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The Northern Hemisphere’s hurricane season has not gotten off to an auspicious start. Alvin persisted off the coast of Mexico for a couple days, before degenerating into a remnant low on May 31. Tropical storms Barbara and Cosme are continuing to lose strength in the eastern Pacific Ocean just west of Mexico, and both storms are expected to dissipate by the end of the week. In the Eastern Pacific, that’s 3 names gone – 19 to go. [in the Atlantic Ocean nothing happening]
The site is working fine for me today. 8:01 AM pacific daylight time.
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What is the difference between science and fashion?
The Science Police seem a lot more strident.
As for me …
it’s cargo shorts all year long.
The Fashion Police can pry them from my cold unalived legs.
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Was actually sort of asking a serious question in my tangential attempt at the dark humor of enduring four tragic decades of browbeating with a science stick and criminal upward wealth transfer
Climate Change has been oh so fashionable.
So many have worn it as science drapery with next to no understanding of it.
How could one understand ‘Climate Change’ anyway?
It’s a fashion label.
It’s like understanding Paisley.
Except we see the fashionable beginning to see the creeping unfashionableness of the fashion.
The 2010s are so 2010.
And the windmills are wearing out.
Greta is aging like a Boy Band.
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Sunnova Declares Bankruptcy
From MasterResource
By Robert Bradley Jr.
Sunnova was all hat, no cattle. All sizzle, no steak. Long on DEI, short on profits. Long on government, short on consumer value.
And a lot of “Net Zero” for investors. And potentially voided contracts for more than 400,000 rooftop customers if tax credits go away under current legislation under debate.
Yesterday, Sunnova International declared bankruptcy, or in their Enronish PR world, “Strategic Action to Facilitate Value-Maximizing Sale Process.”
The company never had a quarterly profit, existing on political fumes and gullible “green” customers.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/10/sunnova-declares-bankruptcy/
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The first creditors should be US taxpayers to get their tax money back.
No doubt TRUMP will be blamed, but not one cent of taxpayer money should be put into such ventures.
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You should see where our money is thrown about – download some of these investment reports and have a scan: https://www.futurefund.gov.au/investment/how-we-invest/what-we-invest-in#collapse_8fff842a-9ee1-4be9-a439-e5ef921a0cba
Yes, I know, I know, the funds make money overall which funds fantastic public projects … but the overall fund return includes equities that fail. It is not right use of taxpayer funds. Somehow improper
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ALL of these capers have ALWAYS been purely about the “spillage” of Other Peoples Money.
And, it seems, entirely protected from “oversight”.
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Shock New Evidence Shows Unnatural 60-Second Heat Spikes Drive Many UK Met Office Temperature ‘Records’
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
by Chris Morrison
Substantial evidence has emerged to suggest that the UK Met Office is promoting the political cause of Net Zero by using recently introduced sensitive thermometers to collect 60-second unnatural heat spikes. These pulses are used to promote constant clickbait ‘records’ and claim exaggerated atmospheric warming. Furthermore, it appears that these short-term ‘spikes’ are larger in junk sites with massive internationally recognised ‘uncertainties”. Almost eight in 10 of the Met Office’s nationwide temperature measuring stations are in junk CIMO Classes 4 and 5 with possible errors up to 2°C and 5°C respectively.
On May 1st, the Met Office claimed a station at Kew Gardens recorded a temperature at 2.59pm of 29.3°C. Promoted by the BBC, this was said to be the highest temperature ever recorded on this day in the UK. But the temperature was a massive 2.6°C higher than that recorded at 2pm and no less than 0.76°C above the figure recorded a minute later on the hour. In fact the one minute plunge is similar to that found on July 19th 2022 when a national record of 40.3°C at RAF Coningsby was set at a time when three typhoon jets were landing. This was later claimed to be a “milestone in UK climate history” by the Met Office.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/shock-new-evidence-shows-unnatural-60-second-heat-spikes-drive-many-uk-met-office-temperature-records/
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Back in the day, there were strict rules for locating weather stations to ensure there were no false readings from jets, air conditioning outlets and other heat sources.
Plus I assume that the UK did the same as Australia and made no allowance for the change of time constant from manually read twice per day mercury thermometers to instantly read and constantly recorded electronic thermometers. It was a huge boost for the warmists.
As was reported here*, Australia’s Bureau of non-Meteorology destroyed the results of side-by-side comparisons of mercury and digital thermometry. I wonder why? The BoM today is a political climate propaganda agency, not a scientific one.
* https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/is-climate-change-really-caused-by-electronic-thermometers-the-bom-dont-want-australians-to-see-the-data/
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Lots of Aussies get honoured on the Kings Birthday. Didn’t see Jo’s name there but I will have a closer look later. I am sure everyone will be delighted at the honours heaped on MR Morrison (best PM ever?)
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/10/australias-scandal-ridden-covid-prime-minister-scott-morrison-awarded-nations-top-honour/
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The word ‘climate’ appears 36 times in the information on our newest Knights and Dames:
https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/KB25%20-%20Honours%20List%20Media%20Notes%20-%20Order%20of%20Australia%20-%20AC%20Companion.pdf
But I cannot find Jo in there anywhere either. Puzzling.
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IPCC is also there eighteen times and only spelled out in full once. So that is another 17 sneaky mentions of climate – a total of 53 times in a 21-page document that has A LOT of whitespace…
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The word Climate only appears 18 times in the 150-page document on all the other, lower-level honours.
https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/KB25%20-%20Honours%20List%20Media%20Notes%20-%20Order%20of%20Australia%20-%20AM%20Member.pdf
Just shows you gotta Climate if you want to get ahead in this world
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Those 18 mentions are 16 to one woman in St. Kilda and one man. It’s just great to have bankers and board members who really worry about the world’s climate and make a living as board members who care about the weather. I saw nothing about the mythical blue banded bee. I suppose we have to look to the Honours list next year.
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Sorry to go on, but also found that the word Climate only appears once in the Media Notes:
https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/KB25%20-%20Honours%20List%20Media%20Notes%20-%20Order%20of%20Australia%20-%20OAM%20Medal.pdf
Seems climate is not something for us plebs, they are keeping this sort of talk to the top table these days
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Let’s nominate Jo.
Why should the awards only go to wokesters and other destroyers of Civilisation?
I think nominations can be made at any time, even now.
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“Consideration of a nomination can take between 18 months and two years.”
That means that Danger Dan and Might Mark’s nominations went in at the end of 2022….
https://thenightly.com.au/australia/kings-birthday-honours-daniel-andrews-mark-mcgowan-made-recipients-of-companion-of-the-order-of-australia-c-14947446
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I agree with your proposal. We could easily form a social club such as ” Society for the Preservation of Scientific Integrity”. A group of interested civilians who value scientific works using the scientific method of challenging hypotheses with real world data rather than computer models. Or something like that.
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Only trouble is that it seems that the thinking is that a mention on the King’s birthday honours list is a badge of honour. Given some of the names mentioned this year on that list, Jo would be in bad company and her very good name could be sullied. But I wholeheartedly agree with the intended sentiment. ToM
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Thank goodness lovable eco poppet Greta has made it safely back home
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14801375/Greta-Thunberg-freedom-flotilla-crew-mistreatment-Israel-dancing.html
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I cannot believe she was inconvenienced. How dare they!
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Her fame made her a ‘human shield’ for the rest of the crew.
It worked… no one was harmed.
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Lucky she was on the “Madleen” and not the “Rainbow Warrior”
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Pity.
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Dang …
now we only have five years to stop conflict in the Mid-East.
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The Israelis wanted to show her and her drones the videos of the October 7th terrorist atrocities made by her very own terrorist comrades and livestreamed at the time. They were not propaganda but actual home movies made by her terrorist buddies.
It was that unprovoked attack, the extreme nature of atrocities and the taking of hostages which the Gazans mostly still have which started the war in the first place. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
And remember what those of a certain demographic say, “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.” I can’t believe there are so many naive people that don’t understand this or haven’t read enough history to know it.
But she and the others refused to watch the videos, and the Israelis didn’t force them. It would have been nice if they did, Clockwork Orange style…LoL. https://youtu.be/xhe9kRCySxM
Nothing like sticking your head in the sand.
I wonder what “cause” her handlers will assign to her next?
And it’s tragic that this uneducated, indoctrinated, manipulated child-woman is seen as a role model by so many similiarly indoctrinated children.
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Maybe you could look at the list of names on this website and identify all the terrorists that needed to be starved and killed.
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2024/israel-war-on-gaza-10000-children-killed/
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Thunberg refuses to fly, but she was put on a plane by the Israelis.
Oh the horror of having to fly rather than take a yacht or a rowboat back home.
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I understand that one of Gretas middle names is Tintin
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Vast new Islamic centre planned for Melbourne
https://www.noticer.news/melbourne-mickleham-muslim-sanctuary/
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It will enjoy a government grant and be opened by Tony Burke, our Minister for Islam.
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I really hope that most of the accounts on Reddit are bots, and there are not all these children being isolated still to protect them from the COVID:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1l85zy2/my_experience_as_a_cc_teenager_and_a_message_to/
covid started when I was a young teen. my parents, having lived through epidemics before, immediately took to masking and encouraged me do the same (which wasn’t difficult considering I grew up in asia where masking when sick is the norm). as everyone around me ‘went back to normal’, I got increasingly frustrated at being the only one still taking precautions and the harassment in school for it.
then in 2022, the unimaginable happened. I got really really sick, not from a virus, but from an underlying genetic condition for which I am the first in my family to have. nobody saw this coming (how could they), in fact it took years to be diagnosed. now, I’m finally starting to get a bit better after having tried countless treatments and missing out on the remainder of my childhood.
at a recent appointment, one of my doctors commented that she believes I’m behind on my psychosocial and emotional development because of all the isolation- yikes. but after 5 years I know that these covid precautions saved my life. just the other day I got my booster and spent weeks in agony in bed- I don’t want to know what the virus would do. yes, maybe I’m a bit behind emotionally compared to my peers. but as long as I can keep working on my health, there will be time to catch up later. because I will have a future. I don’t think the same could be said if I got covid. in the meantime, I’ve learnt how to have fun while being CC, found friends who will accomodate me.
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[Reddit article excerpt – LVA]
“My partner and I have two kids (9 and 16) and they both refuse to mask unless they are out with us and its still a fight to achieve that. We all had covid last summer and had to cancel a trip. 16 yo thinks we are germaphobes and that covid isn’t a big deal. They dont care about listening to data. The 9 yo feels social pressure not to wear bc no one else does.
Side note before I continue: my partner is 100% on board with masking and understands the risk covid poses. They do seem resistant to enforcing masking with the kids though. I have even proposed that if they don’t want to mask when they go out that they need to mask in common areas in the house but she says no. We are actually looking to get a therapist to talk through these issues bc its a point of contention. I work at a supermarket so I mask all day and the fact that I gotta come home and either mask in the house or expose myself to whatever the kids have been exposed to is so exhausting and disheartening. And even if I do mask in the house, I’ll still be exposed when I unmask around my partner bc she doesn’t mask around them ever.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1l82fk1/kids_dont_mask/
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What’s beyond brainwashing?
Brainscrubbing?
Brainvacuuming?
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Lobotomy
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This perfectly describes my niece. Her 2 kids (born boys but one is now a “girl”) are home schooled and mask in rare excursions. The have never played with other kids cause one of them got lukemia before covid.
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How does child to adult work amidst this? How do they function from here?
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A bot from Australia is there too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1l6vm30/torn_and_scared/
We have booked a playgroup and, for what we think and hope the benefit of my babies, we will attend without wearing a mask. It will be the first time we interact with anyone without a mask in nearly 5 years.
We will have to let other kids come up to ours and interact with them. We will have to accept our kids will get sick. We will have to pray to a god neither of us believes in, that we have made the right decision.
My wife and I will continue to mask up at anything where we’re not working on the boys development, such as PT, doctor, supermarket, etc.
If you’ve made it this far, thank you. I hope you’re not too harsh in your judgement. I know all the arguments for staying covid competent, but I can’t deny this isolation is harming them and holding them back.
I hope we’re making the right decision. I’m sorry.
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Being isolated for five years behind a mask is downright scary and child abuse for the kids who will have lacked proper human interaction and socialisation for five years.
I hope it’s a bot and not true. But why would AI bots be writing stories like that?
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Agreed bots seems unlikely.
They are involved, detailed stories too, that don’t feel that bot-ish.
But maybe they are set up by all those egos who pushed mask mandates politically and now want to hide their shame by continuing a population of cult covidians out there?
I guess I find it more comfortable to think that this must just be bots, than to think that these people are out there, among us.
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Here in Melbournistan, Australia, I still see plenty of people wearing masks, include those driving alone in cars.
And no doubt Labor, Greens or Teals voters…
I wonder if they keep themselves and their children mostly isolated from other humans?
There remain people out there who have fully swallowed the Official Narrative and are genuinely terrified of covid.
Compare that to the Woodstock Festival of 1969 which occurred while the 1968 Hong Kong flow was still raging, which it did until 1970. Nothing closed, no masks, no destroyed business or children kept out of school, no lockdowns, no social distancing, no working at home, etc..
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DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/10/dot-asked-to-terminate-illegal-floating-wind-grant
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/10/dot-asked-to-terminate-illegal-floating-wind-grant/
The beginning:
“I have the honor and pleasure of co-signing a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, asking him to terminate a half billion dollar grant made by the Biden administration to the West Coast wind industry. The short story is the grant was illegal.
The longer story is interesting because it takes us into the strange world of floating wind power, a technology still looking to prove itself. The idea is to put a huge offshore wind tower on a float that is so big that the tower does not blow over in a hurricane. Whether this can actually be done remains to be seen.
The Biden folks decided to charge ahead on this stuff, way ahead, to say the least. France just commissioned a 24 MW test facility, while Biden’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sold leases for an incredible 5,000 MW of floating wind off California.
The fly in the floating wind ointment is the “floater.” This is the huge contraption that holds the tower. There are over 100 floater designs that have been announced, some patented but none proven, which just measures the immaturity of the technology. Some are steel, weighing up to 5,000 tons. Some are concrete, tipping the theoretical scale at 20,000 tons.
The problem is that before you can build a floating wind power generation facility, you first have to build the factory that makes the floaters, which has to be nearby on shore. With fixed wind, there is just a single standard monopile holding the tower and these are made by several companies for use everywhere. It is the custom made floater and factory that make floating wind cost an estimated three times what fixed offshore wind costs.
In order to kick-start floating wind, the Biden Transportation Department decided to inject just under half a billion dollars to build a floater factory at Humboldt Bay in Northern California. But Congress never appropriated the money to do this, so DOT raided their INFRA program. which is supposed to fund improvements in the U.S. freight system.
Hence our letter begins as follows:
“Call for rescission of INFRA Grant for The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District Grant Dated January 23, 2024, and a return of unspent disbursed funds (see article 13.5 of attached INFRA grant terms and conditions) connected with misappropriation of said INFRA Grant Funds.
The undersigned organizations call for the return to the U.S. Department of Transportation any unspent disbursed INFRA funds awarded to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District in the amount of $426,719,810 on January 23, 2024 and to terminate the awarded grant as a misappropriation of federal funds.””
Lots more in the article, please share it.
This will set West Coast wind back.
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I wonder whether the real course is various “Greens” against any construction that interferes with Nature?
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I highly recommend this excellent short video by Topher Field describing Australia’s economic mess.
https://youtu.be/sNo9fUT0Vz4
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The British pet massacre was an event in 1939 in which an estimated 750,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England’s pet population, were euthanized due to an aside in a pamphlet noting it as an option for people unable to take their pets with them when evacuating.
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The panic that led to the mass-euthanasia was groundless; there was no shortage of supplies, the German bombing was months away, and none of the fears that had led to it were ever realized. Writing in The Great Cat and Dog Massacre, historian Hilda Kean says that the killings were a reaction against previous experiences with feral pets during World War I, but notes that another of the causes of the killings was boredom; the mass-euthenasia provided a way for ordinary citizens to feel like they were doing something to contribute to the war effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pet_massacre
Watch out for a population that is bored, eh?
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The behaviour of indoctrinated masses can be horrifying, even in a once-civilised country like Once Great Britain.
That’s why children should be always taught to think and ask questions, including “why?”.
Never believe the officials, politicians, the Official Narrative or popular public opinion without first confirming truth.
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‘ truth ‘
Is that their truth, my truth, scienterrific truth, today’s truth or the one source of truth…
So many truths to choose from.
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Greg, you left out objective truth which is the only one worth its name.
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In Melbournistan I know someone with a large family who set up a stove to run on LPG (US=propane) so they have a backup for possible gas shortages.
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Bottled gas I hope?
Wouldn’t it have been more helpful if they have setup a generator using bottled gas?
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Yes, bottled as in BBQ bottles. There is no other way to get it as far as I’m aware.
I think a generator is coming next. He already has one but it runs on petrol, not sure how feasible a conversion is, although not hard in principle.
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Propane conversion of generators is pretty common in the US with kits available , there are quite a few youtube videos on it.
The bottled gas comment probably co.es from calling it LPG which is similar but different to propane
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We have two but we call them BBQs. We inherited one from our eldest son when he moved to the UK.
We also have an LPG fuelled outdoor heater.
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Do you think the rift between TRUMP and Musk is fixable?
Can’t they just shake hands and apologise to each other and have a laugh about what having gonads the size of basketballs made them both do?
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Dont think matters really. They both need to get on with their day jobs.
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Kiss and make up…there’s money and power on the line.
Starlink’s internet takeover is epic, planet-wide domination!
The global scoop:
• Ocean Ops: High-speed web now hits the middle of nowhere seas
• Pole to Pole: From Antarctica’s ice to everywhere else, you’re online
• Travel Must: It’s your internet lifeline no matter where you roam
• Bandwidth Boss: First system to blanket Earth with fast connection
Starlink’s got the whole world wired…sorry, Snail-Net!
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1932742102221533390
A 100% global coverage for
surveillancecommunications.30
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/global-ev-policy-explorer
The long list for Australia includes this in 2022:
Electric Car Discount excludes eligible electric cars and associated car expenses from fringe benefits tax.
I wonder if a tax-free EV is being offered instead of salary for employment packages now?
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Pol Tot, AKA The Doom Goblin is just another “wind-up toy”. Her primary role is to draw all the LSM focus away from the REAL “guilty bastards”
She has well and truly had her “fifteen minutes of fame”
NOBODY in said LSM will dare to expose her, mainly because most churnalists are in on the game.
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Woo hoo, Victoria is to build a $2 billion data centre at Fishermans Bend. Apparently this is needed to attract “future” business and make Victoria a “leader” in something. The money is endless for these projects but in the meanwhile, not enough corrections services personnel, $8000 cash payment if you sign up today. Police numbers very low, really experienced police officers even lower, road system falling to bits, hospital waiting times out of control, youth crime is only imagined in innocent peoples minds, treaty will be pushed through parliament whether the people want it or not, new taxes will be nessecary but don’t worry, etc etc, etc.
Its grand living in this most liveable state!
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Bail out…! Nothing focuses a politician’s mind more than a population decrease, especially if its from a head office of a major company deciding another State is better. Let Vic sink into an LA-style morass of its own making until the voters get some sense, and pray the Clowns in Canberra don’t prop up Vic with money from other States.
I tried to get this across to my son, who has a high-paid job that relies on expensive buildings being built down there. What happens if that end of the building trade collapses, do you have a plan B? No, no interest in politics or voting, the kids are there with his ex so he can’t move, etc etc.
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Where’s the money coming from?
Where’s the electricity going to come from?
How was it costed or did some politician just pull a random figure out of their innumerate head?
And if business actually needs one they’ll use a cheaper one located in a low energy cost and politically stable country like the US.
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ROBERT BRYCE IS IN TOWN
Touring courtesy of the Institute of Public Affairs, get a seat! https://ipa.org.au/research/climate-change-and-energy/robert-bryce-discussing-net-zero-and-ipa-pull-the-plug-tour-credlin-sky-news-australia-2-june-2025
MORE ABOUT HIS GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO ENERGY RATIONALISM
https://robertbryce.com/about/
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? promoting wind literacy!
On Sky Peta Credlin asked him for a short message for the people. In essence he said that net zero is impossible because it won’t work.
Quite true but the people need to know WHY it won’t work and the short answer is WIND DROUGHTS and NO GRID-SCALE STORAGE.
They need to know the ABC of intermittent energy, and they need access to information to enable them to see with their own eyes why it won’t work.
The ABC is not an acronym, it is just three basic things that people need to know about the limitation of so-called renewable energy.
A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
B. The continuity of wind and solar input is broken on nights with little or no wind.
C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
CONCLUSION: WIND AND SOLAR WONT WORK, and there is no substitute for coal until nuclear is up and running in a decade or three.
Expectations for the energy transition should collapse like a punctured balloon when there is widespread awareness of the number of times when breakfast and dinner would have to be served cold without coal power in the grid to provide heat.
The message for people in Australia is to regularly check the NemWatch widget at sunrise and sunset to see how much green (wind) you can find alongside the black and brown (coal) on the bars representing the power supply in each state. It is a live display and it resets every five minutes.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
There are similar dashboards in all the grids in the world, and the message for everyone oversees is to find the dashboard for your grid and see how much wind and solar are contributing at dawn and dusk.
On Tuesday evening the wind was delivering 9% of demand across the NEM, so we need over ten times the number of windmills. Picture the countryside with that many windmills. And the wind can go down to practically zero on occasion.
This is ERCOT for Texas. https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
On Tuesday evening at 9pm in Sydney it was 5.40 am in Texas, Gas was providing 52% of demand, wind 23%, coal 15% and nuclear 10%. No solar.
A significant lift in wind literacy will be a big step in the right direction to make the voting public aware of the fragility of the wind and solar supply. Everyone knows the sun is off duty at night, but few know that the wind is sometimes almost completely off duty as well. It does not help to talk about the average capacity factor of the windmills, which is near 30%, because that just prompts the rejoinder that we can overbuild to compensate.
Everyone knows that the wind comes and goes but we need to be constantly reminded about low wind periods that we don’t notice in the normal course of events.
The constant reminder could be provided by the regular weather reports if they include the contribution of wind and solar power to the grid at the time. During the day everything looks rosy, especially in the afternoon when the solar input peaks but the crunch comes before dinnertime when the sun fades rapidly.
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This is not surprising given that Australia has the most extreme lunatic Leftist Government it has ever had and our PM and Foreign Minister both have severe TDS and are anti-American.
No wonder Australia is no longer one of America’s most favoured nations.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the deal is cancelled as Australia is no longer a reliable member of the Australia, US alliance and given the relationship of our PM and FM to the Chicomms*.
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I think it’s time Australia should move to become non-aligned. At this point of time Australia has already lost its soveriegnty to overseas interests and unless significant changes are made the internal decline will accelerate. We are no longer self sufficient in many respects and throwing money at France and now AUKUS will not provide us with security. Proper security and self sufficiency can only be provided from within our nation if we still have one!
I’m afraid our current governing politicians do not have Australia’s best interest at the heart.
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Australia can’t survive without allies because the world is rapidly devolving into two, strongly opposed silos – East (dominated by China) and West (dominated nominally by America) and we have effectively zero bargaining power, zero military capabilities.
You can only pick one side. Being ‘neutral’ isn’t an option given China’s openly stated aim to firmly control the region we’re in, economically and militarily.
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Being non-aligned is our best option, we have no enemies and unlikely to have any in the foreseeable future.
America, Russia and China are facing economic collapse, Australia has no reason to fear invasion.
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Holland and Belgium were “nonaligned” in WW2 until German tanks rolled in.
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That was a long time ago but still relevant in Europe, which is precisely why the Europeans are hastily rearming.
Australia is in a different theatre and non-alignment maybe the best option. Picture a world where AUKUS flounders, while China throws off the shackles of the CCP and becomes a democratic sovereign state.
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I’m at least glad you agree about our decline and status of affairs, however 59 % of the worlds population is from non-aligned countries, eg India, Singapore, Vietnam, New Guinea etc any many many others.
While we hang from the US coat tails with blinkers on our decline will continue.
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59% of the world does not live in a 7 million sq kilometer luxury home with a bonanza of coal, iron, gas, uranium, wheat and gold. Just sayin…
And India has nuclear weapons. We just have “a friend” with nukes.
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When I look at a map, all I can see is that our wisest military alliance would be with Indonesia.
OK, so the US makes a little more sense than the UK as an ally.
But I guess, your alliances depend on who you think your enemy is.
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A country could not have been more non-aligned than Tibet.
Did it help?
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That is history, regime change in China will turn the world upside down and new alliances formed. When Putin and Xi depart we can join BRICS.
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Ah, so Tibet is going to annex China?
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The CCP is coming to an end, so I imagine Tibet will be given the opportunity to become a democratic sovereign state.
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With all my heart I am with you E+G.
Unfortunately I and many others have heads too.
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Realpolitik is the name of the game and Beijing is happy to oblige.
At the end of the London meeting Vice Premier He Lifeng was quoted as saying.
“There are no winners in a trade war. China does not want to fight, but is not afraid to fight.”
But Trump sounded a hopeful note in a separate post Wednesday morning.
“President XI and I are going to work closely together to open up China to American Trade,” Trump said. “This would be a great WIN for both countries!!!” (CNN)
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“Then there is hope. But hope is not a strategy” E.M. Smith
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Peace in our time, eh?
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Even the folks at the Gun Zone agree that military alignment endangers the World. But I guess that having their own guns, they feel more secure at a ‘homestead’ level than a lot of us do.
https://thegunzone.com/how-is-military-alignment-dangerous-for-the-world/
While military alliances often promise security and deterrence, they can create a false sense of security, leading to complacency and miscalculations. The belief that one’s allies will automatically come to their defense can encourage risky behavior and make nations less willing to compromise or negotiate. Furthermore, alliances can become rigid and inflexible, making it difficult to adapt to changing geopolitical circumstances.
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What is more important than your alliances is your Treasury.
Can anyone hire enough mercenaries to invade you / can you hire enough mercenaries to repel an invasion. Standing armies – who cares really – given there are an estimated 5 million mercenaries out there – more if you just take on geography teachers! Cash on hand is a force multiplier.
Beyond that war-level, it is nukes – allies not really a great defence. If you nuke them I’ll nuke you – woo hoo!
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When Australia signed up to the re engineered French submarines changing them from nuclear to diesel ones I couldn’t for the life of me understand why we didn’t buy the latest Japanese ones. Japan had the best and latest air independent ones on the planet. They can be submerged without surfacing for 2 weeks or more, plus they are much quieter and stealthy than any nuclear submarine. They would also have been so much cheaper and we could have got almost 2 for 1 nuclear. We would also be getting the first ones now as the Collins class are very much at the end of there useful life and almost very well past it.
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Sambar
So where is the power coming to run this data centre? Perhaps a new coal station located on top of brown coal deposits? If only!
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This was all solved about 100 years ago by Alfred Traeger.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Traeger&ved=2ahUKEwi25YjBsuqNAxWowzgGHVf5BMgQFnoECDUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0uYVXIUWVOuxYEw4rA-uV2
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That was an interesting read.
Who needs exercise bikes?
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In the Federation Square many years ago they used to set a dozen, maybe more.., free exercise bikes, assume fitted with generators.
I could not last more than few minutes.
Does anyone know about the results at that time?
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There was an attempt to continuously power something, forgotten what it was, by a relay team of cyclists taking turns on a stationary bike hooked up to a generator. They couldn’t keep the effort going, had to give up.
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This is the video of the cyclists power a house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C93cL_zDVIM
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Good video. It makes you appreciate how much energy is needed to run just a basic house and how hard it is to keep up a reliable supply, which is why we need coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro power.
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Thinking big
“Human-powered aircraft”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-powered_aircraft
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Don’t forget the Gossamer Albatross. Other than “it can be done” there really doesn’t seem to be any applications for such a limited aircraft. One pilot/ energy source, no payload capacity, no long range, no poor weather capabilities, no anything of value really other than the novelty effect.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.avinc.com/about/gossamer-albatros%23:~:text%3DOn%2520June%252012%252C%25201979%252C%2520the,to%2520cross%2520the%2520English%2520Channel.&ved=2ahUKEwiGgvyP1uuNAxUBsVYBHarGBTMQFnoECCYQAw&usg=AOvVaw2AUO2rqCdICJ6PNd3ZIngI
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FWIW – for the covid record
“NIH Nixes Fauci Pet Project As Scripps’ Kristian Andersen Fixes To Flee The Country”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nih-nixes-fauci-pet-project-scripps-kristian-andersen-prepares-flee-country
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And
“The Post Fauci Era”
“Long but very interesting. There’s timestamps for specific topics and a transcript for those who want to follow along.”
https://youtu.be/2Y_PxTxLFVg?list=PLPNW_gerXa4Pc8S2qoUQc5e8Ir97RLuVW
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/11/the-post-fauci-era/
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“The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Moffit makes the casein The Daily Signal that RFK’s firing all 17 Biden-appointed members of the Advisory Committee on Vaccination Practices is illustrative of exactly what is needed and what the public health lobby most fears”
https://instapundit.com/725449/#disqus_thread
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“RFK Jr. Appoints Several Prominent Critics of COVID-19 Vaccines to Key Committee After Firing Entire Advisory Panel”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/rfk-jr-appoints-several-prominent-critics-covid-19/
Panic stations at Big Pharma?
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FWIW
“I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
“At the behest of the Biden regime, @OpenAI’s @ChatGPTapp (and most every other big AI operation) agreed to censor content under the guise of “safety” and “misinformation.” Sure enough, ChatGPT won’t let you generate content questioning the 2020 election or the Covid vaccine.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/11/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-self-driving-overlords-183/
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Thursday brainteaser for lefties
https://imgbox.com/Ob8MwXsb
They selected them all. 😆
Trump about to make an emergency broadcast.
I wonder what about.
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Just started watching Clarkson’s Farm season 4, and one can but shake your head at the BS that councils engage in.
By 2030 abattoirs will be gone in the UK, regulated out of existence.
Bugs anyone?
Refreshing to see those country farm girls though.
No tattoos, no trashy makeup, flabby butts or egocentric attitudes…
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FWIW
Exploring the ramifications of illegal entry to USA –
” That’s Enough Of The Lies
[Comments enabled]
Unlawful entry into the United States is a criminal offense.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253421
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They have 500 mRNA shots in the pipeline, 33 are self-amplifying
https://youtu.be/Ru7BIqXQZns?si=NdXjNjRlrSy_xxHw
What will we turn into?😉
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In the long run – corpses
Apologies for the directness
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Medical weirdness Thursday: using acne cream to regrow new limbs
Scientists just found out that the secret to growing back a leg might be… acne cream?!
Turns out axolotls, those weird little salamanders that regrow arms like it’s no big deal, rely on retinoic acid, the same ingredient in Accutane, to tell their bodies what part of the leg to grow and where.
The key is 1 enzyme, CYP26b1, that fine-tunes the acid like a regeneration DJ.
And guess what? Humans also have all the same parts in our DNA, we just forgot how to use them after we’re born.
So yeah, limb regrowth might not be sci-fi forever.
https://www.popsci.com/health/limb-regeneration-chemical-axolotls/
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Lol, for some reason that name, axolotl, sounds like cosmetics product to me.
– Ooh, your skin looks so soft, what is your secret?
– Secret? I use Axolotl every day.
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Some DDoS commentary
https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12218-report-ddos-attacks-on-financial-institutions-in-apac-surge?
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Click to Edit button is working on my computer – have not seen it for many days.
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Australia is approaching what I consider my hump day. The lowest day of sunshine in any year.
In anticipation of what occurs after hump day, I was giving the pathways a dose of glyphosate where CO2 gets bonded to water in tiny factories, literally in their millions. If I do not shut down these little factories now, they will form a lush carbon sequestering mesh over the pathways that gets even harder to control.
Life is amazing. Next month I will be lopping trees that produce about 30% of our firewood. If I do not do this every year, the trees grow too tall for me to manage.
Earth’s atmosphere used to have an abundance of CO2 but life developed to live off that CO2and water. The life became rampant and ate itself to near extinction. We have to thank China for the heavy lifting they are doing in getting some of the life sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere. If the CO2 lovers had not produced oxygen, we would not exist to share this magical globe with them.
Maybe I should change my attitude about the little CO2 sequestering factories that my wife labels as “weeds”. I say let us co-exist with them.
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The only reason ride on lawn mowers and mowers in general were invented is to control Kikuyu…. If it was not for this glorified weed and its evil, in my view, proliferation, then the ultra slow growing australian native grasses would not be in such huge danger.
Just get rid of the Kikuyu, and enjoy life using a wipper snipper 🙂
I too have to keep my eyes on the new growth of my bent gum trees that are now mostly bonsai. 15HP wood chipper is my best gardening friend.
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While the June solstice might be the nominal “lowest day of sunshine”. According to our solar panels, Sunday the 8th of June was it for us. Lowest in the 2.5 years that we’ve had panels. The two inches of rain across the day was a fair trade off.
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Dues to a string of cloudy days, my home solar in “sunny” Perth is a wonderful 4.1% efficient so far in May. Was 14% for the whole of April.
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Stunning morning – this one.
On my bike !
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But not yet!
Some challenging viewing this morning too on Sky News.
I am very pleased to see that Joe Hockey and Morrison are alive and kicking.
Angus Taylor made some reasonable statements.
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I assume you’re referring to this, in relation to Aukus.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/we-will-all-pay-a-heavy-price-angus-taylor-asserts-importance-of-aukus-deal/video/93970ca638f93562152b090ffa8ff96b
5min video
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Please forgive the old man, do not remember who this morning said that we must rely on ourselves.
Not that we should have no friends, he did not say it.
Still it was clearly opposite to Labor/Liberal position over the years. He even mentioned current Ukraine & Israel examples more than once.
As far back as I remember and that is a very long (see my 1 line here) time, North Korea had its last Cease & Desist warning from the World “leaders”.
Which scared them s…less and I guess it will continue.
They are non-aligned country, nor are they in any bi-partisan agreement with anybody.
Make your own conclusion.
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Wind power in Victoria currently at 0.36% of capacity, or 0.28% of state electricity consumption (AEMO). Has spent the last 24 hours below 3%.
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FWIW – USA
“Skipping the Rules: Offshore Wind’s Legal Issue”
““The law remains clear: the Department of the Interior must ensure that offshore projects prevent unreasonable interference before approval — not simply allow harm and hope payouts will quiet objections.”
With offshore wind, a lethal tort issue lurks beneath the waves: Is it enough to pay off harmed ocean users after the fact, or does the law demand the government prevent harm in the first place? Under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), a clear answer is being dangerously overlooked.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/skipping-the-rules-offshore-winds-legal-issue/
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FWIW
“Carbon Capture Comes Crashing Down (Again): A Comedy in Subsidies”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/carbon-capture-comes-crashing-down-again-a-comedy-in-subsidies/
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FWIW
“When the Narrative Dies: Climate.gov and the Quiet Collapse of Climate Alarmism”
“According to reporting from The Guardian, the plug is being pulled on this site, which served as a flagship for NOAA’s “climate communication, education, and engagement” efforts. Its entire content production team has been sacked, and the site’s future now hangs somewhere between irrelevance and digital zombification.
Let’s not beat around the wind turbine: this is cause for a healthy smirk.
For over a decade, Climate.gov was marketed as a neutral purveyor of scientific truth, but in practice, it functioned more like a taxpayer-funded echo chamber for IPCC-aligned climate narratives. It presented “consensus science” as gospel, projected model predictions as inevitable fate, and treated carbon dioxide—a gas essential for life—as a pollutant to be morally condemned. All in the name of “public education,” of course.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/11/when-the-narrative-dies-climate-gov-and-the-quiet-collapse-of-climate-alarmism/
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Wind has failed again and Qld is exporting 700MW. @ current price of $10k/MW.
I have never worked out why NSW does not take meeting their own demand seriously. They are paying us $1m/min.
Note: My aged rain now gets lost in big numbers, I hope I’m right.
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“I have never worked out why NSW does not take meeting their own demand seriously.”
They would have to admit that everything they have done so far has been a failure, while constantly importing power from Queensland doesn’t appear on the public’s radar. I want to see Queensland realise this is the greatest tax advantage of all and screw power exports as had as they can, charge NSW double what Qldrs pay.
We usually buy 1000MW of the 10000 we use, if we couldn’t we’d be stuffed.
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If NSW took its share of generation seriously it would lower prices.
There’s no incentive for the power generators in NSW to invest in more reliable generation from a pricing perspective or government policy perspective.
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FWIW – why research is needed on names that will go international
“The Pajero nameplate derives from Leopardus pajeros, the Pampas cat.[8] Mitsubishi marketed the SUV as the Montero in North America, Spain, and Latin America (except for Brazil and Jamaica) due to the term “pajero” being derogatory (meaning “wanker”) in Spanish.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
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https://www.mitsubishipajero.com/history
I always wondered why, when they found this out, that they kept the name Pajero for any markets…. I guess it is a good story – no publicity bad publicity?
Their financials are a bit suspect
Since 1981, it’s set world records and generated more than $3.3 million dollars in sales within a 40 year time.
I’m guessing a typo and that should be billion, not million?
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Perhaps there are other interesting websites that are having performance issues right now as well.
The Aviation Herald (avherald.com) is quite informative about the misadventures of commercial aviation, but tends to be normally slow.
The attempts to access information on the Air India crash may have pushed their capacity a bit, requiring multiple attempts to access the site.
The article on AI171 from Ahmedabad (India)
https://avherald.com/h?article=528f27ec&opt=0
Discussion seems to center on the lack of position reporting from the local ADS-B systems and whether the full extent of the runway was used.
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Air India [?] B787 Dreamliner has crashed. Looks bad.
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Video shows the undercarriage down, when it should be up…
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/12/video-shows-air-india-plane-crash#flips-6374174840112:0
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That’s as it should be. OPs says you don’t retract the gear until you have a positive rate of climb. Starting retraction opens gear doors and INCREASES drag. Until we get sound we are guessing but a ridiculously early, uninformed opinion of mine is that the computer was misconfigured. The only odd thing so far is that may not have flaps. In heat they prolly need flaps 15. Depending on parameters entered the computer does not always set full thrust for TO.
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https://factrepublic.com/facts/55395/
Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, lived a highly reserved life. He rarely granted interviews, never left his hometown, and stopped attending Grands Prix outside of Italy after the 1950s. He also never flew on an airplane or set foot in an elevator.
Only recently learned this about Mr Ferrari at a recent visit to the Haynes Museum. Although he was pretty reclusive, he gave a lot of quotable quotes including “Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.”
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If we want submarines, the Russians can build them for us in 4years..
“Yesterday, June 11, USC delivered to the Navy another new multipurpose diesel-electric submarine of Project 636.3 “Yakutsk”, the sixth in the series for the Pacific Fleet, the twelfth overall for the Russian Navy. Laid down at the Admiralty Shipyards in August 2021 under the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin. ”
Better than buying them from the AWKUS clowns and waiting forever..
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If you live long enough you may realise that the Communists have zero interest in maintaining your middle class lifestyle.
BTW, how are they going trying to refit their aircraft carrier?
Russia has been refitting its only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which has faced numerous technical challenges and delays. The modernization process, initially scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024, has encountered multiple obstacles, including a 70-ton crane falling onto the ship’s flight deck in 2018 and a fire in the engine room.
The refit, which began in 2022, was expected to extend the carrier’s lifespan and make it seaworthy again.
However, the ship is still undergoing repairs, and there are concerns about its operational readiness.
The Russian Navy has stated that the Admiral Kuznetsov is expected to remain in service for at least another 25 years after the refit.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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You’re 35 years behind the times Hanrahan old man!
>Communists
>Russia
Pick one.
“Russia effectively abandoned communism with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. The process began earlier, with Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms (glasnost and perestroika) in the mid-1980s, which weakened the Communist Party’s grip. By 1991, economic crises, nationalist movements, and political shifts led to the collapse of the USSR. Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, transitioned to a market economy and a multi-party system, though remnants of Soviet-era governance lingered into the 1990s.”
>AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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That one was for Melbourne: https://xyz.net.au/2025/06/the-whole-of-australia-is-laughing-at-journalist-shot-with-rubber-bullet/
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No press jacket/hi vis and wearing a mask around her neck.
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https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newscottish-covid-19-inquiry10-jun
‘No one from the show people community passed away directly because of COVID-19.’’
‘‘I think we were relatively lucky that, at the beginning, no one from the show people community passed away directly because of COVID-19 or anything else. But, as time went on, whether it be directly COVID- 19 or other things, people did pass away.’’
Alexander James Colquhoun – on behalf of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain Scottish Section.
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https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/health-department-had-evidence-of
The conclusion must be as follows:
The Therapeutic Goods Administration failed in properly assessing the safety profile of the most controversial drug in history for the most vulnerable age cohort, completely ignoring the precautionary principle as well as the relevant provisions of its own enacting legislation;
The parents of Australia were misled and coerced into a procedure without the benefit of information which would allow them to give fully informed consent and in fact on the basis of information which was inaccurate and lacking in scientific basis; and
Brendan Murphy, the prior Secretary of the Department of Health, is personally responsible for all injuries and deaths which have occurred, or which will occur, in children as a result of his decision to provisionally approve the Covid-19 drugs for that age cohort.
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https://www.arkmedic.info/p/the-miscarriages-are-glowing
Poisoning the well – the overstatement of miscarriage statistics to be fact checked so that the underlying alarm signal isn’t then heard above the noise…
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/south-korea-reckons-with-decades-of-foreign-adoption-scandal/
now-retired social workers acknowledged flaws in South Korea’s broader child welfare system, such as the inability to verify a child’s true status. Yet, without public resources to build a reliable system or prioritize family reunification, they often treated international adoption as a first, rather than a last, resort.
Moreover, the prevailing belief at the time that “normal” middle-class families offered the most stable environment for a child’s development provided further moral justification for sending children abroad.
Western authorities often interpreted Korean social workers’ professionalism as evidence of shared liberal child welfare values and placed strong trust in their procedures. When serious flaws surfaced – as in Tak-un’s case – they were frequently dismissed as exceptions rather than signs of deeper systemic problems.
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