has hinted at this numerous times.
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Already addressed – look at thread #2
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#4 It is discovered that cities have great difficulty growing their own food.
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UK BANS Covid Vaccines for ALL kids under 12.
Authorities Afraid of Criminal Liability for Vaccination?
People mention this program as being “discontinued”. That benign sounding description is not quite exactly correct.
The correct statement is that in the UK, Covid vaccines were just BANNED for all children under 12. Not a single UK child under 12 is allowed to get any doses of Covid vaccines.
The above tweet author’s doctor, being mindful of liability and the ban, is REFUSING to give Claire’s kid the vaccine and Claire has nowhere else to go.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-bans-covid-vaccines-for-all-kids
Fear of devastating lawsuits which can now be backed by hard data is replacing the fear of non compliance with medical boards…
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Woolworths is Australia’s most trusted brand
😄🤪😆😘😁🤪😆😜
Australia’s most trusted brand has been announced. Woolworths, the fresh food people and aggressive enforcers of nonsensical medical mandates, even after the government said they didn’t have to do it anymore.
Woolworths insists all staff be vaccinated against Covid, which may reduce their chances of dying but will not affect rates of infection and transmission between staff or from staff to customer. They do not require that staff take other life-saving measures as condition of employment, such as maintaining healthy BMI, eating a quota of organic vegetables, or refraining from chemical carbonated sodas.
Vaccinated Woolworths staff will mix all day long with vaccinated and unvaccinated customers alike, not that this makes any difference to anyone.
https://rebekahbarnett.substack.com/p/australias-most-trusted-brand/comments
Worried about food price rises?
Wait until Woolies, Coles etc face class action lawsuits into the tens of billions of dollars. Continuing with vaxxes in the face of proven data is gross negligence at very best.
At least they have those perspex Shields at the checkouts that aerosols find it impossible to go around. 😆😆😆
Hell, we can’t even trust the medical profession which used to be the most highly regarded profession. Now they’re on par with Mexican used car dealers.
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Did you know Steggles and Ingham have their own breeds of chickens?
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No.
If it tastes like chicken and is crumbed that’s all I care about. 😁
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Why would that be a problem? I thought this was a pro science forum.
They also assure us that they do not use growth hormones. I hope [trust is hard to win now] that is true.
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Who said it was a problem? I thought it was interesting that they have their own breeds.
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Not really. After all we have the Bowen Turkey, The Andrews vulture and the Brandt DoDo. Not to mention assorted Teal coloured pigeons.
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CO2 is plant growth stimulant – I wonder if it is transferred to the chickens?
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In a sense. CO2 is actually 99% of the plant, made from CO2 and H2O almost entirely. Which is why plants burn when dry. There really are not a lot of elements, 92. And very few plants are made from Ruthenium, Boron, Aluminum, Nickel, Uranium etc. It’s all hydrogen oxygen, carbon. All life on earth is made from CO2.
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For interest, living things share an amazingly amount of DNA. It seems humans share 60% of the DNA of a carrot and the carrot DNA is considerably longer. Anyway, dried we all burn like wood or carrots. And over time without oxygen and insects to metabolism our remains, we all end up as hydrocarbons too. So there is nothing evil about hydrocarbons, they are the eventual fate of all carbohydrates formed by photosynthesis from H2O and CO2. It’s only this utterly and obviously wrong proposition that CO2 is burning up the planet.
All fossil fuels are old plant matter from a very prolific time when CO2 levels were much higher and life was really more abundant and dinosaurs did not worry about the end of their world from CO2. But that was before CO2 driven Climate Science was invented.
We now find ourselves in real danger of starvation and freezing because of our attempts to stop a tiny amount of alleged warming. Which must be the height of mass st*pidity by the UN or a cunning plan by the WEF to starve a lot of the planet and so bring about their promised ‘Great Reset’, a devastating religious concept which has all the science and sense of the ‘Rapture’.
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TdeF:
I dispute that figure. Looking at Australian politicians I suspect that they share 60% of their DNA with a turnip.
This percentage might be even higher judging by our Federal Minister for Energy.
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One of them has employed chicken geneticists since at least the early 1960’s
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And climate “scientists” examine chicken entrails.
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“One of them” in #23.2.3 was Steggles or Inghams
I’d guess that they would be delighted to provide the entrails at a “special climate scientist price”
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Maybe one likes big breasts, and the other likes big thighs 🙂
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Wonder how they are going to power these between Broome and Kununurra!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=mcgowan+announces+ev+stations+in+wa&source=android
Western Australia’s EV fast charging network has taken a major step forward with the McGowan Government awarding JET Charge the contract to provide 98 EV chargers at 49 locations around the State – creating the world’s longest continuously connected electric highway.
The State Government is delivering the highway through Synergy and Horizon Power, with the $4.1 million project to extend more than 6,600 kilometres.
WA’s EV fast charging network will stretch from Kununurra in the north, to Esperance in the south, and east to Eucla.
Each location will have both a standard and fast charger. The fast chargers, which are up to 150 kilowatt DC, will allow drivers to top up their EVs in as little as 15 minutes.
The first charging station is expected to be installed in November this year, with the network to be fully operational by 2024.
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Oops … link…
https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/08/Major-milestone-for-WA's-EV-fast-charging-network.aspx
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What provision is there for fire fighting?
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Charging locations that are not connected to an electricity system will, of course, have a diesel gen set. Yes/No?
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There is plenty of gas in that country so run them from an OC gas plant but on a user pays basis. Of course the jet engine is coupled to the grid.
The more users, the wider the gas pipes and 33kV lines spread. Win/Win. Central Au is short of power.
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The WA gas pipelines don’t extend into much of the WA countryside, even up north adjacent to the major tourist highways.
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Look at the WA-developed Biofil Charger: https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/news/biofil-ev-fast-charger-on-the-nullarbor-fuelled-by-used-chip-oil/
Basically a diesel connected to a generatore. But whether powering it on old chip frying oil is a good idea in the long term is open top question.
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Likely better for the injection service shop
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Ahh !… so “green” CO2 then ?
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So long as you ignore the energy used to harvest the crops and the energy to extract the oil, and the energy to transport the plant oil to the fryers and the energy to transport the spent oil back to be processed, and that lost in the diesel Generator.
But calling it Net Zero is very likely to fool all those gullible enough to think Net Zero would work.
In the UK and the EU they call this process Biofuel. Even with subsidies it is one of the more expensive “renewable” sources (and don’t mention the pollution of nearby rivers and streams which doesn’t seem to be of interest to the BBC).
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Isn’t all CO2 produced equal to all CO2 absorbed – law of conservation of matter/energy and all that?
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Interesting Stan. I looked up Jet Charge but couldn’t ascertain how they proposed to instal a fast charger at Eucla. Surely would have to be a diesel-powered genset out there.
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Any estimates on the longevity of a charging station in rural WA?
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Good question. If diesel powered as I suspect most will have to be in the smaller population centres, it would have to sit outside, so its life may be short.
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Netherlands not only banning meat but meat advertising!
Meat ads to be banned from public spaces, Netherlands to go meat-free?
A Dutch city has decided to ban all meat advertisements from public spaces in an effort to reduce the consumption and green gas emissions. Haarlem in the Netherlands will enforce the ban from 2024 and with this it will become the first city in the world to ban meat ads.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvnuinARE8o
Eat recycled food. It’s good for the planet and ok for you.
Drink recycled poo water and eat cricket burgers. It’ll stop global warming.
Evolution wasted…
Maybe the dolphins would have done better…
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The next time a Leftoid tells you that we have to eat insects to “save the planet”, remind them that even if that were actually true and not a lie, that the food conversion ratio of crickets and chickens is about the same, 1.5 and 1.6 respectively.
So eating chickens would be about as efficient as eating crickets, assuming there was a legitimate reason to do it, which of course there isn’t.
But they still want us, the non-Elites, to eat the crickets because they are returning us to pre-Enlightenment times and serfdom and the Left consider real meat to be “luxury” food made available to all by capitalism which they hate. They think only the Left Elites should have access to real meat (just like they think they are the only ones entitled to fly to climate crisis conferences in private jets) .
References for food conversion ratio:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/a-semi-autonomous-cricket-farm-to-feed-the-world#:~:text=Crickets%20require%20just%201.5%20pounds,for%20every%20pound%20of%20pork.
https://www.alltech.com/blog/how-do-you-measure-performance-poultry-industry#:~:text=For%20broiler%20producers%2C%20an%20FCR,at%20converting%20feed%20into%20food.
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David:
We just have to rename chickens as NET ZERO FULLY GREEN INSECT PROCESSING UNITS and we can still have the choice.
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Thank you for the fish.
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OMG, say it isn’t true:
Report: Nearly One in Four Democrats Say Men Can Get Pregnant
By Alex Parker | Sep 07, 2022 12:00 AM ET
White, college-educated Democratic women scored 12 points higher at 36 percent.
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/09/07/report-nearly-one-in-four-democrats-say-men-can-get-pregnant-n623825
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I’m still waiting, and will probably die waiting, for ANYONE to show me one single example of this happening or even how it could conceivably be possible for a biological man to conceive.
Perhaps they’re confusing abdominal bloat with pregnancy. 😁
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This sort of belief is a consequence of post-modernist thought, extremely common among the Left.
They don’t believe there is any such thing as objective reality.
If they believe men can get pregnant, then so it is in that belief system.
Post-modernism is largely a denial of philosophical viewpoints that arose out of The Enlightenment which makes sense because the Left are indeed trying to return us to pre-Enlightenment values.
There is quite a good article on post-modernism here:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
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Perhaps this a good spot to recap …
Just a short six years or so ago …
1) there were only two genders and only one of them could produce offspring
2) Free Speech was a ‘left wing’ ideal, not ‘right wing’ extremism
3) mandated voluntary home imprisonment and government mandated medical treatment were considered unthinkable
4) Ivermectin was successful ‘human’ drug
5) Twerking was not an expression of feminist ideals
6) Skepticism was still allowed in some areas of science and medicine … not ‘Climate’ science of course
7) Tech was a bright light of intellectual freedom rather than a looming threat to it
8) farmers were good
9) truck drivers were good because they bring stuff the farmers make
10) police were mostly good and criminals were not victims but victimizers
11) Bruce Springsteen and Bono weren’t embarrassing elitist hypocrites (and there was comedy)
12) the WEF were just embarrassing elitists that confabed in Davos
13) ‘Equity’ was only a financial term
14) race based policies were considered illegal https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/bank-america-zero-down-payment-mortgage-first-time-buyers-details-rcna45662
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They sure keep trying.
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They must consider Dr Seuss a text book.
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Do you think politicians and senior public serpents ever become conscious of their incompetence?
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No. They assume that when things go wrong that it is due to evil JuJu.
And the solution is for more sacrifices.
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Only if they venture into the private sector. If they stay in the bubble they can imagine they actually produce something.
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I would like to see more female garbage collectors and sewer workers. I feel they are under-represented in these areas. Why are the feminists silent about this important issue of obvious discrimination against women?
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Yes the disproportionate number of men working in the non air conditioned sector is an outrage. This is where the real batlle for equality must be fought.
I enjoyed the Maccas advert a while ago that featured a lady supposedly working in underground contruction , proudly saying “welcome to my world!” She had perectly manicured and painted fingernails and spotless workwear. Yep, your world.
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Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling
Some Light on Long Covid
A cluster of new data
Eric Topol
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Surprisingly Americans have more Brains than Australians!
Poll: Three in Ten Americans Did Not Get a Coronavirus Vaccine
Three in ten Americans did not receive any vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, despite the government’s coercive efforts and attempts at enforcing mandates and restrictions, a poll from The Economist/YouGov found.
The survey asked respondents to indicate which statement describes them best.
While a majority, 71 percent, indicated that they have received “at least one shot of ANY manufacturers COVID-19 vaccine,” three in ten, 29 percent, said they have not.
The figure is highest among independents, 39 percent of whom said they have not received any coronavirus vaccine. Another 35 percent of Republicans indicated that they have not received a vaccine either, and 14 percent of Democrats said the same.
Trump voters are far less likely to say they received a coronavirus vaccine as well, as 34 percent said they did not, compared to 91 percent of 2020 Biden voters who said they did get at least one jab.
The survey was taken August 28-30, 2022, among 1,500 U.S. adult citizens and comes as some across the country are on their fourth shot.
After months of controversy, it is a well-established fact now that the vaccines themselves do not actually stop the transmission of the virus — a claim President Joe Biden made over the course of the pandemic.
During a CNN town hall in July 2021, Biden spread misinformation, stating that vaccinated individuals would not get the virus:
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They also didnt have fully compliant toadying State “leaders” incapable of critical thinking. Some of theirs have working BS detectors and use them.
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UK’s cigar-loving health secretary admits ‘I’m not a role model’
Therese Coffey acknowledged her appointment may put off people concerned about her lifestyle choices
Therese Coffey conceded that there was some validity in criticisms of her appointment as Britain’s new secretary of state for health and social care. She is known for having some unhealthy habits in her personal life.
The issue came up on Wednesday in an interview with the radio station LBC. Host Nick Ferrari quizzed the new secretary about her well-documented fondness for cigars and alcohol and suggested jokingly that both of them “could do with losing a pound or two.”
“My focus is on how we deliver for patients. And I appreciate I may not be the role model,” Coffey said, adding that “Chief Medical Officer [Chris Whitty] and others, I am sure, will continue being role models in that regard.”
“I’ve been a patient in the [National Health Services] too. I’ve had some brilliant experiences and I’ve had some experiences that could have been better,” she continued on a more serious note. Improving the healthcare system will be the focus of her work in the cabinet of Prime Minister Liz Truss, she pledged.
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Washington Post Jumps Back onto the Foreign Nation Nuclear Secrets Angle to Mar-a-Lago Documents
September 7, 2022 | Sundance
The Washington Post goes back to the prior narrative surrounding the Mar-a-Lago documents saying, “a document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month.”…. with Devlin Barrett adding the usual, “according to people familiar with the matter” sourcing.
Keeping in mind the traditional relationship that exists between specific media outlets and their deep state sources, the most obvious source for Devlin Barrett is the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD), FBI Counterintelligence division, or larger intelligence community (IC). However, what is also obvious from the way the documents are described is a narrative framework to make the innocuous seem looming.
I would be willing to bet the “document” in question is a letter from North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un to President Trump about the status of the DPRK military intent and weapons. You might remember Chairman Kim and President Trump developed a good relationship and exchanged letters related to matters of national security between North Korea and the United States.
The Intelligence Community in combination with the U.S. military industrial complex and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, did not like that level of direct diplomatic contact and discussion between President Trump and Chairman Kim. Direct communication between the two leaders subverted the IC’s ability to shape the DPRK messaging to support an interventionist and hostile U.S. geopolitical outlook.
The professional bureaucrats in charge of guiding and shaping all United States foreign engagements do not like being cut out of the geopolitical equations. As the former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chuck Schumer famously said, “the intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to get back at you” if the President does not adhere and acquiesce to their power and authorities
Chairman Kim and President Trump discussing how to get along is not in the interests of the people who run the U.S. government. Therefore, any documents or letters of correspondence that Kim and Trump may have exchanged are now “vital national security documents.”
Again, if you subtract the narrative engineering and read between the lines of the claims, that type of document exchange is almost certain to be what this is all about.
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A great quote David! Must use that when somebody says “follow the science”.
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“Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/07/electric-cars-are-not-zero-emission-vehicles/
And
“REPORT
Mines, Minerals, and “Green” Energy: A Reality Check
Mark P. Mills
July 9, 2020″
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check
“Then there is hope: but hope is not a strategy” E.M. Smith.
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“Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles”
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Electric cars are self-deception vehicles.
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Re covid and “vaccines”
“The MSM *ADMITS* They Were Wrong
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You may not read it this way, but the title is exactly correct.
Let’s add another: You may well be boned if you took the jabs with nothing you can do about it.
You may have f*ed yourself listening to Fauci, Birx, Trump, Biden and your doctor.
With new COVID variant-specific booster shots set to roll out in the coming week, vaccine scientists argue that more research is needed to understand how a person’s early immune response — either through vaccination or infection itself — may impact future protection against a constantly evolving virus.
Oh, really? You mean we’ve never done that before?
Wait — we have. In fact we’ve studied it for a long time, specifically with influenza.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246878
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Truss intends to cap gas prices.
‘Capping gas prices would lower wholesale electricity rates. About 40 per cent of Britain’s electricity is generated by gas-fired power plants, which tend to set wholesale rates for the rest of the market, even though other technologies such as wind produce power more cheaply.
‘In the long term, Truss’s new government wants to decouple electricity prices from gas entirely, a policy the EU is also pursuing.’ (wuwt)
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Albo is a big fan of fast trains.
‘Catherine King will introduce legislation to establish a High Speed Rail Authority, which will build on “previous work including the comprehensive study, commissioned under former Infrastructure Minister and now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, that found high speed rail was not only viable, but would return over $2 for every $1 of investment”. (Guardian)
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Having lived and worked in Europe for a spell, so am I. I realise that they never make a profit, but as a way to move lots of folks around quickly, they are fantastic. I noticed in Germany that a lot of folk lived a lot further out and were still able to travel to work in a reasonable time due to these fast trains. And once the fast trains were introduced, a lot of the short flights between major population centres decreased or were abandoned.
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“——Some things to ponder as we age …………………
The inventor of the treadmill died at the age of 54 😳
The inventor of gymnastics died at the age of 57 😳
The world bodybuilding champion died at the age of 41 😳
The best soccer player in the world, Maradona, died at the age of 60 😔
And then …
KFC inventor died at 94 😊
Inventor of Nutella brand died at the age of 88 😊
Cigarette maker Winston died at the age of 102 😜
The inventor of opium died at the age of 116 in an earthquake 😜
Hennessy cognac, Irish inventor died at 98 😊
How did doctors come to the conclusion that exercise prolongs life?
The rabbit is always jumping, but it lives for only 2 years.
The turtle that doesn’t exercise at all, lives 400 years.
So …
Take a nap …
And if you wake up, have bacon and eggs”
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…you forgot the best one.
The Irish made no scientific advances for 400 years after inventing Whiskey.
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Jet stream under pressure to straighten out.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/synoptic/0
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NOAA has egg on its face after predicting a fairly severe hurricane season, its been a slow start and those which attempted to get up have fizzled out. When the remnants reach Europe they are little more than a blustery gail.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/north-atlantic-basin-10-day-tropical-monitor-4-6/
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