Sadly, last week we lost the extraordinary Viv Forbes, of the Carbon Sense Coalition. A very smart and politically savvy man who will be sorely missed. There will be a service tomorrow morning. “A fearless Champion of Liberty”. There’s no one quite like him.
Memorial Service for Viv Forbes.
FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER 2025, 9AM (AEST – Australian Eastern Standard Time)
at Centenary Memorial Gardens, 353 Wacol Station Road, Sumner, Qld 4074.
In addition, there will be a live stream of this event at that time. For access, use the PIN 5918.
Live steam link in case it does not come through:
https://cmgcc.com.au/live-streaming/client?nid=08556218-2e27-45e2-9f85-6b8a128def77
China roaring ahead of the west
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/china-is-running-off-with-the-future/
Whether it is a society we would wish to emulate is another matter
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At least its a first-hand report, and seemingly most likely to happen-
“If things carry on their current trends there is no doubt that we in Europe will be a global irrelevance like South America, who will travel to Asia at gawp at the advancements there, before returning to our clapped out homelands.”
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That is too gloomy, Macron is going to have a chat.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3334285/frances-emmanuel-macron-meet-xi-jinping-during-china-trip-next-week?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
This is the art of the deal, Xi will discontinue supporting Russia for a consideration, bringing the war to a speedy end. This will free up a lot of money in the EU, which has been allocated to rearming.
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“Xi will discontinue supporting Russia for a consideration, bringing the war to a speedy end. This will free up a lot of money in the EU, which has been allocated to rearming.”
Does anyone else think the first part, bribing Xi not to support Russia, will cost far far more than the money used to make promises of arms to Ukraine will cost. China, with a GDP 7 times that of France and a growth 4 times as fast, France can off nothing China wants…
France, deeply embedded in NATO and an American vassal, trying to bribe China, the leader of the ”rest of the world’ and a nation NATO and America want to destroy…. sure, they’re going to destroy their close relationship with Russia for a few lousy billion from Macron, the man of promises and no action!
“France is also championing more protectionist trade policies at the European level, advocating for tariffs on Chinese imports such as electric vehicles and steel.”
Well, that won’t help! Lets see if Macron even gets red carpet to walk on..
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They are haggling, which is a healthy sign.
Xi is a puppet of the Reformers and they have a more conciliatory tone with the West.
‘France, deeply embedded in NATO and an American vassal …’
It is called an Alliance and its supposedly served its purpose, but with the US supporting Russia its obvious that NATO is becoming irrelevant.
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I had lunch at a friend’s place today and he was marvelling at the cost of a water heater jug he had purchased at Coles. It cost him $6.50 and he was thinking if he had 2 he would reduce the time to make coffee for his guests.
Once again, thank you China. My friend marvelled at how was it possible to prioduce that in China, ship it to Australia and retail if for $6.50. I had to also marvel at it.
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Father ted found not guilty
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/25/victory-for-free-speech-father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-cleared-in-trans-activist-harassment-case/
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Hooray!
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A moment of sanity from the British courts!
Speaking after his trial Graham Linehan said;
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I still think it’s an ecumenical matter
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Other states should take notice.
New York’s 2030 climate target is impossible
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/26/new-yorks-2030-climate-target-is-impossible/
“New York Governor Hochul has told the Court her administration cannot write the regulations required to enforce the Climate Act’s 2030 emission reduction targets because they would be infeasible and ruinously expensive to New Yorkers. For all practical purposes, they are actually impossible, so the law must be changed.
The legal situation is explained in my article “New York’s climate law hits the wall” here: https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/04/new-yorks-climate-law-hits-the-wall/
Below is a brief analysis of the impossibility.
The law calls for a 40% reduction in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 levels by 2030. According to state data, the emissions have already been reduced by 10% leaving a whopping 30% to go in just four years.
Most of the reductions occurred in just two ways that are similar to America as a whole. Foremost, is a switch from coal to natural gas in electric power generation. Second, is the loss of manufacturing, helping to make China the industrial center of the world. Neither of these reduction measures is available or feasible to help hit the remaining 30%.
According to EIA, roughly 50% of New York’s energy consumption is from petroleum. About 80% of this is transportation fuel, especially gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. It is clearly impossible to reduce transportation by 30%. In some cases, electrification is technologically feasible, but it cannot possible be done at the needed scale in just four years. This is especially true given much of the transportation is from out of state vehicles. New York stands between New England and the rest of America, so it gets a huge amount of through traffic.
In addition, an estimated 20% of New York households heat with fuel oil. Winters are very cold, so we are not about to cut that by 30%.”
Lots more in the article.
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Who is ultimately more powerful, the Governor or the firebrand new Mayor?
In theory he has limited powers but so does the London Mayor but he manages to get things enacted that he wants. Presumably the New York Mayor could somehow promote his agenda which would include a push towards Net Zero or whatever his equivalent might be.
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In principle the Gov because city authority is a state delegation but in specifics I have no idea. I suspect only the state legislature can cancel a NYC law like the ridiculous one mandating electrification of big buildings.
But in the climate law case neither the Gov nor the Mayor has any authority as only the legislature can change the disastrous law. The Gov is just an advocate who in this case is on my side, which is truly funny. My article is aimed at the legislature.
As for the Mayor most of his promises require legislation which is iffy at best. He knows this because he was a state legislator.
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How do they heat New York’s large office and appartments towers?
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Mostly gas fired steam or hot water, especially the older ones which is most. They are all supposed to switch to heat pumps soon.
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Do they have a common boiler in each building ?
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As far as I know but there might be some group heating.
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RE: Fuel oil as a heat source:
Here is a link to a colorful map showing fuel type for home heating. It appears to be by county boundaries but adjacent counties merge in the view. {In WA State, I’m electric – heat pump – and wood – catalytic burner stove.}
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Link?
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https://brilliantmaps.com/home-heating-usa/
Oops!
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Cool!
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Good first year for Trump
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/25/trumps-first-year-has-been-outstanding/
I suspect there will be far more headwinds next year if inflation fails to fall and the economy stutters. If he were to lose his wafer thin control of the house any further reforms could be blocked and expect impeachments to fly.
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That’s pretty much my take. Trump needs the economy to take off in the next six months if he wants to avoid a midterm wipeout. And he needs to do a better job of controlling the conversation on inflation and the economy rather than letting the Democrats make their case and then counter their lies. For instance, the American Farm Bureau measures the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 every year and publishes the results. The 2025 dinner costs $55, which is a $3 drop from last year, nearly a double-digit drop from the $64 the same dinner cost in 2022 when Biden was president, and is the lowest cost since 2019 during Trump’s first term. Yet Democrats will still scream at the top of their lungs that prices are rising and Trump has done nothing to counter inflation.
https://www.fb.org/news-release/cost-of-thanksgiving-dinner-declines
As far as impeachments go, I (somewhat naively) still believe that American voters will grow tired of that particular trick and punish Democrats in 2028 if they go back to that well. At some point I have to believe that people will see the 3rd, 4th or 5th impeachment of Trump for what it really is, a cynical political ploy.
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Trumps record of achievement is phenomenal and his popularity is likely sky high. However that does not necessarily translate to people voting for Republican candidates in the mid term elections.
If the Democrats gain a Majority in either the house or the senate Trumps reforms will grind to a halt.
That is likely why he is calling for a clean up of the election process before then.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/victor-davis-hanson-destroys-liberal-talking-points-about/
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‘ … if inflation fails to fall and the economy stutters.’
Both the US and Russia are heading towards stagflation.
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The cost of a Thanksgiving dinner is less this year than last year. That is not inflation!
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This has been well debunked.
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https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/11/thanksgiving-dinner-cost-2025-prices-easing-but-still-above-pre-pandemic-levels.html?outputType=amp
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The turkeys are smaller, shrinkflation .
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The US economy is predicted to grow about 4% this quarter, well outpacing inflation that is running in the mid to high 2% range. That’s growth, not stagflation.
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Good point, the situation is volatile and the early onset of stagflation is not easy to discern.
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“Both the US and Russia are heading towards stagflation.”
Most of us are! Australia’s emissions have fallen, a sign of the state of the economy more than the success of Govt environmental policies! The reserve Bank will have to put up borrowing rates to curb the inflation and that will kill growth even further..
Oh, for an inflation rate of 4%, not the 20% we have! What we need is a good war!
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Australia is showing signs of early onset stagflation.
The labour market is weakening as inflation bounces back.
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Steven Van Metre sees big trouble ahead. From my little house on the other side of the world I’m surprised things are that bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GB6dBgA62c
Trump should romp it in in the midterms on immigration alone but they are in trouble. If they lose the house the US, and the West generally, is lost.
Sorry to be a downer. Tomorrow might be better.
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The punters see the Democrats controlling the House after the Mid Term Election.
Just another lame duck president.
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The murder of the two Home Guardsmen SHOULD bury the (D)s but murder can be justified on political grounds for half the population of the US.
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More “free stuff” in Victoriastan. People can now change their gender on their birth certificate for free. It used to cost $140.40.
It can only be changed once per year, so tough luck if you “change” genders more frequently…
Back in the day, a birth certificate was a legal document that reflected someone’s biological status, not how they “identified”.
Meanwhile the state continues to go into more and more massive debt without limit and with no effective opposition political party.
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DM,
Did you notice the fairy land words from the Premier of Victoria?
” … that reflect who they really are.”
These social misfits do not know themselves who the really are, so how would this Premium know, how on Earth can she justify handing tax monies that were hard earned by other citizens to a fringe group including performers who are in it for the bread and circus?
Once more we see the trashing of time proven old standards. The Birth Certificate has long had similar status to a Statutory Declaration. Those creating it have been trusted to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Imagine now a scenario where a person has been charged with fraud, for example wrongly claiming a government money handout limited to females, then telling the Court that he/she is really female, not the Male on the Birth Certificate.
More modern post-normal corruption. Geoff S
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Why, OH WHY, did they shut down the nut houses?
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You are more right than you realise !
I am happy to be corrected but current Melbourne catastrophe (not climate) can be traced back to Jeff Kennet closing Kew Cottages.
May be that was his greatest mistake.
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I wonder how many ‘gender’ choices they offer? If it’s only M or F, then that that blows the multiple gender theory apart, by the government’s own admission.
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This situation is the end result of the subject discussed in Jo’s other post this morning.
When “synthetic information” – a perfect descriptor – is substituted for real world, actual, physically touchable and personally experienced information, whatever someone suggests to the un-grounded mind becomes “truth”.
Another term I find absurd is people referring to “their truth”, “my truth” etc. What they probably mean is either their personal experience, or more likely these days, their adopted belief of what they think is real.
There is only truth, facts, hard data, when it comes to real life. Eg, the laws of physics don’t care about anyone’s belief in their truth that they can fly like a bird; and biology is similarly firm in its reality.
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What will happen when an Aussie with a different gender to genitalia is arrested for a serious crime in a more conservative nation?
Could we all then to genitalia checks for entry to places that don’t accept our passports as valid identification?
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There is a lot of news about Voyager 1 approaching a distance of one light day from earth.
I don’t understand all the excitement at this time because this milestone doesn’t happen until November 2026.
Why has this hit the headlines now?
Didn’t any “journalists” bother to check the facts?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/11/25/voyager-1-spacecraft-light-day-away/87445163007/
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News Light? Day Light? Just journalists amazed by Newton’s first law of motion “an object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force.”
Or more likely, there is just so much bad news for the extreme left who call themselves journalists.
Leftist writers are that remains now that Google has taken all the advertising money and only the self appointed elites and lawyers buy newspapers or even read them on line.
And they keep lecturing the world on how Trump is wrong and has no idea what he is doing. When you are of the left, facts are a mere inconvenience. And if Trump ends the war in Ukraine, it will be the wrong peace.
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‘And if Trump ends the war in Ukraine, it will be the wrong peace.’
POTUS cannot win the Ukraine war, its up to the combatants to sort it out.
The wrong peace would be a dystopian 1984, with all of Europe under the boot of a dictator.
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“The wrong peace would be a dystopian 1984, with all of Europe under the boot of a dictator.”
That future is baked into our present! The dictator will reside in Brussels, at least that much has been obvious. Russia will be the only free country where the peasants are allowed to elect their leader.
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It is not as you imagine, Orwells fears were justified, but it hasn’t turned out that way yet.
‘Russia will be the only free country where the peasants are allowed to elect their leader.’
After hostilities the Russian Federation will undoubtedly break up, with independent states choosing their own future.
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It takes a little over 8 minutes for light from the sun to get to Earth, so you could assume that the distance to the probe will be +/- 8 minutes depending on the orbital position of the Earth.
I wonder if someone is counting that into the equation. In theory, the probe could cross the 1 day barrier more than once, maybe a few months apart. It’s taken since 1977 to get up to nearly one day. IF the velocity was constant since launch, (which it wasn’t), then it is traveling outward at about 1/2 a light hour per year. Since +/- 8 minutes per year is not too far from +30 minutes per year, it is possible, (unless it went out perpendicular to the plane of the Earth’s orbit).
It really puts interstellar travel into perspective when you look at 1/2 light hour per year when the nearest star is around 4 light years away. We’re gonna need a bigger rocket.
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You can see the real time distance of the Voyagers from both the earth and the sun at
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/
I wrote an article on the Voyagers at:
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2018/December/%22The+Grand+Tour%22%3A+the+incredible+Voyager+missions
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You can see which spacecraft is receiving uplinks or transmitting downlink at NASA Deep Space Network at:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
Occasionally the Voyagers show up.
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You can see the Voyager tracking schedule VGR1 and VGR2 for NASA Canberra complex at:
https://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/trackingtoday.html
Schedules for Spain and California are not published, I don’t think.
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Voyager 1 has passed the heliopause, which is supposedly the outer limit of our solar system, yet it is still well short of the Oort Cloud.
Surely the Oort Cloud objects must be part of our solar system?
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No wonder we hardly ever hear news about the disastrous Snowy Hydro 2.
Anti-engineer Turnbull said it would cost $2 billion.
It’s now at least $20 billion with absolutely no limit in sight.
Politicians should never be allowed to make engineering decisions.
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It was also revealed this week that Australia’s ‘father of the internet’ Turnbull authorized the BOM’s $96 million web redesign.
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His self-entitlement to waste taxpayer money knew no bounds and now throws rocks at the very people that supported him into his failed Prime-Minstership.
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A Labor man in a fake conservative Liberal Government…
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I read elsewhere that the bill is more like $125Million.
Now think about that figure for building a website? Especially when there was already a fully functional website?
That,s $125,000 a year for 1,000 people. Or $125,000 a year for 100 people for ten years. Or $250,000 a year for 50 people for ten years.
Just as Snowy II has passed the Panama Canal in cost and doubled the time of the English channel, they have built something which is absolutely useless.
Or the money just went missing.
Like Turnbull’s $444million. Plus interest of at least $200 Million. Then in today’s dollars. At least he personally fixed the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
Why is no one accountable for any of this?
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“Why is no one accountable for any of this?”
Democracy… all over the world its the same.
In a monarchy or dictatorship the answer would be clear, but there are no answers in a democracy, its just politicians against the people.
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Snowy 2 at $40B, (my guess), with a life span of 40 years, (my guess), before major reworks are required.
In SIMPLE terms, that’s $1B per year that has to be recovered to make it worthwhile.
Assume 40M people in Oz, and 4 people per household results in 10M households. $1B/10M = $100 per year. So the capital costs alone will add $100 to your energy bill. Since it loses around 40% per throughput cycle you can also add in a cost of around 20c per kWHr, (domestic rate), for every kWHr that passes through the system.
And this was meant to save money. I’d like to know how quickly this system can be changed from charging to discharging. If it’s longer than a few hours then you can kiss your solar buffering theories good bye.
Surely the change-over time is something that is publicly available….. or is it?
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David Maddison,
What is your definition of an engineering decision? For example: would you say it was wrong of the NSW Parliament to decide to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge? The parliament didn’t get involved in stress and strain calculations, beam strength or whatever, but they did decide to build a bridge across the harbour. That seems much the same level of “engineering decision” Turnbull made.
Besides, when you’re talking about “allowing” politicians: that means having some body more powerful than parliament. How would that have worked in your better world? Turnbull says “We’re going to build SH2”, and the UN steps in with blue helmets saying “Nope. That’s an engineering decision. Stand down”.
Joking aside, I think the SH2 debacle is mainly a result of political pressure being applied to the “independent” advisors — Give us a nice low estimate of cost — and the advisors obliging them. Doesn’t seem terribly hard to address this problem: make any such advice open to unlimited liability for the companies and individuals involved. You said at most $2b, turned out $22b, you’re on the hook for $20b. Knowing that’s down the line will make the advisors less eager to lowball their estimates.
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Should connect it to California’s high speed rail.
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The threat of rain droughts haunts farming communities, not just the farmers.
Now all the countries doing net zero have become wind farming communities, whether people realise it or not.
See what that means when you think about it.
WHEN THE WIND FAILS AND THE GRID DIES
https://energynetwork.substack.com/p/2001-the-choke-point-when-the-wind
WIND AND SOLAR CAN DISPLACE COAL BUT NOT REPLACE IT
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/renewables/21-7-intermittent-solar-and-wind-power-can-displace-coal-but-cannot-replace-it
FULL LIST OF RIEFING NOTES FROM THE ENERGY REALISTS OF AUSTRALIA
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
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Rafe,
Your briefings are needed and appreciated.
Do they need an update? Your choke point paper was written 5 years ago. The various forms of electricity generation have changed since then, rooftop solar in particular.
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In my opinion, we still hear too many times that “renewables” are our cheapest forms of electricity. There have been dissenting articles, but they get poor publicity for obvious reasons.
Have you identified a best, obviously credible article that can be labelled as the “definitive” paper so that we can all get behind it? Link?
Geoff S
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Thanks Geof, point taken, I need an assistant because I dont have time to update the website.
Will think about the definitive paper!
Rafe
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A salary of $100,000 per year in Australia is no longer considered sufficient to have a decent standard of living.
But the currency is increasingly worthless and debased, so no surprise.
It will continue to get worse as the Sheeple demand more and more “free stuff” plus energy prices continue to sky-rocket. There simply aren’t enough net wealth producers left.
In addition unrestricted immigration of mostly unskilled, uneducated, violent, anti-Western people, welfare recipients for life and Labor voters, at a far higher rate than housing can be built puts enormous pressure on the property market. Australia used to have among the most affordable houses in the world and the highest rate of home ownership but many people can now not afford rent.
Interview: https://youtu.be/iX5APP-xQ6o
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There are new official inflation figures. As usual they are lying or misrepresenting the truth.
No one I know who is not in a secure job with indexed salary as a public serpent or politician believes the official rate of, now, 3.8%.
People like housewives who I ask who actually do their own shopping and have to stick to a budget generally estimate the true inflation rate of 25% – 30%.
The only official figure I believe is electricity +37.1%.
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It’s hard to believe that electricity, which is a component in pretty much EVERYTHING we grow, process, make or move, can go up a massive 37% yet all those goods and services using electricity will only inflate by 3.8%.
Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
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But 20% is equally absurd. Rule of 72 says that at 20% inflation prices double in 3.6 years. My sense is that after the big jump in ’21 [more than 3.6 yrs ago] prices have risen modestly, insurance and housing excepted. Haven’t bought a car.
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Very recently I (checking saved stuff) found 6 predictions by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt whom none of you would remember as he died in 2004.
He was a strong critic of the IPCC etc, a PhD in physics and knew a lot about planetary positions (so was sometime derided by supporters of the IPCC as an astrologer).
Of his 6 predictions 5 turned out as correct. Leaving the first (as he was still alive then, although correct) the next 4 were correct. That leaves the last one which was that the World’s temperature would be DOWN by 1℃ by 2030 (as against claims when he was a live that it would be UP by the same amount. (This coincide with the expected end of solar cycle 25).
It makes me wonder whether the claims by the BOM and the MET Office (and others) based on false readings will come back to haunt them.
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Forgot RickWill comment yesterday about recent early snowfalls
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Recent “early snowfalls”? Complimented by recent late snowfalls, as in the overnight snow on Mt Mawson in Tasmania, still on -1°C at 7am today (mountainwatch.com) with more on the way early next week (if you believe BoM) ie. ‘summer’.
36 years ago to the day (1989) while celebrating Thanksgiving with friends in New Jersey, it began snowing, quite heavily. Unfolding my well-worn road map of the States and locating the ski town of Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado changed the course of my life and thus began a decades-long love affair with backcountry extreme snowboarding and all things mountainous & snowy.
These days I prefer the relative warmth of living by the sea, yet like Rick, give me a weather map and I’ll be scouring it for concentric circles portending the arrival of a snow storm or a tropical cyclone swell: that’s where the fun is…
Any numpties claiming humanity has ‘changed’ the ‘climate’ [sic] is hallucinating as per incomplete data c/- Large Language Models [see Jo’s other post today]. Happy Turkey Day y’all!
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FWIW
“Well. That’s not good. Blackrock & Commercial Defaults”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/well-thats-not-good-blackrock-commercial-defaults/
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FWIW
“Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science”
“Molecular biologist Mike Rossner, who has committed his life to following the science, now finds himself playing an unexpected if urgent role – exposing the fraud of his fellow scientists.
Rossner is part of a network of experts that sniff out researchers who intentionally or recklessly fabricate, falsify, or plagiarize evidence. Rossner, a consultant specializing in identifying manipulated and duplicated images in journal papers – a telltale sign of deceit – has been dismayedby his findings at U.S. research centers. Scientists often have deleted the data underlying the images, making misconduct harder to prove and casting doubt on the validity of the research.
“Science is about finding the truth, and an inaccurate representation of what was actually observed means that you are not representing the truth,” said Rossner, a former managing editor of The Journal of Cell Biology. “This is harmful to the progress of science and to our society that depends on it.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/26/fraud-hunters-sniffing-out-bogus-science/
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FWIW
“The eternal conundrum: individual rights versus community needs
In a recent column, Janet Daley tried to put the great clash of modern politics into perspective. She addresses it in the context of American versus European politics, but points out – correctly – that the socialized European model is preached in America too by the Democratic Party, particularly its left-wing progressive movement. This “muddies the waters”. ”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-eternal-conundrum-individual-rights.html
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Not really. The Democratic model has some similarities to the European model, but the supremacy of individual rights in the United States constitution makes it nearly impossible to implement the more collectivist aspects of the European model without a full-blown constitution amendment. Much of the supranational nonsense that comes out of the EU is also stymied by the fact that all powers not enumerated in the constitution default to the states rather than the federal government. State governments in the USA are significantly stronger than provincial/state/regional governments pretty much anywhere on earth. They are basically nations unto themselves except where the constitution specifically dictates otherwise (like immigration policy and interstate commerce).
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I have said for many years now that reality doesn’t matter – only perceptions.
But in today’s device-driven world, ‘reality’ for many is now the ever-more unhinged, parallel universe called the internet. Add to this a facet of human nature that pushes us toward sources of information that agree with our prejudices and you get …
The end of civilisation as we know it, Jim.
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You are on the right track, Gustave Flaubert said “There is no truth. There is only perception.”
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FWIW – more on
“”X” Exposes Phony Anti-Israel and Pro-Hamas Trolls”
e.g.
“The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued its own observations about the added transparency, acidly stating, “Some chap posting from Pakistan, another in London. Another manipulative abuser somewhere else. All claiming to be suffering in Gaza while in the comfort of some coffee shop far away.”The Jerusalem Post reports that “The Times of Gaza,” which boasts almost a million followers, actually is based a continent away, in East Asia.”
More at
https://richardpollock.substack.com/p/x-exposes-phony-anti-israel-and-pro?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2597444&post_id=180043576&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1v5u0a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Via https://instapundit.com/758897/#disqus_thread
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One of the pro-“Palestine” sites was found to be actually based in Australia.
https://x.com/MelissaLMRogers/status/1992395317514555725
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Surely all pro-palestine people live outside Palestine??? If you are in Palestine you are just a Palestinian.
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If you are in Palestine you are … probably wishing you were outside just being a pro-Palestinian!
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Where is Palestine?
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Good question!
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Dont follow the logic of not being able to be pro a country because you are living in it.
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Despite how bad the fake conservative Liberals are, they are still slightly less bad than Labor.
I am horrified that Labor governments throughout Australia still have so much popular support.
At least One Nation seems to be advancing in popularity. Most people I know are traditional Liberal voters but now intend to vote for One Nation. However it’s unlikely they’ll win Government but it is hoped that they will initially get the balance of power and perhaps win Government in a future election.
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I could buy a lot of friends with the money labor is giving away. Friends vote too.
And when the bills start to land, who is going to be left to pay. People are retiring early or finding their jobs are going to china. It won’t be long before the only gig in town is a government ‘funded’ one, eg public serpent or NDIS. And everyone knows that they are not producing any value that can be traded with the world.
It won’t be long before only hard assets have any value, Oz currency will be the new Peso. Bring your wheelbarrow to the shops, it’ll make it easier to carry your cash before you buy your monthly chocolate ration.
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I’ve been telling you that for years. This is the first time I’ve seen you acknowledge it.
The lesser of two evils IS a legitimate choice.
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Yes, but hopefully we will have better choices when the next election comes.
You don’t have to give the least worst party your first preference.
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The lesser of two evils IS a legitimate choice.
But perhaps ONLY when the two evils are the ONLY choices available?
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The Art Of Good Hope – maybe this generation knows what they do.
Like – Jess Wilson winning over TEAL mob, throwing out Labor at the next election, starts anti-corruption revolution…
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“t is that time of year in Russia again, when a special type of popular, celebrity pin-up calendar for the coming year can be bought at newspaper kiosks, bookstores and the like. The leading man? Why, it’s President Vladimir Putin, of course, starring in his multifaceted role as father of the nation – strong leader, religious believer, extreme sportsman, historian, dog lover and lifestyle coach….Each month shows a different picture of Putin and includes a short quote from his speeches or other public remarks from the previous year.”
SMH trying to belittle Putin, but it turns out he’s the same as Trump. Can you imagine a calendar of Albo??
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/a-man-for-every-season-the-new-putin-calendar-is-here-20251126-p5niqq.html
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Now stretch that imagination –
Just imagine how Pickering would have drawn “Elbo” for a calendar
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Shocking pictures from HongKong…
Of course with building of that size more bad numbers are expected later today.
I only hope that Melbourne fire authorities are watching and planning…
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It seems the towers were covered in bamboo scaffolding and curtaining, and the netting caught fire and fell down blazing, which set the others on fire. I find it hard to see how a concrete and steel building caught fire so easily from bamboo on the outside, but after this I’m sure bamboo will fall from favour.
I wonder if one of the 3 guys arrested is a fire insurance agent?
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The deadliest high-rise fire in England in decades occurred in London’s Grenfell Tower on June 14, 2017, resulting in 72 confirmed deaths, with two additional fatalities reported later.
The fire, which burned for over 60 hours, was caused by an electrical fault in a refrigerator but rapidly spread due to flammable cladding and insulation materials on the building’s exterior.
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The UK budget has confirmed a mileage charge for EVs and hybrids. It will work on self-reporting for years one and two then the mileage noted at the annual MOT (road worthiness test) which starts in year 3.
Mileage clocking/blocking is already a serious problem, just made a lot worse.
Makes no sense when they could just alter the annual ‘road tax’ charge, sure it’s not quite as ‘fair’, but simplicity and lack of opportunity for fraud trumps that.
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Unbelievable Orwellian irony.
(Photo.)
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1993292106459390389
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Love it!
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Nice work. Pity a surveillance camera didnt fit in shot also.
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Witkoff is a Russian bot.
“Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,” Witkoff said, according to Bloomberg’s transcript. “But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.” (Guardian)
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“Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,”
Ukraine have no Russian land to swap.
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Maybe Ukraine could offer to stop blowing up oil refineries, armouries, ships and planes [and 1,000 men/d].
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UK introduces “Bobbi” the AI police officer
Two forces today became the first in the country to introduce an AI police officer- a virtual assistant called ‘Bobbi’.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary and Thames Valley Police have launched the automated officer in a trial to provide a new way for the public to contact them.
The forces said the virtual assistant will answer frequently asked, non-emergency questions.
It cannot be used to report a crime or as an alternative to the emergency 999 line.
It takes its name from Bobby, a slang term for a member of the police force, derived from the name of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Metropolitan police force in 1829.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15325787/Two-police-forces-country-introduce-AI-police-officer.html
“If you would prefer to speak to a human, press 1 now”
“I’m sorry, all real police are out arresting people for tweets and hate speech. Please try again later.”
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The MSG lie – how to fool a planet with a letter to the editor
https://youtu.be/4V9VQTkfDnc?si=PXtulOAMM1PtSr9s
No evidence whatsoever, but the whole planet fell into line and believed.
Need one say more?
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I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.. The USA, the world’s greatest military power, the richest country, the most patriotic of all… is having Italy build their latest frigates! What, 4 reverses and one forward gear?
Quite predictably, the first pair are three years behind schedule and they have cancelled the next 4 before construction begins! This follows disasters in building the littoral class ships and Coast Guards new cutters.
This is the country that is going to take on China in the South China Sea?? It all sounds like Australian shipbuilding unions are running the show.
https://gcaptain.com/navy-cuts-constellation-class-frigate-program-short-as-shipbuilding-delays-mount/
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The frigates were Italian design but the final drawings were 80%+ American, longer and heavier. They were being built in the US [there’s a law about that] and it has become a great SNAFU. No nation is immune from that.
Your mates in Nth Korea broke the back of their latest destroyer trying to launch it.
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Gee the bar us getting set lower and lower. NKs industrial prowess vs the US is a now basis for comparison and rationalising.
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The groupthink here is that the US cannot do ANYTHING right. KP certainly thinks so.
BTW Who has set the high bar, to which the US must aspire? Is there a better ship anywhere than the USS Ford? 1,100 F-35s have been built. There is still nothing to match it elsewhere and the bigger, better B-21 is flying.
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You were the one dragging them down H, not me
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A little read on the Italo frigate saga
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/navy-shows-why-the-u-s-is-losing-its-relative-power.html
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FWIW – for the covid record
“FDA Chief: Fauci ‘100% Involved” In “Massive” COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-chief-fauci-involved-massive-covid-19-origins-cover
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FWIW
“China Deploys World’s First Commercial Supercritical CO2 Power Generator”
“China has activated what the South China Morning Post describes as the world’s first commercial power unit using supercritical carbon dioxide, or sCO₂, marking a notable step forward in clean energy technology.
Developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, the generator replaces traditional steam with high-pressure CO₂ to turn waste heat from steelmaking into electricity, according to SCMP.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-deploys-worlds-first-commercial-supercritical-co2-power-generator
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We sacrificed our steel industry on the altar of the God Gaia. We have no “waste heat”.
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FWIW – still being noticed
“Dead Cows Don’t Fart? Countries Raise Concerns Over Methane-Reducing Additive For Bovines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dead-cows-dont-fart-countries-raise-concerns-over-methane-reducing-additive-bovines
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What will happen to the Carbon Sense Coalition now?
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The BoM is at it again today releasing their projections for the coming summer season and yes it’s the same old worn out record.
This Summer Victoria is going to be:
Hotter than usual
Very high bushfire risk
Wetter than usual with very high rain fall
Very high flooding risk
I’m suprised they didn’t include high drought risk like they did in 2022 which turned out to be the wettest summer in decades, or in 2019 when they claimed it would be extremely hot but turned out to be the coldest summer since 1975 but they did redeem themselves in the end of season summary when they announced the evenings had been “slightly warmer than usual” but failed to mention the coldest since ’75 bit.
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I predict a 50% chance of warmer than normal temperatures, and a 50% chance of less than normal rainfall (or more, I can’t decide).
I bet I’m right. Gimme a job at BOM.
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FWIW
“The end is nigh – not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer reality of energy economics in the developing world.
Published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the “World Energy Outlook 2025” reads like an obituary for the fantasy of global decarbonization, acknowledging the undeniable truth that nations prioritizing prosperity must unapologetically embrace coal, oil and natural gas.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/26/iea-publishes-climate-eras-obituary/
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FWIW
Lessons for “ElBowen” and “Dr Jim”
“Britain’s economy stalls as taxes hit record high, OBR warns”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/britains-economy-stalls-as-taxes-hit-record-high-obr-warns/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-11-27&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
And what not to
“Reeves’s Budget – a black day for Britain”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/reevess-budget-a-black-day-for-britain/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-11-27&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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More “models of efficiency” for “ElBowen” to follow –
“How much does it cost to replace two rotting windows in Britain in 2025?”
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/how-much-does-it-cost-to-replace
Via https://instapundit.com/758973/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
Some background that you are not likely to get from “Their ABC”
“Seditionist Blue Falcon Democrats Stunned to Be Held Accountable for Their Behavior”
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/11/27/seditionist-blue-falcon-democrats-stunned-to-be-held-accountable-for-their-behavior-n2667042
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What are “Blue Falcon Democrats”?
Ans:
The term “Blue Falcon Democrats” appears to be used in a political commentary context to criticize certain Democratic Party members for what the author perceives as betrayal or disloyalty, particularly toward democratic institutions or norms.
The phrase “Blue Falcon” is a play on the military acronym “B.F.U.” (Body Fer Up), commonly interpreted as “Buddy Fer,” referring to someone who betrays a comrade.
In the referenced article, the term is applied to six Democratic figures who participated in a video encouraging military personnel to disobey presidential orders they deem illegal, which the author views as an act of sedition and institutional betrayal.
The article criticizes these individuals for hypocrisy, arguing they previously avoided accountability for similar actions but are now facing consequences under the Trump administration.
The piece specifically highlights Captain Mark Kelly, a retired Navy officer and senator, who is reportedly under investigation under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for his involvement in the video.
According to the author, the conduct of these individuals may fall under 18 U.S. Code § 2387, which prohibits actions intended to influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of U.S. military forces.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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