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Except Asinine Albanese and Brainless Bowen
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“few politicians” would care about what happens to anyone but themselves.
Occasionally I go to look at one of the feats of genuinely beneficial government action that represents what true government should be.
Chichester Dam. It was built between 1915 and 1925 and stands in stark contrast to the the present times.
Currently, here in Novocastria, we are “blessed” with a reminder of political malevolence in the shape of a half finished ablutions block in a harbourside park. It’s a total shambles, organised by our local “government” and looks a bit like a scaled down version of the Roman Coliseum. After cutting down the trees and clearing all vegetation the whole half finished thing is now wrapped up in temporary fencing and keep out signs.
It’s 2025, and we’ve gone backwards in the last hundred years since Chichester.
This stalled project reminds us what happens when accountability is taken out of society.
Just think about it.
The prime example is the “allocation” of $444,000,000 to save da coral up north.
In a sane society these things should never happen.
How do we stop this destruction of our nation and secure a sane, common sense approach to our future.
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“How do we stop this destruction of our nation and secure a sane, common sense approach to our future.”
It’s commonly known as voting but the WIIFM brigade just don’t get it. They have lost sight of the fact that Governments only take our money and make not a cent
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The best event would result from keeping quiet about it until the whole thing comes crashing down and nationally we end up with a month long blackout……no energy for anything, from electric toothbrushes to sophisticated medical equipment, no fuel deliveries no trains & God forbid no electricity to charge any batteries for phones & computers, EVs…..let the entire system collapse. Maybe the public will learn something ( more likely they’ll blame Trump ).
Just maybe the bubble in Canberra will burst with some catastrophic results!
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Just imagine a Blackout for a few days and the Sewerage System not working. What a stink that would be. Cholera anyone?
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Maybe the high rise occupants will appreciate their country relatives with septic systems enough to “arrange a visit”?
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When the blackouts hit Sydney then the politicians will act. The political system is very Sydney based and if the NRL can’t play scheduled games on telly all hell will break loose. And if the local leagues club is dark and closed all hell will break loose too.
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That appears to be what is going to happen. The problem is by then there will be little alternative available and it will take many years to even get one unit of fossil fuel or nuclear powered alternative built and functional. Back to oil burners or piped gas from Victoria to stay alive in winter. Some are reporting in this blog today that in Adelaide and Melbourne in the early morning the temperature outside (and in) is around 2degree celsius or 37F. Wonder if pricing will see the death rate from cold jump this winter?
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We had Black Caol Fired Combustion Internal heater with Chimney in Sydney in early 50s
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Some years ago our local council spent an astronomical amount of money on new public toilets. Everything inside was visible from the street. So then it cost another astronomical amount to fix it. They say you should try to ascribe to incompetence rather than corruption, but sometimes that’s difficult.
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“Everything inside was visible from the street.” Maybe a Frenchman designed them.
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Revert our indoctrination system to what it is meant to be – an education system, where questioning the taught junk used to be regarded as a sign of a good and healthy educational outcome. Today its the reverse, even at tertiary level.
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Victoria acknowledges ‘renewable energy drought’ risk
Victoria has admitted its ambitious plan to power the state with 95 per cent renewable energy by 2035 will leave the grid vulnerable to “renewable energy droughts” – extended periods when both wind and solar generation fall short – but insists a new network of transmission lines will help mitigate the risk.
The state Labor government on Friday released its detailed renewable energy zone road map, outlining an unprecedented transformation of the state’s energy system.
The plan includes seven dedicated renewable energy zones across Victoria, comprising nearly 5.2 million solar panels, close to 1000 onshore wind turbines, and four new transmission projects – spanning 7 per cent of the state’s landmass.
Victoria’s target is the most aggressive in Australia and among the most expansive globally. Unlike many international counterparts that include nuclear, gas or hydro in their energy mix, Victoria is relying almost exclusively on wind, solar and batteries. That choice has sparked concern about the reliability of supply, particularly during low-generation events.
The government’s own policy documents warn of the growing threat posed by renewable energy droughts.
“Wind and solar generation are inherently variable, and it is not uncommon to experience periods when there is little wind and sunshine. This is most likely in winter, when energy demand is also high to provide heating during cold weather,” the road map states.
Such events are not hypothetical. In April 2024, the eastern seaboard experienced a prolonged period of weak wind and overcast skies, sending wholesale electricity prices soaring. The shortage contributed to financial pressures at green energy retailers Zen Energy and Iberdrola Australia, which struggled to meet commitments without sufficient generation.
Victoria’s response hinges on a rapid build-out of transmission infrastructure. The government says the new high-capacity power lines are “urgent” and essential to ensure energy generated in one region of the state can be dispatched elsewhere when weather conditions limit supply.
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” Victoria is relying almost exclusively on wind, solar and batteries. ”
…and Tasmania’s hydro I expect..
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Currently relying on 72% brown coal.
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Basslink only has a capacity of 500MW continuous, assuming Tasmania has spare hydro to sell.
What a bizarre situation when Victorianstan used to produce some of the cheapest electricity in the world from lignite, the legacy of the electricity system designed by Sir John Monash. He would be appalled at what’s been done.
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That will leave Tasmania with net zero too! But who cares it’s a medicant State anyway that will always need financial assistance
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mendicant?
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If we ever get a rational government it’s going to cost a fortune to dispose of all that rubbish, mostly not recyclable except the steel towers of the windmills, rare earths and copper from the windmill generators and steel and aluminium from the transmission lines.
And the land will be permanently degraded because they never remove the concrete foundations, plus the land will likely have been cleared of forest and will take decades or centuries to grow back.
Removal of offshore windmills will be especially difficult and expensive and I bet the taxpayer will end up footing the bill.
So even if “renewables” are cancelled, there’ll still be huge further costs.
What a perfect way to destroy the environment and a Civilisation.
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David,
having seen aluminium windows in Catholic School just back from Manly Beach rot and be replaced, and seeing how often Son has to sand & repaint steel railing im beachfront house
Removal of offshore windmills will be especially difficult and expensive and I bet the taxpayer will end up footing the bill.
Like the Port Kemlba Wave Machine they will rot from Salt Corrosion
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I doubt they will be removed. They will not even have lubricants removed.
They will reach a point of being unserviceable because risk of damage to approaching vessels as bits start falling off. Once that happens, it is no longer safe to send inspection crews to look at them.
There has already been requests for no-saiul zones around turbines with unknown failure mechanisms.:
https://gcaptain.com/offshore-wind-accident-orsted-asks-for-no-sail-zones-after-turbine-breaks-into-sea/
Any deaths from unpredictable failures during maintenance activities will accelerate the inevitable. They are pointless waste of resources. They will eventually create extensive artifice roofs that may make for good line fishing. The areas will not be amenable to net fishing.
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Labor accused of ‘sending the country broke’ by chasing renewables targets, as report warns major delays mean Australia will fall well short
Fresh questions have been raised about the Albanese government’s renewables agenda, with Labor accused of “sending the country broke” by chasing unreachable energy targets.
Global consultancy Wood Mackenzie issued a warning to the government earlier this week, publishing a report which found Australia would not reach Labor’s ambitious goal of 82 per cent of renewables in the electricity grid by 2030.
Major delays in the delivery of solar and wind projects instead has the nation on track to hit just 68 per cent by the end of the decade, 14 per cent lower then the target.
According to the Clean Energy Council, over $9 billion worth of renewables projects secured financing in 2024, with the government investing significantly into ensuring infrastructure is developed.
Labor’s focus on battery production, as part of its plan to offset the intermittent production of solar and wind, was inadequate and claimed the lack of baseload power could compromise manufacturing, harming the economy.
“Batteries are fine if you’re gonna have a short-term drop-off in the grid, but the reality is you just can’t provide, certainly can’t, provide industry with the power it needs with batteries,” he said.
While Labor has sought to highlight renewables investment and increased use of its Capacity Investment Scheme as proof Australia is on track to meet its ambitious targets, most experts believe hitting the 82 per cent figure is not possible within five years.
According to Wood Mackenzie, this could result in some of the nation’s ageing coal-fired power plants being forced to continue operations for up to seven more years, further risking grid stability and doing little to lower the cost of power for households.
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And an extension lead to where?
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France?
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Wind only contributing 3.8% to Vics electricity supply at the moment.
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And on the always interesting King Island wind generation is at -10kW.
Yes folk, in the middle of the roaring forties the wind turbines are actually a drain on the system.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
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No mate, it’s all good at King Island.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/king-island-achieves-100-renewables-for-33-hours-straight-29812/
“Tasmania’s King Island was powered by 100 per cent renewable energy for a period of 33 hours non-stop this month, chalking up another huge milestone for the renewable energy system established on the island as part of a world-leading project by Hydro Tasmania.”
That was almost 9 years ago. The author hints at KI becoming non-reliant on diesel, obviously KI is still heavily reliant on this fuel to stay functional and seemingly there’s been no significant periods of 100% renewable provided energy to report on in recent years.
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Worth A read (emails undeliverable)
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/240228-Letter-to-Google-re_-the-New-Denial.pdf
Cook, Lewandowsky and a co-author from Exeter University have signed this.
The New Denial (utterly dehumanising)
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CCDH-The-New-Climate-Denial_FINAL.pdf
YouTube Climate Denial Dollars
https://counterhate.com/research/google-climate-change-disinformation-youtube-videos/
Tortoise – The Danger of Climate Misinformation
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2025/04/08/hot-air-long-read
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“Repeated research projects by the Center for Countering Digital Hate show that Google has repeatedly broken its promise not to profit from ads on climate denial content:”
As I said yesterday, ‘hate speech’ is the new go-to for censorship! I cannot see how hate speech and climate denial can be linked at all, except through a corrupt propaganda outlet such as the Center for Countering Digital hate.
“Researchers identified 100 videos breaching this policy that have carried ads, with videos amassing a total of 18.8 million views. They included claims that:
“Every single model [the IPCC] ever have put out is wrong.”
“In summary, there is no link between CO2 and temperature.”
“Climate hysteria is just another rebrand, a Trojan horse for anti-white anti-western communist tyranny.””
Trump has a lot of work to do!
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Funny how nobody seems to self-identify as a hater.
It’s one of those irregular verbs. I am an objective paragon of virtue. He is a hater.
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It would appear Imran Ahmed, CEO of Digital Hate, has joined the ranks of such cultic headspurts as Cook, Lewandowsky, Mann, etc. in damning anyone who disagrees with their Gospel Of Gunk (GOG) to the eternal fires of unbelief – or as we, here, call rational investigation of the broader picture.
Ahmed’s flashy AI pdf presentation sure looks expensive: does he run a tree-planting business on the side or is he merely yet another certified protégé of the fake-meister himself, fat Albert Gore Jr.?
These shysters p*** me off big-time!
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Greg,
Take a look at who is behind it – The prism gift fund , a NGO with the usual suspects donating to it . Propaganda in the digital war on humanity .
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The last Tortoise link Barry posted is a load of gobbledygook. It’s a bunch of self-asserting statements rolling into smug assumptions presented as facts. A rolling narrative if you will.
Climate alarmists don’t welcome debate, they simply want to ridicule or deny opposing points of view. Hence an opposing POV is merely wrong, misguided or conspiratorial.
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Three degrees C (37F) in Melbournistan now.
I wonder how the natural gas and electricity supply will hold up and if they will or have load shed any aluminium smelters to keep the lights on?
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Now my weather App says 2C (35.6F) although my weather station at home says 3.9C in inner SE Melbournistan.
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Nett Zero degrees (0*C) in Queenstown, NZ with fresh snow on the tops and ALL snow guns firing on all ski fields… meanwhile up north here it’s 15 degrees, calm clear & sunny: wonder what NIWA’s super computer would ‘average’ that out to be, apart from a crisis.
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https://www.perisher.com.au/reports-cams/cams
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They’re talking about you over there:
https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/pre-2025-season-snowfall-low-temps-in-australia (18 May)
Despite 37 years of failed doom and gloom (DAG) pronouncements by Reality Den!ers™️ cranking out hokey shtick [sic], nature arrives yet again bang-on-time with perfect precision as if there’s some cyclic autumnal ‘switch’ which goes off in May and whoaaaah where did all the ‘heat’ disappear to…
Carbon giveth and carbon taketh away!
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Here in Mt. Barker (Adelaide Hills) the official temp. is 2℃ but the inside house temperature managed to be about 2℃ lower than yesterday when the morning temp. was 3℃. Fortunately I have an old oil heater type in the study so my computer is 17.5℃.
Can’t have your computer suffer, can you?
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It’s good ‘ole lignite that is keeping you warm.
22 deg, clear blue sky here BTW.
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There is one really good thing about Simon’s post on May 17th. “When someone tells you that climate models are rubbish at predicting the future, don’t believe them.” In his infinite wisdom, he has given us permission to ignore climate science from NASA. Why would I say that? https://notrickszone.com/2025/02/11/new-study-todays-climate-models-do-not-agree-with-reality-and-thus-their-usefulness-is-doubtful/. This provides a precis of the most important points and a link to the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
In the paper, NASA openly states: “Thus today’s models must be improved by about a hundredfold in accuracy, a very challenging task”. Clearly, NASA states that current climate models are way off the mark. A hundredfold improvement is an absolute canyon between models and reality, not just a gap. It’s easy to say that climate models are accurate when you manipulate the data to suit the desired outcomes. In one fell swoop, your resident climate guru has managed to discredit NASA and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project. Well done Simon. I always thought NASA’s climate science was BS and now you have confirmed it.
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The climate models will never be better until they look beyond the CO2 causes warming BS.
Today, Earth is 183,000km closer to the Sun on this day than it was in 1700. The average daily sunlight at 60N is 1.67W/m^2 up this year on what it was in 1700.
Until the climate models include the seasonal changes in solar EMR due to orbital changes they will remain hopeless.
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Oh dear…what will Chris Bowen – our gerbil warming zealot think of that?
Have “their ABC” or our MSM mentioned report? /sarc
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I tried reading it all backwards but got no further than your name. Geoff S
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Well spotted Geoff 🙂
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In the 1930’s a single blade aircraft propeller was developed and sold. It was commercially unsuccessful as it cost too much but was claimed to be more efficient as the blade would be cutting into cleaner air. Later day tests in the video below question that claim.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/propeller-variable-pitch-one-blade-sensenich-and-everel/nasm_A19370029000
https://youtu.be/zhINpDoFQLw
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If a single blade would be better by cutting into cleaner air, then surely having no blades would be better for the wings behind the propeller.
Didn’t anyone realise that the propeller, with any number of blades, is moving forward and will ALWAYS be in clean air? The turbulence is ALWAYS downstream of the propeller.
I watched a video the other day, it looks like a good solution to tip vortices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_wj_8MVkg
Maybe a ducted fan would be better. https://foil.zone/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a03b81ca067a666152f4f211c21637c274c8dab5.jpeg
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I worked with Dave Sugden, the fellow who held the patent for that prop design. He got $5M from The Australian government a long time ago to develop the prop for quieter operation of submarine propellers. Patent was issued in 1970:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3504990A/en
I get better efficiency for low power by just increasing the blade aspect ratio and swept area. But marine applications soon run into cavitation, draft and blade strength issues as power goes up. So Dave’s design works well. The first prop made based on this design was tested on a trawler and Dave tells the story of the skipper giving a demo where he went from full ahead to fall astern and pushed the foredeck underwater. Dave has always wondered why the engine was not ripped from its mounts because the gearbox was directly mounted to the engine, and the thrust taken through the engine mounts.
This carbon prop achieves an efficiency of 85% in its intended low power application.
https://1drv.ms/i/c/cdb8a3183f0262ad/EcQkhQ-YZMNKp_5NfcpTjzYB3J_zNWV8alc2-MmcUwSrJQ?e=hnKmJP
Notice the high aspect blades.
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I have read and been told multiple times that a single blade propeller would be more efficient than a two or three blade propeller but I have not come across any evidence to show that it is really the case. A one blade propeller looks odd and unbalanced.
Narrower high aspect ratio blades should also be better, because of reduced tip losses. However this may be offset by more tip losses if more blades are required.
I practice I have used both a 4 blade propeller with narrow blades and a three blade prop with wider chord blades, both of 1.9m diameter. Both propellers work well but the three blade prop seems slightly better.
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Video: Why do Japanese cities have so many above-ground electrical wires (on poles), and they have been buried?
https://youtu.be/UUArT40okkQ
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** that’s meant to read “haven’t been buried”…
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Underground cables need to be bigger, (in cross sectional area), to allow for cooling.
They also need to be insulated. They also need to be placed in excavated trenches, at a depth to prevent subsequent damage. They also are competing for space with all other services that are underground. You’ll never see water supply and sewer services elevated in the streets.
Cost is the primary driver. As a bonus, adding a new connection or upgrading is MUCH easier with an elevated supply.
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True, but Japan is a rich country and could afford to bury them. The issues for Japan are discussed in the video.
It is talking about major cities like Tokyo, not suburbs.
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David,
Japan has a debt to GDP ratio of 236.70 . Thats not “rich” . They are also holding 1.06 trillion dollars in US treasuries which makes them hostage to the US.
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That does not matter because it is debt that the government owes to the citizens.
The rest of the world owes Japan USD3.478tr. That is what matters. In March this year it increased by USD27bn. That is why Trump has imposed the 25% tariff on Japanese made cars.
All Japanese would need to take a year paid vacation in other nations to recover what they have loaned out to the rest of the world.
This information is dated but Japan remains at #1 spot on the list of wealthy nations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_international_investment_position_per_capita
12th place per capita but it still has a relatively large population.
Japan is in 2nd place for life expectancy:
https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
Also an indicator of wealth.
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Rick,
That was in December of 2015. The debt they have is government debt . Per capita is what the climate change proponents use to argue that we are net “emitters” of CO2 .
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The USD3.478tr is 2025. That is why it is much higher then the figure from Wikipedia. The USD27bn current account surplus was for March 2025.
Japan does not have a debt problem. It is money that the government owe to the citizens. It is a burden carried by the younger generation until they get their inheritance and move on to be net savers. On average, Japanese people die wealthy. If they do not have heirs, it all goes back to government when they die.
Japan is the wealthiest nation based on net savings. Median inheritance in Japan is almost twice the median inheritance in Australia.
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I can see where India got their powerline design ideas from, maybe it’s got something to do with earthquakes.
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Poles can fall over in earthquakes.
The history is discussed in the video.
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Now Leftoids claim that women in the Paleolithic were the superior hunters.
A critical look at this claim:
https://youtu.be/ziV75hYbO2U
And in primitive societies women tend to be fully occupied looking after children or gathering and preparing food while men do the hunting and defending against hostile neighbours.
You know it must be BS because the headline has the phrase “scientists say” in it:
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Thanks for that junk.
>Researchers found the female body was better suited for endurance activity “which would have been critical in early hunting because they would have had to run the animals down…
There’s a few levels of “would have” in their assumptions and suppositions.
Anyway it’s nonsense. The reason why women were better suited for endurance activity is evolved from generations of having to escape unwelcome cavemen and their clubs. The evidence is right there in the cartoons we grew up with.
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Everybody knows that the word Vegan is an ancient tribal word that means incompetent hunter
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An easily tested claim. The natives of the Kalahari – do the men or the women run down the animals?
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According to this San women do most of the gathering and collect small fauna and advise men of their observations of the big game. The men do the hunting of such game. Men help the women gather when it’s low hunting season.
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David,
It’s true. They sent out a team to survey the paleolithic women and the data confirms it. They’ve got the survey data to back it up, what more evidence will you need till you accept THEIR facts?
/s
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They also sent a team all woman survey team. Unfortunately they have not been seen since.
I jest! I had heard that females had good knowledge of foods and seasons where the men had were generally better at knowing where they are. Googlemaps has since allowed most people to be ignorant of their place in the surroundings and simply following the screen in front of them.
I have no doubt women hunted and gathered. I grew up fishing on piers and jetties with the islander ladies while the husbands were busy building and maintaining the road and rail networks. There was much joy to be found in these Australians, unfortunately welfare and ‘the poor bugger me’ cult has destroyed many of those families.
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Plenty of stuff online about the Hadzabe tribe of Tanzania that doesn’t appear to back up their narrative. Just saying . .
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Wikipedia is fully woke and yet even it doesn’t say that they have anything but traditional gender roles.
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Maybe they were trans women.
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How Gene Roddenberry portrayed artificial intelligence in Star Trek in 1966.
Incidentally the actor is Ted Cassidy, Lurch from the Addams Family.
https://youtu.be/IQJz1txxNSc
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I’ve always thought that if you are a ‘know it all’, you’ll need to be bigger than the others in the class who will want to rip you a new one for getting 100% on the maths test from hell.
The first model, that small phone that fits in your pocket, was thrown against the wall and only existed for a short time. The future is coming.
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Ahhh..you forgot s01e28, “The city on the edge of forever”, the most popular episode ever.
KIRK: Are you machine or being?
GUARDIAN: I am both and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ir66w
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NSW National Parks want to increase camping fees by 900%.
I think this is all part of the national strategy restricting non-native Australians having access to their national parks, forests, places etc. e.g. Lake Eyre, Mt Warning, Ayers Rock, Arapiles etc..
https://youtu.be/THYJUnwoI7Y
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School board member in USA threatened to call police over a “misgendering”.
Irene BritUSA discusses:
https://youtu.be/XqNDQ3oFf-A
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Dr Suneel Dhand refuses a flu vaccination for the first time and discovers he doesn’t get a respiratory infection in that year, for the first time.
Not a controlled study, but many others anecdotally observe the same thing.
https://youtu.be/8yOaIO3v2UM
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Just speaking to the Administrator of a GP practice that went all in for the Covid Jab. She is having trouble running the practice as her doctors, nurses and staff are often sick. Two doctors and one nurse suddenly unavailable today.
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Margaret Atwood highlighted what some (not her) have called “tiptoe totalitarianism”, the gradual subtle creep of totalitarianism as we are seeing in most Western countries except the USA.
Some quotes from her:
We already have witnessed and continue to do so, the first one and the second last one in Australia.
The second one hasn’t been fulfilled, we just elected another socialist Government.
Aa for the last one, we had a taste of that when during the covid lockups Dan Andrews had his black-uniformed paramilitary police political enforcers fire rubber bullets into anti-lockup protesters and patrol the streets in armoured personnel carriers.
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Professor Julius Sumner Miller was prescient when he said in 1940s
Miller was intolerant of misspelled words and misplaced punctuation, and often angered his colleagues because he charged that the students of most faculties were not learning enough.
During an interview in the 1940s, he stated that intellectual life in America was in trouble, a belief he held for the rest of his life.
We are approaching a darkness in the land. Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can’t read, write or calculate. We don’t have academic honesty or intellectual rigor. Schools have abandoned integrity and rigor.
From 1963 to 1986, Miller was the visiting lecturer for the physics department of the University of Sydney
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Why is it so?
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Top HHS Medical Advisor Blows Whistle: mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Cause Cancer
https://slaynews.com/news/top-hhs-medical-advisor-blows-whistle-mrna-vaccines-cause-cancer/
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Biden has level 9 cancer in his auto-pen. He was jabbed
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And how many times did he catch Covid?
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FWIW – the covid scene
“The FDA Just Approved Another COVID Vaccine — But RFK Jr. Has Already Intervened”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fda-just-approved-another-covid-vaccine-rfk-jr/
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Novavax is not an mRNA vaccine, a good thing.
During the plandemic I wrote to the Australian “Health” Minister asking why they were delaying its approval. They eventually approved it but not before many people had been harmed by the mRNA “vaccines”. And then it had limited availability, it seemed.
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Both kids were forced into jabs to keep their jobs, also granddaughter forced into vacination to study nursing at uni. Everyone in family looking for the safest option at the time and all managed to hang on until novavax was allowed. The decision that this was the only conventional “style” jab was the decider. Very fortunately no one suffered any obvious side effects unlike other friends/ relatives that just went with the narrative. Son bought a heap of shares in Novavax on the assumption it would be approved worldwide and subsequently did his dough. Two lessons in one experience.
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David,
The question for me is the risk/reward profile . What are the health risks (and there are some) compared to the benefits (is covid a danger to the patient) . On the Novovax website it lists the side effects as : allergic reaction, myocarditis and pericarditis and altered immunocompetence among others . I have had covid and it wasn’t the worst thing I have faced….
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OldGoat,
I had waited and was considering Novovax, but when myocarditis and pericarditis and altered immunocompetence among others, decided to give it a miss
I stayed with Anti-Virals – Finally got 1st Covid end March 25, Chest Cough & Drippy Nose, no fever, oxygen 96-98 – minor symptons compared to my Wife who had fever, fatigue etc
She went on Paxlovid, which I declined, as Pfzier mRNA
after 5 days my chest cough changed to bacterial cough, which I have had before, and Doxycycline anti-biotice resolved
My wife tested not positive after 15 days
Me with, no symptoms, still RAT Test positive this morning after 55 days – Go Fgure – Feeeling Fine
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Ozzie, I had a similar experience a year or so ago. Neither husband nor I vaccinated. We both got a moderate dose of C19. He recovered more quickly than I did. Like you, I developed a nasty bacterial cough, probably because I have mild bronchiectasis. Doxy worked well and cleared the chronic Covid cough up.
Interestingly, my right ear which was quite blocked in the early stages of C19, intermittently felt “blocked”. Neither GP nor ENT specialist could detect a problem. But like most people on this site, I did my own research, and found that C19 sometimes affects the nerves in the inner ear. Research in medical journals showed that good results for continuing problems with such “Long Covid” problems were being obtained from use of ordinary anti-histamines. Tried for a time – and sure enough, ear problem pretty much solved.
It may be that the problem simply “got better” of its own accord. Who knows? C19 has exposed a lot of questionable assumptions. But I have been most amazed at the lack of research in the suburban practices.
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Given that covid is well known for being spurious how was your diagnosis confirmed?
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Have not bothered with PCR test, have just used RAT Tests – now $10 a pop
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More the covid scene
“Worldwide Embalmer Survey Reveals Striking Rise in White Fibrous Clots Following COVID-19 Vaccination”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/17/worldwide-embalmer-survey-reveals-striking-rise-in-white-fibrous-clots-following-covid-19-vaccination/
Via SDA
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“All-Asset Price Collapse?
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Not tomorrow, but if this is true it is certain.
Why?
The Covid mRNA shots.
There is apparently a rat study (remember, we didn’t do biodistribution studies before jabbing people in the US, and when they did one in Japan that the government required they found that the material concentrated in the ovaries) found that 60% of the primordial follicles were destroyed.”
Much more at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253295
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About now (IIRC), had those covid vaccines been for animal use, they would have needed at least five years testing. Including for genetic effects.
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FWIW – you’ve been “classified”
“What’s Your Generation (and Stereotype)?”
https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/05/whats-your-generation-and-stereotype/
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“Asylum hotel fires are blamed on migrant couriers’ e-bike batteries exploding after firefighters were called to the same location six times.”
Failure to stop illegal immigration, paying millions to house them in nice hotels, failure to stop them working illegally, failure to stop use of illegal e-bikes….
Why is the UK just so flippin weak?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724243/Asylum-hotel-fires-blamed-migrant-couriers-e-bike.html
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>Why is the UK just so flippin weak?
Because they sacrificed and slaughtered the best of two successive generations of young men in the prime of their age and their moral, physical, and intellectual courage.
These young men never went on to create new families of strong virile young English people.
With the best of two successive breeding generations of humanity’s finest wiped out, a huge demographic gap was left and the need for replacement presented.
The population now would never have the unity of purpose, the principles and the moral and physical courage to risk death in a foreign land on the orders of their King and peers, ostensibly for the freedom of the families back home.
My grandfather used to say, “War is a game, which if men were not fools, Kings could not play at”.
We are easily persuaded to destroy ourselves.
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Does that mean that a country, like Oz, that has a large portion of the breeding stock derived from convicts is in for a similar hard time?
Is that why we have Albo?
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Ay yes Albo that fellow without a known father
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/therapeutic-albanese-invites-his-italian-half-brother-to-the-popes-inauguration.html
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“Eh Gawd!”
“Ay yes Albo that fellow without a known father”
Another virgin birth then?
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Their biggest mistake was to let all the non-white colonials into Britain after WW2.
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We have entered the fourth turning. Albo is one of the weak men causing hard times.
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FWIW
“Germany’s Merz vows to build Europe’s strongest army
“Our friends and partners also expect this from us, and what’s more, they are actually demanding it,” said the new chancellor.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-bundestag-europe-conventional-army/
Maybe time to read the last chapter of Sefton Delmer’s “Trail Sinister” written about 1961. Title –
“The new German menace”
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They call it a pendulum, well known since Egyptian pyramids.
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But the Egyptians built the pyramids. The Germans have destroyed their own economy, lost their manufacturing and rely on unstable electricity and imported fuels.
And the young men aren’t at all keen on joining the army to boost the EU (and German) bureaucrats.
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Merz is the sort of politician that thinks if you just apply money then the magic happens. If he really does the 5% it will be an epic feeding frenzy.
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FWIW – you might believe
“KEIR STARMER TRANSITIONS”
https://richardsonpost.com/daniel-jupp/39645/keir-starmer-transitions/
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That’s brilliant!
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Could that also apply to a lady senator with some indigenous heritage but mainly Anglo-Saxon ?
Hating all things “colonial” while taking advantage of all things “colonial” and demanding a return to all things “traditional”?
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When even one of New Zealand’s most wealthiest families / businesses say without subsidies, carbon capture isn’t worth it, ya gots to wonders:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/561410/carbon-capture-pivotal-project-for-cutting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-looks-shaky
Todd Energy’s Kapuni Gas Field planned to pump CO2 into the ground – which happens to be the ring-plain of ‘dormant’ volcano Taranaki (named Mt Egmont by Lt. Cook in 1769) – but with carbon (sic) priced at $50 a tonne, it’s just not worth it…
Shirley ‘saving the planet’ is more important than profits? Or is Utopia [no place] just an expensive pipe dream paid for by the serfs?
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By way of comparison with Australia, Goolag AI quotes the following prices for carbon dioxide capture and forever storage. The whole thing is absurd and an insult to thinking people everywhere.
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““Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gas emissions that are not prevented or undone by carbon offsets.
EnergyAustralia Australia’s third-largest domestic polluter has apologised to customers who bought into its “Go Neutral” carbon offsets program, acknowledging the product would do nothing to address the impact of fossil fuels on climate change…The company has 1.6 million customers and has committed to transitioning from coal by 2040 and reaching net zero by 2050.”
No balls in that boardroom! At least they got the truth in the first line.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/energyaustralia-apologises-over-offsets-after-greenwashing-lawsuit-20250516-p5lzpd.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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That is why I have never donated one cent to that ripoff.
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I am still amazed (or not!) about the silence and lack of outrage about this event:
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Imagine the outrage if they were to be offered a $400 M gift !.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Senate Armed Services Committee member, recently claimed that widely-criticized negotiations with Qatar over a $400 million Air Force One temporary replacement gift began under the Biden administration – not after President Donald Trump took office.
“What no one is talking about is [that] this same 747 has been in negotiations for a year,” Mullin said on CNN Wednesday.
“The Biden administration is the one that started these conversations. It didn’t start underneath the Trump administration – why? Because we need a back-up for Air Force One.”
Mullin said there is no current backup plane for Air Force One, which is about 40 years old. A recent backup was retired from service due to “structural issues,” the senator said.
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Thanks for that OldOzzie.
The Lamestream Media are not reporting that.
And replacements for Air Force One were ordered from Boeing in 2015 and fully woke DEI Boeing have not been able to deliver after TEN YEARS.
The US Government urgently needs a temporary replacement with low airframe hours and as they no longer make 747’s they have to take what they can get.
Boeing has two 747’s undergoing conversion and they got these as part of a cancelled order.
BTW miasma, your Leftist drone friends probably tell you this 747 is a personal gift to TRUMP but that is a lie. US President’s cannot accept gifts and if they are given they become the property of the American people. This is being gifted to the American people via the US Air Force who will operate it.
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Biden was going to BUY a plane, BIG difference.
The Saudis will expect ‘special’ treatment for their gift.
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Think of it this way.
The US taxpayer has given enough to barbaric sh-thole terrorist-supporting regimes like Qatar including military assistance.
It’s time they give something back in return for having a powerful friend like the US but they had better learn to behave themselves.
TRUMP saved US taxpayers $400 million. Why give the money to barbarians?
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You’ve gone from alternative science to alternative ‘thinking’ , it’s just a plain bribe.
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FWIW
“miasma
/mī-ăz′mə, mē-/
noun
A noxious atmosphere or influence.
A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation.
wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordnik”
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Yes – I guess they saved the 10 %?
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There are two “white top” B-747s. AF1 is the call sign for whichever is being used at the time.
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Or if they just randomly allocated $400M to some buds to look after the GBR with no strings attached
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David…..I confess I have nightmares about the predicament of Australia in the not too distant future.
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I think he should visit his relatives and stay there.
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Some years ago when Labor decided to start a witch hunt for MPs with dual or entitled to dual citizenship and therefore ineligible to be an MP and several were named and shamed and forced to seek legal advice and so on Anthony Albanese MP was found to have potential Italian citizenship because of his Italian father.
Investigations discovered his Birth Certificate had no reference to a father, only to his mother who had taken his father’s name after becoming pregnant, his father was already committed to marriage in Italy apparently. Accordingly by law he appeared not to be eligible for Italian citizenship – father and origin unknown.
However it was also discovered that a book about his life referred to him knowing his father and had met him in Italy together with a half sister and brother all living in Italy.
Obviously he relied on his Birth Certificate when he applied to become a candidate for election to Parliament.
On the other hand, when the witch hunt was underway the then Prime Minister Turnbull required all MPs to sign a Statutory Declaration that they had no eligibility for a foreign country citizenship. Anthony Albanese signed the Statutory Declaration but according to the book and interviews he had with media, including ABC Report, he was well aware of his Italian father and relatives and had travelled to Italy with his then wife and son to meet them.
And now as the story above indicates he invited his half sister and brother to attend the ceremony in Rome.
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Hmmm?
Those highs and wind energy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chYNYjiwoI
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Today’s CIA piece is about ‘how to slander a person by saying their life only counts from their Saturday nights’. The Presidential elections in Romania, the ones where ‘you will keep voting until we get the results we want’, are apparently between a mathematician and a soccer hooligan. I didn’t know there was such a profession as a soccer hooligan, but someone must pay wages for them.
In the previous election that they annulled the soccer hooligan gained twice the votes of the mathematician, but suddenly that reversed in this election, which had a record high ex-pat vote count from other countries.
Move along, nothing to see here, just a fine little country re-affirming its commitment to the Rule of Law and Democratic values.. and the EU’s development funding, NATO ‘leadership’ and a wealthy retirement somewhere out of Romania!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/mathematician-v-ex-football-hooligan-centrist-edges-far-right-firebrand-in-romania-election-20250519-p5m092.html
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The people voted to join the EU, a fair outcome.
The Kremlin shouldn’t interfere with democratic elections, its unseemly.
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“The Kremlin shouldn’t interfere with democratic elections, its unseemly.”
EG, I’m sure they’ll stop the moment America does.
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FWIW
“A New IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition’ ”
“Strike two came last month with the Great Iberian blackout. Preliminary forensics make clear that over-enthusiastic deployment of unreliable solar and wind power was the fulcrum that put 55 million people in the dark for days. Few politicians will want to risk allowing something like that to happen again, anywhere. And, as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation keeps warning, blackout risks are rising here, and for the same reason. Reliability used to be the core feature of electric grid designs, before the rush to push an energy transition in service of climate goals.”
(my bold)
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/18/a-new-iea-report-and-the-iberian-blackout-end-dreams-of-an-energy-transition/
And Bowen says “Here – hold my beer”
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NOT MEDICAL ADVICE OR ENDORSEMENT AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND
From William Makis MD
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David,
having been reading re Ivermectin and Cancer
Ivermectin, a potential anticancer drug derived from an antiparasitic drug
2.4. Hematological cancer
Leukemia is a type of malignant clonal disease caused by abnormal hematopoietic stem cells [52]. In an experiment designed to screen potential drugs for the treatment of leukemia, IVM preferentially killed leukemia cells at low concentrations without affecting normal hematopoietic cells [51]. The mechanism was related to the increase in the influx of chloride ions into the cell by IVM, resulting in hyperpolarization of the plasma membrane and induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. It was also proven that IVM has a synergistic effect with cytarabine and daunorubicin on the treatment of leukemia. Wang’s experiment found that IVM could selectively induce mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress, causing chronic myeloid leukemia K562 cells to undergo increased caspase-dependent apoptosis compared with normal bone marrow cells [53]. It was also confirmed that IVM inhibited tumor growth in a dose-dependent manner, and dasatinib had improved efficacy.
OK it is specifically Chronic Myeloid Leukemia – CML and
Ivermectin has been studied for its potential in treating chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) rather than chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
It selectively induces apoptosis in CML cells through inducing mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress.
However, there is limited information on its direct application to CLL.
Studies have shown that ivermectin can inhibit the cellular viability of multiple acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells and patient samples in vitro, and it has also shown a synergistic effect with other drugs like cytarabine and daunorubicin.
While promising, concerns about differential sensitivity between leukemia and normal hematopoietic cells have likely delayed clinical trials for ivermectin in leukemia treatments.
As I have now had CLL for 25 Years (Originally given 2-3 years Survival) and am on a watching brief, I am thinking of asking my latest Female Haematologist if she would be interested in using me as a trial on Ivermectin
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The biggest problem without major medical support in Australia is obtaining the large quantities of ivermectin needed for 2-3 months dosage.
A friend with large cell lung cancer is breathing/feeling a lot better with more modest dosage. This will ensure at least 6 weeks intake at which point a new chest scan will be requested.
But will the MD then release a script for a compounding chemist to provide the 200+mg (or more) being taken weekly?
Or will someone need to visit India?
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FWIW – my view only
If I was in that situation and the treatment was working I would weigh the risk of visiting your nearest supplier of animal medicines.
Those medicines have been tested for at least five years including genetic testing. And inadvertently dosing their administrators for as long as the products have been on the market without reported ill effects that I’ve been made aware of.
Plus their retailers are well aware that killing a proportion of, say the Merino stud population, is guaranteed not an increaser of profits.
So, with the choice of such product and likely surviving vs not using it and probably not surviving I’d go shopping.
Your mileage may vary
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I guess that could be viewed as “relative risk” vs “absolute risk”
Hat tip to Simon Thompson at # 31
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An early lesson in the application of that logic –
Way back in BC in undergraduate days a vet student friend came back to the house rather gravel-rashed from a car prang.
A fellow student grabbed an aerosol can of purple spray with the comment
“If it is good enough for bloody horses it’s good enough for you”.
And, as far as I know, he’s still going.
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Joe Biden officially diagnosed with cancer.
Everyone around him would have known of this. May they all rot in [I’ll skirt around the naughty word filter].
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Hanran,
New movie from Hollywood : Weekend at Bidens…
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It’s not a disease I would wish on anyone, not even Biden.
But US Presidents have extensive regular medical check ups and they would have known this for a very long time.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-19/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer/105308100
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The Guardian’s claim that young men are suddenly embracing Albanese and Labor needs a rewrite
The Guardian is hardly in a place to boast about young men turning to Labor after spending years ridiculing blokes and treating masculinity as a public health crisis.
John Mac Ghlionn – SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
The Guardian wants you to believe something truly remarkable has happened: young Australian men, once presumed to be drifting right like their counterparts in the US, UK, and much of Europe, have suddenly embraced Anthony Albanese, feminism, and progressive politics.
A generational sea change, it claims.
However, that pesky little thing called reality paints a rather different picture – one resembling less a political awakening and more a soft surrender.
Compulsory voting masks a crisis of apathy.
It papers over disengagement and disillusionment, forcing participation without offering proper representation.
The Liberal Party is a ghost of its former self – no real ideological core, just a churn of corporate placeholders mouthing empty slogans.
There is no conservative movement, only conservative branding.
And while Labor poses as the adult in the room, the real power flows elsewhere – to bureaucrats, consultants, and technocrats.
That’s not governance.
It’s administration by spreadsheet.
It’s risk-aversion dressed up as vision. And voters, especially young men, see straight through it.
And so young men aren’t choosing Labor.
They’re not suddenly feminists.
They’re drifting – disillusioned, exhausted, and utterly uninspired.
Their crime?
Being born male in a country that no longer knows what to do with men, except blame them.
The Guardian’s attempt to spin this as a leftward shift is disingenuous in the extreme.
This is the same outlet that has spent years ridiculing men, treating masculinity as a public health crisis, and elevating every fringe academic who claims stoicism is fascism and lifting weights is a gateway to extremism.
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Well, he doesn’t talk for any of the young men I know, they’re busy with jacked-up 4WDs with camping tents mounted on top of the dog cages and off into the bush for their week’s downtime from the mines or a break from the farm.
They don’t give a sh1t about politics, left or right, probably don’t vote, and have no interest in ‘Karen problems’ or global warming, or much of anything in a city, so long as the price of diesel and ammo is OK. Surprisingly, there are enough young women who find them attractive enough to make sure there will be another generation like them.
I’m all for a set of roadblocks up the Great Divide and keep all the Coasters on their side of it, with all their attitudes and ideas too! Oh, and their windmills and solar farms as well!
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Uplifting Monday morning music.
Sandie Shaw sings “Puppet on a String”, 1967.
I think she always sung in bare feet.
https://youtu.be/Ga1kMdJCc_Q
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Any analogies to Australian politicians are coincidental and unintended.
😉
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Another one for the new age lexicon
Gimmigrant (noun)
– a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently and live for free claiming all benefits paid by tax payers and have no intentions in working or abiding with the laws of that country.
If they don’t get there own way they play the discrimination or race card.
Sweden’s finally woken up. If you don’t want to fit in, it’s out you go!
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Taking a statin daily for five years offers just a 1% chance of preventing a non-fatal heart attack or non-disabling stroke.
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1923443373387452720
Ask your doctor if continuing to prop up big pharma is right for you.
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Ya gotta hand it to big pharma manipulating stats!
Benefits- Relative risk
Side effects- Absolute risk
Pretty hard to get that Absolute risk reduction for drugs.
Statins are nearly useless!
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From my perspective, whether statins are “nearly useless” or not is on an individual person basis and not simply statins being nearly useless per se.
e.g. My brother in his 60’s has a cholesterol score of 7. But an angiogram shows he only has 20% blockage in one artery. So for him high cholesterol does not seem to present a problem. A statin would likely be “nearly useless” for him because there is no obvious need to lower his cholesterol.
Me, on the other hand, had a cholesterol score of 6. But I had symptoms of heart disease and an angiogram showed I had well over 70% blockages in 3 arteries in my late 40’s. I now have 9 stents and am at risk of arteries continuing to gather plaque. For me it makes sense to reduce my cholesterol levels to slow or stop the gathering of plaque. Diet won’t do it sufficiently so a statin seems quite useful in my case.
The problem isn’t whether statins are nearly useless or not. But whether they are likely to benefit everyone. Doctors are typically looking at cholesterol readings and prescribing statins when it’s high. Without knowing the health of the arteries.
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Some studies done have claimed long term term use of statins maybe saved lives. But commentators have said it may be due to the anti-inflammatory effects of the statins themselves, nothing to do with cholesterol reduction. So, if you’re lucky enough not have side effects from the statins (20% do), its an expensive way to treat inflammation. One of the many great medical scams perpetrated on the world’s population. Well, the agricultural seed oil industry also had a hand it in as well. Had to vilify those animal origin saturated fats didn’t we? So to be able to sell seed oils. A podcast I listened to weeks ago also indicated that Seventh Day Adventists were part of the US advisory committee- if you know that religion, they are vegetarians. Yet, even today, I’ll bet some patient at a GP somewhere in Australia is clutching their new prescription for a statin.
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Thanks Ross- very diplomatic.
CHOLESTEROL IS A REPAIR MOLECULE.
Blocking cholesterol production is as futile as Nut Zero.
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Triangular cymatics at 25Hz
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sw6m4kYop91y1h02o.mp4
Nikola Tesla would have loved it.
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Nice Chladni figures. When Ernst Chlandi published Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges (Discoveries in the Theory of Sound) in 1787 he appears to have only done circles and squares showing their nodal patterns, not triangles.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787/
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This essay postulates the fundamental particles of the universe are neutral neutrinos, and they consist of a neutrino and an anti-neutrino sharing a tetrahedron.
“An fp pair is created by the twisting of space to form two bounded and adjacent fp’s. In this thought experiment the fp pair traces a path around the tetrahedron, hitting each apex in turn while separated by one apex. Each fp follows a step wise path in which it’s direction is determined principally by the curvature wave previously generated by it’s partner. The only stable configuration possible is the tetrahedron.”
So we are all waves around the edges of triangles..
https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2013/03/einsteins-agenda.html
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Cloud swirling around Saturn’s north pole is hexagonal and I don’t know why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon#/media/File:PIA20513_-_Basking_in_Light.jpg
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Listen to this alarming 34 second admission from a WEF Elite.
They don’t event try to hide it.
They hate we non-Elites.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1749422936178434114
The answer for the Elites is, of course, dictatorship, as we are seeing implemented throughout the West, except TRUMP’s USA.
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David, she ain’t no elite, Ngaire’s a Shore Girl from Rangitoto College (along the road from where I grew up), admittedly the school’s Head Girl but then again Rangi College girls had a reputation for that sort of self-promotion back in the 1970s [she’s of a similar age to me – we may have met].
Ngaire seems to have affected a rather plumby Oxford accent to better mingle with her Gollum Governance / WEF / IMF mob, yet that’s a Koywoy (Kiwi) North Shore accent through and through.
Your clip was from her 2021 Davos blather regarding the necessity of bringing about a ‘fundamental reset’ – for we plebs – so her gang can prosper by governing globally, ie. the big ‘T’ word. Can’t stand fundamentalists: no fun and 100% mental.
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It’s gobbledygook, but make of it what you will, all they’re saying there is;
“Wee Gotchyas” _ squirm you peasant worms.
Ethics, morality, common courtesy, justice have all been deep sixed.
Real social justice would have them all in gaol where they can do no harm.
Venezuela?
Ref DM above.
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Could a system be built in which an electric motor powered by renewables and batteries spun a heavy wheel to generate power to the transmission lines. I know it’s an extra intermediary device but in general could it not smooth out the variable power supplies from wind and solar?
While not solving the renewable deficiency of intermittent supply, could it be a way of reducing the size of the gas plant needed to supply baseload and with it the cost of doing so?
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You would need your alternator being spun by the electric motor at a very constant speed, or your voltage would vary, just like your car alty. When consumers add more of a load your flywheel would have to drive the alty harder to supply more amps, but then your flywheel would slow down and your voltage would drop.
You would need your batteries to make up that energy, driving the flywheel harder, unless you have excess electricity from your ruinables that you can use. Of course that suggests you weren’t using it beforehand, so it was just being dumped to earth, and that is the crux of the whole matter… You need to build far more ruinable generation capacity than what you need to allow for the weather variances, which makes it all uneconomic.
King Island runs a flywheel and battery, you could tease the efficiency of them out of there.
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Flywheels in the intermittent system have been talked about before. So an extra add on, like all the others to make the system replicate the present big thermal plants. Talk about re- inventing the wheel!! So another add on, like more transmission lines, batteries, hydrogen production, fairy dust fabrication. Assume efficiency loss in the process like all the new transmission lines. Whereas, before we had a robust, efficient, cheap electricity grid Australians had pretty well engineered themselves. Not reliant on Chinese solar panels or inverters. All its needs is a quick upgrade for a fraction of the cost of intermittents or nuclear. It’s not hard.
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Don’t worry Ross, I’m all for the current system. While we are totally dominated by true believers and extremist leftwingers in governments as shown in elections, then as one contributor stated near the start of this open session, the end point of this disaster will be a totally destroyed cheap ff system which will take many years to reconstruct and the country will look like a post war desert with stranded wires, solar panels and windmills left in situ throughout the continent.
I am simply looking for a way to make better use of the system we are being forced to build and utilise regardless of its huge costs to erect, manage and continually replace. We think things are bad now, but when that endpoint is reached and people are forced to rise up and demand better to stay alive, find a job and regain our cheap and great food supply systems, you (not me. I’ll be well departed) will be facing a restart of civilisation. The alternative will be China will have taken control of a continent whose people became dumb, idle and slothful and forced to accept a takeover by a nation that has no problems with utilising every bit of cheap fossil fuels our own governments on all sides of the political spectrum forced us to abandon while promising nirvana from nature in the form of sunlight, wind and eating insects. This is all as stupid as it sounds but our people are so dumb they believe anything. Even that they can control the global climate!
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Read recently that Spain had synchronous condensers. Didn’t seem to stop the blackout.
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60 years ago I was an atrocious student of basic (power) electric courses – passed my exams by the skin of my teeth.
Vaguely I recall that design of synchronous condensers PF correctors required about 1/4 of power of the whole system.
Is it still a case?
Like – if we have a 100 MW wind farm should a synchronous machine of 25 MW be attached to that?
(I know we are talking about not real power, but nonetheless..)
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Vladimir:
You have an excellent memory.
South Australia has several synchronous condensers installed on interstate transmission lines to stabilise them. Use about 25% of their output (which occurs when there is a glitch in supply). They can’t really stop a blackout.
Poor statement. They stabilise the line voltage/frequency when there is a slight glitch; they cannot keep transmission if some actual generator cannot keep stable output for a brief time.
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Re ” passed my exams by the skin of my teeth”
Back in the day that was know as “51% is a pass, 52% is wasted effort”
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Here’s an explanation of synchronous capacitors I found useful.
There was [is?] an AC version in the Moranbah substation whose job it was to smooth [a little] the highly variable demand of the draglines on the coal fields. At the time ruinables hadn’t been invented and I just thought of it as a big flywheel adding inertia to the system.
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At the moment, Flinders Island has the diesel running at 167kw and 180 kw is being dumped to the resistor bank, very efficient, not.
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Vic’s wind drought continues with their wind “assets” at 5% CF.
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.. What a great find.
Always wondrous to hear something about what remains of plant material environments today, often hanging in the balance tightly.
https://doorlesscarp953.substack.com/p/therapeutic-properties-of-icariin
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Here’s a young lady who does an excellent job of explaining why “the world” doesn’t want American beef, among other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9UFX1ikAE
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