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Link with video:
https://x.com/KnightsTempOrg/status/1911320291684294770?t=-Ga0zstLI2JYTL-No7oaFw&s=19
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On almost the one year anniversary of the last time it went on fire…
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Safe and effective. Twice.
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Unlike burning coal to create life-giving CO2, battery fire fumes are good for the environment.
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Such a crisp clear sky too. Unfortunately,it won’t be seen widely on the media in Australia.
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Correct.
And also recall how water vapour from power station cooling towers is always presented as “smoke” by the clueless Lamestream Media (a tautology I know).
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I am proposing a new installation standard for grid scale batteries.
The entire facility fully enclosed with extraction hood over every battery module leading to a high capacity gas scrubbing system able to filter all particulates and neutralise any toxic gasses.
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Just looked at the video thanks for putting it up.
Who are the fools who allowed and built such a recycling plant at this site ?
Totally reckless and irresponsible and the toxins in the cloud unimaginable.
I doubt the media will spread the news, instead they will quickly forget !!!
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My first thought, too.
I know a long lens compresses perspective / but it is in a residential area!
Looks like it happened on the one fine day of the month, too.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20xxv22wl9o
“Global breakthrough to tackle shipping emissions”
On the BBC, so ‘handle with care’.
“Countries have agreed a global deal to tackle shipping emissions, after nearly ten years of negotiations. The agreement covers the vast majority of the world’s commercial shipping and means that starting in 2028, ship owners will have to use increasingly cleaner fuels or face fines.”
Hmm – 90% of world trade goes by sea.
“Shipping accounts for around 3% of global emissions, external. But unlike many other sectors it has struggled to reduce its carbon footprint over the last decade and is reliant on fossil fuels like diesel.”
3% of global emissions.
Well, bunkers cost ship owners and operators money.
Money is the bottom line in shipping – it is a fiercely competitive industry with [comparatively] low barriers to entry. So shipping has sought ways of using less bunkers for the same voyage – at least since the ‘Oil Shock’ of 1974. So many technologies have been tried – and some do give gains.
Those innovations that yield gains at a modest cost – so a net gain – get adopted quickly – at least in new vessels. A ship is considered to have a useful life of 15-50 years [depending on the type, with bulk carriers near 15 years, and cruise ships, traditionally nearer 45 years].
Few owners will scrap ships that still have useful years [= ‘profitable years’] left in them.
But the market does decide.
‘Cleaner fuels’ – yes. ‘High-sulphur’ bunker fuels have largely been superseded – at a cost, obviously reflected in freight rates, and so in the final consumer price.
TINSTAAFL.
There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
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While we were looking at tariffs…
2025 is to be a record year for ship scrapping. Watch out oceans!
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“2025 is to be a record year for ship scrapping.”
If so – and I know making predictions is difficult, especially about the future [h/t to the philosopher Berra] – it will strongly suggest that shipping is less profitable.
So imposing more costs – expensive ‘green’ fuel, or a “tax” for not using expensive ‘green’ fuel – will tend to weaken ship owners, at least in the West.
A shipowner very rarely scraps a ship that is still making money.
I guess that state-subsidized lines will just go to the controlling Government and ask for support.
And probably get it.
Do western governments look on shipping as a national security issue?
Importing fuel, food – even steel if you stop making it domestically, as your power prices have gone through the roof, and your ministers have an unscientific fixation on plant food – and consumer gee-gaws?
And manning those ships with nationals – or friendly nation folk, at least?
I hope we don’t find out the hard way that ‘they should have done’!
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https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1142131/Signs-of-life-for-moribund-ship-recycling-market
By 2025, the number of box ships aged over 20 years could reach 1,600 ships representing 25% of the fleet in terms of ship numbers.
“There is a containership demolition bonanza on the way but we may have to wait until the end of 2024 through 2025 to really see demo markets heating up,” said Mr Roach, adding that freight markets are expected to normalise by mid-2023. “At this point charter earnings are likely to downwardly react and demolition could become an option again.”
Liner operators and non-operating owners are in the process of modernising and future-proofing their vessel fleets to satisfy shippers as well as regulators, adding further to expectations that elderly boxships will hit subcontinent beaches from 2023.
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Should be good fishing amongst the wrecks off Hay Point in Queensland judging by the number of vessels swinging at anchor.
I count 55 with none actually loading at Hay Point. Abbott point has 9 at Anchor with one loading.
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They just did a big cull during covid, cruise ships too.
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N.S. Savannah, launched 21 July 1959.
The worlds FIRST and, apparently its LAST nuclear-powered merchant ship. The Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers are not exactly “merchant” vessels
The luddites and traitors have a LOT for which they must answer.
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She was in service 1962 to 1972 and visited 45 foreign and 32 US domestic ports.
The only countries to refuse her entry were Australia, NZ and Japan.
I can understand Japan being a little uncomfortable with nuclear stuff at the time but Australia and NZ banning her were just stupid. And both countries are still anti-nuclear and anti-energy because sensible people have allowed the Left to take over and destroy both countries.
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Countries have agreed a global deal to tackle shipping emissions, after nearly ten years of negotiations.
Increasing tariffs to ensure that goods are produced locally, thus eliminating the need for shipping?
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Via:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/13/only-four-electric-car-manufacturers-worldwide-are-making-a-profit/
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Meanwhile, Tesla has been dealing with it’s own government trying to sabotage the company and promote it’s competitors for the past four years. Even before Elon bought Twitter and turned to the dark side, even when he was still a reliable democratic donor, the Biden administration did everything in it’s power to harm Tesla due to it being a non-union shop.
And now, it’s dealing with Elon-Deranged progressives running an intimidation campaign against it’s retail dealers and consumers, threatening them with vandalism and violence if they are seen selling or driving a Tesla.
America doesn’t deserve Elon. Thankfully, he loves America despite the idiots who are trying to put him out of business.
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Steve,
BYD now has hybrid options probably due to the number of unsold EVs. Tesla rode on the back of EV mandates and now has to compete in the diminished EV market . Twitter was a slam dunk investment due to overstaffing and the obvious advantage of size . He probably looked at Farcebook and thought this is gold. The MSM is dying , but still trying…
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Tesla’s ballance sheet has been hugely helped from the sale of carbon credits to US based ICE manufacturers.
That income streem has reduced with the introduction of other domestic EV models.
Also , the availability of EV models from Ford, GM, Volvo, Mercedes, BMW, and Chinese makes, etc,etc, has reduced Teslas share of the slowing EV market.
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BYD gets a mention in this article. Apparently if you install an EV charger in your home that is not supplied by the vehicle manufacturer, your home may not be covered by insurance in the event of a fire. Just in case you needed another disincentive to buy an EV…
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/very-worrying-hidden-insurance-clause-may-not-cover-ev-home-chargers/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_4&utm_medium=partner
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Bunnings are now selling EV chargers from various makers. That must have home accessory
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Trump Cuts Funding for Fearmongering Climate Change Program
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/04/10/trump-cuts-funding-for-fearmongering-climate-change-report-n2187726
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on the federal program that has produced three decades of overly alarmist climate projections. Tuesday, “stop work” orders were issued to the contractors supporting the Global Change Research Program. This is a federal group established by Congress in 1990. It works under the direction of NASA and coordinates efforts among 14 federal agencies, the Smithsonian Institution, and hundreds of outside scientists to produce the National Climate Assessment.
The National Climate Assessment is a Congressionally mandated report produced every four years. It is not known for its accuracy, but its prominence and the imprimatur it gets from being the US government’s official estimate of the number of unicorns climate change impacts ends up driving a lot of government and business decisions. The report requires us to suspend our disbelief and disregard our lying eyes to accept its findings. It has claimed global warming worsens heat waves and increases the number and severity of wildfires, hurricanes, and floods. None of that has materialized over the life of the report.
The biggest scam is that the National Climate Assessment looks at a time span that ends around 2100, too far in the future for the authors to be held accountable but enough of a window for climate change alarmists to do maximum damage…
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Ever wonder sometimes how a harsh dose of reality would have an effect on climate change thinking, you know ….. let’s replace ‘real’ engines with pretend ones.
As you know, I’ve just come back from Perth, and I came back on the Indian Pacific, one of the World’s great train journeys.
As you also know, I just love my technical details too.
One of the quirks of the Indian Pacific is that it’s a passenger train. (Gee, Tony, who would have thought?)
Let’s then cross that Nullarbor Plain from Perth to Port Augusta at the top of Spencer Gulf.
41 hours in all.
Little quirky thing here. This iconic passenger train must give way to freight trains. So around once every hour and a half to two hours, ‘we’ pull into an awful long siding, (I mean the train is almost 800 metres long) and ….. stop, all through the night, and day as well.
And then, hootin past, flat out, a monster freight train heading for Perth.
So, now aware of what was happening, and, umm, as you do, Tony decides to count what’s flying by. (ulterior motive here)
Three NR class Locomotives hauling 115 containers, some stacked two high. Each full shipping container weighs in at 30 tonnes, so that’s a load of 3450 Tonnes ….. heading for Perth. (I mean how else would they keep WA running without supplies from the East, eh!) One loaded freighter every 90 minutes, so around 30 of them, hence 103,500 Tonnes of goodies heading into Perth, and in just 41 hours, and here, they’d need three locomotives to haul that weight of almost 3500 tonnes.
All of them hauled by three of those NR class Diesel Electric Locomotives, just like the one out front of ‘our’ train.
So then, that NR Class Locomotive. – The locomotive is 22 metres long (72 feet) and weighs 132 tonnes. The GE 7FDL-16 diesel engine driving the large electric generator is a huge 16 cylinder 175 Litre (yeah, read that again) four stroke General Electric single turbocharged unit operating at 1000RPM, and this diesel engine drives a General Electric generator coupled to General Electric traction motors driving the wheels, and able to reach a maximum speed of 115KPH, so just a tick over 70MPH. This huge Unit delivers 3000KW of power, and that’s a little more than 4000HP. That engine consumes 35 litres of diesel every kilometre.
Port Augusta to Perth is 1700 kilometres by rail.
So, 30 (total freight trains) X 3 (NR Class locomotives) X 1700 (km) X 35. (litres per kilometre)
Umm 5.355 Million litres of diesel.
And they want to replace that with umm ….. what?
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I recently watched a documentary on development of electric engine aircraft and two types now flying including a two-seat trainer and a larger but small commercial airline aircraft. The development included hydrogen fuel cell technology to reduce the weight of the batteries however flying time with legally required reserve “fuel” was a couple of hours for the light aircraft and some more hours for the passenger aircraft.
The presenter tried to talk up the benefits for climate change purposes and reducing emissions, and forced to acknowledge that very few commercial operators would consider short-range and reduced by battery weight payload aircraft.
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Conceptually there is nothing wrong with an electric trainer. They spend most of their time parked up at home base, only doing short flights with two on board but then I think of having a battery fire at altitude. One Kiwi glider pilot has died when his electric self launcher caught fire that I know of.
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How long would Worst Australia last without that lifeline?
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It’s a long way to drive, I have done it both directions a few times, and the heavy diesel truck transport numbers are many back and forth so no diesel engines road or rail and economy standstill.
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There were very little freight movements across the Nullarbor previously, so WA was obviously self-sufficient. No containers, and I think the truckies train only ran a couple of times a week. Virtually no trucks on the Eyre Highway when it was unsealed.
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I put my comment up at 5.36AM, and now, almost on cue, 40 minutes back now, ABC News comes up with this article, about rail freight on this linen and at Kalgoorlie, and there’s that wonderful image right at the top of it.
That’s a container freight train, and there’s two of those NR Class locomotives out front, and containers heading far back into the distance.
All up there are 116 of these NR locos in service, doing the ‘heavy lifting’ across Australia.
I was never one for trains, nor train spotting, but when I looked into this, it was just so interesting.
Just that GE 7FDL-16 V16 engine alone of 175 litres capacity is so amazing. Just that engine alone weighs 204 tonnes. I had to read a number of times before I actually understood the fuel consumption.
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Yeah, that figures, eh!
So many technical details, I had to stuff one of them up, eh!
The weight of that engine is ….. 20.4 tonnes.
Misplaced a decimal point.
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In Washington State a rail line goes past a small vineyard/winery where I volunteer for pruning and bottling. 3.25 miles NNE is a horseshoe bend in the track ( 47.271935, -119.963990 ) that is one of the many places in the USA where crazies go to watch and take photos. Be careful you don’t become one.
The original line had a stop called Trinidad, WA but there is no town of that name even though Google Earth will fly you there.
http://www.bigbendrailroadhistory.com/2025/01/trinidad-loop-2.html
The freight cars are much as you describe except for the plastic-wrapped fuselages of future Boeing planes headed west.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/26il520jbWk/maxresdefault.jpg
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Used to be the other way around Tony. All freight trains, including the truckies train and the fast goods, had to stop and wait for the daily trans train. At night on the Nullarbor you could see the lights of the waiting train up to 50 miles away.
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Be sure the maths will always ‘find you out’. (and what a major error this is eh, just huge)
I did the maths in reverse changing from miles to kilometres.
The information quoted around five to six gallons of diesel every mile, so I had two conversions to make, gallons to litres and then miles to kilometres.
So, that meant around 22 litres per mile, and then came the mistake. Instead of dividing by eight and multiplying by five (miles to kilometres) I did it in reverse.
So it should be only 13.75 litres and not the 35 I quoted.
So now, that total should be only 2.1 million litres of diesel, and really, that sounds a little more realistic.
My bad, so apologies for that.
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Tony, unless I am mistaken, to convert miles to kilometers one divides by 5 and multiplies by eight approximately. – 10 miles = 16.0934 kilometres. Unless I have misinterpreted what you are saying. Correct me if wrong!
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The coal trains in the Bowen Basin are just like you describe. Two and three locomotives. Trains 1.4 kilometres long.
https://www.bowenrail.com.au/what-we-do/rollingstock/
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“the locomotives feature new safety technology to improve braking, making them safer and easier to operate for our train crew. They also include highly intelligent IT systems to allow experts in our operations centre to track the trains, assist train crews or even operate the trains as required from anywhere in Australia.”
Well, that’s a step up from getting off the train to inspect the wheels and notice that it is verrry slowly rolling away… I think it ran over 100km and crashed when deliberately derailed before it got to Port Hedland.
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I’m not sure that it ever was satisfactorily explained how the train was able to move without the driver being present.
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The Mount Newman railway, which runs from Newman to Port Hedland, carries the longest and heaviest trains in the world.
These trains typically consist of 268 cars and are 2.89 kilometres long, with each wagon carrying up to 138 tonnes of iron ore.
Having been stuck at a railway crossing as the Mount Newman Iron Ore Train went past. belove me it is that long.
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Tony,
Strange that rail is “better” than shipping . I would have thought they would have been at least comparable . Fremantle has container handling facilities , so it must be up to price…
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The MUA, as always, is a significant factor in shipping costs. And the rough oceans in the Great Australian Bight is another problem area. It seems that the main problem with the transcontinental rail freight is the need to drop down to only one container height in NSW. Perth established a good suburban rail freight area some time ago, with a freight rail looping around to the main container port of Fremantle. But most containers are still moved by truck to Kewdale, the rail freight terminus.
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In 1975 the line was washed out by rain from a cyclone NW of Leonora (140 miles N of Kalgoorlie}.
Floodwaters flowed SSE via Ponton creek, taking out the railway for some months.
Commonwealth line, Feds said WA had to pay for repairs…..
Alcoa Pinjarra had paid for upgrade of line from Pinjarra to Bunbury port.
Alcoa needed to transport a 34 ft dia slewing ring to the port via rail from NSW.
Critical item.
Much pressure on Governments to enable delivery.
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https://pocketoz.com.au/rail/ghost-towns-nullarbor.html
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Hmm. The link was interesting, but quite a few wrong statements about the trans rail settlements. For a start, water was available at many sites along the railway, down around 270 feet. We had a 30,000 gallon tank that was filled every day from the bore. There was also a railway bore, but that was shut down when the locos changed to diesel, and the large water tank vanished one day, picked up by the remnants of a cyclone heading down to the Bight. But the water was very salty, which wasn’t good for the steam locos, and they were changed to diesel quite early.
The story about the Mundrabilla Meteorite is also wrong. The main mass was found in 1966, not 1911. I had a small sample that was sawn off for me.
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This is a good link to the meteorite story that is accurate: https://www.facebook.com/ABCGoldfieldsEsperance/videos/the-mundrabilla-meteorite/257410678974910/
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Tony we lived till 15 years ago by the Ulan coal line. There we watched 11,000 tonne coal trains hauled by 12,000 hp of locomotives, and the ocal carrier hauling 43 tonnes with 340 hp.
For political purposes I cite that as the measure of comparative efficiency.
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Not Gangnam style, but Norwegian style.
An interesting electricity pricing model for the Norwegians.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/new-steps-to-reduce-electricity-bills-and-maintain-control-over-national-energy-resources/id3085960/
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/norgespris-skal-sikre-forutsigbare-og-stabile-strompriser-for-folk/id3090849/
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As I understand it, there is an election coming later this year in Norway.
With the huge jump in electricity costs (to Norway) in Dec. Jan. from the Germany debacle with Renewables and Dunkelflaute the Norwegians (and the Swedes) are not that happy about interconnections to Germany (hence the ‘suggestion’ about new interconnectors not proceeding.
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Graeme,
The Baltic states just disconnected themselves from the Russian grid and got an expensive wake up call . Norway is seems is reluctant to bail them out.
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Probably disconnected from the Russian Grid by ORDER of the EU.
I am not sure that Norway can supply electricity to the Baltic States.
It would have to go via Denmark, Germany and Poland and likely little would get there.
Their best bet might be Finland where the new nuclear plant has reduced electricity prices, or possibly coal fired from Poland.
Germany wants to get it from Finland and The Finns don’t want to be connected to Germany and cop the sudden price rises (up to 1600%)
when “renewables” fail.
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Something is wrong somewhere, Norsemen are offered peremanent A$0.06/kWh and they are still thinking ?!
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Presumably only for the south of Norway (where most live) which gets the brunt of German demands e.g. December when the tariff shot up about 1.76/kWh. (Same for Sweden).
Not sure what the standard rate in Norway is – but EV’s are wide spread and houses use electricity because it is (normally) cheap and A$0.06/kWh may be higher than usual.
Of course the other way might be to cut the interconnecters to Germany (via Denmark) and some are already discussing this.
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The standard Norwegian domestic electricity rate is AUD 9c/kWh.
EVs are widespread in Norway, but the main advantage only occurs when driving in Norway. So when they drive to other countries, out comes the SUV.
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Something is wrong somewhere, Norsemen are offered permanent A$0.06/kWh and they are still thinking ?!
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Just did the same calculation. Wow! That’s certainly cheap electricity! But the sting in the tail is that they will refuse to supply power to other countries, particularly Germany and Denmark, if in doing so, it forces the Norwegian electricity price higher than this amount. And they may also refuse to supply power to the UK, which regularly depends on Norwegian power. This will be a game changer and will certainly impact Germany, Denmark and possibly UK. Will be interesting to see what happens.
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Archie,
From the first link, the quoted price is NOK 0.4 per kWh.
That is just under 3p [GBP] per kWh, or 6c [AUD].
I wonder if our Magnificent Mr. Miliband knows – or cares – about this?
Or, indeed, Australia’s Mr Bowen.
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A little sign of the effects that a wonderful Socialist State has-
“The Government is therefore proposing to reduce VAT on grid tariffs from 25 % to 15 % from 1 July 2025.”
25%…. Makes our 10% GST look almost reasonable!
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Trump tariffs – Rachel from Accounts acts – decisively!
https://www.politico.eu/article/britains-starmer-suspends-tariffs-on-89-products-amid-trumps-trade-war/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-cuts-price-of-everyday-items-and-summer-essentials
UK importers to save £17 million.
Tariffs removed on electric car batteries, agave juice, plywood, canned pineapples and over 80 more.
Until 2027.
We Brits are saved!
And it gets better – HM Government is making billions available for Export Credit.
“LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday it will expand financing support for exporters by 20 billion pounds ($26 billion), including those affected by U.S. tariffs, in an effort to give them stability and certainty in what it described as a new era of global trade.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-makes-26-bln-export-finance-support-available-amid-tariff-turmoil-2025-04-12/
I guess taxes will need to be ‘adjusted’ …
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Question for Jo’s team.
Does anyone have a link to any scientific literature where the a mRNA virus has been sequenced, isolated and then been found by a significant study to infect with the symptoms of SARS Cov 2?
Last week we were lead to believe those having contracted this infection somehow caused sufferers to be die from measles. Evidence was from a video of an expert who strangely gave me the warm and fuzzy feeling as he looked like the actor Morgan Freeman of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ fame. The claim I understand was the virus turns off the interferon mechanism leading to cells being un prepared for a disease they normally had immunity to. Somehow this correlation was substantial in about 2019 though less obvious in 2020 and 2021 when the Corona virus was running rampant.
Any ideas what, where and how for this knowledge? Any evidence anyone has isolated this novel virus other than the original software generated sequence from a patient with pneumonia in China?
[No ideas from me. Others might. They’ll chime in when their time zone cycles through. – LVA]
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Broadie, did you mean to say “mRNA” virus? There are RNA and DNA viruses, but no mRNA viruses.
As it happens, the RNA virus SARS Cov2 has been sequenced in full about 11 million times (see GISAID with 15 million SARS sequences, coming from all over the world. About 75% are full codes). That’s all 29,000 bases published in full, and obviously, these relate to symptomatic and asymptomatic infection, and transmission chains which are followed by contact tracing.
As I keep saying, it would be far harder to fake one virus than to create a million new actual bioweapons.
The stories out there that SARS can’t be isolated, or doesn’t exist, are spread I believe, partly to make skeptics look silly, and distract them so they fight pointless decoy battles.
If I recall, Covid has 3 genes dedicated to turning off interferon, which should be temporary, but then long term infection can happen. The long term immunological effect is still being figured out. It infects white blood cells which may also cause long term immune damage. I must write that up. Fun. Fun. Fun. Sigh. – Jo
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Look forward to that,Jo. Although the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines has been absolutely dismissed, there remains valid concerns about the effects of “Long Covid” on the immune system. While this immunological response may well be a result of the continuing effect of the vaccine in respect to the production of the spike protein, it may well also be that Covid effects persist in some patients who contract the virus.
I just can’t understand why Norman Fenton and others persiist I doubting the very existence of the virus. I don’t quite understand your suggestion that it is some sort of decoy in the battle between the immunologists in respect to the origin of the virus.
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The decoy battle of “do viruses exist” is a lose lose for us. For anyone with virology or molecular biology training, when someone tries to argue that viruses don’t exist, it automatically puts them in the medically illiterate category — thus ruling out anything they say on other topics. This is a real shame. We don’t want to lose any voices of dissent.
For all the flaws of PCR, it’s incredibly useful when used properly, and backed up by other techniques no one has heard of outside virology. Eg Plaque assays, electronmicrographs, antibody serum tests (Western blot or Elisa tests). Then there are all the symptomatic observations that are unique to Covid (or were) Eg low blood O2 saturation, clotting factors, etc. This collection of billions of observations is largely invisible to the average punter. No one has a hypothesis to explain all the observations if viruses don’t exist.
Fenton’s graphs on vaccine reactions 2 – 6 weeks later are the best resolution I’ve seen. Sigh. I still use them.
The only win for us, is that if people have the discussion “do viruses exist” they become more fluent in virology and molecular biology, and if WWIII is a bioweapons war, that’s a great thing. Plus viruses are so damn interesting. They sometimes cause the rise and fall of civilizations, they age us, they cause cancer, they affect evolution, and make terrible weapons. On the plus side, the better we get with virology the more we can synthetically use them to cure disease and keep people alive.
The way our DNA works is awesome and fascinating. The story of how we became who we are is written in the code. Heck, I’m, biased. This was and still is my first love in science. We are on the cusp of a medical revolution that will rewrite the way we live (assuming we don’t blow it all and end up in feudal estates and another dark ages).
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I think the ‘no virus’ is a good counterbalance to the myopic ‘everything is the virus’ that it started at.
To get to a point where the huge psychological experiment of it all is seen as diabolical. Taking away people’s occupations (as non-essential) alongside the fear campaigns and separation from family and friends.
And the child abuse – imagine if one family in 2018 started doing what people were doing to their children in 2021 – social services would have been called!
The virus symptomatic path is now pretty difficult to separate from the effect of stress. And now the vaccines in the mix.
If we can get to ‘never again’ somewhere in the middle maybe – I am happy to follow the science there.
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Thanks Jo,
I wondered where these genomic sequences where coming from and how those strains such as Omnicron arose in the graphics I observed from Washington State. Your reference to GISAID took me to ‘Nextstrain’. This visualisation appears to curate the metadata from the GISAID original published Novel Virus ‘Wuhan-Hu-1/2019’.
What you have just explained to me I understand is the data being recorded by GISAID for this particular virus:
and therefore it is as you suggest only stories we are being linked to that claim the samples from symptomatic patients are little more than isolates containing sequences of less than say 1000 base pairs with a good chance of matching the novel virus.
For anyone else interested here is an explanation of how this open source software helps produce the ‘trees’ to visualise the mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 or to quote the Nextstrain Team register the ‘Typos’
The Nextstrain team summarises their results on SARS Cov 2:
Remember Basel was the University that vaccinated their staff and then wisely told them not to exercise. From memory they found increases in troponin levels without having the ‘Died Suddenly’ headlines.
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I have been posting the Nextstrain links for the whole pandemic. Thank you for looking.
Sorry, can you rephrase this paragraph? What are you saying?
If you mean that the people telling you the virus is only pieced together from little segments are misleading you, you are correct. We can now sequence 2 million bases in a row. So 29,000 is easy.
And as for their final summary, obviously they’re not allowed to say the banal truth about the borders. No one wants the unwashed masses to know that border control worked, was cheap and is the first and most obvious easy defense. Eg Western Australia, NZ, Tasmania, Taiwan etc. I personally lived like Covid did not exist until Dec 2021 when the virus finally arrived in Western Australia. For nearly two years we danced, we sang, we didn’t need masks, and schools were open almost all the time, so were the mines and gas wells. I mean, there is a price to keeping borders closed, and Omicron was big nothing in immediate illness, so opening the borders then seems fair. Except the long term immune effects of even Omicron are still unknown.
We should have put the border around China. In future, just stop the bioweapons in the one country they are identified in. 100% clamp. Immediately. That’s what the WHO would have done if it wasn’t a globalist front for One World Government and Big Pharma. Trump was right. In Feb 2020 he wanted to stop the planes from China. Tedros wanted to keep the borders open. Fauci too. That was practically my first or second post on Covid. Stop the flights.
This simple approach may not work as bioweapons get better, unless we raise the game detection-wise. The next bioweapon could be more asymptomatic (but with long term side effects), and a higher Ro, released in multiple locations. But it did work in 2020.
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The question then becomes, who would release a bioweapon anyone could bring back home to the perpetrators and potentially give them, their loved ones and their loyal followers long term side effects. Are we are looking at a Jim Jones type doomsday cult or is it the Mega Rich having prepared their bolt-holes in Hawaii or on a super yacht?
I mean as crazy as the Greens are for depopulation they seem to reward themselves with all the best a modern civilisation can offer. I mean a fully optioned Toyota Troopy, the best dive equipment, etc, they have no intention of suffering themselves.
Not links you sourced only references I follow down when raised by someone contributing to the discussion.
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The sales and marketing stories (hyperbole and puffery) for wind turbines is very annoying, only installed capacity mentioned and how many houses could be serviced with electricity supply or other not very informative comparison. Never any mention of capacity factor and intermittent supply dependent of wind availability and conditions.
Here in Australia the Labor Renewable Energy Target with renewables specific incentive subsidies for profit before operating profit from sales began with 32% of total supply capacity, from 2022 raised to 82% and now 90%
I understand that 30% is the recommended maximum for supplementary electricity supply source and with controllable generators support back up?
Noting that gas and coal were not acceptable but since 2022 and AEMO warning of a supply crisis gas and coal are now acceptable. Gas turbine generator plant and state governments compensating coal fired power station owners to extend operating time for years ahead.
Labor Greens Teals oppose the Dutton Plan for 7 nuclear reactor technology, 2 small SMR and 5 larger, specifications not yet announced meaning number of generator units and capacity. They would be located on the sites where coal power stations have been shut down, water supply and transmission lines nearby. And part of the opposition is claims that capacity would only add 4% to electricity supply? How would they know, specifications yet to be advised?
Arab Emirates Barakah nuclear power station recently commissioned has 4 generator units and installed capacity of 5,600 MW, compared to Liddell NSW coal power station shut down last year 4 generators and 2,000 MW.
I read recently reported by an engineer specialist in nuclear power design and construction that Rolls-Royce UK very recently commissioned a small nuclear reactor plant in Scotland, a couple of large shipping containers in area I understand. Indonesia announced last December that they intend to build 20 nuclear power plants beginning 2025. Also during 2025 Albanese Labor signed with 14 countries from Indo Pacific Region to allow nuclear power plants/stations to be built in the region, Indonesia was a signatory.
Please Note: Capital Hill wind farm/installation NSW has 67 turbines and 140 MW installed capacity taking up 15 acres.
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And the UAE Barakah power stations were all installed and operating inside 10 years.
Cost not known but about $US 30 billion. say $AUS 55 billion, making the Labor “estimate” (scare tactic) of $600 billion even less truthful.
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In submissions to the Senate energy inquiry that spanned back to Coalition Government Australian SMR Nuclear Technologies submitted a report that highlighted the “errors and omissions” contained in the CSIRO GenCost Report commissioned by Minister Bowen.
Peter Dutton has announced that in government the Coalition will remove restrictions on mining and drilling for coal and gas, and gold, and other minerals and energy reserves. Obviously with economic prosperity in mind not net zero emissions
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Not exactly 10 years – Barakah Unit 1 construction started 19 July 2012, and Unit 4 commenced generating power in March 2024. But still a great result, with the locals now having a reliable source of power at around A$0.26/kWh.
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That 4% figure the dills came up with looked a bit light on so had a look at total generation for the nem , 4% of peak is 1120Mw, and of night is 720Mw, that is just a couple of units worth of output.
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Bowen Albanese Labor and Comrades are not interested in facts and truth.
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It’s not nice to scare people with “forecasts” pretending to be data. Instead, it’s more ethical to use actual “data” which, in these 4 panels, provide indicators that show global warming and increasing CO2 benefit life on Earth.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GoTopIVXMAAr4W2?format=jpg&name=small
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If the fake conservative Liberals were seriously interested in winning the next election, they should have been running a campaign with such material right after they lost the last election.
And explained how it was now discovered to have been a mistake of their earlier PM, Howard and the Uniparty clowns* who followed him to commit to “green” energy because its destroyed our industry, standard of living and likely our status as a rich developed nation.
*No offence intended to the clown community. Clowns are, of course, much more useful and moral people than politicians.
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The other possibility might be TV adds showing Albo’s claim about electricity being $275 cheaper and asking why any one things his current “cheaper life claims” are going to happen.
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The only concern with that graphic is that it implies “global warming” is real and not a consequence of the baseline and measurement technique used (or fr@udulently altered data) and it doesn’t state that in any case temperatures naturally fluctuate, even within historic times (e.g. Minoan, Egyptian, Roman, Medieval warm periods).
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Further to that, if we look back to the Eemian Interglacial its clear that CO2 has no part to play
‘During the Last Interglacial, the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 280 parts per million.
‘The Last Interglacial was one of the warmest periods of the last 800,000 years, with temperatures comparable to and at times warmer (by up to on average 2 degrees Celsius) than the contemporary Holocene interglacial, with the maximum sea level being up to 6 to 9 metres higher than at present, with global ice volume likely also being smaller than the Holocene interglacial.’ (wiki)
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The linked video is the best explanation I have yet seen of the likely cause of the NYC helicopter crash.
It wasn’t the “Jesus nut” as someone here suggested, but likely a catastrophic failure of the gearbox or gearbox mounting for reasons explained in the video.
Almost certainly not pilot error and a possible maintenance issue or just a freak occurrence. And probably not “mast bump” which can happen in some two bladed helicopters* but the video author thinks unlikely in this case.
Of course, all this needs confirmation by the investigating authorities.
https://youtu.be/U8Q8XuqlyMQ
*Here is an Australian ATSB report on a Bell 206 that crashed in Australia due to mast bump after sudden control input. It is the same helicopter type that crashed in NYC.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-05/AO-2022-034%20Final_0.pdf
“The pilot was likely startled and initiated abrupt control inputs leading to the main rotor severing the tail boom. This led to an inflight break-up of the airframe and collision with terrain.”
Also see:
https://www.flightsafetyaustralia.com/2023/08/bump-snap-chop-drop/
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Your comment reminded me about the grounding of ADF Taipan helicopters after a crash during military exercises, the report stated that a hot start had caused engine failure and would have been avoided if software already in stock had been installed earlier.
An NZAF Taipan also there had no problems but for some strange reason all ADF Taipans were grounded and never flown again, dismantled and buried, new Blackhawk replacements purchased. I am not aware of the reason for grounding the Tiger attack helicopters around the same time and remain grounded now being replaced by Apaches.
The Ukraine Government asked if the two models could be transferred to them but request refused?
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Yes, with the Taipans Australia is burying a billion dollars worth of aircraft.
A truly bizarre and wasteful decision. It wouldn’t have required much creativity to come up with alternative uses like “gate guardians/sentries” or selling to enthusiasts or foreign governments who want them.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/01/australia-reveals-why-it-isnt-sending-its-grounded-taipan-helicopters-to-ukraine/
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Overheard somebody today going on about how batteries (to store the electrons from W&S) are the answer. It’s just a matter of investing in the research and development of improved battery technology.
…sigh.
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Amazing how many non-technical folks seem to think that technical products will always keep dropping in cost, and that somebody will always invent something much cheaper. No good mentioning the bathtub cost curve to folks. And if these goods were always dropping in price, how come we aren’t driving $500 cars and using $50 phones?
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Hmmm!
Boosting your confidence in the Peking Pox jabs?
“Top CDC Vaccine Safety Officer’s Records Missing, HHS Says”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-cdc-vaccine-safety-officers-records-missing-hhs-says
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I’m sure a threat of jail time will help jog his memory.
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Sounds like he may have the sort of memory that needs paper confirmation?
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After the second vaccination I developed irregular heartbeat, Atrial Fibrillation (AF) recorded on my home BP monitor for the first time, after my GP checked it he sent me for various tests and then for an echocardiogram via a heart specialist. AF was confirmed, blood thinners prescribed and I was told to enjoy my life, no further specialist appointments necessary.
Over more recent months I noticed AV registering few times and now zero.
I have an appointment with the GP soon to discuss.
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Dennis
A clarification there –
“AV” = “AF”?
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Typographical error Ian, thanks
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AFib seems to be quite common. I know several folks that take Eliquis (apixaban), an anticoagulant medication commonly prescribed to reduce the risk of stroke. It is not appropriate (apparently) for folks that have valve-replacements – they take Warfarin (Coumadin). In both cases the intent is to reduce harmful blood clots.
My father had AFib in the late 1950s and lived with it for 40+ years.
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Amongst the plethora of articles about ‘Trump is bad..Trump is mad.. Trump is incompetent..’ in the SMH is the NATO propaganda piece about Russia hitting a University in Sumy.
“Russian missiles have struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people…“Only filthy scum can act like this – taking the lives of ordinary people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said… with Emmanuel Macron saying “Everyone knows: This war was initiated by Russia alone. And today, it is clear that Russia alone chooses to continue it – with blatant disregard for human lives, international law and the diplomatic efforts” ”
Meanwhile the Russian propaganda says nothing about Palm Sunday, but there was a awards ceremony taking place for the Ukrainian armed forces with NATO presence, so they used a couple of Iskander missiles.
” In Sumy there was an arrival this morning, and not just one . The building of the Congress Center of Sumy State University with a huge hole in the center. This site was used for various military headquarters and award ceremonies. Among the dead there are many civilians who may have come for the award ceremony, there are no details yet. But among the burnt equipment near the building there are whole and burnt pickups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with tactical signs – there were definitely soldiers there. ”
Pick your propaganda, but there are videos of Army uniforms on the scene instantly and army vehicles burning in the carpark…
https://voenhronika-ru.translate.goog/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/13_04_2025_video_raketnyj_udar_po_skopleniju_vsushnikov_v_centre_sum_novosti_i_karta_boevykh_dejstvij_ukraina_20_video/60-1-0-16329?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/this-is-wrong-russian-missiles-hit-palm-sunday-celebrations-20250414-p5lrgj.html
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So considerate of the Russians to punish the family members/children and dignitaries for gathering there for an awards ceremony – so thoughtful during cease fire negotiations.
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Yes, soon the Ukies will avoid anything to do with their armed forces, and especially any visitors from NATO countries..
Still, for a war, the civilian death toll is remarkably low, considering what politicians usually cause.
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Not for Russia. The civilians they have recruited from the jails, the unemployed, injured and desperately poor to serve as cannon fodder on the frontlines in Ukraine has to be well over 500,000. The bonus is they are emptying their prisons and cleaning up the streets I suppose.
A week or so ago, the Russians were actively “recruiting” from gymnasiums – now it is from bath-houses as 2.25 into the link below shows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkApwkYVCM
What a great place to live.
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The term is “Ukrainians”.
Why do you hate the west where you live, so much?
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Russian Missiles Strike Troop Accumulation at Advertised Military Awards Ceremony – Kiev: It Was ‘Easter Celebration’ – Ukrainian Mayor Trashes Reckless Military Command (VIDEOS)
Needless to say, both Kiev regime’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky, his handlers France’s Emmanuel Macron and UK’s Keir Starmer, as well as some MSM vehicles, called an attack on a peaceful civilian gathering, ‘an Easter celebration’.
The problem is that they forgot to silence their own Ukrainian politicians and officials, that have already denounced: the missile strike was carried out on the place where militants of the 117th territorial defense brigade were receiving awards in a widely advertised ceremony.
‼️ Ukranian politicians confirm the fact of a military gathering in the center of Sumy!
The mayor of Konotop calls for the resignation of the head of the military administration of the Sumy region and the head of the regional SBU by 6:00 pm.pic.twitter.com/8J7mJ6LCJT
Lord Bebo reported: “Ukrainian politicians confirm the fact of a military gathering in the center of Sumy! The mayor of Konotop calls for the resignation of the head of the military administration of the Sumy region and the head of the regional SBU by 6:00 pm. He also demands them to kneel and apologize, in front of the people! He accused them of complicity of the missile strike on Sumy, which hit a military ceremony … and also many civillians died, since it was in the center of the city.”
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The Queensland floods, BoM didn’t see it coming.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2025/04/western-queenslands-great-deluge-my-thoughts-commiserations/
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What changed in the last 30 years?
Disease or disorder | increase since 1990
ADHD: 819%
Alzheimer’s Disease: 299%
Autism Spectrum Disorders: 2,094%
Bipolar Disorder in Youth: 10,833%
Celiac Disease: 1,111%
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: 11,027%
Depression: 280%
Diabetes: 305%
Fibromyalgia: 7,272%
Hypothyroidism: 702%
Lupus: 787%
Osteoarthritis: 449%
Sleep Apnea: 430%
Asthma: 412%
Autoimmune Disorders (general): 1,600%
Food Allergies in Children: 377%
Ooh, ooh, ooh! I know! Climate change!
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JC II
Have you looked at those in descending order to see if any groupings show up?
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The latest prognosis is, it’s because of tariffs.
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More radiation – from mobile, wireless, smart meters, computers and big screen tellies. It’s not just the declining microbiome and more jabs.
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“ADHD: 819%”
I wasn’t aware until recently that ADHD meds contain methamphetamin or similar, so is this a legal and back door way of getting on the gear sort of legally, a bit like doc prescribed cannabis for pain.
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Is there a reference supporting those numbers, JC?
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The Greens are having a BBQ to reward their drones for election door knocking:
https://contact-vic.greens.org.au/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=18579
I hope they won’t be eating any delicious MEAT.
I hope they only have vegan fare or insects.
And the following MEAT lover’s site shows a picture of the BBQ where this event will be:
https://www.meatinapark.com.au/bbq-park/EDINBURGH%20GARDENS–5766528318308352
It looks like the standard public park BBQ you find in Victoriastan which is powered by LPG (US=propane).
But don’t GREENs want to ban gas?
And if electric (unlikely) most, if not all, of the electricity will come from coal anyway.
Typical Leftist hypocrites and fools.
BUT they still might get Bandt in as Deputy PM if the fake conservative Liberals don’t get their act together.
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What would happen in Australia if you suddenly, overnight, switched off all grid and domestic solar and shut down all windmills?
Despite the huge damage already done to the grid by shutting down coal and gas power stations, would what’s left keep the grid going with no noticeable difference except electricity at maybe one third of current cost?
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Hydro?
People would wake up and start dragging pollies out of their offices into the streets?
Every business is suddenly without power and can’t trade?
No EV can charge due to grid drain?
That’ll teach everyone to vote for liars and idiots, as they always do!
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I didn’t mention hydro because they haven’t started shutting it down yet…
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I would be happy if you only shut down my solar at night time.
If you shut it down through the day then that would increase my electricity bill substantially.
Removing rooftop solar would cause a daily midday peak that the dispatchable generators would probably not meet. So the system would crash.
At present, there is considerable behind the meter demand that is not measured and invisible to the grid. Remove rooftop solar and all that extra demand hits the dispatchable generators.
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You can see on OpenNEM that the peak demand is still middle of the day but a good slice of it served by rooftop:
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
And that peak is an estimate. It could be considerably higher than the estimate because behind the meter use is not measured.
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So what is the deficit?
Obviously before fake conservative Howard and those following him initiated grid destruction, it worked fine with some of the world’s cheapest electricity.
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There may not be a deficit but difficult to know until all the distributed solar was shut down through the day.
Australia is already using hydro like a battery because the wind and solar conserve the perched water in the Snowy and Tasmanian hydro. The limitations on perched water could materialise as a constraint if the wind and solar were eliminated. So the crash may not be immediate and could be delayed by managing demand.
The lowest NEM daily contribution from all intermittent generation is around 100GWh. That could likely be replaced with 4GW of dispatchable generation if the midday peak is not the highest demand. That minimum reading is in June when demand is high and I doubt there is now 4GW of idle dispatchable capacity to cover the loss. There would be little grid impact if the wind and solar were withdrawn in autumn.
By my estimate Australia is a couple of good sized coal fired power plants short of a sustainable grid if all wind and solar was shut down.
The grid is already dependent to some degree on intermittent generation because a number of coal fired power stations have been withdrawn and that capacity has not been entirely replaced with gas plant yet.
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HHS Directed To Address ‘Mutilation,’ ‘Regret And Detransition’ Among Minors After Gender Reassignment
The Trump administration directed its main biomedical research agency in mid-March to study the physical and psychological effects of gender transitioning among children, incensing some critics, according to reports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/12/trump-national-institutes-of-health-detransition-trans-hhs-nih/
From the horse’s mouth:
https://x.com/LaurynBahen/status/1911254092372230195
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They need to start prosecuting all medical and other “professionals” as well as woke parents who were involved in these mutilations of children.
Meanwhile, in Victoriastan and other states in the Stupid Country, it’s illegal to try and stop a child’s “gender transition” if they have been groomed by wokesters into thinking they are the wrong sex.
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20 years from now, this trans nonsense is going to be viewed in the same light as eugenic sterilizations in the early 20th century, lobotomies in the mid 20th century, and the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 20th century.
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John,
Its noticable how many hollywood parents have “trans” children , sometimes more than one . After the Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein scandals I thought they couldn’t sink any lower…
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Large numbers of Hollyweirdos have “trans” and “non-binary” kids.
They’re a status symbol.
Like exotic pets.
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They are an ‘accessory’, you know, like a poodle or Afghan Hound.
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So fashionable ! Like having to get a hoola-hoop or a frisbee at Primary School.
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>After the Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein scandals I thought they couldn’t sink any lower
Sean Combs came after Weinstein and sank lower.
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FWIW
“Teals on Cash For Comment.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/?__cf_chl_tk=_0PkIXRZ02VvYwI.JAmOZZhJTTXbksU940bhfRxB3Ic-1744365517-1.0.1.1-y8jW3nlZLw1UP6OWxRKU0gSgEY.wAng7svbTXGJPzcM
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I haven’t found ANY right-wing press in Australia, it must be very well hidden!
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Coalition Election Campaign Launch – Get The Country Back On Track.
Labor wanting to get voters worked up claiming Dutton is a Trump and wants MAGA, I understand that the Australian version is Make Albo Go Away.
And of course Australia does not have a US presidential system of government, we have UK Westminster System with prime minister and cabinet.
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That’s nothing to be ashamed of.
But Dutton certainly Dutton isn’t a TRUMP. He remains committed to the nation-destroying Paris Accords for a start.
I doubt he even supports any of TRUMP’s policies. He’s just Labor-lite after all, not a conservative.
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100%
Dutton and the Libs are slightly less bad than Labor.
That’s not enough of a reason for me to vote Liberal.
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Preferential voting….
Just ensure that your most “hated” parties are LAST.
At least until such time as “NONE OF THE ABOVE” getting the most preferences forces a new election with new candidates
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FWIW
“Decoding the NGO Takeover’
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/13/decoding-the-ngo-takeover-n3801738
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FWIW – Trump’s tariffs translated
“Don’t look at me for answers! I’m flying blind — and so are the rest of you. Nobody knows anything — yet.
Except for all the people who are, somehow, absolutely certain that increasing tariffs on trading partners is very, very bad. Okay, maybe? Are they right about this? How does someone without a degree in quantitative analysis or a show on CNBC know who to trust?”
“Luckily, there’s now hope for people like me. A way to know what to think with a simple-to-use tool. An X poster named “Schizo Freq” posted this month: “My stance with tariffs is basically Everyone I know who’s been wrong about literally everything for the last 10 years is SUPER pissed about them. So the ‘inverse retard’ indicator says it’s probably fine.” ”
More and link at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/04/13/its-good-that-the-destructive-left-is-worried-n3801745
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And
“Sunday Talks: Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Explains China and Global Tariff Distinctions
April 13, 2025 | Sundance | 104 Comments”
“You can watch Jake Tapper’s brow grow increasingly furrowed in real time as White House Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett, smiles through the narratives and talks clearly about what is happening with President Trump’s tariff agenda.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/13/sunday-talks-economic-council-director-kevin-hassett-explains-china-and-global-tariff-distinctions/
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We don’t really know what Trump’s end game is. He’s not spelling it out. Maybe he can’t because it would undermine what he wants to achieve.
Initially the they seemed like a bargaining tool for a couple of countries. He got what he wanted and then upped the anti. Now tariffs are being thrown everywhere at everyone.
Here’s Reagan’s thoughts on Tariffs. 5 min video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5QK03KXPc
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Someone came up with a brilliant plan to charge Chinese container ships, or any company that has a Chinese ship in their fleet, $1.5 mill every time they dock at a US port. Starting 17 April! Someone has obviously really thought this through!! It should result in the closing of smaller ports all around the US, as ships will dock once in LA, leading to massive trans shipping costs, and covid like congestion at LA, plus a mill+ added to transport costs. The US doesn’t have a single international container ship, and it should only take about five years to get into the market. In the mean time??
Where do we get these brains? This is the tariff rubber hitting the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2XzCFv9uNQ&t=52s 12 mins
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Speak English!
https://x.com/UltraDane/status/1911179193280545269
Ruin Britannia,
Britannia once ruled the waves,
We didn’t learn from history,
So soon we’ll all be slaves.
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And the news keeps on getting better for the “V*cinated”
3 Decades Wiped from Life Expectancy of Covid-Vaxxed
https://slaynews.com/news/3-decades-wiped-life-expectancy-covid-vaxxed/
Major Study Confirms mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Lead to Organ Failure in Long Term
https://slaynews.com/news/mayor-study-confirms-mrna-vaccines-lead-organ-failure-long-term/
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But a 40 yr old would expect a 15 yr reduction. Criminal for sure but the 30 yr loss would be for the kids of Karens who insisted on doping their toddlers lest the neighbours think them unworthy parents.
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Heartbreaking. I fear for my daughter and grandchildren. Husband and I were in a position to refuse vaccination. Sadly,there was too much employment and educational pressure on our family to resist.
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Yeah, make sure you spend every dollar before you die, there won’t be anyone left to leave it to..
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Both my parents smoked cigarettes their entire lives.
83 and 89.
Growing up in the American South, I often fondly recall the smell of curing tobacco in the air.
Then came the great ‘Public Health’ crusade against smoking.
Then came the great ‘Public Health’ Pandemic crusade.
It’s interesting to watch old film of WWII GIs.
They all look adult and strong … with a cig causally dangling from their lips.
Today’s 20 year olds look considerably less mature and vital.
Pandemic turned the meaning of ‘Science’ and ‘Public Health’ onto their pointy little heads.
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It makes you think.
Just how much in the past have we been misled and mistreated and seen as gullible fools.
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Today’s 20 year olds look considerably less mature and vital.
Spending less time outdoors (15 minute cities)
Having more machine assistance doing “outdoor things”
Less nutritious diets
Questionable vaccine schedules (though some vaccinations still seem useful – just not all before age 3)
Unknown effects of massive EMF exposure (starting with radio in the 1920s?)
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My father’s literal last words to me 2003 …
“I haven’t been right since that damn flu shot.”
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I think Al-bozo has am inflated opinion of himself.
Why would a great man like TRUMP want to visit a simpleton commie and TRUMP hater like Al-bozo?
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Imagine the two together, DJT would be bored out of his mind
Too much Albaloney.
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Trump hasn’t left the country for a while ….might be due to Iranian death threats ? …..and why would Trump want to come here when he’s busy fixing the US everyday. Imagine the conversation with Albo … no….no…..he’s not going to get anything remotely sensible from Albo.
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I just saw an advertisement for an App for Australian hotel rooms that can be rented for a few hours during the day…
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Were they hotels close to airports? Lots of hotels adjacent to LAX rent rooms for day use.
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David,
You can probably get pictures and “tube” of your stay ….for extortionate prices.
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So…watch tv for the remaining time after the first 5 minutes then?
/lol
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Probably comes with a smoking area.
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For those car dealers who have to deal with the appalling NVES law now in operation
I have struggled through the many changes to many laws which are intended to strangle sales of petrol cars.
And point out two three things
1. The law is based entirely on the idea that driving electric cars produces no CO2. This is a lie in a country where 83% of electricity is from coal. And higher at night, of course.
2. every car is going on a National register with its g/km rating using the VIN number. So every car can be tracked and carbon taxed at any time,something you do not have with petrol with the excise. The petrol is taxed, not the owner.
3. the dramatic drop in the ‘headline limit’ on emissions from 141g/km to 58g/km by 2029 means almost no existing car or electric car will qualify for sale by 2029 .
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Ridiculously even bicycle has a CO2 cost comparable to a petrol car in g/km. Humans breathe out 3 tons of CO2 a year and can be directly taxed for breathing under this law, if on a pedal bicycle. Or at present, the vendor of the bicycle. You may need to track your bicycle or perambulator or skateboard. The Federal government is determined to save planet Earth with expensive Green Certificates and rivers of cash overseas. Certainly not a carbon tax. That would be betraying a trust.
There will be no carbon tax in a government I lead. So it is all done by stealth and laws no one reads or can read. I found these laws very impenetrable, badly written, terms poorly defined or not defined and endless references to other Acts which had to be modified to fit. This has been a huge operation in deceit.
And looking at the member’s speeches and amendments, these Acts have been rammed through parliament with no discussion and ZERO comprehension. This breaks the trust the public should have in our legislators, even putting equations in the law which few people and no legislators would comprehend.
We are being deceived. And CO2 should NOT qualify as a toxic gas under the Clean Air Act. All living things breathe out CO2 and are made entirely from CO2. It is also ALL our food as carbohydrates or proteins derived from animals who lived on carbohydrates. It’s all lies. Science fraud. Theft.
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And simply, this appalling and crippling and complex Green money grab because people have to buy cars, is based on really bad science.
I would go so far as to call it a fraud, the pretence that electric cars in Australia do not generate CO2 when they are driven. Currently they are responsible for more CO2 than most small petrol cars.
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And there’s no point saying that in the fullness of time, all energy will be carbon free.
Right now, as this law started on 1st January 2025, it is ridiculously far from the truth in Australia. Electric cars generate more CO2 than conventional cars or as much. Which means no dealer should be forced to sell electric cars or pay a hefty fine. Right now, electric cars do NOT reduce CO2 emissions at all.
The idea the Carbon Dioxide is a toxic pollutant under the Clean Air Act is fraud. Ignorance of basic biology at best. Absurd. Or just an old fashioned bald faced lie.
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That is from
“New Vehicle Efficiency Standards”
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/vehicles/new-vehicle-efficiency-standard
I’ve just sent that gem on bicycles to a dealer in bicycles. Caustic comments awaited
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And it seems people who breathe all day, every day generate as much CO2 as a car. So surely the extra 1 Billion people in China should pay for being alive?
And their total output just breathing exceeds Australia’s entire CO2 output from every source, but we in Australia are the ones being penalised. And we are now being forced to buy Chinese electric cars. Too bad we cannot possibly charge millions of BYD cars without buying a lot more Chinese windmills and solar panels and a lot more distribution lines and expand our lithium and nickel and copper mines incredibly and generate much more CO2.
When will we be taxed for riding bicycles and breathing harder? Breath at resting has about 8% CO2 but it increases to 14% when working hard. I suppose we can always buy Chinese electric bicycles built in the land where no one cares about CO2. So the Chinese buy high performance German cars and we are the ones on bicycles? How did that happen?
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Hey TdeF…..I’ve been trying to get a figure for my CO2 output living till 70 or 80 without success….seems you might have a figure ?? ….can you pass it on ??
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Save you money at the bowser
Give you more choice of new cars that are fuel-efficient, low or zero emissions
Reduce transport emissions, improving the air that you and your family breathe.
How will it do that if you are demanding efficiencies beyond what any car manufacturer can provide? Even zero emissions? A miracle.
Electric cars need to be recharged. How is that going to be done in Australia without generating CO2?
It’s what happens when an Act is advised by the Climate Council(Tim Flannery and friends) and the Electric Car lobby, given that we do not make electric cars.
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And please if you want to comment substantially on this subject, Jo wants the comments to be on the original thread to keep them together. I have copied all this to here.
I am sorry to take to long to get to understand this law, but these laws! So many laws are involved and amended. I simply have not had time to go through the amended laws which form a body of laws to create another way for the government to implement its carbon cash theft agenda while fooling the public that they are not directly responsible for the rocketing energy prices. And soon to be in everything you buy in goods and services with a 35% carbon tax by 2030. Please don’t tell me that it’s about saving the planet on our own. That’s past ridiculous.
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SPUDS: Suckup Politicians Undermining Democratic Systems
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Assisted by the Deep State. The politicians aren’t smart enough to do all this on their own. Those laws spanning thousands of pages which politicians are given an hour to read are prepared by many people, none of them elected politicians. Even short pieces of legislation can be intentionally impenetrable. But as we are seeing, new laws regarding science, carbon and climate are a level beyond that.
Sometimes I watch replays of Yes, Minister. It’s amazingly relevant today. The conspiracy of permanent staff against the sitting minister. Joe Biden was just perfect. Don’t know, don’t care and handed over the power to even sign the documents.
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FWIW – what is called “progress”
“The Erosion of my Home Town
The circular business model that is socialism.”
https://germanoddities.substack.com/p/the-erosion-of-my-home-town
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FWIW
“Beware That White Arithmetic”
“Quite how those unspecified “white” ideas alter the rules of multiplication, percentages and other simple mathematical operations remains a thing of mystery. Indeed, as so often, the precise nature of this alleged corruption, this all-pervasive and befouling “whiteness,” is left to the imagination. Though much is pitched upon that mystery.”
Link at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/14/beware-that-white-arithmetic/
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FWIW –
More UN needs “scrutenising with a very intense “scrut””
“Y2Kyoto: Piracy”
“Starting in 2028, ships face fees up to $380 per ton”
Everyone losing their minds over Trump’s 10% tariffs is dead silent about the UN’s “green” tariff hitting every import & export on Earth. If you’re outraged by Trump but not this, you’re not anti-tariff, you’re a hypocrite.”
Link at
https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1911539296235823579
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/14/y2kyoto-piracy/
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“of the 20 or so employees of the Climate Expert non-government agency, not one has a background in any form of science. They are all lawyers, policy wonks, and self-important nit wits.”
I would add communists, like Adam Bandt. Sure beats having to have a dream. Saving the planet is a real path to the top and other people write your policies.
And always a few underemployed scientists. Like James Hansen in 1988 who was a NASA expert on the atmosphere of Venus. Which is 98% CO2. Otherwise unemployable, until Al Gore had a brilliant idea for a nice little earner on his way to the Presidency. That’s the Very Convenient Truth.
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And Venus has rotation period of 243 days and a year of 225 days, so it gets very, very hot on one side. Clearly CO2 causes it.
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https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/04/14/478382/
From the comments:
For as long as we can’t eliminate crippling blackouts 100%, adequate and needed climate response will continue to be a mirage. People’s basic needs tramp everything else!
Human induced “Climate change” is a big hoax. Unfortunately most of us don’t know this. We have been brain washed by narratives driven by the mainstream media and pushed by globalist oligarchs like Bill gates.
If people only understood the agenda behind it, they wouldn’t be kowtowling like parrots. Do some research and listen to alternative information sources.
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Gunther, our local German accordion-playing busker displays a MAGA Australian flag bearing the words, Make Albo Go Away.
He’s welcome outside our local IGA, his traditional European music brightens the place up a bit.
A few days ago he parked himself outside the IGA in the posh part of town hoping to get more valuable coins in his hat.
Instead he got the manager responding to the outrage of a couple of irate upper class labor voters telling him to move on because his political message favoured the wrong candidate.
I’m going to give them a piece of my mind tomorrow.
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Careful – they are going quite mad
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/heat-mental-disorders-climate-change-research/105175234
The number of young people visiting emergency departments for suicidality increased by 1.3 per cent for every one degree Celsius rise in the daily mean temperature, according to their report.
Wait for a cool day
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It’s not hotter. We are just softer in an air conditioned country. And we have to stop everything when it gets hot or we go mad.
But I remember an Australia where nothing stopped in the heat, no matter how hot it was. You worked through the hot days. And the sheep hid under the only tree.
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Where is Tuesday’s Thread?
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Tuesday is an arbitrary construct placed on NOW…… just as the other days and hours and minutes and seconds …etcetc …are.
It has been transended….go with what you’ve got I reckon Johnny.
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