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Prof. Peter Ridd has just released a video about the junk science that is destroying Australian agriculture and the economy. Much of this junk science has a political motivation via Government and UN policies that the Government seeks to enforce. If morally compromised “scientists” don’t adopt UN/WEF etc. policies via Government they don’t get any taxpayer funding.
An incidental, unrelated observation, note the vintage “AVO” multimeter in the background of the video.
https://youtu.be/d2pN-kPBx5g
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I have an AVO meter. Probes attached. From the analog world before time.
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Before we were told scientists could measure the temperature of the planet to 0.001C. In the new digital world, everything is measurable accurately to the number of decimal places on the display. One year the world warmed by this much, apparently confirming predictions of rapid warming.
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I have a real problem with a ‘world temperature’, averaged across the entire planet, seasons, night and day, altitude, both sides of the street, both sides of the valley, storms, droughts, floods, tsunamis, Antarctica, the vast oceans and 74% of the planet under water. Plus the Himalayas, deserts, Andes, Siberia where no one lives. And yet we see graphs of temperatures which exist nowhere special except in a putative model computation. You have to question how anyone draws these graphs back before the thermometer was invented around 1700? And on this one fantasy temperature we spend $20Tn a year?
My favorite analysis of real measured thermometer temperatures was by a group of retired mathematicians. And the graph looks nothing like the alleged world temperature, but it is the ONLY actual thermometer record. Fitted perfectly with one solar oscillation and one ocean oscillation. It means the ‘world temperature’ does not apply to Europe.
I would also quickly look at the source thermometer data across the six cities in Europe and note the huge variation in that period, reduced to a smooth curve. Prof Carl Otto Weiss even argues that his real European temperatures are more representative of world temperatures than the IPCC graph which must be almost entirely proxies.
So now in a world where the IPCC can tell you what the world temperature was last year to three decimal places. And pigs will fly. It’s just a model and there is every expectation that it is not particularly useful and quoting this made up number to such accuracy as meaningful is absurd.
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This is my submission about the censorship bill.
On page 13 I commented about the sparsity of Global Historical Climatology Network stations until about 1950.
The whole modern 19th, and much of 20th century climate record is based on almost no data.
Back in the day, it was taught not to draw conclusions from such sparse data sets.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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Especially the bottom 40% of the planet, Australia and below the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.4 degrees South. Almost entirely water and no people. About 2% of the world population. And the only good records are held by the Australian BOM which refuses to digitize them. So we have to assume someone has generated temperature data somehow for most of the Southern Hemisphere and most of the Pacific for that matter, without real records.
How can this ‘world temperature’ be any more than a reflection of expectations, where the model assumptions generate the data?
And even then no one has correctly predicted the path of ‘world temperature’, now history after 38 years. It is fantasy feeding farce aka The Science.
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Not only does the BoM refuse to digitize those records, it has been actively fiddling with them.
And of course, they refuse to even look at any records prior to 1908 because they aren’t theirs.
Supposedly the BoM sprang into existence in 1908 as the only accurate and reliable source of weather data, and all the records kept by the Colonies were completely wrong, being taken and kept by blind morons with an inability to write.
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False accuracy raises its head again.
That’d make a good pollie-wannabee question.
If I cut a cake into 3 pieces, how much is each piece as a decimal. Pollie pulls out calculator and replies 0.333333 😉
Consider a precise number that is well known to generations of parents and doctors: the normal human body temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Recent investigations involving millions of measurements have revealed that this number is wrong; normal human body temperature is actually 98.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The fault, however, lies not with Dr. Wunderlich’s original measurements—they were averaged and sensibly rounded to the nearest degree: 37 degrees Celsius. When this temperature was converted to Fahrenheit, however, the rounding was forgotten, and 98.6 was taken to be accurate to the nearest tenth of a degree. Had the original interval between 36.5 degrees Celsius and 37.5 degrees Celsius been translated, the equivalent Fahrenheit temperatures would have ranged from 97.7 degrees to 99.5 degrees
Rounded to one degree originally but the planet just loves the false accuracy.
Also shows why science is wrong again, and how humans can tolerate and exhibit significant temperature variations, as I covered months back.
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Do you remember the old ‘Megger’ tester? Maybe they’re still around.
Many, many, MANY moons ago, I would use a ‘Megger’ to test newly-built ion sources and quadrupole filters (both for mass spectrometers). They were also useful for surprising a colleague just as he slowly, carefully, fabricated the resolving slit for a collector.
Fun times.
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Think they went out of use when electronics were introduced into mains power devices. Their use could kill light dimmers.
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Meggers and AVO’s – the old days are back for a visit.
Next up, the Smith Chart. Be afraid. 😆
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The Megger.
Cannot resist replying-
Over one summer, I worked for the company, Evershed and Vignoles, in Acton. I worked on repairing them, those instruments had no equal over decades.
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The AVO meter was a beautiful instrument. Heaven help you if you pinged its needle against the stops – was almost a firing offence. Have one plus its leather case at the local aviation museum.
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It was indeed. When I first got to use one, aged about 16 (1972), I thought I was handling the controls of Cape Canaveral 🙂
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When I was a junior army officer in Cyprus in the mid secenties, RAF Akrotiri was the biggest RAF station in the world until Harold Wilson’s defence review which reduced it to a staging post (I doubt if it’s that now). As a consequnce of the review, repair and calibtation facilities were rationalised. I was able to procure an AVO from the sales park which I used for many years after that. The other interesting aspect involved the dismantling of the Lightening flight simulator which was based on hundreds (possibly thousands) of valves. These were sold to local TV technicians literally by the barrow load – who scooped them up with shovels.
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I recently picked up an AVO 8 mk III in what appears to be reasonable condition. The printed instructions are still on the back.
I don’t know much about it, I’m more into digital gear but I will at least oil the leather strap and give it a cleanup with some isopropyl.
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Dad gave me his multimeter just a month ago. Hioki L-33DX in the orginal cardboard box with the original instructions. Made in Japan.
The red ink has faded on the scale a bit. But otherwise, seems all good.
Like this: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/hioki_analog_multimeter_th_l33.html
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Does the methane “ problem “ mean that the vast herds of antelope, buffalo, all the grass eating animals on the African continent should be hugely reduced??
Or does it mean that it’s only Australian farmers that are a problem??
Use of common sense as usual is the obvious answer.
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Leftists are quite prepared to destroy the planet to “save it” as they already are.
I can fully see them killing ruminant and non-ruminant animals which emit methane, including humans.
I bet if you approached a collective hive of purple-haired, nose septum ring wearing Leftists hanging around a “university” or on a street corner protesting in support of terrorists or drug lords, you could get them to sign a petition to start culling all such animals. I am not joking.
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Anyone heard of Remilk yet?
An Israeli lab-grown milk producer intent on eliminating cows and saving the planet.
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I always encourage them to reduce their personal carbon footprint to zero by ceasing to respire, as that produces CO2, but strangely enough none of them have ever taken me up on the suggestion.
They always want someone else to do it.
Typical leftards.
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One imagines then, that the massive buffalo herds of the 17 and 18 hundreds in North America, were horribly dangerous to the planet and should have been removed, yet nowadays naturalists would like to replace the population. Please Explain!
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One of the causes of the “little ice age” was the decimation of those herds and the subsequent release of soil carbon.
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Climate Scientists should have to prove incremental CO2 has any significant effect on total CO2 before they even get to tiny methane. It is all wild hypothesis presented as factual proven science.
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It’s just an excuse by the Left to diminish the food supply of non-Elites.
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I reckon the assumption that there are not equal numbers of useful idiots on the Right should be closely examined.
Because that is all that the Left is doing ; making useful idiots of themselves.
They will do whatever is suggested: that is what idiots do.
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I don’t like the term “climate scientist”.
It gives actual scientists a bad name.
Back in the day real scientists who studied climate were called climatologists.
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I am using it in an implied derogatory way. These are people who make their living from THE Science of Climate Change, which was never science.
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Agreed. If an area of study needs the word science after it then it is not an area of science.
The first I can remember was the introduction of the school subject social science which most definitely wasn’t.
And then geologists damned themselves by coining the title earth sciences.
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Wen I waz in skool, I wantd to be a climut scinetist, now I are one. 😆
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I don’t remember any science graduate who called themselves a scientist. It’s a play on Climate Science, or as I called it, Climate Scientology.
There were physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians, engineers, botanists, zoologists, meteorologists but no one put ‘Science’ in their name unless to make the false claim they were really scientists. So Climate Scientists, even Computer Scientists, Social Scientists. If you have to call yourself a scientist, chances are you have no science qualifications.
Like Mary Eddy’ Church of Christ Scientist. “in 1879, based on her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which teaches spiritual healing through prayer, viewing illness as a mental error rather than physical.” So a type of science which would kill its followers.
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And then we have ‘political scientist’ – truly the most dismal science of all.
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Anone contemplatiing reducing “Natural Methane” will have to deal with the largest emmitters..
..Termites !
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Yes, most methane comes from termites and various bacteria and microbes and fungi which have evolved to digest cellulose. This happened after the Carboniferous period. Which is partly why no coal or oil is being created today. The old plants only rotted to coal and oil and gas because nothing was around which could capture the solar power in the cellulose. Almost all coal therefore is from before 300 million years ago, before the development of white rot fungi.
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I have about zero confidence that the Royal Commission into the Bondi terrorist attack / pogrom will have appropriate terms of reference or will be open and frank. It will find only what the Government wants it to find. It’s even worse that Albanese himself chose the Commissioner, a person well known to have Leftist beliefs. The fact they are a personal pick of Albanese and not an impartial choice is an instant alarm bell. Josh Frydenberg opposes that particular choice.
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Yes, I fear that this will be a typical ‘Sir Humphrey’ enquiry.
It will find just what your government wants and that the unparalleled immigration and the importation of culturally different views was not at fault, but the blame should be deflected to those protesting about their country being changed before their eyes..
The end result will be much more of the same.
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Assuming the RC is held in Canberra, all Bunnings stores in Canberra will be totally sold out of whitewash for the duration of the RC, due to a ” government contract ” to supply same.
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The lying and obfuscation by Albo Akbar is astounding.
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He now claims he has acted in record time. Lying is part of politics in his leftist world. If you are wrong, change history.
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And he has chosen the High Court judge who overrode the State ban on anti Jewish marches.
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The findings will confirm that the biggest threat to Jews in Australia is far-right extremism and climate change.
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Anti Semitism is part of Albo’s foundational political belief. So is denying it. And both Hitler and Stalin were extreme left. The only difference in politics was that Stalin nationalized industries. Both eliminated opposition parties. Both murdered their opponents and their own people. Hitler copied Stalin’s concentration camps and the mass murder of the Holomodor in Ukraine in which eight million died. Death by starvation was very cheap and fast. There only extreme right was in Spain under Franco, a literal military dictatorship.
The idea that Albo and Wong are friends of the Jewish community is just absurd. And that Islam is a religion of peace. What then is a fatwa?
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In the UN, Australia and South Africa stand out as the greatest opponents of the existence of Israel led by Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong. Even Bob Carr, former Foreign Minister is against Israel. It is modern Labor Party policy. Whitlam and Hawke would be appalled.
And our PM and Foreign Minister want the Prime Minister of Israel arrested as a criminal, the only democracy in the Middle East. Meanwhile they are stacking Western Sydney with a million rapidly imported Muslim voters, there is a wall of denial of what is obvious. Both from the Islamists and Albanese and Wrong who ‘shed’ tears, which seems unlikely given their public policy.
This is insane where so many Arab countries have signed the Abraham Accords. In fact the recent war on Israel on three sides was entirely to prevent Saudi Arabia from signing, the leading Sunni nation.
It is equally insane because Australia has nothing to do with Israel except for our small Jewish community.
No one was elected on a platform of Anti Israel in Australia. Nor the Democrats in the United States. Or Labor in the UK. And they don’t want to lose the Jewish votes and Jewish funding. But it is transparent policy now. It is likely China is pushing all this to disrupt and divide the Western Democracies And Albanese, Starmer, South Africa do the bidding of their masters in Beijing.
Everything points to China sowing the seeds of discord, from BLM to BDS to the UN. And it all aligns with Albanese’s real politics and that of the Greens. They don’t even try to hide their communist politics. Denial will do. Allegedly shedding tears is so offensive.
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Could well be. Interesting article here:
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-882604
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Discussed at:
Essentially the communist Left wanted to disassociate themselves from the National Socialists and Fascist Left.
All Left factions hate each other anyway, e.g. Marxists, Trotskyists, Leninists, Maoists, Stalinists, National Socialists all hate each other.
Post WW2 communists didn’t want to be associated with National Socialists so they called National Socialism “far right” rather than “far Left”. It waa propaganda.
And yet today the Left do much the same as the National Socialists, the black uniforms of Antifa, the antisemitism, boycott of Jewish businesses, the association with Islam (red green alliance) such as the National Socialists had with Hajj Amin al-Husayni and Hitler’s admiration of Islam, the Left’s admiration of anti-Jewish terrorist groups like Hamas akin to the Brownshirts and support of the religious fundamentalists in Iran etc..
Gulag AI says:
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Possibly the best known to most of the world of the Spanish Republicans, aka communists/radical socialists/anarchists, was Pablo Picasso, who pushed their cause through his high profile in not just the art world, but in general.
When the Nationalists kicked Republican butt and won the Spanish Civil War Picasso, like so many other Spanish Republicans decamped to France, mainly to Paris.
Where they spent WWII partying with the Nazi occupation forces, even after Germany attacked the USSR.
That’s who different the various brands of socialism were from each other.
The first reference I know of to “national socialism” was in a July 1918 edition of “Vorwartz” (the official newspaper of the German Social Democrat Party) calling for a form on “national bolshevish” to combat the international socialism of the bolsheviks.
The reasons the communists and the national socialists brawled so hard in the streets of Weimar Germany was because they were fighting for control of the same constituency.
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What? They’re calling followers of the religion of peace far right now? /s
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Remember the Trade Union Royal Commission?
We heard from family plumbing businesses being warned off sites. We heard of concrete pours being interrupted without reason causing the demolition of areas already in the process of setting. We heard of cash payments from member’s funds to house renovations in Melbourne. There are few if any civil projects being completed on time or within a cost double or triple the budget.
We hear Gillard is still organising around the globe in conjunction with the Clintons and that Michael Smith New’s website documenting her activities has disappeared off the internet.
So why pour more fuel into what is quite obviously a blaze being stoked by lawyers and politicians.
The prosecutors are not going to follow up on those accused of crime and the politicians will not act on the findings of the commission. So why bother? Why waste a fortune in taxes and resources?
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“It will find only what the Government wants it to find. “
…and it will take two or three years to find it, giving the guilty time to prepare their exit or ride out the diminished public outrage that will be distracted in the meantime.
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Same person appointed by Albanese Labor as Royal Commissioner investigating the Morrison Government, Labor’s political opponents
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You can guarantee it won’t go anywhere near what has been the primary hotbed of anti-semitism in this country for over half a century, which is Arts/Humanities/Social “Science” academics in the universities.
That’s where AnAl and Henny Penny got their starts in politics, just like Dullard et al.
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It seems the brief is to examine Islamophobia as well, the real problem.
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In that case, perhaps they will decide the fear is not irrational?
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Here is a video about recreating an ancient pump which uses no moving parts. It’s called a pulser pump. No laws of physics are violated.
https://youtu.be/7OHCOFFUamQ
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Not to be confused with a hydraulic ram pump which does have two moving parts but no motor.
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I watched that very video yesterday ‘avo!😆
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What if you added a series of venturi drawing air from tubes above the level of the trompe tube.
He actually does this when he made the air compressor and makes for a more consistent flow of air down the tube.
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What happens to Australia’s plastic that domestic consumers spend vast amounts of unpaid labour collecting, sorting and putting into “recycle” bins?
It used to be exported but China no longer wants it and Australia itself banned the export of plastic waste to places like Indonesia, for their own good of course.
Australia no longer has cheap energy, industrial capacity or even affordable land or factory rents for a recycling operation and the last major operation closed down quite a few years ago due to the high costs of “green” energy..
There are a few boutique recyclers but Gulag AI says a vast majority ends up in landfill after Australians have expended vast efforts to put it in recycle bins.
Here is a video about plastics and other materials recycling in the Third World, Pakistan.
https://youtu.be/nKoRN9wt7l0
Here is Gulag AI:
Australia should either;
1) allow its export to countries that are willing to take it.
2) If not economic to collect and export put in landfill
3) But landfill is silly if plastic and most other waste can be burned to produce electricity which they even do in fully woke places like Europe and New York but which is banned in Australia.
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Over 20 years ago I worked for a company that recycled at least 50 -100 tons per year of plastic bottle waste. The ‘quality’ of this got worse and worse (Who wants aluminium caps and other waste?).
So the company (and the plastic recycling) disappeared.
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Working quite well thanks.
Recycling is the redundant part of the program and possibly considered a nuisance. The Queensland Government is simply taxing containers that were already going into the household recycle bins. They are taxed when sold to consumers and it is working quite nicely for the swamp, thanks. Very little money is actually refunded as the process of recovering your 10 cents costs more than it is worth.
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Yep.
I’ve never understood why people take a garbage bag of cans to a Cash for Containers site when they probably spend more on fuel to get there and back.
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Might just be a side mission
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Should do what the smart countries are already doing – burn all plastics in high-temperature incinerators. We are closing our eyes to the fact that despite all the expensive efforts of collecting and sorting plastics, their end destinations are totally unsatisfactory.
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Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council (in the UK, just for clarity) send their recycling waste to Northern Ireland. A new contract was signed, which the public were led to believe would mean the waste would be processed somewhere closer and on the mainland.
Much to the surprise of no one sane, the plan to process it on the mainland has…hit some snags, such as the new contract holder not actually having a facility on the mainland and not having much desire to build one any time soon.
It’d be funny if it wasn’t true, and council taxes were not thousands of pounds per year.
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There is a company based in Mildura which recycles soft plastic sheeting , black pvc irrigation pipe, pvc chemical drums into railway sleepers, using approx 75 tonnes of plastic per kilometer of track.
The sleepers are projected to last three times longer than timber ones and can be recycled again into more sleepers.
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You open a fascinating question … should some householder try using minimum wage laws and then claim back sufficient to compensate for wage theft over recycling programs.
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a plastic recycler in SA closed down because the electricity bill was too much
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As per last thread, it’s fantastic news that TRUMP is disengaging from UN and its agencies.
The US has been a major source of funds for the UN and its agencies, even though UN policies mostly work AGAINST the interests of the US, the West, and the cause of freedom in general.
I am concerned that the Governments of the stupid woke countries like Australia which love the UN and who have zero concern for the expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer money will step in and make up the deficit, at the cost of even more Government debt.
So, if this funding deficit is made up by our taxpayer money, the UN will not shrink.
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David:
stupid woke countries (like Australia, NZ, UK, Germany etc.) won’t be able to spend vast amounts of money on the UN because they are becoming bankrupt.
Those with money now better than to send money to the UN.
And it looks like Australia losing out on hosting the next COP Meeting (COP 31?) may be a good thing. Except we will probably having Blackout running around Australia. Perhaps we should make him Ambassador to Greenland (or Heard Island but that might be a bit close to home).
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Nah.
Woke western countries are accustomed to living off America’s teat, and their favorite past-time is grousing about how America should be spending more. The UN being forced to downsize due to funding cuts will only increase their joy at being able to whine about how backward and provincial those dumb greedy Americans are. Trump is giving them the gift of moral superiority, and the last thing they want to do is get off their moral high horse and fund those agencies themselves.
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Tropical low in the Coral Sea now at 997hPa:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-212.90,-16.05,2785/loc=149.443,-15.045
It will surely strengthen as it moves south toward the coast. But it is being fed from dryer ocean air rather than hot dry air from the land. The amount of moisture already across Queensland is preventing it from building great strength. It is more a rain depression.
The deep low (964hPa) south of Alaska has caused more snow damage in Juneau and is beginning to impact across the Pacific Northwest.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/record-alaska-snow-buries-juneau-sinks-boats/ar-AA1TNC1t
In Juneau’s harbors, the snowfall hasn’t just piled up—it’s pulled boats under. Alaska’s capital logged nearly 7 feet of snow in December, its snowiest such month in more than eight decades, and the weight is taking a toll on everything from roofs to vessels, the Washington Post reports. Harbormaster Matthew Creswell says eight boats have sunk across the city’s four harbors in recent days, with about three dozen more narrowly saved as crews rushed to shovel decks and pump out water. Some boats disappeared almost entirely; in one case, only the mast was visible above the icy surface.
Week 1 2026 NH snow cover of 46.47E12m^2 is the highest for wk1 since 2019.
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As was noted, the US has removed itself from 66 ripoffs including the Green Climate Fund.
‘The GCF, created as part of a 2009 U.N. agreement in Copenhagen, was designed to distribute $100 billion annually to developing nations for climate-related projects and damage mitigation efforts. In recent years, U.S. contributions under the Biden administration had significantly increased, including a $1 billion pledge in April 2023 and a $3 billion commitment at the COP28 climate summit in December 2023.’
What I find stunning about the $20Tn spent each year on stopping the growth of CO2 is that no one cares there is zero effect on CO2. Like Snowy II, no one is monitoring the cost. No one presented a business case for spending more than the historic cost of the Panama Canal and heading for the cost of the Chunnel. And the Chunnel was finished in only six years. How is Snowy II going to repay the mountain of cash? Especially in a country with hundreds of years of coal and one of the world’s largest exporters of gas, coal, iron ore and uranium?
The actual graph of Co2 vs time is here (NZ station)
And it shows ZERO effect of anything done. 300,000 windmills, billions of solar panels, millions of electric cars, the 2020 world lockdown, massive bushfires, volcanoes. A near straight line when drawn as an absolute measurement of total atmospheric CO2. (No deceptive zooming and scaling to make the line 45 degrees from bottom left to top right.)
Like Malcolm Turnbull’s stolen $444 million to save the Great Barrier Reef, not approved by parliament or anyone else. Not even a submission. Just $444 million in cash without explanation in a week and nothing to be seen for the money. Given that the Reef is in the best condition in recorded history, no attempt to give the money back. Malcolm De Medici in a democratic government? Nothing is said. Same with Albanese. Untouchables.
Or the Green Climate Fund, a total rort where no one bothers to report on success or failure. Like Somali kindergartens now running around $8Billion in payments for Child Care centres which have never seen children and records of Somalis flying back in pairs to Somalia with suitcases with millions in hard cash, all known to the US government. Declared at the airport on departure. But if you flew into any country with more than $10,000 in cash, you have to explain. Not if you are a Somali flying home. Or the UN. Or a diplomatic plane to or from Venezuela. So it’s all government approved.
The UN Climate con is so obvious, it is unbelievable. Zero results. Zero explanation. Just send cash.
There is Zero reporting on the success or failure of any measure to stop “Climate Change” by altering CO2. So it’s indistinguishable from a massive con run by the UN and now rejected officially and totally by the US government as in 2016. But our socialist Australian State and Federal governments don’t care. It’s our moral duty to send money overseas and shut down Australia.
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Sounds a lot like an “executive order”.
The climate-based withdrawals I can understand, but there is a lot of other worrying items relating to democracy, rule of law, cybersecurity, piracy and counter-terrorism that could be significant in the future.
There is also a whisper (could be fake news – don’t know) about a “handshake agreement” made in 2019 between the then President Trump and President Putin regarding the futures of Venezuela and Ukraine that may explain recent actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqk98ucKz1A
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And the left in America, the Democrats, openly attack the elected government for extracting long term dictator and drug kingpin Maduro. Because he is one of them. An absolute monster. And this is after their “NO KINGS” rally against Trump. What then was Maduro? What is Albanese? Do the communists really control the Democrats? Or is Walz just retarded, as Trump says?
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The state can only be strong when its in harmony with the will of the people. President Trump only had the support of ~29% of the overall voting population in raw numbers. The other 70% (which includes those who didn’t vote) don’t all seem to be onside.
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Can we see a link to that source please?
OTOH
“The Places Where Trump Is Suddenly Very Popular — Don’t Expect the MSM to Talk About It”
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/01/08/the-surprising-or-maybe-not-so-surprising-place-where-trump-is-suddenly-super-popular-n4948041
Invalidated because thay didn’t have a chance to pick “Z-Man”?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections
My bad – made my calcs on Voting Age Population (VAP), not Voting Eligible Population (VEP) which increases his share to 30.7% of VEP, or
Only refers to “Latin America. The polling was conducted on January 3 and 4, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.”
So South America loves him for his bold actions – better not run the survey north of the border and across the Atlantic though.
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Turnbulls $444 million pales into insignificance beside Albo Akbar’s $1B thrown at that Quantum computer.
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Agreed, except that as far as we know, Albanese and his wife did not receive the cash directly as did Turnbull. But it is yet to be revealed why anyone would prop up a high risk Silicon Valley gamble with a billion in cash. There must be an angle of which we, the public, are not aware because this huge donation of taxpayer cash makes no sense at all. There is likely a huge scandal here.
The primary scandal is that no one had to justify this expense. Imagine if he spent $1Billion on first class travel for a pet dog? A thousand million dollars, without explanation. It’s almost as if this ‘donation’ is for a cause so obscure and unfathomable that the press ask no questions at all. Nor parliament. How is it possible without a business plan or explanation of any sort? It would make more sense if he just stole the money.
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And quantum computing is a highly speculative field. How dare Albanese throw such a vast amount of taxpayer money (or any money) at a foreign company, or indeed any company.
The Lamestream Media is completely silent about investigating this.
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Well we have a contender for most versatile phrase of 2026.
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The only batteries here are for starting the fossil-fueled engine…
600+ Insane Cars Hit The Streets at Summernats 38!
In the nations capital no less…
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Awesome isn’t it. I went to it back in the early 90’s, number 6, still have the T shirt in my cupboard.
We worried back then that delusional greenies wanted to shut it down due to the clouds of burnt rubber from the burnout comp and thousands of litres of high octane fuel being used purely for FUN!
and it’s still going while idiot greenies have moved on to argue about gender wars and supporting terrorists. Clowns.
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Russia has used an Oreshnik against Ukraine’s Lviv, just 80 kms from the Polish border.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/russia-says-it-hit-ukraine-with-oreshnik-hypersonic-missile/106214842
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More here
“Swift Retaliation: Putin Launches Oreshnik Strike on “Largest Gas Storage Site in Europe” in Ukraine’s Lvov Region”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swift-retaliation-putin-launches
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FWIW
“IN ANY CIVILIZED SOCIETY THE PRICE OF ENERGY IS THE DRIVER OF AFFORDABILITY: If affordability really matters, then let’s look at electricity.”
“If affordability really matters, then let’s look at electricity”
Concludes
“But with electricity, they actually can change things. They can alter the sources of power they use in their state and drop the costs of electricity for everyone, including the very poor, who pay a higher percentage of their income toward electricity than the wealthy.
They won’t, though.”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/if-affordability-really-matters-then
https://instapundit.com/768174/#disqus_thread
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I just came across this, labelled as “The Buffett Files “. Might be legit. Might be A I. Interesting either way.
24 minutes.
” Russia Cut All Gas to Europe — And the West Wasn’t Ready “.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHkTRxB35eA
Cheers.
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Driving into Alexandra just now returning some people we evacuated earlier today and was meet with a surreal site.
About 5klm out of town there was about a 100 recently cropped hay rounds glowing in the dark in a paddock with a couple of CFA trucks watching over them.
We were talking last week as we drove by, what a great year it had been. Sad to see it go up in smoke.
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That’s sad, after all the work producing them. The main thing is that people survived here.
We found the day very stressful but we are hoping the worst is over but worried about people further north. The sky was so incredibly spooky and very dark in the late afternoon.
We have our daughter and her 4 lively canines here plus one patient cat. Our poor old border collie is confined to the study area. Earlier we had grandson, girlfriend and border collie pup with us but they stayed elsewhere eventually. The logistics for ‘wee’ visits are interesting!
I hope others in the fire area are safe, with more news tomorrow of well being I hope.
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