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The perpetual gadfly of Climate Change economics Bjorn Llomberg is everywhere. Today in the Australian “United Nations ‘propaganda’ on climate costing the world trillions”.
Lines like “The UN promotes the idea that sea level rise could submerge small islands such as Kiribati. This claim is often repeated yet ignores a vast scientific literature showing almost every atoll including Kiribati is stable or increasing in size.” Are typical.
Propaganda vs reality.
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As for ‘The Science’ it has become apparent to me that not only is there almost no fossil fuel CO2 in the air, something which was immediately obvious from C14 dating, humans cannot change CO2. It is the constant and rapidly maintained vapour pressure of a 98% dissolved gas. Slight ocean warming is directly connected to CO2 increase, as you would expect.
I had thought like many that a simple solution to increasing CO2 would be to grow trees and so sequester vast amounts of CO2 naturally. Tony Abbott and others agreed. It was obvious and cheap. However this was proven completely wrong by NASA when they proved that total tree cover between 1988 and 2014 increased 14%, the coverage of North America. But CO2 also went up 14% in this period. So increasing CO2 increases tree coverage.
Not that NASA publicly drew this obvious conclusion. They called CO2 a ‘fertilizer’. When in fact it is the entire tree.
So as CO2 increased, tree grew themselves and CO2 did not go down at all! Especially in arid areas where it was thought the limit to tree growth was water, not CO2. Not only does this mean Australian Carbon Credits, the basis of Albanese’s massive 35% CO2 tax (Safeguard Mechanism 2023) and Julia Gillard’s Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011, are scientifically busted, there is nothing humans can do or have done to change CO2.
While the economics of Nett Zero are recognized universally as absolutely destructive and channeling all Australia’s wealth to China, there never was a scientific basis for CO2 taxes we have suffered since John Howard’s 2001 Renewable Energy(Electricity) which has ripped $100Bn out of electricity charges to pay ‘investors’ for completely useless short term windmills.
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I just wish the fake Conservatives (and Tories) would promise to repeal all of the Labor/Liberal Carbon taxes which have made electricity so expensive for everyone and cemented (Electrical) power in Canberra, rather than the states. Like Tony Abbott, they would romp home in an election because no government was ever given a mandate for hidden and illegal carbon taxes in everything we do.
And these punitive hidden taxes are killing every industry because the quality of life is based on cheap and sufficient and commandable energy. History will show that the UN has been shutting down Western Democracies economically.
And now we have the farcical situation where the world’s biggest economies are throwing off the yoke of UN carbon ripoffs, but especially Commonwealth Countries including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK are killing their own economies. And blaming Donald Trump who has just pointed out the obvious. It’s a hoax.
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A subtle point about power going to Canberra. In the Constitution which established the Federation, the States were insistent that they controlled mineral rights. Especially gold. But a lot more. Coal was a big part and Victoria’s abundant brown coal was a major advantage for cheap electricity and rapidly exploited, attracting companies like Alcoa to make aluminium cheaply. Now we Victorian taxpayers pay the wages at Alcoa. And Trump has whacked massive tariffs on this fraud.
However control of minerals put the States in charge of electrical power and so political power.
Man made CO2 Climate Change broke the back of this with a ‘National Grid’ which moved all electrical power and political power to Canberra. Now they can turn off your airconditioner or refrigerator or stop you from charging your electrical car. No competition. No private enterprise. Best of all, the electricity consumer pays for all the windmills and solar panels and massive previously unnecessary transmission lines with ripoffs built into your electricity bills. The ‘private’ electricity retailers like AGL now work as carbon tax collectors for Albanese.
This legislated cancer of Federal power is in every field, as Federal governments were not responsible for health, education, police and more.
You can see control by Washington public servants being undone by Trump. He has disbanded the entire Federal Education department as completely silly as wasteful, given there are no Federal schools. It is a layer of bureaucratic control created by Washington, like that created for electrical power. Which is why coal, gas and oil have to go in Australia. But we can export them, except in Victoria. Now the Australian Prime Minister can turn off the country with one switch, with the exception of pesky Western Australia. And Victoria’s coal, timber, gas are not to be used. And nuclear is illegal.
The Prime Minister and his minions are in charge of your life. And as he has shown, can do as he pleases without parliament. Which is why we had to pay $1,000,000,000 for his personal ‘investment’ in a speculative and failing Quantum Computer company in California. And we the taxpayer had no say at all. No due diligence. That’s a totalitarian dictatorship, not democracy.
We do not need a National Grid. We never did. Its only purpose is to put all Australians in the one barrel, at the whim of the PM. Or anyone else who wants to control the place. As we have seen in the Ukraine war, both sides are attacking working power stations. In Australia, it’s the Federal government.
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TdeF, CO2 is in fact a fertiliser, the higher the level of CO2 in our atmosphere, the More rapid plant growth is I have seen a local controlled atmosphere (hothouse) tomato operation where the operator injects beneficial CO2 into his hothouses, raising the CO2 level to 2400ppm, nearly six times the current atmospheric level, this leads to faster plant growth/maturity, and the use of less water. Claims the plants have used the generic CO2 by 9am and the additional is required for the other 15 hours a day.
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I prefer “plant food”.
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There is an important difference between Carbon Dioxide and fertilizers like Nitrogen, Phosphorous, and Potassium.
Photosynthesis features Carbon Dioxide and Water as reactants. Sugars and Oxygen are products. None of N, P or K feature as reactants.
Then again the definition of vaccine now includes things which aren’t actually vaccines. War is peace, etc.
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Some scientists maintain that CO2 has increased by using radioactive carbon isotope(C14) that they say confirms that mans burning of fossil fuels causes.
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Yes. It is an ingenious observation that not all carbon dioxide has the same isotope of carbon. From that reasonable estimates can be made of how much carbon dioxide comes from fossil fuel combustion.
From memory the calculations showed that CO2 has a shorter residency time in the atmosphere than previously thought after which it circulates in either the terrestrial carbon cycle or the much larger oceanic carbon cycle.
Little by little the basic science is gaining a foothold.
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I’ve seen CO2 residency times between 0.5 to 1.5 seconds being quoted.
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Heathrow airport has been knocked out by the failure of an electricity grid substation. According to this politician the airport used to have diesel-generator backup but this was changed to biomass – which failed to work – in order to meet Net Zero criteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xynb27qEhZg
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Anti-terrorism police are leading the investigation.
If the cause of the disruption is traced to the lack of backup, can we then call net zero terrorism?
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Substation is here:
51.499566, -0.411903
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Its been fixed. Nothing to do with terrorism
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14523119/firefighters-major-update-heathrow-airport-met-police-cause.html
If I were a Russian saboteur I would be looking at the worldwide disruption that has been caused by this incident. Deliberate sabotage at Heathrow, Schipol and New York would bring the world to its knees.
Hopefully this will send out lessons. How on earth can such a huge consumer of energy as Heathrow-and there are many other examples-possibly rely in a future world on the vagaries of the weather Gods? That is why the big US tech firms want to switch to nuclear reactors.
This all illustrates what an incredibly complicated world we have built for ourselves with little margin for error or resilience. With the Digital revolution, the saboteur mentioned could target those servers and data centres that support banking and tele communications-notably mobile phones- and half the population (probably 99% of those under 30) would be running around like Zombies with their life being unable to function.
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We’re gonna need much, much , much bigger batteries 😂😂😂😂😂
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That is why they are winning.
From Cheops Pyramid it took 4 thousand of years and millions of builders to erect NY Twins.
A dozen cavemen and couple of hours to bring it down.
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THe plan was to use only renewables at Heathrow but it didn’t happen in reality. As for whether sufficient back up was provided by way of diesel generators I think we will have to wait to see what comes out in the wash
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/why-heathrow-ditched-its-diesel-generators/
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Must have got their inspiration from Broken Hill.
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So will that also be two weeks with no Heathrow?
They reckon they will have it up and running again in just over 5 hours time (at midnight).
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Planes were flying again by 5Pm but many are out of position and headed elsewhere to land
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Also see comment in the form of text in a picture at:
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1903044083104330074
And:
“The sheer lunacy of Heathrow airport swapping reliable diesel generators with a net zero biomass system. ⬇️”
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A new level of madness descends: https://michaelwest.com.au/angry-cyclone-victims-beat-a-path-to-parliaments-door/
The home was without water for two days and lost reliable communication, with Ms Carvolth unable to see if her sick mum was OK in hospital.
“I don’t want anyone else going through what my family and community went through,” she told reporters outside Queensland Parliament in Brisbane.
Her son missed school for five days and when he did return, the streets were strewn with debris.
“Kids were faced with having to step over fallen power lines to walk to school,” she said.
“None of that is normal for a weather event on the Gold Coast.”
Dozens of protesters on Thursday gathered to plead with the government to act on climate change, which they said was responsible for the arrival of Alfred, the first cyclone to hit southeast Queensland in more than 50 years.
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“None of that is normal for a weather event on the Gold Coast.”
There is no “average weather.”
Marie Carvolth is a climate activist, a notoriously ill-informed subspecies of homo sapiens.
“I don’t want anyone else going through what my family and community went through,” she told reporters — She should move, because governments do not control the weather.
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And cannot. The fantasy that humans control CO2 was an invention of James Hansen and Al Gore. The data for the last 55 years begs to differ. There is zero sign of human activity in CO2. It takes clever analysis of CO2 satellite data to even make CO2 ’emissions’ visible before they go into the vast oceans.
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And I have always been fascinated by the idea that CO2 was not in rapid equilibrium, that it was random and that fossil fuel CO2 just added to atmospheric CO2. It so unlikely given how soluble CO2 is, 30x more soluble than O2 and fish breathe and almost all the CO2 is in the ocean, 98% of it. And CO2 levels are the same from China to the North and South Pole within 1%. How is this possible if CO2 stays in the air arbitrarily? And we see it plummet into the ocean after bushfires.
This fundamental proposition of college footballer Al Gore is fake science. That we control CO2 and CO2 controls the weather so that weather can be controlled by the UN. And the real scientists as a group say nothing while a group of activist Climatebaggers who call themselves ‘Climate Scientists’ control the press. L.Ron Hubbard would be impressed. Climate Scientology and massively profitable.
And as the UN President, former scientist Gutteres never ceases to tell us with a straight face, the Oceans are Boiling at 100 degrees (Farenheit). Send money.
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98% of CO2 is in the ocean makes sense given your reasoning however when I search ocean CO2 content the standard reply is 28-32%. What is the error in this 28-32% calculation. Thanks.
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The figure is 50x to 60x. https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/zeebe_files/Publications/ZeebeWolfEnclp07.pdf. This source actually gives 60x. People have measured CO2 against depth across the entire ocean, so the figure is certain as at least 50x.
However the internet is awash with the conjecture that 30% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere ends up in the ocean. (The other 70% stays in the air) Pages of it on a search. Ocean acidification etc. Obviously 98% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere ends up in the ocean but the proponents of man made CO2 increase/acidifcation/warming had get around this, so they created a ‘surface’ ocean of 2% and the rest and argue that the top bit is full of CO2 and it takes ‘thousands of years’ for the two to connect. In this way they keep the illogical going. This was proven wrong, but who cares? It’s a staple of the internet.
The fundamental problem is that even at the recent maximum, fossil fuel CO2 is only 1% of what is already in the atmosphere. The ONLY way for this to build up is to stop it going into the water, which is hard to do as it is identical chemically. So you have to argue the water is full. But the CO2 in the water is 50x as much, so you have to argue that the top bit is full. Its all nonsense but there you have it.
Also be careful that some graphs show ‘Carbon’ instead of Carbon Dioxide. The difference in weight is 12:48, 4:1.
It does not matter which you use, as long as they are the same. GTC for Gigatons of Carbon and GTCO2 for gigatons of CO2.
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Thanks, its all useful knowledge in our war against ignorance. I found this over at Marohasy’s blog, its a good argument.
“We are not aware that there is a current theory of human induced climate change. There are assertions that the burning fossil fuels by humans generates CO2 emissions, which is causing climate warming/change. … it can’t explain climate change past, present and future.” (Dennis Armstrong)
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This headline seems very unlikely
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14523713/trump-agrees-commonwealth-king-charles.html
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Trump is the world’s greatest flatterer. And quick to praise everybody and find something to admire. It works, from Kim Jong Un to Vladimir Putin. Everyone he meets. It’a a great starting point. We could all learn from Trump’s technique, although I suspect some refuse to do so.
And he is very proud of his very poor Scottish mother and Hebridean ancestry. What is odd is that no one in the UK seems to appreciate or take advantage of the connection. And it explains his incredible passion for golf.
“His mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New York to live a very different life.
Mary Anne was one of tens of thousands of Scots who travelled to the US and Canada in the early years of the last century looking to escape economic hardship at home.
She first left Lewis for New York in 1930, at the age of 18, to seek work as a domestic servant.
Donald Trump/Macleod would likely qualify for the old Certificate of Patriality with his mother born a British citizen.
Surely the UK politicians can be a little bit more opportunistic and practical? Flattery works both ways.
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And Winston Churchill, one of the most famous and honored Britons of history had an American mother, something which also seems to get lost in the wash.
“Sir Winston Churchill’s mother was one of the liveliest and most controversial women of her time.
Jennie Jerome, born in Brooklyn of a mother who was one-quarter Iroquois Indian, was one of the few tattooed women in high society. The dark beauty’s tattooing was a snake coiled around her left wrist.”
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My Irish grandmother left Béal an Átha Móir (Bellanamore) for Derry and sailed on a Norwegian ship for America about that time.
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And pink pigs knitting socks will land at Heathrow!!!
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Just put a post up….
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/
Websites may now include ‘content is “real looking” but “not actually the content of the site we are protecting, so the crawler wastes time and resources.” The content is also “real and related to scientific facts” because Cloudflare doesn’t want to inadvertently create misinformation.’
“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,” Cloudflare’s trio wrote. “Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots, which we add to our list of known bad actors.”
It is “designed to act as a deterrent to crawler operators, by keeping their bots busy and thereby increasing the cost of operating content scrapers.”
Now, instead of proving you are not a robot, you are monitored to see if you look like a robot, and labelled as such….
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Also in there, the second American court has determined that you cannot copyright something if you are not a human, so the artwork by an AI cannot be copyrighted. They seem to dodge the point that the AI is just a computer program created by a human, so everything the AI does is human-produced.
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The only trustworthy robot known to man:
Bender Bending Rodriguez
a Sport-Utility Robot, serial no. 2716057, created by MomCorp in Tijuana, Mexico in the year 2996.
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Bender_Bending_Rodr%C3%ADguez
“He was built without a backup unit [hence] recognised as defective [and] would need to be destroyed. However…” he lives!
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/report_scope_3_emissions/
Measuring all the dirty work of the supply chain and other indirect influences? Ugh, just give us the fine….
and with that, the regulations that require measuring and reporting emissions from commercial operations becomes a stealth consumption tax.
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Once again TdeF’s comments above show us reality at its best.
One of the bits of science that may be deduced from it all is that carbon sequestration, by planting millions of trees 🌴, is just another bit of UNIPCCC “Science” that is untrue.
While it is obvious that growing trees 🌲 removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
it is just as obvious to real scientists that the ocean will replace it from its massive store and neutralize any supposed ‘benefit’ in the nonsensical fight against global warming.
Again, the elites have got us chasing our tails.Welcome to the most subtle form of slavery imaginable.
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YesKK, it could be asked which came first, the CO2. Or the tree?.
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I doubt I can find the reference, but the answer is CO2. And that, via photosynthesis produced oxygen, which has proved usedul.
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Tail-chasing slavery – similar to a tattooed snake coiled around our wrists (ouroboros)?
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Yes KK with a note of caution that trees also use stored energy via respiration to grow.
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https://propagandainfocus.com/covid-nudging-through-subliminal-messaging/
In most cases, getting around with music playing in headphones in your ears is risky behaviour.
But, if you are shopping in any superstores, pop them in to keep the subliminal out.
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They got away with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRjzcRt8EmY
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I thought subliminal advertising was illegal in most Western countries, including NZ.
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I think the Codes might just go out the window when it is a broadcast of information related to an ‘existing or threatened emergency’.
and if they consider regular blaring of sirens with messages is subliminal. Knowing that if you don’t take any sort of emergency action in response to the sirens and you keep just wandering around shopping, your mind will need to block the siren noises out. But the messages likely still get in there. But I think they would argue that the sirens mean that it can’t be subliminal
and I guess it would take a whistleblower to let us know if any more crafty messages are in there anyway
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Disney’s latest woke remake of Snow White is an absolute box office disaster.
It’s understandable that thinking people are not watching it.
What I don’t understand is that aren’t there enough Leftists to watch this garbage to support the movie?
After all, if their Leftist ideology is so popular and pervasive, surely they could go and watch the movie?
So either:
1) There aren’t really very many Leftists despite their loud noises and dominance of all the institutions (outside TRUMP’s America where they’re being rapidly removed).
Or
2) There are a lot of Leftists but they don’t really care to support a woke movie even though it conforms with their ideology.
In any case: Get woke. Go broke.
How many more woke disasters can Disney sustain before they go bankrupt?
As President TRUMP said: “Everything woke turns to sh-t.”
The Left ruin everything decent and nice.
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Disney apparently bought up a lot of cash cows which they are milking for money then squandering the proceeds.
It would be interesting to see how much taxpayer money they have received via NGOs and similar exfiltration.
On a slightly related topic I stumbled across reruns of Allo Allo last night on Nine Now. Interrupted at regular intervals by advertising for revenue. Listen very carefully. I will say this only once.
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Prof. Gad Saad gives advice to the Opposition Leader of Canada.
This would be equally applicable to Australia’s Tony Abbott and other Liberal Party “leadership”.
However, the real problem is that Australia’s fake conservative Liberal Party doesn’t actually believe in anything.
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https://www.shiftedparadigms.org/p/sedation-not-salvation-part-2
anticipatory medications have been used by registered nurses for a long time, where they use their assessment skills to determine if a resident needs a particular medication, and so it would have been no different in this case. With COVID, the use of anticipatory medications in these patients would be just as clinically indicated as other patients who didn’t have COVID who were possibly at, you know, approaching end of life or in distress. . . I think mostly they were prescribed because of the uncertainty of the way each patient, or each person would react to becoming COVID positive, and so if they needed the medications, they were there.
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Starting a GoFundMe to support Elon Musk
I wake up every morning feeling sick to my stomach knowing that Tesla stocks are falling and Elon Musk’s paper net worth is following. We can’t let this happen to the man that is selflessly out here to help us. I’m starting a GoFundMe to support him and to get his paper net worth back up again. I know a lot of us can pitch in and help him out. Lots of pensioners can spare $50 a week in perpetuity if they just cut out frivolous spending. If thousands of us can donate something to this GoFundMe, we can help this selfless (and dangerously humble man who hates the limelight) individual get the paper net worth he deserves.
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Generally the idea is to start gently and ramp up the satire until the “tell” is revealed.
Babylon Bee might provide a useful model.
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May I donate something else in lieu of cash, please? For instance, I am great at doing dishes.
At the moment, we are slightly short of liquidity…
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USAID is willing to pay all of Elon’s expenses providing he backs off and let them continue their good work. No need to be concerned about a GoFundMe for Elon.
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FWIW
Things around the release of the JFK files
“The ‘radical’ theory I proposed yesterday —that the JFK disclosures aren’t really JFK assassination disclosures so much as disclosures of intelligence agency corruption — picked up steam yesterday, rounding the track with an impressive quarter-mile lead in early racing. The first striking example appeared in the New York Times, headlined “Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say.” ”
Much more at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/regime-changes-friday-march-21-2025?
And other things
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Yes. Somebody had the horrendous idea to kill the man. Somebody then had the even more horrendous idea of covering it all up. And it became a modus operandi which needed to be covered up.
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WIW – primed and ready to go!
“Why does this not surprise me?
It looks like fraudsters and con artists are out in full force in Los Angeles after the fires there a couple of months ago.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received 270,000 applications from purported homeowners in the recent L.A. fires — though only abut 13,000 homes were destroyed.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-does-this-not-surprise-me.html
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Day 1122 of the special military operation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR9BaK-Un0g
Day 10 since Ukraine was ready to accept ceasefire
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/ukraine-ready-to-accept-ceasefire-as-us-lifts-weapons-block/105039970
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Haha! Usual Western propaganda.. “We have this amazing cease-fire deal to stop the war and The Big Z has agreed to it, so-
“the US would take the offer to Russia, and that the ball was in Moscow’s court.”
Meanwhile Putin takes one look, realises Russia will give up everything and get nothing in return, and says Nyet!
Western media all scream “Russia wants War! Putin Badd!!”
It didn’t help that the Yanks hit the Russian’s nuclear bomber airfield with a drone straight after their cease-fire promises, what they say and what they do are two quite different things.
..and I wouldn’t waste my time watching your “Ukraine News” propaganda, Russia is still grinding forward, Ukraine falling back, and it will continue that way until the West walks away and Ukraine surrenders. Europe will be collapsing by then, Trump might be America’s salvation, and the BRICS will continue to grow.
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Tomorrow is a monthiversary since “mediocre comedian” Zelensky publicly offered to leave his post in exchange for real protection of his Homeland.
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Summers are hot in Coober Pedy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/20/climate-change-racial-divide-in-the-australian-desert/
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https://tangowithrenewables.substack.com/p/subsidies-galore-by-david-tuver
Of the 1,169 schemes in the database 1,025 of them have active status. Of these, I judged 144 of them to be Net Zero or energy related. The total budget for these items is £328bn, yes billion, with a ‘b’.
However, there are two items related to the Renewables Obligation Scheme, items SC11007 and SC10753 that have budget values of £1 and £0 respectively, so there is reason to believe the budget is understated by a considerable margin because the OBR forecasts that the RO scheme will cost well over £7bn per year for the next few years. The RO scheme has been running for quite some time, so the cumulative subsidies by the end of the scheme must be measured in the high tens of billions, possibly over £100bn.
We must exercise some caution when drawing conclusions because of the obvious howlers in the data. Of course, we are not going to spend £2,960bn on tax relief for the film industry. However, when it comes to the energy related items, it does appear as though the mistakes tend to under-estimate the cost of subsidies. The RO scheme will obviously cost much more than £1 and the Capacity Market will cost more than £16bn.
We see that a truly surreal arrangement of subsidy schemes of ploughing hundreds of billions into renewables, alongside additional tens of billions of additional subsidies to industry to mitigate the impact of the resulting high energy prices. It is completely insane. All this renewable energy largesse contrasts markedly with just £24.6m allocated to the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, mostly capital funding for housing.
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https://netzeroscandal.substack.com/p/eco-propaganda-for-babies
Green Home is very clearly aimed at very young children. Harper Collins advises that it is intended for 1 to 4 year-olds.
Onto the shoulders of these infants, the burden of saving the planet is placed before they can even read.
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FWIW
Very unhappy Canadians…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSOPvyoAQC4
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https://climatethemovie.net/
Climate: The Movie is the second climate documentary made by the British filmmaker Martin Durkin. It is the sequel of his excellent 2007 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. Climate: The Movie was released in March 2024 and made freely available online. The documentary was produced by Tom Nelson, a podcaster who has been deeply examining the climate debate for the last two decades. The Clintel Foundation has been asked by Nelson and Durkin to help with the promotion and distribution of the film.
Haven’t watched yet, but thought should just share on the release day
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https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/is-single-extreme-event-attribution
How much weather is there? In other words, how many atmospheric states are possible? One answer to this question was provided by van den Dool 1994, who asked how long it would take to observe an analogous weather pattern — (like the one in the image above) in the Northern Hemisphere — to one selected at random. His answer:
[I]t would take a library of order 1030 years to find 2 observed flows that match to within current observational error over a large area such as the Northern Hemisphere.
That is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
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Wow – that pitcher proves chimneys cause climate – knock ‘em all down and let’s eat bugs, saith Norma and Normie Noman.
I’m no mathematician but… your number 1030 could be better expressed as 10 to the power of 30 (?). Otherwise, 100% correct ✔️
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Judgepocalypse Now
“Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ ‘due process.'” — Buck Sexton”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/judgepocalypse-now
“Attorney General Pam Bondi Slams Obama-Appointed Judge Boasberg for Jeopardizing National Security in Explosive Court Filing Over Illegal Migrant Flights”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/attorney-general-pam-bondi-blasts-judge-boasberg-scathing/
He sounds more like Judge Boa-constrictor!
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Yeah, here I am in Perth, about as far as I can actually be on Mainland Australia away from my home in Beenleigh, just South of Brisbane. I’m doing the tourist thing whilst visiting with my Sister and her extended family. I flew here, and I’m taking the Indian Pacific for the trip home. This is just a truly amazing place, and I’ve seen so much while I’m here. (with more to come, and 24 days all up)
As much as I don’t have much time for contributing, I saw a Comment (and decided to respond here) in yesterday’s Unthreaded from Hanrahan about how (immediately following the Six Day War in 1967) the French rejected the already signed sealed deal with Israel to supply new Mirage fighters. So the Israelis promptly, umm, acquired the blueprints via a third Country (Switzerland) and built the fighters themselves, and they turned out a much better product than the original French version. This was the legendary Kfir fighter, and the story behind the whole thing was just amazing. As an Australian serving in the RAAF with a Mirage Squadron (77 Squadron) it interested me, and our Squadron and its pilots as well.
I wrote a Post about it all back in August of 2008 and it’s good reading for history buffs I guess. Just military aircraft history I suppose.
Like I mentioned, this Western Australia is just such a truly wonderful place, and I’m so glad I came here while I still can.
Umm, I’m blogging about it, if any of you wish to read about it, and believe me, there’s soooooo much more to write about, that I’ll be doing it for a long time after I get back home. The link for that is there, and it’s one link for all the Posts, and start at the bottom and work your way up. So many photographs to cull and only pick the best of them, so those Posts all include plenty of images.
Tony.
PostScript – And lucky lucky me, I caught up with Joanne for a coffee and a ‘natter’ for three hours, an amazing thing I never thought would happen. Bucket List, tick!
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Margaret River surf-break photo for the header, excellent choice! My front yard in the mid-80s, though Greenhouse Gases still haven’t warmed that part of the Indian Ocean I bet, brrrrr…
Enjoy the rest of your Wild West holiday Tony.
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Hi Tony
In the slipstream of that –
“Weekend Wings #39: South Africa’s “Franken-Mirages”, Part 1 of 3″
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/06/weekend-wings-39-south-africas-franken.html
“Weekend Wings #40: South Africa’s “Franken-Mirages”, Part 2 of 3″
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/06/weekend-wings-40-south-africas-franken.html
“Weekend Wings #41: South Africa’s “Franken-Mirages”, Part 3 of 3″
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2011/07/weekend-wings-41-south-africas-franken.html
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That’s wonderful Tony. Continue to have a great time. There is so much to see over in WA and we managed only a very little of it but have good memories. One of our sons and his wife lived over there for some years, which gave us the excuse to visit.
Enjoy the train trip too.
Glad you caught up with Jo.
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Hope you have a chance to visit the aviation museum – perhaps to renew acquaintances with some aircraft?
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“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems.
On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.”
– Thomas sowell
Be sure to vote for the next solution party.
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