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Best argument against electric cars – unmute this:
https://youtu.be/SgN1387v4sA?si=srn-d3atKP5vuExF
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Wonderful machine.
It had a 25.5 litre 200hp V8.
Think how small an engine could be today that produced the same horsepower.
A modern road engine of 2 litres could easily produce the same power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobiles_Darracq_France?wprov=sfla1
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25.5 litre?
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Yes.
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Brave, brave, men there !😳😳
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Every motoring enthusiast needs one of these on their desk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-lD9pPYw4
I was astounded at the low price of these kits – thank you China.
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I have actually been thinking of getting one of these. But then, my backlog of projects is huge.
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Everyone needs a V8 powered drill – drill baby, drill:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a1TN0cVwt2I?feature=share
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Or a V8 chainsaw.
https://youtube.com/shorts/tbF9ne-kxzw
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I love Tim the toolman’s philosophy: If it is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.
This seems to be a unique American philosophy, I ❤️ it.
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Yesterday someone mentioned the infamous quote by Ottmar Edenhofer, the UN IPCC official who made the statement in 2010 at the Cancún climate conference.
Warmists and Leftists generate all sorts of apologetics about what Edenhoffer meant but here is full context and a translation and the original German source. I didn’t check the translation myself so you might want to check it. I understand it is correct.
Original source in German;
https://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu-ld.1003523
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The World is infinitely better off because of the Industrial revolution so I look forward to those countries whose citizens have benefited from paying us in the UK for the life they now enjoy.
Of course countries can always opt out of the benefits of civilisation and revert to the 18th Century quality of life.
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Agreed but the Scottish enlightenment is too good for them. They really want the 7th century, the Dark Ages.
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Yet another “far right conspiracy theory” comes true.
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The problem is, the left’s corruption of the courts not only exposes their foul play, it puts ALL courts under suspicion of partisan behaviour, whether true or not. Conservatives have for some time now, thanks to the endless warfare against Trump and, more recently, the blatantly political activism conducted by lower courts, lost all faith in the law – and said so loudly.
This opens the door for leftists/Democrats to do the same thing, e.g. to say any legal action against their side is politically motivated and/or the result of conservative activist judges. As I just said, it need not be true, but that won’t matter to the mainstream press, who will happily amplify the lie.
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Most people these days seem unfamiliar with the concept of “Garbage In Garbage Out” especially after the successful campaign of the Left to dumb-down the “education” system, now an indoctrination system.
Hence people, including so-called professionals believe just about everything they read on the Internet and especially AI answers. And the misinformation is exacerbated by the fact that that most AI engines are fully woke and have a Leftist political agenda. They also just rehash other misinformation on the internet.
In the following videos, Tony Heller discusses climate misinformation by AI.
Tony introduces a non-woke AI that works with actual truth and facts. It could be useful for those working with climate facts, not propaganda. I believe he has developed this AI engine himself. I think it is a subscription service. It appears to be a great tool to combat anthropogenic global warming propaganda.
https://app.visitech.ai/
Note also that he has been shadow banned on YouTube.
VIDEOS:
https://youtu.be/p8cwWd0ME5o
“Most AI sources depend on information they can find on the Internet, so they frequently give the wrong answer. At app.visitech.ai, we analyze the actual data to get the correct answer.”
https://youtu.be/orzsquS_aYU
“Another video comparing misinformation from traditional AI with actual data analysis by analytic AI. app.visitech.ai”
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Word of the day:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
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Scared of land whales?
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You’ve just triggered my epistemophobia.
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Is that German?
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KRudd has to go!
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If Albanese did sack (fire) KRudd it would only happen if he offered KRudd some high paying (+privileges and private jet) globalist job at the UN or similar.
Of course, it won’t happen because Albo doesn’t have the guts to do it and KRudd is also a personal friend of his.
TRUMP himself however has the Constitutional authority to expel diplomats and if he did so, a vast majority of Australians would approve.
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KRudd loves his VIP jets.
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The point of an ambassador is to represent his country. He does not need firing. Only the Democrats would listen to Krud.
Trump does not have time to listen to him or his boss or Mr Wong. Nor the new communist President of South Korea. He did listen to the President of South Africa and made him watch a video of his own countrymen chanting Kill the Boer in non racist way. Krud’s chant would be Windmills’R’Us, kill the Australians. Starmer just ignores his ambassador, but then he ignores everyone.
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Why Albanese’s ‘Australian way’ speech will concern Washington
A key speech from Anthony Albanese setting out his vision for Australia in world affairs will deepen the sense of strategic disconnect between Canberra and Washington at a key moment.
PM’S ORATION‘Think for ourselves’: Albanese trumpets Australian independence
Anthony Albanese has trumpeted Australia’s independence in its relationship with the United States in a speech paying tribute to the wartime leadership of John Curtin.
There’s something strange going on as the PM finds comfort in China and terror in the US
Anthony Albanese is about to embark on an extended trip to China, where he will have his fourth meeting with President Xi Jinping. By contrast, he has never met Donald Trump. With friends like us, who needs AUKUS?
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EDITORIALS -Bold reforms need big ideas and strong leadership
Anthony Albanese has emphasised his claim to the reform ambitions of former Labor leaders Bob Hawke and Paul Keating but has yet to confront the fact that grand meetings are no substitute for policy outcomes.
From The Comments
Victor Davis Hanson Dismantles “Experts” Who Keep Getting Trump Wrong
With that, Hanson turned to the final example where he felt the expert class had shown stunning overconfidence: the economy.
“Finally, the Wall Street Journal told us that the tariffs in March and April, they were going to crash the stock market. They were going to raise prices. We would have a hyperinflation. We were going to have a recession,” he recalled.
The predictions were dire, and they extended to fears that deporting hundreds of thousands of workers would gut industries and kill jobs.
But Hanson said the actual numbers tell a different story. “Here we are in June and the stock market is at a record high. The Japanese, the Chinese, their prices for their products, despite the tariffs that they were paying, are the same, if not lower. Job creation is good.”
He argued Trump’s approach was less about ideology and more about pragmatism. “Donald Trump is pretty common sensical.”
For Hanson, the logic was simple: remove the shadow workforce that suppressed wages and confront trade partners who benefited from asymmetric tariffs.
Instead of collapse, he said, the US economy proved resilient and even thrived.
“You can have an economic renaissance,” he said, “if you were willing to challenge the accepted wisdom.”
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” deepen the sense of strategic disconnect between Canberra and Washington at a key moment.”
I’m fine with that, maybe Aussie will give up being America’s lapdog and its forever ‘me too!’ policies and finally get back to being an independent nation where we make our own way in the world.
Its time to give up riding on the coat-tails of the world’s biggest, most hypocritical bully and expand our trade into the rest of the world while keeping our politics at home. Trade is an area for private individuals, from companies to international corporations, and the sooner the world boots Govts out of the arena the better. Govts and ambassadors are just there to protect our borders, not our economy, nor decide our trade partners, each person should decide who to buy and sell with.
Letting Govt into the economy just makes it inefficient and expensive, as shown by 70years of Communism in Russia. Rudd shouldn’t be throwing parties for anyone, we all know where bribery and corruption leads, and that’s all his giant budget is spent on!
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Regime change is happening in China and its towards democracy and looking to save their economy through local consumption.
Albo knows this and is more than happy to meet Xi or his double for a photo opportunity, but then talk to the new rulers behind closed doors.
AUKUS is dead in the water.
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We need to work out who will be our next vassal master. Our UK period is gone and the US Empire is in decline. We need to consider our vassalage options carefully.
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We should join BRICS and become politically unaligned.
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PM Albanese needs to think again …
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Canada’s bloody-mindedness towards Trump has cost them dearly with the potential of a national breakup.
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Maybe.
‘Carney’s assured start has him riding high in the polls. But the dream start will turn into a nightmare unless the prime minister finds ways to both galvanize and trust others to help. Re-establishing the Canada dream is beyond the efforts of one man, no matter how smart he might be.’ (Ottawa Citizen)
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Albanese can’t offer Rudd a UN position because he has no say in UN appointments. That’s not to say Albo couldn’t lobby on behalf of Rudd but, unless there’s a favour owed or the UN gets something in return, Rudd won’t get a job with them, at least not at a level that would satisfy his enormous ego.
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The Brennan Torpedo paradox.
How did it work?
https://youtu.be/qvtZIdSI1Yk
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This DDWFTTW vehikle is even more challenging to understand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
I gave some guidance on the propeller design for this vehicle.
There were a number of physics professors who made fools of themselves by claiming the vehicle defied the laws of thermodynamics.
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Well down.
That vehicle is mentioned in the video as well, and the guy from the Verasatium channel.
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Well done RickWill, I meant.
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https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_June_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
Dr. Roy Spencer Update June 2025
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Elon Musk has launched a new conservative, pro-American political party called the America Party.
I don’t think it’s a good idea because it will dilute conservative resources and TRUMP is already successfully reforming the Republicans and weeding out the RINOs.
It’s not like the fake conservative Liberal Party in Australia which truly is beyond reform and must be replaced.
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I’m thinking that most new members will be Democrats attempting to muddy the waters by artificially inflating membership numbers???
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Can’t see anyone leaving MAGA but mad Democrat voters, now Elon is “anti-Trump” would fall for it, further weakening the Dem base. So far his policy is simply cutting back gov spending. Which is open to interpretation. 4D chess IMHO
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I think that is wishful thinking. The Trump 2024 coalition included quite a few disgruntled democrat voters, as well as a number democrat-leaning independent voters who voted for Biden in 2020 but could no longer tolerate the insanity of Democrats. IMO, they could definitely be swayed to support a non-Trumpian centrist conservative coalition.
The real question though is whether Elon is blowing smoke or whether he actually has candidates lined up to run for office under his new party. Also, the 2026 election is only 16 months away. If he does find candidates, they are going to be getting an awful late start. Building a campaign organization from scratch is a monumental effort that is usually measured in years/decades. Granted, Elon is renowned for blowing up conventional expectations and completing tasks on timescales that were previously thought impossible, but retail politics aren’t really his area of expertise.
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Trump 2.0 is a Wrecking Ball – And he’s wrecking the right stuff.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds Jul 04, 2025
Less than six months ago, I wrote: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0. And they’re not going to like it.
Right after the election, I wrote that Trump was going to come in like a wrecking ball. – Boy, did I nail it, or what?
With the passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump has crushed a lot of Democratic dreams and plans, and — as I predicted right after the election — he’s also starting to lay an institutional foundation for Republicans.
The Big, Beautiful Bill is more big than it is beautiful, but the only way to get the changes that were needed through without a filibuster was through reconciliation. And the changes got through, and that is beautiful. It’s just the reality of our system that to get things done you have to buy votes.
Elon Musk, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, et al. don’t like that, and they’re not exactly wrong not to like it, they’re just wrong to think that we could have gotten what was needed any other way.
Hugh Hewitt offers some perspective here:
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And dilute the vote in a first past the post system.
That’s why our preference system is good. It gives people a safety net to vote against a major party without risking their vote counting against their cause.
There actually might be quite a few Democrats looking for a new party. When you hear Democrat commentators/hosts like Bill Maher talking about the more radical policies of the party and his disappointment with them, I get the impression there’s probably quite a chunk of Dems who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a Republican but don’t really want to vote for the Gender / Race / DEI / Socialist / Open Border aspects of the modern Democrat party.
Musk seems like a Democrat who hasn’t moved left with the party and now finds a better home with Trump. But that former alignment could keep Dems away from a party he starts. But I speculate from afar.
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It also provides a safety net for the major parties. When you vote for minor parties your vote is eventually exhausted and trickles down to the major parties.
I have read some of the pros & cons of the preferential v first past the post systems.
Is there a better, fairer voting system? I don’t know.
We are extremely unlikely to ever have a different system in Australia however so we have to work with what we have.
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Charitable organisations and NGO’s work outside the law to political ends by devious means with the apparent approval of the Crown Prosecution Service.
https://restorationist.org.uk/how-long-can-the-cps-ignore-hope-not-hates-criminality/
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There are many well qualified people warning against AI.
Their conclusions are similar. For example, answers from AI regarding health issues have found to be in error between 44-88% of the time. I quote one Psychologist who concluded that “AI has started lying” and “the quiet erosion of human agency” is becoming a major problem.
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Well, asking AI medical questions and believing the answers might finally start raising the human IQ each generation!
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Its just a verbose version of Dr Google that has been active for decades now. Given the behaviour of the medical profession around Covid, big Pharma and child mutilation I am unconvinced of worse AI outcomes.
I was reading yet another article about CEO discussing the impact of AI on jobs. I wonder somtimes if an AI system tuned for profit and legality would be a good replacement for the executive suite. It would certainly be less distracted by next years bonus and management fads like ESG, DEI, Nett Zero and woke eveything.
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They just won’t stop pursuing Moira Deeming.
Now she’s been complained about to IBAC.
She is claimed to have offered to delay bankruptcy proceedings against Persutto (who defamed her and owed her costs and damages) when he was Liberal “leader” in Victoriastan in return for preselection. That seems just to be standard political manoeuvring.
This is lawfare.
The complainant was a former member of the Greens, Labor and the Reason Party in, not even a member of the Liberal Party and had nothing to do with the dispute.
All presumably because Deeming dared to suggest that men shouldn’t play in women’s sports.
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But is it just standard political manoeuvring?
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FWIW
““What Real Economic Policy Looks Like” ”
“Dan Knight- Work Hard, Keep More, What Canada Can Learn from America’s Overtime Tax Break”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/05/what-real-economic-policy-looks-like/
“Elbow”?
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FWIW
“The “Science””
“Spectator- Ofcom still isn’t sure what a woman is
So, to be clear, the regulator thinks the view that man-made carbon emissions are causing global warming is so scientifically robust that broadcasters are under no obligation to present alternative opinions, but the notion that sex is binary, immutable and biological is so contentious that if GB News interviews some heretic who thinks trans women aren’t women it has to interview someone alongside them who thinks they are.”
As nailed at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/05/the-science/
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Perhaps the regulator then is capable of answering Senator Roberts’ question to CSIRO: where is the proof? And what papers support that proof?
On second thoughts, you’d better not put that question to any AI system – you might put it into an unstoppable loop.
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/the-week-in-pictures-independence-day-edition-2.php
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FWIW
“Feel The Love”
“Douglas Murry- Who really built this country?
Anyone who has visited Canada or Australia in recent years might have noticed an interesting new tradition. This is the trend for issuing a ‘land acknowledgement’ at the start of any public event. Before discussion gets under way, some bureaucrat or other will get up and note that we are all fortunate enough to be on the land of X, and then garble the name of some not-especially-ancient tribe. The moment gives everyone a feeling of deep meaning and naturally achieves nothing.”
https://archive.md/7qo0h
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/05/feel-the-love-9/
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Maybe they should slightly extend these acknowledgements to give thanks for plumbing, roads, electricity, permanent dwellings , the Internet, medical care and stuff like that.
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FWIW –
A consideration in this rush to digital currency
“When the Drones are Coming, They Turn Off the Internet
July 5, 2025 | Sundance | 250 Comments
Some thoughts on what I would call ‘modern warfare’ for citizen preppers. Some of this experience may pertain to urban areas, some perhaps pertinent overall.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/05/when-the-drones-are-coming-they-turn-off-the-internet/
Reminds me that the cheque book was an insurance against any attempt to do a “Fake currency flood”
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New Zealand no longer uses cheques for payment. Are other countries still using them?
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I still used cheques to pay for certificates from the BDM in Western Australia
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Thanks Len. I suspected other countries still used them.
Cheques are not legal tender in New Zealand and they are trying to get rid of cash.
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I enjoy writing cheques to pay bills. There are many companies that offer all sorts of electronic funds transfers but because I am obstreperous , I send cheques. It causes the receiving companies all sorts of heart ache but in the end they always want the money soooo. I must admit it does give me some sort of perverse pleasure.
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Way back in BC at the start of computerised accounting systems it was discovered that some only recorded the payment if it was exactly the amount owing. So the sport was to over-pay the first bill by one cent to check your payment’s recording in the accounting system and its debit from your account. Then, as you had an actual credit you under-paid the next one by one cent to square up. Then rinse and repeat.
Some accounts came with a punch card and the direction “Do not fold, mutilate or spindle” – so you did all three.
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It will be old news to some but new to me and others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJHXbHz6xnA
Alberta is aiming to have a separation referendum in 2026. It could be a separate nation or eventually part of the USA. Trump’s vision bearing fruit.
I am beginning to realise that trump thinks in terms of partners and deals. How can one party benefit from a relationship with another party. It is at odds with globalists who only think in terms of authority and control.
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Its news to me, but digging a little further it seems that North America is rife with separatist movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_North_America#United_States
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Separate from what?
America pretty much is a separatist movement.
It was built by the separated.
“I am beginning to reali(z)e that (T)rump thinks in terms of partners and deals.”
Can’t get much more American than that.
MAGA is simply a response to elitists that failed, laughably at this point, to understand the nature of America.
A character that most immigrants to the US, regardless of origin, absorb.
A primary difference between us and the Brits.
And likely the rest of the Commonwealth.
(I have personally known more than a few immigrants that are more ‘American’ than me, and all my ancestors helped chase the Cherokee westward over the Appalachians … and then turned our attention to the Brits.)
My point proven by Trump’s steady rise in popularity amongst the newest Americans.
European nations … built on anachronistic authority structures, now collapsing.
American nation … built on partnerships and deals … not collapsing.
It was close though, damn Euros tried to get us, but failed again.
Doubt we’ll mount a second rescue.
We freed them from the fascists now they are now just becoming.
We’ll be busy trying to liberate CA and NY.
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‘American nation … built on partnerships and deals … not collapsing.’
Stagflation hasn’t hit yet, but I’m confident that American know how will save the day.
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Trump would probably be a good fit in BRICS where they seem to like for mutually beneficial projects and less inclined to try to judge, change and align politically or culturally (the be like us or no deal mentality)
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The gold standard is making a come back.
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Casually crossing the Nullarbor in an EV. A cautionary tale.
A couple picked up a Tesla from Canberra and thought they would just drive it home to Perth, never having driven an EV before.
They had to drive 20kph under the speed limit across the Nullarbor to stretch their charge and just scraped in with 4% for the last 10km, with the car telling them all the while to turn around and find another charging point.
460km between chargers. A non-issue for an ICE car, but a real sphincter-puckerer in an EV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-EGgrvKAbM
See more EV and Net Zero reality at Mguy.
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Roadhouses or refuelling stations off the grid are usually mixed business premises and the electricity supply from diesel generators on location.
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Some of the roadhouses are equipped with gensets. One location claims to run its genset on used cooking oil.
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There are two roadhouses near me, Lynd Junction and Belyando Crossing [near the Adano mine so may have grid connection now].
Lynd Junction’s generator tripped when I stopped off for a bite, being busy running the kitchen and pumps because the coast road was flooded. If you were to say they could charge an EV from burning deep frier fat that would be ludicrous.
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>two roadhouses near me
Hanrahan if you’re near Pentland, Charters, Homestead, Hughenden, or Mt Isa I would love the opportunity to briefly pick your brain about a very important matter.
I’m heading back up there in August/September.
I’ve got an idea you you might be able to help solve a 50 year old mystery.
Or you might not, but either way I’m sure Jo wouldn’t mind passing on my email address to you if you’re feeling inclined to be kind.
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ShipGoo001 – the mysterious new lifeform
A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life.
Captain Lee noticed a tar-like substance oozing from the rudder post, a normally hidden component of the ship’s steering apparatus that was exposed during maintenance.
Sheik initially thought the goo was old grease, until learning that the rudder post, where it was oozing from, is only lubricated with water from the lake.
It’s possible ShipGoo001 is carbon-based and derived from stuff floating in the water, he said.
Bottom line: he doesn’t know exactly what he’s dealing with. But it appears he has come across a new order of organism, and that it deserves more study.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html
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Denmark begins conscripting women into military service amid NATO war fears
Denmark has officially launched its unprecedented military conscription program for women, marking a radical shift in the Nordic nation’s defense policy. As of July 1, all 18-year-old Danish women must register for potential mandatory military service, putting them on equal footing with men in what the government calls “full equality in military service.” The new law extends compulsory service from four to eleven months, effectively transforming Denmark into one of only a handful of nations to draft women into combat roles.
https://www.stationgossip.com/2025/07/denmark-begins-conscripting-women-into.html
FINE!!
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“Denmark begins conscripting women into military service amid NATO war fears”
Uh-huh… Right behind their illegal Gimmigrants I’m sure! Those guys will be voting for war with Russia, clean out the native Danes and hand power over to Sharia law.
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What is happening on Australian roads? Cars are meant to be safer/smarter, there are more major roadways, and the ever-present increased fines and speed/red light cameras all designed to make car travel safer. The stats in the last 5 years though have told a completely opposite story. Roadkill figures are increasing month on month/year on year.
Back in November 2024 when msm was decrying the growing issue it was because that month, with 129 killed, was the deadliest month since December 2017 and 30% higher than the November average since 2019.
Fast forward 7 months and WA has just had a horror 24-hr period with five dead. Two of those 5 crashes (40%) appear to have been single vehicle accidents where the car has hit a tree. Single vehicle accidents are starting to become a growing category in the last 5 years…
According to government figures the year to May 2025 there had been 676 single vehicle deaths compared to 553 multiple vehicle deaths. The same time period shows high speed zone incidents had fallen by -2% (100km) and -5.7% (equal/greater than 110km). It seems suburban streets are now the place to speed with 60-75k zone deaths increasing by 5.2% and 80-90k zones increasing by 3.5%. The age of the hoons is also interesting with a 14.3% increase in the 75+ and an 11.7% increase in the 40–64-year groups.
So, what pattern post 2019 (2019) can be made from the strands of increased single vehicle accidents/deaths in lower speed zones with the deceased in the 75+ and 40-64 age groups? What postmortem tests are done on victims known to have “died” in a car crash i.e. no doubt drug and alcohol is one but do they record or place any significance on any legal medication traces they find? Like, I don’t know that motoring medicine thing for MYoCARdITIS.
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Several years ago a young man I knew, a country person, was driving in Western New South Wales and entered a town 80 KMH speed zone well above that speed and a Highway Patrol car coming out of the town turned and began a pursuit. The car veered off the road and hit a large tree and police said it was not accidental.
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Kangaroos mate! Everyone out in the country has hit a ‘roo, and if it doesn’t come through the screen & kill you, cause you to swerve and run off the road, or actually knock the car off the road, you’re lucky!
Every roo accident causing death will be put down to speeding, or alcohol, or tiredness, I have NEVER seen ‘kangaroo collision’ listed in the media. Swerving to miss one can give you a heart attack if you’re vaxxed!
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How about trying to find something on that centre screen while driving?
A book I have has an item by a pilot who went through a RAF fighter low flying school in WW 2. First requirement was that he knew every cockpit control by feel.
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>Kangaroos mate!
Having lived in the bush for many decades you learn that drivers swerving or braking hard to avoid hitting kangaroos causes many accidents.
That fact is known from those who lived to tell the tale, but for the fatal accidents where the car ran off the road and hit a tree or rolled, the kangaroo is long gone and rarely blamed.
If I hit livestock on the road, it’s not the sheep cow or horses owner who’s legally liable for the damage to my vehicle and my carcass, but the owner of the fences.
What I want to know is why is the government not required to adequately fence crown land to keep its livestock off the roads? There’s just too many kangaroos and no adequate fences except alongside the newer freeways.
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Thanks for the Roos up.
The same report however includes locality information data and on page 4 item 4.4 By Remoteness we are told Outer Regional (-1.9%) Remote (-38.1%) and Very Remote (-44.7%) fatalities are all dropping so the Roos are either jumping higher, or a 3-leg variety has finally been bred (Dad joke).
But what is interesting is that the same report section shows that the “Unknown” category which in 2021 had 15 deaths has climbed to 284 deaths in the 12 months to May 2025!? This is a 242.2% increase. How is it possible in this age of satellite tracking that in 284 cases – an average of just over 5 deaths per week – no-one can determine where the ambulance police or tow truck was sent to?
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Long swathes of major highways are fenced off with chain link fences for this purpose. I think it comes down to affordability and risk management
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And animal numbers Yarpos. You may remember years ago it was almost unusual to see skippy on the major roads, these days it’s a matter of counting the casualties every morning. The sales of pink spray paint must have increased exponentially. Of course the increase in larger road hazards doesn’t help, throw in the extremely poor state of Victorias roads and dangerous scenarios are just building all the time.
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Good seasons produce more roos, its only natural.
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>Good seasons produce more roos, it’s only natural
Yes when it’s left to nature there is a dynamic equilibrium balanced between feed & water availability, population pressure, predators, etc, but in the past there was an added factor. Us.
Out here , after WW2 when family dinner tables were heavily dependent on supplements of underground mutton, rabbits were literally everywhere but kids hunting rabbits for the table and even professional rabbiters, rarely saw a kangaroo.
Nowadays rabbits are controlled and kangaroos are protected and it’s the kangaroos that are in plague proportions.
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Vaccidents!
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There is also possible suicide.
When I was young a boss I knew suddenly killed himself (after personal marriage problems) by hitting a concrete pillar at very high speed.
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Re: all those untimely deaths caused by recent flush floods.
My branch of engineering was so far from large earthmoving projects, but are on this blog some good professionals who know answer to:
how many lives could be saved by NOT building a standard wind tower?
I am talking about correct use of public money of course.
Saved animals and property is good bonus, sure. Being cynical, loss of human life inevitably leads to court cases and lawyers and insurance companies and state penalties on companies found guilty.., all parts of the total.
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“Flush floods” is an apt malapropism.
The DOGE decimation of the National Weather Service probably hindered communications.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html
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And if you believe anything published in the New York Times, you also believe Hans Christian Anderson was a factual biographer and Pol Pot was a humanitarian. But you do tend to believe the most outlandish crap as long as it comes from the climate catastrophe cult.
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Laying off everybody on probation, i.e. newly promoted or recently hired because they have the skills you need, is a recipe for disaster. Satellite monitoring has been reduced as has the number of weather balloons released.
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I believe that the reduced satellite monitoring is mainly with the Columbia University NOAA sea level satellite monitoring. And this is certainly one area that needs severe trimming, as its results are constantly wrong.
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Woo hoo, Simon quoting the NYT about probably something. Case closed.
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‘State emergency management officials had warned as early as Thursday that west and central Texas faced heavy rains and flash flood threats, citing National Weather Service forecasts ahead of the holiday weekend.
‘The forecasts, however, “did not predict the amount of rain that we saw,” W. Nim Kidd, director of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told a news conference on Friday night.’ )Sky News)
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I think more lives would have been saved by not building a kids summer camp on a flood plain. It’s not like this is the first time a kids summer camp on the Guadalupe river has been washed away by flooding.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/on-this-date-30-years-ago-the-guadalupe-river-flooded-killing-10-children/285-457263620
Lessons were NOT learned and now more kids are dead.
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Anyone got issues with this causality paper from 2016. They write quite irrevocably conclusively certainty
https://rdcu.be/euZAA
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Australia’s e Safety Kommisar now wants to restrict children from using search engines.
She’s gone even further than I had anticipated.
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But I don’t sign into a search engine account. I have never signed up to search engines and I never will.
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You might be forced to in future.
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Unless they ban VPN’s I don’t see how they can. But knowing Julie Inman Grant I wouldn’t put that passed her either.
We live in very bizarre times re free speech.
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Most people use VPNs these days. Brazil had to ban them in order to get their Twitter ban to work. China does too. Does Australia propose to do the same in order to prevent people from just changing their virtual location?
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Most people? I doubt it. I suspect most people (>50%) dont know what VPN stands for. Something you get with a Nord perhaps, given the amount of advertising they do.
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Madam Kommisar seems to be afflicted by delusions of grandeur and magical thinking in the control of everything and everybody. She is wasted in Australia , surely the UN beckons.
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The Australian Government just doesn’t have a clue about AI and the enormous amounts of power it needs.
Elon Musk has just purchased an entire power plant and is going to ship it to the US.
Perhaps instead of Australia blowing up its remaining power plants we can sell them to Elon instead? At least he’ll put them to good use.
The Australian Government thinks the country can become an AI “superpower” on wind and solar. They’re delusional!
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The Coalition cannot get their act together on Net Zero, they might still split.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/opposition-yet-to-set-timeline-for-net-zero-decision-amid-internal-review-and-partyroom-divisions-over-climate-policy/news-story/2ba2f0fc1c4e9624dc619f0da1811304
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The new age of woke clueless engineers
In India, seven engineers were just suspended after designing a $2.3 million bridge with a deadly 90-degree turn. This structural disaster has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. The project took over a decade to finish and was meant to improve transportation for 300,000 commuters. Instead, it became the “poster bridge” for what not to do when building public infrastructure.
https://youtu.be/aYfKTlxRtfQ?si=9X6RflbZncIYJv1c
But wait, it gets worse!
https://x.com/theskindoctor13/status/1934547698776154118
And this is where it hits close to home: these are the same types of engineers and consultants being brought into the US on H1B visas. They’re writing software for critical systems, working on transportation projects, and replacing qualified American workers, all in the name of “inclusion” and cheaper labor.
Lost for words..
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And in Australia “engineers” are participating in destruction of our electricity grid with wind, solar, Big Batteries and Snowy Hydro 2.
Just as stupid and illogical except that the masses have been indoctrinated to believe that this is legitimate power systems engineering.
Oh, politicians get involved in engineering as well, like when the conceived SH2.
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Not SWER but SWEAR – Solar & Wind Energies Are Ruinous.
Wonder if you can make a cheese toastie over a candle…
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Data centres increasing greenhouse gas emissions
Slough has emerged as Britain’s fastest-growing pollution hotspot, with its surging data centre industry driving up greenhouse gas emissions.
The southern town’s concentration of more than 30 massive data centres has pushed up commercial emissions by 52pc since 2005 – making it the only place in the UK to see such a rapid rise in pollution.
Slough’s total emissions equate to five tonnes of CO2 for each of its citizens – far above the three tonnes per person seen in traditional industrial areas such as South Tyneside, the 3.7 tonnes recorded in Newcastle upon Tyne and the four tonnes recorded in Sunderland.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph-saturday/20250705/282316801041442
Maybe fly in Greta and some billionaires in private jets to have a conference about it. 😆
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Well, the Australian Government thinks you can run data centres on wind and solar and so Australia will become an AI “superpower”.
They can just set up over here, LoL.
(Just joking, obviously you can’t run a data centre on expensive, unreliable wind and solar.)
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What is the pollutant?
All I saw mentioned was CO2…
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FWIW – clued engineers
“The A29 Super Tucano”
https://youtu.be/unBUeCPEYTQ
Via a comment at Chiefio
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FWIW
“The ‘Climate Crisis’ vs the REAL Crisis Facing Americans: News Media Journalism Malfeasance”
“Therein lies the actual crisis in the climate issue. It’s not the runaway climate itself. It’s the legacy news media’s malfeasance on the issue from not reporting all of the facts.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/05/the-climate-crisis-vs-the-real-crisis-facing-americans-news-media-journalism-malfeasance/
Concludes
“The climate issue is still alive today because the legacy news media long ago abdicated from their responsibility to tell the public all of the facts about it. The issue can die of a death of a thousand cuts when the public fully comprehends how they have the opportunity to pose tough questions to the authorities they encounter — teachers, journalists, policymakers. I’m old enough to remember when the bad guys used to flee from reporters asking them questions they could not answer. The public needs to flip that same image against the legacy news media.”
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FWIW – a name you’ll recognise
“Climate change causes WHAT!!? Pink lakes, divorcing albatrosses, shrinking goats and lots else”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/05/climate-change-causes-what-pink-lakes-divorcing-albatrosses-shrinking-goats-and-lots-else/
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Here is Australia in green, monthly Temperature anomaly update in deg C from UAH to the start of July 2025.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahaustjuly2025.jpg
Also, I did some speculative work. Here is what I shared with WUWT just now on their Open Thread.
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Here is a twist for readers to play with. It is derived from the usual UAH monthly satellite temperature data.
The headers for the columns that Dr Spencer publishes on his blog start with “Globe Land Ocean NH …” and end with ” … Ocean USA48 USA49 AUST”. I selected to last 24 of these columns of monthly anomaly data, leaving out “Globe, Land, Ocean” to concentrate on smaller regions selected by UAH. Yes, I know that there is overlap and duplication, like USA48 and USA 49, but this is an early days start.
I calculated a simple Standard Deviation for each shortened row of 24 values and plotted it as shown below.
This is broad brush start to a look at what else happens when there is a high global temperature peak like the 1998 prominent one. The crude reasoning is that, whether it coincided with an El Nino year or not, the atmosphere might be more agitated than usual, hence the S.D. between regions should be higher. At first blush this seems to be supportable by the raw data.
Readers might like to comment on whether the atmosphere is indeed more turbulent when these high peaks happen, whether this graph is a start to showing it and whether it matters anyhow.
Thank you for looking at data. Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahsd2025.jpg
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Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse
A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” tipping point in the global climate system.
The development, which was confirmed by Spanish marine scientists at El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, has triggered widespread alarm among climate scientists due to its potential to accelerate global warming and destabilise weather patterns worldwide.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/southern-ocean-current-reverses-for-first-time-signalling-risk-of-climate-system-collapse/ar-AA1I2tcE
Send in Greta the saviour!
/Ancient Egypt again? 😎
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With statements like this-
‘the current reversal is the first to occur in modern times due to anthropogenic climate change’
you know where their money comes from! Still, my veges will grow faster..
‘the reversal of the current will bring cold water up from the deep in which is trapped CO₂. That means the reversal, “could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries,” ..The reversal will undermine the ocean’s role as a carbon sink, which currently absorbs about 25% of all anthropogenic CO₂ emissions.’
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“‘the reversal of the current will bring cold water up from the deep in which is trapped CO₂.”
Now that’s confusing, I distinctly remember reading that the “missing heat” that climate scientists couldn’t find was trapped in the deep oceans. Why won’t this current reversal bring up the hot water that defied physics and stayed down there?
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“A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history”
How dare it! This current has stolen our childhood.
And how long is this ‘recorded history’ of ocean currents in the Southern Hemisphere?
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Even Captain Cook who circumnavigated Antarctica three times never saw the continent. So how long is this recorded history?
And it gets better. “The ICM report warns that the reversal of the DWBC could also unleash vast amounts of carbon dioxide currently trapped in deep-ocean reservoirs. ” So ocean currents not only control temperatures, they can also release ‘vast amounts of carbon dioxide’. I thought that was controlled exclusively by fossil fuels?
So even individual ocean currents control both world climates and CO2? What an admission!
Or course humans have caused this. Because humans control ocean currents which control the weather and CO2. An extraordinary piece of logical inversion without admitting that humans may not be in charge of the planet.
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You just knew this was coming, didn’t you ?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/maori-antarctica
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So the idea that Maori arrived in New Zealand 7 or 8 hundred years ago is also a myth? Or did they just sail past any land 400 years earlier than this and discover Antartica. Of course it’s true, anyone can sail into antarctic waters in essentially open vessels, with people from the tropics or sub tropics without any planning for clothing warmth or adequate food. It’s just gotta be true. Of course they may have just been describing a particularly desolate part of New Zealand or its southern islands. Apparently if its oral tradition its true.
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FWIW – Willis E. has a look at this
“Ocean “Reversal” Hysteria: Facts Not Included”
“Every so often, the climate media machine spits out a headline so breathless you’d think the laws of physics had just been accidentally repealed by a badly-worded executive order. Case in point: bne IntelliNews in Germany recently told us that a “major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history,” and that climatologists are calling it a “catastrophic” tipping point. It also quotes a climatologist as saying “The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase.” ”
Much more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/06/ocean-reversal-hysteria-facts-not-included/
The very “yellow stream media” at work
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And the comments
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Willis Eschenbach nailed it.
‘And when I got to the study, what do you know? The study doesn’t mention “tipping point,” “collapse,” “current reversal,” “Southern Ocean current” or even “overturning circulation.” The only “reversal” in the paper refers to satellites detecting a reversal in surface salinity trends from decreasing to increasing, not a reversal in the the direction of the Southern ocean’s most complex circulation shown above.’
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FWIW
There is “sleight of hand” but also of tongue and pen –
“Dr. Matthew Wielicki Torches the $7 Trillion Fossil Fuel Subsidy Myth”
“Dr. Matthew Wielicki’s article, “The $7 Trillion Lie,” is a scathing exposé of what may be one of the most brazen accounting tricks in the climate policy playbook. For years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its ideological allies have floated the claim that fossil fuels receive a jaw-dropping $7 trillion per year in global subsidies. But as Wielicki makes abundantly clear, this figure is not just inflated—it’s fabricated, repackaged propaganda masquerading as economic analysis.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/06/dr-matthew-wielicki-torches-the-7-trillion-fossil-fuel-subsidy-myth-n3804518
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In there
“If you want real numbers, Wielicki points readers to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Their data shows that actual fossil fuel subsidies—the kind you can trace in a budget—amount to $500 to $700 billion per year, and mostly occur in developing nations like Venezuela, Iran, and Indonesia. In these places, fuel subsidies are a matter of economic stability, not environmental sin.
In contrast, Western nations have been pouring taxpayer money into the black hole of green energy. As Wielicki highlights with stark clarity, “solar received 205 times more [federal subsidies] than oil and gas between 2010 and 2019” on a per-unit-of-electricity basis. The graph on page 5 makes this discrepancy obvious, showing that solar receives $70 per MWh, while oil and gas limp along with $0.39 per MWh.”
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Coal in Aus is taxed, not subsidised, at state budget level. Qld and Vic have increased their taxes in recent years.
The coal royalty regime in Queensland (Qld) is structured with progressive rates based on the price per tonne of coal. For prices up to and including $100 per tonne, the royalty rate is 7%. For prices over $100 and up to and including $150 per tonne, the royalty rate is 12.5%.
In 2022, the Queensland government introduced new progressive coal tiers, with rates of 20% for prices above A$175, 30% for prices above A$225, and 40% for prices exceeding A$300.
These tiers ensure that higher prices result in higher royalties, with the higher tiers applying only to the portion of the price above the relevant threshold.
Royalties on brown coal in Victoria have been a topic of discussion, with the state government increasing the royalty rate for companies mining brown coal. The royalty rate charged per gigajoule of energy will rise from 7.6 cents to 22.8 cents under the measure, which was announced in the state budget.
This increase was intended to bring Victoria into line with New South Wales and Queensland.
However, the impact of this increase on power bills was noted, with some experts suggesting that the cost increase would be felt by consumers.
The Victorian Government is expected to reap more than $250 million over four years by lifting the royalty rate for companies mining brown coal.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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FWIW
The “FO” part of “FAFO”
“EPA Suspends over 140 Toxic Employees Who Wrote Letter Denouncing Trump Policies”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/06/epa-suspends-over-140-toxic-employees-who-wrote-letter-denouncing-trump-policies/
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Cracks appearing in European politics, they should be thankful they have the war against Russia to unite them! Germany and Poland are pushing gimmegrants back and forth across their border, neither want them, and the same with Poland and Lithuania. England has an arrangement with France where it can send them back..
“Last month, when Germany announced border checks to turn away asylum seekers, Nawrocki responded by calling for stricter measures on the Polish side…The dispute between Germany and Poland does not change the visa-free travel for tourists, but it highlights the pressure on the Schengen pact when countries are at odds over asylum seekers…“We know that the Polish government also wants to impose border controls with Lithuania in order to limit illegal border crossings from Lithuania to Poland,” Merz told a news conference.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/poland-uses-incident-at-border-to-justify-tighter-controls-with-germany-as-europe-fractures-over-migration-20250706-p5mcso.html
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FWIW
“The Meagre Wages of Socialism”
“What we can say is that Australia’s economic performance is likely to be increasingly short of stellar in the foreseeable future. Things might change for the better if the climate scam bit the dust and our own genteel version of Trump or Milei came along. It is called clinging to hope.”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/07/05/the-meagre-wages-of-socialism/
“Then there is hope. But hope is not a strategy” (E.M. Smith)
Make the Laffer Curve fashionable!
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/140859/economics/the-laffer-curve/
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Aww… the Laffer Curve article never mentioned the Beatles with The Tax Man, that would have been a great example of what higher taxes gets a Govt! Its the same with Socialism, as you replace a capitalist free market with a Govt-controlled Socialism the productivity falls off, and a blatant example would be 70years of Communism in Russia.
In the end the propaganda about the great success of the 5-year plan becomes plain lies, just like our own inflation rate. Orwell had it right in 1984.
The current example will be how many billionaires leave Switzerland if they pass their new inheritance laws to seize 50% person’s wealth upon their death.
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Victoria walking back from offshore wind.
‘Victoria’s plan for an offshore wind-powered electricity generation industry by 2040 faces a significant risk of being derailed, says the nation’s top clean energy investor group.’ (Oz)
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Over the years China has vowed to crack down on fentanyl chemicals flowing to America, but Xi in fact did nothing. Now that a collective is now in power the situation is going to change dramatically.
Within a year I reckon zombies will disappear from the US and the POTUS will deservedly get the accolades.
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Well, yes, what bought the opium wars to an end when England was pouring opium into China? Ah, that’s right, overwhelming military force.. Well, I wonder if the Americans think they have enough of that to tell China what to do these days, because I’m dead sure the Chinese haven’t forgotten the opium wars!
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On this occasion, in the 21st century, Beijing will stop the fentanyl flood as proof of leadership change.
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FWIW
“Flaws in 150 Years of Global Temperature Data Blow Holes in Global Warming Narrative”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/flaws-150-years-global-temperature-data-blow-holes/
Probably a few more years yet before this gets to the likes of The New York Times though
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The latest UAH.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_June_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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FWIW – a caustic look at the US “BBB”
“Let’s talk about the actual changes in the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” that are likely to impact you.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253584
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FWIW
“Help New York City Kill Itself
A big dose of their own medicine is exactly what the doctor ordered.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/help-new-york-city-kill-itself/
Reading for Oz civic leaders?
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We’ve just been told our power meter will be replaced by a smart meter next month, has anyone disagreed with this and kept their old meter? Does it carry the full force of Govt in NSW, or is it just the electricity retailers doing what they’re told?
I’m happy to dump Red Energy if it solves the problem, I have no reason to show any loyalty to them.
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“has anyone disagreed with this and kept their old meter? Does it carry the full force of Govt in NSW, or is it just the electricity retailers doing what they’re told?”
Few years ago my old meter simply failed. The power company came out to replace it and I told them I did not want a smart meter, I was assured by the installer that I was NOT getting a smart meter. Apparently he told lies. First thing that happened was the area meter reader of many years was made redundant. He came for his final run and had a look,
yeah mate its a smart meter but they call em by another name no one wants “smart meters” so they instal an upgraded version of the old meters i.e. smart meters.
Oh yeah you know how companies care about people, well my meter reader was doing it a bit hard having lost his home in the big fires of 2009, we used to natter for a few minutes each time he came up, he needed the bloody job, it gave him a purpose, well bad luck, smart meters are more profitable than people.
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