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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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EVs should be banned from any tunnel where you can’t see the exit, underground car parks, ships and anywhere else they present as a nuisance and safety risk.
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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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Labor didn’t receive first preferences from the Libs. The Libs had Labor down the ticket but ahead of the Greens. It helped Labor take a couple of seats off the Greens.
When we look at these results we have to acknowledge that on a two party basis it was a big win. The 35% primary vote of Labor is a low figure, but people vote using the preference system.
If we didn’t have the preference system each of Labor and Liberal would have a much higher primary vote because less people would risk wasting their vote on minor parties.
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because less people would risk wasting their vote on minor parties.
Under preferential voting, a vote for a minor party is not wasted if it manages to help that party get past the 4% limit on election “payments”. That is above and beyond showing a level of support for the party’s policy statements.
At least in my electorate (OConnor) the two party preferred “winner” would also have been the same in first past the post.
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Yes, under preferential voting a vote for minor parties is not wasted.
I was referring to a vote for a minor party being at risk of being wasted if we didn’t have preferential voting. In my opinion, the two major parties would likely get a higher primary vote if there weren’t preferences.
I voted One Nation for the purpose of helping reach the 4%, knowing the candidate would not be elected and knowing my vote would ultimately count via my preference being allocated as I nominated. My vote is not wasted on the minor party because of the preferential system.
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The one problem I find with preferential voting is some people get two bites of the cherry. It’s supposed to be ‘one person, one vote’.
So to overcome the criticism of ‘first-past-the-post’ voting we could introduce a system whereby everyone gets two votes – first preference on one slip and a chance to change on the second.
For example, you choose your party on the first vote and then whoever you like on the second slip. Thus you can vote for the same party twice.
First preferences counted first (+50% of the vote would win) and if no result, second votes are counted and added to the first. Majority wins. All fair – two votes each person allowing minor parties to be included.
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” two votes each person allowing minor parties to be included.”
But why stop at two?? That’s for the ordinary ‘below the halfway IQ’ person who will live off the taxpayer all their life anyway. Give another vote to anyone working in a private business (balances the vast bureaucracy) and another to anyone owning a private business, and you will slowly move the power back to those people who make the country grow and run.
Otherwise, the place is doomed! Democracy is a failed experiment, as illustrated at every election, just compare the ‘gimmee stuff’ votes and the Govt debt.
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Totally agree with you on the ‘gimme stuff votes’ but at least everyone, including those you mention, can vote for the same party twice and that would shut the ‘gimme’ crowd up (a bit anyway).
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And why not go another step and grant control over the senate to the landholders. A little like the House of Lords in the old days. This system has been shown to be busted, only rules that suit the landholder go through and the peasants are forced to work, almost, as slaves.
Of course we need to give more weight to those who produce but I’d prefer to see the right to vote reduced. Instead of adding more votes, I’d prefer to see a qualifying status added, eg if you’ve never worked a day in your life, (outside of government funded dole/roles), then you get no vote. And proportion up from there.
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Landholders eh? I see a giant throbbing Pandora’s Box there.
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I would have it that Senate votes can only be cast by landowners without debt … and that would not only significantly prune back the number of votes to count but would ensure a more thoughtful and prudent input into the process.
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Labor won’t acknowledge it but they were helped by the Liberal-National decision to put Greens last on preference voting list.
Labor put Greens in second position after their own candidates.
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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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In my seat of Macnamara in Victoriastan Labor ran a scare campaign directed at Liberals saying that:
1) It is impossible to get a Liberal elected.
2) If you can’t get a Liberal elected and you don’t want to get a Green elected the only answer is to vote Labor.
Macnamara https://results.aec.gov.au/27966/Website/HouseDivisionPage-27966-322.htm is an odd seat because you have areas south of Dandenong Rd like East StKilda and Caulfield which are strongly conservative and will vote Liberal and a recent gerrymandered inclusion of Windsor and Prahran areas north of Dandenong Rd who will be strong Labor voters due to public housing in the area and then you have the rich Bollinger Bolsheviks living further up the bay, typically multimillionaires in their expensive waterfront and parkside houses who will usually vote for Labor, Greens or Teals (and who probably own shares in wind and solar subsidy harvesting firms).
It’s odd also, because Liberals had a proud Aboriginal man, Benson Saulo, who was very good, very popular and there on merit, not DEI. His posters were all over Caulfield and East StKilda. None of the Leftists would give him a go because they absolutely hate non-white conservatives.
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David, I suspect that you know the expression цепной еврей .
Josh Burns is one.
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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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FWIW
“Texas Senate Votes To Shred Renewable Energy Rules”
House probably won’t like it it seems
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/24/texas-senate-votes-to-shred-renewable-energy-rules/
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It’s interesting that the renewable folks claim that the bill is for fossil fuels and against renewables. But the bill is to support dispatchable energy sources. If renewables want to be classed as dispatchable energy sources, then they can add suitable backup themselves to ensure 24/7 reliability. But of course they would then price themselves out of the market.
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The cost to make your own electricity from rooftop solar, battery and small diesel now works out around $45000 for a 10kWh daily demand over an assumed 20 year life for the hardware; panels likely better than 20 year life and batteries a possibility. So around 62c/kWh without making allowance for opportunity cost of the investment. But remember that a significant component of the grid supply has inflationary pressure so the grid costs are a moving target.
However the Australian electricity retail market now has two distinct categories – the leeches who make most of their own energy but rely on the grid for support. And the suckers who do not own a roof or their roof is not suited to solar. The leeches only pay the service charge so they do not care about the unit cost of energy. Until 2030, the suckers will bear the RET theft. After 2030, the added burden of “renewable” energy will shift more broadly to tax payers and feed inflation.
Up to 2024 my energy bill was fully paid for by electricity consumers but I will now end up paying around $400/yr on top of my modest investment of around $15,000 in hardware replacement terms, now sunk cost and provided a good return already. Average daily usage now around 7kWh for daily charge of $1.04 or 15c/kWh. I am only concerned about the service fee.
So leeches like me are not feeling much burden from energy costs. I see it mostly in broad inflation.
Trump is already influencing the inflation front by forcing China to look elsewhere for income. I do not think they make much profit on what is coming into Australia from China. Unleaded fuel near me today is 159.7c/l so Trump policy already forcing fuel prices down.
Trump’s impact is being felt globally and it is positive economically for Australia.
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That daily demand figure is below the Australian average of 15 kWh/day, and certainly well below that for most Australian residences. The folks that are running fully off-grid systems say that the cost is around $150,000, and they still need a sizeable genset for those days and nights when continual cloudy days means that the battery reserves are depleted.
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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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Rode in a steam loco cab for eight hours on a return trip to bring coal to the power stations at Collie. Was a memorable trip, with a slow 20 mph feeling like 100 with all the cab movements on the narrow gauge. The engine staff earned their pay.
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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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> we had a “podger”
In our house it was called the “battlestick”.
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Do they make a left-handed one?
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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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Let the poms do it.
One of 2 things will happen:
1. Nothing
2. Something unforeseen
Either way they learn from it, and look silly regardless.
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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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All that ‘smart’ crap is sitting waiting for a Carrington Event, fried chips anyone.
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“According to NEMA, up to 80 percent of all surges originate from inside a building. These are generally quite small and happen as a result of loose wires, malfunctioning appliances, static electricity, load switching, or even when turning on a hair dryer or AC unit. Over time, these seemingly minor surges can damage and thereby shorten the life of electronics.
Although relatively rare, high-surge events like lightning strikes or power surges from the utility also occur, and cause immediate, large-scale damage to electronics and your home. A high-surge event can also spark a fire, putting everyone inside a home at risk.
Most power strip surge protectors only offer low-level surge protection, meaning they can help during frequent small surges but aren’t effective during a high-surge situation. Whole house surge protectors, on the other hand, effectively reduce both kinds of surges.”
https://blog.se.com/sustainability/2022/04/08/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-whole-house-surge-protectors/
The whole-house protector is the way to go.
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Sounds a bit of overkill. Still prefer to add surge suppression as close to the appliance as possible. All appliances should have built in their own surge suppression as the component cost is not high, but of course they don’t do this. Most computer power supplies now have inbuilt surge suppression.
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Just to add to your joy at things smart, try this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-09/claims-agl-drained-household-batteries-spark-trust-warning/105234050
Best wishes,
Dave B
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Have added surge suppressors to all home appliances using electronics. Missed the Wi-Fi extender, and lost that recently.
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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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Taiwan Special: US Color-War Patterns Emerge
The boiling point approaches
Contents (783 words)
1. Backdrop
2. What are Trump’s Plans for Taiwan?
3. Hot-Signs of CCP Escalation
4. Divided Taiwan Edges Towards Totalitarian Governance
5. The USA roadmap to a Taiwan Color War
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FWIW – “Eh Gawd!”
“WIRED Would Rather Lie About RFK Jr. Than Report a Serious Problem”
Read it all!
https://pjmedia.com/charlie-martin/2025/05/09/wired-would-rather-lie-about-rfk-jr-than-report-a-serious-problem-n4939643
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FWIW – more “Oh Canada”
“Separation or Collapse: Which Comes First?”
https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2025/05/09/separation-or-collapse-which-comes-first-n4939639
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I have been tracking the return of Russia’s Cosmos 482 probe this morning. There seems to be a high level of disagreement over where it will ‘land’. However, as of a few minutes ago, it started to increase its altitude, going from 129km t 186km in 40mins or so.
Is this normal when such craft approach re-entry point? Is it skimming the atmosphere? Maybe it’s hard to determine altitude at that height or with ‘small’ objects?
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It will be heading off to the further part of its ellipse, then the next orbit will bring it closer and add more drag.. I think the major countries all have radar systems that would track it quite accurately until it starts to ionise, then the radar return hashes. (Which is why you can’t intercept Orishnik missiles.)
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Yet it went from 129kms at 08:51 up to 186km at 09:50, back down to 128kms at 10:20, then back up to 178km at 10:53. Wut?
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That’s it! Maybe 170km by 126km, then 160 by 120.. its the drag at perigee that pulls it in, if you track it each time it will be interesting to see if apogees fall at a similar rate to perigees, or if that drag close in is the main thing.
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You can track it here:
https://www.n2yo.com/?s=6073
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I’ve been using: https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=6073#TOP
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Thanks. I’ve been using: https://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=6073#TOP
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So its maxed out at about 150km now.
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FWIW
“NIH and CMS To Study Autism Using Medicare And Medicaid Data”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/nih-and-cms-study-autism-using-medicare-and-medicaid-data
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FWIW
“The Part I Like Best”
“About marijuana legalization is how it caused petty street dealers to turn their lives around and become productive members of society.”
And the Chinese take-over.
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/05/09/the-part-i-like-best-32/
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Sensible renewable policy out of Texas.
The Hill reports that the Texas Senate has passed S.B. 715 – which requires Renewables to buy ‘backup power’ when the sun doesn’t shine and wind doesn’t blow.
This is a reversal of onus which forces current fossil fuel energy sources to operate at times when there is plenty of Sun shining and Wind blowing, with little to no profit made, in effect – subsidizing renewables.
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Whilst this is a positive step … there is little chance this S.B. 715 will pass the Texas Lower House.
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Naturally the progressive LEFT claim this will increase consumer power costs – whilst ignoring the already inflated costs by having Gas and Coal plants currently subsidizing Renewables.
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Not to throw out the baby with the bath water the “renewable” technology has its positive sides.
While $10k ($14k installed) battery at every house is economic madness, the swimming pool pumps or washing machines can be programmed to operate at the times when roof solar panels do produce energy. A modest saving admittedly but better than paying for negative kWh price – which I think is inevitable.
Unfortunately, the insane government desire to transition back into Stone Age has another dark side – to thwart any positive development.
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The ideological anorexia of the elite moralistic intelligentsia.
“Let’s reduce carbon” … morphs into “we must achieve zero body fat”.
“Let’s respect people’s gender identity choices” becomes “you must tolerate biological men in women’s dressing rooms”.
No logical middle ground is allowable by ideological zealots.
(Trump is called a YouKnowWhatZi, but is politically just a 1990s Democrat.)
I think this state of affairs is due to the evolution of the monetized political issue entertainment industry.
I find myself in the same boat.
I read this blog and get a certain unhealthy entertainment in learning the latest absurd extreme theme the climate hysterics are pushing to extend the life of the grift stream.
BTW, I hear “the oceans are boiling”.
BOILING!
OMG, I must get my 8th booster immediately, or we will all perish!
The poor of color will perish harder.
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Going Around. . . Coming Back Around
“I hope Ed Martin’s 1st assignment at DOJ is to investigate Thom Tillis’ corruption.” — Rogan O’Handley (aka’ DC Draino’ on X)”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/going-around-coming-back-around
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Thanks a i:
I just love this bit:
Cheers,
Dave B
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This is an example of advertising in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-024-00483-8
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Deadly Hospital Superbug Could Eat Patients’ Dressings, Implants and Sutures
A potentially deadly hospital superbug is able to feast on and break down medical-grade plastics—including those used to make implants, sutures and wound dressings.
The findings challenge the long-held assumption that pathogens are unable to degrade medical plastics, say the researchers.
“Plastic is everywhere in modern medicine—and it turns out some pathogens have adapted to degrade it,” said paper author and biomedical researcher professor Ronan McCarthy.
https://www.newsweek.com/superbugs-plastic-hospital-antibiotic-resistance-biofilm-pseudomonas-aeruginosa-2069562
“Kills 99.9% of bacteria” but leaves the 0.1% really nasty ones, which then evolve 😁
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Wonder if they’ve tried IVM against it?
My guess is “No”.
Or maybe “No way”.
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“we may need to switch to using different, harder-to-digest plastics in medical applications, alongside factoring in the possibility of plastic-degrading enzymes playing a role in unexplained, long-lasting outbreaks.”
Why?? They know that copper/brass sterilises anything that touches it, that wooden breadboards kill bacteria while plastic breeds them.. Just implement the knowledge they have! Replace all that stainless steel in hospitals with copper, bronze and brass.
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The WHO finds mobile phone and wireless radiation cause cancer
In what appears to be an astonishing volte-face, a WHO systematic review has found reliable evidence that radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) increase the risk of cancer in animal experiments. The WHO has a long history of downplaying the health risks of RF-EMFs from smart devices, WiFi and mobile communications base stations. Indeed, up until two weeks ago, when a correction to a different WHO review forced an admission that RF-EMFs do after all have a negative impact on male fertility, this history seemed to be repeating itself.
https://gillianjamieson.substack.com/p/the-who-finds-mobile-phone-and-wireless
Never mind, there’ll be a vaxx…
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Last century on behalf of my employer we looked for a technical justification to prohibit the mobile telephony in Hazardous Areas.
Nothing could be readily found, something like WHO Fact Sheet No. 193 was not much help for our purpose. We even engaged a radiation scientist for an advice but he was stressing the biological effects in all possible combinations.., there he felt microwave radion had tangible effect…
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Was also involved in investigating the effects of RF radiation upon parts of the body when in proximity to a radiating device. An interesting field.
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There is a key difference, isn’t there?
All “technical” documents, made by SAA, ATEX, IEC, etc,.. dealt with distances in metres from “source” to “target” (my definitions) – up to 50 metres. The minimum distance I recall was 1/2 metre.
The biological case should deal with the “source” inserted into your head.
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Here’s the bad news! RFK is under the thumb of the head of a congress committee, that oversees HHS. He had to agree to horrendous limitations, because without Cassidy’s vote, he wasn’t getting through selection. He is not going to be allowed to do anything about vaccines. From 9 mins ‘the Cassidy story’, then Cassidy reading out to congress all the limitations he controls!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOb04sqiWxM
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See #31
Cassidy would be high and dry if Trump did an end run based on things like that
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FWIW
“The Graph That Lied”
“There is a huge amount of scientific evidence on this, pointing in one direction.
This graph—this famous graph—the graph on which the whole climate alarm hangs—is not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.
Not only is it thoroughly corrupted by a false warming signal from population growth, but that warming has itself been magnified and exaggerated by the adjustments made by climate agencies.
There is, to repeat, a mountain of scientific evidence that shows this graph to be wrong.
The graph that we see again and again in the media, in schools, and in presentations to politicians.
The graph that is used to make all these claims about record temperatures.
The graph that is being used to force through the most dramatic and damaging public policies.
The whole of Western industrial society is being turned upside down because of this graph.
Governments in many countries are taking a wrecking ball through their energy and transport systems.
Whole industries are shutting down. Whole populations find themselves bullied out of owning and driving cars, forced to buy certain appliances, find themselves hit at every turn by punitive green taxes and regulations.
Scientists make mistakes all the time—but this is different. Since so much hangs on this graph, we should surely, as a matter of democratic right, be made aware of any evidence at all that might suggest that it’s wrong.
But no. Our publicly funded science establishment and the mainstream media have gone to great lengths to silence any doubts or criticism.
But now we come to the question: why?”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/09/the-graph-that-lied/
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STORY TIP.
An excellent review article, a thorough piece of scientific research was published a few weeks ago. It has 32 pages of study then 341 references.
Part of the Abstract is:
“We urge governments to remove the COVID-19 mRNA products from the market due to the well-documented risk of myocardial damage, a risk that is strongest for younger males .”
Geoff S
……..
Myocarditis after SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination: Epidemiology, outcomes, and new perspectives.
M. Nathaniel Mead¹, Jessica Rose², William Makis³, Kirk Milhoan4, Nicolas Hulscher5 and Peter A. McCullough6 Biology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, McCullough Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA Immunology and Public Health Research, Independent Research, Ontario, Canada Immunology and Diagnostic Imaging, Independent Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Pediatric Cardiology, For Hearts and Souls, Ovilla, Texas, USA Epidemiology and Public Health, McCullough Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, McCullough Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH & INNOVATION Jan-Mar 2025, VOL. 3, ISSUE 1, pp. 1-43
https://doi.org/10.61577/ijcri.2025.100001
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Geoff
I guess a leading question to any critic might be
“Are you fully boosted and confident or are you scared “s-less” that things like this are in your future”?
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Ian,
Immensely relieved that a grandson now 15 has not had the Covid-19 vaccine.
My wife had 2 AZ then 2 Pfizer, I had 2 AZ then 1 Pfizer. She is in hospital now with a 3 cm blood clot in left elbow artery, now removed, plus cardiac complications like AF that had never been seen before during many routine past obs. Her heart is now enlarged in CT and MRI, never seen before. Something savage has gone in in recent times that might be post Covid vaccine. Both of us avoided Covid itself, so far as we can tell.
I made a paper copy of this new paper and have been inviting her medicos to take a copy. Each has declined after reading the title, as if Covid and vaccine damage are fringe medicine to be avoided.
I am concluding that young medicos today are not scientific but are more like tradies, trained to repair complications but little interested in new science that might lead to different diagnosis and treatment. A couple have agreed with me when I put this to them, some have just walked away. Geoff S
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AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION WIND-WATCHERS
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/australian-pioneer-wind-watchers
Mark Mills referred to wind droughts as a great untold story of the decade.
While the official meteorologists had nothing to say about wind droughts, the independent Australian observers Paul Miskelly and Anton Lang described the impact of severe wind droughts on windpower generation and Jo Nova brought their work to the world on her magnificent blog https://joannenova.com.au/.
The Energy Realists of Australia took up the story but officialdom took no notice at home or abroad, although we hear more about wind droughts nowadays than we did five or six years ago.
The stories of Anton and Paul need to be told so I collected their stories in good time so they will not be lost.
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There goes another “green” hydrogen project.
I hope no taxpayer money was wasted on this.
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David Maddison, #33,
____Had quite the contrast and compare in my news feed when I saw this story. Two items away,was the company whose driver suffered a disastrous tailgate release of premium chipped scrap metal causing much tyre carnage, calling for people affected to come to a barbecue to talk with them and their driver.
____For this failed ½billion dollar white elephant though, our betters(?) are not speaking.
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FWIW
Coolness under fire
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVeqabTeT7MkFuslYTGN2cGQ16qBEjp26ZgF4xju17hUiUw_a0p_WX8BXBTL_Sr8H9CVa4qJ48bN_S58rZ18DQpmK6MDoqQXB2wzWMbnnLjtV0jivxwqOb6NFLTcgsNWAAuYorMGrhoNBKH3R7U0A0Vo9rTGr4jercN9uu6PxfSh0cVYp-NMjFzVlYNk/w330-h400/Meme%20-%20I%20saved%20Portugal%20today.png
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Jo I got to the “expert scientists” bit of the heading and went to bed.
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“RADA MP Yury Pavlenko announced publicly that Ukraine should launch a terrorist attack on Red Square during the celebrations on May 9th…. Zelensky has also said that he cannot guarantee the safety of world leaders on Victory Day –
-to which (Security Council Vice-chairman) Medvedev responded:
“The green unshaven jerk said that he rejects Putin’s offer of a three-day truce on May 9 and cannot ensure the safety of world leaders in Moscow. And who is looking for his guarantees? Just a verbal provocation. Nothing more.
The nit understands that in the event of a real provocation on Victory Day, no one will guarantee that May 10 will come in Kyiv.””
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-weekly-75d
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Ian,
Immensely relieved that a grandson now 15 has not had the Covid-19 vaccine.
My wife had 2 AZ then 2 Pfizer, I had 2 AZ then 1 Pfizer. She is in hospital now with a 3 cm blood clot in left elbow artery, now removed, plus cardiac complications like AF that had never been seen before during many routine past obs. Her heart is now enlarged in CT and MRI, never seen before. Something savage has gone in in recent times that might be post Covid vaccine. Both of us avoided Covid itself, so far as we can tell.
I made a paper copy of this new paper and have been inviting her medicos to take a copy. Each has declined after reading the title, as if Covid and vaccine damage are fringe medicine to be avoided.
I am concluding that young medicos today are not scientific but are more like tradies, trained to repair complications but little interested in new science that might lead to different diagnosis and treatment. A couple have agreed with me when I put this to them, some have just walked away. Geoff S
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