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Tuesday

 

Apologies for the server troubles over Easter. We are working on it. (I would have left a note last night here but I was forbidden, like you.)

The problem seems to be so much traffic that the system was pushed beyond its limits over Easter. We will be increasing server power asap. I’ll keep you posted, but there may be more dropouts. Apologies for all the disruptions. I hope to be back to normal as soon as possible.

I’ll post more updates here. Thanks for your patience!

— Jo

 

 

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Monday

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Easter Sunday

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Apologies for the intermittent site outages today. I know not why. Still investigating….

UPDATE: These are extensive outages. It’s not just you. Hope to have this back to normal later tomorrow. Thanks for your patience and apologies for the disruption.

 

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Saturday

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Good Friday

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In crash-test dummy land, we solve teenage girl climate anxiety with $500b in fantasy weather experiments…

By Jo Nova

And so we arrive, a nation of people looking at TikTok as they cruise down the freeway

This week, our national energy policy is an Agony-Aunt letter — poor Alexa, 21, has been suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ since she was 15. Instead of asking her grandparents (who don’t rate a mention) she dreams of telling her grandkids that she did “everything she could”. Everything, that is, except for talking to her own grandparents, listening to climate skeptics, or seeking alternative views.

Instead of doing her homework, she gate-crashed the PMs promo event so she could be used as emotional bait in a battle between the deep-state-banker-blob and the workers. She probably thinks she’s on the side of the workers (though she’s also probably never met one).

Channel Nine reports on her mental health disorder in the middle of an election campaign, not to help her heal, but to exploit her to push for the climate policies, and political winners that Nine shareholders probably want. See their first line. It’s not “news”, it’s political advertising.

Alexa, 21, has been suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ since she was a teenager. She’s not alone

Young voters are forming […]

Thursday

**Auroras being seen now in places like Adelaide Hills, Blue Mountains, Australind WA, Glenburnie, SA, Canberra, even Adelaide itself?**

Worth poking a head outside if you are near a dark spot. This is 12:20pm EST and may last a couple of hours. Moon is “unfortunate”, but the Glendale App is in a good zone predicting IMF is nice for five hours. People are excited in the SpaceWeatherLive forum. Nullschool suggests people may get lucky, even though auroras are fickle, changeable things.

 

 

 

 

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Nothing says “Safe and Effective” like destroying all the data from Australia’s giant abandoned vaccine study

By Jo Nova

“Follow the science” they say, right up until they destroy it

In August 2021, as the masses were being coerced and cajoled into vaccinations, the government announced a gigantic long term study with 10,000 Australians that would run for five years. They promised they would include the vaccinated and unvaccinated, and generate 100,000 samples, and 11 million datapoints. No stone would be left unturned to make sure the vaccines were safe and effective. “The Science” was being used to reassure the people.

Less than two years later the data must have looked terrible, because they suddenly stopped the study. They muttered something about archiving the data until more funding was available. (Sure, sure). Now, they want to quietly destroy the data and make sure no one can ever use it, or find out the secrets it hides with an FOI application. The cost of the entire project was $20 million, a pitifully small fraction of the $18 billion we spent on Australia’s Covid 19 treatment experiments, and it’s nothing compared to the human cost of suffering involved. Now, we’re trying to save a few dollars because the National Archives can’t afford to buy another 8 Tb […]

Wednesday

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Who owns the oceans? The UN wants to tax ships to reduce carbon emissions — a $40b windfall for unaccountable global bureaucrats

Image by Peter Lindenau from Pixabay

By Jo Nova

What looks, acts, and taxes like One World Government?

The UN has succeeded in getting a global shipping tax approved supposedly to control the weather. It will be formally adopted in October, and start in 2027, applying to ships of more than 5,000 tons. I don’t remember our parliamentarians debating it, do you? Somehow a tariff is a terrible thing, but a global trade tax paid to unaccountable bureaucrats will save the world?

It sets a very dangerous new precedent. For the first time the United Nations would be able to tax the world directly, without twisting the arm of national governments. Who owns the oceans? The UN apparently…

By 2030 the UN is projected to collect $40 billion in total from this tax. Supposedly they will hand this on to “supporting developing countries” (like China, eh?). Obviously this give the UN bureaucrats another $40 billion in power. It’s more money for them to fly to conferences in the Amazon, more money to reward their “friends”, and more money to buy the right votes at the right moment. It will feed more committees to write more press releases to […]

Tuesday

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Monday

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Sunday

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Saturday

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Conservatives promise to axe the car tax that would have added $10k to petrol and diesel cars

 

By Jo Nova

Labor wants the poor to subsidize the rich EV car buyers

Good news: The conservative opposition has promised to reduce the fines to zero for car manufacturers who sell “too many” diesel and petrol cars. This effectively negates the New Vehicle Emissions Standards (NVES), even though the Coalition says they will keep the standards (whatever that means).

As standards were ratcheted up the fines could be as much as $25,000 on the largest utes and 4WDs.

For a nation of petrol-heads, it’s amazing this diabolical policy hasn’t sparked outrage, probably only because it was buried in complexity. An honest government would have added a fee or a tax directly onto the kinds of cars they didn’t want sold — they could call it a pollution tax to cover the cost of the damage. The reason the Labor Government didn’t do that is because the unwashed masses would be revolting in the streets. So they make a rule that manufacturers have to sell a certain percentage of “good cars” that make future weather nicer (in theory), and then they can tell abject lies to the public like “it’s up to the car companies” and “manufacturers don’t […]

Friday

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The monster Green Tariffs we put on ourselves are worse than a foreign trade war

By Jo Nova

Think of Net Zero Targets as a self imposed Carbon Tariff

If you just want cheap coal power, you can’t, not without paying the wind and solar tariff, the battery clause, the pumped hydro pill, and the interconnector addendum.

Tonight the US Tariffs have been paused for 90 days (nearly everywhere bar China) while everyone negotiates, which was no doubt the plan all along, but the invisible Green Tariffs are so much worse. Instead of just being applied once at the border, they multiply like Ebola throughout the national economy — adding an invisible hit to anything that needs heating, cooling, feeding or moving — which is everything, sooner or later, and often many times.

There’s no silver lining, no accidental benefit, we’re not changing the weather, we won’t make more crops, we’re not making cheaper electricity, and we’re not bringing factories back home, we’re shipping ours off to China (where they use coal). For every green job we artificially forced into existence we know the higher energy costs they lead to will destroy 2 – 5 real jobs.

And we’re not even symbolically leading the world in some fashionable cat-walk, because no one is following. […]

Thursday

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Trump goes gangbusters on coal power and coal mining to supply AI energy demand

By Jo Nova

Trump switches on the giant dormant coal infrastructure of the US

In the last twenty years 770 coal turbines have been switched off in the US, and Donald Trump wants to turn as many back on as he can.

Any moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the US government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands.

US agencies will be told to rescind any policies that aim to “transition away from coal” or “otherwise establish preferences against using fossil fuels”. The country with the largest known coal reserves in the world is now planning to increase coal exports.

Furthermore Trump will ask the Energy Department to consider whether coal should be listed as a ‘critical mineral’ — something described as a ‘coveted status’ which activates even more emergency powers.

Shares of coal companies in the US are up 11 to 18%, and […]