Site has had two outages today. These are not the usual sort. Hopefully will be resolved soon.
Thanks for your patience. This is a problem with the large Australian server that also hosts many huge retail sites. They must be extremely busy today…
There was a terrorist attack (yesterday) in Modena but Italian “authorities” claim it wasn’t a terrorist attack when a man, Salim El Koudri, of North African origin drove his car into a crowd at 100km per hour severely injuring seven or eight and then got out of his car and stabbed someone.
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said the 31-year-old man who drove into a crowd in Modena on Saturday was not suspected of a terrorist act and was dealing with mental issues.
Investigators have ruled out that terrorism was at play after a man drove a car into crowd in the Italian city of Modena on Saturday, injuring eight people.
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It’s surprising they’re still trying to claim the “mental health issues” excuse for obvious terrorist attacks. And an insult to genuinely mentally ill people who usually aren’t homicidally violent. And do they take the people as completely stupid expecting them to continually believe “mental health” is behind these terrorist attacks? They didn’t have them before Europe opened its borders.
A more rational view from a citizen reporter is here:
Mental health issues are not strictly confined to the Italian authorities.
Governments of the UK, most of Europe, Canada, Australia etc. are infested by idiots who think nothing of throwing open the borders to all and sundry.
The people who have to live with the problems caused by this recklessness are sick of it.
We would all have seen some muslim women in “letterbox” abode – one long rectanglular cutout in her burqa/hijab so she can see.
About 2 weeks ago I saw the following in a suburb in Brisbane.
Instead of the regular rectangular cutout, the woman had circles a little larger than a 50 cent piece cutout for each eye.
She would have little if any peripheral vision capability.
I can’t understand why somebody would willingly agree to wear this.
PS…Banks view full-face helmets as a security risk because they conceal identity, similar to a mask or balaclava.
And yet a burqa or hijab is allowed to be worn in a bank???
Sure, but they show a strange preference for the poor, unskilled, violent or Islamic (which can include all of these). Essentially, they’re looking for immigrants likely to damage the country in some way, be it turning waterways into open sewers, swelling the welfare numbers, and all the way to terrorists who hate Christians, women and gays.
Funny. Yarpos says, “not many”. So you post one name, with a “what about” as if you disagree. But, one shows Yarpos is correct.
The other aspect is, Cauchi does apparently have a history of mental episodes for which he required treatment. As opposed to all the many events of attacks where the person isn’t having a mental health issue. Unless you wish to classify a religious belief as such.
Which is kind of the point here. Real mental health vs making an excuse to mask other motives.
Funny it’s uncontested by you when Yarpos picks out one report and says that there are not many such instances with Euro names, without evidence. About as much evidence as you are using to back up your unusual knowledge of unreleased health records and police investigations.
Flick through the news for the last couple of years for incidents across Europe and the UK. Your disingenuous ignorance when it suits gets pretty tiresome.
True. I’m not contesting Yarpos’ claim about numbers.
But then you may notice I also didn’t contest your suggestion that the numbers are greater than not many.
I’m pointing out that your citing one case doesn’t negate Yarpos’ “not many”. But I’m happy for you to show the numbers are much greater.
Funny you say that Yarpos picks out one report. We actually don’t know what he’s basing his comment on. All we know is that the “one report” was a prompt for him to comment. We don’t know that one report was the extent of his research.
But you, on the other hand, have cited only one incident to base your reply on.
I expect we have a number of car ramming crowd incidents which probably are attributed to mental health episodes. But your one example, Joel Cauchi, wasn’t even one of those. It was a different kind of attack.
If going for just one. You could have mentioned Charlottesville. (Very fine people, on both sides. But not the white supremicists and neo nazis)
But perhaps you weren’t thinking of that because it’s attributed to a hate crime or terrorist act. Not a mental health episodes. If that’s the reason you excluded it, then you too are assigning a mental health status to Joel Cauchi. (If that’s what your health records and police investigation reference was in relation to).
The coroner’s report said he was having a mental health episodes. https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/documents/bondi-junction-inquest/findings/Inquest_into_the_deaths_at_Westfield_Bondi_Junction_Summary.pdf
If you’re referring to other incidence, we all know that the many attacks around the world are largely not mental health but ideological. I’m not going through every police report.
As for European names. Look at the world wide terrorist indexes. The countries with high rates and topping the list don’t have many European names.
Australia jumped up the list in 2025. Not due to European named people.
But it’s not the name that’s important. It’s the ideology. Certain ideologies and a certain selection of names are often synonymous. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/#/
Almost daily events now in China. Called Revenge against society attacks. Make society in general pay for your crappy life.
When you have nothing left to lose, you lose it.
Sky News has a woke element as well. In the midst of the rain fronts hitting the east Coast the weather man on Sky News, this morning, warned o a “ looming El Niño “ system. Just wondering if this is the same El Niño that has been looming around for the last 5 years but always fades away. I think these El Niño warnings are brought about by the Climate Change minister & the BOM!! They must be getting really frustrated at El Niño’s reluctance to perform!!🤓🤓
I believe that the BOM uses a different prediction methodology, as compared to other Pacific nations. Japan, for example, seems to get it right most times.
There were super El Nino in 1997-98 and 2015-16, they are classical examples associated with a significant reduction in rainfall over northeastern and southeastern Australia.
On the other hand, Modoki El Nino events appear to drive a large-scale decrease in rainfall over northwestern and northern Australia. So I’m punting on the latter.
They reckon we can predict El Nino Modoki from sunspot numbers 50 years ago, but I’ll let that go through to the keeper.
The Rottnest Island shark attack was caused by climate change according to some WA official quoted on ABC news today; I howled with rage and powered off the radio. It’s becoming too hazardous to listen to ABC news; we’re mentally swamped by mispronunciations, solecisms and sheer ignorance –our national broadcaster wot.
What matters is diversity, diversity is all that matters
Modern Marxists see the world through the race struggle, and where race does not exist, it must be inserted
The Capitalist
May 18, 2026
I am not surprised Christopher Nolan cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. He had no choice if he wanted an Oscar.
It does not matter that Homer in his 2800 year-old poem The Iliad described Helen as “white-armed” and “fair-haired”. White-armed meaning her wealth and status shielded her from the harshness of the sun. Fair-haired… obvious.
Miss Nyong’o is beautiful as Helen was said to be beautiful, but she is neither “light armed” nor “fair haired”. It does not matter. What matters is diversity.
Diversity is all that matters.
We are forgetting some of the diversity mandates thrust upon society and institutions after George Floyd’s overdose. (This line always gets me in trouble but read the coroner’s report if you think I’m being flippant or crass…)
We saw the frantic scramble to tear down statues nationwide, not just of Confederates and not just in the South, but of Washington and Jefferson, of Teddy Roosevelt at New York’s Natural History Museum, of Saint Francis of Assisi in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (wut…?) of famed abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg at the Wisconsin state house (huh…?).
Mobs aren’t always known for their brains.
Friends of mine, names you might know from TV and media, stood guard at the historic statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC’s Lincoln Park determined to protect it. They succeeded.
Along with the toppling of statues of bad white people came the banning of images of real black people. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, real people who had their real faces on their real products from which their real descendants made real royalties… gone. Fictional brands like the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat or the grandmotherly Mrs. Butterworths also had to go. Black were now like the prophet Mohammad and depictions of them had us all being at risk of the same fate as the staff of Charlie Hebdo.
Racism was being eliminated one food group at a time.
Can you help with this question?
We have an engine ECU with a faulty central processor chip. The manufacturer of the ECU is no longer around. Is there a way of finding the hardwire programming of the chip so that we can create another one?
That actually shouldn’t be too hard, if you mean dumping the firmware and flashing another chip.
There are very talented people doing just that, even via microsoldering.
You’d need to be more detailed.
But realistically, you *may* be better off with a used module.
I say *may* because the issue of initialising any replacement module.
Again, there are companies that repair older modules, all USA though.
I am not sure if I understand the difference.
I have tried to obtain another ECU. I even bought one, but it was an earlier version and not compatible.
Starting afresh with a different ECU is possible but will require taking the engine out and some rewiring.
I’ve spent the last couple of days throwing out a distributor, coil and all ignition wiring, and fitting Hall effect sensors in a different distributor body and a coil-over-plug system. However the ECU was replaced a few years back with an early Haltech one, so the changes I’ve made can be programmed into it.
If the car is important to you and you have the patience, fit an aftermarket computer. What sort of car? Mine is an early ’80s Corolla, so it had no electronics when it left the factory. There are no other computers in the car to worry about.
Thanks,
It is actually an aircraft using a Subaru EJ22 engine. The ECU from the car is not appropriate for this application since many of the peripheral items have been removed including various environmental items. Also the limp home mode is not desired.
Australia’s Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Background
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It was adopted in 1997 and requires ratification by countries responsible for a significant portion of industrialized emissions to take effect.
Shift in Government Policy
Previous Government Stance: The Australian government under Prime Minister John Howard initially refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, citing concerns over economic impacts and the exclusion of developing countries from binding targets.
Labor Party’s Action: In December 2007, the Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, ratified the Kyoto Protocol. This decision marked a significant policy shift, as it reversed the previous government’s stance against the treaty.
Key Details of Ratification
Date of Ratification: Kevin Rudd signed the ratification on December 3, 2007.
Implementation: The ratification took effect in March 2008, committing Australia to limit its emissions to 8% above 1990 levels during the 2008-2012 period.
Implications
This ratification was seen as a commitment to addressing climate change and improving Australia’s international standing in climate negotiations. It also indicated a broader shift towards more proactive environmental policies under the Labor government.
Even though Howard didn’t ratify Kyoto he did sign it and initiated Australia on the road to de-energisation and deindustrialisation which of course was made far worse under Labor.
When are the Liberals going to loudly and proudly proclaim that if elected they will leave the Paris Agreement and also undo all renewables-related subsidies, taxes, hidden payments etc. and return Australia’s energy landscape to how it was before Howard signed Kyoto (and also remove Howard’s ban on nuclear power)?
Overview of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty focused on climate change, adopted on December 12, 2015, during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France. It aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. The agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016.
Australia’s Commitment
Australia signed the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016, committing to specific greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Prime Minister Turnbull was appointed 15 September 2015 replacing Prime Minister Abbott.
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, or RET, was first introduced in 2001 by Liberal PM John Howard. It has been almost entirely responsible for getting Australia’s graceful collection of wind turbines erected and getting solar panels on the roofs of 19% of our homes.
It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to be incorporated within energy retailers’ total supply. This gave those sources of energy a de facto subsidy. That basic subsidy presently is $50 per megawatt hour for large-scale solar and wind – rather more than the total price of generated energy formerly experienced – and $40 per megawatt hour for rooftop solar.
John Howard recognised the error he had made and that subsidised energy would, if allowed to expand, undermine the electricity supply’s economics. He refused to increase the capped amount of subsidised wind and solar from its initial 9,500 gigawatt hours (nominally ‘2 per cent of additional energy’ though actually over 4 per cent of total electricity). But then came the Rudd government which increased the subsidised renewable energy quantum six-fold followed by Gillard who, for good measure, added a carbon tax on coal and gas.
Tony Abbott as Prime Minister 2013-2015 proved unable to do more than staunch the increases but Albanese and Bowen have turbocharged the program. Labor has increased direct subsidies to wind/solar, introduced the ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ requiring the top 215 electricity users to reduce their usage by 30 per cent by 2030, and are vastly expanding the transmission network to cater for the diffuse nature of renewable energy supplies.
Liberal party and Labor party in it together. Twenty years of unending damage to our wealth and the economy.
That is why they are called the Uniparty ( two wings of the same bird).
That is why we need One Nation to succeed. One Nation is firmly against Climate Change and all the resulting Net Zero policies.
Angus Taylor is trying to change course but it is hard to get his team act together.
For those who dont know what a cattle prod does, here’s an explanation. Cattle prods are not used to move mobs of eg cattle. They tend to get used in cattle yards to move or “persuade” a stubborn beast that needs to move up a ramp or down a race. Because if it doesn’t move, it’s holding up the rest of the operation. Hence the analogy – ON are the cattle prod for the LNP, and maybe even the ALP? That is, they are the electric jolt that spurs the recalcitrant beast into action to go down the correct pathway.
I doubt that Labor will respond to an ON cattle prob.
They think they are there until 2028 and can adjust the budget to hand out more subsidies to the usual voters.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, To fetch her poor dog a bone;
But when she came there, the cupboard was bare,
(And so the poor dog had none).
John Howard recognised the error he had made and that subsidised energy would, if allowed to expand, undermine the electricity supply’s economics. He refused to increase the capped amount of subsidised wind and solar from its initial 9,500 gigawatt hours (nominally ‘2 per cent of additional energy’ though actually over 4 per cent of total electricity)
That’s what the Spectator tells us.
However, in September 2007, Howard increased the Clean Energy Target to 30,000 GWh by 2020. Setting the political scene for the, unscientific, technologically and economically illiterate rot in Australia’s energy system.
Ironically, also in 2007, Howard also increased the Photovoltaic subsidy to such an extent that Australia’s rooftop uptake eventually undermined the Australian electricity supply’s economics.
“Howard also increased the Photovoltaic subsidy to such an extent that Australia’s rooftop uptake eventually undermined the Australian electricity supply’s economics.”
..and simultaneously showed how incompetent the ‘experts’ are that the Govt hires to advise them. If they couldn’t see this train wreck occurring from their ideas they were not capable of what they were being paid for! So, who’s going to jail for it?
You need to start looking for clues. It is apparent you are clueless or using ChatBots without checking.
The current price of LGCs is $2.40?MWh. not $50/MWh.
The RET expires in 2030. It is already close to zero subsidy.
The AEMO administered capacity contracts under Blackout have nothing to do with Howard’s RET. They offer guaranteed ROI on project estimated cost. The proponents will get paid even if there is no electricity production.
Anyone looking closely at the grid knows it is stuffed as an economic entity.
There is no defending the UN-party with their UN agenda.
The only way Australia will restore sovereignty so voters reclaim prosperity is to vote One Nation. Anyone suggesting otherwise is either lying or too stupid to relise they have been conned.
LNP has been a lost cause since Abbott was rolled and the bird mincer proponent Turncoat took control.
You may have missed the story that Abbott is going to become Liberal Party president and that he is already running Angus Taylor’s office.
Back in the day Abbott said some detrimental things about One Nation, but now he is embracing them. The LNP is not a lost cause and it will be ON preferences which get them back into government.
The Kyoto Protocol was the trigger that started me off on what I’ve been doing since March of 2008.
I was going to do a short series at a Pennsylvania based Blog site.
That ‘short!!’ Series morphed into 58 separate Posts, and what I do just went on from there.
Those early Posts are pretty amateur, but the biggest surprise for me, right now, in 2026, after 18 years, is how much of the stuff I did write still stands up. The costings I did back then, while correct as possible for that time, are now horrendously out of date.
Here’s one little snippet though.
China, (at that time in 2008) was in the process of constructing a new large scale latest technology USC (UltraSuperCrirical) coal fired power plant every seven to ten days, and when I wrote that (in 2008) some people who left comments after I mentioned it ….. (at the Bolt site mostly, in those days when he did have comments at his own Blog site) scoffed at what I wrote saying there was no way they could do that, or were even doing it. The salient point back then of what I did write was that the Chinese were building them for less than One Billion Dollars U.S.
Here’s the link to that (now dated) original Kyoto Series, basically an in depth detailing of electrical power generation at the time. At that link, you’ll see the titles for the Posts. There are 24 links to Posts per page and if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see a tab titled ‘older posts’, and that takes you to the next page of 24 links to Posts, and again scroll down for the same for the nest page of links going right back to the first of those Kyoto Posts dated March 22 2008.
Tony you would be aware that Morrison Government offered Queensland Labor Government, noting Queensland Government still owns power stations in that state, to underwrite funding for a new HELE coal fired power station but the offer was rejected?
And at that time wanted four gas fired generator plant built, one each for QLD and VIC and two in NSW. I understand that only one in NSW (Kurri?) is being built or has been built and owned by Federal Government owned Snowy Hydro Limited. That is the project Minister for Energy Bowen wanted to change from natural gas fuelled to “green” hydrogen and would not accept Snowy Hydro’s CEO explanation that it was not available or a commercially viable option. The CEO later resigned.
Biological women no longer have an identity in Australia. Any man claiming to be a woman is legally indistinguishable from an actual woman.
Already schoolgirls in other countries like Wales* are not drinking water during the day so they don’t have to go to the bathroom and share it with boys. (Also mentioned by Sal Grover in one of her interviews, not sure if it’s happening I’m Australia – yet.)
With this week’s resumption of the Iran war, people will have way bigger things to worry about real soon…
Remember how lightning fast “Raygun” went to nothing despite all the hype over how her breakdancing was amazing and the next big thing, when it wasn’t.
This is a great victory for men if it is used correctly. For instance, on a business board there has been a push to make them gender equal. So say a company has to chose a woman to achieve that objective. A man who has the merit to meet the job (but can’t apply) quickly identifies as a woman and wins the position. I’m sure everyone can think of similar examples (such as govt positions, parliament.etc).
Growth of Renewable Energy
2000s: Renewable energy sources accounted for less than 1% of electricity generation in 2000.
2010s: Significant growth in wind and rooftop solar energy, with government policies encouraging the adoption of renewable technologies.
2024: Renewable energy sources now account for around 40% of Australia’s total electricity supply.
Key Drivers of Change
Government Policies
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA): Established in 2012 to improve the competitiveness of renewable technologies.
Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets (MRET): Introduced to ensure a significant share of electricity comes from renewable sources.
Technological Advancements
Solar and Wind Technologies: Rapid advancements have made these technologies more efficient and cost-effective, leading to increased adoption across households and businesses.
Dennis,
Looks like you’re on a bit of a mission today, and if your mission is to show that the Liberals are less bad than Labor, you’re doing a fine job.
My view is that “progressive” and “conservative” *both* have a place. If you spend too long under progressive rule, you get chaos; too long under conservative and you get stagnation. Ideally things alternate every few years, with bursts of new ideas, then periods when the not-so-bright ideas get knocked on the head.
That seemed to work ok into the ’90s. However the Liberals got a taste for doing new things. GST wasn’t a disaster, and they got by ok with enterprise bargaining/workplace agreements too. But these “successes” diluted their role of knocking dumb ideas on the head. The NEM (and later AEMO) might have been less awful today if the Howard government had looked at it critically in the early 2000s. And of course later Liberal governments would actively develop *really* stupid ideas of their own (SH2 being a prime example).
For the last decade or so, I have viewed Labor and Liberal as progressive+ and progressive respectively. One Nation is the party that champions the conservative philosophy of knocking dumb ideas on the head. We need that — badly — and I don’t mind either way: One Nation can win power, or the Liberals can return to their conservative roots. Either way, it’ll happen quicker if many people put One Nation ahead of the Liberals on the ballot.
It’ll be a *big* wakeup call for the Libs if they find themselves having to form a minority government with a supply agreement with One Nation (I doubt One Nation would be foolish enough to enter a formal coalition agreement with them).
Establishment of AEMO and NEM
AEMO
Created by: The Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
Date of establishment: July 1, 2009
Purpose: To manage the electricity and gas markets in Australia.
NEM
Created to connect: The electricity transmission grids of eastern and southern Australia.
Function: Facilitates a wholesale electricity market, allowing for the efficient exchange of electricity across states and territories.
AEMO oversees the operations of the National Electricity Market (NEM), ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply for consumers.
Howard Government defeated by Rudd Labor November 2007
The only renewable energy comes from trees and other biomass. Now under attack from industrial bird mincers and roasters.
I presented the sums to the Finkel enquiry based on real data that firmed wind and solar were extraordinarily expensive source of grid power generation. I was actually surprised that the Finkel enquiry endorsed the shift to mincers and roasters.
The facts are that Australia’s primary energy consumption is 6.5E18Joules. In 2025 grid scale wind and solar produced 52.6TWh or 0.189E18Joules, which is 2.9% of Australia’s energy needs. Huge expense for absolutely no benefit.
The cost of wind and solar on the grid is de-industrialisation – and that is now obvious to many voters. Particularly those looking for a real job.
The wealthier voters have taken action to reduce the impact of high electricity costs by making their own. They produced an estimated 29.3TWh in 2025 – more than half of all the grid scale intermittents.
It only makes sense to support rooftop solar and household batteries until the grid can be restored to an economic asset rather than a virtue signalling climate fixer.
For myself, before you even get to the impact of increasedd CO2, the idea that the CO2 increase is man made is the biggest and fundamental lie. The slow almost linear 0.5% annual increase is nothing more than very slight ocean surface warming changing the vapour pressure of CO2. Temperature changes the 50:1 balance of ocean CO2 to air CO2. It’s that simple.
Whether increased atmospheric CO2 actually produces measurable warming is a moot point. Humans do not and cannot control CO2 levels. Our entire annual CO2 output world wide is only 0.02% of the total. And Australia’s scientists say nothing. Because they want their jobs. And the Australian governments keep passing laws based on lies created by the UN and pushed by our windmill and solar panel suppliers and people who hate Australia, Albo Akhbar and Pong.
El Nino typically causes a spike in atmospheric CO2.
‘Even though the 2023-24 El Niño had waned by April, record high air temperatures and drought in all of 2024, similar to those during an El Nino, were likely drivers of the large increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide in 2024. In addition to other factors, large forest fires in both the Amazon and Canada contributed to the 2024 global increase.’ (NOAA)
Because it’s a near horizontal line as well. I know you have a PhD in Genetics, so I suppose mathematics is not your strong suit.
Certainly not geometric line fitting. Least squares analysis? Was it all just theory? Statistical analysis? No graphs?
Really since 1750 and 280ppm, CO2 has only climbed to 420, that’s a tiny 50% in 250 years! An average of 0.2% pa. That’s flat as a tack. Zero inflation. A horizontal line.
CO2 growth is extremely slow, only 25% over the period of the graph. For comparison CO2 emissions are exponential, increasing, 500% in the same period. 1700% since 1900.
And the smoothest surface is rough under a microscope. You are listing variations around a mean and mean close to zero. Flat as a driveway.
If you break any data down into tiny steps you get granularity but you get that with any physical measurement.
Seriously look at the graph of CO2 and tell me it’s not to all intents and purposes a straight line. And the period up to 1970 where there is a small kink, an even lower slope.
You have wasted my time again with this nonsense, your standard kneejerk response graph. AGAIN.
Please look at the NZ data I referenced, not your standard little table. Your data is from Hawaii, (NOAA).
This tropical CO2 is subject to massive variation from CO2 outgassing and absorption with the seasons and even major phytoplankton booms with high CO2. Which is why CO2 jumps around with slight seasonal variations. My straight line graph is CO2 measurements near NZ in temperate water, not subject to this confusion.
And the whole point of this is that the graph is NOT exponential like CO2 emissions. That alone disproves the whole idea of man made CO2 in the atmosphere.
Likewise for your comment #1.2.1; If you want to disagree with someone; it is better to contradict them rather than say something that accords with what they said.
He has raised this specific graph before with exactly the same false argument using Hawaii tropical CO2 measurement, not the graph I referenced. Even so a straight line would pick up all the points within the yearly variations. And if you drill down far enough, you will find variations in any surface. What scientists do is fit a straight line based on minimization of the square of the deviation, error bars. So would a tradesman. Grout fills in the deviations. I found this phenomenon on Quora where people would use graphs they really didn’t understand.
Until the CO2 concentration began to increase, I was worried that the atmosphere would soon have too little plant food to sustain life. Some say that tipping point is about 150 ppm. Now I am feeling more cautiously comfortable that life will continue. At least death of all plants is not imminent. Another century of 2.5 per year gets us to a safe point. 97% sure.
The whole global warming and renewables scam has sucked tremendous amounts of wealth out of the world economy, siphoning off much of it to both China and the Elites who have become dramatically more wealthy while the standard of living of non-Elites has remained static or declined in the case of Australia. Much of the decline is due to the deindustrialisation and high costs of everything caused by “renewables” and subsequent lack of wealth creation.
And the slaughter of manufacturing. Manufacturing which created our quality of life is being rapidly shut down in Australia. It is the use of energy to make things and that, under Labor governments, is illegal. And all the jobs which go with it becuase Labor now wants nothing to do with workers. Here or in the UK or the Democrats in Australia.
The one figure striding the world stage and calling out this insanity is Donald Trump and the Greens and Labor and the Democrats want him dead. Half claim Trump staged his own assassination attempts and the rest complain the bullet missed. Dissapointingly Sheridan on the front of the Australian claims Trump only went to China to improve his chances in the mid terms. The hatred for Donald Trump runs deep in the journalistic cadre.
As I have commented previously, business man Donald Trump has opposed the United Nations developing countries agenda since UN Lima Protocol of 1975 non-binding but recommending transfer of manufacturing industry without restrictions on know how and with free trade agreements and later additions, UN Agenda 21 Sustainability for example.
No private company would give their secrets away! That would be suicide. The cost of R&D is crippling and the Chinese steal everything. They have no legal restrictions. Patents are meaningless in China.
Only a public servant would try to force companies to give their secrets away and for nothing? Who does that?
The Chinese invented chop sticks and firecrackers. The rest they stole from us, manufactured them in sweatshops and sold them back to us at a massive profit making a few Chinese billionaires and 1000 million production slaves
Donald Trump has opposed the United Nations developing countries agenda since UN Lima Protocol
POTUS Trump, the greatest leader in history, is protecting voter sovereignty against the globalist agenda. UN is a power hungry parasite without accountability. The ultimate socialists.
..and that is why he is hated so much, an outsider in politics, a loose cannon that the usual politician’s handlers can’t control, someone who doesn’t lie and double-talk like the rest of them. Journalists hate him because he’s successful, rich, and tells them what he thinks, especially of them!
The entrance exam to running for Parliament should weed out anyone who has never run their own business, we don’t want losers running the country!
But that hasn’t in fact happened, has it? In fact, manufacturing output (on a worldwide scale) has soared over the past several decades or more.
But I know what you mean: that manufacturing in ‘the west’ has been decimated.
More accurately (pedantically), it has been sent to China, India and elsewhere, in the process of which its negative consequences (waste, pollution, workplace fatalities & injuries) have risen enormously because those nations show much less regard for those things.
Australia’s Net Zero by 2050 Target
Legal Status of the Target
Australia’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is not legally binding.
The target has not been enshrined in law, meaning there is no legal framework to enforce it.
Submission to the United Nations
The target has been formally submitted to the United Nations as part of Australia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.
While Australia cannot weaken this target under the Paris Agreement, the commitment itself lacks legal enforceability.
Implications of the Current Framework
Without legislation, there is no mechanism for enforcement if Australia fails to meet its emissions target.
Experts indicate that while the target is mandatory to communicate and review, it does not carry legal consequences for non-compliance.
Summary
Australia’s net zero emissions target by 2050 is a significant commitment but remains a political pledge rather than a legally enforceable obligation.
Coalition’s Commitment to the Paris Agreement
The Coalition has clarified its position regarding the Paris Agreement, stating that it remains committed to the accord. This commitment comes despite earlier comments from shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien, who suggested that the Coalition might consider leaving the agreement.
Reasons for Commitment
Economic Considerations: The Coalition believes that any changes to climate targets must take into account the state of the Australian economy and the trajectory of emissions.
Net Zero Target: They reaffirmed their commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, which aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Clarifications Made
After initial ambiguity, O’Brien issued a statement confirming that the Coalition would not be leaving the Paris Agreement. He emphasized the need for a balanced approach that considers both economic growth and environmental targets.
The Coalition’s stance is that while they support the Paris Agreement, they also believe that the current target of reducing emissions by 43% by 2030 may need to be revised to reflect realistic economic conditions.
Conclusion
The Coalition’s commitment to the Paris Agreement is rooted in a desire to balance environmental goals with economic growth, ensuring that any climate policies are sustainable and achievable.
They are of course the state government, in Federal Parliament LNP QLD is part of the Liberal and National Coalition parties.
One Nation HQ is of course Queensland, but they didn’t have a candidate last Saturday for the Stafford by election that ON did have a candidate at the last full state election, the Chief of Staff commented the short campaign would have been a waste of resources, but that didn’t apply to Victoria State by election a few weeks ago? Or SA state election.
Splitting hairs will not make the ON electoral cattle prod disappear.
It will be used continuously until the Libs/Nats together change hard policy and make that stick.
Repeating this has obviously made no difference. The only answer is electoral oblivion. The upper middle class electorates are lost to the Teals anyway; outer suburban and regional seats remain open.
Legally enforceable obligation? Yes, but we Australians have many including the Safeguard Mechanism. 35% tax on CO2 hidden in all our costs, all our manufacturing, transport, mining, agriculoture. This Labor government has left no stone unturned for massive and illegal and hidden CO2 taxes. The public is to be kept ignorant and the press is more than happy to accede. What other country has a 35% CO2 tax on flying, shipping, transport, manufacturing, refining, glass making, fertilizer, plastics, smelting,..?
Yes, since May 2022 Albanese Labor and Minister for Energy Bowen have been very busy reinforcing Labor’s climate politics objectives and of course with State Governments supporting legislation and regulations, Victoria in particular. Example the recent news that a company venture based on brown coal mining in Victoria and production of fertiliser and transport fuel was rejected and the firm took their business to New Zealand after the government there approved the project.
Does anybody out there know what the $$$$$ value of ALL the climate taxes, subsidies & cost of the solar farms & wind generators, & batteries add up to. Sorry I’ve left the $$$$ spent on all the land clearing & installation of new, unnecessary transmission lines
out of the equation.
I’ve tried to put a number on it all but I’m sure my imagination is seriously lacking for such a task!
I’m sure the public will be more than horrified & disgusted at the billions / possibly trillion $$$ waste!!
Does anybody out there know what the $$$$$ value of ALL the climate taxes, subsidies & cost of the solar farms & wind generators, & batteries add up to.
Yep – de-industrialisation and impoverishment – look at South Sudan and that is Australia’s future under the UN-party – that shows the bottom line. It is becoming evident to a growing number of voters. The cake is getting smaller; more freeloaders are coming in and the slice for those not administering the scam is getting much smaller.
Australia has spent huge amounts in labour and capital over the last 25 years triplicating its electricity supply to end up with smaller wholesale market; much higher prices and lower reliability. That is just STUPID.
The leading scammers like Krudd and Sleezy can afford the beach-front properties. The scamees can afford protein once a week.
The upside for Australia is that emigration will eventually overtake immigration.
See The Spectator/Quadrant Online, Alan Moran, 21 November 2025.
At the Commonwealth level, clean energy subsidies came to around $16bn/year, and included:
Large-scale renewable energy power stations (LRET): $400m
Rooftop Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) and batteries: $2bn
The Safeguard Mechanism: $1bn
The Clean Energy Regulator: $750m
Renewables and batteries under the Capacity Investment Scheme: $5.7bn
Hydrogen Headstart: $130m
Transmission line expansion: $510m
CEFC: $1.3bn
ARENA: $100m
Snowy 2: $1.3bn
All of this, every single year…
The Coalition new policy before Glasgow COP 2021 included – “As in many other countries, renewable energy in Australia has been encouraged by government energy policy to limit climate change, reduce oil import dependency, and stimulate the economy.
A 2019 article raised concerns about environmental sustainability for future generations, as it seemed that the then federal government had no renewable energy policy beyond the year 2020. The Liberal Party’s energy minister, Angus Taylor, stated that the government would not be replacing the Renewable Energy Target (RET) after 2020.
Angus Taylor, stated that the government would not be replacing the Renewable Energy Target (RET) after 2020.
Please provide a link for that quote. If it is accurate, he was lying.
The RET was always in place to 2030 and still remains till 2030. LGCs will then be phased out. STCs have been phasing out since 2015. There are now State based incentives of various varieties.
Renewable Energy Target (RET) Overview
The Renewable Energy Target (RET) in Australia was designed to encourage the generation of electricity from renewable sources. However, significant changes have been announced regarding its future.
Minister Angus Taylor’s Announcement
Winding Down: Minister Angus Taylor confirmed that the RET will wind down after 2020.
No Replacement: There will be no new targets introduced to replace the RET once it concludes.
Three levels of government – electricity supply, development applications for building and construction, environmental protection, permits for minerals and energy exploration and mining, public health and hospitals, public education and schools, public housing, and more are state areas of responsibility.
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Indeed, but don’t offer a choice. Far too many people would choose to keep the utterly incompetent feds. Imagine them running hospitals, schools and public transport!
Dissolve the Australian nation and return to a collection of nation states. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland didn’t see any need to merge into Scandinavia.
The Feds can and do override the States. The Feds essentially collect the tax and redistribute. They control the biggest purse.
There are huge overlaps primarily driven by the UN globalist agenda. So much red, green and dark tape that it is next to impossible to do anything in Australia.
Odd one. I’ve seen plenty of airshow crash videos but never close quarter ejections x4 from entangled aircraft, inverted even. Fantastic reactions, systems and a good dollop of luck to survive all that at low altitude.
Situation in UK is fast approaching ideal conditions for a civil uprising. If & when it starts it will get really ugly. The forerunner to an uprising won’t exactly be pretty either!!
Australia is actively involved in the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero initiative through national industry adoption by bodies like Dairy Australia, participation in the Global Research Alliance, and implementation by corporate partners. Key industry players, including Dairy Australia and regional processors, align with these international carbon-reduction frameworks, according to industry submissions. Read more about the initiative at Global Dairy Platform.
And don’t forget that other climate killer gas methane hence the introduction of bovaer into bovine feed. This 2024 BEEF CENTRAL article that jumped to the defense of the additive and dismissed the dis-information is a good backgrounder as it covers Coles meat.
Remember when feeding cows meat-and-bone meal (MBM), a protein-rich feed supplement made from rendered animal remains, was a great innovation in stock feed. Pity about mad cow disease putting an end to it. Apparently cows in Denmark are falling over, producing less milk and doing solid f4rts (as in diarrhea) but experts don’t see any bovaer connection.
[AI] Yes, there were documented cases of Danish dairy cows collapsing and suffering severe health issues after the feed additive Bovaer was introduced in October 2025, with farmers explicitly blaming the substance. Approximately 1,400 farms began using the additive to reduce methane emissions, but many reported immediate negative effects, including – physical collapse, health decline, production loses and death.
Scientific Consensus: Despite farmer claims, regulatory bodies like the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the manufacturer dsm-firmenich maintain that Bovaer is safe. They stated that extensive testing has not identified the additive as a cause of death or major health issues, attributing problems potentially to improper mixing or other factors. [AI]
“Guardian: “Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO” ”
Concludes
“In my opinion when they have to lead your argument by assuring readers they aren’t fake news, in a news outlet like The Guardian, they’ve already lost.
The WHO also has its own credibility problems. WHO was widely perceived as stooging for China during the early days of the Covid pandemic.
I don’t think declaring a fake climate emergency, “far from being … fake news”, would do anything to restore the WHO’s lost credibility.”
If they have read “The mythology of global warming” by Bruce Bunker they didn’t absorb much. He serves plenty of the rough end of the pineapple on that subject.
“Stewart Brand on Fixing Stuff, Modern Environmentalism, and the Nuclear Future”
“In his new book, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, Brand argues that the real work of civilization isn’t flashy invention but the long, patient care of complex systems.”
You always know to expect the worst BS when you see the phrase “experts tell” or “experts say”. Real experts don’t need to tell others that they’re experts.
It’s a journalistic crutch to dress up subjective opinions, vague generalisations, or thinly veiled green marketing as objective truth.
True authority is demonstrated, not declared by some woke journalist. True experts are too busy working to indulge in self-promotion and getting journalists to repeat their claims.
When someone says they are an “expert” or they are claimed to be one, the expectation is to trust them blindly. When an actual expert speaks, they lead with evidence, data and verifiable logic, allowing the information to speak for itself.
Proclaiming oneself an expert or repeating what a self-proclaimed expert says, usually signals an appeal to authority (argumentum ad verecundiam). Journalists and government/Left propagandists trot out “experts say” when they don’t have enough hard data to back up a claim, using the phrase to manufacture “consensus”.
“The extremely corrupt and dishonest United Nations has adjusted its doomsday framework after backing a popular study that just exploded under contact with reality, and President Donald Trump is laughing.
In 2024, a UN-backed study asserted that failure to address “climate change,” which usually means failure to impose more economy-killing, freedom-restricting regulation and failure to give yet more useless academic grants, would lead to a drop in $38 trillion of global yearly economic activity. That study has now been retracted based on faulty data too egregious for even climate alarmists to ignore. And given that climate alarmists have been wrong on every single major prediction for the last 60+ years, that’s a huge mess-up indeed. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have convinced the UN to stop screeching about climate apocalypse altogether.”
“HUGE: Acting AG Todd Blanche Drops NUCLEAR Truth Bomb – “There’s a Ton of Evidence That the 2020 Election Was RIGGED” – CONFIRMS Multiple Criminal Investigations Underway”
I had a session with grok on this topic, particularly Fremantle.
My summary (memory is imperfect):
– The name was reported by an anthropologist in the early 1800.
– It is unclear what the purported aboriginal name referred to or even if it referred to a place at all.
– There is no person alive or dead who has been recorded as using the name after the anthropological report.
– The resurfacing of the name came after a quest to find aboriginal names from the past.
– When researchers discovered the name they put it forward as a possibility.
– Again, nobody knew of the name so they fluffed it all over with a fictitious, manufactured oral history.
– The end result suited the political needs of those who created the false memory.
Pretty standard stuff really, but you should have seen grok defending the fiction despite a complete absence of objective facts (like who exactly used the name and when) until it finally relented and agreed it was all manufactured.
As I have said on several occasions grok cannot be relied on.
I always assumed that it was invented by drunken Irishmen on the gold fields.
Lots of trees to aim at.
A score with a miss.
And didn’t have umpires for some years.
Your right Annie, A few years ago, or was it a few decades ago, the AFL trotted out the idea that Aussie rules was originally a game played by the local tribes that got together and kicked a stuffed possum skin around for a while. Don’t know why this didn’t stick around, probably to much BS for even a drunken Collingwood supporter to believe!
Watched a few games via KAYO on the weekend. Timed it perfectly so I didn’t have to endure any of the pre-game [political] garbage. Would hate to be attending the games, no escape. The names have been temporarily changed for Douglas Nichols round, which will also spill over to next round as well. I always find the word “Narrm”, hilarious, apparently it just means “place” in the local aboriginal language. Hence, could have easily just used “Over there” as a name as well.
UK Govt admits solar farms and wind turbines are bad for the environment
The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband’s wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment.
Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway.
Bureaucrats admit the plans may destroy ‘nationally recognised sites, landscapes and historic environments’ as well as damaging ‘biodiversity and water resources’.
Officials also confess his schemes may increase ‘air emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and vibrations, light pollution, dust and soils.’
They also say these negative effects could ‘occur repeatedly’ and ‘have impacts over the short, medium to long term’, as well as during construction.
Outrage over plans to hold singles night for UNVACCINATED people in Denver beer garden
A Colorado beer garden canceled an unauthorized dating event for antivaxxers after locals were outraged at the prospect – but event organizers said the restaurant was well aware singles would be descending ahead of time.
Recess Beer Garden in Denver claims it found out that it was tapped to host Unjected’s dating event for unvaccinated singles on May 29 from social media
Years ago after following Ned Nikolov and Tony Heller, I learned about the temperature trends within the present global warming phase.
The take away was that after the Little Ice Age finished, our present time of global warming began in around the mid 19th century. That that warming them continued on until around the end of WW2. Then the earth experienced a cooling period which lasted until 1980’s, or thereabouts. Which is why all the climate alarmists back in the late 70’s/ early 80’s thought we were descending into an ice age. Then we had the period from about 1980 through to early 2000’s which was considered a rapid warming phase.
So that anyone with half a brain can see that CO2 is not the control knob for the worlds’ thermostat. Yes, the Industrial revolution did occur in the 1800’s but CO2 emissions were hardly astronomical, so they couldn’t be responsible for the post LIA warming. Then after WW2 as CO2 emissions significantly ramped up we entered a cooling period. Huh? Well, that doesn’t make sense. ( as the late Bob Carter used to say ) Unfortunately, it was the great coincidence of warming from the 1980’s and higher CO2 emissions which has led to the great climate blob. Which allowed the “science” of global warming and Climate change to be sucked into politics. Anyway, that’s my take.
Recently there has been a non peer reviewed pre-print research paper which has basically verified those trends, again 🙂
This paper revisits the relationship between CO2 emissions and global warming by analysing more than 70 million daily temperature observations from over 2000 weather stations across 51 countries, with records spanning from the pre-1900 era to 2024. Employing fixed effects models to isolate temperature trends from station-specific and seasonal variations, the study finds an overall warming trend of 0.0048°C [TAVG] per year, after controlling for urban built-up areas. The analysis reveals a significant disconnect between the rise in annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions and the rate of temperature change. Notably, the period of the sharpest warming occurred in the early 20th century when CO2 emission levels were modest. In contrast, subsequent periods with rapidly accelerating CO2 emissions experienced slower warming or even cooling trends. These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming; they highlight key gaps in our understanding and necessitate not only a more critical approach across research, education, journalism, and organizational conduct, but also a thorough reassessment of the premise underlying current climate policies
I would point out that before 400,000 years ago, Greenland was ice free with grasses and shrubs growing. Camp Century middle north. The ice cores were about to be thrown out (after 35 years) until someone checked the “bottom” end. CO2 not above 300 p.p.m.
Also in the Eemian (135 -120, 000 years ago) there were elephants, giraffes, lions (from fossils when Nelson’s Column was repaired 1972). Also 2 sorts of rhinoceros (one extinct) in Yorkshire and hippopotamus in the Thames (& Rhine Delta) all when the CO2 was around 285 p.p.m.
And The Sahara was green, fertile and well watered during the start of the Holocene (and the Climate Optimum) as shown by cave paintings – Including hippopotami who need permanent water for living quarters. CO2 less than 280 p.p.m.
From https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9637988/ “Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a toxin found in Gram-negative bacteria, can trigger immune responses that closely mimic the severe symptoms and “cytokine storm” seen in Ebola virus disease. Both produce massive inflammation, fever, and can lead to fatal septic shock”
… how amazing!! this could only be biology being sent to us indirectly from the future John Connor II 🙂
From: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31505806/
“While hantavirus is a viral infection, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a bacterial toxin that often plays a severe, indirect role in hantavirus disease severity”
Probably, as yawning is an autonomic response and a common response by the immune system to fever, but I guess you didn’t know that. 🙄
Me saying “Yawn” means Ebola has always been a common disease in the DRC region, so nothing new to warrant the msm doing another fear-drive.
However:
“Right before this outbreak exploded, NIH virologist Vincent Munster, a longtime Fauci collaborator who runs Ebola and bat virus research at Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, was caught smuggling undeclared deadly pathogen samples from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the United States.”
But who cares about a few hundred deaths from Ebola virus when 95,000 per year from Diabetes and 680,000 per year from heart issues in the USA.
Which one does the dying legacy media focus on?
In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history – the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix’s rig… the works. And what you’re about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don’t exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can’t actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything… it can’t.
But here’s the part that really gets me: these aren’t just random errors. There’s a feedback loop happening. AI reads what’s on the internet, people repost what AI tells them, and AI reads that too. So the misinformation compounds. In 40 years, when someone wants to know who actually designed the first fuzz pedal – or what year the DOD 250 came out – this is what they’re going to find.”
Interesting to me because it mirrors my experience with grok.
I commented above about my dialog about the invented AFL team names.
One additional thing is that it gave links to wikipedia 9 times, and then denied it had linked to wikipedia at all. Fairly quickly it then apologized for linking to wikipedia, gave me other sources and asked whether I preferred them.
Shortly after it terminated the session because I had exhausted the free limit. It invariably does that when if it was a human it would be embarrassed.
It’s like talking to their ABC except that their ABC never apologizes for getting things wrong.
Somehow I can only see this AI fad reaching its development potential well before what is promised.
“Somehow I can only see this AI fad reaching its development potential well before what is promised.”
In two separate paragraphs it generated two wiring diagrams of the same coil today, and they had pins reversed. So it had grabbed those from different sources on the web, one of which was wrong, but couldn’t see the difference itself. It is just wasting humanity’s time and energy.
Today is possibly the lowest RE output for some time. Total wind energy across the entire nation is under 600Mw and solar is way down due to heavy cloud from the jet stream. NEM price in NSW is over $300 at midday, possibly a record for this time of day for the past few years.
If the calm and cloudy weather remains until 6:00pm, it will be a very ugly peak demand period.
I am again having problems at this website, some posts are accepted, others give a lost connection response and if I send again sometimes there are two posted when I check later?
look closer, and mean the lobby groups behind the scenes not the general business support that swings either side from time to time to suit agendas.
Right now in 2025 Barnaby Joyce was elected again as a National Party MP, he had previously been National Party Leader twice and Deputy Prime Minister, reports were that he lobbied the Turnbull Government on behalf of his supporter Gina Reinhardt for agriculture concessions, no suggestion of any inappropriate behaviour noted. Obviously he changed to One Nation to become their first ever House of Representatives MP but was elected as a National MP again 2025. One Nation gained their first elected House of Representatives MP at the Farrer by election recently. After the 2025 Federal election One Nation only had four Senators (compare to Greens that support Labor with ten Senators and one MP.
Next consider Climate 200 and the renewable energy transition away from fossil fuels vested interest behind that organisation, and the Teal candidates masquerading as Independents and some now elected. Also consider Union Movement vested interests, unions now being big business directly and indirectly via Industry Superannuation Funds investments of member’s funds and influence in public companies via shareholding and a few seats on Boards of Directors. Obviously as ALP is effectively the Union Movement political party Labor is also their lobby group in opposition and in government.
Then consider the LINO left (Liberal left that became public knowledge from after the November 2007 Federal election and the musical leadership chair games following: Dr Brendan Nelson first Opposition Leader from 2007 replaced in 2008 by Malcolm Turnbull and 2009 he was replaced by Tony Abbott who led the Coalition to defeat Gillard Labor in 2010 forcing them into an alliance of Greens and former Nationals turned Independents to form a minority Labor Government, and a landed defeat for Rudd Labor (returned and Gillard replaced) in September 2013. PM Abbott then until late 2015 when replaced by PM Turnbull until late 2018 when the right factions installed Morrison who remained until May 2022 (and won the 2019 election) replaced by Dutton who had assisted Morrison during the end of Turnbull voting.
Ley became the new Opposition Leader after the 2025 election …. that short history has been posted here before. And replaced by a two thirds majority for Taylor 2026. Obviously from 2019 to 2025 the centre/centre right factions were more influential than the LINO left factions.
And 2026, One Nation began to campaign as if they are a major party with 4 from 2025 election then 5, now 6 elected members in Federal Parliament. And more recently news that a couple of Liberals with profile have publicly announced that they are now supporters of One Nation. What do these people have in common? Previously members and most were elected to Parliament Liberal and National parties.
Point being climate politics, renewable energy transition, and so on, and vested interest private sector business backgrounds.
Obviously leaving the Coalition parties because they were no longer influential, for different reasons but all elected had disagreements, were passed over for promotion to positions they wanted, losing influence. Fair enough, it happens in all walks of life, office politics are often in play. The “glass ceiling” mentality as well.
I am not opposed to One Nation, I have always respected Barnaby Joyce, Cory Bernardi now ON elected SA Legislative Council member, two examples, and while I have followed her career and from a Queensland electorate, and a One Nation local MP point of view for several years after I retired from business, I not that for 29 years little progress has been made nationally and only for a short time QLD State. Until 2026 when a very well organised media publicity campaign began, maybe 2024/25 beginning, with very mixed results: SA State election won a few seats but Labor returned to government, VIC by election lost to the Liberal candidate, Farrer Federal by election impressive win however circumstances advantageous because the Liberal brand was badly damaged by Ley resigning after a disastrous short time as Opposition Leader, and the break away from the National Coalition partner. And last Saturday no show at the Stafford QLD State by election, no candidate in a seat contested by One Nation at the last state election, therefore no support for the LNP Government candidate and Labor candidate won on preferences despite Labor losing primary votes approximately five percentage points.
I believe that we are being played by private sector business interests and they are playing Labor, Coalition, Teals and One Nation. Of course business usually has wider than climate wealth creation ventures in mind, and that is why traditionally business has mostly supported the Coalition for economic and financial business purposes.
However, lobbyists have made business from lobbying politicians on behalf of clients for ages past. What better than having elected Members of Parliament on side?
There are no true budgets for government. The people in power do not care about the economy beyond their term in office. If they cannot find a reason to justify a larger spending package, then they’ll simply go over the allotted amount, fail every audit, and face zero repercussions.
Two F-18 Growlers collided and were lost at an airshow in the US. Thankfully all four crewmen banged out and survived. It could have been worse, the aircraft on top could have blocked the ejection of the lead plane and they had little altitude to play with.This reminded me of a similar collision at a Wings Over Dallas show between a B-17 and a King Cobra. Sadly there was a high death toll in this one. In both cases the faster plane merging with the other came in high and inside so the other was in a blind spot under the floor. Shouldn’t happen.
Two F-18 Growlers collided and were lost at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. Thankfully all four crewmen banged out and survived. It could have been worse, the aircraft on top could have blocked the ejection of the lead plane and they had little altitude to play with.This reminded me of a similar collision at a Wings Over Dallas show between a B-17 and a King Cobra. Sadly there was a high death toll in this one. In both cases the faster plane merging with the other came in high and inside so the other was in a blind spot under the floor. Shouldn’t happen.
This statement explains the Snowy Hydro Limited Business Case history;
“The Government is pleased to announce shareholder approval has been given for Snowy Hydro Limited (Snowy Hydro) to proceed with Snowy 2.0.
Following Snowy Hydro Board’s final investment decision on 12 December 2018, the Government has reviewed the project’s business case and is satisfied that the project stacks up and will benefit energy consumers and the Snowy Mountains region.
The Government will commit up to $1.38 billion in an equity investment for Snowy 2.0, with the remainder of the project to be financed by Snowy Hydro Limited.
Snowy 2.0 will increase generation capacity by 2,000 megawatts and provide 175 hours of energy storage – enough to power the equivalent of 500,000 homes during peak demand. Importantly, this will also put downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices.
Snowy 2.0 will create up to 2,400 jobs in construction and support up to 5,000 direct and indirect jobs across the Snowy Mountains region, providing opportunities for local businesses, improvements in local infrastructure and increased economic activity.
Planning for the Snowy 2.0 project is well advanced. The Government’s decision green lights the project to progress to the early works stage.
This decision builds on the our investment in Snowy Hydro following the acquisition from the New South Wales and Victorian governments on 29 June 2018 and our work to back electricity supplies in Tasmania and Victoria with a new $56 million investment in the Marinus Link to support Tasmania’s Battery of the Nation project.”
I hate the statements: …will power xxx homes. Absolute rubbish. It’s connected to a grid that supplies power to a few million homes. And Snowy 2 is NOT a power generator!!
“The Government will commit up to $1.38 billion in an equity investment for Snowy 2.0, with the remainder of the project to be financed by Snowy Hydro Limited.”
Welp, Snowy Hydro Ltd must be making an awful lot of money somewhere if they have to find the other $40billion! No wonder the price of my electricity went up so much!
Snowy Hydro Limited has various subsidiary businesses like Red Energy retail electricity, some large diesel generator plant and gas turbine generators, the hydro electric power stations built long before the Snowy 2.0 Project was proposed by Snowy Hydro Limited and therefore, I understand, pays dividends to the government as coal power stations did to State governments before privatisation and transition to renewable energy AEMO/NEM etc.
As the European experience of bail-in proves, it is an insane policy that destroys households but also the banking system, by destroying the public’s trust in banks to keep their money safe. Australians must stop this policy in its tracks, and fight for a Glass-Steagall separation of the banks instead, to keep deposit-taking banks separate from the risks of financial gambling.
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There was a terrorist attack (yesterday) in Modena but Italian “authorities” claim it wasn’t a terrorist attack when a man, Salim El Koudri, of North African origin drove his car into a crowd at 100km per hour severely injuring seven or eight and then got out of his car and stabbed someone.
Authorities claim “mental health issues”.
It’s surprising they’re still trying to claim the “mental health issues” excuse for obvious terrorist attacks. And an insult to genuinely mentally ill people who usually aren’t homicidally violent. And do they take the people as completely stupid expecting them to continually believe “mental health” is behind these terrorist attacks? They didn’t have them before Europe opened its borders.
A more rational view from a citizen reporter is here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yNTPYr-20m4
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The only mental health issues are strictly confined to the Italian authorities!!!
Mental health issues are strictly complied with as per instructions from the EU head office in Brussels!!
We’d best keep an eye on Tony Berk & our mob in Canberra. This may be a virus from the EU which is contagious for wokesters.
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Mental health issues are not strictly confined to the Italian authorities.
Governments of the UK, most of Europe, Canada, Australia etc. are infested by idiots who think nothing of throwing open the borders to all and sundry.
The people who have to live with the problems caused by this recklessness are sick of it.
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When will radical Islam be declared a mental health issue? Or is that de facto true today, at least in Italy.
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We would all have seen some muslim women in “letterbox” abode – one long rectanglular cutout in her burqa/hijab so she can see.
About 2 weeks ago I saw the following in a suburb in Brisbane.
Instead of the regular rectangular cutout, the woman had circles a little larger than a 50 cent piece cutout for each eye.
She would have little if any peripheral vision capability.
I can’t understand why somebody would willingly agree to wear this.
PS…Banks view full-face helmets as a security risk because they conceal identity, similar to a mask or balaclava.
And yet a burqa or hijab is allowed to be worn in a bank???
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/southern-county-strikes-down-mosque-application-after-local-said-it-would-lead-to-sharia-law/ar-AA23jyE7
Will be an interesting theme to follow
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” … throwing open the borders to all and sundry.”
Sure, but they show a strange preference for the poor, unskilled, violent or Islamic (which can include all of these). Essentially, they’re looking for immigrants likely to damage the country in some way, be it turning waterways into open sewers, swelling the welfare numbers, and all the way to terrorists who hate Christians, women and gays.
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You dont see many Guiseppes, Gunters, Nigels or Thierrys featured as people with mental issues mowing down people in cars and trucks.
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What about Joel Cauchi and his long term schizophrenia?
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Funny. Yarpos says, “not many”. So you post one name, with a “what about” as if you disagree. But, one shows Yarpos is correct.
The other aspect is, Cauchi does apparently have a history of mental episodes for which he required treatment. As opposed to all the many events of attacks where the person isn’t having a mental health issue. Unless you wish to classify a religious belief as such.
Which is kind of the point here. Real mental health vs making an excuse to mask other motives.
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Funny it’s uncontested by you when Yarpos picks out one report and says that there are not many such instances with Euro names, without evidence. About as much evidence as you are using to back up your unusual knowledge of unreleased health records and police investigations.
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Flick through the news for the last couple of years for incidents across Europe and the UK. Your disingenuous ignorance when it suits gets pretty tiresome.
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Thanks for showing your evidence
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True. I’m not contesting Yarpos’ claim about numbers.
But then you may notice I also didn’t contest your suggestion that the numbers are greater than not many.
I’m pointing out that your citing one case doesn’t negate Yarpos’ “not many”. But I’m happy for you to show the numbers are much greater.
Funny you say that Yarpos picks out one report. We actually don’t know what he’s basing his comment on. All we know is that the “one report” was a prompt for him to comment. We don’t know that one report was the extent of his research.
But you, on the other hand, have cited only one incident to base your reply on.
I expect we have a number of car ramming crowd incidents which probably are attributed to mental health episodes. But your one example, Joel Cauchi, wasn’t even one of those. It was a different kind of attack.
If going for just one. You could have mentioned Charlottesville. (Very fine people, on both sides. But not the white supremicists and neo nazis)
But perhaps you weren’t thinking of that because it’s attributed to a hate crime or terrorist act. Not a mental health episodes. If that’s the reason you excluded it, then you too are assigning a mental health status to Joel Cauchi. (If that’s what your health records and police investigation reference was in relation to).
The coroner’s report said he was having a mental health episodes. https://coroners.nsw.gov.au/documents/bondi-junction-inquest/findings/Inquest_into_the_deaths_at_Westfield_Bondi_Junction_Summary.pdf
If you’re referring to other incidence, we all know that the many attacks around the world are largely not mental health but ideological. I’m not going through every police report.
As for European names. Look at the world wide terrorist indexes. The countries with high rates and topping the list don’t have many European names.
Australia jumped up the list in 2025. Not due to European named people.
But it’s not the name that’s important. It’s the ideology. Certain ideologies and a certain selection of names are often synonymous.
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/#/
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Was he a “convert”?
We were never told!
Only that he was mentally unstable.
We will never know.
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Almost daily events now in China. Called Revenge against society attacks. Make society in general pay for your crappy life.
When you have nothing left to lose, you lose it.
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Get woke, go broke, AGAIN.
Hollyweirdos just don’t get it.
Now another wokified movie is about to be released, with an altered story and characters, Homer’s “The Odyssey”.
Matt Walsh discusses: https://youtu.be/cbc9vEluweE
There are numerous other commentators all saying the same thing.
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Sky News has a woke element as well. In the midst of the rain fronts hitting the east Coast the weather man on Sky News, this morning, warned o a “ looming El Niño “ system. Just wondering if this is the same El Niño that has been looming around for the last 5 years but always fades away. I think these El Niño warnings are brought about by the Climate Change minister & the BOM!! They must be getting really frustrated at El Niño’s reluctance to perform!!🤓🤓
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Bowen and the BOM- masters of self-fulfilling prophecies.
Keep repeating a prediction and eventually it will come true.
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I believe that the BOM uses a different prediction methodology, as compared to other Pacific nations. Japan, for example, seems to get it right most times.
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There were super El Nino in 1997-98 and 2015-16, they are classical examples associated with a significant reduction in rainfall over northeastern and southeastern Australia.
On the other hand, Modoki El Nino events appear to drive a large-scale decrease in rainfall over northwestern and northern Australia. So I’m punting on the latter.
They reckon we can predict El Nino Modoki from sunspot numbers 50 years ago, but I’ll let that go through to the keeper.
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The Rottnest Island shark attack was caused by climate change according to some WA official quoted on ABC news today; I howled with rage and powered off the radio. It’s becoming too hazardous to listen to ABC news; we’re mentally swamped by mispronunciations, solecisms and sheer ignorance –our national broadcaster wot.
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” … mispronunciations, solecisms and sheer ignorance “
All of which, weirdly, manifest as leftist propaganda.
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Also:
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Solving x^4 + 16 = 0
https://youtu.be/LWrY1J5eY1o
Hint: Use De Moivre’s Theorem.
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Thanks David,
Can you help with this question?
We have an engine ECU with a faulty central processor chip. The manufacturer of the ECU is no longer around. Is there a way of finding the hardwire programming of the chip so that we can create another one?
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It is not a trivial matter to duplicate a dedicated chip and likely impossible in practice.
I suggest you do a global search on Ebay or elsewhere to find a replacement ECU module. My neighbour did this but for a steering control module.
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That actually shouldn’t be too hard, if you mean dumping the firmware and flashing another chip.
There are very talented people doing just that, even via microsoldering.
You’d need to be more detailed.
But realistically, you *may* be better off with a used module.
I say *may* because the issue of initialising any replacement module.
Again, there are companies that repair older modules, all USA though.
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Yes, but Peter was asking about creating another chip, not duplicating firmware. At least that’s how I interpreted the question.
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Well, he’d be a silly boy then!
Unless he owns TSMC.
I rejected that interpretation as it was too silly, and assumed he meant duplicate the programming onto another chip.
Maybe check with this crowd:
https://old.injectronics.com.au/products/electronic-control-module/
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I am not sure if I understand the difference.
I have tried to obtain another ECU. I even bought one, but it was an earlier version and not compatible.
Starting afresh with a different ECU is possible but will require taking the engine out and some rewiring.
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I’ve spent the last couple of days throwing out a distributor, coil and all ignition wiring, and fitting Hall effect sensors in a different distributor body and a coil-over-plug system. However the ECU was replaced a few years back with an early Haltech one, so the changes I’ve made can be programmed into it.
If the car is important to you and you have the patience, fit an aftermarket computer. What sort of car? Mine is an early ’80s Corolla, so it had no electronics when it left the factory. There are no other computers in the car to worry about.
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Thanks,
It is actually an aircraft using a Subaru EJ22 engine. The ECU from the car is not appropriate for this application since many of the peripheral items have been removed including various environmental items. Also the limp home mode is not desired.
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Australia’s Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
Background
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It was adopted in 1997 and requires ratification by countries responsible for a significant portion of industrialized emissions to take effect.
Shift in Government Policy
Previous Government Stance: The Australian government under Prime Minister John Howard initially refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, citing concerns over economic impacts and the exclusion of developing countries from binding targets.
Labor Party’s Action: In December 2007, the Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, ratified the Kyoto Protocol. This decision marked a significant policy shift, as it reversed the previous government’s stance against the treaty.
Key Details of Ratification
Date of Ratification: Kevin Rudd signed the ratification on December 3, 2007.
Implementation: The ratification took effect in March 2008, committing Australia to limit its emissions to 8% above 1990 levels during the 2008-2012 period.
Implications
This ratification was seen as a commitment to addressing climate change and improving Australia’s international standing in climate negotiations. It also indicated a broader shift towards more proactive environmental policies under the Labor government.
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Even though Howard didn’t ratify Kyoto he did sign it and initiated Australia on the road to de-energisation and deindustrialisation which of course was made far worse under Labor.
When are the Liberals going to loudly and proudly proclaim that if elected they will leave the Paris Agreement and also undo all renewables-related subsidies, taxes, hidden payments etc. and return Australia’s energy landscape to how it was before Howard signed Kyoto (and also remove Howard’s ban on nuclear power)?
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Overview of the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty focused on climate change, adopted on December 12, 2015, during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France. It aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C. The agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016.
Australia’s Commitment
Australia signed the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016, committing to specific greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Prime Minister Turnbull was appointed 15 September 2015 replacing Prime Minister Abbott.
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It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to be incorporated within energy retailers’ total supply. This gave those sources of energy a de facto subsidy. That basic subsidy presently is $50 per megawatt hour for large-scale solar and wind – rather more than the total price of generated energy formerly experienced – and $40 per megawatt hour for rooftop solar.
John Howard recognised the error he had made and that subsidised energy would, if allowed to expand, undermine the electricity supply’s economics. He refused to increase the capped amount of subsidised wind and solar from its initial 9,500 gigawatt hours (nominally ‘2 per cent of additional energy’ though actually over 4 per cent of total electricity). But then came the Rudd government which increased the subsidised renewable energy quantum six-fold followed by Gillard who, for good measure, added a carbon tax on coal and gas.
Tony Abbott as Prime Minister 2013-2015 proved unable to do more than staunch the increases but Albanese and Bowen have turbocharged the program. Labor has increased direct subsidies to wind/solar, introduced the ‘Safeguard Mechanism’ requiring the top 215 electricity users to reduce their usage by 30 per cent by 2030, and are vastly expanding the transmission network to cater for the diffuse nature of renewable energy supplies.
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Liberal party and Labor party in it together. Twenty years of unending damage to our wealth and the economy.
That is why they are called the Uniparty ( two wings of the same bird).
That is why we need One Nation to succeed. One Nation is firmly against Climate Change and all the resulting Net Zero policies.
Angus Taylor is trying to change course but it is hard to get his team act together.
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In it together is a gross exaggeration.
I won’t add to my contribution comments here.
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The ON electoral cattle prod remains.
It will be used continuously until the LNP changes hard policy and makes that change stick.
Until then, they simply cannot and will not be trusted. Nor can the ALP, of course.
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For those who dont know what a cattle prod does, here’s an explanation. Cattle prods are not used to move mobs of eg cattle. They tend to get used in cattle yards to move or “persuade” a stubborn beast that needs to move up a ramp or down a race. Because if it doesn’t move, it’s holding up the rest of the operation. Hence the analogy – ON are the cattle prod for the LNP, and maybe even the ALP? That is, they are the electric jolt that spurs the recalcitrant beast into action to go down the correct pathway.
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I doubt that Labor will respond to an ON cattle prob.
They think they are there until 2028 and can adjust the budget to hand out more subsidies to the usual voters.
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, To fetch her poor dog a bone;
But when she came there, the cupboard was bare,
(And so the poor dog had none).
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John Howard recognised the error he had made and that subsidised energy would, if allowed to expand, undermine the electricity supply’s economics. He refused to increase the capped amount of subsidised wind and solar from its initial 9,500 gigawatt hours (nominally ‘2 per cent of additional energy’ though actually over 4 per cent of total electricity)
That’s what the Spectator tells us.
However, in September 2007, Howard increased the Clean Energy Target to 30,000 GWh by 2020. Setting the political scene for the, unscientific, technologically and economically illiterate rot in Australia’s energy system.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-09-24/pm-announces-national-clean-energy-target/677918
Ironically, also in 2007, Howard also increased the Photovoltaic subsidy to such an extent that Australia’s rooftop uptake eventually undermined the Australian electricity supply’s economics.
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“Howard also increased the Photovoltaic subsidy to such an extent that Australia’s rooftop uptake eventually undermined the Australian electricity supply’s economics.”
..and simultaneously showed how incompetent the ‘experts’ are that the Govt hires to advise them. If they couldn’t see this train wreck occurring from their ideas they were not capable of what they were being paid for! So, who’s going to jail for it?
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You need to start looking for clues. It is apparent you are clueless or using ChatBots without checking.
The current price of LGCs is $2.40?MWh. not $50/MWh.
The RET expires in 2030. It is already close to zero subsidy.
The AEMO administered capacity contracts under Blackout have nothing to do with Howard’s RET. They offer guaranteed ROI on project estimated cost. The proponents will get paid even if there is no electricity production.
Anyone looking closely at the grid knows it is stuffed as an economic entity.
There is no defending the UN-party with their UN agenda.
The only way Australia will restore sovereignty so voters reclaim prosperity is to vote One Nation. Anyone suggesting otherwise is either lying or too stupid to relise they have been conned.
LNP has been a lost cause since Abbott was rolled and the bird mincer proponent Turncoat took control.
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You may have missed the story that Abbott is going to become Liberal Party president and that he is already running Angus Taylor’s office.
Back in the day Abbott said some detrimental things about One Nation, but now he is embracing them. The LNP is not a lost cause and it will be ON preferences which get them back into government.
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?.?..recent quotes for solar and batteries installation have clearly stated thr STCs to be $35.00 each
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The Kyoto Protocol was the trigger that started me off on what I’ve been doing since March of 2008.
I was going to do a short series at a Pennsylvania based Blog site.
That ‘short!!’ Series morphed into 58 separate Posts, and what I do just went on from there.
Those early Posts are pretty amateur, but the biggest surprise for me, right now, in 2026, after 18 years, is how much of the stuff I did write still stands up. The costings I did back then, while correct as possible for that time, are now horrendously out of date.
Here’s one little snippet though.
China, (at that time in 2008) was in the process of constructing a new large scale latest technology USC (UltraSuperCrirical) coal fired power plant every seven to ten days, and when I wrote that (in 2008) some people who left comments after I mentioned it ….. (at the Bolt site mostly, in those days when he did have comments at his own Blog site) scoffed at what I wrote saying there was no way they could do that, or were even doing it. The salient point back then of what I did write was that the Chinese were building them for less than One Billion Dollars U.S.
Here’s the link to that (now dated) original Kyoto Series, basically an in depth detailing of electrical power generation at the time. At that link, you’ll see the titles for the Posts. There are 24 links to Posts per page and if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see a tab titled ‘older posts’, and that takes you to the next page of 24 links to Posts, and again scroll down for the same for the nest page of links going right back to the first of those Kyoto Posts dated March 22 2008.
Tony.
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Tony you would be aware that Morrison Government offered Queensland Labor Government, noting Queensland Government still owns power stations in that state, to underwrite funding for a new HELE coal fired power station but the offer was rejected?
And at that time wanted four gas fired generator plant built, one each for QLD and VIC and two in NSW. I understand that only one in NSW (Kurri?) is being built or has been built and owned by Federal Government owned Snowy Hydro Limited. That is the project Minister for Energy Bowen wanted to change from natural gas fuelled to “green” hydrogen and would not accept Snowy Hydro’s CEO explanation that it was not available or a commercially viable option. The CEO later resigned.
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Further commentary on the Giggle vs Tickle case by Sky News Australia with interview of Sal Grover.
https://youtu.be/rpYNy3A8ISg
Biological women no longer have an identity in Australia. Any man claiming to be a woman is legally indistinguishable from an actual woman.
Already schoolgirls in other countries like Wales* are not drinking water during the day so they don’t have to go to the bathroom and share it with boys. (Also mentioned by Sal Grover in one of her interviews, not sure if it’s happening I’m Australia – yet.)
* https://christiantoday.com.au/news/girls-feel-too-ashamed-to-use-school-unisex-toilets-says-campaign-group.html
Gender neutral school bathrooms in Victoriastan: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/parent-backlash-over-melbourne-primary-school-plan-to-install-only-genderless-toilets-for-grades-2-to-4-with-allan-government-called-to-intervene/news-story/91a655596a363352a7653db3ef7848dd
Will this madness ever end?
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With this week’s resumption of the Iran war, people will have way bigger things to worry about real soon…
Remember how lightning fast “Raygun” went to nothing despite all the hype over how her breakdancing was amazing and the next big thing, when it wasn’t.
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Biological women no longer have an identity in Australia. Any man claiming to be a woman is legally indistinguishable from an actual woman.
I’m not exactly an expert here, but I assume that biological men also no longer have a legal identity.
We’re all a flexible, gender fluid puddle of neuroses and uncertainty.
Apparently.
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This is a great victory for men if it is used correctly. For instance, on a business board there has been a push to make them gender equal. So say a company has to chose a woman to achieve that objective. A man who has the merit to meet the job (but can’t apply) quickly identifies as a woman and wins the position. I’m sure everyone can think of similar examples (such as govt positions, parliament.etc).
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Perhaps birth certificates should refer to DNA analysis rather than “sex”?
Show XX, XY or one of the rare triples.
In the latter case, it might resolve medical issues encountered later in life.
And would ensure that some of the “declared women” gets their PSA tests when medically appropriate.
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Growth of Renewable Energy
2000s: Renewable energy sources accounted for less than 1% of electricity generation in 2000.
2010s: Significant growth in wind and rooftop solar energy, with government policies encouraging the adoption of renewable technologies.
2024: Renewable energy sources now account for around 40% of Australia’s total electricity supply.
Key Drivers of Change
Government Policies
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA): Established in 2012 to improve the competitiveness of renewable technologies.
Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets (MRET): Introduced to ensure a significant share of electricity comes from renewable sources.
Technological Advancements
Solar and Wind Technologies: Rapid advancements have made these technologies more efficient and cost-effective, leading to increased adoption across households and businesses.
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Labor Party Government from November 2007 to September 2013
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Dennis,
Looks like you’re on a bit of a mission today, and if your mission is to show that the Liberals are less bad than Labor, you’re doing a fine job.
My view is that “progressive” and “conservative” *both* have a place. If you spend too long under progressive rule, you get chaos; too long under conservative and you get stagnation. Ideally things alternate every few years, with bursts of new ideas, then periods when the not-so-bright ideas get knocked on the head.
That seemed to work ok into the ’90s. However the Liberals got a taste for doing new things. GST wasn’t a disaster, and they got by ok with enterprise bargaining/workplace agreements too. But these “successes” diluted their role of knocking dumb ideas on the head. The NEM (and later AEMO) might have been less awful today if the Howard government had looked at it critically in the early 2000s. And of course later Liberal governments would actively develop *really* stupid ideas of their own (SH2 being a prime example).
For the last decade or so, I have viewed Labor and Liberal as progressive+ and progressive respectively. One Nation is the party that champions the conservative philosophy of knocking dumb ideas on the head. We need that — badly — and I don’t mind either way: One Nation can win power, or the Liberals can return to their conservative roots. Either way, it’ll happen quicker if many people put One Nation ahead of the Liberals on the ballot.
It’ll be a *big* wakeup call for the Libs if they find themselves having to form a minority government with a supply agreement with One Nation (I doubt One Nation would be foolish enough to enter a formal coalition agreement with them).
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In the run up to the next election a lose coalition could form, similar to the Libs and Nats who are always threatening divorce.
We could talk about three cornered contests and getting Barnaby back on the front bench.
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” getting Barnaby back on the front bench.” ..with a new secretary to bend over it!
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Establishment of AEMO and NEM
AEMO
Created by: The Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
Date of establishment: July 1, 2009
Purpose: To manage the electricity and gas markets in Australia.
NEM
Created to connect: The electricity transmission grids of eastern and southern Australia.
Function: Facilitates a wholesale electricity market, allowing for the efficient exchange of electricity across states and territories.
AEMO oversees the operations of the National Electricity Market (NEM), ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply for consumers.
Howard Government defeated by Rudd Labor November 2007
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The only renewable energy comes from trees and other biomass. Now under attack from industrial bird mincers and roasters.
I presented the sums to the Finkel enquiry based on real data that firmed wind and solar were extraordinarily expensive source of grid power generation. I was actually surprised that the Finkel enquiry endorsed the shift to mincers and roasters.
The facts are that Australia’s primary energy consumption is 6.5E18Joules. In 2025 grid scale wind and solar produced 52.6TWh or 0.189E18Joules, which is 2.9% of Australia’s energy needs. Huge expense for absolutely no benefit.
The cost of wind and solar on the grid is de-industrialisation – and that is now obvious to many voters. Particularly those looking for a real job.
The wealthier voters have taken action to reduce the impact of high electricity costs by making their own. They produced an estimated 29.3TWh in 2025 – more than half of all the grid scale intermittents.
It only makes sense to support rooftop solar and household batteries until the grid can be restored to an economic asset rather than a virtue signalling climate fixer.
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IPCC scenario ‘implausible’. How much has been spent on net zero because of lies? And Trump agrees.
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For myself, before you even get to the impact of increasedd CO2, the idea that the CO2 increase is man made is the biggest and fundamental lie. The slow almost linear 0.5% annual increase is nothing more than very slight ocean surface warming changing the vapour pressure of CO2. Temperature changes the 50:1 balance of ocean CO2 to air CO2. It’s that simple.
All CO2 exchanges with ocean CO2 every 5 years. Fossil fuel CO2 goes almost immediately into the ocean. No CO2 is ‘stuck’ in the atmosphere. Fossil fuel CO2 is 1% of existing atmospheric CO2. But this is only 2% of ocean CO2, so ’emissions’ only adds 2% of 1% or 0.02% each year. That is provable in many ways, starting with radio carbon dating as early as 1958. And today the C14 level is exactly what it was in 1750 confirming that fossil fuel CO2 cannot pass 2.0% of atmospheric CO2.
Whether increased atmospheric CO2 actually produces measurable warming is a moot point. Humans do not and cannot control CO2 levels. Our entire annual CO2 output world wide is only 0.02% of the total. And Australia’s scientists say nothing. Because they want their jobs. And the Australian governments keep passing laws based on lies created by the UN and pushed by our windmill and solar panel suppliers and people who hate Australia, Albo Akhbar and Pong.
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it is not linear
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As my old maffs teacher liked to say, “a straight line is just a circle of infinite radius”
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On what planet is a change from 1ppm per year (1960) to the present 2.5ppm a straight line?
here’s some data for you to reject in favour of a newspaper report and Tdef’s eyeball estimate
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_gr.html
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El Nino typically causes a spike in atmospheric CO2.
‘Even though the 2023-24 El Niño had waned by April, record high air temperatures and drought in all of 2024, similar to those during an El Nino, were likely drivers of the large increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide in 2024. In addition to other factors, large forest fires in both the Amazon and Canada contributed to the 2024 global increase.’ (NOAA)
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On topic as usual.
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You are pushing the barrow that industrial CO2 is making the world warmer, when there are many natural causes for an increase in CO2.
Do try and keep up.
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‘ … a straight line?’
Its an escalator, the Hunga Tonga eruption inadvertently caused a spike in CO2 and temperature.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_April_2026_v6.1_20x9_Global-scaled.jpg
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Because it’s a near horizontal line as well. I know you have a PhD in Genetics, so I suppose mathematics is not your strong suit.
Certainly not geometric line fitting. Least squares analysis? Was it all just theory? Statistical analysis? No graphs?
Really since 1750 and 280ppm, CO2 has only climbed to 420, that’s a tiny 50% in 250 years! An average of 0.2% pa. That’s flat as a tack. Zero inflation. A horizontal line.
CO2 growth is extremely slow, only 25% over the period of the graph. For comparison CO2 emissions are exponential, increasing, 500% in the same period. 1700% since 1900.
And the smoothest surface is rough under a microscope. You are listing variations around a mean and mean close to zero. Flat as a driveway.
If you break any data down into tiny steps you get granularity but you get that with any physical measurement.
Seriously look at the graph of CO2 and tell me it’s not to all intents and purposes a straight line. And the period up to 1970 where there is a small kink, an even lower slope.
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You have wasted my time again with this nonsense, your standard kneejerk response graph. AGAIN.
Please look at the NZ data I referenced, not your standard little table. Your data is from Hawaii, (NOAA).
This tropical CO2 is subject to massive variation from CO2 outgassing and absorption with the seasons and even major phytoplankton booms with high CO2. Which is why CO2 jumps around with slight seasonal variations. My straight line graph is CO2 measurements near NZ in temperate water, not subject to this confusion.
And the whole point of this is that the graph is NOT exponential like CO2 emissions. That alone disproves the whole idea of man made CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Other maths teachers would have said that a circle is just an infinite number of progressive linear moments.
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So is a straight line.
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TdeF didn’t say it was linear.
Likewise for your comment #1.2.1; If you want to disagree with someone; it is better to contradict them rather than say something that accords with what they said.
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He has raised this specific graph before with exactly the same false argument using Hawaii tropical CO2 measurement, not the graph I referenced. Even so a straight line would pick up all the points within the yearly variations. And if you drill down far enough, you will find variations in any surface. What scientists do is fit a straight line based on minimization of the square of the deviation, error bars. So would a tradesman. Grout fills in the deviations. I found this phenomenon on Quora where people would use graphs they really didn’t understand.
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It’s global not Hawaii and it is not a straight line. The data is there for you. Annual increase has more then doubled in 60 years.
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Until the CO2 concentration began to increase, I was worried that the atmosphere would soon have too little plant food to sustain life. Some say that tipping point is about 150 ppm. Now I am feeling more cautiously comfortable that life will continue. At least death of all plants is not imminent. Another century of 2.5 per year gets us to a safe point. 97% sure.
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You were around in the 1700s?
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The thing is, CO2 levels were down to 280 ppm during the LIA because of increased terrestrial carbon storage.
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Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones, 1968
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The whole global warming and renewables scam has sucked tremendous amounts of wealth out of the world economy, siphoning off much of it to both China and the Elites who have become dramatically more wealthy while the standard of living of non-Elites has remained static or declined in the case of Australia. Much of the decline is due to the deindustrialisation and high costs of everything caused by “renewables” and subsequent lack of wealth creation.
Even Their ABC acknowledges Australia’s decreased standard of living compared with OECD countries: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/can-albanese-government-fix-the-economy-four-corners/105260320
And from the ABS/IPA: https://ipa.org.au/latest-news/abs-confirms-nationwide-living-standards-collapse-continues-into-2025
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And the slaughter of manufacturing. Manufacturing which created our quality of life is being rapidly shut down in Australia. It is the use of energy to make things and that, under Labor governments, is illegal. And all the jobs which go with it becuase Labor now wants nothing to do with workers. Here or in the UK or the Democrats in Australia.
The one figure striding the world stage and calling out this insanity is Donald Trump and the Greens and Labor and the Democrats want him dead. Half claim Trump staged his own assassination attempts and the rest complain the bullet missed. Dissapointingly Sheridan on the front of the Australian claims Trump only went to China to improve his chances in the mid terms. The hatred for Donald Trump runs deep in the journalistic cadre.
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As I have commented previously, business man Donald Trump has opposed the United Nations developing countries agenda since UN Lima Protocol of 1975 non-binding but recommending transfer of manufacturing industry without restrictions on know how and with free trade agreements and later additions, UN Agenda 21 Sustainability for example.
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No private company would give their secrets away! That would be suicide. The cost of R&D is crippling and the Chinese steal everything. They have no legal restrictions. Patents are meaningless in China.
Only a public servant would try to force companies to give their secrets away and for nothing? Who does that?
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The Chinese invented chop sticks and firecrackers. The rest they stole from us, manufactured them in sweatshops and sold them back to us at a massive profit making a few Chinese billionaires and 1000 million production slaves
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POTUS Trump, the greatest leader in history, is protecting voter sovereignty against the globalist agenda. UN is a power hungry parasite without accountability. The ultimate socialists.
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“business man Donald Trump ”
..and that is why he is hated so much, an outsider in politics, a loose cannon that the usual politician’s handlers can’t control, someone who doesn’t lie and double-talk like the rest of them. Journalists hate him because he’s successful, rich, and tells them what he thinks, especially of them!
The entrance exam to running for Parliament should weed out anyone who has never run their own business, we don’t want losers running the country!
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“business man Donald Trump ”
There is a conflict of interest, he uses policy to blatantly make personal profit through insider trading.
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“And the slaughter of manufacturing … “
But that hasn’t in fact happened, has it? In fact, manufacturing output (on a worldwide scale) has soared over the past several decades or more.
But I know what you mean: that manufacturing in ‘the west’ has been decimated.
More accurately (pedantically), it has been sent to China, India and elsewhere, in the process of which its negative consequences (waste, pollution, workplace fatalities & injuries) have risen enormously because those nations show much less regard for those things.
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Australia’s Net Zero by 2050 Target
Legal Status of the Target
Australia’s commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 is not legally binding.
The target has not been enshrined in law, meaning there is no legal framework to enforce it.
Submission to the United Nations
The target has been formally submitted to the United Nations as part of Australia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.
While Australia cannot weaken this target under the Paris Agreement, the commitment itself lacks legal enforceability.
Implications of the Current Framework
Without legislation, there is no mechanism for enforcement if Australia fails to meet its emissions target.
Experts indicate that while the target is mandatory to communicate and review, it does not carry legal consequences for non-compliance.
Summary
Australia’s net zero emissions target by 2050 is a significant commitment but remains a political pledge rather than a legally enforceable obligation.
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When are the Liberals going to announce their abandonment of the Paris Agreement?
Why are they steadfastly sticking to it?
They have to stop being fence sitters or they’ll never be elected.
They have to demonstrate they actually believe in something.
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Coalition’s Commitment to the Paris Agreement
The Coalition has clarified its position regarding the Paris Agreement, stating that it remains committed to the accord. This commitment comes despite earlier comments from shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien, who suggested that the Coalition might consider leaving the agreement.
Reasons for Commitment
Economic Considerations: The Coalition believes that any changes to climate targets must take into account the state of the Australian economy and the trajectory of emissions.
Net Zero Target: They reaffirmed their commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, which aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Clarifications Made
After initial ambiguity, O’Brien issued a statement confirming that the Coalition would not be leaving the Paris Agreement. He emphasized the need for a balanced approach that considers both economic growth and environmental targets.
The Coalition’s stance is that while they support the Paris Agreement, they also believe that the current target of reducing emissions by 43% by 2030 may need to be revised to reflect realistic economic conditions.
Conclusion
The Coalition’s commitment to the Paris Agreement is rooted in a desire to balance environmental goals with economic growth, ensuring that any climate policies are sustainable and achievable.
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The LNP appears to have another mental issue which normally affects only the young in society . A SERIOUS LEARNING PROBLEM!!!
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LNP – Liberal National Party of Queensland?
They are of course the state government, in Federal Parliament LNP QLD is part of the Liberal and National Coalition parties.
One Nation HQ is of course Queensland, but they didn’t have a candidate last Saturday for the Stafford by election that ON did have a candidate at the last full state election, the Chief of Staff commented the short campaign would have been a waste of resources, but that didn’t apply to Victoria State by election a few weeks ago? Or SA state election.
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Splitting hairs will not make the ON electoral cattle prod disappear.
It will be used continuously until the Libs/Nats together change hard policy and make that stick.
Repeating this has obviously made no difference. The only answer is electoral oblivion. The upper middle class electorates are lost to the Teals anyway; outer suburban and regional seats remain open.
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Legally enforceable obligation? Yes, but we Australians have many including the Safeguard Mechanism. 35% tax on CO2 hidden in all our costs, all our manufacturing, transport, mining, agriculoture. This Labor government has left no stone unturned for massive and illegal and hidden CO2 taxes. The public is to be kept ignorant and the press is more than happy to accede. What other country has a 35% CO2 tax on flying, shipping, transport, manufacturing, refining, glass making, fertilizer, plastics, smelting,..?
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Yes, since May 2022 Albanese Labor and Minister for Energy Bowen have been very busy reinforcing Labor’s climate politics objectives and of course with State Governments supporting legislation and regulations, Victoria in particular. Example the recent news that a company venture based on brown coal mining in Victoria and production of fertiliser and transport fuel was rejected and the firm took their business to New Zealand after the government there approved the project.
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Does anybody out there know what the $$$$$ value of ALL the climate taxes, subsidies & cost of the solar farms & wind generators, & batteries add up to. Sorry I’ve left the $$$$ spent on all the land clearing & installation of new, unnecessary transmission lines
out of the equation.
I’ve tried to put a number on it all but I’m sure my imagination is seriously lacking for such a task!
I’m sure the public will be more than horrified & disgusted at the billions / possibly trillion $$$ waste!!
Anybody else willing to have a go???
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Yep – de-industrialisation and impoverishment – look at South Sudan and that is Australia’s future under the UN-party – that shows the bottom line. It is becoming evident to a growing number of voters. The cake is getting smaller; more freeloaders are coming in and the slice for those not administering the scam is getting much smaller.
Australia has spent huge amounts in labour and capital over the last 25 years triplicating its electricity supply to end up with smaller wholesale market; much higher prices and lower reliability. That is just STUPID.
The leading scammers like Krudd and Sleezy can afford the beach-front properties. The scamees can afford protein once a week.
The upside for Australia is that emigration will eventually overtake immigration.
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See The Spectator/Quadrant Online, Alan Moran, 21 November 2025.
At the Commonwealth level, clean energy subsidies came to around $16bn/year, and included:
Large-scale renewable energy power stations (LRET): $400m
Rooftop Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) and batteries: $2bn
The Safeguard Mechanism: $1bn
The Clean Energy Regulator: $750m
Renewables and batteries under the Capacity Investment Scheme: $5.7bn
Hydrogen Headstart: $130m
Transmission line expansion: $510m
CEFC: $1.3bn
ARENA: $100m
Snowy 2: $1.3bn
All of this, every single year…
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And 18 major car companies have walked away from electric cars.
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The Coalition new policy before Glasgow COP 2021 included – “As in many other countries, renewable energy in Australia has been encouraged by government energy policy to limit climate change, reduce oil import dependency, and stimulate the economy.
A 2019 article raised concerns about environmental sustainability for future generations, as it seemed that the then federal government had no renewable energy policy beyond the year 2020. The Liberal Party’s energy minister, Angus Taylor, stated that the government would not be replacing the Renewable Energy Target (RET) after 2020.
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Please provide a link for that quote. If it is accurate, he was lying.
The RET was always in place to 2030 and still remains till 2030. LGCs will then be phased out. STCs have been phasing out since 2015. There are now State based incentives of various varieties.
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Renewable Energy Target (RET) Overview
The Renewable Energy Target (RET) in Australia was designed to encourage the generation of electricity from renewable sources. However, significant changes have been announced regarding its future.
Minister Angus Taylor’s Announcement
Winding Down: Minister Angus Taylor confirmed that the RET will wind down after 2020.
No Replacement: There will be no new targets introduced to replace the RET once it concludes.
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Three levels of government – electricity supply, development applications for building and construction, environmental protection, permits for minerals and energy exploration and mining, public health and hospitals, public education and schools, public housing, and more are state areas of responsibility.
https://education.parliament.nsw.gov.au/student-lesson/three-levels-of-government/
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Three levels of Govt, so one completely useless… State or Federal, pick one dump one and save the taxpayers millions of dollars!
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KP,
Indeed, but don’t offer a choice. Far too many people would choose to keep the utterly incompetent feds. Imagine them running hospitals, schools and public transport!
Dissolve the Australian nation and return to a collection of nation states. Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland didn’t see any need to merge into Scandinavia.
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Perhaps we could eliminate the ‘unelected swill’, the senate may have passed its used by date.
Australia should keep the three tiers of government to maintain political stability.
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The Feds can and do override the States. The Feds essentially collect the tax and redistribute. They control the biggest purse.
There are huge overlaps primarily driven by the UN globalist agenda. So much red, green and dark tape that it is next to impossible to do anything in Australia.
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Unusual jet crash, collided and appear almost locked together, lucky cockpits were clear enough to eject safely.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15825867/idaho-mountain-home-air-force-gunfighter-skies-jet-midair-crash.html
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An amazing recovery where all parachuted safely to ground. Incredible footage on TV this morning.
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Odd one. I’ve seen plenty of airshow crash videos but never close quarter ejections x4 from entangled aircraft, inverted even. Fantastic reactions, systems and a good dollop of luck to survive all that at low altitude.
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UK Labour leader candidates explicitly state goal to rejoin EU to get growth!
We have done as well as France, better than Germany, maybe the problem is expensive energy, not not being in the EU!
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN02784/assets/b250bb19-33ce-458b-bb18-14dbd33455b8.png
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I thought people had made the choice clear. Sounds like the voice, we say now and the pollies and the ABC dont like it.
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Just like Australian Labor.
They completely ignore the will of the people as expressed in referenda.
They just don’t care.
They want to impose their globalist, socialist agenda regardless of what the people want.
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Situation in UK is fast approaching ideal conditions for a civil uprising. If & when it starts it will get really ugly. The forerunner to an uprising won’t exactly be pretty either!!
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FWIW
“By Targeting Dairy Farmers, ESG Wants to Decide Your Milk”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/16/by-targeting-dairy-farmers-esg-wants-to-decide-your-milk/
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This is also nothing to do with TRUMP. (The story is based in the US.)
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is one of the entities behind it.
All part of the Left’s war against the food supply.
https://pathwaystodairynetzero.org/about-the-initiative/
Naturally, Australia is involved. Gulag AI says:
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And don’t forget that other climate killer gas methane hence the introduction of bovaer into bovine feed. This 2024 BEEF CENTRAL article that jumped to the defense of the additive and dismissed the dis-information is a good backgrounder as it covers Coles meat.
Remember when feeding cows meat-and-bone meal (MBM), a protein-rich feed supplement made from rendered animal remains, was a great innovation in stock feed. Pity about mad cow disease putting an end to it. Apparently cows in Denmark are falling over, producing less milk and doing solid f4rts (as in diarrhea) but experts don’t see any bovaer connection.
[AI] Yes, there were documented cases of Danish dairy cows collapsing and suffering severe health issues after the feed additive Bovaer was introduced in October 2025, with farmers explicitly blaming the substance. Approximately 1,400 farms began using the additive to reduce methane emissions, but many reported immediate negative effects, including – physical collapse, health decline, production loses and death.
Scientific Consensus: Despite farmer claims, regulatory bodies like the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the manufacturer dsm-firmenich maintain that Bovaer is safe. They stated that extensive testing has not identified the additive as a cause of death or major health issues, attributing problems potentially to improper mixing or other factors. [AI]
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FWIW
“Guardian: “Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO” ”
Concludes
“In my opinion when they have to lead your argument by assuring readers they aren’t fake news, in a news outlet like The Guardian, they’ve already lost.
The WHO also has its own credibility problems. WHO was widely perceived as stooging for China during the early days of the Covid pandemic.
I don’t think declaring a fake climate emergency, “far from being … fake news”, would do anything to restore the WHO’s lost credibility.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/17/guardian-declare-climate-crisis-a-global-public-health-emergency-experts-tell-who/
If they have read “The mythology of global warming” by Bruce Bunker they didn’t absorb much. He serves plenty of the rough end of the pineapple on that subject.
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IPCC Admission
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead
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Another view
“Stewart Brand on Fixing Stuff, Modern Environmentalism, and the Nuclear Future”
“In his new book, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, Brand argues that the real work of civilization isn’t flashy invention but the long, patient care of complex systems.”
More at
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stewart-brand-fixing-stuff-modern-110001182.html
Via https://instapundit.com/797313/#disqus_thread
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You always know to expect the worst BS when you see the phrase “experts tell” or “experts say”. Real experts don’t need to tell others that they’re experts.
It’s a journalistic crutch to dress up subjective opinions, vague generalisations, or thinly veiled green marketing as objective truth.
True authority is demonstrated, not declared by some woke journalist. True experts are too busy working to indulge in self-promotion and getting journalists to repeat their claims.
When someone says they are an “expert” or they are claimed to be one, the expectation is to trust them blindly. When an actual expert speaks, they lead with evidence, data and verifiable logic, allowing the information to speak for itself.
Proclaiming oneself an expert or repeating what a self-proclaimed expert says, usually signals an appeal to authority (argumentum ad verecundiam). Journalists and government/Left propagandists trot out “experts say” when they don’t have enough hard data to back up a claim, using the phrase to manufacture “consensus”.
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It is establishing the authority and the readers requirement to accept what is being cliamed.
It is a journalistic cop-out without the ability to explain the claim in simple terms.
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And
“Trump Mocks UN for Admitting ‘Green New Scam’”
“The extremely corrupt and dishonest United Nations has adjusted its doomsday framework after backing a popular study that just exploded under contact with reality, and President Donald Trump is laughing.
In 2024, a UN-backed study asserted that failure to address “climate change,” which usually means failure to impose more economy-killing, freedom-restricting regulation and failure to give yet more useless academic grants, would lead to a drop in $38 trillion of global yearly economic activity. That study has now been retracted based on faulty data too egregious for even climate alarmists to ignore. And given that climate alarmists have been wrong on every single major prediction for the last 60+ years, that’s a huge mess-up indeed. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have convinced the UN to stop screeching about climate apocalypse altogether.”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/17/trump-mocks-un-for-admitting-green-new-scam-n4952962
Paywalled but you’ll get the gist
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WHO and another crisis
“Here We Go Again: WHO Says Ebola Is Global Emergency as U.S. Virologist Smuggles in Pathogens”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/17/here-we-go-again-who-says-ebola-is-global-emergency-as-us-virologist-smuggles-in-pathogens-n4952960
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FWIW
“HUGE: Acting AG Todd Blanche Drops NUCLEAR Truth Bomb – “There’s a Ton of Evidence That the 2020 Election Was RIGGED” – CONFIRMS Multiple Criminal Investigations Underway”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/huge-acting-ag-todd-blanche-drops-nuclear-truth/
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FWIW
“QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED, Or Where Does Old Blighty Stand After a Half-Century of Oikophobia?”
https://instapundit.com/105325/
“JUST IN: Islamists and leftists are FURIOUS after Tommy Robinson gave the perfect answer
Q: What would happen if you become a prime minister tomorrow?”
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2055982251372933344
More at
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2055982251372933344
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The AFL (Australian Rules Football) have de-colonised the names of some of their teams. How woke of them.
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I had a session with grok on this topic, particularly Fremantle.
My summary (memory is imperfect):
– The name was reported by an anthropologist in the early 1800.
– It is unclear what the purported aboriginal name referred to or even if it referred to a place at all.
– There is no person alive or dead who has been recorded as using the name after the anthropological report.
– The resurfacing of the name came after a quest to find aboriginal names from the past.
– When researchers discovered the name they put it forward as a possibility.
– Again, nobody knew of the name so they fluffed it all over with a fictitious, manufactured oral history.
– The end result suited the political needs of those who created the false memory.
Pretty standard stuff really, but you should have seen grok defending the fiction despite a complete absence of objective facts (like who exactly used the name and when) until it finally relented and agreed it was all manufactured.
As I have said on several occasions grok cannot be relied on.
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Oh good grief! I suppose AFL was invented by the local tribes?
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I always assumed that it was invented by drunken Irishmen on the gold fields.
Lots of trees to aim at.
A score with a miss.
And didn’t have umpires for some years.
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Your right Annie, A few years ago, or was it a few decades ago, the AFL trotted out the idea that Aussie rules was originally a game played by the local tribes that got together and kicked a stuffed possum skin around for a while. Don’t know why this didn’t stick around, probably to much BS for even a drunken Collingwood supporter to believe!
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Apparently it was , Annie – Marngrook. We can believe it or not. Or ask Bruce Pascoe.
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Watched a few games via KAYO on the weekend. Timed it perfectly so I didn’t have to endure any of the pre-game [political] garbage. Would hate to be attending the games, no escape. The names have been temporarily changed for Douglas Nichols round, which will also spill over to next round as well. I always find the word “Narrm”, hilarious, apparently it just means “place” in the local aboriginal language. Hence, could have easily just used “Over there” as a name as well.
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[Edited because we have no free speech. – Jo ]
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You’d all better start learning the Abo equivalent of Aotearoa… Can’t be long now!
That’s also a manufactured language with made-up words all through it.
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And that kicked the trip wire but nobody can explain why what I wrote was in any ways objectionable.
I find that offensive but who cares?
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UK Govt admits solar farms and wind turbines are bad for the environment
The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband’s wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment.
Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway.
Bureaucrats admit the plans may destroy ‘nationally recognised sites, landscapes and historic environments’ as well as damaging ‘biodiversity and water resources’.
Officials also confess his schemes may increase ‘air emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, noise and vibrations, light pollution, dust and soils.’
They also say these negative effects could ‘occur repeatedly’ and ‘have impacts over the short, medium to long term’, as well as during construction.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15824193/Ed-Milibands-wind-turbines-social-panels-bad-environment-Government-privately-admits.html
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A new design hearing aid for $20, not $4k+
https://x.com/fdotinc/status/2054634415649874097/
No need to buy an “AI” hearing aid now.
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Outrage over plans to hold singles night for UNVACCINATED people in Denver beer garden
A Colorado beer garden canceled an unauthorized dating event for antivaxxers after locals were outraged at the prospect – but event organizers said the restaurant was well aware singles would be descending ahead of time.
Recess Beer Garden in Denver claims it found out that it was tapped to host Unjected’s dating event for unvaccinated singles on May 29 from social media
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15818489/recess-beer-garden-canceled-unvaccinated-event-unjected.html
Shock! Horror! UNvaxxed people mingling!?
How are they still alive?😆
They should all be sent to isolated quarantine facilities* immediately.
*box car train optional
Ah, the good old days of rabid lefties afraid of their own mortality are still here.
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Years ago after following Ned Nikolov and Tony Heller, I learned about the temperature trends within the present global warming phase.
The take away was that after the Little Ice Age finished, our present time of global warming began in around the mid 19th century. That that warming them continued on until around the end of WW2. Then the earth experienced a cooling period which lasted until 1980’s, or thereabouts. Which is why all the climate alarmists back in the late 70’s/ early 80’s thought we were descending into an ice age. Then we had the period from about 1980 through to early 2000’s which was considered a rapid warming phase.
So that anyone with half a brain can see that CO2 is not the control knob for the worlds’ thermostat. Yes, the Industrial revolution did occur in the 1800’s but CO2 emissions were hardly astronomical, so they couldn’t be responsible for the post LIA warming. Then after WW2 as CO2 emissions significantly ramped up we entered a cooling period. Huh? Well, that doesn’t make sense. ( as the late Bob Carter used to say ) Unfortunately, it was the great coincidence of warming from the 1980’s and higher CO2 emissions which has led to the great climate blob. Which allowed the “science” of global warming and Climate change to be sucked into politics. Anyway, that’s my take.
Recently there has been a non peer reviewed pre-print research paper which has basically verified those trends, again 🙂
https://t.co/dGby0BFTMM
Here is the abstract :-
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The other point worth considering is that CO2 levels were lowest in Antarctic ice cores during the Holocene Climate Optimum.
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I would point out that before 400,000 years ago, Greenland was ice free with grasses and shrubs growing. Camp Century middle north. The ice cores were about to be thrown out (after 35 years) until someone checked the “bottom” end. CO2 not above 300 p.p.m.
Also in the Eemian (135 -120, 000 years ago) there were elephants, giraffes, lions (from fossils when Nelson’s Column was repaired 1972). Also 2 sorts of rhinoceros (one extinct) in Yorkshire and hippopotamus in the Thames (& Rhine Delta) all when the CO2 was around 285 p.p.m.
And The Sahara was green, fertile and well watered during the start of the Holocene (and the Climate Optimum) as shown by cave paintings – Including hippopotami who need permanent water for living quarters. CO2 less than 280 p.p.m.
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Hantavirus, the dog that didn’t bark
Meanwhile in Uganda and the DRC, mega-scary Ebola!!
Yawn.
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crikey!!….astonishing coincidence… 🙂
From https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9637988/ “Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a toxin found in Gram-negative bacteria, can trigger immune responses that closely mimic the severe symptoms and “cytokine storm” seen in Ebola virus disease. Both produce massive inflammation, fever, and can lead to fatal septic shock”
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… how amazing!! this could only be biology being sent to us indirectly from the future John Connor II 🙂
From: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31505806/
“While hantavirus is a viral infection, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a bacterial toxin that often plays a severe, indirect role in hantavirus disease severity”
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reckon you can yawn with Haemorrhagic fever?
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Probably, as yawning is an autonomic response and a common response by the immune system to fever, but I guess you didn’t know that. 🙄
Me saying “Yawn” means Ebola has always been a common disease in the DRC region, so nothing new to warrant the msm doing another fear-drive.
However:
“Right before this outbreak exploded, NIH virologist Vincent Munster, a longtime Fauci collaborator who runs Ebola and bat virus research at Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana, was caught smuggling undeclared deadly pathogen samples from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the United States.”
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/2056001783202201950
Don’t forget (or learn) that Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with contaminated fluids, not airborne transmission like Covid.
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thanks for the mansplain.
But who cares about a few hundred deaths from Ebola virus when 95,000 per year from Diabetes and 680,000 per year from heart issues in the USA.
Which one does the dying legacy media focus on?
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Make a flippant one sentence response , then complain when a clarifying response is made. What a joke.
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Their ABC reassures us that the Australian government is monitoring the Ebola situation – and tells us that:
The impact on the central nervous system can result in confusion, irritability and aggression.
I seem to contract Ebola on a regular basis. Especially after consuming our public broadcaster’s fine products.
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“The impact on the central nervous system can result in confusion, irritability and aggression.”
Well, that explains the behaviour of all those Africans in Melbourne doesn’t it!
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Another LNP politician defects to ON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD8sLNQd_KE
Hollie Hughes was a Liberal Senator till last year; representing NSW.
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FWIW – AI-ing
”
“ChatGPT Is Rewriting Fact.
In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history – the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix’s rig… the works. And what you’re about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don’t exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can’t actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything… it can’t.
But here’s the part that really gets me: these aren’t just random errors. There’s a feedback loop happening. AI reads what’s on the internet, people repost what AI tells them, and AI reads that too. So the misinformation compounds. In 40 years, when someone wants to know who actually designed the first fuzz pedal – or what year the DOD 250 came out – this is what they’re going to find.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/05/17/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-self-driving-overlords-245/
“Fuzz pedals” and “fuzz everything” else I guess
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Interesting to me because it mirrors my experience with grok.
I commented above about my dialog about the invented AFL team names.
One additional thing is that it gave links to wikipedia 9 times, and then denied it had linked to wikipedia at all. Fairly quickly it then apologized for linking to wikipedia, gave me other sources and asked whether I preferred them.
Shortly after it terminated the session because I had exhausted the free limit. It invariably does that when if it was a human it would be embarrassed.
It’s like talking to their ABC except that their ABC never apologizes for getting things wrong.
Somehow I can only see this AI fad reaching its development potential well before what is promised.
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“Somehow I can only see this AI fad reaching its development potential well before what is promised.”
In two separate paragraphs it generated two wiring diagrams of the same coil today, and they had pins reversed. So it had grabbed those from different sources on the web, one of which was wrong, but couldn’t see the difference itself. It is just wasting humanity’s time and energy.
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Today is possibly the lowest RE output for some time. Total wind energy across the entire nation is under 600Mw and solar is way down due to heavy cloud from the jet stream. NEM price in NSW is over $300 at midday, possibly a record for this time of day for the past few years.
If the calm and cloudy weather remains until 6:00pm, it will be a very ugly peak demand period.
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My off-grid battery has shut down on low voltage and will not be getting much charge late in the day.
If a cold front came over and aircons/heaters ramped up, Victorian grid would likely go flat.
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I am again having problems at this website, some posts are accepted, others give a lost connection response and if I send again sometimes there are two posted when I check later?
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I suspect it’s that or DDOS attacks.
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Likely. The issue seems to have eased, but not eradicated.
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Yes, the ‘cloud’ couldn’t find it earlier this evening, I suspect DDOS attack.
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look closer, and mean the lobby groups behind the scenes not the general business support that swings either side from time to time to suit agendas.
Right now in 2025 Barnaby Joyce was elected again as a National Party MP, he had previously been National Party Leader twice and Deputy Prime Minister, reports were that he lobbied the Turnbull Government on behalf of his supporter Gina Reinhardt for agriculture concessions, no suggestion of any inappropriate behaviour noted. Obviously he changed to One Nation to become their first ever House of Representatives MP but was elected as a National MP again 2025. One Nation gained their first elected House of Representatives MP at the Farrer by election recently. After the 2025 Federal election One Nation only had four Senators (compare to Greens that support Labor with ten Senators and one MP.
Next consider Climate 200 and the renewable energy transition away from fossil fuels vested interest behind that organisation, and the Teal candidates masquerading as Independents and some now elected. Also consider Union Movement vested interests, unions now being big business directly and indirectly via Industry Superannuation Funds investments of member’s funds and influence in public companies via shareholding and a few seats on Boards of Directors. Obviously as ALP is effectively the Union Movement political party Labor is also their lobby group in opposition and in government.
Then consider the LINO left (Liberal left that became public knowledge from after the November 2007 Federal election and the musical leadership chair games following: Dr Brendan Nelson first Opposition Leader from 2007 replaced in 2008 by Malcolm Turnbull and 2009 he was replaced by Tony Abbott who led the Coalition to defeat Gillard Labor in 2010 forcing them into an alliance of Greens and former Nationals turned Independents to form a minority Labor Government, and a landed defeat for Rudd Labor (returned and Gillard replaced) in September 2013. PM Abbott then until late 2015 when replaced by PM Turnbull until late 2018 when the right factions installed Morrison who remained until May 2022 (and won the 2019 election) replaced by Dutton who had assisted Morrison during the end of Turnbull voting.
Ley became the new Opposition Leader after the 2025 election …. that short history has been posted here before. And replaced by a two thirds majority for Taylor 2026. Obviously from 2019 to 2025 the centre/centre right factions were more influential than the LINO left factions.
And 2026, One Nation began to campaign as if they are a major party with 4 from 2025 election then 5, now 6 elected members in Federal Parliament. And more recently news that a couple of Liberals with profile have publicly announced that they are now supporters of One Nation. What do these people have in common? Previously members and most were elected to Parliament Liberal and National parties.
Point being climate politics, renewable energy transition, and so on, and vested interest private sector business backgrounds.
Obviously leaving the Coalition parties because they were no longer influential, for different reasons but all elected had disagreements, were passed over for promotion to positions they wanted, losing influence. Fair enough, it happens in all walks of life, office politics are often in play. The “glass ceiling” mentality as well.
I am not opposed to One Nation, I have always respected Barnaby Joyce, Cory Bernardi now ON elected SA Legislative Council member, two examples, and while I have followed her career and from a Queensland electorate, and a One Nation local MP point of view for several years after I retired from business, I not that for 29 years little progress has been made nationally and only for a short time QLD State. Until 2026 when a very well organised media publicity campaign began, maybe 2024/25 beginning, with very mixed results: SA State election won a few seats but Labor returned to government, VIC by election lost to the Liberal candidate, Farrer Federal by election impressive win however circumstances advantageous because the Liberal brand was badly damaged by Ley resigning after a disastrous short time as Opposition Leader, and the break away from the National Coalition partner. And last Saturday no show at the Stafford QLD State by election, no candidate in a seat contested by One Nation at the last state election, therefore no support for the LNP Government candidate and Labor candidate won on preferences despite Labor losing primary votes approximately five percentage points.
I believe that we are being played by private sector business interests and they are playing Labor, Coalition, Teals and One Nation. Of course business usually has wider than climate wealth creation ventures in mind, and that is why traditionally business has mostly supported the Coalition for economic and financial business purposes.
However, lobbyists have made business from lobbying politicians on behalf of clients for ages past. What better than having elected Members of Parliament on side?
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I mentioned business interests and politics;
https://stopthesethings.com/2017/03/13/born-lucky-stars-align-perfectly-for-pms-son-with-mammoth-bet-on-wind-power-outfit-infigen/
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There are no true budgets for government. The people in power do not care about the economy beyond their term in office. If they cannot find a reason to justify a larger spending package, then they’ll simply go over the allotted amount, fail every audit, and face zero repercussions.
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Welcome back. DDOS?
Two F-18 Growlers collided and were lost at an airshow in the US. Thankfully all four crewmen banged out and survived. It could have been worse, the aircraft on top could have blocked the ejection of the lead plane and they had little altitude to play with.This reminded me of a similar collision at a Wings Over Dallas show between a B-17 and a King Cobra. Sadly there was a high death toll in this one. In both cases the faster plane merging with the other came in high and inside so the other was in a blind spot under the floor. Shouldn’t happen.
Juan Browne explains the first at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVqg-pCb6o
Ryan, AKA Max Afterburner, himself an ex-display pilot with the Thunderbirds* covers the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIYCH2RccAk
* He is entitled to have the Thunderbirds’ paraphernalia in shot.
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Welcome back.
Two F-18 Growlers collided and were lost at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. Thankfully all four crewmen banged out and survived. It could have been worse, the aircraft on top could have blocked the ejection of the lead plane and they had little altitude to play with.This reminded me of a similar collision at a Wings Over Dallas show between a B-17 and a King Cobra. Sadly there was a high death toll in this one. In both cases the faster plane merging with the other came in high and inside so the other was in a blind spot under the floor. Shouldn’t happen.
Juan Browne explains the first at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVqg-pCb6o
Ryan, AKA Max Afterburner, himself an ex-display pilot with the Thunderbirds* covers the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIYCH2RccAk
* He is entitled to have the Thunderbirds’ paraphernalia in shot.
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 Project
This document should be of interest issued by Snowy Hydro Limited;
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/snowy-20/documents/
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Business Case presented by Snowy Hydro Limited
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/C02-Commercial-business-case.pdf
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This statement explains the Snowy Hydro Limited Business Case history;
“The Government is pleased to announce shareholder approval has been given for Snowy Hydro Limited (Snowy Hydro) to proceed with Snowy 2.0.
Following Snowy Hydro Board’s final investment decision on 12 December 2018, the Government has reviewed the project’s business case and is satisfied that the project stacks up and will benefit energy consumers and the Snowy Mountains region.
The Government will commit up to $1.38 billion in an equity investment for Snowy 2.0, with the remainder of the project to be financed by Snowy Hydro Limited.
Snowy 2.0 will increase generation capacity by 2,000 megawatts and provide 175 hours of energy storage – enough to power the equivalent of 500,000 homes during peak demand. Importantly, this will also put downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices.
Snowy 2.0 will create up to 2,400 jobs in construction and support up to 5,000 direct and indirect jobs across the Snowy Mountains region, providing opportunities for local businesses, improvements in local infrastructure and increased economic activity.
Planning for the Snowy 2.0 project is well advanced. The Government’s decision green lights the project to progress to the early works stage.
This decision builds on the our investment in Snowy Hydro following the acquisition from the New South Wales and Victorian governments on 29 June 2018 and our work to back electricity supplies in Tasmania and Victoria with a new $56 million investment in the Marinus Link to support Tasmania’s Battery of the Nation project.”
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I hate the statements: …will power xxx homes. Absolute rubbish. It’s connected to a grid that supplies power to a few million homes. And Snowy 2 is NOT a power generator!!
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“The Government will commit up to $1.38 billion in an equity investment for Snowy 2.0, with the remainder of the project to be financed by Snowy Hydro Limited.”
Welp, Snowy Hydro Ltd must be making an awful lot of money somewhere if they have to find the other $40billion! No wonder the price of my electricity went up so much!
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Snowy Hydro Limited has various subsidiary businesses like Red Energy retail electricity, some large diesel generator plant and gas turbine generators, the hydro electric power stations built long before the Snowy 2.0 Project was proposed by Snowy Hydro Limited and therefore, I understand, pays dividends to the government as coal power stations did to State governments before privatisation and transition to renewable energy AEMO/NEM etc.
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FWIW
“Climate Headbangers Crawl from the Wreckage of RCP8.5 ‘Implausible’ Finding Spinning Nothing-to-See-Here Claims”
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/17/climate-headbangers-crawl-from-the-wreckage-of-rcp8-5-implausible-finding-spinning-nothing-to-see-here-claims/
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“ … even under this slightly lower emissions pathway, warming could still end up exceeding 4°C”.
Its guess work, not science.
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As the European experience of bail-in proves, it is an insane policy that destroys households but also the banking system, by destroying the public’s trust in banks to keep their money safe. Australians must stop this policy in its tracks, and fight for a Glass-Steagall separation of the banks instead, to keep deposit-taking banks separate from the risks of financial gambling.
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Bacon is good for one’s health.
Many who dont eat bacon end up blowing themselves up.
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