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“Clean Energy” legislation used to funnel billions in Ohio to an energy company with a $60 million bribe pot (when the pay off is in billions, that is not a bad rate of return) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orR3DIHEMw4
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Another electric car fire in the UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14695815/electric-car-bursts-flames-driveway-family-home.html
I came back from Lille yesterday on the Eurostar. As we passed through the tunnel we could see the car carrying trains in the marshalling yard. We have been ferried through the tunnel many times on it but I think I would be nervous about doing that now as there are many more EV’s around.
As I posted a few days ago the Houses of Parliament are restricting EV charging in the Underground car parks that Mp’s and staff use that is situated in the grounds of Parliament.
I wonder how long before more restrictions on charging are brought in to other car parks, ferries etc.
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Look at the bright side.
The UK people will be able to burn electric cars to keep warm when your Government blocks out the sun with its Sun-dimming experiments.
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So the 5% of people who suffer extreme Climate delusion are going to block the sun for everybody else? Who gave them that right?
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Thinking of the success by Reform and the hopelessness of the Tories over 14 years in the UK, it seems that much of the west, including Australia and Canada are having trouble finding competent politicians.
This quote is by Marcus Aurelius who wrote it 2000 years ago.
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
The Tories played Pooh sticks for years, (Winnie the Pooh) not looking at the violent stream, otherwise they would have seen the obstacles and eddies and currents which meant they threw their sticks in to the wrong bit of river, they used the wrong sticks in the first place, employed the wrong throwers or that the sticks got caught under the bridge, sunk in the numerous whirlpools or were stranded on the sandbanks downstream, which no one was looking at.
“Hey, we’ve thrown our sticks, lets go throw some more and not care where they end up.!”
Sorry for the long winded metaphor, but those playing that government game I have likened to pooh sticks seem to have no idea of the rules, the context or the consequences of throwing something into the fast flowing river of politics. I suspect that most politicians in Oz also just do not think through what they are doing or why
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The old saying,
There Ya Go! The new slogan heralding the simplest of policy platforms for conservatives running to save our Democracy. The people will vote for the reset to ‘service before self’ representation not the current ‘self service’ trash we are now offered as candidates.
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So, good news and bad news in Australia as the Greens are humiliated but Albanese smoothly takes up the baton and easily wins the race.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/08/australian-greens-humiliated-as-chief-loses-seat-in-election-wipeout/
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Albanese acting like he won the popular vote and romped home but actually everyone was surprised. He barely won with a majority of only 34%. He was washed across the finish line by the flotsam of small “independents” on a tide of public rejection of Dutton who was also undermined by his own party and sabotaged by the media.
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Labor have always lived on preferfences and it’s been decades since they won seats with an absolute majority. It was simply the first time Labor received first preferences from the Liberals. And it achieved the intention of wiping out the Greens in the lower house. Now for the Upper house.
Besides Climate Crazies in the Labor and Liberals and National parties all believe Australians should be punished and robbed for using coal and gas. Which is no different to the Greens anyway.
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My impression so far is the that election results depend to a large extent in two preference decisions by the Liberal party.
The first was to preference the Labor party before the Teals and the Greens.
In the seats where the Greens were the incumbents, the Liberal preferences helped elect a Labor politician. A majority Labor government is less bad than a minority Labour government with the Greens holding the balance of power.
In two seats the Liberal party has won back the seat from the Teals, which is also a good result.
The second decision was to preference Pauline Hanson )PHON).
PHON has been polling quite well in the Senate. I am hopeful that she will pick up several Senate seats!
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Labor will stick with net zero by 2050 and the predictable effect of more domestic electricity prices rises until ….???
Until the Trump changes in the US start to be felt. Things like pulling out of the Paris Agreement and some of its financing, like pulling out of the World Health Organisation (financing?), like cancelling US purchase of numerous windmills, probably? causing a sharp cost rise when countries like Australia go to order new ones, like US trade reduction with China and increase in tariffs, leading to more expensive solar panels for countries still buying them, and more effects.
Australia will shortly find itself like an ideologically driven shag on a rock, getting priced out of the global electricity market even more, with users like the aluminium production sector continuing to go elsewhere.
Much of the world does not play net zero. China, India, Russia, Africa, parts of South America. Of the rest, Britain, Canada, parts of Europe soldier on with recently-elected leftist zealot governments. That is a tiny minority of the total global electricity generation sector.
Net zero is dead. Geoff S.
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RickWill has mentioned that he thinks electricity prices will max out at about (I think) 66c/kWh with full grid scale solar, wind and Big Batteries.
This seems to be about the price you could generate it at home with a small petrol or diesel generator.
Rick might care to comment?
I don’t think that’s going to happen. I used to think the TRUMP Revolution would have influenced the rest of the West but they seem to be going in the opposite direction of more censorship, more government spending, more totalitarian controls, an even more fanatical commitment to Nut Zero etc..
The woke nations of the world, Western Europe, Australia, Canada and NZ are mostly fanatically committed to Nut Zero and globalism and seem to be unaffected and uninfluenced by TRUMP’s great work.
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The great crime in Australia and Great Britain are the massive hidden carbon ripoffs. Not taxes, they channel secret massive cash payments to traders in Government issued and punitively enforced Green certificates. None of it goes into General Revenue, so none of it is legal taxation. And even the politicians are unaware of the size of this river of money they have approved for which its victims get nothing. Who even mentions the Safeguard Mechanism rising to 35%? It’s like a public service mafia.
I believe any one big player, Qantas, Virgin, Bluescope, manufacturer, Toll, Fox, miners could refuse to pay and bring down the whole rotten structure in the High Court. But I also suspect they are doing deals behind closed doors for special rates to keep them quiet. As a nation we are being robbed for vast sums. And Chalmers has completely wasted the boom in coal and oil and mining revenues. Which keeps Australia poor.
The complicity of the vast numbers of public servants pushing the CLimate Catastrophe is obvious. Large numbers of people making a career in stealing from Australians with a complete fantasy of man made CO2 driven Global Warming. We will soon run out of natural gas when in Victoria at least, we didn’t need it in the 1960s as we made it from coal.
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Clean Energy Finance was just given $20Billion. For what? What Clean Energy are we getting for this? Who gets the cash? Which country? Are we growing trees for cash? Everyone is in the dark with this Clean Energy Crap. And Snowy II has passed $10 Billion? Ten years to build a battery while China builds hundreds and hundreds of new coal power stations. Why are Australians being robbed by our politicians and public servants and who gets all our money and coal?
Next year will be the 25th year of no carbon taxes in Australia. The real carbon capture in Australia is cash. And with the exception of Tony Abbott, every Australia Prime Minister has agreed with robbing Australians. A secret National legislated 35% Carbon Dioxide impost no one even mentioned it in the election? Even the Mafia does not take 35% because it would kill the ‘client’.
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If you want to hear what Labor and/or the Left in general REALLY want to do now the election is over and they have a mandate to do whatever they please, you can find our at:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-economy-stupid/the-economy-stupid-what-albanese-could-do-now/105192584
It’s sickening!
The Left feel they are now empowered to fulfil their deepest, darkest anti-human fantasies.
The Thinking Community have three years either to effect serious reform within the Liberal Party and turn it into a conservative one OR merge Australia’s existing conservative parties such as One Nation, Trumpets, Libertarian, Family First etc. into one party.
I think reform of the Liberal Party is impossible though, it’s too heavily dominated by its far Left faction dominated by the so-called “moderate” faction. In fact, it’s said that they deliberately sabotaged the election against a Liberal win. In any case, the Liberal Party hasn’t had conservative values since Sir Robert Menzies and probably not even then (but more so than now).
So the only answer is the merger of conservative parties to form a new major force in Australian politics
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It’s testament to how low Australian politics has sunk that having an outright Labor win rather than Labor with a Green balance of power actually looks like a good thing. We could have had the Communist Adam Bandt as Deputy PM. Instead with have closet communist PM instead.
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Latest episode of “World’s Gone Mad” by Rowan Dean, Sky News Australia. 10.5 min
https://youtu.be/jlFDN3tQNJY
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Here is a very nice 36 min video about how the Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive worked, back in the day. These were operated from about 1941 to 1962. It wasn’t a long life for a steam engine but I guess diesel locos then started to dominate and they became obsolete.
From Wikipedia:
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Big plasma hole on the sun about to swing into view.
Could cause some weather effects which will be blamed on Climate ChangeTM which means it’s Trump’s fault.
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Attention Mods:
Glitch in the comments section.
#9.1 was entered as a standalone comment not a reply, and it immediately posted but without the edit option.
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The EDIT option is taking about 2 minutes to appear. I think the site is still under DDOS attack and a full reload of the page takes a while even though superficially it all appears to be there.
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Singapore’s descent into medical tyranny, jab or jail
People who refuse vaccination, (or any other prophylaxis), may be imprisoned for up to 6 months or receive a fine of up to SGD$10,000, or both, for a first offense. Repeat offenders may be jailed for up to 12 months and receive a fine of up to SGD $20,000, or both.
Moreover, Section 67 of the IDA exempts the Singapore authorities from any liability
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/08/singapores-descent-into-medical-tyranny-jab-or-jail/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/amendments-to-singapore-law-could-see-citizens-jailed-for-refusing-vaccination/
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It’s all very well to be a “benevolent dictatorship” until something like that happens…
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This video by Topher Field is definitely worth watching.
Is Albo our Chavez? How would we know if he was? Here’s your 4 danger signs. Topher Project Ep 072 – YouTube
https://youtu.be/JnBKowqcmJE
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The word of the day is spurtle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurtle
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In our house we had a “podger”, lovely word with several different meanings. Our podger was in the wash house where mum would push the washing around in the copper boiler.
This same podger was used to stir the soap making, hold the pumped leg of mutton under water to boil for Christmas dinner ( mock ham, tasted delicious), stir the brawn when a pigs head was made into potted meat and used to give the kiddies the odd poke and the very occasional whack. Not elaborate but extremely useful.
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UK Sun-dimming experiments update:
Comments of mine addressing one crazy idea after another:
1) Not sure how they propose to thickening sea ice, or why. An old proposal is to pump water onto the top of existing ice sheets where it will freeze.
2) “Modelling” is always good for geeky anti-social types that don’t want to leave the office plus use their taxpayer-funded supercomputers for bitcoin mining and game playing.
3) Pumping a mist of sea water into the air. Gosh, I wonder how much energy that would take? And it’s already been tried at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Jo reported it here. I can find the reference but here it is at Their ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-28/tiny-cloud-brightening-particle-research-climate-change-icnaa/102524408
4) Launching dust into the upper atmosphere with ballons. That is so indescribably stupid it barely deserves a comment. How many trillions of balloons on an ongoing basis do they think that would take? And hopefully they would use hydrogen as the lifting gas, not precious helium which is needed for useful things.
Back in the day, a grade six student could have dismissed these ideas as stupid and impractical. Now they call this nonsense “science”. What a horrible corruption of real science this is.
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The problem with implementing any of these “ideas” is that those proposing them don’t realise just how quickly the global “climate” can change.
Or perhaps they do realise, and intend to cause a rapid change, for whatever reason that may be.
My understanding is that the swings from warm to cold, in particular, can occur very rapidly. Witness the effects of large volcanic eruptions.
A cold climate, as in an ice age, would have a devastating effect on plant growth for a start, which in turn means famine for all herbivores and those that depend on them for survival.
Cold kills more than does warmth.
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Florida bans weather modification experiments (as is being attempted by Once Great Britain) and also additions to drinking water.
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FWIW
Careful with that “smart house”
“Aftermath – Power Spike”
“The Implications for “Smart” Appliances & A Fix
In looking at various Surge Suppressors to add to various outlets as a “quick fix” pending better: I noticed something I’d not seen before. Many said ~”right size for refrigerator”. Never had a fridge die in a spike before. One product review complained about refrigerators with computers being spike sensitive….
Oh Boy… “Smart Junk” is just doing to be FRIED in lightning spikes. Your “Smart Home” will become a dead dumb brick in one shot.
So once again I have confirmation that we don’t want any of it.”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/aftermath-power-spike/
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IS THE WIND INDUSTRY MORALLY EQUIVALENT TO THE SLAVE TRADE?
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/is-the-wind-industry-morally-equivalent
How long will it take for people to see the wind and solar industries like the slave trade of yesteryear? Of course it’s legal and so was the slave trade at the time.
Look at the consequences of the net zero crusade. Trillions are being spent on borrowed money to generate more expensive and less reliable power with catastrophic damage to forests and farmlands and violation of human rights in several countries. Just to reduce the supply of plant food in the air.
A bit hard? Have a look at Steve Nowakowski’s pictures of the forests on the northern ranges, and visit the Orana Renewable Energy Zone to see the ruin of the farmlands and the lives of the locals.
National economies are being destroyed and this will have devastating human consequences for the people who are not well-placed to survive the deindustrialisation that is happening in the west while the most dangerous regime in the world is selling us the rope to hang ourselves. Some of it made by forced labour.
And what did the conservative regimes in Britain and Australia do about it when they were in ofice?
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