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Well South Australia didn’t get blacked out at 12.30 p.m. (the designated likely disaster time).
Was this due to citizens increasing demand? Or did they turn their solar panels off? I know this non-disaster, like so many other non-events, was caused by Climate Change.
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Was the fix installed before the projected one week?
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No, there was never any likelyhood of a blackout.
Even with RT solar blasting full boar (1.6 GW) at midday, there was still a grid demand of 800MW for the puff of wind and a little gas to work on.
And SA still has more than enough “real generation “. (Fossil fueled) , to cover any likely demand even without any RE contribution.
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It is apparent that most wind was curtailed earlier today. If it was voluntary it was due to FCAS cost because the wholesale price did not go negative although all prices today are up for review.
There is a notice out now for a FCAS supply problem in SA tonight. I think they are looking for rotating plant to come to the party. They will be ordered on if they do not volunteer.
I expect AEMO are working overtime at present. There is a market notice ever 5 minutes on pricing. That will be creating a mountain of work to sort out after the event.
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Not much curtailment needed or reported Rick.
250-300 MW for an hour or so at 9am, then nothing else !..Mr wind had a day off !
But it is way past time someone took a broom to that market model to bring this stupid pricing fiasco to an end.
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Gas is 51% and diesel 5% at the moment..
Price around $1200
very small demand numbers
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I can’t believe my luck. Being first here is almost as good as sitting in front of Mike Lindell in some sort of horror version of Groundhog day.
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You mean the Groundhog Day where the FBI show up and claim his phone?
That would be a real horror.
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Who is the idiot at #2?
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An Albanian Alpaca farmer?
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Todays news reported by journalists that Premier Dan of Victoria is wearing a blue jacket with State Electricity Commission displayed.
Consider the not well publicised news that the Labor Federal and Victoria State governments are planning to fund new wind and solar installations and new second electricity grid because private sector investors are not showing much interest in the transition at this stage, and Labor are determined to have over eighty per cent of electricity supply from wind and solar within a few years time. I don’t know where they intend to get skilled labour and materials from, both are in short supply, the building and. construction industry is struggling.
However from WUWT extracted: “Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has criticised some financial institutions for not doing enough to fight climate change, calling on the World Bank to “wholeheartedly” commit to the task.
Leading Australia’s delegation to the first United Nations climate summit since Labor’selection win, he declared the country was “back as a constructive, positive and willing climate collaborator.”
In his national statement to COP27 in Egypt, Bowen recommitted Australia to the goal, agreed to at COP26 in Glasgow last year, of keeping global warming as close as possible to 1.5 degrees.”
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Also, how many installations are approaching the twenty year operating life replacement timing in Australia?
Will private sector shareholders be willing to pay for removal and replacement sacrificing the dividends received including from the subsidies?
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Must be a comfort to the global community that Bowen has his hand on the thermostat.
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… no matter how much coal, gas and oil are burned in the meantime to build the infrastructure.
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I wish politicians would stop pretending to be power systems engineers.
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Oh so correct David.
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Cost accounting seems to be beyond them too.
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Myocarditis in Kids Cases Up by Over 100X in Canada
Myocarditis cases in children under 18 has increased 117X the normal rate in Canada, according to new data released by the IWK Health Center.
They’ve seen 27 myocarditis cases in a 6 week period for children. Normally, they see just 2 cases a year.
Since there are nearly 80 M kids under 18 in the US, if all of them got vaccinated, we’d expect to see 80,000 kids with myocarditis which is always very serious.
That’s a lot of kids. You would think this is a problem, but it isn’t.
When 2 car owners die, the car manufacturer tells people to stop using the car. I wrote about this recently.
The reason for this is simple: liability.
But with these vaccines, there is no liability, so there is no need to set a stopping condition.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/myocarditis-in-kids-under-18-cases
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Every Bit of Heart Muscle Matters. Dr. Peter McCullough
The first two prospective cohort studies, where blood cardiac troponin level was measured before and after receiving mRNA injections, both demonstrated unacceptably high rates of troponin elevations indicating predictable heart damage. Mansanguan et al found the rate of heart injury was 2.3% on the second injection of Pfizer in children 13-18 years old.[ii] Two children were hospitalized with myocarditis in this 301-person study. Le Pessec et al, in a presentation at the European Society of Cardiology, revealed 2.8% of healthcare workers (n=777) had elevated troponin by day 3 after the third mRNA injection.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/every-bit-of-heart-muscle-matters
1 in 35 have heart damage after the 3rd shot…
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Fraudulent Together trial that tried to be the nail in the coffin for IVM, HCQ etc. was funded by the FTX Foundation
“The FTX Foundation supports the global expansion of the Trial of the Year award-winning TOGETHER Trial”
The TOGETHER Trial consortium additionally includes representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Guidance Committee on COVID-19 Therapeutics. The TOGETHER Trial is also supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FastGrants for COVID-19 Research, the Rainwater Charitable Foundation, and Unitaid.
Unitaid paid $40 million pounds to his university (Liverpool) and then a study on ivermectin by Prof. Andrew Hill was suddenly rewritten with different conclusions.
This is the kind of evidence we need: that the fraudulent COVID treatment trials were paid for by those with vested interests regarding which drugs failed, like BMGF, and by a crooked but probably USG-sanctioned Ponzi piggy bank.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/fraudulent-together-trial-that-tried
Love those cans of worms…
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Outrage as Medibank bosses are awarded huge bonuses despite a cyber attack that exposed private medical information of millions – including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Medibank bosses will still take home bonuses worth $7.3 million despite a massive data breach that exposed the health records of almost 10 million Aussies, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The clean up bill in the aftermath of the data breach is expected to cost between $35m and $150m, but executives will still keep their bonuses.
Chairman Mike Wilkins says executive pay would not be reviewed until next year, following the completion of an external review into the attack.
‘That’s something that we will take on board for the 2023 year once we have got the full results of the investigation,’ Mr Wilkins said.
CEO David Kockzar took home bonuses worth $1.1 million in the last financial year, with his total pay coming in at $2.59m.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11436377/Outrage-Medibank-bosses-awarded-huge-bonuses-despite-cyber-attack.html
One class action lawsuit coming…
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Back in the day, for a massive data breach of that nature, people would be sacked and certainly no “manager” would get a bonus.
But this is woke “management”. Everyone gets a participation award. And presumably the Minister signs off on $7.3 million of hard earned taxoayer money going into the pockets of already highly overpaid senior public serpents.
It’s just like Animal Farm.
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Once a Gummint business enterprise, it is now listed on the ASX. No role for a Minister AFAIK.
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Exercise in a box – Oz’s new cyber defense unit has a test for everyone
Exercise in a Box guides users through cyber security exercises and includes everything you need to plan, set up and deliver the exercises to your organisation. It also includes a post activity report function that allows you to capture any findings you make during the exercise and use these findings to make meaningful changes to your cyber security posture.
https://www.cyber.gov.au/exercise-in-a-box
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DHS Quiet on Plan for Cyber Doomsday
Despite being given two years to develop a plan for responding to cyber catastrophe, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hasn’t said anything to indicate there’s been progress.
The U.S. government has had plans in place for years on how to remain operational in the event of a large-scale disaster and Congress directed the Biden administration two years ago to develop a similar plan to keep the economy running in the event of a national cyberattack.
On Tuesday, Rep. Andrew R. Garbarino, R-N.Y., asked DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for an update on the “continuity of the economy,” or COTE, plan during a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, according to The Washington Post.
“I’ll look forward to following up on that for you and responding swiftly,” Mayorkas said. “I’ll have to look into that, where the report that is due to you is.”
“As the Great Power Competition with Russia and China continues to unfold on the world stage, the United States faces cyberthreats across all sectors of our economy from adversarial nations who seek to sow discord within the Homeland and reduce our ability to flow forces and project power,” the Empire State congressman wrote. “Given this reality, it is unfathomable that since you received the requirement to develop a COTE plan in January 2021, there appears to be little to no progress on the implementation of this authority.”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cyberattack-andrew-garbarino-alejandro-mayorkas/2022/11/16/id/1096699/
Sitting ducks for China, NK, Iran & the bear.
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Cyberattacks intensity may increase as mail servers, satellites, could become key targets in 2023
The predictions for cyber threats in 2023 are based on the impact of political turmoil that brought a shift in cybersecurity.
Possible attacks could include scenarios where drones mounted with sufficient tooling would allow the collection of WPA handshakes used for offline cracking of WiFi passwords or even delivering malicious USB keys in restricted areas.(JC2 note – already been done.)
The forecast also predicted a record rise in destructive cyber-attacks due to the current political climate. These attacks are expected to target both government sectors and key industries.
Attacks on civilian infrastructure such as energy grids, public broadcasting, underwater cables, and fibre distribution are also predicted.
The threat forecast for 2023 also predicted attacks on mail servers to intensify, with zero-day vulnerabilities targeting major email programs.
Other major predictions include the targeting of satellites by threat actors, hack-and-leak attacks, and the shifting of APT groups from CobaltStrike to alternatives.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/cyber-attacks-intensity-increase-mail-servers-satellites-key-targets-2023-kaspersky-report/article66147340.ece
I’d say their take is correct. Infrastructure, comms, banking and internet will be targetted rather than soft targets like businesses.
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John Davis – Retired US Army Major General was speaking today at the National Press Club Luncheon on this very topic. Interesting and timely, he helped set up US Cyber Command to prevent malicious attacks.
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New studies prove puberty blockers are not reversible
Australian gender clinics like the one at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne claim that the use of puberty blockers are safe and reversible. Studies are now proving that not to be the case.
Sweden, Finland and the UK have stopped prescribing the drugs to children while their safety and effectiveness are being determined.
Many health practitioners in the US are calling for a review in the wake of the startling Cass Report in the UK that questioned the safety of such treatments. Parents are also expressing great concern, after learning that puberty blockers have a dreadful effect on bone density.
https://www.binary.org.au/new_studies_prove_puberty_blockers_are_not_reversible
An AUSTRALIAN site doing the good work!
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Tell Dan Andrews: Get your Trans target off our toddlers. PETITION.
Don’t let the woke bureaucrats and politicians get away with this one – or they’ll go further.
Let’s tell them children of just four or five are too young for the transgender agenda.
Act now to stop Dan’s plan to teach radical gender ideology to kids – and his latest attack on your parental rights.
He’ll put your son in a dress, and your daughter on hormone-blockers.
He’ll ruin their lives.
Take action today against this radical plan.
https://www.binary.org.au/petition_2203_let_kids_be_kids
Vote Andrews OUT!!
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Are the peeple
so far gone as sheeple,
that they won’t fight trans-gender
politicks that target their children?
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Jo,
Is there a video recording of the recent Climate Debate you participated in, in Perth?
Will you be doing a blog post about it?
Thanks
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A link was posted in a previous blog. Think it was a Saturday one.
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Ah, great Thanks Graeme for the pointer to a Saturday.
Found it in Saturday Nov 5th thread. #20 by Ian.
Here’s the link for anyone else who missed it.
https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophyAndReason13/videos/528247658746607/
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Mastercard, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, And Others Launch 12-Week Digital Dollar Pilot Program With New York Fed
Members of the U.S. banking community today announced the launch of a proof of concept (PoC) project that will explore the feasibility of an interoperable digital money platform known as the regulated liability network (RLN). Using distributed ledger technology, the proposed platform would create innovation opportunities to improve financial settlements and would include participation from central banks, commercial banks of various sizes and regulated non-banks.
The 12-week PoC will test a version of the RLN design that operates exclusively in U.S. dollars where commercial banks issue simulated digital money or “tokens” – representing the deposits of their own customers – and settle through simulated central bank reserves on a shared multi-entity distributed ledger. The PoC will also test the feasibility of a programmable digital money design that is potentially extensible to other digital assets, as well as the viability of the proposed system within existing laws and regulations.
Members of the U.S. banking and payments community involved in this PoC (as listed further below) are pleased to be working alongside the New York Innovation Center (NYIC) that is part of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The NYIC collaborates with the private and public sectors on innovations aimed at enhancing the functioning of the global financial system and the ability of central banks to carry out their missions.
http://www.womensystems.com/2022/11/mastercard-wells-fargo-citigroup-and.html
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Meanwhile…
Germany Preparing For Emergency Cash Deliveries, Bank Runs And “Aggressive Discontent” Ahead Of Winter Power Cuts
As Reuters reports citing four sources, German authorities have stepped up preparations for emergency cash deliveries in case of a blackout (or rather blackouts) to keep the economy running, as the nation braces for possible power cuts arising from the war in Ukraine. The plans include the Bundesbank hoarding extra billions to cope with a surge in demand, as well as “possible limits on withdrawals”, one of the people said. And if you think crypto investors are angry when they can’t access their digital tokens in a bankrupt exchange, just wait until you see a German whose cash has just been locked out.
Officials and banks are looking not only at origination (i.e., money-printing) but also at distribution, discussing for example priority fuel access for cash transporters, according to other sources commenting on preparations that accelerated in recent weeks after Russia throttled gas supplies.
The planning discussions involve the central bank, its financial market regulator BaFin, and multiple financial industry associations, said the Reuters sources most of whom spoke on condition of anonymity about plans that are private and in flux.
Although German authorities have publicly played down the likelihood of a blackout and bank runs – for obvious reasons – the discussions show both how seriously they take the threat and how they struggle to prepare for potential crippling power outages caused by soaring energy costs or even sabotage. They also underscore the widening ramifications of the Ukraine war for Germany, which has for decades relied on affordable Russian energy and now faces double-digit inflation and a threat of disruption from fuel and energy shortages.
As everyone familiar with the recent history of the Wimar Republic Germany knows, access to cash is of special concern for Germans, who value the security and anonymity it offers, and who tend to use it more than other Europeans, with some still hoarding Deutschmarks replaced by euros more than two decades ago.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germany-preparing-emergency-cash-deliveries-bank-runs-ahead-winter-power-cuts
Got cash on hand? 🙄🙄
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Another cold air outbreak to hit south east Australia.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/here-comes-yet-another-massive-november-cold-burst/931288
The intriguing thing is that South Africa is missing out on this chilly weather.
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Three snow waves in a month, it must be Snovember! It’s a Climate Calamity – all their warmunist prophecies have failed, again & again & again. Remember when it used to be hot?
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Warm blob located east of Argentina.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/argentina-marine-heat-wave-influencing-south-america-climate/
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This Entire Country Is Uploading Itself to The Metaverse
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a version of itself in the metaverse, as a response to the existential threat of rising sea levels.
Tuvalu’s minister for justice, communication, and foreign affairs, Simon Kofe, made the announcement via a chilling digital address to leaders at COP27.
He said the plan, which accounts for the “worst case scenario”, involves creating a digital twin of Tuvalu in the metaverse in order to replicate its beautiful islands and preserve its rich culture:
The tragedy of this outcome cannot be overstated […] Tuvalu could be the first country in the world to exist solely in cyberspace – but if global warming continues unchecked, it won’t be the last.
The idea is that the metaverse might allow Tuvalu to “fully function as a sovereign state” as its people are forced to live somewhere else.
https://youtu.be/sJIlrAdky4Q
Groan. Tuvalu is not sinking and never has been, and is in fact growing.
Lying politicians chasing free handouts for years now.
Maybe they’ll do better in the metaverse than they’re doing in the real world…
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“fully function as a sovereign state” = able to keep hand out
https://maritime-executive.com/article/land-area-of-low-lying-tuvalu-has-increased
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I turned on my news radio this morning and the first thing I heard was ‘Trump had tOld his audience ” hold on I’m coming”‘ . . turns out to be a song by Issac someone or other.
I just laughed out loud in bed. Don’t know the song and don’t care but sounded so fuuny . .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_On%2C_I'm_Comin'_(song)
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Heading into summer (belatedly, the world is cooling) in Australia it’s about time politicians, public serpents and Greens who banned or helped ban fuel reduction burns be held responsible.
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It would be sensible to wait for a low fire danger to initiate fuel reduction burns.
Hang on – seems that the lowest risk fire category nowadays is “moderate”, even if you are (unfortunately) underwater.
Oh well….
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Isn’t it amazing? No matter how many bolts, nuts, washers and screws you have, you never have the exact one you need.
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Yes , but on the other hand…yesterday I needed a bit of wood to place under a chassis member that is under the diff of the car I was working on and wanted to jack up. Looked in my garage heap and found a likely suspect , got under to mark it up for trimming and its a perfect fit.
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Yes David, but the worst thing is, if you buy large sets of all sizes, you end up with a whole heap of stuff you never end up using.
Having said that, it’s quite often cheaper to just get large sets of stuff. I recently bought a tap & die set, impact socket set, o-ring set, nuts & bolts, etc, both metric and imperial and the cost was not obscene.
If I had only bought the equipment I needed at the time, I would have spent much more. I prefer to use the excess money at Dan Murphy’s.
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The problem is compounded in the USA because autos and machinery last for years and the older American built stuff has Imperial system parts. New stuff is metric, so even handy homeowners need 2 sets of tools.
43 years ago, the U. S. adopted metric for a standard wine bottle – 750 ml. Prior size was the “fifth”, meaning one-fifth of a US gallon, or 25.6 US fluid ounces (757 ml; 26.6 imp fl. oz). Note that the “new” size is 7 ml less than the earlier 5th. Americans have been grouchy ever since.
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Arguably the US has been metric since the Metric Act of 1866.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Act_of_1866?wprov=sfla1
And official US Imperial units have been defined in terms of metric units since the Mendenhall Order of 1893.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order?wprov=sfla1
However, even though the US is “officially” metric, it’s use is not compulsory, although I think labelling food with both metric and Imperial units is.
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Particularly screws with all the loose ones floating about.
But then quality might be an issue.
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On getting back from Bunnings:
Me: “I got some 6mm poly tubing, a new lawnmower, some picture hooks, a vernier caliper, a rechargeable soldering iron and a pair of wooden outdoor recliners.”
Mrs Wife: “Did you get the fibre washers you went for?”
Me: “The what?”
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General Knowledge question: Without Googling, how many uniformed services does the United States have and what are they? Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force are the obvious ones. (Hint – did you ever wonder why the US Surgeon General wears a uniform?)
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(Because he smokes Camels?)
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Ive often wonder how many separate police forces they have (say force = organization that is armed and has arrest authority) It must be in the thousands.
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Well the US Coast Guard is certainly one
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The United States Space Force is the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, one of the eight U.S. uniformed services.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-counties-are-in-the-united-states.html
– – see the colored map – –
There are 3,142 county type jurisdictions in the US, each with a Sheriff and officers. Towns have similar forces. The smallest places often contract with the County for police services. Total number is about 20,000. There are over 130 different organizations across dozens of federal departments within the US Government that hire Law Enforcement Officers. Where and when some of these folks operate can be unknown.
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Politicians are behind making some extremely incompetent engineering decisions. Among these decisions are the installation of unreliable energy “generators”.
These systems are utterly incapable of delivering what they claim and that is inexpensive reliable energy. They are not even capable of deli6that, even in principle.
If any proper engineering project failed to deliver on what it was claimed to deliver people and companies would be sued.
Furthermore, if it was found out that unqualified people were behind the engineering decisions there would be very serious consequences for those imposters.
I think there is a legal angle to be investigated related to politicians inappropriately making decisions that should only be made by professional engineers. Politicians are effectively claiming they have qualifications to make decisions they are clearly incapable of.
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Most,if not ALL politicians are NOT even qualified to do their shoe laces up.And that’s a fact…..
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Tim Flannery warned that there would be dramatically reduced rain in Australia and most people including governments believed him.
In 2007 he said:
As a result, people built structures in areas like flood plains thinking it would never flood again.
Shouldn’t he be held liable for his advice?
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As should Gillard for appointing him.
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Not to mention the enormously expensive (to build AND maintain) white elephants called desalination plants.
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So despite the Aussie October being just a tad cooler, and the La Nina that’s had a significant influence on Australia, we’ve (well the rest of the world) have all been through one of the “warmest eva” Octobers.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/one-of-earths-warmest-octobers-on-record-despite-la-nina/927675
For October, UAH says the global average temperature anomaly was +0.32 °C.
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Locally October maximums were 2.7 below the long term average and so far November is 4.2 below.
And with the clouds the local grid power is being consumed far more than I would prefer.
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Unbelievable.
COP27 — Colombia claims an absurd $800 billion a year “loss and damage”
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/16/cop27-colombia-claims-an-absurd-800-billion-a-year-loss-and-damage/
The beginning: “This preposterous claim shows the dangerous absurdity of the “loss and damage” doctrine. At this rate of damage the global total would run around TWO HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. There is not that much money in the whole world.
The $800 billion a year is from a report presented by Colombia at COP27. The mainstream green press either did not notice or decided to ignore it, lest it raise issues best left alone until the proposed UN Loss and Damage Facility is created.
Look at it this way. Colombia is a relatively small country with a GDP of around $300 billion a year, about the 40th largest in the world and just 0.4% of the global total. Its “loss and damage” claim is roughly 2.5 times its GDP, so let’s assume that ratio globally.
World GDP is about $81 trillion, which multiplied by 2.5 equals just over $200 trillion a year. Here are some large developing country examples, using the 2.5 times GDP estimate, rounded off. (GDP is from 2017)”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
“Loss and damage” is a preposterous plan.
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How about – they get their $800 bn when they pay the invoice for x10 that for all the advantages that the industrial revolution has gifted to them??
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So it begins: Covid: “vaccination victims” file criminal charges against Swissmedic and doctors
Six people allegedly injured by mRNA vaccinations and other people filed a criminal complaint against the Swiss regulatory authority Swissmedic and vaccinating doctors on Monday. They are represented by the Zurich lawyer Philipp Kruse.
As the law firm writes in a communication to the media, the plaintiffs accuse the persons reported at Swissmedic of serious and permanent violations of fundamental health care obligations in connection with the approval of mRNA vaccines.
https://www.medinside.ch/covid-%C2%ABimpfopfer%C2%BB-reichen-strafanzeige-gegen-swissmedic-und-arzte-ein-20221114
The first of MANY…doctors take note…
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Good. Good.
I like the fact that they filed an actual criminal complaint, not a civil complaint.
I would like to see certain responsible people in Australia have criminal complaints filed against them for the covid injuries and deaths they were responsible for. In addition, charges shoukd be bought for the banning of treatments like IVM and HCW that coukd have saved numerous lives if administered according to appropriate protocols.
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I can see the lawyers are going to be very happy. They make a lot of money from the gullible.
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It sure sounds like you were talking about the Vax manufacturers to me.
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Basking in just 30 seconds of sunlight each morning may be ‘most effective way’ to prevent cancer, doctor says
LONDON — Here’s one more reason that a daily walk after waking up can do wonders for your health. Grabbing just 30 seconds of sunlight every morning could slash the chances of developing most types of cancer significantly, early research by one of the United Kingdom’s leading specialists suggests. Dr. Mohammad Muneeb Khan says that less than half a minute’s exposure to the sun’s near-infrared (NIR) light between sunrise and 9 a.m. may offer a higher level of protection to adults and children than eating 2,500 bananas or a kilogram of Brazil nuts per day!
Stepping outside during these times could cut the odds of developing cancer from a one-in-two chance to one-in-ten, making it a more effective inhibitor than any other single preventative measure.
NIR light, which is invisible to the human eye, is at its most effective at dawn, with its beneficial effect gradually waning throughout the day as the human body becomes less responsive to it. Absorbing it in the early morning prompts the body into releasing a flood of melatonin, a natural antioxidant twice as powerful as vitamin E, that neutralizes toxins and prevents cancer-causing gene mutations.
Exposure to NIR light at any other time of day still leads to melatonin production, but in insufficient quantities to adequately repair and protect cells.
https://studyfinds.org/30-seconds-sunlight-nir-prevents-cance/
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Sounds like rubbish.
No apparent mechanism of action. A few dodgy statements and no reference to the original study.
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I agree Peter. I can believe the mechanism is attributable to vitamin D, however, which does have a known anti-cance effect. Nevertheless, I think more than 30 sec exposure is required.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11433957/Charities-slam-bogus-claim-basking-morning-sun-30-seconds-stop-getting-cancer.html
And when anyone says something about “detoxifying” your cells, that’s an immediate warning sign for me.
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Peta Credlin’s investigation into the Daniel Andrews Regime, Victoria, Australia, see https://youtu.be/VY64Ah_KKlM , is powerful and shocking. It demonstrates how Victoria is a corrupt dictatorship in the worst traditions of the Third World.
About the only difference between say, Andrews and Idi Amin is that Andrews doesn’t currently “disappear” people or eat their livers, although if he did, the adulating Lamestream media would never report it anyway.
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I was appalled to read of the UK energy sources. They have wiped out coal entirely in 11 years. 40% is gas, which can be very expensive. But the biggest surprise was the 13% wood pellets!
This is a crazy new science where CO2 is insoluble and we can only release CO2 if we turn an equal amount into trees. It shows how silly the whole thing is, this massive exercise to be carbon zero.
CO2 is actually absorbed very rapidly in the vast oceans and this is all a complete fantasy that CO2 piles up in the atmosphere.
So why don’t the great Universities of the UK stand up and say it’s completely nuts? Or the Royal Society?
It’s all beyond nutty. Which scientist said this was sensible and not fantasy? And better than using the free coal because it came from new trees rather than old trees?
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And what makes it sillier, crazy, is that the forests destroyed are not being replaced.
“By 2019, biomass accounted for about fifty-nine per cent of all renewable-energy use in the E.U.
The Dogwood Alliance estimates that sixty thousand acres of trees—trees that would have otherwise sequestered carbon—are burned each year to supply the growing pellet market.
Global demand for wood pellets is expected to double by 2027, to more than thirty-six million tons.
And although the entire premise of burning wood as renewable energy hinges on the assumption that trees grow back, there is no binding governmental or industrial oversight for replanting trees at all.”
So it’s doubly nutty. Clearing and burning forests instead of burning coal? And at great cost from 4,000 miles away.
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So the Greens are destroying vast forests to make the planet Greener?
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A question comes to mind Tdef. How much energy does it take to “make a wood pellet”. This form of fuel is not randomly sized bits of wood but very uniform little bits that have a defined moisture content, burn rate and energy capability. How much energy does it take to harvest the log, transport it to the point of process, reduce it to particles, dry it to the required level, add back anything that is needed to allow form/shape to be maintained, extrude the pellets then store them for shipment.
Up to this point alone a wood pellet must be a huge net consumer of energy that I will bet is not produced by windmills and mirrors.
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I can’t recall for how many years I have heard that “Once oil gets over $xx/bbl, ethanol will be THE WAY” Trouble is, sugar farming uses a lot of fossil fuel.
Today E10 is a whopping 2c/l cheaper. Who, in their right mind, would consider that value? I believe E doesn’t pay road tax so it is still more expensive than dead dinosaurs.
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Yes. And ethanol for fuel only exists in Australia at all because its production is subsidised. Its true cost is much higher.
Think of all the starving people around the world who could be fed if Australia used the agricultural output devoted to ethanol production of actual food.
Some ethanol is produced from agricultural waste, but it is not really waste if it could be returned to the soil as fertiliser. That just means more fertiliser is needed which is becoming scarcer and more expensive due to the Left’s war against “nitrogen” (sic) plus the fact that John Howard gave away much of our natural gas supply to China on a bizarre 30 year contract with no provision for inflation or market prices.
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Back in the day a girl who had an interest in doing certain “boyish” things like climbing trees was called a Tomboy which was fine and the girl usually grew up to be quite normal.
However, Leftists believe in extreme sexual stereotypes and a Tomboy is intolerable to them. They will immediately declare such a girl to be transgender and set her on the path to social, hormonal and surgical “transition” to “become” a boy, and be tragically mutilated and sterilised in the process.
In the following video Sydney Watson, an Australian living in Texas discusses “The death of the tomboy”.
https://youtu.be/sBwoyu8_iSg
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“However, Leftists believe in extreme sexual stereotypes and a Tomboy is intolerable to them”
The number of females in rural jobs like ringers must give those leftists pink fits.
It used to be said that “The NT was the home of wanted men and unwanted women”.
How that has changed – e.g.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/programs/landline/2022-03-20/young-blood:-the-fresh-faces-of-the-northern/13804410
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WA = Wait awhile.
NT = Not Today
SA = Sooner or later
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I ask people how much CO2 is in the oceans, compared to the atmosphere. When they guess wrong, and I tell them it is almost 50 times, they look bewildered. This is what we must deal with…ignorance by everyday Australians in relation to AGW.
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And still people waste good money on fizzy soda water, the fools, the fools…….
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With 10% sugar in the fizz, the effect is much greater than just wasted money.
It’s a killer.
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‘ … ignorance by everyday Australians in relation to AGW.’
They are ignorant because the MSM is telling outright fibs, but the most effective propaganda is the sin of omission. CO2 does not cause global warming, so we cannot argue our case successfully until world temperatures drop.
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“Great Moments In Statesmanship”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/17/great-moments-in-statesmanship/#comments
I guess it is a competition and our lot are in it too?
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FWIW
“Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 1”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HneqfZGsM
“Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 2”
https://patriotpost.us/videos/92924-electric-cars-inconvenient-facts-part-2-2022-11-17
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During the glacial epoch SST was warmer in the Southern Ocean below Australia.
‘ … a new study finds sea temperatures near Australia were “3 to 5°C warmer than the modern average temperature” during several millennia of this period.
Proxy evidence suggests average subsurface water temperatures in the Southern Ocean/Australia region may have been “>7°C warmer than modern” during the last 10,000 years (the Holocene).
The eastern and western core graphical record indicates the amplitude of sea surface temperature swings reached 5 to 7°C from 30,000 to 60,000 years ago – a time when CO2 levels were thought to be stable and low (near 200 ppm). (Notrickszone)
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Taking this a little further, a stuck bipolar see saw might explain why the Southern Ocean was warmer for 30,000 years.
‘This see saw effect is poorly understood, but it seems that pulses of freshwater caused by partial melting of ice sheets in one hemisphere inhibit oceanic circulation and heat transport in that hemisphere, causing cooling, while invigorating circulation and heat transport, and consequently causing warming, in the other hemisphere.’ (NZ Geographic)
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FWIW – on
“Dirty Money”
https://www.virtualmirage.org/narcos-2/
Via
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/11/dirty-money.html
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If you can find Buffalo on this radar map zoom in and watch the steamers off Lake Erie.
Up to 4’of snow forecasted.
https://www.eldoradoweather.com/current/misc/google-maps-radar/us-mosiac-radar.html
Go full screen.
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FWIW
“Claim: Climate Models Are Imprecise, Because Psychologists Were Not Consulted”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/16/claim-climate-models-are-imprecise-because-psychologists-were-not-consulted/
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NOAA’s global temperature dataset and ocean dataset have been in a cooling trend for eight years. Scientists cannot find any correlation with increasing CO2 levels.
https://www.c3headlines.com/2022/09/joe-biden-democrats-climate-doomsday-extremists-who-ignore-noaas-real-world-evidence.html
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Gawd!!! Progress with “Safe and Effective ™”
“Every Two Months?”
“Permanent IV drip coming soon.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky– CDC recommends that everyone ages 5+ years get an updated #COVID19 vaccine if it has been at least 2 months since your last booster or final primary. Visit vaccines.gov to find an updated COVID-19 vaccine location near you!”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/17/every-two-months/
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Now that’s more like it!
“House cleaning”
“@PaulMitchell_AB Breaking: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has fired the entire Alberta Health Services (AHS) Board of Directors.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/17/house-cleaning-3/
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