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Interview with Professor and Author Christian Sandström on the current crises facing the green transition and the collapse of the battery giant Northvolt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2r9kBgVwQ
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And so, Australia ambles on. Australia is not a nation that arrives; it is a nation that manages. We do not stride toward a grand destiny, nor do we throw ourselves headlong into reinvention — we adjust, we administer, we accommodate. The nation’s myths remain half-formed, its self-conception still fumbling between pragmatism and nostalgia, guilt and detachment. If the Britishness lingers, the multiculturalism muddles, and the indigenous veneration drifts between reverence and performance, it is because management, not revolution, is the truest Australian tradition. If Americans wield destiny and Arabs build empires in the sand, Australians simply keep the lights on, nodding politely at each new identity that drifts through. We are a people not of manifest destiny, but of pragmatic endurance. Whether that is enough remains an open question. But like all peoples made in the image of God, Australians are imbued with agency. If we will it, it is no dream.
https://www.kvetch.au/p/fumbling-for-an-australian-identity
I remember during the Republic Referendum, Phillip Adams proposed (maybe as a joke) that we should not have a new flag. Just don’t have a flag, and then every empty flagpole symbolises Australia. That always resonated with me.
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There is a “barricade situation” going on right now at CIA Headquarters, Langley. Few actusl details at this time.
Live coverage at https://www.youtube.com/live/9zxp3RKryTQ
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Here are a couple of very good videos about the situation in Once Great Britain, mainly to do with mass migration of illegals to the UK and the refusal by the UK Government and Conservatives to do anything about it and the inexplicable about-face by Nigel Farage and Reform UK who are now opposed to the mass deportation of illegal immigrants when they used to be for it.
Comments by Christian Darnton: https://youtu.be/i2xyRK67yQo
Comments by Jeff Taylor: https://youtu.be/oGc3bZzYYtA
Jeff Taylor’s comments are also relevant to Australia as he also talks about Nut Zero and how one reason that the Government tolerates or encourages illegal immigration or legal immigration is that it artificially boosts the GNP which gives the false appearance of an improved economy even though the reality is that GNP per capita decreases making everyone poorer, as you would expect with more and more net consumers of wealth and fewer wealth producers.
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Many countries use immigration as a mechanism for growth.
‘Net consumers of wealth’ is the rent seeking class, those who already own assets and generate an income for leasing them out without actually being involved in wealth generation. Countries with a large rent seeking class tend to have higher inequality, more social problems, and perform less well economically.
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That growth Simon, only occurs if the people you are importing have a work ethic and a desire to improve their lives and skills. Seems Australia is currently importing rent seekers and people wanting to exist on our welfare system, and live in religious or National ghettos.
A formula for degradation of our economy and our Nation, if ever I saw one!
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And not only that Murray, the people being imported both legally and illegally are among the world’s most uneducated and violent people, are mostly military age males plus have no interest in assimilation or work in any form. They are there to take over. And when they do eventually tale over, they will have no tolerance of the Left and their LGBT ways, DEI women’s rights or anything else the Left pretend to believe in.
They intend to turn the countries they migrate to into exactly the same type of sh-thole they left. They are not migrating to make a better life in a superior country to what the migrated from.
And the Lamestream Media and politicians don’t recognise or report the massive problems and social discohesion and costs and crime all this is creating which is obvious to regular people but in the UK they might get jailed if they express their concerns about such matters.
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Simon, you are even more of a communist than I thought.
How did people get to acquire the assets in the first place? It was generally through hard work, sacrifice and risk taking. That’s how they created wealth. And if the risk didn’t pay off, they lost that wealth as well. And such assets require ongoing management and hard work and worry.
They didn’t get their assets for nothing unless inherited or gifted in which case someone else did the hard work and risk taking on their behalf. And even then they have to pay numerous different taxes on those assets for the benefit of the state.
Perhaps living in the “perfect communist state” of North Korea would be more to your liking? https://youtu.be/s1FK-V8H0-g
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Copied from Farcebook.
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In 2018 Jo posted a reference to an amazing article by Adam Creighton in The Australian reporting the outcome of sophisticated modelling of the NEM to assess the cost of different energy futures, including nuclear power.
https://joannenova.com.au/2018/09/engineers-warn-55-renewables-will-add-1400-to-electricity-bills-in-australia/
Adam wrote
Electricity bills will soar, and gas and coal-fired power stations will close if the share of wind and solar generation increases dramatically, engineers have warned after analysing the nation’s energy supply.
The analysis casts doubt on Labor’s claim that a 50 per cent renewable energy target — the centrepiece of the opposition’s climate change policy — would reduce electricity prices.
It found bills were likely to soar 84 per cent, or about $1400 a year, for the typical household, if wind and solar power supplied 55 per cent of the national electricity market.
The analysis by a group of veteran engineers — written and funded by five mechanical, chemical, electrical and nuclear engineers, with decades of experience in the power industry — was sent to premiers, federal cabinet ministers and shadow cabinet late last month.
It contrasted the costs of supplying electricity in the national electricity market under different mixes of generation. This included the Australian Energy Market Operator forecast for the year 2040 of 65 per cent renewable energy, including hydro, as well as five other scenarios, including replacing coal-fired or gas generation with nuclear power.
This is the whole article
https://au.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=E210AU1079G0&p=Adam+Creighton+engineers+warn+of+bill+shock+under+green+energy+surge
The model predicted fairly precisely what would happen to power prices if the push to force unreliable energy onto the grid continued. This absurdity has support from all the main parties – Coalition, Labor and the Communist party which I list as a major because they dictate policy to the ALP.
There is a beautiful 4 page summary of the results in a PDF which I can’t put on line although I have circulated it as an attachment to my list of agents of influence and there is a link to the full model which doesn’t work.
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Aa the United States under TRUMP’s leadership rapidly moves ahead in leaps and bounds at an unprecedented rate, it seems most of the Western world is NOT following.
In fact, in response to the huge progress in America, the wokist of Western countries like Australia, Canada and Once Great Britain seem to be regressing at an accelerating pace.
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