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We are having a “Stop the Wind Wall” rally in Wyoming this Thursday. Here is some press on it:
“Wyoming deserves the full picture on energy projects”
https://wyomingnews-wy.newsmemory.com/?publink=0eb2f240f_13520d6
“On Thursday, June 4, at noon, Wyoming residents from across the state will gather on the front steps of the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne for the Wyoming Wind Wall Rally. This event is not about opposing any single project. It is about asking whether Wyoming is honestly confronting the cumulative impacts of the unprecedented industrial expansion now occurring across southeastern Wyoming.”
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Good luck David, hope people actually listen to what you are saying. Meanwhile, here in Oz, it is being reported that the world is heading for food shortages due to a lack of fertiliser. Interesting scenario for the “just stop oil” crowd. Surely we can produce fertiliser or feed stock as a bye product of wind and solar. sarc/
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Thanks Sambar. Here is what we are asking for:
https://www.cfact.org/2026/03/24/wyoming-wind-power-needs-a-programmatic-environmental-impact-assessment/
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The typical anti-energy activist / Leftist wouldn’t be able to grow a carrot in their garden or understand where food in the supermarket or where their “double-decaf non-fat medium foam soy lattes with a hint of cinnamon” come from. They have never done any hard work with their own hands to produce anything useful (only destruction).
They have no concept of the necessity of fertiliser for industrial-scale food production.
Perhaps they could look to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
In 2021 they banned the import of all chemical fertilisers and pesticides to become fully woke, agricultural wise.
As a result:
-Rice production decreased by 36% *.
-Tea production down 18% *.
-Food prices soared, 90% * food inflation rate.
-Financial devastation as the country has to pay to import food.
-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ousted 2022 (reminder to Albo).
That was just after six months of no fertiliser or pesticides.
As President TRUMP says, everything woke turns to sh-t.
* Ref: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12571-025-01528-6
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While I totally agree with the absolute necessity for processed fertiliser in large scale agriculture and horticulture especially, many old fashioned techniques are often forgotten. Slashing pasture improves pasture growth, providing dried nutrients and distributing manure.
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Agreed.
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And large Scale Composting.
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All good traditional techniques.
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All farmer’s worth their salt already practice these methods. They know more about their land than some over weight, overpaid civil servant!
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Vicki,
Can I question that?
If you did not slash, where would the goodness go?
The fundamentals are that when you remove crop from the growing field, you need to replace every component with fertiliser – except for what Nature regenerates, mainly through reactions with mobile Carbon compounds like CO2 – and water.
The soil has two big functions, one to hold moisture and fertiliser in an accessible place for roots to sample and the other to donate from its inherent composition some of the required fertilisers (growth nutrients like trace elements) for a while until they are depleted and need replacement.
Most of what is taken away to eat etc will eventually need fertiliser to replace it. Slashing might help to keep goodness on the block rather than be carried away by wind or fire and birds and help soil moisture management.
“There is no such thing as a free lunch”.
Geoff S
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Sorry to take so long to respond, Geoff – have been busy outside! I was referring more to the practices involved with grazing – as we have cattle. The cycle of grazing cattle which crop the grass, returning nutrients via manure and urea, is but one factor of the return of nutrients. The manure obviously concentrates this across the grazing area. Slashing distributes this far more effectively. But this process also distributes the fibre of the cut pasture when it is too dense or high for the animals to eat completely.
We see the results of this practice. We also use restricted grazing practises such as rotational grazing in smaller paddocks which rests pastures continually.
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Vicki,
All understood and all in agreement.
A lot of wisdom has evolved from the agricultural sector.
I used to run labs that measured soil depletion and addition balances, so my comments were more clinical than directed to good management practices. It is surprising to still read about people who imagine fertilizers as a harmful optional extra.
Geoff S
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Straight after rain my dad would harrow the paddocks to break up the cow pats and “tickle” the soil. We always had nice clover and rye pastures.
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In Sri Lanka, the food and then fuel shortages triggered the Aragalaya (the struggle), a protest movement by the people that resulted in the overthrow of the government by mid 2022. Unlike the French revolution which was triggered by a couple of bad years for crops, this revolution was entirely manmade.
The Dutch were ahead of the game. They had already formed the Farmer-citizen movement (BBB) which opposed the government’s plan to drastically reduce nitrogen emissions. The people responded to their message and gave them almost 20% of the vote in March 2023. No doubt the situation in Sri Lanka loomed large in the minds of the electorate.
Australia would do well to learn the lessons from recent history.
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Why? Our government are experts in everything. Not one of them has ever done a hard day’s work and none have worked in any practical endeavour. None are farmers, builders, engineers, business people, irrigators or manufacturers. They are the most underprepared, ignorant but over confident bunch of losers ever. They are supported in this role by an equally ignorant, DEI hired, public service. One example. Recent tax changes are expected to raise $8 billion each year (doubtful) but the extra 41000 public servants hired by Albanese cost $8.5 billion every year (actual). Solution: Sack 44000 public servants.
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Why don’t you tell us how you REALLY feel. 🙂
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I never asked a question Lawrie, just pointed out some facts. And l don’t have any issue with anyone who highlights the incompetence of the Aus Government, which is beyond words.
However, informing the energy uneducated is another thing. Get that right first and then perhaps you can persuade the herd to recognise how inept the government is with money in general.
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Sri Lanka is now top of the pops on organic agriculture.
https://www.dailymirror.lk/print/news-features/Global-Milestone-for-Sri-Lankan-Organic-Agriculture/131-339724
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No oil and bankrupt, they have no choice.
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They are not technically bankrupt after getting an IMF loan and the attempt to buy cheap oil from Russia was knocked on the head by Washington.
I agree, they have no choice, but if the world falls into recession then it’ll be par for the course.
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AI Overview: “Sri Lanka’s total certified organic agricultural production accounts for roughly 2.5% to 4% of the country’s total agricultural land. … However, the vast majority of this output is geared toward international markets.” A niche produce for export.
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During my year’s practical in my Agricultural Science degree in Scotland I worked on a farm with a fair number of cattle. The pasture fields were, by Australian standards, quite small and we used a “strip grazing” technique that involved using electric fencing to restrict the cattle to limited strips of pasture for a period of time. At the end of this time they were moved on to the next strip and I was sent in on a tractor with a revolving chain harrow to break up and distribute the cow dung. By the time the cattle had finished the last strip the first strip was covered again in deep, verdant grass. At the time I am not sure if I fully appreciated the importance of this, but I sure do now.
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Yep, Peter. As you can see from my reply above, we use rotational grazing in smaller paddocks to rest the pastures.
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Indeed, Vicki, same thing, different nomenclature! It worked for us and no doubt it is working for you. I wonder if our current Minister for Agriculture knows about it, as it’s called “carbon capture”.
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Hmmm
Just noticing that there is not a lot of rangeland experience getting mentioned in here. That is a different game played over a lot of Oz
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Australia has not planned for anything.
It was entirely predictable that sooner or later there would be a fertiliser shortage and Australia being a major agricultural exporter, at least for the moment, should have planned for it.
It’s bizarre that for nitrogen-based fertiliser we relied on the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Now, there is the Perdaman Project https://perdamanchemicalsandfertilisers.com/project/ceres/ under construction in WA to make urea from natural gas but its not finished yet and how much will the project and final product cost after the feral unions get their cut and tribute paid to native populations ($11 million so far https://murujuga.org.au/plans-progress-for-massive-burrup-urea-plant/)?
There is also the proposed Project Haber in WA.
Of course, the woke fantasy is “green ammonia” (which is turned into urea by reacting with -gasp- satan’s gas CO2) could be made from “green hydrogen” from all that “free” wind and solar power. How’s that going, wokesters? https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-05-21/alternative-fertiliser-production-methods-fossil-fuels/106631434
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“after the feral unions get their cut”
And how much of the unions’ cut get “donated” to the ALP, or used to pay for ads for the ALP
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They have a symbiotic relationship, starve one, starve the other. One way unions could be restrained is to allow Super contributions to be used to buy homes. After all a home is the very best retirement asset.
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You don’t hate the unions enough. The light is shining on the builders’ unions ATM but the maritime unions do harm EVERY day, continuously. Their demands make the idea of shipping Qld coal and WA iron to Newcastle impossible, Tas has good beer and Hartz Mountain mineral water but Bass St is more expensive to cross than importing Belgian beer so we can’t buy it. The state must wither on the vine.
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There is a tile maker in Perth who are one of 2 in the world who produce that particular type of tile. The other is in Spain.
To ship a load of tiles from Perth costs more than twice what it costs to ship from Spain.
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Update on B-52 engine upgrade (copied from Farcebook).
And I reckon once it reaches proposed retirement in 2050 it’s life will be extended yet again to make at least a century of service.
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And 30% fuel efficiency means a 30% longer range per tankful.
Well done RR.
I worked at RR Aero Engines in Derby England before migrating to Sunny Australia in 1976.
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Actually, according to the Breguet Range Equation, 30% better fuel efficiency translates to 43% more range.
Simplifying the above range equation we find range is inversely proportional to fuel burn.
New range = Old range / 0.70 = 1.428 x Old range.
Of course, assuming no change in flight conditions or aircraft or fuel mass.
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Thanks David. I never knew that !!
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The Qantas aircraft information sheet when they changed to Rolls Royce RB 211 engines (IIRC) was that they added 10 tons to the payload and something like 1000 km to the range
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That formula is killing the Comac C919. It is all aluminium, no composites, so is overweight and they can’t buy the best engines lest they reverse engineer them. A dog of a plane.
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Apparently because the B52s flew more slowly that most new aircraft and because it flies at higher altitude where the air is less dense and abrasive the airframes are in excellent condition. It will not be able to enter contested airspace but will be used as a missile truck hauling its 70,000 pound weapon load to 30,000 feet and launching outside threat range. Obviously the Air Force boffins see this as a feasible task. The modern stealth bombers will be used to neutralise radar and missile defences allowing the B52s to deliver their loads relatively safely. This method was used in the attack on Iran.
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B-52 were originally designed for low level nuclear penetration but when that proved a no go with new missile systems coming on line they switched to using them as high level bomb trucks. That meant that the only time their airframes were stressed anywhere near design levels was during take off and landing.
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Boeing once did excellent work. All airframes have flight hour limits, particularly the wing spar, but the B-52 and DC-3 seem immune to physics.
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One of our gliding instructors at repair and maintenance schools was a stress engineer who did that analysis on the first Pratt and Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops.
From one of his sessions –
Aircraft aluminium has a flex life independent of load, unlike materials like steel where it is dependent on load – i.e. longer if lightly loaded. So I raised the question of how the DC3 kept going?
His answer was that the people that designed it knew what they were doing. Firstly it had three wing spars, any one of which will keep the wings on. And it has a replacement schedule for important things before they reach flex cycle life. And, if you follow that, the plane can keep flying indefinitely.
As illustrated by conversions like the Besler BT-67
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basler_BT-67
I never had a lecture on the B 52 so can’t comment on those. Except that everything in the wings will have a flex life if they are aluminium alloys.
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For comparison – the life of wooden sailplanes – some IIRC here
“The life of wooden sailplanes designed to
British Standard Specification No ***** Section E – cloud flying gliders
is around 50 years, or for all practical purposes indefinite”
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There might only be one Mosquito still flying, not because of wood life but of the glues of the time. They were a bit fragile at the time.
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Positive Trump news.
COLUMBUS FOUNTAIN FLOWS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2007
For nearly two decades, the Columbus Fountain in front of Washington’s Union Station was nonfunctional. Now, water is flowing again after 19 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3_SGY-_J8g
The last time I was there was during Bush the Elder.
I didn’t know it had declined so much.
As I recall it is line of sight to the Capitol, a short walk away.
I had heard it had become surrounded by a homeless encampment.
I guess no Trump and such would still be the case.
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It’s easy to see why the Left didn’t want it fixed. From Gulag AI:
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Saw that mentioned this morning, a pic at least, didn’t know the significance.
Trump doesn’t like decay. Too many Yanks can’t see the positive about him.
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Mark Carney has pivoted 180 degrees from his globalist outlook:
“Our core objective across these partnerships is to increase our strategic autonomy. Because we live in a world where integration has been weaponised. Because a country that cannot feed, fuel or defend itself is not truly sovereign,” Carney said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/mark-carney-trade-partnership-canada-america
Lets just say that Carney has found TRUMP although he may not admit that yet.
The UN globalist agenda is dead – with the exception of Australia and their Blackout. I do not think Carney’s use of the term “fuel” meant wind or sun.
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Australia is a strong holdout in favour of globalism and is prepared to, and indeed has destroyed the economy to prove it.
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That’s odd. China regularly beats us around the head because of our dependance, trade agreements not withstanding..
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Carney is aware that Trump will soon be a lame duck and Canada is seeking commercial advantage.
‘ … a “true partnership” that reimagines cooperation in specific sectors challenged by global competition.’
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” a “true partnership” that reimagines cooperation in specific sectors challenged by global competition.’”
That sounds very racist to me, whites ganging up against Asians. Pretty well a waste of time, the white’s labour is too expensive to compete in manufacturing, so the Asians will win the competition to produce goods that make our lives comfortable.
What else.. Oh, I know, military spending of course, places where there is no competition, just taxes the Govt throws around. In this ‘specific sector’ that is not ‘challenged by global competition’, the whites have a chance. Sadly though, military spending relies on a robust tax base or borrowing money, and if your country is not manufacturing and selling, you won’t have a robust tax base.
So the bit to break will be ‘make our lives comfortable’. Sure, the West can compete with Asia by using tariffs and subsidies, but everything will cost more for the people of a country that does it, and their standard of living will fall. Its a hiding to nowhere, the only way forward is to buy the cheapest goods from whoever can make them, and find something to sell them in exchange.
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‘That sounds very racist to me …’
Carney is saying we have a deal for you ahead of the mandatory review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in July.
Its not in Canada’s interest to see the US slide into stagflation, so this July meeting could change the course of history. POTUS is oblivious, but Carney has a way with words.
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‘ … military spending relies on a robust tax base …’
Squandering tax dollars on antiquated and unnecessary military hardware.
‘Australia expects to make significant cost savings by buying a third secondhand American nuclear submarine for the Aukus program, instead of at least one brand new model.
‘The defence minister, Richard Marles, on Sunday described the decision not to buy any new Virginia-class boats as placing “a premium on simplicity”.
‘But Marles conceded there would be no “fundamental” shift in the cost of the multi-decade deal, estimated to be worth at least $370bn.’ (Guardian)
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Best of luck with JD or Rubio.
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Is Trump forcing his hand with serious threats if they welch on their F-35 contract to buy Gripens?
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Trump’s words are hollow.
‘The Canadian government is reviewing the planned purchase of U.S. F-35 fighter jets to explore other options. Carney has said the potential for having more production in Canada is a factor. A proposal by Saab promised that assembly and maintenance of the Saab Gripen fighter jet would take place in Canada.’ (Los Angeles Times)
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The Gripen uses US engines which could be withheld. Canada could be cut from the supply chain of the F-35. 3% of 1,000+ planes is not to be sneezed at. Was this offset contingent on their purchase? If so they are in breach of contract.
As for cost:
Canada is cutting off their nose to spite their face. Their only fast jets today are old FA-18 we junked years ago. They are bludging on US.
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‘The Gripen uses US engines …’
Good point, which is why negotiations are taking place now. Some hard bargaining ahead, trade offs.
Military hardware is rapidly changing and once the super powers have settled their differences there won’t be much need for large flotillas and heavy bombers.
This is the opportune moment to make the transition, world bond markets are in free fall.
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Genius!…Who knew?…
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FWIW
This morning’s Coffee and Covid
“PANDEMIC BLESSINGS ☙ Saturday, May 30, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS
A C&C Special Edition: heroic covid docs publish first peer-reviewed study that brings new hope for actually curing cancer instead of piling money into Moonshot rockets and launching them into space.”
“Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Today we have a C&C Special Edition roundup—the first published, peer-reviewed ivermectin-mebendazole cancer study suggesting a broad beneficial effect from cheap, repurposed drugs across a wide range of cancer types and stages. In other words, it’s Big Pharma’s worst nightmare.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/pandemic-blessings-saturday-may-30?
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Australia has already demonstrated its willingness to ban cheap repurposed drugs as a possible covid treatment, even before the “vaccines” were available and persecuted and prosecuted doctors and scientists who didn’t conform to the Official Narrative.
They will no doubt do it again if cheap repurposed drugs are found effective for cancer treatment. At least one is the very same one found effective for covid.
Why are antiparasitics effective as both antivirals and anti-cancer treatments?
Even fully woke Gulag AI acknowledges:
Looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” proven to have a foundation in science.
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Thank you for that, David. Grok was quite dismissive of Ivermectin and other prospective Covid19 medication. I suggested he read the work of Emeritus Prof. Robvert Clancy, and the articles he has written for Quadrant magazine in Australia. I have not seen these propositions posted in the press re Ivermectin and similar drugs.
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It is an Australian disgrace that Prof Robert Clancy has been somewhat sidelined. His qualifications are impressive, he has a patient practice, his research is world class, his publications and speeches logical and understandable. Tall poppy lopping is harmful. Geoff S
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Thanks a i,
It’s great that that’s been published.
But I’m greedy and would have hoped that it had included approaches from some earlier works in their treatments and reporting. Specifically:
..1 That Dr Zelenko emphasised that he always included zinc with his HCQ work in the early days of Covid, and that carried through into IVM use;
..2 That both HCQ and IVM are zinc ionophores (as is quercetin);
..3 That zinc, inside the cell, stops the virus from replicating (as described by Sehault in the early days of Covid); and later
..4 That vitamin D was included in the formulations used both cases.
Also;
..5 That adequate blood levels of vitamin D are essential for reliable functioning of the immune system; and
..6 That vitamin D has cofactors needed for its own reliable operation.
But perhaps the original paper does explore (or at least report) blood levels??
Cheers,
Dave B
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FWIW
“Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/29/pressure-causes-temperature-its-time-to-climb-down-from-mount-stupid/
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Happens once in a blue moon 🔵
31 May: Snow flurries for Tasmania’s hills and most likely the mainland’s higher peaks, plus more again tomorrow, 1 June, the meteorological start of winter but I’m waiting for 21 June’s winter solstice.
31 May: Half-a-metre (knee-deep) wet heavy snow for NZ’s Mount Cook and surrounding ranges, plus more again tomorrow, 1 June, which is a holiday as we celebrate some overseas king’s faux birthday.
It’s also a full moon tonight – not that we’ll see it as ‘the climate’ has turned stormy/wet, the 1st decent rain all month – which is a ‘blue moon’ (the missing 13th) being the 2nd full moon this calendar month of May, olé!
The mystery is: how does ‘the climate’ know it’s the change of seasons, ie. autumn to winter, when all the Doctor Pointyheads have claimed – for years! – the seasons are out of whack because Trump and de’Niers and the devil’s gas, unless…
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Any hints how to locate the Alpine Forecast for NSW & VIC on ye olde reg.bom site – it switches over to their new (useless) one and a blank page: my old-school method is to check the yellow ‘Warnings’ for both states to see if farmers & bushwalkers need to take ‘extra care’ due to cold temperatures which seems odd in an ‘ever-warming planet’. BoM eh!
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Greg in NZ
on https://reg.bom.gov.au/
click header at the top https://reg.bom.gov.au/nsw/index.shtml?ref=hdr
and select New South Wales Weather and Warnings Summary
dwon the bottom of that page select Australian Alpine Weather
https://reg.bom.gov.au/australia/alpine/
down the bottom click on
Graphical Views
Forecast wind, snow and temperature maps – next 7 days
Click Forecast wind, snow and temperature maps – next 7 days (MetEye)
https://reg.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/?loc=VIC_FA001
Similarly on Map at bottom District & Area Forecasts either click on map or one of the areas to the right of the map
NSW
Snowy Mountains
VIC
North East
North Central
West & South Gippsland
East Gippsland
Central
Alpine towns
TAS
Central Plateau
Overland Track
North East
Western
South East
All stay with Old Reg
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I still want to know how they managed to spend $100 million on an utterly useless site.
Where did the money go?
And why was the same company rewarded with a further $16 million contract for another Government climate site “Australian Climate Service”?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/company-in-96m-bom-site-redesign-gets-16m-contract/106478264
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DM,
I have seen recent research that indicates that the historic daily temperature data has problems, despite it being about all we have to construct past Australian climate. Should go public inside a fortnight. Geoff S
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Probably because “world’s best practice” has been used to manipulate the historical data in order to show almost non-existent globull warming.
The only anthropogenic warming is occurring in the urban heat islands.
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‘The mystery is: how does ‘the climate’ know it’s the change of seasons, ie. autumn to winter ….’
Leaves fall from trees because the golden orb is no longer overhead, also a full moon produces an imperceptible amount of precipitation caused by a bulge in the atmosphere, scientists have discovered.
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“The mystery is: how does ‘the climate’ know it’s the change of seasons”
Why it simply consults the “First Nations” people who apparently had 6 seasons per annum, not based on celestial events but rather ground based observations. I have significantly more than 6 seasons in my year, all based on local observations
for example it gets colder when the yellow tail black cockatoos appear.
it gets hotter when the little pardelotes come down from the tree tops and build nests in the ground,
Its duck season when the government declares it, ( variable year to year)
Rose season lasts a long time , my roses are beautiful
Its apple season April May which is different to apricot season which is January February
this is different to swimming season which varies greatly from year to year,
Yup each new year depends on climate change.
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“Yup each new year depends on climate change.”
as anyone growing veges can tell you! Good seasons for this but a poor year for that. Particular pests everywhere for a year or two, then they vanish for 5 years to be replaced by some other pest…
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Sambar,
In theory, how many seasons should there be for folk living on or near the Equator? Singapore is an example.
Geoff S
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FWIW
“Climate And Energy Provisions In New York’s FY 2027 Budget: Making The Coming Crash Worse”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/30/climate-and-energy-provisions-in-new-yorks-fy-2027-budget-making-the-coming-crash-worse/
A “Fix by governmentium”
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Roof solar explodes destroying $1M house
Experts have issued an urgent warning over solar panels on rooftops, following a terrifying incident in Northamptonshire.
Footage revealed the moment a set of solar panels on a £600,000 new–build home exploded while a family was still inside.
Ring doorbell footage from earlier this week showed the roof of the property in Wellingborough, bursting into flames.
Neighbours described the terror of watching the family scramble to safety at about 10.30am on Bank Holiday Monday, as the temperature had already hit 22°C.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15857885/solar-panels-safe-new-build-home-goes-flames.html
“Hit 22°C”
A heatwave, a heatwave! 😆
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Did not appear to be any leaf litter to support the initial fire.
It states “new build”. I wonder how long the panels have been operating.
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FWIW
“CYNICAL PUBLIUS: Élan, Social Justice, and Losing Wars.
Military historians talk a lot about “revolutions in military affairs.” Usually, this refers to a game-changing technology that obliterates existing doctrines and tactics almost overnight. Examples include the phalanx, the longbow, the rifled musket, targeted indirect fires, the machine gun, the airplane, the submarine, the tank, the nuclear bomb, and the drone—the list goes on and on. However, revolutions in military affairs often do not relate directly to technology. Instead, they are frequently rooted in changes in guiding philosophies born of the “moral” (as Clausewitz describes it) rather than the physical.
That’s what Social Justice Warfare is—an expression of the moral over the physical elements of warfare. It is the idea that “diversity is our strength” and that the progressive policies of so-called “social justice” have a place in winning wars. Social Justice Warfare holds that political orthodoxies can overcome the intrinsic violence of war. Then it dawned on me: Social Justice Warfare is the modern equivalent of the pre-World War I French military doctrine of “élan.”
Read the whole thing.”
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2060799598399221980
https://instapundit.com/800264/#disqus_thread
“One recent article bemoaned the fact that the US Navy’s most recent flag officer selection board prioritized merit over genitalia.”
Was there such debate over the selection of the kilt as a uniform?
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A former NASA engineer claims he’s discovered a “New force” that can overcome earth’s gravity without any propellant
Charles Buhler, who spent years leading NASA’s Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center, says his private company Exodus Propulsion Technologies has found a way to generate thrust using only electric fields.
In vacuum chamber tests, their device reportedly produced enough force to counteract Earth’s gravity a claim that would completely rewrite the rules of propulsion.
https://x.com/CharlesMullins2/status/2060528928419426360
He’ll disappear like all the others have for decades…
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“He’ll disappear like all the others have for decades…”
Yes, you’d be nuts to announce it.. I’d build working machines with it then patent it and announce it worldwide for anyone to use.
Mind you, the electromagnetic field needed will probably destroy any humans nearby..
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There’s nothing amazing about electric fields causing mechanical force. Two of the same charges repel, it’s Coulomb’s Law.
The trouble is how to use this in outer space when the surrounding electric fields are very weak and therefore you have nothing to repel against. That’s when you get into ion drive engines which accelerate charged particles, but this is still basic action and reaction … it won’t provide thrust without a physical exhaust jet. This design was tested by the Japanese on the Hayabusa probe.
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Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s proudly ‘No AI’ search page has tripled since latest Google AI search update
“Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our ‘No AI’ search page have tripled,” the company wrote on Bluesky. “And they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images.”
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/traffic-to-duckduckgos-proudly-no-ai-search-page-has-tripled-since-latest-google-ai-search-update/
Say no to AI search engine slop!
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You’re welcome, I like it. 😀
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Looking out the back yard at the full moon there was an owl on my clothes line. I don’t know owls so I asked AI what I am likely to find in the foothills where I live. The reply was far more detailed than I could find via an old-fashioned search.
As I said: I like it.
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You’re welcome. I like it.
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FWIW
“CAN UTAH SAVE THE GREAT SALT LAKE?: They’re trying to do it Utah-style. Soviet-style didn’t work for the Aral Sea.”
“Can Utah Save the Great Salt Lake?”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/utah-great-salt-lake-drying-up
Via https://instapundit.com/800257/#disqus_thread
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Water allocation is hotly contested, Australia had this fight over the Murray Darling Basin.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/murray-darling-basin-authority-plan-review-under-way/106307966
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Why the use of the past tense?
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Its all over bar the shouting. They are asking the farmers and graziers to have community discussions and voice opinions, so the authority can iron out the wrinkles.
The MDBA has its head in the sand on climate change.
https://www.mdba.gov.au/water-management/basin-plan-review/2025-murray-darling-basin-outlook
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The MDBA is trying to keep Lake Alexandrina fresh when it is a tidal, brackish body of water up into the mouth of the Murray itself.
To that end they are sending huge amounts of water down stream, with the Murray, Murrumbidgee, Goulbourn, etc., running near enough to full year round, doing damage to the banks, and in the case of the Barmah Forest and associated wetlands, destroying them.
And they’re getting that level of flows by denying water to farmers.
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It seems this save-the-lake activity is prior to the 2034 Winter Olympics.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/25/utah-launches-new-effort-to-fill-the-great-salt-lake/
I remember when it was too full, about 1986.
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Here it is.
https://www.usgs.gov/media/before-after/great-salt-lake-comparison-1986-and-2022
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“If one person believes something illogical, he
is called a fool — but if ten million people believe the same illogical thing, it is called religion.”
– Voltaire
Hey kid, I’ve got some invisible real-estate to sell you.
Just believe all your life, and contribute every week and it’s yours after you die.
“No money back” guarantee!
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Would the Titanic have pranged a D₂O iceberg ?
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Interesting question: such a berg would have a weight eighteen seventeenths of the H₂O one and maybe not floated quite so high (if at all).
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It would have had more of its bulk underwater.
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Answer: w.r.t approximate density of seawater in the Atlantic at that time and place. Let’s cerebrate!
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Should have done the mental arithmetic better. Twenty eighteenths is the number I was trying for; probably it would be completely submerged.
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Vaccine injuries – RSV Vaccine and Vaccine Enhanced Disease
Jeff Childers has a go at the ugly philosophy of Utilitarianism, popularised by Jeremy Bentham. It can be summarised as most Benefit for most people or the ends justify the means and is still used to justify mass vaccination campaigns.
A vaccination campaign testing a new vaccine against RSV in the 1960s resulted in the vaccinated children doing much worse than their unvaccinated cohort. No informed consent. No proper oversight, no responsibility. Nothing. The case has come to court 60 years later.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/anomalous-friday-may-29-2026-c-and?r=tyl3q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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The lesson is this:
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Pauline knows the political risks and is contemplating her future.
‘The One Nation leader refused to rule out a run at the prime ministership and said a move from the Senate to the House of Representatives was ‘in the mix.’ Pauline Hanson also called for IR reform so employers could better manage or sack difficult young workers.’ (Oz)
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I cannot believe that One Nation could not get even one MP elected for the House of Representatives at the 2025 election, beginning the new term of government with just four Senators, compared to the minor party Greens with ten Senators and one MP, and now One Nation has former National MP, former Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Joyce who changed sides after being overlooked again for a third time as leader with their now second MP from a by election involving fed up constituents of a Liberal MP who was elected again 2025 and resigned and left in 2026 and in between time over one year as Opposition Leader indulged in public displays dumping 2025 policies and arguing with the National Coalition partner before being dumped as Liberal Leader with Angus Taylor selected with a two thirds Liberal MP votes majority.
At that by election there were Liberal and National candidates because Coalition rules allow competition under certain circumstances, as the Nationals had lost that seat to the Liberals years earlier.
I read and listen to polling experts and political commentators and they all agree that for One Nation to increase from present two MPs to at least seventy six needed to form government, and preferably eighty to remain on top of House of Representatives as a government, is not possible. The most likely result would be a scattering of preferences (as in SA State election recently) and Labor returned to government again.
The One Nation media management people must be working overtime creating newsworthy media releases for publicity purposes, and that’s politics and campaigning, but creating a false premise for the average voter who do not understand the preference voting system. The most sensible position in my opinion is for One Nation to cooperate with the Liberal National and LNP QLD Coalition that already has many more elected members than One Nation. And for both major and minor parties (not only One Nation) on the conservative side of politics to concentrate on defeating Labor governments, next Victoria and in two years time Federal.
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‘ … concentrate on defeating Labor governments …’
That is the intention, but only seats they have a chance of winning. Whether its in the regions or western suburbs of capital cities, in a tight race preferences could get them over the line
In rural electorates where Labor doesn’t rate, the Nats and ON must fight it out even at the risk of losing to Labor. Which shouldn’t happen if they give their preferences to splinter parties.
This would rejuvenate our democracy.
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Born 27 May 1954, by 2028 election will be 74 years of age, 2031 election 77 years of age.
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Could Pauline pass up the opportunity to be PM and nominate someone else to that position , eg Barnaby?
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Born April 17 1967 and Barnaby Joyce has been Deputy Prime Minister in the Coalition two times and having been passed over for a third time as leader he resigned and joined One Nation. At 59 years of age would be far better qualified than PH and he is a finance graduate.
The PH for PM publicity is media management material same as attacking Coalition and MPs and complaining when they respond as if they initiated it.
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Dennis seems One Nation bagging is your pet project. Enough already. Did you see the Fin Review poll where ON is leading your Labor Government by 3 percentage points in the primary vote?
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FWIW
“UK’s Ofcom Investigates Airing Of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change A “Hoax”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-ofcom-investigates-airing-trump-interview-calling-climate-change-hoax
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Loading of the page is somewhat slow today. Must be climate change.
97% sure.
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I have the feeling that Jo Nova.com got fed bots for breakfast
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At least 2 Oreshniks used against Kyiv, maybe 3. Described in first 15 minutes of this 81 minute Mercouris program dated Saturday May 30:
https://rumble.com/v7all8y-zelensky-fears-new-big-russian-kiev-strike-kievs-drone-offensive-against-ru.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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That’s OK they are prepared for any eventuality, while the aggressor becomes exhausted from stagflation.
‘The staggering costs of Russia’s war against Ukraine have fractured the country’s domestic market into a distinct “dual economy,” characterized by an overheated military-industrial complex and severe stagnation across civilian sectors. Skyrocketing capital, labor, and product costs – compounded by aggressive tax hikes and increased internal borrowing – have paralyzed non-military industries as the initial boost from state defense spending dries up.’ (Kyiv Post)
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A Ukrainian newspaper giving reliable data about Russia!!??
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“(Kyiv Post)”
Yeah, seriously?? How much did they tell you about Ukraine’s economy? Not much, because it doesn’t exist. No-one gets paid if other countries don’t give it money, they are a beggar country living on handouts from top to bottom. Now, how much more money can NATO invent when their debt to GDP is 80% and America is over 100%?
So, I wouldn’t take that article as gospel if I were you EG, I figure Russia is as resilient as Iran.
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FWIW
David
Try the video in here
“Oreshnik – A Report On Recent Use”
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And
“At the time the arrival of the one just outside Kiev was reported I saw a couple of references that there had been three used. Which caused some puzzlement because I hadn’t heard of a second launch before that one.
It would take a bit of chasing to retrack to where those references were. And they didn’t give a location for the second one, which seemed odd.
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Mercouris nominates the three locations within that first section, with some uncertainty about #3.
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FWIW
Worth saving for future use IMO
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hjrxmqqwuaelgcq.png?w=887
And
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hjcn5trxoacm-df.png?w=841
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Let me just say, “I bet you don’t find this story on the ABC”.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/05/07/opcw-confirms-buried-evidence/
Turns out the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) admits they did not include all of the information from their investigation of chemical attacks in Syria … and the final report was missing some critical details including toxicology analysis.
So Dr. Brendan Whelan, the OPCW inspector hired to write the initial report was perfectly justified calling them out for censorship and ultimately producing a conclusion which did not match the evidence. How about that?
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Stephen mcIntyre at Climateaudit ran his ruler over the chemical weapons claims in Syria.
Here is one of his reports
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FWIW
Alex Christofouru
“Russia frontline advance as EU drone narrative crumbles. Trump walks back deal, Iran $300B fund”
https://rumble.com/v7alnmc-russia-frontline-advance-as-eu-drone-narrative-crumbles.-trump-walks-back-d.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
Includes some observations on the story that Russia has supply problems to Crimea –
Russia has numerous supply routed there
Most of the drone victims are civilian
The main supply route is rail
And Ukraine usually puts up a beat-up like this when they are about to lose something big which seems to be on the cards
FWIW
I won’t be suprised to hear that Russian forces suddenly bob up closer to the Dnieper River. We’ll see
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And
And Alex Mercouris
https://rumble.com/v7all8y-zelensky-fears-new-big-russian-kiev-strike-kievs-drone-offensive-against-ru.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
has a mention in his show that, in comments on that Millenium 7 item Chiefio posted ,that someone has posted a lot more on the Oreshnik in comments there. And he wonders if the attack on Dnipro prior to the one at Kiev might also have been an Oreshnik. Which would be about when I saw those comments of a second one used without a location.
Or might not have anything to do with it!
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