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By Jo Nova
If someone wanted to sabotage Western science, this would be a useful technique
A research team has used AI to analyze 2.6 million cancer papers and found a quarter of a million have used suspicious tortured phrases, incorrect reagents, fabricated data and altered or reused figures — all hallmarks of fakery at the industrial paper-mill. A dumb AI will change “energy use” to vitality utilization or convert “raw data” to crude information.
The commentariat is blaming profit and greed for the flood of fake papers, but what if this is no accident? If I were an enemy of The West, and I wanted to sabotage scientific research, this would work like a DDOS on science. Researchers would spend hours running meta-analyses of dud results. They might change their own experiments, scurrying down pointless rabbit holes in search of an effect that doesn’t exist. Or, they might drop a useful approach if they thought someone had tried it and failed. And it can’t be too good for the cancer patients either, can it?
Even businesses might find it appealing to slow down or confuse the competition. Or perhaps they’d like to quote a paper to get their […]
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By Jo Nova
Surprise! The Blob wants to track your car, limit your travel, get more of your money (but only so they can fix the weather!)
How could they resist? The 15-minute city is the fantasy idea that the unwashed masses can get everything they need within 15 minutes of home. But of course, their family may live somewhere else, as might their favourite dentist. How many old folks in nursing homes will miss out on visits because someone doesn’t want to fill out a permission slip or get a fine?
The UK government has said it will let councils use official databases of drivers licences in order to fine people driving outside their “permitted area”.
Oxford has divided up its city into six areas and is set to start fining people later this year. The head of the Alliance of British Drivers said it was “A page out of the East German playbook.”
If this gets off the ground in the UK, we know it’ll end up here.
Labour opens door to ‘Stalinist’ 15-minute cities across Britain
By Camilla Turner, The Telegraph UK
The most high-profile example of such a plan […]
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By Jo Nova
Despite the news headlines about the hottest ever heatwave in Victoria this week — old Australian newspapers are mysteriously full of reports of hotter temperatures. Consider, for example January 1932.
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The town called Ouyen reached 47.5 °C this week — the “hottest temperature ever recorded” we’re told, but 94 years ago it was reported to be 124 °F (51.1 °C). Not far away Mildura reached 123 °F (50.6 °C) and to the south, Hopetoun reached 114 °F (45.6 °C).
You might wonder if these local stations were inaccurate or badly managed, but in New South Wales, Pooncarie recorded 121 °F (49.4 °C) in the shade at 2 pm, Wilcannia – 117 °F (47.2 °C) at the same time, Broken Hill reached 114 °F (45.6 °C), Menindee was 116 °F (46.7 °C), and Bourke – 116 °F (46.7 °C). The heat stretched across to Port Augusta which recorded – 119 °F (48.3 °C). Were they all crazy, or was it really hot?
You might also wonder if they were using non-standard thermometers or the wrong screens, or enclosures which might bias the measurements. Except the Bureau of Meteorology standardized official thermometers to […]
The site was hit yesterday morning with yet another DDOS (Denial of Service attack)
If you had trouble accessing the posts, you weren’t imagining it. Yesterday morning tens of thousands of “people” in Brazil all wanted to read this site in the same hour, which crowded out the usual traffic. So we can add that to the previous attacks from Singapore, USA, Vietnam and China.
Someone with control over thousands of computers spread across the world doesn’t like what we discuss here.
Thanks for your patience!
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By Jo Nova
“It’s just a matter of time” says Frontier Economics chief Danny Price
Even though it was a public holiday, there was a raging bonfire in prices in South Australia on the evening of Australia Day. The spike in prices hit a blistering $20,000 peak and stayed there for three long hours…
AEMO
Expert Danny Price warns of ‘catastrophic’ national grid failure after SA price surge
By Patrick Starick, The Advertiser
The average price for every hour of the 24 hour period in South Australia was $2,457 per megawatthour.
Frontier Economics chief Danny Price, a key architect of energy policy for state and federal governments, warns renewables cannot meet high electricity demand and predicts significant outages and high prices. Wholesale electricity spot prices spiked in SA to near the $20,000 per megawatt hour limit on a still Monday night, when household batteries drained and wind generation dipped, prompting the Australian Energy Market Operator to issue a low-reserve warning at 8.42pm. “It is only a matter of time. It will happen. There’s no doubt that it will happen. Year by year the system becomes more fragile […]
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By Jo Nova
On Monday for Australia Day, don’t forget to March For Australia.
12:00 noon – 2pm January 26th.
The globalist unaccountable Blob wants us to forget what makes The West great. They want to erase our heritage, our customs, our history, and even the names of places in the land we grew up in.
The gradual character assassination of every early hero is not an accident. Their stories of success can be turned into woke-fairy tales to scare little children.
When we become a lost people, apologizing for every tiny imperfection, we are easy to rule. But when we stand on the shoulders of the world’s greatest civilization we expect to be treated as equals. For we are the children of people who built a nation. And it’s a nation worth defending.
March For Australia locations Monday
Melbourne: Flinders St Station
Sydney: Prince Alfred Park, Cleveland St
Gold Coast: Macintosh Island Park, Surfers Paradise
Adelaide: Wigley Reserve, Corner of Anzac Highway and Adelphi Terrace
Perth: Wellington Square, Hill Street Entrance
Canberra: Parliament House Lawns.
Hobart: St […]
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By Jo Nova
The Biggest Banker in the world has flipped
Way back in his 2021 annual CEO letter, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change.” It will reshape global capital flows, he said, and declared “…anyone can see the impact of climate change in the natural disasters in California or Florida.”
Now though, nevermind about global extinctions and flash floods. Fink just spoke at the Davos ski club for billionaires, and declared that we need “trillions of dollars” of investment for AI. Data centres, he said, are rapidly expanding — one technology company he spoke to said that “its data centres currently use about 5 gigawatts, but by 2030 it expects to need 30 gigawatts.”
But like a true banker, he doesn’t see a backflip, he sees only investment opportunities — the world is short of power he says. (He doesn’t say that this is in large part because BlackRock leaned on companies and countries all over the world to abandon fossil fuels.) Fink helped create the energy shortage that he now calls an investment opportunity. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, controlling […]
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By Jo Nova
Humans used more coal in 2025 than at any point in human history.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) solemnly announced that global coal demand reached another all time record high in 2025. “However, it is expected to decline by 2030 amid competition from other energy sources” they say, just like they say every year when coal hits a new record.
The IEA are a fully paid up part of The Blob– their funding comes from taxpayers in rich nations — so their role is to manage the narrative on energy to keep that funding flowing. Every year that coal hits a record high, the IEA also projects that coal use will plateau or fall. Back in 2019, they said “Over the next five years, global coal demand is forecast to remain stable.” Which it didn’t. In 2020 they said “Coal’s partial recovery is set to fade after 2021”. And it didn’t do that either. In 2022 they said “Global coal demand is set to plateau through 2025”. Yet again, demand for coal keeps rising.
Every year they do some version of the plateau graph (below) which includes their wish-list forecast of coal trending flat or down.
This […]
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By Jo Nova
The Zombie coal plant lives again
Eraring coal plant is Australia’s largest coal power station. Obviously it’s a polluting monstrosity that kills koalas and is more expensive than solar panels. It’s also old and yet, for some reason, when it was supposed to shut down in August last year, the government dished out nearly half a billion dollars to keep it running for another two years until 2027.
Now, in a second round of baffling electrical fever, the NSW government has twisted the arm of Origin Energy to make sure they don’t shut the coal plant until 2029. All four coal units will be kept running.
Eraring supplies nearly a quarter of the electricity used in our largest industrial state, but apparently the wonderland new renewables grid isn’t quite ready, even though it’s 2026 and we are supposed to be aiming for 82% unreliable energy by 2030. But cruelly, the renewables revolution hit a wall and the Snowy Hydro Scheme hit an unmodeled rock. Only three new wind farms have been built in Australia last year, and everyone hates the interconnector transmission lines.
If the renewables grid was utterly failing, and the […]
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Aurora Watch Current due to the X1.9 flare that went off early Monday morning Australia time.
Glendale App reports the strongest ever substorm they have ever recorded hit Earth this morning 9am Eastern Australian time, sadly during daylight hours for us. Europeans got a roaring show, as are people in North America now. There may or may not be some action still running as darkness falls across Australia. It is cloudy in New Zealand, but they’ve probably seen too many auroras already… 🙂
See also SpaceWeatherLive and the Lake Superior live web cam. with some beautiful action in the last few hours.
From Melbourne:
https://x.com/AGretlich80048/status/2013587123677638762
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