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“Enviros say production of Gulf oil will hurt whales, but they celebrated Biden’s offshore wind”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/enviros-say-protection-gulf-oil-will-hurt-whales-they-celebrated-bidens
Great analysis. If massive wind projects do not hurt whales, as the greens claim, how can little oil and gas projects? The hypocrisy is glaring.
NOAA’s blurb on Rice’s Whale does not even list oil and gas development as a threat. The extinction anguish is wildly overblown.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/rices-whale/spotlight
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These are some of the prime, critical needs for Australia to progress:
1. Abandon the idea that grid scale electricity from “renewables” is cheaper than grid scale electricity from burning hydrocarbons such as coal, natural gas and oil.
2. Commence building and policies to encourage building of large electrical generation plants powered by hydrocarbons, including removal of all impediments such as mandates for one form of generation over another; artificial interference in economics including selective taxes and subsidies; and removal of different economic restrictions for domestic versus export/import hydrocarbons.
3. Repeal of Federal, State and Local government Acts and Regulations inhibiting or preventing the the widespread adoption of electricity by nuclear means, using both Uranium and Thorium cycles.
4. Remove current electricity wholesale price systems that dictate the source of electricity derived from short interval auction bidding, to be replaced by many-month long fixed price contracts with payment only for contracted amounts supplied with no compensation for amounts not supplied.
5. Eliminate special interest group involvement in the school teaching of children, to be replaced by set curriculums agreed by parent groups and teacher professionals, outlawing political influence.
6. Commence study of Federal and State electoral systems for a combination of the best features of others such as first past the post and preference systems, with the aim of counted votes to more accurately reflect voter intentions.
7. Overhaul Australian immigration procedures for more clarity of numbers, sources, educational levels, ages and purposes of allowed migration, to eliminate economic migrants seeking personal gains of little benefit to existing Australians.
8. Budget for 5% of Gross National Product to be spent on military preparedness.
9. Repeal the Aboriginal Land Rights Act and associated complications to recognise that all Australians are equal. Remove the ability of any race to dictate access to land by those seeking to work in land use industries.
10. State unambiguously that there are only two dominant human sexes, male and female, determined by chromosome count at birth, that are not interchangeable.
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This list is but 10 items long. My master list is over 150, but some might cause argument so I will stop with the easy 10, the main ones needing immediate action if Australia is to survive as rich, united, self-contained with a future as bright as it used to before.
The main troublemakers are well known, being mostly tax-avoiding NGOs like the Diversity Equity Inclusion DEI mob, the Greens with innocent eyes yet to open to reality, the leftists who would fight for the enemy if war broke out, the leftists who have cornered the indoctrination of our school children via curriculum capture, the socialists with economic theories that have failed every time history tested them … Strewth, that is only 6 baddie groups when my master list exceeds 150.
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The Greens yet to open to reality??????
You have no hope of that unless Australia goes bankrupt and they loose their jobs or rather their positions in the bureaucracy.
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Lose
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Geoff, you can add to that, the cessation of the anti-democratic practice of extraterritorial governance by the UN and other globalist, communist treaties and agreements.
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Recently reported by journalists that Albanese Labor have signed a Trade Agreement with the EU Government, the agreement in negotiation for several years by the Coalition Goverment earlier but stalled because of various EU terms and conditions demanded.
The new Trade Agreement requires the Australian Government to consult with the EU Government on land use in Australia and requires imposition of net zero emissions renewable energy transition.
EU Government works with UN as we know, why would UN Agenda 21 and other agenda need to be reinforced via a Trade Agreement considering Keating Labor signed onto UN Agenda 21 Sustainability 1992?
Morrison Coalition did not sign onto Glasgow 2021 Net Zero Emissions and were 2019-2022 working to get fossil fuels back in favour.
The terms and conditions referred to in the EU Trade Agreement were claimed to be withheld from the public announcement recently
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Peta Credlin is all over this trade agreement and its Net Zero implications …..it seems a pretty poor trade agreement by all reports so it may not be a great loss…..the farmers organisations haven’t had much good to say and we are obliged to let in a lot of EU subsidised goodies which our producers can’t compete against in price.
https://nff.org.au/media-release/extremely-disappointing-eu-deal-offers-little-meaningful-access/
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Allow the Nation of the Torres Strait to secede and run their own nation.
3,000 people on 18 islands, the very biggest being Prince of Wales Island at 203 sq. km. The Administrative capital being Thursday Island at 3.5sq.km. Just so we can stop thanking them for everything in every building and every public event.
We could however offer a military and economic alliance. And say we are very sorry for the invasion and acquisition in 1879 as part of Queensland largely because of the pearling industry. They can keep the buildings and airports.
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I don’t think Australia should be giving away any land but if the islanders are not happy with the present arrangements we could offer them transport of self and their possessions to a country of their choosing.
Their land rights were already guaranteed by the Mabo decision which recognised their traditional defined areas of land ownership marked by fences and stone markers, in the traditional Anglo-American-European style of land ownership. All they have to do is to work and produce.
Mabo property ownership map presented to the court is here: https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/images/hand-drawn-map-mer-murray-island-eddie-mabo
The Mabo legal decision was grossly and incorrectly misapplied to Australian nomads, an entirely different people racially and culturally, who had no concept of property ownership or strictly defined land boundaries and markers.
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Google says agriculture and husbandry exited on Murrey Island prior European colonisation.
So that map is as good document as any for the purpose of being heard by a fair court while dealing with neighbours.
I saw worse documentation examples – in Victoria.
Forgive me for being cynical – Google also saiys “Aboriginal Australian groups practiced sophisticated, localized, and sustainable forms of agriculture, aquaculture, and land management for thousands of years prior to European colonization”.
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Its all true, that is how they survived.
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So why does every government form make exceptions for Torres Strait islanders? I am just sick of it.
“The Mabo legal decision was grossly and incorrectly misapplied to Australian nomads”. In fact Eddie Mabo won his argument on the fact that he was not an Aboriginal but a multi generational Melanasian farmer. It was PM Paul Keating who immediately legislated the aboriginal rights based incorrectly on the Mabo decision, presumably that aborigines were some form of Torres Strait islander because they were also black. It was purely colour based racism presented as belated justice. Typical of Keating. And if aborigines now own 52% of Australia’s land mass, how much do the tiny Torres Strait islanders own?
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‘ … how much do the tiny Torres Strait islanders own?’
Surplus to requirement.
The population of the Torres Strait Islands is approximately 4,124 people. While there are 133 islands in the region, only about 17 to 38 are inhabited.
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Both members of the uniparty lack the cojones necessary to tackle most of that list.
Then we have a % of the electorate who will never vote for the only party that has the cojones to try.
Poor fella my country.
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Nice idea!
But!!! You are just starting a huge number of arguments that will make easy targets of any political movement.
The alternative to achieve these goals if they require legislation to support them or will simply occur naturally with the repeal of restrictions is for conservatives of the left and right to run on a simple ticket:
. No pay for Politicians – compensation not remuneration. Representation is a community service and not a career. End the Bread and Circus so the clowns can go and find a real job.
. 2 year terms and limited to 2 consecutive terms – get in and get done what you were voted in to do.
. Paper ballots and with voting to be on the day of election – counted and scrutineered at the polling station.
. First past the post – less cost and the majority of the people are represented.
. No tax payer funds to political parties. Bring back the backyard BBQ fundraiser!
. allow the communities to re-arm similar to the Swiss Cantons. Freedom came with the Long Bow in the hands of the Yeoman.
None of this is new, it is simply a return to the messy, local and affordable representation we once enjoyed. The evidence is in the current system does not work so let us go back to what did work.
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Before any of those things, we need to give our children a real education on climate change.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/education/indoctrination-as-education/
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How much longer can the climate related scare campaign and politics continue?
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Milton Friedman: ‘Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program’
Income tax in the United States was originally created during the Civil War as a temporary wartime program. Strangely, that program never ended.
Corn ethanol subsidies have been around in the USA for 40+ years despite knowing for decades they are counter-productive. Ethanol is hard on engines, makes them less efficient, and creates more emissions than gasoline, but ‘big corn’ has powerful friends in Washington who make sure the program never dies.
So to answer your question … FOREVER, that’s how long.
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The United States was pretty late in creating in introducing income tax. It was created in the United Kingdom in 1799 by the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger to pay for the Napoleonic Wars. It was meant to be a temporary measure but was never abolished.
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In Australia, a long time.
Given the fanatical, religious-like commitment to the scam in Australia, plus the huge economic interests of the Elites, unions, superannuation (retirement) fund and current or ex-politicians, plus “academics” who rely on “climate change” funding, it will be followed until total economic collapse is achieved. We are well on the way to achieving that.
The Left who rule over us and who now dominate and infest just about every institution, public and private, generally have no traditional religion, THIS is part of their religion and obsession. (The only religion they support and for which they are useful idiots of each other is the followers of the Late Antiquities warlord and whose mass open borders immigration they are facilitating into the West.)
Most other Western countries are now far pragmatic and far less committed to the scam and the United States under TRUMP has abandoned it completely (e.g. by official withdrawal from Paris, a very important symbolic act our fake conservative Liberals refuse to do), although the communist-oriented states like California remain committed and it shows via their dysfunctional economies.
Another reason Australia remains fanatically committed to these globalist scams is the method devised by the Left of undemocratic extra-territorial governance by the UN and other communist globalist institutions, whereby we sign up to every possible international treaty, without the consent of we, the people, and then commit to such undertakings saying that “the government has no choice, we have international (i.e. globalist) obligations”. But this is not what we voted for. The United States under TRUMP is reviewing and withdrawing from such institutions and treaties/agreements.
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I completely agree David
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Noting that contrary to claims that PM Morrison “signed up to” the Glasgow 2021 net zero emissions via an agreement, he did not. Instead stated that Australia would have an aspirational goal subject to new technology and without damaging the economy being carried forward from Howard Kyoto 1997 conditions.
Relationship Between the Paris Agreement and the Glasgow Climate Pact
The Glasgow Climate Pact does not replace the Paris Agreement. Instead, it builds upon the existing framework established by the Paris Agreement.
Key Features of the Glasgow Climate Pact
Reaffirmation of Goals: The Glasgow Pact reaffirms the commitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a central goal of the Paris Agreement.
Updated National Targets: It includes new pledges for emissions reductions, encouraging countries to enhance their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Focus on Coal and Fossil Fuels: The Pact introduces commitments to “phase down” unabated coal usage and acknowledges the need for action on fossil fuels.
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As I have said before Dennis, the fact that the Liberals still have an “aspirational goal” of Net Zero means they are still True Belelivers in the scam.
They must loudly and proudly denounce any and all associations with the scam and announce the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement well in advance of the next election, just like TRUMP did. It’s important symbolically and for other reasons, like the destruction of our economy.
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The only Net Zero the Libs should be talking about is Net Zero Immigration.
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The godless Coalition has already announced their intentions and the electorate knows where they stand.
‘Christian advocates have condemned the Coalition’s abandonment of net zero as a failure of creation stewardship that prioritises politics over future generations.
‘The National and Liberal parties’ decision to scrap the target ended bipartisan commitment to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 under the Paris Agreement.; (The Melbourne Angliczn)
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Yes its pretty much a self sustaining, cradle to grave industry now. When dovetailed with how weak and needy people have become it all comes together nicely.
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Information worth knowing;
Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor joined a meeting of ministers from IEA member countries overnight to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and actions needed to assure the global market that there will be no shortfall in supplies. “The global oil market is already showing signs of uncertainty in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and we are continuing to work constructively with our partners to build confidence in the market and help stabilise prices,” Minister Taylor said. “Australia will contribute to the collective action and release stocks held on our behalf in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “This significant action – one of four ever taken by the IEA – will increase supplies to the market, helping to put downward pressure on prices both globally and here at home. We know Australian families and businesses have been feeling this pressure at the pump so we hope this global action will ease prices.” The Government has taken action through its comprehensive fuel security package to secure Australia’s refining capacity until at least mid-2027 and has committed $260 million to build more domestic storage to support a 40 per cent increase in local diesel. As part of this package, Australia also took advantage of historically low oil prices and stored around 1.7 million barrels of oil in the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The volume of oils stocks to be released as part of Australia’s contribution to the IEA collective action will be decided and announced in coming days.
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Morning Dennis,
A dated link would be good, especially as Angus is no longer minister, as he’s now in opposition.
I suspect your info is from an old article.
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Dennis- Re the scare campaign- As long as the money lasts!
Trump have effectively defunded the UN IPCC and other local climate/enviro movements.
So, if they want to keep up their propaganda on AGW- climate change they will have to fund it themselves.
Meanwhile in Australia, climate alarmist agencies- so called `charities’ such as `friend of the Earth’
are given government tax breaks to legally crucify our primary industries and resources sectors, but are
largely funded by overseas donors to the tune of $100’sm over decades. This BS must be stopped, and our governments come to their senses over the vast waste of our precious resources due to their `green dream’
that is failing rapidly, and predictably because it’s all nonsense. Especially Snowy 2, it has to go- now!
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FREE ENERGY: Trump says he is about to release his UFO files. But some scientific experts think its about ‘Free Energy’, Nikola Tesla, and Professor John G. Trump. For many years, the Oil Industry has been blamed for killing people who say “I have discovered free energy”. Nine Top-Level Scientists Die or Go Missing in Past Year: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/nine-top-level-scientists-die-or-go-missing-in-past-year-video
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There are no UFOs that are of extraterrestrial origin, just “unidentified”, the “U” in UFO, natural or man-made phenomena.
All physical laws such as Newton’s Laws of Motion and the Drag Equation plus Fermi’s Paradox suggest against claimed observations of UFOs as extraterrestrial or even terrestrial phenomena.
UFOs are now rebranded as UAPs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, to escape the thorough debunking UFOs (as extraterrestrials) were given in the 1970’s and 1980s.
Also, as great a practical engineer Tesla was, he didn’t understand certain things as there is no free energy from his inventions, know or supposedly suppressed.
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There is one report that intrigues me about a UFO/UAP and what I was told during the late 1980s by a former ADF intelligence officer who had been attached to the Australian Embassy Jakarta Indonesia, during a business lunch he asked us if we believed that “UFO” existed. The table guests all replied that we are not aware of any compelling evidence provided to date.
He then explained flying in a RAAF C-130 Hercules aircraft heading to Indonesia and he was standing behind the flight crew in the cockpit, as the aircraft approached the Western Australia coastline above, directly ahead, was what he described as a aircraft fuselage with no wings or tail, and no windows or lights. It was hovering. The first officer reported it to ground control and was acknowledged. A couple of years later he met the crew again at Sale RAAF Base VIC at evening dinner and they refused to discuss the event excusing themselves saying they had reported the sighting but were not permitted to discuss it.
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So Dennis, if there are UFOs I have to ask where do they come from and how did they get here?
Alpha Centauri star(s) are the closest to our solar system and are about 4.4 light years away and at our best time to date it would take about 70 K to 240 K years to make the trip.
Even Mars would be too long a voyage for Humans and average temp is about minus -60 c and thin atmosphere is about 95% co2.
How would Humans live there and breathe while they carried out their experiments?
And what happens when they suffer an illness?
Would any sane person really sign up for the journey?
https://www.bing.com/search?q=how+would+we+breathe+on+mars&cvid=b95eb2ffd7ad4d0aa7c8484503cb2ea0&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQkyMDM3NmowajSoAgiwAgE&FORM=ANAB01&PC=U531
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‘ …. how did they get here?’
Forget everything we know about distance, their crafts can materialise and dematerialise instantaneously. They can travel at speeds in the atmosphere and underwater faster than anything we can produce.
We already know that from the sightings by US military. Do you believe the pyramids were constructed by humans using conventional technology?
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Consider from the perspective of a building and construction industry qualified person’s visit and amazement at the stonework at Machu Pichhu South Peru and still talks about the skills required to achieve such perfect joining and preparing, let alone lifting the stonework, and to add to the mystery the material was quarried a long way from the mountain site and somehow carried on walking trails on the side of mountains.
There are examples of this technology and skills in various ancient ruins elsewhere.
I remember when the Aswan Dam on the Nile River in Egypt was constructed the authorities had to decide to flood ancient structures because modern equipment and technology could not move them.
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Here is a recent theory that doesn’t require aliens or anti gravity devices.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70853356/mystery-of-the-great-pyramid/
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The Baalbek Stones offer irrefutable proof that we are not alone.
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Thats the trouble with most ufo / alien discussions, they are framed in human boundaries and limitations, as if we are the be all and end all of the universe. I mean , if we can’t see it, it can’t exist, right?
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Just remember that you’re standing..
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Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
It’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go – the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is
So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on earth
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‘Would any sane person really sign up for the journey?’
Humanoid robots would set up a camp on Phobos in preparation for the astronauts. The moon travels close to the Martian surface so that is a big plus in future exploration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)#/media/File:Stickney_mro.jpg
Inside the crater I visualise a domed covered space station with fresh air and water.
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What are people’s thoughts on Captain Cathie and his work on a world energy grid providing energy for UFO travel and enormous speed?
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His ideas had merit and I like his wit.
Cathie stated that “a number of people who knew me professionally and otherwise considered the possibility that my mind had become unhinged”. (wiki)
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Back in the 1970’s I read Harmonic 33 and Harmonic 695 and established in my mind that the author was likely insane but very entertaining.
Tables of logarithms had been his principal text in the first book wherein he derived his grid akin to ley lines; in the second mentioned book he encountered a martian riding as a passenger on his flight, plus he proved the unified field theory in under two pages of arithmetic in which no derived line was without simple error.
Until searching on his books just now I was unaware of 1997’s The Energy Grid but I shall get a copy and see where thirty years development took him.
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It would be a one way trip, after living on Mars for any length of time, Gravity would kill you when you returned.
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Mmmm it’s a lot like “renewable” energy. With the current technology set its doomed to failure.
At the moment energy can be strung out with assorted band aids. Mars looks impractical on a range of fronts, returning is the ridiculous extreme.
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“All physical laws such as Newton’s Laws of Motion and the Drag Equation plus Fermi’s Paradox suggest against claimed observations of UFOs as extraterrestrial or even terrestrial phenomena.”
The hubris! 97% of scientists believed the world was flat a short time back, and we have to follow the consensus… Just because we can’t build a flying saucer doesn’t mean they don’t exist!
It won’t be the first time our knowledge has been built on false assumptions called laws, its like engineers in 1930 saying you can never fly faster than the speed of sound.
Fermi may be cute, but why would anyone believe that of the billions of planets in the universe, THIS is the only one with life?? Unless you’re an ardent religionist that believes the whole lot was made by a God with this planet being special, our environment must be replicated over and over again.
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There is also the possibility that life is abundant but we are not equipped to detect or recognise it.
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And therein lies the problem – the speed of light, and the time it takes for a signal to travel to even the nearest planet with possible life.
Quantum entanglement and wormholes are the only solutions.
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>…are the only solutions
Maybe something like, “seem to be the only two solutions”, or, “are the only two solutions apparent to us in the absence of a new revolution in physics.”
I was taught to avoid making absolute statements and claims in science.
It risks appearing hubristic and over-confident, ignoring that science deals with uncertainty because evidence can be incomplete or provisional, and seemingly all-encompassing theories can have unexplained exceptions or as-yet undiscovered exceptions.
I was taught it’s more accurate to use qualifiers, signaling that a statement is tentative and open to revision with new data, and that a cautious, evidence-based, less dogmatic approach better reflects how scientific knowledge evolves.
See also, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn 1962
That’s the intriguing aspect of these reported phenomena. That they imply our current state of physics knowledge might be inadequate.
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“All physical laws such as Newton’s Laws of Motion and the Drag Equation …”
Observation of 3I/Atlas suggests its not a rock and impressed scientists when it threaded the needle of the the Hill Radius.
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As Albert Einstein might have said:
“Space-Time is not just curved; it is BENT”.
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Matt Gaetz reveals he was briefed on secret alien breeding program | RISING
The Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuxzOBz8t1M
‘Former Congressman Matt Gaetz says he was briefed by a member of the Army on a secret human-alien breeding program’.
Half of our Congress and media may be half alien.
Explains a lot.
I’m figuring snake adjacent reptilians.
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Rep Tim Burchett‘s Disturbing Response to Matt Gaetz claiming the Military is Breeding Aliens:
https://rumble.com/v77zh34-rep-tim-burchetta-disturbing-response-to-matt-gaetz-claiming-the-military-i.html?e9s=src_v1_eh_cs&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJTruth
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Some of the NASA and MIT scientists have appeared on podcasts including ‘Redacted News’. The suppressed information held by Trump is thought to be proof that electrons, protons and quarks do not and cannot exist. The information falsifies the standard atomic and quantum models, proving them as built on a foundational error. Photons are not real, light is not a particle but a wave that moves through a magnetic medium. The Universe is Built from a Single type of Particle, the ‘Magnetic Dipole’ of tiny magnets with a north and south pole. Only dipoles can be stable and self-consistent at every scale. Quantum mechanics is therefore falsified. Every atomic and subatomic process, including nuclear energy releases, are simply magnetic repulsion events, not splitting electrons.
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Someone better pull the Ipcress File and call Harry Palmer.
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Despite all I said above, one of my favourite science fiction TV programs of all time was Gerry Anderson’s UFO.
https://youtu.be/j2PoXfZdYVU
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Spielberg has a new film out in June, Disclosure Day. The teaser doesn’t appeal so I won’t put it up.
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What would aliens think of all our genders?
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2039729568890679610
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So three groups after all. If you include woke people.
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Another transition away from fossil fuels item;
Australia bought the crude in 2020 for A$94 million and stored it cheaply in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to meet IEA rules during pandemic lows. The government sold it in June 2022 amid IEA calls to ease Ukraine invasion fuel shortages, profiting from price spikes—though the revenue went unannounced publicly. The move happened under the new Labor government but was pledged earlier by the Coalition, sparking back-and-forth accusations online while highlighting Australia’s slim fuel buffers today.
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Yesterday in the People’s Undemoratik Republik of Viktoriastan I saw a Government billboard suggesting people take only four minute showers to save water.
F*** them!
They should have built the required extra dams.
In any case I usually take a bath which uses a healthy 200 litres or so of water.
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You will be accused of being a Climate Sceptic and wasting water.
Your only defence might be to claim you are resist the increased levels due to ice melting.
Let me see. In 1958 Arctic ice was going to melt soon and glaciers in the Park (Montana) would be gone in 50 years (after several claims those glaciers would all melt by then).
After the subsequent scare about the coming Ice Age, Ice was going to melt rapidly, causing parts of London, New York and most of The Netherlands going underwater. Also, cheered on by Trump haters, the shores of Florida. They even put up Signs in Glacier National Park about the glaciers going within 10 years, followed by removing those signs about 10 years later (although I understand that many still hope they will disappear real soon).
You can claim that any increase in Polar ice is due to your ablutions.
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Yes.
With the looming fuel shortage, I suggested over a week ago that combined with “working from home” and “saving fuel for essential services (NOTE: that includes journos)”, it will become socially dangerous for an older male to drive alone on a highway. This will be called out as SELFISH – when the fuel shortage becomes truly critical, driving for purposes other than work, medical etc will be subject to covid-like police attention.
Brussels have already begun that process for EU countries.
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Consider Albanese Labor and EU Government recent Trade Agreement and reported terms and conditions including, and reinforcing UN agreements and agendas, use of land in Australia and meeting the Glasgow 2021 net zero emissions.
And since Rudd Labor and Gillard Labor 2007-2013 the Renewable Energy Target legislation and regulations also backed up by Federation of State Governments that under Constitutional Laws created the Federal/Commonwealth Government of Australia.
Transition away from fossil fuels
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Has anyone determined how much water goes down the drain while you wait for the hot water to come out?
A redesign is in order.
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There was a guy on the ABC Inventors that had a solution to that problem. It was a small tank inline to your water lines, when you turn on the hot, the initial cold water in the hot line diverted to this tank until it detected the hot water. Once this was detected it would then allow the hot water out to your outlet. The diverted “hot” water was then used when you turn on your cold water. Trouble was you needed to have this installed at every hot water outlet in your home, adding some cost. How much water/energy was saved? probably not enough to make it worth your while.
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There is a pump that can be plumbed into a vanity or kitchen sink, whichever is furthest from the HWS, it recircs water from the hot tap back through the cold water pipe, to the HWS resulting in no loss of water and hot hater at the service you are using.
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JC, about 3 litres at mine.
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Major hotels have had that sorted for over 100 years. Continuously circulating hot water, not a one way trip where the first water is always cold. Rather every hot tap in every room and every floor produces hot water immediately.
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That would save water but at a much higher energy usage. For hotels in cold countries it probably makes sense because they were going to have to heat the place anyhow and instant hot water will make the customers happy and reduce complaints.
For Australia the extra heat costs you electricity to keep all the pipes hot, then costs more electricity to run air conditioning and keep the room cool again.
My suggestion is one of the little gas heaters and have only a short distance from the heater to where you use it. Having one small heater for the kitchen and another small one for bathroom is fine, because then the guy turning on taps in the kitchen won’t generate shouts of rage from the bathroom … which is what normally happens.
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Remember those plastic egg timers we got in the mail in QLD when the water frenzy was going full throttle, I tossed mine in the bin.
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David!! Swear jar! Most unlike you. It’s getting very annoying eh?
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Didn’t the State of Victoria buy a gigantic multi billion $$$ desalination plant? Or shouldn’t that also be mentioned by the Victorian government?
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Should we worry more about cold deaths or heat deaths or should we just make energy as cheap as we can for the poor?
In the USA cold deaths outnumber heat deaths by about 12 times, so shouldn’t we provide the cheapest and most reliable base-load energy ASAP for every country?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/30/inconvenient-data-in-a-warming-world-rising-cold-deaths-outnumber-heat-deaths-12-to-1/
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Cold deaths from energy poverty are much greater than hot deaths, also caused by energy poverty.
In the UK:
https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/cold-homes-are-still-killing-people-in-fuel-poverty/
https://www.nea.org.uk/news/fuel-poverty-charity-reveals-45-people-per-day-die-from-cold-homes/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629626000010
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crsp/our-research/fuel-poverty-and-terminal-illness/
Even Australia’s ABC admits to UK cold deaths due to energy poverty
And can you believe, even Australia’s Lunatic Left “The Conversation” admits to it. Deaths in Australia.
Even the Leftist “The Lsncet” admits to it.
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GLOBALLY and HISTORICALLY, COLD has killed more people (and animals) than “Heat”.
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Let us to day Remember the reason for the season. A Man, who through his suffering and death gifted us all with a promise of eternal life.
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Good comment
seriously
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Thankyou Coochin Kid.
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The promise that keeps on giving, so long as you do…
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Perhaps specify what giving you are talking about.
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FWIW
“Stolen land?”
“The Canadian host of the Daily Objective and America lawyer James Valliant weigh in on the subjects of indigenous rights, property rights, genocide, reparations and touch on today’s nearly obligatory nods to land acknowledgements at every public event. Warning: no political correctness to be found here.
Valliant has this to say about the history of indigenous culture:
“The three most important words in history are: compared to what?” ”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/03/01/stolen-land/
And
” Stolen land, part 2.”
“More on the tyranny of land acknowledgement”
https://www.newenglishreview.org/more-on-the-tyranny-of-land-acknowledgement/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/02/thursday-on-turtle-island-191/
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AND – how far can you go?
“ABORIGINAL RIGHTS!”
“Few people understand this historical nuance, but the indigenous people of the Moon are the “Americans”, a scrappy minority tribe from planet earth that first arrived on this desolate rock in earth-year 1969.
We must respect these original settlers and their right to the land.”
https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2039596016807153704
And
“I want Canadians to land on the moon just so that their first words on the surface are forced to be a land acknowledgment to the native indigenous people of the United States.”
https://x.com/The_Archdude/status/2039733590016360836
Via https://instapundit.com/787039/#disqus_thread
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Have been visiting a local large suburban hospital recently and the endless aboriginal words over every dept are somewhat over done, Walk in the front door, greeted with an alleged word for welcome. Every floor another “welcome”, paintings as traditionally taught by a white bloke some time ago adorn the walls, requests for advise if you are aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander are every where. Why? Does this entitle you to different treatment? I would have thought that “colonial” medicine would have been welcomed in societies where even minor conditions resulted in long and painful death. Maybe the signs should say “welcome to ALL people, if you are grateful for modern medicine say thank you to a Pom!
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I’m sick of this garbage.
There’s acknowlegment texts to traditional land owners in my local bank branch, at the entrance to the shopping centre and in some stores within the shopping centre. Some stores even have audio acknowledgements over their indoor PA systems.
Enough!
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“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, social justice.”
– Thomas Sowell
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Also Thomas Sowell:
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination”
Very astute chap!
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FWIW
“The Strait of Hormuz’s Bitter Lesson for the European Union”
“The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz reveals a truth that many European policymakers have ignored: Humanity remains structurally dependent on oil. This reality, first highlighted during the 1973 oil shortage and reinforced by the 1979 version – triggered by Iran – continues to be neglected, even openly dismissed, by certain political elites.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/01/the-strait-of-hormuzs-bitter-lesson-for-the-european-union/
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In a different world Oz might get its oil from Russia with less trouble?
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Or we could produce our own from the known oil sources in Australia.
Then refine it here like we used to.
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The oil pipe line from Siberia to China is operational, so we could buy Russian oil when the war ends.
In the meantime, there is a seismic shift taking place.
‘UK to approve first major North Sea gas field project in decade.
‘Energy secretary Ed Miliband is expected to give the green light to drilling as the Iran war and energy security fears force a shift in government policy.’ )Oz)
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I like Trump.
His survival and return seem to my small mind seem a near divine miracle.
Have to admit I was hoping to experience a few of my last years when my government was not bombing something.
Just a few weeks before our new air campaign, I was finally beginning to notice food prices coming down after slow lagging fuel price reductions.
And started to feel positive about things for the first time since before Scamdemic.
Now, even if trump has near perfect success, it will probably take a couple of years for fuel prices to trend down and push food prices back down.
This and structural legalized Democrat election fraud, likely assures a return to a Democrat controlled Congress.
(Even without the new war, the Democrats were probably going to retake Congress anyway.)
If you ask me, and no one does, the Democrats have become theocratic apocalyptic crazies little different than the mullahs of Iran.
The impeachment Clown Car Parade will be full tilt back to center ring after midterms.
And a Woke theocracy will dominate my government.
We will have no Trump like outsider Prester John to sweep in with his righteous army from distant lands to save us.
(I hope the Iranians at least get a chance for freedom).
Our act to free them, if that’s what it actually is, will likely cost many Americans theirs.
Many Democrats are calling for the prosecution of Trump supporters for the crime of supporting Trump.
Prompting even more flight to seek refuge in Red states.
Alas I am too old and poor to flee.
And though my own father, sacrificed the flower and considerable promise of his youth to help free it, I don’t give an F about Europe.
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FWIW
“Low Intensity Tornado Wrecks Major Solar Farm, Creating A Potential Toxic Dump”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/02/low-intensity-tornado-wrecks-major-solar-farm-creating-a-potential-toxic-dump/
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LOL, not only are solar farms weather dependent, they are weather vulnerable, can’t have it both ways.
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FWIW
“About those “donut” spare tires and wheels…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/about-those-donut-spare-tires-and-wheels.html
“Another problem is that regular car wheels are manufactured, reinforced and stressed to handle forces such as acceleration, cornering, minor bumps and potholes, etc. On the other hand, donut spare wheels are produced by simply stamping the wheel out of sheet metal. They’re not designed for extreme use. The vehicle manufacturers warn buyers about that, recommending a maximum speed of 50 mph and maximum distance of not more than 50 miles. In other words, the donut spare is designed to get the vehicle to a place where it can be repaired, and no further. ”
That seems to mean that they are hardly a spare for much of inland Australia?
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Some cars don’t even have a spare or even space for one, but rely on expensive “run flat” tyres which have only limited repairability (and won’t survive major damage in any case, so you’ll have to be towed), such as my friend’s Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I carry a can of tyre foam. Smaller still.
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After I unsuccessfully tried to get a very expensive half-wheel replacement in a hurry, for the last 7-8 years we going around with it.
As per “specialist advice” bought a puncture repair kit for $15.
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Sorry – I meant “without”.
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Special thanks to Jo and moderators for keeping this blog alive.
Very Happy Easter to everyone.
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And for the Forensic buffs out there:
https://othonia.org/deep-dives-article/the-forensics-of-crucifixion/
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Wishing a meaningful and carefree Pesach and Easter to all. L’chaim.
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FWIW
“2026 – The Great Reformulation” of food
Starts at
“Now I’ll connect the Moon mission to health. (This is the kind of insightful, candy-striped dot-connecting you only get in C&C.) ”
“Yesterday, NBC reported the delicious news that, “Hershey to resume using chocolate in most products; Reese’s grandson may taste sweet victory.” The subheadline explained, “The company will use ‘classic milk and dark chocolate recipes’ in all Reese’s and Hershey’s products after Brad Reese went viral for calling out the candymaker.” ”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/reformulated-thursday-april-2-2026?
And other things
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On that occasion just rewatched a great educational video about Race to the Moon.
With all my childish infatuation to the subject I hope that IA development will end that race for good.
Just think – the F1 engine was burning Kero at 2500 kg/sec in order to raise the payoad, only about 4% of total weight.
I hope I remember numbers correctly.
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Like this?
“This Kid Gets It! One … Ahem … Outspoken Youngster Tells CNN Exactly Why Artemis II Is So Cool”
“Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch: ”
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2039443777719283920
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/04/01/this-kid-gets-it-one-ahem-outspoken-youngster-tells-cnn-exactly-why-the-artemis-mission-is-cool-n2426716
Via https://instapundit.com/786957/#disqus_thread
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FWIW – and
“Recall issued for chocolates containing potentially ‘life-threatening’ amounts of Viagra”
https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/04/02/recall-issued-chocolates-containing-potentially-life-threatening-amounts-viagra/
Via https://instapundit.com/787118/#disqus_thread
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What?
No remarks about Easter and rabbits?
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FWIW
Something happened!
“Radical Islamic Preacher Who Praised Hitler Deported from Australia”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/04/01/radical-islamic-preacher-who-praised-hitler-deported-from-australia/
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SA election happed.
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Surely you don’t expect free speech in this ‘democracy’??
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Friday funny: what if Iran funded the wellbeing of its people?
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2039738442368549294
Gotta laugh. They did JUST THAT before the USA toppled the govt in 1953 to control the oil.
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Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the industry is collapsing.
All told, shuttered insect farming startups account for almost half of all investment into the industry. “Things have gone from bad to worse for the big insect factory business model,” one insect farming CEO said late last year in a YouTube video
“The human food market, basically, has not materialized,” Dustin Crummett, a philosopher and executive director of The Insect Institute—a nonprofit that researches the environmental and animal welfare implications of large-scale insect agriculture—told me. “Only a tiny fraction of farmed insects are used for human food.”
According to a 2024 analysis published in the journal Food and Humanity and co-authored by Crummett, the cost of insect meal is about 10 times that of soybean meal and 3.5 times that of fishmeal, a major cost gap that is unlikely to narrow anytime soon.
Insect meal is so expensive, in part, because feeding insects is expensive.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/bugs-insect-farming-industry-startups-collapsing-meat-protein-substitutes-livestock/
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“Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the industry is collapsing.”
Soylent Green production must be sorted then.
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Good Friday to all and praise be to
©️climate change©️
for giving us a beautiful summer’s day in early April as the moon set in the west and the sun rose in the east in perfectly balanced syzygy… Amen.
As for man-made madness, others have mentioned this mob before yet they deserve another drubbing before they take even more of our paper / plastic / digital money for the planet’s sake:
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org
Originally invented by a West German woman and a Dutchman born the same year as yours truly – who recently died, not because of CCC™️ but the dreaded big ‘C’ – the WWA use computer models to ‘attribute’ any rain, fire, wind, tidal anomaly to humanity’s use of ‘carbon’ and, having plucked a percentage out of phat air, commence legal actions against industries, manufacturers, and/or governments, to squeeze as much moolah / compensation out of them as possible.
There are numerous words to describe this form of ‘climate action’, however the least offensive term I can think of is ‘racket’ – an organisation for making immoral profits. The planet is fine: leave it alone and get a real job… Awoman.
[NB. Heard the above German lawyer interviewed on the radio yesterday and she was not very convincing although some weepy teenage girls may have fallen for her tricks]. Have a happy Easter weekend! 🐇
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Visit to orbit the Moon and gathering information for the planned Space Station to be in orbit in the not distant future, plan for a Moon Base for Mars travel from Earth return.
However, the reason I understand that the space race countries have primarily is to use robot earthmoving machinery to load Moon soil into an automated factory that using the heat of day and freezing overnight temperatures to harvest Helium-3 and liquify for transport to Earth to use a fuel in a reactor of the uranium, thorium molten salts evolution. China calls it the perfect fuel.
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Is that fission or fusion?
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Fusion-
https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/explaining-helions-fusion-fuel-choice-d-he-3/
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High Church of Climate Change congregations I understand chant after every sermon “God willing weather permitting”.
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Data Centers causing huge temperature spikes for miles around them, study suggests
The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures for miles around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, new research suggests. The effect is so pronounced that the researchers say they’re creating entire “heat islands.”
When they mapped their locations against regional temperature data over the past 20 years collected by satellites, a clear pattern emerged. Land surface temperatures, meaning the heat of the ground itself rather than the air or climate, increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center went online in an area — and in the most extreme cases, the temperature surged by an extraordinary 16 degrees.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20897
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I’m picturing gliders and eagles riding the thermal over one of them.
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A data centre has been ‘fast-tracked’ for Southland – the bottom of NZ in the Roaring Forties – so some locals will be looking forward to the warmer heat island effect while others are more concerned about the hijacking of Lake Manapouri’s hydro-electricity presently used, solely, for Tiwai aluminium smelter, an Alcoa (?) Rio Tinto conglomerate.
When briefly living in the Bluff 20 years ago – across the harbour from Tiwai – most locals were eagerly awaiting the rumoured ™️global warming™️ which was supposed to turn Southland into NZ’s Riviera yet, being a town of down-to-earth fishing folk of mainly Scottish-Maori descent, they took the academic city ex-spurts’ advice with a pinch of salt: two decades later they’re still waiting for the heatwave.
Meanwhile it’s muttonbird* season and families are out on the windswept islets off Stewart Island’s inhospitable southwest coast plucking titi chicks from their underground nests to boil-up for the coming winter months: mmm, salty fatty mutton 😋
[In Southland vernacular: muttonburrids].
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Mmmmm, Mutton birds. Definitely an acquired taste. ( I have acquired the taste) only legally taken in Tassie these days. At least birders in New Zealand can reach into burrows without the excitement of pulling out a big tiger snake. Takes the thrill out of it I suppose.
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Them lil birdies bite! Not being a member of the tribe(s) I never got an invite to go but friends who were cuzzie bros dropped off birds to my girlfriend & I to munch on and they bore the scars of sooty shearwater beaks: I’ve seen video of the catches and their squawks are the most other-worldly screams… but after 3-4 days’ boiling & draining the fat, mmm mmm… a pleasant change from blue cod, turbot, oysters, more blue cod 😃
Miss the seafood / kai moana, not the climate 🥶
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Perfect spot for a BOM weather station.
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No way to run a railroad.
ATM SA is generating only 40% of demand but still have -ve $100 wholesale price.
PRICE UNDER REVISION
-$100.00
DEMAND VS GENERATION
603
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ENSO is neutral after a weak La Nina.
‘Most international forecast models, including the Bureau of Meteorology’s model, expect El Niño conditions to emerge sometime between late-autumn and late-winter and then persist into the second half of the year.
‘Some forecast models also suggest the possibility of a strong El Niño, or super El Niño, developing later this year. However, the strength of an El Niño does not always reflect the strength of its influence on Australian weather.’ (Weatherzone)
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Giulia Tofana is a historical figure associated in later accounts with the poison known as Aqua Tofana. Modern scholarship disputes many details of her life. Historians point to Giulia Tofana dying in her sleep in 1651, with no one aware of any poisoning activities, has led to tales that she died in 1659, or 1709, or 1730 and that over 600 husbands or inconvenient lovers died from arsenic poisoning. Supposedly the poison was applied to lips or pudenda and any passion was fatal.
Cathryn Kemp asks. Her novel, A Poisoner’s Tale, is a dark retelling of Giulia’s story. She is the legendary serial killer you may not have heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STV76YlAtEs
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FWIW
“COVID SIX YEARS AGO TODAY: “They got covid 100% wrong,” Don Surber wrote on Boxing Day of 2022:”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/12/they-got-covid-100-wrong.html
“Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate “experts” as “crazy people”.”
https://x.com/pmarca/status/1774547701516152889
Via https://instapundit.com/782336/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED:”
“Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth
And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working”
https://x.com/ShishirShelke1/status/2039761932581015916
Via https://instapundit.com/787213/#disqus_thread
And don’t miss the comments there
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More here
“Artemis II crew faces Microsoft Outlook hitch hours after takeoff”
And other problems
“It’s not immediately clear when the glitch was resolved.
The four-person crew, three Americans and one Canadian, have encountered multiple gaffes since liftoff, including a clog in the high-tech lunar loo.
“The toilet fan is reported to be jammed,” NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said during live mission commentary, according to Space.com. “Now the ground teams are coming up with instructions on how to get into the fan and clear that area to revive the toilet for the mission.” ”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/science/artemis-ii-crew-stalled-by-microsoft-outlook-blunders-hours-after-takeoff/
Via https://instapundit.com/787199/#disqus_thread
And the “Love of Microsoft” in comments there too
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Having a female on board is bound to be bad luck, the loo bunging up is the first.
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Hope they followed sailors’ protocol and banned bananas from the ship – and whistling 😗 🎶 Live renditions of Pink Floyd are OK however 🎸
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FWIW
“The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World”
“Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose of reality.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/02/the-iran-war-reveals-who-is-living-in-a-fantasy-world/
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‘If this turns out to be the event that breaks the net zero nonsense, so much the better.’
Yep, the war is having an impact to the point where Net Zero is not going to be an election issue.
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Over looked by those with with TDS, planned for or not, it is driving a stake through Nutz Zero, and the UN.
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Solar farm destroyed by nature.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/04/02/low-intensity-tornado-wrecks-major-solar-farm-creating-a-potential-toxic-dump/
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Dr Willie Soon on heatwaves:
https://x.com/WatchGorillaSci/status/2039670293501776254
1m 40s video
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“Reza Pahlavi Shares Names of Young Iranian Freedom Protesters Whom the Regime Killed”
“Exiled Persian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi shared the names of some of the young people whom the Iranian regime massacred simply for criticizing that regime. And Pahlavi also highlighted the religious persecution in Iran as Passover begins and Easter approaches.
“In America, students debate ideas. In Iran, students bleed for them,” Pahlavi told a crowd at Liberty University. After listing some of the victims, he warned the Trump administration, “America must be clear. There is no negotiating with evil.” Finally, Pahlavi described the harsh persecution of Christians in Iran and urged Americans to support a totally renewed Iran, one with political and religious freedom, one where young people would have a future.
Between 30,000 and 40,000 Persians died in the bloody regime crackdown on freedom protestors in January. It was the greatest slaughter in recent world history. A little over a month later, American and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury. And we should not forget those who died in the protests. ”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/01/reza-pahlavi-shares-names-of-young-iranian-freedom-protesters-whom-the-regime-killed-n4951343
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“It was the greatest slaughter in recent world history. ”
Its true, believe me… the evidence has been locked away, but we know its true..
Quoted from an un-named official who spoke on terms of anonymity due to security reasons. The Crown Prince is certainly keen to get power, although he’ll probably rule from New York, or an American base in Iran once he’s really really sure its safe! So much for ‘No Kings’..
Ah, talk about ridiculous propaganda!
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FWIW
As the potential Labour Minister for Transport in “How to win an election or not lose by very much” had it –
“Its’s all a matter of plannin'”
“Specially For Dodge Charger
Drivers can buy any Canadian-made electric vehicle they like over $50,000 to qualify for rebates so long as it’s a Dodge Charger, records show. The Charger made in Windsor, Ont. will be the only eligible model by year’s end under terms of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s program: “What makes and models of vehicles currently produced in Canada qualify?” ”
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/02/thursday-on-turtle-island-191/
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