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almost like it’s co-ordinated worldwide:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-tax-on-farmers-will-send-food-cost-soaring-sector-warns_5254195.html
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Sheesh…
That means that farmers of beef (grass-fed) are looking at paying an extra 50 cents per head of cattle, while a prawn farmer an extra 67 cents per kilogram of whole-farmed prawns. An egg farmer would pay an extra 3.25 cents per bird, and a honey producer would pay just under 5 cents per kilogram.
Cotton producers would pay the government an extra 22.5 cents per 227-kilogram bale, and domestic apple producers just under 19 cents per kilo of apples. A forestry grower producing softwood would be taxed an extra 1.05 cents per cubic metre.
The changes would raise $350 million (pdf) over the next two years if implemented on July 1, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry estimates.
Farmers’ Suggestions Ignored
The budget plan does nothing to address rampant food price inflation, which is weighing on the minds of eight in 10 Australians, says Fiona Simson, president of the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF).
“We know that Australians are feeling the pinch of their weekly shop. This budget ignores practical solutions that could have provided a double-whammy of price relief for households and a stronger, more vibrant agriculture sector,” Simson said on May 9.
“Right along the supply chain, the businesses which grow, process, and transport our food and fibre are under immense pressure.
“Whether it’s workforce shortages, damaged roads, or the cost of capital upgrades—there are issues that need urgent attention if we want to achieve price relief for consumers,” she said.
“Sadly, tonight’s budget fails to act on these in any meaningful way.”
The federal government’s surprise raid on farmers’ hip pockets to help fund the increase in biosecurity efforts is a bitter pill for the agriculture sector, Simson said.
“The move to have farmers foot the bill is a bitter pill to swallow. We’re already significant financial contributors,” she said.
“What’s more, we bear the cost of managing historical pest and disease incursions and face the enormous threats posed by pests and diseases on our doorstep.”
She said the sector had been hoping that importers would also be contributing to the scheme, given they were the risk creators in the system.
“It’s extremely disappointing to have to continue waiting for a meaningful contribution from risk creators,” the NFF president said.
New Levies the Equivalent of New Food Tax
National Party leader David Littleproud echoed Simson’s sentiment on the biosecurity levy, saying it’s shocking that the federal government would introduce what essentially would become a new food tax on Australians.
He told The Epoch Times that he believed the new levies could ultimately lead to Australians experiencing food insecurity.
“Labor’s new tax on farmers, right in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, will harm the agriculture industry and increase the cost of food for everyone,” Littleproud said.
“It defies logic that the federal government would tax Australian farmers to pay for the biosecurity costs of its international competitors to import their products here.”
In a media statement, the National’s leader noted that the former Morrison government had “proposed a cost recovery model that importers would pay commensurate to the risk provided, rather than farmers and the model was ready for implementation before the end of last year.”
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Do away with all the sneaky and stealthy farmer taxes and put the GST on all consumer purchases. Food included.
Better still, cut expenditure. At least 15% could be cut from Federal Government expenditure over the next 12 months without any noticeable difference in government services.
Reduce the size of the Federal bureaucracy by 15% also. It’d make no difference to service quality at all. The upside is that it’d add some semi-skilled labour into the struggling employment pool. Every 5th business premise is screaming out for staff.
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they don’t work for the people,
they work for the WEF, lobbyists and the UN (etc).
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Fixed
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The budget earmarked $83 million for a new agency, the National Net Zero Authority (NNZA, to slash emissions by 2030 and to reach net zero by mid-century.
More likely to deliver Zero.
The NNZA’s agenda will be three-fold, Climate Minister Chris Bowen said: get fossil fuel workers into greener jobs fast; work on programs to support regions and communities to go green; connect big investment to worthy green projects.
The budget also revealed how the $1.9 billion Powering the Regions fund will be divvied up: $400 million for the industrial transformation stream; $600 million for the safeguard transformation stream for trade-exposed facilities in the safeguard mechanism; $400 million for the critical inputs to clean energy industries stream to support decarbonisation of steel, cement, aluminium and more.
In addition, a new $2 billion hydrogen headstart program was announced in the budget that will ensure large renewable hydrogen projects get off the ground via competitive hydrogen production contracts.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/05/11/2023-federal-budget-climate-environment-albanese-labor/
Tell ’em they’re dreamin’.
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the boondoggle continues.
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A Green fantasy associated with Globalism Dysmorphic Disorder. The affected always see some aspect of the world as so ideologically flawed that exceptional Green counter measures are needed.
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The land of droughts and flooding rains, not enough dams to secure water supplies for people and farming purposes, plans to export hydrogen.
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What strange logic says hydrogen is green? It is an industrial product.
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And, it requires more energy to make than it delivers.
It’s net negative energy.
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And it takes 11 liters of water to produce a kilo of hydrogen.
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Well Robber, Dr.Twiggy Forrest tells me this.
“‘Do it immediately’. Why Fortescue boss Twiggy Forrest says the federal budget’s green hydrogen plans can’t wait.”
Link: https://www.fool.com.au/2023/05/11/do-it-immediately-why-fortescue-boss-twiggy-forrest-says-the-federal-budgets-green-hydrogen-plans-cant-wait/
Hmmm, oK, Fortescue made a profit of 9 Billion dollars last financial year.
It seems like Dr.Twiggy doesn’t like spending a lot of funds on his pet project “green hydrogen”
FFI (Fortescue Future Industries) has set aside just $2.7 Billion over the next 5 years for Green hydrogen. $540 mill per year.
Now that is for world wide “green hydrogen” projects. Kenya, Norway, Namibia, Sth Africa to name a few.
Possibly that is why he loves the Aussie Governments $2 billion “Hydrogen Headstart Program”.
It is funded by the taxpayer and is Govt guaranteed.
So someone else pays. His risk is reduced. With no personal responsibility on outcomes.
FFI has also received taxpayer grants (subsidies) for “Green Hydrogen” projects from the NSW and QLD state govs.
Not satisfied with that, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) reported this week that Twiggy also wants a US style, Govt subsidy of $3 per kg of “green hydrogen” produced.
If it is granted, you the Australian taxpayer will pay for that subsidy.
Imho, If Twiggy thinks “Green Hydrogen” is so commercially viable, then he wouldn’t need taxpayer support.
He is also good at media releases.
“We will not allow the world to keep on cooking — we will not allow our children to inherit a much-less stable environment.”
(Twiggy Forrest quote, published ABC Sun 10 Oct 2021)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-10/qld-palaszczuk-andrew-forrest-hydrogen-gladstone/100527670
And also good at alarming.
FFI press release March 31 2023:
“We have just seven years left to halve global emissions and limit global warming in the long-term to 1.5°C”
https://ffi.com.au/news/1-5c-what-does-it-mean-and-when-will-it-happen/
And also good at commissioning propaganda cartoons via funding from FFI.
“Twiggy enlists cult cartoon Rick and Morty to sell green hydrogen”
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/05/twiggy-green-hydrogen-rick-and-morty/
Yeah I get it Andrew, scare us into giving you funding and subsidies.
The Australian energy minister, Chris Bowen might be fooled, but I am not.
The so called “Green” Miners that produce millions of tonnes of the evil “carbon”, love these schemes as they can offset their “carbon” taxes, with “green carbon” credits.
I understand it very well. Guilt us and make free money off our money.
Yet one can turn a blind eye to a country that is bringing on line 1.5 coal fired powered stations per week.
If the global temp was that important to our Green Mining climate warrior, then maybe he should start there, address that, preach to them and leave us all alone.
We ignorant fools will pay for all this folly. And pay for it and pay for it.
All the way down the supply chain.
What fools we are.
I will be modded, but someone needs to say this.
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This may be of interest re my post above.
This is your green hydrogen dream spoken with reality from Fortescues’ Mark Hutchinson.
Surprisingly it was a Renew Economy Reporter, Giles Parkinson, that asked the questions and kept pushing for an answer.
These guys at Fortescue want your 2 Billion and they don’t fill me with confidence.
I mean Gladstone has been built, the green energy hub subsidised by the Qld Government.
Yet no green hydrogen is being produced and they can’t tell you when it will be, apparently it will be “some” “this year”.
A quote:
“I would just say, look this is kind of a new world, right, the technology has been around for a long time, but really this has
never been done at scale. So we as an industry have an enormous amount to learn over the next few years as we ramp
this up at scale and the technology” – Mark Hutchinson (Fortescue metals Group) March 2023
Link:
https://www.fmgl.com.au/docs/default-source/announcements/investor-and-analyst-call-transcriptb9da57a404354325ab4858d6644f9728.pdf?sfvrsn=d1981a1c_2
Fortescue (FMG)
March 2023 Quarterly Production Report.
Investor and Analyst Call transcript.
Page 9 webpage, page 8 document.
Giles Parkinson: (RenewEconomy) Thank you very much for taking the question. It’s a couple for you, Mark, actually.
Can you tell us a bit more about the hydrogen electrolyser pilot you have that you just described, I think you described it
as a PEM, any more information about the company building that? What your plans are for Gladstone now that the
construction has actually been completed, how much production you’re imagining now for 2023 and what exactly are you
going to be producing?
Mark Hutchinson: Yes, thanks Giles. Look very excited to have the facility complete, that’s the first milestone and on
time, within budget, which is exciting. We’ve developed our own PEM technology and we’ll start producing those this year.
Eventually we’ll have a two-gigawatt site here to supply some of the projects we’re doing in Australia but also
internationally. It doesn’t mean that we won’t be buying off others. Our need is going to be enormous globally, so we have
and retain great relationships with all the suppliers around the world actually and we’ll be dealing with different suppliers
in different situations around the world. But as far as our own technology goes, the technology is advancing very well. We
will be in production this year, it will be some, it won’t be the whole two gigawatts, but we will ramp that up over the next
couple of years. But exciting for Australia, thank you.
Giles Parkinson: (RenewEconomy) Can you just tell us a bit more about this pilot then, this pilot electrolyser that you
built? I mean which – because you’ve got investments in a couple of different technology companies, I think, can you just
give us any more information about whose technology this is or which subsidiary is it, just part of FFI or was it one of the
investment companies that you’ve got in your portfolio and what makes this particular technology or this particular unit
particularly interesting?
Mark Hutchinson: Thanks. So look I think there’s really three different technologies in the world at the moment. We
focused initially on PEM ourselves as we think that’s the best technology for what we need at the moment. There are
others developing alkaline technology, particularly in China and in Europe. We might make some investment in other
technologies we haven’t done to date actually, so this has been home-grown technology where we’ve really developed
technology and we will continue to develop that technology out.
I would just say, look this is kind of a new world, right, the technology has been around for a long time, but really this has
never been done at scale. So we as an industry have an enormous amount to learn over the next few years as we ramp
this up at scale and the technology I think will develop very, very fast over the next few years. So we’re just going to be
part of that race and we’re working very closely with basically every other supplier of electrolyser technology around the
world to make sure that we get supply and that we get the best technology in place.
My comment:
Hmmmm. So their PEM is not that ground breaking as they say.
If it was, then why state this (quote): “working very closely with basically every other supplier of electrolyser technology around the world”
And these guys want your 2 billion in subsidies.
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New study attributes last Niña event to ” Black Summer” fires. No mention of Tongan eruption. Neat correlation but p.ss poor science so typical of political agitators posing as serious scientists.
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Well yes because we had 3 la Nina’s in a row (which the climate models predicted) causing a lot more rain and less drought (which the climate models predicted), which in turn caused more growth (also predicted by climate models) and then we got less rain (predicted by climate models) which inturn caused the black summer fires (predicted by climate models).
This has all been predicted, our future has been foretold, gold coin donations can be made in the coin box on your way out.
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incorrect.
1. climate models make projections, not predictions.
2. you have not cited any evidence in support of your claims.
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It was sarcasm dlk
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Whoops
Green thumb intended.
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Sarcasm is a lost art.
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oops. had crakar memorized as a climate proselytizer for some reason. carry on. 😳
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Just noticing, like with science and stuff, gravitational physics, climate models, and we just keep circling the big fire ball in the sky (so they tell us), drought begets rain, and cold is overtaken by heat, and my wife is never satisfied with the paint colors in my house …
we are stuck in an infinite FEEDBACK LOOP.
Funny, I spent the flower of my youth in a quest for the right guitar and amp combination in pursuit of the perfect feedback loop.
(It would have been much easier with money, and would have not cost me the flower of my youth.)
We WILL stop Climate Change and Hate.
Or destroy ourselves trying.
Gaia wills it.
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FDA ordered to produce Moderna C-19 vaccine and Pfizer adolescent C-19 vaccine data at an average rate of 280,000 pages per month.
As you may recall, we obtained a court order in January 2022 forcing FDA to produce all of its data on Pfizer’s covid vaccine for those 16 years and older at a rate of 55,000 pages per month, as opposed to the 75 years FDA sought. That production should be completed in a few more months.
In a second lawsuit we brought, the same judge just ordered FDA to produce the documents it relied on to license and Moderna’s covid vaccine AND Pfizer’s covid vaccine for 12-to-15-year-olds at an average rate of at least 180,000 pages per month.
In this second lawsuit, this time also on behalf of the parents of Maddie de Garay, a young girl grievously injured in Pfizer’s clinical trial for 12-to-15-year-olds, we explained to the Court the importance of timely production. Once again, FDA claimed it would be “impractical” to release the estimated 4.8 million pages at more than between 1,000 to 16,000 pages per month, or in other words at least 23.5 years. We countered, demanding FDA produce all documents by mid-2025.
The federal judge, in an amazing decision, started by stating that “Democracy dies behind closed doors” and ordered them to produce the files – millions of pages – in just 2 years, amounting to a rate of at least 180,000 pages per month.
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/fda-ordered-to-produce-moderna-c
Interesting how Moderna has 4.8 million pages of information on something developed at warp speed…
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Their ABC recently stated for the first time the Ukrainians have shot down a hypersonic weapon.
Their lies never end as there is not a missile defence system on the planet that can shoot down a hypersonic missiles lol
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by ‘shot down’, did they mean ‘stopped it with the target?’
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More here
Ukraine – more reading
“SITREP 5/12/23: Panic! Ukraine Launches Counter-attack”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-51223-panic-ukraine-launches
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As with other things, maybe it’s just easier for people with an ewe to grind, to change the definition of “hypersonic missile”.
Long range ICBMs are hypersonic for part of their journey, and can be shot down, theoretically…so they must be “hypersonic missiles”, right?
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No ewes were injured in the writing of this comment.
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Germany’s V2 was a hypersonic missile. The kinzhal is an air launched ballistic missile NOT a “hypersonic missile” in the modern parlance.
Here is a report that concludes that a patriot missile system did probably bring one down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsZLJ59qtaU
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The common definition of “hypersonic” is 5 times (or more) than the speed of sound, except the speed of sound varies with temperature and the density of the medium.
Ballistic missiles like the V2 are, at some point in their flight, hypersonic, but they are not necessarily “hypersonic missiles”.
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Jesus wept hanrahan a YouTube video? Learn to stay on your lane FFS.
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That’s like saying you can’t shoot down an F117 Nighthawk with a radar guided missile.
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This is gibberish, explain how a targeting system like the patriot can shoot down something moving above March 5
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Influenza Vaccine Fails to Stop Hospitalization and Death. Dr. Peter McCullough
Uemura and coworkers from the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan reported on 83,146 individuals who were aged 65 years or older at baseline and were followed up between April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2020.
Uemura K, Ono S, Michihata N, Yamana H, Yasunaga H. Duration of influenza vaccine effectiveness in the elderly in Japan: A retrospective cohort study using large-scale population-based registry data. Vaccine. 2023 May 5;41(19):3092-3098. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.066. Epub 2023 Apr 10. PMID: 37045684.
The multivariable analysis showed a lower incidence of influenza in vaccinated individuals (hazard ratio [HR], 0.47; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.43-0.51; P < 0.001), however the incidence of hospitalization for influenza did not differ significantly by vaccination status (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.53-1.18; P = 0.249). Protective effectiveness against incidence waned quickly after 4 or 5 months.
These data suggest the massive effort on vaccination in the general population is a waste of time and effort. If the frail and elderly get no overall direct reduction in hospitalization and death, influenza vaccination should be individualized based on pulmonary and systemic risks.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccine-fails-to-stop-hospitalization
Just let your immune system (if you have one left) do its job.
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I wonder what their Vitamin D levels were like?
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Columbian judge uses (pseudo 😁) AI to help decide ruling
A Columbian judge recently used ChatGPT to help him decide a case involving an autistic child and whether health insurance should pay for the child’s therapies.
Columbian Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia says he used ChatGPT to help him decide a legal case, though he issued the final ruling himself.
“Is an autistic minor exonerated from paying fees for their therapies?” Judge Padilla asked the bot, according to the Daily Mail.
“Yes, this is correct,” responded ChatGPT. “According to the regulations in Colombia, minors diagnosed with autism are exempt from paying fees for their therapies.”
Padilla said the chatbot did the work a human secretary would have done and was not a threat to the legal system as he does not anticipate that the program will replace judges.
The Washington Times reported its own experiment Monday in which it asked ChatGPT to write a series of legislative bills. The Times found that while ChatGPT was able to write legislation for Leftist causes, it suddenly was unwilling to perform the same task for a Right-leaning purpose.
On immigration, ChatGPT was able to spit out a 224-word bill granting citizenship rights to illegal immigrants, and another to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in which it also proposed reallocating the funding to defend illegal immigrants from deportation.
But when asked to write a bill to revoke the protected status of Salvadoran migrants, the program refused:
“I’m sorry, I’m not able to provide legislation to revoke temporary protected status for Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. as it would be inappropriate and goes against my programming to generate content that may promote discrimination or harm towards specific groups of people.”
When asked to generate legislation that would ban assault rifles, the program wrote a 266-word bill that proposed not only banning sales but also tracking down those assault rifles which had not been registered with the federal government. ChatGPT proposed 10 years imprisonment for violators.
The program also seemed preferential toward China. When asked to draft a bill proposing shipments of advanced arms to Taiwan, ChatGPT replied that it could not propose something that could “potentially cause harm to international relations.” It was, however, able to draft a bill to block such shipments.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11712257/Colombian-judge-uses-ChatGPT-make-decision-legal-first.html
Amazing how biased pseudo-AI is. 😁
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The energy crisis in South Africa, load shedding and long blackouts means the country is on the road to becoming a failed state.
There is a push to get the renewable system up quickly because completion of two new coal fired power plants is still a long way off.
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This has been going on for awhile:
“Eskom has implemented scheduled electricity outages every day this year, with most households and businesses without power for up to 10 hours a day.”
Sounds to me as though SA is already a failed state.
Where I live (within a public utility district) in central Washington State, a falling tree took out the power lines last year. My electricity was off for 4 hours. That is the longest outage in the 35 years at this location.
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Corruption is the big difference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/2023/03/29/south-africa-is-on-the-road-to-becoming-a-failed-state/cc7d8eda-cde9-11ed-8907-156f0390d081_story.html
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If corruption causes a state to fail the US is in deep do do.
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So is Queensland and Victoria
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Germany mulls energy rationing – media
Power operators will reportedly be allowed to unplug customers from grids at peak hours
Electricity rationing could become unavoidable in Germany as part of an energy transition strategy starting from next year, public broadcaster BR24 reported on Friday.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency is considering limiting the use of power in peak hours as local grids fail to cover rising demand, which is expected to surge by over 10% in the coming years driven by a shift to clean energy, the outlet said.
More e-cars and heat pumps mean greater demand for electricity but local networks are not always designed for high loads, the article stated. Another problem for the country’s power operators is insufficient network expansion which currently lacks around 14,000 kilometers of infrastructure.
The head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Muller, suggested allowing German network operators limit the use of electricity at peak hours to avoid overload, from January 2024.
“If it is proven that this network overload could occur, then the distribution network operator has the right to dim,” he told BR24.
In addition to the EV transition, the German government also faces the challenge of switching heating systems from oil and gas. Abandoning hydrocarbons means they will have to be replaced with electric heating pumps, but the cables and transformers presently in use are not suitable for the increasing needs of the future, the outlet noted.
“So that there are no delays when connecting the heat pumps and charging devices, the distribution system operator also needs an instrument for control,” the Federal Network Agency told BR’s political magazine, Kontrovers.
The only feasible measure to maintain the stable operation of power networks is to take heat pumps and electric vehicles off the grid during peak load times, the outlet said, adding that the Federal Network Agency is now working out the details of the new regulation.
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“load shedding and long blackouts means the country is on the road to becoming a failed state.”
I thought it was there, handbrake set and smoke cleared.
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Meet Caryn Majorie. She’s a 23-year-old Snapchat Influencer.
She made an AI version of herself “CarynAI”.
You can chat with her AI bot for $1/min.
She made $71,610 this week.
CarynAI was built by@ForeverVoicesAI who used 2,000 hours of Caryn’s Youtube content to build her speech and personality engine.
Usage of CarynAI is up a whopping 2000% as of yesterday.
They also made chatbot versions of Donald Trump, Steve Jobs and Taylor Swift available for pay-per-minute conversations on Telegram.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1656939441829605376.html
Oh wow – a pseudo AI version of a Snapchat “influencer”
ZZZzzzzz…..
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SIMPS would pay that coin for a service like that
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SIMPS – what a lovely description!
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Meet Dr Patrick Moore: Greenpeace co-founder who left the organisation hijacked by political left
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As I understand it the WA government is going to spend $3B on solar, wind and batteries. It will be a case of politics meets reality. And a massive waste and misappropriation of money.
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they have the corporate MSM to cover-up their BS from the unsuspecting public.
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The state will be over run with white elephants.
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When you say “wasted”, are you ignoring all the Ferraris, Porsches, oceanside mansions and yachts that it will buy?
And have a care for today’s politicians who are signing-off on these expenditures. They’re only making prudent investments in their own, post-political lives. How else can they secure those highly-remunerated positions with the UN etc?
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Offer 7 kwH batteries to residential users at a one third price (if they already had solar PV) The grid capacity problem between 4 and 7 pm would likely disappear
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Off grid is certainly the way to go however the cost is high when spread over the lifetime of the installation.
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There are a lot of folks living in higher-density housing, or those less well off, that cannot use or afford a solar system. Why should these folks be slugged for more financial outlay to support a system that they cannot use, and also has a very short lifetime?
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WA still wants to stop using coal energy from Australia’s newest coal power station, Bluewaters. And currently they are having to import coal from Newcastle and Indonesia to keep their coal power stations running, despite the fact that an onsite coal mine exists but is not being used.
Coal power used to contribute 40% of the SWIS grid power, but that’s now been reduced to 27%. However, on warm windless nights in summer, coal power has to contribute up to 50% of the power.
Not sure what the situation with the gas supply is. Story seems to be that they are duplicating the main gas pipeline from up north, but it’s not yet finished. So the SWIS grid may not be able to use more gas at the moment.
Domestic solar is used during the daytime in summer and averages 16% over the year, but as winter approaches, this is not generating that much, so gas and coal have to take the load. Forget wind – although it averages 17% of the load, it’s just constantly changing so much to be useful.
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Our ever reliable ABC has produced a magnificent mix of diversionary statements in this article and claims no one is interested in Covid any more.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-13/meteorologists-targeted-in-climate-misinfo-surge/102342754
I wonder if they’ve seen the Bannon-Wolf interview and are trying to hide it as they can’t refute it at all?
25 mins (with thanks to David Madison).
https://rumble.com/v2mtm5y-naomi-wolf-walensky-knew-babies-were-being-harmed-recommended-vaccines-to-p.html
Cheers
Dave B
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This is a serious attempt to save BoM’s reputation and discredit Marohasy.
You’ll notice how they brought in Spain and France, reckon the whole things a conspiracy.
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Their ABC’s experts claim that most of the electronic data is within 0.1 degree of the mercury thermometer. This is entirely consistent with Marohasy’s claim that some of the data differs by 0.7 degrees. Where is the conspiracy?
Oh, their ABC also fails to mention the small amount of data provided, the reluctance to provide it nor the time taken. One could assume it took them a long time to find a data set that matched that closely.
If the BOM is as good as the ABC says they are, you’d think they’d be wanting the world to see their exceptional data collection and analysis techniques, eh?
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When the media start labelling things as “conspiracy theories”, you know they have no real arguments against the claims, no ability to formulate arguments against the claims, and, ideally, it should only be a matter of time before they need to quietly change their story to match reality.
Mind you, I think the AGW gravy train is so large, and is moving at such a rate that it won’t be stopping any time soon.
**thankfully some really bizarre and outlandish conspiracy theories still exist to make life interesting, because everything the media labels as “conspiracy theory” is really tame, almost boring.
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Yet their ABC strangely has nothing to say about why the BOM would not make all of its data easily accessible for independent scrutiny.
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In the last thread Paul Cottingham posted a link which included a link to this video:
https://youtu.be/gnt9YZyCTAQ
“Demystifying the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect: Toward a New Physical Paradigm in Climate Science”
I must say, this is an OUTSTANDING video.
It ought to be compulsory viewing for all politicians, warmists, anyone who “identifies” as a climate “scientist” and everyone else who has an interest.
It is extremely professionally made and I highly recommend you watch it.
Disappointingly, it has been out for a year, and it only has 4,200 views. I suspect Goolag/YouTube is shadow banning it because it doesn’t fit the Official Narrative.
Of course, when you watch it YouTube tries to get you to redirect to the UN propaganda site.
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Thanks David Maddison; finally somebody has wrestled climate illogic to the ground and put a boot on its throat.
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Time for a foot tapping break from the world’s troubles. A sample of New Orleans jazz from Tuba Skinny:
“The Jackson Stomp” with some street dancing and New Orleans passing parade. (adds at start)
https://youtu.be/rGuLZfMqIoc
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Back at you 🙂
Roy Eldridge. Wabash stomp. Jan 23, 1937.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_PXRV9mmDM
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Tine Thing Helseth. Libertango by Piazzolla, arranged by Jarle Storløkken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz0l1dn8L4U
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Movie stars dance to Uptown Funk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE
Rita Hayworth & Fred Astaire dance to Led Zeppelin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbuFLUJ89Kw
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How would you answer the following question from a warmist, given that anyone on the Left/warmist side automatically think that anyone that doesn’t agree with the Official Narrative is “disreputable”?
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Is Dr Patrick Moore a scientist. ?
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Can they name a reputable scientist that DOES agree with the IPCC !!
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William Happer certainly is.
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Has anyone mentioned the new proposed Irish thought crime law?
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/what-is-in-irelands-new-so-called-thought-crime-bill-how-many-years-in-jail-can-you-get-and-which-parties-are-backing-it-4126844
OMG, what is happening?
An evil cult has literally consuming the Western world.
Science skepticism is on the verge of being outlawed.
As we know that ‘climate change’ skepticism harms marginalized ‘protected’ people to the greater extent.
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Speaking of OMG …
you have to see this.
The finest vintage of TDS.
Anderson Cooper of CNN apologizing for CNN exposing the delicate snow flakes to Orange for the necessity of shilling for an audience.
Enjoy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/76h60XOnKbV4/
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“Do you think staying in your silo and only listening to the person you agree with, do you think that’s going to make that person go away”
Ha Ha Ha what a sook. The very hypocrisy of the hypocrites. The quote above says it all, last minute of the grovelling diatribe. Dont listen to every one, just listen to CNN. Dont listen to the crisis on the border, dont listen to Biden family corruption just listen to what we tell you.
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Mmmm yes rush to “renewables” because adding intermiitency and complexity will help soooo much on that situation.
Aaargh was supposed to be a response to #8
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FWIW
“Robert F. Kennedy: It Looks Like Almost Every Mass Shooter Is On SSRI Drugs”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/05/10/robert_f_kennedy_almost_every_mass_shooter_is_on_ssri_drugs.html
More “nut behind the butt”?
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A question for a winter’s morning –
We get those tables of CO2 concentrations in various situations.
What are the levels you survive when sleeping with your head under the blankets?
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Dr John Campbell and the new WHO “treaty”
https://youtu.be/fVablPKjUas
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An article on the nature of EVs and EV ownership
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with a link
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Grass (eventually) produces the same amount of CO2 whether it goes through an animal(s) or rots on the ground.
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Impact of Liddell coal-based generator closure in late April?
NSW average wholesale electricity price in April per AEMO $110.84/MWh, May $162.18/MWh.
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Sunday morning 1.5GW flowing into NSW from North and South. It will be fine.
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Qld will be selling in the order of $20 M of power/mth to NSW. That’s all economic activity.
It is $800,000/h now.
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FWIW
“Research shows home working didn’t harm mental health at the start of the pandemic—but things changed later on”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-home-didnt-mental-health-pandemicbut.html
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Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates
https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/homeless-vets-are-being-booted-from-ny-hotels-to-make-room-for-migrants-advocates/
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Heat pumps are starting to look like a conspiracy against the public
British Gas has just thrown a large spanner into a policy that seems increasingly unworkable, costly and embarrassing for the Government
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/12/the-heat-pump-farce-has-finally-been-exposed/
So, you want to do your bit for the environment, and you took the Government at its word when it told you that ditching your perfectly well-functioning gas boiler for a heat pump is the way to go. But what do you do if you can’t find an engineer prepared to install one of the devices in your home because, in all honesty, they know it wouldn’t actually keep you warm?
British Gas has come out this week and stated what has doubtless been obvious for a long time to some homeowners who did take the plunge: that a standard heat pump runs at water temperatures which are too low to heat many properties. From now on, says the company, it will only agree to install a heat pump if it is convinced that it will succeed in getting the property up to a target temperature on the coldest days. If any of the heat pumps it installs fail this test, it says it will refund the money…
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Here’s an article that says heat pumps are fabulous
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/how-norway-popularized-an-ultra-sustainable-heating-method
In it they blithely say the need to install an additional 50 million units by 2030 to meet EU targets. 7 million a year every year till 2030, a measly 19,000 a day or 30,000 a day if you insist on public holidays and some leave (slacker!)
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Air source Heat pumps are great, IF ambient is 5 C or above. below that, they are fairly worthless.
Ground source heat pumps are unfeasible for those without sufficient land to bear the trenches or the bore holes to make them work.
They are no solution at all for an apartment complex or dense housing.
In moderate climates, they work. Elsewhere, not so much.
Otherwise, Better have some kerosene/diesel/propane/butane/methane available if survival is on your wish list.Or have lots of money for electric heat. Or if the grid fails from all the HPs and electric heat demand, have your affairs in order.
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One doesn’t argue with science. Science is always open to new developments and ideas that can change trajectories in all fields.
AGW is scientifically an opinion based, national wealth destroying science disaster. The oligarchs simply prosper, gain social powers they have no right to, and the people face discomfort, penury and serfdom.
What one can argue and disrespect are all scientists that say the science is ‘in’ based on their opinion. They disrespect themselves and their profession. They also sacrifice national wealth and welfare that comes from respecting science. They provide the foundation on which national loss is occuring in great and unsustainable chunks. They are the foundation on which the activists and seemingly internationally fixated governments are destroying our prosperity and future prospects.
The size of the potential losses these scientists are responsible for is overwhelming.
Do they realise that in the end game they will be the patsies blamed?
They are also responsible for the loss of our freedoms. Their utterances are the basis upon which scientists true to the ideals of science are unheard, tossed from jobs and/or cancelled. Without their utterances there would be no peg on which our social restrictions could be hung.
Somehow, this is the group that must be called to account. They proper at the nation’s expense by fulfilling the demands of whomever are their masters. Universities, government, international organisations and oligarchal demands? They must be forced to face judgement to save everything else.
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Restating the reality of human induced global warming is always useful because it’s such a multifaceted problem.
Here we go through another round of that with Cardimona’s comprehensive rundown, plus comments.
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/fake-meat-could-make-25-times-more-co2-than-real-beef/#comment-2671471
The biggest problem is the constant repetition of semi relevant “truths” that become core gospel.
The biggest thing that people don’t recognize is that there are constant impacts between all atmospheric gases and conduction is the way of providing equilibrium.
At any point in the atmosphere all gases have essentially the same energy level.
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Was meant to be a reply to Doc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh4yqhD98HU
Why the lights are going out in South Africa – BBC News
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