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Always found Brian Eno creepy – his latest collaboration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz4qvrHett8
Methane data x Big Oil ads since the first Earth Day
Premiered at SXSW, Smoke and Mirrors by Beatie Wolfe uses art to communicate 6 decades of climate data, specifically rising methane levels, set alongside the verbatim advertising slogans deployed by Big Oil to deflect, discredit and delay climate data and awareness through the decades
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UK to build new nuclear reactors and Rolls Royce small modular reactors
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/nuclear-uk-spain-italy-nuclear-versus-solar-wind-eu/
Good news but saying it and doing it are 2 different things and no reactor is likely to come on line for a decade and the bigger one more like 15 years.
In the meantime some of our older reactors will need to be retired as will some of our gas fired plants. SO it looks very likely power shortages will be in order unless gas fired units are built double quick.
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Good News?
Here is me understanding we are to be concerned about an expanding nuclear capability in a country run by mad mullahs. Religious nutters capable of launching atomic warheads in the name of their leader without a slightest concern for a population or a civilisation.
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Sounds like they have painted themselves into a risky and expensive corner, just as South Australia did and Spain did and as Australia is continuing to do, as we havent caught up yet.
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Recently elsewhere a UK based engineer who often comments on nuclear power stations who has decades of construction design experience explained that on an island off Scotland UK a small reactor power plant was recently started up and has replaced diesel generators there. The installation is about the size of two large shipping containers.
Also mentioned that in China a couple of coal fired power stations have recently been restarted with nuclear technology replacing boiler technology.
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Interesting. Any more details?
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Add to the destruction of reliable generation, rapid and significant population growth driven by immigration policy and the ever-growing demand for electricity from EV owners and AI. So the UK (and elsewhere) continues to reduce power PRODUCTION whilst simultaneously INCREASING power demand.
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I was going to add, but the disappearance of the Edit function prevents it, that increasing household power consumption is also driven by the electrification of literally everything.
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Massive Battery farm in Devon refused permission as not enough water could be provided to put out a fire
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/battery-storage-site-unanimously-rejected-over-pollution-fears/ar-AA1Gyhol?ocid=BingNewsVerp
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the applicant had “not sent a representative along to plead their case”.
Makes me think they aren’t bothered by Councils, their friends in Westminster will sort this out for them…
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I think this is the first time I have seen the recognition that fires happen and that sufficient water is an important issue.
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Hi Tonyb,
All I found at the link you gave was a site full of ads that I could not get past.
This link may be more useful to readers:
https://www.devonairradio.com/news/exeter-and-east-devon/fire-and-water-pollution-fears-from-residents-as-battery-storage-scheme-rejected/
The report there includes objectors arguments in some detail.
Cheers,
Paul Miskelly
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Think the locals were right to raise concerns about possible water contamination after a fire. That occurred following the Moss Landing battery fire.
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Could Australia be any more badly managed than at present?
It’s difficult to think of a worse scenario.
The present regime is far worse even than Whitlam’s. And Australians were smart enough not to re-elect Whitlam. They were not smart enough to not to re-elect Albanese.
And now we have a virtual One Party State with no meaningful opposition and little chance of electing a less-bad government in the next two to three election cycles, if ever.
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David they did re-elect Whitlam once I believe!
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Yes, my bad, Murray. He was in fact elected as a government in 1972 and then he called a double dissolution election in 1974 and was again elected…before the dismissal in 1975. At least he wasn’t re-elected in the double dissolution election of 1975.
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Whitlam would have avoided his downfall if the 1974 Reserve Bank played the same role as today. There would not have been any loans affair and Fraser would not have been able to use that mess as an excuse to refuse supply.
Connor was after USD4bn. Today, the Reserve Bank holds AUD236bn in Australian treasuries. Money that the government has spent for no output other than fuelling inflation.
USA is the only country that can buy its government paper without much consequence because the USD is accepted almost anywhere – can you use them in China?
Connor was a visionary. The likes of Rio Tinto, BHP, Twiggy and Reinhart have pursued his vision. But my bet is that a Labor government owning mines would have resulted in much worse outcomes.
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The old Chinese curse “May you live in troubled times” appears more accurate than anything from government publicity sources.
Carney has gone in Canada after various “mistakes” found in the recent elections. It would seem that certain votes weren’t quite what they were thought to be.
Alberta wants to switch to the USA, possibly other western States also.
Starmer (and Labour) is running out of public support, and the Speaker incredibly announced that Nigel Farage would be the next Prime Minister. Also, the palace has allowed their impatience to be known. And the Irish are being difficult (amazing). The public accounts are in disarray as the neo-Keynesian methods runout of money. So too with the EU. Germany is struggling economically and France looks like they could boil over with discontent with Macron.
We get claims that China will be the next big thing except their economy is in tatters. Will Xi survive? India might be a better bet. I am not sure that Trump will prevail in the USA as the left wing do everything they can to stop him.
As for us, well we know that Labor think they are there for another term, but I will predict that in the next election they won’t have Albanese** (or Bowen) there. The costs of budget deficit spending along with the current recession won’t make their next 3 years a happy one.
**That hilltop mansion will look like a good retirement vision shortly.
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Thought it was “interesting times”
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Yes, interesting times because they were the focus of historians etc.
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And there is a touch of passive agressive sarcasm in the orginal. Not something you say to a good friend
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Whitlam could have avoided the loans affair problems if the then Loans Council had been consulted and approval sought to borrow the money offshore, a requirement at that time.
Instead negotiations were conducted in secret in a Melbourne hotel room, somebody recorded the meetings and leaked the tapes to a newspaper that published the details, it was known as The Age Tapes (Age newspaper). Very clearly Whitlam Labor were breaking the law.
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During the Obama Presidency a brilliant letter was written to the New Jersey Herald on 14th Feb. 2013.
That could equally be rewritten referencing Albanese:
The danger to Australia is not Anthony Albanese, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the office of prime minister. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Albanese Government than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their prime minister.
The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr Albanese, who is a mere symptom of what of what ails Australia. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The nation can survive an Anthony Albanese, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their prime minister.
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Short video, just over 12 mins by Victor Davis Hanson asking if the United States (and by extension, the West) could collapse, just like the Ronan Republic. Of course, the United States has been give a reprieve under TRUMP, but the rest of the West, including Australia, is rapidly accelerating in the same direction as ancient Rome.
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Thanks David for the link. I am a great fan of VDH. I did a PhD in Roman Republican history a lifetime ago. VDH is a great historian of ancient and modern times and he uses that expertise to provide important warnings about the future of our western civilisation. The rise and fall of civilisations mark the history of mankind. Sadly, the decline is often quite apparent to contemporary, but impossible to affect.
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British state-authorised organisations including the BBC, can complain to OFCOM about ‘Free Speech’ being used by the public to undermine state-sanctioned narratives. Authorised ‘free expression’ is to become a privilege meted out by the BBC and other approved intermediaries and supporters of government and media authority. Uncontrolled spontaneous and decentralised expression is to be banned in favour of a left-wing regulated approved ‘TRUTH’ authorised by the state, and verified by the BBC. State managed left-wing speech is to be inforced by OFCOM, over the far-right popular populist narratives stated by Trump, Vance, Kennedy and Nigel Farage. As in communist China, right-wing concepts of free speech, free expression and personal freedom are to be banned by OFCOM on behalf of the state authorities: https://www.infowars.com/posts/ofcoms-super-complaint-plan-puts-uk-speech-on-notice
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Once Great Britain is becoming, or in fact, has become, the dystopian nightmare Orwell prophesised.
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Yeah well, someone did warn well in advance they should all get out while they could.
😆
/just like the EU, especially France and Germany. Tick, tick, tick…
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Here’s a lobby group I hadn’t previously heard of:
I wonder who or what is behind it?
Anyway, I just heard on Their ABC Radio (Australia) a woman from that group with a high rising terminal speech intonation promoting “virtual power stations”. I.e. fake “power stations” where the consumer buys a battery for home and the grid controller draws on that battery when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining.
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Has been lots of discussions about VPPs recently in The Australian. Seems that a certain electricity provider has been draining the home batteries almost completely, after saying it would never do so.
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There was tragic air crash in India. 787-8 on take off. Fully loaded. 110 degrees F. Density Altitude over 3K. Flaps looked up! Not full power? Instructed to take a shortened runway!! As the aircraft stalled gear remained down.
Everything that could have went wrong did. At the same time. (The check list, and take-off flight parameters are computer controlled.)
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Some speculation that the pilot not flying (PNF) may have inadvertently raised the flaps instead of the undercarriage.
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Will be probably months before we know what actually happened
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Sitting next to the Emergency Door while flying over Alaska was unfortunate: however in India it was the best seat in the house – sole survivor walks away from crash having jumped out of the Emergency Door he was sitting next to.
Meanwhile Moses’ missiles fall from the sky over Tehran: the tea-cosy wearers are really keen on kicking-off WW666 … not another messiah!
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The big U turn on EVs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquQm4zxC0c (14 minutes)
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Also:
Unfortunately, as Australia is now effectively a One Party State with no meaningful opposition party and with a fanatical commitment to Net Zero, I can see Australia adopting mandatory EV ownership, especially vehicles with V2G (vehicle to grid capability) so your car’s battery can be co-opted, voluntarily or otherwise, into the “virtual power stations” being pushed.
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Tough night in the NEM last night.
Prices hit the $17,500/MWh cap last night in Victoria.:
https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem#price-demand
None of the other States were far behind, all hitting in excess of $16,000/MWh. It appears load shedding occurred in Victoria with a drop of 180MW in demand at 18:30.
Victoria has a fault in a clapped out 51 year old steam turbine and the whole power generation goes to carp. What a miserable state of affairs.
All those billions spent on “renewables” – they are next to useless. Rooftops 400kW. to zero, grid solar 600kW to zero, wind 920MW to 990MW, batteries 1400MW rapidly declining to nothing by 8pm.
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SA gas plant was under directions last night to stay connected for stability reasons.
Victoria averaged $1786/MWh yesterday. At that rate, the cumulative price cap will be reached before Yallourn is fully available.
If we can only get through to July when the wind picks up and the Sol starts to get a bit brighter with less blanketing fog.
Running the Australian power grid has restored the era of sailing ships that relied on the weather for a commercial outcome.
I figure there is an energy minister not wishing to be in the job in 2028 when Yallourn gets shut down. My bet is this episode will see the Victorian government negotiating a life extension with the the Chinese owners.
Back to the question on how many wind turbines to replace 1480MW of coal generation. IF we could count on 900MW from the 13,460MW installed then replacing Yallourn would only take 22GW of wind. Blackout has already committed to that but I do not think he has any power lines to connect it. And I doubt much of it will be installed by 2028.
But can we guarantee 1480MW from 23GW of wind plant. Obviously the answer is NO. Last night it was just dumb luck that the wind generators were able to hit 900MW. Their guaranteed output is ZERO.
Last night should be a good lesson to the the clowns pushing”renewables”. At what point do they realise they will inevitably collapse the grid.
Australia’s power generation is completely reliant on 50 year old clapped out steam plant being operated by Chinese interests. What could go wrong? Meanwhile the Victorian Government is broke, reliant on “events” for income and continue to pay bundles to “get rid of gas” despite having the most extensive gas resource per capaia in the entire world – maybe with the exception of Antarctica.
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A great man and not bad writer died 4 days ago.
One of my first English books was his The Devil’s Alternative. It is really prophetic though couple of times I laughed when I read it in 1985.
Why I bring this book up now and here?
Frederick Forsyth in one page space very relisticaly created a backdrop of global-size disaster, caused by a minor error.
The culprit was Central Control of soviet agriculture. One mistake and a country of 1/4 billion people comes the edge of its existence.
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Huh! And here’s me thinking you meant Brian Wilson!
(Sorry, couldn’t help it!)
Tony.
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Tony – a sidetrack
Following Rick at #11 can you do a rough guess how many wind towers would have been needed to carry the load last night?
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I know I should not be amazed by the ability of some people to latch onto stupid notions because most people are gullible when they are poorly informed and there is power in the masses.
But how did such a silly notion of a trace gas in Earth’s atmosphere causing a radiation balance get so much traction. It required a large number of informed people selling their souls.
Not only did they sell their souls but they viscously opposed any dissenters trying to do the right thing.
Hopefully Trump will be remembered as a great leader who dared to challenge the stupid notion peddled by the UN.
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RW, you hit on a main question of Humanity, next to Why Am I Here… and it is Why Are We That Stupid?
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The potential for cascading failures is pretty high in the modern world. It’s a tribute to those keeping the balls in the air that they dont occur more often.
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Not well publicised is state governments compensating businesses that have high electricity usage to stop using power during peak demand periods when the electricity transmission grid and suppliers cannot cope with the load.
Add all the compensation together and what does the national cost amount to for;
* Incentive rebates to renewable energy target participating businesses via wind, solar and battery.
* Rebates to consumers to pretend electricity price has been lowered as compared to temporary discount.
* Fixed wholesale pricing system to favour renewables.
* New transmission lines not needed for power stations existing or new builds.
* Others
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The Democrats have found their man to replace Biden, and the SMH is wetting itself with excitement-
“Gavin Newsom began his speech as a state governor. He ended it as a potential president- To Democrats looking for direction and leadership, Newsom used one of the highest profile moments of his political career to lay out the threat he argued that US President Donald Trump posed to the nation, and how Americans should resist it. And he suggested he was the man to lead that fight…it was difficult to watch the speech, delivered as anti-Trump protests spread from Los Angeles to other cities, and not wonder if the 2028 campaign had already begun…For much of 2024, Newsom had been closely tied to Joe Biden, acting as one of the former president’s surrogates and defenders before Biden was forced out of the race.”
Does ‘acting as a surrogate’ mean he was operating the autopen?
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/gavin-newsom-began-his-speech-as-a-state-governor-he-ended-it-as-a-potential-president-20250612-p5m6rw.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
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And here are some alternative facts and critiques via Steve Turley about Newsom’s speech and chances of presidency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLLoLjV95jk
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>it was difficult to watch the speech, delivered as anti-Trump protests spread from Los Angeles to other cities, and not wonder if the 2028 campaign had already begun…
Because that’s how that side of politics do politics.
With lies, rabble-rousing, and violence.
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FWIW
And the DNC just sacked the bloke who was going to reconnect them to the “lost young men”
“This 25-year-old Democrat tried to make way for the next generation, then they tried to oust him
David Hogg, vice-chairman of the DNC, is pushing for a stronger party that is ‘ready to fight back’ and connect with young people”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/05/22/david-hogg-next-generation-democrats/
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Very hard to shorten I’m afraid-
“In the days of yore, there were kings. Everybody could agree to hate the king because he was rich and well-fed, when most of his minions were not. Then, a more effective system was invented: democracy. Its originators had in mind a system whereby the populace could choose their leader from amongst themselves – thereby gaining a leader who understood them and represented them.
In short order, those amongst the populace who wished to rule found a way to game the new system in a way that would allow them to, in effect, be kings, but to do so from behind the scenes, whilst retaining the illusion of democracy. The formula is to create two opposing political parties. Each is led by someone who’s presented as being a “representative of the people.”
You then present the two parties as having opposing views on governance. It matters little what the differences are. In fact, you can have the differences be as obscure and arbitrary as, say, gay rights or abortion, and they will work as well as any other differences. What matters is that your two parties object to each other strenuously on the declared issues, working the electorate into a lather.
Once you have each group hating the other group “on principle,” you’re home free. At that point, you’ve successfully completed the distraction. The electorate now believe that, whatever the trumped-up issues are, they’re critical to the ethical governance of the country.”
Of course you can’t have the country destroyed by too much of one party or the other, so-
“And, in a country where the illusion of democracy has become refined, the rulers come to understand that elections should not result in an overwhelming victory for one party or the other. Quite the opposite. If it can be arranged effectively, the best election is one that results in a 51% to 49% split. This ensures that the 49% will not lose hope – that they’ll be both frustrated and angry at their near-miss, and redouble their efforts in the next election in order to have a win. And the 51% will wipe their collective brow in relief at having won, but will fear losing their slim advantage next time around.”
..and, as we always see-
“However, just as important, the new winning party does not rescind the more oppressive accomplishments of the previous party. In this way, it becomes possible for the only long-term accomplishments to be the growing power of the government over the population, not advances for the populace.”
A great essay for those interested in the fake nature of politics.
“https://internationalman.com/articles/democracy-is-the-ideal-distraction/”
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‘ … whilst retaining the illusion of democracy.’
Democracies come in different flavours, there is little comparison between America’s exceptional democracy and the Australian system.
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Data Centre in Melbourne
I have mentioned before a strange building being constructed in Derrimut. The building is a large block like construction, devoid of any windows. It can been seen on the south side of the Deer Park bypass of the Western Hwy and is next to the Mt Derrimut Rd overpass.
The first thing I noticed about the building, apart from its size was the extraordinary number of air conditioners which literally cover the whole roof. The building is now nearing completion so I thought I would take a diversion to get a closer look.
The building is steel and concrete construction, standing about 6 floors high although it may only have three levels. As mentioned before it has no windows and the exterior is now covered with lighting. That may be security measure because it is also surrounded by a 9 foot steel picket fence topped with sharp spikes. There is a massive security gate with intercom access. I spoke to a few men taking a break outside the gate and they confirmed that the building is filled with computers. They said that security does not end at the front gate but access is controlled for entry to each floor.
At one end there are 4 massive water tanks, each about 5 floors high and these seem to be fitted with fire fighting type piping.
Two more things of note is that there is an electrical substation right next door and on one side of the building are four shipping containers with very large exhaust pipes on the top of each one. Assuming that these are emergency electrical generators the engines inside must be diesel locomotive size or larger.
So I conclude that it will be a data centre, when completed, which will be very soon. I don’t know who will use it.
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FWIW
“Data Center Boom May Turn Into Long-Term Glut Risk, Goldman Warns”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/data-center-boom-may-turn-long-term-glut-risk-goldman-warns
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Hey Peter, maybe its an accommodation centre for anyone caught selling machetes!
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Or an escape bunker for politicians, doctors, and “experts” when the big reveal happens. 😎
Another data centre.
Did you use 4 sheets of TP per wipe instead of 3?
Planet killer! Off to re-education camp.
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Those monolithic buildings are oozing out of the ground here too, where The Owners can claim renewability by plugging into our 85% hydro/thermal generated electricity (let the peasants eat solar/wind).
Spark (ex-Telecom) is planning a data centre south of me on what was once prime farm land… with a bonus! Complimenting the dark satanic mill will be an eco-village, native regeneration (trees), a few paddocks of solar panels (y’know to save the planet) and a wave pool / artificial beach complex warmed by excess heat runoff from said monolithic building collecting citizen’s 24/7 online information.
https://www.localmatters.co.nz/mahurangi-news/surfs-up-at-dairy-flat/
By the time it’s built & operational (maybe next year?) I’ll have my Gold Card – for pensioners – so hopefully get 50% discount to go walk the plank and act like a teenager again in warm, lovely warm, water 😃
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Damn Peter C- I thought you were going to tell us what that building is! But at least you saved me from driving around the streets to find the entrance to sus it out. Well done on that, by the way. 🙂
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“I don’t know who will use it.”
Victorian chapter of ASIO…
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FWIW
“Cloudflare Follies and Another Big Internet Disruption”
https://pjmedia.com/charlie-martin/2025/06/12/cloudflare-follies-and-another-big-internet-disruption-n4940745
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Slightly more information helps.
There appears to be a massive outage going on…
Twitch, Discord, Google Cloud, Google, Google Meet, Google Nest, CharacterAI, Etsy, Khan Academy, Google Drive, Google Maps, Youtube, Gmail, Pokemon TCG, Dialpad, Mailchimp, HighLevel, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Breezeline, Dragon Ball, State Farm, Embark Studios, Gmail, Rocket League, DoorDash, Wells Fargo, Marvel, MLB TV, Google Gemini, Fortnite, Spotify, Shopify, Snapchat, Tekken, Box, Equifax, Roll20, Cursor, Looker Studio, FuboTV, IKEA, reCAPTCHA, GitLab, Steam, Clover POS Systems, AMC Theatres, NPM…
https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1933228066626494492
I’ve had DNS response issues with Cloudflare for over a week now, and had to switch.
/flick a switch and down it all goes, including EFTPOS. 😁
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FWIW
“UK’s Labour Government Discovers The Laffer Curve: Rising Taxes Bringing Diminishing Returns”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/06/11/uks-labour-government-discovers-the-laffer-curve-rising-taxes-bringing-diminishing-returns/
“Elbow” goes scientific and wants a replication?
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Number of the week – one million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOUTx7f1LOU
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FWIW
” There are 2 Kinds of Californians leaving the state. ”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QhXnQM3tgJ4
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/12/june-12-2025-reader-tips/
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‘It’s riot season in California”.
It sure is.
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Giving the law and order issue on a platter to the mid term Repubs.
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FWIW
“The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/great-climate-science-swindle-goes
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And
“Top Ten Reasons to Shut Down NASA’s Climate Change Shop Known as GISS”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/12/top-ten-reasons-to-shut-down-nasas-climate-change-shop-known-as-giss/
How many “BOM borrows” in that list?
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As the Tomago aluminium smelters future looks doubtful, both state and federal governments are contemplating a bail out package. Tomago management state the high cost of energy is the cause of their problems. So, a NSW minister makes some vague statement about assisting the smelter make the transition to hydrogen, as always, the details please.
Can any chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers out there explain how this transition to hydrogen is supposed to work?
1/ Can bauxite be directly reduced to Aluminium with hydrogen?
2/ If not, is the hydrogen burned to produce electricity through a steam turbine?
3/How many tonnes of hydrogen would be required on a daily basis to run an aluminium smelter.
4/ Is there a hydrogen production plant anywhere in the world that currently produces these types of volumes?
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First government stupidity results in closure of industrial businesses and second government uses taxpayer’s monies to fund extension of operations and related union jobs.
Meanwhile as shown recently on Bolt Report productivity growth for decades has stalled since 2022 and is now in 2025 almost 6% in decline.
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They are already giving $2 billion of taxpayer money toward a “Green Aluminium Production Credit”.
How much more is needed?
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/new-green-aluminium-production-credit-will-support-transition-green-metals
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FWIW – hold your hat
“BREAKING: Israel Conducts Airstrikes in Iran; UPDATE: ‘Dozens’ of Nuclear-Site Targets”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/12/breaking-israel-conducts-airstrikes-in-iran-n3803743
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The psychopaths in charge of Israel are determined to kick off WWIII.
This time the reason is “Iran is building a bomb”, the same reason we blew the crap out of Iraq/Libya/Syria and killed millions of brown people in the process.
Surely people can see through their BS by now?
715
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Its high risk adventurism, I hope they blow up the drone factories along the way.
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We will see in a day or two if the Pager promotion campaign (without pagers…) has worked again.
Hard to wage a serious war if there is no one issue an order.
No state in history has come up with headless army.
There were vicious guerrilla campaigns in history, mostly to rob & harm your own peasants who is trying to live one more day.
Achieved nothing military.
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Sorry about my grammar – the Edit button is gone again…
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Not a lot of Risk, Iran’s only national ally is Russia and they already have their hands full.
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Nonsense. Iran has a stated intention of wiping Israel off the face of the earth and were shortly about to achieve it with their well documented nuclear weapons program. Iran had no other purpose for their nuclear weapons program than to attack Israel as soon as they had the capability.
Obama had previously empowered Iran to build nuclear weapons by removing sanctions and shipping them literally pallet loads of cash. And had also protected Iran’s nuclear program by warning Israel not to attack it.
Then Biden relaxed TRUMP’s sanctions against Iran.
Obama wanted to see a second Islamic atomic bomb after Pakistan’s.
They were about to achieve that.
The only psychopaths I see are naive people who deny Israel’s right to exist without threat of nuclear annihilation.
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“deny Israel’s right to exist without threat of nuclear annihilation.”
WE live under that, why shouldn’t the Israelis?
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Who is threatening you with nuclear annihilation? Certainly not Israel. Couldn’t possibly be your fellow travellers.
Reply to KP.
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To [sort of] quote KP why should they be the only ones in peril?
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An observation test –
Faster than a speeding on line Courier Mail update –
Update up at 12:08
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Seen posted in US media 11:08
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Pretty good live coverage.
What’s to stop Russia or China, or Pakistan just slipping them a warhead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7RKFP2VcCY
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That won’t happen, the nuclear club have banned proliferation.
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‘That won’t happen, the nuclear club have banned proliferation.’
True, true, you can tell by their highly successful banning of cannabis…and heroin.. and cocaine…and..
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South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal In Mammals
South Korean scientists have conducted a lab experiment that made a purported wild avian influenza “bird flu” virus 100% lethal in mammals, achieving total death in infected mice by enabling the virus to adapt inside their bodies and spread to others.
The dangerous move comes as the U.S. develops a “next-generation” universal vaccine platform called ‘Generation Gold Standard’ that will focus on avian influenza jab creation, signaling a coordinated international push to engineer and preemptively vaccinate against lab-enhanced bird flu strains with pandemic potential—despite worldwide fallout from similar COVID-era strategies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/south-korea-lab-makes-bird-flu-100-lethal-mammals-virology-journal
Silly humans won’t be happy until octopi or crows take the big chair.
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‘The dangerous move comes as the U.S. develops a “next-generation” universal vaccine platform called ‘Generation Gold Standard’ that will focus on avian influenza job creation,’
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Bioengineered tooth “grows” in place to look and feel like the real thing
Tufts University’s School of Dental Medicine and School of Medicine researchers have developed what they call a “smart” implant, an artificial tooth featuring a biodegradable outer layer containing stem cells and a specific protein that triggers the cells to mature into nerve tissue.
“Natural teeth connect to the jawbone through soft tissue rich in nerves, which help sense pressure and texture and guide how we chew and speak,” said senior author Jake Jinkun Chen, professor of periodontology at the School of Dental Medicine. “Implants lack that sensory feedback.”
While still in the early stages, the implant has been successfully trialed in rodents and was both biocompatible and functioning like a normal tooth six weeks on from surgery.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/06/11/what-if-dental-implants-could-feel-more-your-real-teeth
And medicine takes a small jump forward. Yay.
Of course it’s still an artificial tooth but with proprioceptive neural feedback.
I don’t know how well their “memory foam” will duplicate cementium and periodontal ligaments, and the lack of pulp and blood vessels still makes it artificial, so no blood supply for the nerves either.
The other stem cell approach is more promising.
Maybe in another decade you won’t need to pay $4-5k for a self tapping screw with a crown on it. 😎
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I look at the Trivago ads on telly with horror !
Sadly, the poorest folk who really need tooth replacement to help them even get a job, will never be able to afford this kind of treatment.
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Today is another opportunity for octogenarians to tell the youngsters – I told you !
The news just out interrupted my reading of a great story I have not heard before: December 1940 Anglo-French invasion of “non-align” Scandinavia.
The Germans found those plans upon Fall of Paris and I tell you – it is a fascinated reading. Sorry about lack of space on this blog – the minute details are overwhelming.
General Staff personnel calculated the number of shells they have to shoot at Soviet rigs, pipelines, plants, etc,.. around Baku to stop oil flow to their German ally.
All came to zilch overnight – Finns bent their knee and kissed the ring, Wehrmacht invaded Scandinavia,.. 50-60-70 million people died in the next 5 years.
Back to my trusty shortwave receiver…
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The Conference Of Parties (COP) Baku, 30 metres below sea level Baku, the end of the Caucasus Mountains Baku? It’s always about the oil… Baku.
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It is unbelievable that a small place opened by Nobel brothers later became a focus of the global thinking.
Just ask any “thinking” neighbour of Villa Petrolea in 1882 what is that stinking oil good for and the response would be: to get rid of head lice…
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FWIW
“How a strong wind day led to coal exceeding natural gas power generation on June 8”
https://pipelineonline.ca/how-a-strong-wind-day-led-to-coal-exceeding-natural-gas-power-generation-on-june-8/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0
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FWIW
More on that drug approval committee that Kennedy sacked –
“Kennedy Sacks ACIP”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253438
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FWIW – changes to US car industry rules –
“CARB Waiver Collapses
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The precise scope of this is unclear at present however at minimum the bill signed by Trump has ended CARB’s (and thus the states that follow CARB, which incidentally is of questionable constitutionality as it constitutes an “Interstate Compact” which requires explicit Congressional approval and I find no record of that bill) attempt to force fuel-powered vehicles, including trucks and RVs, off the road.
This law is retroactive as well so all CARB mandated “rules” prior to its signing that were of force and effect in those other states are also voided.
This is a very important thing for the auto and other engine-related industries because if you mandate something for roughly a quarter of the market you’ve effectively imposed a national standard if the differences are other than tiny simply because it is flatly uneconomic to produce two different “things” in the US, one for 25% of the market and the rest for 75% and at the same time you allow effective prohibitions on registration and use in the 25% market area to be passed into law, which California has explicitly done several times in the context of trucks.”
“Returning to a land where people have a reasonable expectation that the engine in their vehicles, with ordinary and routine maintenance, will crest 200,000 miles without serious internal failures is a mightily good thing. Will it cost more in fuel consumption? A bit. But tell me — how much fuel do you have to save in order to buy a new $5,000 engine — or a $50,000 car? A lot, and none of these changes have or ever could meet that balance of harms and benefits test.
As of today the ability to impose those costs by force out of one state’s government across the entire US has come to an end.”
More at https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253439
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Sun Cable is not able to raise the initial US$100m needed to start their $40bn project. Seems that nobody is interested in investing. So far at least A$300m has been put into this project.
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The initial investors have run out of bigger fools.
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Wherefore art thou, data centers
https://www.datacenters.com/locations/australia/victoria/derrimut
For #14 above, but punch in your own locale.
Melb. has 39! 😆
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The science of spoons sticking to shoulders
Magnetism appeared months after mRNA injection—Pfizer “F” lots were disproportionately linked, with proposed mechanisms involving spike-induced iron metabolism disruption.
The attachment of massive metallic objects (up to 70 grams) to different parts of the body is a real phenomenon that may present additional health risks if such patients are subjected to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Redistribution of iron into the brain or other body parts may be causing iatrogenic magnetism. Pfizer vaccine lots starting with the letter “F” may be involved, although we cannot exclude the possibility that Moderna or other manufacturers’ injections may also cause this phenomenon.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-first-peer-reviewed-study
Hours of fun at parties though.
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Our society is so dumbed down and indoctrinated that anyone who’s a critical thinker is perceived as a Conspiracy Theorist.
What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and truth?
About a year.
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The difference is the CT has zero evidence and remains a nutter.
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That is a “so yesterday” comment –
“Crazy Conspiracy Theory To Be Confirmed As Fact Six Weeks From Now”
https://babylonbee.com/news/crazy-conspiracy-theory-to-be-confirmed-as-fact-six-weeks-from-now/
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Deadly Spike Found in BRAINS of 44% of Covid-Vaccinated
Leading biomedical scientists in Japan have just made a groundbreaking discovery while investigating the global surge in sudden deaths among people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”
A team of renowned researchers, including Japanese government scientists, found that almost 44% of people who received the injections have accumulated deadly spike protein from the mRNA injections in their brains.
Perhaps even more disturbing was the discovery of vaccine-derived spike protein in the brains of unvaccinated patients, raising fresh concerns about mRNA injections “shedding” from one person to another.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682500195X
I’m seeing a lot of articles on brain related issues now.
Another “sleeper” unknown effect about to explode.
So much for “it stays in the shoulder” bs.
What have they done…
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That pesky high still parked over Vic and SA so wind generation in these two states is negligible.
Qld still exporting over 1 gW. Some of that money shows as a bonus on our power bills.
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Low pressure is making a comeback and the sub tropical ridge is where it should be. So we should expect some windy weather going forward.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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Similar in WA. Most evenings, when there is not a weather front coming through, have a marked absence of wind. Currently the SWIS grid is 87% coal and gas, and a bit of battery at 5.8%.
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A little off topic but windy.com is a goto site for me and I often zoom out to see what weather others are experiencing.
Sth America, Brazil in particular, always seems to be in the doldrums. The reason I mention this is that our betters, our moral superiors who are speaking for God tell us The World can work on wind and solar. Is it moral to tell Brazil they can’t have energy?
I’m not cherry picking, check it out now. It is as it always is.
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.
What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.
Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.
Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.
Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.”
– Neil Postman
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