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Will this heroic Australian finally bring the covid criminals to justice?: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/will-this-heroic-australian-finally-bring-the-covid-criminals-to-justice/
Jayden Beale, is single-handedly bringing what he hopes to be the largest human rights case in the world: one that will finally show how governments experimented on the general public with drugs that were neither proved safe or effective: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/COVID-19
Australia may prove to be the country where the dam finally bursts: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Australia/National_COVID-19_Coordination_Commission
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The Covid criminals will be brought to justice.
What say ye?
Upvote = yes.
Downvote = no.
FB votes no.
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It may be a case of Hopium vs Reality but I have voted Ye.
The evidence of vaccine harms continues to increase and more people are aware now than was the case 2 years ago.
13 very impressive expert witnesses have filed reports with the court and the QLD government has failed to file any refuting evidence.
The court may find a reason not to hear the case (which is usually its first inclination) but it depends on how the Human Rights Act is worded.
The dam is leaky so it could break.
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The government words its laws so loosely that they are open to a wide interpretation so they can use them basically indiscriminately. For once this may be their undoing.
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As one crisis ends, another begins, and the last one becomes irrelevant.
So it is now.
Maybe those historical inverted-L wooden thingies are dual purpose? 😎
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Thrilled to see the crisis of Iran over for now. But the journalists cannot see thing achieved, which is quite amazing.
Incredibly the entire mass murdering management of the IGRC has been killed at minimum loss of life on both sides, beheading the snake after 50 years of hell for the Iranian people.
Think Bataclan, Manchester, Bondi, Nice and all those young lives in Iran, snuffed out.
There is an agreement to jointly remove the enriched uranium, the core issue for world peace.
The nuclear weapons program is stopped completely and the very obvious threat of dirty bombs delivered by missile
The hidden slaughter of 30,000 young people has stopped and the public hangings, the morality police.
Iran has a chance to rebuild differently.
Iran has also been exposed as plotting total war not only the utter destruction of Israel but of America.
They still has vast numbers of missiles ready under hundreds of schools and hospitals in many locations, as is their morality. War crimes of course, like hostage taking.
The quiet extortion of all countries has stopped. No one dared make a move or say a thing because of the great importance of the Straits and world oil supply. And now their own big Muslim communities.
The existence of two stage RCBMs has been exposed by the two missiles launched to Diego Garcia, missiles which could obliterate the British Houses of Parliament in one stroke
and threaten all of Europe and Asia. Commentators actually believed the Ayatollah’s televised promises that no Iranian missile would exceed 2,000km. He told many lies.
Now there is a path forward for all of the Middle East with the Abraham Accords, especially Saudi Arabia but also rogue Shiite states like former Iran ally Qatar.
Funding to Gaza and Hezbollah and the Houthis has stopped, and Lebanon and Syria have a chance to rebuild at last.
Yes, Iran can charge for safe passage, a very small cost relative to the value of the cargo. But this also means they stop being a permanent menace and now have a vested interest in maintaining the
safety of the strait, as with Panama and Suez, both choke points with charges. Both sides can now stop the flow of oil but the threat affects Iran as well
The Gulf states will start building pipelines to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and even a channel around the straits, even if of debatable value with accurate missiles.
Many ongoing wars will have stopped with the change, not just the obvious ones, but funded attacks including those in Australia as the sneering former Ambassador left.
In Australia, the absolute nonsense and waste of windmills and solar panels and transmission lines and Snowy II and energy superpower rubbish has been exposed. Nett nothing was our destiny driven by Green stupidity. No jobs, no manufacturing, no food.
And with Anti Semitism getting an established funded foothold in Australian society and most other countries, just like the 1930s. That’s over.
We will get a new Venezuela, a new Iran. Whether they are really better remains to be seen but at least the US is not trying to remake countries in their own image, as in previous wars.
Simply because it doesn’t work, even if it did work under the Marshall plan.
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So there is plenty to celebrate with continuing caution. Still even the Australian cannot see how Donald Trump achieved anything. Which sounds like wilful blindness.
It’s as if Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler were all assassinated in November 1939 and the Luftwaffe was destroyed.
Meanwhile the NY Times headline says Trump ‘backed down’. From whom?
It all shows that if you want a very hard negotiation done with total b*stards, you send in your best negotiator, your hardest, richest veteran real estate businessman, not a 40 year insignificant backbencher like Joe Biden or a extremist sympathizer like slick lawyer Barack Hussein Obama. You send in your hardest man with a smile on his face, someone who cannot be fooled. And they knew it. You will find the bombers were in the air when the call was made. Backed down? No.
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Commentators actually believed the Ayatollah’s televised promises that no Iranian missile would exceed 2,000km. He told many lies.
The same commentators who found it convenient to believe that there was no way, not the slightest possibility, of Iran developing a nuclear weapon because the Ayatollah had delivered a fatwa against it. Despite the regime spending years of massive effort and billions on development and concealment of all the components: the explosive compression, metallurgy, enrichment technology, producing large quantities of threshold HEU – and the deception around the NPT inspection requirements.
Perhaps Ayatollahs are naive clerics, insulated from the naughty world by their holiness, who simply don’t recognise the evil being done around them. Shirley that must be it.
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“Commentators actually believed the Ayatollah’s televised promises that no Iranian missile would exceed 2,000km. He told many lies.”
Taqiya much ?
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Amazing isn’t that more wasnt made of that incident isn’t? You would think they would have splashed radar tracks and independent verification across the media. A missed opportunity.
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…alongside the great triumphal photo opportunities of the F15 crewman rescued…
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Israel has already broken the agreement.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/iran-and-us-at-odds-over-ceasefire-terms/106544598
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Israel is in a separate war against Iranian proxy Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon who have been firing rockets at Israel.
It is disputed by Pakistan and Iran plus Their ABC (Australia), hardly trustworthy peace partners or reporters, whether that is part of the ceasefire agreement or not. No one asked Hezbollah for a ceasefire…
I don’t see why it should be part of the ceasefire agreement because if Israel disengages, Hezbollah will initiate hostilities again and Israel has an absolute right to defend itself.
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It is a call for help from Hezbollah, Iran’s proxies who are unwelcome occupiers of Southern Lebanon. They could always go home. But it is an admission that Iran includes these militants and other militants in the ceasefire. And may be encouraged by the negative press Trump is receiving in the US. There may even be an action against CNN who have published an entirely fabricated claim from Nigeria. A lot of the US media is utterly against any success by Donald Trump, but acting falsely against the US President in a time of crisis is well past bad reporting. There may be serious indefensible claims of treason this time at the levels of Lord Haw Haw.
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Wasn’t the ceasefire just for Iran, pending opening the Straits of Hormuz. ?
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My understanding is that Lebanon was included in the Iranian list, and that that list was accepted by the US as the basis for the ceasefire, but apparently without Israel’s agreement, even though the attack against Iran was by both the US and Israel.
So confusion reigns.
Is the ceasefire nullified by the Israeli action? I suspect the answer is yes.
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The proxies that are funded and otherwise supported by Iran are separate terrorist organisations in various countries, the tentacles of the Iran octopus but when cut off continue to operate.
The Axis of Evil.
Iran is supported by others, Russia, China, North Korea and so on.
The ceasefire and terms and conditions apparently accepted subject to confirmation and application cannot possible bind proxies
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In the other Axis of Evil, is America or Israel the proxy??
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But the Strait isn’t fully open.
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Marine traffic is only showing one recent exit of a bulk carrier. Panama registered with Chinese crew.
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No, they didn’t. They ceased operations against Iran but their separate feud with Hezbollah in Lebanon continues.
The media, unsurprisingly, has taken Iran’s side, not because they like the Iranian regime, but because they hate Trump. This is why every article about the war characterises every aspect as a mistake by Trump.
I read somewhere that the Democrats are once again setting up an impeachment effort, this time because Trump broke ‘international law’.
We are fast losing our democracies in the west.
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“Redthumbs you may get, but tell the truth you must”
– Yoda 😁
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Sadly, this is because the Strait is within the 12nm territorial limit of both Oman and Iran and is not considered international waters.
Oman does not charge a fee but Iran does charge a fee for “inspections” of about US$1 per barrel of oil, about US$1 to US$2 million per ship. The whole arrangement is of questionable or disputed legality.
Iran has signed but not ratified the UNCLOS convention which is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which would otherwise enable vessels free passage for “innocent transit” or “transit passage”.
The Strait is used by exporters from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have oil pipelines which can bypass the Strait.
There is a proposal to build a huge canal that can accommodate supertankers through Oman or UAE, which are slightly less untrustworthy countries than Iran, to bypass the Strait completely.
Shipping lanes can be seen here:
https://share.google/7YCZ3f1tTh8Lq3Dwp
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There is already a pipe carrying 10% of the oil to the Red Sea, well away from either Strait. It’s far cheaper to duplicate this pipe and avoid both straits. The new canal would cost $Tn1. Multiple pipes would be better, especially if underground. In the end the only ones critically dependent on the Straits of Hormuz would be Iran and the whole thing can be flipped.
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I had not heard of that proposal. Looking at the map it seems that a quite short canal through to northern tip of Oman would suffice. It is almost an island already.
I don’t know why the current shipping lane goes so close to Iran?
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Its where the deep water is
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Not so apparently.
Tankers could hug the Oman coast quite closely.
Not sure why they don’t do that.
https://www.strausscenter.org/strait-of-hormuz-geography/#:~:text=The%20strait%20has%20two%20traffic%20separation%20schemes:,Musa%20*%20Greater%20Tunb%20*%20Lesser%20Tunb
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It may already be mined. Part of the incentive to pay toll may be to avoid the minefields.
Some mines may be remote arming and then sensitive to ship passage. It would be a major effort to clear the Strait of mines.
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Donald Trump speaking in middle-eastern-style hyperbole committed a war crime. Iran’s proxies murdering Israelis and housing their military under schools and hospitals did not. Even if the threat from Iran gets removed, the threat from the marched-through institutions is still there.
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Just placing major military installations with your own children and the sick as shields against attack is against the Geneva convention and every social convention. We saw it in Gaza where they also had bunkers under the UNWRA offices with access. So much for the UN. But in the Middle East using human shields is standard practice, as it was with the Mongols. Taking hostages for the same purpose is a declared War Crime as well.
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Are you allowed to murder human shields?
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No. But in time of war it happens. Like the London blitz. 40,000 people dead. Or the bombing of German cities. Berlin was razed, Cologne, Hamburg and Dresden. There are really no rules in practice. At Agincourt in 1450 English King Henry V ordered the murder of 5,000 French nobles and knights by flights of arrows because he couldn’t leave them unguarded. That was the end of Chivalry.
As for the Mongols, words fail. No one knows how many millions they killed in Bagdad in 1258, but it was perhaps millions in a week. There was no such thing as a war crime. The Mongols and Hitler waged wars of extermination, not conquest.
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Reaching back decades and centuries for examples. With precision munitions and detailed ISR, no its neither allowed or necessary.
However, all these alleged rules, laws and basic humanity are clearly out the window as multiple conflicts have demonstrated. Each side just demonizes the enemy and claims they wear the white hat.
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Commenting to TdeF at #2.
The post at C&C is, I think, relevant.
It suggests the strategy of Donald Trump.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transactions-wednesday-april-8-2026
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Amazing. Trump through Jared Kushner started this process in his first term. And Iran was desperate to stop it. All the major muslim nations aligned commercially for a better world, except Iran. But it was also Sunni vs Shiite. The only thing stopping completion was the very real nuclear and missile threat of Iran. Real weapons of mass destruction and a geriatric religious fanatic leader with nothing to lose. All gone now.
Are the Iranians trustworthy? Of course not. That is ridiculous. But they know when they’re beaten and have been sending all their cash overseas as fast as they can. The villains will be in their Range Rovers now. The question is whether to go to Russia or Pakistan, which is not much of a choice for the quality of life they have enjoyed. And the question is whether their cash will survive the journey as well.
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Pure nepotism – Kushner isn’t qualified.
I agree with Prof Mearsheimer who called Witkoff and Kushner “Two amateurs … with a passionate attachment to a foreign country”.
Entrusting crucial negotiations to those 2 bumblers has achieved nothing to speak of.
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Nor is Trump.
But Kushner ” business background as a real estate executive, CEO of Kushner Companies, and publisher of the New York Observer. He holds a BA from Harvard and JD/MBA degrees from New York University. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
He served as a senior advisor to President Trump, focusing on Middle East negotiations, criminal justice reform, and digital media, and currently manages private equity firm Affinity Partners. ”
And as a Hebrew speaking Jewish person descended from Holocaust survivors, he is credible in Israel.
And you understimate how much family matters in these negotiations. The Arab states are family affairs, absolute monarchies, not European Democracies. Saudi Arabis is literally owned by the House of Saud. And Jared’s father in law is the President of the United States. Who else carries such weight? Besides, he has been very successful to date. The real problem has been Iran which threatened everyone. After perhaps seven wars against the State of Israel over 100 years, the others might seek to accomodate the only nuclear power in the region who might defend them. Especially after the recent events.
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Wow.
You responded with all those details, 9 minutes after my post!
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Their ABC has taken quite a lot from it. USA surrender to Iran and imminent impeachment of their deranged leader according to Laura Tingle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7w6RpFmNyQ
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Deranged would be better applied to Laura Tingle and her ABC friends, accountable to no one.
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The ABC is basically a sheltered workshop for troubled lefties.
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Good thing I don’t watch or listen to the ABC.
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I go to ABC on Youtube if the comments are open. I then write:
POTUS Trump, without doubt, the smartest, greatest leader in history. Usually followed by something about their ABC being a disgrace to journalism.
Managed to get my comment in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJ3clg01TI
I don’t think POTUS Trump allows this discrage into the Whitehouse since he asked him about his personal finances in the midst of the Gaza conflict.
So it is sport for me. And I may ruffle a few radical left feathers. Youtube is about the only place where I can offer their ABC honest feedback.
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I had a look Rick.
Looks like their ABC has given your comment the flick.
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Comments were closed on the first link by the time I got there. My comment is still on the moron’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJ3clg01TI
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Finally found it.
I’m surprised you only got the one reply.
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I have made that comment often. It has way more favourable responses that negatives but never a positive response on an ABC clip.
Not many people view ABC posts but the viewers are invariably fanatical left, ABC sympathisers.
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The great Patriarchy established by Elizabeth I is in rough shape.
The head of the Church of England has by-passed recognition of Easter, which is the fundamental reason for the existence of the Church.
And then there’s the British Navy.
With 134 Admirals for 63 operational ships.
Which gives me thoughts.
Post WWII, the big one, us Americans magnanimously shared our newly gained power with Europe via that NATO thing.
Then the Soviets stopped being Soviet and the scary bears left the forest.
Then we started footing more and more of the bill.
(Which for a while was ok because we like guns.)
The Brits were free to produce more admirals and fewer ships because we allowed Europe to leave the heavy lifting to us.
The British Navy likely couldn’t provide much help in Hormuz if they wanted to.
The coming of Trump.
Unexpectedly Americans have a POTUS willing to go out and maybe solve problems in a possibly decisive way, without being hampered by weeny Europeans wishy washing.
Thus making me a new Roman.
And those silly Greeks are so yesterday.
Us uncouth Americans have now become the inheritors.
Cause Trump.
One guy.
Us Americans finally drop our insecurities and cultural need for European approval.
And the illegitimate Americans that still dream of being snail eaters are scared by the Orange One back to Europe.
Leaving it for the rest of us that are proud to be American.
Just thoughts.
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And it shows what one tough individual can do. If Churchill had been PM earlier and not Chamberlain, WWII may never have happened. A show of real force when needed can end a much greater conflagration, killing millions on all sides. All the hall marks were there, as in 1939. And while people ran around talking WWIII, the best way to stop it happening was to make sure the people who wanted it to happen were taken out.
In a nuclear world, Armageddon is only a button press away. This has been the case since the 1950s. Evil happens when good men do nothing. And America sent in their best man, a hardened New York businessman with a German American father and Scottish mother. A combination of ruthless efficiency and total intransigence and golfing fanaticism the world needed. You do not bluff such a person.
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This has been on the scale of the infamous Kennedy Cuban missile crisis. Sixty years on. With nuclear China and Russia and Pakistan and India and North Korea on the sidelines, watching.
I believe China may well have had a word to the IRGC to settle because the imminent destruction of Kharg island would have taken a wrecking hammer to Chinese prosperity. If anyone was to blow up the planet, it was the mad mullahs of Iran. It would have been the Ayatollah Khomeini’s parting gift.
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Trump’s mother was born on the island of Lewis in Scotland. She did not even speak English until she left school. As Michael Caine would say, not many people know that. And Churchill had an American mother.
If everything goes well, this moment will be a new beginning for many countries. And the total lack of involvement of the UN and NATO countries and the attempts to impede will not be forgotten quickly. My hope is that it progresses well and that Ukraine can be settled soon too. Nothing is being achieved and at great cost.
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‘My hope is that it progresses well and that Ukraine can be settled soon too.’
It will only end if Russia accepts Ukraine’s demands.
History will show that Putin, being the school bully, picked on a little kid who amazingly fought back and ultimately won.
After Putin (AP) the Federation is bound to fragment and unlike 1991 the world will assist these new states to become independent.
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Maybe Ukraine will accept Russia’s demands.
They almost settled the war 3 years ago!
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Isn’t it weird how the intellectual decline of the European elite, and the American wanna-be aspirants to euro style elitism, only led to the rise and resurrection of Trump.
It’s really their bizarre obsessions, displayed by Net Zero, Identity Politics, and Pandemic, that have created what may lead to the consolidation of the very great American dominate Empire that was and is the main focus of their contempt.
It’s like karma, man.
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Trump is America’s best man?
When they tried to send him to Vietnam to serve his country in its time of need, he got 5 deferments because of “bone spurs”.
His father Fred didn’t serve either. By my reckoning Fred was 36 years old when the US entered WWII. Two kids at home, Donald hadn’t arrived yet. Maybe he was excused for that…
In contrast, my grandfather fought in the Pacific. He had 3 little mouths to feed back home. But he didn’t survive to return to his job as a high school teacher.
What about Trump’s grandfather? He fled Bavaria to avoid a draft over there. There seems to be a pattern!
Tens of millions of American men are superior to Trump.
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Yes Minster on a belief in God. Theology is what enables agnostics to stay in the church.
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And in Australia and the US and the UK, the importance of total energy and manufacturing and industrial independence has been made very clear to voters. It will not need repeating.
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OTOH there are some Australian states where the absence of energy (or only available at high cost) is the only way this will be “made clear” to the voters.
And the absence may need to be obvious by its length rather than repetition.
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I still find it hard to believe that the UK government thinks that running the former DRAX coal plant on imported American wood pellets is going to change CO2 levels. It’s Nutt Zero. Humans do not control CO2 levels. Total world fossil fuel CO2 annual output has finally reached 0.02% of CO2. 98% of all fossil fuel CO2 is in the ocean. Slowly, steadily increasing CO2 is a boon for all life on earth and provably not our fault. How did this utter fantasy overshadow the threat of nuclear war?
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TdeF:
It is merely virtual virtue (if I can say that): Wood burning is good because (some years later) the trees will regrow. Also, it is imported wood so the emissions doesn’t have to be reported, and so DRAX can be counted as not emitting CO2.
Other things, like Ireland importing (roughly) 20,000 tons of peat every year because peat (in Ireland) is protected. The burning of said peat is regarded as going back to the nineteenth century(or earlier) as a good thing so those CO2 emissions don’t need to be counted.
Besides electricity is clean and GREEN so any use is clean and GREEN so EVs are thought to be clean and GREEN.
It’s all CREATIVE Accounting, the NEW? religion.
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This is based on a new science. Firstly that there are two types of carbon. That from trees and that from coal. Tree carbon atoms are good. Coal carbon atoms are bad. Secondly that one contributes to increasing atmospheric CO2 and the other does not by the miracle of adding and subtracting. However neither is correct.
Firstly the atoms are identical.
Secondly the % of CO2 in the air is not determined by amounts but ratios, specifically the ratio of atmospheric CO2 to ocean CO2. 98% of all CO2 is dissolved in the ocean and atmospheric CO2 is competely exchanged every five years. So all CO2 quickly ends up in the ocean, whether from new trees or old coal. 98% ends up in the ocean.
Arithmetic is not used in determining gases, only ratios. 98% of all CO2 is in the ocean. So 98% of all new CO2 is in the ocean. And the increase in ocean CO2 per year from fossil fuels is 1% of 2% or 0.02%. Utterly insignificant, like water from burning hydrocarbons is on ocean levels.
And finally NASA and farmers have observed that as CO2 goes up, tree coverage goes up but CO2 does not go down. Trees have nothing to do with controlling CO2 levels.
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How to make the UK weather sound like a record when it’s not really at all.
“According to the Met Office it has been the second warmest day on record during the first half of any April.”
Several qualifiers there and dubious use of ‘any’ meaning the few years since records began. The highest temperature was recorded at Kew London, a suspiciously frequently hottest station. It reached 29.4C on 16 April 1949 so I suppose that’s just about the second half of the month but a lot warmer than today!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c9d46yx0ndwo
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So the first half of a month of 30 days means the warmest day on record in the specific two weeks. It’s like that famous cricket catch, Lillee caught Wiley bowled Dilley. And as significant for world weather.
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And amusingly given that only one week of the two weeks has elapsed, they are signalling that they do not expect a warmer day in the next week. And that the third week has a warmer day in it. This is not cherry picking. It is pretending there are cherries.
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‘Lilley caught Wiley bowled Dilley.’ Also add – ‘Rice bowls and Paddy fields.’ John Arlott.
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At least KEW London may exist, unlike the 103 (or more) Stations which shut down many years ago but still issue DATA showing WARMING.
So some people think that the World is warming (because CO2 makes it so) and besides those fake figures are then incorporated into fake warming graphs issued by the Gullible for the Gullible.
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Without “googling” (cos I can do the internet/AI search myself) has anyone had personal experience with the use of Hypochlorous Acid (HOCl)? For wound care, skin conditions etc??
Doing some air time on social media etc at the moment. Softer, much more “natural” disinfectant than bleach type products. Supposedly mimics the human body’s natural wound defence etc.
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Interesting substance, not a newly-discovered substance by any means but attracting a lot of attention in the post-covid era. Also difficult to store and sensitive to UV light, requires very specific storage conditions and buffering.
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FWIW
“How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives”
“In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression—although that rise tapered off relatively quickly while the increases among liberals continued.”
“Why is it that liberal teens are more consistently depressed than conservatives? Why might familial education correlate with heightened depression for liberal youth? Why was there a spike in depression (and a growing ideological divergence in depressive affect) after 2011, corresponding with the onset of the “Great Awokening”? This essay will provide a deep dive into the literature on the relationship between ideology and subjective well-being in the hopes of shedding light on possible answers to these questions.
Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals”
Much more here – be aware that you get one free read a month so take it all in
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/
Via https://instapundit.com/788337/#disqus_thread
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Video.
Australian Harris Sultan reviews pro-IRGC Tweets from Leftists plus anti-IRGC Tweets from the Iranian people.
Plus related issues.
No surprise which side the Left support.
https://youtu.be/tWMp_g8OE14
BTW, Harris is a former Mohammedan and Pakistani and has reported that he has a fatwah against him for apostasy.
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The Western press hardly mentions the 30,000 young people murdered last month silently wholesale and bodies dumped. Like Babi Yar in Kiev with the SS. With the internet turned off.
They pretend the IRGC, the equivalent of Hitler’s SS, is a valid government representing the Iranian people rather than a brutal minority ruling by endless brutal immediate murder, intimidation and theft.
And weapons of mass destruction, even nuclear tipped missiles are treated as fantasy or of no consequence.
Perhaps the greatest impact though was on all those holiday spots like Dubai and Qatar being bombed, which brought reality to the half million European expats who found themselves in mortal danger from pretending that they could ignore Iran and its paid proxies in Lebanon and Yemen. Or blame it all on Jews.
Iran is a medieval Theocratic monster with a death wish, a death cult. My hope is that the villains are fleeing now, taking their stolen cash with them. And their pull through relatives in America at least are being expelled even today. Like many of the monsters behind the mass murder in Europe in WWII escaped punishment, the more important requirement is that their evil empire is dismantled.
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Excellent article explaining why the Left align themselves with some of the world’s most evil regimes.
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Too true.
The greatest threat to global peace today is not Islamic terrorists, it is the Far-Left Woke, aka Democrats and their kind. 👹🤡💩
Never forget it was “Sanctions”: Joe Biden, “the Hero of Kabul, Defender of the Southern Border” who mocked, taunted and ridiculed President Vladimir Putin.
Go ahead and invade, yes go ahead and invade, you naughty little boy, and we will send you to bed without any ice-cream.
Yes, “Sanctions” Joe Biden mocked a murderous, nuclear armed clinical psychopath who suffers from “Little Man Syndrome” and Ukrainian cities burned and with them women and children. 🤡🤪🥴😵
Yes, “Sanctions” Joe Biden always ready and willing to fight to the last Ukrainian mother and child. 💪💪
And now Europe too is being destroyed, dying day by day, being eaten alive from the inside, with their green-woke ideology.
The legendary “Engine of Europe” has run of gas, Russian gas. 😱🤡💩 🤮🤮🤮
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Its just balance. The west wasn’t big on reporting the Shahs death squad either. It’s “over there” and really if the oil keeps flowing ..
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FWIW
“If this Company Solves The $125 Billion LFP Battery Supply Gap in North America, What is that Worth?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/if-company-solves-125-billion-lfp-battery-supply-gap-north-america-what-worth
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FWIW
“Never knew how many of these fall out of the sky regularly. Wow.
Starlink Statistics
Total Launched: 11,749
In orbit: 10,196
Updated: 07 Apr 2026
Starlink Re-entries (2026)
January: 24
February: 54
March: 48
April: 10 so far
Updated: 07 Apr 2026
Starlink Re-entries (yearly)
2020 total: 46
2021 total: 78
2022 total: 100
2023 total: 88
2024 total: 308
2025 total: 657
2026 total: 135 so far
Updated: 07 Apr 2026”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/w-o-o-d-8-march-2026-global-shit-show-in-ot/#comment-181310
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They don’t fall out, they’re programmed to deorbit after their life of 5-7 years or if there’s an unexpected failure. The programmed deorbit prevents unnecessary occupancy of their orbital slots. The current rate is around 1-2 satellites per day.
My friend with a holiday home in Rye, south of Melbournistan, uses Starlink because he found NBN in that area to be slow and unreliable and Starlink costs about the same as his supposedly high speed NBN connection was costing.
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FWIW
“Proposed Theory of Historical Global Cloud Cover.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/08/proposed-theory-of-historical-global-cloud-cover/
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Anyone seen a TV interview with the ‘rescued’ WSO?? I’m quite sure the first thing that would happen after he landed back in the USA would be a tarmac interview on world TV, telling us all what a hero he was and how wonderful the USA is for never leaving a man behind. Yet somehow..
That highly expensive balls-up suddenly vanished when Trump decided he couldn’t bomb any difference into Iran and elected to accept their 10-point peace plan while he re-groups. Don’t throw out the jerry-cans yet…
Anyone remember ‘Wag the Dog’?
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Flown to a military hospital in Germany. But believe what you like.
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FWIW
Some more around the Iran ceasefire
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/transactions-wednesday-april-8-2026?
And a new favourite in the “US Most Medicals Stakes” – a patient every 7 seconds!
“Dr. Bhuva’s name is listed on reimbursements for at least 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024 alone. Somebody did the math: that’s one patient every 7 seconds, assuming Dr. Bhuva works 365 days a year. CBS understatedly reported, “there are few legitimate explanations for a physician’s name to appear on thousands of claims.” ”
More there
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And
“Sen. Schumer’s ‘Military Moron’ Swipe at Trump Accidentally Kicks Biden (AND Chuck) Right Where It Counts”
“The Democrats’ sudden need to pivot from “Trump’s going to annihilate an entire civilization” to “the president caved and surrendered” happened so fast that they’re still quite dizzy. ”
More at
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/04/08/chuck-schumers-military-moron-swipe-at-trump-accidentally-hits-the-biden-admin-right-where-it-counts-n2426941
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FWIW
FWIW
“So much for “unbreakable” codes…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/04/so-much-for-unbreakable-codes.html
Is that how Google managed this?
“BREAKING: Google Reports UConn Wins NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tonight Against Michigan Before the Game Even Starts!”
https://joehoft.com/breaking-google-reports-uconn-wins-ncaa-mens-basketball/
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Australia: Diesel is dead! EV trucks do it easily. Sunbunnies rule!
https://youtu.be/q-_8Xbk7o5I?si=MzDZvBO8x9F7DoE_
Next up, an EV truck will transport a load of feathers to a pillow factory 3 blocks away.
And those solar/wind powered ship transporting solar panels and turbines?
And solar farms producing fertilisers?
The outback trucker guys will be rotfl.
Sunbunnies (renewables zealots) are a stupid lot.
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It’s like their ignorance when discussing engineering principles and economics, even business principles, so how could they understand road transport and restrictions such as driving time limit, weight per trailer and most import the concept of PAYLOAD.
The more not paid for weight is a loss of revenue potential, diesel fuel and tanks to travel each 1,000 kilometres weigh much less than a battery pack charged for that range, but I doo not believe they are available or if they were the weight reduce payload to loss load.
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Electric car charging points hit by 38,000pc surge in energy bills
ChargeUK, which represents operators, says charging stations are being squeezed by network charges that have increased dramatically in just a few years.
In one example, major charging provider Osprey said its bills at a site in Wolverhampton had increased from £87 per year to £33,651 per year since 2022 – an increase of 38,579pc.
Rival Fastned said it was now paying £41,000 a year for a site in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, while a third charging provider complained that its network charges had increased by 250pc in just four years and are now “well into six figures”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/29/electric-car-charging-points-38000pc-surge-energy-bills/
And the fantasy world dissipates.
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Pareidolia Thursday. Or Fursday
Yes, NASA released a photo of a rat on Mars.
Far left 8pm or so in image, above bluish rock and to the left between 2 round rocks.
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/rocknest-from-sol-52-location/
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/psd/photojournal/pia/pia16/pia16204/PIA16204.jpg
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FWIW – things I get sent!
“‘It’s ridiculous’: Bodycams have no place in battle”
https://www.bobkatter.com.au/its-ridiculous-bodycams-have-no-place-in-battle
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Allegedly $300 MILLION already spent trying to prosecute BRS. How can this possibly be. What sort of investigation of one individual can possibly cost this much? How much was spent in Afghanistan “gathering” information? It does smack of government over reach. Every lawyer should be made to declare how much they have made on this case..
Its government at its best.
When faced with reality just double down, never admit a mistake, just keep spending other peoples money until you get the answer you want.
Other examples, Snowy 2, Renewables are cheaper, we have sufficient fuel reserves, Australia is a superpower in everything, .
The only change in Bull dust is the depth, it never ever goes away!
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“‘It’s ridiculous’: Bodycams have no place in battle”
…and yet there is stacks of bodycam footage from Ukraine. Modern warfare is just as full of drone footage, selfies and phone videos as any other part of society. Russia has got quite upset about it and tried to ban any publishing of footage from the front.
I figure it puts the armchair warriors off volunteering to go, you get to see what it is really like.
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FWIW
“Further Analysis on What Has Gone Wrong in Canada”
“Canada Is a Warning To The Rest of The World…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbC16rLatcI
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/04/07/further-analysis-on-what-has-gone-wrong-in-canada/
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FWIW
“Starmer’s Deserted Islands – Britain Despises Him, Chagos Blows Up and Now Argentina Wants the Falklands”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/08/starmers-deserted-islands-britain-despises-him-chagos-blows-up-and-now-argentina-wants-the-falklands-n3813699
Elsewhere this morning – UK has two admirals for every navy ship left
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I have no doubt Starmer will either give the Falklands away or let the Argentineans take them.
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Different this time…
” …Fuel. As part of a routine agreement, the U.S. sent 1.5 million gal. of aviation fuel to the joint U.S.-British airbase at Ascension Island. It also made KC-135 aerial tankers available to Britain, but these were never sent to the South Atlantic. Instead, the Royal Air Force used its own KC-135s for midair refueling of Vulcan bombers making the 3,800-mile trip from Ascension to the Falklands, while U.S. planes in Europe were reassigned to British NATO duties.
Ammunition. The U.S. sold Britain an unspecified quantity of 20-mm shells and supplied sonar-equipped buoys for use in antisubmarine warfare. Washington officials will not say if any of this equipment was ever used on the islands.
Missiles. The U.S. sold Britain about 100 AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles (for $48,000 apiece). Of 27 Sidewinders fired by Harriers during the war, 23 scored hits. These, however, were most probably British missiles; the U.S.-supplied Sidewinders were apparently used only to replenish inventories in Britain. Also supplied were highly effective laser target indicators for British ground forces and a radar system for the Royal Navy’s Sea wolf surface-to-air missiles.
Intelligence and Communications. As a NATO ally, Britain always had regular access to the U.S.-built Defense Satellite Communications System, which relays encrypted messages around the world. Routine information from U.S. meteorological satellites was also available, although their effectiveness was severely limited by bad weather over the South Atlantic.”
There’s a shortage of Avgas. Musk has the satellites you need, and drones have made war quite different since last time. Anyway, Britain has no need of the Falkland Islands, they cost the taxpayer money and decarbonised Britain has no use for the offshore oil fields there.
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A number of media articles have attempted to portray the threat to “blow up” the Iranian electrical generation plants as a potential “war crime” and likely to cause extensive hardships for the general population.
Consider:
In 2015, Obama’s Pentagon updated the Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual to:
“Electric power stations are generally recognized to be of sufficient importance to a State’s capacity to meet its wartime needs of communication, transport, and industry so as usually to qualify as military objectives during armed conflicts.”
Referenced in: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transactions-wednesday-april-8-2026 comments
My thought:
It would be hard to manufacture missles if there were no electricity.
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Aussie war hero Ben Roberts-Smith did his job in Afghanistan killing some of the world’s most evil people, Taliban, under Government instruction.
Now quite a few years later, they’re prosecuting him for murder, even though he was given Australia’s highest military honour for his actions. Why now?
Also, he was a corporal so why isn’t anyone else further up the chain of command being prosecuted?
It’s odd how the Channel 9 news was there to film his very public arrest in front of his children.
On the other hand, check out this WW2 Australian video, where Australians proudly shoot up Japanese lifeboats after having sunk 22 Japanese ships. No problem with that… From about the 5min 30sec in case you don’t want to watch all of it. Shooting the enemy in lifeboats was a war crime them and now. See https://youtu.be/8C9QTKw8iQQ
I can’t help thinking this is about not offending a certain demographic of Labor voters to show them the Australian Government will not in future engage in combat against said demographic or tolerate past behaviour.
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Re your bit on WW2 there –
Survivors of the Rakuyo Maru might hsve had a different opinion
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Trump has had a major victory with Iran. The rest of the world now see the truth in his UN address where he informed the assembly that they were foolish for enabling the UN Climate Change™ hoax.
Sleezy could not trust Blackout to beg for oil in Singapore. He went himself.
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Mercouris explores how the cease fire in the US/Israel v Iran war came into being and why there’s ambiguity about its terms
” US Gives Iran Control Of Hormuz For 2 Week Truce; Talks Iran 10 Points; US Out Of Military Options ”
Israel not consulted.
Discussion of Iran’s 10 point proposal and significance – Iran win!
Apr 8, 2026
83 mins
https://rumble.com/v788gzw-us-gives-iran-control-of-hormuz-for-2-week-truce-talks-iran-10-points-us-ou.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Also, a term (previously unknown to me) that he introduced recently:
…
Zugzwang
Zugzwang is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be “in zugzwang” when any legal move will worsen their position.
…
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“Sleezy could not trust Blackout to beg for oil in Singapore. He went himself.”
That will be a field test of another inflated ability so we’ll see
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FWIW
“BOMBSHELL: Trump Eyes Massive Punishment for Backstabbing NATO Allies Who Abandoned America During Iran War – Troops to Be Shifted from France, Spain, and Italy – While Others Rewarded”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/bombshell-trump-eyes-massive-punishment-backstabbing-nato-allies/
“Elbow” might need some practice
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The Great Energy Debate.
Will it be loaded one way or the other?
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Pointless.
Trump has proven the point in just over a month and it will be rammed home in the next few months.
There is no energy transition. The industrial world still relies on beautiful coal.
Sleezy is currently learning that energy is power. And the only sort that matters is carbon based.
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FWIW
“Trump Administration Kills the Most Annoying Car Feature Obama Forced on Drivers”
“Stop-Start”
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/04/08/trump-administration-kills-the-most-annoying-car-feature-obama-forced-on-drivers-n2201095
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Good (paywalled) article in The Australian this morning by Robert Gottliebsen “Australia’s renewables plan on track to become one trillion dollar financial disaster”.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/australias-renewables-plan-on-track-to-become-one-trillion-dollar-financial-disaster/news-story/65169b76f48aa039bca95a26b2e4e91a
Details how the cost blowouts of Victoria’s and NSW’s renewables plans are set to become Australia’s biggest financial disaster, and explains how the transmission lines costs alone will probably balloon out from $8.5bn to over $200bn. The wind and solar projects will increase the total project costs to over $350bn, boosting the 35-year outlay to over $1 trillion.
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Amazing eh? We’re now using trillions in common descriptions of the decarbonisation process. Billions is just so yesterday. Wont be long, it will be quadrillions.
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking real money.
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At least one commentator suggest that we revise the old punishment of beheading of errant politicians.
I posted against that suggesting that they be denied ANY overseas taxpayers fundings and that the bureaucrats advising them should be immediately sacked.
I must admit that I was upset by first having to identify my age etc on The Australian Taxpayer Alliance and having my Credit Card blocked because of $5. This was after my previous credit card was blocked permanently (apparently those in the bank didn’t recognise Amazon).
Now when I calm down a little I will composing a letter to the General Manager of said Bank (assuming I can sauce asbestos paper sheets).
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“explains how the transmission lines costs alone will probably balloon out from $8.5bn to over $200bn. ”
Wasn’t the reason to privatise the power lines that we had gold-plated power lines under Govt ownership? Seems nothing has changed..
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FWIW – USA but
“Environmentalists are fighting our living standards in court”
“Environmental groups and climate-obsessed local governments are waging aggressive climate lawfare across America — using lawsuits to bypass Congress, the U.N.’s stalled global schemes, Trump administration policies, and Supreme Court rulings. They are determined to impose their anti-fossil-fuel agenda on the rest of us and hammer our living standards.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/04/07/environmentalists-are-fighting-our-living-standards-in-court/
Concludes
“That’s why President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, revoked costly regulations rooted in overhyped “climate crisis” claims, and boosted American oil and gas production to record levels.
The Supreme Court said clearly that federal bureaucrats cannot issue major rules without clear congressional approval and cannot make “reasonable interpretations” of ambiguous laws that balloon regulatory powers or costs.
Yet, these local lawfare efforts try to end-run all that. That’s precisely why the Supreme Court announced in February that it will hear appeals from Suncor and ExxonMobil, which seek to terminate the Colorado case and similar local climate actions.
A decisive ruling to halt this lawfare overreach can’t come soon enough.”
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Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
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” The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.”
No. At first sight you could draw that conclusion, but a deeper analysis would show KW of power per person is the real driver, no matter what politics are in use.
That 1000years was setting us up for the industrial revolution and once we had steam our available energy skyrocketed. That’s what stopped us being farmers and part-time journeymen, and allowed us a far better lifestyle.
Still, its a shame we don’t have free-market capitalism anywhere in the world today…
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I am concerned that many well meaning voters are lulled into a sense of false security by the very clever sales and marketing, albeit so obviously grievance driven coupled with Senate focused quest for balance of power over House of Representatives, by Pauline Hanson One Nation, they repeatedly refer to their own former political party memberships as Uniparty connected to Labor Green Teals apparently.
But after 29 years since 1997 when One Nation was established after she left the Liberal Party after being elected a Liberal MP (disendorsed for making “contentious remarks against Indigenous Australians”) what have they achieved? After the 2025 Federal election they had only four (4) Senators and later a National MP elected again 2025 changed sides and gave One Nation one (1) only House of Representatives MP.
It’s a political numbers game and as many politicians say, and have always indicated, published polls are guides and based on past results and statistics, here is how it’s done;
Definition of Psephology
Psephology is the scientific study of elections and voting. It involves the statistical analysis and forecasting of election results, aiming to explain voting behavior and electoral outcomes.
Etymology
The term “psephology” comes from the Greek word “psēphos,” meaning “pebble.” This is significant because ancient Greeks used pebbles to cast their votes, which is a historical reference to the practice of voting.
Key Aspects of Psephology
Statistical Analysis: Psephologists analyze historical voting data, public opinion polls, and campaign finance information.
Forecasting: The field aims to predict election outcomes based on various statistical models and historical trends.
Applications: Psephology is used to understand electoral systems, voting behavior, and the impact of demographic factors on elections.
Psephology plays a crucial role in political science, helping to inform political strategies and understand voter dynamics.
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The political numbers game is the real game, the manoeuvring for publicity and opinion poll support is tactical
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