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Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
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Here is the official UN website.
https://unfccc.int/cop30/
Parking for private jets is always a problem at the COP conferences.
I was concerned that there wouldn’t be enough parking for private jets but Goolag AI says they’re upgrading the airport and other facilities so there should be enough room to park your private jet.
I guess such indulgences is where your carbon taxes and other taxpayer tribute to the UN get spent.
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Also see https://unfccc.int/cop30/ifp
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They are knocking down trees now, to have a four lane highway finished by November. Can someone forward the contractor’s particulars to Qld Main Roads?
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Carbon Capture Scam Does Not Even Offset Its Own Emissions
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Weldon
Read the full story here.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/17/carbon-capture-scam-does-not-even-offset-its-own-emissions/
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“Carbon units”? Not heard of them before.
I’ll hazard a guess: 1 C U = 1 microgram of CO2??
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They continue to get away with using non-scientific and even nonsensical terminology or using inappropriate terminology (like “carbon” when they mean carbon dioxide) but they never get questioned about it except on esteemed sites like this one.
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I always thought that “Carbon Units” were those things that infected the USS Enterprise (See Star Trek: The Motion Picture) but according to the CarbonStore website:
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In Star Trek: The Motion Picture the V’Ger alien refers to the humans as “carbon units”.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0a1bed6c-ab47-49a5-af00-893a9907e37e
Meanwhile in real life Voyager 1 is currently 22.5 light hours from earth. However the Voyager in Star Trek is the fictional Voyager 6.
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Something interesting occurred to me about “restoring peatland” to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. Peatland is often waterlogged and emits methane, another one of those scary Greenhouses Gasses. I guess you have to have a methane mitigation strategy for your peatland CO₂ mitigation strategy.
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AFD party in Germany probably won’t be banned after all as report asking for it appears to be deeply flawed
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/16/spy-agency-report-on-the-alleged-extremism-of-afd-turns-out-to-be-so-stupid-that-it-destroys-all-momentum-for-banning-the-party/
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I see the current leader and Chancellor of Germany (as the largest party) has suddenly changed his mind about banning the AfD.
Could he be thinking ahead** and realises that a coalition between his “Conservatives” and the AfD would be a majority?
**Unlikely from his capitulations to The Greens since the election.
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They knew the evidence was flimsy and the Chancellor has simply pulled the plug, because its a democracy and he wanted to avoid any further embarrassment.
Today’s election further east is more contentious, will they move to the right.
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If you want to read a rather caustic piece, by a German, about this whole sorry episode.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/spy-agency-report-on-the-alleged
He must be walking a thin line given their pollies propensity to engage lawfare over criticism and satire.
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Good Read – Have bookmarked for future
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“This report represents the work of untold hundreds of people who do nothing but scroll Facebook and Twitter every day, archiving thousands of social media posts and speeches and blog comments. Because they are incredibly stupid, uninspired and plodding, they cannot fail to make asses of themselves over and over again.”
Ah, but think of the data-centres soaking up all our electricity because every secret service/spy agency/military in the West is doing exactly the same thing with exactly the same people!
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Unfortunately the full article from the Daily Sceptic is paywalled but this segment of an article by Ben Pile on a solar farm in Suffolk, gives a good idea of the utter stupidity of solar farms in the UK.
“Using Google Maps, it is possible to calculate the size of these two plants. The solar farm occupies an area of 366,678 square metres. The ‘B’ part of the Sizewell site (including the visitor centre and car parks but excluding the older, ‘A’ site) occupies roughly 233,082 m2. In other words, the nuclear plant is about two thirds the size of the solar farm.
The nameplate capacity of the solar farm is 19.525 megawatts (MW). But because of the unfortunate rotation and seasonal tilting of the Earth, this is very far from the farm’s output. According to renewable energy generating data, the farm’s output has deteriorated since its installation in 2013. In 2014, it achieved 11.3% of its capacity. But the average for three years to 2024 is just 8.6%, meaning that it provides an average of 14,778 megawatt hours (MWh) of power to the grid per year.
By stark contrast, the nuclear plant has a gross capacity of 1,250 MW. And it achieves well in excess of 80% capacity on a yearly basis. In 2022, it supplied 10,357 GWh to the grid – 700 times as much as the physically larger solar farm.
Talk of megawatts and square miles often yields little but glazed eyes. Whereas a pint of milk or a kilo (or perhaps a pound) of spuds are familiar to us all, quantities of energy, especially electricity, are difficult to comprehend. But perhaps the above picture helps to explain what we critics of Net Zero have been trying to say.
If the solar farm were to be expanded so that it could provide the same annual output as the nuclear power station – i.e., by 700 times its current size – it would have a footprint of 257 km² or nearly 100 square miles.”
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And make a lot more money for the proponents tapping the government largesse. This is the green dream.
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Austraian 18-44 year olds, given the current Australian Education System, would not be able to understand the Maths!
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“– it would have a footprint of 257 km² ”
How many McDonalds car-parks is that?
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An article on the problems caused by solar and wind farms
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-milliband/
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And the Dutch government has had to “delay” 2 offshore wind farms as no one will bid for the installation WITHOUT ANY SUBSIDIES.
If Australia adopted the Dutch way (NO subsidies) then we wouldn’t get any “cheapest source of electricity” would we?
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Rusting Wave Machine Wollongong
The rusting wave machine, known as the Oceanlinx wave generator, is located off the coast of Port Kembla in Wollongong. It was installed in 2006 but decommissioned in 2009, and has since been a source of concern and criticism for its appearance as an eyesore and potential environmental hazard.
Efforts to remove the structure have faced delays due to weather conditions and safety concerns. As of 2014, the removal was expected to be completed within months, depending on the right weather conditions.
By 2017, the removal of a similar generator in Carrickalinga, South Australia, was delayed due to court proceedings, but the situation in Port Kembla was expected to be handled differently.
As of 2025, the machine is still visible off the coast of Port Kembla, and efforts to remove it continue to be a topic of discussion among local residents and authorities.
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Meanwhile, a company in Albany WA still plan to introduce a wave energy machine into the rough southern ocean, despite the earlier premature failure of another version. They have been trialling it in sheltered waters in King George Sound. No date yet when it will be moved out into the ocean.
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Digital driving licences to come to UK but physical ones will still be available (for now!)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-14718917/Digital-driving-licence-arrive-soon-physical-ID-valid.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
These will be used on smartphones. There have been numerous cyber attacks over the last few weeks. We are rushing into a mad digital world. At present some 90000 smartphones are stolen a year in London alone. Most are resold overseas. However as our physical identity transfers ever more to the smartphone-already many people will be lost without them-its plain to see that peoples digitally based identities will increasingly be stolen.
In effect you will become a non person if the smartphone thief wants to sell your identity rather than wants to sell a physical smartphone.
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For the events in UK restricted to entry with a ‘COVID Vaccine pass’, I understand the un-jabbed youth who valued their ability to attend said events more than the need to tell anyone doing this to go to hell, were able to use a photo of a QR code taken on their phone from the phone of someone who was jabbed to gain entry.
This story got me thinking of that – the lack of a digital ID to link the phone – person – QR code was a reason for it’s failure.
Anyway, probably time to think about picking up a few different IDs for ourselves, just to have ready – use whichever one suits the occasion.
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I would say 90000 is far to few.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/hhs-anti-vax/682831/
But in their public comments, and in several publications, they contended that the virus was far less dangerous than most public-health officials thought, and that the measures that the U.S. was taking against it were far too extreme. They argued against mandates and boosters, especially for children and for young and healthy adults; they exaggerated the side effects of the shots, extolled the benefits of acquiring immunity through infection, and dismissed the notion that people who’d already had COVID should still get shots later on. In October 2020, Bhattacharya and a group of colleagues advocated for reopening society before vaccines had debuted; Makary, although initially supportive of COVID vaccines, went on to praise the Omicron variant of the virus—which at one point killed an average of 2,200 Americans each day—as “nature’s vaccine.” Prasad, meanwhile, has said that COVID-vaccine makers should be sued for the rare side effects caught and disclosed with standard monitoring. And Høeg, who’d previously worked with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, influenced his decision to recommend against the COVID vaccine for healthy children.
But truly rigorous science also rests on the foundations of previous data—and a willingness to accept those data, even if they conflict with one’s priors.
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Media statements on RFK Jr vary according to which outlet they come from. All those with a left-wing bias, including news feeds like AAP and Reuters, will produce reports like this. But they keep quiet about the fact that all RFK Jr’s childten are vaccinated and that the mRNA Covid “vaccines” are not vaccines as defined at the time of the Wuhan outbreak. The latest left-wing obscenity is that RFK Jr’s attempt to make vaccines subject to the same industry-standard level of testing applied to all pharmaceuticals has been misrepresented as “anti-vaxx”.
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Just a transparency comparison:
Annual Report provided in the US on the status of regulation and reportable events during the period: https://www.selectagents.gov/resources/publications/annualreport/2023.htm
We only get the rules and regulations and forms but no reporting on what is actually happening: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/ssba-regulatory-scheme
The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy contrasts the US openness to the UK closed shop. I fear we tend towards a closed shop and cover up more than transparency.
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Here’s the part in V for Vendetta (2005) where the police inspector suspects that the government creates a virus that kills 100,000 people just so it can seize more power over the people.
Sounds a familiar scenario?
https://youtu.be/HbvsgpAXV2E
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Inside the CIA’s Secret War: How the U.S. and NATO Trained Ukraine to Target Russia | Redacted
28 minute video
https://rumble.com/v6th1pb-inside-the-cias-secret-war-how-the-u.s.-and-nato-trained-ukraine-to-target-.html
Fascinating topic.
Such depravity.
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OK, so the US and NATO helped Ukraine build its defences against Russia. If they did, that’s good, because in case you didn’t notice at the time, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine about three years ago, and penetrated quite a long way towards Kiev before Ukraine managed to stop them. Without those defences, Ukraine would now just be a part of Russia.
I hope the US can do the same for Taiwan when Xi Jinping launches his military at them.
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“Without those defences, Ukraine would now just be a part of Russia.”
..and far better off! Wealthy, with the corruption of the Bidens booted out, healthy, with the biolabs of the Americans booted out, and busy trading with both Europe and the BRICS. Russia would probably give the West to Poland, they wouldn’t want the supporters of Bandera in their country at all. Ukraine would have the millions of people who fled still in the country working, the women who are now the whores of Europe and the men who are either the welfare recipients or the criminals without paperwork for jobs because they can be sent back to die in the trenches.
Best of all, Ukraine would have an honest, local political leadership, not a guy playing a piano with his penis, some faked elections (now banned) and a house of puppets doing what the Yanks tell them to. Of course, they wouldn’t have to ‘fight to the last Ukrainian’ either, at least not until the Yanks pushed Poland into the same situation…
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@Mike Jonas:
>…about three years ago
You need to go back a lot longer than that.
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Like what year, period, era?
Ukrainians are no different from Indians or Irish or Jews or .., dozens of distinct, well-formed, ethnic groups subdued by Imperial masters for ages but who never gave up. By 2025 they got their own countries.
You do not call for dissolution of India by any chance?
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These disputes often arise because the people within the borders drawn on a map do not consider themselves to be a homogeneous group.
Exhibit 1: Europe
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One of my friends has a solution – he says the land (the soil, the dirt) with minimum exceptions must be owned by a person(s), not to a state (nation). You want a place to build a house or a big refinery – you pay for it and it is yours in perpetuity.
Europe – I would love to live to live 10 more years if only to see the “semi-final” result of Putin’s endeavours on Europe. Evil and duplicitous or wise and benevolent but Stalin’s, Churchill’s and Roosevelt’s word kept the peace.
What do you think in 2025 – the Hungarians, Slovacs and Romanians are finally in total agreement about borders? Greeks and Macedonians ? Italians and Croatians …
Been to most beautiful little towns of Alsace Lorraine and hope that as long as possible Elsaß-Lothringen exists. But only in books.
My dad’s birthplace – used to be Rzeczpospolita, Austro-Hungary, Hungary, Romania, Soviet Union and finally – Ukraine.
I am sincerely grateful to you: just now I understood – at no point in history it belonged to Russia.
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Thanks for your response Vladimir.
The difficulties with property rights come down to three issues. First who grants the rights. Secondly what are the rights. Thirdly who protects the rights.
Then there are mirroring responsibilities. Who imposes the responsibilities. What are the responsibilities. Who enforces the responsibilities.
And your words about belonging to Russia in turn invoke each of these issues about rights and responsibilities.
And unless very wise heads prevail that’s when the fighting starts.
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And thanks for your sober words, FG.
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” he says the land (the soil, the dirt) with minimum exceptions must be owned by a person(s), not to a state (nation). You want a place to build a house or a big refinery – you pay for it and it is yours in perpetuity.”
An excellent idea! We have no need for Govts now, as shown by the extremely few people willing to go and fight for one. International trade, the internet, overseas travel have all weakened the need for national borders, as have factors from ‘the Govt side’ such as forced alignment of tax rates, passport controls, travel regulations etc all over the world.
The question is, do we adopt a world Govt and get rid of our local clowns, or will that have as much success as removing one of Australia’s three levels of Govt. Is it all just a ploy to have as much as the population as possible involved in some form of Govt??
“Thirdly who protects the rights.”
That is the only bit that is important, the others can be decided by the people. Lets just have a Court system and Police to feed it, and let thousands of people vote over the internet as to whether a crime was committed or not. We could start by dissolving all the politician’s international bun-fests like the upcoming COP party!
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Exhibit 2:Africa
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Wasnt a full scale invasion or anything like it, nor was that ever the stated objective. If it was total war Ukraine would not exist , and perhaps it would have triggered a conflgration that would have endangered us all.
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Here’s a fascinating video by Scott Manley about the interstellar software update that NASA had to do on Voyager 1 to correct the problem it developed causing it to send gibberish.
The problem is that it’s a nearly 50 year old spacecraft and the original programmers are no longer alive and documentation is scattered and the software systens are old and obsolete.
But they worked out what to do. I wish most contemporary programmers were so knowledgeable and so careful. The NASA engineers only got one chance, else they could “brick” it. Recall what happened due to the faulty update of Viking 1. Killed it.
The update was made even more difficult because it was done small portions at a time and the spacecraft is so far away that the round trip return time for radio signals is 45 hours.
https://youtu.be/p0K7u3B_8rY
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I guess that team can lay claim to the longest handled spanner set so far?
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..powered by Plutonium..
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Yes. The plutonium generators are still going, but perhaps only for another five years. The mission wasn’t even designed to last this long.
The US stopped producing bulk Pu-238 in 1988 therefore had no new supply for spacecraft radioisotope thermoelectric generators and had to rely on stockpiles and Russia.
Today they only have enough left for 2 or 3 missions, including the Dragonfly quadcopter drone to be landed on Titan.
However fortunately they will soon resume making it again.
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Funny that you mentioned Russian Pu238 stockpile.
Not my own profession but my Uni, in the 70ies was involved with RTG based on Cr90, huge number of which was manufactured and run, I assume successfully.
Interesting video I am going to watch now https://youtu.be/NT8-b5YEyjo
Funny, because those RTG were only designed for 15(?) years operation while we had the means to do it for at least 50 – as you can see.
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For those who still asks the question – When The War Ends? – watch that video to the end.
Then ponder again – the worth of metal (yes, stainless steel was expensive than copper) and that of human life.
To its owners.
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Fascinating. An amazing achievement Involves working backwards with 1Kbytes of machine code. Used to write product programs in assembly language, 2Kbytes, starting in mid 1970s and progressing into 1980s, so have a very basic understanding of the problems involved.
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In the following video Dr John Campbell talks about Herr Starmer’s insane experiments to blot out the sun.
There is a petition against it for UK people to sign.
US NOAA, now a pro-science agency under the TRUMP administration, are strongly warning against doing these experiments.
https://youtu.be/MQe17fBe7c4
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Frankly it is stupid but putting what amounts to a few boxes of SO2 into the upper troposphere is at best childish but likely a make work project for some B grade science grads and some sales grifters.
Think about a volcanic eruption its very big and I mean really big to quote the hitch hikers guide.
Fe fertilization of oceans that works and grows fish a lot of fish and makes shale.
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Wasn’t SO2 one of the chemicals that the powers that be decided transportation should NOT put into the atmosphere?
Why yes it was. https://enviroliteracy.org/how-does-sulfur-dioxide-affect-the-environment/
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I wonder, could they hold all the data encrypted and throw away the keys?
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Who would open themselves up to prosecution if they did that when the law says you must have the keys?
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“I wonder, could they hold all the data encrypted and throw away the keys?”
an excellent idea, like Apple, ..and now you know what the race to AI is all about!
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Where would they go?
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Yep, the overarching Swiss legal system was one of there main selling points. Although I did like the idea of my email servers being under 2000metres of granite.
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Obviously not a law promoted by the Swiss Govt, they have nothing to gain from it. Who would they spy on in one of the safest, most stable countries in the world. However, like their banking system, the Yanks are determined to crack any system they can’t spy on or control directly, and they will be squeezing the Swiss Govt hard.
They could move to a tax haven.. oh wait, the Yanks have been there too! Seems like a BRICS would be the answer, you KNOW that Govt will spy on you but they’re not interested in what you say about your local Govt.
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Paul Joseph Watson talks about the latest woke art in Times Square, NY, now being copied in European cities.
Like all “art” of the Left (usually taxpayer funded), utterly without merit.
https://youtu.be/6Ktd3gEmnI4
Here’s a related video:
Why is modern art so bad?
https://youtu.be/lNI07egoefc
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What’s your definition of ‘modern art’?
I like Impressionism onwards including Kandinsky, Miro and Klimt. The na*is in the thirties called it ‘degenerate art’.
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I think it’s fairly well explained in the second video, Tony.
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Seems to fit nicely into the post-modern world ….. it seems interesting (to me, anyway) how the post-modern world of subjective “truths”, that moved from the human sphere of personal knowledge into the scientific field of objective knowledge but hasn’t infiltrated the progressive world of deference to authority and experts.
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The answer is simple – remove government support, full stop.
The fakery will be dead by the morning.
Annihilation of the “literature” supported by government any colour even more urgent because every second it lives it poisons our children for ever.
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I was amazed when seeing in the The New York Met Museum, which hosted an exhibition titled “Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” from April 27 to August 1, 2010, which was the first to focus exclusively on Picasso’s works in the museum’s collection
His Early Picasso Art Reveals a Different Side of the Modern Artist
And I really enjoyed Salvador Dali’s Figueres Museum – and his surrelisim
I purchased a “Tempus Fugit” from Cel Artworks similar in style to Dali for 50th Wedding Anniversary, and also GFC 2 in this link
https://www.celartworks.com.au/latest-works
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Surprisingly, this one is from the Guardian:
No one’s buying Hunter Biden’s terrible paintings any more? I wonder why
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Matt Walsh talks about how TRUMP Administration is to remove mandatory car engine stop at traffic lights.
It’s always concerned me for reasons apart from being annoying. The loss of oil pressure during stopping must surely contribute to extra wear of the engine, unless there is an electric oil pump to keep the oil pressurised but I’m not sure if that’s done.
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One of the commenters on the video suggested that the stop/start “feature” was a deliberate annoyance introduced to encourage people to buy electric cars.
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Once I got used to it, I quite liked it, and reportedly it improves fuel economy too. But the idea that it should be mandatory is frankly ridiculous.
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As a person who got his first car well after 30, I will never feel the things “invisible” about cars.
But having spent countless hours trying to tune a stationary burner, I can not believe into efficiency of it start-stop operation.
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Its a complex feature to implement well, even though it sounds simple. It gets into semi hybrid territory keeping braking systems, power steering, heating and cooling alive while waiting or having enough sensor logic to conditionally disable the feature in some situations.
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Full story here: https://rmx.news/
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There are very few genuine environmentalists.
I can tell that because when I do bushwalks and wildness adventures I never see such people. Nor do I see them volunteering to do invasive weed removal or rubbish clean up.
“Environmentalism” is just another branch of the Left to regress society such as by destroying energy systems and other annoyances like the removal of plastic drinking straws and plastic bags at supermarkets.
And, in any case, plastic in the oceans comes from Third World countries where they dump rubbish everywhere including in rivers where it eventually gets into the ocean.
If so-called environmentalists genuinely cared for the environment (they don’t), they would be going to Third World countries (at their own expense) and teaching them not to litter and helping clean up their environment.
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FWIW
“Saving Greenery From the Greens”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/15/saving-greenery-from-the-greens/
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I’m part of a local Landcare group and this is exactly the sort of thing they do. However I agree with what you say, they are a s.all minority, and to do larger works they rely on mutual support from other Landcare groups or enlisting kids from the local high school.
Even within the membership there are those that join just for the social aspect and to play the landed gentry, and others who actually get their hands dirty. I only joined to help them fill the Treasurer roles as nobody would step up. It seems conservationists dont like numbers.
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Quite so David.
I would like to think that genuine environmentalism might not only survive but grow.
Maybe they could form a political party and call it “The Greens”. Oops. That one’s taken.
Or how about “The Teals”. That might be interesting because the current users of that name claim they are not a political party!
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And, in any case, plastic in the oceans comes from Third World countries where they dump rubbish everywhere including in rivers where it eventually gets into the ocean.
David,
The rubbish on the Freeways in Cairo in March/April 2011 was unbelievable, and looking down at the Apartments in the streets below the elevated freeway, rubbish everywhere in the streets
When we went out into the countryside (Memphis Tours – Private A/C Car with Driver & Guide – Minimum 1/2 Australian tour prices at the same time – and we stayed in Hotel Aswan – Sofitel Legend Old Cataract, and as we had car/driver/guide rather than fly to Abu Simbel, as the couple of Canadians & New Zealanders in the Hotek did – No Anericans due to Tahrir Square Riots – I wanted to see the Egyptian Desert to compare to OZ – we lined up in Military Convoy at 1030 Aswan, and 1 hour later were by ourselves – it was a 3 hr 20 min journey and when we got to AbU Simbel, my wife & I were the only 2 Tourists there – you pay Guard with Sub Machine Gun to take take your Photos willingy)
the canals were filled with rubbush – https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rubbish+dumped+incanals+in+egypt&form=HDRSC3&first=1
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OldOzzie, I don’t think the typical Green/Leftist has any clue how filthy these Third World countries are. They mostly never leave their inner city enclaves and the comfort of their soy lattes.
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And there’s me thinking the inner city enclaves and soy latte cafes are filthy.
I don’t need any reminder to avoid densely populated areas.
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Australia was like that when I arrived on holiday in the 1970s, I was amazed at the endless pile of litter along the roadsides, even when hitching to Darwin.
Much improved for my second arrival around the turn of the century, so it can be done.
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FWIW
“Trump’s Lesson in Remedial Education
by Dr James Allan 16 May 2025 5:00 PM”
Particularly legal education
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/16/trumps-lesson-in-remedial-education/
Via SDA
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FWIW
“Oops”
“Telegraph- Why Europe came to regret its ‘crippling’ nuclear power shutdown”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/05/17/oops-11/
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FWIW – more on bans of fluoride
“An entire era of conspiracy theories are quickly becoming conspiracy fact. Thursday, the Associated Press reported, “DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water system.” It’s done! And the Florida ban takes effect in July, just over a month from now. I expect my horrible county to fight it, but the lawsuit practically writes itself.”
“Fluoride pushback is sweeping the country. According to an NPR story, five more states have pending anti-fluoride bills: Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and South Carolina. More anti-fluoride bills either failed or stalled in committee in North Dakota, Arkansas, Tennessee, Montana and New Hampshire. Other states like Hawaii, New Jersey, and Oregon already have fluoridation rates languishing in the low double digits.
Low-fluoride states like Hawaii don’t have epidemics of cavities, a fact the fake news media never mentions.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/duly-processed-saturday-may-17-2025?
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Fluoride was first added to Sydney’s water supply in 1968
My Kids & Grandkids Teeth bascially have no cavities as against myself & my wife
Having been ingesting Fluoride in Sydney Water for 57 Years out of 80 Years – still healthy
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“Low-fluoride states like Hawaii don’t have epidemics of cavities, a fact the fake news media never mentions.””
Yes, I haven’t had any dental students mention that to me… Maybe it hasn’t reached Charles Sturt yet.
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Currently, one nuclear explosion in a war zone would delete all insurances for commercial airlines. They are looking at zoning that so planes are still insured outside the active zone and the rest of the world can continue their vacations.
“Airlines update nuclear war plans as escalation threats grow- Current policies that date back to the 1950s would force the grounding of all civil aircraft worldwide in the event of a single nuclear detonation,(are being re-written) to address the possibility of conflicts escalating in Ukraine and Kashmir.
Airlines could yet be grounded by other insurance stipulations, including a “five powers war clause” that terminates cover in the event of a military clash between any of the UK, US, France, Russia and China. That could be invoked in the event of any British or French troops sent to Ukraine being fired on, according to some industry experts.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/airlines-update-nuclear-war-plans-as-escalation-threats-grow-20250512-p5lyl0.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
Also in the SMH is the usual bunch of second-raters in Parliament moaning about the Russians jailing Oscar Jenkins, an Australian who signed up to fight with Ukraine as a mercenary. They have all suffered ‘Biden-memory’ about their own laws governing people who support the ISIS freedom-fighters, where you can be jailed for going to fight with them, or send money to them, or even support them on social media.
If anyone’s keen, Ukraine pays $180000/yr to mercenaries.. although some say the ‘regulars’ use the mercs as meat-shields and hence run all these hopeless attacks against Russian positions.
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That’s a lot of money for a merc.
They are normally quite lowly paid. I think mercs are prepared to work for less because they are psychopaths that enjoy killing people.
Nevertheless the Ukes must be paying that much because they have trouble recruiting and they have hundreds of billions of taxpayer money from Biden and EU taxpayers to pay them with.
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FWIW
“Breitbart Business Digest: Arthur Laffer’s Supply-Side Economics at 50”
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/05/16/breitbart-business-digest-arthur-laffers-supply-side-economics-at-50/
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FWIW – helping the mould?
“Mile High Marxist Bernie Sanders Proves There Is No Climate Emergency”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mile-high-marxist-bernie-sanders-proves-there-no-climate-emergency
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And Bernie now owns three homes and has a net worth of US$3 million.
But just a a few years ago he didn’t even own his own home.
But he hasn’t changed jobs.
Funny that.
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He needs to get on the Pelosi ETF , he is missing out big time at 3 Mill
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Here’s an animation of renewables monstrosities planned for Victoria. I don’t think it has been posted previously. Watch it at 1/4 speed if you want to see more than a blur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8p07qei_o
Why are we destroying our beautiful Australian bush?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/catastrophe-is-right.html
Matt Canavan:
Thanks to net zero — for the first time since the early settlers — Australia can no longer feed itself. Because of our crazy and unilateral war on coal and gas, we now have to import fertilisers from China and the Middle East.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/good-onya-matt.html
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Being transgender is so passé.
Now the thing is to become a “genderless alien”.
This is an old story, recently discussed by JP:
https://youtu.be/w-QjP1givOA
And there are frankensurgeons actually prepared to do these procedures:
JP gives a follow up to see if the individual actually went through with becoming “genderless”.
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This raises a question I have had in my mind for a couple of years. Seeing what some people have done to themselves with extreme plastic surgery, which has obviously been performed by a surgeon, I wonder how those surgeons avoid ethical and legal issues in the way that doctors simply prescribing Ivermectin face. It seems to me to be yet another example of the law being used to achieve or support a political viewpoint. On the one hand, doctors have been struck off merely for giving Covid and cancer patients Ivermectin, even if requested, because this allegedly puts the patient at risk. The doctor is expected to refuse requests for Ivermectin because clearly the patient is potentially harming him/herself.
And yet other doctors can lop off noses and ears, or reshape ears to look like Vulcans just because the patient is a Star Trek fan – and insane. Eyeballs can be tattooed. Teeth ground down to points, breasts removed, testicles chopped off and the body completely covered in ink. Fingers are also chopped off to resemble lizard feet. The end result can be horrific and life-changing, especially when the surgery is done when the person is mentally unstable and/or too young to fully realise the lifelong implications on their well being and their career opportunities.
Just another example of the dual standards we all have to live under now that the left pretty much rules the world.
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And after all the fun of the mutilation there is only the matter of the chromosomes.
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Mmmmmm Mengele was just ahead of his time
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but…but… HATE SPEECH !! It so important these days, and a great excuse for any censorship at all!
You can have free speech so long as its approved, quite simple really..
What happened to the great scares of the near past? Back in the 80s I remember the Karens and the Govt absolutely crucifying guys who were involved in child-cares and schools because every man was a child-molester. Now… meh, not even worried about, we have moved on and left the poor sods who were destroyed by it behind.
So how long before the people jailed for speaking their minds just get left to rot as some new shiny thing pops up to entrance the chattering class?
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Labor’s tax on unrealised capital gains on superannuation (retirement funds).
The Liberals (fake conservatives) didn’t say anything about this before the election as far as I’m aware. Why not?
https://youtu.be/N1rVXSkWQBI
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Not surprisingly politicians and public serpents will not be affected by this tax.
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Here is a discussion of which politicians and public serpents will not be affected.
https://youtu.be/EL14tSf3LF0
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I’ve noticed on social media like Farcebook and comments on YouTube etc. that conservatives are viciously and rudely attacked (and worse, even doxed) by the Left whereas conservatives are much more polite and rational with their comments on Leftist posts.
Nothing new of course, just sayin’.
And the Left are becoming increasingly agressive in 1) the USA because they are out of power and 2) the rest of the West because they are in power and getting more power by the day, there’s nothing to stop them with conservatives leaderless and out of power in most Western countries.
And they will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives, including violence which we are seeing more and more of from the Left.
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Just this morning I saw a post from the moderator of a Facebook page belonging to a motorcycle sport club, somebody I have spoken to many times in person and who seems a pretty ‘normal’ sort of guy. His post was essentially a rant about Trump, in which he refers to him as “Orange Man”. This was right out of the blue and unrelated to anything the club is doing or what others were discussing.
This is another difference between conservatives and leftists. Whereas conservatives seem to be able to separate their political views from their personal, business and social lives, leftists simply HAVE to bring it into everything, even situations where it wasn’t relevant, pertinent or necessary. They’re like religious zealots.
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Well Steve, how are they ever going to correct your wrongness if they dont keep bringing up their moral and intellectual superiority. You must be assimilated.
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Sorry, just couldn’t help myself. It was just so funny!
I’ve been watching a proposed Hydro Project in Tibet, (the Motuo Hydro Project) since 2014 in fact, and recently, news about it came to a head.
I don’t usually ‘speculate’ on electrical power generation, but this was just so intriguing.
So, after (quite literally) hundreds of hours of research, I actually made a calculated guess on what it might look like.
All of that, I detailed at this link, and the speculation on what it might look like is in the most recent Post second from the top of that link, dated almost 12 Months ago now.
I’m in the process of Updating the project, and I went chasing up anything recent, and that’s shown in the top Post at that link, where there are eight links to news articles.
Every one of them still speculates on ….. the ONE humungous great dam, and something of this scale is impossible from just the one dam, and what I actually speculate on myself is a series of plants as I detailed in that long Post at the link I mentioned above.
As well as those links, I also found a recent video, the source of my mirth I mentioned right at the top of this comment.
Now, the link to that video is below, and be aware, it’s 18 minutes long, and so biassed.
However, the opening scene actually did cause me to laugh out loud, something I rarely do, spontaneously.
That same image was repeated a number of times throughout this video. Also of note in the mirth producing things is to read the text, and note the spelling used for the name of the project Motuo, as here the text has (well, I lost count) so many different spellings. Also, the cluelessness (is that a word?) of this commentator, who obviously has no engineering understanding, or even the nous to actually consult an engineer in the first place as to what something like this might look like.
In those nine links, some commentator alludes to tunnels, but again, no conceptual idea other than a journalist’s take on that word ….. Hydro, eg, a monster whopping big dam.
During my hundred plus hours of research, I actually did look closely at this area, following links within links within links within links, (some far removed from that word Hydro, but all of them giving a more detailed overview of an area where the build up in everything leads to questions being asked as to why) all of them providing an overview which I meticulously detailed to give the best approximation of what something of this scale might look like.
Okay, just this one Hydro plant will generate 300TWH of power a year, and Australia, (and here this also includes WA as well as the AEMO coverage area) consumes 260TWH of power a year, so this one plant alone will generate 15% more power than every operational power plant in Australia.
Link to laugh inducing video
Tony.
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FWIW – more readings for “Elbowen”
“Trump’s Energy Shake-Up: Green Dream Fades Fast”
Handy quotes in there and in comments
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/17/green-retreat-the-early-trump-effect/
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FWIW
One way I guess!
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/d-e-i-fixingflatbylettingairout.jpeg?w=800
Could cause discussion on the “merits of socialism”
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We are of course blessed to have been born in Australia or arrive here later in life. Its is a great country and we have much to be thankful for. I do wonder what we could have been had we not had to pay the opportunity cost of squandered resources, money and human capital involved in an ongoing series disaster overseen by our so called leaders.
Nation building seems have taken a back seat over the last 50 years , replaced by self destructive virtue signalling, dubious deal making and outright stupidity.
No nuclear power
Fixed price gas export contracts, no national reserve
Bans on gas exploration
The Covid response
All the price distortions of the NEM
Daniel Andrews and the demise of Victoria
Chris Bowen and the demise of the grid
Excessive untargetted immigration and the property ponzi scheme
Blowing up coal power plants and allowing refinery closures
The lack of a real fuel reserve
Ever increasing dependency on imports for basics
The decline of Universities to become indoctrination centres and degree mills.
I’m sure you could add your personal favourites to this list
At a micro level , I became aware of a community project which illustrates the syndrome.
Having failed to get a Micro Grid off the ground some time ago, the local community leaders have arranged a government grant to install a large solar+ battery installation at the community hub. The spin goes that it will be a centre for disaster response. Sounds good.
The centre they are putting this in is riddled with white ants and has a collapsed ceiling in one section.
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I shouldnt have missed:
Snowy 2
No new dams constructed
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Eventually this madness will stop.
‘Children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans woman as woke narratives increasingly infiltrate schools, according to an education think-tank.
‘They are also being told – in pro-transgender resources – that genital mutilation of slaves was a form of ‘gender transition’.
‘But landmark British victories such as those at Waterloo and Trafalgar go largely untaught – with as few as one in ten pupils learning about them.’ (UK Mail)
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My wife and I where following a school group into Stonehenge years ago and one of the kids asked the teacher a really good question. “Sir, why did they build it so close to the A Road”
One of those little travel moments that stay with you.
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Simon of the YT channel History Debunked talks about the rewriting of British and Roman history with verifiable lies.
It’s a tragedy.
https://youtu.be/-9kO8Ndc564
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